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Hour 2 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: So all eyes were riveted to the closing remarks yesterday
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  Speaker 1: in that courthouse. I believe it was Plymouth, Massachusetts yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I actually spent time Plymouth Rock when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 1: It's really kept the old traditions of Americana alive. And
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  Speaker 1: it really looked like one of these old courthouse scenes.
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  Speaker 1: As you saw the defense attorney making his closing remarks
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  Speaker 1: in defense of Lindsay Clancy. who sat very stoically there,
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  Speaker 1: who was being charged with the murder of three of
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  Speaker 1: her young children. And then the prosecutor's closing remarks, and
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  Speaker 1: she really bore down on Lindsay Clancy, saying this was premeditated,
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  Speaker 1: this was not a result of psychiatric, psychotropic drugs that
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  Speaker 1: she had been prescribed, that this was cold, calculated. And
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  Speaker 1: she even planned to have her husband away when she
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  Speaker 1: used the stretch materials that you use when you're doing
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  Speaker 1: exercises to basically strangle all three of her children. One
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  Speaker 1: of the jurors, we couldn't see it, but it was
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  Speaker 1: explained to us by court observers who were giving us
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  Speaker 1: the descriptions, was actually crying when the prosecutor made her
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  Speaker 1: closing remarks to the jury.
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  Speaker 2: Saying, They deliberated briefly.
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  Speaker 1: They went home. They will return today. And, Larry, they
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  Speaker 1: have different levels of potential guilt to find her responsible of.
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  Speaker 1: And there's one point there that when it was mentioned
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  Speaker 1: to the jury by the judge of their options, I
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  Speaker 1: was saying to myself, oh, my God, this is what
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  Speaker 1: John Hinckley Jr. was found guilty of, insanity. Remember when
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  Speaker 1: he attempted to kill Ronald Reagan? Right. shot so many others.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of being incarcerated or even sent to a
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  Speaker 1: mental institution, the hospital, Elizabeth Hospital in D.C., and then
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  Speaker 1: once you're deemed to be sane again, you go to prison.
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  Speaker 2: No, he was released.
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  Speaker 1: We now see that Hinckley from time to time is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to do little castros, little concerts at little bistros
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  Speaker 1: and cafes across America. And potentially that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: charges that the jury can conclude that she was guilty of,
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  Speaker 1: and that is that she was mentally incapacitated at the
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  Speaker 1: time she committed these murders.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you the difference between Hinckley and her. First
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  Speaker 3: of all, these were three murders, not an attempted murder. Big,
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  Speaker 3: huge difference. These were her kids. Listen, she is saying
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  Speaker 3: that she had post-mortem depression and psychosis. that she was
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  Speaker 3: going through something. The husband didn't know much about that.
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  Speaker 3: They waited for her husband to leave and then took
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  Speaker 3: the kids in the basement and one by one strangled
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  Speaker 3: them before she threw herself out of a window to
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  Speaker 3: try to kill herself. Does that sound like it wasn't premeditated?
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  Speaker 3: Does that sound like a crazy person when you wait
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  Speaker 3: for your husband to leave so you can kill your children?
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I hope you said there was
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  Speaker 3: a woman on there. I hope it's a mother because
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  Speaker 3: there's no mother in the world that wouldn't convict this person.
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  Speaker 3: This I wish they had the I wish they had
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  Speaker 3: the death penalty in Massachusetts because this woman apparently wanted
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  Speaker 3: to die.
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  Speaker 2: They should grant her her wish. They'd be doing her
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  Speaker 2: a favor.
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  Speaker 3: Because if she truly had a moment of psychosis that
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  Speaker 3: apparently she's over with now, but she had a moment
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  Speaker 3: of psychosis, postpartum psychosis, and she killed her own children,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure at this point she would want to die.
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  Speaker 3: Because what mother wouldn't? But when you see her in
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  Speaker 3: the courtroom, when you watch this, I.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't be a juror on this case because I
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  Speaker 3: am so filled with hate for this woman that it
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  Speaker 3: would be difficult for me to give an objective verdict.
