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Hour 2: E-Bike batteries · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, as you may know, was on 60 Minutes
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  Speaker 1: last night and made a little bit of news. This
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  Speaker 1: is the new 60 Minutes, by the way. This is
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  Speaker 1: the new 60 Minutes that's been taken over by conservatives.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's really fascinating as you watch it because
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  Speaker 1: it seems to me that it is much more fair balanced.
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  Speaker 1: You don't feel or hear an agenda whatsoever. So all
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  Speaker 1: the fears... that 60 minutes would change in 60 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I actually think, I don't know if you saw the
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  Speaker 1: interview last night, but I actually think that it is
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot better than it was before. And that
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  Speaker 1: is completely objectively. He's went through a lot of topics,
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  Speaker 1: including his own personal wealth. And because according to the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: there is going to be an investigation into the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he made so much money And Ross Douthat, who
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  Speaker 1: is a former New York Times columnist and is an
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  Speaker 1: excellent interviewer, one of the best hires they made at
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  Speaker 1: 60 Minutes, asked him about that.
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  Speaker 2: I devote almost no time to my net worth.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of money and far more than
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  Speaker 2: I ever thought I'd have. And I guess it's gone up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: I have a son who's a very straight, good guy.
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  Speaker 2: He watches over money. I don't even talk to him
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 1: He watches.
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  Speaker 3: He gives.
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  Speaker 2: They gave my money. I have a lot of cash.
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  Speaker 2: I've had a lot of cash long before I came
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  Speaker 2: in here. I don't take a salary.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't think he meant to, but he certainly
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  Speaker 1: just sent his son under the bus.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know why also? There's a lot of Republicans
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  Speaker 3: based on J.D. Vance. who are now, they are calling
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  Speaker 3: him J.D. Pence, who are blaming Donald Trump Jr. for
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  Speaker 3: that selection, along with Tucker Carlson. So I'll get into
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  Speaker 3: that moment.
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  Speaker 1: We'll explain the selection you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: J.D. Pence as the vice president. They're now calling him J.D. Pence,
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  Speaker 3: like Vice President Pence. But the thing is, I would
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  Speaker 3: not go after Donald Trump. I would suggest to the Democrats,
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  Speaker 3: don't try to impeach him. Don't try to go after him.
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  Speaker 3: But his family that is controlling the investments with this
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  Speaker 3: Bitcoin crime coin, these minerals that they've made partnerships with
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  Speaker 3: other countries and a lot of other financial deals, I
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  Speaker 3: say they're all subject to being questioned by committees.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Democrats also want to do this as a
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  Speaker 1: quid pro quo because they do not like the way
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Biden was treated. And they thought that was out
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  Speaker 1: of bounds. So they said it at the time, if
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  Speaker 1: you remember, they said it at the time. If you're
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  Speaker 1: going to do this, you open up a whole new
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  Speaker 1: door for future investigations. And now they're coming through with that.
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  Speaker 1: They also, in the interview last night, talked about how
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  Speaker 1: Trump could work with Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think you could work with the Democrats without
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  Speaker 4: insulting them consistently?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could.
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  Speaker 3: You think so?
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  Speaker 1: I also call many of them Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: You did that just the other day. If it took
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  Speaker 3: six months of not insulting the Democrats to get a
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  Speaker 3: deal done, do you think he.
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  Speaker 4: Could do it?
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  Speaker 3: Very easily. Oh, that ain't going to happen. First off,
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  Speaker 3: this interview was filmed on Friday, I guess midday. This
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  Speaker 3: is before he announced that he has his wartime consigliere
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  Speaker 3: now who replaced his peacetime consigliere, Susie Wiles, who is
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  Speaker 3: the chief of staff. That is a signal the war
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  Speaker 3: is on. And already the Democrats have responded. We're not dealing.
