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Opening Segment 10/13/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now curtis sliwa and larry mentee in the morning on
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  Speaker 1: 710 wor oh larry natalie our audience what a columbus
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  Speaker 1: day parade up fifth avenue yesterday the weather couldn't be
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  Speaker 1: better tremendous turnout especially from jersey groups an inordinate number
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  Speaker 1: i'm there every year so I get a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: idea who shows up, but a lot of Jersey groups,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Jersey groups. And it was really, I think,
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  Speaker 1: in response to two things. Last year, two weeks before
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  Speaker 1: the mayoral election, Team Cuomo was assembling what would have
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  Speaker 1: been the largest contingent ever for the parade. I mean, they.
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  Speaker 2: They had a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: They were flush with cash, hiring people, Italian-Americans.
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  Speaker 2: They were going to storm up Fifth Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: And they were surging in the polls at that time,
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  Speaker 1: except Larry and Natalie, a tsunami hit. First time ever,
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  Speaker 1: the Christopher Columbus parade was canceled. So everybody who had
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  Speaker 1: gone last year had to pack up their bags and
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  Speaker 1: go home. So they were like itching to be able
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  Speaker 1: to come out. And now the fact that Zoran Mondami
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  Speaker 1: who's done everything to disparage Christopher Columbus, giving the finger
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  Speaker 1: to the statue near where he lived and represented Astoria,
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  Speaker 1: would not attend any of the festivals, not even Italian
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  Speaker 1: heritage festivals. He basically dissed and dismissed Italians. They turned
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  Speaker 1: out in force, not only in the parade, but along
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  Speaker 1: the barriers, because normally it's a long parade. You start
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  Speaker 1: at 44th Street. You start going up Fifth Avenue. You
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  Speaker 1: pass St. Patrick's Cathedral. You go all the way up
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  Speaker 1: to 70th Street. And for a while there, once you
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  Speaker 1: got past 59th Street, once you passed the Plaza Hotel,
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  Speaker 1: it got thin. The crowd got thin. Not this time.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd was thick. And they were there because they
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  Speaker 1: wanted a vent. You know, wanted a vent against Zoran.
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  Speaker 1: Zoran wasn't there. So the first groups that were marching up,
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  Speaker 1: you had Governor Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: She got booed along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Tish James, the attorney general, she actually got the most boos.
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  Speaker 1: Because as you know, her alone existence is to be
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  Speaker 1: the bane to Donald Trump, prosecuting him. She's hoping in
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  Speaker 1: the future, if a Democrat wins in 2028, she'll be selected,
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  Speaker 1: God forbid.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S. Attorney General.
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  Speaker 1: So she, in her lone debate against the Republicans, she
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  Speaker 1: was bashing Trump. And then Tom DiNapoli, the controller, nobody
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  Speaker 1: booed him.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knew who he was? Yeah, they know who he is,
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  Speaker 2: but he's been there forever. Oh, yeah. Plus, he's a paisan.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't applaud, really?
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  Speaker 1: Just.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, they were respectful. Oh, there he is. Okay, hi.
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  Speaker 2: They were respectful. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: But it was telling, because Zohan Nadea, his surrogate is
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  Speaker 1: Governor Hochul. And so she had to deal with the
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  Speaker 1: slings and arrows and the boos all along the way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw it. I saw that part of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I saw?
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  Speaker 3: You know where I saw the parade and they showed
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  Speaker 3: the people being booed and all that on CBS last night?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. I saw it on CBS. You know who else
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  Speaker 2: was on? Who's that? Hey, where's the mayor? The mayor
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  Speaker 2: should be here. All parades matter.
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  Speaker 1: See, that was my tagline in the first debate. between Cuomo, Zora,
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  Speaker 1: and myself at the end of the debate. Zoran would
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  Speaker 1: not commit to going to festivals and parades. And I
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  Speaker 1: tagged that line at hashtag all parades matter.
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  Speaker 3: But right off the bat, you led the beast. That
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  Speaker 3: was it. They threw to the video. That's what came up.
