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Hour 2: Vivek Ramaswamy's ad · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, every election cycle, it seems like there is a
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  Speaker 1: political ad that jumps out and makes news. We can
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  Speaker 1: go back for a long, long time and talk about
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  Speaker 1: political ads, going back to when Lyndon Johnson showed a
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  Speaker 1: bomb dropping to show what would happen if Goldwater took over.
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  Speaker 1: A little girl in a field with daisies explodes. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them are controversial. Some of them are just excellent.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them can change elections. Well, the one that
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  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy did is getting a lot of attention and
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  Speaker 1: for all the wrong reasons. A lot of people, especially Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: have come out and said the ad is completely inappropriate
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  Speaker 1: because his opponent, Amy Acton, had a longstanding, instead of
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  Speaker 1: her brother, problems with her stepfather and her mother. And
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  Speaker 1: the mother is who was used in the ad for
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the character of Amy Acton.
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  Speaker 2: I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying
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  Speaker 2: about her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to
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  Speaker 2: say this, but Amy has a serious problem. She is
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  Speaker 2: a liar. She lies about her past. She says she
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  Speaker 2: grew up living in a tent. None of that is true.
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  Speaker 2: She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, and
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  Speaker 2: she can't help you if she needs help herself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a powerful, powerful ad, but did it cross
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  Speaker 1: the line? There are a lot of people that think
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  Speaker 1: it did. You shouldn't put someone's mother on, especially given
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  Speaker 1: the history in the family. But many people said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's an ad that is going to resonate, and it's
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  Speaker 1: an ad that is going to resonate for people either
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  Speaker 1: voting against it or now voting against her. The governor
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio, DeWine, came out and said that ad's got
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  Speaker 1: to come down.
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  Speaker 3: People I've worked with on that ticket are very, very
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  Speaker 3: good people. And look, I'm a Republican, and so I
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  Speaker 3: did my endorsement a few months ago. But what I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to talk today about is this ad. I think it's,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, deeply, deeply, deeply troubling. It needs to
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  Speaker 3: come down.
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  Speaker 4: But Curtis, President Trump disagrees vehemently.
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  Speaker 1: He talked about that yesterday more than he talked about anything.
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  Speaker 1: He talked about it getting on to Air Force One
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  Speaker 1: to go to Iowa. He talked about it on the
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  Speaker 1: stage in Iowa.
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  Speaker 5: Amy Acton's mother said horrible things about.
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  Speaker 4: Amy Acton, and I don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: You're not allowed to do that.
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  Speaker 4: You're not allowed to broadcast it.
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  Speaker 6: Now, I'll say this.
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  Speaker 5: The press is ganged up because you hate it, because
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  Speaker 5: that one ad should really win.
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  Speaker 1: That one ad should really win it. That was as
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  Speaker 1: he was getting on the plane. Here he is on
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  Speaker 1: the stage.
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  Speaker 5: He must take that ad down immediately.
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  Speaker 4: He must.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 4: The mother.
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  Speaker 5: is calling the daughter a terrible person and a liar.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody should be so lucky. Why would you shield somebody
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  Speaker 5: from that? Why would we do that? So I told him,
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  Speaker 5: leave it up and look upstairs and say, thank you, God,
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  Speaker 5: very much. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he said something really interesting, Curtis. It was a
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  Speaker 1: fascinating statement, and it does ring true. He said, just
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  Speaker 1: imagine if my mother was alive and said horrible things
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  Speaker 1: about me. Would the media be saying, take that down?
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  Speaker 1: Would the media be saying that that is inappropriate? No,
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  Speaker 1: they'd love it. They'd keep replaying it and replaying it
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  Speaker 1: on the news. And there really is, there is a
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  Speaker 1: double standard when it comes to these things. It's okay
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  Speaker 1: when the Democrats do it. It's not okay when the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans do it. And I'll tell you what, evidence number
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  Speaker 1: one on all of that is the fact that Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump They tried to arrest him several times. They raided
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  Speaker 1: his home. They went after his building in New York.
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  Speaker 1: And the media cheered all that on. But when Trump
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  Speaker 1: goes after anybody in the Democratic administration, when his Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department does, oh, it's awful. It's the worst thing in
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  Speaker 1: the world. So there definitely is a double standard. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is not good. The majority of voters are women.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, the acting campaign produced the documentary evidence of
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  Speaker 1: who the mother was in marrying the stepfather who had
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  Speaker 1: been indicted by a grand.