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  Speaker 3: And I would imagine that there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: sitting on that jury that are looking at her and
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  Speaker 3: all they see is somebody that murdered her own children.
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  Speaker 3: And so at the end of this, if life is fair,
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  Speaker 3: she gets life in prison. And if life is fair,
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  Speaker 3: since she wanted to kill herself and she killed her
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  Speaker 3: three children and she claims she wanted to be with them,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they should leave her alone for a couple of
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  Speaker 3: hours so she can off herself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you'd have to recuse yourself. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Nine women and three men. And again, I'm thinking if
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  Speaker 1: I am the defense. I'm looking at that juror who
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  Speaker 1: was crying when the prosecutor, the prosecutor was really drilling down.
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  Speaker 1: She was not showing any empathy or sympathy. She pretty
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  Speaker 1: much had the same demeanor that you've just had in
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  Speaker 1: making your plea to our audience about her guilt. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: hung jury. All you need is one person for a
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  Speaker 1: mistrial hung jury. It's been a lot of testimony, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of what I find difficult. to accept when you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about not guilty by reason of insanity, and they're saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: she was pumped full of drugs. She had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of drugs that were prescribed to her, but when they
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  Speaker 1: actually searched her home, her medicine cabinet, she took such
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  Speaker 1: a small fraction of them. Many of them were not
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  Speaker 1: even opened up. They had been delivered, but they were
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  Speaker 1: never even opened up. So she wasn't even taking that.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a lie. That was a lie. Yeah, prescribed.
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  Speaker 1: But again, when you say... Within four months, she had
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  Speaker 1: 13 different medicines prescribed to her, 32 separate prescriptions. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them are psychiatric drugs, sleep aids, anti-anxiety meds. If
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  Speaker 1: you just exclude what you've been told that when they
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  Speaker 1: searched the home, she just used a small fraction of them,
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  Speaker 1: didn't even open up some of the prescriptions that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get delivered to your home. And then you put it
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  Speaker 1: in your medicine cabinet and you're supposed to take it
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  Speaker 1: according to the prescription.
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  Speaker 4: Got it.
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  Speaker 1: They hadn't even been opened up. So I would say
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  Speaker 1: right there, oh, wait a second, there goes that defense.
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  Speaker 1: So you have, as you had pointed out, jury number
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  Speaker 1: one decision could be guilty, first-degree murder, life, no parole.
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  Speaker 1: The judge threw in there something that sort of gave
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  Speaker 1: a lifeline to the jury in case they didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to put her away forever, manslaughter, which would be voluntary,
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  Speaker 1: which you get when it's like a sudden fight. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you're outside of a bar restaurant. You have a sudden
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  Speaker 1: fight with somebody, they hit their head, they die. That's
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  Speaker 1: voluntary manslaughter. Involuntary, they could find her guilty of that.
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  Speaker 1: That would be a maximum of 20 years. Not criminally responsible,
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  Speaker 1: the insanity defense or the hung jury. It will be
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  Speaker 1: interesting in the deliberations if they send any notes out or...
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  Speaker 1: if it really gets very emotional in the jury room.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if life is fair and the jurors are sane,
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  Speaker 3: there'll be no notes. It'll be a quick verdict come today.
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  Speaker 3: You just read all of the charges. Let me read
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  Speaker 3: something to you, a more important list to me. She
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  Speaker 3: took her three children into the basement and strangled them
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  Speaker 3: one by one. She, by the way, took them one
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  Speaker 3: by one into the basement and strangled them. Five-year-old Cora said,
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  Speaker 3: three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. Five, three, and eight. And
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  Speaker 3: she strangled them to death. So think of yourself, if
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  Speaker 3: you're a mother or you're a father, taking a look
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  Speaker 3: into your child's eyes and strangling them to death.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. She's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: There's something wrong with her. But she should be put
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  Speaker 3: away in prison for the rest of her life. And again,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this.
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  Speaker 2: Is the— it' s.
