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Opening Segment 10.16.26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, New York wakes up with Curtis Sliwa and Larry Menti,
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  Speaker 1: 710 WOR. Wow, did you hear that weather forecast, Larry
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  Speaker 1: and Natalie?
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back, Natalie. You were away yesterday. We had
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  Speaker 2: to deal with the quiet storm there, and boy, was
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  Speaker 2: he quiet.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he talked more than he ever talked before, I thought.
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  Speaker 3: Which isn't a lot, but still, he.
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  Speaker 2: Talked a lot. Yeah, we got a few words out
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  Speaker 2: of him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But it's great to have you back, Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So bundle up.
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  Speaker 1: You just heard Ray Stajic. 30 degrees on Sunday. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this will be a dramatic decrease. And you know what happens, Larry?
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  Speaker 1: Every time there's a dramatic decrease of about 40 degrees,
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  Speaker 1: people get sick. Because for a lot of people, it's
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  Speaker 1: too much for the body to absorb all in one blow.
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  Speaker 2: So get ready. Bundle up. 30 degrees.
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  Speaker 1: See, this is why you live in the Northeast. You
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  Speaker 1: get the weather changes, the seasonal changes, the leaves change.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get that if you go to Florida.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, but that's exactly the same reason some people
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  Speaker 3: don't want to live here. Exactly the same reason. Believe me,
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  Speaker 3: I've been all over the country. I know in San Diego,
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  Speaker 3: they don't want to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same every day. Florida is somewhat the same,
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  Speaker 1: except when the hurricane season hits and you have to
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  Speaker 1: hunker down from time to time. But this is the
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  Speaker 1: time that I love because it makes our area so
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  Speaker 1: different than some other areas of the country, except not
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  Speaker 1: a dramatic 40 degree change on one day.
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  Speaker 2: Sunday, 30 degrees. But you're right.
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  Speaker 3: The change in temperature does cause a lot of sicknesses.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when wintertime comes, people get sick. When fall comes,
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  Speaker 3: when the beginning of summer, the flu takes over. I mean-
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  Speaker 3: It is odd how the weather has such an effect
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  Speaker 3: on our well-being.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I want to be a double mensch to everybody
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  Speaker 1: out there. I'll be more than happy to hold your
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  Speaker 1: hands if you get a flu shot, whether you're Republican, Democrat, Independent,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you don't have sweaty hands. That's so
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  Speaker 1: nice because I read you all wrong. I thought you
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  Speaker 1: only held hands with some special people. Oh, you mean
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  Speaker 1: like Zorhan Mondavi? But I must extend this. To many
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  Speaker 1: listeners out there, I will come and hold your hand
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  Speaker 1: while you get the flu shot.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a second. Please, please, we need a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of people.
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  Speaker 3: I want him every single day showing up somewhere to
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  Speaker 3: hold somebody's hand as they get a flu shot.
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  Speaker 2: And the talkbacks. Go ahead and leave a talkback.
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  Speaker 3: Say you want it, and Natalie will get all your information,
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  Speaker 3: and then we are going to say, he has to
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  Speaker 3: do this.
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  Speaker 2: He's made a promise. He has to go.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. If you're out of state, if you're
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  Speaker 3: out of state, please, please. Ask him to hold your
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  Speaker 3: hand so that he has to travel to hold your hand.
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  Speaker 2: Am I not a politician? Haven't I learned to do
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  Speaker 2: a pivot and shift? Exactly. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: But to really stick it to me, dress up in
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  Speaker 1: full MAGA gear. You know, MAGA gear with Trump is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest of all time, the G-O-A-T.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, just for that picture.
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  Speaker 3: Him holding your hand in full MAGA gear. Please, I
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  Speaker 3: know you can respond to this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make this happen.
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  Speaker 1: Particularly for men, there will be no insinuations about your sexuality.
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  Speaker 1: It'll simply be one man to another man getting you
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  Speaker 1: through the process.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, between you and me, once you're holding hands, you
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  Speaker 3: can do anything you want. So you can talk about
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  Speaker 3: your sexuality once he's holding your hand.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now we're getting a little ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: He just wants somebody to get their flu shot.
