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Hour 2: NY Governor's race · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: It is one of the biggest races in the country,
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  Speaker 1: certainly the one that is getting the most attention. It
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  Speaker 1: is the Michigan Senate race between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rogers. And it is one that is being talked
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  Speaker 1: about in every other election in the country. El Sayed
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  Speaker 1: has become the poster boy for the Democratic Party. He's
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  Speaker 1: the boogeyman. If he gets in, oh my God, everything's
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  Speaker 1: going to go wrong. It's just like Zora Mamdani when
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  Speaker 1: he ran. Same fear stuff. And look, El Sayed is
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  Speaker 1: a really good candidate. What he believes in his affiliations
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  Speaker 1: are a little bit scary. And now the press keeps
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  Speaker 1: pushing him on several different things. And he is slick, man.
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  Speaker 1: He really is slick. He can avoid topics by turning
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  Speaker 1: the tables. And yet on CNN with Casey Hunt, who
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  Speaker 1: I think is a tremendous journalist and a great interviewer,
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  Speaker 1: she kept going after him on Israel. And I'm only
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  Speaker 1: playing a part of this. She must have asked him
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  Speaker 1: four times.
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  Speaker 2: The question of Israel's existence is not a question. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to play this gotcha game about whether or
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  Speaker 2: not it has a right to exist. The question ultimately
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  Speaker 2: is about whether or not we want a politics that dignifies.
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  Speaker 3: You're not going to play the gotcha game, but you're
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  Speaker 3: not going to say you think Israel has a right
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  Speaker 3: to exist.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my question, you know, Casey, I think the question
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  Speaker 2: we all ought to ask is, does everybody have equal
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  Speaker 2: rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination?
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  Speaker 4: That's Jewish, Israelis, and Palestinians.
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  Speaker 5: See, he's slick. He really is slick.
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  Speaker 1: He will jump right on top of her and answer
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  Speaker 1: a different question. But Jeremy Peters is a national reporter
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  Speaker 1: for The New York Times, and he has been covering
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  Speaker 1: the race for The New York Times, and he's noticed
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  Speaker 1: something interesting.
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  Speaker 6: One of the factors in this race that is really
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  Speaker 6: worth paying closer attention to are the number of Democrats,
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  Speaker 6: lifelong Jewish Democrats, especially in the Detroit suburbs, who are
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  Speaker 6: saying for the first time in their lives they're voting Republican.
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  Speaker 5: That's a big deal.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know of any other marquee race in the
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  Speaker 6: country right now where the Republican candidate is converting Democrats.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also happening with black Democrats, Curtis. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a fascinating race. There's so many
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  Speaker 1: things at play here.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I've spent a lot of time in Michigan organizing
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  Speaker 5: Guardian Angels. So the demographics are very unique. The southern
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  Speaker 5: part of the state and the northern part. The northern
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  Speaker 5: part is Trump country, hunters. You know, there's still Trump,
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  Speaker 5: do or die. That's why that bus tour that AOC,
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  Speaker 5: all out crazy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took with El Saeed to
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  Speaker 5: the Upper Peninsula would tell us a lot. But we
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  Speaker 5: haven't gotten much news about that because that's not a
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  Speaker 5: friendly crowd to either El Saeed or to AOC. That's
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  Speaker 5: a Rogers crowd. Now you go south, Wayne County, which
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  Speaker 5: encompasses Detroit. And as you know from your own experiences
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  Speaker 5: in Philadelphia about vote tabulations, corrupt. The history of the
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  Speaker 5: Detroit Democratic machine, which is controlled by African-Americans now and
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  Speaker 5: Wayne County, very corrupt. So if you notice now, they're
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  Speaker 5: all focused on the southern tier. Wayne County, Detroit, where
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  Speaker 5: the bulk of the votes are. Obama is coming in
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  Speaker 5: for El-Said to try to shore up the African-American vote
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  Speaker 5: at the end of the week. And who's going into
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  Speaker 5: the Upper Peninsula? You're on. It's Donald Trump at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the week to secure the MAGA Republican vote
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  Speaker 5: for Rogers. But the bottom line is... This is right
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  Speaker 5: out of the Zoran Mandami Cuomo playbook. As you know,
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  Speaker 5: having interviewed me many times in the campaign, I barely
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  Speaker 5: talked about Jews and Muslims, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, because I
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  Speaker 5: never felt that's a priority for a mayor. A mayor's
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  Speaker 5: got so many other things to do. Hey, you want
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  Speaker 5: to deal with that? Run for president, Congress, U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 3: Mayor?
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  Speaker 5: You got nothing. You know, I'm going to arrest Bibi.
