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Hour 1: The Hollywood Reporter's opinion. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Then and now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here.
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Speaker 1: Curtis leewa guest host the Mark Simon Show on seven
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Speaker 1: ten WOO.
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Speaker 2: And this I final weeks up stooding for Mark Simon.
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Speaker 2: Nobody better in the business. What a smooth operator. Think
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Speaker 2: of that song by Shada nineteen eighty four. Think of
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Speaker 2: that in nineteen eighty four. It's going to come back
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Speaker 2: when I talk about the two books being written by
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Speaker 2: Bernard about Bernard Gets that are being published at the
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Speaker 2: same time the beginning of this year, forty one years
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Speaker 2: since the Subway Gumman. So we're going to connect all
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Speaker 2: the dots. But thanks to Mark Simon for giving me
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Speaker 2: this opportunity, Tom Cuddy, the program director, who I've known
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Speaker 2: for years from his stage over at WPLJ, and of
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Speaker 2: course the iHeart group of station's largest in the nation
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Speaker 2: doesn't get any better than this. This is like a
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Speaker 2: second birthday present for me, because I got the Christmas
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Speaker 2: present which was substituting the first week. This will be
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Speaker 2: my Birthday present March twenty six aries fire. You know,
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Speaker 2: I don't go over under, I go right through. And
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Speaker 2: who would have ever thought that I would have made
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Speaker 2: it to seventy two years old. So I got my
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Speaker 2: Christmas present substituting for Marquere and I'm getting my pre
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Speaker 2: birthday present. And then yesterday, because it's always busy in
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Speaker 2: my life, huge article came out. It had been done
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Speaker 2: weeks ago when it came out now and all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, my phone was like blowing up from Hollywood.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, everybody out there on the West coast Hollywood
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Speaker 2: that I've known over the years, where I've met over
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Speaker 2: the years, was calling me about this article the Hollywood Reporter.
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Speaker 2: That's the bible for their business out there. So whether
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Speaker 2: it's movies, TV, whether it's streaming music, whatever it is,
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Speaker 2: that's their bible. And the article was Curtis Leewoo just
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Speaker 2: wants you to know, wants to know where are you from?
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Speaker 2: Because that's what I always asked, right is he? I
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Speaker 2: asked you where you're from? From? The Bronxes and No Jersey,
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Speaker 2: What high school do you go to? I always have
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Speaker 2: these series of questions because it tells me a lot
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Speaker 2: about who you are, where you're from, what your roots are.
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Speaker 2: And so it is a huge article and I got
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Speaker 2: this one call from a guy. Now, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 2: he's interested in Curtius Slawak, can I do this? Can
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Speaker 2: I do that? Can you know they're all they're all
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Speaker 2: schmoozing you. Uh, they're pulling your chain and chewing your shorts.
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Speaker 2: And he's like, hey, you remember me. Remember I grew
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Speaker 2: up in benson Hurst. Yeah, I remember you. Oh man,
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Speaker 2: I got I got ideas of what we can do.
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Speaker 2: I said, really, really, okay, Uh, could you share a
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Speaker 2: few with me? And he goes on and on things
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Speaker 2: he'd never be able to do in a month of Sundays.
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Speaker 2: But he's schnoring me. He snoring me, okay. And I
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Speaker 2: know this guy because in the midst of this mayoral
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Speaker 2: election he became a Cuomo sexual. He donated a lot
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Speaker 2: of money from Hollywood to Cuomo and he.
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Speaker 3: Called me a clown. He thinks I'm gonna forget that, right.
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Speaker 2: So he's going on and on. He's on the roll,
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Speaker 2: doing this typical routine they do out in Hollywood, And
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Speaker 2: I said, cause you hold a second, I gotta I
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Speaker 2: gotta take a call from mister click. And I hung
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Speaker 2: up the phone on him. Guy has no idea what
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Speaker 2: it is, so he must have assumed that there was
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Speaker 2: a break. He calls me right back, and I said, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I had a great conversation with mister Click. I'm sorry
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Speaker 2: it took me a little bit of time to get
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Speaker 2: back to your call, but I I want you to
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Speaker 2: be able to talk to mister Click now. And then
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Speaker 2: hung up on him. You think that's do not You
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Speaker 2: think he finally understood that you don't play with Curtis
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Speaker 2: Lee right, You don't stroke me and think I'm not
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Speaker 2: gonna remember. I don't forgive and I don't forget. Oh,
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Speaker 2: by the way, I hope Greg Kelly is listening over
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Speaker 2: at WABC because his show prep was always marked simone
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Speaker 2: the best in the business, and he's sort of been
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Speaker 2: a dollar short in a day late, not having a
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Speaker 2: routine to be able to pick pocket from. But that's okay.