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  Speaker 3: Cases like this one that you have the death penalty
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  Speaker 3: for something like this. This is a person that wanted
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  Speaker 3: to die anyway. I have no— not an ounce of sympathy
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  Speaker 3: for this woman. I understand, and I've seen people go
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  Speaker 3: through postpartum depression.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand it exists.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we had two cases nowhere near— As severe as
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  Speaker 1: this because of the number of children involved. But I
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  Speaker 1: remember there was a woman who took her child to
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  Speaker 1: the falls in Patterson. You could turn your child into
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  Speaker 1: a local police precinct or a firehouse, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you were in need. And she chose instead to throw
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  Speaker 1: that child over the falls. And then she was fully prosecuted.
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  Speaker 1: I forget what the outcome of that case was. And
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  Speaker 1: then more recently in Coney Island, we had a woman
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  Speaker 1: who clearly was emotionally disturbed, who took her child, it
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  Speaker 1: may have been children, out into the ocean in Coney
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  Speaker 1: Island and drowned them. And then obviously she was committed
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  Speaker 1: for observation. And I don't know how that case was adjudicated.
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  Speaker 1: But this one.
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  Speaker 2: It was a case that the whole world was watching,
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  Speaker 2: the whole nation.
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  Speaker 3: Three children, five and under. Three children, five. That's all
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  Speaker 3: this jury should be thinking about. They should have those
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  Speaker 3: pictures in there with them. That's all they should be
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  Speaker 3: thinking about. No, I don't know what our audience is
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  Speaker 3: going to say about this. I can just imagine. But
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and leave us a talk back because we
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  Speaker 3: would love to get your take on this. Maybe there's
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  Speaker 3: somebody that can explain to me. I don't think you're
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to. But maybe there's somebody that
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  Speaker 3: can explain to me, No, the psychosis after postpartum can
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  Speaker 3: be that deep that you can do evil things. This
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  Speaker 3: evil to your own children. I won't argue with you.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back, hey, do you have a will
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  Speaker 2: for your cats? No, but I think Nancy does. Does she?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. If, God forbid, anything happened to her, ain't nothing
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  Speaker 1: coming to me. It's going to the cats. Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk to Ann-Margaret Carrozza about that. Maybe she can help
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  Speaker 1: you with her problems. She is the host of The
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  Speaker 1: Laws of Your Money with Ann-Margaret Carrozza, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what she specializes in. She might be able to represent you.
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  Speaker 1: That's coming up next.
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  Speaker 3: We're happy to have one of our favorite people, Ann-Margaret Carrozza,
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  Speaker 3: host of The Laws of Your Money with Ann-Margaret Carrozza,
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  Speaker 3: Sundays on WOR at 10.30 in the morning. Ann-Margaret Carrozza,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm sure you already know who she is, but
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  Speaker 3: just in case, she's considered the best asset protection attorney
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  Speaker 3: who served for 14 years as a New York State
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  Speaker 3: legislator where she chaired the Trust Reform Task Force. So
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  Speaker 3: if you want somebody on your side, that is the person.
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  Speaker 3: And let me tell you, Ann-Margaret, first of all, thank
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  Speaker 3: you so much.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis really needs you.
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  Speaker 3: Because Curtis has got a problem when it comes to pets.
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  Speaker 3: And I know that's what we're talking about today. They
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  Speaker 3: have 14 cats.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: And his wife says if she were to go first,
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  Speaker 3: cats get everything.
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  Speaker 2: Everything.
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  Speaker 1: The matriarch, who is Athena, the patriarch, Apollo, and all
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  Speaker 1: the other cats, she goes, you don't get a nickel, dime,
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  Speaker 1: or penny. Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Well, this is a huge issue, guys. 66% of us
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  Speaker 5: have a furry family member, right? And we love these
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  Speaker 5: creatures in many cases more than we love our human relatives.
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  Speaker 5: So whenever I sit down with someone to make a will,
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  Speaker 5: to make a trust, I ask them, do you have
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  Speaker 5: a pet and how are we providing for that pet?
