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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR now the wr Saturday

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Speaker 1: Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minty.

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Speaker 3: Coming up this week on Saturday Morning. It was the

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Speaker 3: first week of Curtis Leewa and Larry Minty in the

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Speaker 3: Morning on WOR and this is how it kicked off.

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Speaker 1: Curtis SLEIEWA welcome, Thank you, Larry, and what a welcome

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Speaker 1: I've been given here by the iHeartRadio family. First Tom Cuddy,

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Speaker 1: who I knew over at WPLJ before Cumulus decided to

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Speaker 1: fold that station. Great guy at regular conversations with me

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Speaker 1: right after the mayoral election, and he did the shit Uk.

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Speaker 1: He made the mash between me and you. I've known

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Speaker 1: you for years, I mean from Delaware, Wilmington, to Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: to New Jersey to New York to WABC itself when

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Speaker 1: you were there the old WABC. But walking into these

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Speaker 1: studios and I love the red. The red was painted

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Speaker 1: you know in the runways. So you're running out for

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, right, I thought it was for me.

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Speaker 1: They told me, no, no, ay, idiot. This has been

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Speaker 1: read for a long time. But iHeart family. And who

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Speaker 1: lets me in this morning. Jim Kerr fifty two years

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Speaker 1: a legend at WAXQ, who remembers me from back in

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Speaker 1: the seventies, interviewing me when I started The Guardian Angel

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Speaker 1: and then on Friday when I came here so that

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Speaker 1: I could be introduced to the staff.

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Speaker 2: Who's meeting me in the hallway.

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Speaker 1: Charlemagne the God, the breakfast Club guy, Power one Old five.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking national radio Hall of Fame talent,

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Speaker 1: and it gets better.

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Speaker 2: Elvis Demsey one hundred thirty years.

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Speaker 1: My wife Nancy loves the one hundred, didn't even listen

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Speaker 1: to me on w ABC. Loves Hollywood Hamilton at w KTU.

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Speaker 1: I used to listen to Disco Days, the Supreme Cuisines.

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Speaker 1: She loves that show. Wore the Roses with Hollywood Hamilton

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Speaker 1: with Marie Great and then of course the veteran ovall

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Speaker 1: veterans right here woor Mark Simone, this smoothish operator in

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Speaker 1: all of talk radio.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is a hall of fame.

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Speaker 3: It is a hall of fame, and you belong in

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Speaker 3: it to I know a lot of people know the story,

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Speaker 3: and it's been played out in the newspapers. We have

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Speaker 3: a lot of new listeners today who came here just

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Speaker 3: for you, So could you tell us what happened again?

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Speaker 2: Why are you here? By the way, what is talkback? Boy? Well,

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Speaker 2: what's that talkback number?

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Speaker 1: Oh you want to hear that? Maybe I'll give a

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Speaker 1: call in. You know, I'll fake my fake do a

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Speaker 1: fake a fagacy voice.

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Speaker 3: Well, you actually have to get to our app.

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Speaker 2: You go to the iHeartRadio app and leave us a talkback.

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Speaker 3: You could win a Curtis Leewa and Larry and Menti

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Speaker 3: in the Morning t shirt, which will be awarded every

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Speaker 3: day to our favorite talk back in the morning. You

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Speaker 3: should choose it today. You should choose the favorite talk

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Speaker 3: back of the morning. It's a big deal. It's coveted.

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Speaker 3: It's highly coveted. And while you're on the free iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 3: be sure to set a preset for seven to ten.

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Speaker 1: Woor ok that out of the way. Yeah, say, I

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Speaker 1: don't want any Barney talk. I love you, you love me.

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Speaker 1: I hated Barney with my three sons when I had

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Speaker 1: to watch him going up. Hey, bring it on, bring

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Speaker 1: on the blowback, bring on the hate.

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Speaker 3: That's what I love. See Natalie usually keeps those things out.

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Speaker 3: No you want them? Of course you're hearing that right.

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Speaker 3: He wants all the balls ones to.

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Speaker 2: You see that it.

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Speaker 1: That's the beauty of this team, is that every other

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Speaker 1: show in talk radio, it's an echo chamber. Whether it's

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Speaker 1: right or left, it's an ico chamber. You and I

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Speaker 1: respectfully disagree on a lot, as you're going to hear

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Speaker 1: coming up about the warning ron oh boy, but.

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Speaker 2: Other things too.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you agree, sometimes you disagree, but you don't hear

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Speaker 1: that and talk right to a talk TV any longer.

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Speaker 2: It's one point of view.

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Speaker 1: It's the amen chorus, and that I think that has

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Speaker 1: hurt this thing of ours.

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Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely absolutely, I think you're absolutely correct.

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Speaker 2: But let's start.

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Speaker 3: Let's go back to the question I asked you, why

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Speaker 3: are you here?

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Speaker 2: Why am I here?

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Speaker 1: Right before Laby Day twenty twenty five, September one, I'm

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Speaker 1: running familiar of the city of New York. And at

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Speaker 1: that time you have zarn Mondami, who had won the

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Speaker 1: Democratic primary because Andrew evilized CLMO mailed in it, didn't

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Speaker 1: even run a campaign, a shock of all shocks, and

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Speaker 1: then he threw in the white town No mas, no mass.

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Speaker 1: He had to Eric Adams, she's getting all frisky. He

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Speaker 1: was going nowhere number four in the polls. Imagine a

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Speaker 1: sitting mayor, and then there's Es truly, Curtis Lee. I'm

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Speaker 1: the Republican candidate. Angel hung On. He said, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be an independent candidate like my father was in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven against said Cotch Okay.

