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OneLegUpAlex News- A 34 Year Old Elected Mayor of NYC 11/5/25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, Well, if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't noticed, I did not do a drop in three
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  Speaker 1: to talk about the post election results because I've actually
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  Speaker 1: had to take almost twenty four hours to process it.
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  Speaker 2: Because I thought last night I woke.
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  Speaker 1: Up this morning, I shouldn't be confused about how disappointed
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  Speaker 1: I am in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: That I'm not confused about.
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  Speaker 1: I am disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: At where we wake up today.
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  Speaker 1: But then I think on the human level, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: there is something about a thirty four year old we
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  Speaker 1: had no experience running anything, becoming mayor of New York City, say,
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  Speaker 1: we all can make it here in New York, wherever
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  Speaker 1: we desire to choose, we can do it. Yes, that
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  Speaker 1: inexperienced brat known as Zoram Mamdani has inspired me to say,
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  Speaker 1: if you put your heart to it, you can do it.
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  Speaker 1: And you could probably fool over fifty percent of a
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  Speaker 1: New Yorker's along the way, you know, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: has been stoked because look, we are two days apart
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  Speaker 1: in age. Mamdanie is born on October eighteenth, nineteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: He turned thirty four two days before I did. We
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  Speaker 1: are clearly two thirty four year olds on our drives
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  Speaker 1: to thirty five. As I've been saying on social media,
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  Speaker 1: drive to thirty five in very different ways. He just
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  Speaker 1: happened to win an election in New York. Meanwhile, I've
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  Speaker 1: met five mayors, I met the president nights.
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  Speaker 2: They saped down a lot in thirty four years my life.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I.
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  Speaker 1: Could have done this if I put my heart into
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  Speaker 1: it now. But if he screws up, if he screws
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  Speaker 1: up royally, and we both turned thirty eight, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I will.
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  Speaker 1: Take on my libra brother. If you will, well, he's
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  Speaker 1: two days apart. If I don't get a radio show
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  Speaker 1: full time, if the podcast just kind of stays where
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  Speaker 1: it is, and I love where we're at, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to grow it, then by twenty twenty nine, I
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  Speaker 1: will do it because I truly believe, and I'll probably
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  Speaker 1: think this four years from now. We are diametrically opposed,
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  Speaker 1: two days apart. How did two libras think totally different?
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  Speaker 2: Because normally levers are very like minded, they think the same.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is when you're in your same astrological sign, you
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  Speaker 1: feel connected to them. Now I feel connected to this
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  Speaker 1: guy because not only is he two days older than me,
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  Speaker 1: he just has the misguided ideals. The misguided ideas. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we all want balance, and that is a form of socialism, right, balance,
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  Speaker 1: We want to make sure everbody gets their fair share,
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. But he's literally willing to sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: the balance for New Yorkers, sacrifice our safety in the
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  Speaker 1: process for that balance. He's it doesn't make sense. And
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  Speaker 1: in fact, if you're thinking more along that line, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you want as you're trying to make a fair in
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  Speaker 1: New York, say for New York. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: he has kept saying how he wants affordable housing, affordable
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  Speaker 1: disc The city's not affordable.
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  Speaker 2: And I will say it again.
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  Speaker 1: If our police department can stay intact, I will pay
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  Speaker 1: for a thousand dollars bagel.
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  Speaker 2: If our police department is not disbanded in any.
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  Speaker 1: Way, I will pay for one thousand dollars bagel if
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  Speaker 1: that means keeping the city more affordable and keeping the
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  Speaker 1: city more safe. Because you can't pay rent if you're
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  Speaker 1: not alive to see it, and you can't pay rent
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  Speaker 1: if you're not feeling protected.
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  Speaker 2: You know, by your city.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like I can go a couple of
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  Speaker 1: ways with this feeling I have of being And I've
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  Speaker 1: never been politically motivated like that to run for office.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably why I'm not there, But it does make
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  Speaker 1: me feel like, if this kid can accomplish it at
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  Speaker 1: thirty four, then the first thing I want to do
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  Speaker 1: at thirty four plus well actually at thirty five and
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  Speaker 1: put my heart and mind to it, is run the marathon.
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  Speaker 1: He has made me feel like by winning and really
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  Speaker 1: truly a moment views aside, a moment for the kids
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  Speaker 1: born in nineteen ninety one, is it not?
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  Speaker 2: This is our moment?
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  Speaker 1: Ninety one baby became a mayor and it wasn't me,
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  Speaker 1: which is the most shocking thing. But a nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: one baby became mayor. That is kind of a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe he will become more centralized and we do
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  Speaker 1: have to root him on because he's roundly our city.
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  Speaker 2: But there's just this fascination for me.
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  Speaker 1: That we are totally different people with totally different backgrounds,
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  Speaker 1: and yet we're only two days apart in age. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why that fascinates me so much, but it does.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes me want to say also to continue
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  Speaker 1: to have one like up four New Yorkers. As we
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  Speaker 1: switch hands again, as we say, it's amazing. This has
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  Speaker 1: been such a long term for Mayor Adams. He's a
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  Speaker 1: one term mayor. Didn't it feel like ten terms in
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  Speaker 1: one didn't feel like ten terms in one term?
