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Opening Segment 11/2/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about a marathon performance by 710WOR from beginning to
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  Speaker 2: just about, I guess, 12 noon. Larry at the helm
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  Speaker 2: with Natalie producing. Natalie Migliore apparently became another star in
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  Speaker 2: the midst of that marathon. Ken was out there along
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  Speaker 2: the way. I mean, you had the full roster out there.
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  Speaker 2: And what a magnificent day. Larry, I have to salute you.
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  Speaker 2: I have to salute everyone at 710 WR. And as
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  Speaker 2: so many people have said, the gargantuan job done once
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  Speaker 2: again by our producer, Natalie. Uh, man, it couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: happened on a better marathon. I mean, finally a breakthrough.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't all Kenyans one, two, and three men's competition,
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  Speaker 2: female competition. It was actually diversity.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think Kenya only took a third place in the
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  Speaker 3: two major races. So it was incredible, but I'm glad you,
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned Natalie because Natalie, you know, I show up
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  Speaker 3: that day. I do a few of the interviews, but
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  Speaker 3: Natalie sets everything up. You come, and there's a book there,
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  Speaker 3: and the book has everything and everything you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 3: But just so I don't mess up, she sits right
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  Speaker 3: next to me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: We also have to thank Tim McLoone and Aisha Pratt-Lear,
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  Speaker 4: who sat with you.
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  Speaker 1: Aisha was tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: Tim's always great, but Aisha was tremendous.
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  Speaker 4: They both added race commentary and expertise that I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't have in the running world.
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  Speaker 3: Aisha's an Olympian, and she was with us. She ran
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  Speaker 3: for Jamaica. She has dual citizenship. And Jamaica has a
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  Speaker 3: great track program.
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  Speaker 1: As you know.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt.
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  Speaker 4: And Garrett Vogel over at Z100, he was at the
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  Speaker 4: start line for us. And just for people who are listening,
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  Speaker 4: one of his reports was talking about Scotty B over
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  Speaker 4: at Z100, his very first marathon. Just started running not
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  Speaker 4: that long ago. He's here today with his medal on.
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  Speaker 1: And he looks great. Wow. Now his wife. Fiance. Fiance.
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  Speaker 1: His fiance is a runner. A real runner.
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  Speaker 2: A marathon.
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  Speaker 3: A real runner. Can do it in just a few hours.
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  Speaker 3: And he's not. This is his first marathon. So she
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  Speaker 3: slowed down to run with him.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they passed together.
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  Speaker 4: Through the finish line with their hands held up in
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  Speaker 4: the air it was wonderful but that's what that the
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  Speaker 4: marathon's about it's full of these incredible stories of people
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  Speaker 4: who are doing something absolutely incredible and something your body
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  Speaker 4: is actually not made to do.
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  Speaker 3: You know i just thought of something did she run
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  Speaker 3: with him to support him or to make sure he
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  Speaker 3: really ran.
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  Speaker 4: The whole thing maybe it's like i'm gonna make sure
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  Speaker 4: you get through this either way it's a good partner.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my concern was with 16,000 contestants, and I certainly
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  Speaker 2: saw them as they were flooding down 72nd to hit
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  Speaker 2: the subway stations. Or to stop off, get something to
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  Speaker 2: eat with their families. You know, they all had that orange.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, 60,000. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: 60,000.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 4: 60,000.
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  Speaker 1: I saw them everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And I thought to myself, you know, with the problems
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  Speaker 2: we've had with these e-bike bandits, you know, who roll
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  Speaker 2: up on you and snatch anything of value.
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  Speaker 1: Man, those big gold medallions.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to know right away, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to do a deep dive in a few days and
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  Speaker 2: see if any were reported stolen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that would be terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but remember, they're wearing them proudly, as they should,
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  Speaker 2: with family and friends. Some of them were hobbling. You
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  Speaker 2: could tell it really took its toll. There was one
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  Speaker 2: young lady from Baskin Ridge, New Jersey, who was like
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  Speaker 2: laid out on the side. I thought she was a
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  Speaker 2: homeless person at first. She just, she couldn't move. You know,
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  Speaker 2: she had the cramps and everything. And so I assisted
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  Speaker 2: her with other people, but she was on the young side.
