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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 9-28-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Where's that Ray Stajic? Where is he? Come on, Natalie.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. Later in the morning. Come on, Larry. 6.50.
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  Speaker 2: I got a little piece of my mind to share
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  Speaker 2: with him because he was the most laid back weather
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  Speaker 2: forecaster of the many. that we got pounded with over
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  Speaker 2: 72 hours. And you, yourself, a weather forecaster of extraordinary talent. Larry,
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  Speaker 2: in the years you spent in San Diego, same weather
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  Speaker 2: map every day.
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  Speaker 3: Sunny in 70, sea in January. That's when things will
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  Speaker 3: change a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But you understand all the terminology, and you understand how
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  Speaker 2: we were goading him.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, why are the weather forecasters.
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  Speaker 2: On TV preaching something Death, destruction, and oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: this could be the mother of all nor'eases. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: Ray was so laid back, well, maybe, you know, it
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  Speaker 2: could be possibly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let me, I'll tell you a real quick story.
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  Speaker 3: I was in a meeting one time when a storm
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  Speaker 3: was moving up the coast. It was days away, but
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  Speaker 3: the weathercaster said, if this hits, it could be the
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  Speaker 3: storm of the century. It was the last night of ratings.
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  Speaker 3: So what do you think we led with? Storm of
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  Speaker 3: the century, and it didn't hit. But we won the book.
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  Speaker 3: We had extraordinary ratings that night.
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  Speaker 1: But in this one, I always say fear, fright, hysteria,
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  Speaker 1: and hype. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The hype actually delivered because our area was blanketed, the
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  Speaker 2: tri-state area. They were all different situations, the way there
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  Speaker 2: was massive flooding, where trees were being unearthed and knocked
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  Speaker 2: down and chaos, no electricity, but it was over two days.
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  Speaker 1: So it wasn't just like it came in and it
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  Speaker 1: went out to sea. No, no, no, no. It hung
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  Speaker 1: around for.
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  Speaker 2: Two full days, including the cancellation of the ACDC.
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  Speaker 1: Concert in MetLife Stadium. ACDC! Of course it was canceled.
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  Speaker 1: And Global Citizen. They had to cancel that last minute too.
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  Speaker 1: I know that was last minute. They were going to
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  Speaker 1: go ahead with that.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the concerts were, the outdoor concerts were Canceled
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  Speaker 3: ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: They held on. Ringo Starr. They held on to the
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  Speaker 1: very end.
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  Speaker 4: Ringo Starr was canceled at the PNC Arts Center last night.
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  Speaker 1: All over. All over. Can I defend Ray Stajic for
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  Speaker 1: a second? Oh, please don't.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he was level-headed. He gave us every single fact.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. After having to suffer through hype and
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  Speaker 3: hype and hype and hype and hype. And I think
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  Speaker 3: the problem is people are used to that. Now, this time,
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  Speaker 3: you're right. The hype came through. So those that are
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  Speaker 3: level-headed don't look as bad because they're not screaming, oh,
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  Speaker 3: my God, it's Armageddon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but wait a second. Don't give them a pass
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  Speaker 2: on this. I'm sorry, Larry. I want him to do
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  Speaker 2: as Mayor Copas, Mayor Copas, Mayor Maxima Copas.
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  Speaker 1: He was wrong.
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  Speaker 2: He did not prepare us adequately for what was happening. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I will admit, talking to some of my relatives in
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  Speaker 2: old Howard Beach, oh, this was as bad as Superstorm Sandy.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Nowhere near as bad as Superstorm Sandy. But it had
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  Speaker 2: its moments.
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  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 3: It really hit bad down in South Jersey along the
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  Speaker 3: coastline down there. They're going to take a long time
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  Speaker 3: to recover from this because it was one of those
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  Speaker 3: storms like in Cape May and Atlantic City and Wildwood
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  Speaker 3: where there was no city anymore. I mean, the bay
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  Speaker 3: met the ocean. It was all covered with water. In
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  Speaker 3: some areas like Cape May, 18 inches of water they got.
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  Speaker 3: And to top it off, they had winds of up
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  Speaker 3: to 70 miles per hour. So South Jersey was hit hard.
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  Speaker 3: North Jersey was hit hard, too. Long Beach was hit hard.
