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Hour 1: Hochul vs Blakeman · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, Natalie, our audience.
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  Speaker 1: I've run into so many people because of my age
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  Speaker 1: and obviously the age of a lot of our listeners
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  Speaker 1: where you're either on the cusp of possibly being able
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  Speaker 1: to retire or you've retired. Or you've sworn to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: I'll never retire because if I do retire, I'll probably
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  Speaker 1: drop dead in a week. It's almost like three variables.
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  Speaker 1: I can't seem to avoid it.
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  Speaker 2: And when you.
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  Speaker 1: Just walk the hallways here at WOR, this iconic station,
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  Speaker 1: 710 WOR, the number one talk station.
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  Speaker 2: In New York. And you remember, wow, John Gambling retired early.
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  Speaker 1: How old was John Gambling, Natalie, when he decided to
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  Speaker 1: hang it up, go down to Florida and just enjoy
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  Speaker 1: his retirement years?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a good question. I thought he was.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wait a second. You were with all three Gambling's granddaddy. Exactly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It started in 1922.
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  Speaker 2: Um, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I guess he was in his 60s.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but when, Larry, you were away. 66.
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  Speaker 4: I just looked it up. Yeah, 66. You got it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he could have continued on. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: he was tired or impaired. He just decided he came
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  Speaker 1: on with us one day when you weren't able to
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  Speaker 1: be here, Larry. And he just said, I had to
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  Speaker 1: hang it up. There's just no way that I was
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  Speaker 1: going to continue to do talk radio, which is not
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  Speaker 1: the hardest job in the world compared to what a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other people have to do. But it grinds you,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, when you have to wake up in
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  Speaker 1: the early morning hours like John did for so many years.
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  Speaker 4: I love when people know when to retire. You know,
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  Speaker 4: when they know this is it and then they're comfortable
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  Speaker 4: with it. That's incredible. That's a gift. Because I think
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people, there's two things. You're not in
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  Speaker 4: a position when you can retire. And that's a shame
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  Speaker 4: that people don't feel like they're in a position to
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  Speaker 4: financially retire so they keep on working. And then there's
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  Speaker 4: other people that just want to keep working because they
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  Speaker 4: like that lifestyle. And they keep trying to hold on
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  Speaker 4: to it as long as they can because they feel
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  Speaker 4: like they'll be bored if they're not working. I think
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  Speaker 4: they're the two things that go into it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, think about it.
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  Speaker 1: From time to time, we reach out to Joe Bartlett
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  Speaker 1: down in South Carolina with all the other snowbirds. who've
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  Speaker 1: moved down there to retirement homes or retirement villages. He's
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  Speaker 1: playing bocce. He's enjoying his retirement. Well, look how many
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  Speaker 1: years he worked here at WOR. In the early mornings,
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  Speaker 1: which is really the grind, they can really grind you.
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  Speaker 1: And I just say to myself, some, if they could,
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  Speaker 1: will work forever until they die. Others, it's like they're
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  Speaker 1: marking time before the parole hearing. You know, a prisoner
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  Speaker 1: is in jail and he's got the calendar up and
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  Speaker 1: he's just putting an X on for his next parole hearing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, those are people that know they can afford it.
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  Speaker 4: That have saved for it. So many people just don't
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  Speaker 4: have the money to do it, and Social Security is
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  Speaker 4: just not going to cut it. Somebody with pensions and
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  Speaker 4: things like that. I have two sisters that are teachers. Man,
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  Speaker 4: they have the best retirement package in the world. They
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  Speaker 4: count the days, just like you're saying, as many teachers do.
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  Speaker 4: When retirement comes, boom. Healthcare for the whole family, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because of the union, they have a pension. They're set.
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  Speaker 4: They are absolutely set as long as they have tenure.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll tell you what, there's statistics on this. One
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  Speaker 4: third of workers have postponed their retirements.
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  Speaker 5: One third.