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  Speaker 2: But you can see the euphoria of all these people.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine when you train all this time for
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  Speaker 2: this one moment? First of all, you get to qualify
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  Speaker 2: and then you run.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: The thing about the marathon is that it's 60,000 stories.
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  Speaker 3: It's not just the people that we're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about this morning. It's all of these people. This is
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  Speaker 3: their personal best. This is what they train for. And
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  Speaker 3: then there is, as you mentioned, that was a great word.
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  Speaker 1: It is euphoric.
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  Speaker 3: It's euphoric when they finish. It's euphoric when they're done
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  Speaker 3: because they accomplish something. So they're the stories. I believe
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  Speaker 3: they're the stories in this marathon. You know, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to talk about the top runners. But man, the people
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  Speaker 3: from around the world, this is their goal to come
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  Speaker 3: here and do this.
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  Speaker 4: And we did a story in our team Inspire last
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  Speaker 4: week of a young man, 19 years old with Down syndrome.
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  Speaker 4: And he was the first, he's the youngest person to
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  Speaker 4: complete the marathon. And I saw him cross the finish
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  Speaker 4: line yesterday and it was incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you hung out afterwards, right? And watch some of it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, a little bit, but this, I saw this online,
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  Speaker 4: so I didn't get to see him personally, but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, so many good stories.
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  Speaker 2: When you mentioned the competitors, as much as I was
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  Speaker 2: interested in track, you know, for the Olympics and the marathons,
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  Speaker 2: I sort of lost interest when you almost could predict
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  Speaker 2: who's going to win the marathon in New York, then Boston, London, Tokyo,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Kenya, one, two, three. It's like, Sort of
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  Speaker 2: watching the World Series with the Yankees and Dodgers, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: They had a lock on it. But what was fascinating
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  Speaker 1: to me this year is this Swedish guy. Oh, he
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  Speaker 1: was the story.
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  Speaker 2: Who ran his first marathon, two hours, six minutes, one second.
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  Speaker 2: White guy, as white as you can get, right?
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  Speaker 1: Not training in the mountains of Africa, right? And he
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  Speaker 1: beats the best marathoners, period.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't as much of a surprise as you're making
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  Speaker 3: it out to be because a lot of the runners
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of people in the running community were
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  Speaker 3: talking about him. He was the big buzz coming into this.
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  Speaker 3: What's he going to do? Because word got out about
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  Speaker 3: his training sessions. And his training sessions, he was running...
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  Speaker 3: like 120 miles a week. He was already a runner.
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  Speaker 3: He was already a runner that ran long distance. He
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  Speaker 3: just never ran a marathon before. So there was a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people, including Aisha, who was saying, watch this.
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  Speaker 3: This is the story of the day. Watch him because
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  Speaker 3: he could win this. The way, the times that he's
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  Speaker 3: been putting in, he could actually win this. But it's still,
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  Speaker 3: he had to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It was still fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then I saw a group of Italianos, you know,
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  Speaker 2: coming down with the Italian flag. And they were talking
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  Speaker 2: to me and say, oh, yeah, a guy, he missed
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  Speaker 2: out second place. I said, what are you talking about? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the runner from Italy finished second. What was it, Kripa
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  Speaker 2: or something like that? I said, I think they're making
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  Speaker 2: it up. A Swedish first, an Italian is second. I said,
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  Speaker 2: who finished third?
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  Speaker 1: They said, oh, the Kenyan. Man, what happened there? What happened?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'll tell you what. Andrea Omgren,
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  Speaker 3: he finished way ahead of everybody else. I mean, for
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  Speaker 3: a marathon, he finished way ahead of everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: He finished. He looked like he could run another marathon.
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  Speaker 1: You know how most of them come across in this collapse?
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  Speaker 1: Not him. Not him. He was waving to the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: getting them to clap more. His hair still looked good.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's going to change. That's what you're noticing, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He's a good-looking guy. This is good, though, for the sport.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because it says you don't just have to train in
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  Speaker 2: the mountains of Kenya to be a superior marathoner.
