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Opening Segment 9/22/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, by the time we get off, Larry, the president
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, Donald Trump will be getting in
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  Speaker 1: front of the podium in the U.N. General Assembly and
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  Speaker 1: making his speech. And boy, we'll have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: talk about tomorrow. But right now, I want to query
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  Speaker 1: you and you, Natalie, and everyone in our audience about
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  Speaker 1: the concept of men doing the cooking.
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  Speaker 2: The concept?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the concept.
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  Speaker 2: Is it a hard concept?
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  Speaker 1: A very difficult concept when it comes to yours truly.
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  Speaker 1: As I've said, at the age of 72, every time
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  Speaker 1: somebody has come up to me and said, hey, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: are you able to cook? Have you ever cooked? I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can cook to kill. You do not want to
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  Speaker 1: eat anything that I try to hustle you up off
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  Speaker 1: the griddle or in any other capacity. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't. I never thought of it as a
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  Speaker 1: manly thing to do. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Cooking. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not putting the apron strings on.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry. That's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel that way, too?
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: And I changed my mind completely on who should be
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  Speaker 4: doing the cooking in the house because of my son-in-law, Justin,
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  Speaker 4: who is an incredible cook. I mean, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: I think he should open a pizza shop because he
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  Speaker 4: makes homemade pizza. And I have never had pizza that
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  Speaker 4: good in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Does he want to partner with my husband?
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  Speaker 3: Does your husband make pizza?
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  Speaker 5: Last night, he made pizza dough the day before. And
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  Speaker 5: then we had pizza last night.
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  Speaker 4: I keep telling him he should open a restaurant, Justin.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it is that good. It is the best
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  Speaker 4: pizza I've ever eaten. It's gotten to the point now. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I have grandkids, right, that I love to see and
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  Speaker 4: love to visit. I have my daughter, of course, that
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  Speaker 4: I adore. But I will check if Justin's going to
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  Speaker 4: be doing the cooking. Before I go over.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Chef Justin, right? Oh, he's unbelievable. But it's not
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  Speaker 3: just him. It's that age group.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's because of all the celebrity chefs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chef Ramsay with the F-bombs.
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  Speaker 1: Does your son-in-law curse while he's cooking or doing the
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  Speaker 1: preparation like Chef Ramsay?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F.
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  Speaker 2: My husband doesn't either. Okay, so I got a couple
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  Speaker 2: of thoughts on this.
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  Speaker 5: One, yeah, I think the rise of celebrity chefs definitely
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  Speaker 5: had something to do with it. I also think it
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  Speaker 5: was survival because that generation of men had their wives working.
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  Speaker 5: So it was a little different. You know, it wasn't
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  Speaker 5: like they were coming home and the wife was there cooking. So,
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  Speaker 5: you know, that could have been part of it.
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  Speaker 3: But that's been around for a while.
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  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, but I mean, you know, it's just your generation,
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  Speaker 5: your mom probably was home, right?
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  Speaker 3: And did all the cooking. Yeah, and did all the cooking.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, she was Irish, which isn't the
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  Speaker 4: best food.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was substantive. You know, I got a lot of stuff,
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  Speaker 4: and it was hefty, let's put it that way. But
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  Speaker 4: she's Irish. We did have cabbage every week.
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  Speaker 3: Once a week.
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  Speaker 1: I've always said the reason the English conquered the world
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  Speaker 1: from sea to shining sea is that they— Even more
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  Speaker 1: so than the Irish. The worst food. The worst possible
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  Speaker 1: food you can imagine. They'll tell you, oh, come on over.
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  Speaker 1: We're serving dinner at 7 o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: My God, you can't wait to.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of there because you're just like, where can
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  Speaker 1: I stuff this? In what pocket? How many times can
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  Speaker 1: I go to the loo? You know, they call it
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  Speaker 1: the loo over there and then flush it.
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  Speaker 3: Horrible food.