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  Speaker 8: Jury for sexually raping the candidate. Her brother has also
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  Speaker 8: come out and verified that. What happened was once the
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  Speaker 8: indictment came down, he pled innocent and fled to Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 8: The biological mother fled with him, did not side with
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  Speaker 8: the children. And guess what? The children were taken away
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  Speaker 8: from her by the court. So Vivek is a smart guy,
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  Speaker 8: does analytics, does a lot of research.
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  Speaker 4: He's a billionaire.
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  Speaker 8: You had to believe that they knew what the outcome
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  Speaker 8: of that court adjudication was. It does not put the
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  Speaker 8: mother in a good light and definitely not the stepfather.
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  Speaker 8: So if your biological brother is saying exactly this is
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  Speaker 8: what happened, and then you have first J.D. Vance coming
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  Speaker 8: in and Trump, the national figures, saying, yeah, Vivek, you're right.
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  Speaker 8: But then all the local figures you're trying to help,
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  Speaker 8: especially John Husted, who's behind in the polls against Sherrod Brown.
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  Speaker 8: That's the guy who replaced J.D. Vance when he went
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  Speaker 8: on to become vice president. That's the one that Trump
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  Speaker 8: says he likes his ass. He disavowed it. DeWine disavowed it.
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  Speaker 8: And then you pointed out he goes to Iowa. It's
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  Speaker 8: a neck and neck race with Ashley Hinson being the
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  Speaker 8: Republican before he even gets off Air Force One. She
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  Speaker 8: disavows it. She says, take it down. And she called J.D.
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  Speaker 8: Vance's defense. Of Vivek's ad.
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  Speaker 4: Ridiculous.
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  Speaker 8: So you got all these Republicans whose whole lives now
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  Speaker 8: are running on this campaign and this unexpected haymaker.
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  Speaker 4: It really is.
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  Speaker 8: It came out of nowhere that Vivek did because he's
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  Speaker 8: behind in the polls. It's like a Hail Mary pass.
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  Speaker 8: And yet they double down on it. There are a
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  Speaker 8: lot of people who are going to say, man, God,
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  Speaker 8: why would you do this?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: Because everybody has different reasons for saying something, right?
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  Speaker 4: Of course, if you're a candidate running somewhere else, there's
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  Speaker 4: no reason.
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  Speaker 8: To say that's a great ad. It's just going to
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  Speaker 8: hurt you. There's no reason in the world. So everybody
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  Speaker 8: has their own reasons. There's no reason for the governor
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  Speaker 8: of Ohio to say, yeah, keep that ad up.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants to win that race. Now, if Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump were to go on national television, at which, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, every one of his rallies are on national television,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows that, you know, everybody says, well, why
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  Speaker 1: is he talking about that here? Because it's not just
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  Speaker 1: an Iowa rally. Everything he says is national. And so
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to send a message to the voters in
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  Speaker 1: Iowa that I don't think it's that bad. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to send a message to the Republican voters in Ohio saying,
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  Speaker 1: that it's not that bad. That's what's important to him,
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  Speaker 1: to win this race. So if you look at it
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  Speaker 1: that way, if you just look at it politically, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he is going to do that. And it's actually smart
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  Speaker 1: of him to do that because the top guy, the
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  Speaker 1: one that has 92% popularity among MAGA and 87% popularity
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  Speaker 1: in the Republican Party is now telling the voters in Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: I like that ad.
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  Speaker 4: It's a good thing. That would be great if it
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  Speaker 4: was a primary. This is a general election. I know,
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  Speaker 4: that's even more important. Democrats, independents. Even more important.
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  Speaker 8: And then why are Republicans breaking ranks with the president?
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  Speaker 8: The very people he's in those states to support are
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  Speaker 8: denouncing it.
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  Speaker 1: Because they have their own races. You do understand this, right?
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  Speaker 1: If you have your own race, yeah, it doesn't help
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  Speaker 1: you at all to be for him.
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  Speaker 8: So I know we're supposed to win the midterms here
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  Speaker 8: in the Senate, at least hold the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: We've lost the House. You would admit that. We've lost
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  Speaker 4: the House. Probably, yes. So why would you make it
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  Speaker 4: even more difficult for U.S. Senator Kennedy?
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  Speaker 8: Come on, man.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't affect them at all. Sure it does. No,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't. It does not.
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  Speaker 1: You think that this affects the voters in Iowa?
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  Speaker 4: You think it affects the voters in South Carolina? It
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  Speaker 4: doesn't at all.
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  Speaker 8: Wanna bet the last minute ads are attaching Trump to saying, oh,
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  Speaker 8: I would use this ad.
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  Speaker 4: No, it won't. They won't. I will bet you they
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  Speaker 4: never use that. No, they're not. If I were advising
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  Speaker 4: a Democrat... It's a waste of money. It's not.
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 9: It is.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way.
