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Full Show · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, Larry, Natalie, our audience. What a Columbus Day parade
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  Speaker 1: up Fifth Avenue yesterday. The weather couldn't be better. Tremendous turnout,
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  Speaker 1: especially from Jersey groups. An inordinate number. I'm there every year,
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  Speaker 1: so I get a pretty good idea who shows up.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of Jersey groups, a lot of Jersey groups.
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  Speaker 1: And it was really, I think, in response to two things.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, two weeks before the mayoral election, Team Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: was assembling what would have been the largest contingent ever
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  Speaker 1: for the parade. I mean, they had a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: They were flush with cash, hiring people, Italian-Americans. They were
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  Speaker 1: going to storm up Fifth Avenue. And they were surging
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  Speaker 1: in the polls at that time, except Larry and Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: a tsunami hit. First time ever, the Christopher Columbus parade
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  Speaker 1: was canceled. So everybody who had gone last year had
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  Speaker 1: to pack up their bags and go home. So they
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  Speaker 1: were like itching to be able to come out. And
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  Speaker 1: now the fact that Zoran Mondami, who's done everything to
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  Speaker 1: disparage Christopher Columbus, giving him the finger to the statue
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  Speaker 1: near where he lived and represented Astoria, would not attend
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  Speaker 1: any of the festivals, not even Italian heritage festivals. He
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  Speaker 1: basically dissed and dismissed Italians. They turned out in force,
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  Speaker 1: not only in the parade, but along the barriers, because
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  Speaker 1: normally it's a long parade. You start at 44th Street.
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  Speaker 1: You start going up Fifth Avenue. You pass St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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  Speaker 1: You go all the way up to 70th Street. And
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  Speaker 1: for a while there, once you got past 59th Street,
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  Speaker 1: once you passed the Plaza Hotel, it got thin. The
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  Speaker 1: crowd got thin. Not this time. The crowd was thick enough.
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  Speaker 1: And they were there because they wanted a vent, you know,
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  Speaker 1: wanted a vent against Zoran. Zoran wasn't there. So the
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  Speaker 1: first groups that were marching up, you had Governor Hochul.
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  Speaker 1: She got booed along the way. Tish James, the attorney general,
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  Speaker 1: she actually got the most boos because, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: her alone existence is to be the bane to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: prosecuting him. She's hoping in the future if a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: wins in 2028, she'll be selected. God forbid. The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General says she, in her lone debate against the Republican,
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  Speaker 1: she was bashing Trump. And then Tom DiNapoli, the controller,
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  Speaker 1: nobody booed him. Nobody knew who he was? Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: know who he is, but he's been there forever. Oh, yeah. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: he's a paisan. Didn't applaud, really?
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  Speaker 2: Just.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, they were respectful. Oh, there he is. Okay, hi.
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  Speaker 1: They were respectful. How are you? But it was telling,
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  Speaker 1: because Zohan Nadia, his surrogate, is Governor Hochul, and so
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  Speaker 1: she had to deal with the slings and arrows and
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  Speaker 1: the boos all along the way. Yeah, I saw it.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that part of it. You know what I saw?
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  Speaker 2: You know where I saw the parade and they showed
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  Speaker 2: the people being booed and all that on CBS last night? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it on CBS. You know who else was on?
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  Speaker 1: Who's that? Hey, where's the mayor? The mayor should be here.
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  Speaker 1: All parades matter. See, that was my tagline in the
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  Speaker 1: first debate between Cuomo, Zora, and myself at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the debate was, Zoran would not commit to going
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  Speaker 1: to festivals and parades. And I tagged that line at
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  Speaker 1: hashtag all parades matter. But right off the bat, you
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  Speaker 1: led the beast. That was it. They threw to the video.
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  Speaker 1: That's what came up. If Cuomo had been there and
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  Speaker 1: he's been MIA, you know, he's busy. Just paid $ 10
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  Speaker 1: million in cash for his mansion out next to Fredo,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo out in the Hamptons. He doesn't even hang
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  Speaker 1: out in New York City anymore. So I was the
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  Speaker 1: go-to guy. And boy, what a great reception in the parade.
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  Speaker 1: You see, I waited in the beginning. Once every entourage
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  Speaker 1: passed through, the politicians, then obviously the cultural groups. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I knew how many Jersey groups, you know, from
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  Speaker 1: Garfield and Bloomfield and you name it. Every field in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey was represented by Italians. It was really good.
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  Speaker 1: And they're big listeners, Larry, big listeners to WR. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I also used it as a focus group because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't walk until the last contingents. And so it gave
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  Speaker 1: me a chance as people were coming up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking pictures, telling me how they had abandoned WABC because
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  Speaker 1: they were saying also, gee, you know, if I want
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  Speaker 1: to listen to what's going on in Israel, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to be listening to WABC. Yeah. You guys are great.
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  Speaker 1: You cover all the issues. And they were going on
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  Speaker 1: and on. And they liked the fact that sometimes they'd
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  Speaker 1: throw a little Italian in, a little Bades in. It
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  Speaker 1: was really a good day for WOR. We had our
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  Speaker 1: own Natalie Magliore. She was out there. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: play her cutbacks. Got so many Natalies.
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  Speaker 3: Here, it's confusing.
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  Speaker 4: There's so many Natalies.
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  Speaker 1: And then Nadia Comaneci doing the news. That's confusing to me.
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  Speaker 1: All these, Natalie's. See, you got to be careful because
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  Speaker 1: my wife's name starts with N, Nancy. That's right. And
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  Speaker 1: I can't mention any of you women as a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: The worst thing you could do with your wife. Call
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  Speaker 1: her the wrong name? Well, yeah. One of your exes
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  Speaker 1: or any, like, well, who is Nadia? Who is, what? What?
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  Speaker 2: Nadia who is Nadia Nadia Comaneci a gymnast from Romania
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  Speaker 2: remember she won gold medals did you have a.
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  Speaker 4: Crush on her when you were a kid or something
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know that name sticks out I didn't mean to laugh
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  Speaker 2: but I had never heard Natalie before yeah that was
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  Speaker 2: the first time that was the you've messed up her
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  Speaker 2: name a bunch but never heard Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: But she was out there working the crowd doing you
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  Speaker 1: know doing a good job we'll hear from her at
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  Speaker 1: 754 but I gotta tell you it was such a
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  Speaker 1: great day of Italian pride an Italian culture on view.
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  Speaker 1: Not so much talk about Columbus, you know, Christopher Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: he had like a mixed card, but more about contributions
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  Speaker 1: of Italian Americans over the years. So I was proud
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  Speaker 1: to be representing 710WOR. And man, we were getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of positive feedback as people were very disturbed with
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  Speaker 1: WABC because all Israel, all the time, you know, Islam
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  Speaker 1: versus Jews, Mandami the terrorist, sort of tied to that.
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  Speaker 1: So they're coming on over, and it's been proven in
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  Speaker 1: the ratings. They're coming on over, and that's another good sign.
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  Speaker 1: Another great focus group. Oh, that's wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Mamdani really confuses me. There's a cockiness about
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  Speaker 2: this guy. Like, he doesn't need certain people. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's the attitude he seems to have. He seems to have,
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  Speaker 2: I don't need them. They didn't elect me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need them.
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  Speaker 2: I'll win reelection without them, which isn't when you're mayor,
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  Speaker 2: when you become mayor, you've got to put that aside.
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  Speaker 2: When you become mayor, you've got to represent everybody. And
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  Speaker 2: if this is important to them, it should be important
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 1: And kudos.
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  Speaker 2: I've never said this before. Kudos to Kathy Hochul and
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  Speaker 2: kudos to Letitia James. They knew they were going to
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  Speaker 2: get booed. They knew it, and they still marched.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they smile, and they act oblivious. What I don't
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  Speaker 1: like is all the politicians now most, they have a
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  Speaker 1: rope in front of them. You know, they have police
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  Speaker 1: with a rope, so you can't even get near them,
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  Speaker 1: which is ridiculous. I mean, a rope? Come on. This
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  Speaker 1: is the— Columbus Day Parade. Didn't Hochul have a rope?
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  Speaker 1: She had a rope. You know who started this? Eric Adams,
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  Speaker 1: for some strange reason. He had a rope, and now
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  Speaker 1: they're all doing the rope. It looks weird. So what
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  Speaker 1: goes on?
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  Speaker 4: Two people hold two ends of the rope and kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of walk along with her? Haven't you seen this?
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  Speaker 5: No, I haven't, but I just want to describe it
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  Speaker 5: to people, for people who haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not meant to keep crazies out. It's meant to keep, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: journalists like yourself away from them. They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be bothered having to answer questions while they're being booed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the funny thing is the rope is right on them.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They keep moving with the rope, so it doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: keep anyone away. So if you've noticed during the parade,
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  Speaker 2: reporters kept going up, and they still needed people to
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  Speaker 2: push them away.
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  Speaker 1: The rope doesn't do a thing. It just looks silly.
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  Speaker 1: You look like barn animals.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever see those big... inflatable bubbles that you
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  Speaker 4: could go into and you roll in it. They should
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  Speaker 4: just put them in the big bubbles. They could just
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  Speaker 4: roll through the parade.
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  Speaker 1: I would go.
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  Speaker 2: If they wouldn't do that, I would go to the
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  Speaker 2: Columbus parade.
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  Speaker 1: The best one.
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  Speaker 6: Waving.
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  Speaker 1: In its last four years was Comrade Bill de Blasio,
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  Speaker 1: the part-time mayor, the dope from Park Slope, was smoking
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  Speaker 1: Maui Waui and Hindu Kush at night. Part-time mayor. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: get up until like... 10.30, 11 o'clock, went to do
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  Speaker 1: a workout at a YMCA in Park Slope, even though
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  Speaker 1: he was in Gracie Mansion. Lucky if he put in
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  Speaker 1: six hours a day. He speaks Italian well. His mother
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  Speaker 1: is from Provincia in the north there. So he's got
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  Speaker 1: the roots. The only problem with him is he did
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  Speaker 1: something that trumped it with Sarah Palin. When Sarah Palin
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  Speaker 1: became the vice presidential candidate of John McCain, unexpectedly, She
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  Speaker 1: came right to Times Square and Familia, which is the
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  Speaker 1: big chain pizza chain. It's owned by Albanians. They provided
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  Speaker 1: pizza and Trump was hosting her. Sarah Palin ate the
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  Speaker 1: slice the way you're supposed to, you know, folded it.
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  Speaker 1: Trump ate it with a knife and a fork, like
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  Speaker 1: de Blasio did when he went to Goodfellas on Highland
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  Speaker 1: Boulevard in Staten Island. He said, well, we're from the north.
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  Speaker 1: We eat it with a knife and a fork. But truly,
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  Speaker 1: he had Italian roots. Last four years, he marched in
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  Speaker 1: the Columbus State Parades. He got booed unmercifully. He deserved it.
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  Speaker 1: He was oblivious, waving as if he had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what the middle finger meant. what all the Italian curses meant. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we're number one. Yes, we're number one. But you got
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  Speaker 1: to show its part. In fact, remember recently. when Zoran
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  Speaker 1: was booed at that night memorial on October 7th. Remember
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  Speaker 1: the friendly Jewish group that invited him there and then
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  Speaker 1: the pro-Palestinians came and booed him. Remember when he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's what I signed up for. Exactly. When
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  Speaker 1: you sign up and you're the mayor, You've got to
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  Speaker 1: try to be at all these festivals and parades, if
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  Speaker 1: at all humanly possible. But he has figured out Italians
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  Speaker 1: used to be 14% of the population in the five boroughs.