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  Speaker 5: That's specious. And then Cuomo, you know, Israel first. Stop it.
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  Speaker 5: But they're doing the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: But I agree that it's not important to be a mayor.
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  Speaker 1: And it is important to be a senator. But not
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  Speaker 1: as important as other issues. I agree with everything you said.
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  Speaker 1: But it's important in a campaign.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. Except I disagree with the New York Times guy.
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  Speaker 5: The weight of the Jewish vote. The percentages. Let me
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  Speaker 5: give you the percentages. 1.5% of the total vote in
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  Speaker 5: Michigan is Jewish, all in the South Tier. 2% are Muslims.
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  Speaker 5: The other unknown factor, and they're going to vote for Al-Said,
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  Speaker 5: and he knows this, are the Christian Palestinians, Lebanese, the Chaldeans.
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  Speaker 5: It's a sizable group of them. And so add another 1%
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  Speaker 5: to the 2% of Muslims. You know they're all coming out.
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  Speaker 5: That's not the bulk of the vote. The bulk of
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  Speaker 5: the vote are mostly people like you, me, and Natalie. Whites,
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  Speaker 5: they're either liberal or progressive, or they're Trumpers or they're moderates,
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  Speaker 5: and they haven't quite figured it out because, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it comes down to some of the basic other issues.
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  Speaker 5: They couldn't give a flying flip about Israel and AIPAC and,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Muslims. They're talking bread and butter issues. That's
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  Speaker 5: really what it's going to be. And if it's real
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  Speaker 5: neck and neck and close... You know people are going
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  Speaker 5: to scream, let's say Rodgers loses in a very close... Oh,
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  Speaker 5: election theft. Election theft in Wayne County in Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: I actually think Rodgers is going to win, not only
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  Speaker 1: because that they under-evaluate Republicans in the polls, but because El-Sayed,
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  Speaker 1: if you remember in the primary, he was supposed to win.
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  Speaker 5: By six points, five points, and he just barely won.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't call it till the next day. The weekend before,
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  Speaker 5: they had a pool party... Doing a pre-celebration because they
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  Speaker 5: thought they were going to kill the congresswoman. The polls
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  Speaker 5: said he was going to. 1% he won by. Yep. 1%.
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  Speaker 5: And he has decided to shoot the dice with the
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  Speaker 5: help of the Democratic Party. He went on record and said,
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  Speaker 5: Israel is not an American ally. Israel is not our friend.
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  Speaker 5: Mike Rogers, completely different. Israel is our number one friend
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  Speaker 5: in the Middle East. That is our ally. He's taking
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  Speaker 5: AIPAC money. Man, and they don't like one another in
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  Speaker 5: that first debate. First time they were arguing during the
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  Speaker 5: commercial breaks. They couldn't break them up. These guys really
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  Speaker 5: detest one another. I'm going to be watching the whole
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  Speaker 5: debate tonight.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's going to be amazing. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous debate. I think everybody's going to be watching.
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  Speaker 1: But at this point in the campaign, at this point
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  Speaker 1: in the campaign, there's very, very few undecided votes. So
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  Speaker 1: when you hear them taking these positions even stronger than
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  Speaker 1: they have before, it's because right now it's getting out
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  Speaker 1: that vote. You kind of know who's going to vote
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  Speaker 1: for you at this point and who's not going to
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  Speaker 1: vote for you. And you've got to play to those voters.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to play to those sections of voters around
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  Speaker 1: the state by making certain you say what they want
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  Speaker 1: to hear. And that's why Trump's going to go there
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  Speaker 1: so late. So late in the process, he's saving this
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  Speaker 1: till the end because he's got to get out the vote.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to get out that MAGA vote. Because usually
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  Speaker 1: less than 50% vote in the midterms. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be more this year, but less than 50% vote.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got to get the vote out.
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  Speaker 5: The two superstars of their parties will be there on
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  Speaker 5: this coming weekend, the end. You know, we're winding down.
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  Speaker 5: Trump in the North sector with all the MAGA votes.
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  Speaker 5: And Barack Obama to get out the African-American vote, that's
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  Speaker 5: the only questionable vote at this time. It's not a
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  Speaker 5: guaranteed slam dunk for Al Saeed as it normally would
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  Speaker 5: be for a Democrat. They're having their reservations. Some have
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  Speaker 5: already moved to Rogers, but a lot of them are
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  Speaker 5: like of that theory. I'll never vote for a Republican.
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  Speaker 5: They may just stay home. And Barack Obama's goal is to,
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  Speaker 5: you know, excite them and get them to come out
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  Speaker 5: because the likelihood is they'll end up voting Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you've seen all the focus groups with the black voters.
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  Speaker 1: They just don't like him.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: They don't like him. So you're right. You're right.
