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Hour 3: Botched lethal injection · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: I still can't get over what happened in Tennessee this week.
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Speaker 1: It was horrific. And listen, I don't care at all
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Speaker 1: about Krista Pike, the crime she committed when she set
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Speaker 1: up a person that she wanted to kill because that
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Speaker 1: person liked her boyfriend. She used the boyfriend to lure
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Speaker 1: her into the woods. And she and friends tortured the
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Speaker 1: woman and then almost severed her head but slit her throat.
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Speaker 1: It's awful. It is awful. And of course, I understand
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Speaker 1: the family saying, I want this person to be dead.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't you? I get that. But what happened with her?
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Speaker 1: Earlier this week, 50-year-old Krista Pike was given two lethal injections.
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Speaker 1: She screamed of pain. Then she fell asleep. She even snored,
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Speaker 1: and she was taken to the hospital. She's still alive today.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're watching over her. She may pass, but
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Speaker 1: she's hanging in there, and it seems like she's going
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Speaker 1: to live. This was the second botched execution in Tennessee
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Speaker 1: this year. The 19th in the country in the past
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Speaker 1: 10 years, and it's all with lethal injections. This happens
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Speaker 1: way too much. Now, look, I don't care at all.
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Speaker 1: I don't shed a tear for Krista Pike or any
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Speaker 1: of the people that are going to be executed because
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Speaker 1: I know that they committed horrific crimes. I get that.
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Speaker 1: She tortured this poor girl, Colleen Slemmer, who was 19
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Speaker 1: at the time, all the way back in January of 1995.
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Speaker 1: So no, I don't shed a tear for her. And
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Speaker 1: I understand, I completely understand the Old Testament cry of
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Speaker 1: an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth justice.
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Speaker 1: My concern is for the families. My concern is the
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Speaker 1: pain that they go through. Because the only people that
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Speaker 1: profit from this system right now of putting someone to
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Speaker 1: death are the attorneys and their billing hours. Nobody else.
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Speaker 1: Nobody else profits from this. And the fact that we
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Speaker 1: have botched execution after botched execution, to me, is just mind-blowing.
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Speaker 1: I think you've heard from these people already, but I'm
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Speaker 1: going to play it again. It's the witnesses that were there.
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Speaker 1: This is the media. And I've been asked to do
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Speaker 1: this in the past, and I've turned it down because
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Speaker 1: I do not want to be a witness to an execution.
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Speaker 1: But I understand why it's important. And these are members
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Speaker 1: of the media who watched this botched execution. And they
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Speaker 1: kept trying to cover it up. They kept closing the curtains.
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Speaker 1: And the media was going, no, no, no, we can
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Speaker 1: hear her. Open the curtain back up.
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Speaker 2: At one point at 734, she said, my arm feels
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Speaker 2: like it's about to burst open.
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Speaker 3: She lifted her head off the table, or off the gurney,
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Speaker 3: I should say, with her mouth open, kind of.
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Speaker 3: Gasping, but not making the sound of gasping, but with
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Speaker 3: her mouth that wide open.
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Speaker 2: Media witnesses repeatedly asked, can we open the curtains? Because
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Speaker 2: we could still audibly hear her snoring, and we were
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Speaker 2: kind of looked at like, we don't know.
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Speaker 1: We could not see what was happening. We heard activity,
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Speaker 1: but we don't know what happened.
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Speaker 5: We're not sure that's appropriate, and that's a question that
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Speaker 5: we'd like answered.
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Speaker 2: I've witnessed, I believe, five executions in Tennessee. Nothing about
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Speaker 2: today was normal, typical at all.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: And so, of course, the attorney in the case now
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Speaker 1: is asking for a commutation. He's saying his client has
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Speaker 1: suffered enough.
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Speaker 5: It was also predictable. Krista's legal team told the state
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Speaker 5: of Tennessee and the court that her medical conditions would
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Speaker 5: cause her to suffer an agonizing death. The state and
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Speaker 5: the court dismiss Krista's concerns.
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Speaker 1: It does not sound like, A... The state of Tennessee
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Speaker 1: is going to get rid of the death penalty, and
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Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like the governor has the inclination of
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Speaker 1: not putting her to death.
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Speaker 7: The people of Tennessee have determined that the death penalty
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Speaker 7: is the appropriate penalty for the most heinous crimes in
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Speaker 7: this state. The people of Tennessee make that decision, and
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Speaker 7: my job is to make sure then that those sentences
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Speaker 7: are carried out.
