Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 3: Meta Settles Social Media Addiction Case
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, perhaps the biggest story and the longest running story
- 0:04Speaker 1: of the day, because it changes everything, is this settlement
- 0:08Speaker 1: with Meta that runs, of course, Facebook and others and Instagram.
- 0:14Speaker 1: And it has come to an agreement where it is
- 0:19Speaker 1: going to pay $ 17 billion and put in restrictions on
- 0:26Speaker 1: its sites. Because they are basically admitting, although they won't
- 0:31Speaker 1: say this, they are basically admitting that they have constructed
- 0:37Speaker 1: their products so they are addictive and damaging to children.
- 0:43Speaker 1: This is an amazing step forward. And the A lot
- 0:49Speaker 1: of states got involved in this, including New Jersey and
- 0:51Speaker 1: New York. As a matter of fact, 48 states were
- 0:53Speaker 1: involved in this, 51 if you include all the territories
- 0:56Speaker 1: that were involved in as well. But the lead was
- 1:01Speaker 1: the DA in California.
- 1:03Speaker 2: This is a major breakthrough, a milestone moment, a watershed moment,
- 1:08Speaker 2: because when it comes to protecting our children's mental health,
- 1:12Speaker 2: there is no time to lose. Instead of getting tied
- 1:15Speaker 2: up in years of trials and appeals... We have secured
- 1:18Speaker 2: the changes we were after.
- 1:21Speaker 1: I call him a DA. He's the Attorney General of California.
- 1:25Speaker 1: His name is Rob Bonta. And a big credit to
- 1:28Speaker 1: him because they ran the case out there because that
- 1:31Speaker 1: is where Meta is headquartered. Let me give you some
- 1:34Speaker 1: of the things that this is going to mean. There's
- 1:36Speaker 1: going to be a daily usage cap, setting a two-hour
- 1:40Speaker 1: daily limit that requires parental permission to disable parents. So
- 1:45Speaker 1: that's going to be automatic. Once they get the age
- 1:47Speaker 1: of a child or once a parent wants that, then
- 1:50Speaker 1: they're going to have this two-hour limit. Overnight curfews from
- 1:55Speaker 1: midnight to 6 a.m. No child will be able to
- 1:59Speaker 1: get on any Metaproduct. It has curbs too, hiding counts,
- 2:04Speaker 1: reducing notifications, and removing extreme makeup filters so that these
- 2:10Speaker 1: little girls can look like adult girls. verification, implementing stricter
- 2:17Speaker 1: age checking tools. And so it is a, it is
- 2:22Speaker 1: a sweeping reform. Does more have to be done? Yes.
- 2:27Speaker 1: But think about this. Now that this has happened, now
- 2:31Speaker 1: that they have admitted that their product is addictive and
- 2:34Speaker 1: especially addictive to young children and that it has done
- 2:38Speaker 1: them harm, although they haven't come out and said that,
- 2:42Speaker 1: I mean, They are now saying, we don't want any
- 2:44Speaker 1: culpability on this. I get that, but you don't give
- 2:48Speaker 1: up $ 17 billion and change your product completely without some
- 2:53Speaker 1: type of admission. This means that all of the other
- 2:57Speaker 1: social media platforms are now on notice. And they have
- 3:01Speaker 1: a choice. Are they going to make these changes now,
- 3:05Speaker 1: ahead of potential lawsuits, now that you have precedent? Or
- 3:10Speaker 1: are they going to try to fight this? My feeling
- 3:13Speaker 1: is everybody's going to fall in line.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Yeah. And there are others waiting to see what the
- 3:18Speaker 3: Zuck would do. Zuckerberg made a decision to go into
- 3:23Speaker 3: court and actually be willing to testify against And I
- 3:27Speaker 3: think after they just spent $ 2 billion in one quarter
- 3:31Speaker 3: on legal fees alone, because, you know.
- 3:33Speaker 4: The ones who make money on this are the lawyers.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Imagine, in one quarter alone, that's three months, Mehta was
- 3:41Speaker 3: billed $ 2 billion in legal fees, and then they told him, Zuck,
- 3:46Speaker 3: you're going to get on the stand, and they are
- 3:49Speaker 3: going to report interviews that you've done about your own
- 3:52Speaker 3: two children.
- 3:53Speaker 4: He has two children now.
- 3:55Speaker 3: That you would not allow your children to use social
- 3:58Speaker 3: media because it's bad for them.
- 4:00Speaker 4: And then your number one investor.
- 4:02Speaker 3: Who really helped make Facebook now meta was Peter Thiel,
- 4:06Speaker 3: who has left the country. He's into this whole antichrist thing.
- 4:10Speaker 3: He's living in Argentina now with his husband and his children.
