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Speaker 1: Street Smart Straight Talk. Curtis leewa guest host for Mark

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Speaker 1: Simone on sevent ten Woo.

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Speaker 2: Two Great Christmas Presents broadcasting here on our new favorite

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Speaker 2: station seven to ten wor that many of you are

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Speaker 2: discovering for the first time. I say we it's my wife, Nancy,

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Speaker 2: who is the best president that I've ever had, best

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Speaker 2: thing that ever happened in my life of seventy one years,

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Speaker 2: and she remains on the line. But it's time for

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Speaker 2: our listeners to be heard. Nancy. Let's go to Madeline,

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Speaker 2: who's calling from the Bronx. Oh what a great day

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Speaker 2: it is, Madeline.

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Speaker 3: Yes, especially because I'm talking to you, and then I

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Speaker 3: remember you from I think nineteen seventy eight. That's but

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Speaker 3: number four train Rock Brigade. I always tell you that

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Speaker 3: a couple of books here.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Oh hold on, hold on, hold on, if he can,

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Speaker 2: please hold on. You're coming in broken up crash. Let's

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Speaker 2: see what you can do. I'd hate to see if

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Speaker 2: the disconificator is preventing us from hearing folks from your borough,

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Speaker 2: the Bronx and the borough where I started The Guardian

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Speaker 2: Angels in nineteen seventy nine. On that note, will crash

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Speaker 2: goes to work on that. Let's go to Carlato, who's

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Speaker 2: calling from Brooklyn. Your turn to be heard here at

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Speaker 2: seven ten, wr Well, how do.

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Speaker 4: You do it?

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Speaker 5: Merry Christmas? And God bless you for staying in the race,

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Speaker 5: because if you order went out, we were being down

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Speaker 5: to one party, a hard social and a thought social

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Speaker 5: who could have turned hard. And this is very serious

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Speaker 5: because if you were dropped out the way I look

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Speaker 5: at it down, this is a crown Jewel New York.

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Speaker 5: Down the road, the same thing could happen. We are

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Speaker 5: going to go into one party. This is very scary times.

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Speaker 5: The Marxists are here, Carlotta.

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Speaker 2: Let me explain, Carlotta, it's already here. When I return

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Speaker 2: Friday morning, I think I will be to have connected

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Speaker 2: all the dots of how Republican leadership through Congresswoman at

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Speaker 2: least Stefanic under the bus and created the pathway for

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Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman eliminating a superstar. I mean, Republicans are the

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Speaker 2: worst enemy of Republicans in New York City and in

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Speaker 2: New York State. They do everything to help the Democrats

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Speaker 2: to keep it a one party system. And I saw

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Speaker 2: the grifter in chief last night she was all over

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Speaker 2: New York with Eric Adams Swaggerman with no plan. Oh,

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Speaker 2: they were having a love fest, and she was surrounded

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Speaker 2: by Republicans all day long who were making backroom deals. Oh,

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Speaker 2: you had better be listening Friday morning. Hopefully I will

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Speaker 2: have connected all the Dutch by then. Let's go if

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Speaker 2: we can to Lenny, who's calling from Staten Island. You're

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Speaker 2: turning to be heard here at seven ten wor Lenny.

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Speaker 6: Hey, Curtis, we know each other. Got to hear your

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Speaker 6: voice on the radio, and you gave me an early

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Speaker 6: Christmas present. Let me tell you my son is on

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Speaker 6: the DMZ in Korea. He just got promoted yesterday, the

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Speaker 6: sergeant staff sergeant Lenny, right, And that's why people listen

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Speaker 6: to you. You bring the real stuff to us by

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Speaker 6: mentioning our servicemen who cannot be home for this time

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Speaker 6: of year. It really it touched my heart, and I

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Speaker 6: thank you very much for giving that shout out to

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Speaker 6: the servicemen that are away from their families this time

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Speaker 6: of the year. God bless you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Lenny, and to your son serving us there

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Speaker 2: in the DMZ. Remember that's a war that never ended.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen five still on there, separating South Korea from the

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Speaker 2: evil seed of Kim Jung mentally ill and the crazies

