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Hour 1: Curtis and Zohran flu shot · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Doc, that's right back where I need to be with
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  Speaker 1: Larry Menti and Natalie in the morning and all of you.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you one thing before we get into
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  Speaker 1: the story that I've been attached to like an appendage
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  Speaker 1: here throughout New York State, throughout the country, throughout the world,
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  Speaker 1: is I was at the Atlantic Antics yesterday, Larry. And
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  Speaker 1: this is the largest street fair in all of New
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  Speaker 1: York City.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, it was raining.
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  Speaker 1: So I put a damper on the Pulaski Day Parade,
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  Speaker 1: which I was at with Nancy, who's all Polish, my
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  Speaker 1: oldest son, Anthony. The moment I got over to Atlantic
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  Speaker 1: Avenue between the Barclays Center and the East River, the
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  Speaker 1: place was packed. And I knew that our show was
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  Speaker 1: doing well as I was walking up and down, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of millennials and baby boomers were saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: missed you with Larry on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, how nice.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's, I mean, that's a compliment, but also a
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  Speaker 1: compliment to the fact that they're listening to WOR. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I still got a series of the responses, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and listening to WABC, it's all Israel all the time,
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  Speaker 1: Israel First Radio. So that was a good focus group
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  Speaker 1: in the rain, which was packed. Unfortunately, other festivals didn't
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  Speaker 1: have anywhere near the attendance. So I picked the right
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  Speaker 1: place to be as our focus group. And naturally, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think I was getting feedback on also other
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  Speaker 1: than the fact that they missed me on Friday so
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  Speaker 1: they knew I was on with you, Larry, on 710WO?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think?
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  Speaker 4: That's wonderful. I want to get to something else if
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  Speaker 4: I can, and you know what it is. But I
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  Speaker 4: don't think you know what I'm going to say, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm upset with myself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wait a second. You're upset with yourself.
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  Speaker 5: I am.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know. I just had no idea. And I
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  Speaker 4: want to apologize to you. I want to apologize to
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  Speaker 4: you because many times I have accused you of defending
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  Speaker 4: Zora Mamdani just last week.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: We got into a thing where I said, why won't
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  Speaker 4: you criticize him? And so you kept trying to criticize
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  Speaker 4: anybody else but him. And I said, what about Mamdani?
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  Speaker 4: What about Mamdani? And you wouldn't know. You wouldn't say anything.
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't give in to say something. And now I understand.
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  Speaker 4: Now I get it. I understand that you two have
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  Speaker 4: a relationship that many of us didn't know about until
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  Speaker 4: it came out in the open over the weekend when
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  Speaker 4: you were sitting with him, when you were both getting
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  Speaker 4: your flu shots. And then he said, oh my God,
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  Speaker 4: my heart flutters. He said to you, I'll hold your hand.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And you grabbed the window and you lit up. And
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  Speaker 4: then you turned to the nurse. And what you said,
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  Speaker 4: it's like out of a great movie. It's like out
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  Speaker 4: of Titanic. Let me just play that part. I can
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  Speaker 4: hold your hand.
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  Speaker 2: What happens if I faint?
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  Speaker 4: What happens if I faint? What happens if I faint? Listen, again,
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  Speaker 4: I apologize. I just didn't know. You know, love is love.
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  Speaker 4: And that's fine. It is fine with me. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure it's fine with everybody else. And I'm glad you're
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  Speaker 4: out in the open with it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, why am I doing it?
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  Speaker 4: I thought you shivered a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I did. I hadn't eaten anything. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It timed out. Listen, you don't have to hide this anymore.
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  Speaker 4: We all know now. It's fine. It really is fine.
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  Speaker 4: I support you a thousand percent. I appreciate that. I
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  Speaker 4: support you a thousand percent in this.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. But remember, this is the second time
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  Speaker 1: I've joined the mayor. The first time was for Inner Circle.