- 4:14Speaker 3: Peter Thiel limited his kids to an hour and a
- 4:18Speaker 3: half a week. Tim Cook would not let his nephew
- 4:24Speaker 3: on social media. And even Bill Gates would not get
- 4:29Speaker 3: his children a cell phone until they were 14. Wouldn't
- 4:32Speaker 3: even allow them access. So they were going to use
- 4:34Speaker 3: all this information. It's sort of like, do as I say,
- 4:37Speaker 3: but not as I do.
- 4:37Speaker 1: They knew the problems ahead of time. But you know
- 4:41Speaker 1: who the real heroes are in this whole thing? Are
- 4:44Speaker 1: all of the whistleblowers from Meta that came forward. They're
- 4:47Speaker 1: the ones that changed that case. Whistleblowers and former employees testified,
- 4:52Speaker 1: for instance, that Meta held internal data proving that Facebook
- 5:00Speaker 1: and Instagram harmed young children but hid those findings from
- 5:05Speaker 1: the public and even internal staff. They had a former
- 5:09Speaker 1: safety researcher. Arturo Behar, who testified that design elements like
- 5:15Speaker 1: infinite scrolling and autoplay and default popularity counters were prioritized
- 5:22Speaker 1: to boost engagement rather than protect kids. And witnesses came
- 5:27Speaker 1: forward claiming CEO Mark Zuckerberg chose a don't ask, don't
- 5:34Speaker 1: tell approach and ignored internal warnings whatsoever. about critical safety
- 5:38Speaker 1: gaps while publicly claiming safety was his top priority when
- 5:44Speaker 1: he ignored safety completely. So all of that, Curtis, culminated
- 5:50Speaker 1: in a $ 17 billion settlement. And I'm going to give
- 5:53Speaker 1: you a lot of credit because you said the worst
- 5:56Speaker 1: witness in the world would be the personality failure laden
- 6:01Speaker 1: CEO Mark Zuckerberg in testifying because he was awful on
- 6:07Speaker 1: the stand but you know what was brilliant they let
- 6:10Speaker 1: him get up and say all these things and then
- 6:13Speaker 1: they had all of these witnesses coming up afterwards all
- 6:17Speaker 1: these whistleblowers saying that was a lie that was a
- 6:20Speaker 1: lie that was a lie that was a lie and
- 6:23Speaker 1: you know what they had they had proof they had memos.
- 6:26Speaker 3: Yeah and the other thing was Meta through Zuckerberg, kept saying,
- 6:31Speaker 3: we can't be held responsible for what users post. Yes,
- 6:36Speaker 3: you can by monitoring what they post, but it costs
- 6:40Speaker 3: money to do that. You see, I don't know how
- 6:43Speaker 3: many times people have tried to get in touch with
- 6:46Speaker 3: these social networking companies. It's like dealing with the Wizard
- 6:50Speaker 3: of Oz. You never get a person on the phone.
- 6:53Speaker 3: You have to send an email. Maybe somebody gets back
- 6:55Speaker 3: to you. So even if you're complaining, you don't know
- 6:58Speaker 3: if this is just going into this vast sort of
- 7:02Speaker 3: chamber where nobody ever gets answers. He clearly knew this
- 7:06Speaker 3: was a problem. He was making a lot of money
- 7:09Speaker 3: at that time. The investors like Peter Thiel and others
- 7:12Speaker 3: knew it, but they would just be. billions and billions
- 7:16Speaker 3: and billions and who cares?
- 7:18Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 7:18Speaker 1: We all assume that in the past. Now we know
- 7:21Speaker 1: it for a fact. Well, now we know that there
- 7:23Speaker 1: was internal documents saying that, that they ignored and they
- 7:27Speaker 1: told everybody to ignore them. Curtis, I can't tell you
- 7:32Speaker 1: how big this ruling is. This changes everything.
- 7:36Speaker 4: Absolutely. But I need you to do a deep dive.
- 7:39Speaker 3: We don't have time to do this story today because,
- 7:41Speaker 3: But apparently a bunch of towns in New Jersey that
- 7:44Speaker 3: got a payout from the opioid settlement, you know, from
- 7:47Speaker 3: that private company that was pushing those opioids, have spent
- 7:52Speaker 3: the money on all the wrong things. Now, the payouts
- 7:55Speaker 3: are going to take place, as you pointed out, $ 17 billion.
- 7:59Speaker 3: And that doesn't even account yet for what TikTok has
- 8:02Speaker 3: to do, Snapchat. They were all waiting for Meta first
- 8:06Speaker 3: because they're going to come in and settle. It's got
- 8:08Speaker 3: to be a way. Like, we're getting a billion in
- 8:11Speaker 3: New York State. How is that money going to be spent?
