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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: That was a Central Park morning for me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as I patrol the neighborhood, Larry, you know, looking for
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  Speaker 1: those mail thieves. They're still out there, and remember, if
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  Speaker 1: you're sending your ballots in, mail-in ballots, you're running out
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  Speaker 1: of time. You know, you got six days left in
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  Speaker 1: the midterms, so don't put it in the blue mailbox.
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  Speaker 1: There is so much mail theft going on. Please give
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  Speaker 1: it to your mail carrier or bring it to your
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  Speaker 1: post office and make sure that your ballot gets.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason I was in Central Park is I
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  Speaker 1: figured I'd walk here through Central Park. It's not that
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  Speaker 1: long to the iHeart Studios. They're laying down the blue
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  Speaker 1: line painted at the marathon finish line where you, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: and you, Natalie, are going to be parked on Sunday
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  Speaker 1: for like, what, like half a day from early on
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  Speaker 1: pre-race to after post-race.
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  Speaker 2: Am I correct on that?
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  Speaker 3: 8 to noon. So we get on the air just
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  Speaker 3: as the professional wheelchair race starts and we will be
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  Speaker 3: there until the professionals end and all the rest start
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  Speaker 3: coming in which takes hours and hours and hours.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I was just going to say. They're coming
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  Speaker 4: in after midnight. They're still showing up and crossing the
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  Speaker 4: finish line and their families are there waiting for them. No,
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  Speaker 4: we're really looking forward to it. Natalie, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: let me just talk about this for a second, is
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  Speaker 4: is really amazing at producing these things she is uh
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  Speaker 4: you know it's it's really easy for me because she
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  Speaker 4: is so good i just show up and i get
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  Speaker 4: a book and then you know i do some studying
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  Speaker 4: but she does the most.
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  Speaker 1: Of it i gotta tell you this morning the safest
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  Speaker 1: place to be in new york city was central park
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  Speaker 1: not only additional cops there for the blue line being
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  Speaker 1: painted at the marathon finish line but all the rapes
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  Speaker 1: that have been occurring there of late overnight and so
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  Speaker 1: madly uh Migliore is going to sample people's reaction, especially women. Also,
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  Speaker 1: as I was entering, a lot of other people who
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  Speaker 1: have to get up early and go to work and
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  Speaker 1: leave Fido at home for like eight, nine or 10 hours,
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  Speaker 1: they're walking through the park, walking the dog, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so he can take care of his needs. So then
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  Speaker 1: they can go back to the apartment and And whosoever
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  Speaker 1: there goes off to work and leaves Fido alone. And
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  Speaker 1: then they'll walk them back in the park later on
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  Speaker 1: in the day when they return. One of the stories
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be covering today, guess what? They have
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  Speaker 1: robots now that are going to be dog walkers. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be discussing that. But it was a mood elevator to
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  Speaker 1: be in Central Park. I got to tell you, it's
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  Speaker 1: just such a gorgeous park. And it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a mood elevator for some. And maybe a real downer
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  Speaker 1: for others because... of the trick-or-treat season with Halloween coming
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  Speaker 1: up and what has been described as escalating prices for
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  Speaker 1: the various candies that you might have had available, the
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  Speaker 1: various treats you might have had available, especially for all
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  Speaker 1: the kids who look forward to going around either in
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  Speaker 1: a posse or with their adult minders and fill up
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  Speaker 1: those bags as much as they can.
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  Speaker 2: And I was traumatized, I must tell you, when I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: I'd hit some of these houses and I'd get an
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  Speaker 1: apple and a nickel. I still cannot figure out why
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  Speaker 1: they would put an apple in the bag with a
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  Speaker 1: nickel or they give you the candy corns. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they have like a paper towel with a little rubber
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  Speaker 1: band on the top.
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  Speaker 2: Like you're going to really get something good. And it's
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  Speaker 2: candy corns.
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  Speaker 4: Candy corns are the worst. They were the absolute worst
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  Speaker 4: of all the candies you could get. People would get
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  Speaker 4: their houses egged. For giving out candy corns. That's horrible.
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  Speaker 4: That's horrible. Please don't do that to the kids. Now,
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  Speaker 4: did all the kids get apples and nickels or just you?
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  Speaker 5: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: All the kids.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we'd warn one another. Hey, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: go up to that woman's house there. The guy is there.
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  Speaker 1: He's sitting on the porch. You're going to get an
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  Speaker 1: apple and a nickel. And maybe somebody out there in
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  Speaker 1: our talk back can explain why so many houses gave
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  Speaker 1: a nickel.
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  Speaker 4: Why a nickel? That must have been in your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Until you mentioned that today, I have never heard of
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  Speaker 4: that before. I've heard of people giving money because they
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  Speaker 4: forgot to go out and get candy for Halloween, so
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  Speaker 4: they give you like a buck. I've never, ever heard
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  Speaker 4: of somebody giving you a nickel.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're not going to get much when you go
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  Speaker 1: to the store if, in fact, you're going to buy
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  Speaker 1: treats for the kids because prices are up. I was
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  Speaker 1: on 116th Street, which is where a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: West Africans are in Harlem on Sundays. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people from the Ivory Coast. That's where we get so
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  Speaker 1: much of our chocolate from West Africa. And apparently they
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  Speaker 1: had some environmental problems, you know, flooding and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But still, like everything else that's gone up, candy's gone up.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny.
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  Speaker 4: You know, people keep talking about how bad prices are
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  Speaker 4: and how prices are up and how they've cut back
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  Speaker 4: and I haven't seen anybody in reality. And this is
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  Speaker 4: a great talk back. I would love to hear from people.
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  Speaker 4: If you've really cut back on your groceries because prices
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  Speaker 4: are up. Because I went out. I didn't even look
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  Speaker 4: at the prices. Now I'm going to go back and
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  Speaker 4: look at them. I bought way too many bags of candy.
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  Speaker 5: No, you didn't.
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  Speaker 6: I did.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: Because you have leftovers for yourself. That's the point.
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  Speaker 8: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on. I'm not a big candy fan. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, everybody does it.
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  Speaker 4: My wife took the bags of candy I did and
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  Speaker 4: put them around my desk because she's mad that I
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  Speaker 4: got too many.
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  Speaker 2: She goes, I don't want this near me. Here.
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  Speaker 4: And I have three huge bags of candy around my desk.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody has to remember that this year, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: it's on a Saturday. So it's going to be intense.
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  Speaker 9: Packed.
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  Speaker 5: Packed.
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  Speaker 2: The one day there'll be more kids out there than
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  Speaker 2: early voters. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And so far the weather is looking pretty darn nice.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, you better have it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get anybody. No matter what. We don't get anybody.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, me either.
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  Speaker 2: Because we don't have a sidewalk. I have a hill.
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  Speaker 3: Kids don't want to walk hills.
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  Speaker 2: We have a hill too.
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  Speaker 3: They look at the hill and they're like, eh, not
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  Speaker 3: worth our effort.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if there was word that it's worth the schlep.
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  Speaker 1: Because last year, oh my God, there was a treasure
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  Speaker 1: trove of candy that ended up in my bag.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you they'd make this schlep.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis, our neighbor gives out full-size candy bars.
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  Speaker 10: You know, like full-size.
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  Speaker 2: Not the little bitty ones.
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  Speaker 3: Like the ones you get in the store. They won't
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  Speaker 3: even come up to get that.
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  Speaker 2: How cheap is your neighborhood?
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  Speaker 4: You all give out tiny candy and the one family
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  Speaker 4: gives out full size?
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  Speaker 3: Everybody gives out full size.
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  Speaker 2: In my area, they do.
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  Speaker 3: I give out the fun size, but I tell them
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  Speaker 3: to take as many as they want. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not like giving them one.
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  Speaker 4: That's just like a notch above an apple.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm better than pretzels.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. Worst thing worse than the apple and a nickel?
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  Speaker 1: Hard-boiled eggs.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Hard-boiled eggs. I am not kidding you. A hard-boiled egg.
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  Speaker 1: These are people that forgot to buy candy. I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, my God, I forgot to buy candy. Quick,
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  Speaker 1: boil the eggs.
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  Speaker 3: I was telling you guys off air that there was
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  Speaker 3: one person when my kids would go, It was a dentist,
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  Speaker 3: and he gave out toothbrushes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look. Let's face it. Who racks up during Halloween?
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  Speaker 2: The dentist.
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  Speaker 11: The dentist.
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  Speaker 1: Because, man, all the kids that are going to have
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  Speaker 1: to end up going for their checkups and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: their first cavity is getting filled.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, I remember going to buy candy, and I'll
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  Speaker 3: go to Costco or something, you know, buy the big,
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  Speaker 3: big bags. But I must have spent over $ 100 on chocolate,
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  Speaker 3: and I.
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  Speaker 2: Thought to myself, wow, that's.
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  Speaker 3: It's getting steep.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? I love that I don't even look
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  Speaker 4: at the prices because I'm sure I spent more than that.
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  Speaker 4: I spent a fortune on candy and for no reason.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because three people showed up.
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  Speaker 4: Because my grandkids were coming over to the house and
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  Speaker 4: I was excited.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it was.
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  Speaker 4: And then I went out and just kept buying candy
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  Speaker 4: and kept buying candy and kept buying candy. But I'll
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  Speaker 4: tell you what, the worst, worse than the eggs, worse
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  Speaker 4: than the toothbrush are the people that turn their lights out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's rude.
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  Speaker 3: Don't do that to the kids.
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  Speaker 9: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, they got a special treatment of toilet paper.
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  Speaker 12: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. I'm telling you, that's what we do. We
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  Speaker 1: bomb their houses with turley paper.
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  Speaker 2: I just figured out what the eggs are for.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 3: You egg them.
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  Speaker 2: To egg the houses that put the lights out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but not a hard-boiled egg. Oh, even better. Even better.
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  Speaker 3: No, that don't break a window.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you're devious. You're devious. A hard-boiled egg.
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  Speaker 3: And egg prices have come down. I was paying like
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  Speaker 3: two bucks for a dozen the other day.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, better.
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  Speaker 3: When they were $ 7, maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I just keep hearing stories about people saying they're not
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  Speaker 3: going to buy chocolate this year. They're going to buy
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  Speaker 3: pretzels or potato chip bags. I don't believe it. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like people are going to still buy chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Kids love potato chips, but when they get a bag
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  Speaker 1: of pretzels, it's sort of like, ah.
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  Speaker 3: That's when I take it. I'm like, oh, little bags
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  Speaker 3: of pretzels. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Kids want candy. They don't want something you made. They
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  Speaker 4: don't want potato chips. They don't want pretzels. They don't
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  Speaker 4: want little boxes of cereals. And they certainly don't want
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  Speaker 4: a toothbrush. So if you're going to give out something,
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  Speaker 4: give out candy. If not, turn your lights out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they don't want a little blueberry muffin, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put in, again, a paper towel, you know, with a
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  Speaker 1: rubber band at the top.
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  Speaker 4: They'll accept muffins depending on the age of the person
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  Speaker 4: giving to them. Like if it's a nice old woman
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  Speaker 4: coming up with a thing of muffins, you're polite.
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  Speaker 2: You go, oh, yeah. so sweet. That's so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Look, this is when you prove that you're a politician.
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  Speaker 1: There are times you want to say, what?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right. And you're, oh, this is the best Halloween
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  Speaker 2: I've ever had. Thank you, Mrs. McGillicuddy.
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  Speaker 1: This is really outstanding. And you walk away and you
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  Speaker 1: say it. Man, I'm wearing deep boots today, man. I'm
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  Speaker 1: shoveling the flotsam and jetsam here. Hey, we'd like to find.
