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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 Minti. Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show,

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Speaker 2: the Republican candidate in the New York City election, Curtis

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Speaker 2: Leewa joins us to talk about the results, and Zurin Mamdani.

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Speaker 2: New York councilwoman Ina Wernikoff invited Benjamin Netanyahoo to the

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Speaker 2: city to see if Zorin Mamdani would dare to try

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Speaker 2: and arrest him as he promised. Rich DeMuro from rich

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Speaker 2: On Tech says Apple is now in the sock business

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Speaker 2: and Johnny Olegzinski is the best when Broadway plays are

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Speaker 2: at their worst, and he has what he is calling

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Speaker 2: a Broadway bomb coming up. But let's start with Curtis Leiwa,

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Speaker 2: fresh off a tough election night. Thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for joining us. Hope you're holding your head up high.

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Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, And thanks for all the airtime you provided

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Speaker 3: me during the campaign. So flesh out the issues other

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Speaker 3: than just talk about the daily conversation, which is you

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Speaker 3: should drop out and Larry, even if you took every

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Speaker 3: vote that I'd got in this election and you had

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Speaker 3: transferred it to Andrew Cuomo, he still would have lost.

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Speaker 3: So how did that work out? How did that work

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Speaker 3: out that I should drop out and all the votes

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Speaker 3: would put him over the top, do the mass It

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Speaker 3: never worked out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, even when you had the highest poll numbers, if

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Speaker 2: you took that amount, And first of all, we should

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Speaker 2: point out not all of those votes were going to transfer.

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Speaker 2: They were Republican votes. Who would half of them never

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Speaker 2: would have voted for Andrew Cuomo. So even if you

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Speaker 2: took all of the votes, let's just say, in some

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Speaker 2: kind of magic world, you could take all the votes

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Speaker 2: that you had with your highest numbers and give them

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Speaker 2: to Andrew Cuomo, it still wouldn't have been enough.

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Speaker 3: Yep. And remember the masters of the universe weighed in

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Speaker 3: Trump Elon Musk now a trillion ass soon to be

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Speaker 3: a trillion, and other fact, there's other billionaires. And still

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Speaker 3: it wasn't going to turn into Acomo into the mayor.

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Speaker 3: He had too much baggage, he was too low, too hated.

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Speaker 3: But it is what it is. And now the people

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Speaker 3: must suffer because they didn't take the other alternative, which

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Speaker 3: was me, and now they must live with r On Mandami.

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Speaker 3: So I noticed the fear fight in hysteria in the

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Speaker 3: beginning of the flight, I'm leaving. Well, all of you

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Speaker 3: can leave if that's what you want to do, but

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Speaker 3: I stay. I fight for what I know is right.

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Speaker 3: I improve, I don't move, and like the scene from

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Speaker 3: the miss at Abbels, I say to those who were

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Speaker 3: willing to join me to the barricades, to the barricades.

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Speaker 2: That's really well said. Look, I know during this campaign

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Speaker 2: you you suffered a lot of backstabbing, and some of

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Speaker 2: it was vicious. Some of the people that you considered

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Speaker 2: your friends stabbed you in the back. Others others, like myself,

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Speaker 2: I did a commentary saying you should drop out, but

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Speaker 2: I did it at least with love. There were others

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Speaker 2: that I think that you counted on that really turned

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Speaker 2: on you. That must have hurt.

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Speaker 3: Oh. Absolutely. From the station that I broadcast from thirty

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Speaker 3: five years, it stood for always Broadcasting Curtis WABC, it

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Speaker 3: became always fashion Curtis, from Sit in the Morning to

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Speaker 3: Greg Kelly to Dominic Carty. It wasn't just being in

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Speaker 3: opposition to me staying in the race. As you appointed out, Larry,

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Speaker 3: There's two ways to do it, but to get vicious

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Speaker 3: and personal and attack family members, and then also be

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Speaker 3: responsible for the tidal wave of hate and craziness that

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Speaker 3: permeated the race so much so for the first time

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Speaker 3: in my life, I had to go out and get

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Speaker 3: armed guards for my wife. They were threatening my wife.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not saying people in particular, but people who

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Speaker 3: We're just pushed in that direction. So I had to

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Speaker 3: I had to make sure that my staff was protected

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Speaker 3: and volunteers, and it was really a stain on what

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Speaker 3: I had done in New York. I should be able

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Speaker 3: it's the Democratic Party. It's the failure of Eric Adams

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Speaker 3: He failed, then he failed in the general, and we

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Speaker 3: know he's going to go back to the Hampton's and

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Speaker 3: hang out with his billionaire friends. Well, I continue to

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, you got a national name. Two

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Speaker 2: weeks in a row, SNL has talked about you. What

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Speaker 2: did you think of their skits and what they did

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Speaker 3: Well, I love the parodies and satire. I've done that

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Speaker 3: my whole life. So anytime that people provide a good

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Speaker 3: way for people to get a good laugh and try

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Speaker 3: to understand what's going on, I support it. Hey, it's flattering.