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Speaker 1: So, again, I don't care. I don't care about Krista Pike.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think any of us should care. I
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Speaker 1: don't even think we should know her name. I think
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Speaker 1: that these people should be put away forever and forgotten.
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Speaker 1: It'll take away a lot of agony from the families.
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Speaker 1: The average death penalty case takes 23 years from sentencing
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Speaker 1: to execution, if it ever happens at all. And trust me,
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Speaker 1: I've been with the families. There's nothing but pain and
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Speaker 1: heartache for the families of the victims. whose lives are
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Speaker 1: plagued by court cases, disappointments, and of course the news headlines.
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Speaker 1: They have to relive the worst moment of their lives
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Speaker 1: over and over again and feel that same emotional trauma.
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Speaker 1: They're never able to get on with their lives. And
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Speaker 1: even in the rare times that the execution finally happens,
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Speaker 1: studies show only a small percentage of the families die.
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Speaker 1: find closure and healing that they had hoped for, that
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Speaker 1: they thought this would finally end it. And it doesn't.
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Speaker 1: It's just as horrible. Now, there are 27 states in
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Speaker 1: the country that have lethal executions. And there's all types.
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Speaker 1: There's firing squads. There's three or four types of of
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Speaker 1: putting somebody to death. And many times they even have
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Speaker 1: their choice. Krista Pike was supposed to have her choice,
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Speaker 1: but they told her, no, it was going to be
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Speaker 1: lethal injection. And again, I could care less about Krista Pike,
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Speaker 1: but I do care about the mother of the victim
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Speaker 1: who is still suffering. And I'll just tell you a
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Speaker 1: quick story about how bad the death penalty is. In Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: there was a police officer that was assassinated, assassinated by
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Speaker 1: a guy who now in prison is Moumi Abu-Jamal. You
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Speaker 1: might have heard that name. He was making national news
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Speaker 1: for a while. And a lot of us, a lot
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Speaker 1: of reporters that worked in Philadelphia at the time, got
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Speaker 1: to know Maureen Faulkner, who has been trying for his execution.
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Speaker 1: He was sentenced to death. He's still alive today. Still
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Speaker 1: alive today. And if it wasn't for this fight for
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Speaker 1: the death penalty over and over and over again, Maureen
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Speaker 1: Faulkner would not have to relive this over and over
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Speaker 1: and over again. Now, she wants them put to death.
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Speaker 1: There's no question. And I think the families of all
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Speaker 1: these victims want them put to death. The person that
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Speaker 1: committed the crime against their family wants them put to death.
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Speaker 8: But.
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Speaker 1: After they go through years and years and years of
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Speaker 1: court cases and appeals and reliving the worst moment over
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Speaker 1: and over again, you talk to most of them and
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Speaker 1: they would want to get rid of the death penalty.
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Speaker 1: So I know it's certainly not a conservative position. But
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Speaker 1: trust me, there should be no death penalty. There really
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be. Let the person rot in jail. Take them
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Speaker 1: away from society. Make certain they can't do this to
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Speaker 1: another family again. But for God's sakes, if you want
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Speaker 1: the death penalty, understand it's going to be decades of
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Speaker 1: pain for those families. Decades of pain. I've seen it.
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Speaker 1: I've lived it. I've been in their homes. I've watched
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Speaker 1: them crying. I've watched them get the news that this
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Speaker 1: man is still going to stay alive, or in this case,
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Speaker 1: this woman is still going to stay alive. And it
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Speaker 1: goes on and on and on and on and on. So,
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Speaker 1: the next time it becomes an issue, and I do
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Speaker 1: hope some Republican politicians are listening right now, the next
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Speaker 1: time it becomes an issue, rethink it. Just don't take
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Speaker 1: a position because It makes you sound manly or it
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Speaker 1: makes you sound tough or it makes you sound like
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Speaker 1: you're big on law and order. No, you're hurting the innocent.