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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you listen to mark someone the best in
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Speaker 2: the business. I certainly have over the years. But let's
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Speaker 2: talk about yesterday, because it was a Hollywood day. My wife, Nancy,
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Speaker 2: as you know animal welfare activists, was quest for him
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Speaker 2: by the loss of Bridgiet Buddo. Now, obviously my wife
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Speaker 2: is a millennial. She didn't know Bridge Bardeaux from her
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Speaker 2: liberated sex bomb era of movies that she appeared in,
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Speaker 2: especially the ones that were made with Roger Vidim, who
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Speaker 2: then went on to marry years later Jane Fonda, Remember Barbarella. Yeah, okay,
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Speaker 2: but no, let's stick to Bridget Bardeus that one film
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Speaker 2: and God Created Woman. Right now, these are all in France,
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Speaker 2: so you gotta have subtitles to them, right God Created Woman.
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Speaker 2: It opens up with her sun bathing in the news.
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Speaker 2: This is nineteen fifty six. Think about that, nineteen fifty six,
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Speaker 2: and later she emerges from the sea in a clinging
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Speaker 2: wet dress. I'll never forget that scene, and at the
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Speaker 2: top of her career, with the paparazzi chasing her all over.
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Speaker 2: Remember this is the era Marilyn Monroe, so many other
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Speaker 2: sex bombs, but there was a certain sub a fair
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Speaker 2: about Bishard Bardell. So she's at the can Film Festival
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Speaker 2: right there off the Mediterranean. She's in demand and at
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Speaker 2: the top of her movie making career. She walks away
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Speaker 2: from it. She goes to Sanchope and she sets up
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Speaker 2: an animal welfare sanctuary. She goes out to the Arctic
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Speaker 2: and she confronts these barbarians who are clubbing baby seals
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Speaker 2: to death.
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Speaker 3: Confronts them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure some of them are like Brigard Bardeaux
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Speaker 2: my day. Who would ever think you would see Bridget
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Speaker 2: Bardeaux at the North Pole.
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Speaker 4: But she was a fighter for animal welfare, and she
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Speaker 4: consistently railed against laboratory experiments against animals which are being
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Speaker 4: filtered out in the Trump administration in the Pentagon.
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Speaker 3: Also and other federal agencies.
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Speaker 2: Imagine it's still and you know, testing on beagles like
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Speaker 2: that that U discraciata Dr Fauci, testing on beagles, sending
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Speaker 2: them off to Tunisia, third world country, and then putting
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Speaker 2: cones around their heads and having sand.
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Speaker 3: Fleas eat the skin off their heads.
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Speaker 2: For what purposes we spent money on that? It was
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Speaker 2: never explained, doctor Fauci. You will burn in hell for
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Speaker 2: that and many other things. By the way, he's a
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Speaker 2: boy from Bench and her screw up pharmacy. Uh then
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Speaker 2: went to Regis, the most prestigious of Jesuit high schools,
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Speaker 2: better than the one I went to Brooklyn Prep. But
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Speaker 2: he was a disgrace for many many reasons.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's stick with it with Bridget Bartell.
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Speaker 2: And then she says, I don't care about my past glory.
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Speaker 3: I am taking every franc, every euro that I.
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Speaker 2: Have, and I'm investing it in adopting unwanted animal snowkill
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Speaker 2: shelters Spain and neutering. Now, her politics was extreme right.
