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Speaker 1: Now the Red Beret has returned to radio. Curtis Lee

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Speaker 1: guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten wo R.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just came through the tunnel here at iHeart

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Speaker 2: w R. It's all red. You know, it could be

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Speaker 2: the locker room for the Kansas City Chiefs Arrowhead Stadium

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Speaker 2: now moving to Kansas. You know, like Dorothy, you know,

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Speaker 2: clicking her red shoes. But I'm festooned all in red,

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Speaker 2: red satine jacket, red beret, feeling like Sanny Claus and

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Speaker 2: also having received a gift to be able to broadcast

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Speaker 2: to all of you and our new found talk radio

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Speaker 2: station seven to ten WR that Nancy and I listened

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Speaker 2: to as often as possible. And she joins me right

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Speaker 2: now as she joined me at many times on WABC.

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Speaker 2: No longer our place to be where they were always bashing, Curtis.

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Speaker 2: But I know you're busy getting ready for our trip

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Speaker 2: ahead the next two days, as we'll be dealing with

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Speaker 2: family members on your side of the family. So I'd

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Speaker 2: like it just to give everybody here an idea who

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Speaker 2: you are and where you came from as long term

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Speaker 2: listeners here at seven to ten WR.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's a pretty tall order. But let's see, so

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Speaker 3: where I came from. I grew up in Long Island.

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Speaker 3: I graduated from Stonybrook, I went to law school in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 3: and once I got to Brooklyn, I never looked back.

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Speaker 3: You know, I love being in the city, and living

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Speaker 3: in Brooklyn was the first time that I had discovered

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Speaker 3: all of these cats that wander around outside. And that's

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Speaker 3: when I first discovered the concept of the colony cats

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Speaker 3: and all the people out there who were taking care

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Speaker 3: of them, and you know, had like regular groups of

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Speaker 3: outdoor cats because as you know, the shelter system is

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Speaker 3: so filled up, and unfortunately, you know, they're a kill

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Speaker 3: shelter in the city, so you know, they bring them in,

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Speaker 3: they warehouse them a bit, and then after that happens,

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Speaker 3: they euthanize them pretty quickly, even when they don't really

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Speaker 3: have any significant types of problems. So you know, that's

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Speaker 3: not a great place to be. And I realized that

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Speaker 3: there's this incredible community of people out there who are

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Speaker 3: doing exactly what you know, it's passionate. I'm passionate about,

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Speaker 3: which is taking care of them, realizing that they can

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Speaker 3: live outside as long as you know, it's done within,

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Speaker 3: like the structure of the colony, which is making sure

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Speaker 3: they're spade and neutered, providing them with houses, especially in

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Speaker 3: inclement weather like right now where it's cold outside, and

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Speaker 3: you know, feeding them on a regular basis, so that's

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Speaker 3: way they have a food source. So I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: I guess that's the And then Ned, I met you

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Speaker 3: about ten years ago or so, and you know we've

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Speaker 3: been together ever since, So that's that's me in a nutshell.

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember you were living in Sunset Park at

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Speaker 2: the time, and you said, there are cats living in

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Speaker 2: the alleyway, you know, swear all the garages were. And

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Speaker 2: I said, I didn't see Anny. I walked through the alleyway.

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Speaker 2: I didn't see Anny. And then you walked through and

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Speaker 2: you made this sound like the female version of Doctor Doolittle.

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Speaker 2: And I mean, cats were coming out of every Nikrannian

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Speaker 2: corner and they were rubbing up against your leg, the

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Speaker 2: tails in the air, all of them with all of

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Speaker 2: their own unique personalities as I observed them, and there

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Speaker 2: were so many people just like yourself, mostly women, some

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Speaker 2: men out of pocket who care for these animals sometimes

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Speaker 2: in distress, will also serve as a barrier because their

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Speaker 2: presence keeps the rats, the mice, the rodents away, and

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Speaker 2: so they earn their keep many times over without there

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Speaker 2: having to be pesticides and all other kinds of alternatives