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  Speaker 1: Most of them now are in Staten Italy, Staten Island,
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  Speaker 1: where Natalie was from. Now they're only 6% of the vote.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so it's not a big voting group.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're not going to vote for Zola.
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• 10:47
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  Speaker 2: Curtis is going to be really excited about this next story.
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  Speaker 2: Remember we had that rare barn owl up on the
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  Speaker 2: west side, on the upper west side? Remember that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: now there's a whole family of them. A whole family
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  Speaker 2: of these rare owls.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, isn't that amazing? I don't know their names.
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  Speaker 2: Plus a chance to see Journey at 825. Now, you'll
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  Speaker 2: remember a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: a rare barn owl being spotted in Manhattan, and the
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  Speaker 2: birders were all excited about it, and people have been
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  Speaker 2: going trying to spot the owl. Well, now, not only
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  Speaker 2: are they going to spot one, they'll spot five.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole family that are on the Upper West Side,
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  Speaker 1: and the birders couldn't be more excited. But it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Five owls.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody's seen the five owls before.
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  Speaker 3: In New York City.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they're nocturnal, so if you want to spot them,
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  Speaker 2: here's where they hang out. They're apparently nesting, because it's
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  Speaker 2: a female owl, a male owl, and it looks like
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  Speaker 2: three young owls. Owlets, do you call them?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, owlets. Owlets.
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  Speaker 2: So they're easy to spot now. It used to be
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  Speaker 2: that people were trying to find the owl and they
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  Speaker 2: were going all over the Upper West Side. Now you
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  Speaker 2: know where they're nesting. So they're going to nest there.
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  Speaker 2: They're nocturnal, so you have to get out there at
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  Speaker 2: dusk if you want to get a good picture of them. But, man,
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  Speaker 2: all of those birders out there with those long lenses
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  Speaker 2: trying to get a close-up shot of them. And some
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  Speaker 2: of the pictures that have been posted on the Internet
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  Speaker 2: are just gorgeous pictures. There is a real concern, though,
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  Speaker 2: with these owls in the city. And this is the concern.
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  Speaker 2: This is from a woman at the Bird Alliance.
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  Speaker 3: Rats in New York City are often poisoned by rodenticide
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  Speaker 3: meant to kill the rats.
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  Speaker 4: But actually what it does is kill the predators that
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  Speaker 4: feed on those rats.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Jessica Wilson with the Bird Alliance. And so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the answer to that would be.
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  Speaker 2: Go out and feed the owls?
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  Speaker 1: Well, remember, that was what led to the demise of
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  Speaker 1: the most famous owl of all time, Living Owl, because
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  Speaker 1: obviously it did not supersede what we grew up. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: don't pollute. If you give a hoot, don't pollute. Hoot
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  Speaker 1: the owl. Right, hoot the owl. With Flockle, Flockle escaped
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  Speaker 1: from the Central Park Zoo. We still don't know if
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  Speaker 1: somebody extricated the owl. Probably that's what happened. And lived
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  Speaker 1: for a year. And remember, I and Nancy, we went
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  Speaker 1: to the documentary, which was really good. And it pointed
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  Speaker 1: out all the birders who dedicated their life to tracking Flocko.
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  Speaker 1: Because Flocko was not staying in one location. He would
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  Speaker 1: fly all the way to the Lower East Side, West Side,
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  Speaker 1: East Side. He was all around the town. And it
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  Speaker 1: was interesting, the conclusion. Is it better to be free
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  Speaker 1: for a year, unencumbered, or to live your whole life
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  Speaker 1: in a cage? And so the fact would be, imagine,
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  Speaker 1: so you have Papa Owl, you have Mama Owl, you
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  Speaker 1: have three Owlets. Would it be better for them to
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  Speaker 1: live freely even though they're going to survive on the rats,
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  Speaker 1: which are everywhere, you know, in the wee hours of
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  Speaker 1: the morning? But some of them have been poisoned or
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  Speaker 1: ingested poison, and that will impact on the neurological system.
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  Speaker 1: of these owls, just like he did with Flaco, causing
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  Speaker 1: Flaco to fly into a building, which ultimately led to
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  Speaker 1: its death.
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  Speaker 2: These are gorgeous, though. You have to take a look
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  Speaker 2: at the pictures. They are just gorgeous. You'll probably go
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  Speaker 2: up and see them.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, this is a question for Curtis. My son-in-law, he's Italian.
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  Speaker 6: He says all these Italian words that I don't understand.
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  Speaker 6: He calls mozzarella mozz and ricotta and gabagol and all
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  Speaker 6: this other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: His mother yells at him all the time. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 1: when you.
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  Speaker 6: Speak proper Italian, is it cool to speak like that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it. Yes, it's the dialect. So my
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  Speaker 1: background is Bares, but they're the Calabres. They're the hard-headed ones. Napolitano,
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  Speaker 1: they're from Naples. And Siciliano, they're cheeches and zips. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: thinks of them as real Italians. They all have their
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  Speaker 1: own little colloquial expressions in the dialect, especially when it
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  Speaker 1: gets to the cursors. But the FCC, they don't even
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  Speaker 1: monitor La Mega, all the Spanish curses over there. They
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  Speaker 1: never would be able to figure out the Italian curses.
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  Speaker 1: It's great. When you do Italian, you get this, like,
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  Speaker 1: dinero lip. Yeah. Oh, you do it on purpose?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It comes from my grandfather. I imitated him. And so
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  Speaker 1: when I say, sfaccino, schifosa. He does.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: My grandfather, Fidelio Bianchino, comes to life in me. It
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  Speaker 1: sounded a little German. Oh, that Steuben Day parade this Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have to give us the overview because
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  Speaker 1: nobody pays attention to that parade, which has a great history.
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  Speaker 1: But more importantly, the Germans were prejudiced against more than
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  Speaker 1: any other immigrant group, more than any combined.
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  Speaker 2: And Baron von Steuben probably won the American Revolution for us.
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  Speaker 2: So he was an American hero. And he was also
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  Speaker 2: a gay American hero, so they should combine the both parades.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, was he gay?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. He liked the young men in Valley Forge. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's get to Daria Albinger with the 630 News.
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  Speaker 8: Daria.
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  Speaker 1: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 9: Mostly sunny, mild, and muggy. That'll be a fun parade.
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  Speaker 9: High 71 degrees, three weeks to the election. The governor
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  Speaker 9: of New York and the Republican who wants a job
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  Speaker 9: are going to meet tonight for their only debate.
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  Speaker 5: Spectrum New York One is hosting the debate in New
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  Speaker 5: York's governor's race that can be watched directly on the
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  Speaker 5: channel or online via live stream. Bruce Blakeman says he
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: was willing to have more debates.
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  Speaker 10: I got, I believe, seven invitations from every media outlet
• 17:14
  Speaker 10: in New York State.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: And I accepted all of them. Kathy Hochul only accepted.
• 17:20
  Speaker 10: One, Spectrum.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: Several polls show Governor Hochul with a double-digit lead, with
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: Blakeman saying those surveys undercount Republicans and overcount New York City.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: President Trump on the campaign trail in Ohio last night,
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: he called Democrats, quote, left-wing lunatics that he warns will
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: drive up prices. and roll back his accomplishments. Mayor Mamdani
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: says his office will conduct its own investigation into an
• 17:45
  Speaker 9: ICE-related shooting in Marble Hill last week. Homeland Security continues
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: to say that Oscar Belgal is in the U.S. illegally
• 17:51
  Speaker 9: and that he has a criminal record. There's a murder
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: mystery in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Police say Nelson Manuel Batista was found lying on Cottage
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Street in Bridgeport around 9 a.m. Monday morning. The 48-year-old
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: had been shot and was found next to his car.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: He died later Monday. A police investigation is continuing. Detectives
• 18:11
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• 18:15
  Speaker 3: eighth murder of 2026. Andrew Whitman, WOR News.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: Pope Leo will undergo surgery today at a hospital in
• 18:22
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• 18:26
  Speaker 9: The Pope's doctors say fortunately it was detected at a
• 18:29
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• 18:33
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• 18:36
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• 18:40
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• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Up next, the heated race for the Senate in Texas
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: involves Tallarico, MIA. Ten days, he says, because of the flu.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: He was up here in New York. I would have
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: held his hand for him to take a flu shot.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: We'll get into that and so much more up next. Wow, Tallarico, Tallarico, Tallarico,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: they can make a song out of that. A neck-and-neck race,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: he's slightly ahead in the polls against Paxton. And he
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: had taken a trip up to New York City on
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the 28th and 29th of September. In fact, he made
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a stop here with our sister station, Power 105 with
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Charlemagne Tha God. who's now also on Netflix. So it
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: covers the nation, especially it's very black centric. Remember he
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: had survived that very tough primary against jazz, Jasmine Crockett,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: who's like out of control, but she was definitely SWA
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: sister with attitude. So he's trying everything to cultivate the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: black folk. because a lot of blacks were saying no
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: no I don't like the way you treated Jasmine so
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: he comes to New York he goes to a fundraiser
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: with De Niro De Niro hosts it for him he's
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: on top of the world he goes back to Austin
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: he has the New York blue flu at least this
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: is what he says initially so He sits in his
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: home in Austin for anywhere from 10 days to two weeks.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: He is off the radar screen. And you know, in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a nationally watched campaign, if you're gone for even two days, Larry,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the conspiracies begin to emerge. Where'd he go? What happened?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Well, the conspiracies have immersed, and it was from he
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: had a sexually transmitted disease to he had mental health problems.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: It was all over the place. And some of the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: people that were saying it were saying it on their
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: podcast and on social media as if they had sources
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to tell them this is definitely what happened. And he
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: claims that he just had the flu. And now, because
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: it's become such a big story in Texas— They keep
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: releasing stuff to debunk all of the misinformation they claim
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that's out there. They released, the campaign released, time-stamped, verified
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: home security camera photos showing him at his Austin residence
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: every day from October 1st to October 8th. Wait a second,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: that's only seven days. Or eight days.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: No, that's interesting. Anywhere from 10 days to two weeks,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: he was off the radar screen.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: And that only accounts for half of them. And the
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Linder Center of Hope, issued an official statement explicitly confirming
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: that Tallarico never received treatment at their facility for any
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: mental health problems because somebody said that he was seen
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: going in there.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, outside Cincinnati, a private plane flew some landing strip
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and he went in there for a few days just
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: to get his head together. And they even had apparently
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a phone conversation The podcaster kept badgering somebody who answered
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the phone at this facility. Well, is he there? Is
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: he there? Is he there? No, no, he's not. Nobody
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: by that name. Is it possible that he might have
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: checked out? Well, that's a possibility. And that's the cut
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: that they use. And, oh, my God, you know who
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: picked up on this?
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Elon Musk with his millions of ex-followers.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Megyn Kelly with her millions of followers. And the guy,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out why he would do this because
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: he's the golden boy in California. Especially whoever gets elected
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: mayor there is going to be a disaster. He could
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: be in the waiting. Spencer Pratt, he started spreading the rumors.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Republicans started spreading the rumors. So now he has a
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: special town hall meeting tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 14th, with CNN,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: partly to clear the air and partly to try to
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: call out Paxton into a debate. Apparently Paxton isn't so...
