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Celebrating America's 250th Birthday LIVE from Times Square · That KEVIN Show

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  Speaker 1: Somewhere in the bowels of the city that never sleeps.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin McCullough, radio host with Sailor Medium.
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  Speaker 6: It's Kevin McCullough Monday through Friday.
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  Speaker 8: On That Heavin Show.
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  Speaker 6: And now from the Cotters in Sullivan Podcast Studios. A
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  Speaker 9: But is way grateful that is not who he used
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  Speaker 9: to be. Here all right, welcome in friends.
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  Speaker 2: I got to tell you there are times as a
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  Speaker 2: as someone who does a talk show, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: six or seven days a week, eight days.
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  Speaker 1: A week nine.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many jewels I do now, but
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  Speaker 2: it's one of those things where very seldom do I
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  Speaker 2: ever get excited about a single broadcast. But today is
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  Speaker 2: that day, and I've not I've been doing this, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, twenty five thirty years, but this is one
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  Speaker 2: of those days I was looking forward to for many,
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  Speaker 2: many weeks leading up to it, because we don't get
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  Speaker 2: a chance to celebrate America's birthday every day of the year,
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  Speaker 2: and we don't get to celebrate the fiftieth or the hundredth,
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  Speaker 2: or one hundred and fiftieth or the two hundredth every year, much.
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  Speaker 1: Less the two to fiftieth.
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  Speaker 2: So today, as I've been telling those of you listening
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  Speaker 2: on four hundred stations coast to coast, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: being there. We are live from Times Square in America's
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  Speaker 2: most important intersection to celebrate America to fifty. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for joining us. And when I say we, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: talking about me in the mouse in my pocket. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about my good friends, my co host for today,
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  Speaker 2: who I just am so grateful for and I think
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  Speaker 2: are going to have a great time with us. Let
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  Speaker 2: me first introduce someone who needs no introduction to New York.
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  Speaker 2: She's the first lady of New York hospitality. She has
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  Speaker 2: been a rock star for this city in some of
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  Speaker 2: its most dangerous hours. And I think that at the
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  Speaker 2: end of today you're going to see again why she's
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  Speaker 2: a rock star. But Christine Nicholas, CEO of Nicholas and
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  Speaker 2: Lentz Communications and also a former I don't know, public
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  Speaker 2: servant in the Mayor's office with the Mayor Giuliani in
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  Speaker 2: the days following nine to eleven and so forth, you're
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  Speaker 2: with us every Friday to talk a little bit about
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  Speaker 2: tourism and the fun things about New York. But welcome
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  Speaker 2: to the full broadcast today.
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  Speaker 3: Very good to be with you, Kevin. Always a pleasure,
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  Speaker 3: and welcome to Times Square. I mean, this is the
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  Speaker 3: crossroads of the world. We're here.
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  Speaker 10: It is a beautiful, glorious mosaic, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 10: just so proud to be part of this radio show
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  Speaker 10: to talk about two fifty.
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  Speaker 2: When you think about New York and Times Square, nothing
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  Speaker 2: really says of America like this.
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  Speaker 1: Capitalism.
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  Speaker 2: People from every walk of life, every literally country on
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  Speaker 2: the planet, and they're all here, and they're all experiencing
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  Speaker 2: American life at its busiest.
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  Speaker 10: It is indeed, and you know what, it's our freedoms
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  Speaker 10: that allow this. Yeah, you don't know many a lot
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  Speaker 10: of other cities, a lot of countries, they have the
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  Speaker 10: center of the city, but in order to do something
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  Speaker 10: like this you'd have to, you know, pay off governments
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  Speaker 10: or something.
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  Speaker 3: Not here in New York City. I mean, we do
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  Speaker 3: want to thank the Time Square Alliance, but we also
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  Speaker 3: want to thank the freedoms we have that allows us
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  Speaker 3: to speak.
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  Speaker 10: Freely, openly in front of a large crowd of diverse
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  Speaker 10: people that may not always agree with what we have
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  Speaker 10: to say.
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  Speaker 2: But well, we're gonna come back to that because I
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  Speaker 2: think there's a very interesting thought to piggyback on that.
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  Speaker 1: But let me.
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  Speaker 2: Introduce our next co host, who you hear every Monday
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  Speaker 2: with me here on that Kevin Show. He is the
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  Speaker 2: host of The Big Skinny. He was just with us
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  Speaker 2: yesterday giving us some insights into the markets. And Lou Bassine,
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  Speaker 2: it's good to have you in person as opposed to telephone.
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  Speaker 4: Always a pleasure to be in your presence, my friend.
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  Speaker 11: Even when we're not recording, we're going live and it's
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  Speaker 11: raining down on us.
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  Speaker 2: I don't exactly know what that was about. But Christine
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  Speaker 2: is now dry, so we're all good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I look at us a baptism of some sort.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the tent sprinkling you with its sanctification.
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  Speaker 2: And we're gonna have lots of great guests coming up.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go back to what you were saying, though, Christine,
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  Speaker 2: I want to I want to get you on this too,
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  Speaker 2: lou We live in a diverse time, diverse people, diverse thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Look at al from under this tent, you see every
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  Speaker 2: walk of life, every expression of self importance, and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people want to say that.
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  Speaker 2: The division and that the other stuff that's going on
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  Speaker 2: in the culture right now is worse than it's ever been. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe that it is. And I also don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that it's the best that it's ever been. I
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  Speaker 2: think that America, in some kind of crazy way, has
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  Speaker 2: always been this amalgamated, beautiful mess of conflicts of ideas.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, unity and how
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  Speaker 2: we live and come together. And Christine, you brought up
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  Speaker 2: the subject. I'll let you respond first.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, we live it.
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  Speaker 10: Every day here in New York City and I believe
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  Speaker 10: that we truly are blessed for that that we can,
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  Speaker 10: you know, get to where we need to be safely
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  Speaker 10: with you know, when.
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  Speaker 3: You look at those pictures of.
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  Speaker 10: You know, in New York City movies and you just
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  Speaker 10: see the masses of people and we're all different, yet
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  Speaker 10: we all get along beautifully.
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  Speaker 3: It really is. And I think the Knicks had some
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  Speaker 3: to do with that.
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  Speaker 4: Man, you're going where I was going. Two million people
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  Speaker 4: come out to celebrate, and.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that.
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  Speaker 2: Took exactly five minutes and twenty two seconds to get
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks vers Knicks reference in five.
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  Speaker 4: The Nicks in fives.
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  Speaker 11: I want to see the Yankees win this year and
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  Speaker 11: the New York Giants, let's bring them.
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  Speaker 4: Bring all the troperes back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And for those of you listening in the other
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety nine cities of America, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for being here today.
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  Speaker 4: There's New York and everywhere else. But no, just kidding
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  Speaker 4: glue to you.
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  Speaker 1: The question is is it more divided?
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  Speaker 11: I think it's more divided if you let your devices
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  Speaker 11: convince you of that, because if we stare out here
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  Speaker 11: at Times Square, there's interactions, there's there's just collisions between
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  Speaker 11: cultures and people, and you have to find a way
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  Speaker 11: to work through that if you're in person. I think technology,
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  Speaker 11: which I've always focused on about my whole career investing.
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  Speaker 4: In, is extremely divisive if you let it be.
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  Speaker 11: It can also be extremely you know, miracle making for
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  Speaker 11: drug development, all these other things that we rely on
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  Speaker 11: technology before. But I think the spread of information, and
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  Speaker 11: more importantly, misinformation happens through the devices, not when you
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  Speaker 11: sit down and have a conversation in real life.
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  Speaker 2: See, this is where I'm going to disagree slightly, because
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  Speaker 2: I do think that it is devisive. I'm not ignoring
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  Speaker 2: the divisiveness, but I think that in the founding days
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  Speaker 2: of the Earth of the Fathers, I think that they
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  Speaker 2: were as divisive as the technology allowed them to be.
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  Speaker 1: And if you think about I'm running.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna I'm going to start the Cleveland Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to author the Columbus Republican. Well, like
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  Speaker 2: we named our media sources like according to our partisan bent.
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  Speaker 2: At that time, it was what the technology allowed.
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  Speaker 4: So the carrier pigeons carried the misinformation in Italy.
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  Speaker 1: But if you go, if you boil down to it,
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  Speaker 1: they did have.
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  Speaker 2: Massive fights over people that would said, oh, you slandered me,
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  Speaker 2: you lied about what I said. And I'm like, if
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  Speaker 2: you've I've been watching a lot of documentaries leading up
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  Speaker 2: to the fourth because I'm just so excited that we're
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  Speaker 2: we made it to two fifty. But I'm going, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: these guys had the exact same problems we do today.
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  Speaker 11: Isn't not the beauty that Christine put her fav on
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  Speaker 11: is that we can have that civil disagreement and survive.
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  Speaker 10: Look, I mean, when you go back two hundred and
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  Speaker 10: fifty years, we call it the Revolutionary War, but it
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  Speaker 10: was the first civil war in these Americans that was
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  Speaker 10: in these colonies.
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  Speaker 2: You had loyalists to the kinge living next door to
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  Speaker 2: the colonists and they were friends until the revolution broke.
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  Speaker 10: And when you look, when you break it down, it
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  Speaker 10: was forty percent loyalists, forty percent patriots, and then twenty
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  Speaker 10: percent were on the side.
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  Speaker 4: And they weren't democratic socialists.
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  Speaker 10: Well actually they were probably capitalists because they were siding
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  Speaker 10: with either Great Britain or with.
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  Speaker 3: The colonies on who employed them. And in one.
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  Speaker 10: Household you may have had two or three folks that
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  Speaker 10: were employed, you know, one being from the colonies, one
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  Speaker 10: being from Great Britain, and they were fighting each other
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  Speaker 10: because they were fighting for their lives and their livelihood.
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  Speaker 2: So it really was the first Civil War well, and
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  Speaker 2: it eventually and it took forever to fight, and we
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  Speaker 2: finally did it in about eight years.
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  Speaker 1: It was at eight nine years that it took and.
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  Speaker 10: We were the occupied city here in New York City.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I know we talk a lot about Boston
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  Speaker 10: and Philadelphia and they are very important, Yeah, but this
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  Speaker 10: this is the occupied city.
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  Speaker 2: So coming up, we've got historians, We've got people that
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  Speaker 2: are concerned about the future of this country.
