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Hour 1: Brazilian election · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, let me tell you, what a gorgeous Sunday fall
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  Speaker 1: day it was yesterday. And it's so nice to have
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  Speaker 1: you back, Natalie, because I know you are in marathon mode.
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  Speaker 1: I am. Next Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: This Sunday coming up, November 1st. We're going to be
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  Speaker 2: on the air from 8 to noon with Larry and
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  Speaker 2: Tim McLoone. We have a new race commentator this year.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to be fabulous. To tell you the truth,
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  Speaker 2: it is one of my favorite days of the year.
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  Speaker 2: And as the marathon says, the best day of the
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  Speaker 2: year in the best city in the world. And it's
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  Speaker 2: true because I think Larry has felt that now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: You know what's amazing to me? So we get to
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  Speaker 3: stay overnight, you know, the night before. And you meet
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  Speaker 3: all the people in the hotels. They come from everywhere. Australia, Belgium, Japan, man.
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  Speaker 3: And they work all year for this moment just to
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  Speaker 3: come to New York and run in the New York
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  Speaker 3: City Marathon. So it's a whole bunch of dreams coming true.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a lot of fun. I am so happy
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  Speaker 3: how much you have to work on this because then
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to. She does it. She does everything.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's amazing how much work she does.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so much prep. People don't realize for such a
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  Speaker 1: huge event like that, Natalie is working morning, noon, and night,
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  Speaker 1: and then you get to show up, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: No, he does his fair share. I mean, the TCS
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  Speaker 2: New York City Marathon does their share for sure. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the broadcast is, it's a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've got four races going on at one time, plus
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  Speaker 2: all the, you know, regular people, as I call them.
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  Speaker 2: We have reporters, you know, all over the city. So
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a lot of fun. And this year,
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  Speaker 2: it's the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the original...
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  Speaker 2: Five Borough New York City Marathon, because as you know,
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  Speaker 2: it started as a four loop around Central Park.
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  Speaker 3: It's really grown. It's amazing what the New York Roadrunners
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  Speaker 3: have done with this. I will tell you, I was
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  Speaker 3: in a Zoom meeting with Natalie during the week, and
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  Speaker 3: there's a whole lot of people on it. All these
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  Speaker 3: people are on it. And then, so I'm watching it.
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  Speaker 3: And then my son goes to leave and take the car,
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  Speaker 3: and I have to run to him and say, what
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  Speaker 3: are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know my mic was on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: One of those Zoom problems. Everyone's like, Larry. At least
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have your pants down to your knees and
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  Speaker 1: your ankles like some of these commentators did during the
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  Speaker 1: lockdown and pandemic. Wow, that was him. People lost careers
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  Speaker 1: over that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, CNN. God.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway.
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  Speaker 2: But I hope you're all going to be with us
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  Speaker 2: because it's going to be a lot of fun this Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I congratulate you both. I congratulate iHeart, obviously, WOR for
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  Speaker 1: carrying the race. I like to go the day before
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  Speaker 1: when they have the pasta run at Tavern on the
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  Speaker 1: Green because, you know, they want to carve up, carve up.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where they all come and assemble. So it
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  Speaker 1: makes it easy for me. Hey, where you from? And
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  Speaker 1: you know me. I always like, where you from? Where
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  Speaker 1: you from? Where you from? It is going to be great.
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  Speaker 1: I hope they have the weather that we had this
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  Speaker 1: past weekend. Starting on Friday, where all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: they had the Apple foldable iPhone launch. I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 1: who was 30 years old and younger. They had foldable chairs,
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  Speaker 1: never mind the first foldable smartphone. They had foldable chairs.
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  Speaker 1: They were out there early. The lines were around the block.