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  Speaker 8: By the way, this is all your hopes, but it's
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  Speaker 8: not the truth. No, it makes no sense.
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  Speaker 4: The major Republicans are denouncing it. You have division in
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  Speaker 4: your own party. I just explained why. But that's going
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  Speaker 4: to get out Republican votes. I just explained why. That's self-destructive.
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  Speaker 8: No, all he wants to do, all Trump wants to
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  Speaker 8: do is not stop Obama. Republican voters in Ohio from voting.
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  Speaker 8: He wants to say to them, I'm for this.
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  Speaker 4: It's okay. You can vote for this guy. Had he
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  Speaker 4: done the opposite, he would have lost the race for
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  Speaker 4: Vic Ramoswami. Now he's behind. He's lost the race.
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  Speaker 8: Whether you think that or not, it would have been
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  Speaker 8: a death knell at that point.
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  Speaker 4: So of course he's not going to.
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  Speaker 8: And everybody else is going to run the other way
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  Speaker 8: because it helps them. This is all politics 101. So
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  Speaker 8: how do you win a general election? If the Democrats
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  Speaker 8: are put off by this, if independents are put off
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  Speaker 8: by this, if some of your fellow Republicans are put
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  Speaker 8: off by this, just do the math.
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  Speaker 4: You lose.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do the math. If they get the Republican vote out,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to matter. If they get the Republican
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  Speaker 1: vote out in Ohio, not everywhere. Curtis, you do the math.
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  Speaker 4: The guy that he... You do the math. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 8: He waxed poetic over this guy Husted's ass twice.
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  Speaker 4: I love this guy's ass. Actually, it's worrisome that you
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  Speaker 4: talk about that so much.
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  Speaker 8: That guy actually denounced the ad, and he's running for re-election.
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  Speaker 8: I just explained to you why. I can't do the
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  Speaker 8: fifth time. I want you to go out. I want
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  Speaker 8: you to campaign this weekend. I want you to say,
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  Speaker 8: I support Vivek's ad. Just say sometimes you're wrong.
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  Speaker 4: To Republicans. Just every once in a while, just say
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  Speaker 4: I'm wrong on this. No, I'm so right. No, you're not.
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  Speaker 8: He is the misogynist, sexist in chief, and he is
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  Speaker 8: purposefully losing this election.
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  Speaker 4: And now it comes out. How about talking about grocery prices?
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  Speaker 4: How about talking about energy prices?
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  Speaker 10: He does.
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  Speaker 8: He does.
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  Speaker 4: Did you watch his speech? He didn't even mention that. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: sure he did. Just not on the clips that are
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  Speaker 4: played on the news. Oh, come on, Larry. Did you
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  Speaker 4: watch the speech? I watched most of it. It was horrible.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about an election in Ohio. You just don't
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  Speaker 4: like Trump. That's fine. He's going to lose the.
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  Speaker 8: Senate, and then he's going to get impeached, and Republicans
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  Speaker 8: are going to have nothing as a result.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't care anymore. So you're biased, and that pushes
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  Speaker 1: your opinion.
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  Speaker 8: I want him to end the war in Iran, the
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  Speaker 8: BB war in Iran.
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  Speaker 4: That caused all this stuff. You just call him a
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  Speaker 4: lot of names. You're very biased when it comes to that.
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  Speaker 8: He's a sexist, misogynist chief of the country, and he
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  Speaker 8: proved it in backing this ad.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for stepping out of the closet. I really
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that. What is Polly Market saying? I wish Polly
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  Speaker 1: Market would do an ad on that. How many people
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  Speaker 1: support the president on this? We actually have a clock
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  Speaker 1: that we're supposed to pay attention to. So do you
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about Ron Duguay?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely. My buddy. Unfortunately, he passed on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about that next and remember him.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis is friends with him, so he's got some stories,
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  Speaker 1: plus a chance to see Journey at age 25.
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  Speaker 6: But first, they announced the passing of Ron Duguay at
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  Speaker 6: the age of 69 down in the Jacksonville area of
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  Speaker 6: Florida where he lived.
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  Speaker 4: With Sarah Palin. Remember the Alaska governor?
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  Speaker 8: Vice presidential candidate for John McCain. It's a most unlikely couple.