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  Speaker 1: They raised scholarship money for aspiring journalists. And people were
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  Speaker 1: critical of me, Republicans, for playing Dr. Kliwa, giving him
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  Speaker 1: a shot because he's allergic to cats because they were
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  Speaker 1: adopting a cat. And I and Nancy would encourage people
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  Speaker 1: to adopt unwanted cats. So they attacked me for that.
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  Speaker 1: Then in this situation, I get attacked from Republicans because
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  Speaker 1: they said, why would you be sitting there and holding
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  Speaker 1: his hand and taking a flu vaccine?
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  Speaker 2: And immediately I said, excuse me?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, what about our president, the leader of our party,
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  Speaker 1: the commander in chief? Three times he's had a love
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  Speaker 1: affair with John Mondami.
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  Speaker 4: Not like that one.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, close.
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  Speaker 1: Because remember, every time, and maybe you can figure it
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  Speaker 1: out why you would always say he's such a handsome man.
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  Speaker 1: He's such a handsome man. He's such a handsome man.
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  Speaker 2: So if the.
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  Speaker 1: President can have a relationship with Zoran Mandami for the
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  Speaker 1: good of the country, the good of the city, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing PSAs with him, really, what's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you, he does attack him a lot,
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  Speaker 4: and he calls him a communist, and he attacks his policy,
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  Speaker 4: and he's said publicly that he's ruining New York City.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't done that. And again, listen, I just was
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  Speaker 4: in the dark, and rightfully so. Your business is your business.
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  Speaker 4: I don't need to know anything.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's jealous.
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  Speaker 4: But when I saw that moment, no, I feel good
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  Speaker 4: for him.
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  Speaker 6: I think your relationship with Curtis, you're feeling jealous now.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm hoping that he's going to stop talking about
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  Speaker 4: consummating the relationship. That's what I'm hoping for.
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  Speaker 2: My relationship is with you. You can't get out of
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  Speaker 2: this relationship.
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  Speaker 4: No, there's someone else. There is someone else that I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know about. And I and I think everybody here
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  Speaker 4: is so happy.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? I'm cheating on you.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we ever had anything. That was all.
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  Speaker 1: But let me give you how this came about, because
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  Speaker 1: I don't talk to the mayor like the president does.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know because we didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Know anything about this.
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  Speaker 4: Right. Nobody.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 3: And somebody said, did you see?
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  Speaker 4: I was like, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: How did he not tell us this was happening? Well, again,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't.
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  Speaker 4: Just the hand-holding or the whole relationship? What didn't he
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  Speaker 4: tell us about?
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, I was on with our partners, Elvis Duran, C100,
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  Speaker 1: and they were saying, oh, you're going to get a
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  Speaker 1: flu shot next week with us?
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  Speaker 2: I said, no, I got other plans. Good for you.
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  Speaker 2: I stood them up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're loyal.
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain the origin of this. Again, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have communication with the mayor, unlike the president. Both of
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  Speaker 1: them have acknowledged. They talk to one another. They text
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  Speaker 1: one another.
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  Speaker 4: That's fine.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't have his cell phone?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: His aide reached out to me and said, hey, would
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  Speaker 1: you mind- We're doing the flu vaccine, and senior citizens
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  Speaker 1: die at a rate of about 2,000. I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're calling me because I'm a senior citizen. They said, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: kind of. I said, okay, where's it happening? Then they
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  Speaker 1: gave me the daytime and place board at Health Downtown Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: And you know who I thought of? And you know
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this a lot. I couldn't figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: A colleague of ours, Ernie Anastas, remember?
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  Speaker 10: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: In better shape than both of us combined. 82 years old.
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  Speaker 1: I used to see him go in and out of
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  Speaker 1: WABC when I was there. I said, man, I only
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  Speaker 1: wish I was that healthy when I'm 82.
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  Speaker 2: And he looked a young 82.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how all of a sudden he caught the flu,
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  Speaker 1: then pneumonia. Then he goes into a hospital in Westchester.
