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Hour 2: Tech companies policing AI · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Well, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York is in some
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Speaker 1: trouble here because it seems like it does appear like
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Speaker 1: they tried to cover up a gang rape at Cornell University.
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Speaker 1: You've heard the story already, and this is getting out
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Speaker 1: now because the woman, Jane Doe, is suing Columbia University.
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Speaker 1: And from the information coming out, I don't believe they
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Speaker 1: have a leg to stand on. They should settle this
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Speaker 1: thing quickly because the da is now involved a lot
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Speaker 1: of people across the country journalists are involved breaking stories
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Speaker 1: left and right and every single one of them cornell
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Speaker 1: university comes out looking worse so this happened in 2024
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Speaker 1: there was a frat party a woman goes to the
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Speaker 1: frat party and apparently she was open to having sex
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Speaker 1: but they gave her ketamine. They also gave her marijuana
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Speaker 1: and a lot of alcohol. And so she had sex
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Speaker 1: at first with two guys. And then they put out
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Speaker 1: on Snapchat that other guys should come because guess what?
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Speaker 1: There's this woman that's having sex with everybody. And so
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Speaker 1: then there was this gang rape. And this woman has
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Speaker 1: been very honest about everything.
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Speaker 2: Everything.
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Speaker 1: And yet somehow all the things that she was honest
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Speaker 1: about right after this rape didn't make it to the
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Speaker 1: County prosecutor.
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Speaker 2: It was hidden.
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Speaker 1: And I have to really give praise to Hassa Saidi,
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Speaker 1: who is a reporter for CBS, New York, who was
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Speaker 1: able to get a copy that apparently they claim didn't
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Speaker 1: exist and Get a copy of when the woman, Jane Doe,
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Speaker 1: spoke to campus police. This is three weeks later. Because
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Speaker 1: she didn't come forward right away. And that's not unusual
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Speaker 1: with rape victims. But she came forward. Now, Cornell University
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Speaker 1: said from the beginning, she said she wasn't raped. I
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Speaker 1: want you to hear what Hassa Saidi found out.
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Speaker 3: Asked whether she was okay with the initial encounter, she says, quote, yeah,
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Speaker 3: as much as I can be, because again, I was
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Speaker 3: super drunk when I got there, but I was pretty
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Speaker 3: okay with all of this. She adds, quote, and then
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Speaker 3: of course, I was being hit at the same time,
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Speaker 3: physically hit very, very hard. When describing later events, she says, quote,
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Speaker 3: I can say with 100% confidence I was raped.
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Speaker 1: So Saidi then went to the district attorney in Tompkins
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Speaker 1: County who passed on charges early and said to him,
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Speaker 1: why did you read this report?
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Speaker 2: Did you read this?
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Speaker 3: And she says, quote, I can say with 100 percent
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Speaker 3: confidence I was raped.
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Speaker 4: That wasn't information that I had, first of all. Second
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Speaker 4: of all, that is a legal conclusion. If she had
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Speaker 4: said those words, we certainly would want to have explored
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Speaker 4: that more.
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Speaker 3: Well, according to the transcript, she did say those words.
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Speaker 4: Well, like I said, that wasn't provided to me.
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Speaker 1: By Cornell University held that back, gave them lots of
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Speaker 1: other information, but held back the most.
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Speaker 2: Important piece of of information.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you that she is, Cornell University is
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Speaker 1: in a lot of trouble. They're going to have to
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Speaker 1: pay this off. There are going to be rape charges.
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Speaker 1: There's no question. By the way, Curtis, the disciplinary action
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Speaker 1: they gave to the seven that they're charging, that they're disciplining,
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Speaker 1: two of them were expelled. And they were apparently the
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Speaker 1: first two that called everybody else. Everybody else got like detention,
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Speaker 1: And a couple of them got writing assignments for a
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Speaker 1: gang rape.
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Speaker 5: Creative writing. They had to prove that they were good
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Speaker 5: at creative writing. How ridiculous. It's a mess.
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Speaker 6: The other group of journalists I didn't realize were actually
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Speaker 6: digging all along. As you mentioned, the CBS reporter who
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Speaker 6: just broke this news that they had the information all
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Speaker 6: along Cornell University, their public safety division, that she said
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Speaker 6: I had been raped with a student journalist. Apparently, the
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Speaker 6: local publication, I got a chance to meet them last
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Speaker 6: year when I spoke there. A lot of them, newspaper, radio,
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Speaker 6: you know, they were digging, digging, digging. And, you know,
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Speaker 6: university was trying to tell them, no, no, no, don't
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Speaker 6: make a big issue of it.
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Speaker 5: So it's all come to the forefront. Now, all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden, Hochul's jumped in. That's right.
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Speaker 6: We want a complete investigation. Tish James, the attorney general,
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Speaker 6: complete investigation. And then you look to the local DA
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Speaker 6: in that county. And he goes, well, I only have
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Speaker 6: nine investigators, and I really didn't know what it was.