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  Speaker 4: So that's pretty amazing. And 15% work past 70. So
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  Speaker 4: it is something that's happening. And it's because of the
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  Speaker 4: cost of living. It's because of healthcare expenses. It's because
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  Speaker 4: a lot of places are getting rid of pensions. And
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  Speaker 4: so because of that, You get to retirement, you go, well,
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  Speaker 4: how am I going to live? And then the other
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  Speaker 4: part of it is you go to yourself, what am
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  Speaker 4: I going to do on a daily basis? If you
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  Speaker 4: don't have money to travel, if you don't have family nearby,
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  Speaker 4: then you're thinking, what am I going to be, just
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  Speaker 4: sitting here by myself?
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  Speaker 3: Right. Because I was going to say, you know, retirement,
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  Speaker 3: they have studies that link retirement to rapid.
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  Speaker 2: Decline of income.
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  Speaker 3: Cognitive function and physical activity, social engagement and all those,
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  Speaker 3: those things that, you know, that come along with work
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  Speaker 3: keeps you stimulated. But I feel like, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I could find something that doesn't require waking up at
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  Speaker 3: three and I can figure something out.
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  Speaker 4: Your life is full. You know what I mean? There's
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  Speaker 4: people that their lives are full. I feel like my
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  Speaker 4: life is full. Like if I retired, I'd spend time
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  Speaker 4: with my grandkids. If I retired, I'd spend more time
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  Speaker 4: with my kids. Problem is, right now, I have two
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  Speaker 4: kids in college, so... Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you have to
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  Speaker 4: hang out at the frat.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Dad, hoist a few. He's still got some expenses.
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  Speaker 2: He's still got a bunch of kids under him.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you, my dad, merchant seaman for 50 years,
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  Speaker 1: he retired at 67. He started sailing at 17, middle
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  Speaker 1: of the Depression. He was the oldest son in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: He had to go sail flatboats on the Mississippi, then
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  Speaker 1: banana boats down to Guatemala and Honduras, and then... as
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  Speaker 1: a merchant mariner, was involved in World War II like
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  Speaker 1: so many other men.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 2: he was forced to retire at 67.
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  Speaker 1: So the way traditionally it would work for him, he'd
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  Speaker 1: be away eight months of the year. Eight months solid
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  Speaker 1: of the year, he'd be sailing the seven seas. Then
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  Speaker 1: he'd be home a solid four months around the clock.
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  Speaker 1: So for eight months, I had freedom. For four months,
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  Speaker 1: I was in lockdown. Because my dad understood every trick
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  Speaker 1: that a young guy could pull that normally the mother
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  Speaker 1: would not understand because you could do no wrong with
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  Speaker 1: your mother, especially in an Italian-American household.
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  Speaker 2: But for four months, he was at home. He loved it.
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  Speaker 1: So when he did retire at 67, he adjusted nicely
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  Speaker 1: because he had been away for so long of his
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  Speaker 1: working life. Imagine eight months a year, except when they
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  Speaker 1: were tied up in port when there were strikes.
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  Speaker 2: And those were really tough times.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget to be sitting at the dinner table. Say, kids,
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  Speaker 1: my two sisters and me, we really got to cut back.
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  Speaker 1: There's no strike fund. So you're going to have spaghetti,
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  Speaker 1: but no sauce, no gravy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, really cut it down.
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  Speaker 1: Craft macaroni, you know, four boxes for a buck. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everybody had to do it. At your age, you did understand. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I totally understood. Totally understood. Because he took me to
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  Speaker 1: the strike lines, and I saw other guys who were
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  Speaker 1: in the same condition, and they were really worried.
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  Speaker 2: Really worried.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the right thing? Because there was no strike fund.
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  Speaker 1: You were out there.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't even know if you'd have a job. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And then they had the goons, you know, who would
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  Speaker 1: come for you from the company if they decided they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to break the strike and bring scabs in. So
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  Speaker 1: I remember those situations, but I always remember my dad
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  Speaker 1: at the age of 67.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here in the house. I can catch up on
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  Speaker 1: all the time that I missed because I was sailing
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  Speaker 1: the 7C. So he welcomed it, and he kept himself busy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we need to talk to Joe Bartlett again
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  Speaker 3: because he's probably the happiest retired person I speak to.
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  Speaker 2: That is true.
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  Speaker 4: That is true.
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  Speaker 3: He absolutely is. I want to know what his secret
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  Speaker 3: sauce was because that's how I want to be.