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  Speaker 3: We're not dealing with your choice of Stephen Miller. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a nice idea. Larry, I had offered the ultimate
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  Speaker 3: way he could have bridged the gap in this last, like,
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  Speaker 3: month and a half before there's a changeover on the
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  Speaker 3: question of those young men and young women who are
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  Speaker 3: no longer young any longer, who are middle-aged, you know,
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  Speaker 3: who are the dreamers. He was so close in that
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  Speaker 3: first four years. He had Schumer on board. He had
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  Speaker 3: Pelosi on board. Something went awry. He could have revisited
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  Speaker 3: that with Hakeem, with Schumer, who needs something. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure the Republicans would have gone along with it by saying, oh,
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  Speaker 3: here's something that should have been done. But I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that's happening with Stephen Miller.
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  Speaker 1: Ironically, the guy who's going to be leading the investigations
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  Speaker 1: in the House, Robert Garcia, is a dreamer. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be really fascinating to see what he's
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  Speaker 1: going to do. He's the one that told them all
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  Speaker 1: to lawyer up. And he's going after them with a vengeance.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what he starts with, whether it's good. He
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the Trump family, that he's going to go after
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  Speaker 1: the Trump family. But he also said something that I
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  Speaker 1: think that would make America feel very good across the board.
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  Speaker 1: And he said he was going to go against Democrats
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  Speaker 1: and Republicans and go after the Epstein case. Really, really
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  Speaker 1: bring it out. And if there was anything hidden, he
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  Speaker 1: wants to see it. If there were people that weren't
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  Speaker 1: called for political reasons, he wants to call them. That
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  Speaker 1: would be a huge move.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's going to have to condemn the Biden's
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  Speaker 3: administration for not revealing anything. Whereas at least the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration has unveiled most of what was in the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, there's already a dirty campaign against Garcia
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  Speaker 3: who happens to be a gay man. in a relationship. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I told you politics is the dirtiest business
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  Speaker 3: of all. These people haven't even changed over yet and
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  Speaker 3: they're already shooting shots at one another.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the funny thing about Garcia is, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember anybody that came into office that said this, he said,
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  Speaker 1: because he was asked specifically, about civilians. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: have oversight. You were supposed to have oversight over people here.
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  Speaker 1: He said, no, I think I have oversight over the country.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's willing to go after anybody in the country. Look,
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  Speaker 1: he's feeling himself. He really knows this is a big
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  Speaker 1: moment for him. He's going to be one of the
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  Speaker 1: stars of the Republican Party, villains of the Republican Party,
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  Speaker 1: and stars of the Democratic Party. So his face and
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  Speaker 1: his name is get used to it is going to
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  Speaker 1: be everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hopefully it's with a smile because we're asking who
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  Speaker 3: can't wait to go after anybody. Trump related to Trump,
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  Speaker 3: even when he was recovering from brain cancer, you may
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  Speaker 3: have remembered in the first four year term of the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. He had
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  Speaker 3: had operations, uh, He had to wear a schmata on
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  Speaker 3: his head, you know, like a big handkerchief like bikers
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  Speaker 3: will wear because of the work that had been done.
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  Speaker 3: I never saw a guy who was more dystopian and
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  Speaker 3: angry and vicious. And yo, man, lighten up.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be chair of the Judiciary Committee. So
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  Speaker 1: they have a wider range than the Oversight Committee. And
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  Speaker 1: so the two of them together are going to be
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  Speaker 1: kind of sickening. Now, Speaker of the House. Who is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be Speaker of the House? It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be Jeffries, probably, because I don't think, even though
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  Speaker 1: they would like to vote him out, they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to stop the first black Speaker of the House.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not going to happen. No, and even though
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  Speaker 3: he's very pro-Israel, very pro-APAC, all the things that the
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  Speaker 3: progressives hate, you're right. If they are going to target anyone,
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  Speaker 3: we'll talk about it later, it's the schmuck to punch
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  Speaker 3: Chuck E. Cheese Schumer. If nothing more, it's like, you
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  Speaker 3: ever hear something called term limits, Chuck? But no, no,
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to touch Hakeem. And Hakeem made them
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  Speaker 3: feel so good because after the appointment of Stephen Miller,
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  Speaker 3: who takes his position today as chief of staff at
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  Speaker 3: the White House, he said, all deals are off. We're
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  Speaker 3: not cooperating with Stephen Miller. That was like music to
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  Speaker 3: the Democratic ears. And you have to have cooperation. Look,
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  Speaker 3: It wouldn't have been my choice. You know, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to talk about that later on. I think that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be hurtful. But he is the chief of staff.