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Speaker 6: You would have thought a normal DA would have been
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Speaker 6: a little more curious, would have said to one of
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Speaker 6: his investigators, hey, Joe, why don't you go in there,
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Speaker 6: talk to the people you know, their public safety, Cornell University,
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Speaker 6: the local cops. something that doesn't seem right here. Apparently,
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Speaker 6: he chose to do nothing. You know, he said, it
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Speaker 6: wasn't brought to my attention, so I wasn't going to
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Speaker 6: deal with it.
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Speaker 1: It was brought to his attention, and he did investigate it,
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Speaker 1: and Cornell University lied to him. And Cornell University has
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Speaker 1: been lying all along, and they've been putting out different
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Speaker 1: press releases and trying to slime this woman, and instead
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Speaker 1: of just owning up to what happened on their campus.
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Speaker 1: And so I would not blame this guy because he
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Speaker 1: went there and he got all the information they gave
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Speaker 1: him and he interviewed people and that was withheld from him.
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Speaker 1: The most damning piece of information was withheld from him.
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Speaker 1: And so Cornell University is embarrassing right now and they
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Speaker 1: need to come out and deal with this because it's
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Speaker 1: gonna get worse and it's gonna get worse and it's
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Speaker 1: gonna get worse. Every single investigative reporter in the country
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Speaker 1: is now going to be focused on Cornell University. Because
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Speaker 1: a story like this doesn't come along all the time.
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Speaker 1: And it's sickening. It's sickening. But for investigative reporters, they
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Speaker 1: smell blood now. Because if they covered this up, they
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Speaker 1: covered some other stuff up.
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Speaker 5: Sure.
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Speaker 6: In 2025, they report having had 12 hearings on this
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Speaker 6: particular issue with faculty and staff. And nobody spoke up
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Speaker 6: from the faculty and staff. Now, you know, generally, There
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Speaker 6: are people on the faculty and staff who don't really
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Speaker 6: care about what the administration thinks. If they feel there
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Speaker 6: was an indiscretion or a violation of this woman, they
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Speaker 6: would have said something.
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Speaker 5: But they were complicit. They were complicit.
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Speaker 6: It's sort of like the whole campus was in lockdown,
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Speaker 6: except for the student journalists who kept digging, digging, digging.
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Speaker 6: And obviously journalists are doing what they do best, which
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Speaker 6: is saying where there's smoke. You know there's fire, as
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Speaker 6: you pointed out. There's probably other situations that have occurred,
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Speaker 6: if not most recently in the past, that are somewhat
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Speaker 6: similar to this.
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Speaker 1: And I will tell you what normally happens here, because
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Speaker 1: I've been on the other side of this as an
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Speaker 1: investigative reporter. The defense now has access to everything. And
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Speaker 1: they better not hide anything from them, because they can
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Speaker 1: be criminally charged if they withhold information. So I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to say that this defense attorney... that's suing Now
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Speaker 1: Columbia gave that information to CBS. But I will say
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Speaker 1: in the past, when I've done these stories, that's where
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Speaker 1: the information comes from. And everybody knows that. If you
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Speaker 1: want to find out what's really going on, you go
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Speaker 1: to the person that can make the most money off
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Speaker 1: of this. And so I would think that may be
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Speaker 1: the case here, but I'm not going to say that
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Speaker 1: because you know, this guy sues people.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to get sued, so I don't know
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Speaker 2: that at all.
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what happens in most of these cases,
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Speaker 1: in many of these cases.
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Speaker 6: So they call the Cornell 7. We know the ringleader
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Speaker 6: has been identified. Apparently he was working for Wells Fargo,
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Speaker 6: the banking firm in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Speaker 5: He was fired as a result of that.
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Speaker 6: He had another colleague of his, you know, his, what
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Speaker 6: do we call it, frat brother, who was totally complicit
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Speaker 6: with him in organizing this whole thing, and then eventually
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Speaker 6: continuing to put out those Snapchats to their frat brothers like, hey,
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Speaker 6: come get some.
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Speaker 5: Come get some.
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Speaker 2: Stores open is what they said. Stores open.
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Speaker 6: So what about the fact that there are those now
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Speaker 6: who are going after all seven, are posting their photos,
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Speaker 6: their background information, because some are saying they must be
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Speaker 6: held accountable, others are saying, but they're being harassed because...
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Speaker 6: Those others haven't been charged with anything. How as a
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Speaker 6: journalist would you handle that? The fact that independent and autonomous,
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Speaker 6: call them vigilantes, so to speak, have acquired this information
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Speaker 6: and are just posting it up all over the place
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Speaker 6: on the others who are considered part of the Cornell 7.
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Speaker 2: Well, what they're doing is legal.
