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Opening Segment 11/9/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning. 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Larry, look who's back. It's our producer, Natalie, who
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  Speaker 2: had been gone for two days. And I must admit,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't have been more hopelessly wrong, I assume. Like some,
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  Speaker 2: not all. Wait a second. You may not have been wrong.
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  Speaker 2: She might be putting on an act. You mean in
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  Speaker 2: terms of being the no-show lottery winner in New Jersey? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. If somebody won, they would
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  Speaker 1: continue to act normal. So you wouldn't know that they won. Well, look,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a partnership. The board operator, Izzy,
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  Speaker 1: for Mark Simone, just happened to work at the Wegmans
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  Speaker 1: in Montvale where the winning ticket was sold. No doubt
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  Speaker 1: a partnership between Natalie, who wasn't going to schlep all
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  Speaker 1: the way there, but probably figured, hey, that's a high-end district.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get a ticket there because New Jersey, there's always
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  Speaker 1: the luck of the Irish in New Jersey and these lottos.
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  Speaker 3: Could have been a partnership.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to the Wegmans in Montville?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That's a yes. The hesitation is a yes.
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  Speaker 3: I don't live far.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really? And Wegmans is great, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: It's a great supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: See, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of salad, lots of fruits and vegetables that you
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  Speaker 2: love because she has to have her salad first.
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  Speaker 3: Remember, you've indicted yourself on this.
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  Speaker 1: What car did you drive in with today? Do you
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  Speaker 1: have a new car?
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  Speaker 4: No, I have a new phone, though.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, first step.
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  Speaker 4: I am still in my old Honda.
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  Speaker 1: And what would be your dream car if you could
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  Speaker 1: buy a car in the next week?
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  Speaker 4: Anything but my old car.
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  Speaker 3: So you do know, though, that, Natalie, while you were
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  Speaker 3: away those two days.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard, I've heard, I've heard.
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  Speaker 2: There were certain people who were contacting me and were saying,
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  Speaker 2: this makes all the sense in the world.
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  Speaker 4: I am going to tell you the truth. If I
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  Speaker 4: won that lottery.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: I would not be here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Larry, that's hurtful.
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  Speaker 4: I would leave you a nice text. Maybe I'd call.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I'd even give you the first interview.
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  Speaker 5: But I wouldn't be waking up to come to work
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  Speaker 5: at 3 o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: You notice through all the things that she said she
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  Speaker 1: would do, there was nothing about money in that?
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sure, sure, sure, sure.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you'd share?
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  Speaker 3: A little, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I have a lot of people to share.
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  Speaker 2: With Christmas coming up, you could have been Santa Claus
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  Speaker 2: to all of us.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I could have.
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  Speaker 4: But I am not, so we can move on from that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, give us the update because apparently if, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: you're not the winner, Natalie, with Izzy, who works at
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  Speaker 2: the Wegmans there in Montfail where the winning ticket was sold,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not, there's somebody out there who is. And
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  Speaker 2: is there a chance, Larry, because you're our lotto expert,
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  Speaker 2: our Powerball expert, that this person may never surface, might
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  Speaker 2: have bought a ticket, it was only one, And not
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  Speaker 2: even know they had it or maybe discarded it in
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  Speaker 2: the garbage?
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  Speaker 1: That has never happened with a big jackpot. But it's happened.
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  Speaker 1: It happens a lot. There are people that have won
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  Speaker 1: $ 100, 000 that didn't come forward. And you have one year.
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  Speaker 1: You have one year to come forward or you lose
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  Speaker 1: the prize. But no, this person hasn't come forward yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If I won... The first two
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  Speaker 1: people I'd see would be an attorney and a financial advisor.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, for sure. But you know what?
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  Speaker 4: Let's go back to Izzy.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people might not know Izzy because he's
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  Speaker 5: a behind-the-scenes guy here at WOR.
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  Speaker 4: But I will tell you, Izzy would be the person
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  Speaker 4: who would win, who would keep coming to work. You
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't know because he comes home with a smile every day.
