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FTTxJT 062726 "How Does Blakeman Win in NYS?" · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The sound.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Lo. The rainbowll.
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  Speaker 2: The fief and the valley here, the thunder or across
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  Speaker 2: the sky, Happy Pride Month, a little while long, the
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  Speaker 2: sundry shine through all without the windows, the old hands
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  Speaker 2: and smiles it bought.
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  Speaker 4: Can Bye.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, we're finding that out more and more.
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking about mel Brooks, and you know, and
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  Speaker 2: his generation was a generation that came up the Ession
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  Speaker 2: and even the post Depression while people were still scrambling,
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  Speaker 2: you know, pick up scraps and whatnot. And you listen
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  Speaker 2: to these guys in their prime and they're talking about
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  Speaker 2: they all started trying to make mom laugh tense times
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  Speaker 2: in the sitting room, and you come in and you
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  Speaker 2: make a rude noise and everyone laughs, and you get
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  Speaker 2: addicted to it. Tough times make funny people. And I've
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  Speaker 2: said this before, and I have no philosophical backing outside
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  Speaker 2: of my own anecdotal observations, but I truly believe that
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  Speaker 2: Gallo's humor is one of the key indicators of a
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  Speaker 2: civilized society. If in a tense time somebody can stop
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  Speaker 2: and make everyone laugh, satirization or just slapstick make a difference.
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  Speaker 2: If you see a moment that needs to be lifted
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  Speaker 2: a little bit and you can do it, that's a gift.
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  Speaker 2: That is a gift. And I'm not meaning to sound
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  Speaker 2: jealous of it. I just you know it is. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, I mentioned things that you may not know.
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  Speaker 2: If you're looking for something to celebrate brooks one hundredth
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  Speaker 2: birthday this weekend and you don't want to just watch comedy,
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  Speaker 2: how about The Elephant Man? He's the main producer. Mel
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  Speaker 2: Brooks produced The Elephant Man. How about eighty four Charing
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  Speaker 2: cross Road. It's another one one a bathto with Anthony
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  Speaker 2: Hopkins twelve chairs. So I mean there are things out
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  Speaker 2: there besides the mel Brooks movies that everyone knows that
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  Speaker 2: you could go out and see. Life Stinks is a
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  Speaker 2: tough movie watch. I'm a huge Melbrooks fan, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't know Life Stinks was you know? But do you
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about the time in a place for
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  Speaker 2: for a movie like Life Stinks? And I got a
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  Speaker 2: text message of course, you don't forget spaceballs. I was
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  Speaker 2: just avoiding it because obviously my schwartz is bigger than
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  Speaker 2: your schwartz. And besides George Lucas allows spaceballs to continue
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  Speaker 2: to exist, which should tell you something. Our friends at
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  Speaker 2: jcsgold dot com, speaking of things money can't buy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe gold can. I go to their website because it's
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  Speaker 2: just as easy for me to do as you can
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  Speaker 2: at jcsgold dot com and see that gold is up
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  Speaker 2: sixty bucks today four eighty nine dollars ninety one cents.
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  Speaker 2: Silver's up a dollar thirty nine, but still under that
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  Speaker 2: sixty dollars plateau at fifty nine dollars and twenty five cents.
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  Speaker 2: And we were talking to James Luck, fourth generation gold
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  Speaker 2: and silver dealer from jcsgold dot com, because these prices
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  Speaker 2: have come down so much from where they were like
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  Speaker 2: a month ago. If it's not an opportunity for people
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  Speaker 2: to get a little bit more in their portfolio.
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  Speaker 5: You're exactly right. Yeah, And bankers and financial advisors you
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  Speaker 5: like to say that, I've heard that exact thesis before
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  Speaker 5: on the stock market, and I researched gold and silver
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  Speaker 5: and it's the exact same story. It's not about trading
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  Speaker 5: and jumping in and out and trying to time the market.
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  Speaker 5: It's really just consistently buying and holding over time.