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Speaker 1: If they want to take legal action against them, if
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Speaker 1: the people want to take legal action against them, they
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Speaker 1: can choose to do that. I doubt they will. But
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Speaker 1: what they're doing is legal. All I would say to
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Speaker 1: people is there is a legal process for that. These
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Speaker 1: people are going to be investigated. It's going to a
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Speaker 1: grand jury already, and they're probably going to be charged.
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Speaker 1: Let it play out. They've got a rough enough life
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Speaker 1: right now. But let me talk about it because I
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Speaker 1: think we talk about the people that commit the crimes
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Speaker 1: or allegedly commit the crimes more than we talk about
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Speaker 1: the victim.
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Speaker 2: This poor girl was 20 years old. She was 20
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Speaker 2: years old.
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Speaker 1: Now, she made some stupid decisions in this. There's no question.
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Speaker 1: And she admits to that, by the way. She fully
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Speaker 1: admits to that. But after what happened, her life was ruined.
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Speaker 1: She left Cornell. She pulled out of the university, and
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Speaker 1: she didn't want to go back to another college right away.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if she is right now. We're going
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Speaker 1: to find more about her from the defense attorney as
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Speaker 1: they start to release more information. But I will tell
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Speaker 1: you right now, and maybe I should stop calling the
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Speaker 1: defense attorney because he's actually suing Cornell University. But I
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Speaker 1: will tell you right now that this is going to
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Speaker 1: haunt this poor woman for the rest of her life.
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Speaker 1: And she really made some poor choices, but at a
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Speaker 1: certain point, she didn't want this to happen to her anymore.
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Speaker 1: And another time, we should talk about the state law
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Speaker 1: that allows this to happen.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, the New York rape law excludes people who were
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Speaker 6: voluntarily intoxicated.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 6: So you would think this is such a me-too state, right?
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Speaker 6: Let's face it, New York is a me-too state. Very progressive,
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Speaker 6: very liberal state. there are now more female legislators in
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Speaker 6: Albany than there are male legislators. You would say, how
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Speaker 6: did this exist? This New York rape law that excludes
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Speaker 6: people who were voluntarily intoxicated.
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Speaker 1: They're pushing to change it right now. And you're not
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Speaker 1: going to believe this. And yes, we should talk about
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Speaker 1: this tomorrow because there's pushback. There's a whole other side
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Speaker 1: that's pushing back against it. So that'll, that'll come up tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: but coming up in the next segment, Dolly Parton, even
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Speaker 1: after her death, has a brand new coffee out. And
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, she did an ad for it
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Speaker 1: again this is all starting on monday Kelly Parton's not
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Speaker 1: only a great songwriter and a great singer and a
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Speaker 1: great actress, but man, is she an incredible businesswoman. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you've heard this. It just happened recently.
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Speaker 1: It did happen before she died, but it was only
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Speaker 1: sold locally. She has a coffee out that's now going
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Speaker 1: to go national. It's called Cup of Ambition. Now, if
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Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out, man, I've heard that term before.
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Speaker 2: Here it is.
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Speaker 1: Once in this past year. And they named the truck
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Speaker 1: stop Cup of Ambition after her song. And she got
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Speaker 1: the idea, hey, I'm going to go national with a
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Speaker 1: coffee brand called Cup of Ambition. It was only sold at.
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Speaker 5: That truck stop.
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Speaker 6: You know, Larry, I've never seen you so excited after
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Speaker 6: yesterday's program, National Coffee Day, in which you told the
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Speaker 6: audience you drink a minimum of 14 caffeinated cups of
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Speaker 6: coffee a day.
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Speaker 5: Fourteen. Natalie, can you order some of this Dolly Parton Jabba?
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Speaker 2: I already have.
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Speaker 1: I went to Amazon and already got some. I want
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Speaker 1: to try it and Dawn does as well. It's available
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Speaker 1: on Amazon. Let me just play the commercial she did
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Speaker 1: right before she died.
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Speaker 7: When I was filming 9 to 5, I wrote a
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Speaker 7: song called 9 to 5, and it started out by saying,
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Speaker 7: pour myself a cup of ambition. But I thought the
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Speaker 7: cup of ambition would be a fantastic name for.
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Speaker 5: A coffee brand.
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Speaker 7: And I've been working towards this for over 40 years,
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Speaker 7: and I think you won't be able to find a
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Speaker 7: better cup of coffee out there.
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Speaker 2: She says it like you.
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Speaker 7: She can use some more ambition.
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Speaker 5: Cup of coffee.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 8: That's amazing.
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Speaker 6: You know what we didn't figure out yesterday when we—
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Speaker 6: Heard your revelation of drinking 14 cups of caffeinated coffee
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Speaker 6: a day.
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Speaker 2: I may have exaggerated.
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Speaker 6: When you were first drinking coffee, was it Chock Full
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Speaker 6: of Nuts, the Heavenly Coffee, or Folgers? What was your
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Speaker 6: favorite coffee growing up?
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Speaker 5: Growing up?