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Speaker 2: they used to try to eliminate the rats and the

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Speaker 2: mice that you'll never eliminate. You could have daytime with them,

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Speaker 2: but you can keep them at bay. What was it

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Speaker 2: like when people would turn to you and it'll call

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Speaker 2: you a cat lady or disparagingly make fun of you

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Speaker 2: because you and others were reaching into your pocket spending

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Speaker 2: your own money to care for these animals.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, well, first of all, I don't get

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Speaker 3: offended by people, you know, I usually try to explain

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Speaker 3: I would get a lot of times is like somehow

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Speaker 3: I brought them there, like I created these cats, And

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Speaker 3: I try to you know, you have to explain no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: there's so many of them that live outside all the time,

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Speaker 3: and what I'm doing is basically caring for the ones

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Speaker 3: pick them up, it just creates a vacuum in that area,

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Speaker 3: and then what happens is other cats in the area

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Speaker 3: move in. There's just so many cats you don't see

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Speaker 3: them all the time. So I'm you know, I'm pretty

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Speaker 3: tough skinned, like I wouldn't really take it when people

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Speaker 3: are getting annoyed. But that's why you also have to

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Speaker 3: make sure you take care of these things in a

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Speaker 3: decent basis. So for example, you know, you don't leave

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Speaker 3: the food around, you don't do things that are going

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Speaker 3: to clearly bother neighbors, and you know, create nuisance. So

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Speaker 3: as long as and again that's also why you want

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Speaker 3: to make sure that you get the cats fixed. I

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Speaker 3: mean that's essential. You can't keep having the kittens around.

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Speaker 3: And then plus when they're fixed, they calm down a lot.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the the aggression that happens with the mail

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Speaker 3: you know, you can get their behavior to a point

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Speaker 3: where you know they're i mean again, they're they're the

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Speaker 3: same as the indoor cats. It's just they need, you know,

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Speaker 3: the very specific attention because it's a tough it's a

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Speaker 3: tough time out there. You know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: cats that just inavertently stumble on poisons things of that nature.

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Speaker 3: Like I would have to explain to people like, you know,

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Speaker 3: don't inavertently throw things down, because that happens a lot too.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it always bothers me in the winter. Now,

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Speaker 3: obviously you see a lot of people throwing down the

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Speaker 3: like rock salt. The city throws down the rock salt.

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Speaker 3: That's actually dangerous for animals because they use like the

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Speaker 3: cheapest variety. So you know, you have this. I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's a tough life for them out there. So you know,

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Speaker 3: I just you know, I'm very compassionate. You know, I'll

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Speaker 3: have people who you know, you know, I feel like

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Speaker 3: everyone can understand it if you explain it to them,

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Speaker 3: and then if they don't understand it after that, then

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Speaker 3: to heck with them, because you know, they're living creatures

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Speaker 3: and I can't see any justification for letting someone's dislike

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Speaker 3: of them ever stop the behavior of caring for animals.

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Speaker 2: Now, what I loved about Wisconsin when I was up

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Speaker 2: there organizing Guardian Angels and Milwaukee is they don't use

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Speaker 2: rock salt because they had, you know, years ago, they

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Speaker 2: had feet of snow. It's not like that as it

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Speaker 2: used to be. But they would put down a brine

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Speaker 2: of parmesan cheese, a brine, yeah, and naturally, I mean

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Speaker 2: even some people, you know, it's, oh, parmesan cheese. They'd

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Speaker 2: be down there, you know, licking the asphalt. But there

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Speaker 2: were so many other alternatives, and I think the one

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Speaker 2: singular thing that comes across is I've noticed some time

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Speaker 2: to time you'll be walking the streets where we live

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Speaker 2: and you'll see some pigeons in distress, and you'll feed them.