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Speaker 2: She was a follower of lapenn She hated Muslims. She
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Speaker 2: was cited for that many times for hate speech. But yesterday,
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Speaker 2: for those in the animal welfare community, it was a
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Speaker 2: reminder how so many who have done so well in
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Speaker 2: Hollywood in a movie making and in TV production walked
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Speaker 2: away or in their final years bequeathed all their money
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Speaker 2: to animal welfare. Now, the complete opposite of Richard Bardot
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Speaker 2: at that time was Dori Stay. She was America's sweetheart.
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Speaker 2: Remember Doris Stay. I remember seeing her in Pillow Talk
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Speaker 2: I think it was nineteen sixty with Rock Hudson. Who
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Speaker 2: know that Rock Hudson was gay, but he was. These
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Speaker 2: were great movies. But she was America's sweetheart. And then
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Speaker 2: while doing a film in about nineteen seventy one, she
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Speaker 2: saw some people abusing animals and immediately I think she
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Speaker 2: was doing the film The Man who Knew Too Much
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one, she established actors and others for animals.
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Speaker 2: No de fur, no defer, and who joined the Mary
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Speaker 2: Tyler Moore, Angie Dickenson, Jane Meadows, and of course Bob
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Speaker 2: Barker the price is right. If he saw you warring
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Speaker 2: wearing a fur, he would have punched your schnaz right
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Speaker 2: down your throat.
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Speaker 3: And this became her passion.
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Speaker 2: She lived by Karmel by the Sea, you know Clint
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Speaker 2: Eastwood where he became mayor Karmel by the Sea, a
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Speaker 2: lifelong Republican, died at ninety seven, bequeathed all of her
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Speaker 2: wealth to her at almost sanctuary. And then, of course
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Speaker 2: there was Betty White. Betty White died at about a hundred.
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Speaker 2: I never forget seeing her on phil Donague in the
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Speaker 2: afternoons and she was talking about her animal welfare fund
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Speaker 2: and somebody was giving her a hard time. Yeah, look
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Speaker 2: Betty White, Golden Girls Hot in Cleveland, the Mary Tyler
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Speaker 2: Moore Show. Betty White an institution, bequeathed all her money
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Speaker 2: to her animal wildlife fund. And then, oh yeah, for
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Speaker 2: the guys out there, there's Wakie Phoenix. Remember that great movie,
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Speaker 2: the first one, the Joker, not not the second one
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Speaker 2: with Oh god, that was not a good one. No, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: the second movie could not touch the first one that
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Speaker 2: was classic. So here's Joaquin Phoenix. He's receiving the Academy award. Uh,
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Speaker 2: he's speaking gibberish up there, who knew where his mind was,
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Speaker 2: like so many of these actors and actresses. And the
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Speaker 2: very next day he's out rescuing as she was known
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Speaker 2: to do animals in factory farms. He would actually go there.
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Speaker 2: He would say to those in charge of the farmers,
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Speaker 2: how much you want for that mother cow? How much
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Speaker 2: you want for that new born calf? Spending his wealth
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Speaker 2: to do that great actor? So many others, and think
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Speaker 2: of it, people make fun of you. Would you make
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Speaker 2: fun of Doris Day? Would you make fun of Betty White? Well,
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Speaker 2: they do make fun of Joaquin Phoenix. They say he
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Speaker 2: is looney Kazuni from parts on own great actor, no
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Speaker 2: doubt about it. And Bridget Bardeux, who when they said
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Speaker 2: are you a recluse, she said, no, I'm not a recluse.
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Speaker 2: I would rather deal with animals than with people. And
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Speaker 2: then the most recent maybe we'll get to it in
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Speaker 2: this week when I'm substituting for Mark Simoon pigeons, which
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Speaker 2: in my mind street pigeons should be the official bird
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Speaker 2: of New York City, right, Oh man, you get such battles.
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Speaker 2: Some people say they're nothing more than rats with wings.
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Speaker 2: You know, they put up spikes on their windows cells. Hey,
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Speaker 2: you don't want pigeons coming on your window cells. Put
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Speaker 2: up plastic owls. That's like a natural nemesis to them.
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Speaker 2: It sort of like when you go to a cornfield
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Speaker 2: and they put up scarecrows and keeps the crows who
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Speaker 2: have very smart. Pigeons very smart, but they will not
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Speaker 2: land on a window cell or any area that has
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Speaker 2: a plastic owl in. And boy, tremendous controversy raging because
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Speaker 2: another great actress actually came to the support.