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: desirous to get into a bait with this guy because
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: he's pretty good.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: He is pretty good. Paxton's pretty good, too. I mean,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Paxton was an attorney general. He's been in courtrooms all
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: his life. I don't know what he is, what exactly
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: he is hiding from. I think that even though the
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: polls are close, Paxton's acting like he hasn't won. And
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I think he's really counting on the Republican vote to
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: come out for him. Just the way he's acting is strange.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: But Donald Trump, almost every time he appears anywhere, talks
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: about Telerico. He calls him Telefrico because of some of
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: the things he's done in his past. Always makes fun
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: of the fact that he doesn't eat meat in Texas.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: That's a big deal and says he doesn't like steak.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: But he talked about the illness.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You were supposed to keep your distance because of COVID.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: You know, they all had the mask. You know, this
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: guy Telefrico still wears a mask. And he had... The
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: longest flu ever recorded. He was away for like almost
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: 14 days. It was.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: It was the longest flu ever recorded in history. And
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: that's why everybody was curious about it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: The other factor that may have contributed to this, I
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: would say, yeah, first of all, he's a young guy.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: He looks like he's in relatively good health. I mean,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: we're not talking grassly 93, you know, the U.S. Senator
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: from Iowa, and you would say, oh, my God, if
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: he had the flu, he might die. But he has
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: diabetes type 1. And I always get confused between diabetes
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: type 1 and diabetes type 2. Can these things actually
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: trigger a problem?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Type 1 is, as my son has it, type 1
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: diabetes is a little bit more severe than type 2 diabetes.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Type 2 diabetes, you can beat. You can get it
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: from being overweight and maybe some other physical problems. But
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: exercise and some drugs, you can really keep it under
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: control and even beat it. Type one diabetes is for life.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: And they used to call it juvenile diabetes. And so
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: if he has type one diabetes, that is a big deal.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: And that means he has to take insulin all the time,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: but he shouldn't put them out for two weeks. I mean,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: that is not an excuse for being out for two weeks.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: And Paxton has been after him, of course, from the beginning.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I've been in a lot of races.
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: This is the strangest one I've ever seen. I've never
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: had a candidate disappear for almost two weeks. doing no
• 25:17
  Speaker 11: public appearances, no explanation of why until now. And then suddenly,
• 25:23
  Speaker 11: after missing appearance after appearance, canceling event after event, he
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: suddenly shows up at a musical festival, not to speak,
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: but just to walk around. It's been a very strange
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: two weeks.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: He was odd. There's video of that festival as well.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: He was odd there. Usually he's glad-handing all that stuff.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: There was points where he looked like a zombie when
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: he was walking around.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, our head of security had told me
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: when he came to visit with Charlemagne the God, Power 105,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to do that interview. Oh, you just missed Tallarico as
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you were leaving. I would have held his hand and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we would have taken that flu vaccine together.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And then we would have known for sure that it
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: wasn't the flu. You see, I mean, I'll do it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I would have done it for Natalie. I encouraged to
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: do it. She got her flu vaccine.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I did. I'll hold hands with anybody. Did you get yours?
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: The week after.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought we were just talking about.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Going and getting a flu shot together.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: No, I got the flu shot.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: We could go get the shingle shot together if you'd like.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: No, I keep putting off the shingle shot. I'll hold you.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I'll hold you. I'll ask the CVS nurse to hold
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: my hand. I only have one ask and things like that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Please don't have a sweaty palm because it reminds me
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: of when I shook Richard Nixon's hand in the White House.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: That was the sweatiest, coldest hand I have ever shaken
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: in my life. Whose head did you shake? Richard Nixon.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Richard Nixon, wow. Yeah, well, they gave me the award
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: as Newspaper Boy of the Year, and then they kicked
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: me out of the White House because I asked one question.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Sorry I asked the question to the president. You promised
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: in 68 to get us out of the Vietnam War.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Now you've gotten us into a secret war in Laos
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and Cambodia. How old were you? I was 16. Wow.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And they shined their boots on my backside, kicked me
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to the curb, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and that was it. Yeah,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that was a little inappropriate for getting an award from him.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: But I was correct. Good for you. Secret war. In
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Laos and Cambodia, you liar. See, I didn't trust politicians
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: then either.
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: His picture has been on the ban list of the
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: White House ever since.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Ever since then. I'm sure you can't get in now
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: if you wanted to get in.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, well, there's going to
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: be some big problems. It actually started yesterday, but most
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: people were off starting today because of the portal bridge construction.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: But they keep saying it's for the good. It's going
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: to be great forever.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Just five weeks, five weeks of major inconveniences. We'll talk
• 27:57
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• 27:59
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• 28:04
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• 28:07
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• 28:12
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• 28:29
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• 28:33
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• 29:15
  Speaker 2: time it counts. Well, construction of the new portal bridge
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: in New Jersey is almost finished. It's getting close. There's
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: a light at the end of the tunnel. It's five
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: weeks away now, but this is going to be the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: worst part. Remember, there's been some disruptions. You've been warned
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: about them for the most part. There's been some disruptions
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: as they get this new bridge.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Together.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: But for the next five weeks, there's only going to
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: be one track available to cross the bridge. And so
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: because it has that one track, they have to come
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: out with a special schedule. So there's going to be
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: big service disruptions for the next five weeks for this
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: final phase. The final portion of the project includes transferring
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: all train operations from the old bridge to the new span.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: And that's why they mean both are going to be out.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: So that's why there's only one track they're going to
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: be using at a time as they transfer all of
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the service. So during the next five weeks, here's who's
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: will be affected. Trains will operate on the one track,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: as I said, Service between Newark Penn Station and Secaucus
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: will be extremely limited, resulting in fewer trains running into
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: New York Penn Station on the Northeast Corridor and North
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Jersey coastlines. In addition, there's going to be no Midtown
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: direct service on the Morristown line, Gladstone Branch, or Boontown
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: line on weekdays during the construction period. Amtrak is going
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: to try to help out, and they're going to operate
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: eastbound trains over the new Portal North Bridge while the
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: work is underway. The same process was used for westbound trains,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: you're going to remember, back in February. So there's a
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: lot of information there. I'm hoping if you travel those lines,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: you're going to already be up on all this. The
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: big thing is you've got to either leave earlier, or
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to drive in, or you're going
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: to have to take a bus in.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: For five weeks.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: And then they tell you, they promise you, Chris Colori
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: from New Jersey Transit says it's going to be glorious.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: It's going to fix all our problems. It's going to
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: be wonderful after that. But for five weeks, I heard, Curtis,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I heard people interviewed on the news today because it
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: actually started today.
• 31:40
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Or yesterday, I should say. It started yesterday. And they
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: were all saying, oh, this isn't too bad. I can
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: get used to this. It's not too bad.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I came early.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't really need to. And then it turns out
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: it was a holiday.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Of course. Of course, Columbus Day. But what I don't understand,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: with the Bayonne Bridge, to make room for the super
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: tankers going through the Arthur Kill Kill Van Call, they
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: spent a billion dollars to lift the bridge so the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: super tankers could pass underneath. Money well spent. The problem
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I've always seen with this portal bridge, it was built
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: in 1910 to connect the Pennsylvania Railroad to Penn Station
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: in New York City, is this truss swing bridge. You know,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: when there is a sizable boat underneath, all traffic stops,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the bridge swings out over the Hackensack River to come back,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and at times it's gotten stuck there. No matter how
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: much DW40 oil you put on the gears, it stays
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: in place for a while because it's so old. I
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: understand why they have to build a completely new bridge,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: but why they wouldn't have tried to elevate the bridge
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: so that you don't even have to worry about it
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: swinging out as a truss bridge is beyond me.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably because my only guess will be, and
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I'll look into this, this was much more efficient and
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: probably less costly. Then raising that bridge because they it's
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: an old bridge and they'd still have to rebuild a
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: lot of it. So why not just start from scratch
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: and get a brand new bridge and be able to
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: do everything you wanted to? You're probably limited if you
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: use an old bridge.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: So this means if it delays any further than the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: five weeks of hell, the commuters will have to go through.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Less people from New Jersey will be coming into New
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: York City. Is this what this means? Yeah, they're going
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to stream. I'll bet you a lot of offices, and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Leave us a talk back about this if you normally
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: take Jersey Transit and you're going to be affected by
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: this over the next five weeks. Tell me if there's
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: already plans that have been made at your business for
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: this disruption, or they're just saying, okay.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Sucks to be you. Leave earlier. Yeah, and they promise
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the old bridge will be completely demolished by 2028. It's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: always delay, delay, delay, delay. I just don't understand. Look
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: at Red China, how they build their trains. Not only
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: bullet trains, but they have trains going through buildings. They
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: have trains going up into the atmosphere. It seems we're
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: almost primitive. When we deal with our railroads. I know.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: It'll be done soon enough. This happens every once in
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: a while. Well, WOR White House correspondent John Decker is
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: going to be traveling with the president to Alaska. We'll
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: talk to him after the 7 o'clock news. There is
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: so much to talk about right now in the Donald
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Trump world. That deal he had, that energy deal he had,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: and he said, I've got a big announcement. We've reached
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: a deal between Ukraine and Russia over not hitting each
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: other's oil supplies or energy supplies.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't sound like that happened. No.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Because minutes after he said it, the Russians hit an
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: energy area in Ukraine.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: And took it out.
• 35:07
  Speaker 13: And.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Zelensky had a great line. He said, apparently Putin doesn't
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: read truth social.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: And then look at Saudi Arabia. The hoodies have hit
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: that main airport three days in a row. They have
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: no defense system up. And I can't wait to find
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: out how I've labeled this. They pretend I'm on the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: ballot tour of President Donald Trump to get the Republicans
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: over the top.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Here's the amazing thing about that tour. John Decker has
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: hit a new echelon in his career. As a matter
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: of fact, I think we have to call him Mr.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Decker now when we introduce him. Of course, he's the
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: WOR White House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker. It can
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: be found in the iHeartRadio app. But John, you got
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: an exclusive with the president coming up?
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yes, it will be in Alaska.
• 36:03
  Speaker 13: I'm traveling on Air Force One. to Alaska in just
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: a few hours. It's a long trip out there. And
• 36:10
  Speaker 13: then the president will do a campaign event for Senator
• 36:13
  Speaker 13: Dan Sullivan, a campaign rally there in Wasilla, Alaska. And
• 36:18
  Speaker 13: right before he hits the stage, right before he does
• 36:20
  Speaker 13: that campaign rally, he's going to do an exclusive television
• 36:24
  Speaker 13: interview with me. So glad I was able to secure that.
• 36:28
  Speaker 13: And I'm looking forward to that much later today.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: That's wonderful.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get too inside baseball on this,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: but how do you go about securing that interview?
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: Well, you make a pitch. It's like being a salesman,
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: and you make that sales pitch to the people that
• 36:47
  Speaker 13: would make that decision on behalf of the president. And
• 36:51
  Speaker 13: I'm really good at selling myself and selling the idea
• 36:55
  Speaker 13: of why this interview is is important for the president.
• 36:59
  Speaker 13: I'll give you essentially what the sales pitch was. So
• 37:03
  Speaker 13: I work for a company that owns the most powerful
• 37:08
  Speaker 13: television station in Alaska. It's a powerhouse. 50% of Alaskans
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: watch that station. And what better place to do an
• 37:16
  Speaker 13: interview with me representing that station? And so I think
• 37:22
  Speaker 13: that really had an impact on their decision. And I
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: think that is ultimately why the president said, yeah, I'll
• 37:29
  Speaker 13: sit down with John Decker, sure.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: That's a tremendous sales pitch, by the way. But he also,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: we've said this before, Curtis, have you noticed that the
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: president likes John Decker?