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Speaker 1: You're hurting the innocent because they have to relive it
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Speaker 1: all the time. So I wanted to make my position
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Speaker 1: clear because I know yesterday I said that I was
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Speaker 1: against the death penalty and I got a little bit
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Speaker 1: of pushback on that. And I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: Any of the families that went through this and finally
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Speaker 1: did get the death penalty and it went off well
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Speaker 1: would tell you that it was worth it because it's
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Speaker 1: not if they were able to speed up the process
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Speaker 1: I there'd be no problems you sure if you're gonna
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Speaker 1: find somebody guilty and then there is the death penalty
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Speaker 1: and you're going to kill them within the year have
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Speaker 1: at it but that's not the system we live in
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Speaker 1: people live in misery and the only people that profit
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Speaker 1: are the lawyers go ahead and leave us a talk
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Speaker 1: back on that if you want to because I'd love
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Speaker 1: to hear how you feel I know a lot of
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Speaker 1: you disagree with me but I want to hear the
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Speaker 1: argument for it other than just pure vengeance all right
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Speaker 1: let's soften things up a little bit when we come
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Speaker 1: back with pete davidson because pete davidson did an interview
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Speaker 1: with variety or vanity fair i guess right vanity fair
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Speaker 1: and he doubts mom donnie has a staten island heart
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Speaker 1: no i can promise you he doesn't have a staten
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Speaker 1: island heart plus a chance to see stevie wonder coming
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Speaker 1: up next Natalie and I were just looking at it.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of famous people from Staten Island that
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Speaker 1: I didn't know about. Everybody knows Pete Davidson because he
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Speaker 1: was the king of Staten Island. That was his big movie.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 1: So he's the most famous now. But Christina Aguilera? Yes.
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Speaker 9: Did you know that?
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Speaker 1: I did.
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Speaker 11: You know, us Staten Islanders, we know.
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Speaker 1: Colin Jost from Staten Island?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 11: I love him.
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Speaker 1: Joan Baez.
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Speaker 11: That one I never knew. That one is surprising to me.
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Speaker 11: I had no idea. I got to go check that
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Speaker 11: one out. That one seems not right to me. But,
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Speaker 11: you know.
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Speaker 1: And who were the two that when you were growing up?
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Speaker 12: When I was growing up, Alyssa Milano and Ricky Schroeder
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Speaker 12: were both child stars.
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Speaker 9: Oh, sure.
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Speaker 12: And they were both from Staten Island. Actually, Alyssa Milano
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Speaker 12: went to the same school. middle school that I went to.
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Speaker 12: And I remember when I was in the eighth grade,
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Speaker 12: she was in the sixth grade.
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Speaker 11: And there was an.
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Speaker 12: Article in the school paper how the cheerleader, Alyssa Milano,
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Speaker 12: is going to be on a new show called Who's
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Speaker 12: the Boss?
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Speaker 13: Wow.
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Speaker 3: And we're like, whoa.
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Speaker 1: So Staten Island has quite a roster of celebrities, including
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Speaker 1: Pete Davidson, who's Saturday Night Live and had the big movie,
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Speaker 1: The King of Staten Island. And he did an interview
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Speaker 1: recently where they asked him, If Zoran Mamdani was Staten Island-ish,
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Speaker 1: I guess you would say.
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Speaker 14: Zoran Mamdani, is he Staten Island?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 14: I don't think he's from Staten Island. I don't know
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Speaker 14: if he has Staten Island's heart.
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Speaker 5: I don't think he's Staten Island.
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Speaker 14: I don't have a problem with the guy, but I
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Speaker 14: definitely don't think he's Staten Island at all.
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Speaker 1: It was a funny interview, mostly about Staten Island.
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Speaker 14: Staten Island's the only red place in New York, and
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Speaker 14: it's violently red. I try to explain it because, you know,
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Speaker 14: most of my family is, you know, on the red side.
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Speaker 14: It's not like that, like, Storm the Capitol vibe. It's
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Speaker 14: not like a racist, misogynistic sort of thing. It's just
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Speaker 14: like they just, it's 1985 over there.
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Speaker 11: 1985 was great, by the way. So all good.
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Speaker 1: I hate the caricature of Republicans as being racist and misogynistic.
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Speaker 1: It kind of shows me where he's leaning right now
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Speaker 1: these days.
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Speaker 14: You are not a real Staten Island politician unless you
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Speaker 14: have a secret family and no one mobster.
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Speaker 9: I would not trust you to run Staten Island.
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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from people from Staten Island. What
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Speaker 1: makes a Staten Islander? Pete Davidson just really gave you
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Speaker 1: a nice list, but I, what do you think, what
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Speaker 1: do you think identifies and represents Staten Island?
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Speaker 11: I get it though. The Staten Island heart.
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Speaker 12: We were, we were just talking about Jimmy Fallon because
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Speaker 12: he's got a great show coming up that we're promoting.
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Speaker 11: He's got a Staten Island heart. Like I, I, he
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Speaker 11: could come right in. He'd be, Welcome.