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Speaker 2: of North Korea. On that note, Nancy, as you prepare

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Speaker 2: for our swinging soiree through the Tri State area members

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Speaker 2: of your family, what was it like for you growing

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Speaker 2: up in Bohemia and Suffolk County looking forward at Christmas?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I mean, obviously it's I always enjoyed

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Speaker 4: Christmas growing up. My mom is Ye's very into the tradition,

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Speaker 4: and you know, the Christmas tree, the outdoor decorations we

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Speaker 4: would have, you know, either people would come over. I

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Speaker 4: mean mainly it was always kind of hosted at our

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Speaker 4: do a lot of traveling to other family member's house.

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Speaker 4: It was just always you know, stationed at our house.

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Speaker 4: real winters, so a lot of times there was snow,

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Speaker 4: which is always nice. And then being off of school

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Speaker 4: as a kid, you know, you can't go wrong with

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Speaker 4: that either. So it was always just a nice time

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Speaker 4: out in Long Island growing up.

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Speaker 2: And I'm wondering how many people listening to us in

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Speaker 2: the Troy state area and beyond throughout the world on

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Speaker 2: the internet at wor seven ten. Remember that last minute

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Speaker 2: present that either Mam or Dad or maybe your older

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Speaker 2: brother or sister would get you at the Hesh gas station,

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Speaker 2: which was the Hesh truck, the hash car, you know,

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Speaker 2: a quickie. Many people would never go to Hesse because

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Speaker 2: it was considered low budget gasoline. Low budget wasn't like Sinoko,

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Speaker 2: you know, with all the five seven grades. But they

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Speaker 2: drive into Hesse where they wore the white suits and

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Speaker 2: it came out and pumped your gas and they said, no, no,

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Speaker 2: not here for the gas, and please don't put that

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Speaker 2: dirty square on my window. I'm here for the Hess truck.

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Speaker 2: Last minute present, and it's still available even though there

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Speaker 2: are no more Hess stations. Hesselt, Marada. They had the

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Speaker 2: huge petrol chemical plant and the refinery in New Jersey

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Speaker 2: along the Cancer Belt. When you're on a New Jersey

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Speaker 2: Turnpike and you're going south, once you pass Newark Airport,

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Speaker 2: which is always a dollar short in a day late

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Speaker 2: for everything, hit south DM boy. Then you look at

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Speaker 2: all the petro chemical plants, You look at all the

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Speaker 2: refineries that used to be Leon Hess's refinery, who owned

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Speaker 2: the New York Jets at one point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I never I never got a Hess truck, nor

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Speaker 4: did I give a Hess truck. But I would say

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Speaker 4: I always look forward to the stocking more than even

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Speaker 4: the presence. You know, I didn't have like a lot

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Speaker 4: of presents, but to me, the stocking was the best part,

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Speaker 4: like going there and then seeing that it was all

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Speaker 4: filled up and there was always nice goodies in there.

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Speaker 4: So I was really a fan of the stockings.

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Speaker 2: Let's go if we can to George, who's calling? Your

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Speaker 2: turn to be heard here at seven ten? W or George?

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Speaker 7: How are you? Curtis is George the court clerk. I

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Speaker 7: just wanted to tell you they did you bed in

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Speaker 7: one way. I don't want to keep bringing back the past.

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Speaker 7: Like Einstein said, only God could change the past. When

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Speaker 7: they said, you know about the Republican Party, you had

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Speaker 7: the real you had the seat, they gave it to you.

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Speaker 7: The fact nobody wanted to run against you, they gave

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Speaker 7: it to you, and that was very unfair. And also

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Speaker 7: about the guy at night, Lionel. He's a smart guy.

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Speaker 7: He has a great vocabulary and all of that.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 7: I have a statue in my backyard and I'm not

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Speaker 7: a school ball. It was a court clerk for many years.