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Speaker 2: I didn't drink coffee growing up.
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Speaker 1: I didn't drink coffee until I got into my first newsroom,
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Speaker 1: and it was the only thing that was free.
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Speaker 2: And that's when I started drinking coffee. I didn't drink
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Speaker 2: coffee in college.
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Speaker 5: But let me tell you, the coffee in newsrooms is horrible.
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Speaker 2: It was free. Did I mention free? And it was
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Speaker 2: fresh brewed, too.
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Speaker 5: The coffee's amazing.
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Speaker 2: It is amazing.
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Speaker 1: And a lot now since Keurig. Ever since Keurig, coffee
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Speaker 1: got really, really good.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to your talkbacks.
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Speaker 1: The first one wants to talk about Cornell University and
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Speaker 1: the rape charges there.
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Speaker 9: About this Cornell case, and you two are probably much
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Speaker 9: more knowledgeable than me. If you know of a crime
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Speaker 9: and you don't report or provide information, is that not
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Speaker 9: a crime? Couldn't charges be pressed against Cornell for holding
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Speaker 9: back that statement, which could be evidence.
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Speaker 10: Of a crime?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Yes, you're right. But they're not going to be charged.
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Speaker 1: And nobody that saw it or witnessed it are going
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Speaker 1: to be charged either. They're looking for witnesses at that point. Well,
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Speaker 1: Cornell's got to worry about this lawsuit because at this point,
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Speaker 1: it's looking really, really bad. The settlement is going to
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Speaker 1: be huge.
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Speaker 6: Remember that final Seinfeld episode where the They were taking
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Speaker 6: a plane to Europe. They had a land in Maine,
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Speaker 6: and they witnessed a crime, and they didn't say anything,
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Speaker 6: and they got arrested, remember, for knowing of a crime
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Speaker 6: but not reporting it.
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Speaker 5: This would be interesting.
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Speaker 6: There are obviously people who knew that crime was being committed.
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Speaker 6: I like that idea of making them somewhat culpable.
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Speaker 5: We'll see.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see.
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Speaker 1: That would set a precedent across the country that would
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Speaker 1: be really dangerous or really good.
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Speaker 2: We'll find out. We'll see if it happens. Now let's
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Speaker 2: talk about coffee.
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Speaker 10: Yesterday you were talking about the different coffees, decaf and whatever.
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Speaker 10: And yes, decaf is gross. But the worst, the absolute
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Speaker 10: worst has got to be this new mushroom coffee.
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Speaker 11: I could gag just.
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Speaker 4: Thinking about it.
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Speaker 10: Mushrooms first thing in the morning. I don't think so.
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Speaker 6: No, I think because of her age, she doesn't understand.
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Speaker 6: It's shrooms in the coffee. It's not the coffee. It's
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Speaker 6: not the caffeine. It's shroom coffee. It's like you get
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Speaker 6: a psychedelic attack.
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Speaker 11: No, there is a thing with mushroom coffee.
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Speaker 2: Oh, there is?
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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's all the rage right now. It's supposed to have.
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Speaker 12: Lots of health benefits, you know, good for your gut
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Speaker 12: and antioxidants and it's coffee and it.
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Speaker 5: Is- Have you had?
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Speaker 11: No, because it sounds disgusting.
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Speaker 5: I agree with her. You have to try it.
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Speaker 2: So I went to AI.
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Speaker 1: Mushroom coffee is a blend of regular coffee and medical
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Speaker 1: mushroom extracts designed to provide steady energy with fewer jitters.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I think Curtis might be right.
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Speaker 5: I think there's shrooms. There's shrooms in that coffee.
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Speaker 1: It gives you some energy and fewer jitters. Now let's
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Speaker 1: get the Daria Albinger with the 730 News.
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Speaker 9: Daria.
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Speaker 11: They also make a hot chocolate with it. And I
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Speaker 11: tried it. Yeah, because they say it's supposed to make
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Speaker 11: you fall asleep. It's disgusting.
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 11: It sounds nasty. I'm sorry. I don't want mushrooms in
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Speaker 11: my chocolate.
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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, the warning should have been mushrooms.
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Speaker 13: Right.
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Speaker 2: Why are you drinking that? It's hot chocolate and mushrooms?
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, it tasted just like you thought it would.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you went in first.
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Speaker 11: Well, somebody's got.
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Speaker 5: To try it.
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Speaker 14: Sunny and warmer today. Clouds rolling this afternoon. I did
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Speaker 14: it in the name of research for a story. High
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Speaker 14: 75 degrees.
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Speaker 11: Operation Inherent Resolve officially ends today. The last U.S.
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Speaker 14: Troops in northern Iraq who took part in the 12-year-long
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Speaker 14: mission against ISIS are leaving. It's part of a plan
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Speaker 14: that was negotiated in 2024. The Pentagon says the terrorists
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Speaker 14: were defeated in 2019. A new report says Sean Diddy
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Speaker 14: Combs is still living the high life in prison.