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  Speaker 4: He knew his time because I know he kept putting
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  Speaker 4: it off. They kept thinking he was going to retire
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  Speaker 4: and he didn't. And then he put it off and
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  Speaker 4: put it off and put it off. And when he did,
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  Speaker 4: he was happy.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he actually– we had a retirement party planned for him.
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  Speaker 3: Everything was set to go immediately. Then COVID hit, and
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  Speaker 3: then he stayed on because, you know, we were in
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  Speaker 3: this global crisis, and he was like, this probably isn't
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  Speaker 3: the time. And then he was able to work from home,
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  Speaker 3: and it changed his lifestyle a little bit. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: then he hung around for another couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: Even when I wasn't here, I kept hearing that he
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  Speaker 4: was going to retire. I kept hearing that he was
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  Speaker 4: constantly going to retire, and then he never did.
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  Speaker 3: But then he was living in, you know, the Carolinas
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  Speaker 3: doing his broadcast from the house.
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  Speaker 4: Have you thought about your retirement?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 3: I do, and I realize it's nowhere near, you know, financially.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not even close.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like I don't even try to think about
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  Speaker 3: it because it could get depressing.
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  Speaker 1: But if, in fact, all things were even, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: this was back 30 years, when you could plan a
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  Speaker 1: retirement because you didn't have all these additional costs and
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  Speaker 1: unexpected future developments, what age might you have thought about.
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  Speaker 2: Retiring, Natalie?
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  Speaker 3: I would say... In my mid-60s. I would want to
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  Speaker 3: hopefully have still good health. Hopefully, maybe I'd have an
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  Speaker 3: extended family at that point. Maybe my kids would start
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  Speaker 3: their own families and then I could do that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a big person of volunteering, so I know I would
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  Speaker 3: start volunteering somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there is no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's why people set 65 as their retirement
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  Speaker 4: age because they feel like they still have life left.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't. Yeah, they won't be stuck inside all
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  Speaker 4: the time. They could travel. They can still travel and
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  Speaker 4: do things. I think that's why people come up with that.
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  Speaker 4: You talked about your dad. My dad owned an advertising
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  Speaker 4: and public relations company in Philadelphia. He owned a building.
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  Speaker 4: And he sold it. And it was, you just saw
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  Speaker 4: him shrink. I mean, when he, he used to have
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  Speaker 4: an office in our house that we weren't allowed to
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  Speaker 4: go into during the day. Because that's, he kept working.
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  Speaker 4: He kept writing books. He kept writing articles. He'd work
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  Speaker 4: with companies, freelancers. And so when I look at him,
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  Speaker 4: I think to myself, there's a guy that never should
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  Speaker 4: have retired.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: He shouldn't have because you could see it was eating
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  Speaker 4: at him.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my dad retired rather young, moved to Florida, and
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  Speaker 3: then got into politics and became the first mayor of
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  Speaker 3: the town that he lived in.
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  Speaker 2: What town was that?
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  Speaker 3: Estero, Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Where the hell is a sterile Florida?
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  Speaker 3: It's actually next to Bonita Springs, in between Fort Myers
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  Speaker 3: and Naples.
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  Speaker 2: He's close to Warner. West Coast.
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  Speaker 4: Did it have a salary, or is it one of
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  Speaker 4: the mayorships where you don't get a salary?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think there was a.
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  Speaker 4: A stipend?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he was living off of it. So
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  Speaker 2: he went to Florida and got into politics there. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He started off doing like, you know, work with an
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  Speaker 3: environment and things like that. And he got socially active
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  Speaker 3: and then it started growing. But that, you know, he
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  Speaker 3: was that kind of personality. He couldn't stay home.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 4: So look at that.
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  Speaker 2: Her dad won. Got proactive. Got proactive in retirement.
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  Speaker 6: Be careful, Curtis.
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  Speaker 3: It could be running me one day.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: This is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: So life after retirement could be very interesting for people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but notice the personalities. All different types of personalities.
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  Speaker 1: Some who adapt to it right away. Some, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: the moment they're retired, within months, they're dead.
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  Speaker 2: They're dead.
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  Speaker 1: And you say to yourself, why they were so vibrant
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  Speaker 1: when they were at work, even though they were like
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  Speaker 1: sardines coming in on New Jersey transit, you know, two
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  Speaker 1: hours in, two hours out, Long Island Railroad.