- 8:13Speaker 4: Is it going to be.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Spent to protect children or help children who have mental
- 8:18Speaker 3: health issues as a result of this addiction, which it is?
- 8:21Speaker 4: Look, I'm addicted to it. I see all of a
- 8:24Speaker 4: sudden a scroll. I'm on a scroll. An hour later,
- 8:27Speaker 4: I'm still on the freaking scroll. I'm saying, I got
- 8:30Speaker 4: other things to do.
- 8:32Speaker 6: Oh, Curtis?
- 8:33Speaker 5: Yes.
- 8:33Speaker 7: You're 100% right.
- 8:35Speaker 8: It is not just kids that get addicted. I see adults, seniors,
- 8:39Speaker 8: scrolling all the time.
- 8:41Speaker 1: But the great harm is to kids.
- 8:45Speaker 4: Oh, well, of course.
- 8:46Speaker 7: But it is an addiction to everybody.
- 8:49Speaker 3: And the fact is that I'm happy it was Zuckerberg
- 8:54Speaker 3: because he was always so righteous. Uh, you know, he
- 8:58Speaker 3: would act like there was nothing wrong with his stuff,
- 9:01Speaker 3: but when they uncovered all of this in depositions and
- 9:04Speaker 3: in deep research, you know, e-attorneys did whistleblowers, right? This
- 9:08Speaker 3: is what you said. You won't even let your kids
- 9:11Speaker 3: anywhere near your own product.
- 9:12Speaker 4: How many times? It's like the AI data filing centers.
- 9:16Speaker 3: If you were to ask the proponents, would you want
- 9:18Speaker 3: your home right next to an AI data filing center?
- 9:21Speaker 4: Of course not.
- 9:22Speaker 3: Would you want your children or grandchildren to use your
- 9:25Speaker 3: social media products?
- 9:27Speaker 4: Of course not.
- 9:28Speaker 3: But it's good enough for the rest of the general public.
- 9:30Speaker 3: There's not a jury you're going to be able to
- 9:32Speaker 3: convince after that.
- 9:33Speaker 1: Well, the worst thing is that they lied. They lied
- 9:37Speaker 1: and they lied and they lied and they lied and
- 9:40Speaker 1: they knew the truth. And so my fear is that
- 9:45Speaker 1: all of these other companies, that X and all the
- 9:49Speaker 1: other social media sites, Twitch and whatever, all of them,
- 9:52Speaker 1: I don't know them all, but all of them are
- 9:55Speaker 1: going to try to make some changes really quickly so
- 9:58Speaker 1: they don't run into this too.
- 9:59Speaker 3: Well, this is the biggest question i have uh they
- 10:03Speaker 3: want age proof we all know we lied about our
- 10:07Speaker 3: age to get cigarettes booze beer you know there are
- 10:11Speaker 3: different routes it's more difficult than if you just go
- 10:14Speaker 3: in and use the product But how are they going
- 10:16Speaker 3: to guarantee? Because kids are going to figure it out
- 10:20Speaker 3: faster than the adults. I know my three sons. They
- 10:23Speaker 3: run circles around me when it comes to social networking. Look,
- 10:26Speaker 3: I'm a Luddite compared to them. Some of these kids
- 10:29Speaker 3: are going to figure out how to get around these firewalls.
- 10:34Speaker 1: But they've done nothing. So doing something is what is
- 10:37Speaker 1: important right now. Let's take this as baby steps. I
- 10:41Speaker 1: want to look at this. I want to look at
- 10:43Speaker 1: this agreement, too, because if it precludes lawsuits from people
- 10:48Speaker 1: who were harmed by this, children that committed suicide across
- 10:52Speaker 1: the country, then I damn this agreement because they deserve
- 10:57Speaker 1: to be heard.
- 10:57Speaker 4: I don't think so.
- 10:58Speaker 1: And they deserve their day in court. I want to
- 10:59Speaker 1: take a look at it. I think you're right.
- 11:01Speaker 3: And also I think Florida, to their credit, although I
- 11:05Speaker 3: want to do a deeper dive on that for tomorrow's program,
- 11:09Speaker 3: I think Florida has been the lone wolf to say
- 11:11Speaker 3: that's good that they settled, but we're not settling. We're
- 11:15Speaker 3: going into court. And you know Florida has led on
- 11:18Speaker 3: a lot of these things. To DeSantis' credit, along with
- 11:21Speaker 3: his attorney general, they've been in the forefront of this.
- 11:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to take a deeper dive into it.
- 11:26Speaker 1: But right now, it's all good and it changes everything.