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  Speaker 1: One day he's dead and he's not alone. Unfortunately, it
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  Speaker 1: seems you get into that age range about 80. The
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  Speaker 1: flu leads to pneumonia. And actually, you can't treat pneumonia
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  Speaker 1: at home. You have to go to the hospital. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you pick up things at the hospital you normally
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't pick up.
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  Speaker 2: So I say, yeah, yeah, I'll do it. I'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, naturally, hopefully, there will be individuals out
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  Speaker 1: there who are senior citizens who will look at that
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  Speaker 1: and say, yeah, yeah, yeah, here's a tough guy, Curtis.
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  Speaker 1: He's taking it. A lot of guys will not take
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  Speaker 1: the needle. Or if they see a drop of blood,
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  Speaker 1: they faint. Some of the toughest guys who've ever existed.
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  Speaker 1: So I did my part. But naturally, I'm being lampooned.
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  Speaker 1: I'm being made fun of by some. But others just say, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is great. That's awful that they make fun of you.
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  Speaker 1: You're reaching out.
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  Speaker 2: That's awful.
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  Speaker 4: They should just embrace your relationship.
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  Speaker 8: They should.
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  Speaker 2: Like I am. They should.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's wonderful. I really think it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: I want to applaud you, Larry, for putting aside– your
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  Speaker 1: political bias in this, because there is political bias involved
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  Speaker 1: at everything and understanding it was for the good of
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  Speaker 1: the city, the good of the state, the good of
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  Speaker 1: the country and the good of our fellow senior citizens.
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  Speaker 2: I think you qualify as a senior citizen now, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. Over 65, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: I'm there. But, but I, I, I think there's more
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  Speaker 4: than that. And I, I, Look, I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: belabor the point. I really don't want to belabor it because,
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  Speaker 4: you know. Well, let's get some talk back from our.
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  Speaker 4: You've been uncomfortable with it for a long time. Let
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  Speaker 4: me just finish this. But I am, just know that
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  Speaker 4: you have my support in this.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: In your relationship.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to know I'm not cheating on you.
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  Speaker 1: I am not cheating on you, Larry, in any way,
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  Speaker 1: shape or form.
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  Speaker 11: Please.
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  Speaker 4: Please.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: We've never held hands. Oh, by the way, I forgot
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  Speaker 1: to tell you the most important thing. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: give the talk back, and we've got to wait until
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  Speaker 1: Natalie comes in. She'll appreciate this.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Well, here she's back already. Go to the iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 4: favorite talk back of the morning. And while you're on
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  Speaker 4: You'll be able to find this so much easier. And
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  Speaker 1: Now, Natalie, you'll appreciate this. My wife, Nancy, drove me
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  Speaker 1: all the way up to Binghamton University to speak. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I couldn't be with you Friday morning, Larry, and
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  Speaker 1: drove me all the way back. And we had great conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was going well. After I got the shot with
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  Speaker 1: Zoran Mondami and we held hands, I come home and
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  Speaker 1: she's not saying anything. I know there's a problem. She's
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  Speaker 1: not saying anything at all. She's stoic. I said, what's
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  Speaker 1: the problem? She said, oh, you never hold my hand.
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  Speaker 1: You never hold my hand.
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  Speaker 2: Now, to a degree, she's correct.
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  Speaker 4: She's correct.
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  Speaker 1: She's been with me through the whole campaign. No other
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  Speaker 1: woman was with the other candidates, not even the mayor's wife.
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo only had his daughters. I don't know if he's
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  Speaker 1: with anybody now, but Nancy was always at my side.
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  Speaker 1: Because you never held my hand. So at the Pulaski
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  Speaker 1: Day Parade yesterday, what did I do?
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  Speaker 2: I grabbed her hand. Because she's all Polish all day.
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  Speaker 2: But that barely made up. Can you imagine? She was
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  Speaker 2: the angriest at all.
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  Speaker 1: You never hold my hand.
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  Speaker 4: I can see that. I can understand the anger. But
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  Speaker 4: in these type of relationships you have, that happens a lot.
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  Speaker 4: That does happen a lot.