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  Speaker 8: You have to imagine the both of them because Ron Duguay,
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  Speaker 8: what I remembered about him when he broke into the
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  Speaker 8: scene as a New York Ranger, because I've been a
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  Speaker 8: lifetime Ranger fan. He had that mane on his head,
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  Speaker 8: I mean curls, refused to wear a helmet, and he
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  Speaker 8: would be a fixture at Studio 54. He'd be the
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  Speaker 8: first person they let right on in with his buddy
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  Speaker 8: John McEnroe at the time who was at the top
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  Speaker 8: of his tennis game. Everybody loved Ron Duque. He looked
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  Speaker 8: like a model, and it wasn't just like he was
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  Speaker 8: a scrub or he scored some goals. Guy would average 25, 35,
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  Speaker 8: 40 goals a year.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 8: Got the Rangers into the Cup Finals in 79, in
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  Speaker 8: which they won the first game against the Montreal Canadiens,
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  Speaker 8: and then they put it out, and he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: that's because we were partying too much. Because he was
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  Speaker 8: at the Studio 54 every night. So when they'd line
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  Speaker 8: off for the puck drop, the opposing players who were
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  Speaker 8: in town at Madison Square Garden said, I won't hit
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  Speaker 8: you in the face. I won't drive you into the boards, cross-check,
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  Speaker 8: you know, which could do damage. Just got to get
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  Speaker 8: me into Studio 54 tonight. And Ron Duguay said, deal.
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  Speaker 8: He was with Cher. He was with everybody. He married
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  Speaker 8: Kim Alexis, the great model, but unfortunately had stage four
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  Speaker 8: colon cancer and he began deteriorating. I'm telling you, let
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  Speaker 8: me go on record as saying this. Wake up, Chris.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to this. This is going to cause a comment
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  Speaker 4: from you. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: If I was to ever become a homosexual, it would
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  Speaker 8: be with Ron Duguay. And many conversations with him, it
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  Speaker 8: was not homoerotic. That guy was just a great conversationalist also.
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  Speaker 4: And a good-looking guy. My God. Good looking. See, there
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  Speaker 4: you go. The Sassoon Jeans commercial. Talk about looking at
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  Speaker 4: somebody's ass.
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  Speaker 6: I got to see what he looked like back in
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  Speaker 6: the day because I know what he looked like.
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  Speaker 4: On the Rangers postgame for the last, you know, however
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  Speaker 4: many years.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 4: He's a good-looking guy, you know, in his old age.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what he looked like back when he
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  Speaker 4: was playing.
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  Speaker 8: They hired Brooks to be the coach, you know, the
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  Speaker 8: miracle goal.
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  Speaker 4: But he's straight-laced.
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  Speaker 8: He lays down, he says, Duguay, no more clubs at
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  Speaker 8: night and you got to wear a helmet.
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  Speaker 4: He said, nope. And then they traded him to the
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  Speaker 4: Detroit Red Wings.
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  Speaker 8: What a loss. What a loss. Ron Duguay dead at
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  Speaker 8: the age of 69. Let's get some talkbacks. This is
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  Speaker 8: about the mayor in Pemberton, New Jersey, who went nuts.
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  Speaker 11: This mayor in Pemberton is like many I've seen over
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  Speaker 11: the decades in Jersey. thinking they are more what they are.
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  Speaker 11: It's a part-time administrative position.
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  Speaker 4: He says they assaulted. There's no security. They're cops at
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  Speaker 4: the meeting. Look at them.
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  Speaker 11: If he was assaulted, the gentleman would have been arrested.
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  Speaker 11: He said he's been coming at them, but he had
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  Speaker 11: never made any complaints. And then the first thing, he
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  Speaker 11: demands the police arrest them right away. Please, it's a
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  Speaker 11: typical guy just thinking he's more than he is.
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  Speaker 4: He's a gadfly, the guy he's talking about.
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  Speaker 8: See, he was conflating the two, Bianchini, the mayor, and
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  Speaker 8: the gadfly who wanted the mayor arrested.
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  Speaker 4: But no, he's right.
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  Speaker 8: This happens in these local village township and municipal meetings
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  Speaker 8: all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Not like this one. No, not like this one. This
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  Speaker 4: one got a little bit out of hand.
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  Speaker 9: Larry, Divine is a milquetoast, and you're acting like a milquetoast.
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  Speaker 9: Stop complaining about other Republicans. Yeah, maybe the ad pushes
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  Speaker 9: some buttons, but the Democrats fight tooth and nail. They
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  Speaker 9: fight dirty. And we need to start fighting dirty, too.
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  Speaker 9: Stop being such a milquetoast.
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about? You weren't the milquetoast. I
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  Speaker 4: was the milquetoast. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 8: Both these callers seem to have pointed at the wrong people.
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  Speaker 8: We couldn't be more different in just about every way.
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  Speaker 8: And somehow I'm the one that has to go and
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  Speaker 8: support the GOP.
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  Speaker 4: Have you listened? What the hell? I really just don't
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  Speaker 4: get that one.
