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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wo R Now more of

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Speaker 1: the WR Saturday Morning Show and Larry Minty.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: Let's get right to the Republican candidate for mayor of

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Speaker 1: New York, Curtis Sliwa. Curtis, I'm sure you saw the announcement.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure if you didn't watch it live, you've heard

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Speaker 1: about it. Does it change the race at all?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: But I wonder if this is the sixth family of

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Speaker 3: organized crime. You know, we have the Bananos, the Colombo's, Lukes's,

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Speaker 3: the Genoviez, Gambinos. They're all in that gambling series of

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Speaker 3: arrests that were made of NBA players. I'm wondering if

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Speaker 3: Eric's talking about a new sixth family of organized crime,

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Speaker 3: what family is he talking about? Because his has been

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Speaker 3: a dysfunctional family in this city.

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Speaker 2: That led to the rise of Zorhan Mandami.

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Speaker 3: Because if he had done a halfway decent job as

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Speaker 3: a Democratic incumbent mayor, it would have been round two

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Speaker 3: Eric Adams versus Curtis Sliwa, and instead his fail and

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Speaker 3: Cuomo's failure have led to Joran Mandani.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Curtis, nice job the other night at the debate.

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Speaker 1: I actually thought you won both debates, and one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons is they didn't go after you as much.

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Speaker 1: But that's great. Take advantage of what you got, and

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Speaker 1: you certainly shined. And I also thought in the second debate,

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Speaker 1: for the first time you and Cuomo together going after Mom,

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Speaker 1: Donnie and the moderators were a little better. They really

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Speaker 1: exposed him. He was he seemed a lot weaker than

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Speaker 1: he has in the past. I wish that it would

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Speaker 1: have happened earlier with the media in the first debate,

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Speaker 1: but you take what you got. I thought he stumbled

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Speaker 1: a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Oh no doubt, and he was spitzing, he was sweating.

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Speaker 3: You can tell he was on the ropes. But I

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Speaker 3: will say that first debate by NBC, the acronym stood

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Speaker 3: for Larry if you watched it any of your many

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Speaker 3: listeners not broadcasting Curtis, they spent about twelve to fifteen

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Speaker 3: minutes without giving me any airtime, and I had to

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Speaker 3: basically roll a derby my way in, elbow my way in,

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Speaker 3: and at times speak over the moderators who was so

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Speaker 3: disrespectful to me. But at least with New York One spectrum,

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Speaker 3: everybody had equal time. Everybody was able to make their points,

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Speaker 3: and yet no, I rocked Zoron Mandami's world, but I

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Speaker 3: also rocked.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Cuomo's world.

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Speaker 3: Remember the best line of the night is when I

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Speaker 3: turned to zora On and I said, hey, zor On,

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Speaker 3: your resume can spin on a cockdawn that it.

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Speaker 1: Was a good line. Yeah, it was really good. Like

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Speaker 1: look in a fair world, because you have shown yourself

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Speaker 1: to be the best candidate for there. You have shown

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Speaker 1: yourself to be the best in these debates. However, this

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Speaker 1: isn't a fair world. And New York is all screwed

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Speaker 1: up right now and it's going way to the left.

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Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people are afraid of Zorin. Mom, Donnie,

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Speaker 1: that's why you're hearing all of these cries for you

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Speaker 1: to get out of the race. And I want to

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Speaker 1: play you somebody who left to talk and was talking

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Speaker 1: specifically to you, and you can answer them.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Curtis. You are the best man for the job,

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Speaker 4: no doubt you can. Possibly you could save New York.

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Speaker 4: But unfortunately New York does not want to be saved.

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Speaker 4: It's a radical left blue state and for the good

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Speaker 4: of the state the country, you have to step aside

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Speaker 4: to not allow the socialist invasion. That's it.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was interesting. He sounded like he almost

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Speaker 1: got choked up. It was hard for him to say.

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Speaker 1: I think it's hard for a lot of people to

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Speaker 1: say that to you because they want you to win.

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Speaker 1: They like you. You're a hero to them.

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Speaker 2: What do you say to him, Well, eight, it's too late.

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Speaker 2: I was never going to drop out.

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Speaker 3: The billionaires strike to bribe me, they threaten to kill

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Speaker 3: me and my wife. I now have armed security at

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Speaker 3: all moments.