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  Speaker 6: I do have to say, though, you know, the video
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  Speaker 6: came out. Everybody was talking about it. And I think
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  Speaker 6: you really did do a good PSA because it sparked
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  Speaker 6: conversation in my household about, oh, when are we going
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  Speaker 6: to get our flu shot?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't even a thought.
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  Speaker 7: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 4: That's not the conversation that sparks in our household.
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  Speaker 2: No, it did.
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  Speaker 8: It really did.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you see, it shows.
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  Speaker 1: You when something is volatile, either for or against or
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  Speaker 1: both at the same time, people are going to pay
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  Speaker 1: attention one way or the other.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to pay attention to something. I swear I.
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  Speaker 5: Did not cheat on you, Larry. We consummated our relationship.
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  Speaker 5: You got my blessing. Please, you are just fine.
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  Speaker 4: When we come back, imagine not knowing who your father
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  Speaker 4: is only to find out that he is a famous
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  Speaker 4: pop rock musician. Wait till you hear this story, plus
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  Speaker 4: a chance to see A Bronx Tale, the one-man show
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  Speaker 4: starring Chaz Palminteri at age 25. When he was a
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  Speaker 4: young boy, Michael Gosling always knew that he was adopted,
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  Speaker 4: but didn't know who his biological parents were. And it
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  Speaker 4: always nagged at him. He had a wonderful life. He's
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  Speaker 4: the first to tell you that his adopted parents were
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  Speaker 4: just wonderful to him, but he just always wanted to know. So, Finally,
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  Speaker 4: in adulthood, he went to 23andMe, the DNA site that
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  Speaker 4: shows you who you're related to. And he found an
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  Speaker 4: adopted brother. And through the adopted brother, he found his father.
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  Speaker 8: And then I finally said, are you Michael McDonald?
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  Speaker 2: And he said, yeah, I'm afraid so.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that Michael McDonald. I keep holding on, baby. One
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  Speaker 4: of the greatest voices in pop and rock history, Michael McDonald.
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  Speaker 4: And he has always been wondering about the little boy
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  Speaker 4: he put up for adoption to.
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  Speaker 10: I always carried that guilt with me. But just to
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  Speaker 10: know that he was OK and that he had a
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  Speaker 10: good life and a life certainly that I wouldn't probably
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  Speaker 10: have been able to afford him at that time in
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  Speaker 10: my life, you know, was was, you know, a great reward.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the two of them are going to have a
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  Speaker 4: relationship now. And the wonderful part about this, and it
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  Speaker 4: makes you love Michael McDonald. Dude, you never heard a
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  Speaker 4: bad thing about Michael McDonald in his whole life. And
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  Speaker 4: this makes you love him even more.
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  Speaker 10: You know, the real rock stars in this story for
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  Speaker 10: us are his adopted parents, who, you know, really gave
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  Speaker 10: Michael everything a child needs, you know, in terms of
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  Speaker 10: love and security.
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  Speaker 2: And so they had the child.
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  Speaker 1: Both were underage, Michael McDonald and the woman he had
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  Speaker 1: the child with. Apparently, they've stayed in contact all through
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  Speaker 1: these years. They've contacted, obviously, the adoptive parents who were
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  Speaker 1: the reason that the young man was able to sort
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  Speaker 1: of have a good life.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a real.
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  Speaker 1: Happy topping on every aspect of this story, which oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: you don't hear. Especially when somebody discovers who their biological
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  Speaker 1: father or mother were, sometimes it really goes south.
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  Speaker 4: When he joined the Doobie Brothers, he completely changed that group.
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember from what they did to what it
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  Speaker 4: was with Michael McDonald? That voice, I've seen him a
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  Speaker 4: couple of times in concert, and that voice I just love.
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  Speaker 4: I've always admired him, always heard nice things about him,
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  Speaker 4: but now I love him. I mean, what a good guy.
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  Speaker 1: I remember he went from Steely Dan, they were no
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  Speaker 1: longer going to tour. Then he was asked to join
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  Speaker 1: the Doobie Brothers, and you are correct.