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  Speaker 1: You can win from anywhere in the world. Well, Sweden's
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  Speaker 1: got their mountains, too. But I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody wants to copy what he did. Everybody's trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out exactly what he did. You know, when somebody's
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  Speaker 3: that successful right out of the box— Everybody's going, oh,
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  Speaker 3: there must be some magic trick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they want to figure out his training routine and
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  Speaker 4: how they can replicate it.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, patriotism. We like to see Americans, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if not win, place or show. And then in the
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  Speaker 2: female division, Jessica McClain. Did she finish second?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she did.
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  Speaker 3: And she came out of nowhere. Like we were watching
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  Speaker 3: the race between two of the runners. Most of the
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  Speaker 3: time we were watching it between Sheila Chapuri and Helen O'Berry.
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  Speaker 3: Helen O'Berry won last year. Shaquiri won two years ago.
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  Speaker 3: So they were the two, and they were neck and
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  Speaker 3: neck and neck and neck. And then Shaquiri pulled away.
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  Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, you saw Jess McClain. Like,
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  Speaker 3: she wasn't near them. She was, like, way back from
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  Speaker 3: those two. All of a sudden, she went by O'Berry.
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  Speaker 3: O'Berry just died. And she went by and came in second.
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  Speaker 2: This is great for the sport. Absolutely great for the sport.
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  Speaker 2: It's at least revived my interest. But my interest, you
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  Speaker 2: have to understand, was focused on the biggest Halloween parade
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  Speaker 2: in the world now. It started very small in Greenwich Village.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's, I mean, it doesn't end until 12 midnight.
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  Speaker 2: It starts at 6. 12 midnight. Six hours of people
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  Speaker 2: parading up 6th Avenue all the way past 14th Street.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long hike. And they have costumes. They have routines.
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  Speaker 1: They have music.
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  Speaker 2: And they have people who dress up as me as
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  Speaker 2: a guardian angel.
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  Speaker 1: And boy, it was some trouble in the Sliwa household.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 4: Because of the sexy Sliwas I was seeing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. I have no idea who these three
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  Speaker 1: women are.
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  Speaker 2: But they did a routine that obviously got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of clicks. And I got the silent treatment all Sunday
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  Speaker 2: as if I was somehow responsible for this.
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  Speaker 1: Did you watch it? It's on my feed. How could
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  Speaker 1: I not watch it?
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  Speaker 2: I watched it a few times. It was really well done.
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  Speaker 2: But there were a lot of people out there, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if nothing more, wearing the red beret. Some of them
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  Speaker 2: had added to the costumes, red sateen jacket, and Boy,
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  Speaker 2: these people put a lot of time and energy into it.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, look, imagine it's.
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  Speaker 2: A year after the mayoral election and people are still
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  Speaker 2: wanting to dress up like Curtis Sliwa.
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  Speaker 1: How did you feel watching the sexy Sliwas? Was you aroused?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell you're talking about. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Because I mean, all the things you love right there.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, you put pretty girls in any kind
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  Speaker 2: of a video and they instantly get clicks. So whoever
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  Speaker 2: these three gals are, man, it's well, it was a
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  Speaker 2: what do they say? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Maybe I should try to find them and get
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  Speaker 4: them on one of them on the air.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it's quite all right. Let's find out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know. That's a great idea. Put it this way.
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  Speaker 1: That's a wonderful idea. We started the weekend, right, Friday.
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  Speaker 2: The crew at Z100 were all dressed up as guardian angels,
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  Speaker 2: led by Elvis, my enemy. I know.
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  Speaker 1: That was amazing. So naturally, Nancy was euphoric. That's her favorite.
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  Speaker 1: She grew up listening to Z100.
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  Speaker 2: And then it ended with the silent treatment that I
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  Speaker 2: got because of these three guardian angelettes.
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  Speaker 1: I could guess you. But you can't blame you for that.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's something else? No, what a bet.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about, like, you didn't know about this, Curtis?
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  Speaker 1: You know, really? You had no idea? It came up
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  Speaker 1: on my feed. Yeah, sure. And then I got the
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  Speaker 1: cold shoulder the rest of the day.
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