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Speaker 1: Where's he from?
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Speaker 11: Long Island.
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Speaker 1: He's from Long Island.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But he's Staten Island at heart.
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Speaker 11: I think so.
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Speaker 9: All right.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to him about it. Now, let's get some talkbacks.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Larry.
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Speaker 15: Worked 35 years in the subway from Token Clark on up.
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Speaker 15: I've seen it all. And I would never seen it
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Speaker 15: as bad as it is now with the mentally disabled
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Speaker 15: roaming around. They cause half the problems. They've got to
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Speaker 15: do something against that. I would suggest people just stay
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Speaker 15: away from the edge of the platform, behind the columns,
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Speaker 15: and maybe against the wall, and just be aware of
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Speaker 15: your surroundings.
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Speaker 1: That's great advice. That's all you can do, right?
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Speaker 8: Larry, there was a video out a couple weeks ago
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Speaker 8: of a guy in London who went to a sports store,
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Speaker 8: bought a baseball bat for playing baseball, and got arrested
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Speaker 8: when he walked out of the store for carrying a weapon.
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Speaker 1: Oh my God. We'll have to follow up on that
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Speaker 1: because I can't believe that they're going to press charges
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Speaker 1: against him. Well, maybe. I mean, it's a crazy world,
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Speaker 1: especially in London.
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Speaker 6: This Pike character, she committed this crime over 30 years
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Speaker 6: ago and now she's being punished. What took so long?
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Speaker 6: Why do we wait so long if she was sentenced
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Speaker 6: to death? Why wait so long? It doesn't make sense.
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Speaker 6: But nothing in this world makes sense anymore.
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Speaker 1: It's the legal system. I've been through these cases before,
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Speaker 1: and it's hell on the families. That's the whole reason
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Speaker 1: I want to get rid of the death penalty, just
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Speaker 1: for that fact. Because it's become a legal process that
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Speaker 1: is just hell on the families. Daria Albinger with the
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Speaker 1: 830 News.
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Speaker 13: Daria.
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Speaker 4: You're going to have to beat me because I want
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Speaker 4: those tickets, too. I think we all do for this one.
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Speaker 4: Partly cloudy, warm and humid showers later today, a high
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Speaker 4: of 83 degrees. Governor Hochul has taken control of the
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Speaker 4: investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell University
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Speaker 4: fraternity house. And she's named Attorney General Letitia James special prosecutor.
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Speaker 4: A new poll, meanwhile, asks if sexual assault on campus
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Speaker 4: is a serious problem.
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Speaker 16: One half of Americans believe sexual assault on college campuses
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Speaker 16: is a very serious problem. Another third in the YouGov
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Speaker 16: poll call it somewhat serious. The poll numbers are roughly
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Speaker 16: the same across age groups, but women, blacks, and Democrats
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Speaker 16: were more likely to consider campus sex assault a very
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Speaker 16: serious threat. The poll was taken after a rape investigation
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Speaker 16: was reported at Cornell University. I'm Rory O'Neill.
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Speaker 9: The U.S.
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Speaker 4: Is sending another aircraft carrier to the Middle East as
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Speaker 4: the war with Iran continues. The USS Theodore Roosevelt will
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Speaker 4: be the third carrier in the region. accompanied by an
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Speaker 4: expeditionary unit with over 7,000 sailors and about 2,000 Marines.
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Speaker 4: A house fire in Jersey City has left an elderly
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Speaker 4: woman dead and six others hurt.
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Speaker 13: Flames broke out shortly before 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon inside
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Speaker 13: a home on Boyd Street. Jersey City Fire Chief Jack
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Speaker 13: Johnson says firefighters had to deal with debris everywhere.
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Speaker 8: They went upstairs where they could barely move because the
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Speaker 8: whole second floor was on fire.
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Speaker 9: Full of clutter, probably five feet high.
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Speaker 13: Firefighters pulled the body of a woman believed to be
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Speaker 13: in her 80s. Three firefighters suffered minor injuries and three
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Speaker 13: other residents were sent to the hospital. The cause is
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Speaker 13: under investigation. I'm Scott Pringle, WOR News.