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, no doubt.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: He keeps asking, keeps saying, John, points to him and says,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: go ahead, ask a question. You know what John's answer
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: to that is always? Go ahead, John, you can say it.
• 37:49
  Speaker 13: No, tell me what you're getting at.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: He says, what's not to like? Well, now, John, if
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the moment presents itself, because I'm sure you're going to
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: be talking about Saudi Arabia and what would Trump do
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: as the Houthis have hit the major airport three days
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: in a row. It doesn't seem the Saudis have an
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: ability to defend themselves from the incoming cruise missiles. We
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: had on 9-11, the families asked only one thing. They
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: didn't talk about Zoran Mandami. They said, Please investigate the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Saudi family's involvement in the attack on 9-11. They turned
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: to J.D. Vance. Please bring it back to the president. Remember,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the president said that he would. I wonder if he's
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: had the time to do that.
• 38:40
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't know. You know, I have to also
• 38:43
  Speaker 13: explain to you just something. You raise a really good question,
• 38:46
  Speaker 13: a really good topic. But part of my pitch was this.
• 38:50
  Speaker 13: And it was really important to me to do this.
• 38:52
  Speaker 13: You know, you build a relationship with the White House team.
• 38:55
  Speaker 13: You build a relationship with the White House. I said,
• 38:58
  Speaker 13: we're in Alaska. The reason why you're going to Alaska
• 39:01
  Speaker 13: is because of the Senate race. The Senate race in
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: Alaska with Senator Dan Sullivan running for a third term
• 39:07
  Speaker 13: could determine who controls the Senate. It's pretty unbelievable to
• 39:10
  Speaker 13: think about that. And I said to them, my interview
• 39:13
  Speaker 13: with the president is focusing exclusively on that race. So
• 39:18
  Speaker 13: I want to ask those types of questions, Curtis, and
• 39:21
  Speaker 13: I will get an opportunity to ask those questions, but
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: not in this upcoming interview.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, understood. Tell me what the disconnect is here, because
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: I don't think. the president comes out and makes an
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: announcement about an energy deal between Ukraine and Russia without
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: really believing it's true. It would be foolish to, because
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: you end up looking bad. But almost immediately, Russia attacked
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Ukraine's energy supplies.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: And I.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Was saying before you came on, that Zelensky had a
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: great line when he said, apparently Putin doesn't read truth social.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: So what is going on? Is there no energy deal?
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: And why would the president say something like that when
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: there's no deal?
• 40:04
  Speaker 13: Well, I think the president is, we've talked about this before, Larry.
• 40:08
  Speaker 13: He is the eternal optimist. And he has a conversation
• 40:13
  Speaker 13: with Putin, which he did last week. He spoke about
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: maybe the contours of a deal. Then he gets on
• 40:19
  Speaker 13: the line and speaks with Zelensky. speaks about what he
• 40:22
  Speaker 13: spoke with with President Putin. And Zelensky says, yeah, that
• 40:26
  Speaker 13: sounds good to me.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I'd be for that.
• 40:28
  Speaker 13: And the president, I'm just getting in his head, probably
• 40:31
  Speaker 13: thinks we got a deal. But the problem is the
• 40:33
  Speaker 13: president says this often, Larry and Curtis, it takes two
• 40:36
  Speaker 13: to tango. And Putin just doesn't want to end the war.
• 40:40
  Speaker 13: Putin just doesn't want to do a deal, even at
• 40:43
  Speaker 13: this rate, this level in which you're just stopping all
• 40:47
  Speaker 13: attacks on each country's energy sectors. And that's the reason
• 40:51
  Speaker 13: why this war continues. You know, February of next year
• 40:55
  Speaker 13: will mark the fifth year that this war has been
• 40:57
  Speaker 13: going on.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: John Decker, I call this President Donald Trump's pretend I'm
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: on the ballot tour as he stumps for Republican candidates.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: How overall is that concept working with the, you know,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: the ingrained MAGA Republicans that he's trying to get out
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: to help win the midterms? Well, we'll see.
• 41:21
  Speaker 13: I mean, we won't know the answer to that, obviously,
• 41:23
  Speaker 13: until all the votes are counted after November the 3rd. But,
• 41:27
  Speaker 13: you know, I've traveled with the president this past Saturday.
• 41:30
  Speaker 13: I was on Air Force One, went down to Tennessee,
• 41:33
  Speaker 13: and crowds love him. You know, it's true. The MAGA
• 41:38
  Speaker 13: base has not left the president. That is the bottom line.
• 41:40
  Speaker 13: The problem is independents have left the president in terms
• 41:45
  Speaker 13: of what I see in the polling, and independents typically
• 41:49
  Speaker 13: determine who wins elections. And right now, those independents are
• 41:54
  Speaker 13: dissatisfied with President Trump and his policies that he's pursued,
• 41:58
  Speaker 13: high gas prices. So although the president's trying to get
• 42:02
  Speaker 13: the energy level up among Republicans to get them out
• 42:06
  Speaker 13: to vote for the midterm elections, the key, I think,
• 42:11
  Speaker 13: in this entire midterm election will be how do independents vote?
• 42:15
  Speaker 13: Do they come out to vote And do they vote
• 42:17
  Speaker 13: against the Republican candidate?
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I spoke a couple of days ago with a Democratic
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: strategist who's now in Pennsylvania. He's working on a couple
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: of the congressional races in Pennsylvania and then the one
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: big one in.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: New Jersey as well.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: And I talked about exactly what you're talking about now,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: about Donald Trump getting out in the campaign trail. And
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I said, well, listen, if this midterm is all about
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, doesn't that help the Democrats as much as
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: the Republicans? And he said, this is a Democrat saying this,
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: he is a generational talent when it comes to getting
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: out the vote. And I thought that was really kind
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: of stunning, but I imagine he's only talking about getting
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: out the vote for the Republicans. He gets out the
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: vote for the Democrats, I would think, too.
• 43:06
  Speaker 13: Well, yeah, that's right. You know, the president wants this
• 43:08
  Speaker 13: midterm to be about him, but Democrats want this to
• 43:11
  Speaker 13: be about him as well.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: And we already.
• 43:15
  Speaker 13: know what happened in the 2018 midterm election. That was
• 43:18
  Speaker 13: the president's first term. Republicans did not do well. Republicans
• 43:22
  Speaker 13: lost control of both the House and the Senate. And
• 43:26
  Speaker 13: so could history repeat itself in the 2026 midterm elections?
• 43:32
  Speaker 13: I don't know. But just based upon polling right now,
• 43:36
  Speaker 13: it certainly doesn't look good for a number of Republicans
• 43:40
  Speaker 13: who are running, trying to hold seats in the U.S. Senate.
• 43:43
  Speaker 13: And that's something that at the very beginning of the cycle,
• 43:47
  Speaker 13: I did not foresee. I said, there's no way that
• 43:49
  Speaker 13: Democrats retake control of the Senate. But now it's a
• 43:53
  Speaker 13: real possibility.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Well, to the rescue, as he promised, Elon Musk with
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: close to $ 400 million, he's delivered two thirds of it.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: The additional third will be delivered to save the Senate
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: for the Republicans. How do they intend on using that money?
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of money, $ 400 million to spread. into about,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I would say, eight contested races.
• 44:18
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's tough.
• 44:20
  Speaker 13: It's tough to go against that, in terms of matching
• 44:23
  Speaker 13: that on the Democratic side. That's a ton of money
• 44:26
  Speaker 13: that's being spent. And I don't know if you've seen
• 44:28
  Speaker 13: the number out there about how little that is in
• 44:35
  Speaker 13: terms of Elon Musk's net worth. It's a huge amount
• 44:38
  Speaker 13: of money, but it means nothing to him. It's like
• 44:40
  Speaker 13: you and I losing a penny. That's how amazing it
• 44:44
  Speaker 13: is in terms of how wealthy Elon Musk is. But
• 44:47
  Speaker 13: how is that money being used? It's going to be
• 44:49
  Speaker 13: used to just get out the vote, to put campaign
• 44:52
  Speaker 13: commercials on the air in all of these competitive battleground states.
• 44:57
  Speaker 13: Texas in particular, that is one of the most expensive
• 45:00
  Speaker 13: states to run statewide in the entire country and a
• 45:04
  Speaker 13: lot of that money quite frankly is being spent on
• 45:07
  Speaker 13: texas trying to help out ken paxton uh... the attorney
• 45:11
  Speaker 13: general there hoping to keep that seat in republican hands
• 45:14
  Speaker 13: it's now held uh.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: by.
• 45:16
  Speaker 13: Senator john cornyn uh... but we've seen polls which indicate
• 45:20
  Speaker 13: that ken paxton is trailing james calorico so that's where
• 45:24
  Speaker 13: a lot of that money is going to be spent I.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Know you cover the White House, but this is a
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: question about the U.S. Senate.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: If the Democrats take control, is there any chance that
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer stays on as leader?
• 45:35
  Speaker 13: That's a very good question. I think, you know, I
• 45:40
  Speaker 13: think we're putting the cart before the horse. You know,
• 45:42
  Speaker 13: I just think let's let's see what happens there. You know,
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: he's going to if that's a big if. But if
• 45:49
  Speaker 13: Democrats retake control of the U.S. Senate, who's going to
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: be the first person in front of a television camera?
• 45:55
  Speaker 13: crowing about how he's responsible. It's going to be Senator
• 45:59
  Speaker 13: Chuck Schumer, right? Do you have any doubt about that?
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: No.
• 46:03
  Speaker 13: So we'll see what happens. I think that first Democrats
• 46:06
  Speaker 13: have to cross that threshold to win back the Senate,
• 46:10
  Speaker 13: and then they'll confront, depending upon who those new Democratic
• 46:14
  Speaker 13: members are, their allegiance to Chuck Schumer, then we'll see
• 46:19
  Speaker 13: whether or not he remains the leader of the Senate,
• 46:22
  Speaker 13: and the leader of the Democrats for the next two years.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it, John Decker, who won't have time to
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: go fishing in Alaska with the president while you're there
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: interviewing him exclusively. We do appreciate all of your knowledge
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: and input on those questions we asked you. Have a
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: safe trip. Oh, wow, he fell into the abyss. He's
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: already fishing out there. He baited the hook. He's got
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: a plane to catch. He's salmon fishing. How many times
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: ever since we consummated this relationship at the suggestion of
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Tom Cuddy, our program director, Larry, have I talked about
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: the time that I lived on Ingram Street in Forest
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Hills for many years, Natalie? And remember how all the
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Asian kids be on their bicycles running up to me thinking, oh,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: you must know Peter Parker, Spider-Man, because Stan Lee had
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: included the address 20 Ingram Street, In addition, in 1989,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: you know, the kids thought he was living there with
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Aunt May and Uncle Ben like you saw in the movie.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: And so the next best thing was the guy with
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: the red beret and the red sateen jacket. So they
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: knock on my door. Please, I got a letter here
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: for Spider-Man. I said, well, that's... You got to bring
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: it to the post office. No, no, no, no, no.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: You know, 20 Ingram, which was blocks away. And it
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: was the Parker family that owned that house.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Jack Shy lives there now. He just bought the house
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. And he didn't realize, they
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: didn't tell him at the time, this is Peter Parker's house.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: But he's getting all the requests that you used to get.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: And he loves it.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: That's what's so nice about it. He says, what's not
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: to like Parker? about Spider-Man. He's gentle. He's kind. He's brave.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Of course, everyone likes him. So it is wonderful. And
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: now the street they're going to rename Ingram Street. Actually,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't say they're going to rename it because it's
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: going to stay that way on the map. But there's
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: going to be a sign under it that says Spider-Man Way.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: And that was done this past weekend. Why was I
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: not invited? Well, there's a little backstory here. Remember when
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: I was testifying to end the horse carriage industry at
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: City Council? The chairwoman, who didn't really want to do
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: that because she wants to support the horse carriage industry,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Claire Shulman. Remember she had the microphone pulled from me
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: first time ever? Two minutes into the speech.