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  Speaker 1: Is the best performance is before of course, the government
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  Speaker 1: decides that that's greedy and you have the extra extra
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  Speaker 1: taxes on you for that.
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  Speaker 2: Polls are out in the New York governor's race now
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  Speaker 2: that Nassau County Executive Blakesman is the Republican and hokel
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  Speaker 2: is leading. Surprising not but what does And we're just
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  Speaker 2: through this Saturday Friday morning, I went to a debate,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, more of a forum amongst the three
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  Speaker 2: folks who want the Republican Party nomination. August fourth, Virginia's
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  Speaker 2: primaries culminate. We're already voting. I would argue that if
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  Speaker 2: you took a poll of Virginia voters right now and
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  Speaker 2: ask them for the name of one of the three
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party candidates for the US Senate, you might get
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  Speaker 2: five percent of the people who could name one person
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  Speaker 2: in the race. And it's a shame, but I mean
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  Speaker 2: so many with the redistricting, and I thought about this
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  Speaker 2: not a flaw but a feature. You throw all this
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  Speaker 2: other stuff, Oh, it's the drama and the state Senate
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  Speaker 2: versus the governor keeps the newsrooms from covering things like, oh, hey,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Warner is going to face an opponent again this
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  Speaker 2: year and we'll see. So Siena College just issued a
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  Speaker 2: poll Blakeman getting thirty two percent of the vote, fifty
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  Speaker 2: two percent for Kathy Hokeel. Now do the math. That's
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  Speaker 2: sixteen percent undecided. That's and a friend of mine in
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  Speaker 2: New York said, yeah, Joe, that still doesn't get Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: If he gets every undecided voter to break his way,
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  Speaker 2: he's still four points behind Kathy Hockle. So what is
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  Speaker 2: what does Blakeman need to do to beat Kathy Hokeel?
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  Speaker 2: Does he need to go in? And this is key
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  Speaker 2: because it's also hitting our friends here in our flagship
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  Speaker 2: state of Virginia for people who say, well, he's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a county executive in the New York metropolitan area, so
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  Speaker 2: he must know how to talk Democrat to some people.
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  Speaker 2: And that'sa on Suffolk are weird like this? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's on Suffolk have four years and I lived there
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  Speaker 2: for a very long time, grew up in Queens. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, we had a Republican for four years, let's
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  Speaker 2: go vote for the Democrat. Back before we had things
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  Speaker 2: like Democratic Socialists and Zeyfod Mad Money, the Mad mayor
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  Speaker 2: Kingmaker in New York City, Does he play the schism
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  Speaker 2: in the Democratic Party because this race for New York
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  Speaker 2: Governor is going to come down to does Zorhan Mamdani's
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  Speaker 2: cult line up and vote for Kathy Hokel just because
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  Speaker 2: she's not the Republican or do they stay home? And
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  Speaker 2: if half of New York City stays home, Blakeman can
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  Speaker 2: win because all the other counties outside of Syracuse and
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  Speaker 2: Buffalo are conservative enough that if half of New York
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  Speaker 2: stays home because they all support the Democratic Socialist and
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochl is you know, too much of a conservative
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  Speaker 2: of things, Blakeman can pull that off, now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because somebody asked me the same thing with Mark Warner.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, this schism between the growing though they
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  Speaker 2: won't call themselves socialists behind Louise Left Eye Lucas and
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  Speaker 2: left Hand Luke Torrian in Virginia and Abigail Or as
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  Speaker 2: my gun selling friends call her, Grabigail Spanburger, the governor
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  Speaker 2: warners much more closely aligned to Spanburger. So do all
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Socialists in Virginia that support Louise Left Eye
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  Speaker 2: Lucas stay home? Because I've never seen her at a
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  Speaker 2: Mark Warner event, and I don't expect to see one. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't expect her to endorse a Republican Bert Misswasa,
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  Speaker 2: or Kim Farrington or David Williams. All good folks, all
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  Speaker 2: did a great job yesterday in the forum held by
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  Speaker 2: the Family Foundation. But I don't see her endorsing him.