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Speaker 4: OpenAI has cut ties with three safety workers who reportedly
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Speaker 4: shared company information with an AI safety organization. The Wall
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Speaker 4: Street Journal says it isn't clear if the researchers also
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Speaker 4: shared their concerns with the company. The Devils and the
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Speaker 4: Rangers win. Next news, 9 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm
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Speaker 4: Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria, and congratulations to Donna Morgan from Manhattan
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Speaker 1: who just won a pair of tickets to see Stevie
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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to check out what's
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Speaker 1: in the movies this week from the great WOR Movie
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Speaker 1: Minute host, Joe Neumeyer. All right, it's time now for
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Speaker 1: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WOR movie minute host. By the way,
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Speaker 1: as I've mentioned a couple of times, and I know, Joe,
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Speaker 1: you're upset about this. Curtis Lewa is off today. He's
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Speaker 1: had an event that he had to go to last night. Hey, listen,
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Speaker 1: we've talked about this before, that this time of year
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Speaker 1: is not usually a good time of year for movies
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Speaker 1: because people don't have any more vacation time left. Kids
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Speaker 1: are back in school, and so they know they're not
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Speaker 1: going to make so much money. But every once in
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Speaker 1: a while, a good movie sneaks through. Every once in
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Speaker 1: a while. So is that going to happen this weekend?
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Speaker 9: Well, it's not. However, it will take place later. So
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Speaker 9: let's get that right out of the way right off
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Speaker 9: the bat. But... This weekend is actually proving to be
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Speaker 9: a really interesting one at the box office, and I'll
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Speaker 9: explain that. Because what you're having is a movie that
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Speaker 9: a lot of people are calling the worst film of
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Speaker 9: the year so far. And then you have another film
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Speaker 9: that a lot of people are calling the worst film
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Speaker 9: of the year. And I don't either one of them
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Speaker 9: are that bad um they both try different things so
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Speaker 9: maybe that sort of you know speaks to what we're
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Speaker 9: talking about yeah it's that time of year and here
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Speaker 9: come the two worst films of the year come marching
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Speaker 9: in hand in hand but let's Let's start off with
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Speaker 9: the one that I think is better, which is Verity.
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Speaker 9: And a lot of people have been giving this movie
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Speaker 9: a lot of guff. They've been saying, oh, you know,
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Speaker 9: it's really it's trashy and it's and it's, you know,
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Speaker 9: it's trying to be this 80s thriller thing. And to
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Speaker 9: which I sort of say, like, yeah, OK, you know,
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Speaker 9: that might be kind of fun. And it actually is.
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Speaker 9: It's with Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson. And it's based
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Speaker 9: on these books, one of the books by this author
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Speaker 9: named Colleen Hoover. And a couple of movies, three movies
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Speaker 9: have been made from her books before. She's very popular.
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Speaker 9: It's like an airport novelist kind of thing. You know,
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Speaker 9: you find her books in airports. But this one sort
20:31
Speaker 9: of reminds me a little of like the movies of
20:33
Speaker 9: the 80s, like Body Double or Dressed to Kill or
20:36
Speaker 9: Single White Female, things like that. Even a little like
20:39
Speaker 9: Jagged Edge. Dakota Johnson is a young author who's hired
20:42
Speaker 9: to finish the novel of a very popular novelist who's
20:47
Speaker 9: paralyzed from an accident. She's played by Anne Hathaway. And,
20:50
Speaker 9: of course, she moves into their house, and something starts
20:53
Speaker 9: to happen with the husband, who's played by Josh Hartnett.
20:57
Speaker 9: And there's sort of all these mysterious things going on.
21:00
Speaker 9: There's lots of mixture of fact or fiction. What's real?
21:03
Speaker 9: What's not? Is Anne Hathaway really paralyzed? It's totally over
21:08
Speaker 9: the top, but really, I thought it was kind of fun,
21:11
Speaker 9: and I think a lot of critics are taking it
21:13
Speaker 9: like it's supposed to be a Hitchcock film. It's not.
21:15
Speaker 9: It's supposed to be sort of like a trashy 80s film,
21:18
Speaker 9: which it is. So I think Verity is a lot
21:20
Speaker 9: of fun. I'd give it four stars. Just don't go
21:23
Speaker 9: in expecting high art, because a lot of people are
21:26
Speaker 9: calling it trash, and it's sort of like it's just
21:27
Speaker 9: trashy fun. So that's the one movie. Four stars! Four stars!
21:33
Speaker 9: Four stars. I'm giving it four stars. I gave Spider-Man three.
21:36
Speaker 9: I know.
21:37
Speaker 11: I wasn't going to say it.
21:38
Speaker 9: Curtis would say, and what did you give Spider-Man, Joe Neumeier?
21:42
Speaker 11: That is going to be his line for the rest.