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  Speaker 4: Out about Halloween in your neighborhood and some of your
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  Speaker 2: What would you do?
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  Speaker 4: What kind of plea would you make to murder if
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  Speaker 4: you got something in return? What would that be? What
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  Speaker 4: would you want in return for a guilty plea? Because
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  Speaker 4: you're not going to believe what this one guy asked
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  Speaker 4: for in return for a guilty plea for murder, plus
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  Speaker 4: a chance to see Comedian John Mulaney at age 25.
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  Speaker 2: So this is one of.
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  Speaker 4: The strangest stories that you will ever hear. There's a
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  Speaker 4: gentleman by the name of Robert Kessler. I guess I
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't call him a gentleman since he is charged with
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  Speaker 4: killing his live-in girlfriend and dismembering the body. He's now blind.
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  Speaker 4: He's a 74-year-old blind man. And now he had a,
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  Speaker 4: finally they're bringing this to trial and he had a
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  Speaker 4: choice to make. The judge said to him, do you
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  Speaker 4: want to stand trial or will you now plead guilty
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  Speaker 4: in open court? And he wanted to make a deal.
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  Speaker 2: In an open plea and get life in prison and
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  Speaker 2: be done with it. And just go on from there.
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  Speaker 2: That's the base.
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  Speaker 13: For a Philly cheesesteak and an order of fries and
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  Speaker 13: a Pepsi.
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  Speaker 14: So you're telling me you would open plea, you would
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  Speaker 14: plead to life in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Philly cheesesteak with onions on it and mayonnaise.
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  Speaker 1: And, uh, Fries.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 5: And 20 ounce.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the judge said, I have never in my 40
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  Speaker 4: years heard anybody ask for a meal in return for
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  Speaker 4: a plea that will put them away for the rest
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  Speaker 4: of their life. But there are a thousand reasons I
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  Speaker 4: can't do that. I can't offer you something for your plea.
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  Speaker 4: I can promise you lunch later today, but that's the
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  Speaker 4: only thing I can promise you. Then Kessler said, okay,
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  Speaker 4: forget the whole thing then.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to trial.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, it would have saved the taxpayers so much
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  Speaker 1: money for a Philly cheesesteak.
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  Speaker 2: With mayonnaise and fries. And what else?
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  Speaker 4: What else did he want? A 20 ounce Pepsi. He
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  Speaker 4: was very specific. He wanted 20 ounces and French fries.
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  Speaker 1: That is so cheap. The taxpayers would have said, give
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  Speaker 1: it to him.
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  Speaker 4: Do you realize the door that opens up to everybody
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  Speaker 4: else that wants to I want this money from my family.
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  Speaker 4: I want this meal. I want certain things.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how expensive the trial process is and
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  Speaker 1: how long it can take? And if there's a glitch
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  Speaker 1: and then they may have to do it all over again.
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  Speaker 1: To me, this is helpful. First of all, he's guilty.
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  Speaker 1: So this is helpful to the taxpayers.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know who else made that argument? The exact
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  Speaker 4: same one you're making? The Kessler, the guy that's accused,
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  Speaker 4: he actually said, I will save the taxpayers money and
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  Speaker 4: you won't even have to have a jury or a trial.
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  Speaker 4: So I just want this cheesesteak. He said it a
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  Speaker 4: couple of times. He's such a dastardly guy.
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  Speaker 1: And yet there's a part of him that taxpayers love this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 1: This is you realize how much money gets wasted in
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  Speaker 1: court cases where the guy is clearly guilty, wants to plea.
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  Speaker 2: But, hey, man, if you give me this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll avoid a trap. We'll avoid all extra costs to
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  Speaker 2: the taxpayers.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is wrong in so many ways. Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Asking for mayonnaise on a cheese stick.
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  Speaker 4: That is really wrong. Now, listen, I love mayonnaise, as
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  Speaker 4: I've mentioned before. I will have mayonnaise just with white
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  Speaker 4: bread and eat it. I haven't done that in a
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  Speaker 4: long time. But when I was a kid, I used
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  Speaker 4: to just like to eat a mayonnaise sandwich. I still
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't put mayonnaise on a Philly cheesesteak.
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  Speaker 2: What about Miracle Whip? No, Miracle Whip is worse.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just can't. I just don't see putting mayonnaise
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  Speaker 3: on anything that's hot. You know, mayonnaise is for a
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  Speaker 3: cold sandwich.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, I didn't think of
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  Speaker 4: it that way, but that's exactly right. I can't think
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  Speaker 4: of any hot sandwich I would put mayonnaise on. But
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  Speaker 4: I would put mayonnaise on all kinds of meats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see Larry coming over with us to
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: the Carnegie, our favorite deli that's reopened, and you order
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  Speaker 1: a pastrami, right, with mayonnaise?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, don't do that there. No, I probably would.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I'd do pastrami, but I did one
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  Speaker 4: time order the very first time I was there because
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know any better. I had come from Columbus, Ohio,
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  Speaker 4: to get my first job at WABC, and they took
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  Speaker 4: me to Carnegie Deli, and I ordered roast beef with mayonnaise, unwhit.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what a gabon. That's the best sandwich in the world.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great sandwich, just not there.
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  Speaker 15: It is.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Because you're not supposed to? Because you're breaking protocol?
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  Speaker 1: People were probably looking at you when they heard what
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: you had said, especially the waitstaff.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: You should have seen the sound man and the cameraman.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Who were both Jewish.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: They wanted me to go sit at another table.
• 15:39
  Speaker 16: I don't blame them. They were embarrassed out of their heads.
• 15:45
  Speaker 16: I'm going to warn you ahead of time today. We're
• 15:47
  Speaker 16: having a little trouble with the talkbacks. It has nothing
• 15:50
  Speaker 16: to do with you. You got them coming in. You're
• 15:52
  Speaker 16: doing really well.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: We have some internal problems with the computers. We'll get
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: to them, but we're not going to be able to
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: play any in this segment. You mean our dischronificator is
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: not working? You see, that's the one thing I remember
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: from Popular Mechanics. It's all about the dischronificator, and that
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: is not working today. Because normally it's aimed.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Totally to the west, but ours today, for some reason,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Crash and the other engineers have it to the east,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: and the east puts it out in the Atlantic Ocean.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: I just looked up the Sonica Theater, and it's amazing
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: that there is a definition.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: You want to hear the definition?
• 16:30
  Speaker 11: Yes, please.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: Often playfully or mistakenly spelled with a C, it actually
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: has a G. It's a famous satirical term popularized by
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: radio host.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Curtis Sliwa. It says Rush Limbaugh. Did he steal it
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: from you?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: No, I probably stole it from him. You know, I'm
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: like a comedian. I steal a lot of my lines
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: from other talk show hosts, especially the.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: King of talk radio, Bob Grant. Oh, yeah, many, many, many.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: So he made the word up to mock confusing, overly
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: technical or dishonest explanations given by all. auto mechanics or repair.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Oh that's true oh that's great because you know what
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: when they start talking i'm like english please i do
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: not understand what you're.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Saying he said it i looked it up just thinking
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: to myself there's no such.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Word and there is that that proves i've been in
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: talk radio 35 years i've picked up a lot of
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: these terms along the way.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: All right, now let's get to the news at 6.30
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: with Daria Albinger.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Daria. Morning, guys.
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: Partly sunny and chilly today. We'll see a high of
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: 62 degrees. A grand jury in Manhattan has upgraded the
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: charges against Victor Romero in the death of Coran Irvine.
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: Now he's charged with murder. Irvine's family and friends rallied
• 17:44
  Speaker 10: outside the courthouse yesterday.
• 17:46
  Speaker 17: He has an incredible union that came out for him
• 17:49
  Speaker 17: and that galvanized this. He has an incredible family that,
• 17:53
  Speaker 17: you know, that put this together. And so this is
• 17:56
  Speaker 17: not the work of some lawyer, some activist.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: This is people. This is all blue-collar people getting together.
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: Family attorney Keith White Romero is accused of firing a
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: single fatal gunshot at Irvine after the cars nearly collided
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: at the entrance to the bridge. Six days to the midterms.
• 18:15
  Speaker 10: President Trump will be campaigning today in Ohio. A Long
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: Island man is under arrest accused of sex trafficking a
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: teenage girl for more than two years.
• 18:23
  Speaker 18: Luis Parada of Brentwood is behind bars. The 57-year-old is
• 18:27
  Speaker 18: charged with rape, sex trafficking of a minor, and a
• 18:30
  Speaker 18: drug count. Suffolk County Police raided his home on MacArthur
• 18:34
  Speaker 18: Avenue Tuesday morning. They say he raped the 17-year-old girl
• 18:38
  Speaker 18: starting when she was 15 and took money from other
• 18:41
  Speaker 18: men to have sex with her. They also seized weapons,
• 18:44
  Speaker 18: 22 cell phones, and a Winnebago. No word on the
• 18:47
  Speaker 18: girl or her condition. Two other men were also arrested
• 18:50
  Speaker 18: on drug counts. They may face additional charges. Andrew Whitman,
• 18:55
  Speaker 18: WOR News.
• 18:56
  Speaker 10: The FBI has conducted a search on a Beverly Hills
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: mansion as part of its investigation into former Democratic Congressman
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: Eric Swalwell. property belongs to a former associate of Swalwell's.
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: The congressman resigned earlier this year after alleged sexual misconduct,
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: which he denies. The number two in charge at the
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: CDC is stepping down after just six months on the job.
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: Deputy Director Dr. Jennifer Shuford says she wants to spend
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: more time with her family. It's kind of been a
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: revolving door at the agency. It's had six directors or
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: acting directors since the start of 2025. Knicks, Devils, and
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: Islanders win.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Nets lose.
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: Next news, 7 o'clock.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Bulletin's at once.
• 19:33
  Speaker 10: I'm Daria Albinger on 710-WOWR.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Daria.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: You remember the road rage incident on the George Washington
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Bridge where a former NYPD detective shot and killed a man?
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: There was outrage the way he was treated and the charges.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: against him part of that's been fixed not all of
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: it and the family is still unhappy we'll talk about
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: it all next there was a large crowd of interested
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: people outside of a courthouse in manhattan when NYPD detective
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Victor Romero was to be indicted for the death of
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Corin Irvine, a 46-year-old father and Con Ed employee on
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: the George Washington Bridge a few days ago. It was
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: a road rage incident, and accused Victor Romero is said
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: to have fired shots into a car because of road rage,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: killing the 46-year-old father of two. So his family was outside,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: but that's not all. They're not the only people that
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: were outside. It was a huge crowd because his union
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: was also outside. The Utility Workers Union of America Local
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: 1-2 was outside en masse. They lined up as people
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: were walking in to show their support. And in the end,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: after letters were written and there were protests, The officer,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: the charges were upgraded from manslaughter to second degree murder.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: And the union couldn't be happier with that.
• 21:16
  Speaker 19: So today we just found out within the last few
• 21:18
  Speaker 19: minutes it is second degree murder.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: What are your thoughts?
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: Super, super happy, super excited, but I'm not satisfied. At
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: the end of the day, this man is still home.
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: He should be brought back and remanded until his trial
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: is done.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: That is Frank Morales, who is the president of the
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: union that Irvine was part of. His wife, Patricia, was
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: at home during this, didn't want to go, but she
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: had the same sentiment.
• 21:44
  Speaker 20: This is not something you come back from, you know?
• 21:50
  Speaker 20: He doesn't come back, right? But his killer does, right?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: He's homeless.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: He's home.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: How is that possible?