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Speaker 3: Anytime they would sort of point out who you are

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Speaker 3: the most flattering way. But that's what comedy, satire and

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Speaker 3: of it my whole life. I've been doing parodies and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you what. It's great to be impersonated

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Speaker 2: by Shane Gillis, maybe the top comic in the country

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Speaker 2: right now. How do you think he did in the

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Speaker 2: debate impersonating you?

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Speaker 3: Oh, you'd be great. I just want Shane to wear

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Speaker 3: that red beret and come with me on the number

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Speaker 3: four train the Muggers Express and see if he's got

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Speaker 3: what it takes there.

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Speaker 2: Larry, Yeah, you know what My guess is if you

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Speaker 2: reach out to him, he would do it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, you're right. There's a lot of people I have

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Speaker 3: to reach out to. I've been reaching out to obviously

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Speaker 3: all the people who supported me from day one, who

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Speaker 3: put their lives aside to give me an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: save the city. But that's one of the many people

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Speaker 3: I'll be reaching out to. As you know, there's another

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Speaker 3: chapter in my life. I shouldn't have been alive all

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Speaker 3: the times that I've been in the ER or the

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Speaker 3: ICU for a number of physical reasons. So I have

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Speaker 3: a lot to be grateful to, and most importantly to you, Larry,

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Speaker 3: to your staff, to the people at WOR who are

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Speaker 3: always fair and square to me during a very tough campaign.

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Speaker 3: I just can't say that about the place that I

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Speaker 3: thought was family WABC. I will never return there. You

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Speaker 3: will never hear my voice. Sare I am old testament.

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Speaker 3: Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I will

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Speaker 3: never forgive. I will never forget.

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, you are a hero to New York City.

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Speaker 2: You ran your campaign with nothing with but class. You

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Speaker 2: your voice you are. You gave an exceptionable concession speech,

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Speaker 2: which is the way all concession speeches should be, and

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Speaker 2: they aren't always so Curtis, I'm proud to know you

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Speaker 2: hold your head up high and I can't wait to

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Speaker 2: hear and see the next chapter in your life.

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Speaker 3: Shit, Dad, Larry, and again, we got to save this city.

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Speaker 3: We know what Zoran is going to do. We got

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Speaker 3: to stand and hit the barricades and fight for what

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Speaker 3: we know is right.

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Speaker 2: Guardian Angels founder Curtis Leewa Up next, Rich de muro

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Speaker 2: from rich on Tech talks about a new Amazon app

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Speaker 2: that makes certain you get the product you want at

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Speaker 2: the price you're willing to pay.

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Speaker 1: Rich is next with more of the WOOR Saturday Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Rich de Murro from the WOR Show. Rich

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Speaker 2: on Tech is here now with details about a way

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Speaker 2: to always have your passport with you and you can

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Speaker 2: use it at the airport too. Good morning to your

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Speaker 2: rich thanks for being.

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Speaker 4: Here, as morning to Larry.

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Speaker 2: As always What is this that Apple is now going

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Speaker 2: to make socks?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is one of the odder products that Apple

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Speaker 4: has come out with. Although there is some history many

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Speaker 4: years ago they used to make socks, this one is designer.

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Speaker 4: It's a iPhone pocket and it's basically a knitted sleeve

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Speaker 4: You can wear it like an extra pocket. You can

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Speaker 4: tie it to your bag, you can carry it by hand.

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Speaker 4: Just think sock with a couple of straps. And it

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Speaker 4: comes in eight colors. It's long or short. The short

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Speaker 4: one is one hundred and fifty dollars. The long one

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Speaker 4: is two hundred and twenty nine dollars. It's tough to

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Speaker 4: So you got to look up iPhone pocket and it's

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Speaker 4: just it's a very expensive way to hold your iPhone.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say two hundred and thirty dollars

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Speaker 2: to put my iPhone in my sock. That seems ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: The funny thing is, you know, I test a lot

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Speaker 4: a sock. Now, Larry I'll tell you these socks are

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Speaker 4: nowhere near one hundred and fifty to.