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  Speaker 1: It was a weekend of lines. Saturday, all the Gen
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  Speaker 1: Zers were out, and they were lining up at the
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  Speaker 1: favorite food emporiums. For food that you would say, why
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  Speaker 1: would you wait online for an hour? For food. Made
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  Speaker 1: no sense. And then yesterday, Larry and Natalie... probably the
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  Speaker 1: best of the three days, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, just a
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  Speaker 1: gorgeous fall day. I went and I watched the early
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  Speaker 1: voting on the lines. It was heavy. And I was
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  Speaker 1: stunned by the fact that when I would question people,
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  Speaker 1: not all that many knew who Bruce Blinken was. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't have anything negative to say about him. Like you
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  Speaker 1: would typically, oh, Republican, I hate him and Trump. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people didn't know who he was, which seems
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  Speaker 1: to jive with the polls because I've said Starting on
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  Speaker 1: Labor Day, he's run an extremely good campaign. I thought
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  Speaker 1: a better campaign than Zeldin. Plus, he's pro-choice. That didn't
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  Speaker 1: resonate on the lines yesterday. But there were lines everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: no matter where you went.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I will tell you what, over the weekend, I
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  Speaker 4: was just grandpa.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 3: I went to my daughter's flag football game. She was
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  Speaker 3: in a national tournament and they almost won. They got
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  Speaker 3: to the championship, almost won. She was interviewed for the
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  Speaker 3: first time. Oh, really? And he was interviewed, yeah, by
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  Speaker 3: Flag Football Magazine, which I guess is only online. And
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  Speaker 3: then the best thing ever about being a grandfather is
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  Speaker 3: the three little kids dressing up for Halloween. And we
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  Speaker 3: went through a neighborhood where all the businesses- you know,
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  Speaker 3: give out Halloween stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, man, it is the best ever.
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  Speaker 3: It is my middle child, my middle grandchild, Lily, dressed
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  Speaker 3: up like Anne of Green Gables.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: She's 10. She's red, Anne of Green Gables at 10
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  Speaker 3: years old.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you were busting your buttons and bridges with pride. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, they were all great. It was wonderful, all three
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  Speaker 3: of them. It was wonderful. Timmy was Darth Vader. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it was just... That's the whole, yeah, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: six and he's Darth Vader. And it was just, it
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  Speaker 3: is exactly why you want to be a grandpa. It's
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  Speaker 3: so much better being a grandpa.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you mentioned Halloween. Next Saturday night is
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  Speaker 1: the annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. I mean, tens of
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  Speaker 1: thousands of people. That's last year. Remember a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people dressed up like me. That's a little different than this, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Totally.
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  Speaker 1: Totally. But it's really– I feel for all the candidates running,
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  Speaker 1: both Democrats and Republicans and a few independents, because that's
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  Speaker 1: the last weekend before November 3rd.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the attention is going to be on the Greenwich
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  Speaker 1: Village Halloween Parade because– I mean, close to 100,000 people
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  Speaker 1: in all different costumes. That's Saturday night. Then Sunday, the
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  Speaker 1: New York City Marathon, which is an international extravaganza. So
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  Speaker 1: if you're trying to get last-minute attention– You'd be lucky
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  Speaker 1: if you make the cut on the nightly news. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's tough. And I think everybody has to realize that
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  Speaker 1: all of these candidates have been running for about a
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  Speaker 1: year straight, around the clock. They've gone to all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of events. They've had to put their personal lives on hold.
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  Speaker 1: It is not, as you know, Larry, covering a lot
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  Speaker 1: of races as you have. It is not easy for
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  Speaker 1: the candidates and especially their families. So Whether they win
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  Speaker 1: or lose, I congratulate them all and their volunteers and
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  Speaker 1: their staff because a lot of people decide not to
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  Speaker 1: get involved in running for politics. That's one of the factors.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you that you handled losing better than
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  Speaker 3: I've ever seen of a candidate because I have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of friends that have run for office. And it's
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  Speaker 3: devastating when they lose to them. You don't even hear
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  Speaker 3: from them for like a month or a month and
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  Speaker 3: a half. They have to get over it. And I
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  Speaker 3: asked somebody what it was because he lost in a
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  Speaker 3: tough race for Congress. And I asked him, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what hurt so much? Like, why do you remove yourself
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  Speaker 3: from society for a while? And he says it is
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  Speaker 3: the ultimate rejection.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I'm so used to having been rejected.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at me. Kicked out of a prestigious
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  Speaker 1: high school, Brooklyn Prep. One of the best. Obviously rejected
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  Speaker 1: by quite a few women over the years. Fired many
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  Speaker 1: times in radio that I've been doing for 35 years.