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Speaker 13: That report from NBC News says Diddy has men who
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Speaker 13: cook and clean for him in his New Jersey federal prison.
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Speaker 13: make his bed, and give him massages. They say Combs
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Speaker 13: has an illegal cell phone and uses it to view
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Speaker 13: nude and sexually explicit images, has access to recreational antidepressants,
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Speaker 13: and booze smuggled in by guards, among other contraband privileges.
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Speaker 13: A spokesman for Combs said the media is portraying, quote,
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Speaker 13: ordinary prison life as news. Andrew Whitman, WOR News.
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Speaker 14: The City Council holds a hearing today on a series
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Speaker 14: of bills that are designed to improve e-bike and e-scooter safety.
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Speaker 14: One would create a rebate and trade-in program for bikes
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Speaker 14: that go faster than the legal 25-mile-per-hour limit. Well, we
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Speaker 14: are not even close to Christmas. In fact, it's not
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Speaker 14: even Halloween. But the people at Rockefeller Center are already
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Speaker 14: talking about that tree.
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Speaker 15: There's no word yet on height, weight, where it's from,
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Speaker 15: or whether it's even been selected yet. But we're being
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Speaker 6: Ah, let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, up next,
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Speaker 6: he's right on time with that AI summit. No, it's
19:45
Speaker 6: not what Trump called it, SI or something. We got
19:49
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19:52
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19:56
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Speaker 6: Rich DeMuro. Rich on Tech has heard Sunday nights from
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20:27
Speaker 5: And I noticed that you were missing in action there, Rich.
20:29
Speaker 6: You were not part of that massive summit about AI
20:33
Speaker 6: hosted by the president at the White House yesterday. When
20:36
Speaker 6: they walked outside, it looked to me like a hostage photo.
20:41
Speaker 6: The president was saying, oh, we all agreed you're going
20:44
Speaker 6: to self-police and we're no longer referring to it as
20:47
Speaker 6: artificial intelligence. But superintelligence, they didn't seem like they were
20:53
Speaker 6: all in agreement to that.
20:55
Speaker 5: Or were they?
20:57
Speaker 2: Well, probably not.
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Speaker 16: But, you know, we've seen this before. Apple, when they
21:00
Speaker 16: came out with AI, they don't call it AI. It
21:03
Speaker 16: is Apple intelligence. So there is some this has been
21:08
Speaker 16: done before.
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Speaker 5: Let's put it that way.
21:10
Speaker 16: And so superintelligence. Apple intelligence, artificial intelligence.
21:13
Speaker 5: It's all the same.
21:14
Speaker 16: It's making our lives easier, but also more stressful because
21:17
Speaker 16: we're all worried about this stuff in the future.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So did anything really happen at that meeting? I know
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Speaker 1: that they have some agreement in theory. I'm not sure
21:29
Speaker 1: anything signed just yet, but is that going to be
21:33
Speaker 1: enough for what we've been told about the draconian ending
21:37
Speaker 1: that possibly may be ahead for us?
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Speaker 5: Well, we'll see.
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Speaker 16: We don't know what the ending of all this is
21:44
Speaker 16: going to be. But yes, the companies did sign a
21:46
Speaker 16: voluntary AI accord. We had representatives from Google, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, XAI,
21:54
Speaker 16: which is from Elon Musk. Apple, I don't believe, was
21:57
Speaker 16: there this time around. But we do know Apple has
21:59
Speaker 16: a pretty cozy relationship with the White House. But look,
22:02
Speaker 16: this agreement is all about letting these companies do what
22:05
Speaker 16: they do best. but also saying, look, we understand that
22:08
Speaker 16: there are risks, we understand that there are downsides to this,
22:11
Speaker 16: and we need you to be looking out for those.
22:13
Speaker 16: And I think that this is probably an appropriate way
22:16
Speaker 16: to do this right now, because no one really knows.
22:19
Speaker 16: All the doomsayers, all the doom and gloom, we don't
22:21
Speaker 16: really know if that's going to happen. We don't know
22:23
Speaker 16: if humanity is going to be wiped off the face
22:25
Speaker 16: of this planet because of AI. What we do know
22:28
Speaker 16: is that this is a race, and there are many,
22:30
Speaker 16: many companies around the world that are all trying to
22:33
Speaker 16: do this. And just because the U.S. slows down does
22:36
Speaker 16: not mean anyone else is going to slow down. In fact,
22:38
Speaker 16: we just saw the financials from Anthropic. I mean, that
22:42
Speaker 16: company is burning through billions, billions of dollars a year.
22:46
Speaker 16: And now, to me, it's very clear why these companies,
22:49
Speaker 16: why Anthropic in particular, wanted to slow down because they
22:53
Speaker 16: want to spend less because they're spending so much and
22:55
Speaker 16: their IPO is coming up and they're saying, look, this
22:58
Speaker 16: company is not as, you know, The financials may not
23:02
Speaker 16: be as good in this business as you think right now.