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  Speaker 2: He changed the whole sound of the Doobie Brothers.
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  Speaker 4: Here's some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 7: Ready?
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  Speaker 8: Ready.
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  Speaker 12: Curtis and Montani sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love,
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  Speaker 12: then comes marriage, then comes little Curtis in a baby carriage.
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  Speaker 1: I want to assure everybody out there, I have not.
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  Speaker 1: cheating on larry we have consummated our relationship this was
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  Speaker 1: a fling to get a flu vaccine.
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  Speaker 4: You have you have a hall pass forever an everyday
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  Speaker 4: hall pass you go ahead find someone else because this
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  Speaker 4: ain't gonna happen.
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  Speaker 11: Oh my god don't you guys get it curtis is
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  Speaker 11: just doing what he's supposed to do you keep your
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  Speaker 11: friends close and your enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Closer That's godfather-esque. No, no, no. I hate the godfather. So,
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  Speaker 2: wrong analogy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and there was more to it than that. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. I mean, there was absolutely love in the air.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, did you see the look on their faces?
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  Speaker 4: Did you hear when Curtis said, I might faint? I
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  Speaker 4: can hold your hand.
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  Speaker 2: What happens if I faint?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my, what happens if I faint? Possibility, I've seen
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  Speaker 1: many a tough guy faint.
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  Speaker 4: When someone holds their hand? Taking a needle, taking the
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  Speaker 4: needle or seeing blood. Because it happened right after he
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  Speaker 4: held your hand. You turned and said, what happens if
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: I faint? What was I supposed to say, no? Can
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: you imagine? No, I'm not going to hold your hand.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: I would have easily said it.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I bet you would have.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: I would have said, oh, no, no, no, thanks anyway.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: I think I'll be okay. Let's get the news at
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: 630 with Daria Albinger.
• 16:27
  Speaker 11: Daria.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Morning, guys.
• 16:28
  Speaker 13: Sunny today. High 69 degrees. It's the first Monday in October,
• 16:33
  Speaker 13: and that means the Supreme Court is back to work.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: From gun control to climate change to voting rights, this
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: is another term filled with high-profile cases. Among them, a
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: question of whether the Second Amendment guarantees the right to
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: possess AR-15s and whether state bans against those powerful weapons
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: are legal. The court is taking up the question of
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: whether Arizona can require people to produce proof of U.S.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: citizenship when registering to vote and is expected to decide
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: whether the Trump administration can quickly deport immigrants to third
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: countries without giving them the chance to describe why they
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: might be persecuted if they are sent there. Sherry Preston,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: ABC News.
• 17:08
  Speaker 13: The New York City Council will hear today from tech
• 17:10
  Speaker 13: companies about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. Executives from Google, Meta, OpenAI,
• 17:17
  Speaker 13: and Anthropic will testify before the council. The NYPD is
• 17:21
  Speaker 13: thanking its counterterrorism team for the role that it played
• 17:24
  Speaker 13: in the arrest of two men from Louisiana who are
• 17:27
  Speaker 13: accused of raising money for Hamas.
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: Abdel Adami and his brother Omar Adami were arrested last
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: month for charges of providing material support to a foreign
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: terrorist organization. Court filings allege that a man in Gaza
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: who reportedly has ties to Hamas reached out to an
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: undercover NYPD officer on Snapchat to raise money. The man
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: directed the officer to the two brothers, saying they will
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: help get the money overseas. The two brothers are also
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: facing charges of wire fraud. I'm Lizzie Radabali, WOR News.
• 17:58
  Speaker 13: The president of Cornell University says an alleged gang rape
• 18:01
  Speaker 13: on campus will weigh heavily on the school for years
• 18:03
  Speaker 13: to come. Michael Kotlikoff's comments were the first public ones
• 18:07
  Speaker 13: that he made since the investigation against the incident at
• 18:10
  Speaker 13: a campus fraternity house was announced. The Giants and the
• 18:13
  Speaker 13: Rangers win, the Jets lose, the Yankees look to tie
• 18:16
  Speaker 13: up Tampa Bay in Game 2 of the American League
• 18:19
  Speaker 13: Divisional Series tonight. Next news, 7 o'clock bulletins at once.