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: That is a tremendous point. A great point. The fact
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: that she lost a husband, but someone else's husband that
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: shot her husband gets to go home every night.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Con Ed workers turned out in mass. He
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: was obviously beloved by his fraternity and sorority of workers.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Men and women came out. They referred to him as Flacco.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: That was his nickname. They told stories about how helpful
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: he was, not only on the job, but coming to
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the aid of other workers when they were having hard
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: times at home. So he was obviously a really all
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: around nice guy. Then you had civil rights leaders who
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: were out there. I saw Reverend McCall. He's sort of
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: like the B grade to Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton's A grade, right?
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: If you can't afford Al Slim Shady Sharpton or he's
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: not available, you get Reverend McCall. So you had the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: civil rights activists, you had his lawyers out there on
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: behalf of the family. And it all gets down to
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Victor Romero, former NYPD detective, who went out on two-thirds
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: disability because of a shootout he got into. Not on duty,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: but when he was visiting his family's laundromat in Bushwick
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Three guys tried to hold him up. The whole family there,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: he pulled out his revolver. He shot them. He got
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: shot in the chest and in the arm and wasn't
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: able to continue on as a police officer. So he
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: had a disability option out. But then years later, he
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: went to work for private security, these executives. So he'll
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: drive you around, Larry. If you were an executive coming
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: into New York, or let's say a delegate from some
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: political organization, he's available. And that means he's not only
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: able to carry a gun legally, but he also has
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to know his way around. He's got to be a
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: good talker. I've met many of these men and women
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: who do this once they've retired from the department. So
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: something happened on that entryway, the bridge, you know, where
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: you're coming off the West Side Highway, you're going to
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the upper level. And you have like three grades. You
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: have the lower level. Then you have the street, 187th.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: It'll take you right into Washington Heights. And then you
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: have the upper level. And they're always jockeying. I mean,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: drivers are always jockeying. Sometimes, you know, they're flipping the
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: bird to one another or getting angry, beeping their horn.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: But in this case, and we'll find out more once
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the details are revealed, this guy, Victor Romero, took out
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: his legally registered revolver and apparently shot through the back windshield.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: The bullet went into Corrin Irvin's shoulder, and then it
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: spun its way through his neck right into his head.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so why is he out? And that is
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: the biggest question. Why is he out? He's out because
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: he's a cop. He got a perp walk because he
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: was a cop. They tried to get away with charging
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: him with manslaughter because he's a cop. If anybody in
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: your family... was just shot by this man simply because
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: of road rage, simply because maybe you cut him off
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: and you didn't even know it and he's upset and
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: he can pull out a gun. I hope he doesn't
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: have that gun anymore. I hope they took that away
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: from him because it seems like they've been treating him
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: with kid gloves. And the union is out there. They
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: are furious and they want to know where are all
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: the politicians? How come they're the only ones out there?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Where are all the city leaders? They specifically want to
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: know where Kathy Hochul was.
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: I'm kind of upset that no one has took an
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: official position on it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: We're out here. We're making so much noise.
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: We're trying to do everything possible to draw attention to this.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Where is everyone?
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this isn't going away. And this union is going
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: to make sure it doesn't go away. And his family
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: has been tremendous. His family are out there all the time.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: The wife is saying Patricia has said it's too much
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: for me right now. She's done some individual interviews at
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: her house in the backyard. But she said, I have
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: two kids at home. I have to console them. They're
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: staying up at night. They're having bad dreams. I have
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: to do something. Look, this was horrendous. This crime was horrendous.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: For somebody that drives on those roads all the time,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I've seen people with road rage, and now you're afraid
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: somebody's going to open fire on you.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Think of this, and this is Alvin Bragg's fault. He's
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the DA of Manhattan. It occurred on the Manhattan side
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of the George Washington Bridge. When Victor Romero was originally
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: arrested by the detectives, I'm assuming from the 3-4, the 3-3,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: that's Washington Heights, he was charged with murder. Then they
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: downgraded it in assistant DA to manslaughter. And then they
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: knocked it up a notch yesterday when everybody was in
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: court to second-degree murder.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Well, the union said they had a writing campaign to
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Alvin Bragg, so he heard from all of them.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Well, not only that.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: He saw that the predominant number of them were African Americans,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and he didn't want a no justice, no peace demonstration
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: outside of his office downtown.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you that.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Up next, we're going to talk about the controversy of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: how there have been investigations into whether we have legal voters.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: We know in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania, in California. We'll
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: add another one to the list when we come back,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and apparently nothing's going to be done about it. before
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the midterm elections up next.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Well, New Jersey Governor Mikey Sherrill has got some explaining
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: to do. You'll remember she made a big deal. She
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: made national news. The White House got... She got the
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: attention of the White House, too. When Mikey Sherrill had
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: a news conference to say that they found 6,600 illegal
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: aliens on the voting rolls and that they were going
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: to fix the problem immediately.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Of course, it's been around for three years. It was.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: there for the murphy administration and it wasn't fixed then
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: so these people actually voted many of them did but
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: she's going to fix that and then the justice department
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: in the white house got interested and they said immediately
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: well you know we want to see these roles we
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: want to check it we want to check what's going on.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: She took them to court no no no i fixed it.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: She said i have this fixed you don't have to
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: get involved in this at all and it's already in
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: court well now we find out that through a very
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: brave woman who didn't want to get in trouble named
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Ilaria Gugliano, who is not here legally but wants to
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: be a U.S. citizen, and she's going through the process.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: When she was 17 years old, she went to get
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: her driver's license, and she was really excited about it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: And she told them, I'm not a citizen, right up front,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: I'm not a citizen, but I'm applying for citizenship. Then
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: she found out, she got a notification in the mail,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: she's on the voting rolls. This just happened. So how
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: many others are there out there? We were told this
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: was fixed. We were told we didn't have to worry
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: about this anymore. And it's still happening. So now they're
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: looking for hearings, of course, in New Jersey. I can
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: promise you the White House is going to get involved.
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: And the court cases, they've changed significantly.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Sure. It's called motor voters.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: You know, you go to your Department of Motor Vehicles
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to sign up, get a license.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: You're an illegal or you're green card. You know, you're
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: not eligible to vote. And all of a.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Sudden you appear on the election rolls with a warning.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: You know, you're not a citizen. You shouldn't vote. You
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: go to jail. Nobody pays attention to that. So New
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Jersey is kind of a big problem, but the Democrats
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: don't think it's a problem. You have Pennsylvania in the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: same situation. We know California, there's massive numbers of illegals
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: who are on the rolls. And now, adding the one
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to your list, Larry, federal officials identified 400 citizens registered
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to vote in Washington state who were not citizens.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: The U.S.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Attorney says this is just the tip of the iceberg.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: There are many more non-citizen green card holders, people illegally
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: in Washington state who are on the voting rolls. Now,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: some of them won't vote, but we know some of
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: them will. And it could, especially in races where you're
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: talking 1%, 2%. could end up affecting a race.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Well, it depends on how many there are. We don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: know how many there are in California where there may
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: be the most. Remember, they had an investigation recently where
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: they found not a lot, you know, a few dozen
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: in Los Angeles, and they said, oh, that's a drop
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: in the bucket. You extrapolate that, that's hundreds of thousands
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: of votes across California. And so the fact that there
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: is so little interest by the Democratic Party in this
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: story to the point where first they were saying, oh,
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: that's a fairy tale. That doesn't exist. Now let's prove
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: that it doesn't exist. What are you going to do
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: about it? Well, it's just so little that we really
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: don't have to. And yet we keep finding thousands or
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: hundreds in the case you just talked about. in state
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: after state after state after state, and we're only talking
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: about a few precincts and a few districts.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Well, that's why California is very hopeful they have their
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: initiative and referendums like that. The people get to decide.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: They got enough signatures. And if this initiative passes... Every
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: time you vote, local election, statewide election, right, obviously, the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: other elections you're involved with, you've got to show an
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: official ID.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Imagine California, the bluest of blue states.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: There had to be a lot of Democrats who signed,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you know, in order to put that on the ballot.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And 80% of Americans want it mandatory that you have
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to show government identification.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: What if your voter ID is a driver's license? What
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: if your voter ID is a driver's license? Which is
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: most states. That's what you can use.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: If it's a driver's license and in New Jersey and
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: in Pennsylvania and in other states, if you're not here illegally,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: you can get a driver's license. I think this was
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: all thought out. I don't think this is an accident.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: It's motor voter.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: And by the way, it was Eliot Spitzer when he
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: was governor before he had to leave.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: You know why?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Who advocated illegals get to drive. Guess who was the
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: first county clerk to object and say, I'll go to jail.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: In Erie County, whole cool. I will not issue driver's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: licenses to illegals. Boy, has she done it. And one
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: last one, Zoran Mandami did one of these videos. You
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: don't got to bring any ID. You can vote, but
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: if you're going to come and shovel snow in case
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: there's a snow emergency, you got to show three forms
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: of official government ID.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: The thing is, it doesn't have to be this way.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Of course not. You don't have to.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: get to you should register to vote separately when you
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: shouldn't get to vote just because you got a driver's
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: license and this woman did everything right that's why she
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: came forward she thought she was gonna get in trouble
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: she's close to being a citizen she doesn't want to
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: screw it up so she came forward and said look
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: i shouldn't be on the voting rolls they put me
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: on the voting rolls i did nothing wrong they did
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: it and but it's happening across the country just.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: So people know if you go to your polling location
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and you're not on the rolls this happens Just ask
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: for an affidavit.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: You fill it out. She did it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: No, I know that, but I'm just saying for everybody,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: whether you're a citizen or not, this applies to everybody.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Fill out the affidavit.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Why don't we stop the voters, the putting people on
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: the voter rolls just because they get their license? Why
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: don't we stop that?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: There's so much fraud involved in all of that.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Anyway, up next. Wow.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Another massive turnout of an election in Israel.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: We'll give you the results up next. But first, the
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: news at seven.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: My ladder, Larry, Natalie, our audience. We are in a
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: cycle of tremendous voting turnout, as we've seen with our
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: early voting, setting all time records. We'll see what happens
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: on Election Day six days away here. They just finished
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the voting in Brazil. All time phenomenal turnout. Neck and
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: neck right to the end. Incredible democracy in action. France,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: in six months, will have a democracy in which the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: election takes place, and it's going to be huge turnout,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: far right, far left. But yesterday, Israel's turnout was incredible.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: As we discussed the other day, Larry, I said, you know,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Israel has very strict rules about voting.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: It's one day.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And if you happen to be somewhere else in the world,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: I think there are 630,000 Israelis around.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: The world who could vote. You must get.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: On a plane and come and vote at any number
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: of the voting locations that you're registered in for your
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: vote to count. They estimated they'll probably be about 50,000
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: when all the votes are counted up. So at the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: end of the night yesterday, there was interpretations, because all
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the votes have not been counted yet, that the two
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: leading candidates in their party slates were neck and neck. Obviously,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Bibi and his far right, he's Likud, and he has
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: other far right parties with his coalition. And Gatti was
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: not that far from him in terms of politics and
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: his coalition. And then the surprise was the phenomenal turnout yesterday.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Of the two Arabic parties, which had their highest turnout
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to date because they are able to vote. Now, if
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: they live in the West Bank, there's three million there.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: They can't vote. Obviously, we know people in Gaza. That's
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: not part of Israel. They can't vote. But there are
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: so many Arabs in the rest of Israel, Christian and Muslim,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: who cast their votes. And they're expected to get anywhere
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: from 18 to 19 seats in the Knesset. Knesset has
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: 120 members who sit. In order to win, you have
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to have 61 seated. Nobody ever wins in the first round.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: And so now it's going to be dependent on who
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: can negotiate with some of the other parties to see
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: if they'll give out cabinet positions, resources to groups. It's
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: definitely quid pro quo that takes place as to who
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: will be the next prime minister. But the real shot
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: caller who could emerge here, because normally... He's almost like
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a figurehead. The president of Israel is Herzog. He is
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: elected by the Knesset. And his really most important action is,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: when you have elections like this, he's the one who
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: has to sit down and basically be like King Solomon.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: He has to try to decide whether the votes show
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: that the majority of Israelis demand change. Then he could
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: appoint a prime minister based on that.