23:05
Speaker 16: Same thing happened with Amazon in the early days, and
23:07
Speaker 16: look what happened to them. So we'll see what comes
23:09
Speaker 16: of this. But yes, the companies are signing a voluntary
23:13
Speaker 16: oversight accord where they're saying, look, we're going to keep
23:15
Speaker 16: track of this, and we're going to figure out ways
23:17
Speaker 16: of making sure this stuff is safe.
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Speaker 6: Well, the president with the CEOs of these companies took
23:24
Speaker 6: it upon himself to say, oh, Neighborhoods and communities all
23:27
Speaker 6: over America, they want these data filing centers. They really
23:31
Speaker 6: want them. This will be good for them. This will
23:33
Speaker 6: make them prosperous. I don't think the president has been
23:38
Speaker 6: paying attention to what's been going on in the country. Rich,
23:41
Speaker 6: are you aware of communities that are clamoring to have
23:45
Speaker 6: data filing artificial intelligence centers in their backyard?
23:50
Speaker 5: I have not heard of many of those, but.
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Speaker 16: I mean, we also saw the same thing. Remember when
23:55
Speaker 16: Amazon wanted to do their headquarters too somewhere? And they
24:00
Speaker 16: put up this big thing where they said, okay, you
24:02
Speaker 16: communities compete for this. You know, you pitched to us
24:05
Speaker 16: which place we should put this in. And nobody wanted it.
24:08
Speaker 16: Nobody wanted Amazon to be in their backyard because they said, no,
24:11
Speaker 16: this is, it's probably eventually not good for us. You're
24:15
Speaker 16: going to give this company all these tax breaks and
24:17
Speaker 16: all this stuff. And you're going to promise all these jobs.
24:19
Speaker 16: And at the end of the day, it's probably going
24:21
Speaker 16: to be one big factory with a bunch of robots inside.
24:23
Speaker 16: And so I think the same thing with data centers.
24:25
Speaker 16: It's like the promise is there. Oh, we're going to
24:28
Speaker 16: give you jobs. We're going to give you the stimulus
24:30
Speaker 16: to your neighborhood. But at the end of the day,
24:32
Speaker 16: we're just using your water and your electricity, and what
24:34
Speaker 16: do you get out of it? So I'm not seeing
24:36
Speaker 16: the neighborhood's clamor for it, but that doesn't mean we
24:39
Speaker 16: don't need these things. I think we're going to have
24:41
Speaker 16: to take a different approach to how we build these
24:43
Speaker 16: data centers.
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Speaker 1: By the way, before I get to the question, I
24:46
Speaker 1: want to comment on the dissertation or statement that you
24:49
Speaker 1: made on AI. I thought it was brilliant, and I
24:51
Speaker 1: agree with you 1,000%. All right, now a question. How
24:55
Speaker 1: about this? This is a little bit scary. Your car
24:58
Speaker 1: may be sharing data with big tech. How is that happening?
25:02
Speaker 16: I mean, look, we kind of knew everything that's connected
25:05
Speaker 16: to the Internet is snitching on us. But yes, your car,
25:09
Speaker 16: according to Consumer Reports, they did this study with the
25:12
Speaker 16: university and they looked at 15 major automakers and found that, yes,
25:17
Speaker 16: all of this information that you have in your car,
25:20
Speaker 16: a lot of it is being shared with data providers.
25:23
Speaker 16: mining companies google meta amazon all on the receiving end
25:28
Speaker 16: of this data and so some of this data includes
25:31
Speaker 16: your location it includes your car's vin number and what
25:34
Speaker 16: these companies do if you're not familiar with the way
25:36
Speaker 16: these um data collection companies work even if they have
25:39
Speaker 16: one key piece of your information they don't need everything
25:43
Speaker 16: they need your vin And they will find everything else
25:45
Speaker 16: out about you by pulling all of the databases that
25:48
Speaker 16: include your information. They can use your email address, your
25:50
Speaker 16: phone number, whatever you do. Like when you go to
25:52
Speaker 16: a store and you give them your phone number for
25:54
Speaker 16: the loyalty rewards program.
25:56
Speaker 2: Oh, no big deal.
25:57
Speaker 5: It's just my phone number.
25:58
Speaker 16: Well, they take that phone number and they instantly put
26:00
Speaker 16: it into a thousand different databases that give them every
26:03
Speaker 16: piece of information they need to know about you down
26:06
Speaker 16: to what scent candle that you like. And that's what's
26:09
Speaker 16: happening here. Same thing with the cars.
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Speaker 2: Bottom line, guys.
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Speaker 16: You've got to go into your app and try to
26:15
Speaker 16: turn off any sort of opt-out setting that you can
26:19
Speaker 16: that says share my data.
26:20
Speaker 2: Turn it all off.