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  Speaker 1: We've got entrepreneurs.
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  Speaker 2: We've got the founder of sale Forth, which is going
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  Speaker 2: to be this big armada of boats going up and
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  Speaker 2: down the river.
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  Speaker 1: And we have got T Square Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Harris himself, the man who is hosting all of
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  Speaker 2: us today for this day long broadcast of America two fifty.
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  Speaker 2: But right now we're telling the whole nation about it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here for that Kevin show.
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  Speaker 7: Here he is from New York. That Kevin Kevin McCollough.
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  Speaker 1: Great to be back with you.
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  Speaker 2: Times Square is the location, it is our celebrate America
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  Speaker 2: to fifty day, and how American two fifty does it get?
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  Speaker 2: Then to have that Kevin Show theme come back with
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  Speaker 2: Tony Marrow, one of the David Letterman all time great
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  Speaker 2: drummers of drumming us back in. I just think it's
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  Speaker 2: appropriate for Times Square and.
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  Speaker 1: All the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm here with Lou Bassinice and Christine Nicholas. We
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  Speaker 2: are enjoying this reflection of our country's presence, and it's
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  Speaker 2: all been made possible by the Time Square Alliance. And
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  Speaker 2: Tom Harris is the president T Square no stranger to
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  Speaker 2: all of my radio shows. And Tom, it's good to
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  Speaker 2: see you in person. Thank you for having us first
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  Speaker 2: of all, and why does Time Square feel it's important
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  Speaker 2: to celebrate America's two fifty?
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  Speaker 10: Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being here.
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  Speaker 5: We're so excited to have the entire family of Salem
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  Speaker 5: here with us. And I'm not going to start naming
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  Speaker 5: the stations because I'll get it wrong. But Times Square
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  Speaker 5: has always had a place in history and in celebrations.
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  Speaker 5: Right behind us we have the Father Duffy statue or
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  Speaker 5: World War One chaplain, And if you think about it,
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  Speaker 5: Times Square is a living laboratory for American freedoms. We
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  Speaker 5: celebrate the First Amendment every day here in Times Square.
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  Speaker 5: The commercial enterprise is in its glory here, and it's
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  Speaker 5: a place that people come to assemble, including the radio station.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you and how many how many events would
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  Speaker 2: you say you host in Times Square over the course
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  Speaker 2: of the given year.
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  Speaker 4: It's over the course of a day.
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  Speaker 5: I mean we're doing probably over a thousand events in
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  Speaker 5: the square a day. I'm sorry, a thousand thousand events
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  Speaker 5: a year in Times Square. We have more than one
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  Speaker 5: per day. I mean today we have we're going to
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  Speaker 5: have soccer fans here. We have a FIFA activation down
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  Speaker 5: in the South. We had a film shoot overnight. We
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  Speaker 5: have this radio station broadcasting.
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  Speaker 7: So that's just today.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as we were talking in the first segment, Tom
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  Speaker 2: New York has always been kind of a laboratory for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of America.
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  Speaker 1: Things kind of get worked out here.
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  Speaker 2: First, What kind of impact do you think Times Square,
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  Speaker 2: New York City, Ellis Island, this entire existence of this
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  Speaker 2: city has meant to the two hundred and fifty years.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think Tom Square is a reflection of the
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  Speaker 5: city of the nation to the world. We are celebrating
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  Speaker 5: America two fifty throughout the whole year in Times Square.
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  Speaker 5: We started out on New Year's Eve with a celebration
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  Speaker 5: of America to fifty right after midnight on July third,
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  Speaker 5: there's going to be a private event, but it's going
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  Speaker 5: to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the country.
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  Speaker 5: And then America two fifty is going to be back
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  Speaker 5: on December thirty first to close up the year. So
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  Speaker 5: we are jam packed throughout the year with with patriotic
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  Speaker 5: stuff and we're so happy that Salem is here today
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  Speaker 5: in Times Square.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there'd be a ball drop on July fourth. I heard.
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  Speaker 1: I heard rumors about that.
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  Speaker 7: On July fourth. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I know Taylor Swift is getting married on July third.
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  Speaker 4: Did you get invited?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I didn't get invited.
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  Speaker 1: Is that is that for real? What do we know
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  Speaker 1: that for sure? No?
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's requited. It was in the news, so
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  Speaker 4: it has to be true, right I read it online?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so if people are listening in Seattle or Kalamazoo
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  Speaker 2: or wherever they are this afternoon, what would you tell
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  Speaker 2: them about why they should come to New York this
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  Speaker 2: year specifically?
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  Speaker 5: So, I think New York is is probably the great
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  Speaker 5: I would say it's the greatest city in the world,
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  Speaker 5: and I think Times Square has something for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: There's there's some you could.
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  Speaker 5: Go to Taco Bella, you could go to a Michelin restaurant,
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  Speaker 5: you could go see live theater, you could go see
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  Speaker 5: regular theater. There is there's experience this year and the
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  Speaker 5: greatest free show in the world is just people watching
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  Speaker 5: right here in Duffy Square.
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  Speaker 3: So Tom Harris is our guest.
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  Speaker 10: Of course, he is the president of the Time Square Alliance,
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  Speaker 10: and this is the most popular place not only in
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  Speaker 10: New York City, but I think arguably the world. Tom Harris,
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  Speaker 10: you were also part of the NYPD, So we want
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  Speaker 10: to thank you for your service, and we just how
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  Speaker 10: did that How does that background really make you be
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  Speaker 10: able to do this job so well? Because, by the way,
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  Speaker 10: there's been three presidents of the Times Square Alliance and
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  Speaker 10: each were unique. But I certainly feel the safest now
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  Speaker 10: with Tom Harris.
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  Speaker 4: Next to me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much. That's very kind. We are
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  Speaker 5: safe because of the hard work of the men and
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  Speaker 5: women of the New York City Police Department. Commission at
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  Speaker 5: TISH has been amazing. But we've always and we've always
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  Speaker 5: had great police commissioners, and they recognize the value of
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  Speaker 5: Time Square and the importance to make sure that Time
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  Speaker 5: Square is safe for those hundreds of thousands of people
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  Speaker 5: who pass through here every day. Well, I don't really
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  Speaker 5: take credit for it. I give the all of the
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  Speaker 5: credit to them. And we are certainly a neighborhood that
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  Speaker 5: works together. Neighborhoods that work together work and we have
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  Speaker 5: great partners with the New York City Police Department, and
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  Speaker 5: that's why Times Square really is the safest that it
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  Speaker 5: is has been in history.
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  Speaker 11: So I'm pleasure to meet you. I'm the numbers nerd, right,
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  Speaker 11: I'm a Wall Street guy. I love numbers. I am
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  Speaker 11: fascinated by your stat over a thousand events a year.
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  Speaker 4: Here in Times Square, which begs the question for me.
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  Speaker 11: We talked at the top of the show about this
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  Speaker 11: world seemingly divided. What's the common thread that you can say,
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  Speaker 11: witnessing the diversity of groups that are coming here a
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  Speaker 11: thousand over the course of the year, that binds everyone together.
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  Speaker 4: That really is representative of what America is about.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that's I think here people put politics
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  Speaker 5: aside when they come into Times Square, and we can
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  Speaker 5: have differences but not be disagreeable. And I think that's
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  Speaker 5: what's sort of missing with the country. Everything is if
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  Speaker 5: you don't agree with me, you're dead to me. And
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  Speaker 5: I think that when we started to not appreciate our
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  Speaker 5: differences and celebrate the differences that we all have that
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  Speaker 5: make us unique and make us different and make it exciting,
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  Speaker 5: I think that's when we started to lose a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: And you're in Times Square.
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  Speaker 5: We celebrate the diversity of individuals, of cultures, of restaurants,
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  Speaker 5: of theater every single day. It's it's, it's, it's, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's diversity and action.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to say, you have a really tough
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  Speaker 2: job because when COVID hit, you took the hit like
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: the rest of the city did, and numbers went down
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: and we had to close everything down and all that happened,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: and you've been building it back every second that you've
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: been awake since then.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: But one bad headline and.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, everybody goes, oh, New York's not
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: safe again, And you know, I just want to say, here,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: we are surrounded by people in Times Square and I've
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: never felt safer, and the nypdor here and they're doing
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: their thing, but one headline, Tom is not representative of
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: what you're turning out every day.
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  Speaker 5: No, of course, And it's so important to focus on
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: the positive. It's very easy to just sensationalize the headlines.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: But we look to do is push push out the positive.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: And that's why I love the partnership with Salem, because
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: you're always looking positive. Sure we would like the world
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: to be better, we all would, but we don't have
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: to fight while we figure out who's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to win.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: This isn't this isn't a sporting event. It's not the
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: knixt game. But just remember at the end of a
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: next game, we all shake hands, yeah, and remember that
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: we're friends and that we're out for the same thing.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: And that's the enjoyment. And we're all out for the
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: same thing here in Times Square, and that's creating fantastic
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: memories and good experiences for everyone who comes from all
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: over the world to experience.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: How many restaurants in Times Square.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: It's probably two hundred and sixty restaurants.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: How many theaters.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Forty one I think forty one.
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: It's all forty one, thirty nine operating right now, thirty
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: nine operator which is not quite.
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  Speaker 3: In this district.
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: That's another theater, but they've deemed it a Broadway theater.
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: So yeah, any given day there's going to be thirty
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: nine different productions.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: That's why the revivals that play there get qualified for
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: the Tony's because it's right technically theater.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: And then we have a lot of smaller theaters that
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: that are just outside.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Am the black box rooms where just a small crowd
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: can be in there.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: But it's it's a it's a warm and welcoming experience
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and it's a.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Small crowd enjoying live theater. And there's nothing like live theater.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Every show is different. You could go see one show
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: two times and there's always going to be something different,
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: something to to capture your your mind and just challenge you.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Have you seen them all all? Thirty nine?
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: No, I can't say that, Christine has.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I've tried.
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: I still have, but I will tell you just right now.
• 18:49
  Speaker 10: Two Strangers carrying a cake. It was one of those
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: shows nominated for Tony Award, did not win. But it
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: is a love story about New York City. It's about
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: folks that are you know.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: He comes over from the U.
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: Okay, he's enthusiastic, he's excited, and she of course as
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: a barista in Brooklyn could care less. But then through
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: his eyes she sees New York in a different way.