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- 13:32Speaker 1: ready when it counts. Harry Styles started his 40-night residency
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- 13:42Speaker 5: Just 30.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Just 30. I'm sorry. I'm looking at an article that
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- 14:00Speaker 1: Love You. There were images of Dolly Parton playing. And
- 14:04Speaker 1: he opened up for that by saying, we've got a
- 14:07Speaker 1: couple of songs left for you, but I first want
- 14:10Speaker 1: to say a proper thank you to all musicians over
- 14:14Speaker 1: the years who have inspired me. And then he paused
- 14:18Speaker 1: and he said, Dolly, we love you. Thank you so much.
- 14:23Speaker 1: And then went into the song, I Will Always Love
- 14:25Speaker 1: You with images of Dolly Parton. That's wonderful. And they
- 14:29Speaker 1: said there was people in the crowd, including Drew Barrymore,
- 14:33Speaker 1: that was crying when that happened. So what an incredible moment.
- 14:39Speaker 1: And it makes you like Harry Styles a little bit more.
- 14:41Speaker 1: But you and your family, Natalie, don't need any prompting
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- 14:46Speaker 7: No, no, no. We are a Harry Styles family.
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- 14:51Speaker 8: was 11 and 12.
- 14:53Speaker 7: Harry was always her guy because they have the same birthday.
- 14:56Speaker 7: So that was her thing. And, yeah, and then he
- 14:59Speaker 7: became a megastar.
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- 15:12Speaker 3: doing a residency at a hospital.
- 15:14Speaker 4: What is a residency?
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- 15:35Speaker 7: Okay, we're right here. But how about if you live
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- 15:47Speaker 1: Well, as famous as Madison Square Garden, it's Las Vegas
- 15:50Speaker 1: where they do the residencies too. Yeah, yeah, no. It's
- 15:54Speaker 1: a big deal.
- 15:54Speaker 4: They do them all over.
- 15:56Speaker 7: You know, any venue can do a residency. He just
- 15:58Speaker 7: had a whole bunch in Europe.
- 15:59Speaker 4: Well, let's cut to the chase.
- 16:00Speaker 3: How many concerts will your daughter be going to of
- 16:04Speaker 3: the 30 that are scheduled for Madison Square Garden?
- 16:07Speaker 7: Well, she's going Friday. She's going to the very last
- 16:10Speaker 7: one on Halloween. And maybe a few in between.
- 16:13Speaker 1: She doesn't want to out her daughter. Let's get to
- 16:18Speaker 1: some talkbacks. We were just talking about the meta thing.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Conclusion of the trial with Meta, taking some accountability.
- 16:27Speaker 9: About Meta, to be honest with you, I'm a technician,
- 16:30Speaker 9: and though Meta, in my opinion, has no fault in this,
- 16:35Speaker 9: I fault the parents. I've seen parents give these kids
- 16:41Speaker 9: a phone when they're not old enough to understand the consequences.
- 16:46Speaker 9: It's like giving a young person the keys to his car.
- 16:51Speaker 9: They have no idea of the dangers.
- 16:54Speaker 5: So I blame the parents.
- 16:55Speaker 1: It's not an either-or thing. Yes, the parents do hold
- 17:00Speaker 1: some accountability, but META just basically said, yes, they were
- 17:04Speaker 1: manipulating this to be more addictive. And that's downright dangerous.
- 17:10Speaker 6: I wish I could share your optimism with this META lawsuit,
- 17:13Speaker 6: but META won. They make over a billion dollars every
- 17:16Speaker 6: two days. So you're talking less than a month they
- 17:19Speaker 6: cover this expenses. This agreement is now in effect. The
- 17:22Speaker 6: states can no longer do anything. They can't resue them.
- 17:26Speaker 6: They put in a few restrictions and that's it.
- 17:28Speaker 5: And they move on. I think Meta ended up winning this.
- 17:32Speaker 6: So it's great. We got some restrictions, but it's nothing
- 17:34Speaker 6: and there's nothing more they can do.
- 17:35Speaker 5: And it costs them nothing.
- 17:37Speaker 4: Yeah, I disagree.
- 17:38Speaker 3: First off, there are a number of wrongful death cases
- 17:41Speaker 3: out there that are not at all covered by this
- 17:43Speaker 3: or wrongful injury cases.
- 17:46Speaker 4: So this is just the first wave. for Zuckerberg.
- 17:50Speaker 3: And remember, this is the guy who painted himself as
- 17:53Speaker 3: the defenders of the AI data centers. Could you have
- 17:58Speaker 3: a worse spokesperson now after this, where he admitted, yeah,
- 18:02Speaker 3: we took advantage of your kids. We took advantage of
- 18:05Speaker 3: your kids. How do you blame the parents for something
- 18:08Speaker 3: like that? Now, Daria Albinger with the 830 News.