26:21
Speaker 16: You don't need to help GM or whoever else use
26:24
Speaker 16: your data in all these ways.
26:26
Speaker 2: That's great advice.
26:28
Speaker 1: Flock, I hope, Flock doesn't know about this because they're
26:31
Speaker 1: going to want to tap in as well. Rich DeMuro,
26:34
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech, is heard Sunday nights from 8 to
26:36
Speaker 1: 11 p.m.
26:37
Speaker 4: On WOR.
26:38
Speaker 1: By the way, you can reach out to Rich and
26:39
Speaker 1: see what he has to say all week long at
26:42
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech on Instagram.
26:44
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Rich. Have a good week. Thanks, Larry.
26:48
Speaker 13: Thanks, Curtis.
26:49
Speaker 2: When we come back, guess what? Natalie Migliore is back,
26:54
Speaker 2: and she's talking to New Yorkers about what else? The Yankees.
26:59
Speaker 2: The Beat on the Street, next.
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Speaker 6: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Oh,
27:09
Speaker 6: we all had separation anxiety for the time you were away,
27:13
Speaker 6: Natalie Migliore. But you're back, and you were in the
27:16
Speaker 6: streets this morning, and you've come up to the suites.
27:20
Speaker 5: Yankees win! Yankees win! Yankees win! Tell me, that was
27:24
Speaker 5: the question you asked?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, what a morning to come back to. I missed
27:27
Speaker 12: you guys. It's great to be back. I thought about
27:30
Speaker 12: you guys the whole time. I can't wait to tell
27:32
Speaker 12: you all the stories about my travels in Brazil. But
27:36
Speaker 12: we'll talk about that off air. But anyway, I missed
27:38
Speaker 12: you guys, but it's great to be back to a
27:40
Speaker 12: Yankees win. I saw tons of hats out on the street.
27:44
Speaker 12: One guy decked out in his Letterman jacket, letting everyone
27:48
Speaker 12: know he's celebrating this morning all right and he wasn't
27:51
Speaker 12: the only one as i stopped several people wearing hats
27:55
Speaker 12: on the street to talk about the game that's.
27:58
Speaker 8: A beautiful thing it's a beautiful thing i think it's
28:02
Speaker 8: about time to do something good they've been losing a
28:04
Speaker 8: lot lately but the new players have been coming up
28:07
Speaker 8: so let's see what happens.
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Speaker 17: Well i thought it was terrific the home run in
28:10
Speaker 17: the bottom of the eighth was the best the grand
28:13
Speaker 17: slam but it was my first ever yankee game and
28:16
Speaker 17: i'm It was pretty dope, man.
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Speaker 12: Wait, you went or you watched it at home?
28:21
Speaker 2: I did attend.
28:22
Speaker 11: Can you believe that that was your first game ever?
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Speaker 17: I could not believe it. I could not believe it.
28:27
Speaker 17: One tall boy in, and then it was on and popping.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, all you needed was.
28:31
Speaker 5: One tall boy in. And then the bats were alive,
28:37
Speaker 5: and so was he.
28:38
Speaker 12: Okay, so it's one win down, one more to go
28:41
Speaker 12: for the Yanks. Cam Schlittler shut down the Boston Red
28:44
Speaker 12: Sox lineup. striking out 10 batters as he pitched into
28:48
Speaker 12: the seventh inning. The question remains, though, you know, there's
28:52
Speaker 12: an obvious piece missing here. Do fans think the Yanks
28:56
Speaker 12: can keep it up without Judge? 99, spending the summer
29:01
Speaker 12: sidelined with a rib injury, and now he's got a
29:04
Speaker 12: strained right calf.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. Because he really hasn't shown anything in
29:08
Speaker 2: the playoffs lately.
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Speaker 5: They possibly can. New York has always been that way.
29:13
Speaker 5: Without Judge, they're doing a good job right now. So
29:15
Speaker 5: it's awesome right now. We're doing our thing.
29:17
Speaker 2: Let's keep going.
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Speaker 8: Well, you can replace him, but he don't perform well
29:21
Speaker 8: in the playoffs. But I'd rather him be in the
29:23
Speaker 8: actual playoffs and see what he does this year.
29:26
Speaker 5: So hopefully he'll come back.
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Speaker 17: Nah, I think it's a fickle situation. I don't think so.
29:32
Speaker 17: Just because just how the league is set up, man.
29:35
Speaker 17: You know, our tiny is just phenomenal you know.
29:39
Speaker 9: The yankees can go all the way without judge ben
29:41
Speaker 9: rice all the way big body ben.
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Speaker 6: Ah but i tell you lar wow he has not
29:49
Speaker 6: performed in the playoffs now all rise you know all
29:52
Speaker 6: hail judge during the season nobody better But when it
29:56
Speaker 6: comes to the playoffs, he's left us so disappointed in
29:59
Speaker 6: the past that now that he can't perform.