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  Speaker 1: If Cuomo had been there and he's been MIA, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's busy. Just paid $ 10 million in cash for his
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  Speaker 1: mansion out next to Fredo, Chris Cuomo out in the Hamptons.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't even hang out in New York City anymore.
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  Speaker 2: So I was the go-to guy.
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  Speaker 1: And boy, what a great reception in the parade. You see,
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  Speaker 1: I waited in the beginning. Once every entourage passed through,
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  Speaker 1: the politicians, then obviously the cultural groups. That's how I
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  Speaker 1: knew how many Jersey groups, you know, from Garfield and
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  Speaker 1: Bloomfield and you name it. Every field in New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: was represented by Italians. It was really good. And they're
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  Speaker 1: big listeners, Larry, big listeners to WR. And again, I
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  Speaker 1: also used it as a focus group because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: walk until the last contingents. And so it gave me
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  Speaker 1: a chance as people were coming up, you know, taking pictures,
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  Speaker 1: telling me how they had abandoned WABC because they were
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  Speaker 1: saying also, gee, you know, if I want to listen
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  Speaker 1: to what's going on in Israel, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: be listening to WABC.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are great. You cover all the issues. And
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  Speaker 2: they were going on and on.
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  Speaker 1: And they liked the fact that sometimes they'd throw a
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  Speaker 1: little Italian in, a little Bades in.
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  Speaker 2: It was really a good day for WOR.
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  Speaker 1: We had our own Natalie Magliore.
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  Speaker 2: She was out there. We're going to play her cutbacks.
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  Speaker 2: Got so many Natalies here, it's confusing. There's so many Natalies.
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  Speaker 1: And then Nadia Comaneci doing the news. That's confusing to me.
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  Speaker 1: All these Natalie's. See, you got to be careful because
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  Speaker 1: my wife's name starts with N, Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't mention any of you women as a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: The worst thing you could do with your wife.
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  Speaker 2: Call her the wrong name? Well, yeah. One of your
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  Speaker 2: exes or any, like, well, who is Nadia? Who is, what? Nadia?
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  Speaker 2: Who is Nadia? Yeah, who is Nadia? Nadia Comaneci, a
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  Speaker 2: gymnast from Romania. Remember, she won gold medals. Did you
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  Speaker 2: have a crush on her when you were a kid
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  Speaker 2: or something?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. That name sticks out. I didn't mean
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  Speaker 3: to laugh, but I had never heard Natalie before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was the first time.
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  Speaker 3: You've messed up her name a bunch, but never heard Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: But she was out there working the crowd, doing a
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  Speaker 1: good job. We'll hear from her at 754. But I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you, it was such a great day
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  Speaker 1: of Italian pride. an Italian culture on view. Not so
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  Speaker 1: much talk about Columbus, you know, Christopher Columbus, he had
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  Speaker 1: like a mixed card, but more about contributions of Italian Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Over the years.
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  Speaker 1: So I was proud to be representing 710WOR. And man,
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  Speaker 1: we were getting a lot of positive feedback as people
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  Speaker 1: were Very disturbed with WABC because all Israel, all the time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Islam versus Jews, Mandami the terrorists, sort of
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  Speaker 1: tied to that. So they're coming on over. And it's
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  Speaker 1: been proven in the ratings. They're coming on over, and
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  Speaker 1: that's another good sign. Another great focus group.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Mamdani really confuses me. There's a cockiness about
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  Speaker 3: this guy. Like, he doesn't need certain people. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's the attitude he seems to have. He seems to have, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't need them. They didn't elect me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need them.
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  Speaker 2: I'll win re-election without them.
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  Speaker 3: Which isn't, when you're mayor, when you become mayor, you've
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  Speaker 3: got to put that aside. When you become mayor, you've
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  Speaker 3: got to represent everybody. And if this is important to them,
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  Speaker 3: it should be important to you. And kudos, I've never
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  Speaker 3: said this before. Kudos to Kathy Hochul and kudos to
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  Speaker 3: Letitia James. They knew they were going to get booed.