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  Speaker 8: But notice both callers back to back seem to be
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  Speaker 8: pointing at the wrong people.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 10: You guys must have a short memory. You forgot about
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  Speaker 10: Mary Trump talking against Donald Trump? The leftist media said, well,
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  Speaker 10: this woman is so honorable, see? His own family speaks
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  Speaker 10: against him. But when the shoe's on the other foot,
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  Speaker 10: not so much.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, it's a double standard. And it's so embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm embarrassed because I love news and I love
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  Speaker 1: the media. And they have gone off the deep end.
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  Speaker 9: Curtis, are you kidding me? I can't even believe you
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: would go against your own party.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: Really? Seriously? Trump is a misogynist?
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: Oh my God, you are so wrong on so many levels.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: Can we just.
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: Support our president? Can we support our country? And ending
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: the war in Iran? You don't think Trump wants this?
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: End it?
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Hasn't done anything to end it, and that's why Republicans...
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: will fail to win the midterms because of that Iran
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: war that Bibi got us into. Before that, everything was
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: going well in January, and then February, downhill. Now let's
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: get to Daria Albinger with the 730 News, Daria.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Morning, guys.
• 17:39
  Speaker 12: Sunny and cooler today. We'll see a high of 58 degrees.
• 17:42
  Speaker 12: The city council has sent Mayor Mamdani a bill to
• 17:45
  Speaker 12: end the horse carriage industry here in the city by 2028.
• 17:49
  Speaker 12: Romance's law is in memory of a teenage tourist killed
• 17:52
  Speaker 12: in a carriage accident.
• 17:53
  Speaker 13: In June, Ramash Mahajan and his family did what so
• 17:56
  Speaker 13: many tourists do, headed to Central Park for a carriage ride.
• 18:00
  Speaker 13: But just a few moments in, the 18-year-old was thrown
• 18:03
  Speaker 13: and killed. His aunt and other relatives say now they
• 18:07
  Speaker 13: can properly grieve.
• 18:09
  Speaker 14: No law can bring my romance back. But if his
• 18:12
  Speaker 14: legacy can protect lives and prevent another family from experiencing
• 18:17
  Speaker 14: this pain, then his light will come to be a shine.
• 18:21
  Speaker 13: Critics promised to head to court right away to get
• 18:24
  Speaker 13: a temporary restraining order.
• 18:26
  Speaker 12: Channel 7's Kimberly Richardson. Manslaughter, not murder charges for a
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: retired NYPD detective accused in the deadly drive-by shooting this
• 18:34
  Speaker 12: week on the GWB.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: The family of the.
• 18:36
  Speaker 12: Victim, Coran Irvine, packed the courtroom yesterday at the arraignment
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: for Victor Romero. The DA's office wants a million dollars bail,
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: but Irvine's family says Romero is already receiving special treatment.
• 18:48
  Speaker 12: A 17-year-old is in custody. He's charged with murder in
• 18:52
  Speaker 12: the fatal shooting on a Manhattan subway platform last weekend.
• 18:55
  Speaker 12: Police believe the incident started as a dispute over smoking
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: marijuana on a subway train. President Trump's pre-midterm election blitz
• 19:02
  Speaker 12: takes him to Florida today. Yesterday, while on the campaign
• 19:05
  Speaker 12: trail in Iowa, he announced that he would use the
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: Defense Production Act to free up $ 150 million in federal
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: funding to boost domestic gas and diesel production. And the
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: Pittsburgh Steelers have canceled a fan event in Paris this
• 19:18
  Speaker 12: weekend as a precautionary measure due to the recent riots
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: in France. The Steelers will take on the New Orleans
• 19:23
  Speaker 12: Saints on Sunday in the first NFL game in France.
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: Devils and Islanders win.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Rangers lose.
• 19:29
  Speaker 12: Knicks are in Boston tonight. Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: All right, on time, Rob Astorino.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Next, to talk about Blakeman-Hockel, the Lawler race, the two
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: biggest races in New York State, and of course, the
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: vivic ad in ohio that has gone viral every door
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: on the line right now our colleague rob astorino you
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: hear him here 710 wor every saturday from five to
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: six rob uh let's discuss blakeman hokal new poll corner
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: px says he's 14 points behind uh zeldin was like
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: uh six points behind at the same period I don't
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: buy it.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I've looked at both campaigns.
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: I think Blakeman has run a much better campaign than
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: I saw Zeldin run. What's been your reaction to these
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: recent polls that claim he's losing in double digits?