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Speaker 2: Some people will refer them as rats with wings, others

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Speaker 2: as basically the official bird of New York City. Fact

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Speaker 2: that i'd been elected mayor, as you know, on the

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Speaker 2: campaign trail, I said, we would have taken the New

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Speaker 2: York City flag. It's like some indescript bird on the

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Speaker 2: I would put a pigeon. That's what New York City

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Speaker 2: is known for. And I noticed some people would be

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Speaker 2: talking and she's feeding the pigeons, and I will walk

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Speaker 2: off to them and I'd say, you got a problem

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Speaker 2: with that, Oh no, Curtis, No, No, you know that's

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Speaker 2: my wife, Nancy. You got a problem with that? No, No,

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Speaker 2: And then they have spikes that they yeah, they the windowsills.

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Speaker 3: The aggression against the pigeons I find really really distasteful.

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Speaker 3: To your point, the spikes that are allowed to be

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Speaker 3: put up and then now you have pigeons that are maimed.

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Speaker 3: I mean that to me. I can't believe that's even

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Speaker 3: legal that that happened. But I definitely catch a lot

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Speaker 3: of guff for throwing down the bird seed with the pigeons.

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Speaker 3: But then usually the people who are saying something to

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Speaker 3: me are walking their dog who's urinating on the sidewalk,

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Speaker 3: so I'm not really sure where they are on their

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Speaker 3: high horse telling me anything about fendliness of animals, So

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Speaker 3: you know, to each it on, I guess right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's a much better remedy. If you don't

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Speaker 2: want pigeons flocking around, you just put up a plastic owl.

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Speaker 2: It's like in cornfields when they put up scarecrows. That

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Speaker 2: has the same impact without damaging the pigeons. And it's

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Speaker 2: a horrific death that they suffer because they get impaled.

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Speaker 2: And some people in their minds, you know, that's a OK.

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Speaker 2: But I think the broader issue is you know, and

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Speaker 2: again it's what I based both of my campaigns on

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Speaker 2: and running for New York. One of the many issues

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Speaker 2: animal welfare at Mahatma Gandhi. You know, there will be

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Speaker 2: people who criticize him because they hate animals. He said

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Speaker 2: that a society that does not take care of its

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Speaker 2: have seen how much time and energy we in the

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Speaker 2: Guardian Angels, with your help, have put into caring for

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Speaker 2: care of them, and we don't take care of our animals.

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Speaker 2: The abuse the dogs that are raised to fight and

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Speaker 2: kill and maim, and nothing is done to stop that.

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned when spading and neutering, it would go

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Speaker 2: a long way and keeping these many animals God's creatures

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Speaker 2: out of harm's way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and again that's the whole goalposts of everything.

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Speaker 3: You know, you don't want to have the breeder animals.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's no reason to keep creating you know,

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Speaker 3: there's not enough home for them all together. So I

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Speaker 3: absolutely think that that has to stop right away. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you can't be having that go on.

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll be able to travel the visit with your

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Speaker 2: mother Beth, who just celebrated her birthday, who I believe

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Speaker 2: out in Bohemia really introduced you to the life of

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Speaker 2: people who dedicate themselves to animal Would I be correct

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Speaker 3: My mom's like first job, believe it or not, when she, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, got a job in Long Island was working

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Speaker 3: at an animal shelter, so you know, like a veterinarian office.

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Speaker 3: Rather so during the weekend when she would be working,

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Speaker 3: I would go in with her. So it was as

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Speaker 3: though they were all like I had a whole bunch

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Speaker 3: of cats and dogs that I could visit because they

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Speaker 3: were the ones who were sort of waiting in the

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Speaker 3: the kennels, like if either they were recovering or maybe

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Speaker 3: they were for adoption. So that was actually very cool.

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Speaker 3: I mean, And I also grew up with having a

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Speaker 3: just very familiar with them in general. And yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: and you know, of course, growing up in Long Island

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Speaker 3: you just you know, you see things more often. Like

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Speaker 3: I had a neighbor next to me who had, believe

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Speaker 3: it or not, chickens and roosters and things like that,

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Speaker 3: like a little farm going on, so you know, it's

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Speaker 3: just a much more natural to see these animals.