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  Speaker 3: You serve at the leisure of the president of the
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  Speaker 3: United States. And for the good of the country, there's
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  Speaker 3: got to be some room to move. Yeah, we can
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  Speaker 3: talk about it later. I really think they're going to
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  Speaker 3: play good cop, bad cop. But if he's out there
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  Speaker 3: in public, remember, we rarely ever saw Susie Wiles. So
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  Speaker 3: my feeling is that it's traditional that the chief of staff,
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  Speaker 3: who is considered the second most powerful person in government,
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  Speaker 3: the chief of staff is– Seen but not heard. Rarely seen, even. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the only difference was, remember when Trump in the first administration,
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  Speaker 3: I love my generals. He had Kelly. And Kelly was
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  Speaker 3: dropping diamonds. Kelly was giving it to him. I will
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  Speaker 3: tell you this about Suzy Wiles. You're right. She was
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  Speaker 3: a sphinx. Except that one time, one time only, she
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  Speaker 3: must have really liked that guy at Vanity Fair. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: she gave him a full interview. And boy, if there
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  Speaker 3: was bile in her, she let it go. She said, J.D. Vance,
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  Speaker 3: he's filled with conspiracies. Hague says, no way. And she, oh,
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  Speaker 3: went after Miss South Dakota there, you know, at the
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  Speaker 3: time was head of Homeland Security. Oh, God. Kristi Noem. Boy,
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  Speaker 3: she really let it fly. And people said, why would
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  Speaker 3: she have sat for so many hours?
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  Speaker 1: And she's the one in the administration. I think this
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  Speaker 1: was her undoing. She's the one in the administration that
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  Speaker 1: was pushing for him to get rid of Pete Hegseth.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And this was before the war.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted to get rid of Pete Hegseth. Never liked
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  Speaker 1: the nomination.
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  Speaker 3: Although, look, she lobbied for Marco Rubio, who the president
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  Speaker 3: for a while there, you know, little Marco Rubio wasn't
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  Speaker 3: his favorite. She lobbied for him. Good choice. Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 3: And the guy you like, the farmer from, what was it, Kentucky?
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  Speaker 3: Scott Besson. Right. She lobbied for him. She actually lobbied
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  Speaker 3: against some of his crazier choices. But remember, somebody's got
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  Speaker 3: to take the knife in the back when you lose.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're not done. It's not done. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: more to come. One name we didn't add to all
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  Speaker 1: of that is going to be the minority leader in
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  Speaker 1: the Senate. And that's an extremely important choice because you
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  Speaker 1: need someone that's going to speak out for your cause.
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  Speaker 1: You need a pit bull. And it sounds like it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be Jim Jordan, although Steve Scalise is well-known
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  Speaker 1: and well-liked, and he's going to run against him. But
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  Speaker 1: if it's Jim Jordan, watch out. It's going to be fun.
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  Speaker 3: What about in the Senate? Does Lurch continue to act
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  Speaker 3: as the minority leader of the GOP Senate?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I like John Thune
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  Speaker 1: a lot and I hope he just steps away if
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  Speaker 1: he feels a movement. But it seems like the senators
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  Speaker 1: really like him. The Republican senators really like him. So
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  Speaker 1: my feeling is unless Trump really puts the pedal to
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  Speaker 1: the metal on him. John Thune's going to survive.
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  Speaker 3: He always reminds me of Lurch.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: You rhyme.
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  Speaker 1: I know the guy rarely smiles, but I saw an
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  Speaker 1: interview with him when he kept smiling the entire time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he always has a tan. You're from North Dakota
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  Speaker 3: and you always have a tan. You ain't spending much
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  Speaker 3: time in North Dakota, pal.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, have you always wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: an astronaut? Well, NASA is accepting applications for their next mission.
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  Speaker 1: Plus a chance to see Tommy James and the Shondells
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  Speaker 1: at 825. So have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut?
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  Speaker 1: Of going to the moon?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: The only time is when I would watch the old
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  Speaker 3: Jackie Gleason programs where he told his wife, Hey, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to hit you to the moon. I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: give you one punch right to the moon, Alex.