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  Speaker 2: But I can see her saying stay home.
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  Speaker 4: for the Insane into the William J.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today.
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  Speaker 1: Bill, We'll be a giant step forward in the treatment
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  Speaker 1: of the insane.
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  Speaker 2: Gambler position. Lookout see, we have a mission to convert
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  Speaker 2: the ju We're gonna teach them right we're gonna help them,
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  Speaker 2: see them like and make an offer that they can't refuge,
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  Speaker 2: just can't. I mean Bruthday Melvin Kaminski turning one hundred
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  Speaker 2: years old tomorrow and is still funnier than anything I
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  Speaker 2: could ever do. Uh there, And I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: mel Brooks movie you're gonna use to watch. If you
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  Speaker 2: can find old episodes of your show, of shows that
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  Speaker 2: mel was one of the writers on. There's an interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Movie that it's it's called Laughter, Laughter on the fifty
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  Speaker 4: fourth Floor, and it has to do a little bit with.
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy. It's got a little bit of a tinge to it.
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  Speaker 2: And understand, McCarthy is a conflicting character because McCarthy was
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  Speaker 2: right and wrong at the same time. McCarthy was right
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  Speaker 2: that the government was full of communists, he was wrong
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  Speaker 2: in how to combat them. And we may blame Roy
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  Speaker 2: Cohene for that. Lord knows. There's a target, but it
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  Speaker 2: goes into and it's fictionalized. Here's another mel Brooks you
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  Speaker 2: want to watch a go to any old especially first
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  Speaker 2: two seasons Dick Van Dyke Show. Dick Dick Van Dyke
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  Speaker 2: Show was created by Carl Reiner based on his working
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  Speaker 2: on your Show of Shows with mel Brooks, and the
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  Speaker 2: Buddy character is basically mel Brooks and Rosemarie was imaging
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  Speaker 2: Coca and Dick Van Dyke was obviously the Carl Reiner character,
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  Speaker 2: and Carl Reiner played the Sid Caesar character because the
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  Speaker 2: old if you've never seen this, Mary Tyler board Dick
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  Speaker 2: Vandyke and it was he was a writer for a
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  Speaker 2: sketch comedy show created by Carl Reiner right after he
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  Speaker 2: finished working on Your Show of Shows. Gee, I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine where they come up with these ideas or just
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  Speaker 2: go and get But movies like The Elephant Man. Mel
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  Speaker 2: Brooks produced The Elephant Man. Not a lot of yucks
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  Speaker 2: in The Elephant Man. He loved that story and wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make it. So there are places to celebrate Melvin
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  Speaker 2: Kaminski tonight tomorrow, however you want to do it. Email
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  Speaker 2: came in from Tom who was listening to us on
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  Speaker 2: Long Island News Radio this morning and heard us talking
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  Speaker 2: about the New York State governor's race and how according
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  Speaker 2: to the most recent polls there's sixteen percent undecided, but Blakeman,
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman, is only getting thirty two percent. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: add up to enough understand something about And this is
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  Speaker 2: why I would say Number one, Kathy Holkle has damaged
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  Speaker 2: goods in New York, and it is going to It's
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  Speaker 2: always going to be can Blakeman inspire. But I watched
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  Speaker 2: the last time in New York Republican one, and George
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  Speaker 2: Pataki turned out to be a I think a fairly
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  Speaker 2: good governor. Certainly shepherded New York State through the September
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  Speaker 2: aisle and doing what you got to do sometimes big
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  Speaker 2: ridge guns and archery, big ridge guns. But George Patacki,
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  Speaker 2: I was there. I mean, Andrew Mario Cuomo was so
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  Speaker 2: concerned about George Patacki he started to go on and
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  Speaker 2: do your random live call in radio show interviews. I
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  Speaker 2: know I was one of them. Several times Governor Cuomo
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  Speaker 2: and Tom Golisano would come on my show. George Pataki
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  Speaker 2: would never do live radio. And it got to the
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  Speaker 2: point we had a columnist from Rockland County, where Patacki
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  Speaker 2: was the state representative from come on. He said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know who this guy is because he was very
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  Speaker 2: buttoned up, very buttoned down. It was like Bob Newhart
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  Speaker 2: running for governor of New York. And he didn't give
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  Speaker 2: live impromptu press conferences. He didn't do live interviews. He
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  Speaker 2: did he'd made statements. He would go to rallies, shake hands.