- 18:11Speaker 1: Morning, Larry.
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- 22:45Speaker 1: on Amazon. Wow, does this mayor do anything right? Zoran Mamdani,
- 22:49Speaker 1: every time he tries to roll out a new policy
- 22:52Speaker 1: that he promised when he was running for office, it constantly,
- 22:56Speaker 1: over and over, has been backfiring on him. Nothing was
- 23:00Speaker 1: worse than then during the storms when he wouldn't bring
- 23:02Speaker 1: the homeless off the streets and 22 died. But since then,
- 23:06Speaker 1: it's been issue and issue and issue and issue. And
- 23:09Speaker 1: now we have the Pierre Duterte tax. So the Pierre
- 23:12Speaker 1: Duterte tax is a tax on second homes. It's supposed
- 23:16Speaker 1: to go after the rich. Because remember, he promised he
- 23:18Speaker 1: was going to tax the rich. And when Kathy Hochul said, no, no, no,
- 23:22Speaker 1: I'm not going to put an individual tax on the rich.
- 23:26Speaker 1: I'm not going to put an individual tax on businesses.
- 23:29Speaker 1: I'm running for reelection. So they came up with this
- 23:32Speaker 1: pied-a-terre tax. So allegedly just going after the rich. And first,
- 23:38Speaker 1: when they put out a list of all the people
- 23:40Speaker 1: in New York that would have to pay this extra
- 23:42Speaker 1: property tax, it had 900,000 names. That was the first mistake.
- 23:48Speaker 1: They quickly fixed that one, I understand. Then it was
- 23:51Speaker 1: 17,000 names. And quickly, everybody was doing stories about people
- 23:58Speaker 1: that were on the list that shouldn't be on the list.
- 24:00Speaker 1: Some of them lived in that home. Some of it
- 24:02Speaker 1: was a second home. It didn't cost that much. Some
- 24:05Speaker 1: of it was their family living in that home, and
- 24:08Speaker 1: they just happened to have the same name. Mistake after
- 24:11Speaker 1: mistake after mistake after mistake. And now another list has
- 24:15Speaker 1: been put out. With only 10,000 names. And Zorah Mamdani
- 24:21Speaker 1: has been asked about it. He was holding a press
- 24:23Speaker 1: conference yesterday, and of course it came up from the media,
- 24:26Speaker 1: who was reluctant to bring up these things too much.
- 24:29Speaker 1: But they brought it up yesterday, and he had an
- 24:32Speaker 1: incredibly bogus excuse for it.
- 24:36Speaker 13: We did not have access to the 2025 income tax filings.
- 24:40Speaker 13: That is something that is typically released in February of
- 24:43Speaker 13: the next calendar year. The state has now provided us
- 24:45Speaker 13: with early access to those filings.
- 24:47Speaker 1: He never requested those filings, never once requested them. His
- 24:54Speaker 1: request was dated August 12th after this already happened. I mean, look,
- 24:59Speaker 1: the The guy is a great politician. He's got a
- 25:04Speaker 1: nice smile. He handles the media beautifully. I get all
- 25:08Speaker 1: of that, but it's vacuous underneath. He can't do these
- 25:13Speaker 1: things he claims he's going to do. So a new
- 25:16Speaker 1: list is put out. It's 10,000. So one third of
- 25:19Speaker 1: the people are taken off. And now there is a lawsuit.
- 25:23Speaker 1: There is a lawsuit from residents. There's a lawsuit from
- 25:27Speaker 1: Stephen Fulop, who represents businesses. You're getting very little amount
- 25:31Speaker 1: of money for a budget that is massive, but you're
- 25:35Speaker 1: putting a lot of pain into this narrative here on
- 25:39Speaker 1: how you treat the business community or successful people.
- 25:41Speaker 5: Is it worth it?
- 25:42Speaker 3: I would say the answer is no.
- 25:44Speaker 1: It keeps going down, the amount of money they're going
- 25:46Speaker 1: to get from this. First, with all the people on that,
- 25:49Speaker 1: it was $ 1. 5 billion with $ 900, 000. Then when it was $ 17, 000,
- 25:52Speaker 1: it was $ 500 million. Now, with another reduction, it's down
- 25:58Speaker 1: to about $ 300 million, and that's going to keep winnowing down.
- 26:03Speaker 1: This is not what he promised. It's not what he
- 26:06Speaker 1: talked about during the campaign. And once again, we have
- 26:10Speaker 1: failure after failure after failure after failure. And will it
- 26:15Speaker 1: ever happen? We'll see. There is a lawsuit in court
- 26:19Speaker 1: right now. And my guess is this Pierre de Taylor
- 26:22Speaker 1: tax may never happen.