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  Speaker 2: No sweaty hands. No sweaty hands.
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  Speaker 3: Again, once he's holding your hand, you can do anything
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  Speaker 3: you want. You can grease it up and then.
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  Speaker 2: Get it in there. No Vaseline, please. Now, big day today.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie has worked very hard on a story that we brought.
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  Speaker 4: Very hard. I think, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: It is pretty funny when Natalie has a confused look
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  Speaker 3: when you say she worked very hard.
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  Speaker 1: What? She did on this one because, remember, we've elevated
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  Speaker 1: a story that nobody in talk radio anywhere ever talks about.
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  Speaker 1: The theft of mail out of mailboxes, which, as you
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  Speaker 1: can see, Natalie, from the flow of our listeners who
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  Speaker 1: have responded, including our own program director, Tom Cuddy, who
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  Speaker 1: was a victim of this and others. we see it's
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  Speaker 1: systemic throughout the tri-state area and beyond.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, definitely. Where people are victims unknowingly.
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  Speaker 1: When these guys come up on motorbikes, they grease up
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  Speaker 1: their belt with stickum, stickum, which you would use to
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  Speaker 1: catch rats and mice, and they put it in the box,
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  Speaker 1: and then they go what they call fishing, and they
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  Speaker 1: steal all the mail. Then they go to some other place,
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  Speaker 1: they're looking for checks that can be bleached, not by them,
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  Speaker 1: but by others. gift cards, anything of value, any other mail,
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  Speaker 1: they toss. They just throw it away, and then they
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  Speaker 1: come back and do it. And so boldly and brazenly,
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  Speaker 1: there are photos of them, there's film of them. And
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  Speaker 1: I brought to everybody's attention my personal vigilante battle against
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  Speaker 1: these two guys who are covered from head to toe
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  Speaker 1: and are motorbikes working the Upper West Side. One particular
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  Speaker 1: mailbox on the corner is 73rd and Broadway in front
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  Speaker 1: of Chase. You remember my posting, Larry and Natalie? I
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  Speaker 1: described how I had actually bum-rushed one of them, grabbed
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  Speaker 1: some of the mail they stole, including the woman that
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  Speaker 1: you reached out to who.
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  Speaker 2: Had sent such a beautiful card.
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  Speaker 1: To her son wishing him the best of luck at
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  Speaker 1: the University of Chicago. And you know what the response
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  Speaker 1: of the U.S. Postal Service, which is the federal agency
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  Speaker 1: with federal cops, and if you get arrested stealing mail,
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  Speaker 1: you go before a federal judge. It's not a local crime.
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  Speaker 1: And the NYPD's response was, they took the mailbox away.
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  Speaker 1: There's no mailbox there.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. Problem over.
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  Speaker 2: No mailbox. That solves the problem.
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  Speaker 4: For a second.
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  Speaker 2: But in that one area, but not really. But they're
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  Speaker 2: hitting all the mailboxes.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason it's so important now is that even
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  Speaker 1: the president has said, yep, if you have to vote
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  Speaker 1: by mail, vote by mail. And we know there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people our age and older with baby
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  Speaker 1: boomers who vote by mail for a number of reasons.
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  Speaker 1: They can't get to the polling location. The ballot comes
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  Speaker 1: to them because they've asked for it. Who can't get
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  Speaker 1: to the polling location? Seriously, who can't get it's usually
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  Speaker 1: right down the street from you. They put them everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I hate that excuse. I've heard that before,
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  Speaker 1: but I hate that excuse. It's just it's just silly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not against mail-in ballots, but listen, I never do it.
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  Speaker 1: I go and vote in person all the time.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I understand, and most people do.
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  Speaker 1: But there are some people who don't want to wait
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  Speaker 1: for the day something else may happen, prevents them from going.
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  Speaker 2: So, hey, here I requested my mail-in ballot. I got it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll fill it out. I'll check it. I'll check it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll seal it up and generally walk over to the mailbox,
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  Speaker 1: mail it, assuming that it gets to where it's going. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they have a way you could track it to see
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  Speaker 1: if it's at the Board of Elections, but most people don't.