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  Speaker 5: You can't just wing it. And especially if we live alone,
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  Speaker 5: we want to think about making provisions in the event
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  Speaker 5: that I have a medical issue. I want to put
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  Speaker 5: the contact name and number on the refrigerator of who
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  Speaker 5: the paramedic should call because, you know, Curtis, you have cats.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Strangers come in the door with a stretcher, those cats
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  Speaker 5: are going to hide, and they might not even know
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  Speaker 5: that there are cats that live in that house. So
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  Speaker 5: paramedics are trained to look at the refrigerator to find
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  Speaker 5: out who my emergency contact is to make health care decisions,
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  Speaker 5: but we should also have the pet care person there
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you are exactly right. The moment they hear
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  Speaker 2: a stranger.
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  Speaker 1: All the cats immediately dive into a closet under the bed.
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  Speaker 2: Under the couch.
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  Speaker 1: You would never know that there were cats there unless
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  Speaker 1: you saw a bowl there of food or water.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 5: So you have to put a plan in place. And
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  Speaker 5: I know many seniors that I work with who would
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  Speaker 5: benefit from the companionship of.
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  Speaker 2: A pet, lower blood pressure.
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  Speaker 5: It helps deter criminals when we're talking about a dog.
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  Speaker 5: But they say, I don't want to adopt a pet
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  Speaker 5: at this point because I will outlive the pet and
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  Speaker 5: it's not fair to the pet. But in all 50
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  Speaker 5: states now, we can put provisions into place to protect
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  Speaker 5: the pet when we are gone. That is a pet
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  Speaker 5: care trust. You don't have to fund it now. And
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  Speaker 5: For people who don't have the money to go to
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  Speaker 5: an attorney to have this set up for like $ 2, 500,
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  Speaker 5: I have it free on my website.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: What's the website again?
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  Speaker 5: It's mylawyerann.com. There's a section for free forms. Download this
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  Speaker 5: pet care trust. Fill in the names. You can get
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  Speaker 5: a tax ID number for this trust, and it can
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  Speaker 5: then be named as the beneficiary of a little bank
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  Speaker 5: account or of a little life insurance policy. So upon
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  Speaker 5: my death, the money goes into this trust where I
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  Speaker 5: have laid out instructions for the care, the vet contact information,
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  Speaker 5: and I really have a plan in place.
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  Speaker 3: That's so wonderful you're doing that. I can't imagine that
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people that come into you and they
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  Speaker 3: want to do estate planning They've never thought of any
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  Speaker 3: of this, about putting their pets into their estate plan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure some do, you know, real big pet people. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you have a family and you think
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  Speaker 3: to yourself, oh my God, if something were to happen,
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  Speaker 3: what's going to happen to the pets? That's one of
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  Speaker 3: the last things they think of.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, we all know about the Leona case,
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  Speaker 5: Leona Helmsley, when she left $ 7 million to her Maltese,
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  Speaker 5: and then there was a family feud. But For most
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  Speaker 5: of us, when we're presented with a reasonable option, we
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  Speaker 5: do want to make provisions for them.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I learned about this, Ann-Margaret Carosa? I
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  Speaker 1: went up to the Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale, where they
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  Speaker 1: have these tremendous monuments to pets. And I went inside,
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  Speaker 1: and there are always people inside the office. And they
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  Speaker 1: explained to me how people had bequeathed money to their pets,
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  Speaker 1: that there were all kinds of monuments to their pets.
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  Speaker 1: that in many instances the pets had outlived the people
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  Speaker 1: who were caring for them, and that there were other caretakers,
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  Speaker 1: and part of that demand was that they be buried
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  Speaker 1: in the Hartsdale Cemetery. I was amazed at how much
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  Speaker 1: care and how much concern people had for their pets
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  Speaker 1: for their aftercare, even when that person was no longer there.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, and I think it's becoming more mainstream. We have
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  Speaker 5: a number of states that have bills pending to give
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  Speaker 5: a tax credit for the care and feeding of animals.
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  Speaker 5: Right now, it's only service animals, or if you're fostering
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  Speaker 5: an animal that you can deduct some expenses.
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  Speaker 1: So I shouldn't take it personally, right? That my wife would- Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you should. Any of her money to all the cats
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  Speaker 1: and basically leave me bupkis.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know what? If she does the trust for
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  Speaker 5: the cats, you can build a little air hole that
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  Speaker 5: Curtis can also get some money out.