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  Speaker 1: So after a while, you're like 72, you realize I'm
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  Speaker 1: lucky to be where I am because of all the rejection.
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  Speaker 1: So you just flow. And actually, the campaign turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be a very good thing for me. Because many
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  Speaker 1: more people were exposed to who I was, what I do,
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  Speaker 1: what I've done in my whole life. Especially those who
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  Speaker 1: were 30 and younger. We call them the Gen Z's.
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  Speaker 1: So you just can't be, you know, you can't crawl
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  Speaker 1: into a hole and get very depressed. I realize why
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  Speaker 1: many people would. They put everything into it. They're like
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blateman. All 62 counties. That's a gargantuan task to
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  Speaker 1: go all throughout the state of New York, whether it's Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. That's a gargantuan task.
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  Speaker 4: Imagine Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Texas, California, Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, California.
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  Speaker 1: Not so much New Jersey. You know, from Camden on
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  Speaker 1: up to Hudson County, the most corrupt county in America.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the problem with New Jersey is they have no
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  Speaker 3: TV market.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So you don't get the TV ads. If you do
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  Speaker 3: get the TV ads, you've got to pay for them
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  Speaker 3: in two markets, and they cost a fortune. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Jersey's a little bit tougher than you think of.
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  Speaker 2: I never thought about that because you have to pay
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  Speaker 2: the Philly market for the South Jersey and up here
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  Speaker 2: in New York for the Northern New Jersey.
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  Speaker 5: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Super expensive. So, again, I know you all have
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  Speaker 1: your favorite candidates out there. And so far, hate is
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  Speaker 1: going to drive the vote for both sides. But when
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  Speaker 1: all is said and done, you know, I congratulate all
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  Speaker 1: the candidates, their staff and their volunteers, because this is
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  Speaker 1: what democracy is about.
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  Speaker 3: And it hurts when you lose. I mean, it really
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  Speaker 3: does hurt. So remember that as well. These guys are.
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  Speaker 3: These guys are playing a part, an important part of
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  Speaker 3: the process, win or lose.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, Tom Cuddy, our program director, picked me off
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  Speaker 1: the ground and said, you're better together. And all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, I got joined with you on the best
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  Speaker 1: talk radio station in New York City, 710 WR. So
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  Speaker 1: how does it get any better than that after you
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  Speaker 1: lose a mayoral race?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'd love to hear about the election. If you'd
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  Speaker 3: like to talk about Curtis losing mayoral race, we'd love
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  Speaker 3: to hear from you. If you just want to talk...
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  Speaker 3: about politics and what you think is going to happen,
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  Speaker 3: that's fine. What you did this weekend, you know, I'd
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  Speaker 3: love to hear from the grandpas out there on how
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  Speaker 3: wonderful it is.
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  Speaker 4: You know what it is?
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  Speaker 3: What being a grandfather is, it is all the joy
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  Speaker 3: of being a parent with no responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: Because you get to leave. When things go wrong, you
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  Speaker 4: go up.
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  Speaker 1: See you later.
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  Speaker 4: Hope you can handle that.
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  Speaker 2: And can I put one thing in for Talkbacks this week?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: If you know someone running the marathon, give us a
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  Speaker 2: shout out. We'd love to hear about them.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're going to be playing a Team Inspire feature
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  Speaker 2: during the week. And you're going to hear some people like,
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  Speaker 2: it's incredible why and how people run. And I know
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  Speaker 2: we have audience members out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you have a lot of people in those
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  Speaker 3: segments that have overcome things in their lives, and it's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: They just overcame all the obstacles they had, and yet
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  Speaker 3: they can still run a marathon.
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  Speaker 4: God bless them.
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  Speaker 3: Go to the iHeartRadio app and leave us a talkback.