21:45
Speaker 11: Everything is going to compare to the three of Spider-Man.
21:47
Speaker 9: It's going to be on my tombstone. It's going to
21:49
Speaker 9: be on my tombstone. Yes, I gave Spider-Man three.
21:53
Speaker 1: Stars. How much money has that made so far? Spider-Man.
21:59
Speaker 9: Spider-Man made more money than they actually have on the world.
22:03
Speaker 9: So it makes too much money. Let's just leave it
22:06
Speaker 9: at that. So what's the other movie? The other movie
22:12
Speaker 9: is called Digger. And it's the new movie with Tom Cruise,
22:16
Speaker 9: which is pretty much how anybody sort of knows it.
22:18
Speaker 9: It's the Tom Cruise movie. And it's Tom Cruise like
22:20
Speaker 9: under some makeup. and he plays like an older guy
22:25
Speaker 9: in his 60s or early 70s. He's an oil baron,
22:29
Speaker 9: and there's been an accident at one of his rigs.
22:34
Speaker 9: And so this rich guy, this guy who's named Digger,
22:36
Speaker 9: played by Cruise, and it sets off an environmental disaster.
22:42
Speaker 9: And he kind of gets the president, who's played by
22:43
Speaker 9: John Goodman. It's a comedy. It's kind of like Doctor Strange.
22:46
Speaker 9: He gets the president and his cabinet to kind of
22:48
Speaker 9: rally around, and they try and figure out, what to do,
22:50
Speaker 9: and all their decisions are based upon greed or deflecting
22:54
Speaker 9: blame or not even addressing the problem. It's about the climate.
22:59
Speaker 9: But here's the thing. It's not good. It's trying to
23:02
Speaker 9: be Dr. Strangelove, and it goes way over the top,
23:05
Speaker 9: and it's crazy. But there is a twist in the movie,
23:10
Speaker 9: and it takes a really big swing. And it takes
23:14
Speaker 9: a big chance. And for that, I applaud it. Because,
23:17
Speaker 9: you know, sometimes those movies that take really crazy chances
23:21
Speaker 9: can be kind of interesting or fun, or at the
23:23
Speaker 9: very least, they're not boring, right? So movies like Vanilla
23:26
Speaker 9: Sky or The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you know,
23:29
Speaker 9: things like that, they may not be necessarily always successful
23:32
Speaker 9: or what everybody wants to see, but they're interesting. And
23:35
Speaker 9: I give that to this Tom Cruise movie. It's interesting.
23:38
Speaker 9: I'm not saying people should go see it because it's
23:40
Speaker 9: really not. After 45 minutes, you go like everyone's shouting.
23:45
Speaker 9: I don't really want to sit in this anymore. But
23:48
Speaker 9: if you do stick through it, it's okay. It has
23:50
Speaker 9: an idea.
23:51
Speaker 15: It does.
23:52
Speaker 9: It's sort of a science fiction thing.
23:53
Speaker 11: I got to say, that name is a terrible name.
23:56
Speaker 9: Terrible name.
23:57
Speaker 11: Terrible name.
23:58
Speaker 9: A terrible name. Digger.
24:00
Speaker 10: Digger.
24:00
Speaker 12: And to tell you the truth, I was watching a
24:02
Speaker 12: movie last night that Crazy Stupid Love with Steve Carell.
24:06
Speaker 4: Right.
24:08
Speaker 11: I actually think it's a funny movie. I think it's
24:10
Speaker 11: a good movie.
24:11
Speaker 9: It is a funny movie, yeah.
24:12
Speaker 12: I have heard, though, and it didn't do well in
24:14
Speaker 12: the box office, and Steve Carell at one point said
24:18
Speaker 12: it's because the name was terrible. It was a terrible
24:21
Speaker 12: name for the movie because it doesn't really give you
24:24
Speaker 12: any sense of what that movie is about.
24:26
Speaker 4: Yeah.
24:27
Speaker 9: Yeah, tells you nothing. Are they crazy? Are they stupid?
24:29
Speaker 9: Are they in love?
24:29
Speaker 6: Who knows?
24:30
Speaker 1: It could be anything.
24:34
Speaker 9: And Digger reminds me of the name from Boogie Nights,
24:38
Speaker 9: Dirk Diggler, which was the Mark Wahlberg character. What were
24:43
Speaker 9: you going to say, Larry?
24:45
Speaker 1: I was going to say, Steve Carell, I think he's
24:47
Speaker 1: way underrated as an actor. He's tremendous. Would you agree?
