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Opening Segment 10/22/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti in the morning on 710WOR,
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  Speaker 1: the voice.
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  Speaker 2: Of New York. Styling and profiling today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, normally, Larry and Natalie, when I join you
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  Speaker 1: in studio here, it's part of the iHeart confab. I'm
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  Speaker 1: either wearing the red sateen jacket or occasionally my blue
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  Speaker 1: sateen jacket that says the people's mayor. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, with my name on it, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: very narcissistic.
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  Speaker 3: You were always dressed in character.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. And always the red beret. Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: But can you describe both Larry and Natalie the accoutrements
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  Speaker 1: that now are part of my fashionista look today?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll just say that when I first saw you,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, well, he's either going to a wedding or
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  Speaker 3: he's going to a funeral.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
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  Speaker 3: But then I thought, well, maybe you actually wear the
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  Speaker 3: guardian angel stuffs to weddings and funerals. So maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: not that.
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  Speaker 2: You're correct.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: See? So then I'm thinking, well, maybe it's not that.
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  Speaker 3: Is he trying? Well, then you'd have to take the
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  Speaker 3: beret off. Yeah. To sneak into somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Which I did remember in the two debates. Remember how
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  Speaker 1: people said, you take that beret off, I'll vote for you.
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  Speaker 1: Less people voted for me in 2025 than 2021.
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  Speaker 4: Curtis, you were on with Larry one morning and we
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  Speaker 4: had a talkback that said that.
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  Speaker 2: We had several talkbacks. Yes, and we mentioned that to
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  Speaker 2: you and then we felt bad that you did it.
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  Speaker 4: We're like, oh no.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I did it because I figured, look, I wore
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  Speaker 1: the beret against Eric Adams all the time. All these
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  Speaker 1: people are saying, I would have voted for you if
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  Speaker 1: you took the red beret off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Guess what? I got two-thirds less votes this time around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that really works.
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  Speaker 3: What's funny is all those talkback people were convinced if
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  Speaker 3: you just took the beret off.
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  Speaker 2: And then in the debates, they went, oh, maybe not. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason that I'm styling and profiling today, as
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Full suit. Nice suit, by the way. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It is a big day for all the animal welfare
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  Speaker 1: people who have dedicated their lives to ending the horse
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  Speaker 1: carriage industry and sending.
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  Speaker 2: the horses out to pasture.
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  Speaker 1: There is a bill that will do that today that
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  Speaker 1: will be debated and voted on in the city council,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a fait accompli. You don't enter a bill
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  Speaker 1: on the floor if you're the speaker, as Julie Menon is,
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  Speaker 1: without having the votes.
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  Speaker 2: But they have a big rally at 12 noon in
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  Speaker 2: City Hall Park. Was never invited.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't expect to speak, but, you know, we'd
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  Speaker 1: like to acknowledge Curtis because He and his wife were
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  Speaker 1: in the forefront of this.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Yeah. Having been invited to be
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  Speaker 2: up in the peanut gallery, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Where obviously people are forced to sit and they're not
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  Speaker 1: able to boo or applaud. You know, they have to
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  Speaker 1: do one of those. That's not right. And I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to myself, wow. So maybe if I just come in
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  Speaker 1: a suit and tie with the berets. like I did
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  Speaker 1: in the campaign, they're not going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: come up with an excuse.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're not the people's mayor. That's an insult to
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  Speaker 2: Zoran Mondami, who's in City Hall.
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  Speaker 1: So I figured I'm going to eliminate all possibilities of
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  Speaker 1: why they might keep me out for that historic vote.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little disappointed because I put out a public
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  Speaker 3: plea yesterday to Vicky Palladino, who is going to be
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  Speaker 3: at that rally, to invite you. And I know she listens.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll do it one more time. Vicki, it is
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  Speaker 3: a wrong. It's a wrong that can easily be righted.
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  Speaker 3: And all you need to do is call Curtis, call
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  Speaker 3: the station and let us know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, please come.
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  Speaker 3: We'll acknowledge you because it really is a slight and
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  Speaker 3: it's a big oversight on your part. Well, they can
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  Speaker 3: be fixed easily.
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  Speaker 1: She stood with the horse carriage owners yesterday in city hall.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to apparently go for a temporary restraining order,
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  Speaker 1: but The one person who's no longer in council who
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  Speaker 1: would have done this is Robert Holden.
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  Speaker 2: He is a true believer. That's why I.
