Best Princeton Engineering Podcasts (2025)

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Frank Morano clobbers his competition on Staten Island. What happens if NJ transit engineers really walk? 40:56

9h ago40:56

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Frank Morano clobbers his competition on Staten Island. What happens if NJ transit engineers really walk? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ep 63: Khan Academy Founder/CEO on Salman Khan on Classrooms in 20 years, Rolling out to 1.4M Users & Sal’s Hopes for AI Education 50:53

1d ago50:53

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When Khan Academy launched Khanmigo, Salman Khan thought they might reach 100k users by 2025. Today, they’re at 1.4 million. 🎧 Sal joined us on Unsupervised Learning to talk about AI's role in education— from the vantage point of someone deploying it at scale. As founder of Khan Academy, he’s overseen the rollout of AI tools to over a million teach…

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New York lawmakers give the green light to a bell to bell classroom cell phone ban. What's up with those dropped off dogs in NJ? 42:15

1d ago42:15

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New York lawmakers give the green light to a bell to bell classroom cell phone ban. What's up with those dropped off dogs in NJ? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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The real cops are searching for a crew of fake ones. A mystery plays out in Manalapan. 41:45

2d ago41:45

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The real cops are searching for a crew of fake ones. A mystery plays out in Manalapan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Its a huge day for George Santos. Commuters are worried NJ Transit conductors will walk off the job. 41:57

5d ago41:57

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Its a huge day for George Santos. Commuters are worried NJ Transit conductors will walk off the job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Chaos at a NYC mayoral forum. The murder of a Harlem grandmother has neighbors outraged. Rockette tryouts are underway. 45:10

6d ago45:10

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Chaos at a NYC mayoral forum. The murder of a Harlem grandmother has neighbors outraged. Rockette tryouts are underway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves 55:51

6d ago55:51

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Ages before the dawn of modern medicine, wild animals were harnessing the power of nature’s pharmacy to heal themselves. In Doctors by Nature (Princeton UP, 2025), Dr. Jaap de Roode argues that we have underestimated the healing potential of nature for too long and shows how the study of self-medicating animals could impact the practice of human me…

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Thousands line up to say goodbye to Pope Francis. A Princeton University student goes missing. 39:55

7d ago39:55

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Thousands line up to say goodbye to Pope Francis. A Princeton University student goes missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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As Catholics mourn Pope Francis, Cardinals start looking around to see who will replace him. Street justice for an alleged rapist in the Bronx. 45:01

8d ago45:01

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As Catholics mourn Pope Francis, Cardinals start looking around to see who will replace him. Street justice for an alleged rapist in the Bronx. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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The pope passes away at 88. A gruesome find in a Bronx apartment. 44:32

9d ago44:32

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The pope passes away at 88. A gruesome find in a Bronx apartment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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The White House may come to the rescue at Penn Station. Moses is spotted celebrating Passover on the M train. 45:34

12d ago45:34

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The White House may come to the rescue at Penn Station. Moses is spotted celebrating Passover on the M train. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Will AI Agents Replace Your Entire Workforce in 2025? | CXOTalk #876 52:15

13d ago52:15

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Join this deep dive into Agentic AI with Phil Fersht of HFS Research on CXOTalk episode #876. Learn about the future of AI and how it impacts business strategies.🔔 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share for more thought-provoking conversations with top industry leaders. 🔷 Newsletter: www.cxotalk.com/subscribe 🔷 Read the summary and key points: …

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A violent night in the big city. Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a bad man? 48:54

13d ago48:54

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A violent night in the big city. Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia a bad man? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP) 41:46

13d ago41:46

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Back in 2021, John and Elizabeth sat down with Brandeis string theorist Albion Lawrence to discuss cooperation versus solitary study across disciplines. They sink their teeth into the question, “Why do scientists seem to do collaboration and teamwork better than other kinds of scholars and academics?” The conversation ranges from the merits of coll…

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Scientists Cooperate while Humanists Ruminate (EF, JP) 41:46

14d ago41:46

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Back in 2021, John and Elizabeth sat down with Brandeis string theorist Albion Lawrence to discuss cooperation versus solitary study across disciplines. They sink their teeth into the question, “Why do scientists seem to do collaboration and teamwork better than other kinds of scholars and academics?” The conversation ranges from the merits of coll…

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A Connecticut man held hostage in his home for decades speaks out. Look who is doing the turkey trot in midtown. 49:57

14d ago49:57

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A Connecticut man held hostage in his home for decades speaks out. Look who is doing the turkey trot in midtown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ian Boyd, "Science and Politics" (Polity, 2024) 1:11:14

15d ago1:11:14

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The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply “stick to the facts” and leave politics to the politicians when the world seems to be falling down around us? Drawing on his experience as both a research scientist and …