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Speaker 5: Two hundred and thirty dollars.

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Speaker 4: They're basically the giveaways I get when I go to

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Speaker 4: I just use that. So I think any sock will work.

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Speaker 4: This is much more fashionable though from uh, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: say it wrong, but it's Issy Miyaki.

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Speaker 2: Issy Niyaki. That's a that's a sock.

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Speaker 4: That's a Japanese designer, so a designer out. Yes, it

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Speaker 4: is designer. That's why it's fancy and expensive.

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Speaker 2: Itsy sounds itchy. I don't know if i'd ever i'd

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Speaker 2: ever get those socks. One thing that Apple is pointing

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Speaker 2: new digital ID.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: This is actually quite smart, especially if you've been lagging

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Speaker 4: on getting that real ID. You know, if you don't

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Speaker 4: have a real ID, you can still travel domestically with

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Speaker 4: your US passport, but it's kind of a pain to

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Speaker 4: carry that around. Now you can take your passport, tap

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Speaker 4: it with your iPhone, take a couple of selfies, and

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Speaker 4: ID that works at TSA checkpoints two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 4: of them across America, So this is again a good

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Speaker 4: option if you don't have a real ID. Does not

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Speaker 4: replace your physical passport for international travel, and I'd still

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Speaker 4: probably bring it anyway, even for domestic if you're using this,

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Speaker 4: but hey, it's one new option. And Apple says this

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Speaker 4: same digital ID is going to be used in more places,

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Speaker 4: like businesses can start accepting it for age checks, and

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Speaker 4: they say it's much more private than showing your ID

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Speaker 4: because the information is transferred via your phone and not

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Speaker 2: You specifically said two hundred and fifty location. Does that

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Speaker 2: mean is that all of them? Does it mean some

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Speaker 4: I mean it sounds like a lot, but it's one

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Speaker 4: of those things where since since they're putting a number

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Speaker 4: if the airport that you're using takes this new digital ID.

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Speaker 4: Apple's got a website set up for it, But two

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Speaker 2: New York City Councilwoman Ena Vernikoff is making a bold

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Speaker 1: Here again is Larry Menti with the WOR Saturday Morning Show,

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back.

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Speaker 2: Zorin Mamdani made the bold threat on the debate stage

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, tell us about your idea when it comes to Netanyahu.

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Speaker 6: Look, this is radical Marxist Zora mamdanison to be mayor

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Speaker 2: I didn't expect him to be exposed this early, but

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about that in a second, though. I want

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Speaker 6: I absolutely sent it. It was sent, and it was received,

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Speaker 6: And you know, symbolically, the Jewish community and Israel and

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Speaker 2: You know. I respect you saying you didn't want to

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Speaker 6: Well, I think, look, I think we're going to see

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Speaker 2: It's Sandy great, that's great. So I'm going to drop

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Speaker 6: Oh, I think he's gonna come to New York. We're

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Speaker 6: gonna welcome him. He's gonna meet with the Jewish community,

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Speaker 6: He's going to meet with other leaders. Mayor Eric Adams

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Speaker 6: And I think that this radical minority is not going

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Speaker 2: This is brilliant on your part. And let me tell

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Speaker 2: People forget how dangerous he is when it comes to

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Speaker 2: He has to react somehow, and his reaction.

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Speaker 6: He I think he already was exposed. He already reacted.

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Speaker 6: A reporter asked him, I think it was yesterday. We

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Speaker 6: He has done this right, This is one of his

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Speaker 2: I think he's embarrassed already in one by one, everything

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Speaker 2: We're going to find out more of them as we

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Speaker 6: and so I'm actually very excited that he's not going

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Speaker 6: to be able to fulfill his agenda. And I'm excited

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Speaker 6: to be part of that pushback. And I am not

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Speaker 2: Good for you. You've already exposed him as a liar. You've

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Speaker 2: already been successful. The fact that he had to admit

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Speaker 2: that he can't arrest him. That's that's two things that

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Speaker 2: have come up. The free buses and arresting Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Speaker 2: We're already learning he can't do them. I can't wait

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Speaker 2: for a long list because I think everything he said

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Speaker 2: he was going to do will be horrible for the city.

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Speaker 2: So wonderful job. You're a hero. Thanks so much, counsel

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Speaker 2: woman for talking to us. Would love to have you back.