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Speaker 1: This is an unusual race in that it's competitive race.

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Speaker 1: What was the turnout last race? Fifteen percent? It's going

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Speaker 1: to be much higher than that this time. So I

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Speaker 1: think the pollsters don't know how to pull that exactly.

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Speaker 1: There's going to be some people coming out in this

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Speaker 1: race that never came out before, and turnout for your supporters,

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Speaker 1: if you want to win, is going to be more

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Speaker 1: important than ever. I think you would agree with that.

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Speaker 1: What is your turnout mechanism? How can you get people

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Speaker 1: to the polls?

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Speaker 3: Larry, I'm already involved in turning people out, as is Zoran.

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Speaker 2: You see them, I don't see anybody for Cuomo.

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Speaker 3: Cromo's entire day is spent saying drop out curtisly every

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Speaker 3: day all of you say drop out Curtis Lee was

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Speaker 3: a good day Pajara Mandami because he doesn't have to

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Speaker 3: talk about the issues. Let me make it crystal clear,

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Speaker 3: there's no dropping out. Even if i was in a

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Speaker 3: drug induced psychosis, I'm still on the ballot.

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Speaker 2: You can't find Andrew Cuomo on the ballot. He's buried

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Speaker 2: in a mage.

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Speaker 1: And here's the problem. And this is why I rude

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Speaker 1: saying it, because because that can be that can really

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Speaker 1: be destructive. If people are constantly telling you to drop out,

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Speaker 1: that puts that in their mind, and that can be

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Speaker 1: destructive to your campaign. And I understand that, and that's

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Speaker 1: why I've really had a hard time doing it. Look,

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Speaker 1: I hope I'm wrong.

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Speaker 2: I hope you win, But Larry, you can have a

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Speaker 2: hard time doing it.

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Speaker 3: But you said the one thing that is propelled the

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Speaker 3: jar Nists. You said, I'm afraid. I'm a street warrior.

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Speaker 3: I survived some critical situations. When you show fear, as

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Speaker 3: so many have of Zoran, you just empowered the jar Nises.

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Speaker 3: That's why they think they are gonna win this election.

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Speaker 2: Because of all this fear fight.

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Speaker 3: Hysteria instead of fight, fight, fight, and there's no fight

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Speaker 3: left in Andrew Cuomo.

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Speaker 1: But if the fight is split between a couple of people,

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Speaker 1: that's that's sort of what the problem is. And the

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Speaker 1: polls show he has a better shot. That's the only

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Speaker 1: reason people are saying this.

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Speaker 3: Larry poll What about the polls in the primary, he

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Speaker 3: was forty points ahead in late February when he announced

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Speaker 3: Zoran Mandani was last place with one percent. What about

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Speaker 3: those poles? They were wrong? Zoran kicked his butt and

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Speaker 3: one by thirteen percent. And Andrew said, well, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 3: I didn't run a campaign. New York Post reported ten

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Speaker 3: days Andrew Clomo has been off the campaign trail.

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Speaker 2: You can't win an election unless your campaign.

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Speaker 3: All he's done is he's done the dropout routine. You're

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Speaker 3: not gonna get any voters that way, Larry. It's democracy.

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Speaker 3: People died for a right to vote. Everybody, go out

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Speaker 3: and vote, vote for the candidate of your choice. I'm

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Speaker 3: voting tomorrow, first day early voting, and there's nothing you

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Speaker 3: can do.

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Speaker 2: To change that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I get it.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: I hope you win, and I hope I look at

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Speaker 1: I think it would be wrong to blame you for

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Speaker 1: Zorin Mamdani, which would be coming next. And that's wrong

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Speaker 1: because even with you out of the race, the poll

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Speaker 1: show Cuomo doesn't win. So I get it, and I

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Speaker 1: wish you well and I hope you win, and thank

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Speaker 1: you for coming on today.

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Speaker 3: Oh and unlike Cuomo says you'll plead to Florida, I'm

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Speaker 3: sure on wins.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 3: I'm staying improved. Don't move, fight for what you know

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Speaker 3: is right. He's a coward and he's always been a coward.

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Speaker 2: Run into run.

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Speaker 1: He did say that Curtis leewa Republican candidate for mayor

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Speaker 1: of New York City, and a reminder early voting has

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Speaker 1: already started.

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