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Opening Segment 11/12/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now curtis lewa and larry mentee in the morning on
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  Speaker 1: 710 wor wow i'm styling and profiling today shoot it
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  Speaker 1: down and do you have any idea why larry and
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  Speaker 1: why natalie that i would come in As if I
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  Speaker 1: was campaigning for mayor like I did, remember, when I
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  Speaker 1: had the full suit, shirt, tie. Notice this tie has
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  Speaker 1: all the little kitties on it, the cats on it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you telling us something?
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very special day for me. Well, it's a
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  Speaker 3: black suit and it's a dark tie.
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  Speaker 4: Funeral?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: No funeral. Although... Soon, probably at my age, you start
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  Speaker 1: counting the rings around the tree. Not your own funeral.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't be coming in dressed with your own funeral.
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  Speaker 2: Getting ready.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you never know. In my life, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: Must be prepared. The point is, figure, maybe I live
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  Speaker 1: another 20 years. I'm 72 now. But today. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: This whole conversation went into a dark place.
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  Speaker 2: Very dark place.
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  Speaker 1: Well, dark suit, right? I get on the train. I
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  Speaker 1: go down to DeKalb Avenue. and I walk across the
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  Speaker 1: street to the place I was birthed, Brooklyn Hospital, on
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  Speaker 1: March 26, 1954, and it was Dr. Duckman who delivered
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  Speaker 1: me a 13-pound baby, my mother Francesca, who was just 5'2,
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  Speaker 1: about 100, 110 pounds, no cesarean, no drugs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: old school, There it is, the kid's popping out, 13 pounds.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And then they put me, where's that, they put all
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  Speaker 1: the babies, what do they call that again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in all the machines.
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  Speaker 4: Nursery?
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  Speaker 2: The incubator?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, an incubator. Yeah, incubator.
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  Speaker 2: You had to go in an incubator at 13 pounds?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they had one big enough.
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  Speaker 2: I was just saying, they would have to shove you in.
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  Speaker 1: So my dad is out at sea and immediately he
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  Speaker 1: catches the first flight back. You know, they go to port,
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  Speaker 1: he catches the first flight back. My mother's recovering, as
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  Speaker 1: you can imagine, in the hospital for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: He goes in to look at all the babies who
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  Speaker 1: were there. And my name tag is there, you know, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Sliwa, because that's not my son. There's no way.
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  Speaker 1: And he starts getting real, like, angry because at 13,
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  Speaker 1: I'm extraordinarily heavy then. There was no Ozempic. And my
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  Speaker 1: eyes were, like, slanted. It looked like I was an
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  Speaker 1: Asian baby. He insisted, that's not my son. That is
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  Speaker 1: probably some Chinese family son. I want to see my
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  Speaker 1: son Curtis. He getting all bent out of shape. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally he goes in, sees my mom, and she
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  Speaker 1: assures him, no, no, that's our son. And he just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't imagine. Now, interesting story about Dr. Dockman, who slapped
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  Speaker 1: me on my tuchus, my dupa, and I've been talking
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  Speaker 1: ever since. Years later, his son is a very famous
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  Speaker 1: criminal court judge. He's sitting there and this guy is
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  Speaker 1: being accused of abusing his girlfriend who worked at Capel's
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  Speaker 1: Chevrolet on Northern Boulevard. At the time, Capel owned all
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  Speaker 1: the dealerships and he had beaten her badly. And his
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  Speaker 1: appeal to the judge to let him out. Judge, there's
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  Speaker 1: nobody in my apartment to watch my dog. He said, OK,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to let you out to go take a look.
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  Speaker 1: But you better show up in court in 72 hours.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what? He didn't show up in court. He went
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  Speaker 1: and he killed the woman who had worked for Capel.
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  Speaker 1: So that was a standout case. He ended up losing
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  Speaker 1: his judgeship. But, man. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you wearing the suit?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: I am going through so many stories here.
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  Speaker 1: Was I not?
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  Speaker 2: The suit.
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  Speaker 1: Was I not?
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  Speaker 3: No, we were just worried it wasn't going to end
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  Speaker 3: and you'd never get back to the point. So we're
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  Speaker 3: just trying to point the way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reminiscing. I'm reminiscing. But, you know, don't they call
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  Speaker 1: that your baby suit when you're born? Isn't that what
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  Speaker 1: they call it?