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: Boom.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: The secret hand came out.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: So she was the one who hosted that. People wanted
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: me to be there because they said, well, he was
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the closest thing we ever had to Spider-Man. She ixnayed
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: that and had Julie Menon there instead. Now, I understand
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: she's the Speaker of the Council. You could have invited
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: me also, but no, I wasn't invited.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: It would have been better with you, but it was
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: still a nice event, and Nick Lowe, the editor of Spider-Man,
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: was there, and he talked about, Peter Parker's connection to
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: the community.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Peter Parker isn't a billionaire living in a tower. He
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: isn't an alien descending from space.
• 49:27
  Speaker 12: He's a kid from Queens who has homework, bills to pay,
• 49:30
  Speaker 12: family problems, and a thousand reasons to say he can't
• 49:34
  Speaker 12: help today. And yet, time and time again, he shows up.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: And I would have said, and every time he comes
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: into Manhattan, he has to pay congestion pricing, too. They
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: do that to people that web in, too? Yeah, yeah.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Oh, of course.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: They attach you from the cradle to the grave. So
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: maybe that's the reason I wasn't invited. I think there's
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: a plethora of reasons that you weren't invited. But let's
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: get to some talkbacks.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Curtis, Sustains are in a time.
• 50:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not. They're just a little bit better. Nice try,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: big boy. Oh, big boy. My grandfather, Fidelio Bianchino, said, hey,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: the cheaches, the zips, cold language for Sicilianos, they're not
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: real Italians. A lot of Italians thought that.
• 50:22
  Speaker 16: Curtis, most likely the reason they're not just raising the
• 50:26
  Speaker 16: bridge is because of the approaches on both sides. You
• 50:31
  Speaker 16: can't just raise the bridge. You have to elevate the
• 50:34
  Speaker 16: roadways on both sides, and it may not be feasible
• 50:37
  Speaker 16: to do that given the lay of the land in
• 50:40
  Speaker 16: that particular area.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, so he's talking about the portal bridge. They have
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: to open occasionally the truss swing bridge, which causes all
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: kinds of problems. Where there's a will, there's a way.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Red Chinese seem to be able to do it all
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: the time.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I think they could have done it. I think it
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: would have been more expensive.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
• 50:58
  Speaker 17: I love John Decker, but the polls, are you kidding me?
• 51:01
  Speaker 17: Let go of the polls. Put your finger on the pulse.
• 51:05
  Speaker 17: That's what's happening. We are not going to lose. We're
• 51:08
  Speaker 17: not going to win, but we're not going to lose.
• 51:12
  Speaker 17: I mean, the Republicans. So that's what's happening. If you
• 51:16
  Speaker 17: go to the polls, John Decker, they are clueless.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Can you explain that to me?
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Because she had me up until she said, we're going
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: to win, but we're going to lose.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Let her go. Let her go. Let her go.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: And let me make her feel a little bit better.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Harry Enten has published just done something which I think
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: is tremendous. He's looked at the polls. He's the guy
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: at CNN, the map guy and the poll guy. He's
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: looked at the national polls from the last four elections.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: That's midterms and presidential elections. The polls have undercounted Republicans
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: by two to four points. If that holds up this time,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I'm just giving you some hope. If that holds up
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: this time, they keep the Senate and they win a
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: total of 53 seats because they win Texas, they win Ohio,
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: They win Alaska and they win Iowa. So if the
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: polls are consistent, Republicans will keep the Senate.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Hope that makes you feel better. Keep hope alive. That's
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Keep hope alive! Well, it's numbers. It's stats.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: So if they keep making the same problems with the polls,
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Republicans will keep the Senate. Now let's get the Daria
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Albinger with the 730 News.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: Morning, guys.
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: Mostly sunny, mild and muggy today with a high of
• 52:29
  Speaker 9: 71 degrees. City officials are calling on Target to stop
• 52:32
  Speaker 9: cooperating with ICE after agents shot a man near one
• 52:36
  Speaker 9: of the chain stores in Upper Manhattan last week. And
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: this comes as Mayor Mamdani says the city will conduct
• 52:41
  Speaker 9: its own investigation into the incident.
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: Mamdani over the weekend ripped ICE agents saying when you
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: see the video of last week's shooting, it feels like
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: you're looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: someone who's representing a federal agency.
• 52:53
  Speaker 15: They view the law as a suggestion. There is a
• 52:56
  Speaker 15: reason why the NYPD would not be shooting at a
• 52:59
  Speaker 15: moving vehicle.
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: The ICE agents were wearing plain clothes. Department of Homeland
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: Security says Oscar Belgal, who has a criminal record, tried
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: fleeing the arrest in Marble Hill, ramming an ICE vehicle
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: before ICE agents shot him in the neck. Mamdani says
• 53:11
  Speaker 7: the city's investigating. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
• 53:15
  Speaker 9: The mayor also calling out the Department of Homeland Security
• 53:17
  Speaker 9: for searching the Washington, D.C. area home of Minnesota Congresswoman
• 53:21
  Speaker 9: Ilhan Omar. He says Omar, who, like him, identifies as
• 53:25
  Speaker 9: a Democratic socialist, should not have her citizenship threatened because
• 53:29
  Speaker 9: of her political views. Three weeks to the midterms, voters
• 53:32
  Speaker 9: say inflation is the top issue.
• 53:35
  Speaker 18: Asked to consider 15 hot-button issues going into the midterms,
• 53:39
  Speaker 18: the top issue by far with 37% was inflation. It's
• 53:43
  Speaker 18: the highest polling for inflation since YouGov started asking the
• 53:47
  Speaker 18: question in 2022. Second on the issues list, jobs and
• 53:50
  Speaker 18: the economy at 12%. When asked, 47% say the economy
• 53:53
  Speaker 18: is in bad shape. tying a high in 2023.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I'm Rory O'Neill.
• 54:00
  Speaker 9: Tonight, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Republican Bruce Blakeman
• 54:03
  Speaker 9: will meet for their only debate. It's hosted by Spectrum One. Now,
• 54:06
  Speaker 9: this is one great pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Minnesota farmers' gourd
• 54:10
  Speaker 9: won this year's world championship in Half Moon Bay, California.
• 54:13
  Speaker 9: This pumpkin is half the size of a car, and
• 54:15
  Speaker 9: it tips the scales at over 3,100 pounds. Think of
• 54:19
  Speaker 9: all the pie you could make. Devils lose to Ottawa 4-1.
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  Speaker 9: Next news, 8 o'clock, bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 54:26
  Speaker 9: on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Well, a flight coming into JFK with a well-known Hollywood
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: actress on it, and she goes berserk. And now she's
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: under arrest. We've got all the audio and the details
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: coming up for you next. You probably know the actress
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: Selma Blair, right? She was big, early 2000s especially, movies
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: like Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde. Hellboy, the sweetest thing. For
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: a while there, she was on quite a roll, but
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: she hasn't had a big movie now for a while. Well,
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: she was on a flight coming from Los Angeles to
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, and she had an incident.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: And the only way you can describe this is she
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: went crazy. She apparently tried to open the door to
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: the airplane.
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  Speaker 17: She was.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: fighting with the passengers, and she was screaming.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to play you something that was recorded
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: within the phone, by a phone within the airline. But
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: I want you to please get your volume control in
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: your hand just in case, because this is really hard.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: On the ears. Here you go.
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  Speaker 9: No!
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  Speaker 10: No!
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  Speaker 2: No!
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  Speaker 1: No!
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: You can hear the alarm going off in the background,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: and that is her having a fit as they try
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: to contain her. And as they came into JFK, air
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: traffic control called ahead to make sure that there were
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: police there and medical personnel.
• 56:08
  Speaker 8: We'd like to have some medical personnel at the gates
• 56:12
  Speaker 8: for a couple of the FAs involved in the passenger incident.
• 56:15
  Speaker 8: They just need to get a couple things looked at.
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: Okay, I will pass it along.
• 56:19
  Speaker 8: Just get an estimated station count for me, please. How
• 56:21
  Speaker 8: many ambulances will need? No ambulances, just some medical personnel
• 56:25
  Speaker 8: available for two flight attendants at the gate should be fine.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there were some severe problems with a couple
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: of people. As you said, they don't need an ambulance,
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: but people had to get stitches from a human bite.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: And also somebody was slashed.
• 56:45
  Speaker 17: The abusive passenger, did that result in the two flight
• 56:50
  Speaker 17: attendants that are requested paramedics?
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, one flight attendant and one passenger that sustained some
• 56:56
  Speaker 8: minor injuries, a bloody nose as well as some bite marks.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: Some bite marks, but she did break skin. Here's what
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: you should know about her. By the way, she's already
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: been charged. She already appeared in court. and she's been
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: let go on her own recognizance. But here's what you
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: should know about her, which I didn't know until today.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: She has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and that's, as
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: you probably know, an autoimmune disease that affects the central
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: nervous system. She publicly revealed this in 2018, but it's
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: been afflicting her all her life. Now, I don't know
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: much about multiple sclerosis. Maybe you do, Curtis, or maybe
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: some of our listeners do. But does it cause you
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: to do this? Does it cause you, if it affects
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: your central nervous systems, to react like this? Because I
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: can't figure out what was going on with her.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: No, I think the most recent case of MS, I
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: stand to be corrected, Wasn't that Janice Steen who had
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: to leave as the weatherwoman of the Fox News channel
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: in the mornings as a result of her continued problems
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: with MS, her physical disability? Now, to her credit, she
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: turned that diagnosis into becoming an advocate for disability rights.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: But she also had had a problem one time taking
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: a flight down to Cancun. Well, she got out of control.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: Not to this extent. This is real. I mean, imagine
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: you're you're trying to open up a door mid flight
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: from L.A. to JFK on a Delta flight. You open
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: that door by any way you were able to do that.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: You're causing potentially mass casualties. And then, as you heard,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: screaming and out of control. But in that flight to Cancun,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: she had gotten out of control nowhere near as bad
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: as this, but blamed it on mixing alcohol with drugs.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: So I think it's probably a combination of issues. But, boy,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: she's in serious need of help. She jeopardized an entire
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: flight and attacked the flight attendants. who were trying to
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: get her under control, punching out a passenger, biting a
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: flight attendant, screaming, yelling. clearly beset with all kinds of
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: mental issues. But I'm wondering, was it triggered by possibly
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: alcohol and drugs?