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  Speaker 3: You could win a Curtis Lee, win Larry Menti in
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  Speaker 3: the morning T-shirt, which is going to be awarded every
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  Speaker 3: day to our favorite talkback of the morning. And while
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  Speaker 3: you're on the free iHeartRadio app, just go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: set a preset for 710WOR. And don't forget, the best
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  Speaker 3: talk back of the week takes on the C-Crane radio.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear about this? A flight heading to New
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  Speaker 3: Jersey from Las Vegas had to be turned around because
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  Speaker 3: of a possible hijacker on board. Plus, you got a
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  Speaker 3: chance to see comedian John Mulaney at 825. So over
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  Speaker 3: the weekend, a flight just had taken off from Harry
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  Speaker 3: Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. It was a United
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  Speaker 3: Airlines flight. It had 170 people on board. And right
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  Speaker 3: after takeoff, as the flight attendant was going around saying
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  Speaker 3: to everybody, make sure that you're strapped in and make
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  Speaker 3: sure your seat's up, all of that, she noticed somebody texting.
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  Speaker 3: And they were texting that they were going to hijack
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  Speaker 3: the plane. So they notified the pilot right away, and
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  Speaker 3: the pilot said, okay, we're going to turn around. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to head back right now. And this is the
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  Speaker 3: conversation that they were having with air traffic control.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, and the passenger does not know anything is going on.
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  Speaker 5: The flight attendant saw him texting that he was going
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  Speaker 5: to hijack the aircraft. They called me. We went and
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  Speaker 5: locked down, and we returned to Vegas. So no restraint.
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  Speaker 5: Passenger's compliant because he's unaware.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they locked down. They make sure the cockpit
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  Speaker 3: was locked up. They didn't do anything else. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: go after the potential hijacker or anything. They said that
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  Speaker 3: he was completely unaware of what was going on. They
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  Speaker 3: just said they were turning around because of some engine problems.
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  Speaker 6: Negative.
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  Speaker 5: We'll just be meeting law enforcement at the gate.
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  Speaker 1: 1681, I see marshals.
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  Speaker 5: Coming out now.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 3: He said, no, we're not going to do anything. We're
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  Speaker 3: not going to restrain them. We'll just meet law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: at the gate. And they arrested him when they got off.
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  Speaker 3: There's no word yet. They're still interrogating him. There's no
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  Speaker 3: word yet where it was going to be an actual
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  Speaker 3: hijacking or not. They also checked, by the way, just
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  Speaker 3: so you're if you're thinking about this. how much fuel
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  Speaker 3: he had. And he said, look, we had enough for
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  Speaker 3: a five-hour flight. I can turn around. I'll be fine.
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  Speaker 3: But how about that? Larry, you know what this reminds
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  Speaker 3: me of? 2017, Bill de Blasio's running for re-election, and
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  Speaker 3: the libertarian candidate running against him, you know, third-party line,
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  Speaker 3: was a guy named Aaron Comey, who in 2000, at
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  Speaker 3: the age of 22, had commandeered a Boeing 747 at
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  Speaker 3: JFK and was trying to hijack it to either Antarctica
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  Speaker 3: or Argentina.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't let the plane leave. He was diagnosed with
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  Speaker 1: paranoid schizophrenia and delusional disorder, but was found not guilty
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  Speaker 1: by reason of insanity, but typical of New York City,
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  Speaker 1: he got to run for mayor of New York City. Now,
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  Speaker 1: is that not bizarre?
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  Speaker 4: That's the weirdest thing I've ever heard of. That's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And he got votes. And people knew who he was? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. Let's face it. It was the rage of
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  Speaker 1: the news that he was a hijacker who was found
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  Speaker 1: innocent by reason of insanity, who then ended up running
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  Speaker 1: for mayor against Comrade Bill de Blasio, the part-time mayor
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  Speaker 1: that doped from Park Slope.
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  Speaker 4: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get some talkbacks.
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  Speaker 3: The politics is in everybody's mind right now because we're
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  Speaker 3: getting so close.
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  Speaker 4: To the uh.
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  Speaker 3: election and also early voting is going on right now.
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  Speaker 7: Now there's an ad by Kathy Hochul who looks like
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  Speaker 7: she's in a school and she has three so-called lunch
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  Speaker 7: ladies and students promoting her campaign now if this actually
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  Speaker 7: was recorded in a public school it's very illegal because
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  Speaker 7: it's completely illegal to do that and if it was
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  Speaker 7: recorded in a private school it's hypocritical and well.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't be more hopelessly correct. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do a deep dive on that. That's the one that's
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  Speaker 1: running all the time now. She's surrounded by women. And children.