• 18:23
  Speaker 13: I'm Daria Albinger on 710-WOR.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Overnight, the United States made a decision to remove the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: 12 B-1 bombers from the RAF base in England because
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: of fear of terrorist attacks. We'll get into that and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: so much more next.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: We are learning so much more now about the co-pilot
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: and attempted hijacker and attempted murderer, Omani National Hamam El Hamami.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: on flight, remember what happened on fly Dubai flight 1073,
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: where he attacked the co-pilot. Well, now we find out
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: that there were a million red flags about this guy.
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Al-Omani had previously been barred from flying or removed from
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: his job as Oman's national airline due to security concerns
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: regarding his extremist Islamic views. Think about that. He was
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: too extreme for Oman. I know it's currently unclear, but
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: this is being investigated, if Oman shared these vetting concerns
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: with Fly Dubai before he was then hired by Fly Dubai.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: But they should have known, too. Israeli officials now have
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: stated that al-Hammami posted explicitly on social media about intentions
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: to kill Jews prior to the flight, which was carrying
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: mostly Jewish passengers, 170 Jewish passengers. So, I don't know
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: how this guy could be a co-pilot, how he could
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: possibly get through any type of vetting process. And it's
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: unbelievably disturbing that Oman didn't at least share that information.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: And if they did with the Dubai, with Fly Dubai,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: why Fly Dubai, Curtis, decided just to ignore that?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I think his flight to Dubai started after the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Abraham Accords, the softening, creating relationships between the UAE, Dubai
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and Israel. And it's a it's a budget airline. So
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of flights.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And I think.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Probably what happened is what happens. You need pilots. You
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: grab pilots where you can. You didn't do any kind
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: of vetting whatsoever. Well, we always find out these things
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: in the aftermath of when you rush to hire people
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to in order to meet the requirements. The other really
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: disturbing part about this is not only the co-pilot, his
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: terrorist intentions that he was posting publicly.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't even shake a female's hand.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, right there, it's sort of like, wait, there's.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Something wrong here.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Number two, apparently the attendants, the stewards, There were no stewardesses,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: no females, all males. Once the Israelis on board, the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: plumber and the others detained the co-pilot, you know, held
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: him down.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: They wanted him to let him go. Yeah.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Now, what do you mean let him go? He just
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: nearly killed. At that point, they didn't even know if
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the Indian pilot would die. They wanted the Israelis on
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: board to release the co-pilot. who had just stabbed him
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: up and threatened to stab everybody else up. And if
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: the Israelis hadn't slammed him down and detained him, God
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: only knows how much more damage he would have done.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: So I would want to go into their backgrounds also.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Was this an organized attempt instead of having like we
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: had in 9-11 where everyone just stormed the cockpit, took
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: it over, threatened everybody with straight edge razors, and then
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: piloted the plane into buildings or into the Pentagon and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: eventually into western Pennsylvania because they were on their way to–
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: They were on their way to Congress.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: You say to yourself, how come that hasn't been explored?
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great question, although the pilot seems okay now.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: And the pilot did an interview. And, of course, because
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: it's election time in Israel, too, they don't do the
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: interviews with journalists. They do it with B.B.
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: Netanyahu.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't mind this. It's okay.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: It's okay.
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: So, V.V.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Netanyahu interviewed Captain Smet Metshar. Tell me, I wanted to
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: ask you, how did it all begin? Can you tell
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: me how it began?
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: It was, it just was a normal flight and the
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: co-pilot offered, I mean, he demanded, not demanded, but he
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: wanted to pray, which a lot of locals, they do pray.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: and which is not out of the ordinary.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Right, so as he's praying, he notices, the co-pilot notices,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: the pilot notices that his co-pilot is starting to sweat
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: and acting strange.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: While he was praying, out of respect, I was just
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: looking at the front and not at the back. And suddenly,
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: after I think I would say about four or five minutes.