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Speaker 3: The pigeons, the actress Sarah Paulson.
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Speaker 2: She did a podcast in what she was saying, we
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Speaker 2: shouldn't be torturing the street pigeons. They're a part of
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Speaker 2: our New York City heritage and legacy, and they are
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Speaker 2: and they have performed so many services for us over
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Speaker 2: the decades, without which we might have suffered enormously. And
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Speaker 2: I grew up with pigeons on the roof of my
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Speaker 2: grandfather and grandmother's house in Kannarci. My uncle Vincenz used
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Speaker 2: to have a pigeon coop. There were a lot of
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Speaker 2: pigeon coops back then, so I nurtured them, I fed them,
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Speaker 2: I trained them Boston Bulldies and Homer's, so I have
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Speaker 2: a direct infinity for pigeons. But boy, you talk about
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Speaker 2: mixing ammonian bleach and my own wife. I'm so proud
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Speaker 2: of her, Nancy, who stood up to a comrade build
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Speaker 2: a blasio back then, the part time mayor, the dope
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Speaker 2: from Park Slope, when he said, if you feed pigeons,
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Speaker 2: we are gonna find you and my wife, Nancy, in
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Speaker 2: classic Clint Eastwood terminology, turned to build a blasio on
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Speaker 2: the steps of city Hall when he was mayor unfortunately
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Speaker 2: for eight years, and said make my day as she
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Speaker 2: and others began feeding the pigeons right there. Oh you
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Speaker 2: can see all that. Just go to act Curtis Sliwer.
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Speaker 2: It's all posted there. But what a day following the
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Speaker 2: Hollywood Reporter, I mean, dissing and dismissing somebody of great renown.
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Speaker 2: Gotta know you don't play with Curtis Sliwa, You don't
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Speaker 2: play with me. Coming up next, so we got to
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Speaker 2: talk about two books that are being published by about
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Speaker 2: Bernard Getz forty one years later coming out at the
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Speaker 2: same time by the same publishing house, and I guarantee
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Speaker 2: you because of that, it'll probably be a movie made
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Speaker 2: about what occurred forty one years ago in December of
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Speaker 2: the subways of New York City that I spend most
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Speaker 2: of my time in. Our number is eight hundred three
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Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten. That's eight hundred three two
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Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. Because this is the place for
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Speaker 2: you to be heard. Now if you if you weren't
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Speaker 2: part of the w R seven ten listenership, you need
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Speaker 2: to now I Annancy are, and they are a growing
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Speaker 2: number of people out there. Justsu dial right in at
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Speaker 2: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: Curtis Sleewald, guess hos for marks them all on seven tenor.
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Speaker 2: Too bad? Is he who left WABC to come here
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Speaker 2: to be with everybody here at war along with Jacqueline
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Speaker 2: carl who I heard this morning newsgalp same thing. Great
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Speaker 2: to see all these people here. Even better is he
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Speaker 2: if you could have played coming back into this segment
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Speaker 2: Cooling the Gang Hollywood Swinging, Now that's the original cool
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Speaker 2: in the Gang. Don't don't strain your brain. Is he
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Speaker 2: from Jersey City? That was Robert Coolbell and they were
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Speaker 2: followers of Schooy Louis fire Kin in the Nation of Islam.
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Speaker 2: So that becomes a choke because that was a favorite
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Speaker 2: group of mine. I mean, walking around today, coming out
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Speaker 2: of the subway with the drizzle, the gray, it was
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Speaker 2: sort of like Winter Sadness another great song of his,
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Speaker 2: or Summer Madness, great stuff Old Cool in the gang.