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  Speaker 2: Your birthday suit.
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  Speaker 4: Birthday suit, not your baby suit. Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: The birthday suit.
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  Speaker 1: So now I got the real suit. I'm paying tribute.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going floor to floor. I'm thanking everybody there. And
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  Speaker 1: then I'm going across the street to Junior's. And I
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  Speaker 1: do what I always do when I go to Junior's.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I always like Lindy's better. It used to
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  Speaker 1: be on Broadway. It was in Guys and Dolls. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was great. I always liked to stick them. Sure.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to leave and come back.
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  Speaker 2: Poor people.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this is going to be a great day. Glory, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what this all leads into? The restaurant business,
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  Speaker 1: which is suffering for a variety of reasons. There is
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  Speaker 1: a woman who used to be in Brooklyn, a Jamaican.
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  Speaker 1: She moved to Toronto. She opened up a Jamaican restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: And she established, if you're 15 years or younger, you're
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  Speaker 1: not welcome in my restaurant. People say, oh, in Canada,
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  Speaker 1: they'll never permit it. People loved it. I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: these little teenagers are always tearing the place up. I
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  Speaker 1: can't have a meal. She's now opening up a second
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  Speaker 1: restaurant in Winnipeg, and it sort of leads us back
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  Speaker 1: to what's happening in our own country. Curtis, Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Why are you wearing the black suit?
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  Speaker 2: I got to get to the suit. Because you're going
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  Speaker 2: to Junior's?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Going to Lindy's?
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  Speaker 1: No, Lindy's doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 2: That's so sad. He's upset. He's in mourning about that.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: This is to honor my birth.
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  Speaker 2: It's not your birthday. Your birthday's in March, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Look, the hospital is where I was birthed. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hospitals where people were birthed, if you notice,
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  Speaker 1: they no longer exist.
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  Speaker 4: So you're wearing the suit because you're going back to
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  Speaker 4: the hospital? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to see Dr. Duckman?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think he's alive.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think his son is alive, the judge that
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  Speaker 1: I talked to you about. But let me flip the script,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm not at liberty to say right now why
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  Speaker 1: I'm going there.
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  Speaker 4: No, we're trying to flip the script here.
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  Speaker 1: It's Operation Hush Hush Mush Mush.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, now we're going to have people stalking you.
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  Speaker 3: So you started out by saying, let me tell you
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  Speaker 3: why I'm wearing this black suit.
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  Speaker 4: And now you're saying you can't tell us.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. Hush Hush, other than I'm going to the
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  Speaker 1: place of my birth. Okay. Brooklyn Hospital.
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  Speaker 2: You're not sick, are you?
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  Speaker 1: No, not at all. I'm there to honor. I'm there
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  Speaker 1: to walk the floors and shake everybody's hand. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because of your great lifetime service to the Brooklyn community,
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  Speaker 1: I was born as a 13-pound baby. Hey, I'm telling you, man,
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  Speaker 1: it may be a record. I want to go through
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  Speaker 1: the records department to see if I was the heaviest
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  Speaker 1: baby ever born in Brooklyn Hospital. They got all the
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  Speaker 1: records still there, you know, all paper. It's not digital anymore.
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  Speaker 4: And you had to put a suit on for that?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, to show respect. Show respect. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So honestly, if any of our listeners have any idea
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  Speaker 2: why he has a suit on, please let us know.
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  Speaker 4: So this is the story.
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  Speaker 3: The story was I have a suit on because I
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  Speaker 3: was born at a hospital. And then I went to
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  Speaker 3: a restaurant across the street. but I can't tell you
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  Speaker 3: why I have the suit on. Is that pretty much
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  Speaker 3: the story?
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  Speaker 1: Operation hush, hush, much, much in full effect.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, Curtis, you're keeping us on our toes.
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  Speaker 1: So back to the restaurant. Good storyteller. There is a
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  Speaker 1: move afoot here in the United States to have sections
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  Speaker 1: of a restaurant, because it's so tough to run a
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  Speaker 1: restaurant now with all the escalating costs right across the board,
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  Speaker 1: in which there is a section, no children, or a section,
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  Speaker 1: no dogs. Because, you know, now you see dogs everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I love dogs, but I know there's some people who
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  Speaker 1: are allergic to dogs or they're frightened of dogs. And
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  Speaker 1: then it's the return of Natalie's Famous. They had sort
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  Speaker 1: of waned for a while. during the lockdown and pandemic
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  Speaker 1: of 2020. The buffets. The buffets are starting to open
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  Speaker 1: up all over the place. I have a feeling that
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  Speaker 1: you were a buffet queen, Natalie, you and your family.