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  Speaker 5: And he would quietly probably help people.
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  Speaker 4: Out in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen Izzy's Facebook?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Izzy is the most incredible person. And if he's public,
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  Speaker 4: you should follow Izzy.
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  Speaker 1: He's very religious, and he gives these inspirational sermons on
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  Speaker 1: his Facebook page.
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  Speaker 5: He's the kind of person that makes you feel like
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  Speaker 5: you're a bad person somehow.
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  Speaker 1: Izzy's so good. When I was at WABC, when you
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  Speaker 1: were there, I was doing the weekends. And every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while, when things would get really bad, I'd
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  Speaker 1: ask Izzy, please tell Just cheer us up. Give us
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  Speaker 1: something inspirational.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he would always start with brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 3: He's a holy roller.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, apparently that has not happened. What was the
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  Speaker 2: winning prize again, Larry? How much money was on that ticket?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 5: It was in the 800s, and I think they were
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  Speaker 5: coming home with somewhere around $ 365 million cash.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. Pretty much on the money there, like you
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  Speaker 1: knew the figures off the top of your head.
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  Speaker 2: You're the expert, and yet Natalie seemed to know the specificity.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, don't talk about Izzy. Let's talk about you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm deflecting, deflecting.
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  Speaker 3: This is camouflage. Camouflage, you're coming in here trying to
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  Speaker 3: throw us off.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: So what will be the number on the check again?
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  Speaker 1: When I see it, I'll let you know.
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  Speaker 2: By then, Natalie and her family would have moved to
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  Speaker 2: the west coast of Florida to be near your parents,
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  Speaker 2: your father, who's now mayor.
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  Speaker 4: No, he was. He was the first mayor of Estero, Florida,
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  Speaker 4: now retired.
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  Speaker 2: See?
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  Speaker 3: You see what I'm talking about, Larry?
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  Speaker 1: And would have this short window where she wouldn't change
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  Speaker 1: her phone number, where we would call and we'd get this.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Natalie, it's Larry. Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 5: I'd probably keep my phone number as a You know, distraction, deflection,
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  Speaker 5: and then have a separate phone number.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you seem to plan a lot of this out.
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  Speaker 2: You would be having brunch every day with John Gambling,
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  Speaker 2: retired from here, who you were a producer to for
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  Speaker 2: so many years. He went down to Florida.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying that area, big WOR listenership. Really big.
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  Speaker 4: So somebody out there could be it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, let me flip the script to you, Larry. I
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  Speaker 2: know you had gone through a Herculean period of broadcasting
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  Speaker 2: here from the pre-marathon, the marathon, the post-marathon, to the pre-midterms,
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  Speaker 2: midterm reporting on the night of the debacle. I'll use
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  Speaker 2: debacle if that's okay with you. And then, obviously, everything thereafter.
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  Speaker 2: And we went through a period in which, on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, you need to do.
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  Speaker 2: A wellness call if you can, Natalie, now that you're
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  Speaker 2: back to our very dear colleague, Astorino.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I heard.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Did you hear him on the air?
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  Speaker 1: He was so depressed. He was. Yeah, he's one of
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  Speaker 1: the people that you would think we should send somebody
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  Speaker 1: over to check on him.
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  Speaker 2: He described the loss, the midterm loss for the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: as apocalyptic. I thought for sure he was on his
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  Speaker 2: way to the George Washington Bridge.
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  Speaker 1: And I kept looking for him to raise me up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to say, you know, pull me out of
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  Speaker 1: these doldrums.
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  Speaker 4: Like, it's going to be OK.
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  Speaker 1: He was like in a deep darkness. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: He was.
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  Speaker 2: Please just double check with him, Natalie. Then there was
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  Speaker 2: DeSantis right out of the box. You know, he's running
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  Speaker 2: for president. He called it an extinctionary moment, like as
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  Speaker 2: if the GOP would be extinct. Others over the weekend
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  Speaker 2: were saying it's like a media strike hit the GOP
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  Speaker 2: across the nation.