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  Speaker 3: Seabright was hit hard. I mean, there was all up
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  Speaker 3: and down the coast. But for some reason down south,
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  Speaker 3: it really hit to the point where it's going to
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  Speaker 3: take a long time to recover.
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  Speaker 2: So what you're saying is Natalie's ranch house got wiped
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  Speaker 2: out on the Jersey Shore.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's so funny because. I know you're a
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  Speaker 4: South Jersey guy. When you call Long Branch and all
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  Speaker 4: of that North Jersey, because people up north by me,
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  Speaker 4: you know, way up north in Morris County, call that
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  Speaker 4: South Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: South Jersey? I know. It's not anywhere near close to it.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but it's all relative. We put the.
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  Speaker 3: Dividing line all the way across the state of Trenton.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Everything above Trenton.
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  Speaker 2: So your, your fabulous ranch house, was it wiped out
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  Speaker 2: on the Jersey.
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  Speaker 4: Shore, Natalie? Oh, well the house that, uh, you know, my,
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  Speaker 4: my relatives live in down the shore. Thankfully they came up,
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  Speaker 4: they stayed up here for the, you know, up North
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  Speaker 4: for the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, They kept electricity.
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  Speaker 4: That was an amazing thing about this storm. There were
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  Speaker 4: a lot of power outages, but where you suspect them
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  Speaker 4: to be out, they weren't.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. There was no sustained winds.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was the key.
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  Speaker 3: Having sustained winds will knock out a lot of power.
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  Speaker 3: When you have gusts, most trees can withstand a gust.
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  Speaker 3: Most power lines can withstand a gust. When you hear,
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  Speaker 3: that's why it's important to listen to the forecast. When
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  Speaker 3: you hear them say there are 50 mile per hour
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  Speaker 3: sustained winds, then you're in trouble. Then things are going
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  Speaker 3: to fall down.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was checking in with relatives that live in
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  Speaker 4: Union Beach and Lavalette, you know, where you always get flooding.
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  Speaker 4: And they got the flooding. They definitely did. But they
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  Speaker 4: were with power. They were safe. They just had to
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  Speaker 4: ride it out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one thing that Jersey and the Rockaways And the
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  Speaker 2: South Shore, Long Island, Nassau, and Suffolk, which got hit,
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  Speaker 2: will equally have to share in is the taxpayer cost
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  Speaker 2: of beach nourishment. Because you're going to have to replenish
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  Speaker 2: all those beaches that were washed out to shore.
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  Speaker 1: And this happens every cycle. I know.
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  Speaker 3: And the shame of it is most of those beaches
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  Speaker 3: just did replenishments, just did them up and down the
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  Speaker 3: Jersey Shore. And now they're going to have to get
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  Speaker 3: back to it. But it's important for the future to
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  Speaker 3: remember that when you get a nor'easter, not like Superstorm Sandy,
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  Speaker 3: that was a completely different story. When you get a nor'easter,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to hit the coastline bad. Like, for instance, Natalie,
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  Speaker 3: where you were, bad winds.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, up by in northern New Jersey?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see.
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  Speaker 4: It was like nothing almost. You kept thinking to yourself,
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  Speaker 4: what's happening? Why isn't anything happening?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, same here. I'm in Linden. I'm thinking to myself,
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  Speaker 1: I thought we were supposed to get a lot of rain.
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  Speaker 3: And so it's always going to hit the coastline worse
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  Speaker 3: than anywhere else. That's why Long Island got hit so bad.
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  Speaker 2: If you notice, once again, the complaints of people of
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn and Queens that were hit the hardest, especially in Queens.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get to the Rockaways. I'll get to Hamilton Beach. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course— The number one Howard Beach area, old Howard
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  Speaker 2: Beach momentarily, was back up in sewers. What have I
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  Speaker 2: been railing about over and over? The sewers are all
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  Speaker 2: clocked up with garbage, flotsam, jetsam. There's no even flow
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  Speaker 2: when you get a heavy rainfall, especially if it's three
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  Speaker 2: inches in an hour.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. It ain't going down those sewers.
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  Speaker 2: And they refuse to clean out those sewers like they
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  Speaker 2: did when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was watching WCBS and there was a gentleman
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  Speaker 3: standing out. They had him out there live and he
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  Speaker 3: was standing out there, water a little bit below his knees.