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  Speaker 1: That's what inspired you? Not like Apollo 11 or no?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we don't go to the moon anymore, so why
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  Speaker 3: would I be inspired?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're going. He doesn't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure. It's going to happen. Yeah, Nutella will get
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  Speaker 3: there before any astronauts.
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  Speaker 1: No, the astronauts are going to the moon regardless of what.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody said you're always right just a moment ago. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not believing we're going to the moon.
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  Speaker 3: No, I know Mars. Elon Musk says Mars.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to the moon.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever he says is what happens in America.
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  Speaker 1: Moon's going to be first. But if you have a
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  Speaker 1: dream of going to the moon and you believe it's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. You now have a chance. NASA is
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  Speaker 1: accepting applications for anyone, anybody interested in being an astronaut.
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  Speaker 1: The candidates selected to be astronauts would not only test spacecraft,
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  Speaker 1: but also live and work on the moon in a
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  Speaker 1: future moon base. That's according to the administrator, Jared Isaacman. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are currently... 32 active astronauts in NASA's astronaut corps.
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  Speaker 1: Since NASA began in the 1960s, 60 years ago, there
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  Speaker 1: have only been 370 people trained as astronauts, according to NASA.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember the last time, they just did this
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  Speaker 1: last year, and they asked for 8,000 people. How many
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  Speaker 1: do you think were accepted out of the 8,000?
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  Speaker 3: 28,000.
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  Speaker 1: I think 10. 10? Well, you knew. Look at the
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  Speaker 1: smile on your face.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't, but I.
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  Speaker 7: Saw you starting to mouth 10 because I could read lips.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you this, Larry and Natalie, your
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  Speaker 3: chance per capita per person, like for the lottery, how
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  Speaker 3: many lottery winners have come from New Jersey, a small state,
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  Speaker 3: 12 astronauts from New Jersey, starting with Buzz Aldrin. Remember
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  Speaker 3: the second man to walk on the moon? What was that?
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  Speaker 3: Way back in the early 70s, Glenridge. And the two brothers,
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  Speaker 3: the twins, you know who they were? Mark Kelly and
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  Speaker 3: Scott Kelly. Mark Kelly went on to become the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Senator in Arizona and maybe a presidential candidate.
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  Speaker 1: I used to work in San Diego, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I used to see Buzz Aldrin quite often because
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  Speaker 1: he was stationed out there, and he would come into
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  Speaker 1: the station, and he would always give me patches. He's
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  Speaker 1: a little scary. Buzz Aldrin's a scary, scary man. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's full of vim and vigor in America, and he's
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  Speaker 1: right in your face all the time. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: if you are really interested, they do require that you
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  Speaker 1: have a master's degree in STEM. Or a nursing certificate.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, if you're lost in space, you
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  Speaker 3: need a nurse up there. By the way.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just disappointed because I thought Curtis could apply and
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  Speaker 8: find out if Nutella really is a sponsor of space.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they're probably going to have logos all over the
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  Speaker 3: new astronaut uniform. You look so good in that. Never.
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  Speaker 3: I'm never going up there because I know they're going
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  Speaker 3: to Mars long before they ever go to the moon.
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  Speaker 3: Just ask Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if the guy that says Curtis is always
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  Speaker 1: right is listening because Nutella, they have no sponsors. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have a sponsor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 5: You know, after the midterm results, one has to wonder,
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  Speaker 5: what does the Republican Party really stand for? What's their platform?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't think most people can still make
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  Speaker 5: heads or tails of the difference between Democrat and Republican.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Because under these guys that we've got now, we're in for.
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  Speaker 5: They're dying to do another riot of some sort. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: What does the Republican Party stand for?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the riot's what you have to worry about.