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  Speaker 1: They have to get him out there to try to
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  Speaker 1: get out the black vote. It is going to be
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  Speaker 1: fascinating because, and here's why it's so important. This is
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  Speaker 1: why Trump's going. This is why Barack Obama's going. If
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans didn't take Michigan... they're probably going to save
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  Speaker 1: the Senate. If they can take Michigan, they're probably going
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  Speaker 1: to save the Senate because they already have a three-vote
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  Speaker 1: lead on them, six votes altogether if you count the
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  Speaker 1: addition and subtraction. So listen, this is the race. This
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  Speaker 1: is the race in the country. I know all the
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  Speaker 1: other ones we've talked about are close and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be interesting as well. But if Michigan goes, so
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  Speaker 1: goes the country.
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  Speaker 5: And remember, from our perspective, AOC said if Al-Said wins, we,
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  Speaker 5: meaning we, DSA, even though he says I'm not DSA.
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  Speaker 5: We DSA can win anywhere. She'll run for president. If
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  Speaker 5: he loses, let's say by 5% or 6%, she'll probably
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  Speaker 5: just say, I got you, Maseet. There's no way you
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  Speaker 5: can beat me in a primary. I'm extrapolating that. The
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  Speaker 5: other thing is, you'll like this, because you like the
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  Speaker 5: compilation that comes from, what is that, Clear Politics? Real
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  Speaker 5: Clear Politics. They now have the Republican candidate in Minnesota ahead,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the sportscaster, female. from ESPN against the lieutenant governor,
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  Speaker 5: the Democrat. That was considered a shoo-in for the Democrats
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  Speaker 5: to replace Amy, I'm forgetting her name, who's running for governor. Klobuchar. Right,
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  Speaker 5: Klobuchar's a shoo-in for governor, although they have a great
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  Speaker 5: black GOP candidate running against her. Probably she won't win
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  Speaker 5: against Klobuchar, but now they are predicting the Republican will
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  Speaker 5: win because the lieutenant governor is being attached like an
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  Speaker 5: appendage to Tampon Tim, the outgoing governor.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, she was involved in all of that fraud,
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  Speaker 1: and she's trying to now... Push it away from her.
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  Speaker 1: She's trying to say, no, no, no, I had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with that.
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  Speaker 5: No, they haven't.
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  Speaker 1: You should see the ads. We should play one of
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  Speaker 1: them in the days to come, one of the ads
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  Speaker 1: up there. That's all they're talking about.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, and she also, it's a cultural war because she
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  Speaker 5: wears the shirt, you know, Transgender Kids Matter or something
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  Speaker 5: like that. And that's become a divisive issue. So, boy,
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  Speaker 5: that's another race that nobody ever thought would be neck
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  Speaker 5: and neck.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to be on election night from 7
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  Speaker 1: until 11 or midnight.
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  Speaker 5: Which are we going to, 11 or midnight?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever. I think it's 11 o'clock. But let me ask
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  Speaker 5: you this. You normally, for our program in the morning,
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  Speaker 5: where you put in more hours than anyone else, because
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  Speaker 5: you're here early, you're doing all the pre-show stuff, you
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  Speaker 5: normally drink 15 cups of caffeinated coffee. So are we
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  Speaker 5: looking at a world record, maybe 30 or 45 within
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  Speaker 5: the course of the day? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Like here, there's other people to cover for me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I can urinate that much. I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to cut down just in case, so... No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it. I've never missed an election night,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm really looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Larry, to your credit, you have found the best
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  Speaker 5: political ad yet coming up next from New Hampshire. I've
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  Speaker 5: seen a lot of them, but you played it for
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  Speaker 5: me during the show prep. There's no doubt this is
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  Speaker 5: the best campaign ad ever, plus a chance to see
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  Speaker 5: Journey at 825. See it all on the history of
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  Speaker 5: political ads.
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  Speaker 1: There's been some great ones, some that have won presidential elections,
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  Speaker 1: others in local municipalities that have changed the course of
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  Speaker 1: that municipality. But this one, this radio ad that is
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  Speaker 1: playing in Maine right now on the radio is the funniest,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the edgiest thing. ad i've ever heard and this
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  Speaker 1: is paid for by the senate leadership fund a republican
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  Speaker 1: super pack it's a little surprising it comes basically from
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  Speaker 1: the republican party once you hear it oh let's hear
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  Speaker 1: it now come on.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't we get political ads like that over.