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  Speaker 1: Horrible.
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  Speaker 3: And they love it. They can't get enough of it.
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  Speaker 3: What's the big thing they like to eat? Bangers and mash?
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  Speaker 2: Bangers and mash.
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  Speaker 4: Bangers and mash. Which, by the way, I thought would
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  Speaker 4: be cool when I was over there to order.
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  Speaker 3: Not so cool.
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  Speaker 4: It's not so cool.
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  Speaker 3: No. It's not so cool. No.
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  Speaker 5: But I do have this problem with men who say
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  Speaker 5: they can't cook.
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  Speaker 2: And women, too.
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  Speaker 5: Because I have always felt you might not be the
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  Speaker 5: best cook in the world.
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  Speaker 2: But if you can read, you can cook.
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  Speaker 3: What? If you can read. You can cook. Then I'm dyslexic.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we can test you for that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'll adopt an excuse.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what?
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  Speaker 5: You're probably not a person who likes to follow directions.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to go with that one.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you can follow directions in a book.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get that. You can cook. But it's more
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  Speaker 3: than that these days.
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  Speaker 4: With about the 30-somethings around there, maybe getting into 40,
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  Speaker 4: say 20 to 40, the men in that generation... They
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  Speaker 4: take pride in their cooking. I mean, they, they all, they,
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  Speaker 4: I've heard them talk. Well, I'll go to a fantasy
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  Speaker 4: football draft. They'll be talking about something they made last week.
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  Speaker 3: It is incredible. But let me tell you something. I'm
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  Speaker 3: all for it because it's good. It is really good.
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  Speaker 5: I know a lot of people find it relaxing. So
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  Speaker 5: I think people use it as, you know, a A
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  Speaker 5: way of unwinding from the day.
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  Speaker 2: They could just enjoy something. It's creative.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. I'd shoot myself in the head.
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  Speaker 1: It's not.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's not for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I have a hard time warming up stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I've always said my youngest son, he actually goes to
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  Speaker 1: cooking school in the summer. Like, that's his summer camp
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  Speaker 1: to go learn to cook better.
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  Speaker 4: You're saying that like you're so disappointed.
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  Speaker 3: Totally.
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  Speaker 2: Not if you're the recipient of his hard work.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I question whether he's even my son, to be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, because I don't have a cooking bone
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  Speaker 1: in my body. I was birthed in 1954, and the
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  Speaker 1: greatest invention of mankind came about in 1954. We've talked
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  Speaker 1: about this before, the Swanson TV dinner. Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: the turkey, the mash, and all the stuffing, the meatloaf,
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  Speaker 1: the fried chicken, the Salisbury steak, the chicken pot pies.
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  Speaker 3: You can live on that. You don't ever have to
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  Speaker 3: cook in your life. Come on. Why not? 1954.
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  Speaker 1: What a great year it was. And then slowly but surely,
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  Speaker 1: men started to fade away. Remember the hungry man, Jack?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you pop it in there. Be a tough guy.
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  Speaker 3: What happened? Now you got to put an apron on?
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  Speaker 4: My son-in-law, who lifts weights every day, could kick both
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  Speaker 4: our butts. But he also cooks. I just think there's
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  Speaker 4: more of Renaissance men now. Look, I'm never going to
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  Speaker 4: put down anybody's cooking now because it's delicious. And I
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  Speaker 4: want to eat it. So if the guys are the
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  Speaker 4: best cooks these days, and I think that's becoming true,
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  Speaker 4: if the guys are the best cooks these days, I
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  Speaker 4: love it.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 4: Praise to them because it's delicious.
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  Speaker 1: I think this all started when you went to the diner.
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  Speaker 1: And let's face it, New Jersey is the king of diners.
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  Speaker 1: is the short order cook was almost always.
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  Speaker 3: A guy, right? Almost always a guy.