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  Speaker 1: And it looks like it's in the cafeteria of the
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  Speaker 1: school and then in the assembly area. So I'll check
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  Speaker 1: that out.
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  Speaker 3: Explain the law exactly, because I've been in schools recording many,
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  Speaker 3: many times in my life for the news. And although
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  Speaker 3: you can't show children and all that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 3: you're allowed to shoot in the school. Is it just
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  Speaker 3: for a political ad you can't do it?
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  Speaker 1: I believe so. She shows all the children's faces, you know,
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  Speaker 1: typical of the Democrat and all. Oh, the collage of
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  Speaker 1: all the different races and ethnic groups and a variety
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  Speaker 1: of women. Not one guy. Because she knows her pathway
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  Speaker 1: to victory is the female vote.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think. I think I'm almost positive I've
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  Speaker 3: seen ads. Maybe not in New York, but I've seen
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  Speaker 3: ads across the country that have been filmed in schools
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  Speaker 3: or a set that looks like a school. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And now that may be true also. Yeah. We'll find out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really interesting because I had never, ever heard
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  Speaker 3: of that. I've never heard of any restrictions about shooting
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  Speaker 3: in the school. But I don't know all the state
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  Speaker 3: laws about politics.
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  Speaker 1: I know. It kicked me out of a lot of schools. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you can't come in here and do any campaigning.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, is that right?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: What are you, campaigning to the fifth graders?
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. And then also on the day of votes. Well,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I was desperate.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: We know why you lost now.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I was desperate. No, they're mommies and daddies. You know, hey,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: take this home to mommy and daddy. Take this home
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: to mommy and daddy. Vote Sliwa. That's.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: That's an interesting campaign tactic.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I lost. I don't know.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: Some man in dressed in all red gave me this.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: He was an odd old man that told me to
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: give me this.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Exactly. You know, they probably thought it was Santa Claus dressed.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: In all red. Yeah, let's get the news at 630
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: with Daria Albinger.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Daria. Morning, guys.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Mostly sunny and milder today. We'll see a high of
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: 66 degrees. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York has
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: agreed to pay $ 800 million to settle over 1,000 sexual
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: abuse lawsuits.
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: The money will settle claims from 1,300 people who say
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: they were sexually abused by Roman Catholic lay leaders and
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: clergy members. The settlement would allow the plaintiffs to either
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: receive a lump sum payment of at least $ 250, 000 or
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: a potentially larger amount after a review of how much
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: abuse they suffered. The deal won't be final until all
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: parties sign the settlement, which is set to happen next month.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: Jonathan O'Halloran, WOR News.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: Search continues for a man. Police say sexually assaulted a
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: woman over the weekend in Central Park. They say it
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: happened near the intersection of East 66th Street, Fifth Avenue,
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Saturday night, and that the victim says she was threatened
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: at knife point. It's the fifth sexual assault in the
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: park this year. Police in Belleville, New Jersey, are looking
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: into a hit-and-run incident involving a police officer last night.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: They say the officer was trying to arrest a suspect
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: near Branch Brook Park when the suspect struck the officer
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: and fled. Police fired on the suspect. It is not known, though,
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: if he was hit. Hundreds of Trump supporters lined up
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: early yesterday to see the president speak at a rally
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: in Port Huron in the battleground state of Michigan.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: President Trump is the best.
• 18:38
  Speaker 8: President we've had, at least in my lifetime.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: The president will campaign today in Mississippi with eight days
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: to go to the midterms. And the Fed's Open Market Committee,
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: which sets interest rates, will meet this week. It's expected
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: to leave them unchanged ahead of the elections. The Giants win,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: the Jets, the Knicks, the Nets, and the Islanders all lost.