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: And I think that's what I love about Times Square
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: is you can see the excitement, you could see the
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: love for New York City, and you see it through
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: their eyes and you realize how blessed we are to
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: be here.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: You're seeing this now through the World Cup coverage.
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: You see all of these Instagram accounts Freddy from Germany.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: And you know like and also he was on Fox Business.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's greaty.
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: But the reason being is they had an impression that
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: New York was going to be a certain way through
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: the either the media or through their own governments. And
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: now they've come here and it's almost like free range.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Tourists, right. They can go, they can be free, they
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: can experience.
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: It for themselves. And that's the beauty of tourism. You
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: need to be able to see it for yourself. And
• 19:53
  Speaker 10: it has been a gift as far as I imagine.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: You know, Mark and some people are doing this, but imagine.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: The difference and experience of doing a FIFA game in
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: New York and then going to La to see one
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: and then seeing one in the Midwest, It's like America
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: really is unlike any other place on the world, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the world seeing that for themselves right now firsthand, we
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: have got so much more fun left in the remainder
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: of today's that Kevin Show Live from Times Square. Thank
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you Times Square Alliance and Tom Harris for having us
• 20:21
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  Speaker 7: Of than Kevin.
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  Speaker 12: Next here he is from New York.
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  Speaker 7: That Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 2: Great Sam Levine on SAX there who'll be with us
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the show with a very special
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• 21:22
  Speaker 2: more about it till then it's Kevin McCullough. We are
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: live from Times Square and we have got a celebration
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: of America two fifty going on. Christy Nicholas and lubasanis
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: my co host for Today Special to share this with you, guys,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I feel so strongly about how much you both love
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the country, and it's just really cool to get to
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: do this together. Lou you join us on Mondays and
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: we talk money and we talk about the markets, and
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: we talk about capitalism and we talk about entrepreneurialism and
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: kind of working your way up. And when America was founded,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: they had to win the independence. They did that, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: then they had a big lotin long knockdown drag out
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: over what government was going to be and specifically what
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the economy was going to be. Yes, and there were
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: these two forces at work, Jefferson and Hamilton, and they
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: kind of saw the world completely differently. Hamilton won New
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: York kept the commerce of the United and this is like,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: we're one of the only countries on the planet that
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: has a separate financial capital from our governmental guests. I'm
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: just curious your thoughts on what makes the American economics
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: system unique and why it's survived for two hundred and fifty.
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: Well, I think we can never get to lose sight
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: of the foundation, right, the concept of free markets, making
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: it open and separate from government. But then I think
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: more than anything. This is why I love Wall Street
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: and investing two things. It was never taught to me
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: growing up. None of these money principles were ever taught.
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: So it's constantly learning. But the markets are dynamic. And
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: nowhere else in this world do you see the innovation
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: in finance and in technology that gets to to be
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: adopted so quickly than it is in America. And so
• 22:59
  Speaker 11: I think that's citing and intimidating at the same time, right,
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: because the pace of change is the only thing that's constant.
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: But the setup, the foundation of that put that in
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: place to enable that. And if you look look at
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: the thing that's dominating the headlines today and that's AI.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Right for the last six.
• 23:14
  Speaker 11: Seven months, twelve months, we're leading the race in AI
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: because we have the system, the foundation from the founding
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: fathers that put in place that allows us to innovate quickly,
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: to have the capital provided not from government but from
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: private citizens to fund this and bring it about and
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: accelerate development.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Nowhere else in the world doesn't exist. If you look
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: at I think.
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: France has one AI company that's the greatest example of
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: what's going on in Europe versus.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: The United States in terms of technological innovation.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Well, and China's going to have something to say about this,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: or they're going to try to That's really going to
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: boil down to energy, which is kind of a different topic. Christine,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: you wanted to add something.
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: No, I'm just you know, when it comes to AI,
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: since you seem to be the expert on this. As
• 23:56
  Speaker 10: far as investing, his middle name is chat GPT. How
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: is it trading now? I mean, how are the you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: when you talk about AI.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think people can sort of rattle off the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: top companies.
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: You probably could, But what should we be looking for
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: if we are, you know, in novice investors and we
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: wanted to get into the.
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: AIAR fantastic question. I think the only household name in
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: AI is in Nvidia. They make chips, They used to
• 24:23
  Speaker 11: make gaming chips. But here's the key is chips.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: That's it AI.
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: Every technology, whether it's you getting into your car and
• 24:30
  Speaker 11: having GPS, having those cooled seats that are air conditioned, right,
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: there's chips in that. Our cell phones, these microphones, these headsets.
• 24:37
  Speaker 11: So I think the best way to think of AI
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: is it's the latest technology to leverage chips, semiconductors and
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: the best investment to make. This is not personal investment advice,
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: but it's it is factual. The best investment over the
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: last ten years has been owning the ETF that is
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: nothing but semiconductor companies chip companies.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: So you get a basket, you're diversified.
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: The ticker simple on that is so x X for
• 24:59
  Speaker 11: the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index this year alone, it's up one
• 25:03
  Speaker 11: hundred and fourteen percent. So even if you don't have
• 25:06
  Speaker 11: a clue what to do in the markets, you don't
• 25:08
  Speaker 11: know how to pick between one company.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Or another, you can diversify broadly.
• 25:12
  Speaker 11: And you're in an ETF like the SOX ETF or
• 25:14
  Speaker 11: in your four to one K there's going to be
• 25:15
  Speaker 11: a semiconductor ETF. It is the smartest decade long trend
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: that you can play, I would say, outside of maybe cybersecurity,
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: because that's the next big threat, because we're fighting wars
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: not on not on physical ground, but on digital ground well,
• 25:29
  Speaker 11: and it's.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Going to increasingly be that way forever because we're going
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: to be cyber attacking and we're going to have kinetic
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: war side by side. I want to go back to
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the to the founders though, because this is this is
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I think significant. Hamilton had to talk to Washington and
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: to the Congress into taking a risk and setting up
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the Treasury, starting the National Bank, taking on some of
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the debt that some of the states incurred. But Wall
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Street would not exist if he had not done that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah, mixed motions on the role of government and the
• 26:02
  Speaker 11: Treasury and how they've influenced markets, especially now you see
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: the government investing directly in companies.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I am not a fan of that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 11: We'll also see the government trying to have a heavier
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: hand and regulating technologies.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: We were talking in the break about federalism. It's a
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: tough area.
• 26:18
  Speaker 11: Do we put the regulation of AI into the state's hands.
• 26:22
  Speaker 11: I think that's hard to do because then you're gonna
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: have fifty different.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Polic state it's gonna have the resource to do.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: They don't have the resource.
• 26:28
  Speaker 11: More importantly, in Christing, you said I'm the expert on AI,
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: maybe for the next five minutes. The craziness about AI
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: is every AI model leader changes by the week, and
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: every AI company is innovating at a pace we've never seen,
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: which I think is the most important thing. We're used
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: to just growth and being fast. This is exponential growth.
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: So I like to use the analogy. It's like getting us,
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: you know, playing softball and seeing like a lob pitch
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: and then one hundred and five mile an hour fastball.
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: We're just not used to it at this pace, this acceleration,
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: so it's taking some adjusting to get you to.
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: Give you more than five minutes. I have a feeling
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: you're going to be around for years and years because
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: you're ahead of the curve. And that's really how you
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: deal with the fastball is being ahead of that curve.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, when we come back, a historians going to join
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: us to talk about the Revolutionary trail, not in Boston,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: not in Philadelphia.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: In New York, right here in New York City.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: And AI is an AI.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, And if you come to New York for the expertise.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Rain is over July fourth celebration. You can download this
• 27:29
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• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Stay with us.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Very special guest coming up next, surprise from that Kevin
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: show in Times Square celebrating Americans two fifty.
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: Here he is from New York, that Kevin Kevin McCullough.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Well, they said it was going to rain all day,
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  Speaker 2: and thus far we're drying so I'm taking that as
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  Speaker 2: a win. It's that Kevin Show Live from Times Square today,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: a special edition and on four hundred stations.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Don't be nervous, coast to coast across the country.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to have you here. Lou Bassinice and Christine Nicholas
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: are co hosting with me as well today and Christine,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: we have talked in our little travel show on Friday Night.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: We have talked about the Revolutionary Trail and the Echoes
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: of the Revolution. This is a project that's been kind
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: of locally spearheaded here.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Why don't you introduce our next guest.
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: It's a local project, but it is going to have
• 28:48
  Speaker 10: some serious I think reach Ted Newtson is a partner
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: with our good friend who's been on the show, Peter Christiansen.
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: They're both professors out of CUNY. The Gotham Centered joins
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: us to talk about the New York City Revolutionary Trail,
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: but also this Echoes of Revolution, which is really exciting
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: as we were talking earlier in AI augmented Reality experience,
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: which is launching soon.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: What's nice about it? How I look at it is as.
• 29:17
  Speaker 10: A mom of teenagers, I struggle to get them to
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: go beyond the Hamilton Show, which we've seen about five
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: or six times, and they know all the lyrics. So
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: it was like that was the way of getting them
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: to focus on a you know, a little bit.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: But my son is also a big fan. He's a gamer.
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: Yeah, So this is up to you, now, Ted, It's
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: on you to like get Lucas Nicholas to learn more
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: about revolutionary history through this new game of yours.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you for having me.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: So what's the name of the game.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: So the name of the game is.
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: Echoes of Revolution New York. It is a collaboration with
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: the ubisof the makers of Assassin's Cream video game, who
• 30:00
  Speaker 13: who actually recreated colonial New York in their Assassin's Creed
• 30:03
  Speaker 13: three and twenty fourteen. So we are licensing their game
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: engine and projecting it onto real New York City streetscapes
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: using augmented reality right on your phone for free, and
• 30:17
  Speaker 13: we're you know, mixing in a little bit of some
• 30:19
  Speaker 13: original history of why New York was so important in
• 30:22
  Speaker 13: the American Revolution. So you game a little, you learn
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: a little, you walk a little, and you see some
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: really great parts of down.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Now people that aren't here that are in the three
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: hundred ninety nine other places. Can they download this and
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: have an experience without being physically in New York Not yet.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: That may be something that we do with in the future.
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: But we are actually trying to get people to actually
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: come to New York City and actually walk tread the terrain.
