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Opening Segment 9/14/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning on.
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  Speaker 2: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Another weekend on Sunday. Rain, rain, go away. Saturday night
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  Speaker 1: into Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: But Natalie, I know you and Larry were involved in
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  Speaker 3: that mile, that Fifth Avenue mile race that iHeart sponsors
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  Speaker 3: along with the Roadrunners Club of New York.
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  Speaker 1: What was it like there? Because I know there was
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  Speaker 1: intermittent rain here in New York City. It either flooded
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  Speaker 1: momentarily and then it came down and then it stopped.
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  Speaker 1: So did you get drenched?
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  Speaker 3: It was raining.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely raining the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: Was it raining men? It was mainly men and women.
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  Speaker 1: And runners and runners and runners. It was great.
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  Speaker 4: It was the New Balance Fifth Avenue Mile. It's the
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  Speaker 4: second year that we've broadcasted from there. Second year at rain, too,
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  Speaker 4: so I don't know if it's us. But the race
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  Speaker 4: went on. It was a great day. I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 4: the same for some poor runners in New Jersey yesterday, though.
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  Speaker 1: And Paramus. You guys see that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see what went on there? The half marathon
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  Speaker 1: in Paramus. Eight inches of rain had fallen, so most
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  Speaker 1: of the half marathoners decided, no, we're not going to drown.
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  Speaker 1: There was this one intrepid guy who decided, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to let the flooding waters that came
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  Speaker 1: up to his navel prevent him from finishing the half marathon.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was raining in buckets, Paramus, in Patterson,
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  Speaker 1: just a deluge. But this guy was intent. He could
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  Speaker 1: have gone underwater. That could have swept him away. But
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  Speaker 1: he decided, no, no, no. I came out to run
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  Speaker 1: a half marathon. I'm going to run a half marathon.
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  Speaker 1: So it was much worse in New Jersey, much worse
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  Speaker 1: in Connecticut than you were facing. In fact, in Connecticut itself,
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  Speaker 1: they had the worst flooding in three decades in Fairfield
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  Speaker 1: County and Westport, right on the Long Island Sound. People
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  Speaker 1: were trapped in their homes and vehicles. Patterson, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: trapped in vehicles and homes up to their windows. Wayne,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. This is the 10th incident of extreme weather
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  Speaker 1: that has led to flooding since right before the Memorial
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  Speaker 1: Day weekend. We've never had that before. And officials are
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  Speaker 1: scratching their heads and wondering what are they going to
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  Speaker 1: do in case this returns all over again with the
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  Speaker 1: start of spring into... summer and fall. But let me
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  Speaker 1: get back to that Fifth Avenue mile. That's just a
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  Speaker 1: straight sprint, unlike most miles where you run on an oval. So, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: who was it? It's my turn? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 1: Who was the winner? Who was the winner?
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  Speaker 2: The winner was a kid from Villanova who just smashed,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was close to being a record. I'm
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  Speaker 2: pretty sure. It was close to being— did I just cut
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  Speaker 2: out there for a second? Yes, you did.
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  Speaker 1: Just briefly.
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  Speaker 2: Just briefly. Let me start with the woman, though. Gemma
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  Speaker 2: Ricci won for the women, and she won kind of
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  Speaker 2: going away. But this kid, Langone, from Villanova, is a trip.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you something. Not only did he win
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  Speaker 2: the race, but he was trailing a little bit. You
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  Speaker 2: could see he was tracking the leaders. He shoots ahead, right?
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  Speaker 2: He has his kick. And then another guy, the guy
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  Speaker 2: that everybody thought was going to win it all from
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  Speaker 2: Great Britain, shoots ahead of him. And then Langone has
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  Speaker 2: another level and shoots ahead again and ends up winning
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  Speaker 2: the race. And he ran. The rain had stopped, but
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  Speaker 2: it was still a wet surface. He ran 345 for
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  Speaker 2: the mile. Now, as you pointed out, the world record
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  Speaker 2: is 343.