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  Speaker 2: You say, boy, you would welcome that relief. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I guess there's something.
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  Speaker 1: That juiced them to give them a feeling that this
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  Speaker 1: is what they wanted to do each and every day,
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  Speaker 1: that they looked forward to waking up and listening to
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  Speaker 4: the tide has turned and all the NFL fans and
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  Speaker 4: the Eagles fans are just wishing him the best right now.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: They don't care if he plays or not.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. May I do a pivot and shift? It appears
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone will remain the manager of the hapless New
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: York Yankees with the second largest payroll of Major League Baseball,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: second only to the L.A. Dodgers, both of whom failed
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: with home run ball. He's going to be the manager
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: again for another year.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: We're going to be in misery. As I watch what
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I predicted, Larry.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: That the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Rays will get into
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: the World Series because they play good old-fashioned. Baseball the
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: way we were taught when we were growing up.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Don't just swing for the home run.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Hit and run, drag bunts, great defense, pitching when it's required, teamwork.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: And then for crashing all the Mets fans, who came
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: off the mound yesterday for Tampa Bay against Cleveland to
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: get them into the World Series?
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Freddy Peralta, who the Mets gave up on in July.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: He was horrible. Had a horrible start yesterday.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Coming out of the box for Tampa Bay against Colorado,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: and he's been an all-star ever since. Man, the curse
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: of the Mets be upon them. They can't seem to
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: shake this. Oh, my God, Freddy Peralta.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I think you have crash-crying. He put his head in
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: his hands. I think he's actually now crying.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: All Mets fans. Chris is a Mets fan. A lot
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: of Mets fans. It's unbelievable.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: This guy, they would have relegated him to the minor league.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: His salary was too expensive. So they traded him to Tampa.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: The guy won him the playoff and got him into.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: The World Series. Incredible.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Now let's go to Daria Albinger with the 630 News, Daria.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Morning, guys.
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: Mostly sunny with a high of 70 degrees. Weather Channel
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: forecast says it's going to be another nice day. The
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: Knicks will get their rings and they will raise their
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: championship banner before their home opener tonight. New York is
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: hosting Philadelphia with LeBron James, who, by the way, now
• 18:21
  Speaker 7: lives here in Manhattan. So it's kind of a home
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: opener for him as well. The Supreme Court has rejected
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: an appeal from the alleged masterminds of the September 11th attacks.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other alleged co-conspirators were seeking
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: to hold the American government accountable to a plea deal
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: that was later withdrawn by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: The deal would have resulted in life sentences for the suspects,
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: who are currently detained at Guantanamo Bay. Following the high
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: court's decision, the three defendants will stand for a military
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: trial in 2028. The death penalty remains a possible outcome
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: for the men accused of organizing the terrorist attacks. I'm
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Leslie Radabali, WOR News.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: The city council will hold an oversight hearing today on
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: emergency response times. A recent report by the city controller's
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: office finds it takes about four minutes more for the
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: average ambulance call than it did a decade ago. French
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: President Emmanuel Macron is ordering a review into why there
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: was no warning from intelligence officials. ahead of the riots
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: in cities across the country over the weekend.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: Several cities in France were under curfew overnight. The interior
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: minister admits government officials lost control, and now unions are
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: promising more protests this weekend. The Steelers and Saints are
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: set to play a game outside Paris this Sunday. The
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: NFL says the game is still on.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: ABC's Karen Hua. And Alberta will remain a part of Canada.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: Voters overwhelmingly rejected a bill yesterday. which would have moved
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: ahead with a referendum to secede. Next news, 7 o'clock.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: Bulletin's at Once.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Daria. Remember when Governor Kathy Hochul kept talking
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: about subway safety, holding press conferences down in the subways,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: saying she was sending all of these resources? Well, since
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: now several people, including someone in the last few days,
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: were murdered... On the subways, she doesn't want to talk
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: about it anymore. But her opponent for governor, Bruce Blakeman, is,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: we'll tell you what he had to say and talk
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: about the governor's race when we come back. On Saturday,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: another murder in the subways, the seventh this year. This time,
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: 26-year-old Daryl Rodriguez. Police still looking for the suspect. But
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul, the governor... Remember all of the news conferences
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: she had down in the subways and how she made
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: this a big priority when she first became governor, putting
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: the National Guard there temporarily, giving more money to the
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: MTA for security. And since then, it really hasn't been
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: as safe as she thought it was going to be.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: And so this was a black eye for her, but
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: she did come to town. She had to come to
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: town to campaign with Zoran Mamdani. And did she talk
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: at all about the subways?