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  Speaker 1: It's the higher taxes you have to worry about. It's
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they want to make people who are
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  Speaker 1: illegally all citizens. That was their plan all along. The
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  Speaker 1: lack of interest in foreign policy whatsoever. There's a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of problems. There's huge differences. If you didn't see
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  Speaker 1: the difference between the Biden White House and the Trump
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  Speaker 1: White House, then I'm sorry you're lost on this issue.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody who is a lifelong Republican and somebody who's actually
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  Speaker 4: served in the Republican Party in different capacities over the years,
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  Speaker 4: that term rhino is offensive and is wrong. MAGA and
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  Speaker 4: Trump basically co-opted the Republican Party. He's no conservative. And
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  Speaker 4: if you listen to him last night, the hubris and
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  Speaker 4: the obnoxious way he talked about, oh, yeah, maybe my
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  Speaker 4: immigration policy went overboard. He killed the Republican Party for
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  Speaker 4: a long period of time. We should all remember that.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard this after every landslide in the midterm. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they're done. Obama's done. Reagan is done.
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  Speaker 3: FDR!
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  Speaker 1: FDR had a huge loss in the midterms. He's finished.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. I don't agree.
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  Speaker 3: This is not about Republicans. This is about MAGA. Because
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  Speaker 3: remember what Trump said. I am MAGA. MAGA is the Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: He said Trump is done. He said specifically.
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  Speaker 3: Trump is done. He's done. He's going to go play
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  Speaker 3: golf in Mar-a-Lago and still think he's leader of the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party. See, that's the problem for Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to go retire, play golf and leave it
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  Speaker 3: to new leadership. It's a generational change.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we let it play out instead of trying
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  Speaker 1: to predict? Because all the predictions are absolutely going to
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  Speaker 1: be wrong at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Well, so far, my predictions have been right, Larry.
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  Speaker 1: You got one right. So does a broken clock. Now
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: let's get to Daria Albinger with the 730 News.
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: Morning, guys. Chance for a shower today. There's going to
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: be a high of 57 degrees. A fire in Hamilton
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: Heights leaves one person dead and another critically injured.
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: A call came in about 1.30 in the morning and
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: then fire officials say the blaze tore through a third
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: floor apartment on Riverside Drive. An 80-year-old man dead, a
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: 52-year-old woman sent to the hospital with very serious injuries.
• 18:10
  Speaker 10: More than a dozen people are now displaced. Firefighters say
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: they walked into an extremely cluttered apartment. The cause is
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: under investigation. I'm Scott Pringle, WORD News.
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: A New York City-fired Department of Education substitute school aide
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: is under arrest charged in the stabbing death of a
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: jogger in Brooklyn.
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: Syed Mahasib has been charged with the murder of 28-year-old
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: Katie Suarez. On October 30th, Suarez had been out jogging
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: when she was stabbed in the neck. She was found
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: crumpled on the path by her father and was rushed
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: to the hospital, placed on life support, and died three
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: days later. The Daily News reports cops tied Mahasib to
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: the crime scene, and when he was arrested, he said
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: he didn't remember the attack, but remembers waking up covered
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: in blood. Mahasib is a former NYPD cop, left for
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: the Marines, and was discharged for psychological issues, then hired
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: as a school aide. Lisa Salvati, WOR News.
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: President Trump is standing by his record. In an interview
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: with 60 Minutes, he blames his party's losses in the midterms,
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: in part due to low Republican voter turnout and the
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: fact that he was not on the ballot. Cornell University's
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: faculty has approved a vote of no confidence in the
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: administration's handling of an alleged sexual assault at a campus
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: fraternity house. The vote is largely symbolic. And Tesla is
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: putting the brakes on the Cybertruck. It's ending production at
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: its Austin, Texas plant next year. CEO Elon Musk posting
• 19:30
  Speaker 9: on X that it was the best vehicle the company
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: ever made. Giants and devils win, jets and nets lose.
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: on 710WOR.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: What a sports weekend. No better time to have the
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: sportsmeister himself, Warner Wolf, up next. Well, belated happy birthday
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: to you, Warner Wolf. Congratulations.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Belated? No, it hasn't been here yet.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at my calendar here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Don't push me. Don't push me. Wednesday, right?
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Wednesday.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm so old that my birthday comes on what
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: they call now Veterans Day. But it was originally Armistice
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Day commemorating the end of World War I. And then
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Eisenhower changed it in 1954. So all wars could be honored,
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: all the veterans of all the wars.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you. Thank you for preemptively reminding all of
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: us of that. But what about the war on the
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: gridiron for the Giants?