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Next news, 7 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: on 710WOR.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Daria.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Well, Minnesota has weird politics. This Ilhan Omar story, the
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: congresswoman is getting stranger and stranger.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Remember.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: that apparently they changed her age to get her into
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: the country. Then she allegedly married her brother. Now we're
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: finding out that Ilhan Omar may not be her real name.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump wants her out of Congress. We'll talk about
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: it all when we come back. This Ilhan Omar story,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: the congresswoman from Minnesota, just keeps getting more bizarre and
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: more bizarre. There are so many allegations now piling up
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: against her it's getting to the point where you have
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: to just pick one of them remember very early on
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: the biggest controversy was the fact that she lied in
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: her congressional forms about how much she was worth everybody
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: looked at it at first and said 250 million dollars
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: how did you get 250 million dollars and she went
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: whoops that was a mistake That was a mistake. She
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: was claiming that her husband's winery was worth that much.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: But you see, putting that down on paper is fraud.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: And there were already allegations that the whole winery was
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: fraudulent and that they were hiding money there from many
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: of the scams like the Medicare scams in the Somali
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: community there. There are reports that vats of this wine
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: were sent around the country and that the vats were empty.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: And so she changed it.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: It was no.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Longer $ 25 million. It was a few hundred thousand. That
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: was her worth. So it started there. But, I mean,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: we have so many other things that are going on
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: as well about her allegedly marrying her brother because she
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: wanted to get him into the country, changing her name.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: And her age, so that she could get into the
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: country and then run for office. The thing about her
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: marrying her brother, she's doing very few interviews right now.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: And I think she's doing very few interviews because she
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: doesn't want to add to the case against her. But
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: on MS Now, which I guess she assumed is safe ground,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: she did an interview and they asked her.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: They asked her about marrying her brother. The answer tells
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: you everything. Who was this man that was your husband?
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: When did they start saying that he was your brother?
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: You were not related to him at all.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Not that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: There's not some weird kernel of truth.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Not to my knowledge.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Not to my knowledge was her answer. Not to my knowledge.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: That's a legal answer. That's parsing your language.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Well, that's an attorney probably told her. If anybody asked
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: you that question. This is going to be your answer because, man.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: And now they're saying that her name isn't Ilhan Omar.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: They have her birth certificate, and her name's not Ilhan Omar.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: It is– where is it? It is a much longer name,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Ilhan Nursayed Elmi.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: So Ilhan is her first name.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Can you say that 10 times fast? Ilhan Nursayed Elmi.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: It's almost like Elmo at the end. Now, what would
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: establish this, right? It always is. The official birth certificate,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I lost it. You know, the dog ate it. You know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: there's always an excuse. Now, I understand the birth certificate
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: was in war-torn Somalia. Possibility. It's not like here where
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: everything is kept on file by a clerk. But still,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: what a convenient excuse. I lost my birth certificate. So,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, what a conundrum. This just gets better and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: better as it goes on. And notice how Barack Obama
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: decided he was going to jump in, you know, as
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: her valiant guardian and came to her support because right
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: now it's getting very personal between him and Trump. So
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: whatever Trump attacks, somehow Barack Obama has a knee-jerk reaction
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to defend that person, even though I would have advised him.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Stay away from this. I would have even told the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: squad there, stay away from this. I mean, my God,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: this is bad news for her. You're right.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: You're exactly right.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: And the fact that she said, not to my knowledge,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: was the first time you heard a break in the armor.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Because before that, she was doing pretty well in saying
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: they're just coming after me. She was fundraising off of this.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And making a lot of money. Remember in the car,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: she did that appeal. They're trying to destroy me. I'm
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Joan of Arc against all. Please, lady, give me a break.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And she was making money the first time even the Democrats,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: even the people on MSNL were going, whoa, wait a second,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: was when she said, not to my knowledge. because that
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: is obviously something an attorney told her to say, which
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: tells you there must be some truth there and that
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: she's looking at all her legal options right now because
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: she knows that the feds are coming after her for