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Speaker 2: But you don't have to do that because speaking about
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Speaker 2: coming out of the subways, I'm almost guaranteeing you out
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Speaker 2: there that there's gonna be a movie being made soon
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Speaker 2: about the subway gunman Bernard Gets. Now it's not in
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Speaker 2: a Hollywood reporter, has been reported anywhere, but I was
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Speaker 2: on the line with a New York Times reporter who
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Speaker 2: was telling me, Curtis, how do you make what do
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Speaker 2: you make of this? Forty one years later, remember it
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Speaker 2: was in December of nineteen eighty four that Bernard Gets
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Speaker 2: shot Barry Allen, Troy Kanty, James Ramseur, Daryl Kaby once
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Speaker 2: a piece as they were surrounding him, almost like in
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Speaker 2: a cockwork orange and then when Daryl Kby was on
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Speaker 2: the ground, he shot him once in the back and said,
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Speaker 2: you don't you know, looks so bad, bang, and then
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Speaker 2: fled into the subway and disappeared to New Hampshire eventually
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Speaker 2: turned himself in. So he got two books coming out
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Speaker 2: from the same publishing house at the same time, and
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Speaker 2: so there's got to be something that's cole mingling, conflating
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Speaker 2: out conflating out there. And the one question he asked
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Speaker 2: me says, how would New York City treat the subway
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Speaker 2: gunman now if that had occurred this year as compared
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Speaker 2: to forty one years ago, I still forget about it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Black Lives Matter would be resurrected. You know,
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Speaker 2: they became big, large mansions, they became a real estate
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Speaker 2: firm at people's expense with donating money to that fraudulent operation.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, they'd be back out on the streets, no justice,
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Speaker 2: no peace, morning, noon and night, every day, every week,
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Speaker 2: every month. And look at the hard time they gave
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Speaker 2: Daniel Penny, the marine who unfortunately had to choke Jordan
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Speaker 2: Neely to stop him from threatening people on that f
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Speaker 2: train back in May of twenty twenty three. A lot
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Speaker 2: of people forget that Olxlim shady Sharpton, who was protesting
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Speaker 2: against Bernard Gets during that trial, was also urging his
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Speaker 2: friend Alvin Bragg to charge the two people who helped
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Speaker 2: restrain Jordan Neely with Daniel Penny. He wanted them charge
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Speaker 2: with manslaughter, along with aoc all our crazy Alexandria Cassio Cortes.
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Speaker 2: So the difference is the community was split back then
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Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty four, had half the people that were
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Speaker 2: supporting Bernard Gets got half not no matter it depending
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Speaker 2: where you went. It became a racially charged issue and
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Speaker 2: it pitted white versus black, as so many instances that
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Speaker 2: it affected our city did back then, coming from the
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Speaker 2: time that Ed Koch was mayor for the last time
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Speaker 2: and then lost in that Democratic primary to David Dinkins,
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Speaker 2: it was a racially charged era. Now, how many people
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Speaker 2: would have been standing up in support of Bernard Gets,
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Speaker 2: few of any. This city has changed significantly from forty
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Speaker 2: one years ago, and it's interesting that books coming out now. Also,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to give you an update. You don't want
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Speaker 2: to go anywhere. Remember, I've been tracking it down how
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Speaker 2: Republican leadership in Washington and throughout New York State has
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Speaker 2: forsaken the Republican Party. Yep, they won a UNI party.
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Speaker 2: They want one party, and they're going to try to
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Speaker 2: convince all of you. In future elections they go with
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Speaker 2: the moderate Democrat against the socialist Democrat because Republicans don't
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Speaker 2: have a chance to win in citywide elections and statewide elections.
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Speaker 2: Remember I spent last week upstate New York and Albany, Renseala, Troy,
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Speaker 2: Schenectady learning more. Last night I was at a Republican
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Speaker 2: confab in New York City connecting the dots and oh,
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Speaker 2: you don't want to go anywhere, because not only did
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Speaker 2: they stab me in the back and at least Stephonic,
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Speaker 2: but they're gonna try to convince you if the Schmucker
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Speaker 2: putts Chuck e chees Schumer decides to run again, and
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Speaker 2: that's always a possibility because they never quite understand till death,
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Speaker 2: do you part. They want to stay in office until
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Speaker 2: their room tempership. Oh no, no, no, you're gonna have
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Speaker 2: to listen. Oh man, this you'll say never never, Oh yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's already happening. And I'll connect all the dots of you,
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Speaker 2: and then who weighs in on our fire Commissioner Ellen Musk.
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Speaker 2: You know this is why I say about the billionaires,
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Speaker 2: the masters of the universe. They know what they do.