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: Nope.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Childcare.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: I've been laser focused on making sure that our children
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: have every advantage possible to them.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And then we finally take a heavy burden off our parents.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Now, Mamdani apparently is going to be doing all the attacking.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: He attacked and attacked and attacked and attacked yesterday. In
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: the meantime, Bruce Blakeman was brilliant. Bruce Blakeman was in
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the subways. And he said, you see what happened here?
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: You see what continues to happen here? That's Kathy Hochul.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I think that there are a lot of material things
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: we can do to make it safer here in New
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: York and make public transportation safer. Kathy Hochul doesn't care.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: She hasn't tried.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: She's pro-criminal.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Now, this goes right into Bruce Blakeman's wheelhouse because, as
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: you know, Nassau County, U.S. News & World Report called
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: it the safest county in America. And he has been
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: excellent when it comes to crime. As a matter of fact,
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: of all the issues you don't want to mess with
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Bruce Blakeman on, It is crime and security. So him
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: being down in the subways and Kathy Hochul ignoring it
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: further compounds her path to re-election because things have now
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: gotten extremely close. But what is fascinating to me, Curtis,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: and all of this, is that she has taken this
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: now strange campaign strategy to not even say Blakeman's name.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: She's not attacking him at all, but Mamdani? Mamdani, that's
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: all he'll talk about.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Yep, that's her surrogate. She's decided to play prevent defense.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I am very surprised that this murder of Darryl Rodriguez,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: 26 years old, living with his dad up in University Heights,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the Bronx, a security guard at a nearby hotel, has
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: resonated so much. Because we've had other people pushed in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: front of tracks, others stabbed and killed.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Didn't seem to resonate. For some reason, this has hit
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the third rail.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Even from those that our own Natalie Migliore went down
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and sampled their opinion just yesterday. Might be the proximity,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: 53rd and 7th, that we had discussed. You have a
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: double-decker platform, the E, the D, the B, uptown, the E,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the D, the B, downtown. It is a huge station.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Natalie mentioned she's come in there to come to the theater.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: A lot of workers through there, a lot of tourists.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Just a heavily trafficked station. A lot of people here
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: work at iHeart. And I described it yesterday as always problematic.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You know, junkies on both ends of the platform shooting up.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Others who've stolen merchandise from up above come down there,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: separate it, and then they go to a wholesaler. It's
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: always problems. EDPs, homeless. But this murder has resonated. They
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: don't have a suspect yet. The perp is dressed all
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: in red with a little black and the mask. And
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: what Bruce Blakeman brilliantly did is follow up on our
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: conversation yesterday when I said, you know, recently I was
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: at the University of Pennsylvania and I was staying in
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: downtown Philly with Nancy and I went into SEPTA where
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I've been many times and talked to the SEPTA people.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: They don't allow you to wear a mask unless you
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: have a medical condition. or a religious exemption. Bruce Blakeman,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: only county in the state, you can't wear a mask.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: You must have a medical religious exemption. Tish James, the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: attorney general, hasn't challenged it. It can be done. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: when he had his press conference there, he did a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: brilliant thing. He took the Long Island Railroad from his home.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: came to Jamaica Station where you switch to the E train,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: took the E train down to 53rd and 7th.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: That was good.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Then said he would ramp up police presence, but then said, oh, yeah,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and I would have a face mask ban in New
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: York City. There's no reason you're wearing a face mask
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: without a medical or religious exemption unless you're up to
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: no good like Jesse James and the banditos, you know,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: when they came into town and robbed the bank and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: they had the covering of their face.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: So he really made it an issue. Props to him.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Well, you know that campaigns continually shift depending on what
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: happens on the ground. And so this is a huge
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: shift in Bruce Blakeman's direction. That's why he's grabbing onto
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: this right now. He knows I'm the law and order guy.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: She's not.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: I'm the law and order guy. If they can make
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: this about law and order, it only benefits him.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. And it's grabbed the headlines. They don't
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: have the perp yet. The other thing is, very strangely,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul is sitting on $ 19 million in cash. She
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: just got $ 4. 3 million from the Democratic Governors Group with
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: two weeks left. Well, what's she doing with the money?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: But why is she getting it so late? Unless they
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: think that she's in some trouble.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Could well be.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Obviously, the problem Bruce has is with the female vote.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: But let's face it, the people who are most terrified
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of the subway are female workers during the day, females
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: going out at night, after night. Out of all the people,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: when they're sampled about the fear of the subway, it's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: women first and foremost. So I got to give props
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: to Bruce Blake when he talked about increasing the number
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: of train conductors, improving lighting. He acted like he knew
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: about the subways. Now, you and I know Bruce doesn't
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: take the subways. He's a Long Island Railroad guy, the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: biggest suburban railroad line.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: In the country.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: But he acted like he knew his business yesterday. So
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying he's got momentum. He's seizing the issues
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that Kathy Hochul is running away from.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And he's labeling her Kathy Crime Wave Hochul.