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Speaker 2: Well, the defining moment for me with you and your

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Speaker 2: passion for animals was in that first campaign when I

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Speaker 2: ran against Eric Adams twenty twenty one, and I warned

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Speaker 3: you may or may not get down the road. I

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Speaker 3: you know, I feel like they do take advantage of

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Speaker 3: a lot of the young people out there. I always

431
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Speaker 3: thought when I was younger too, that, oh, the people

432
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Speaker 3: who straight out of school, when they just went into

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Speaker 3: a job so like you know, especially like the ones

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Speaker 3: that require more of like the technical skills like the

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Speaker 3: plumbing and things like that.

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Speaker 5: I was like, oh, well, that.

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Speaker 3: Those people aren't going that Like I had no idea

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Speaker 3: how much ahead of the curve that they were, because

439
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Speaker 3: right out the gate they have a skill that's you know,

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Speaker 3: that that kind of really less a test of time.

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Speaker 3: And then plus they don't have any of the student

442
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Speaker 3: loan debt, and they start making money years before you

443
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Speaker 3: even get a chance to start making money. So those

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Speaker 3: those people really know what they're doing out there.

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Speaker 2: Well, on that note, you have a chance to speak

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Speaker 2: to Nancy. The best thing that ever happened in my life,

447
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Speaker 2: my wife and yours truly right here at our new station,

448
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Speaker 2: our favorite to listen to, seven ten WOR at one

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Speaker 2: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten. That's

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Speaker 2: one eight hundred three to two one zero seven.

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Speaker 1: Ten, Street Smart Straight Talk. Curtis Leewall guest host for

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Speaker 1: Mark Simone on sevent ten woar.

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

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Speaker 2: seven to ten WOR. The many of you are discovering

455
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Speaker 2: for the first time, I say we it's my wife, Nancy.

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Speaker 2: It is the best present that I've ever had, best

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

458
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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 now and see let's go

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Speaker 2: to Madeleine, who's calling from the Bronx. Oh what a

461
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Speaker 2: great day it is Madeline.

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Speaker 6: Yes, especially because I'm talking to you and there I

463
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Speaker 6: remember you from I think nineteen seventy eight. That's for

464
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Speaker 6: but number four trained Rep Brigade. I always tell you

465
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Speaker 6: that we're not full of books here anyway.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, hold on, hold on, if you can police,

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Speaker 2: hold on. You're coming in broken up, Crash, Let's see

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

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

470
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Speaker 2: the Bronx and the borough where I started the Guardian

471
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Speaker 2: Angels in nineteen seventy nine. On that note, while Crash

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Speaker 2: goes to work on that, let's go to Carlatto, 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.

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Speaker 7: How do you do it? Merry Christmas? And God bless

476
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Speaker 7: you for staying in the race, because if you order

477
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Speaker 7: went out, we were being down to one party, a

478
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Speaker 7: hard social and a thought social who could have turned hard.

479
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Speaker 7: And this is very serious because if you weren't dropped

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Speaker 7: out the way I look at it down, this is

481
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Speaker 7: a Crown Jule in New York. Down the road, the.

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Speaker 3: Same thing could happen. We are going to go into

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Speaker 3: one party this is very scary times.

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Speaker 7: The Marxists are here.

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

486
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Speaker 2: Friday morning, I think I will be to have connected

487
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Speaker 2: all the dots of how Republican leadership through Congresswoman at

488
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Speaker 2: least Stephanic 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

491
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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

494
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Speaker 2: New Yor York with Eric Adams Swaggerman with no plan. Oh,

495
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Speaker 2: they were having a love fest. And she was surrounded

496
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Speaker 2: by Republicans all day long who are making backroom deals. Oh,

497
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Speaker 2: you had better be listening Friday morning. Hopefully I will

498
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Speaker 2: have connected all the DUTs 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 wr Lenny.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Curtis, we know each other. Good to hear your

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Speaker 5: voice on the radio. And you gave me an early

503
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Speaker 5: Christmas present. Let me tell you my son is on

504
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Speaker 5: the DMZ in Korea. He just got promoted yesterday, the

505
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Speaker 5: sergeant staff sergeant Lenny, right, And that's why people listen

506
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 5: to you. You bring the real stuff to us by

507
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Speaker 5: mentioning our servicemen who cannot be home for this time

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Speaker 5: of year. It really it touched my heart and I

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Speaker 5: thank you very much for giving that shout out to

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Speaker 5: the servicemen that are away from their families this time

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Speaker 5: of the year. God bless you.