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  Speaker 1: So right there, that was probably your first exposure because
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to a high end five star restaurant.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you're going to a diner. And who's the
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  Speaker 3: short order cook? Nine out of 10 times a guy.
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  Speaker 1: So right away, it enculturates young men into thinking they
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  Speaker 1: should be cooking. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: There are other things to do. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I really believe it was the celebrity chefs because they
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  Speaker 4: all say that.
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  Speaker 3: They watch them and they write down the recipes.
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  Speaker 5: It's 2026. Are we really talking about how... Wow, men
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  Speaker 5: can cook?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm all for it.
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  Speaker 4: I've been experiencing it now for the last 15 years,
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  Speaker 4: and it's great.
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  Speaker 3: It is tremendous.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot rave enough about my son-in-law's cooking.
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  Speaker 1: How many things have men dominated in life, right? They
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  Speaker 1: have given no equality to women.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. Everything they do, they do better.
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  Speaker 5: Wrong.
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  Speaker 3: It's that they Bogart. They Bogart.
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  Speaker 4: Except birth.
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  Speaker 1: So we grew up eating mama and grandma's cooking, right?
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  Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden guys have decided we're
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  Speaker 1: going to take another thing over that women do better
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  Speaker 1: than guys by being chefs and cooks. And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: this is just another attempt by guys. Hey, look, guys
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden want to become females and play basketball, right?
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  Speaker 3: They want to be. This is another attack. What are
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  Speaker 3: you talking about? There is nothing to do. That's the
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  Speaker 3: weirdest analogy I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 1: Women have dominated that field for years, and we got
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  Speaker 1: to steal it from them?
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  Speaker 3: Basketball? No, no. Cooking. Cooking.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Curtis, I know you wanted to be on
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  Speaker 2: Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Fine. There is another reality TV show called Worst Cook.
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  Speaker 3: Worst cook. Oh, I'm game for that. Like I said.
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  Speaker 2: That might be the one we should get you on.
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  Speaker 1: I can cook to kill. Although my dad told me
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  Speaker 1: a great story. He said, when you're out at sea,
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  Speaker 1: your best friend better be the chief steward, the head cook.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you become friends with him, when you got
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  Speaker 1: all the guys, you know, they're going in to eat
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  Speaker 1: their food. You'll get the meatloaf with all the trappings,
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  Speaker 1: the good meatloaf. If he doesn't like you, he gives
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  Speaker 1: you the olive loaf with no trappings. Say, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: ran out of the meatloaf. So he goes, you got
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  Speaker 1: to be best friends.
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  Speaker 3: But notice, even on the ships, who were the cooks? Men. Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because they had to. Why? They had nobody else for
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  Speaker 3: a long time. That was it.
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  Speaker 4: Who were they going to get?
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  Speaker 3: How much of the cooking do you do in your house, Natalie?
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  Speaker 5: I used to do a lot more. I think my
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  Speaker 5: husband didn't like my cooking as much. I'm not sure,
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  Speaker 5: because now I'm a weekend cook.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so he took it over from you. He bogarted you.
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  Speaker 2: And more power to him.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure she fought it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go for it. But I did make a lovely
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  Speaker 2: brajol over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, brajol.
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  Speaker 2: It was really good. Because my husband was working on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: He refs.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let me ask you a question. You know, Italians.
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  Speaker 2: Nice pot of sauce.
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  Speaker 3: Most brajol Italians, it's horse meat.
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  Speaker 2: No, it was beef.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry. Sorry. you live in like an alternate universe It does.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: Italians eat more horse meat in Argentines than any other
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  Speaker 1: countries in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Not in this country, I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: Is it legal?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're not sure. Why don't you stick a fork
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  Speaker 3: in it, and if all of a sudden it goes.
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  Speaker 1: You'll know the Brasola's horse meat.
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  Speaker 3: Another conspiracy. He's in a mood today.
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  Speaker 4: Every meat you're eating is actually horse meat. Go to
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