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  Speaker 2: With all the tumulil, with all the indictment, with.
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  Speaker 1: All the thing with Trump, it felt like a ten
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  Speaker 1: term term. But there's only one term, so we gotta
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  Speaker 1: switch hands again to the next regime, the next administration.
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  Speaker 1: So Zoran, I think you should actually lean on other
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  Speaker 1: thirty four year olds, other people born in your in
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  Speaker 1: our year.
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  Speaker 2: Because.
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  Speaker 1: We all have our own ways of trying to make
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  Speaker 1: the city better. But if the year of ninety one
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  Speaker 1: can work together on our drive to thirty five.
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  Speaker 2: And in my thirty fifth year in New York, then
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  Speaker 2: I'll help you try and and and and better New York.
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  Speaker 2: The way.
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  Speaker 1: I feel and maybe others feel that you may not
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  Speaker 1: feel like we're gonna have to come into this with disagreements.
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  Speaker 1: But the first task for me is the host of
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  Speaker 1: the show and the goal of having one leg up
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  Speaker 1: for New Yorker.
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  Speaker 2: As we switch hands.
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  Speaker 1: Again, is to throw that olive branch out there and say, look,
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  Speaker 1: you got elected. Congratulations shivering as I say it. But
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  Speaker 1: we're both thirty four, we both have our whole lives
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  Speaker 1: ahead of us.
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  Speaker 2: And clearly you do love New York enough to run
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  Speaker 2: from air and win.
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  Speaker 1: I love New York because I've been in this city
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  Speaker 1: for thirty four years and I feel like I still
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  Speaker 1: have the post of the city right on my wheels here.
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  Speaker 2: So let's team up.
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  Speaker 1: Let me talk to you on my podcast. Let's do
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  Speaker 1: an interview about what New Yorkers can expect and how
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  Speaker 1: this generation can, as you'd like to say, move New.
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  Speaker 2: York forward, but allow.
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  Speaker 1: The dissension that you might get from other kids born
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  Speaker 1: in ninety one.
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  Speaker 2: But this, this does feel like.
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  Speaker 1: And if this Zoramumdani can do it at age thirty four,
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  Speaker 1: then at age.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty four, what can I do? What's next in my world?
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  Speaker 2: And maybe the marathon is that next big step.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe finally buying time on a radio station is that
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  Speaker 1: next big step?
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  Speaker 2: Be cause and again.
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  Speaker 1: Views aside, Although I hate that there were swastikas up
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  Speaker 1: at a.
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn Yeshiva, Yeshiva, that we need to have a conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I really believe that.
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  Speaker 1: We are two days apart in age, we are miles
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  Speaker 1: apart in belief systems. But that shouldn't shouldn't hold me
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  Speaker 1: back from certainly inviting to the podcast, and that shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: hold us as a generation from moving New York forward together.
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  Speaker 1: Disagreements along the way shore, but I think you need
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  Speaker 1: the group of ninety one and those group broad and
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  Speaker 1: ninety one's help. So I'll I'll step alongside and not
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  Speaker 1: agree with everything, and I'll push back on a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things also.
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  Speaker 2: But I will have you. I will give you.
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  Speaker 1: A fair interview if you so accept, because you are
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  Speaker 1: clearly showing that if a thirty four year old can
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  Speaker 1: get elected mayor, damn it, a thirty five year old
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  Speaker 1: can get elected president, thirty something year can get elected Congress.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: Wait for the old guard to get older to make
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  Speaker 1: a difference.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say that again. We don't have to wait
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  Speaker 2: for the old guard to get older to make a difference.
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  Speaker 2: You're clearly showing that difference can be done now. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm my own way, in my own path.
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  Speaker 1: I'm inspired to make that difference, whether it is running
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  Speaker 1: for office at some point, or just continuing to bring
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  Speaker 1: awareness on this podcast, or simply enhancing and stepping up
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  Speaker 1: the mission to make New York's any more accessible for people.
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  Speaker 1: As and I thought he felt he seemed like scar
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  Speaker 1: from linking last night. But as aggressive as he sounded
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  Speaker 1: last night and pretty dark, there's gotta be some daylight
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  Speaker 1: there where he and I can collab and talk about
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  Speaker 1: how two thirty four year olds would turn two days
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  Speaker 1: apart see the world so differently. You both want the
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  Speaker 1: best for New York, so let's team up. Let's give
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  Speaker 1: them the best for New York. After all, that's what
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  Speaker 1: you say you want to do. And I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: one leg up for New Yorkers, So let's team up up.
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  Speaker 2: And just have a talk about what.
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  Speaker 1: We can both do to bring New York forward. If
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  Speaker 1: the age to be elected for office is now, then
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  Speaker 1: do something with it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think joining my podcast would be a great
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  Speaker 2: start here. I won leg up with Alex Garrett