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: all of these things. Donald Trump just is saying you
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: should quit.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: But because Ilan used a fake name to be sworn in,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I assume that she must immediately resign from Congress.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: That's not going to happen.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Of course not. And the president will pound away on
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: that because in Minnesota, that is a vulnerability for the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Democrats who surround her and give her tactical air support.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Because the biggest issue that may elect, imagine a Republican
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: senator there, the woman who used to do ESPN, a
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: very good candidate against the lieutenant governor, who naturally was
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: attached to tampon Tim, the governor, with the corruptions. is
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: that there are people who are saying now, my God,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: it's systemic. It's everywhere. And it's especially in that first
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: congressional district, which is now comprised mostly of Somalian Americans
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: and a lot of illegals there who were there from Somalia.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: So a vulnerability. Let me just mention that district when
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I was there before the lockdown and pandemic, The congressman
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: was Keith Ellison, who's now the attorney general, who should
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: be thrown out of office. He hasn't investigated any of
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the corruption, which is what attorney generals are supposed to do.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: He was there from 2007 to 2019. He was an
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: avowed member of the black Muslims, the Nation of Islam,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and a supporter of screwy Louis Farrakhan, and they elected him. Yeah,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: no problem electing him.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: By the way, the race you were talking about is
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Michelle LaFoya. She is the one that's surprising everyone. You know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: people haven't been talking about that race as much as
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: they should be because she's running for Senate. That would
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: be a Republican pickup. If she were able to beat
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, everything else is off the table.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Republicans will keep the Senate if she
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: is able to win that race. Now, You know, it
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: is like Charlie Brown's football in many states. It looks
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: like somebody is going to win and then it gets
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: pulled away from them at the last minute.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: There's two points against Flanagan, the lieutenant governor. A, obviously,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: she said nothing about the corruption like all the Democrats,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: including Amy Klobuchar, who stepped down from the Senate to
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: run for governor. She'll probably win that against a great
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: African-American politician. GOP candidate, by the way, was Speaker of
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the Legislature. Really stellar. So she'll have a career if
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: she loses in the future there. But this woman, the Republican,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the ESPN woman, an outstanding candidate. I've watched her answer questions.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: She's very good on her feet. The Lieutenant Governor is
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: stuttering and puttering and wearing a tranny. Tranny shirt, she said. Yeah,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: all tranny lives... I guess she hasn't gotten the memos
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that Democrats, you need to stay, you know, stay away
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: from the cultural issues, the transgender issues, because even in Minnesota,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: most people in Minnesota are not in favor of males,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: anatomical males playing as women against women. Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: And the backdrop to every one of the races, and
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you said this well, the backdrop to every one of
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: those races is the scandal that continues. They're still doing investigations.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: They're still They're still arresting people, the welfare and Medicaid
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: fraud throughout the state, which totaled into the billions of dollars.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: And I guess the biggest question for anybody that was
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: in office.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Is who knew what and when. And she's been awful.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Think of it. Tampon Tim, right? Who ran for vice
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: president with Giggles Harris? stepped down, said, I'm not running
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: for re-election. He knows how bad the corruption was. He said, yeah,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I should have been more aware of it. What do
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you mean you should have been more aware of it?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: What about your lieutenant governor? And more importantly, the attorney
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: general who has the investigative powers, Keith Ellison, who said
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: nothing about it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Well, Keith Ellison might go to jail because Keith Ellison,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: they have on tape, taking money or being told that
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: this is why we gave you money. So he might
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: end up going to jail. This is going to be
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: a huge investigation. But more importantly, it is going to
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: play a major role in this midterm.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Now watch Keith. This is what Keith Ellison is going
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to do. He's going to put on a Minnesota Vikings jersey,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the purple jersey, because they're the only undefeated NFL team,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you know, in existence. You'll say, oh, Vikings, Vikings, purple people,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: anything to distract. You know how politicians are, Larry.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I don't know if this one's going to
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: go away because the feds are after it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Up next, what a race in Brazil between Lula and Bolsonaro.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It's really, one was pro-Trump, one was anti-Trump. But the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: question here is, how come Brazil has an election on
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: one day and they get their results that same night
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: like France and we don't?