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Speaker 2: They need to stay in their lane. Talk about a
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Speaker 2: schmucker of Putts. Does he not realize? Of course he doesn't.
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Speaker 2: How many fire commissioners we've had here in New York
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Speaker 2: City that never put out a basket fire. And I'm
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Speaker 2: not just talking about with Eric Adams swager Man with
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Speaker 2: no plan who got wine din in pocket line. I
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Speaker 2: can't wait. I can't wait till he's out of here because.
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Speaker 3: He's still covetching.
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Speaker 2: Oh woe is me. I'm such a victim. But now
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Speaker 2: it's time for you to be hurt. Call eight hundred
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Speaker 2: and three to two one zero sevent ten your newfound friend.
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Speaker 2: If you haven't listened before this seven ten war. That's
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Speaker 2: eight hundred three two one zero sevent ten.
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Speaker 1: Curtis Sleewah guess hose for Mark Simone on sevent ten?
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Speaker 2: Wor very good? Very good? Is he? Anyway? Coming off
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Speaker 2: of that article and the Hollywood reporter that was making
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Speaker 2: my phone singing ring not interested, and I introduced them
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Speaker 2: to mister Click. The headline was Curtis LEEO just wants
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Speaker 2: to know where you're from. So I said to is
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Speaker 2: her board operator, where you're from. He said West Milford,
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Speaker 2: and I said, oh, that's where Jungle Habitat was. Oh,
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Speaker 2: that was great Jungle Habitat. And then to know how
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Speaker 2: my mind works, I'm thinking all the other great song
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Speaker 2: from Cooling the Gang. The original was Jungle Boogie back
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Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy three, seventy four. They were from Jersey City,
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Speaker 2: from the Wild and Peaceful album. And that's when is
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Speaker 2: he walked away from me and said, man, let me
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Speaker 2: get out of here. Back to the boardroom.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, let's go to the phones. It's your turn to
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Speaker 3: be heard.
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Speaker 2: It's Phil calling from Queen's Welcome to Seven to ten
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Speaker 2: war film.
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Speaker 5: Hey, best wishes her great happy new year. Thank you
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Speaker 5: for running. You know you're still a hero to most
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Speaker 5: New Yorkers. I'm hoping that you will stay on the
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Speaker 5: case because, as Bob Gregg would say, stake, phony and
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Speaker 5: fraud is gonna be messing around. I hope a lot
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Speaker 5: of people will show up.
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Speaker 6: For peaceful protests at his inauguration.
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Speaker 5: If you notice he has a closed party. He's capturing
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Speaker 5: emails and contacts for future fundraising and future mobilization. And
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Speaker 5: I just I know you're gonna stay on it. I
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Speaker 5: just wanted to stay Hotey, and.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Phil understand this. I ain't going nowhere.
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Speaker 2: I improve, I don't move. I will be part of
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Speaker 2: that group that says to the barricades, Look, John MONDAMMI
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Speaker 2: won the election, fair and square. It's a fair election.
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Speaker 2: He's entitled to have his celebration. Hey, that's another cool
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Speaker 2: in the game, classic celebration. But anyway, the point being
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Speaker 2: he's entitled. Everybody, Oh, he's gonna have the blocks. The
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Speaker 2: guy gets elected, right, the first Muslim man, Oh my god,
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Speaker 2: let's get rid of it. No, no, no, no, you
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Speaker 2: can't deport people just because you're Muslim, Okay, especially naturalized citizens. Right,
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Speaker 2: that means that is it. So people getting all bent
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Speaker 2: out of shape. He won.
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Speaker 3: Let them have this celebrations or nieces.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's see what he actually does in running government.
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Speaker 2: But this is a worldwide network here seven to ten WR,
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Speaker 2: and we have people who are calling from all over America.
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Speaker 2: So let's immediately go if we can to Bob, who's
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Speaker 2: calling from San Diego. Your turn to be heard here
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Speaker 2: at seven ten. Woar, Bob.
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Speaker 6: Good to hear you back on the air. Curtz, I
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Speaker 6: live out here in San Diego, but I'm in New Yorker.