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  Speaker 3: They knew it. And they still marched.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they smile and they act oblivious. What I don't
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  Speaker 1: like is all the politicians now most, they have a
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  Speaker 1: rope in front of them. You know, they have police
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  Speaker 1: with a rope. So you can't even get near them,
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  Speaker 1: which is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, a rope. Come on. This is the Columbus
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  Speaker 2: Day Parade. Didn't Hochul have a rope? She had a rope.
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  Speaker 1: You know who started this? Eric Adams, for some strange reason.
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  Speaker 1: He had a rope, and now they're all doing the rope.
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  Speaker 2: It looks weird. So what goes on? Two people hold
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  Speaker 2: two ends of the rope and kind of walk along
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  Speaker 2: with her? Have you seen this? No, I haven't, but
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  Speaker 2: I just want to describe it to people, for people
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  Speaker 2: who haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not meant to keep crazies out. It's meant to keep, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: journalists like yourself away from them. They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be bothered having to answer questions while they're being booed.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the funny thing is the rope is right on them.
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  Speaker 3: Right. They keep moving with the rope, so it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really keep anyone away. So if you've noticed during the parade,
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  Speaker 3: reporters kept going up, and they still needed people to
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  Speaker 3: push them away.
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  Speaker 2: The rope doesn't do a thing. It just looks silly.
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  Speaker 2: You look like barn animals. Did you ever see those big...
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  Speaker 2: inflatable bubbles that you could go into and you roll
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 3: They should just put them in the big bubbles they
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  Speaker 3: could just roll through the parade i would go if
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  Speaker 3: they wouldn't do that i would go to.
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  Speaker 1: The best one waving in his last four years was
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  Speaker 1: comrade bill de blasio the part-time mayor the dope from
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  Speaker 1: park slope was smoking maui waui and hindu cushion night
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  Speaker 1: part-time mayor didn't get up until like uh 10.30, 11 o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: went to do a workout at a YMCA in Park Slope,
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  Speaker 1: even though he was in Gracie Mansion. Lucky if he
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  Speaker 1: put in six hours a day. He speaks Italian well.
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  Speaker 1: His mother is from Provincia in the north there. So
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  Speaker 1: he's got the roots. The only problem with him is
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  Speaker 1: he did something that trumped it with Sarah Palin. When
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Palin became the vice presidential candidate of John McCain, unexpectedly,
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  Speaker 1: she came right to Times Square and Familia. which is
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  Speaker 1: the big chain, pizza chain. It's owned by Albanians. They
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  Speaker 1: provided pizza and Trump was hosting her. Sarah Palin ate
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  Speaker 1: the slice the way you're supposed to, you know, folded it.
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  Speaker 1: Trump ate it with a knife and a fork, like
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  Speaker 1: de Blasio did when he went to Goodfellas on Highland
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  Speaker 1: Boulevard in Staten Island. He said, well, we're from the North.
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  Speaker 1: We eat it with a knife and a fork. But truly,
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  Speaker 1: he had Italian roots. Last four years, he marched in
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  Speaker 1: the Columbus State Parades. He got booed unmercifully.
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  Speaker 2: He deserved it.
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  Speaker 1: He was oblivious, waving as if he had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what the middle finger meant, what all the Italian curses meant.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we're number one. Yes, we're number one. But you
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  Speaker 2: got to show its part.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, remember recently when Zoran was booed at that
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  Speaker 1: night memorial on October 7th, remember that? the friendly Jewish
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  Speaker 1: group that invited him there, and then the pro-Palestinians came
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  Speaker 1: and booed him. Remember when he said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I signed up for?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: When you sign up and you're the mayor, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to try to be at all these festivals and parades,
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  Speaker 1: if at all humanly possible. But he has figured out
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  Speaker 1: Italians used to be 14% of the population in the
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  Speaker 1: five boroughs. Most of them now are in Staten, Italy,
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  Speaker 1: Staten Island, where Natalie was from. Now they're only 6%
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  Speaker 1: of the vote.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so it's not a big voting group. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to vote for Joe. How pathetic is that?
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