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: As Winston Churchill used to say, so.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Talk to me about what they what kind of things
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: about the New York Revolutionary Trail that we don't know
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: that we should know.
• 30:53
  Speaker 13: Sure, well, basically New York is really the center of
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: the American Revolution. If you ask anyone from the time period,
• 31:00
  Speaker 13: say from King George to the local commanders in the
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: British Army or for the Continental Congress to George Washington,
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: they would say New York was the center. It's the
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: great prize of the entire war. And most of the
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: action kind of takes place within the commuter train lines
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: of New York City. There's but there's also some really great,
• 31:17
  Speaker 13: kind of iconic events that take place here in the city,
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: including several major battles. Battle for Long Island is Still,
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: Battle for kIPS Bay, Battle of Harlem Heights. These are
• 31:28
  Speaker 13: major major engagements that where America really could have disappeared.
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: The American dream could have been snuffed out very early.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Well, and it was well known that Washington, it just
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: killed him that he couldn't come back and retake New
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: York before Yorktown.
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: One hundred percent. So we talk the game actually spans
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: things that happened both in the run up to the war,
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: talking about things like the newspaper newspaper and pr wars
• 31:55
  Speaker 13: that kind of led up to the war, all the
• 31:58
  Speaker 13: beginning of the war where we see particularly the tearing
• 32:01
  Speaker 13: down of King George, the third Statue in Bowling Green,
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: which is a big augmented reality portion of the game,
• 32:08
  Speaker 13: defending the harbor against British incursion, and then things during
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: the British occupation of New York between seventeen seventy six
• 32:15
  Speaker 13: and seventeen eighty three, including things like the Great Fire
• 32:18
  Speaker 13: seventeen seventy six, And we turned that into sort of.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: A who done it fine?
• 32:23
  Speaker 10: So ted how many portions of the game, like how
• 32:26
  Speaker 10: many sites are there that you've worked on?
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: There's ten milliin sites, and then you can also collect
• 32:30
  Speaker 13: a number of characters so that we interspersed along the
• 32:35
  Speaker 13: sites along the route, you can kind of also meet
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: famous people. They're all geo fenced, which is to say
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: that you actually have to be within like ten or
• 32:42
  Speaker 13: fifteen yards of these things that you can see on
• 32:44
  Speaker 13: the GPS interface.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: So it's like Pokemon. It's Assassin's Creed meets Pokemon.
• 32:49
  Speaker 13: It is Assassin's Creed meets Pokemon with a little bit
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: of a little bit of history. And yes, it's actually Niantics.
• 32:55
  Speaker 13: Social is a partner, as is Sugar Creative Labs out
• 32:59
  Speaker 13: of the UK, so it's a it's a great kind
• 33:01
  Speaker 13: of international collaboration and one of our major funders was
• 33:04
  Speaker 13: actually the British government.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Wow, it just pretty.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Stop buying the stocks and ask a Ques, I'm not
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: buying the stocks. Thirty years ago this would have made
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: me really interested in history. I'm curious in the technology.
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: What's next on your development roadmap because now you can
• 33:17
  Speaker 11: develop things. I know you can take photographs and create
• 33:20
  Speaker 11: a virtual AI world in a matter of hours, so
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: that's probably expanded what you can do with this project.
• 33:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, we haven't actually used AI to date with this
• 33:28
  Speaker 13: project because historical accuracy is really really crucial and just
• 33:32
  Speaker 13: AI is not quite there yet. But you're right, I
• 33:34
  Speaker 13: mean we're talking six to twelve months before these experiences
• 33:38
  Speaker 13: that used to cost ten twenty thirty million dollars to
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: design these games, they'll be available to pretty much anybody
• 33:46
  Speaker 13: with the know how in the next I'm going to
• 33:49
  Speaker 13: guess twelve to eighteen.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Months take us back to the Revolutionary trail. What's the
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: most interesting aspect of what's the most interesting stop along
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the way?
• 33:58
  Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a that's a great question. I would I
• 34:01
  Speaker 13: think the kids are going to like firing the cannons
• 34:03
  Speaker 13: at British ships, the line on the Hudson River. The
• 34:05
  Speaker 13: best for me, I guess my personal favorite is actually
• 34:09
  Speaker 13: doing the colonial printing press, so we actually can project
• 34:13
  Speaker 13: a colonial era of technology printing press and kind of
• 34:17
  Speaker 13: how cool it was at the time period. You can
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: tell how many bells and whistles it has, but also
• 34:23
  Speaker 13: that not much has changed, so we're still trying to
• 34:25
  Speaker 13: use this medium to tell a story.
• 34:27
  Speaker 11: So there's actually a technology now called Virtue's omni one.
• 34:30
  Speaker 11: It's an omnidirectional treadmill that you could do this and
• 34:32
  Speaker 11: actually move around, so you can get history technology and
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: exercise at the same time.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: No, that's what I need.
• 34:40
  Speaker 13: It makes total sense. And also that you see that like, listen,
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: newspapers and media stations have never exactly been straight down
• 34:46
  Speaker 13: the middle calling bells and strikes. There's always been that
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: sort of partisan tinge to them. And that's okay.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Well, and yeah, it was only a modern creation that
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: journalism pretended to say, we can be objective about this.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: We used to just put the party on the mass
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: seat of the of the news.
• 35:00
  Speaker 13: If it wasn't on the mass sid it was pretty obvious.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Well, and I'm okay with that.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Just tell me your perspective and then I understand what
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: you're saying and where you're coming from. Absolutely got to
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: take another break when we come back. Another great sponsor
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  Speaker 2: We're here, Lou Bassine, Christin Nicholas, Kevin McCullough, glad to
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  Speaker 2: seventy six Prayer Challenge. Rocky and Lisa, welcome back. It's
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  Speaker 2: here in Times Square with us. It's just too much fun.
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  Speaker 4: I wish to be good.
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  Speaker 8: Kevin, thanks for having us so sure.
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  Speaker 2: Thing now we're in Times Square. This is the this
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  Speaker 2: is the crossroads of the world, and the world.
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  Speaker 1: Is on your mind.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: When you're asking people to come together on July fourth
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: at four in the afternoon, what are you trying to do?
• 36:57
  Speaker 15: Yes, we're asking people to join the movement on fourth
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: of July at to gather their friends and family and
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: neighbors and let's stay for America.
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: And we're asking them to go on to the website
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: and submit to get they will do this challenge. And
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: when they register saying yes, I will do this, we
• 37:23
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• 37:38
  Speaker 17: So, well, we.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Didn't we didn't tell that part yesterday. That's that's a.
• 37:43
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• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Well, so here's what we want you to do. Friends.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: We want you to pray for your country, because pray
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: for your country is just good in and of itself.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: But then when you do, if you go on the
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: website and say, yeah, I'm going to pray on July fourth,
• 37:58
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• 38:02
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• 38:06
  Speaker 2: not sure how far that'll go in AI stock, but
• 38:08
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• 38:10
  Speaker 4: It's the key is getting started there.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: You go, Rocky. You guys are purveyors of flags. What
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: is the flag business like these days? How many American
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: flags are people ordering and using and moving? I have
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: to replace mine about every three years because the weather
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: in the Northeast is just brutal and it just like
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: tears it down eventually. But what's business like these days?
• 38:35
  Speaker 18: Yeah, Kevin, thanks for asking business steady year round, but
• 38:41
  Speaker 18: I don't know. There's always an increase around the flag holidays.
• 38:45
  Speaker 18: We've got Memorial Day, Flag Day for the July, and
• 38:47
  Speaker 18: especially this year being the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
• 38:51
  Speaker 18: of our nation, there was a brisk and we're selling
• 38:56
  Speaker 18: flags and all various sizes, and you know, we're just
• 39:00
  Speaker 18: honored to be able to sell and service the American flag.
• 39:04
  Speaker 17: It's just what we.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Believe that do you do only the stars and stripes?
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Did the current model? Do you do the original thirteen colonies?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Do you do that?
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Don't tread on me like I want all these flags
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: in my house.
• 39:15
  Speaker 18: Absolutely, yes, we don't have them in stall. We have
• 39:19
  Speaker 18: some of those flags in stock, but we sell all
• 39:21
  Speaker 18: the historical flags, the forty eight Star, you know, we
• 39:25
  Speaker 18: can get all of those. Those are flags that are suppliers,
• 39:31
  Speaker 18: manufacturers have on hand and we can get those. But
• 39:36
  Speaker 18: for the most part, it's here in Texas. It's the
• 39:39
  Speaker 18: US and Texas flags and then sure also a lot
• 39:42
  Speaker 18: of the Betsy Ross and the America two fifty and
• 39:47
  Speaker 18: I mean flag sells at brisk.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, Rocky, don't book that order for Kevin yet I
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: don't know that he's asked Amy to fly three flags
• 39:52
  Speaker 11: on the House yet.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to clear that with the bride. Well.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Rocky and Lisa White are sponsoring the seventeen seventy six
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• 40:05
  Speaker 1: It's seventeen seventy six prayer dot org.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: But get your friends and family just stop for a
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: couple of minutes at four o'clock on July fourth and
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: say a prayer for your country. Pray for your government,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Pray for your leaders, Pray for your mayor, Pray for
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: your governor, for your House of Representatives, your Senate, pray
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: for all of them. Because we want divine favor visit.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Our founders started by asking God to show mercy and
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: grace on us, and it would be very American to
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: do the same thing on July fourth this year. Rocky
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: and Lisa thank you for all that you're doing. We
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: appreciate it.
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: Oh very good.
• 40:37
  Speaker 15: They can get their commemorative flags online as well while
• 40:40
  Speaker 15: they last.
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• 42:21
  Speaker 2: We are live from Times Square celebrating America two point fifty.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: We've been talking about this day for months and we're
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: so excited that it's finally here. And if you're coming
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: down to Times Square, if you're in the New York
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: area and you're coming down to.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Times Square, please be kind.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Don't see my big forty five foot bald head on
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: the billboard and make fun of me. I'm very sensitive
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: about such things. We gotta gotta have kindness in Times
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Square today. That that lady who's laughing right there is
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Christine Nicholas, and Christy, I'm a good sport.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: About you are a very good sport.
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: And I noticed that you're you're donning a beautiful hates
• 42:54
  Speaker 10: says The Kevin Show.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep the shine down the under the
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: tent here today. Lou Bassinice's also with us. You hear
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: him on Mondays with us talking about finance and investing
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: and so forth. And Lou, your your your non bald
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: head is awesome.