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  Speaker 5: Here well that's what That's the main race, obviously one
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  Speaker 5: of the most contested, where they had five debates in
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  Speaker 5: nine days, a total of six in total, since the lumberjack,
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  Speaker 5: Troy Jackson, replaced Plattner. Who was out of control, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the oyster guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But that was amazing because all of it's true.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He did have sex with his cousins. He did have
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  Speaker 1: children with his cousins. And so I guess that's what
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  Speaker 1: you do in Maine.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: You want to hear the second half of the ad? Yes,
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  Speaker 5: of course. Never heard anything like that in my life.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't that amazing? Now, there are some Italians who may
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  Speaker 5: object because they've known to marry their first cousins. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not going to mention any names here, but. Oh, you
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  Speaker 5: know some names?
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  Speaker 10: Curtis.
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  Speaker 5: Rudy Giuliani.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: And there are other Italians I know where that hasn't
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  Speaker 5: necessarily been verboten. Now it is. I don't think it
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  Speaker 5: is in Maine either. Well, we can go. What do
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  Speaker 5: you think? The three-eyed cousin fornicators? Is that what you're calling?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Lumberjack? They get awfully lonely out in those woods, you know?
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  Speaker 5: Your cousins just look pretty good. The reason it's such
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  Speaker 5: a good ad is it's not just the message of
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  Speaker 5: the song. But the tune. Yeah, it's going to stick
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  Speaker 5: with you. The exactly right. It's a hummable tune.
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  Speaker 1: People will be singing this song. That's the problem. When
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  Speaker 1: they go to the polls, they'll have that song in
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  Speaker 1: their head. Now, that's very creative.
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  Speaker 5: Now, in New Hampshire, nearby, you have John Sununu running
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  Speaker 5: as a Republican, replacing Shaheen, who is the Democrat. He's saying,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a Republican. I'm an independent. What are you
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  Speaker 5: talking about? Your whole family. Your daddy was a Republican.
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  Speaker 5: You've been a Republican. But his dad was pretty independent
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a whole different political culture when you
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  Speaker 1: get up to Vermont and Maine and New Hampshire. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: seems to be an independent. Let's get some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 7: Larry, Curtis, we need a PSA from you. That pajamas
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  Speaker 7: and sweatpants being worn all day does not cure fatigue.
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  Speaker 7: Act like a human. Dress like a human. And be productive.
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  Speaker 7: Best medicine there is.
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  Speaker 5: PJs and sweats. Now, Fetterman is best known as the
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  Speaker 5: guy who broke that whole Senate code of dress. He
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  Speaker 5: wears his sweatpants. It's less and less now. But when
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  Speaker 5: he was running against, I am dressed like Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Oz.
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  Speaker 5: I'm dressed meticulously. That really didn't hurt him.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Because of my kids, I go
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  Speaker 1: to college campuses. You know how many of them go
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  Speaker 1: to class in pajama pants? It's like a big deal
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  Speaker 1: now to wear these flannel pajama pants everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Is that a signal that they'd like to sleep with
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  Speaker 5: somebody in that class? I don't think so. I think
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  Speaker 5: they just want to be sleeping. Yeah, that's it. That's
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  Speaker 5: exactly it. They had no time to change.
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  Speaker 4: Curtis, I'm a Knicks fan, too.
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  Speaker 5: And I saw a different game.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the 76ers are all that great.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we lost 106-100. First game of many, many, many
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  Speaker 5: games in the season. You know that.
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  Speaker 7: But.
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  Speaker 4: Our bench was beating the 76ers.
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  Speaker 5: For most of that game.
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  Speaker 7: Our bench.
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  Speaker 5: They should have left the bench in there.
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  Speaker 7: We would have beat them.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, keep hope alive. That's a real Knicks fan. You're
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  Speaker 5: not going to bench your starting five. And if the
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  Speaker 5: starting five can't keep up with the opposition's backcourt, that
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  Speaker 5: is going to be flying down the court because their
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  Speaker 5: big guy in the hole is going to get the
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  Speaker 5: rebound and flick it down. Brunson and his partner in
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  Speaker 5: the backcourt cannot keep up with the flying Wallenders.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll say this to his point. The Knicks won
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter, they won the second quarter, and they
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  Speaker 1: won the fourth quarter. They lost the game in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter. And I know that you're not even supposed
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  Speaker 1: to look at that because it doesn't really matter, but man,
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  Speaker 1: something happened after the halftime. Let's get to Daria Albinger
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  Speaker 1: with the 7.30 news.
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  Speaker 7: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 11: Bright, cool, and breezy today. We'll see a high of
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  Speaker 11: 66 degrees. Road rage may be behind a deadly drive-by
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  Speaker 11: shooting on the GWB last night, which tied up traffic
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  Speaker 11: for hours. Police say the victim had a gunshot wound
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  Speaker 11: to the head when he was pulled from the vehicle.
