Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Couple Scales Empire State Building
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- 0:00Speaker 1: One.
- 0:00Speaker 2: I was six point seven light FM. Good morning, It's
- 0:02Speaker 2: Jack and Nina. We had some exciting times at the
- 0:05Speaker 2: Empire State yesterday. Somebody decided to get married or propose.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Has been nuts this week, so people thought it was oh,
- 0:14Speaker 1: was nuts protesters going up to the top of the
- 0:17Speaker 1: Empire State building yesterday. Turned out it was two people
- 0:21Speaker 1: who have been climbing buildings for a while. They were
- 0:23Speaker 1: profiled in a twenty twenty four Netflix documentary Skywalker's a
- 0:27Speaker 1: Love Story, so people must be familiar with them, Angela
- 0:30Speaker 1: and Angela Nikolau.
- 0:33Speaker 3: And Ivan Koonetskov. They got engaged.
- 0:36Speaker 1: He also unveiled unfurled a banner which was kind of
- 0:40Speaker 1: hard to read for a while, like get a better banner.
- 0:42Speaker 1: You've been up to these buildings enough.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of up there too.
- 0:44Speaker 3: It was from a.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Jimmy Hendrix song, It's when the power of love beats
- 0:47Speaker 1: the love of power, the world knows peace. One of
- 0:49Speaker 1: the fun things about it is since then people have
- 0:51Speaker 1: been meming other things on that banner, like City Island,
- 0:55Speaker 1: lobster House, They've got a thirty six ninety five special fire.
- 0:59Speaker 1: David Stern of the Mets. There's been a lot of
- 1:02Speaker 1: amusing stuff.
- 1:03Speaker 2: It might have been the real banner.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Actually, sure, hours everybody know how they got up there,
- 1:07Speaker 1: yet they just shimmyed past. I don't know how you
- 1:09Speaker 1: do it without people noticing, Right, they went up there
- 1:12Speaker 1: as tourists and then just kind of shimmyed past all
- 1:14Speaker 1: the fencing and stuff.
- 1:15Speaker 2: I guess.
- 1:16Speaker 1: Yeah, But they had to turn off the power because
- 1:19Speaker 1: they didn't want them to be electrocuted, which included our antenna.
- 1:22Speaker 2: So all of Iheart's stations.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Yeah, and as you were saying earlier, I think CBS
- 1:27Speaker 1: is up there too, so we went to our back
- 1:29Speaker 1: up antenna, which no one would you wouldn't hear.
- 1:30Speaker 3: It's a seamless transition.
- 1:32Speaker 1: But in the building they actually had to turn off
- 1:34Speaker 1: a bit of power for a while as well for
- 1:35Speaker 1: people who work at the World at the Empire State.
- 1:38Speaker 3: The elevators that I don't know.
- 1:40Speaker 1: I heard that people in there, you know, obviously had
- 1:44Speaker 1: to figure out how to get around without electricity for
- 1:46Speaker 1: a bit in some of the offices.
- 1:47Speaker 3: So it's funny.
- 1:49Speaker 2: I wonder if it was tourists to go, hey, look
- 1:50Speaker 2: there's people walking up there.
- 1:52Speaker 3: You can't even see it, though, could you know.
- 1:54Speaker 2: If you a little while, since I've been.
- 1:56Speaker 3: Up there, could you see from the deck?
- 1:58Speaker 1: You know?
- 1:59Speaker 2: You know what. I don't think I've ever looked up.
- 2:02Speaker 2: I look down, and then that's the last time I was.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Up there, and maybe that's how they were able to
- 2:06Speaker 1: get up because no one's looking up, you know, everybody's
- 2:08Speaker 1: looking down.
- 2:09Speaker 3: And could you do that?
- 2:12Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of heights, but there's nothing holding you
- 2:16Speaker 1: back from the wind.
- 2:17Speaker 2: I try to clean the gutters in our house once
- 2:19Speaker 2: and I froze. I was like, whoa, and we only
- 2:21Speaker 2: have one one story.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Well, you're tilted downwards on your roll forward.
- 2:26Speaker 2: I've gotten more fear of heights. My daughter loves it
- 2:29Speaker 2: when she takes me on the ferris wheel because I
- 2:31Speaker 2: get really old.
- 2:34Speaker 3: That's so sweet.