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  Speaker 2: Of that trust. Hey, real quickly, when couples break up,
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  Speaker 2: Is there a fight over the pets?
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  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, there often is, and the pet is used as
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  Speaker 5: a bargaining chip in a messy breakup. Most states say
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  Speaker 5: whoever adopted or purchased the pet gets the pet. So
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  Speaker 5: if you want to do something different, you want to
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  Speaker 5: put it in a prenup, a postnup, or a cohabitation agreement.
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  Speaker 2: Ann-Margaret Carrozza, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, you can hear more of Ann-Margaret coming
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  Speaker 3: up on Sunday at 10.30. She is the host of
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  Speaker 3: Laws of Your Money with Ann-Margaret Carrozza again. She is
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  Speaker 3: an asset protection attorney. So if you have any questions, everybody,
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  Speaker 3: everybody should have something in writing, right?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And she's going to give you the best advice on that. Ann-Margaret,
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  Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure to have you in. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: so much.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, Ann-Margaret. I'll end up getting bupkis.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you've already been told that. It's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be a huge surprise. Maybe you should hire Ann-Margaret Carrozza.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of that, now we have the news with Daria
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  Speaker 1: at 7.30.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, guys.
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  Speaker 6: Partly sunny and muggy today. Chance for an afternoon shower.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see a high of 82 degrees. It's time to
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  Speaker 6: change the geography textbooks.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Changing the name of Lake Ontario, effective immediately to Lake America.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to take place right now as I sign
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  Speaker 2: the order.
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  Speaker 6: President Trump signing that executive order as a trade war
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  Speaker 6: with Canada continues to intensify. He was sitting in front
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  Speaker 6: of a map that read, making the Great Lakes even greater.
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  Speaker 6: Now the Canadian government says it doesn't change a thing.
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  Speaker 6: It's still Lake Ontario, always will be. New York Governor
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  Speaker 6: Kathy Hochul agrees. The FBI is offering $ 25, 000 for information
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  Speaker 6: Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. New Yorkers will be in D.C.
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  Speaker 6: today to rally against President Trump's changes to mail-in voting laws.
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  Speaker 7: A number of buses left from the National Action Network
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  Speaker 7: attempt to track mail-in ballots and possibly reject some that
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  Speaker 7: are not on the federal list of eligible voters.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Dr. King had the dream.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of people out here right now trying
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  Speaker 4: to kill the dream.
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  Speaker 7: A federal judge on Thursday blocked a postal service regulation
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  Speaker 7: to exert control over mail-in ballots. This is leading up
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  Speaker 7: to the midterm elections. the judge ruled the regulations likely
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  Speaker 1: Up next, our own Rob Astorino and his buddy Mike
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  Speaker 1: Lawler is in a neck-and-neck race to keep his congressional seat.
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  Speaker 2: And it may come down.
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  Speaker 1: To the AI data filing center that they want to
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  Speaker 1: put up in Orange Town. That's right, right in the district.
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  Speaker 1: We'll break it down for you up next with Rob.
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• 20:44
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  Speaker 1: line right now, Rob Estorino, former county executive, Westchester, ran
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  Speaker 1: against Andrew Cuomo, gave him the race of his life
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  Speaker 1: for governor, and gave great advice to Bruce Blakeman a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: few weeks ago when he said, keep your powder dry,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: don't be so quick to support the development of the
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  Speaker 1: AI data filing centers based on Kathy Hochul declaring a moratorium. And, boy,
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  Speaker 1: right in your backyard with your buddy Mike Lawler in
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: that neck-and-neck race to keep his congressional seat against the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic challenger Kate Conley, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Rob,
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  Speaker 1: this issue has become one of the big issues, the
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  Speaker 1: AI data filing center that they want to build right
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  Speaker 1: in the Orangetown, Orangeburg area that would feed all of
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  Speaker 1: that data to Manhattan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, don't blame Lawler. This is not a congressional issue.