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  Speaker 2: He was all over the state. And that's the commonality Patacky,
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  Speaker 2: Bob McDonald, Glenn Youngkin, these guys. If you're going to
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  Speaker 2: be a Republican and you're going to win someplace, you
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  Speaker 2: have to go meet people because the press is going
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  Speaker 2: to say you have cloven hoofs and smell like fire
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  Speaker 2: and brimstone. The press is going to make you out
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  Speaker 2: to be Trump slash Hitler Junior. Just gonna happen. Everything
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  Speaker 2: you do is about killing babies, even though they're the
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  Speaker 2: ones who are killing babies. Everything you do is going
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  Speaker 2: to be taking money away from them and giving it
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  Speaker 2: to your rich buddies whatever. But that's so the press
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  Speaker 2: is not going to do you any favors. So George
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  Speaker 2: Pataki said, I'm not dealing with them. And he went
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  Speaker 2: around and he went to events, and he rallied people,
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  Speaker 2: and he got out the vote, and he beat Mario
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  Speaker 2: the Pious and never got a dinner. Where's George Pataki's bridge.
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  Speaker 2: My wife won't even cross the Hudson River on the
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  Speaker 2: Mario Cuomo Memorial Bridge. She just won't do it. Doesn't
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  Speaker 2: matter how bad the traffic is on the Cross Bronx Expressway,
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  Speaker 2: she won't cross there. She'll drive way further north than
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  Speaker 2: to Kingston across the Beacon Newburgh Bridge rather than cross
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  Speaker 2: at the Mario Cuomo Memorial Bridge. But Pataki did it,
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  Speaker 2: and I think Blakeman can do it as well. Blakeman
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  Speaker 2: is a better candidate from what I've seen than Pataki was.
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  Speaker 2: And remember in Nassau County by voter registration is fifty
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  Speaker 2: to fifty and he won pretty handily. So that means
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  Speaker 2: Democrats turned out and voted for him, which he's going
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  Speaker 2: to need in New York or he's going to need
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  Speaker 2: the mom Donnie. And this is where Tom's email comes
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  Speaker 2: in and said, I liked your point about the socialist
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  Speaker 2: staying home and not supporting Kathy Hokeel, it's a shame
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  Speaker 2: that we have to look at ways to do voter
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  Speaker 2: suppression to is socialism voter for suppression. Some would argue
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  Speaker 2: that Tom using hold it, Tom, that isn't Tom Colasano. Tom,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't talked to you since nineteen ninety four. But Tom,
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  Speaker 2: your point is that, Yeah, if if Zorhan Mamdani's followers
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  Speaker 2: stay home and don't turn out at all in New York,
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  Speaker 2: even though by percentages, Kathy Hokeel will carry New York
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  Speaker 2: just because she's going to carry New York, but if
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  Speaker 2: the voter turnout is way way down because of all
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  Speaker 2: these people who are flipping these congressional seats and are
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  Speaker 2: all riled up for you know, pitchforks and torches and
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  Speaker 2: storming the baths deal, and they decide Kathy Hokeel ain't it,
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  Speaker 2: and they'd rather allow a Republican to get elected so
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  Speaker 2: they can run a democratic socialist in four years. They'll
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  Speaker 2: do it. They'll do it. So I think Blakeman's got
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good chance of as a matter of what's
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  Speaker 2: the newsweek newsweek headline, how does Kathy Hokel lose in
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  Speaker 2: New York like that until tomorrow, until Monday or next Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: So long and thanks for all the fish