• 43:09
  Speaker 11: I'm not follically challenged though, no you're not. It is
• 43:13
  Speaker 11: a weird feeling.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: To see your your mug up in Times Square.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: It is, but it's a it's a cool feeling and
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: we're here celebrating because the guy next to you made
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: it all possible.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Tom Harris. We call him T Square.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Actually, Michael Cha, the Saturday Night Live comedian, was the
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: one that was the one that coined it. But he
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: said T square and he's been T square ever since.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: This is you. This is the love of your life.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Next to missus Harris, your your your next closest love
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: is where you're sitting and what you're doing right now.
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: After my kids, it is Time Square, wife kids, Time Square.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Okay you need a dog, Tom.
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: I just got to say, listen.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Times Square is the place to be.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much to everyone for being here and
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: for broadcasting the show.
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: Law from Times Square really is amazing.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: How many people come through here on a given year.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: On a given year close to one hundred million.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: We have about two hundred and fifty thousand people per
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: day who come through Times Square. You check me by
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: the by saying a year that's right here, stump me
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: because usually it's a day.
• 44:20
  Speaker 11: That urbal ask Does the World Cup change that or
• 44:23
  Speaker 11: do you have events.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Each year that kind of bring here in the steady average.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: There is always a reason for people to come to
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: Times Square, and we've maintained our numbers with the World Cup.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: It's just different folks come.
• 44:35
  Speaker 10: It's very different. In fact, funny funny photo. On Sunday,
• 44:38
  Speaker 10: you had the summer Solstice, which is a wonderful longest
• 44:41
  Speaker 10: day of the year, but they celebrate here at Times
• 44:44
  Speaker 10: Square alliance with a yoga from sunrise to sunset. So
• 44:47
  Speaker 10: when you had the sunset yoga in the evening, you
• 44:51
  Speaker 10: had all of these mats all over the four or
• 44:54
  Speaker 10: five different plazas that they have in Times Square. But
• 44:57
  Speaker 10: then the Norwegian showed up from their victor. They're wearing
• 45:00
  Speaker 10: their red shirts, they're all over and they start doing
• 45:03
  Speaker 10: the rowing, the Norwegian rowing.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: So you had yoga's.
• 45:08
  Speaker 10: And it was such a dichotomy. It was so funny,
• 45:11
  Speaker 10: and it's only in Times Square that that could actually happen.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: So and just it really is where the world comes
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: together to play. Because in between the Norwegians and the yoga,
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: the folks from Senegal came out.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: So at one point.
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: The Norwegians put the Norwegian flag up on Georgia m
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: Cohen and then the Senegals Senegalese went up and took
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: it down and put the Senegal flag down, and it
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: was just such.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: Good spirited fun.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: And one of the guys from Senegal wasn't tall enough,
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: so one of the Norwegians was sort of helping him up.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: And it really is where the whole world comes together,
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: puts a side, differences and just has a great time.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb here.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: This is not going to be the serious Time Square
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: interview we did that in hour one. I'm going to
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: bet that each of the four of us have a
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: very funny Times Square story in our past, and I
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: want to know what yours is, Tom Harris, you have
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: more stories of Times Square than anybody at the table.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: What's the funniest one that's happened to you or you've
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: been part of.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: I think that.
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: Every day I'm in awe that I am shocked. Every
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: day in Times Square. There's not a day that goes
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: by that I don't say Wow. That sort of surprised me,
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: and I think on Sunday the fact that three thousand
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Norwegians were rowing on the Red steps was kind of like, Wow,
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: this is pretty cool. And then at one point they
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: all started to do a yoga pose because we were
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: doing yoga next show, right, And I told Gary Winkler,
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: who does our events, we're counting them in our numbers
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: for today.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Bessett, I'm not a funny guy.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: I don't have any funny experiences.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I get something memorablemorble.
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: This is the top of the list.
• 46:55
  Speaker 11: I don't think I would ever imagine being here with
• 46:58
  Speaker 11: a good friend, someone that I hadn't met before, or
• 47:00
  Speaker 11: the head of the Times Square Alliance, the queen of
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: public relations in New York City, uh, and just witnessing
• 47:08
  Speaker 11: everything going on, because sometimes, as in New Yorker, you
• 47:10
  Speaker 11: don't think of coming through Times Square. It's when you
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: have visitors that come in is when you head here.
• 47:14
  Speaker 11: But I think this is one of it has to
• 47:16
  Speaker 11: be the.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Most christine, most memorable, funniest whatever.
• 47:20
  Speaker 10: So we've done these broadcasts before in Times Square and
• 47:23
  Speaker 10: they're all very special.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: But the one in December.
• 47:25
  Speaker 10: Was you know, like twenty degrees below, and we decided
• 47:28
  Speaker 10: to do it anyway, and we had a lot of
• 47:30
  Speaker 10: restaurant tours come out and one one guy.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: The products I'm like, is this supposed to be be.
• 47:36
  Speaker 10: She's and we're supposed to eat, supposed to get from them,
• 47:40
  Speaker 10: and like, oh, this is delicious. It was frozen, And
• 47:42
  Speaker 10: then of course serendipity brought their frozen hot chocolate, which
• 47:45
  Speaker 10: technically was actually frozen hot chocolate.
• 47:47
  Speaker 7: Was delicious.
• 47:48
  Speaker 10: But I have to say one of the special moments
• 47:50
  Speaker 10: that I have here with my family is every valentinees
• 47:54
  Speaker 10: the Times Square Alliance creates love and Times Square and
• 47:57
  Speaker 10: in the evening they allow those who are married, you know,
• 47:59
  Speaker 10: they do the engagements, they do the weddings early on,
• 48:02
  Speaker 10: but then those who have been married, and if they
• 48:04
  Speaker 10: have a special milestone, they allow them.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: To renew their vows.
• 48:09
  Speaker 10: So Nick and I last year were celebrating twenty five
• 48:11
  Speaker 10: years of marriage marital bliss. I will say, because I
• 48:15
  Speaker 10: married Saint Nicholas. If you will, oh that is she is, yes, Okay,
• 48:21
  Speaker 10: she just called Did she.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Just call her husband Santa Claus?
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: Well, he does give a lot.
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: And also the fact that he married me makes him
• 48:28
  Speaker 10: partly saintly Okay, but that part, yes, But our children
• 48:32
  Speaker 10: were there to experience it, and it was just really special.
• 48:36
  Speaker 10: And so our kids were there along with like a
• 48:38
  Speaker 10: few thousand other people, and then we went to Virgil's
• 48:41
  Speaker 10: for a very romantic dinner at Virgil's barbecue with the
• 48:45
  Speaker 10: kids with the sauce.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, fine, you guys all did serious ones best.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Time Square memory.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Was one of my earliest visits to New York because
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: I didn't grow up here and I was doing radio
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: in Chicago. Got off the air at like seven or
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: eight pm New York time, had to catch a flight.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: By the time we got here, got into our hotel,
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: I had not eaten. So my buddy and I said, well,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: what's open? And it was like going on midnight, maybe
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: after midnight. So they're like, well, everything at Times Square,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: So just head over to Times Square and the Sabarrow
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: was open at after midnight.
• 49:21
  Speaker 11: The two self respecting Italians right here are going please, no, no.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: No, bad. I'm married to one now.
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: But it's but the bar fine dining, isn't it?
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: But yeah to Texans, to Texans it is.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: But I was, I was, I was so hungry, and
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, c Barro's open. And I don't know
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: if you remember, but Sabar had the window all the
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: pizza where you could sit and look out the window
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: while you ate your slice, and we didn't. I didn't
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: know how to call it a slice. It was, but
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: it was like the first time. So we're watching this
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: is like we by the time we get our food,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: it's like after one thirty two o'clock in the morning,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: and here down the street comes five hundred bicycles on
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: a race at two am in Time Square. And I said,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: dang it, this is the funnest city on the planet.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: I'm moving here.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna work here someday, Like I just made the
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: decision then. And it was because it was all Times
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Square's fault because they had the bike racer in the
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: marriage you.
• 50:12
  Speaker 10: To get on a bike because I just can't imagine
• 50:14
  Speaker 10: Kevin McCollough on a bike.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Bicycles, but having a race at two am. That's prime
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  Speaker 1: New York memory right there. That's Time Square.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: When we come back, very special guests talking about America's
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: role on the globe.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere. It's that Kevin Show live from Times Square.
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  Speaker 7: Here he is from New York. Exact Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: It's that Kevin Show and four hundred cities across the
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: country joining us. Thank you for being here with us.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: We're on location today very special broadcast from Times Square,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: acknowledging America's two fifty kind of the kickoff to the
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: whole America two fifty July fourth tunnel that we're going
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: to have here in New York.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: It's going to be amazing.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk in just a little bit of
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: actually about the sale fourth two fifty event, and that's
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: going to be spectacular to see. And someone who may
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: be very interested in it is joining us now. Kat McFarlane,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: former Deputy National Security Advisor, national security advisor to multiple
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: presidents at one time the equivalent civilian rank of a
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: four star admiral or general in the Pentagon. KT my
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: co host today Lou Bassanie and Christine Nicholas also joined us,
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: and Christine was regaling me with stories of your past,
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: you know, political exploits here in New York State.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: So it's been had an old home week.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: But talk to me a little bit KT about the
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: significance of America's role, including our military from the very beginning,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: because Washington and Adams and some of these guys right
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: out the shoot had to decide about global conflict as
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: it pertained to America's well being in safety and what
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: are your thoughts as we approach two fifty.
• 52:18
  Speaker 17: Well, first of all, let's go back to two fifty
• 52:20
  Speaker 17: and what did the United States? What were these patriots,
• 52:24
  Speaker 17: these founding fathers, what were they debating? What did they
• 52:27
  Speaker 17: think face them when they signed the Declaration of independence?