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  Speaker 11: A search is on for three men that police say
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  Speaker 11: attacked and robbed a woman who was riding her bike.
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  Speaker 11: in Central Park Sunday night.
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  Speaker 12: The victim says she was riding her bike in Central
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  Speaker 12: Park when three men emerged out of bushes, hit her
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  Speaker 12: in the head, and then went after her valuables. The
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  Speaker 12: attack happened in a dark area near West 93rd Street
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  Speaker 12: and West Drive.
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  Speaker 9: It hit me and I just felt it. And the
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: first thought in my mind was like my family, my mom.
• 16:53
  Speaker 13: It was my life.
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: I fought back.
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: I hit two hits and another guy grabbed me and
• 16:57
  Speaker 9: took my book bag.
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  Speaker 12: Police have released new video of the suspects in hopes
• 17:01
  Speaker 12: the public can identify them. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 17:04
  Speaker 11: President Trump will head to South Carolina tonight, two weeks
• 17:07
  Speaker 11: to the midterm elections. The feds are investigating several adult
• 17:11
  Speaker 11: daycare centers in the area as part of a larger
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: probe into alleged health care fraud.
• 17:16
  Speaker 14: Officers carried boxes out of a site in Sunset Park
• 17:19
  Speaker 14: and conducted enforcement actions at multiple other facilities on Tuesday.
• 17:22
  Speaker 13: The FBI has joined an interagency working group dedicated to
• 17:26
  Speaker 13: immediately disrupting and dismantling billion-dollar health care fraud schemes and
• 17:31
  Speaker 13: the money laundering networks that enable them.
• 17:34
  Speaker 14: Governor Hochul said it is part of a joint effort
• 17:36
  Speaker 14: with the White House targeting providers who improperly bill Medicaid
• 17:40
  Speaker 14: and engage in other illegal acts. The FBI is asking
• 17:43
  Speaker 14: for the public to send in any tips of possible
• 17:46
  Speaker 14: fraud at tips.fbi.gov. I'm Lizzie Radabali, WOR News.
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: Anthropic is reportedly drafting regulations which would set a limit
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: on how many people might die because of a rogue
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: AI agent. Politico says the company suggests a new AI
• 18:01
  Speaker 11: model might be blocked from distribution. if it could lead
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: to more than 50 deaths or cause more than a
• 18:06
  Speaker 11: billion dollars in damages. Knicks lose to Philadelphia. Nets open
• 18:10
  Speaker 11: their season tonight against Charlotte. The Devils and the Islanders win.
• 18:13
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• 18:16
  Speaker 11: on 710WOR.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much, Daria.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: When we come back, well, tech has been dominating the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: political landscape. Let's talk to Rich DeMuro about that. From
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. when WOR's morning show continues. I can't
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: wait to talk to our tech guy, Rich DeMuro, because
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: he was at Zoomtopia. I didn't even know Zoomtopia existed
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: until I just read about it from Rich DeMuro, but
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by it. And I'll tell you why, but
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: let me just tell you, Rich on Tech is heard
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Sunday nights from 8 to 11 on WOR. You can
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: also reach out to Rich yourself at Rich on Tech
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: on Instagram. So Zoomtopia, I guess, is a conference they
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: have for Zoom. But this one apparently is about AI.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And here's the question I want you to answer, Rich.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And you might have got this from Zoomtopia. Can I
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: get an AI version of myself to pretend I'm at
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: these Zoom meetings so that I don't have to attend them?
• 19:23
  Speaker 15: Good morning to you, Larry. Yeah, so here's the deal.
• 19:25
  Speaker 15: So number one, Zoomtopia, I went because the irony was
• 19:28
  Speaker 15: not lost on me that this company that does virtual
• 19:31
  Speaker 15: meetings has this big in-person conference. And I said, okay,
• 19:34
  Speaker 15: I have to go to that and see what it's
• 19:35
  Speaker 15: all about. So yeah, they announced a whole bunch of features.
• 19:39
  Speaker 15: And the first thing that the onstage of the CEO
• 19:42
  Speaker 15: of Zoom came out, and the first question the presenter
• 19:45
  Speaker 15: asked them, she said, why didn't you send your virtual avatar?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Isn't that much easier?
• 19:50
  Speaker 15: Than being here in person? And he said, well, it's
• 19:52
  Speaker 15: much cheaper for me to be here in person because
• 19:54
  Speaker 15: a virtual avatar costs money. So the answer to your
• 19:57
  Speaker 15: question is, yes, you can have a custom avatar, go
• 20:00
  Speaker 15: to your Zoom meetings. I'm looking at the Zoom website
• 20:02
  Speaker 15: right now. It's $ 16. 50 a month for the first four
• 20:06
  Speaker 15: months and then it's $ 22 a month. But here's the thing.