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: Well, yes, and that's going to work because he is
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: exactly the opposite. When you hear Bruce Blakeman, if you
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: watch politics locally, and you hear Bruce Blakeman, the first
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: thing you think of is law and order. The first
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: thing you think of is he fights crime. And if
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: events on the ground start shifting, that there is more
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: and more crime, it only helps him.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Well, as a cognoscente of doing press conferences in the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: subway when I ran for mayor, it was A +.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I gave him an A +.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: But yesterday, where was I? On the number one train
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: going to Columbia University with Nancy. to speak at the
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: School of Journalism. Let me give you a little hint, Larry.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: When I told the young people that don't be glazing me, well,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: no laughs. There's no applause. I knew these were journalists. And, oh, boy,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: they were asking the tough questions, which was good.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Which was very good.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Plus, Jimmy Fallon coming up at 835. Well, big day yesterday,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Larry and Natalie. I and Nancy took the number one
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: train up to Columbia University. To lecture at the School
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: of Journalism, I had been invited by the teacher, Asmat Khan,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and it was really great. Before we even got on
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the campus, because the campus, remember, is still in lockdown.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You can't just walk through like you were able to
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: do for years. before the most recent demonstrations in 2024,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: by the way, led by Muhammad Khalil, who has now
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: appealed to the United States Supreme Court, buddy of Zorhan Mandami,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: who does not want to be deported back to Syria.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: You can't just walk through, and the city administration is
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: taking on Columbia University and saying, you got to open
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: it up. I mean, Larry, every other school I've been to,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I've spoken a lot, you can walk through, they have
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: their own security, armed security, you know, but Columbia is
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: still in lockdown, but when you walk onto the campus,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: oh my God, amazing. You know, the Low Library, Hamilton Hall,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: which all the students are always taking over whenever they're
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: having demonstrations.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Just beautiful.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: The Quad, remember where all the tents were and the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Palestinian flags and all the Mishigash was taking place. I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: was like in flashback mode. So I walk into the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: School of Journalism, very prestigious. I walk into this huge class.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And right away, you know, I use my line to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: all the Gen Zs. Hey, don't be glazed in me.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: No laughs.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: It's a hard start.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: No laughs.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Because they are aspiring to be journalists, and they're really
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: practicing their trade. And I realized, wow, these young people
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: are taking their responsibilities seriously. And then we started with
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: a Q & A. I couldn't even give one of
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: my traditional speeches. you know, where I sort of get
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: them to laugh a little bit, teach them a little
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: bit about my background and such. It was like right
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: into the Q & A.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: And you would be.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Very proud as a journalist, Larry, who has won many
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: prestigious awards. These young people were up to the task.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: They did their research. They went back in time and
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: they were dealing with issues that they themselves acknowledge, even
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: though I would think without them saying it, most of
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: them probably supported Zoran Mondami. But even they were bringing
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: up issues that he was a dollar short and a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: day late on. So I was extraordinarily impressed after I
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: left because we spent a lot of time with the
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: undergrads and graduates on the quad and then outside on
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the street. Nancy debriefed me and, you know, she's gone
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: to college. She went to Brooklyn Law and she said, Man,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: these young people were really good, and you handled this question,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: but I don't think you quite heard, because, you know,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I have problems with hearing. So you tried to spin off,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and they wouldn't let you spin off. They brought you
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: right back to the epicenter respectfully. I was just going
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: to ask that.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Did they cut you off ever, or did they ask
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: a follow-up that was difficult, or did you feel like
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: any of them were going after you with questions because
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: they wanted a certain answer?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: No, no, I think they had done their proper research.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And although they could tell at times, I didn't fully