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, you know, gosh, why don't they just show
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: us the last play of each game each week? They
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: go down to the wire every game. Certainly it was
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: not their finest hour, just four field goals, one touchdown,
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: with a limping J.J. McCarthy and Jameis Winston, who may
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: be the best relief pitcher in football. But keep in
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: mind that the Giants are not playing Tom Brady. They
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: face Joe Milton III, who was a household name only
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: in his own household. But here's the question. The trading
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: deadline is 4 o'clock tomorrow. Will the Giants increase their offer,
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: which apparently they say they took off the table, a
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: second round and a fifth round pick to the Colts
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: for Jonathan Taylor? Apparently the Colts want more. But if
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: you think it will be giving up too much, remember
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: the words of Redskin coach George Allen. Remember he traded
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: away all his future draft choices and said, don't worry
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: about it. The future is now. And then one year
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: later went to the Super Bowl. As far as the
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: Jets go, somebody forgot to tell the Jets, you're supposed
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: to play two halves, not one.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: The Jets being outscored 21-0 in the second half, scoring
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: only four field goals and no touchdowns. The question remains,
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: how long does Wade Johnson and his Johnson & Johnson
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: family go with Aaron Glenn, who's now 5-21 in his
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: year and a half with the Jets, including 2-7 this year,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: and then the Bills coming up next Sunday, likely to
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: go 2-8. The other concern... has to be Aaron Glenn's
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: fading one-time skills as a defensive genius calling plays. I mean,
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: that's disappeared. As a sports writer once said, he was
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: supposed to be a defensive guru. When does the guruing start?
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: By the way, the NFL, the favorites this week, won
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: 13 out of the 14 games. Only the Patriots were
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: favorite and lost to Green Bay. And the favorites beat
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: the spread nine out of 14. Well, it appears the
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: college football officials blew another one, disallowing Miami's potential tying
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: touchdown with three and a half minutes to go against
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Notre Dame, ruling no touchdown after he went out of
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: the end zone. But you know what? Gentlemen, the rule
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: is clear. It says right in the books, if a receiver,
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: this is college ball, catches the ball, and has complete possession,
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: and has at least one foot in the end zone,
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: unlike two in the NFL. Even if he goes out
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: of bounds after the touchdown, it's still a touchdown. But
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: so what? Even if the NCAA comes out today and says, oops,
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: we were wrong, unlike baseball, where you can pick up
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: a point at protests, What are you going to do,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: bring back Notre Dame and Miami and play three and
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: a half minutes? No, that's the way it's going to be.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Warner, are you attributing this call to the luck of
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: the Irish?
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, that's what the Miami coach said. He said, boy,
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: you better find a way to win. Yeah, you're playing
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: Notre Dame in Notre Dame in South Bend, yeah. Oh,
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: the sacrificial lamb of the week. Little Merrimack College played
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: powerful Wake Forest so they can get bigger bucks for
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: their athletic department, and they played them at Winston-Salem. They
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: lost 77 to nothing. 77 to nothing. So if you
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: had Merrimack and 76 points, you lost. That's it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Hey, baseball, two Cleveland pitchers, including two-time American League reliever
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: of the year, Emmanuel Classe, they are now facing criminal
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: fraud charges here in New York for tipping off their
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: pitches to the gamblers, including whether or not the first
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: pitch would be a strike or a ball. And it worked,
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: except for the time Classe purposely threw his first pitch
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: into the dirt. as he had promised, but the batter
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: swung at it and missed for a strike. But there's
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: another problem. You know, when I was growing up, and
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I don't know about you two guys who are younger,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: you bet on football was point spreads for football. That
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: was it. Odds, baseball, it was odds or runs, depending
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: on who the pitcher was that day. and point spreads
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: for basketball. But now, with gambling outlets like DraftKings and
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: Sportsbook and FanDuel, you can bet on anything, anytime. And
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: that's one of the problems here.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Well, they like to call it exotic bets. You know,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: as opposed to the mainstream bets that you described, that
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: everybody knows that degenerate gamblers were stuck by. Now you
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: can bet, as you said, on everything. Everything.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah. I mean, and I've got the boo of
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: the week. And this, man, this is horrible. This goes
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: to Major League Baseball for continually trying out new changes
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: in the minor leagues to see if it will eventually
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: work in the major leagues. You know, like this, the
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: robot home plate umpire, the phony ghost runner at second
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: base for extra inning games. Well, here's a new one.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: They tried it out in the Arizona Fall League. I
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: can't believe this. In an effort to get more doubles
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: and triples in the gap, the left and right fielders
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: must play closer to the fair line, or foul line
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: if you wish, before each pitch. And the center fielder
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: must play a shallow center field closer to the infield.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: And the new lines will be marked by green paint.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Any breaking of the rule will result in the batter
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: being awarded first base. What a farce. Man, this makes
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: a mockery of the game. How about in the batting averages? Remember,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: you know, can you imagine what the great hitters of
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: the past would have done with a rule like this?