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Speaker 6: I moved here three years ago. Helped the family out
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Speaker 6: I had. I helped erase a grandchild out here. But
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Speaker 6: it's nice idea. But I really missed New York and
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Speaker 6: hearing you back on the air. You're a New York institution,
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Speaker 6: but we have so much in common. On the same
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Speaker 6: age as you. I also went to a Catholic high
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Speaker 6: school and I remember seeing you, maybe your senior year.
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Speaker 6: You were rather swimming meet at Brooklyn Prep. My school
26:24
Speaker 6: was swimming against your school. I remember seeing you, and
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Speaker 6: a friend of mine told me you had been suspended
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Speaker 6: and you were the class president.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. But now let me ask you a question, Bob.
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Speaker 2: In normal gym class, when your school had pools, because
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Speaker 2: a lot of the Catholic high schools had pools, and
26:42
Speaker 2: so the public high schools have pools, I could never
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Speaker 2: figure out when you had to go to your gym class,
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Speaker 2: which was pool once a week. You had to take
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Speaker 2: your trunks off, you had to swim nude. The physical
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Speaker 2: I guess school education teacher they called them said, oh no,
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Speaker 2: you can't swim in the pool wearing trunks. Now, I
27:06
Speaker 2: thought that was pretty pervy, especially with all that chlorine
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Speaker 2: in there. I mean you could die from the chlorine
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Speaker 2: sort of a pool that hung over the pool, and
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Speaker 2: yet they demanded that you had to take your chunks
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Speaker 2: off when you dived into the pool. I thought that
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Speaker 2: was a bit freaky. Deekeey Bob.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I kind of remember that my school, Manta Christie,
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Speaker 6: we were a dioxus in high school in Queens. We
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Speaker 6: didn't have a pool, so we had to go work
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Speaker 6: out at the Kipsbay Boys Club in Manhattan, and they
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Speaker 6: had that policy there. You couldn't wear a suit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, no, there's something there's something very very
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Speaker 2: Epstein about that. If you get to drift. Ah, that's weird. Now,
27:54
Speaker 2: am Iuti Christie, which are now Saint John's Prep there
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Speaker 2: in that story which is the land of Zoran Mondamie.
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Speaker 2: See see how my mind works. A lot of calls
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Speaker 2: they're blazing away. But don't be glazing me in these calls.
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Speaker 2: Let's be talking about what's happening out there. Let's go
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Speaker 2: to Frank. I call it little Dublin. He's calling from
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Speaker 2: Woodlawn right south of the west Chester border McLean Avenue.
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Speaker 2: Your turn to be heard here at seven to ten
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Speaker 2: wor Frankie.
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Speaker 7: Hi. Curtis, Minnesota is not the only place that has
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Speaker 7: problem with these charity frauds. If you go through any
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Speaker 7: neighborhood in the Bronx Queens, Brooklyn, you'll see storefront daycare center,
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Speaker 7: storefront tutoring learning centers. They're all scams that the Democrats
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Speaker 7: are set up to send money to their hacks in
28:51
Speaker 7: the community. There's nothing going on at those places other
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Speaker 7: than stealing the money.
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Speaker 2: Well look, look, we've had medicaid mills here for years,
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Speaker 2: in all different kinds of communities. They go in, they
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Speaker 2: write your script doctors whatever you want, and you become
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Speaker 2: a pill freak and they charge the taxpayers. And this
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Speaker 2: gone on for years, and oh the Somalians are ripping
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Speaker 2: them off in Minnesota. No, no, no, no, New York,
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Speaker 2: New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. They get taken into all these places,
29:29
Speaker 2: don't ask surprise, There is no oversight. There is no
29:34
Speaker 2: oversight to most of the government. What they do is
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Speaker 2: they tax us from the cradle to the grave, and
29:41
Speaker 2: there's no oversight. And then occasionally they determine, oh there's
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Speaker 2: corruption there, let's see how many people actually get prosecuted
29:50
Speaker 2: and the fall through the cracks, and how many politicians
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Speaker 2: elected officials should go down for the count on that.