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean, it's typical. It's typical for polling
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: in New York. It's typical for these college polls. It's,
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: you know, at this point, I think Blakeman has been
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: a great spot right now, honestly. And he's coming on
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: my show tomorrow from.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: 4 to 5 p.m.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Pardon.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Pardon.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: If you listen to 5 to 6, you're going to
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: hear some doctor talking about cancer.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: So, no, no, no.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Honestly, Blakeman is in a really good spot, and so
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: is Teresa Comitoretti. This is where you want to be
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: going into early voting, which starts tomorrow. And there, within
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: striking distance, you look at the weakness of Hochul in
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: so many parts of this state, and the issues are
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: all on Blakeman's side. I mean, watching that debate, she
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: was just like, she was like a, a sophomore in
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: high school trying to be on a debate team. It was,
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: it was pathetic. And she couldn't, she had no answers.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: She still has no answers for anything other than just
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: scream Trump.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: That's in the back of her head.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Just like every Democrat. Now, when you're challenged and you
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: can't win on anything, just scream Trump. And I don't
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: know how far that's going to be, you know, how
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: about we get them, but she's a Democrat in a
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: blue state. So she's obviously winning, but, uh, My advice
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: to anyone running right now is, especially a Republican, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Bruce knows this, you're never going to lead in the
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: polls until the polls actually close and you could win
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: on election night.
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: That's it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tremendous advice. And I agree with you, the debate,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: she was awful in her answer on energy when she
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: was blaming Trump for all of the raises and the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: energy prices was embarrassing, I thought. As you go across
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the country right now, I'm starting to feel a little
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: bit better. I asked you to talk me off the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: ledge before and I'm, I'm squarely off the ledge and
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I didn't fall because I, I have a feeling that
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the house is going to go. I hope it doesn't,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: but I have a feeling the house is going to go.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I think the Republicans are going to win the Senate
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and not only by a couple, by, you know, two
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: or three.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: I look, I feel the same way. I just, I
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: was with Ken Paxton on Monday in Dallas. Um, They're
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: feeling much better. The early voting is very heavy in
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: some of these states, but they're feeling much better where
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: they are. The biggest question is the rural vote. Is
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: the rural vote in a lot of these states going
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: to come out in the numbers that they typically do?
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Because they're the ones that are dealing with the diesel
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: prices for farming and all those.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Kind of issues.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Are they really willing to sit it out or to
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: cross over for a Democrat that they know, I mean, philosophically, ideologically,
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: they can't stand, that they know will be really worse
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: for them? Or do they kind of hold their nose
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: or they feel patriotic and stick with their party? That's
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: probably what will happen. I was in Kansas, too, and
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: I saw the debate with Senator Marshall. I don't think
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: he did great. He's up against this guy, Adam Hamilton,
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: who is a pastor there. comes across very well. He's
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: actually getting some stupid jerk rhino Republicans to support him.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: But I, again, think gravity is going to be gravity.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: And in these Republican states, in the end, Republicans are
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: going to end up winning. So I'm with you, Larry.
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: I'm looking over the edge, but I don't think we're going.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: To take it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: Right in your backyard is the Mike Lawler, Kate Connolly race.
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: I've probably seen more ads. nonstop on my, my thread television,
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: you name it. They've got to have the most ads
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: I've ever seen on television for a local congressional race.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: It appears it's neck and neck. If you follow the polls,
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: what's your sense? Cause that's right in your backyard.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I think it is neck and neck. And
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: it's just because there are more Democrats in this area too.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: And they're, they are fired up. But I still, the
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: thing that gets me hopeful is, Curtis is I still
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: talk to Democrats in the area and the ones who
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: have kind of supported Lawler in the past and they're
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: still with him. And that to me is a very
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: good sign that they haven't broken away. And, you know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: he's working very hard. I mean, look, you and I
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: don't see it all the time because I'm not watching
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: CNN too often around us now, but he'll go on
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: those stations and he'll He'll deal with their nonsense because
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: that's how he reaches other people. So he he's very
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: good with that. And I think that that's you know,
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: this is when it translates or you hope it does
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: when when the voting actually starts. So, I mean, look,
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: that's just going to be a neck and neck race.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: And I do think he'll win. I mean, he's had
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: the resources. Thank God he's had the messaging. And, you know,
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: I'll be I'll actually be with all of them on.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Sunday morning, there's going to be a big rally in Yorktown.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: Blakeman's going to be there, Lawler and all of them,
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: and I'm going to actually be there. I think I'm
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: emceeing the event, so that's going to be fun. Look,
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: this is when it starts to get a little chilly.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: It's a little chilly this morning.
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: It's a good breath.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: That means we're about to vote.