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  Speaker 2: That is so untrue. That is like the last place
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  Speaker 2: I'll ever go is a buffet.
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  Speaker 4: You're kidding me.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, buffets are the best.
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  Speaker 2: The last.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you. Well, one, it's the germy thing. It
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  Speaker 2: kind of like people are handling things, whatever. And then
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, if I'm going out to eat, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: spending money, I want to be served. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to have to get up and get my own food.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's at a reduced rate and you can
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  Speaker 1: keep coming back and putting more food on your plate.
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  Speaker 1: And eat anything you want.
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  Speaker 3: You get a choice of all this stuff. Like if
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  Speaker 3: you think to yourself, God, I can't make up my
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  Speaker 3: mind between this and this.
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  Speaker 4: It's all there.
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  Speaker 1: Only one exception that I was told many times. The
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  Speaker 1: lobster legs are separate. You don't get that in the buffet.
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  Speaker 1: And they really, they'll come out with a hatchet if
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  Speaker 1: you try to take a lobster leg and put it
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  Speaker 1: on your buffet plate.
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  Speaker 4: You've been at some good buffets.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've never been in a buffet with lobster.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I was like, with a hatchet?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Natalie, you're so discriminating. You wouldn't even go to
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  Speaker 1: a buffet.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't been to a lot of buffets, no.
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  Speaker 4: That shocks me.
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  Speaker 2: I look like a buffet type of person?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, that you would turn your nose up at buffets.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's just that I don't go out very often
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  Speaker 2: to eat.
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  Speaker 1: I really don't.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wait a second. I'm just realizing who you were
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  Speaker 4: born to.
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  Speaker 3: You're used to great food all your life, right?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my family was in the hospitality business.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And so there were banquets and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And you always had... You probably grew up with good food.
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  Speaker 4: And you look down at the banquets.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 4: And the banquet people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to get.
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  Speaker 4: The people wind up at the banquets, man.
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  Speaker 2: No, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 4: Like pigs in a trough.
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  Speaker 2: My grandfather, he actually... Had the Scandinavia. You might have
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  Speaker 2: heard of that, Curtis. It was a Scandinavian buffet. He
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  Speaker 2: ran that in New York City. So now, why did
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  Speaker 2: you not turn that down?
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  Speaker 1: The one of the most famous buffets.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: During Saturday Night Fever, where a very famous, let's see
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  Speaker 1: if any of our Talkback people know, where a very
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  Speaker 1: famous disco was, is now a Chinese buffet, the whole block.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where I was told one time, I was
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  Speaker 1: feeding me and the Guardian Angels, right?
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  Speaker 5: Love stuff. lobster legs, no buffet. None of you pay
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  Speaker 5: separate for lobster legs. I'm not going to get in
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  Speaker 5: trouble for that accent, am I?
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  Speaker 3: Remember Louis Anderson, the comedian that was really big and
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  Speaker 3: he made fun of his weight? He said he would
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  Speaker 3: go to buffets and it would say, all you can eat.
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  Speaker 3: And they'd change the sign. No, you got to go.
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  Speaker 3: You have to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because basically it is so difficult now in the
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  Speaker 1: restaurant world, the price of natural gas, the price of electricity.
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  Speaker 1: the price of paying your staff, you know, everything, the
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  Speaker 1: cost of food, that they can barely make ends meet.
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's the return of the thing that you
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  Speaker 1: look down on, Natalie, like a Northern Italian to a
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  Speaker 1: Southern Italian buffet. I would never be caught dead in
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  Speaker 1: a buffet. Wow, you really are an elitist.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it just surprises me.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I like to sit.
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  Speaker 4: You can sit. It's not like you have to stand.
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  Speaker 2: In the corner. I don't want to get up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Natalie, you know, you come from Staten Island, right?
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Working class people love buffets. But notice, she moved to
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. That's it with the buffets.
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  Speaker 4: You want to be served.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I might be able to get this a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: You've probably served people all your life. Oh, your kids. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 3: your husband does the cooking.
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  Speaker 1: He does. Oh, boy, are you a diva. What a diva, Natalie.
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