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  Speaker 1: Just set by another Brit. The original one broke the
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  Speaker 1: four-minute mile was Roger Bannister, 54. Josh Kerr just set
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  Speaker 1: the new record, another Brit, 343. He attributed it to
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  Speaker 1: his new sneakers, state-of-the-art sneakers. But, boy, that's 350. You
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  Speaker 1: said this young man from Villanova ran it at what?
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  Speaker 4: 345.
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  Speaker 1: 345 in the rain.
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  Speaker 2: And he was pushed. I mean, he definitely kicked at
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  Speaker 2: the end. But to me, this kid, he's so fun
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  Speaker 2: to listen to. He's so fun to watch. He's just
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  Speaker 2: out of college. I mean, just out of college. Has
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  Speaker 2: his hair a couple different colors, has these big earrings on.
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z is going to love him. If he qualifies
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  Speaker 2: for the Olympics, it's going to be fun to see
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  Speaker 2: him go because He is going to be something, somebody
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  Speaker 2: to watch, and somebody that's going to be followed. Trust me,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to also get a fan base.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing that Villanova for many years had
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  Speaker 1: great track stars. I think their coach was Jumbo Elliott.
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  Speaker 1: He was world-renowned. Everybody wanted to come to Villanova. People
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  Speaker 1: from Africa, people from Europe, they wanted to train under him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you had to pen relays. which Villanova was
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  Speaker 1: always great at, four by 100, four by mile. That
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  Speaker 1: means four separate milers would run.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they had the guy that ran the first four-minute mile, right?
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  Speaker 2: Marty LaCourie, wasn't that it?
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  Speaker 1: Marty LaCourie, yeah. Actually, the first under four-minute mile was
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  Speaker 1: Jim Ryan, who was in high school at the time
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  Speaker 1: before he went to the University of Kansas. He did that,
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  Speaker 1: I think, in 1964. 351. 351. But I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 1: they just keep driving the numbers down and down. When
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  Speaker 1: I was running track in high school, which I hated,
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  Speaker 1: you had to do it between football and baseball. The
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  Speaker 1: quarter mile became the sprint. You know, you had the
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  Speaker 1: 100 meters, you had 220, you had 440. 440 became
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  Speaker 1: a sprint. Now, the mile is a sprint. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: what you saw take place on Fifth Avenue yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: basically a sprint from beginning to end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, although there was a guy that got
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  Speaker 2: out there way out in front, and I think he
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  Speaker 2: was going. They did something new this year. For the
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  Speaker 2: half-mile mark, you get $ 1, 000. And so this guy seems like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in it for the $ 1, 000. I know I can't
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  Speaker 2: win this race, but I'm going to run a half
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  Speaker 2: mile as fast as I can. And he did.
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  Speaker 1: He's the rabbit. He's the rabbit.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody was just trailing him. But he was way back
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  Speaker 2: in the pack as it ended. Just looking at Marty LaCour,
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  Speaker 2: he had four U.S. records. But you're right. Jim Ryan
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  Speaker 2: was the first one.
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  Speaker 1: But Villanova was unbelievable because, remember, you had your Penn
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  Speaker 1: Relays at that. Teams from all over the United States
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  Speaker 1: would come to compete. Villanova was always like number one.
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  Speaker 2: Villanova still is. I didn't know this because I haven't
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  Speaker 2: been following Villanova track. But we had Tim McLoone with
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  Speaker 2: us who follows this all the time. And I said
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  Speaker 2: to Tim, is Villanova, this track program still doing well?
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  Speaker 2: He goes, oh, yeah. Oh, really, really well. They're one
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  Speaker 2: of the top in the country still. So, yeah, they
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  Speaker 2: still have a formidable record. track program, and this guy,
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  Speaker 2: Marco Langone, or Langoon, I'm not sure how you pronounce it,
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  Speaker 2: but he is going to be fun. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: be really fun. He's got a huge personality.
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  Speaker 1: But the race was sponsored by the New York Road
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  Speaker 1: Runners Track Club. Yep. Also had groups, other groups, that
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  Speaker 1: weren't as proficient as those young men, right?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Different age categories. How did they handle the rain and running?