• 52:32
  Speaker 17: They were taking on They knew they'd have to fight,
• 52:34
  Speaker 17: and they knew that they had an occupying army, the
• 52:37
  Speaker 17: British Army, and they were taking on the single most
• 52:40
  Speaker 17: powerful military in the world, not just in their plan,
• 52:45
  Speaker 17: you know, not just in their continent, not just in
• 52:47
  Speaker 17: their neighborhood. In the world. The British Empire was like
• 52:52
  Speaker 17: the Roman Empire. It ruled the world. And these patriots,
• 52:57
  Speaker 17: they wanted freedom so much they believed in and the
• 53:01
  Speaker 17: ability to govern themselves and democracy and representative government. They
• 53:05
  Speaker 17: believed in it so much that they put their fortunes
• 53:10
  Speaker 17: on the line, they put their lives on the line,
• 53:12
  Speaker 17: and in fact, many of them died for the cause.
• 53:16
  Speaker 17: So right from the get go, it was an ambitious project,
• 53:20
  Speaker 17: and it was a dream, and it was something that
• 53:23
  Speaker 17: everybody would have laughed. In fact, when the British surrendered
• 53:28
  Speaker 17: at Yorktown to General Washington. The band played the world's
• 53:32
  Speaker 17: turned upside down. So from the very beginning we against
• 53:37
  Speaker 17: all odds prevailed. And then when they wrote the constitution,
• 53:41
  Speaker 17: there were two things that were very different from others. Well,
• 53:45
  Speaker 17: first of all, having a constitution was different. Other countries
• 53:48
  Speaker 17: don't have constitutions. The British had had sort of a
• 53:52
  Speaker 17: history of laws, but not a written constitution like we do.
• 53:56
  Speaker 17: And they did two things which are really different. Said
• 54:01
  Speaker 17: that the military would be would never be important enough
• 54:07
  Speaker 17: to take to give orders to the civilians. So we
• 54:09
  Speaker 17: have some of the close civilian control of the military
• 54:11
  Speaker 17: in every other country in the history of the world.
• 54:13
  Speaker 17: The military, once you make it powerful enough and powerful
• 54:18
  Speaker 17: enough and large enough, the military often takes over. That's
• 54:22
  Speaker 17: exactly what happened when Julius Caesar in the Roman Empire.
• 54:25
  Speaker 17: The Roman Republic gave way to the Roman Empire because
• 54:29
  Speaker 17: the military took power. If you look at country after
• 54:32
  Speaker 17: country after country, it was the military that took power
• 54:35
  Speaker 17: once they became so powerful. But in our country we
• 54:38
  Speaker 17: have civilian control of the military. And why is that
• 54:42
  Speaker 17: so different. Well, we have the most powerful military in
• 54:44
  Speaker 17: the history of the world, and our military officers are
• 54:48
  Speaker 17: banned from taking political positions. They're not allowed to even
• 54:52
  Speaker 17: talk about their political party, they can't campaign. They're meant
• 54:55
  Speaker 17: to be neutral. They're meant to be non partisan, notisan, bipartisan,
• 55:00
  Speaker 17: meant to be nonpartisan. And I've seen in my career,
• 55:04
  Speaker 17: whether it was in Vietnam, whether it was in Afghanistan,
• 55:08
  Speaker 17: rock various times in my career where I've watched the
• 55:12
  Speaker 17: military who look at the civilian leadership and the decisions
• 55:15
  Speaker 17: that civilian leaders are making and are horrified. I mean,
• 55:18
  Speaker 17: they know it was going to they knew what was
• 55:20
  Speaker 17: going to be a failure, they knew they were being
• 55:22
  Speaker 17: asked to do impossible things. And then I watched, especially
• 55:25
  Speaker 17: after Vietnam, as the civilian leadership washed their hands of
• 55:30
  Speaker 17: the military, saying this is you know, this is the
• 55:32
  Speaker 17: military's fault that we lost Vietnam. So not only did
• 55:36
  Speaker 17: they have made political decisions based on their own political
• 55:41
  Speaker 17: careers that were really adversarial to the military, but then
• 55:46
  Speaker 17: they wouldn't even own up to it. And so when
• 55:48
  Speaker 17: I came back into the government, I was I worked
• 55:50
  Speaker 17: in the Nixon and Ford administrations, went out during the
• 55:53
  Speaker 17: Carter administration, and came back during Reagan it was to
• 55:57
  Speaker 17: watch what had happened to the American military. By the
• 56:00
  Speaker 17: late nineteen seventies early nineteen eighties, we had our most
• 56:05
  Speaker 17: junior servicemen Corman. They couldn't afford they were in food stamps,
• 56:11
  Speaker 17: they were below the poverty line. We weren't paying our military. Yeah,
• 56:14
  Speaker 17: we were asking them to do all these things. We
• 56:16
  Speaker 17: weren't paying them, and we weren't giving them the tools
• 56:19
  Speaker 17: to do their job. We had ships that couldn't sail
• 56:22
  Speaker 17: because they didn't have they didn't have enough, they didn't
• 56:26
  Speaker 17: really have the spare parts to work. We had airplanes
• 56:29
  Speaker 17: that we had For every airplane that flew was capable
• 56:32
  Speaker 17: of flight, we had one sitting right next to it
• 56:33
  Speaker 17: on the turamact. It was cannibalized for equipment. We had
• 56:37
  Speaker 17: pilots that couldn't fly because they didn't have enough certificated
• 56:41
  Speaker 17: certified flying hours. And we had tanks that didn't work.
• 56:45
  Speaker 17: I mean, we had so abandoned our military after Vietnam,
• 56:50
  Speaker 17: and yet the military didn't those people, those men and women,
• 56:53
  Speaker 17: they didn't abandon us. And I've often thought that America
• 56:58
  Speaker 17: loses its way. I mean, look, this is an nature
• 57:00
  Speaker 17: of politics, right, It's the nature of self governance. We
• 57:03
  Speaker 17: make mistakes, we correct them at the next election or
• 57:06
  Speaker 17: the next one after that. And we can often go
• 57:09
  Speaker 17: through periods, and I think today might be one of
• 57:12
  Speaker 17: them where we lose confidence in our country and in
• 57:16
  Speaker 17: our purpose in this world. But you know who never
• 57:19
  Speaker 17: loses confidence in the purpose? It's the American military.
• 57:24
  Speaker 10: Katie McFarland, thank you so much for saying that.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: Christy Nicholas here you talk about Hey, good to be
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: with you again.
• 57:33
  Speaker 10: We've got with the two fifty coming up, we are
• 57:35
  Speaker 10: going to have one of the biggest demonstrations of our
• 57:40
  Speaker 10: military in a sense. We've got the now Tell, the
• 57:45
  Speaker 10: Naval Review, We've got Operation Sales Sales Force, and Chris
• 57:49
  Speaker 10: O'Brien is going to be on our error shortly. But
• 57:53
  Speaker 10: what is it like in Washington? I mean, are they
• 57:56
  Speaker 10: talking about it?
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: Will you be with us?
• 57:58
  Speaker 17: You know?
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: What do you like?
• 57:59
  Speaker 10: How important ortant is this? I know it's important here
• 58:01
  Speaker 10: in New York. We're all hearing about it, we're all
• 58:03
  Speaker 10: excited about it. But are you hearing about it outside
• 58:06
  Speaker 10: of New York?
• 58:08
  Speaker 17: Oh, You're hearing about it all over the country. You're
• 58:10
  Speaker 17: just not hearing about it, you know, in the Blue state.
• 58:14
  Speaker 17: I don't want to get too political about this, but
• 58:16
  Speaker 17: certain parts of the country don't honor our military. They
• 58:18
  Speaker 17: don't honor our men and women in uniform, and that's
• 58:21
  Speaker 17: just the way it is right now. But I do
• 58:23
  Speaker 17: think that when you get into the heartland, people realize
• 58:26
  Speaker 17: that they love America and they love the purpose of America,
• 58:29
  Speaker 17: and they're proud of the fact that it's the two
• 58:31
  Speaker 17: hundred and fiftieth birthday of America. And you know, it's
• 58:33
  Speaker 17: so funny. I don't know if you or anybody follows
• 58:36
  Speaker 17: this on Twitter, but the concept sight of because of
• 58:38
  Speaker 17: the soccer or all the sacer beings made off, we
• 58:41
  Speaker 17: have moved coming from all over the world, from Germany,
• 58:44
  Speaker 17: from France, from Asia, and they're all coming. And they're
• 58:48
  Speaker 17: not just going to New York and San Francisco and
• 58:50
  Speaker 17: Los Angeles and Washington. They're driving across the country and
• 58:54
  Speaker 17: they're amazed at the wealth of America, at the sense
• 58:59
  Speaker 17: of purpose and decency of the American people. That's not
• 59:03
  Speaker 17: what they're hearing from their media. Yeah, they're hearing, you know,
• 59:06
  Speaker 17: all Americans a country long since passes frime. Americans are terrible.
• 59:10
  Speaker 17: They're racists. They're evil, They're so bad. And what those
• 59:14
  Speaker 17: tourists are finding is that Americans are really fantastic and
• 59:17
  Speaker 17: they're tweeting about it. And because we're seeing it through
• 59:20
  Speaker 17: their eyes, I think there are a lot of people
• 59:22
  Speaker 17: who are sort of standing a little bit taller say,
• 59:24
  Speaker 17: you know, we aren't so.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: Bad, yeah, Katie, and far the lubacities here. I think
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: it's such great perspective.
• 59:29
  Speaker 11: We're learning the blessings that we have that we take
• 59:31
  Speaker 11: for granted. I think you have such a unique vantage
• 59:34
  Speaker 11: point for knowing the threats that have been neutralized over
• 59:36
  Speaker 11: the years that us, as every day Americans, aren't aware of.
• 59:39
  Speaker 11: My question is what gives you the confidence that there's
• 59:41
  Speaker 11: another two fifty that we can keep our country safe.
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: Is it the military? Is it the men and women?
• 59:46
  Speaker 11: Is it a structural advantage that we have from your worldview?
• 59:49
  Speaker 11: Why are we so unique and set up for continued
• 59:52
  Speaker 11: safety and security.
