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Opening Segment 10/5/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: That's right back where I need to be with Larry
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  Speaker 1: Menti and Natalie in the morning and all of you.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you one thing before we get into
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  Speaker 1: the story that I've been attached to like an appendage
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  Speaker 1: here throughout New York State, throughout the country, throughout the world,
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  Speaker 1: is I was at the Atlantic Antics yesterday, Larry. And
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  Speaker 1: this is the largest street fair in all of New
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  Speaker 1: York City. And, you know, it was raining. So put
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  Speaker 1: a damper on the Pulaski Day Parade, which I was
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  Speaker 1: at with Nancy, who's all Polish, my oldest son, Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: The moment I got over to Atlantic Avenue between the
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  Speaker 1: Barclays Center and the East River, the place was packed.
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  Speaker 1: And I knew that our show is doing well as
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  Speaker 1: I was walking up and down and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: millennials and baby boomers were saying, hey, missed you with.
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  Speaker 2: Larry on Friday. Oh, how nice.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's, I mean, that's a compliment, but also a
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  Speaker 1: compliment to the fact that they're listening to WOR. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I still got a series of the responses, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and listening to WABC, it's all Israel all the time,
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  Speaker 1: Israel First Radio. So that was a good focus group
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  Speaker 1: in the rain, which was packed. Unfortunately, other festivals didn't
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  Speaker 1: have anywhere near the attendance. So I picked the right
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  Speaker 1: place to be as our focus group. And naturally, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think I was getting feedback on also other
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  Speaker 1: than the fact that they missed me on Friday so
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  Speaker 1: they knew I was on with you, Larry, on 710WO?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: That's wonderful. I want to get to something else if
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  Speaker 3: I can, and you know what it is. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't think you know what I'm going to say, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm upset with myself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wait a second. You're upset with yourself, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: I am. I didn't know. I just had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to apologize to you. I want to
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  Speaker 3: apologize to you because many times I have accused you
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  Speaker 3: of defending Zora Mamdani just last week. Yes. We got
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  Speaker 3: into a thing where I said, why won't you criticize him?
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  Speaker 3: And so you kept trying to criticize anybody else but him.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, what about Mamdani? What about Mamdani? And
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  Speaker 3: you wouldn't know. You wouldn't say anything. You wouldn't. You
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't give in to say something. And now I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Now I get it. I understand that you two have
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  Speaker 3: a relationship that many of us didn't know about until
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  Speaker 3: it came out in the open over the weekend when
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  Speaker 3: you were sitting with him, when you were both getting
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  Speaker 3: your flu shots. And then he said, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 3: my heart flutters. He said to you, I'll hold your hand. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you grabbed the window and you lit up and
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  Speaker 3: then you turned to the nurse and what you said,
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  Speaker 3: it's like out of a great movie. It's like at
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  Speaker 3: a Titanic. Let me just play that part. I can
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  Speaker 3: hold your hand.
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  Speaker 2: What happens if I faint?
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  Speaker 3: What happens if I faint? What happens if I faint? Listen, again,
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  Speaker 3: I apologize. I just didn't know. You know, love is love.
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  Speaker 3: And that's fine. It is fine with me. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure it's fine with everybody else. And I'm glad you're
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  Speaker 3: out in the open with it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, remember, I grew up, as you did, with that
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  Speaker 1: famous song by Paul McCartney and the Beatles, Ed Sullivan Show.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was 1964, I Want to Hold Your Hand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You remember that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That lasted.
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  Speaker 1: And as I sat there and I spoke about how
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  Speaker 1: tough guys sometimes faint when they get a needle or
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  Speaker 1: they see blood, and what did the mayor do?
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  Speaker 2: He reached out his hand.
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  Speaker 3: And how did you feel at that moment?
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  Speaker 2: I was more worried about the needle than really his hand.
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  Speaker 3: You got a big smile.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: You got a big, big smile when you held your hand.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Larry, the cameras were on me. You know, it
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  Speaker 2: was showtime, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And remember, why am I doing it?
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  Speaker 3: I thought you shivered a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I did. I hadn't eaten anything. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It timed out. Listen, you don't have to hide this anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We all know now. It's fine. It really is fine.
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  Speaker 3: I support you a thousand percent. I appreciate that. I
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  Speaker 3: support you a thousand percent in this.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. But remember, this is the second time
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  Speaker 1: I've joined the mayor. The first time was for Inner Circle.