24:52
Speaker 9: Totally agree. I absolutely agree. I've done a couple of
24:55
Speaker 9: Q & As with him, but he's really good. I
24:57
Speaker 9: think he's also one of those actors, and like Steve
24:59
Speaker 9: Martin is sort of another one, Robin Williams was another one,
25:02
Speaker 9: who started in comedy, but actually has all these great
25:06
Speaker 9: layers of drama to him, and I think that Carell
25:09
Speaker 9: is one of them. He's really great. in so many things, even,
25:12
Speaker 9: even like small things that people maybe don't know about,
25:14
Speaker 9: seek him out if he's in it. And, and Rory's
25:17
Speaker 9: Oscar nominated for Little Miss Sunshine. He's really great in
25:20
Speaker 9: so many things. Yeah.
25:21
Speaker 1: Yeah.
25:21
Speaker 9: He was, you know, but I think he's just terrific.
25:23
Speaker 11: Yeah, I agree. And that movie, it's so good. Ryan
25:26
Speaker 11: Gosling is in it and Julianne Moore is in it.
25:29
Speaker 11: It's a great cast.
25:30
Speaker 4: Yep.
25:31
Speaker 11: And I just think it's one of those underrated movies.
25:33
Speaker 11: I just really enjoy it.
25:34
Speaker 1: You know what's really funny? I wanted to ask you
25:36
Speaker 1: about this, and I think we should probably do this
25:38
Speaker 1: every week because I think a lot of people out
25:40
Speaker 1: there don't want to go to the movies or there's
25:43
Speaker 1: nothing good out like Digger. And so they sit at
25:46
Speaker 1: home and they're looking for something to watch. And so
25:50
Speaker 1: I've done this at home. You're going through and you're
25:52
Speaker 1: clicking through all the different channels and you're clicking through
25:55
Speaker 1: all the different shows online. So maybe we can give
25:58
Speaker 1: people something that they should watch every weekend at home.
26:02
Speaker 9: That's a great idea. And maybe we can even sort
26:05
Speaker 9: of relate it a little bit to movies like some
26:08
Speaker 9: of the movies that are out, but maybe better. So
26:10
Speaker 9: we listed a couple of them just now, but there's
26:12
Speaker 9: a couple of them on Amazon right now or on
26:16
Speaker 9: Netflix that are a few good ones. Single White Female
26:19
Speaker 9: is one of the ones that Verity reminds me of.
26:21
Speaker 9: I'd recommend that to people. It's a great New York
26:23
Speaker 9: movie from the early 90s also. It's a lot of fun.
26:26
Speaker 9: And Jagged Edge, which people always forget, but it's Jeff
26:29
Speaker 9: Bridges and Glenn Close playing It's a terrific sort of
26:32
Speaker 9: courtroom thriller. It reminds me a lot. There's a lot
26:34
Speaker 9: of things like it on TV now. So Jagged Edge
26:36
Speaker 9: is one of those that I would say, seek it out.
26:37
Speaker 9: It's right there on Amazon. It's a really great movie.
26:40
Speaker 9: It's a lot of fun and thrilling too. Exciting.
26:42
Speaker 1: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WR, movie minute host. Thanks so much.
26:47
Speaker 1: Talk to you next week.
26:49
Speaker 9: Thanks, Larry.
26:50
Speaker 1: When we come back, well, I said this earlier to
26:53
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26:57
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Speaker 1: contest starts Monday. So I got a couple emails about
27:31
Speaker 1: something I've said a few times during today's show, and
27:35
Speaker 1: that is I'm feeling a little bit better about the midterms.
27:39
Speaker 1: And we even got to talk back about it.
27:41
Speaker 17: Larry, Ed Rollins, who was Reagan's pollster, was on Mark
27:46
Speaker 17: Simone's show earlier in the week, and he predicted nothing
27:49
Speaker 17: but gloom and doom for the Republicans. Definitely the House,
27:54
Speaker 17: and he was even saying that the Senate looks like
27:57
Speaker 17: It's going to fall into Democratic hands, Democrat hands.
28:01
Speaker 8: Wanted to gut check with you.
28:03
Speaker 17: What are your thoughts at this stage?
28:05
Speaker 1: Well, I'm worried about the House. I think the Senate's
28:08
Speaker 1: looking so much better. And I base that on recent polling.
28:12
Speaker 1: You know, it looked like it was going to go
28:14
Speaker 1: the wrong way all the way up to Election Day.