• 59:54
  Speaker 17: I'm so glad you asked me that question because after
• 59:57
  Speaker 17: I left the Trump administration in the first t I
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 17: was really down and I was upset about the world.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 17: But the you know, the beef State and the media
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 17: and the Democrats were doing to President Trump with impeachment.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 17: I was upset for my own career and I went away.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 17: I went into my husband and I took a plane
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 17: from New York to the western coast of Scotland to Glasgow.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 17: We got in a car. We drove to this shore,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 17: the western most part of Scotland, got on a ferry
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 17: for eight hours and we went to an island in
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 17: the middle of the Hebridian Islands, in the middle of.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: And wanted to get away.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: I wanted to.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 17: Get so far away. I went to it. I went
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 17: to a little island where there were more sheeps than people,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 17: and it was raining all the time, and there was
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 17: no Wi Fi ran cell phones, There was no TV.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 17: I mean, there was nothing. There was just a lot
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 17: of Scotch and a lot of rain, a lot of sheep.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 17: And so I thought about, what's happened to my country?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 17: It's never been this bad. And then the more I
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 17: thought about it, yeah, it's been this bad before and
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 17: we've gotten through it. And then I thought, well, why
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 17: are we so different? Why are we so special? You know,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 17: plenty of countries are wealthy, plenty of countries have a
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 17: great history, Plenty of countries have good governors or natural restory,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 17: whatever it is. And I thought and thought and thought,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 17: and I realized, you know, what makes America the one
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 17: nation that is truly exceptional is that we reinvent ourselves
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 17: and we do it with great regularity every and all that.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: Kat, we're out of time, but thank you for celebrating
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: America with us today for a few minutes.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 17: It's a pleasure and an honor. Thank you.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: Kevin McCollough coming back from Times Square. Stick here, stick
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: around for more of that, Kevin. Next here he is
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: from New York. That Kevin, Kevin McCullough. Do I actually
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: feel the train vibrating the table as it goes underneath this?
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Where else can you have that experience doing that?
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Kevin? Show Christy Nicholas, the earth move under your feet?
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: What line is this? What are we? What are we
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: on top of? One? Two and three?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, uh, we're live from Times Square. That's Christine Nicholas.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: You normally hear her on Fridays. Luke Bassanie is also here.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: He's with us on Mondays. Kevin mccallaugh, glad to have
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: you with us every day. And Chris O'Brien is back
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: with us. Who was with us to talk about sail
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Forth just a few weeks ago, and Chris for people
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: that have not heard anything about it, and we're on
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: in three hundred and ninety nine other cities, and the
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: last time you were with us, it is one of
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: the most spectacular things that New York will experience in
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: this two fifty season. Tell us about it.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 19: It's a it's amazing, it's in and we're we're about
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 19: ten days out now, and it's just it's really incredible.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 19: So it's nice to be back to share this with
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 19: with your audience.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: Kevin.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 19: The ships are coming from around the world. We've been
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 19: tracking that. Actually, we have this amazing tracker on our website,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 19: so forth dot org and you can see.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 20: Exactly where they're coming from and where they're coming from.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 19: But they're all here now, so they're in this giant clump,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 19: but you can zoom in and look at them.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 20: But they they just left.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 19: Norfolk and now they're headed to Baltimore and then they
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 19: come to New York.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 20: Next for the fourth right.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 19: But you know, it's really it's been this journey because
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 19: we've been at this since April of twenty twenty. This
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 19: planning that was the first time we got the attaches
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 19: together to talk about, you know, our plan, tell them
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 19: about America's two fiftieth this is this is coming, and
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 19: we want these ships to join America to celebrate this milestone.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 20: Moment for the country.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 19: And it takes that long to get these ships because
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 19: they're they're in high demand all around the world, and
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 19: so they're not only.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: And we're talking about tall ships, we're talking about old ships.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 20: Well they're not old.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 19: They're actually they're modern selling vessels.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 20: They've been updated.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 19: Most of the ships that are that are called the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 19: Class A, the very large tall ships.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 20: You know, the mass rise up to about one hundred
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 20: and eighty feet or so.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 19: Some of the ships are four hundred feet long. And
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 19: so these ships they operate as active training ships for
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 19: their navies. So the academy cadets for their navies from
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 19: their countries around the world are being trained. It's such
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 19: an amazing experience being on a tall ship, and it
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 19: does such a good job.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: At creating great leaders.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 19: You know, you learn, you're challenged, you learn how to lead,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 19: you learn how to you know, you know, face your fears.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 19: You're up there, one hundred and seventy feet on the
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 19: mass and the wind, you know, setting these sails. It's incredible.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 19: And so the ships are fantastic at creating.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 20: Really strong, great leaders. But they have a dual mission.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 19: They have an international goodwill mission as well, so they
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 19: travel the world. They're in incredibly high demand as goodwill
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 19: ambassadors for their nation. So when one of these ships
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 19: sails to your port, it is it's an official visit.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 19: And so when we have so many coming together, it's
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 19: it's a real happening, you know, And it's I liken
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 19: it to the Olympics in a way, because these countries
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 19: are sending their best and their brightest on on board
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 19: the decks of these ships, which are basically the crown
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 19: jewels of the nations that operate them.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 20: So it really is a powerful statement that.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 19: When these ships come together, did you say three hundred,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 19: three hundred hundred ships are we gonna have? No, we're
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 19: not gonna have they're three hundred feet long, someone three hundred?
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: How many? So how many total vessels will be here?
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 19: So we will have forty nations all together. There'll be
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 19: eighty eighty.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 20: Ships more more or less.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 19: There'll be some smaller ones we don't really count. But
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 19: there'll be eighty ships between the tall ships that we're
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 19: just talking about and the International Naval Review ships, which
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 19: are which are active duty gray hull naval vessels. And
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 19: so part of what's happening here in the Port of
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 19: New York and New Jersey on is it's coming together
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 19: of the of the active duty fleets and of these
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 19: these goodwill ambassador fleets, you know, to join in the
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 19: milestone moment.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 20: And so the protocol part of.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 19: The day on July fourth will be the International Naval
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 19: Review where the ships render honors to the United States
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 19: of America, the a reviewing ship, and then the tall
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 19: ship parade kicks off, and then that's the international goodwill
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 19: the celebratory part of the day, and then the ship's parade,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 19: the tall ships parade and render honors back and they'll
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 19: render those honors to a reviewing vessel where currently it's
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 19: the Vice President of the United States.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 10: Will be Okay, I've got a it might not seem
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 10: like such a good will question, Chris, but I got
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 10: to ask this, when you talk about the the active
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 10: military ships that are coming in, are they de militarized
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 10: while they're here in port? I mean, and I know
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 10: there are all our allies and they're here on goodwill mission.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: But you know, I'm just curious.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: What are you worried about, Christy.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 10: I've been through a lot here, I think, so curious
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 10: all that you.
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  Speaker 19: Can think about, all the protection we're going to have here,
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  Speaker 19: There's never be a higher level of security, well actually
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  Speaker 19: the the force protection. You know, we're in a different
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  Speaker 19: world than we were before. The last time this happened.
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  Speaker 19: The last time something like this happened here was the
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  Speaker 19: Millennium celebration, So July fourth, two thousand, there was an
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  Speaker 19: international neighbor view in the tall ship parade, and but
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  Speaker 19: since that, we live in a different world. Everybody knows,
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  Speaker 19: you know, it's Post nine to eleven, it's post USS coal,
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  Speaker 19: it's posts you know kind of other global you know, situations,
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  Speaker 19: and so so these ships are you know, active duty
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  Speaker 19: military vessels. They are you know, outfitted appropriately as active
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  Speaker 19: duty military vessels. You know, no, you know, serious weapons
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  Speaker 19: on board that you might be thinking of.
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  Speaker 10: We just expanded our naval fleet. Frankly, that's how I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Going to look at it.
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  Speaker 1: And now Chris is going to go ask him to
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  Speaker 1: take a few more off just to make me feel better.
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  Speaker 20: Well, it's it's interesting about it.
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  Speaker 19: It's interesting because, uh, you know, the because the Vice
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  Speaker 19: President is going to be here, and the Secret Service
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  Speaker 19: security footprint is so high that typically the tall ships
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  Speaker 19: render honors with the cannon salutes.
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  Speaker 20: No cannon salute, not this time.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: More info is at sail fourth dot org. Fourth is
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  Speaker 2: the number four th sail Forth dot Org. Chris O'Brien, congratulations,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for stopping.
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  Speaker 20: It by Kevin. You gotta stand.
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  Speaker 1: Coming right back. It's live from Times Square. It's that
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Show. It's America two fifty. Stay here, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Here he is from New York, that Kevin Kevin mccau wow.
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  Speaker 2: So glad you're with us. It's that Kevin Show from
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  Speaker 2: Times Square today.
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  Speaker 1: Outside.
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  Speaker 2: We're from Times Square all the time, but we're normally
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: in the bunker that nobody can find or see. Today
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: we're actually out in the middle of Times Square. There's
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: a little bit of rain coming down, but you know what,
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  Speaker 2: there's tons of people still out here living life and
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  Speaker 2: having fun. So we're glad to be with you. It's
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  Speaker 2: our celebration of America two fifty and again. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to know more about the Saleforth Event sale Forth
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  Speaker 2: for thch dot org, Saleforth dot org. We're also joined
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: by Christine Nicholas, who is the CEO of Nicholas and
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  Speaker 2: Lentz Communications. When Lou Bassini said earlier, maybe the most
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  Speaker 2: important PR person on the planet, I totally embraced that.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: And Lou Bassines himself a fairly significant guy. Fox News,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Fox Business contributor, you sometimes see him on the News
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  Speaker 2: channel as well, and host of The Big Skinny dot com,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: The Big Skinny Podcast. He's with us every Monday talking
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: stocks and investment. But friends, I called you together here
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  Speaker 2: today not to get married, but UH have to have
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  Speaker 2: a grave.
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  Speaker 4: They're both there, we're both happily married to.
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  Speaker 2: A conversation, a great country that's worth celebrating, and I
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: think that's what we've done so far. But Christine, I
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  Speaker 2: want to focus in on your expertise because we talked
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: to Lou in the first half and he told us
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  Speaker 2: about investment and so forth. Tourism to America, and we're
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: seeing it with World Cup, We're seeing it with everything
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: that's that's going on, even the Knicks. Okay, well we'll
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  Speaker 2: go yay. Nixt Tourism is part of America's greatness because
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  Speaker 2: when people come here, it is something that they have
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  Speaker 2: not yet experienced, and it is unlike anything else. You're
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  Speaker 2: a tourism expert, you have seen this, You've advised other countries,
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  Speaker 2: you've you've been all over the place. What is it
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  Speaker 2: about America that still makes it the land that everybody
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  Speaker 2: wants to get to?