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: hear the question because my hearing difficulty, like I had
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: in the debate sometimes, didn't matter. They circled back. You know,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: respectfully said, no, my question, Mr. Sliwa, was. And then
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: they circled back. And I said, wow. And then one
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of the photojournalists.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Did they know it was your hearing or did they
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: think you were evading the question? Oh, yeah.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: No, I think they know because, you know, I put
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: my hand up to my ear so you can tell.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't have hearing aids. Another reason I
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: got to get hearing aids.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: But there was a photojournalist, a young man who's obviously
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: going into his graduate work, who was there in 2020
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: when I got my jaw broken with that claw hammer
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: by Antifa. So he was reminding me of what it
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: was like as an aspiring photojournalist looking at that scene
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: of chaos when there were no police around. And it
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: was me and the Guardian Angels versus Antifa and Black
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Lives Matter. And it was brutal. Oh, my God, it
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: was brutal. So I had a great time. And then
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: we were talking outside about El Saeed. The candidate we're
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: going to talk later on in the 8 o'clock hour
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: about the midterms is 14 days to go. And it's
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: neck and neck, him and Rodgers in Michigan. You know,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: El-Sayed went to Columbia. So you have all these key people.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Mahmoud Khalil went to Columbia. And the guy who didn't
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: get into Columbia, his father, the head of African studies,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: is Zohra Mandami. Remember, he wasn't accepted. He had to
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: go to Boudwin, that private school up in Maine. But
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: everything was in the news about Columbia.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: So was Zohra.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Great to be in there during the epicenter of activity.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: What is it with the names you just mentioned?
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: What is it with all the Muslim politicians wanting to
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: go to Columbia when they were just starting out? It
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: seemed like that was the go-to school. Remember who went
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: to Columbia first before he went to Harvard? And nobody
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: really knew him at Columbia. I even asked around Barack Obama.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: He was there for like two years and transferred to Harvard.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: And that's really where he came into his own. For
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: two years when he was in Columbia, he even wrote
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: in his memoirs. I was out of sight, out of mind.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I was in a room nearby. You know, I was
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: smoking Maui Waui and Hindu Kush. He acknowledges that. And
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: then when he got to Harvard, he really found his own.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: But the number of people from around the world who
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: were going there, who were sitting and talking with me
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: was amazing. And that's one of the good things about
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the United States is They can come from oppressed countries
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: and see a whole different world while getting an education here.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: And I was proud, even though they normally would not
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: have allowed me to sweep floors in Columbia University years ago.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Imagine. I'm lecturing at the School of Journalism, Larry.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: And you don't feel like they ever got you with
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: any of their questions?
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, they did.
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  Speaker 4: They did?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: They scored points on me. And I gave them props
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: when they did. You know, I didn't try to do
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: a complete spin because they were respectful about it.
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  Speaker 2: And I could see they came prepared.
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  Speaker 1: They were very prepared, which sometimes, as you know, in
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: your field of journalism, They throw a question out there
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and they don't have a follow-up question.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like they're not being permitted. They just haven't
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: done due diligence.
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  Speaker 4: I will just tell you quickly that forgive some of
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: the reporters that do that because I've been in that situation.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: There's many times you just get in the newsroom and
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: they say, we need you to get right to this place.
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  Speaker 4: So a lot of times people don't have the chance
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: to prepare.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it could have been a dean at
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the Columbia School of Journalism, our own John Decker, who's
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: coming up next. Boy, he could teach a course about
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: what it is to survive as a White House correspondent
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  Speaker 1: and yet get lead time with the president of the
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  Speaker 1: United States as he did right after the 7 o'clock news.