• 20:09
  Speaker 15: They announced all kinds of new features for Zoom at
• 20:12
  Speaker 15: this event. One of them, and this didn't even occur
• 20:15
  Speaker 15: to me, is basically a deep fake detection.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: So it can detect if someone in your meeting is.
• 20:22
  Speaker 15: Fake, is not a real person. I mean, this is
• 20:25
  Speaker 15: where we are in 2026.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: They ruin everything.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: That would have been wonderful to have an avatar. Think
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: about it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: All the bad Zoom meetings you've been on. And how
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: many guys' careers could have been saved when they were
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: on the Zoom during the lockdown and pandemic when they
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: were found with their pants off and they were stimulating themselves?
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: You remember that, Rich?
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, do I remember that?
• 20:48
  Speaker 15: I mean, I was asking the Zoom folks, like, this
• 20:51
  Speaker 15: brand got their name from the pandemic, right?
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Like, everyone in the world uses Zoom.
• 20:57
  Speaker 15: I think what they're trying to do now is like
• 20:58
  Speaker 15: move past that idea of like, oh, when I do
• 21:01
  Speaker 15: a video call, it's Zoom.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: No, they want to be everything.
• 21:03
  Speaker 15: I mean, at this event, they had all kinds of
• 21:06
  Speaker 15: new features that they showed off, including this one's wild.
• 21:11
  Speaker 15: It touches up your look. Okay, we know we can
• 21:13
  Speaker 15: do that on Zoom. But now they've got one that
• 21:16
  Speaker 15: touches up your voice. So if you have a heavy accent,
• 21:19
  Speaker 15: you can actually toggle a switch and it will smooth
• 21:21
  Speaker 15: out your accent, which to me is wild. There's one
• 21:24
  Speaker 15: called Pose Correction. So Larry, if you're looking at your
• 21:27
  Speaker 15: notes down on your paper next to your screen, it
• 21:30
  Speaker 15: will actually make it look as if you're still looking
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: at your camera and engaging with people. So yeah, you
• 21:36
  Speaker 15: can pretty much check out of your meetings and still
• 21:38
  Speaker 15: look like you're engaged at this point.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: And only $ 16 a month? Larry's looking into the budget
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: right now. You know, remember Rich, Larry, and Natalie when
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Ariana Huffington was like the go-to guest for years, you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: with Huffington Post? I can never understand what the hell
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: that woman was talking about because of her accent. So
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: this would have made her more understandable?
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: One click. One click.
• 22:04
  Speaker 15: And I asked him, I said, look, I go, did
• 22:06
  Speaker 15: you think this was a little controversial to put in
• 22:09
  Speaker 15: a feature that, you know, smooths out an accent? And
• 22:11
  Speaker 15: they said, no, this is optional. You turn it on.
• 22:14
  Speaker 15: You don't turn it on for other people. You turn
• 22:16
  Speaker 15: it on for yourself. And they're saying, look, if it
• 22:18
  Speaker 15: makes it easier to communicate with people worldwide, there you go.
• 22:22
  Speaker 15: I mean, they also introduced features that like live translate.
• 22:24
  Speaker 15: I mean, just so much stuff. But to me, the
• 22:27
  Speaker 15: thing that really stuck with me is they want you
• 22:29
  Speaker 15: to do everything through Zoom and it kind of records
• 22:32
  Speaker 15: and makes notes about every single conversation you have. So
• 22:35
  Speaker 15: then you can kind of go in and ask questions
• 22:37
  Speaker 15: later about anything that you've ever mentioned in a meeting,
• 22:39
  Speaker 15: which is kind of smart.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: Now, Rich, my household, like so many now in America,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: is the bane to cable and network programming because my wife, Nancy,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: the millennial, cut the cord. So what I do is
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: I depend on my stream because the smartphone knows pretty
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: much now what I want to look at. And I mean,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: it floods me with the cuts, the cuts. But AI
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: has gotten so good. No, it's not SI. AI has
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: gotten so good. I can no longer tell what's a
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: fugazi fake and what's real. Shouldn't there be something on
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: that feed that says this is AI generated?