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: Or.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: He can say, guess what?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Just like has happened recently where they had like four
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: or five elections in a very brief period of time.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: We got to go back. We got to know the results.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: We got to go back. We got to do it
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: all over again. So again, it's democracy in action. It's
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: a phenomenal turnout of Israelis and people living overseas who
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: took the time and paid the cost to come all
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the way back to cast their ballots. So again, no
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: matter who ends up winning, You know, people came out
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: to 12,000 polling locations. The votes are tabulated by hand,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: and that hand count is completed. They take it to
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: a regional hub where they are electronically recorded.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: This is what democracy is all about.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the most important thing right now is that
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: it doesn't look like anyone's going to have a majority.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: You know, there's updates from five different reporters from the
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: New York Times who are in Israel right now, and
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: they give constant updates. They say at this point, 60%
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: of the ballots have been voted and the voting is
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: continuing and the exit polls that have been done. Now
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: don't read a lot into this because the exit polls
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: have been awful in Israel, awful. But if you take
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: the exit polls at their face value with 60% of
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: the votes in, no one is going to have a majority.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: It's not going to happen. And this is going to
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: play out for a while. There's even one scenario, and
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: this is the most extreme scenario, where they would vote again.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: As you said, Curtis, there's going to be some jockeying
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: going on right now and trying to get other votes.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: But the way it is right now, listen to this.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: The two Arab parties are projected to get 18 seats
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: in the 120-seat Knesset. So now, normally, that wouldn't mean anything.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: because they wouldn't have any power. When there's a split
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: like this, they are now going to have some power.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: I don't see a scenario anyway that they give up
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: any of those seats, either of the parties, to Benjamin Netanyahu.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: No, no, they've made that very clear. But what's interesting
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: about the Arab parties, I found this interesting when I
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: was there, one of them is a Zionist Arab party.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: The other Arab party, and again, it involves Christians and Muslims,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: is opposed to the way the state of Israel exists now,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: like some of the ultra-Orthodox who are not Zionists because
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: they say Israel can only exist when the Mashiach returns. So, Man,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: no matter where you turn in Israel, everybody has a
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: different point of view. There are different party factions. But
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: this has to be consolidated if you are.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Going to have a government with cabinet members.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: And if you're a small party and you qualify, there's
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: normally like 10 parties that qualify.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Man, you can demand anything. Because you could go to
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Bibi and say this. Then you go to Gaddi and
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: you say this.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: But that ain't going to happen. Because it's really a
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: strange scenario right now. And this is what I was
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: getting at. that these two parties could decide who is
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: going to be in charge in Israel. Those two parties.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: And since there is no way they're going to go
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: with Netanyahu, This remarkable scenario shows that if they go
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: with Eisencott, he would then topple Netanyahu. But in essence,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: he's weakening himself because he's doing a deal with the devil.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: So you're damned if you do and you're damned if
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: you don't. But that's the scenario that's playing out right
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: now in Israel. Yeah, he said he's not going to
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: do that. The others who are non-Arabic have said they're
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: not going to do that.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Now, things could change. They did it once before. They
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: had an interim government for a year. Bibi has served
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: now 19 out of 20 years. There was one year
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: one of the Arab parties became part of the coalition.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: That didn't last long. So, again, I say watch Herzog.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: When did Eisenkot say that, that he wasn't going to
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: do that?
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, early on in the process.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Because they've been making a big deal of the fact
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: that he's been wishy-washy on that whole thing in the
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: New York Times as they said he would do anything
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: to build a stable Zionist government. And when asked about
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: the Arab parties, this might have just been happening now.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: He is not counting that out at this point.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I think the key thing is you look at Herzog,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: you look at what he's– for people who are saying, well,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: who's Herzog? We remember when President Trump visited Israel, spoke
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: at the Knesset. Remember halfway through his remarks, he looked
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: at Herzog in front of all 120 members of the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Knesset and their guests. And said Herzog, you should pardon Bibi,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: who's up on corruption charges. Now, Herzog did not pardon Bibi.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: You know, that would have been a pre-pardon. He hasn't
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: gone to trial yet. But you say to yourself, man,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: if you're Herzog, that was embarrassing because that was Trump
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: going too far into the process of a foreign government.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: So we'll see how this plays out.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: I don't see much.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Difference between Bibi and Gadi. Gadi used to be the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: chief of the military. He wants to continue battling Hezbollah.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: He wants to continue to be in Gaza. He just
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to level Iran. Bibi wants to level Iran,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: wants regime change. He said, no, no, I like the
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Trump philosophy of breaking their backs economically and bombing their
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons capacity.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just going to stay in the moment for
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: a second because let's play this out. If this is
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: a possibility, and the New York Times says it is,
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: if Gadi needs those Arab representatives, They're going to want something.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: They are going to want something in return. And that
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: is not only going to kill the credibility of Gotti,
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: but it is also going to empower them. If this
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: plays out the way it looks like, it's going to
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: have to play out. Now, if he refuses... And then
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: there's nobody? This could go on for weeks as all
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: these negotiations go on, and then there could be another election.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: So we'll see how power-hungry he is. But apparently, just recently,
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: when asked specifically about that, he would not answer the question.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: So it leads you to believe that he's thinking about it.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: You know, I didn't find this election as fascinating as
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: I do right now. because of the way this thing
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: is playing out. This is going to be a real life,
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: in the moment, day by day, political drama in Israel
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: that's going to have a big effect on this country, too,
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: and our relationship with Israel going forward. But the fact
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: that you're going to have all these strange bedfellows to
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: figure out who is going to run Israel, Israel in
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: the future is the kind of stuff that movies are
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: made of.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Well, Bibi is preparing the country, if he does get reelected,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: for what he calls a bypass economy based on cryptocurrency,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: because he says there are going to be sanctions on
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Israeli banks. And he said, prepare for the end of
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: billions of U.S. aid.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: It's over.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time. We will have to
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: become a more self-sufficient super-spotter. He rolled back on those remarks.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: But obviously, if he gets elected, that's the direction he
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: is going to go as Israel has become a pariah
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: to some countries in the world.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: But up next, he's my doctor.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: He should be everybody's doctor, especially if you have situations
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: that he is an expert on.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: You know what we're talking about, Dr.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Gil Lederman. You hear him here at 710WOR. And we
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: are at the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: he's going to cue us up on what people should
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: be doing, plus a chance to see comedian John Mulaney
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: at 825.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: On the line right now, Dr.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Gil Lederman, host of Radio Surgery New York, right here
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: at 710WOR at midnight and on the weekends. Doc, it's
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And what are
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: some of the things that our listeners really need to
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: be aware of? Thanks, Curtis.
• 45:31
  Speaker 14: Thank you, and thanks, Larry, and thanks, Natalie, who I
• 45:33
  Speaker 14: know is the brains behind the operation. You're laughing, but
• 45:38
  Speaker 14: you know it's true.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: I'm laughing because she laughed.
• 45:44
  Speaker 14: Well, we know the brains. We have to acknowledge the brains,
• 45:46
  Speaker 14: and that's the way it is. WR is fantastic, and
• 45:49
  Speaker 14: she's fantastic. So why are we here today? Well, we're
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: here actually every day as breast cancer awareness, because 325,000
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: women a year are diagnosed with breast cancer. More than
• 46:02
  Speaker 14: 40,000 die a year of breast cancer. So it's a
• 46:05
  Speaker 14: vicious disease. And I see it every day. And I've
• 46:08
  Speaker 14: been talking about it for 40 years since I came
• 46:11
  Speaker 14: to New York. When I came to New York, the
• 46:14
  Speaker 14: major hospitals, the big superstars were doing mastectomies on 97%
• 46:18
  Speaker 14: of women. In my practice, 90% of women were keeping
• 46:23
  Speaker 14: their breasts even back then, 40 years ago. So there's
• 46:27
  Speaker 14: big differences. I think a lot of reasons women don't
• 46:29
  Speaker 14: get screening is they're afraid of losing their breasts or
• 46:32
  Speaker 14: having their body distorted by unnecessary surgery. So I think
• 46:37
  Speaker 14: lesson number one is one in eight women will get
• 46:39
  Speaker 14: breast cancer in their lifetime. So women need to examine
• 46:42
  Speaker 14: their own breasts. Women need to see their physician about
• 46:45
  Speaker 14: examining their breasts. Women need to get mammograms and ultrasounds
• 46:48
  Speaker 14: on an annual basis. And there's nothing to fear. The
• 46:52
  Speaker 14: worst thing is to have undiagnosed or advanced breast cancer.
• 46:56
  Speaker 14: So it's much better to be diagnosed early. You find
• 46:59
  Speaker 14: it early and the success rate is dramatically higher. You
• 47:02
  Speaker 14: find it late and it's dramatically less. So early bird
• 47:05
  Speaker 14: catches the worm and women can get checked out for
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: almost all conditions, whether it's breast cancer, pap smears, or colonoscopy.
• 47:13
  Speaker 14: These are all things that every woman should be doing
• 47:16
  Speaker 14: on a regular basis.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: It's so important that you said that because I just
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: looked at studies and for the first time, in the
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: last couple of decades, breast cancer is on the rise
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: right now, and especially among the young who are not
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: getting the necessary mammograms and the necessary checkups. And I'm
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: not sure, except that something you said really stuck out
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: to me. You said they're afraid of losing their breasts,
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: but aren't they also afraid of dying?
• 47:47
  Speaker 14: You know, it's amazing that I see so many, I
• 47:52
  Speaker 14: spend my life with cancer and radiation. And there's people
• 47:56
  Speaker 14: who fear the medical consequences more than dying. And we
• 48:02
  Speaker 14: need to really change dynamics. And if you come to
• 48:04
  Speaker 14: my practice, many women now with breast cancer are having
• 48:08
  Speaker 14: treatment with not even a lumpectomy or mastectomy. So in
• 48:12
  Speaker 14: the past, we were a big advocate to do lumpectomy
• 48:15
  Speaker 14: and radiation. Many women are taking advantage of our program
• 48:19
  Speaker 14: where we actually treat breast cancer with no surgery. no
• 48:22
  Speaker 14: deforming whatsoever. And it's very appealing. You can't imagine how
• 48:27
  Speaker 14: it appeals to so many women who otherwise don't want
• 48:30
  Speaker 14: to see their doctor. So I think fear of distorting
• 48:33
  Speaker 14: the body is one thing. Fear of dying is another thing.
• 48:37
  Speaker 14: I just spoke to a prominent member of WOR staff
• 48:40
  Speaker 14: whose own sister is just diagnosed with breast cancer. So
• 48:45
  Speaker 14: it's not so far from any one of us. I
• 48:47
  Speaker 14: see it every day. It's not so far from you
• 48:49
  Speaker 14: at WOR. or from anyone in society. If you think
• 48:52
  Speaker 14: about one in eight women will get breast cancer, go
• 48:55
  Speaker 14: down the street and count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
• 48:58
  Speaker 14: One of those women are going to get breast cancer.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Lederman, a few years ago, a number of well-known women
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: were opting to get preemptive mastectomies, which it blew my mind.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Has that sort of trend stopped?