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Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:01:55

14d ago1:01:55

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What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on cognitive neuroscience, psychology and psycholinguistics, Writing for the Reader’s Brain (Cambridge University Press, 2025) provides a practical, how-to guide on how to write for your reader. It introd…

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Ep 62: CEO of Cohere Aidan Gomez on Scaling Limits Emerging, AI Use-cases with PMF & Life After Transformers 50:44

15d ago50:44

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Aidan joined this week’s Unsupervised Learning for a wide-ranging conversation on model architectures, enterprise adoption, and what’s breaking in the foundation model stack. If you’re building or investing in AI infrastructure, Aidan is worth listening to. He co-authored the original Transformer paper, leads one of the most advanced model labs out…

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Another Columbia student is locked up. Why wont leaders on Long Island lock up a dog that viciously attacked a young girl? 47:26

15d ago47:26

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Another Columbia student is locked up. Why wont leaders on Long Island lock up a dog that viciously attacked a young girl? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Family from Spain come to NYC to bring home the bodies of loved ones. The governor of Pennsylvania gets emotional talking about how his family escaped a fire. A pit bull attack shakes up a Long Island ... 43:34

16d ago43:34

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Family from Spain come to NYC to bring home the bodies of loved ones killed in the Hudson River helicopter crash. The governor of Pennsylvania gets emotional talking about how his family escaped a fire. A pit bull attack shakes up a Long Island neighborhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Why did that chopper fall out of the sky? The Chinese have hit back hard with a very tough tariff. Finally, a place to go when you need to go. 41:52

19d ago41:52

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Why did that chopper fall out of the sky? The Chinese have hit back hard with a very tough tariff. Finally, a place to go when you need to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Will the markets calm down amid the 90 day pause on tariffs? A brutal beatdown in Midtown in the middle of the day. The search is on for a body in the woods on Long Island. 43:26

20d ago43:26

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Will the markets calm down amid the 90 day pause on tariffs? A brutal beatdown in Midtown in the middle of the day. The search is on for a body in the woods on Long Island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ep 61: Redpoint’s AI Investors Break Down What Separates Enduring AI Companies from the Hype 43:28

21d ago43:28

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At Redpoint’s annual meeting with investors, Redpoint partners Scott Raney, Alex Bard, Patrick Chase and Jacob Effron shared unfiltered thoughts on some of the most topical questions in AI today, where value will accrue, which industries are best positioned for defensibility at the application layer, and more. (0:00) Intro (0:39) AI Investment Land…

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A 64-year-old Long Island man just found out he had the wrong parents. How will China respond to new crazy high tariffs? The Minecraft movie madness continues 44:36

21d ago44:36

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A 64-year-old Long Island man just found out he had the wrong parents. How will China respond to new crazy high tariffs? The Minecraft movie madness continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Has the MTA won it's congestion pricing battle with the White House? Teenagers are wrecking local movie theatres as they watch a Minecraft movie. A family in Philly had the strangest funeral. 45:46

22d ago45:46

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Has the MTA won it's congestion pricing battle with the White House? Teenagers are wrecking local movie theatres as they watch a Minecraft movie. A family in Philly had the strangest funeral. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Rebecca Heisman, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" (Harper, 2025) 41:59

23d ago41:59

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In Flight Paths (HarperCollins, 2023), Rebecca Heisman illuminates the stories and methods of the scientists who unlocked the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys. Flight Paths is the never-befo…

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AI Regulation & Innovation: Insights from the UK House of Lords | CXOTalk #875 57:06

23d ago57:06

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How do top policymakers balance fostering technological advancement with necessary oversight? Join Michael Krigsman as he speaks with Lord Chris Holmes and Lord Tim Clement-Jones, members of the UK House of Lords, for a deep dive into the critical intersection of technology policy, innovation, and public trust. In this conversation, explore: -- The…

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New Yorkers worry about what's coming in Wall Street. A man with a meat cleaver does damage in Brooklyn. Football is back, but the players look different. 43:26

23d ago43:26

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New Yorkers worry about what's coming in Wall Street. A man with a meat cleaver does damage in Brooklyn. Football is back, but the players look different. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Americans are feeling a little tariff terror. Two NYPD cops have a lot of explaining to do. A Newark high school student has an amazing journey that ends at Harvard. 42:16

26d ago42:16

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Americans are feeling a little tariff terror. Two NYPD cops have a lot of explaining to do. A Newark high school student has an amazing journey that ends at Harvard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Can Mayor Adams really win four more years? Tornadoes take down house after house in the mid west. What do you make of the new subway map? 43:28

27d ago43:28

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Can Mayor Adams really win four more years? Tornadoes take down house after house in the mid west. What do you make of the new subway map? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025) 43:50