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  Speaker 4: This is, as it would be throughout New York State,
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  Speaker 4: local issues. So the town, potentially the county, there could
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: be what's called an IDA, Industrial Development Agency, which is
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: either towns have it or counties have it to bring
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  Speaker 4: in business, sometimes give tax breaks. You could have like
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: the New York Power Authority could be involved giving them breaks.
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  Speaker 4: So all of these agencies, which is why, to put
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  Speaker 4: it moratorium, to figure out how this should work going forward.
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  Speaker 4: You know, and look, there's a lot of misinformation, too,
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  Speaker 4: about data centers, and there's a lot of fear about them.
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  Speaker 4: I think you got to let the boil go down,
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  Speaker 4: you know, take off the flame a little bit so people,
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  Speaker 4: instead of screaming with pitchforks, can understand what it is.
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  Speaker 4: And then put the rules in. Which is why, as
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  Speaker 4: you mentioned before, I mean, for Blakeman, if he loses
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  Speaker 4: the whole race based on AI data centers and allows
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  Speaker 4: Hochul to get away with this, it would be such
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  Speaker 4: a travesty because it's such an emotional issue that people
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: don't really understand yet. And yet it could be deciding
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  Speaker 4: on how they vote. So but don't blame Lawler.
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  Speaker 2: You're saying don't blame Lawler.
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  Speaker 3: And because it's not a federal issue yet, he said
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  Speaker 3: in the debate he wants to make it a federal issue.
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  Speaker 3: He said there has to be federal oversight over all
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  Speaker 3: of this. So if he gets his way, that's what's
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, that's fine. But I'm saying on this
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  Speaker 4: particular issue or these local ones, they're not. They're state
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: and local issues. Now, should the federal government get involved
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: in some way? It depends, I think, yeah. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there are national security issues and there are other issues
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  Speaker 4: involved with it. But mainly speaking, it is a... It's
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  Speaker 4: a land use issue. It's a jobs issue for whatever
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: jobs are created by this thing. And there are a
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  Speaker 4: host of local issues that i think local governments uh
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  Speaker 4: counties and states really need to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: Well last time you were with us rob you freaked
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: out as i freaked out when we got our electricity
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  Speaker 1: bills like yeah we can't even repeat the words you
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: said or i said through the roof and i know
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  Speaker 1: everybody out there is experiencing that now to his credit
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: mike lawler is saying we need to repower up indian
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  Speaker 1: point You know, it's a dormant nuclear power plant that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: supplied so much of our energy. His opponent, Kate Connolly,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: is saying no. So she has no answer in terms
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of how to bring down these accelerating electricity energy rates.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Whereas Mike is coming up with an answer that a
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: lot of people have said, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Why did Cuomo shut that down?
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  Speaker 1: It provided like one-third of all of our energy needs,
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  Speaker 1: not just Westchester, but Manhattan, throughout the city of New York,
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  Speaker 1: and it was clean energy.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, it's not a state issue. That's not a state issue.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's a local issue in that congressional race. Well, they're
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: all issues. Yeah, that's what I'm getting at.
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  Speaker 4: I still remember that day very clearly when I found
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  Speaker 4: out I think I was listening to the radio. I
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: was in the car going to an event or something,
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  Speaker 4: and I heard that Indian Point was being shut down.
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  Speaker 4: Cuomo reached a deal with Entergy. It wasn't a deal.
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  Speaker 4: It was a mafia deal. It was a deal with
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  Speaker 4: a gun to their head. You're going to close this or.
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  Speaker 4: And so they had to close it down, and it
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  Speaker 4: made zero sense. I remember having a press conference the
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  Speaker 4: next day. And I was asking Democrats to come, too,
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  Speaker 4: because of not only this issue about rate hikes, which
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: we knew was going to happen, but also environmentally. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: his whole thing was skipping all the environmental laws because
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  Speaker 4: I can do that. I'm the governor. He had no
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: legal right to do that. And yet all these, quote, environmentalists, including,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, Bobby Kennedy. This is the fight he
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: and I had at that time. They were all dead silent.
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  Speaker 4: They all said, let's just ignore all the environmental laws,
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  Speaker 4: which we've spent our whole life talking about and promoting.