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Speaker 2: New York City Councilwoman Ina Vernikoff. Up next, Sydney Sweetey

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Speaker 2: is the new it girl, but that didn't help her

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Speaker 2: new movie at the box office. New York Post entertainment

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Speaker 2: critic Johnny Olegzinski has the details. Next.

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Speaker 1: Back now to the woor Saturday Morning Show with Larry

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Speaker 1: MINTI welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Uh oh. New York Post entertainment critic Johnny Oleazinski hates

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Speaker 2: a new play even though it has a big star.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Christine Chenoweth, who now is in a

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Speaker 2: new Broadway play. Everybody loves her from Wicked. She's been

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Speaker 2: a huge star on Broadway, so this has gotta be great.

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Speaker 7: Oh you bet it isn't. Oh my god, oh what

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Speaker 7: a big fat one star from me. It's called the

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Speaker 7: Queen of Versailles. And some people might know this story

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Speaker 7: it's about. It's from a documentary about this woman named

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Speaker 7: Jackie Siegel. She was married to David Siegel, who was

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Speaker 7: in charge of a Westgate time shares right, and she

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Speaker 7: marries him. She comes from upstate New York, very kind

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Speaker 7: of low class, upbringing, marries this rich billionaire and then

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Speaker 7: they start to build a ninety thousand square foot house

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Speaker 7: modeled after Versailles in France, in Florida, in Orlando, and

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Speaker 7: then the house comes in they you know, the financial

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Speaker 7: crisis happens, and there's all these setbacks that if anyone

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Speaker 7: just heard me say that and went, I would like to.

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Speaker 5: See a Music Hall.

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Speaker 7: About that there's something wrong with you, and it turns

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Speaker 7: out there's so many many things wrong with the show.

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Speaker 7: One of the crazier things about it is beyond Christian

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Speaker 7: shenew With, who I've always liked before I'll get into

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Speaker 7: her in a second. Stephen Schwartz, who wrote Wicked, Rolling

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Speaker 7: in Money Define Gravity popular that he wrote Wicked, Pippin

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Speaker 7: god Spell, Rolling in Money Terrible scorch, the worst of

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Speaker 7: his career. I wish these legendary composers would just pack

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Speaker 7: it up sometimes and just enjoy their legacies, as opposed

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Speaker 7: to sullying them with subpar new stuff. But then there's

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Speaker 7: Christian shennow With. A's this kind of real housewife character.

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Speaker 7: There's just no humanity to it. I said, she kind

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Speaker 7: of peacocks around singing Bland songs. It really really was

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Speaker 7: quite bad. So that's the verdict from the New York Post.

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Speaker 7: If you read the New York Times, which I'm sure

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Speaker 7: so many wo A listeners are clamoring to do, you'll

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Speaker 7: hear a very different take, objectively wrong one that this

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Speaker 7: show is good.

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Speaker 5: They are wrong.

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Speaker 7: They are the only people that said it's good.

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Speaker 5: They are wrong.

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Speaker 7: Do not waste your money seeing The Queen of Versailles.

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Speaker 2: Okay, how does that happen when you think something is

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Speaker 2: that bad that you can't believe anyone else would like it?

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Speaker 2: And I trust you on this. Are there other factors

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Speaker 2: in play with some of the critics that they would

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Speaker 2: give it a good a better review than it deserves?

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Speaker 7: You know, you think you're implying some sort of corruption.

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Speaker 7: I will say that there's none of that is going

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Speaker 7: on at the New York Times. It's just that old phrase,

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Speaker 7: there's no accounting for taste. Some people have really weird taste.

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Speaker 2: You know that.

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Speaker 7: You say, I love this movie, and you go, how

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Speaker 7: could you possibly? And I think it's up to us

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Speaker 7: critics to have a broad ranging taste for a large readership.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not saying it has to be corrupt. I'm

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Speaker 2: just saying that there might be other reasons because of

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Speaker 2: a personal relationship with liking a certain actress, liking a

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Speaker 2: certain producer, you know, liking that person that much that

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Speaker 2: it kind of colors their the colors their review.

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Speaker 5: Oh, that is absolutely true. And this used to happen.

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Speaker 7: And he was a great critic, Ben Brantley, but he

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Speaker 7: would review, he would sort of write these love letters

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Speaker 7: to Starlits. So he would he loved Christian China with

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Speaker 7: and he would do the whole beginning of the review

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Speaker 7: like behold the goddess of the stage, Christian China, and

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Speaker 7: then towards the bottom he might say, well, the songs

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Speaker 7: weren't that good and the staging wasn't that good.

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Speaker 5: So that absolutely does happen. You're impacted by that.