- 26:23Speaker 4: Oh, it'll happen. And by the way.
- 26:25Speaker 1: Why do you say that?
- 26:26Speaker 3: The average New Yorker doesn't care, Larry, that the rich
- 26:29Speaker 3: have to pay a second tax. You really think that
- 26:31Speaker 3: this is the talk of the town?
- 26:33Speaker 1: Yes, I do.
- 26:34Speaker 4: No, you couldn't be more hopelessly wrong.
- 26:36Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm not, because it just seems like everybody
- 26:40Speaker 1: is talking about it.
- 26:40Speaker 4: And can't even pronounce it.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Pierre Duterte.
- 26:42Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't even know what the hell that is.
- 26:44Speaker 5: Come on, Larry.
- 26:45Speaker 1: They know it's a tax. They know it's another failure.
- 26:48Speaker 1: They know he can't get anything done. And they know
- 26:51Speaker 1: that he once again has failed. And he was unfairly
- 26:54Speaker 1: trying to tax people.
- 26:55Speaker 3: Let's look at the guy that got all upset that
- 26:58Speaker 3: John was outside of his penthouse, Ken Griffin. I'm not
- 27:02Speaker 3: going to do business in New York. I'm taking everything
- 27:05Speaker 3: down to Miami.
- 27:06Speaker 4: Guess what? He's doing business in New York. This is
- 27:09Speaker 4: a no issue to average working class people, Larry.
- 27:12Speaker 1: Did you see all the people that got notices? They
- 27:14Speaker 1: were working class people. Did you see how many were
- 27:17Speaker 1: going to have to pay this tax? No, it was
- 27:20Speaker 1: a bigger deal. Look, you defend this guy all the time.
- 27:22Speaker 4: I'm not defending him.
- 27:23Speaker 1: You do.
- 27:24Speaker 4: You attack him on everything. And guess what? In the polls,
- 27:26Speaker 4: he's at 69%. Oh, I know that. No mayor has
- 27:29Speaker 4: ever been at 69%.
- 27:30Speaker 1: What does that mean, though, exactly? Does that mean he's
- 27:33Speaker 1: doing a good job?
- 27:33Speaker 4: What that means is you hit him on everything.
- 27:35Speaker 3: Hold your powder dry until next year when the money
- 27:38Speaker 3: drives out and he's got to cut, cut, cut.
- 27:39Speaker 1: So we're supposed to ignore everything he does?
- 27:41Speaker 9: No.
- 27:41Speaker 1: Do you like to do that?
- 27:43Speaker 4: I don't like to do that.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Every mistake, we have to pile up.
- 27:46Speaker 3: Keep screaming and screaming. And guess what? Next year is
- 27:50Speaker 3: when Doomsday hits. Then all of a sudden you go
- 27:54Speaker 3: at the guy because you'll have something of substance.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Why does that make sense to you that you don't
- 27:59Speaker 1: criticize them ever except for a certain date? That makes
- 28:02Speaker 1: no sense.
- 28:03Speaker 3: Larry, I'm out in the streets and subways every day.
- 28:06Speaker 3: So I haven't run into one person who can even
- 28:09Speaker 3: pronounce this damn thing.
- 28:11Speaker 4: And secondary, who is opposed to taxing the rich?
- 28:14Speaker 1: Yeah, you've seen newscast, right? You've seen newscasts. You've heard
- 28:18Speaker 1: other talk radio shows. You know that everybody is talking
- 28:21Speaker 1: about this and the fact that it's another failure. You
- 28:24Speaker 1: just don't want to talk about it. That's the difference.
- 28:26Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, no.
- 28:26Speaker 4: I'll talk about it.
- 28:28Speaker 1: Because the people on the subway don't.
- 28:29Speaker 4: I'm going to keep... People in the subway, four million
- 28:32Speaker 4: a day. Do you bring it up? Four million.
- 28:35Speaker 3: No.
- 28:35Speaker 4: Do you bring it up?
- 28:35Speaker 1: Of course you don't. So how are they going to
- 28:37Speaker 1: bring it up?
- 28:38Speaker 3: Not one freaking person can even pronounce this, Larry.
- 28:42Speaker 4: Come down in the subways with me.
- 28:44Speaker 3: They're interested in the rats, the garbage, the homeless people,
- 28:48Speaker 3: the emotionally disturbed people, the floods.
- 28:52Speaker 5: Come on.
- 28:53Speaker 1: So they're the only things that matter in this city.
- 28:55Speaker 4: Exactly. Because that's what you got to do. There's going
- 28:58Speaker 4: to be floods today.