• 25:34
  Speaker 9: I love that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Lawler's going to win, too. I think
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the Tom Kane Jr. seat is gone, though. Rebecca Campbell
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: turned out to be a really good candidate. I do
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: want to ask you if you've seen the new Kamala Harris.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: She's come out with a brand new way of speaking
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: completely as if some consultant said to her, they're making
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: fun of you. You've got to change the way you speak.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: And she's slowed down. She's speaking in shorter sentences. Have
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you seen it online at all?
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I haven't, but.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: You know, every week there's a new Kamala Harris anyway,
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: so that's this week's version, I guess.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, was she sloshing her words?
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: Was she drunk already or no?
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: No, she seemed okay. It seemed to be working.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: If she actually stopped and thought about what she was
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: going to say, and that seems to be what they
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: told her to do. You know, don't just spit out
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the first word that comes into your mind. She's slowed down.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: She's more deliberate. She's a little bit more boring, which
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: is amazing because I thought she was boring before.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: But she's absolutely trying out a brand new way of speaking.
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: It ain't going to work. Because you know what? When
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: you have to think about that and get trained, you
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: always fall back to you. And that's what's going to
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: be with her. She's just going to be a human
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: word salad from here to the day she dies. And
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: that laugh is never going to change. I pray to
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: God every day. I light candles. I do rosaries that
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: she is their nominee again.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Please, God.
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: Please. Are you listening, God?
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: Please.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Be the nominee for the Democrats.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: You might get your wish.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Rob Astorino, host of the Rob Astorino Show on WOR. Saturdays,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: I heard it's from 4 to 5 p.m. Host of
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Saturday Agenda 1 to 3 on Newsmax and former Westchester
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: County executive.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Thanks a lot, Rob. Have a good show. Thanks, guys.
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: No one better to do this topic.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Bride-to-be Natalie Migliore knows what it's like to plan a wedding.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And can you imagine what's happening to those brides at
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the Plaza Hotel?
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: I cannot.
• 27:50
  Speaker 15: I cannot imagine it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 16: Well, I could because that's one of my biggest fears
• 27:54
  Speaker 16: now that I'm really into the deep end of planning.
• 27:58
  Speaker 16: And the brides, imagine, all I thought about, you have
• 28:02
  Speaker 16: the groom, you have the date, and then it's the
• 28:05
  Speaker 16: venue that jilts you.
• 28:06
  Speaker 15: You get jilted by the venue, right?
• 28:09
  Speaker 16: It's been really a week now since news broke that
• 28:12
  Speaker 16: the plaza would be closing in the new year for
• 28:15
  Speaker 16: renovations that'll take at least four years. As the news
• 28:19
  Speaker 16: came out, several brides with plans to host their receptions
• 28:22
  Speaker 16: at the iconic hotel, Say they called to make sure
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: this didn't impact their special day, but it turns out
• 28:29
  Speaker 16: it did. Okay, weddings with hundreds of guests canceled just
• 28:33
  Speaker 16: like that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 15: Brides, even a week later, still looking for answers.
• 28:38
  Speaker 16: Anyone who has planned a wedding, like me, or knows
• 28:41
  Speaker 16: someone planning a wedding, can sympathize.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I feel sorry for them, but it's not the first
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: time brides were jilted when a place closed.
• 28:49
  Speaker 17: Hopefully the down payment's have been made, they deserve to
• 28:54
  Speaker 17: be compensated for the inconvenience.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: After they paid and.
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: All?
• 29:01
  Speaker 15: I'd be pissed. I would be bridezilla.
• 29:04
  Speaker 18: Well, did they already book it in advance?
• 29:07
  Speaker 15: They booked it in advance and they're closing? Are they
• 29:10
  Speaker 15: going to be compensated for that?
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: I'm a lawyer.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: There'll be a lawsuit. I don't know.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:16
  Speaker 15: Hoping to represent them then maybe?
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: No.
• 29:19
  Speaker 15: I tried to get her business, but she didn't want.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: She's like, no.
• 29:23
  Speaker 16: But several brides say they've yet to get any sort
• 29:26
  Speaker 16: of answer about what's going to happen with the money
• 29:28
  Speaker 16: they've already put down. You know, when you do this,
• 29:31
  Speaker 16: you sign a contract with venues with really anybody who's
• 29:34
  Speaker 16: going to do your wedding.
• 29:36
  Speaker 15: And their event is now up in the air. It's
• 29:38
  Speaker 15: not cheap. to get married at the Plaza Hotel, okay?
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: According to Tool Together, which is a website that sort
• 29:45
  Speaker 16: of compiles how much people are paying at every venue, really,
• 29:49
  Speaker 16: across the tri-state area, a 200-person wedding at the Plaza
• 29:54
  Speaker 16: in the off-season, okay? Because there are seasons for weddings.