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: You know, Mays and Williams and Musial, Clemente DiMaggio. If
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: this changed, have been used when they played, they all
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: would have hit over 400 every year. As you would say,
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: say it, Curtis, Disgracia.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Disgracia.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: It's a shanda. A shanda on a wolf.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Thank you, gentlemen.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to blow out the candles for you,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: all 12 of them, coming up on your birthday.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: 12 of them.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: That's dignified.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: One for every decade.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, I get it. Wow, that's not right. That's not right.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Well, November 11th, 1937.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Is that 12?
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Very good.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Don't count on us for math and anything.
• 28:29
  Speaker 11: Wait a minute.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: How about this? Natalie's four days older than me.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Well, she worked with all three. She worked
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: with all three gamblings. The great-grandfather, grandfather, father. Come on.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: 1922.
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks a lot, Warner. Natalie Migliore is up next.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: We've had a couple of awful fires recently, but there's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: been many, many more because of lithium ion batteries. How
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: do New Yorkers feel about it? Natalie finds out in
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: her beat on the street next.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Wow,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: a lot of fires in the five boroughs of late,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: sometimes back to back. And reporting to us from the
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: streets is our own Natalie Migliore.
• 29:25
  Speaker 12: Yeah, New York City is really marking a grim milestone
• 29:28
  Speaker 12: with a record number of e-bike battery fires. And those
• 29:32
  Speaker 12: e-bikes are run by lithium-ion batteries, which are in our
• 29:36
  Speaker 12: laptops and our phones and everything in between.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: Now, Mary.
• 29:40
  Speaker 12: from the Bronx says she knows the issue all too
• 29:43
  Speaker 12: well after a family in a neighboring building died in
• 29:47
  Speaker 12: the Patterson houses in the Bronx two weeks ago.
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: I have one scooter in my house, and after that,
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: we have to take it out because it's so dangerous.
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: That's next to my building. That one electric bike that's
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: going to be fired, and the kids die, and the
• 30:03
  Speaker 11: whole family from him is dying. So, yeah, I'm so
• 30:06
  Speaker 11: scared about that now.
• 30:07
  Speaker 12: Did that change how you store your scooter?
• 30:11
  Speaker 11: Obviously, I had to take out because I'm so scared.
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: But now, I don't want anything in my house because
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: it's so dangerous.
• 30:17
  Speaker 12: Now, not every New Yorker is as plugged in as
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: Mary because it doesn't always hit so close to home.
• 30:24
  Speaker 12: The New York City Council is holding a hearing on
• 30:26
  Speaker 12: residential fires and these lithium-ion battery storage practices next week
• 30:32
  Speaker 12: in response to the sharp rise in these fires, right,
• 30:37
  Speaker 12: these lithium-ion battery fires. New Yorkers say something needs to
• 30:41
  Speaker 12: be done, whether by the city or buildings or both.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just logic, okay?
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: It is dangerous. There needs to be very specific places
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: or ways they can charge. I'm not saying take them
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: away from them, but find a better way to handle it.
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, I received a letter from housing, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: they say nobody can have more than one scooter or
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: electric bike charging. So that's good. I feel like it's
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: so more secure now.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: They got a room downstairs where they put the bikes.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Does that even worry you?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: A little bit, but it's separate. You know, it's isolated.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: It's a big room.