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  Speaker 1: The hyperbole is so sickening. And what's the worst part
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  Speaker 1: about it is that there are Republicans, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: that are saying these things. And now with with Robb.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that he actually loses some money on this.
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  Speaker 1: So I can understand why Rob is so upset. With DeSantis,
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  Speaker 1: he benefits from making it horrible. I mean, now he
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  Speaker 1: is the savior that can come through the apocalypse and
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  Speaker 1: save the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 2: You would have to admit, Larry. That even though a
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  Speaker 2: month ago I said it would be a blue tsunami,
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  Speaker 2: and that was the front page of the Post the
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  Speaker 2: day after the election, that that's actually mild compared to
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  Speaker 2: apocalyptic and an extinction and a meteor strike.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even the worst midterm defeat. It's far from
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  Speaker 1: the worst midterm defeat. This has happened to almost every
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  Speaker 1: president in the modern era. And so for all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, for everybody to say, oh, this is the
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  Speaker 1: biggest one ever. This is the earth moved. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it kind of sickens me because I think that, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the media was going to. But even some Republicans have
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  Speaker 1: fallen into the trap of saying, oh, it's a tsunami.
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  Speaker 1: It's the worst ever. This is earth shaking. Please, it's
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  Speaker 1: nowhere near any of those things.
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  Speaker 2: I must tell you, Larry, I had confided to Tom Cuddy,
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  Speaker 2: our program director, weeks ago that I was not listening
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  Speaker 2: to talk radio or even the snippets of talk TV
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  Speaker 2: any longer because, you know, it was an echo chamber.
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  Speaker 2: And I knew what was coming. I can't listen to
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  Speaker 2: that propaganda machine. For me, this weekend was Liberation Day.
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  Speaker 2: I love talk radio. I love talk TV. I saw
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  Speaker 2: that some of these people were no longer genuflecting to Trump.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they didn't feel the need to say he
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  Speaker 2: is the greatest president of all time from Washington to
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  Speaker 2: right now. Even you, Larry, to your credit, you said, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: He's not the greatest president of all time. I can
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  Speaker 2: listen to talk radio and talk TV again.
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  Speaker 3: We can get back to some normalcy. A little bit
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  Speaker 3: of dysfunction. But now... Normalcy.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be the furthest thing from normalcy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, in talk radio and talk TV, because now they
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  Speaker 2: can be totally focused instead of defending the indefensible.
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  Speaker 3: At times, just attacking. Hakeem Jeffries, the schmuck to putz,
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  Speaker 3: Chuck E. Cheese Schumer, and the new majority. I feel liberated.
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  Speaker 2: And the other thing I feel liberated is I am
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  Speaker 2: a rhino. Everybody knows I am the leader of the rhinos.
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  Speaker 2: They call me Republican in name only. I've never been MAGA.
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  Speaker 3: I'm free to be a rhino again.
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  Speaker 2: And so is everybody else out there who pretended that
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  Speaker 2: they weren't. Because just like the Democrats have a two-party
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  Speaker 2: system under the tent, moderate Democrats, DSA, Republicans should have
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  Speaker 2: MAGA and should have rhinos.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think you're misinterpreting what they mean when they
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  Speaker 1: say rhino. What? They mean you're actually a Democrat. They
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  Speaker 1: don't mean that you're a Republican in any way, that
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  Speaker 1: you're a Republican in name only because you were so
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  Speaker 1: much against the Republican Party. but you like to hold
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  Speaker 1: on to the name.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we know DSA are really just socialists, so there's
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  Speaker 2: room in the Republican Party for rhinos, and I declare
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  Speaker 2: myself the leader of the rhinos.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you're embracing it finally. Hey, guess what?
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  Speaker 1: There's a new golf league. I know you're saying, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they've tried this before. This one's a little bit different.
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  Speaker 1: We'll explain when we come back. Plus, you have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to see Tommy James and the Shondells at 825.