30:01
Speaker 2: Our numbers one eight hundred and three to two, one
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Speaker 2: zero seven ten. For many of you, I know you
30:07
Speaker 2: used to listen to WABC, which I was on always
30:10
Speaker 2: broadcasting Curtis became always blaming Curtis for the election of Zorhanmandami,
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Speaker 2: which is just not the case. I understand from some
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Speaker 2: people very close to Andrew Cuomo over the weekend I
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Speaker 2: call them Cromo sexuals that as the new year is
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Speaker 2: upon us, he's still crying. If only Curticians jomped down,
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Speaker 2: it could have been the mayor. Come on you, mama, Luke,
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Speaker 2: it's over. Just stay out in the Hamptons with your
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Speaker 2: billionaire friends. Just leave the subways and streets to me.
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Speaker 2: I got some stories about that coming up, you know.
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Speaker 2: With the end of the Metro card, the scammers were
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Speaker 2: out in force this morning in the subways, taking advantage
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Speaker 2: of tourists and the empty money taking agency. They don't care,
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Speaker 2: they don't care. They rip us off. Might as well
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Speaker 2: rip off the tourists too, and now.
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Speaker 1: More with New York's iconic straight shooter Curtis Leewah guest
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Speaker 1: hosting from Mark Simone on sevent ten woor.
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Speaker 2: So, now you've heard a lot about the phasing out
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Speaker 2: of the Metro card to do your swipe into the
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Speaker 2: subway system, and obviously they're going to, uh, what can
31:35
Speaker 2: we call that? The tap and run, you know, with
31:38
Speaker 2: your debut card, your credit card and the Omni card.
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Speaker 3: I'm a token guy myself, I try. I love it
31:46
Speaker 3: when during the age of crack in the eighties you
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Speaker 3: had the token suckers. They would actually go up to
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Speaker 3: the portal where you put your subway token in. They
31:57
Speaker 3: would stuff it with paper or paper clips so that
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Speaker 3: if we get caught, you wouldn't be able to go
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Speaker 3: through the turnstiles. You'd scream over to the boardop and
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Speaker 3: excuse me, to the token booth clerk who was always
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Speaker 3: asleep in the booths, Hey yeah, go ahead through, And
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Speaker 3: then then all of a sudden the crackhead would come
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Speaker 3: and suck the token.
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Speaker 2: Right out of the portal and then sell it to
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Speaker 2: people for like half price. I mean that used to
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Speaker 2: be all over the place, so then they went metro card,
32:27
Speaker 2: and then guys would bend the metro card and sell
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Speaker 2: you swipes there because they figured out how to steal
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Speaker 2: money from us through the MTA money taking agency. There's
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Speaker 2: always been rusters, just like you have the turnstiles. Now
32:43
Speaker 2: they say, oh, we have flippers here, we have guardrails here,
32:47
Speaker 2: and people are still avoiding paying the fare. It's fair
32:51
Speaker 2: evasion galore everywhere I go. But this morning, on my
32:54
Speaker 2: way here to war seven to ten, I'm looking at
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Speaker 2: the these guys, these hustlers, and they're taking advantage of
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Speaker 2: tourists in the subway because where they in front of
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Speaker 2: the machine that would give them their final Metro card
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Speaker 2: or their Omni card right to get into the subway.
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Speaker 2: So these huss that you give me the money and
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Speaker 2: I'll swipe you in. I go up to them and say, yo, man,
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Speaker 2: get the hell out of this station again talking with
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Speaker 2: clerks doing nothing, not my business, as tourists are getting
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Speaker 2: ripped off. And then the guy has the nerve to
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Speaker 2: say to me, I voted for you. Could all of
33:37
Speaker 2: you do me a favor? If all of you who
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Speaker 2: have come up to me actually voted for me, I
33:42
Speaker 2: would be sworn in as the mayor and not Zor
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Speaker 2: on Mandami this coming January.
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Speaker 3: First, please stop it already.
33:51
Speaker 2: Most of you did not vote for me, but I
33:54
Speaker 2: guess you feel like, Oh, I'm gonna make them feel good. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I vote a for you?
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 2: And then I ask you where you from? And you
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Speaker 2: tell me Scarsdale in Westchester? How did you do that?
34:04
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere up next? How the Republican leadership do
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Speaker 2: not want Republicans to win citywide or statewide ever again
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Speaker 2: in New York State. I'm gonna connect all the dots
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Speaker 2: for you.