• 49:18
  Speaker 14: Okay, well, most of that was in a bracket positive.
• 49:21
  Speaker 14: So there's a genetic condition in men and women, BRCA condition,
• 49:25
  Speaker 14: where women are at higher risk for breast cancer and
• 49:29
  Speaker 14: ovarian cancer. Angelia Jolie was a woman I think you're
• 49:32
  Speaker 14: alluding to, and she wrote a letter saying, an article
• 49:35
  Speaker 14: in the Wall Street Journal or New York Times saying
• 49:37
  Speaker 14: why she got bilateral mastectomy. I think her mother had
• 49:40
  Speaker 14: breast cancer. And that led to a big push in
• 49:45
  Speaker 14: getting double mastectomies. I thought if Angelina Jolie can get it,
• 49:48
  Speaker 14: then why shouldn't I get it to save my life?
• 49:51
  Speaker 14: And I've seen many women who have done that. But
• 49:53
  Speaker 14: the trend, as you say, and you're correct, is moving
• 49:56
  Speaker 14: away from that. There's excellent treatment for women with breast
• 49:59
  Speaker 14: cancer without deforming surgery. And we've been a big advocate
• 50:03
  Speaker 14: for decades and Many women, as I say, come here
• 50:06
  Speaker 14: because they just do not want to be deformed.
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: Really important messages from you, Dr.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Lederman.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: Thank you so much. And people can reach out to
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: you at 212 Choices, right? 212 Choices?
• 50:18
  Speaker 14: They can reach out to me. They can listen to
• 50:20
  Speaker 14: your show. They can listen to WR. And they can
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: listen to Natalie, who's the brains behind the organization.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: I'm not disagreeing. I just laughed at the face she made.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: That's all.
• 50:32
  Speaker 14: Okay, it's all unanimous here.
• 50:35
  Speaker 13: Dr.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: Gil Lederman, host of Radio Surgery New York at midnight
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: and on the weekends. Really important to listen to what
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: he has to say because, as you can hear, he's
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: out in front on all of these issues.
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: Dr.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: Lederman, thank you so much.
• 50:51
  Speaker 14: Thank you, and God bless you all.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Right on time, Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, heard every
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Sunday night from 8 to 11 here on 710WOR. The
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: lead story yesterday, Anthropic, only in business five years, going
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: to end up possibly putting out an IPO, and they
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: think they can raise $ 2 trillion, $ 1 trillion more than
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: But explain this to me. They lost $ 81 billion yesterday.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: How is it that people are going to be investing
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: money in a company that reports that they lost $ 81 billion?
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: Well, it's the price of doing business and starting a
• 51:31
  Speaker 8: business like this. I mean, we remember when Amazon started,
• 51:34
  Speaker 8: they could not turn a profit for a long time.
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: Tesla could not turn a profit for a long time.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: And then what.
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: Happens is as these companies establish themselves, as the customers
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: understand the need for what they are putting out there,
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: that's when the money starts to come in. And obviously,
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: we know Tesla has done pretty well. Amazon has done
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: pretty well. That's what we expect with Anthropic because AI
• 51:57
  Speaker 8: is becoming part and parcel for every company. And the
• 52:00
  Speaker 8: kind of tools that Anthropic is putting out right now, yes,
• 52:04
  Speaker 8: the coders are playing with them. The business people are
• 52:07
  Speaker 8: playing with them. But when companies need to subscribe to
• 52:10
  Speaker 8: AI as a service to run pretty much everything that
• 52:13
  Speaker 8: they're doing, that's where a company like Anthropic can do
• 52:16
  Speaker 8: really well.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: You know, I get these messages all the time that
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: are really weird. Like, why won't you write me back
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: as if it's someone that knows me? Or there's something
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: wrong with your phone. We need to talk to you immediately.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: You know, please answer this text. I don't answer any
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: of them because I just think it's a good idea.
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: I think that if they really needed me, they'd call me.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: Are these scams? Are these people trying to scam me?
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh. I mean, the scams are everywhere. And
• 52:47
  Speaker 8: it's funny, right now we're in, you know, obviously political season.
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: So we're getting a lot of those texts as well.
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: But no matter what, look, if you're getting a text message,
• 52:56
  Speaker 8: it's funny you say that because I got a text
• 52:58
  Speaker 8: message the other day and it said, hey, Rich, can
• 53:00
  Speaker 8: we discuss this business proposal or whatever? And I just
• 53:03
  Speaker 8: deleted it. And my wife comes home. She goes, hey,
• 53:06
  Speaker 8: did you get that text from Jeff, our neighbor?
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I said, what?
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: I just deleted it because I just assume anyone that's
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: writing anything like that is a scam. And so it
• 53:15
  Speaker 8: was a misunderstanding. I had to go into my deleted text,
• 53:18
  Speaker 8: recover his conversation. And we're going to talk, it's not
• 53:21
  Speaker 8: a business proposal. He wanted to pitch me on doing
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: a story. But my point is, I just assume it's
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: all fake. So yes, if you're getting a link in
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: anything that's incoming, you have to be very critical of.
• 53:32
  Speaker 8: If you're making the action a little bit safer, but
• 53:35
  Speaker 8: if you're Googling for a phone number, if you're going
• 53:37
  Speaker 8: to a random website, making a purchase from there, you
• 53:40
  Speaker 8: always have to be careful.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: And there's a big one right now with the, they're
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: saying that it's the FTC and you have to deactivate
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: your phone.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Is that right?
• 53:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, this one, I mean, there's just so many of
• 53:52
  Speaker 8: these going around. The latest is you get a call,
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: someone says they're an FTC official, and they say that
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: your phone number has been listed doing illegal business activities overseas.
• 54:03
  Speaker 8: So we need you to cooperate or we're going to
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: shut off your phone number immediately. Now, as you can imagine,
• 54:09
  Speaker 8: some people that get this call may be a little
• 54:12
  Speaker 8: disoriented and saying, wait, what? I can't get rid of
• 54:14
  Speaker 8: my number. I've had this forever. And so they will
• 54:17
  Speaker 8: threaten to disconnect unless you send money or personal information.
• 54:21
  Speaker 8: Do not do any of that stuff. Hang up. If
• 54:24
  Speaker 8: it's a problem, they will get in touch with you
• 54:27
  Speaker 8: the right way.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Now, Rich, last Friday, there were lines and lines for
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: the new Apple first foldable iPhone. What's your review of
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: the opening days for all those who waited.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: For hours and hours to get that in their hand?
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: I mean, look, you're always going to have the Apple
• 54:50
  Speaker 8: early adopters and the fans of this company want to
• 54:53
  Speaker 8: test what's new from them. And the foldable phone, the
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: iPhone Duo, yes, it went on sale on Friday. $ 2, 000,
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: not an inexpensive proposition, but it's kind of neat. You've
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: got this screen on the outside that's a little small.
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: a little bit wide, and then you've got this nice
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: big screen on the inside. Now, I will tell you,
• 55:12
  Speaker 8: the outside screen is kind of a pain. We're very
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: used to our current phones that have a nice long screen.
• 55:18
  Speaker 8: This one is very short, so you don't see all
• 55:20
  Speaker 8: of the content at once. Apps are trying to rewrite
• 55:23
  Speaker 8: their code to make these apps look better. It's not
• 55:27
  Speaker 8: always the case. But on that inside screen, it's just
• 55:31
  Speaker 8: quite incredible. You have basically the equivalent of an iPad
• 55:34
  Speaker 8: mini in your pocket. And in fact, in my review,
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: That is how I use this device the most. I
• 55:39
  Speaker 8: found myself just sitting on the couch, scrolling through websites,
• 55:42
  Speaker 8: watching videos, reading magazines, all on that nice inner screen.
• 55:47
  Speaker 8: It could also work as a Kindle because it has
• 55:49
  Speaker 8: a matte finish. So I like that aspect. The biggest
• 55:53
  Speaker 8: issue to me is the lack of Face ID. This
• 55:57
  Speaker 8: does not use Face ID. It goes back to a
• 55:59
  Speaker 8: fingerprint sensor, which I know sounds, okay, fine, we can
• 56:02
  Speaker 8: do that. It takes a lot longer to open and
• 56:04
  Speaker 8: use this device than you can imagine. And so it
• 56:08
  Speaker 8: takes a little bit of work and you do notice
• 56:10
  Speaker 8: that as you're using it. That's the biggest downside, I think.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: You know, of all the social media sites, I think
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: the one that is, and they are legion, the amount
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: of social media sites, the one that is the most impressive,
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: the one that really stands alone is YouTube. And it's
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: been around for a long time and nobody really has
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: ever taken it on. I guess that's going to change now.
• 56:35
  Speaker 8: That's going to change because Instagram, who famously does not
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: like long form video on there, they are going to
• 56:42
  Speaker 8: now allow certain creators to upload videos in a horizontal
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: version up to 90 minutes long. And why are they
• 56:49
  Speaker 8: doing this? Well, YouTube is eating their lunch when it
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: comes to podcasts and daily shows. And basically anyone that thinks, okay,
• 56:58
  Speaker 8: where can I upload this video? They're going to YouTube.
• 57:01
  Speaker 8: And Instagram has been great. And TikTok has been great.
• 57:04
  Speaker 8: for short form content. But guess what? A lot of
• 57:07
  Speaker 8: people like watching long form content too. And there's a
• 57:09
  Speaker 8: lot more podcasts out there that are doing this. And
• 57:11
  Speaker 8: so Instagram is now allowing this to happen with certain podcasters, comedians, influencers,
• 57:17
  Speaker 8: and basically it'll be the same thing. You're scrolling through Instagram,
• 57:20
  Speaker 8: watching a real version of it, like a vertical video.
• 57:23
  Speaker 8: And then you go, Oh, that's interesting. They said something cool.
• 57:26
  Speaker 8: Let me tap in and I can watch the entire
• 57:28
  Speaker 8: video on Instagram, or I can send that video to
• 57:31
  Speaker 8: my TV.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Rich, real quick, Microsoft is offering buyouts to 30% of
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: their personnel, claiming it's because of AI. What prospects do
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: those men and women have if they take the buyout
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: in the future?
• 57:47
  Speaker 8: Well, kind of a tough time right now for buyouts.
• 57:51
  Speaker 8: 60,000 people is almost a quarter of their workforce. That's
• 57:53
  Speaker 8: a lot of people looking for jobs in the time
• 57:56
  Speaker 8: where companies are adapting. Microsoft, make no mistake, they're not
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: hurting for money. They're just changing where they spend their money.
• 58:03
  Speaker 8: So all these people that are being offered this buyout, Copilot, Finance,
• 58:09
  Speaker 8: Human Resources, Xbox, Windows, those are all the places that
• 58:12
  Speaker 8: are fine. Where the places are growing is people in sales, marketing, security, engineering.
• 58:18
  Speaker 8: They can't leave. So it's about redistributing where they're spending
• 58:22
  Speaker 8: their money. But these 60,000 people, yeah, they're going to
• 58:25
  Speaker 8: be put in a job market where Every company right
• 58:27
  Speaker 8: now is saying, I'm not sure we need to hire
• 58:29
  Speaker 8: people right now because AI is changing our business as
• 58:32
  Speaker 8: we speak. Let's just sit and wait and see when
• 58:34
  Speaker 8: the dust clears to figure out what we're going to
• 58:36
  Speaker 8: do next.