- 28:59Speaker 3: You think the people are worried about, oh, is somebody
- 29:02Speaker 3: going to pay a tax on a second home? Or
- 29:05Speaker 3: my house is going to be flooded today and my
- 29:07Speaker 3: insurance doesn't cover it.
- 29:08Speaker 1: You don't think failure after failure after failure after failure
- 29:11Speaker 1: is a big deal for a mayor who promised the
- 29:13Speaker 1: world and we fell for it.
- 29:15Speaker 3: Larry, 69%.
- 29:16Speaker 4: Knock yourself out.
- 29:18Speaker 1: You in the polls, man. Wait till next year.
- 29:21Speaker 4: Keep your powder dry.
- 29:23Speaker 1: If you were to rate everything by polls, we'd have
- 29:27Speaker 1: some huge problems in this country. And not talking about
- 29:31Speaker 1: it is the worst thing you can possibly do. It's
- 29:35Speaker 1: not very wise. When we come back.
- 29:39Speaker 9: Oh.
- 29:40Speaker 1: There's going to be a blood moon tonight and some
- 29:43Speaker 1: other things going on in the air. Is it really
- 29:46Speaker 1: going to happen? Is it really going to happen this time?
- 29:49Speaker 1: We'll talk about it next. Ah, oh, excuse me. Excuse me.
- 29:54Speaker 1: I was thinking about... The flood that's coming.
- 29:58Speaker 3: By the way, real quick, Natalie, it's already rumbling out there, right?
- 30:01Speaker 4: Yeah. Yes.
- 30:03Speaker 7: Rain, lots of thunder for the past hour.
- 30:06Speaker 3: Hunker down. There's more floods expected, ladies and gentlemen. Fill
- 30:09Speaker 3: the sandbags. But for yourself, prevent what's taking place, whether
- 30:14Speaker 3: it's rain, snow, sleet, or shine. And that is people
- 30:18Speaker 3: are getting your personal information. Yeah, data brokers.
- 30:21Speaker 4: It's legal. People search sites.
- 30:23Speaker 3: And sometimes you wonder all of a sudden, man, I'm
- 30:26Speaker 3: getting spammed on my phone.
- 30:29Speaker 4: Morning, noon, and night.
- 30:31Speaker 3: And I'm not the youth can be limited to the
- 30:33Speaker 3: number of times you spam me at two or three
- 30:35Speaker 3: in the morning, right? That's not covered by meta. Ladies
- 30:39Speaker 3: and gentlemen, believe it or not, it's legal for them
- 30:42Speaker 3: to collect all your information, bundle it up, and sell it.
- 30:45Speaker 3: And they don't care who they sell it to. And
- 30:48Speaker 3: people like yourself, you wonder, my God, I got grandparents
- 30:52Speaker 3: and parents who are being taken advantage of. That's why
- 30:56Speaker 3: you got to put up that firewall. I've done it
- 30:58Speaker 3: with incognito. Sure, I'm a well-known person. Okay, a lot
- 31:02Speaker 3: of people are going to come at me. They might
- 31:03Speaker 3: not come at you, but they don't care. All they
- 31:05Speaker 3: got to do, if they got a thousand victims, one
- 31:09Speaker 3: of them is going to go for it, and then
- 31:10Speaker 3: it's a payday. So if you get Incogni, I-N-C-O-G-N-I, it
- 31:15Speaker 3: forces data brokers and people search sites to delete you.
- 31:18Speaker 3: Then it keeps checking up on them because they're not
- 31:20Speaker 3: naive enough to believe that they don't have to do whack-a-mole.
- 31:23Speaker 3: And they'll scrub your information from their sites. You lock
- 31:27Speaker 3: your doors every night. Tonight, lock down your address. Go
- 31:30Speaker 3: to incogni.com slash Curtis. For 60% off. And don't keep
- 31:35Speaker 3: it to yourself. Share it with friends and relatives and
- 31:38Speaker 3: everyone else who is being disturbed morning, noon, and night
- 31:42Speaker 3: with information that they're wondering, how the hell did they
- 31:44Speaker 3: ever get their hands on it? That's INCOGNI.com slash Curtis. God,
- 31:49Speaker 3: I just heard Ray staging. Does this mean Natalie's got
- 31:52Speaker 3: to fill up the sandbags again and everyone else has
- 31:55Speaker 3: to hunker down in New York City more?
- 31:58Speaker 4: Yeah, seriously.
- 31:59Speaker 1: I mean, I don't remember a time, and I'm sure
- 32:03Speaker 1: there's some people out there that do, but this is
- 32:06Speaker 1: going to go well above the annual rate for rainfall.
- 32:10Speaker 1: Well above now. And it's still, you know, we still
- 32:12Speaker 1: got months to go. So it's just been, well, you've
- 32:17Speaker 1: had to live through it, Natalie, storm after storm after storm.