30:01
Speaker 5: Leave him there. Just play the guys who got us here.
30:04
Speaker 2: It's amazing, though. One win and like, oh, we don't
30:06
Speaker 2: need him. We don't need a best player.
30:09
Speaker 5: I don't think that's it.
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Speaker 12: I mean, they did have to play the whole summer
30:11
Speaker 12: without him. They played a long stretch without him.
30:15
Speaker 10: Oh, I know that.
30:15
Speaker 11: And I think I looked up a stat.
30:16
Speaker 12: It said he has played 65 postseason games and his
30:21
Speaker 12: batting average in it is 268.
30:24
Speaker 5: No, it's bad.
30:25
Speaker 11: In a postseason.
30:26
Speaker 5: No power in the postseason.
30:29
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just giving you the stat. You tell me
30:30
Speaker 2: it's bad. She's so proud of herself. Let her just
30:33
Speaker 2: live in that moment for a second.
30:35
Speaker 12: Well, speaking of, as that gentleman on the street called him,
30:38
Speaker 12: Big Body Ben. Ben Rice is a powerhouse. He brought
30:42
Speaker 12: in a homer and a grand slam last night. A
30:45
Speaker 12: lot of fans want to be hopeful about how far
30:48
Speaker 12: the Yankees are going to go, but they don't want
30:50
Speaker 12: to jinx it.
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Speaker 16: Well, they've been known to always make it to the playoffs,
30:53
Speaker 16: so hopefully.
30:55
Speaker 9: Each time they get there, they'll learn something new and
30:58
Speaker 9: use that as a motivation to get them to where
31:00
Speaker 9: they need to go.
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Speaker 8: One thing about baseball, the best team don't always win,
31:03
Speaker 8: but it's hard to beat the Dodgers. So if they
31:06
Speaker 8: have to play the Dodgers, it might be a repeat
31:08
Speaker 8: of the World Series before. I think it was last
31:11
Speaker 8: year or the year before that, but you never know.
31:13
Speaker 2: I'm from Queens, baby.
31:14
Speaker 5: I'm a Mets fan. Let's go, baby.
31:16
Speaker 2: We'll see you next year.
31:18
Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:18
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, next year. The Yankees.
31:22
Speaker 2: In a decade.
31:22
Speaker 5: You keep thinking that, pal.
31:24
Speaker 12: Yeah, Steve Cohen, it's always next year. Look, the Yankees
31:28
Speaker 12: are still focusing on this year because they're still at
31:32
Speaker 12: the ball. But the Mets will use their offseason to
31:35
Speaker 12: restructure its front office and evaluate its roster. I feel
31:39
Speaker 12: like I had to throw that in. That's a lot
31:41
Speaker 12: of work going in there. But the Yankees play once
31:44
Speaker 12: again tonight.
31:45
Speaker 6: By the way, you missed being back For yesterday's discussion
31:49
Speaker 6: about coffee.
31:52
Speaker 5: We discovered that Larry.
31:54
Speaker 6: Drinks 14 cups of caffeinated coffee a day, and you
31:57
Speaker 6: went all the way to Brazil to have a cup
32:00
Speaker 6: of coffee because of the Frank Sinatra song.
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Speaker 12: Yes, and I'm going to edit a video together. I
32:04
Speaker 12: videoed myself every cup of coffee, 14 cups a day.
32:07
Speaker 5: You're amazing.
32:08
Speaker 1: You took the story about me drinking 14 cups and
32:11
Speaker 1: did a promo for yourself.
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Speaker 2: That's really good.
32:13
Speaker 5: No, I'm impressed.
32:14
Speaker 2: That wasn't a bad thing. I'm really impressed. I never
32:16
Speaker 2: throw myself, but he said I went to.
32:18
Speaker 5: I did.
32:19
Speaker 12: I wanted to go to Brazil to go for.
32:21
Speaker 2: He's right.
32:22
Speaker 5: Curtis is right. That's why I wanted to go to
32:24
Speaker 5: Brazil for the coffee. Oh, very quickly.
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Speaker 6: You must go online, Natalie, to direct them to the
32:29
Speaker 6: Zeppeli demonstration of Natalie.
32:32
Speaker 5: Migliore and Curtis Lewa at the San Gennaro Festival.
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Speaker 2: Shoot, I have nothing to promote. I have nothing to promote.
32:37
Speaker 11: You know what?
32:38
Speaker 2: Damn it.
32:39
Speaker 11: I'm with you, Larry. What drives you to drink 14 cups, though?
32:45
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
32:45
Speaker 11: Like, is it the taste of coffee or you need it?
32:48
Speaker 7: Both.
32:48
Speaker 11: Okay.
32:49
Speaker 2: Come on.
32:50
Speaker 11: Wow.
32:51
Speaker 6: Next, Larry needs to discuss the Lindsay Clancy case yesterday.
32:57
Speaker 5: It was wild. But first, the news at 8 o'clock.