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: Well, that's horrible news.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, is heard Sunday nights from
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: 8 to 11 p.m.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: On WOR.
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: You can also talk to Rich at Rich on Tech
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: on Instagram. He also has a lot of information there.
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: Check it out.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Rich.
• 58:54
  Speaker 8: Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: When we come back, Natalie Migliore has her beat on
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: the street, and she talks to New Yorkers about those
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: recent attacks in Central Park and if they feel safe there.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Natalie's next.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: 10 wor speed on the street with natalie.
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: Migliore ah so today coming from central park up to
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: the suites here but not because of the marathon which
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: is good news you were there for what.
• 59:25
  Speaker 21: Reason Yeah, we were there because of the NYPD boosting
• 59:29
  Speaker 21: patrols in Central Park as they continue searching for that
• 59:33
  Speaker 21: suspect who.
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Raped a woman at knife point over the weekend.
• 59:37
  Speaker 21: So I will be going back to Central Park later
• 59:39
  Speaker 21: today for the marathon. But we're really there talking to
• 59:42
  Speaker 21: people who live in the area. And there's no shortage
• 59:45
  Speaker 21: of reaction from New Yorkers who heard about this attack
• 59:49
  Speaker 21: on a 39 year old woman. being attacked being pulled
• 59:52
  Speaker 21: into a wooded area near East 66th Street and 5th
• 59:56
  Speaker 21: Avenue around 9 p.m.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Saturday.
• 59:59
  Speaker 15: I live on Central Park West. I often walk through
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 15: the park. I just said to my husband this morning,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 15: I don't feel safe walking through the park anymore.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 13: Now it's terrible because I was concerned it was right
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 13: off of 5th Avenue on 66th Street. It wasn't like
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 13: in the middle of the park. So that was quite shocking.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 22: It's heartbreaking for sure, especially knowing that's part of my
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 22: daily commute is to go past that entrance.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: But it's not surprising.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 22: Disappointing, but not surprising.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, now note, you heard from all women.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 21: Because take a listen when I ask a guy if
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 21: he's concerned about a walk through Central Park, specifically at night.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: I don't have very much to say about it, sorry.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: And that's what you get. Was every guy like that?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 21: Guys, they don't necessarily stop all the time either. Neither
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 21: do women. But, yeah, not very afraid or concerned in
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 21: a sense.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: Well, not about rape. Right.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, when's the last time a guy said, man,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: I got to watch my back so I don't get
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: raped except in jail?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Very fair point.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, so.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: You want to expound on that, Natalie? I'm trying to just.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to keep moving on.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: No, but because this is.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 21: A serious matter and this attack was the fifth reported
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 21: attack in the park so far this year. So the
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 21: suspect remains on the loose and police have released images
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 21: of who they're looking for over the past couple of days.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: But New Yorkers, they know the cardinal rule.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 19: No, I'm not going in the park at night because
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 19: you have to be cognizant of your surroundings and be
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 19: able to put yourself in situations and take yourself out
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 19: of situations. And one of the things you don't do
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 19: as safety is go running late.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 10: At night in the park.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 13: I grew up in Manhattan all my life. I've never
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 13: gone in the park at night, except I've gone ice
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 13: skating in Wallman Rink. But there's hundreds of people around
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 13: and music. But as far as taking any of my
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 13: dogs in the park, at 9, 10, 11 o'clock for
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 13: their last walk. I just don't think it's advisable.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 15: I don't think a lot of stuff happens in the
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 15: park in the middle of the night. I think the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 15: unfortunate incidents that have just happened were sort of random,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 15: but it's still better to take precautions.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 21: Now, the victim wasn't necessarily taking a stroll through the park.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: She is said to be homeless.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 21: And if you do walk through Central Park, especially during
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 21: the day, you will see people There are people who
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 21: sleep in the park. There are a lot of them
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 21: who are now living in Central Park. So honestly, a
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 21: lot of people telling me they've really started noticing a
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 21: difference in their sense of safety once the pandemic hit
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 21: and things just changed.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 19: I don't think enough is being done to take care
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 19: of the mentally challenged that are out in the street.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: And I think that definitely plays a part in being careful.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 22: Social care networks are not where they need to be.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 22: There's been an increase in like hostile architecture. Just the
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 22: way that unhoused people are treated is really upsetting and
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 22: really disturbing. And like the lack of care for the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 22: members of our community that need that mental health help.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 13: I don't know the solution. Somebody else needs to figure
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 13: it out. But it's definitely the mental health of the
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 13: people that are doing this.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 21: Now, one council member says this is the second attack
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 21: on a woman in the park in the last week.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 21: The NYPD is also looking for a trio of suspects
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 21: who attacked and robbed a woman on the 18th, so
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 21: about 10 days ago now. But when it comes to it,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 21: the women who I spoke to, you know, they tie
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 21: this back to mental health, but we don't know at
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 21: this point who what's behind the motive of the suspect
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 21: who was in central park until cops get them and interview.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, I can only tell you just by being in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: the park. So often a lot of emotionally disturbed persons
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: who live in the park. And again, if we're going
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: to allow people not to get mental health care, where
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: are they going to go? Subway central park, they're going
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: to go places. And if they have an episode, unfortunately
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: you may end up being victimized by them. So, uh,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: de blasio did nothing adams did nothing zoron does nothing
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: and the problem is growing that.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: Very well said and by the way speaking for the
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: men they're afraid too that's why they don't want to
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: talk to you they're afraid their heads on a swivel
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: when they walk through any dark area in new york
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: especially but the park so um they were just cowards
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: not to talk to.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: You thank you that's so nice of you to sit
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: now but.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 21: At least you're you know i think a lot of
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 21: people say though that living in new york you just
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 21: have to be aware wherever you are yeah Absolutely.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: Natalie Migliore will be back tomorrow morning at 7.50. When
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 4: we come back, one of the biggest stories in the
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: country right now is the turnout in this midterm election.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: And we are going to focus specifically on Texas, which
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: is one of the hottest races in the country. So hot,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump had to go there twice in one day.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: We'll talk about that after the 8 o'clock news. I
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: did a video earlier today that you can find on Instagram, right,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: at 710WOR, talking about the fact that there has been
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: increased early voter turnout across the country. Some places are
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: setting records up 200% in Kansas, for instance, up 75%
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: in New York State. And so there's a lot of
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: interest there. in this election. And it's worrisome if you're
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: a Republican. It's worrisome if you want Donald Trump to
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: continue with his agenda for the next two years. Because usually, usually,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: not always, but usually when there's a high turnout, it
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: is caused by anger. And the anger is definitely on
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: the Democratic side. And so that's what's happened in past elections.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: That's why it's very difficult for a party that owns
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: the White House or that controls the White House is
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: then able to win in the midterms because the anger
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: is all towards the president at the time. But let
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: me tell you why I feel a little bit better
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: now about Texas. Because Texas, they got 4.5 million people
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: that voted already. And that is close to a record.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: There was one time, only one time, when there was
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: more people that came out for early voting, and that
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: is when Beto O'Rourke ran against Ted Cruz. If you
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: follow politics, you know where I'm going with this. Because
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: Beto O'Rourke was the big star of the Democratic Party.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: All the attention was put on him. He was going
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: to knock off Ted Cruz. All the polls showed it.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: And then there was this mess of early voting. And
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: he got beat. And not just by the slimmest of margins,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: he got beat. It wasn't a landslide, but it was
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: a pretty good win for Ted Cruz. So people came
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: out because they were afraid the Democrats were going to
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: take over in that midterm election. Now, other Democrats won
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: across the country, but their big star, Beto O'Rourke, went down.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: So there is some hope in all of this. In
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: the He went to Texas and he came up. Now,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: the big issue there is cost of living is high,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: but not as big as immigration. Immigration is still, according
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 4: to the polls, the number one issue in Texas. So
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump came with a new proposal.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 5: You'll be my guest at Mar-a-Lago.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's not it. This is the one.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: That's the one you want to play. This is the
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: one I want to play.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 7: We will pass the no invasion of our country act
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 7: prohibiting any future president from ever opening our borders to
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 7: illegal immigrants again.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 5: It's never going to happen to you again. Texas, it
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: will never happen to you again. What happened to you?
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: That was an invasion of our country. That was a
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 5: military invasion.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: Right, and that is the quote that is getting the
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: most play in Texas right now. But again, Curtis wants
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: to play another cut.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: But wait, before you play the cut, you're comparing Paxton
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: to Ted Cruz, who ran a presidential race, who finished
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: second to Donald Trump, who was not a flawed candidate? No,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: I understand that you— Paxton is a flawed candidate who
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: has a lot of Republicans refusing to support him.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: They've refused to support him mainly because they like John
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: Cornyn so much, not because of any of his flaws.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: Paxton is still popular in Texas. Paxton was so popular
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: in Texas, he won. he beat cornyn now i know
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: donald trump helped in that but i wouldn't say paxton
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: is a flawed candidate.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: Well he's not good on the stump uh number two
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: he has been embroiled in all kinds of corruption charges
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: got impeached by the state legislature None of that ever
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: happened at Ted Cruz, so I think your dynamics in
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: comparing O'Rourke.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: No, I disagree completely. Beto O'Rourke was bigger than Telerico.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: Beto O'Rourke was a national figure. Telerico is not. Beto
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: O'Rourke was here in New York. Beto O'Rourke was everywhere
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: because he was the new star of the Democratic Party.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: And he fell on his face. And so, yes, you
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: can compare it because Republicans came out in mass. You
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: heard me talk about the early turnout that year.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: And it was all rural. Guess what it is this year?
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 21: All rural.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: You think those people are going to tell a real?
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: The president has been there four times. The president knows
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: a hell of a lot that his candidate that he
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: chose is in trouble. Four times going to Texas? He's
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: been everywhere and he saw the polls. He doesn't want
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: to lose Texas.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: You're right.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: But he doesn't want to lose South Carolina. He's going
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: back to there. He doesn't want to lose. There's many
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: states he's been to a couple of times. That's another candidate.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: I know you come up with these stories.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: Darlene Graham, who is now neck and neck in the polls,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: and Republicans are jumping off her campaign.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: I know, you're thrilled. You were just thrilled.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: I'm just telling you the fact, when he picks candidates,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: a lot of them lose.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: That's his history. Everybody knows the side you're taking on,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: every one of these races. That's all you want to
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: talk about.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: You do know Cornyn would have done much better against Tallarico.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: You do know... I don't know that.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know that.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: In this climate, I don't know that at all. How
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: do you know that?
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Larry, if you haven't understood Paxton's rocky road in Texas...
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: And you're comparing it to Ted Cruz.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: Listen, I know he's still popular in Texas because the
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: polls tell me he's still popular in Texas. I think
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: anybody that ran in this climate was going to have
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: a difficult time. People are having a difficult time who
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: are Republicans across the country.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: The only state that Donald Trump has done two campaign
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: stops in one day is Texas.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: Why is that? Because he wants the guy to win.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're getting at. Because he knows
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: he's in danger of losing.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: He knows a lot of people are in danger. Have
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: you looked at the polls? Why do you want to
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: focus on this? Because you want to play this bite.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: Go ahead. Here you go. Oh, well, let me intro
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: the cut here. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: Because with affordability, cost of living, number one in the
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: minds of all Americans, all Americans, Donald Trump, who can't
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: stop himself from talking.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: said something.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: That in the waning days of everybody's campaign in America,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: who's a Democrat, is going to be part of their
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: last minute buys.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: You'll be my guest at Mar-a-Lago.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 7: The problem is that for $ 5, 000, the most you'll be
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 7: able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 5: I'm not even sure you could buy that. No, don't
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: go there. That's not a good place. If you're price conscious.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, you think that helps?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: You got it. No, I don't think it hurts at all.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: I think the people that came there, no. It's not.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: You say this all the time. You keep asking for
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: different soundbites. We play them, and you tell me, oh,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: this is going to have legs. It's going to kill them,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: and it never does. It never does.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: Would you agree that nationally, affordability, cost of living, is
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: the number one issue on everyone's minds?