- 32:20Speaker 8: Yeah, it's, I feel like, it feels like Florida, where
- 32:24Speaker 8: you just get these drenching rains everywhere.
- 32:27Speaker 7: I mean, you know, raining all day, that happens. But
- 32:31Speaker 7: it's been continuous.
- 32:32Speaker 8: But I did look at Ray's forecast for the weekend,
- 32:36Speaker 8: and it's looking beautiful.
- 32:39Speaker 7: If we have to take this.
- 32:40Speaker 3: Tonight, unfortunately, my wife will not stay in the house
- 32:45Speaker 3: with inclement weather. She is going to be at 12,
- 32:49Speaker 3: 12 a.m. Friday, howling at the blood moon tonight. that
- 32:54Speaker 3: some people will be able to see, I guess if
- 32:56Speaker 3: you had a periscope or some kind of telescope, but
- 32:59Speaker 3: There should be cloud cover. And what else are they
- 33:03Speaker 3: supposed to look at? About 3 o'clock in the morning,
- 33:06Speaker 3: there's like a three-hour span where people will be out
- 33:09Speaker 3: there staring up into space.
- 33:11Speaker 4: What are they looking for, Larry?
- 33:12Speaker 1: Let's start this at 923. That's when the moon first
- 33:16Speaker 1: enters the outer part of the Earth's shadow. And then
- 33:19Speaker 1: the real action gets underway at 1033 when the Earth's
- 33:23Speaker 1: shadow starts to envelop the lunar surface surface. appearing to
- 33:28Speaker 1: take a bite out of the lunar disk. And this
- 33:30Speaker 1: is when you're going to get that red moon as well.
- 33:33Speaker 1: The eclipse will peak at 12 minutes after midnight with
- 33:37Speaker 1: more than 96% of the lunar surface shrouded. And then
- 33:42Speaker 1: it will all end at about three in the morning
- 33:46Speaker 1: when the moon exits the outer edge of Earth's shadow.
- 33:50Speaker 1: So if he can stay up for that, it's going
- 33:52Speaker 1: to be quite a show. I think seeing the blood
- 33:55Speaker 1: moon and then seeing the total eclipse would be the
- 33:57Speaker 1: coolest things. And then you can go to bed after midnight.
- 33:59Speaker 3: You know who's seeing blood? And he's demanded that the
- 34:02Speaker 3: CEO of the flock cameras... be in the Senate for
- 34:08Speaker 3: a hearing. I want all the data Howley of Missouri
- 34:11Speaker 3: says on September 8th. As this battle continues and the
- 34:16Speaker 3: CEO is saying, let's compromise.
- 34:19Speaker 4: Time out. No mas, no mas. Let's compromise this. This
- 34:22Speaker 4: sweeps the nation.
- 34:23Speaker 3: And you brought it to our attention, the flock cameras, remember,
- 34:26Speaker 3: when it was being debated in Hartford in Connecticut.
- 34:28Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll tell you what, this poor CEO, he's been
- 34:31Speaker 1: out in front. He went up to Connecticut. He talked
- 34:33Speaker 1: to the Senate up there. Anywhere they talk about this,
- 34:36Speaker 1: he's willing to go to. He's already made concessions. But
- 34:40Speaker 1: here's the problem he has. This controversy is arising when
- 34:45Speaker 1: there's a midterm election coming up.
- 34:48Speaker 4: There's a lot of anger out there.
- 34:50Speaker 1: So they're going to jump all over that. By the way,
- 34:52Speaker 1: we asked if anyone could compare to Dolly Parton this morning.
- 34:57Speaker 1: Curtis mentioned Lucille Ball. That was the best one. The
- 35:00Speaker 1: talkback of the morning and winner of the Curtis Lewa
- 35:03Speaker 1: and Larry Menti in the morning t-shirt was very persistent.
- 35:07Speaker 1: On his choice, Patricia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond. Man,
- 35:13Speaker 1: he is her biggest fan. He left several talkbacks. So
- 35:17Speaker 1: we award this for his determination, even if we may
- 35:21Speaker 1: not agree with him.
- 35:22Speaker 5: So guys, guys, real quick before you dismiss Ms.
- 35:25Speaker 6: Heaton.
- 35:26Speaker 5: Just make note, two successful series.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Not one.
- 35:31Speaker 3: Not one.
- 35:31Speaker 5: Two Emmys. awards for outstanding actress, her own production company,
- 35:37Speaker 5: and outstanding charitable work.
- 35:39Speaker 7: There you go.
- 35:41Speaker 5: That's not just in name only.
- 35:43Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm in now. I'm in. It's her. And remember,
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