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: Well, here she went to Queens Criminal Court, two counts
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: of second-degree assault, and this is what her defense attorney said.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Sean Barnes is the defense attorney. He emphasized that the
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: actions were entirely non-intentional, explaining that Blair had hopped on
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: the flight after extensive and grueling hours on a film set,
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: And it missed several critical doses of her medication. So
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. Maybe somebody who's out
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: there who has dealt with MS before would know if
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: it would cause this type of reaction. But what he's
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: saying is she was off her meds.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if that was for MS. Most
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: times people who have had MS, if they don't have
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: access to the meds or if they've been off the meds,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: basically it, destabilizes them, not in a capacity where they're
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: mentally reaching out, but like physically they can't do anything.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. It's like I'd go back to
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: that Cancun situation where she sort of gave a preview
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: of how she might behave under the influence of mixing
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: alcohol and drugs. And you know on flights, she was
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: probably in first class. They're going to give her whatever
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: she wants to drink.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: I think it's also interesting that there's some claims that
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: she was mixing alcohol with the drugs, assuming that she's
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: taken those drugs for MS, and then her lawyer immediately
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: says she wasn't on her drugs.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Somebody got the wrong story. To be continued, but obviously
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: this woman is in serious need of help. Boy, she
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: could have taken down that whole flight. Yeah, absolutely. Anyway,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: up next, oh, she was in the streets of the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Columbus Day Parade yesterday, Natalie Immigliore, and she's going to
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: bring back all the comments to us and comments from
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman, who tonight has his one and unfortunately only
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: opportunity to debate Governor Kathy Hochul. Now, it's 710WOR Speed
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Well, back from the
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus parade yesterday, Natalie. Did you have a good time?
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Did you have your sausage and peppers while you were there?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't have my sausage and peppers, but I
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: was among my paisans, so it was all good.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Did you two see each other there?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: No, it's such a big parade.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 5: I think, Curtis, you started on the other side of
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 5: the people of the street.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: That's correct. I didn't go where the scrum of reporters were.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I stayed to the side, so if the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: reporters wanted to come to me, they could. If they didn't,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: no big deal.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: And I see him every day, and we get to
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: hear his opinions daily.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Every day. So you want some distance every once in
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: a while.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 5: It's nice to see him out in the wild. But
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: I had to go chase. I had to go chase
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: one of our governor candidates. And we'll get to that
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: at the end of it, because our day, our weeks
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 5: are shorter.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: Not for us.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: We were in the studio yesterday because of Columbus Day
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: or Indigenous People's Day or Italian American Heritage Day.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know what people want to call it these days.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: Many consider it, though, the perfect day to celebrate Italian-American heritage,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: but there have been disputes over what to call the
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: day for years now.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: It's Columbus Day all the way. It'll always be Columbus Day.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: None of us were here 500 years ago.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 15: We all don't know what actually happened, but let's preserve
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 15: the positive image of Italian-American heritage.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Columbus Day is fine.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: It's always been Columbus Day.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: Not Indigenous Day. It's Columbus Day. It's Columbus Day.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 5: What do you think when you hear people call it
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: this Indigenous Peoples Day?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: I think they're * * * *. And I was
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: being polite. Wow.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: He really was being polite.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Are you sure he didn't direct that at Joran Mondami?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: Honestly, later on in the conversation, it could have gotten there.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 5: Escalating quickly at that point. Now, Governor Kathy Hochul attended
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: yesterday's parade, along with a slew of lawmakers and candidates
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: running for various levels of office.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: It's an election year, so everyone wants to make their
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: presence known, especially at an event like this.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 5: But Mayor Mamdani was absent from the festivities despite getting
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: an invite.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 19: I think that says a lot in itself, because as
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 19: a mayor, you should support everything and anything going on
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 19: in your city. Whether you agree with it or not,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 19: I think it's just very professional of you to attend everything.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 9: He might have learned something about the Italian people if
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 9: he came here, but he doesn't care, doesn't want to know.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: It's too bad. I think it's better that he shows
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: up because he doesn't like us. He would have been
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: booed if he showed up.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: It's their loss. Oh, that was a good one.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: That was who?
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: The last time I was at a parade, actually covering
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: a parade was the not. And somebody was booed was
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: the Veterans Day parade. And it was former Mayor de Blasio.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: who was booed walking down the streets.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: He got booed, but he would be oblivious. He would
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: just wave.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: Well, he would wave and keep the smile on his
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 5: face as if to say, ha-ha, I'm still your mayor.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: What was the boo total now? It was Hochul, Letitia James.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: Who else? Anybody else? No, those two. But I felt
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: it was Tish James who got a little more boos
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: than Hochul. But they were both booed as surrogates for
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Zoran Mandami not being there. Surrogate.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: Because, you know, you see, though, like these people, there
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: was actually one guy wearing a shirt that and I
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: interviewed him that said, make America Italian again.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: And it was in the same font as make America
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: great again. So, I mean, these are people who lean
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: more conservative. You're not, you know, even if they and
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: there are some people who.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: Even came over from Italy to see the Columbus Day Parade,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: you know, or they happen to be here and see
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 5: the festivities.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: Now, the mayor.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 5: The mayor did put out a prerecorded video acknowledging Italian
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: American heritage. Another person who was there, Nassau County Executive
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: Bruce Blakeman, who is running for governor. The Republicans actually
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: preparing for his first and only debate.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: Against Governor Kathy Hochul this evening. I pulled him.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: We had, you know, Curtis saw the whole reporter gaggly thing,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 5: but I had to pull him aside. I asked him
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: directly how he felt that this seven o'clock meeting was
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: is only happening on Spectrum New York 1, which only
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: reaches about 2 million households in the city.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 10: I got, I believe, seven invitations from every media outlet
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 10: in New York State. And I accepted all of them.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 10: Kathy Hochul only accepted one, Spectrum. That is one of
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 10: the smaller media outlets. And it's designed so that people
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 10: won't look at her record and won't look at my
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 10: record and compare the two.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Because if they compare my record with her record, they're
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: going to vote for me.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so he was very adamant.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: He even said yesterday when we interviewed him, He is
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: going to be the governor come November 3rd. The polls
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: are tightening, but Governor Hochul has held a double-digit lead,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: and we'll see what the debate does tonight. But all
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 5: of the elected officials, varying in people who want to.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: Be elected, many of them were there yesterday.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: You said something interesting. You said that most of the
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: people there are conservative. Italian-Americans mostly conservative?
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been conservative in New York City. So you
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: could be like Magaliori.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: Like what he calls me? No, guys, the I in
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 5: Migliori stands for independent.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, got it.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 10: Nice.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: I just came up with that on the spot.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: That's funny. No, no, no, no.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: Well, the MAGA girl, I mean, Natalie Migliore.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: Migliore.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: I'm a reporter. We'll be back tomorrow morning at 7.50. Meantime,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: up next, there is pressure to fire Police Commissioner Jessica
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Tisch by the DSA, which have been the primary supporters.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: for the rise politically of Zoran Mandami. We'll get to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: that after the 8 o'clock news. So with the shooting
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: of the illegal alien by ICE up in Marble Hill,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: it's been a steady drumbeat for Zoran Mandami to let
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, go. By the DSA, Democrats,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Socialists of America, which was the parent organization of that
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: functioned to provide assistance, boots on the ground, the Zoranistas,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: as I call them, to win the primary against Andrew Cuomo,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: and then the general election against Cuomo and myself. They
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: never wanted Jessica Tisch. They basically were tolerant, they said,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: because they didn't want to affect the brand new mayor
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: coming into office. And I can only tell you, Larry,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: it was a defining moment in the race. It was
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: that last debate. All three of us on the stage
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: were asked by the moderators, would you ask Jessica Tisch
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: to continue on as police commissioner? All three of us
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: said yes. Cuomo had the best relationship with her and
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: her family because they had all funded his campaign. All
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: of her siblings, the family, you know, gave matching contributions
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: for his election effort. You may have remembered soon after
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: Zoran was elected, uh Jessica Tisch's brother gave a fire
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: and brimstone speech against Zoran Mondami at some kind of
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: a Jewish event when he was the honoree yeah so
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: uh they've had a I would say a relationship of
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: convenience for both she could have easily have said at
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: that time after straightening out the police uh department, especially
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: one police plaza, all the corruption there that Adams had
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: put into place, police commissioner, all the deputies. It was
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: a horror house of corruption. She straightened it out. She
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: could have easily said, I'll only stay on if Andrew
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: Cuomo is the nominee. If not, I'll go my own way.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: But there were backbench meetings between her, her advisers, Zoran
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Mandami and his advisers, And they basically had a professional
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: marriage of convenience. It took a while.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: It seemed like there were some negotiations going on, like
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: you stay out of this, you stay out of this,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: you have to do this, you have to get in
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: line here. So there was a lot of back and
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: forth in all of that. But do you know the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: reason the DSA wants her out?
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because she stands there and prevents Zorhan Mandami from
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: doing all he wants to do to neuter And weaken
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: the police department.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: Well, the new reason, the new reason, and this is from,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: and correct me if I have this name wrong, Daria
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: Elisa Avila Chevalier.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: Chevalier. Chevalier.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: Daria Elisa, she has to pick a, she has to
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: pick some type of nationality. That seems like some French
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: and some.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: Weird. I think she's Haitian. She came up from Miami.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Like a lot of these DSA people, you wouldn't call
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: them original New Yorkers. You know, they've had a cup
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: of coffee here, but they get involved politically. And unexpectedly,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: she beat the longest serving Dominican congressman.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: And she's a democratic socialist. And you know who she
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: was on with on the podcast? Hasan Piker.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Of course. And this is what she said about Tish.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 12: The other thing.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: That really.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: Angered me was.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 21: When Police Commissioner Tish came out. I understand that it
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 21: is her role to provide more information, and that is
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 21: why she comes to these press conferences. But rather than
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 21: condemn ICE, rather than condemn the shooting or the events
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 21: that had just taken place, she started to villainize ICE.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: Oscar.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: Villainize him. Did you hear it? Did you hear the
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: news conference? Yeah, I did. Yeah.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: She never villainized him. All she said was he's been
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: charged with this and he was convicted of this.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: That's it. She was a rap sheet. Sergeant Joe Friday.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Just the facts. Just the facts. They're upset that he
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: gave his rap sheet. That's what they're upset with. And
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: they want her out because of that. They are absolutely insane. Well,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: they always wanted her out. And I think to deflect
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: on this, Kazaran obviously owes his rise in the Democratic
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Party to the DSA. They provided all the foot troops,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: all the initial money, all the support. Nobody knew who
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: he was. Not even his neighbors knew who he was.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: He was the assembly person in Astoria. Low person. Can
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: I say this on indigenous people's day? Low person on
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: the totem pole amongst the Democratic Socialists of America. So
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: they elevated him. Now, he worked hard with the Zoranistas,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: but they provided the glue, the funds, the initial support.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: So I think to offset this. He now says he's
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: going to take aim at the NYPD use of force policy,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: and he's called for improved police department accountability. Hasn't said
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: exactly what that means.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said some other things, too. He still wants
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: to get rid of the strategic response group. They went
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: after him on that. You just said a moment ago
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: they've always disliked Tish. Yes, but there is a new cry.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: This is coming up now. It's a new cry to
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: get her out. And there's a new cry against Mamdani
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: to do more. And that's why he said this yesterday.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: He said, you know, just give me time. I'm going
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: to get to it. I'm going to get to it.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 15: That is something that we're going to be sharing with
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 15: New Yorkers over the coming weeks. It is something that
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 15: I committed to in my campaign and I've been clear about,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 15: not just in the past few weeks, but frankly, over
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 15: the past 10 months. A commitment to disband the strategic
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 15: response group, which again is a commitment to decouple our
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 15: police response to the exercising of First Amendment activities and
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 15: to terroristic threats.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: So they keep pushing him. The Democratic Socialists are pushing
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: him to do more. So they want him to get
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: rid of Tisch, which would be an enormous mistake. and
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: they want him to get rid of the strategic response group.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: And this comes from a guy who has once written
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: that he wanted to defund the police.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: So we know where he stands. We know where the
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: democratic socialist stands.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: I guess the question is, when is there going to
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: be this big opposition? I mean, I know there's people
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: like me and others that are upset with him and
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: speak out against him, but we need another person, another
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: leader to step up and say, enough is enough, and
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: right now we don't have it.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: Now, it won't work because she is his insurance policy.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: And remember, when he was asked, Who is the greatest
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: mayor of your lifetime? He said Bill de Blasio. And
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: Bill de Blasio has been a mentor to him. Bill
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: de Blasio was in somewhat of a similar position. Let
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: me take you back. He wins 2013, the Democratic primary,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: against all odds. He was like down number five, six.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: He wins because the relationship he had with his son,
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: a father and a son. Very well done commercials. And
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: the other Democrats just began to just disintegrate their campaigns.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: The weak spot he had the Achilles heel was Joe Loder,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: who ran against him, probably the worst campaign of any
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Republican running for mayor, about this will bring us back
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: to the 70s. You know, burned out buildings, gangs everywhere.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: He was using film from the 70s. So people were like, yeah, okay,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: we elected him, but I don't know if he's good
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: with law and order. So right away, what did he do?