• 29:11
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• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Ah, I just love Brazil. I have guardian angels in
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Rio de Janeiro, so I'm very close to what were
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the defining issues that allowed the 80-year-old president, Lula, to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: barely win against the son of of Bolsonaro, who's doing
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: 27 years because they charged him with doing a J6
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: after the last election, which was neck and neck between
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: him and Lula. Now, the reason I'm bringing this up also, Larry,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: is that the United States, we had about, what, 154
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: million people who voted the last time around? They had
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: 128 million. Brazil is a huge country. A lot of people,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: they look at the map and they say, well, it's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: not quite as big as the United States, but they
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: get more people who are voting because you have to vote. Now,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: they don't do anything to you, but it's required. So
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: they get about 80% turnout. And the most incredible thing, it's.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: All in one day.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: No mail-in ballots, no early voting. One day, early, 8
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: in the morning till 8 p.m., all electronic machines, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: they have a winner by 12 midnight. Now, this election,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: they had an extra two hours. They had torrential rains
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: and actually mass transit was stymied. Both sides agreed. Yeah,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: let's have the extra two hours. Larry. Within one day,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: they have a winner. Now, let's look at France, right? France,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the same thing. You know, they have two levels of voting.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: They end up with the final two, just like Brazil.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: One day of voting, it's all paper ballots, all hand counted.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: They have a winner by 12 midnight. And there it's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: like they have 50 million voters, about 65% who vote.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: It's not required. It's like the United States. And you
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: say to yourself, these are two big countries, two thriving democracies.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: And yet we sometimes don't get results. So what, eight
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: weeks later?
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's funny that you say that. Well,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: first of all, let me add Indonesia to that. That
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: is the biggest of those countries with 192 million votes.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: And they get all the results the same night. But
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: when you first talked about this topic, I went and
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: looked it up. And I thought, what's the longest? How
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: long do we have to wait? Let me go through
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: some of this. It's not as bad as you would
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: think it is.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: And think about it.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Our elections are different than their elections because ours are
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: decentralized because our Constitution gives the power of election to
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: the states. So we have to get state after state
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: after state after state after state. There's no central election night.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: You know, it all comes from the states. But listen
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: to this. In 2024, Donald Trump, Wednesday morning at 535 a.m.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: So it was the next day. In 2020, it was
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: four days later, but that was COVID-19. 2016, around 2.30
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: in the morning.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: 2012, before midnight.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: 2008, around 11 o'clock on election night. 2004, the morning after. Now,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: here is the outlier on the whole thing. 2035 days later,
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: that was the hanging chads in Florida and the recount
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: in Florida. But it's, you know, I'm surprised at this.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: I looked it up just because I knew we were
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: going to do it. It's really not that bad.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is now with early voting. This is
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: with mail-in ballots, absentee ballots. You can fill out an
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: affidavit if they don't have your name at the polling location.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: They don't have any of that in Brazil and in France.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It's much more efficient and effective. But it's kind of
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: amazing how quickly we get the results in. I mean,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. When you were first talking about it,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I thought to myself, yeah, I wonder why we don't.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Let me see. It hasn't been that bad. It's usually
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: by the next morning.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Well, if California, which is almost the size of France,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: France has... You know, it's a large country, but California
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: has 40 million people, about 25 million registered. It takes
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: seven days, right, for the mail-in ballots to be received
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: after the election. And it could take up to 30
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: days for the count to be finished. Now, just assume
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: California was like half and half.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's not. We'd be waiting like an extra month just
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: for California, the largest state with all those ballots.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I will say this. We're just talking about the
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: presidential election. And apparently for the last couple of decades,
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  Speaker 3: that has happened pretty quickly, except for the one that
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  Speaker 3: had to go to court.
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  Speaker 4: Other than that, congressional elections and Senate elections, they sometimes
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: will go on for days and days and days.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: And let me mention why Lula won, even though he
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: lost the first round. He bribed the electorate like I've
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: never heard a bribe, and there's always bribes. It is
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the sixth day of mandatory work in Brazil. But my God,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: their idea of mandatory work is like the French idea
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: of mandatory work. He canceled Saturday work, and he paid everybody.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: He said, you get paid on Saturday for not showing up.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Tell me that didn't get the vote. That was an
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: out-and-out bribe. But I'm glad you brought this up because
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at this.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: We do pretty well.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Our country does really well when it comes to the
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: presidential election. I didn't know that until you told me that.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: We have a problem.
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  Speaker 4: And I found out, no, we don't. We don't have
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: that big of a problem.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Anyway, up next, the real battle here was Obama for
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: El-Said and Trump for Mike Rogers. The two superstars of
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the Democrat and Republican Party were clashing after the 7
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: o'clock news. A frat.