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  Speaker 3: And he was pointing out all of the garbage and saying,
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  Speaker 3: this happens all the time here. They've got to clean
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  Speaker 3: out these sewers. And I thought of you right away
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  Speaker 3: because you've been You've been on that since I've known you.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, 150,000 of them that never get cleaned out. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's go to the areas where if you had a
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  Speaker 2: small spritz of rain, they'd be underwater. Old Howard Beach,
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton Beach, and that's not the blender, and the Rockaways.
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  Speaker 2: Because they also have that phenomenon of the back bay flushed.
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  Speaker 2: as the ocean is in front of them, which you
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  Speaker 2: described down in southern New Jersey. So they have Jamaica Bay,
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  Speaker 2: and then they have the Atlantic Ocean. And both of
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  Speaker 2: them conflate, and they're flooded.
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  Speaker 1: And they're always flooded.
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  Speaker 2: You saw the guys and gals in the kayaks going
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  Speaker 2: to the A train station in what we used to
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  Speaker 2: call downtown Howard Beach. Used to be a theater there.
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  Speaker 2: I remember going there as a kid. There was always flooding.
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  Speaker 2: Flooding in Hamilton Beach. They have houses on sticks. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: literally up on sticks. What do you think the reason
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  Speaker 2: you're on sticks is because of the money?
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  Speaker 1: Can I give a quick real estate tip? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to an area and the homes are
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  Speaker 3: on sticks and everybody owns a kayak, that should be
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  Speaker 3: a big clue. No matter what the real estate agent
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  Speaker 3: tells you, you may want to ask some questions.
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  Speaker 2: You live there, you know it's going to get flooded,
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  Speaker 2: and now you're going to want the taxpayers to basically
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  Speaker 2: bail you out again and again and again.
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  Speaker 1: These are marsh areas.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when I like the Dutch who built dikes
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  Speaker 2: and knew that they would be flooded all the time
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  Speaker 2: from the North Sea. We continue to have these same problems, Larry,
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  Speaker 2: over and over. It costs a lot of money to
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  Speaker 2: get it all back together again.
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  Speaker 1: But we never seem to improve the situation. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: to spend the money.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe and listen, I have no proof of this.
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  Speaker 3: So I just want to say that when I go
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  Speaker 3: when I start this, because it makes no sense that
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  Speaker 3: they have all of these flood areas. It's not just
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  Speaker 3: New York. This is across the country. They have all
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  Speaker 3: these flood areas. And they don't do anything to rectify it.
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  Speaker 3: And my belief is there's a lot of money to
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  Speaker 3: be made.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: And then, remember, the Fed's got to come in and
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  Speaker 2: bail you out because everybody screams, woe is me.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second. This happens, what, every few years?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You're still living there? You're still in the same condition?
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  Speaker 2: You're going around in kayaks when there's flooding?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's hard to sell.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's really difficult to sell in those areas.
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  Speaker 3: I feel so bad for the people that live in
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  Speaker 3: areas that are flood areas and they do nothing the
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  Speaker 3: government does nothing to fix it because they invested in
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  Speaker 3: their house they love their house one day they want
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  Speaker 3: to sell it or their kids want to sell it
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  Speaker 3: and they're never going to get the money for it.
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  Speaker 2: There's a move afoot and i'd love talkbacks on this
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  Speaker 2: uh whether it's uh South Shore, Staten Island, or those
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  Speaker 2: areas I mentioned to buy back those lands that are
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  Speaker 2: always underwater and turn them into what they were originally, marshlands,
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  Speaker 2: because the floods are constantly coming.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that ship has sailed. People get wiped out. Ain't
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  Speaker 1: going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they should because they have no remedy. They have
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  Speaker 2: no remedy other than, okay, you're underwater again. What are
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  Speaker 2: we going to do?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you can talk about that, but certainly we want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about how you survived this storm and how
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  Speaker 3: bad it was where you were. Go to the iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 3: out how it was where you were because all you
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  Speaker 3: see on the news is, of course, the worst spots.
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  Speaker 3: But most of the spots didn't get hit that hard.
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  Speaker 3: When we come back, well, did you see SNL tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry, we got you covered. You didn't miss much.
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Brunson from the Knicks was on. He was the host.
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  Speaker 3: How'd he do? You can decide that next. Plus a
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  Speaker 3: chance to see Stevie Wonder at 825.
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