28:17
Speaker 1: But the Republicans have started to spend their money. And
28:20
Speaker 1: you can see it taking effect in certain states. Like
28:23
Speaker 1: in Maine, Susan Collins has pulled ahead. In Texas, in
28:28
Speaker 1: a couple of the polls, Paxton has pulled ahead. You're
28:32
Speaker 1: saying the same thing in Michigan, where that's now a tie.
28:36
Speaker 1: And in my heart, I'm telling you, I don't believe
28:40
Speaker 1: Texas is going to switch. I don't believe Ohio is
28:43
Speaker 1: going to switch. And so if you hold on to
28:46
Speaker 1: those races, all you have to do is hold on
28:48
Speaker 1: if you're a Republican, you're going to win the Senate. Now,
28:50
Speaker 1: the House is a little bit different. But remember, the
28:53
Speaker 1: Republicans are just starting to spend their money. And they
28:57
Speaker 1: have three times more than the Democrats. And so you're
29:02
Speaker 1: going to see ad after ad after ad after ad,
29:06
Speaker 1: and they do have an effect. But the biggest reason
29:10
Speaker 1: I think that the Republicans are going to do better
29:12
Speaker 1: than anybody's talking about right now is they always overperform
29:17
Speaker 1: the polls. Always. In 2024, it was significant. And this
29:23
Speaker 1: is just me saying this. Let's go to Harry Enten.
29:27
Speaker 1: from CNN, who is talking about the 2024 results.
29:31
Speaker 10: GOP outperformed September polls by in the major 2024 races,
29:34
Speaker 10: that is, President and Senate in the states that had
29:37
Speaker 10: a Senate race. In Iowa, where the Democrats have been
29:40
Speaker 10: getting really good polls, Republicans outperformed their September polls by
29:43
Speaker 10: nine points back in 2024. How about Ohio?
29:46
Speaker 9: Six points.
29:46
Speaker 8: How about Michigan?
29:47
Speaker 10: Five points. And I will note that the leads that
29:50
Speaker 10: the Democrats have in all of these races right now
29:53
Speaker 10: are under how much the GOP outperformed back in 2024.
29:56
Speaker 16: So you look at this and you go.
29:59
Speaker 9: You know what?
29:59
Speaker 10: Maybe we should just hold on a second here because
30:03
Speaker 10: we've seen this dance before and it was not a
30:05
Speaker 10: dance that Democrats like when the votes are actually cast
30:07
Speaker 10: and counted.
30:08
Speaker 1: And it's not just 2024. It really isn't. It's almost
30:12
Speaker 1: every federal election. For some reason, the Republicans always are
30:20
Speaker 1: underestimated in the polls. And sometimes it's significant. You heard
30:24
Speaker 1: Harry Enten talking about Ohio, Iowa, I mean, a nine-point
30:30
Speaker 1: difference in Iowa. So these are significant, significant numbers. So
30:35
Speaker 1: that's why I hold out hope, not only because of
30:37
Speaker 1: the polls, not only because of the money, but because
30:41
Speaker 1: Republicans are undercounted time and time again. But thank you
30:46
Speaker 1: so much for the question, and I always appreciate your emails,
30:50
Speaker 1: and I read them all, and I always want to
30:53
Speaker 1: thank you for taking the time If you can take
30:55
Speaker 1: the time to write to me, I'm going to take
30:57
Speaker 1: the time to write back and talk about them. Now,
31:02
Speaker 1: we talked about famous Staten Islanders, right? Well, the talk
31:06
Speaker 1: back of the morning and winner of the Curtis Lee
31:09
Speaker 1: and Larry Menti in the morning t-shirt wanted to remind
31:13
Speaker 1: us of four more.
31:16
Speaker 9: You're forgetting the big four. I'm pretty sure all the
31:20
Speaker 9: impractical jokers are.
31:21
Speaker 2: From Staten Island.
31:21
Speaker 11: He's correct.
31:24
Speaker 17: They are.
31:24
Speaker 9: Yep.
31:25
Speaker 1: We had one of the practical drinkers on the show.
31:28
Speaker 11: It's a fun show.
31:29
Speaker 10: It is.
31:29
Speaker 1: It is. I'm not a huge fan, but when I've
31:32
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31:37
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31:42
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31:49
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31:51
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31:54
Speaker 1: Be careful.
31:57
Speaker 11: I hope you've listened.
31:59
Speaker 1: I don't want to poop out Juan Valdez, that's for sure.
32:02
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