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  Speaker 1: They raised scholarship money for aspiring journalists. And people were
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  Speaker 1: critical of me, Republicans, for playing Dr. Kliwa, giving him
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  Speaker 1: a shot because he's allergic to cats because they were
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  Speaker 1: adopting a cat. And I and Nancy would encourage people
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  Speaker 1: to adopt unwanted cats. So they attacked me for that.
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  Speaker 1: Then in this situation, I get attacked from Republicans because
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  Speaker 1: they said, why would you be sitting there and holding
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  Speaker 1: his hand and taking a flu vaccine? And immediately I said,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me? Oh, what about our president, the leader of
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  Speaker 1: our party, the commander in chief? Three times he's had
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  Speaker 1: a love affair with John Mondami.
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  Speaker 3: Not like that one.
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  Speaker 1: Close.
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  Speaker 2: Close.
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  Speaker 1: Because remember, every time, and maybe you can figure it out,
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  Speaker 1: why he would always say, he's such a handsome man.
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  Speaker 2: He's such a handsome man. He's such a handsome man.
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  Speaker 2: So if the.
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  Speaker 1: President can have a relationship with Zoran Mandami for the
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  Speaker 1: good of the country, the good of the city, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing PSAs with him, really, what's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you, he does attack him a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and he calls him a communist, and he attacks his policy,
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  Speaker 3: and he's said publicly that he's ruining New York City.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't done that. And again, listen, I just was
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  Speaker 3: in the dark, and rightfully so. Your business is your business.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to know anything.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's jealous.
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  Speaker 3: But when I saw that moment, no, I feel good
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  Speaker 3: for him.
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  Speaker 4: I think your relationship with Curtis, you're feeling jealous now.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm hoping that he's going to stop talking about
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  Speaker 3: consummating the relationship. That's what I'm hoping for.
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  Speaker 1: My relationship is with you. You can't get out of
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  Speaker 1: this relationship.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's someone else. There is someone else that I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know about. And I think everybody here is so
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  Speaker 3: happy for you.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? I'm cheating on you?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we ever had anything. That was all
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  Speaker 3: in your head.
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  Speaker 2: But let me give you how this came about. Because
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  Speaker 2: I don't talk to the mayor like the president does.
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  Speaker 4: I want to know because we didn't know anything about this.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knew.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: And somebody said, did you see? I was like, no.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: How did he not tell us this was happening? Well, again,
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 3: Just the the handholding or the flu shot relationship, which
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  Speaker 3: what didn't he tell us about?
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually, I was on with our partners, Elvis Duran, C-100,
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  Speaker 1: and they were saying, oh, you're going to get a
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  Speaker 1: flu shot next week with us.
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  Speaker 2: I said, no, I got other plans.
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  Speaker 3: Good for you.
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  Speaker 2: I stood them up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're loyal.
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain the origin of this. Again, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have communication with the mayor, unlike the president. Both of
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  Speaker 1: them have acknowledged they talk to one another. They text
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  Speaker 1: one another.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't have his cell phone?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: His aide reached out to me and said, hey, would
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  Speaker 1: you mind- We're doing the flu vaccine, and senior citizens
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  Speaker 1: die at a rate of about 2,000. I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're calling me because I'm a senior citizen. They said, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: kind of. I said, okay, where's it happening? Then they
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  Speaker 1: gave me the daytime and place board at Health Downtown Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: And you know who I thought of? And you know
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this a lot. I couldn't figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: A colleague of ours, Ernie Anastas, remember?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: In better shape than both of us combined. 82 years old.
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  Speaker 1: I used to see him go in and out of
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  Speaker 1: WABC when I was there. I said, man, I only
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  Speaker 1: wish I was that healthy when I'm 82. And he
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  Speaker 1: looked a young 82. Remember how all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: he caught the flu, then pneumonia. Then he goes into
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  Speaker 1: a hospital in Westchester. One day he's dead and he's
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  Speaker 1: not alone. Unfortunately, it seems you get into that age
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  Speaker 1: range about 80. The flu leads to pneumonia. And naturally,
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  Speaker 1: you can't treat pneumonia at home. You have to go
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital. And sometimes you pick up things at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital you normally wouldn't pick up.
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  Speaker 2: So I say, yeah, I'll do it. I'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, naturally, hopefully, there will be individuals out
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  Speaker 1: there who are senior citizens who will look at that
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  Speaker 1: and say, yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's a tough guy, Curtis.