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

513
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Speaker 2: in the DMZ. Remember that's a war that never ended

514
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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty three, still on there, separating South Korea from

515
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Speaker 2: the evil seed of Kim Jung mentally ill and the

516
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Speaker 2: crazies of North Korea. On that note, Nancy, as you

517
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Speaker 2: prepare for our swinging soiree through the Tri State area

518
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Speaker 2: members of your family, what was it like for you

519
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Speaker 2: growing up in Bohemia and Suffolk County looking forward at Christmas?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I mean, obviously it's I always enjoyed

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Speaker 3: Christmas growing up. My mom this years very into the tradition,

522
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Speaker 3: and you know, the Christmas tree, the outdoor decorations.

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Speaker 5: We would have.

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Speaker 3: You know, either people would come over. I mean mainly

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Speaker 3: it was always kind of hosted at our house to

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Speaker 3: some extent, so you know, I didn't really do a

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Speaker 3: lot of traveling to other family member's house. It was

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Speaker 3: just always you know, stationed at our house. And you know,

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Speaker 3: back then we used to have in the real winters,

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Speaker 3: so a lot of times there was snow, which is

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Speaker 3: always nice. And then being off of school as a kid,

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Speaker 3: you know, you can't go wrong with that either. So

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Speaker 3: it was always just a nice time out in Long

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Speaker 3: 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 Tragity State area and beyond throughout the world on

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Speaker 2: the internet. At wor seven remember that last minute present

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

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Speaker 2: 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. It wasn't

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Speaker 2: like Sinoco, you know, with all the five seven grades.

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Speaker 2: But they drive into Hesse where they wore the white

545
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Speaker 2: suits and it came out and pumpedy gas and they said, no, no,

546
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Speaker 2: not here for the gas and please don't put that

547
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Speaker 2: dirty squeegee on my window. I'm here for the Hess truck,

548
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 2: last minute present, and it's still available even though there

549
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Speaker 2: are no more Hest stations. Hessel, Murada, they had the

550
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Speaker 2: huge petro chemical plant and the refinery in New Jersey

551
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Speaker 2: along the Cancer Belt. When you're on a New Jersey

552
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Speaker 2: Turnpike and you're going south, once you pass Newark Airport,

553
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Speaker 2: which is always a dollar short in a day late

554
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,480
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

556
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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 that's at one point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I never I never got a Hess truck, nor

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Speaker 3: did I give a Hess truck. But I would say

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Speaker 3: I always look forward to the stocking more than even

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Speaker 3: the presidence. You know, I didn't have like a lot

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Speaker 3: of presents, but to me, the stocking was the best part,

563
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Speaker 3: like going there and then seeing that it was all

564
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Speaker 3: filled up and there was always nice goodies in there.

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Speaker 3: So I was really a fan of the stocking.

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

567
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Speaker 2: turn to be heard here at seven ten w or George.

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Speaker 8: How are you, Curtis is George the core clerk. I

569
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Speaker 8: just wanted to tell you they did you bed in

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Speaker 8: one way. I don't want to keep bringing back the past.

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Speaker 8: Like Einstein said, only God could change the past. When

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00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 8: they said, you know about the Republican Party, you had

573
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 8: the real you had the seat, they gave it to you.

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Speaker 8: The fact nobody wanted to run against you, they gave

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Speaker 8: it to you, and that was very unfair. And also

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Speaker 8: about the guy at night, Lionel, he's a smart guy.