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: There was.
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: A big blow to the back.
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: Of my head.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Right, he was trying to ignore him because it was
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: getting a little bit strange in the cockpit. And so
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: this guy is so lucky to be alive. For a
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: while there, they thought he was going to die.
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: I pushed against everything.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: I gave everything that I had and just went for
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: the door and opened the door. And thankfully, people were
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: waiting to bounce back.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they talk about the heroes that went into the cockpit.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: The ultimate hero in all of this. is that pilot,
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: is Smit Machar, the captain, who just took an axe
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: in the back of the neck. He was dying, and
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: he lunges at the door because he knew that if
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: he didn't keep that door open, it was going to
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: lock and no one could get in. And if that
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: were to happen, then, of course, the hijacking would have
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: taken place, and he would have crashed it wherever he
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: wanted to crash it into. So he ultimately is the
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: person that saved lives.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: But notice the crazies have emerged. Oh, this was a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Israeli false flag Mossad operation. What are you talking about,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: false flag? Because Bibi was doing the initial interview. That
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: is specious. Now, meantime, let's take it up to the U.K.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: We had 12 B-1 bombers at that RAF Air Force facility,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and they were outside. You know, they don't put them inside.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: There's no hangar big enough. And even if you had
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a hangar, you could still do damage to them. Remember,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they had arrested five Iranian nationals who were citizens of
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the UK just last week. They picked up a sixth
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: one just 48 hours ago who appeared to be more
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: directly involved in some kind of a plot. As a result,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the United States has removed all 12 B-1 bombers, flown
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: them back to South Dakota. Within like 12 hours, they
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: made that decision. And I'm thinking, Larry... What would you
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: be most fearful of when you have such powerful technology exposed?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Drones. You know, it's easy for anybody to get drones nowadays.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Ukrainians have hit some of the most sophisticated bombers of
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Russia in far off air bases. Wouldn't be difficult to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: put together a drone and have it kamikaze and crash
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: into into one of those weapons of war. So I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: think the United States did the right thing. Better safe
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: than sorry.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they are saying, the State Department is saying, this
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: was in the works anyway, and it was related but
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: not directly related. They said they're going to be moving
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: a lot of the B-1 bombers out of bases because
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: they have gotten intelligence about threats at bases all around
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: the world, including that one, and they were in the
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: process of trying to get them out. And then this
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: attack was uncovered. And that makes a lot of sense.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: They now have intelligence that the Iranians are planning attacks
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: at places across the world.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Look, it's a war. This is what happens during war.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right. I'll tell you what, the disgraced, maybe
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: I shouldn't call him disgraced because I don't want to
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: get sued because I think he's going to sue some people.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Maybe the former, let's put it that way, New Jersey
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Lieutenant Governor Dale Caldwell, he's not going quietly into the night.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Did you notice over the weekend, he was everywhere and
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: he has a story to tell. We'll share it with
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: you next. I'll tell you what, Curtis. Former Lieutenant Governor
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Dale Caldwell is not going quietly into the night. I mean,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: they may have gotten rid of him, but he's still around.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: I will tell you that I was looking at New Jersey, Philadelphia,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: New York TV, and he's everywhere now. He must have
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: done seven interviews since last week when he was finally
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: let go. He was forced to resign by the governor.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: for alleged inappropriate behavior with women. And so he's saying
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: that the whole thing is a setup. And when you
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: listen to the interviews, because why else would he be
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: doing interviews, right? Why else would he be out there
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: saying all this? Of course, he wants to clear his name,
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: but he also wants to make certain that he gets
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: his side out because he is exploring a lawsuit. He
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: says he wants to clear his name. Now, let's deal
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: with the one big story, the one where he was
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: in a limo and he allegedly said to a young
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: girl that all young girls want these days a young sperm.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: They don't want old sperm.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Investigators claim that you told a staffer, and I'm not
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: going to sugarcoat this, you young women are looking for
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: young sperm.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: That's one of the big problems I have with the
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: lawyers that put this nonsense together. She was mentioned 59
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: times throughout that report. So clearly it's that person's report and.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: No one else.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: There's no corroboration. So three people in the same car
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: said it wasn't true. Why did the lawyers use that?