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  Speaker 1: Was able to speak at that city council chamber. In fact, Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: you got to repost that. When I hit the two-minute
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  Speaker 1: mark and they yanked the microphone right from me because
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  Speaker 1: the chairwoman, Lynn Shulman, the councilwoman.
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  Speaker 2: who hates me and.
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  Speaker 1: Actually hates the animal welfare people, but was forced to
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  Speaker 1: do it by Julian Mennon, yanked the microphone, and everybody
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  Speaker 1: went crazy and all, and started applauding, I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Throw you all out. No, you won't, lady.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to come in, suit and tie, and
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  Speaker 1: see if they try to keep me out of the
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  Speaker 1: rally or keep me out of the historic.
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  Speaker 2: Vote, and we'll be here tomorrow. Remember the guy who
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  Speaker 2: pioneered this?
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  Speaker 1: They never mentioned his name, our own Barry Gray, who
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  Speaker 1: invented talk radio here at WOR, was the first to
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  Speaker 1: take on that issue.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not horses.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the Wild West, you know, where a guy
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  Speaker 1: would be riding along and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pull out a six shooter and start shooting
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  Speaker 1: at another guy in a horse. What a road rage
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  Speaker 1: incident on George Washington Bridge, at least the upper level
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  Speaker 1: entrance from the Manhattan side.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting all the details, man.
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  Speaker 1: And I know a lot of our listeners out there, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: because you're in their cars now listening. have probably experienced
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  Speaker 1: a road rage incident or felt that, man, my life
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  Speaker 1: is in jeopardy. I've really pushed this a little too far.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Here, I'm shocked.
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  Speaker 3: I actually looked up the statistics on road rage. 96%
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  Speaker 3: of drivers have witnessed or been engaged in road rage. 89%
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  Speaker 3: report being a victim of an aggressive driver. 37% of
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  Speaker 3: aggressive driving and road rage incidents involve a firearm. 37%.
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  Speaker 2: That is scary.
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  Speaker 3: Leading to 116 road rage related deaths in a single
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  Speaker 3: year across the country.
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  Speaker 2: And there's, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, I was telling you earlier,
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  Speaker 4: that is one of my biggest fears is that if I,
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  Speaker 4: you know, cut somebody off by accident.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it happens, right?
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  Speaker 4: You know, you don't realize you did something and then
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  Speaker 4: the person starts going nuts and then you start waving
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  Speaker 4: your hand. That somebody would have a weapon and just
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  Speaker 4: do exactly what we saw that happened on the GWB.
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  Speaker 2: Or try to run you off the road.
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  Speaker 3: Right. There's a million things that.
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  Speaker 2: They can do.
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  Speaker 1: They chase you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody's seen that. Oh, yeah. No, I've had that.
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  Speaker 2: I've had that happen.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm on the turnpike every single day and
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it every single day, especially the people that
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  Speaker 3: pull up like inches from you and back of you.
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  Speaker 4: And then you could see them, you know, window to
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  Speaker 4: window and they're staring at you and they're pointing at you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Here's some tips on what to do in those situations.
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  Speaker 3: Avoid eye contact, which I always look right at the people.
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  Speaker 3: Returning rude hand gestures, which you just said you did.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a rude hand gesture.
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  Speaker 2: But you waved them off. Or yelling back.
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  Speaker 3: Create space, safely slow down, change lanes, or let the
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  Speaker 3: aggressive driver pass. Do not go home if they're following you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's good advice.
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  Speaker 3: Drive to the nearest police station or a well-lit public
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  Speaker 3: space instead of heading home and then call 911. The
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  Speaker 3: last one is one that I'm embarrassed about. It says
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  Speaker 3: consider a dash cam so you can record the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: The reason I'm embarrassed about it is because my daughter
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  Speaker 3: gave me one for Christmas and I never installed it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's very insulted by that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never thought about having that, but it's probably
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  Speaker 4: a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to put it up.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to do that because it records all
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  Speaker 1: your conversations, as we saw with the two terrorist kids
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  Speaker 1: from Bucks County on their way to throw those bombs
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  Speaker 1: outside of Gracie Mansion, remember? Their entire conversation was recorded
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  Speaker 1: by the dash cam, unbeknownst to them.
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  Speaker 2: They're guilty. They're going away forever.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 2: Let me make mention, there was a great episode with
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  Speaker 2: Larry David.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the car, and apparently he cut off a biker.