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Speaker 2: I got no problem with that.

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Speaker 1: I believe in more candidates, more debates, more choices for people.

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Speaker 1: But I'm the WABC guy right, always broadcasting, Curtis. That's

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Speaker 1: what the hapendom was for thirty five years. And then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, on September one, twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: the edict came down from the White House. Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: the President. I asked him publicly, don't get involved in

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Speaker 1: this race because every you take shots at zarn Mondomi,

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Speaker 1: you're just strengthening him because he doesn't want a campaign

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Speaker 1: against Adams or Como or Sleewer. He wants to go

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Speaker 1: one on one with Trump. It's David versus Goliath. People

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Speaker 1: don't like Donald Trump in this city. That just strengthened him.

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Speaker 1: But hey, the President does what he wants to do,

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Speaker 1: so he issues I think it was an executive board it.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can correct me, and he says Eric Adams

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Speaker 1: and Curtis Lee where you got ten days to drop out?

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Speaker 1: Whoa really on the Republican candidate? I got ten days

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Speaker 1: to drop out. I don't drop out for anybody. So

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Speaker 1: right then it was very contentious. And then I was

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Speaker 1: surprised because across from the studios at WABC is Smith

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Speaker 1: and Woolenski. Oh famous steakhouse. And who's having a sit

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Speaker 1: down there, Sid Rosenberg from the Morning show. Chad Lopez,

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Speaker 1: the general manager, Andrew.

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Speaker 2: Evilized Coomore having a sit down. It's Smith and Woolenski.

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Speaker 1: And they made the deal right there because John had

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Speaker 1: dispatched Chad Lopez. This is John katch Matias. What was

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Speaker 1: the deal? What are you talking about? The deal was

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Speaker 1: was gonna get Curtis out of this race. They already

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Speaker 1: were working on Eric Adams. He was just waiting for

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Speaker 1: the price was right, you know, Bob Barker, the price

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Speaker 1: was right. He was there for the money. But they

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Speaker 1: were going to do everything to get me out of

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Speaker 1: that race. Bribes, threats, w ABC turned on me, and

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Speaker 1: I was always bashing court. These are people you considered friends.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's why, Sid Rosenberg. If you know the Godfather,

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Speaker 1: he's Tessio. Remember remember when Marlon Branda whispers to Michael,

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Speaker 1: whoever comes to you or the meeting is the trader.

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Speaker 1: And that's what Sid did. Oh, you should come and

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Speaker 1: sit with an shoul. I'll be able, I'll be there,

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Speaker 1: I'll mediated so. Really, the only.

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Speaker 2: Thing he didn't do was kiss me on the lips.

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Speaker 2: I would have been swimming with the fishes. But then

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Speaker 2: it didn't stop there.

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Speaker 1: So not only is John the owner going at me,

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Speaker 1: but then he's got Mo Green, Greg Kelly, He's going

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Speaker 1: The worst was the salazzo character was Dominic Carter. This

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Speaker 1: guy wouldn't be in talk radio if not for me.

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Speaker 1: He just wasn't a talk show host. I worked on him,

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Speaker 1: shaped them up. He now had a regular spot, and

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Speaker 1: he decided to put the ship in my back like

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Speaker 1: all of them. And remember that famous morning October twenty fourth,

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Speaker 1: I'm on what Sid and I quit right there forever

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Speaker 1: because obviously I'm not an employee at that time. You

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Speaker 1: have to leave when you run for office. But I said,

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Speaker 1: even if I lose, I will never ever come back

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Speaker 1: to WABC. You will never hear my voice. And ever

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Speaker 1: since I lost the election, Farren Squares or on one.

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Speaker 1: People have been coming up to me because I haven't

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Speaker 1: missed a beat. I'm in the subways and streets every day. Curtisy,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get you, gotta get back on radio. You

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Speaker 1: gotta get back on radio. And I would always get

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Speaker 1: him the caveat. It will never be w a BC.

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Speaker 1: So now they have their star Cuomo, maybe the worst

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Speaker 2: I mean pathetic. So hey, you want to listen to them,

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Speaker 2: that's fine, but that's that's like, that's what hell he

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Speaker 2: call it. That's the B Team to iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 1: All the superstars are here in these radio studios and

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Speaker 1: next one another, back to back, belly to belly. And

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Speaker 1: now you're gonna have talk radio in which you have

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Speaker 1: two points of view with talkback. You don't get that

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Speaker 1: over at WABC. It's either one point of view or

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Speaker 1: you're out the door.

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Speaker 3: I want to get back to that meeting for a second,

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Speaker 3: because what a slimy bunch of weasels. I mean, these

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Speaker 3: are probably people you considered your friends absolutely absolutely well,

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Speaker 3: why would the general manager Chad Lopez be over there?

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Speaker 3: Sid would always say, well, I was trying to get

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Speaker 3: Cuomo on the radio.

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Speaker 2: So what do you gotta beg him? What do you

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Speaker 2: got to bow? You gotta buck?

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Speaker 1: No, Now the die was cast and they were gonna

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Speaker 1: do everything they could to get me out of the race.

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Speaker 2: And I said, I'm not dropping out.

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Speaker 1: And the bribes got up to ten million dollars. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't as much as Derrek Adams got, but i said no, no,

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Speaker 1: a thousand times no. And I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever said, who offered you that bribe?

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Speaker 2: Oh? That's coming up.

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Speaker 1: So you gotta listen every morning, I'm gonna be dropping

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Speaker 1: little beer. It's all along, man, And you could keep asking.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be dropping those stupids every day. It's just

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Speaker 2: gonna make your eyes roll some of the people. This

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