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  Speaker 2: They didn't seem to be bothered by it. It's funny
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  Speaker 2: when you talk to all of the runners, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: not a runner, so I don't know. When you talk
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  Speaker 2: to the runners, they enjoy running in the rain. They
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  Speaker 2: like running in the rain. And so unless it gets,
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  Speaker 2: they said, if there's lightning or there's wind, wind is
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  Speaker 2: the biggest problem, but rain feels good when you're running.
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny because we ended up with a conversation
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  Speaker 2: among track runners and they, one said, well, wait, except,
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  Speaker 2: except for the socks. That's the only problem when you're,
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  Speaker 2: when your socks get wet. But other than that, it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's really good. So no, they were incredible. And let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you something that, that is the most special
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  Speaker 2: part of the fifth Avenue mile. And it's seeing the
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  Speaker 2: kids run, seeing people where this is their moment. You're
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  Speaker 2: seeing people, they have a seniors run. They have, uh,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, a lot of the Broadway stars come
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  Speaker 2: out and run and they do it for charity. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Broadway Cares. And this year, by the way, it's a
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  Speaker 2: big deal among them, the FDNY and the NYPD run
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  Speaker 2: And it was the NYPD that just, they had three
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  Speaker 2: of the top four, was that? Yeah, three of the
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  Speaker 2: top four.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they're used to chasing, you know, thieves. So
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  Speaker 1: they're well-tuned to that. Although it makes sense what you
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  Speaker 1: said about liking a run in the rain. One of
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  Speaker 1: the top track clubs in America is University of Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they used to have Steve Prefontaine, who set
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of records. That's how Nike came about in
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  Speaker 1: Oregon and Eugene. was from the performances at the University
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  Speaker 1: of Oregon because they were trying to figure out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of sneakers to make for rain, for non-rain, because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they have different sneakers for different occasions. It's
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  Speaker 1: become very scientific. But the fact that they are running
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  Speaker 1: miles now at 343, 345 is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you, the New York Roadrunners, their
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  Speaker 2: big thing right now is accessibility. They want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that these races and their events are accessible to everyone.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want just the stars. They don't want Broadway stars.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want any of the stars, the racing stars.
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  Speaker 2: They want to make sure that everybody's able to get involved.
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  Speaker 2: And the mile is... one of the ones that they
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  Speaker 2: really hold as near and dear because not everybody can
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  Speaker 2: run a marathon, but you can get in this race
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't matter how fast you run just so
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  Speaker 2: you finish, you know, you finish and everybody celebrates you
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  Speaker 2: and there's things going off. It's really nice. It's, it's,
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  Speaker 2: it is a tremendous event to, to watch. And I
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  Speaker 2: was proud to be a part of it. Natalie does
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  Speaker 2: a great job, by the way. I was in front
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  Speaker 2: of the microphone. But let me just tell you, Natalie
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  Speaker 2: sits next to me, and everything I'm about to say next,
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  Speaker 2: she has on a card. They don't trust me with
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  Speaker 2: a script. It's like an index card. Here's the next
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  Speaker 2: thing you're going to say. Here's the next thing you're
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  Speaker 2: going to say. But it's a well-oiled machine from behind
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  Speaker 2: the booth in the street.
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  Speaker 1: Great job, Larry and Natalie, and also our whole iHeart
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  Speaker 1: team that was out there. is working with the New
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  Speaker 1: York Roadrunners to make this a success each and every year.
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  Speaker 1: How many years are we going to be involved with
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  Speaker 1: them in these races? I hope for a long, long time.
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  Speaker 2: I really do.
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  Speaker 4: But we got the marathon coming up in now 48 days.
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  Speaker 2: I know. 48 days.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: That's intense. I love the New York City Marathon, and
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  Speaker 2: for the same reason.
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  Speaker 1: Well, up next, my passion, as you know, my wife's passion, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: But in the slope, Park Slope, New Yorkers are looking
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  Speaker 1: for a missing bodega kitten. And boy, it really has
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  Speaker 1: brought the community out as a whole to find that
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  Speaker 1: missing kitten. Plus, a chance to see Richard Marks at 825.