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  Speaker 4: And now all of a sudden they meant nothing. And
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: that's a really bad precedent that could come back at
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: some point, not just what they use for Indian point.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, you didn't have to be, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in the smart class to understand that this was going
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: to have enormous consequences. And now we're feeling them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Enormous consequences.
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  Speaker 3: And it's amazing how everybody is switching their positions now
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  Speaker 3: on nuclear power, on fracking, on pipelines all across the
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: country because they look at a state like, well, Pennsylvania, nearby.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: that has low tax, lower taxes, and lower electricity bills
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  Speaker 3: because they frack. I don't really understand what the Democrats
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: thought they were doing when they were against that, but slowly,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: one by one, just over in New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill,
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: three nuclear power plants are going to go up. So
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: it's got to happen here in New York as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the stupid windmills that they put in the
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: oceans and everywhere else. I was up in Rhode Island,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: you know, Blue State, Rhode Island with all these environmentalists.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: And you see all these lawn signs, you know, stop
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: the windmills from coming up here.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: We don't want windmills.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: It's so funny to watch them when it comes to
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: their backyard, like anything. They're such hypocrites.
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  Speaker 3: There's no repercussions, though, for that. I mean, to be
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: wrong and wrong and wrong over and over and over again.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Nothing happens at the ballot box.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Well, if you're a Democrat, you reward stupidity. Wait, how
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: many times were you wrong? You were only wrong 100?
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: All right, I'll still vote for you. No problem. But
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: the point should be re-fired. It should be fired up again,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: no question about it. And they can do it.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Astorino, the number one issue in poll after poll affordability.
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  Speaker 1: The president is now out on the campaign trail. He's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: ready to unloosen all the money he has, pack money to.
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  Speaker 2: Help fellow Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: What would your advice be to him to address that
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: since so many people have soured on his ability to
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: bring prices down?
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  Speaker 4: Well, don't spend a day talking about Lake America. Talk
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: about affordability. Because every day we talk about Lake America,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: it's a day that the media will just consume. People
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: will roll their eyes and say, I got a blankety-blank
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  Speaker 4: Con Ed bill, and I don't care about a lake.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's what he's got to focus on. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I know we've got a war going on, too, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: he's going to have to deal with that. But if
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: the economic sanctions are what we're going to be using
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: right now, then that'll keep it off the headlines and
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: probably have the same effect, thankfully, without military operations. But
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  Speaker 4: that's it, man. Just be on the stump. Just talk
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  Speaker 4: about that and let the members of Congress and Senate
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  Speaker 4: who are running, that's all they should be focusing on.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Because I experienced it when I was county executive. Every
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: day he said something, microphones were put in my face
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  Speaker 4: about what he said. And that's not what the lawlers want.
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  Speaker 4: That's not what Mike Lepetri wants or any of these
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  Speaker 4: candidates running. They want to deal about their local issues.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but Republicans do have a good story to tell
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: when it comes to that. They just haven't been able
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: to tell it really well because the amount of money
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: you have to spend is way up. Taxes are way down,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: so there's more money in people's pockets. Yes, when you
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: go to the grocery store, things may be more expensive,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: but they also have pharmaceutical prices coming down. I mean,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: I don't understand the strategy right now because I'm not
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: hearing a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of that.
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  Speaker 4: And your investments have gone way up. I mean, everyone's
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: involved in the market in some way, whether it's pensions, 401ks,
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: 529 accounts for college. All of that have gone through
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: the roof, done very, very well. Trump has a really
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: great story to tell. So to the Republicans, tell it
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  Speaker 4: and stick to that for the next 70 days.
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  Speaker 2: Although I kind of like the Lake America thing.
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  Speaker 4: Lake Euron. We should take Lake Euron. What the hell
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  Speaker 4: is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I do appreciate it.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Rob Astorino, you can hear him here on WOR45 on
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Saturday afternoons. Up next, we got to talk about Zoran Mondami.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: He gave sympathies to a prisoner on Rikers Island who
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: died at 5 a.m. in the morning but was a
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: murderer but never reached out to the family of the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: original victim.
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  Speaker 2: And they're saying, what about us, Zoran? What about us?