• 23:22
  Speaker 15: You know, look, there are tools on both sides. Like
• 23:26
  Speaker 15: if you scroll through Instagram or Facebook, if you look
• 23:29
  Speaker 15: real close up at the top by the person's name
• 23:31
  Speaker 15: that posted it, it will say AI content. If you
• 23:35
  Speaker 15: go on X or Twitter, whatever they're calling it these days,
• 23:38
  Speaker 15: it'll say AI generated in some aspects. So they are
• 23:41
  Speaker 15: looking for flags inside images and videos when people upload
• 23:45
  Speaker 15: them to show people that, hey, look, this was made
• 23:47
  Speaker 15: with AI. The problem is there are equally a whole
• 23:51
  Speaker 15: bunch of tools online that can remove those signals in
• 23:54
  Speaker 15: about five seconds. And so you can upload your image
• 23:57
  Speaker 15: or video that was created with AI and and it
• 23:59
  Speaker 15: will wipe out that watermark on the back end. These
• 24:02
  Speaker 15: are things that you can't see with the human eye,
• 24:04
  Speaker 15: but computer systems look for. But there are lots of
• 24:07
  Speaker 15: websites that just remove those watermarks off the file. So
• 24:12
  Speaker 15: it's a cat and mouse game. At the end of
• 24:14
  Speaker 15: the day, I think you just have to use your
• 24:16
  Speaker 15: sense and understand that, like.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Is this too good to be true? Is this real?
• 24:21
  Speaker 15: There's a photo of Taylor Swift going around this week
• 24:25
  Speaker 15: of her pregnant, and I.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Almost sent it to my wife.
• 24:28
  Speaker 15: And I was like, hold on, let me fact check
• 24:29
  Speaker 15: this for one second before I send this. And sure enough,
• 24:31
  Speaker 15: it was like, nope, totally fake.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the pictures are almost undetectable with the videos that
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: are made by AI. The big tell on them, and
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you tell me if you've seen this too, the big
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: tell on them are the voices. They're almost too clear.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 15: And there's this scam going around on YouTube and other
• 24:52
  Speaker 15: social media networks where basically People email me all the
• 24:55
  Speaker 15: time saying, hey, Rich, I want to buy an AirTag,
• 24:57
  Speaker 15: but I don't want to pay that much, so I
• 24:58
  Speaker 15: found this random AirTag brand, and here's a video about it.
• 25:02
  Speaker 15: And I watch the video, and these people, they upload
• 25:05
  Speaker 15: AI-created videos with a reviewer that's like, hi, I am
• 25:09
  Speaker 15: reviewing the new AirTag 3000, and.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: It is excellent.
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: And I'm like, this is fake. And there's like a
• 25:16
  Speaker 15: hundred of those videos. They just flood the web with
• 25:18
  Speaker 15: it so that, you know, these systems find them, take
• 25:20
  Speaker 15: them down and more go up.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Now, Rich, most Americans like me just want simpler tech.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: What can be done to achieve that? Because it seems
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: it's getting more and more complicated.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, I agree.
• 25:33
  Speaker 15: And imagine my life where I'm testing 10,000 gadgets a day.
• 25:37
  Speaker 15: So it is very complicated in my home. There's just
• 25:39
  Speaker 15: a whole bunch of stuff that I'm like either testing
• 25:42
  Speaker 15: or just finishing testing or getting ready to set up
• 25:44
  Speaker 15: the next thing. But they did a poll, Quad and
• 25:47
  Speaker 15: the Harris Poll, 75% of Americans want a simpler relationship
• 25:51
  Speaker 15: with technology, and they feel like that's an upgrade, not
• 25:54
  Speaker 15: a sacrifice. And so I think what happens is people
• 25:57
  Speaker 15: like the idea of going off social media for a
• 25:59
  Speaker 15: little bit.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: So you don't have to do it every day.
• 26:02
  Speaker 15: Maybe take a Sunday, take a couple hours of the day,
• 26:05
  Speaker 15: just leave your phone at home, make sure your loved
• 26:07
  Speaker 15: ones can get in touch with you. Or if you're
• 26:09
  Speaker 15: with them, that's when I find you can really disconnect.
• 26:11
  Speaker 15: When I'm with my wife and two kids, And, you know,
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: I know everything's good in the world.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Well, that's debatable. But you know what I mean? They're
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: all there.
• 26:19
  Speaker 15: And I can say, okay, let's leave the phone behind
• 26:21
  Speaker 15: for a couple minutes and just be engaged here. It'll
• 26:24
  Speaker 15: make you feel better.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I appreciate that, Rich DeMuro. It's Rich on Tech, heard
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: every Sunday night from 8 to 11 here on the
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: number one talk station in New York, 710WOR. Appreciate that
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: once again. We'll be with you same time, same place
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: next week. But up next, Natalie Migliore in the streets
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: about our New York state governor's race, which apparently is
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: tightening up, Blakeman versus Hochul. But is it the talk
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: of the town yet? Find out by listening up next. Now,
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Well,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: we have a governor's race. Are people paying attention?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Let's find out from Natalie Migliore, WOR reporter with us
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: every day at this time for her beat on the street.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: So are people excited about this election?