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: For some reason, people wanted me out.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: If that's true... And you have to find out if
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: that is true, what he just said. If that's true,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: it sure does sound like a setup.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, he resigned. He didn't have to resign. Could
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: have fought while remaining lieutenant governor. So the fact that
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: he resigned gives me credence to think that maybe some
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: of this is true. Because all of a sudden, as
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you pointed out, he's putting up a stellar defense. And
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: it isn't a to stay in his job and defend
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: off the critics. but rather prepare for a lawsuit, which
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely correct. He's going to say my
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: complexion is my protection.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, he said that. He said, I checked the three boxes.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: I'm single, I'm male, and I'm black.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Well, the thing he's got going for him is, I
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: thought originally he was married.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: He's not.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: He was single. He was, what, the chancellor of a university,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: president of a university. So he's not like, quote, the
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: professional politician. And then I thought for sure the NAACP
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: would mount a defense for him. I think that's starting
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to take place. So let's see how this all plays out.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: But he's not going quietly, as you mentioned, and I
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: think it's going to require some money to make him
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: to go away.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: I think so, too. Now, I'll answer a couple of
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: the questions you had because I've seen several interviews with him.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: He says that he resigned because he actually supports Mikey
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Sherrill and her agenda, and he didn't want to get
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: in the way of that, and this would have caused
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: a huge stink. Well, then why are you doing six
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: interviews afterwards? But definitely he's suing because he keeps using
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: the same word over and over again, the same two words,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: I should say, set up.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: This was a setup from the beginning, from that staffer one,
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: because if you begin to look at it. So the trooper,
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: and there was actually someone who I've never been in
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: the car alone with the staffer in New Jersey without
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: the other person, they didn't mention that. Three people said
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: Dale didn't say that.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: I'm going to hold out any kind of judgment because
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: this guy, as you mentioned, he was the black president
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: of Centenary University. He also was executive director of the
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: highly exclusive Rothman Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fairleigh
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Dickinson University. He also served in the government for a while.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: He was the head of the New Jersey Department of
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Community Affairs. So my feeling is he's been around for
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: a long time. He's been around young women for a long,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: long time. And there was never any hint of impropriety.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Why now all of the sudden?
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: That's you really making it seem like he was going
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to be set up a lieutenant governor that most people
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: didn't even know.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Well, let's face it. Most people don't know who their
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: lieutenant governors are.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: So again, let's see how you say, let's see how
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: all of this evidence plays out. There'll be a freedom
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of information act request, I'm sure by journalists. So everything
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: he's saying that is attributed to this one accuser, but
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking there's more than just one accuser.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Look, I'm just allowing the possibility that he's telling the truth.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: I don't take sides on this because I have no
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: idea who's telling the truth. I have no idea if
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: they wanted him out, and I have no idea if
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: he did the things he said he was doing. But
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: I will say the report does seem awfully suspicious. If
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: they're just quoting the same person over and over and
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: over again— And they have several people that are saying, no,
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: that never happened, that never happened, that never happened. It
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: sounds to me like, listen, he was a distraction. He
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: was going to get in the way of the governor's agenda,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: and they just wanted him out.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but his rationale for resigning, oh, I didn't want
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to interfere with the governor's agenda.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I don't buy that for a second.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Especially if she's.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Going to whack you. You're, oh, no, but it's more
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: important your agenda. Hell no, he's mad.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: He is mad. He's definitely mad. And he's definitely looking
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: for some money. And maybe he wants her on his side.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Who knows? It's all kind of strange.
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Talk about another university. Cornell president speaks out about the
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: gang rape allegations. And so do women all across the
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: country calling themselves. I am Jane Doe. That's coming up
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: after this seven o'clock news.