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  Speaker 1: And when these mail bandits are stealing mail, they don't
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  Speaker 1: care what the mail is. But if you happen to
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  Speaker 1: have put your mail-in ballot in one of these blue
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  Speaker 1: mailboxes and it is part of the treasury that they
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  Speaker 1: take out of there, it's going to be discarded.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be torn up and thrown away. And
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  Speaker 2: that vote will never end.
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  Speaker 1: Larry, in some of these local elections where it's like
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  Speaker 1: the difference is like 10 votes, 20 votes.
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  Speaker 2: 30, 40 votes, it could be the differentiation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I would love to get rid of
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  Speaker 3: mail-in ballots unless you have a really good reason for
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  Speaker 3: doing it. I think that it's ripe with fraud. I
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  Speaker 3: think that it's the easiest way to commit fraud, as
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  Speaker 3: we've seen now in Pennsylvania, as we've seen in other states.
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  Speaker 3: And now you have in California where there's 20,000 ballots
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  Speaker 3: that the Trump administration says, hey, they didn't say these
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  Speaker 3: are bad. They said, hey, these are suspicious. Take a
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  Speaker 3: look at these. And they fought them. Why in hell
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  Speaker 3: would you fight anybody on that? Why wouldn't you go, oh,
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  Speaker 3: thanks for calling that to our attention. We'll take a
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  Speaker 3: look at those ballots. Why would you fight that unless,
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  Speaker 3: unless you think, oh, maybe they are fraudulent. They'll probably
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  Speaker 3: be voting for us.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of Democratic voters who want ballot
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  Speaker 1: authenticity because 80 percent of the country is in favor
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  Speaker 1: of you having to legitimize yourself when you go vote.
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  Speaker 1: with government ID. 80% is more than Republicans. That includes
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats and Independents. It's Hispanics, it's Blacks,
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  Speaker 1: it's Democrats, it's Republicans. No, absolutely, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that Democratic politicians feel the same way
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  Speaker 3: that the Democratic voters do, and they're obviously not listening
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  Speaker 3: to them.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give credit where credit is due. I'll rewind it. Natalie,
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  Speaker 2: our producer. Oh, we're back to me. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Has worked very hard to get an expert on mail theft.
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  Speaker 1: It plagues everybody. To be able to come on with us,
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore is away today. So in her normal slot
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  Speaker 1: at 754, who will we have telling us? what the
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  Speaker 1: problems are, and how to deal with them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's actually a retired postal police officer here in
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  Speaker 4: New York and currently the executive director of the Postal
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  Speaker 4: Police Officers Association. And he has actually testified twice before
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  Speaker 4: Congress about mail theft.
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  Speaker 2: So this is his thing. People don't realize it's a
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  Speaker 2: huge problem.
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  Speaker 1: Local law enforcement doesn't want to deal with it because
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  Speaker 1: they don't want to put crimes on the books.
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  Speaker 2: Especially, Larry, if it's overthrown.
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  Speaker 1: $ 1, 000 of value in most counties, townships, villages, municipalities. It's
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  Speaker 1: got to be $ 1, 000 or more to be a felony.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a federal crime, so you're not going in
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  Speaker 1: front of a... turn-them-loose, you know, black-robed judge. You're going
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  Speaker 1: into federal court.
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  Speaker 2: They're serious. And they have armed police who come get you.
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  Speaker 2: And yet you don't see that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, Larry, my father would take
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  Speaker 1: me to the local post office on Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie,
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  Speaker 1: and you would see FBI, 10 Most Wanted. And you'd say, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: If you ever steal mail, don't even try as a prank.
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  Speaker 1: Because you steal mail, it's serious. They got federal cops.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be up there, the 10 most wanted. Now, he
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  Speaker 1: was embellishing and exaggerating, but to make a point, back
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  Speaker 1: then we all knew you don't steal mail.
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  Speaker 3: I wish it was a federal crime to take Amazon
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  Speaker 3: packages because I think that's a much, much bigger problem,
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  Speaker 3: but that ain't going to happen. When we come back,
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  Speaker 3: the Al Smith dinner once again. Who was the funniest?
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  Speaker 2: Who showed? Who didn't show?
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  Speaker 3: Plus a chance to see Journey at 825.