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Speaker 6: That's so funny because whenever I used to read his reviews,

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Speaker 6: I'd go to the last paragraph and that was spistically what.

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Speaker 5: I got everything I needed right there.

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Speaker 3: That's so funny that you said that, because I always

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Speaker 3: did that.

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Speaker 5: That's what that's kind of.

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Speaker 7: That's sort of a critic secret if you if you

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Speaker 7: like it, you kind of bury the criticisms at the bottom,

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Speaker 7: if you.

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Speaker 2: Right. Let's talk about Sidney Sweety. We were just talking

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Speaker 2: about her a second ago, because she's getting hit with

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Speaker 2: questions as you he tries to promote this movie. She's

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Speaker 2: getting hit with questions about the jeens Ad, which seems

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Speaker 2: to be so unfair. How is Christy doing.

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Speaker 7: By the way, the jeans Ad that no one cares

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Speaker 7: about except the media. Nobody cares. It's an ad. I

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Speaker 7: don't know why my cohorts in the media are so

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Speaker 7: obsessed with talking about this ad and hammering home this ad.

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Speaker 5: The movie I like.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 7: I saw the movie at the Toronto Film Festival. I

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Speaker 7: thought it was really great. I think it's a big

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Speaker 7: step for her as an actress. Unfortunately, so people are

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Speaker 7: talking and I'm going, so it's one of the lowest

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Speaker 7: wide release opening weekends ever. It was like one point

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Speaker 7: three million across more than two thousand screens, which is very,

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Speaker 7: very bad.

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Speaker 5: It's not her fault. It's not the movie's fault.

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Speaker 7: If you go on Rotten Tomatoes it has with the

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Speaker 7: audience score, it's like a ninety six percent. So the

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Speaker 7: people that are going really really like it. It's just

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Speaker 7: this is a bad time for adult skewing movies. There's

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Speaker 7: that thing in people's head. Larry, I'm sure you say

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Speaker 7: it all the time, like I'll wait till it's on streaming.

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Speaker 7: It's the death knell for these kind of gems with

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Speaker 7: good acting. But now we expect to see movies like Christy,

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Speaker 7: which is a biopic of Christy Martin the Boxer. We

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Speaker 7: expect to see that on TV, not on the big screen.

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Speaker 7: So they wait and then the movie's tank.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it might do really well streaming, but people go

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Speaker 2: to the theaters now to see big events, something that

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Speaker 2: plays do a big screen. If not, why go You're

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Speaker 2: gonna see it anyway.

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Speaker 7: And I can't blame them in New York anyway, you're

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Speaker 7: spending sometimes thirty dollars to see a movie and that's

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Speaker 7: just the ticket.

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Speaker 5: Then you know, if you.

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Speaker 7: Take a date or your kids and you get popcorn

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Speaker 7: and drinks like somehow, you're down at one hundred and

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Speaker 7: fifty bucks just to watch a movie on a screen

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Speaker 7: that might not be as good as the one at home.

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Speaker 2: So Michael Jackson is the first artist to have a

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Speaker 2: top ten hit in all six decades, the last six decades.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is gosh. He's working so hard.

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Speaker 7: He's been dead sixteen years and yet just this week,

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Speaker 7: this week, he became the first artist to have a

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Speaker 7: top ten hit across six decks exsecutively. The previous was

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Speaker 7: five and it was someone I couldn't name. It wasn't

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Speaker 7: a big person, so uh. And the reason this happened,

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Speaker 7: so the song is Thriller. Thriller is now in the

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Speaker 7: Billboard Top ten again, and that's because the trailer for

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Speaker 7: the new biopick Michael, which is coming out next spring.

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Speaker 7: That came out and it was all set to thriller.

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Speaker 7: So now there's all these new fans watching this and

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Speaker 7: wanting to hear that song, which is pretty cool to me.

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Speaker 7: I still think that movie is kind of a pathetic

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Speaker 7: and awful thing that's not going to confront pedophilia. Not

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Speaker 7: that I want a movie about pedophilia, but I mean.

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Speaker 2: He was if you're gonna do a biopick on somebody.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I would say he was demonstrably a pedophile, and

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Speaker 7: now we're gonna have But hey, his song is back

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Speaker 7: in the top ten, which is kind of neat.

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Speaker 2: New York Post entertainment critic Johnny Olegzinski, if you have

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Speaker 2: Saturday Morning for this week. Thanks for listening, and thanks

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Speaker 2: to executive producer Natalie Vaka and producer Peter Iorlano for

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