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: You know, if I had a dollar for every time
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: I asked somebody if they were paying attention to the
• 27:23
  Speaker 8: specific New York governor race, I'd be broke. So wouldn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: even be able to get something out.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Of the vending machine here. No joke. Oh, that's so sad.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Wouldn't even be able to get one of Curtis's honey buns.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's really interesting out there on the streets because
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: there are several races happening. But one of the biggest
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: is the governor's race where Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul is
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: taking on Republican challenger and Nassau County exec Bruce Blakeman.
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: So the million-dollar question at this point, because you only
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: need one, who is paying attention?
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm looking for a change, so I'm hoping for
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: Blakeman to get in.
• 28:05
  Speaker 16: I already voted, so yeah, but I'm not paying close attention.
• 28:08
  Speaker 16: I mean, I voted for Governor Hope.
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: Pick somebody else.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Are you paying attention at all to midterms?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I am.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: How do you think it's all going to shake out?
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: Who knows? That's what I have to say. Who knows?
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: We have our hopes, but we have our dreams also. Okay.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Well, I've actually been kind of hearing more about the midterms, right?
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Is it the same thing? How civically engaged? First, we
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: have somebody who.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: is giving us poetry. And then next we have somebody
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: who's wondering what the midterms are.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Now, the midterms are just the.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: General term we use when elections are taking place at
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: the two-year mark of any president's administration.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: This time it's President Trump's.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: It's considered the face-off between two major parties as Republicans
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: look to keep control of Congress this time around. Just
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: taking it to the streets, it seems like people are
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: paying more attention to the congressional races and things that
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: really impact federal policies in a sense, and that's informing
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: how they vote in New York's, wait for it, gubernatorial race.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: You know, I love that word.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Like this hokal voter.
• 29:23
  Speaker 16: More people who would be less inclined to vote for
• 29:27
  Speaker 16: her would probably sway toward her because they're so fed
• 29:30
  Speaker 16: up with what's going on. The corruption... The incompetence, to
• 29:34
  Speaker 16: name a few.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: I would like to see integrity, telling the truth, facts,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: policies to come into vogue again because right now we
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: don't deal in reality we don't deal in facts and
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: we don't deal in truth.
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: Policies are despicable they're ruining the country we've never been
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: at this point of crisis before i can't wait till
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: the people are seated after the midterms that's that's.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: My concern that's a hokka woda right absolutely but i
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: cheat without saying trump That's what she was inferring. Exactly.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: You hit the nail on the head. And that's what
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: you see, though.
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: People are passionately walking around, particularly Manhattan. You don't really
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: get a lot of, you know, Midtown people coming in
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: and out from different places.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: So they have different political views in a sense. But
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: some days it just hits different.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I had a much different tell than you had. It
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: was when my people are seated. So they're not seated
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: now and you want them to take over Congress.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Democrats. Democrats.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: She used code language.
• 30:38
  Speaker 11: Yep.
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: Well, experts say it's likely the Democrats take back the House,
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: but something New York City residents seem to be hoping for.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: This New Yorker, though, she's tuned into what needs to
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: be done on a city level, a state level, and
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: how the governorship would actually impact her with no intention
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: of voting for Hochul.
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: I don't like anything about her, actually. So I'm looking,
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: I'm going to the other guy. I'm just hoping for
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: somebody who will try to fix some things that are
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: going on in the city, like electricity and stuff like that.
• 31:12
  Speaker 9: I mean, Con Ed is ridiculous. So, you know, totally
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: crazy in the summer, paying $ 400 for a studio is insane.
• 31:21
  Speaker 16: I mean, I think she's doing a good enough job.
• 31:24
  Speaker 16: I certainly not going to vote for her counterpart, Republican counterpart. And,
• 31:28
  Speaker 16: you know, I want to see the city continue to flourish.
• 31:31
  Speaker 16: And I want the governor to have the people's interests
• 31:34
  Speaker 16: at heart rather than their own, unlike our president.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Boy, that first contributed there.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: Hit the third rail. The energy costs, your electricity bill,
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: and coming up after you, we're going to be talking
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: about how Blakeman was at the border with Pataki, the
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: last Republican governor, talking about how we should be fracking
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: to lower energy costs. That's very important to the voters now.
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's definitely when it hits pockets, when it hits
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: their public safety, people pay attention to that. The interesting thing,
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: is just the differences in the approach between parties. But
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: you could see the unhappiness that people have with the
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: federal level or the happy, whatever, they let that impact
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: how they're going to vote on the local.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Well, I do appreciate it. Natalie Migliore will be back
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: with us same time, same place tomorrow at 7.50.