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Four days after he got elected, I want Bill Bratton
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: to be my police commissioner. Meantime, his wife... Hated Bill Bratton.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: She wanted Phil Banks, who eventually ended up becoming an
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: unindicted co-conspirator. She wanted him. She said, I want him.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: So there was battles. And he said, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: He's got a law and order reputation. And that's what
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: saved him in those initial two years before George Floyd.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: By then, Bratton was out and all chaos ensued in
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: the city.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: But this right now, right now, this is a reflex moment,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: not only for Mamdani, but for the city. The DSA
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: feels emboldened by this. The DSA is rising, and they're
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: speaking out, and they're speaking out against him. They're saying
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: he hasn't done enough. They're making demands about who should
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: be fired. Now, this is his core, so it's not insignificant.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: These are the people that put him into office. And
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: you've heard him. He responded immediately and said, no, no, no,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: strategic response group, it's going away.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: It's going to go away.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: If they get that, they're going to make more demands,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: and he's going to go farther socialist, farther to the left.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: He's going to get crazier and crazier, and there's nobody
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: here to step up against him.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: Everybody has been bowing to him. He has a fallback.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: Former number three in the New York City Police Department
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: under Comrade Bill de Blasio, Rodney Harrison, and under Adams.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: He left to become Suffolk County Police Commissioner. And for
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: a while, they were like Batman and Robin, the prosecutor
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: out in Suffolk and him. They were doing very well.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: And then there were some charges like he was sexually
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: harassing some of the women. So he left before that
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: even rose to the top. He has been a part-time consigliere.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: to Zoran Mandami. This was well reported early on. So
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: I think if things go south, if Jessica Tisch were
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: to ever say, I've had it. No way. I'm not
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: doing these things. I will not be your police commissioner.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: I go on. And that means she'll run against him
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: for mayor in some capacity. Love to see that. He
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: will just insert Rodney Harrison. Oh my God. Who already
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: knows the mechanisms of the NYPD and has been advising him.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's what he wants to do. But
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: it's always a potential fallback situation. I believe he's going
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: to pay lip service to the DSA, but they're not
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: strong enough to challenge him. At this point, he's 70%
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: in the polls. He's the most popular Democrat in New
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: York State. I get it. I get it. But then
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: why did he just bow to the DSA? He just
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: bowed to them. No, he didn't. You should have heard him. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, no, no.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do that. I'm getting to it. I
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: just only had 10 months so far.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do everything you wanted.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you what, it's time to pack up.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: It's time to get out of here because the socialists
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: are going to take over completely.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 14: Barry.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: I've heard it from his own mouth. Everything is still
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: in place. You believe, people. You never trust politicians. They
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: lie every day.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: He's lying. No, I don't think he is. You don't
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: think he is. Let's see. He's lied so far.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: The strategic response group will be gone within six months.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: If I'm wrong, then you can say that it's a liar.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: He just said it's still there. What do you keep
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: saying that for? He said from day one it'll be gone.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: It's still there.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: It'll be renamed. It'll be under a... I'm telling you,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: if you've been around long enough in New York City, Larry,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: they all lie. Don't trust any politicians. He's got to
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: keep that DSA force below him. He's got to. He's
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: gone beyond them. No, he hasn't. He hasn't.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: You believe that. He has not gone beyond them. He's
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: an international national figure. Yeah, in your mind and his mind.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: No, no, not my mind. When we come back, we've
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: got to go.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: Michael Jordan's jersey sells and you won't believe. This is
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: a jersey from the finals. You won't believe what it
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: sells for. Plus, a chance to see Journey next. And
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: don't forget... Jimmy Fallon, coming up at 8.35.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: All right. A Michael Jordan 1998 NBA Finals Game 2
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: jersey just went up for auction. Now, if you know,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: don't guess. But take a guess how much it went for. Oh,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: I'd say $ 500, 000.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: $ 500, 000?
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: That's a good guess. $ 14 million.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: Chush.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: And by the way, how is it authenticated? Because, you know,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: in the locker room, they sign a lot of jerseys
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: sometimes when they win games, you know, for the person
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: that they have a contractual relationship with who is in
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: that business of selling what they call non-knockoffs. You know,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: an original Michael jersey, game jersey, game two against the Knicks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it says here sports memorabilia is authenticated by verifying
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: physical materials, ink, and signatures against large databases or by
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: observing the item being signed or used in person or
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: dealing with the team and the individual to make sure
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: that it's true.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: How much of this money did Michael Jordan get who
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: has a severe gambling issue that he deals with? Does
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: he still have a gambling issue? Him and his buddy,
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, man, they're welcoming anybody when they're playing golf
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: to play for big money.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: Anyway, just to wrap up this story, $ 14 million is
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: the most ever paid for basketball memorabilia. However, it comes
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: well short of the most expensive sports memorabilia ever. The
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: Babe Ruth 1932 World Series called shot jersey. What the
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: hell is that? Most expensive sports memorabilia ever made.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, he did that against the Chicago Cubs. Remember,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: it was in the movie. He visits the kid who's
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: in the hospital. He's ill, probably with cancer. And he goes,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: whatever you want, kid, I'll do for you.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: I want you, babe, to hit a home run. Oh,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: so it's the jersey he wore when he hit that
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: home run. He pointed to the right field and he
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: hit a home run. I thought it said called shot
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: on the jersey. And so I was just completely misreading
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: it myself. Yeah, I don't know how they authenticate this stuff,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: but it must be authenticated.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: I'm a little suspicious when it comes to sports paraphernalia.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Just them. All right. Well, I'll tell you what.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: Since you brought up Michael Jordan and his gambling problem,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: the big story in Chicago was from people that are
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: pretty close to the Bulls. Do you remember when he
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: was standing at the foul line? and he closed his
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: eyes and he made a shot?
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: No. The foul shot?
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: No. It's kind of a famous scene. Apparently, he bet
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: on that. He said on the court during the game,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: I'll bet you $ 50, 000 I can make this shot with
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: my eyes closed. I can't verify it's true, but it
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: was told by some people that I would trust in
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: knowing it was true.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: Did anybody take him up on that? Apparently so. Charles Barkley.
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: That's why he did it. Probably Charles Barkley.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: I'll have to look back to see if it was
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: Charles Barkley because that makes a lot of sense. Also,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: remember he left the game because of his dad dealing with.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: The— He loved baseball.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: He went to the minor leagues.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: No, apparently it was that incident where they said, hey,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: we don't want to make a big deal out of this,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: but you've got to take a year off. You've got
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: to go. We don't want to suspend you. Just take
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: a year off. Then he decided to play baseball. That's
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: all coming from Chicago. How much of that is true?
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 5: So the whole baseball thing was just to get him
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 5: out of basketball for a little while to quiet down
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 5: all the gambling?
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think they quite cared what he did.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: But then he made it. I always wanted to play baseball.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: By the way, he was horrible in the minor leagues. Horrible.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: He bought the bus, a state-of-the-art bus for the team,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: so they loved him. The Birmingham Barons, I think.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I went to cover one of the games, and
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: a scout said to me, you know what it's about
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: at this level and all through baseball?
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: Bat speed. And he ain't got it. Mm-mm.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: That's what he said to me. So I kind of
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: knew he wasn't going to make it. Now let's get
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: to Daria Albinger with.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: The 830 News. Daria.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 9: First concert I ever saw. Journey and Loverboy. I'd go
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 9: see him again.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: Wait a second. You saw him with Steve Perry?
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. I'm that old.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 9: Yes, I did see him.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: With Steve Perry. No, that's great. That's wonderful. That's a
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: bucket list.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 9: He was incredible. Yeah, I'd see him again. I'd see
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 9: them again in a heartbeat with or without Steve Perry.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 9: Mostly sunny, mild and muggy with a high of 71 degrees.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 9: He was a great singer. It's a record most Americans
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 9: would rather not see broken.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 20: Today marks 157 days in 2026 when the national average
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 20: price for regular unleaded gas has been over $ 4 a gallon,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 20: tying the record set in 2022. GasBuddy puts the nationwide
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 20: average today at $ 4. 32 a gallon, virtually ensuring that tomorrow
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 20: the country will break that streak from four years ago.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 9: That's ABC's Jim Ryan. Inflation is the number one issue
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 9: heading into the midterm elections, which are just three weeks
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 9: from today, and that's what 37% of the respondents said
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 9: to a YouGov survey. It's the highest percentage since YouGov
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 9: started asking that question four years ago. The poll says
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 9: jobs and the economy was number two. Tonight, Governor Hochul
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 9: and Republican nominee Bruce Blakeman will meet in their only debate.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: Despite several polls showing the governor with a double-digit lead
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 5: over her Republican challenger, Blakeman says those results are well
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 5: within the margin of error.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 10: And who funds these polls? State of New York, maybe? Oh, well,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 10: who runs the state of New York?
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 4: He believes the race is neck and neck.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: And by the way, you don't need a poll.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 10: You don't attack a Republican in New York State in
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 10: a statewide election and spend $ 6 million over two weeks
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 10: unless you're in deep trouble. And Kathy Hochul is in
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 10: deep trouble. And on November 3rd, I will be elected
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 10: the next governor of the state.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 9: Pope Leo will have surgery today to remove an early
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 9: stage growth from his lung. The 71-year-old U.S.-born pontiff made
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 9: the announcement Sunday during his prayer at St. Peter's Square.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 9: And a jersey that was worn by NBA legend Michael
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 9: Jordan during the 1998 NBA Finals sold at auction for
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 9: a record $ 14 million to a real estate investor from Miami.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 9: It's the third jersey that Jordan wore during the last
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 9: dance finals, which fetched more than $ 10 million. The Devils
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 9: lost to Ottawa 4-1. Next news, 9 o'clock.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: Bulletins at once.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 9: I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to George Brosnan from Farmingdale, New York, who just
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: won a pair of tickets to see Journey October 25th
• 1:26:08
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  Speaker 1: fail me, Jimmy Failure. Remember, you go to sleep with
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• 1:26:24
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• 1:26:34
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• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: wake up with Larry and me in the morning at 6. But, Jimmy,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: I'm concerned about you because I saw what happened at
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: Tallarico when he came to New York City September 28th, 2019.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: He was right here. He was at Power 105, you know,
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: Charlemagne the God appealing to the black community in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And then he came down with the flu and he
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: was out for 10 days. I said to you the
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: last time, you were the busiest guy in show business ever. Jimmy,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: I will sit here in this studio. I will hold
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: your hand tight as you get your flu shot because
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 1: we don't want you to miss doing a doubleheader in Sandusky,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio and wheeling West Virginia the same night and then
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  Speaker 1: coming back and doing all your appearances on the Fox
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  Speaker 1: News channel.