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Speaker 8: He's a great vocabulary in all that.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 8: I have a statue in my backyard and I'm not

580
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Speaker 8: a school ball. It was a court clark for many years.

581
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Speaker 8: I'm a normal guy. I have a statue of Saint

582
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Speaker 8: Francis in my backyard. I feed birds, and Saint Francis said,

583
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Speaker 8: treat your animals like your brothers and your sisters. People

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Speaker 8: who don't like animals are weird. And that's you know,

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Speaker 8: people who people who did harm to animals, or half

586
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Speaker 8: of them when they used to come to court. I

587
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Speaker 8: used to read in their background they used to abuse

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Speaker 8: animals when they were a kid. I'm not saying Lionel

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Speaker 8: did that, and I also say one other thing, if

590
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Speaker 8: I could sure. This is just a suggestion, and Nancy's dad,

591
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 8: she should listen to this. You are a very popular

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Speaker 8: guy and in Brooklyn, and then I know you're not

593
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Speaker 8: going to do it. I try to call you a

594
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Speaker 8: few months ago or when things were getting hot for

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Speaker 8: mayor and said, who run for borough president in Brooklyn?

596
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Speaker 8: And this is why you have a say in the

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Speaker 8: Brooklyn Zoo, which is world class, the aquarium. The you're

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Speaker 8: half Polish, I know you are half Italian. The people

599
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 8: in Greenport, uh, green Point love you, even the yuppies.

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Speaker 8: They'll vote for you because you know the crime there.

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Speaker 8: The Russians will vote for you. The Hasidic will vote

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Speaker 8: for you. The people in Coney Island will vote for you,

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Speaker 8: even the Gumbas, most of them. The Italians will all

604
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 8: for you. Even the Gumbaugh gangsters will vot for you.

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

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Speaker 2: You were born in green Point to.

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Speaker 3: Nancy, Yeah, I was, Yeah, I was born in green Point.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I lived in Ridgewood for until I was about six

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Speaker 3: seven years old. That's before we went on 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 3: Right, Well, let's see, so they did speak pol but

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Speaker 3: it wasn't primarily Polish. I went to, you know, our

615
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Speaker 3: Lady of Miraculous Metal, so that was very you know,

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Speaker 3: like you had the nuns teaching type thing. I went to,

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Speaker 3: you know, and I went to I guess what the

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Speaker 3: I'm not even sure you called the equivalent of like

619
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Speaker 3: the preschool at this point they had Polish speaking there.

620
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Speaker 3: But yeah, in the actual Catholic school itself, it was

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Speaker 3: you know, definitely English, definitely English.

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Speaker 2: Well, George, the old Clark Court clerk, you could forget

623
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Speaker 2: about running for Brooklyn Boro president. All you do is

624
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 2: cut ribbons.

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Speaker 4: You do nothing. Most of these elected officials they're impotent.

626
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Speaker 4: They can do nothing. Oh boy, we're in for a ride.

627
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Speaker 2: Zara Mandami will be sworn in on January first by

628
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 2: Bernie the out the CACA Sanders originally from Brooklyn went

629
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Speaker 2: to Brooklyn the College and Tish James will be holding

630
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Speaker 2: the Bible and look, he's entitled to an opportunity to

631
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Speaker 2: put his agenda into effect. A grace period. Every person

632
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 2: who was elected mayor should have a grace period. I

633
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 2: know some of you are mumbling and grumbling. He won.

634
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 2: He kicked Cuomo's butt in the primary where Cuomo was

635
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 2: expecting a carnation, and then instead of going back to

636
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 2: his hovel and sliding under the rock in the Hamptons

637
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 2: with his billionaire friends, he decided to re emerge and say, well,

638
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Speaker 2: this time I'll do it better.

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Speaker 5: Ha.

640
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Speaker 2: How did that work out? And Republicans backed Cuomo destroyed

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00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 2: the party here in New York City. And when I

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00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 2: return on Friday, after visiting relatives on my wife 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 seemed 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 Hoko