28d ago43:50

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Today I’m speaking with Ciara Greene, co-author with Gillian Murphy of the new book, Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember (Princeton UP, 2025). Ciara is associate professor in the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, where she leads the Attention and Memory Laboratory. The scientific study of human memory has become e…

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Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025) 42:05

28d ago42:05

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Today I’m speaking with Ciara Greene, co-author with Gillian Murphy of the new book, Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember (Princeton UP, 2025). Ciara is associate professor in the School of Psychology at University College Dublin, where she leads the Attention and Memory Laboratory. The scientific study of human memory has become e…

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AI in Healthcare: Reality, ROI, and Patient Outcomes | CXOTalk #874 54:21

27d ago54:21

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What's genuinely working with AI in healthcare? Join Michael Krigsman with experts Dr. David Bray (Stimson Center), Teresa Carlson (General Catalyst Institute), and Dr. David Reich (Mount Sinai Health System) as they cut through the hype. Discover practical insights on: -- Integrating AI into clinical workflows -- Calculating the real ROI of AI inv…

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Is it really Liberation day? What was inside that house of horrors in Connecticut? Pickle lemonade is the hot new drink. 42:36

28d ago42:36

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Is it really Liberation day? What was inside that house of horrors in Connecticut? Pickle lemonade is the hot new drink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Where do I throw out chicken bones and fish scales now? Flames rip through a cat sanctuary on Long Island. Two NYPD cops are in hot water over a prostitute. 41:57

29d ago41:57

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Where do I throw out chicken bones and fish scales now? Flames rip through a cat sanctuary on Long Island. Two NYPD cops are in hot water over a prostitute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Tears for a Brooklyn family mowed down by woman who should have never been behind the wheel. The stock market is spooked by Liberation Day. The Working Families Party seems confused about how endorsements ... 42:46

1M ago42:46

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Tears for a Brooklyn family mowed down by woman who should have never been behind the wheel. The stock market is spooked by Liberation Day. The Working Families Party seems confused about how endorsements work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ep 60: Swyx and Alessio (Latent Space) on What has PMF Today, Google is Cooking & GPT Wrappers are Winning 1:01:30

1M ago1:01:30

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To unpack some of the most topical questions in AI, I’m joined by two fellow AI podcasters: Swyx and Alessio Fanelli, co-hosts of the Latent Space podcast. We’ve been wanting to do a cross-over episode for a while and finally made it happen. Swyx brings deep experience from his time at AWS, Temporal, and Airbyte, and is now focused on AI agents and…

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Cops in North Bergen say their chief is a freak. The family of a teen shot dead are speaking out. Neighbors in Brookhaven will do anything to help spring peepers. 44:18

1M ago44:18

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Cops in North Bergen say their chief is a freak. The family of a teen shot dead are speaking out. Neighbors in Brookhaven will do anything to help spring peepers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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The Signal chat scandal grows. Play Ball! The Mets and Yankees begin their quest for greatness. What the heck is happening in the North Bergen police department? 42:17

1M ago42:17

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The Signal chat scandal grows. Play Ball! The Mets and Yankees begin their quest for greatness. What the heck is happening in the North Bergen police department? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Who is telling the truth about the White House text scandal? A NYC funeral home has a lot of explaining to do. Why are seals hanging out on the sand in Coney Island? 45:27

1M ago45:27

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Who is telling the truth about the White House text scandal? A NYC funeral home has a lot of explaining to do. Why are seals hanging out on the sand in Coney Island? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Ep 59: OpenAI Product & Eng Leads Nikunj Handa and Steve Coffey on OpenAI’s New Agent Development Tools 44:37

1M ago44:37

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Two weeks ago, OpenAI released its set of tools to help developers build agentic systems. Today on Unsupervised Learning, Nikunj Handa (Product Lead) and Steve Coffey (Eng Lead) answer some of the biggest questions around how developers should be thinking about building in the agentic paradigm in 2025. (0:00) Intro (0:53) OpenAI’s Vision for Consum…

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Does Pete Hegseth have a texting problem? Mayor Adams says he is confident he will get four more years. Do you believe in finders keeper losers weepers? 41:04

1M ago41:04

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Does Pete Hegseth have a texting problem? Mayor Adams says he is confident he will get four more years. Do you believe in finders keeper losers weepers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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Andrew Cuomo finally shares the stage with his fellow mayoral wannabes. Cops have a murder mystery to solve in Queens. The Yankees have added a few things to the menu this season. 45:28

1M ago45:28

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Andrew Cuomo finally shares the stage with his fellow mayoral wannabes. Cops have a murder mystery to solve in Queens. The Yankees have added a few things to the menu this season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy 77 WABC

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