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: It's concrete in there.
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: Well, the FDNY has long been trying to educate people
• 31:21
  Speaker 12: on lithium ion batteries and their dangers. They've set out guidelines.
• 31:26
  Speaker 12: Don't charge these things in front of your only way
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: of exit, especially if you live in an apartment. Don't
• 31:31
  Speaker 12: keep them plugged in overnight. Use regulated batteries approved by
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: approved sellers, whether you're getting them on Amazon or elsewhere
• 31:44
  Speaker 12: from other retailers. It comes as the FDNY reports more
• 31:48
  Speaker 12: than 400 lithium-ion-related battery fires so far this year. That's
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: up from 292 in the same time frame last year.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: I mean, there's a staggering amount, yeah.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Very bad. They need to do something about it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 13: Like people dying over in the house, get caught in
• 32:04
  Speaker 13: the house, and.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: They can't get out to get trapped.
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: I think that something has to be done about these
• 32:09
  Speaker 13: batteries that are blowing up, 100%. They make it difficult
• 32:13
  Speaker 13: to own regulation ones. So people have to use a
• 32:17
  Speaker 13: black market to get cheaper ones. And those ones are combustible.
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: I know they're dangerous, but in my little circle, it's
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: not an issue, but it is dangerous and something should
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: be done about it, especially on airplanes and the basements
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: of apartment buildings.
• 32:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Now, if you remember.
• 32:37
  Speaker 12: The city was offering trade-in programs to ensure people have
• 32:40
  Speaker 12: regulated lithium-ion batteries. We haven't heard about that necessarily in
• 32:45
  Speaker 12: a while. And Mary says her building sent out a
• 32:48
  Speaker 12: notice limiting the amount of e-bikes you can have inside
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: your unit. But I want to know if her neighbors
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: will follow the rules.
• 32:56
  Speaker 11: They're supposed to, you know, like after that thing, like
• 32:59
  Speaker 11: next to them, maybe, yeah. Because everybody's scared now.
• 33:03
  Speaker 7: Well, it should be terrifying for everyone who lives in
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: that building. And it should be against the law.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: I know it's rough. You want to charge. But danger, danger, danger.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Danger for the firefighters, right? Having to go in and
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: fight these fires. By the way, where's the fire commissioner
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: since we've had a whole spate of these fires? Larry, Natalie,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: our audience. Lillian, buon signore. The new fire commissioner appointed
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: by Zoran.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Is partying in Puerto Rico with all the other Democrats.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: After every election, they have this Somos conference. They get
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: wine dined and pocket lined by lobbyists. They party to
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: the break of dawn, Eric Adams style. Where the hell
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: is Lillian? And how come she's not being called out?
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: This is an emergency now. Why are you fire commissioner for?
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: You're putting out fires in Puerto Rico? Right.
• 33:55
  Speaker 12: And the former fire commissioner, or at least one or two,
• 34:00
  Speaker 12: When this originally started happening, I mean, we've started seeing
• 34:04
  Speaker 12: these numbers just pile up with lithium ion related fires.
• 34:07
  Speaker 12: We've been covering them for years now, and it's gotten
• 34:11
  Speaker 12: more and more every year as these bikes become more popular.
• 34:14
  Speaker 12: And they've gone down the FDNY previously to Washington, D.C.
• 34:19
  Speaker 12: to state their case as to why things need to
• 34:21
  Speaker 12: be regulated in this certain case, this certain Fire commissioner,
• 34:26
  Speaker 12: you know, after a week of a slew of.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, too busy partying in Puerto Rico. By the way,
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: there are fake walls, illegal subdivisions, electrical outlets that have
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: too many plugs in it. And of course, the heaters
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: which are going to be put on, those... dangerous electrical heaters.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: It's not even freezing weather yet. Hey, Lillian Bonsignore, new
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: fire commissioner, why don't you come back from Puerto Rico?
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: In your story, the ones I feel the most horrible
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: for are the people that just happen to live in
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: those apartments next door. I mean, they didn't do anything wrong.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: These things should be called illegal and just get rid
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: of them for right now because until they figure it out.