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  Speaker 1: He's taking it. A lot of guys will not take
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  Speaker 1: the needle. Or if they see a drop of blood,
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  Speaker 1: they faint. Some of the toughest guys who've ever existed.
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  Speaker 1: So I did my part. But naturally, I'm being lampooned.
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  Speaker 1: I'm being made fun of by some. But others just say, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is great. That's awful that they make fun of you.
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  Speaker 2: You're reaching out. That's awful.
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  Speaker 3: They should just embrace your relationship.
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  Speaker 1: They should.
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  Speaker 3: Like I am.
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  Speaker 2: They should.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's wonderful. I really think it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: I want to applaud you, Larry, for putting aside– your
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  Speaker 1: political bias in this because there is political bias involved
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  Speaker 1: at everything and understanding it was for the good of
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  Speaker 1: the city, the good of the state, the good of
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  Speaker 1: the country and the good of our fellow senior citizens.
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  Speaker 2: I think you qualify as a senior citizen now, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. Over 65, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. Yep. I'm there. But, um, but I, I,
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  Speaker 3: I think there's more than that. And I, I, Look,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to belabor the point. I really don't
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  Speaker 3: want to belabor it because, you know. Well, let's get
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  Speaker 3: some talk back from our. You've been uncomfortable with it
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. Let me just finish this. But
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  Speaker 3: I am, just know that you have my support in this.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: In your relationship.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to know I'm not cheating on you.
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  Speaker 1: I am not cheating on you, Larry, in any way, shape,
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  Speaker 1: or form.
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  Speaker 4: Please.
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  Speaker 1: Please.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: We've never held hands. Oh, by the way, I forgot
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  Speaker 1: to tell you the most important thing. Give the talk back,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got to wait until Natalie comes in. She'll
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, here she's back already. Go to the iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 3: You'll be able to find this so much easier. And
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  Speaker 3: don't forget the best talk back of the week. Takes
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  Speaker 3: home the Sea Crane Radio. Now, Natalie, you'll appreciate this.
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  Speaker 3: My wife, Nancy, drove me all the way up to
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  Speaker 3: Binghamton University to speak. That's why I couldn't be with
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  Speaker 3: you Friday morning, Larry, and drove me all the way back.
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  Speaker 3: And we had great conversations. Everything was going well. After
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  Speaker 3: I got the shot with.
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  Speaker 1: Zoran Mondami and we held hands, I come home and
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  Speaker 1: she's not saying anything. I know there's a problem. She's
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  Speaker 1: not saying anything at all. She's stoic. I said, what's
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  Speaker 1: the problem? She said, oh, you never hold my hand.
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  Speaker 1: You never hold my hand. Now, to a degree, she's correct.
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  Speaker 1: She's been with me through the whole campaign. No other
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  Speaker 1: woman was with the other candidates, not even the mayor's wife.
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  Speaker 1: Cuomo only had his daughters. I don't know if he's
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  Speaker 1: with anybody now, but Nancy was always at my side.
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  Speaker 1: Because you never held my hand.
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  Speaker 2: So at the Pulaski Day Parade yesterday, what did I do?
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  Speaker 2: I grabbed her hand. Because she's all Polish all day.
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  Speaker 2: But that barely made up. Can you imagine? She was
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  Speaker 2: the angriest at all. You never hold my hand.
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  Speaker 3: I can see that. I can understand the anger. But
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  Speaker 3: in these type of relationships you have, that happens a lot.
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  Speaker 3: That does happen a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I do have to say, though, the video came out.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was talking about it. And I think you really
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  Speaker 4: did do a good PSA because it sparked conversation in
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  Speaker 4: my household about, oh, when are we going to get
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  Speaker 4: our flu shot? It wasn't even a thought.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the conversation that sparks in our household. No,
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  Speaker 3: it did.
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  Speaker 2: It really did. Well, you see, it shows you.
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  Speaker 1: When something is volatile, either for or against or both
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, people are going to pay attention
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  Speaker 1: one way.
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  Speaker 3: Or the other. Yeah, they're going to pay attention to something.
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  Speaker 1: I swear I did not cheat on you, Larry. We
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  Speaker 1: consummated our relationship. You've got my blessing.
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  Speaker 3: Please, you are just fine. When we come back, imagine
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  Speaker 3: not knowing who your father is, only to find out
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  Speaker 3: that he is a famous pop rock musician. Wait till
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  Speaker 3: you hear this story, plus a chance to see A
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  Speaker 3: Bronx Tale, the one-man show starring Chaz Palminteri. At age 25.