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: You sound like a Democratic consultant right now. And then—
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: Anybody will tell you that. Republicans will tell you that.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: No, but you are the one that focuses in on
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: this stuff all the time. Because he should never have
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: said that. It never has legs. In the waning days.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: Of the campaign where people are concerned, they're living check
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: to check.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: What a stupid thing to say. That's like the great
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: dad speech. No, he was telling a joke, and the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: people that are there know that. You heard them laughing.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: It's telling a joke. Those people are voting Republican, right?
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: There's a vast majority of people out there that he
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: needs to vote Republican.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: And they will because he was there.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: Who are independents, who are Democrats, who are not going
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: to take well to that statement.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: We have done this almost every week. You've pulled out
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 4: a Donald Trump bite or a bite of some Republican
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 4: somewhere that you told me is going to turn the election.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 4: And it never has. It has no legs. Come tomorrow,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 4: nobody will be talking about this. Nobody will be talking
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: about this. But you want to focus on it.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: That was the stupidest thing he could possibly say.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 16: Okay.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: In the face of affordability, cost of living. A rich
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: guy in Mar-a-Lago talking about how much it costs to
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: go to Mar-a-Lago.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: And Everybody knows he's a rich guy. Tell me a favor.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: Leave me a talk back.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: Let me know if you were that offended by what
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump said that you're never going to vote for
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump because that apparently is the theory of the.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: Man sitting behind me. I know he wants this election
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: to be about him. Think of me on the ballot.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: Or Republicans. You know what I mean? That's what you're saying.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 4: This is so damning that he just lost. The Telerico
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: just won.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Would you agree that Democrats across the country are going
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: to use that in last minute ads?
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: No, they're not.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 4: They're going to use it in ads. They're going to
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 4: help them in their states. They're not going to use this.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 4: We'll see. Now, that's easy. We'll be able to find
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 4: out if I'm right about that.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: You do realize that... No, no, no, no. Let's wait.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: Republican prospects are sinking as we speak. We'll wait for
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: all these ads.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 4: We'll wait for all these ads to prove if you're
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: right for once.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Has Trump's appearances in any of these states helped anybody
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: in the polls?
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 13: We'll see.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: I'm asking you. We're going to see.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 17: Listen.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: He hasn't helped anybody in the polls.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, some of the polls have gone up, but the
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: only poll that's going to matter, the only poll that's
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: going to matter is going to happen on Tuesday. Rodgers
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: went up in the polls.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: Early voting. Rodgers just went up. Early voting is up, right?
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: But you're wrong, right? That's Democrats. You're wrong, right? No,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: it's neck and neck. Come on.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: You can't give anything.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: One minute you say, I'm not feeling good. I'm feeling like, oh, man,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: we may lose this. And then the next minute you're
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: defending the indefensible. Listen, I talk in facts. I don't
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: talk about opinions or the you seem to be this
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: anti-Trump thing that that. guides everything you say and everything
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: you do and everything you want to do.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: There you go. Well, he said the election is about him. Remember,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: he didn't say it's about the candidates. There you go.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: He picked lousy candidates. He picked Darlene Graham in South Carolina.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: He picked Paxton in Texas.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: The people of South Carolina picked Darlene Graham in South Carolina.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 4: Understand the process. Wow. When we come back, you know what?
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: We have to get to some talkbacks. There's a lot
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: For sure, but we've got to talk about the robot
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: dog walker.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: So if you're augmenting your income by walking dogs, which
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of people do, you can forget about it.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: You're going to be replaced by a robot, and it's
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: just going to cost $ 20 an hour, plus a chance
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: to see comedian John Mulaney next. One of the things
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: Larry and Natalie and I love doing when I go
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: into Central Park is to watch the dog walkers who
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: will enter the park where I live, the Upper West Side,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: sometimes they'll have 10, 12, 15, 20 dogs at their side.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: All of them seem to be compliant. They're not fighting
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: with one another. You know, they go in the park.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: They enjoy a nice spirited walk. They do what they
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: got to do. And then the dog walker will bring
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: them back to their separate apartments. Well, dog walking, which
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: was always a great way to augment your income, especially
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: if you were between jobs, may suddenly no longer exist
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: because I have a robot dog walker. It'll only cost
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: $ 20 an hour. And I have a feeling like in
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: so many other work capacities, the robot may end up
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: replacing most of these dog walkers who could really, really
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: use the money.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: Many of them, as I said, are in between jobs.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: So that's what's happening. Robots.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 4: You know, we talk so much about AI replacing people,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 4: and we don't talk enough about robots replacing people. And
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 4: everybody says when they talk about AI that it's only
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: going to replace high-end jobs. You know, it's going to
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: be people at the very top or technical people. But no,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 4: that's not the case. If they have robots, robots can
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 4: do manufacturing. Robots can come in. Robots can do plumbing.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, this is a little scary when you talk
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: about robots.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: The fact that how do they get into the apartment
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: to fetch the dog to begin with? Because that's what
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of the dog walkers do. And then they
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: have to return the dog to the individual apartments because
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: they're not all from the same location. So- Man, this
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: is just a new way. First, it was delivering Grubhub
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: with a robot. Now it'll be Amazon with a robot
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: and dog walking, which has been a fixture in the
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: street life of New York City.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: Now, I told you earlier that we were having a
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 4: problem with the talkbacks. I guess that's fixed now. So
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of things we talked about today. I'll
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: try that. We even a bunch of them. We started
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: off talking about Halloween and man, did we get a
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: lot of talkbacks about Halloween. But here's one about what
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: we just talked about a second ago about Donald Trump
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 4: being in Texas. The fact that he's had to go
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 4: there two times in one day.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: That's his third.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: Trip there overall to try to save the Senate seat there.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: All I have to say is love your show.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 9: Curtis, please stop being a Debbie Downer.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 12: Please, please.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 8: We know you don't like Trump.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 14: We got it.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 8: OK, chill out.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 6: Chill out.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: I don't drink to Kool-Aid.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: Trump is going to lose this election, going to get
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: swept in the House, going to get swept in the Senate, in.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: Just his own words.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 5: Think of me as running.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I'll correct you like you correct me. No, Trump's
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 4: not running.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, he is.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 20: I agree with Larry.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 17: The Mar-a-Lago was a joke. I'm more concerned about what
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 17: Obama said about Cheesecake Factory, where the middle class can
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 17: actually go and have a good meal.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: He puts it down because he.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 23: Goes to fancy places.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 12: In Martha's Vineyard.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 23: That's what you should focus on.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 7: I would put that out more than with the joke
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 7: about Mar-a-Lago.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 17: There are expensive places out there.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 14: It's a fact.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 13: I can't go to Mar-a-Lago and eat a hamburger.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 4: But I would go to Cheesecake Factory and Obama put
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 4: it down. Wow, what is he in space? Was he
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 4: in a space capsule?
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: My God. I'm going to say a truck.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: I couldn't even understand what he was talking about because
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: of all the noise in the background.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: We have to get a couple of the Halloween ones in.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: You know what the best thing about Halloween, Christmas, and
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: Easter is?
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 13: The day after, when all the candy is like half
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 13: off and they're trying to clear it out.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 14: And anyway, all these holidays are probably sponsored by every
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 14: dentist across America.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: He's right. Absolutely correct.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 12: In Queens Middle Village in the 1970s, there were people
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 12: who would give out literal little bags of Halloween candy.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 12: They used to sell them at the stores. And you'd
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 12: get Milky Ways and whatever, kisses and tons of different
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 12: pieces of candy in a little baggie. And some people, yeah,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 12: would put change, like 75 cents or 25 cents.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 8: Those were the.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 12: Good old days.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: That brought back such a memory because my grandmother was
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: in Brooklyn. She used to do that for Halloween. You
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: would buy these little bags. They were like treat bags.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: And you would fill them up and you would hand
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: out the bags, not just pieces of candy. And that
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 3: was a thing.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that too.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so do I. Do you know why they stopped that?
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: With all the fear about having unwrapped bags. And that
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 4: was the, they ruined everything. And it turns out much
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: of that stuff, that wasn't true. Nobody had ever had
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: a razor blade in an apple or anything like that.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 4: It just wasn't true.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: Well, we're not giving away candy now. Let's give away
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: some tickets.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 24: And my dad has no friends. And your dad has
• 1:21:33
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• 1:21:38
  Speaker 24: Your mom has friends, and they have husbands.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 10: Partly sunny, chilly today with a high of 62 degrees.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 10: Just six days to go to the midterms, and candidates
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 10: are in the final push for votes. In New Jersey,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 10: a new poll gives Democrats a 23% lead. over Republicans
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 10: in the races for Congress.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 25: A Fairleigh Dickinson University survey shows 55% of likely voters
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 25: support Democratic congressional candidates, while just 32% back Republicans in
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 25: the Garden State. Affordability was the most important issue to respondents,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 25: with 90% saying it mattered to their congressional vote. The
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 25: poll also shows a big decline in Republicans identifying with
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 25: Trump's MAGA movement in New Jersey when comparing to right
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 25: after the 2024 election. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 10: Meanwhile, a Siena University poll gives Governor Kathy Hochul a
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 10: bigger lead over Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman. It's been widened
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 10: to 14 percentage points. Former NYPD detective Victor Romero is
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 10: now charged with murder in a deadly shooting last week
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 10: on the GWB. A grand jury upgrading the charges in
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 10: what police say was a case of road rage that
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 10: killed Karan Irvine. The New York City Marathon is coming
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 10: up this Sunday, and one of the big events leading
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 10: up to it will take place in about a half
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 10: an hour from now.
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  Speaker 21: The roadrunners and city officials gather in Central Park every
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 21: year to start off the job of painting the four-inch-wide
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 21: blue line that follows the 26.2-mile course throughout the five boroughs.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 21: It guides runners through 300 intersections and over five bridges,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 21: ending at the finish line in Central Park.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: Once city officials put paint to pavement.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 21: The New York City Department of Transportation takes over using
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 21: about 50 gallons of paint to paint the signature marathon blue.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 10: Larry Menti will anchor our live coverage of the marathon
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 10: from 8 a.m. to noon this Sunday right here on WOR. Next,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 10: Devils and Islanders win, Nets lose. Next news, 9 o'clock
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 10: bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710 WOR.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Daria, and congratulations to Janet Piorio. Piorco, excuse me, Piorco.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 4: From Bloomfield, New Jersey, who just won a pair of
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 4: tickets to see comedian John Mulaney's final stop on his nine-night,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: nine-venue Mulaney Takes Manhattan tour, January 15th, at Madison Square Garden.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 4: Another chance to win tomorrow at 825. When we come back, well,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: you heard the blue line is going down and the
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 4: race is going to begin in just a couple of days.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: And we'll talk about what it takes to put on
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 4: the New York City Marathon with the race director.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: Next. Well, Curtis, as you know.
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  Speaker 4: 60,000 runners are expected to take part in the TCS
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: New York City Marathon on Sunday. But the man who
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: runs it all, what a job, Ted Metellus, the New
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: York Roadrunners Chief Event Production Officer and Race Director. He
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: is an extremely busy man right now. Ted, I want
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: to thank you so much for taking the time to
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 4: talk to us today. How do you prepare for the race?