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  Speaker 1: And a biker comes up on his side, and then
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  Speaker 1: Larry David reaches over, puts on the MAGA cap as
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  Speaker 1: the biker is screaming and yelling at him.
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  Speaker 2: And then the biker goes, oh, I'm sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thumbs up. One of the great episodes.
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  Speaker 1: Smart. But let's give the details of what happened. A
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  Speaker 1: retired NYP narcotics detective. He retired in 2001 after getting
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  Speaker 1: into a shootout with three gunmen while he was off
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  Speaker 1: duty at his family's laundromat in Brooklyn. He got hit
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  Speaker 1: in the chest. He got hit in the hand. Victor Romero.
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  Speaker 1: And then he had to take a disability pension. So
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  Speaker 1: he was out of the department for 2001. but he
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  Speaker 1: became a driver. They call it executive protection, corporate security.
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  Speaker 1: Lives in Havistraw, New York, in Rockland. He's assigned to
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  Speaker 1: protect and drive around executives. So you would think, The
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  Speaker 1: guy's cool, calm, and collected. Well, not on this occasion.
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  Speaker 1: As he was going up, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people listening right now, he's on the Manhattan side, he's
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  Speaker 1: going up.
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  Speaker 2: To the upper deck. A lot of times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the traffic conflates.
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  Speaker 1: It goes lower deck, upper deck, and then there's that
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  Speaker 1: way you can actually go towards the Cross Bronx Expressway, which...
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  Speaker 1: At times you see people like really starting to argue
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  Speaker 1: with one another. And there was another guy, Corin Irvine,
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  Speaker 1: who had grown up in Flatbush, worked for Con Ed.
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  Speaker 1: He was in a Volkswagen dark blue hatchback. And apparently
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  Speaker 1: some kind of road rage incident occurred at that location
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  Speaker 1: before they even got onto the bridge. And this poor guy, Corin,
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  Speaker 1: A bullet came through the back windshield that they attribute
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  Speaker 1: to the former detective, the guy named Victor Romero.
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  Speaker 2: He gets shot in the shoulder. You could survive that.
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  Speaker 2: But the bullet then goes right into his head.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, geez. And then he crashes halfway across the bridge
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  Speaker 1: because he's trying to drive across the bridge because where
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  Speaker 1: are you going to stop on the bridge? Crashes into
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  Speaker 1: the pole. They take him to Englewood Hospital, and unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: he died. But a road rage incident like so many others.
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  Speaker 1: That's why Nancy oftentimes will yell at me.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you you.
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  Speaker 1: Because when she's behind the wheel, God forbid she thinks
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  Speaker 1: she was cut off. She starts beeping the horn, speeding up.
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  Speaker 1: She wants to go side by side and start giving
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  Speaker 1: the finger.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no. Don't do that. Nancy, would
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  Speaker 2: you please calm down? I'll give you some Prozac. Don't
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  Speaker 2: make an incident out of this.
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  Speaker 3: If my wife's exactly the opposite, she's the one that
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  Speaker 3: causes road rage all the time. And she's not sure
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  Speaker 3: why she doesn't know.
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  Speaker 2: What she's doing. She like Mr. Magoo.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It's exactly the case. I'll talk to her on the phone.
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  Speaker 3: There's some guy that's really upset with me. He's pulled
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  Speaker 3: up next to me. He's yelling out of his window.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure what I did. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: just ignore them. Just don't look at them. No, I said,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know what I did.
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  Speaker 3: I just, I mouthed, I'm sorry. But this, every time
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  Speaker 3: I talk to her, there's one of these people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: beeping the horn, speeding up, or giving the finger. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's the universal language, F-U. You might set it off
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  Speaker 3: right there. Or what the hell are you doing? The
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  Speaker 3: hands go up.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Put your hands on the wheel.
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  Speaker 3: So listen, I'm sure everybody out there has dealt with
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  Speaker 3: a road rage incident of some kind. So you can
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  Speaker 2: Up next. Oh, yeah, Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: Where were you at the Harry Styles concert in Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden?
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  Speaker 2: Well, guess who was there? The Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Nick.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they probably lost the game. We'll get into that.
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  Speaker 1: And the ring that you need an 18-wheel tractor trailer
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  Speaker 1: to carry around. The Nick Championship ring that Natalie is
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  Speaker 1: continuing to talk about. Plus a chance to see Journey
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  Speaker 1: at 825.