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  Speaker 14: I can't tell if you're taking shots at me or
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 14: you're taking shots at my agent. But I will have
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 14: you know, Curtis, me and my bubonic plague you've just
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 14: diagnosed me with. Are down in, I was in Clearwater
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  Speaker 14: Beach this weekend. I just wrapped up two hot sold
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 14: out shows, by the way. And I may or may
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 14: not be filming an episode of Bar Rescue. But the
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 14: one thing I will tell you about you and your
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 14: vaccine and all that other jazz is I got hoodwinked
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 14: once by one of these. I got the Johnson and
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 14: Johnson during COVID. But what they didn't tell me is
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 14: it was Magic Johnson and Keyshawn Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm in a whole world.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know what to do. I don't know what
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 14: to do. It's just nice to hear your voice from
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 14: down here in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's talk about Telerico for a second, because I'd
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: like to get your opinion as what happened. And in
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: the MAGA world, in the conservative world, there are a
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: lot of rumors going around that he had to get
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: mental health checked, that he tried to commit suicide, that
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: it was a sexual disease that he had, and he
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: had to get treated we didn't hear from him for
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: two weeks what do you think it.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 14: Was well it's concerning okay because guy disappeared for two
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 14: weeks he's not even in the senate and he already
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 14: thinks he's mitch mcconnell you know you got to keep
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 14: these guys in check. But in truth, there was some
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 14: type of exhaustion, I mean, is my guess. You know,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 14: he's calling it the flu. The guy might have been burned.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 14: I don't have the honest answer. But what they did,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 14: which is interesting, if you know how political ops work,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 14: Is somebody tipped off a conservative influencer that he was
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 14: being treated in.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: This Ohio healthcare facility.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 14: Somebody then went and recorded a phone call that may
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 14: or may not have been with the actual facility. But
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 14: the point is that kind of tip is usually given
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 14: to somebody who's not trying to help the Republicans. He's
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 14: trying to make them look bad because everybody goes out,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 14: runs the story. And then the Democrats go, see, it's
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 14: not true. The clinic said he had nothing to do
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 14: with them. And in theory, that puts the story to bed,
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 14: at least from the mental health angle. But the truth is,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 14: we don't know that he wasn't treated. We just don't
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 14: know that he was. So you're supposed to just show
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 14: a little more restraint. But I just think this is
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 14: where we are now. It's not good. We live in
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 14: this maximum strength Tylenol world. where everyone is dealing in absolutes,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 14: and nobody has any idea. That's what I find so
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 14: fascinating about this. Even the Ilhan Omar thing, okay? Everybody
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 14: was like, Trump is fascist, whatever the hell this is.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 14: Those warrants were signed for under Joe Biden, okay? It
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 14: did not start under Trump, okay? And we should be
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 14: concerned that we've got a congresswoman who met her husband,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 14: matched with him on a dating app called Ancestry.com, okay?
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: That's concerning. Wait a second. Ancestry.com. Now, which husband was it?
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: Was it her brother? Was it the first husband?
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  Speaker 14: That's what I was going for with the Ancestry. See,
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 14: I missed that.
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  Speaker 1: It went right over my head. How many of those
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: shots have you taken? Well, I would have held. Do
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: you have a vaccine injury? What's going on? I would
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: have held Tyler Rico's hand if he would have gotten
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: the vaccine when he was up here. But I want
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: to take you to Ohio, the Buckeye State. The president's
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: been acting a little strange of late. You know, when
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: he met with Zoran, he said, boy, this is a
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: handsome man. And then he's on the stage, packed the audience,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: and he's looking at the sitting senator who replaced J.D.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 8: Vance.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: And he goes, you know, Husted, I knew you were
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: a great athlete. I was staring at your ass. What
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: the hell was that about? Well, here's the thing, man.
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  Speaker 14: He needs the gay vote as much as the straight vote.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: All these votes count the same, Curtis. I don't know
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about here.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 14: He's just out there trying to boost some guy's poll numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, much like Trump, you've performed around the country. You've
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: been to all these red states like Ohio and Iowa
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: and Texas. I don't know if you've ever been to
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: Alaska to perform, but You know, Alaska is one of them, too.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: Do you see any chance of them really going blue
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: for a Senate seat?
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. But this is the big problem.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: It's always, you know, obviously.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 13: Turnout, but like.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 14: Paxton is not a good candidate, man. And Republicans will
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 14: tell you that too. It's like, you know, Tallarico's nuts, okay?
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: And we know that.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 14: But it's not like Paxton is this slam dunk guy,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 14: just the same. So that race, nothing would shock me. Ohio, Man,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 14: that is where my wife is from. And that state
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 14: is all over the map right now. So it's weird.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 14: But when I'm on the road, there's one thing I'll
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 14: tell you, okay? Is they're never talking about what the
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 14: media is talking about. Meaning they're talking about bills, safety,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 14: human issues. And the media is focused, it's a lot
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 14: of sensationalism. Like last night at the Trump rally, a
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 14: protester got thrown out, it was crazy. that'll get a
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 14: lot of airtime today, but nobody will vote based on that.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 14: So I, I, you know, I'm upfront enough to say,
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 14: I don't know, you know, that I guess is the
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 14: best answer I can give you.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: You mean the guy, he said, you need a diet.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: That guy?
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 14: Which was a girl, by the way.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm pretty sure. How do you know? How do
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: you know for sure? Listen, man, in this day and age,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: you don't.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 14: But she did look like her pronouns were cat and lady.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: So... Well, the offer is still available. I would be
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: more than happy to sit with you in the studio,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: hold your hand real tight. Oh, real tight. While you
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: get that flu vaccine, I don't want to see you
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: down for the count. You're the busiest guy in show business.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I love this show because one of you is like, hey,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 14: why is Trump talking about this guy's ass? And the
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 14: other is like, I want to hold every guy's hand.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: In this city. I love this show. It's my favorite show.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: It's just the best. You just really don't know where
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: it's going to go. All right, Jimmy.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: Hey, congratulations on the sellout for the WOR show.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, we're pumped up for that. Kachina Calandra,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: it's going down.
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  Speaker 14: I've already lied to the wardrobe department and said I
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 14: was out of town so they don't find me eating
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 14: bread in New Jersey.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: So I think we're pulling the goalie. It's going to
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: be a big night.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: By the way, has Natalie been sending you those snapshots.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: Early of the loaves of Italian bread? I'm going to.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 14: We better hang up before I text her a picture
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 14: of my cannoli.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: It's not getting good over here.
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  Speaker 17: Oh!
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that sounded horrible. That just sounded awful. All right,
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: thanks a lot, Jimmy Fallon.
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  Speaker 1: Love you guys. Be good. Wow, when you look at Maine,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: four debates, U.S. senatorial candidates in nine days. And in
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: New York State, once again, four years later, one debate,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: one debate only. for the governorship, Attorney General, Comptroller, last
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: time around Tish James wouldn't even take a debate with
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: Michael Henry, who just barely lost to her. So let's
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: focus on the governor's debate tonight. We can look back
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: when Lee Zeldin debated Kathy Hochul for the one and
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: one only debate. I think hopefully... Blakeman and his team
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: have looked at that and said, what can we do differently?
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: Because we're ahead with men. We're now ahead with independents. Obviously,
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: we're starting to do very well with Republicans, you know,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: waking them up all over the state to come out.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: We've got to get some of the women can't be
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: as harsh as Lee Zeldin was at times. Zeldin was angry.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: can't do that. And don't get sucked up into the
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: illegal alien debate and turn half of it into that. Yeah,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: make your points and then move to what people, all
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: people deal with, affordability, cost of living, and utilities. She
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: controls that. Hit her hard.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would suggest something a little bit different than that,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: only because there's not going to be a whole lot
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: of people that are going to watch this debate.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: First of all, Because of where it is and no
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: disrespect to New York One or Spectrum News One, it's
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: just not going to get a lot of people across
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 2: the state watching it or listening to it. So I
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: think he has to go into it realizing that everybody's
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 2: going to see this on social media and on the news.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: That's where they're going to get it. So he's got
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: to go into this with a couple of great lines
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: or great moments that are already pre-scripted. Go into it
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: and make sure that you have something that's going to
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: stand out so much, everybody's going to play it and
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: possibly lead the news with it. So that's what I
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: think he's got to go into this with, because you
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: realize most voters are not going to watch this. And
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: most voters are going to go by those type of moments.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: And everybody that practices for a debate for one of
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: those moments. And so I hope they're working on it.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they already are, but we'll find out. By
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: the way, if you do want to watch it, you
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: can stream it on YouTube, Spectrum News YouTube channel. Also,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: the live streams are available at the websites of New
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: York One, NY One, and Spectrum News One New York.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: Also on the Spectrum News app.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: I would hope that when he... walks up to the
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: podium and takes his position, he kicks out the box
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: that is going to be set up for Kathy Hochul
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: to stand on. She is the size of Natalie Migliore.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 4: Hey, short people over here, including myself.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: But psychologically, it's been proven it makes a difference when
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: you have a much taller person and a much smaller person. Yeah,
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: you're right. You're an Amazon woman compared to Natalie Migliore.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: I know. Natalie Migliore is really short. She's as tall
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: as Kathy Hochul. Hochul is very short.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 4: I never realized that.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: Let's just say this. If they had a May procession
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 2: parade for eighth graders, she would be up front.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, knock the box out. You know,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: just make it seem like you stumbled over it, you know, Bruce.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: So they have to take it away. I was always
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: that first person online. Were you really?
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 4: It was me and this girl, Lisa. Lisa Schoenbach. It
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 4: was either one or two, you know, it was either
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 4: one of us, depending on the year.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I started off in the front. I grew a lot.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: But so I started out in the front and then
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: slowly went back to the back. And the Talk Back
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: of the Morning and winner of the Curtis Lewin Larry
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: Minty in the morning t-shirt and now in the running
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: for Talk Back of the Week, who will win a
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: Seacrane Radio, had a message for Curtis.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: Curtis, the scenes aren't a time. Yeah, yeah, they're not.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: They're just a little bit better. Nice try, big boy. Oh, really?
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: You're defaming my grandfather, Fidelio Bianchino Bades, who said, don't
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: trust the Cheechers and the Zips, meaning the Sicilians. They're
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: not real Italians.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 4: Should I be bleeping that?
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: The Zips? The Zips. Oh, the Zips. Z-I-P-S. Because I
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: never trusted a Zip growing up.
• 1:38:49
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• 1:38:56
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• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: any more words about Jessica Tisch and obviously Mayor Zoran Mandami,
• 1:39:33
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