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 4: I know how the runners do.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: How about you?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's much like the runners, Larry. First, good morning
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 9: and thank you so very much. It's good to chat.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 9: So all of our runners right now are tapering. So
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 9: they are getting their last miles in and tuning up
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 9: for what will be a great day of running. And
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 9: the team at New York Road Runners are doing very
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: much the same thing. Checking the list twice, making sure
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 9: everything that we have is ready to go and looking
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 9: forward to an amazing race day on November 1st.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: And congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: This is the 50th anniversary of the five boroughs.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: What has changed? Take us through the 50 years. What
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: has changed over those years?
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 9: Well, Larry, you know what they say for those of
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 9: us who are above 50, you only turn 50.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: Once the first time.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 9: So 1970 was the very first New York City Marathon
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 9: that happens in Central Park where runners did about four
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 9: loops of the park. And the race grew from the
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 9: first race that had 55 finishers to last year's race
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 9: where we had over 59,000 finishers.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: So much has changed over the years.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 9: You know, the running community has changed. The demographic of
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 9: our runners have changed. The races have become more diverse,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 9: more accessible. We're seeing more younger people running the marathon distance,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 9: especially over the last 10 plus years coming out of COVID.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 9: And older people that are getting out there and challenging
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 9: themselves and saying, hey, This is a bucket list item
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 9: I've always wanted to do.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: So it's been incredible.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 9: To see our city change and evolve as well. Neighborhoods
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 9: that have developed, mostly industrial spaces that we ran through
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 9: in years through Queens are now beautiful neighborhoods and spaces there.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 9: So it's been an amazing story to tell about the
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 9: growth of the Roadrunners, the growth of the marathon and
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 9: the growth of our great city.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 4: Now, I understand that for the first time in 15 years,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: there's going to be a course change. And I know
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: the Bronx are near and dear to your heart. And
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 4: the change is in the Bronx. Tell us about it.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 9: I am a Bronx native, born and raised, a proud
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 9: graduate of All Hollows High School. And it was really
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 9: interesting to see the work that we've put in over
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 9: the last five plus years to make this adjustment in
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 9: the Bronx. We rarely make adjustments on the route unless
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 9: there's something pretty substantial that lies into it. So as
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 9: I mentioned before, with all of the change and development
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 9: in our city, what we started to see in the
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 9: Bronx neighborhoods were a lot of development there that did
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 9: not exist before. about 10 plus years ago. Supermarkets that
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 9: are being built and other community elements that are there
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 9: that we needed to look at closely and say, hey,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 9: how do we change the course, make the route better,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 9: but also help the neighborhood out a little bit here?
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 9: And that's exactly what we did. The section that we
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 9: have in the Bronx right now is beautiful. It still
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 9: has the runners going over the Willis Avenue Bridge, making
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 9: the turn on 131th Street and another turn on Alexander Avenue,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 9: which is remaining the same. But instead of making another turn,
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 9: the runners go straight up to 141st Street. They're making
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 9: immediate turn onto 3rd Avenue and then making their way
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 9: over to Madison Avenue Bridge. So it takes some turns off,
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 9: makes it a little bit faster for the runners, gets
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 9: to see some really beautiful sections of that neighborhood and
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 9: that community. And, you know, a little bit of a
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 9: fuss up for 50 years. So it's kind of, you know,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 9: it's like changing an outfit or getting a haircut.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 4: Now, I know that's, well, it's a little bit harder
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 4: than that. I'll tell you that, Nath. I know that
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 4: accessibility is extremely important to the TCS New York City Marathon.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 4: And now you have a new category for para-athletes.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: Tell us about it.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 9: Yes, we are piloting a para-athlete division. So we've always
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 9: had an athletes with disability para-program, but not to the
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 9: scale that we have right now on the competitive side.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: We do have competitive wheelchair athletes.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 9: Professional athletes that are incredible, and they have participated in
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 9: all of the ABA World Marathon majors, and many of
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 9: them have.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: Won year over year.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 9: But for your non-professional athletes, having this para-category program allows
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 9: these athletes to now track themselves and compare themselves to
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 9: other athletes with similar abilities.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 4: And you also are expanding your sustainability efforts as well
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 4: because you have a partnership with Culligan International. Tell us
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 4: about that.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 9: So like many things, it's planting a seed that we
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 9: watch grow year over year. So coming out of the
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 9: 2020-2021 marathon. So 2020, the marathon was canceled due to
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 9: the pandemic. 2021, we brought the marathon back. And we
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 9: wanted to make some modifications and changes, one of which
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 9: was really amplifying that athletes can bring their own hydration
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 9: tools with them. These athletes can refill their bottles, but
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 9: they didn't need to use any of the cups along
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 9: the course if they so choose. We've continued to enhance
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 9: that program now with bottle refill stations partnered with Culligan
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 9: are almost like a NASCAR.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: Pull-in station for these runners.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 9: I've actually participated in an event that had them and
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 9: it was fantastic. You slide right into this section, you
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 9: grab your bottle, you refill and you're gone. You're back
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 9: at it again. Having this sustainability component has been tremendous.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 9: So I have to give a shout out to our
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 9: accessibility team for the amazing work that they've done to
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 9: continue to make the TCX New City Marathon, the most
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 9: accessible event in the world, and our sustainability team that
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 9: is tracking us to being the most sustainable marathon in
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 9: the world.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, Ted, I've talked to you a
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 4: couple of times and I can't believe your energy. You
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 4: are so full of energy and I know you're working
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 4: around the clock.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: What happens on November 2nd? Do you just pass out?
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 9: No, quite the contrary, Larry. Like, I appreciate that. You know,
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 9: I was saying the energy you give is the energy
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 9: you receive. And on November 2nd, I'm still working. We
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 9: have an elite athletes program that we do. They're their
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 9: media session. We hang out with them. And then I'm
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 9: checking in on the team. I'm going to the start
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 9: line in Staten Island and checking on the team. I'm
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 9: at the finish line with the team there. I'm making
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 9: sure that folks are taken care of. I'm following up
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 9: with our city agency partners.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: So the week goes on.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 9: It's not until Friday that I'm able to take a
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 9: little bit of a break and take that weekend off
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 9: like the rest of the team, rest, recover, and start
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 9: planning for 2027. They're lucky to have you.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 4: Ted Metellus, New York Roadrunners Chief Event Production Officer and
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: Race Director of the TCS New York City Marathon. I
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 4: know you hopped out of a car to talk to us,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 4: so thank you so much.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: And I know you've got to start running again. That's it.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: I'm on the move.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 9: So on my way to the finish line.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: We're back out to Natalie Migliore right at the finish line.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: of the New York City Marathon, laying the blue line.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: I was out there earlier this morning on my way
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: here to 710WOR, the IHAR, IHAR Confab.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: It was crowded. What's it like out there now, Natalie?
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's still crowded.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 21: People running by, and now that there's a mob of
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 21: press by where this line is going to be painted,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 21: the start of the blue line that runs the whole
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 21: 26.2-mile course, Of course, runners who are planning to run
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 21: the marathon are stopping and taking pictures of it because
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 21: they now realize the significance of where it is.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: But it is truly bustling. The course is set. We've
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 3: got bleachers here in Central Park. We just had an
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 3: NYPD briefing.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 21: Now they're going to start painting the blue line and
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 21: DOT will drag it all the way through the five
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 21: borough course.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: But it's pretty lively here. We've got energy up in here.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Natalie is going to be along the route during
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: our live broadcast on Sunday. But then she has a
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 4: relative running in the race. So like every other family
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 4: that cheers their people on, she now has to run
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 4: to the finish line. How much time do you have
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 4: from when that ends to when you need to.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: Be at the finish line?
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: My brother-in-law is a very, very fast runner.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 21: He says no because he knows now he has to
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 21: pace himself for 26.2 miles.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: But it's going to be quite a scare.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 21: I better hope that I get somebody, that I catch
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 21: the right subway train and get up here in time.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 3: But I should have enough time. It's all in the timing.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 21: It's all a game with the subways because we all
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 21: know that the cars and everything are that you can't
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 21: you can't get around the city like that.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, before they had cameras along the pathway
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: to victory. to make sure you were in the race,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: there was a woman named Rosie Ruiz.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: Who started at the beginning, then jumped into the subway,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: then showed up, you know, just like two miles out.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: And everybody said, oh, wow. And she did the same
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: thing in the Boston Marathon. And that's where she got
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: cold busted.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I can't wait to talk to you tomorrow. I'm sorry.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Natalie. What were you going to say?
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 5: No, it's genius. It's good for me.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: I don't run like that, guys.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see you running a little bit.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 4: Can't wait to work with you then and see you
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 4: again tomorrow here on the air. I'll tell you, Curtis,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 4: one of the moments in the marathon that is the
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 4: most heartwarming is is not the people in the race,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 4: but all the people that are along the race that
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 4: then have to run to the finish line to be there.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 4: For their loved one. They want to show them support
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 4: on the sidelines. Then they get and they are running.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 4: When you're leaving, when we leave, there's people running there
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 4: to make sure they're there at the ending for their
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 4: loved one.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: You know, so you can't go to the exact finish
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: line if you're planning on doing that. But you can
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 3: get super close. The entrance into the park is great.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: It gets electric there. Even though there's still a little
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: bit more to run.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 3: They know they're almost there.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, they know where to go. They know where to go.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: But it's amazing. Energy there is great. With their signs
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: and everything. I've done it.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 3: I've crossed the city to see my husband on First
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: Avenue and then ran as close to the finish I can.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: Because then you have to pick them up. Usually you
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: have to take them home. So you have to get there.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, I was running.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 3: I had baby strollers.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: I was booking it across the park.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, to me, that's part of the race. It
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 4: is so heartwarming. And then the people that come here
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 4: from all over the world.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: And, you know, I like to go the day before
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: the Tavern on the Green where they're carving up.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: They get all that free spaghetti. They load up. That's right.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. But anyway, tomorrow we have to discuss.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: I and Natalie Migliore were staring at the TV, Fox
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: News Channel, Fox and Friends, at 936 yesterday after our show.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: We said, who the hell is that? It was Andrew
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: Evil Eyes Cuomo, Faccia Bruta Cuomo. The eyes, everything around
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: his head, his hair. It looked like a nest for sparrows.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: So tomorrow we got to discuss because he's been off
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: the radar screen for a while. It's like, is this
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: the new and improved Andrew Cuomo or is this in
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: time for Halloween?
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 4: So you suspect he had a little something, something?
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: Something, something.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: He had a lot of work, but man, he is scary.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: Right on time for Halloween. Meantime, we've been talking about
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: Halloween memories this morning. The Talkback of the Morning and
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: winner of the Curtis Lee and Larry Menti in the
• 1:36:42
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• 1:36:52
  Speaker 23: Growing up back in the 70s on the Upper West Side,
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 23: We used to go trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. And all
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 23: the bookies and all the number dealers would give us
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 23: so much money in our jack-o'-lanterns. We weren't talking about
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 23: dollars and nickels. We were talking about like $ 5.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: $ 10s, and $ 20s.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 23: Sometimes I'd go home with like $ 60 or $ 70.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: Man, I love that story.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: That's when the numbers used to dominate before there was Lotto.
• 1:37:21
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• 1:37:25
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  Speaker 4: And also, the picture of Andrew Cuomo, is that going
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 4: to be up, or are we saving that until tomorrow?
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: Hopefully, Natalie. I don't know if you can Photoshop that.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: He is a faccia brutta.
• 1:38:05
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• 1:38:10
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• 1:38:13
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• 1:38:19
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