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Speaker 7: I'm a normal guy. I have a statue of Saint

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Speaker 7: Francis in my backyard. I feed birds, and Saint Francis said,

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Speaker 7: treat your animals like your brothers and your sisters. People

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Speaker 7: who don't like animals are weird. And as you know,

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Speaker 7: people who people who did harm to animals or half

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Speaker 7: of them, and they used to come to court. I

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Speaker 7: used to read in their background they used to abuse

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Speaker 7: animals when they were a kid. I'm not saying Lionel

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Speaker 7: did that. And I also say one other thing, if

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Speaker 7: I could up. This is just a suggestion. And Nancy's dad,

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Speaker 7: she should listen to this. You are a very popular

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Speaker 7: guy and in Brooklyn, and then I know you're not

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Speaker 7: gonna do it. I try to call you a few

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Speaker 7: months ago or when things were getting hot for mayor

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Speaker 7: and said, who run for borough president in Brooklyn? And

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Speaker 7: this is why you have a say in the Brooklyn Zoo,

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Speaker 7: which is world class, the aquarium. The you're half Polish.

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Speaker 7: I know you are a half Italian. The people in Greenport,

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Speaker 7: Greenport love you, even the yuppies. The will vote for

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Speaker 7: you because you know the crime there. The Russians will

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Speaker 7: vote for you, the Hassidic will vote for you. The

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Speaker 7: people in Coney Island will vote for you, even the

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Speaker 7: Gumbas most of them. The Italians will vote for you,

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Speaker 7: even the bought.

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Speaker 2: Well let me let me step in one second here.

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Speaker 2: You were born in green Point to Nancy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was, Yeah, I was born in green Point.

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Speaker 4: You know. I lived in Ridgewood for until I was

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Speaker 4: about six seven years old. That's before we went on

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Speaker 4: to Long Island.

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Speaker 2: And you went to a Catholic school there where they

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Speaker 2: spoke Polish.

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Speaker 4: Right. Well, let's see, so they did speak polar but

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Speaker 4: it wasn't primarily Polish. I went to, you know, Our

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Speaker 4: Lady of Miraculous Metal, so that was very you know,

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Speaker 4: like you had the nuns teaching type thing. I went to,

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Speaker 4: you know, when I went to I guess what the

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Speaker 4: I'm not even sure what you would call it. The

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Speaker 4: equivalent of like the preschool at this point they had

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Speaker 4: Polish speaking there. But yeah, in the actual Catholic school itself,

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Speaker 4: it was you know, definitely English, definitely English.

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Speaker 2: Well, Georgia the old Clark Court clerk. You could forget

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Speaker 2: about running for Brooklyn Boro President. All you do is

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Speaker 2: cut ribbone.

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Speaker 4: You do nothing.

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Speaker 2: Most of these elected officials, they're impotent, they can do nothing.

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, we're in for a ride. So on Mandami

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Speaker 2: will be sworn in on January first by Bernie the

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Speaker 2: out the Coca Sanders originally from Brooklyn, went to Brooklyn

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Speaker 2: the College, Uh and Tish James will be holding the Bible.

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Speaker 2: And look, he's entitled to an opportunity to put his

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Speaker 2: agenda into effect. A grace period. Every person who is

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Speaker 2: elected mayors should have a grace period. I know some

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Speaker 2: of you are mumbling and grumbling. He won. He kicked

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Speaker 2: Cuomo's butt in the primary where Cuomo was expecting a caronation,

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Speaker 2: and then instead of going back to his hobble and

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Speaker 2: sliding under the rock in the Hamptons with his billionaire friends,

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Speaker 2: he decided to re emerge and say, well, this time

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Speaker 2: I'll do it better.

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Speaker 4: Ha.

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Speaker 2: How did that work out? And Republickins backed Como destroyed

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Speaker 2: the party here in New York City. And when I

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Speaker 2: return on Friday, after visiting relatives on my wife's side

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Speaker 2: all throughout the Tragy State area, I believe I will

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Speaker 2: have connected the dots and can tell you how Republicans

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Speaker 2: stabbed at least staphonic in the back. Oh yeah, Republicans

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Speaker 2: in New York State and New York City seem to

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Speaker 2: be all gaga. Google for anyone who's a Democrat in

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Speaker 2: this case, the grifter in chief, Kathy