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  Speaker 10: I think it's the freedoms that we enjoy. And when
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  Speaker 10: you see or you you know, you watch the Instagram
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  Speaker 10: feeds of the folks that are here from all over
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  Speaker 10: the world coming the World Cup, like Freddy.
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  Speaker 4: Freddy's just one of.
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  Speaker 3: A gazillion of them.
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  Speaker 10: It's just they're exuberant about being here in New York,
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 10: especially Times Square. But you know, it's and I'll for lose,
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  Speaker 10: you know, point of view. Tourism is an expert. It's
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  Speaker 10: an export that you that requires no shipping fees.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you don't have tariffs or whatnot.
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  Speaker 10: But every time a tourist comes into town, whether they're
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  Speaker 10: from Europe, Asia or even from.
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  Speaker 3: Milwaukee, they're a tourist. It's it's got to be.
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  Speaker 10: The definition is more than fifty miles away. For reasons
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  Speaker 10: other than commutation, they are pumping money into our economy
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  Speaker 10: so much so that this is about a sixty billion
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  Speaker 10: dollar industry just you know, in fact, more than sixty billion.
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  Speaker 3: That's just the.
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  Speaker 10: Tax benefit that we get from the sixty five million
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  Speaker 10: tourists that come in.
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  Speaker 1: And you're just talking about New York City.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's just me.
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  Speaker 2: Sulfi Stadium, San Francis, Like every place is experiencing.
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  Speaker 3: This, right, yeah, and it's it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, look here in New York with the World Cup,
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  Speaker 10: it's been electric, it's been exciting. They may have over
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  Speaker 10: promised a little bit on the hotel rooms because you know,
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  Speaker 10: our stadium that they're playing in is out in New Jersey,
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  Speaker 10: so a lot of folks decided to come to New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: But when they win, they come here.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, it's just like when the Knicks victory, when
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  Speaker 10: Knicks one and five. I've been through a lot of
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  Speaker 10: ticker tape parades, which is how we celebrate in New
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  Speaker 10: York City. We go to Lower Manhattan where New York
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  Speaker 10: started it all, you know, right there Bowling Green, That's
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  Speaker 10: where we purchased Manhattan from, you know, Peter Minuett purchase
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  Speaker 10: Manhattan from the Native Americans.
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  Speaker 3: So that is still our focal point.
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  Speaker 10: That is where our preades begin whenever we are celebrating greatness.
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  Speaker 3: So they had the.
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  Speaker 10: Knicks parade last week. There were two million people that
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  Speaker 10: went downtown to go celebrate the Knicks.
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  Speaker 3: That is more than you know. And look, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: big Yankee fan. I have been all my life.
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  Speaker 10: I consider it a blessing that my parents, you know,
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  Speaker 10: stowed on me that I'm a Yankee fan and not
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  Speaker 10: a Mets fan.
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  Speaker 4: Amen, I know.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to be a Mets fan.
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  Speaker 10: I do respect the met the Met fans in the
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  Speaker 10: city because they're like long suffering, and the Jets fan
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  Speaker 10: I respect them.
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  Speaker 1: But you're getting you were getting to a non sports point.
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting to the point that the two million people.
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  Speaker 10: Went down there, which is more even they just released
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  Speaker 10: the subway numbers today. And when you know, when you
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  Speaker 10: look at New Year's Eve, we're in Times Square, so
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 10: of course you look at New Year's Eve, they have
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  Speaker 10: an additional of like two hundred thousand people that just
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 10: ride the subway. Here, they had something like two million
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  Speaker 10: additional people riding the subway just for the for the parade.
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  Speaker 11: Listen, you are the expert on all things tourism here.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to try and ask the hardest question ever. Okay,
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  Speaker 11: I've got twelve hours.
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  Speaker 4: To spend in New York my first time here. I
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: would say, what's one thing I have to do? But
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  Speaker 4: I'll give it.
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  Speaker 11: I'll give you some grace. What are three things that
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  Speaker 11: are quintessential New York for you?
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  Speaker 10: I think you have to come to Times Square for sure.
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  Speaker 10: I would you have to go to one the observation decks.
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  Speaker 10: I know everybody races to the Empire State Building, which
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 10: of course is so historic. But if you want to
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  Speaker 10: see the Empire State Building and be it an observation deck,
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  Speaker 10: you might want to go to the top of the rock.
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  Speaker 10: And then I think you do need to take the
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  Speaker 10: time and go to the Statue of Liberty or Ellis
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  Speaker 10: Island because it's the same. You know, Statue City cruises
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  Speaker 10: that goes there. They go to both islands. But you
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  Speaker 10: will get a flavor for you know, why we're such
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 10: a great city. Why is it because we come from
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  Speaker 10: all different backgrounds and we it's the great melting pot
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  Speaker 10: and we all started for the most part in that
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  Speaker 10: area and then we made it. You know, you can't
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 10: you can't fake it till you make it here in
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  Speaker 10: New York. At some point it catches up.
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  Speaker 3: It catches up to you. But you know what it's.
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  Speaker 10: It's just one of these amazing cities and it's like
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  Speaker 10: no other.
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  Speaker 3: And that's those were the three.
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  Speaker 1: If you can get it.
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  Speaker 3: A Broadway show, I would do that.
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  Speaker 10: Get on a subway, but it doesn't matter, like take
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  Speaker 10: it a few stops, but you have to get on
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  Speaker 10: a New York City subway just for the sites alone, sounds,
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  Speaker 10: the noise.
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  Speaker 4: I always recommend.
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  Speaker 11: The most touristy thing is get on a double decker
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  Speaker 11: bus and go up top because it's a free transportation
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  Speaker 11: around and you get to see a lot and it's.
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  Speaker 3: Cool in the summer. It could be it could be
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: ninety five degrees in August.
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  Speaker 10: But when you get on the top of that double
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  Speaker 10: decker bus and it catches some way, it's really beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: You you saw COVID come and go in your city.
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  Speaker 2: You you were on the mayor's staff when nine to
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  Speaker 2: eleven went down, and you were charged with the impossible
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  Speaker 2: task of getting Broadway open.
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  Speaker 1: Like within these ways twenty eight hours.
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  Speaker 2: What why does this city and why does this country
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  Speaker 2: always rise from the ashes so strongly.
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  Speaker 3: I think it comes from our roots.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we are a nation of for we're not
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: a single ethnicity, but we're a.
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  Speaker 3: Nation of immigrants.
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  Speaker 10: I mean even if you are there are very few
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 10: Native Americans, but for everyone, and even if you came
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 10: colonial times, we're a nation of immigrants. That means that
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 10: we had to leave something that was special to us
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 10: to come here.
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  Speaker 3: It just that alone, just the feeling of loss, missing people.
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  Speaker 10: It makes us stronger, grittier, and we know that we
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 10: have to work hard to succeed.
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  Speaker 3: And there are no.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: Sloths in New York City, but it's but it's the
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: country that if you do work hard, you are rewarded.
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  Speaker 2: You have the ability to do something you can't do
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  Speaker 2: in other places, which is really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, all right, pursuit of happiness.
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  Speaker 2: When we come back, a few closing thoughts and a
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: celebration of America in music.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with us.
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  Speaker 14: Let's stick around for more of that Kevin next serving
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  Speaker 14: it up. It's a no drink Mentow.
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  Speaker 7: It's that Kevin that show.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to.
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  Speaker 7: That Kevin Show.
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  Speaker 2: Final few minutes live from Times Square and friends. I've
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  Speaker 2: asked everybody else at the table, what they thought the
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  Speaker 2: secret to the.
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  Speaker 1: Resilience of America is.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, if I was asked the same question,
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  Speaker 2: that I think we owe a good portion of this
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: out of gratitude to God for his blessing, on what
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: our country is and how long we've lasted and.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: Where we go.
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  Speaker 2: So as we kind of get ready to say goodbye,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: take a listen to a very special production that was
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  Speaker 2: made just for today.
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  Speaker 21: Good bless America.
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  Speaker 7: Stand beside.
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  Speaker 22: God through the line with the life, from the.
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  Speaker 7: From the mouths to.
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  Speaker 22: There to the oceans, with food. Some America, my home,
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  Speaker 22: sweet home GOLs Some America.
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  Speaker 1: La stand beside Han Guy.
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  Speaker 11: Through the night with light from the.
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  Speaker 21: From the Mountians, through the prairies to the oceans wide
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  Speaker 21: would fall.
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  Speaker 4: God.
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  Speaker 21: Some America, my home, sweet home, long guble.
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  Speaker 20: America.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where you're from, It doesn't matter who
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  Speaker 2: you are, or what you've had against you or for you.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: If you come to this country, you have great opportunity.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: And Christine and Lewis we round out the end of
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: the show. Here just some final thoughts on America. Two
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  Speaker 2: fifty lou will start with.
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  Speaker 11: You get out and travel outside of America, because every
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 11: time I've done that and come home. It gives me
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 11: a new found love for this country, for this people,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 11: for what we have. And I didn't do that for
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 11: the first time until I was almost twenty years old.
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  Speaker 1: So wow, it's Christine White.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, get out and travel America.
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  Speaker 10: I've driven across country and it is a beautiful land
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 10: and beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: People, and I just feel so blessed to be part
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: Well, it's been a special time and we're just kicking
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: off really because July fourth is going to be enormous
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: for the city, for the country. We're going to continue
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: to have amazing events across the country. We've made it
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years. I do think we can
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: make it another two hundred and fifty. But I would
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: say that in order for that to happen, we have
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: to remember some really key things, and that is who
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: we were, where we came from, why we fought the
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: fights that we fought, and that we if we if
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: we stay the course, I think the potential is enormous.
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  Speaker 12: I think so.
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  Speaker 10: Look, no other country has people at their borders risking
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 10: their lives to get in.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a reason for.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: That, and nobody wants to leave yeah, everywhere else on
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: the planet has the opposite push.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 4: The hotel California country.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: They want to get out, but they don't want to
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: come here. It's the opposite.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: They want to get in and they don't want to leave.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: And friends, we don't want you to leave. We want
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: you to be here every single day and wherever you've
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: joined us from, thank you. If you want to re
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: listen to any of this, go to that kevinshow dot com.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: Get the podcast and we'll talk to lou next Monday again,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: and Christine will talk to you every Friday in the
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 2: foreseeable future. Friends from Times Square Kevin mcaules saying, God
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: bless America