• 29:58
  Speaker 16: costs more than $ 167, 000. Okay, so did the Plaza book
• 30:04
  Speaker 16: all of these weddings knowing construction was on the horizon?
• 30:07
  Speaker 17: I'm not going to say it because, you know, sometimes
• 30:10
  Speaker 17: things do happen unexpectedly. I'm just going to give them
• 30:14
  Speaker 17: the benefit.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Of the doubt.
• 30:16
  Speaker 17: On the other side of that coin, it's a possibility
• 30:18
  Speaker 17: that they knew and selfish, but such is the greed
• 30:22
  Speaker 17: of men, right?
• 30:23
  Speaker 18: It's a full layer of finding a new location or
• 30:26
  Speaker 18: finding a new date. It's another layer of stress, definitely.
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: Especially if you ever dream of getting married there.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: That could be such a nightmare.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: What was the cost? You said $ 160, 000?
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: $ 7, 000.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: How's your budget going? Yeah, my budget's nowhere near that.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Nowhere near that.
• 30:46
  Speaker 16: No, like we are on a strict budget to which
• 30:49
  Speaker 16: I actually have to like haggle with like I'm haggling
• 30:54
  Speaker 16: with everybody.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, good for you.
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I should hire you.
• 30:57
  Speaker 15: Thank you.
• 30:57
  Speaker 16: And my sister's even better because my sister and I
• 31:00
  Speaker 16: were getting married within months of each other, actually.
• 31:03
  Speaker 15: So we go back and forth.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Your poor dad.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 31:06
  Speaker 16: My dad's awesome, though. My mom's been awesome. They've been great.
• 31:10
  Speaker 16: But I bet you nobody would be awesome enough if
• 31:13
  Speaker 16: my venue closed. My venue said, we've got to find
• 31:18
  Speaker 16: something else.
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but notice, you haven't once mentioned in any of
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: these depictions the groom. I know if that were me,
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: I'd say, oh, great, we can go get married hooked
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: up at the Marina Del Rey in the Bronx, you know,
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: going over the Whitestone Bridge to Queens.
• 31:32
  Speaker 16: That's where my future in-laws actually got married.
• 31:39
  Speaker 15: Now the Plaza.
• 31:41
  Speaker 18: No.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 31:42
  Speaker 16: The Plaza hotels, a Fairmont property, which has multiple properties
• 31:46
  Speaker 16: across the globe, but they haven't said if they're going
• 31:48
  Speaker 16: to offer these properties to these jilted brides, it's just
• 31:52
  Speaker 16: a lots up in the air for the story being
• 31:54
  Speaker 16: out as long as it is, as it has now.
• 31:57
  Speaker 16: It's not just the weddings though at the plaza. Tourists
• 32:00
  Speaker 16: will be barred because of construction. Tourists love to go
• 32:03
  Speaker 16: to the plaza. It's something they look forward to.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: It is iconic.
• 32:07
  Speaker 18: I mean, me as someone who lived. internationally and then
• 32:09
  Speaker 18: moved here in 2021 one of the first things was
• 32:12
  Speaker 18: everyone was asking me oh my god did you go
• 32:14
  Speaker 18: to the plaza hotel and i was like yes i
• 32:16
  Speaker 18: did like it's such a known thing even around the
• 32:19
  Speaker 18: world and i think mainly because of home alone because
• 32:22
  Speaker 18: of how big of a movie that is and you
• 32:23
  Speaker 18: know they have the home alone ice cream sundae and
• 32:25
  Speaker 18: all that so it has a crazy reputation yeah honestly i.
• 32:28
  Speaker 16: Actually just watched an instagram reel where like this couple
• 32:32
  Speaker 16: stayed in the suite for their anniversary and they ordered
• 32:34
  Speaker 16: everything from the home alone menu And like, I just
• 32:37
  Speaker 16: thought that would be.
• 32:38
  Speaker 15: Like the perfect anniversary date. And I'm like, I want
• 32:41
  Speaker 15: to do that one day. But wait, I got to
• 32:43
  Speaker 15: wait five years.
• 32:45
  Speaker 16: Not happening anytime soon. So there you have it. The
• 32:49
  Speaker 16: Plaza Hotel is supposed to close January.
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: Let me suggest to all those brides who have to reschedule, elope.
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: Shave everybody a lot of money.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Honestly. The bride's dad's hoping for that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore is going to be back tomorrow morning at 7.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: No, you won't. On Monday, you'll be.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Back at 7.50.
• 33:09
  Speaker 15: Enjoy your weekend.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: You too.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Well, the George Washington Bridge shooting is causing some controversy.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: That's after the 8 o'clock news.