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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 8-28-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.
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  Speaker 2: New York wakes up with Curtis Sliwa and Larry Menti,
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  Speaker 2: 710 WOR.
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  Speaker 3: Well, good morning to you. I hope you survived the thunderstorms.
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  Speaker 3: There was a tornado warning in upstate New York in
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  Speaker 3: Ulster County. Did you know that? Man, it didn't hit,
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  Speaker 3: but there was a tornado warning.
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  Speaker 1: It was bad.
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  Speaker 2: You want to be listening later on in the program,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you an update on Lone Wolf Juan Nancy
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  Speaker 2: baying to the moon in the inclement weather in Central
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  Speaker 2: Park when the blood moon supposedly appeared.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't see anything.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody could see anything.
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  Speaker 1: She did.
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  Speaker 3: Really? It must have just peeked through the clouds a
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  Speaker 3: couple of times because it was just unfortunate that we
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  Speaker 3: had this lunar show and then we also had all
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  Speaker 3: these clouds and But a lot of people, I feel
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  Speaker 3: for you in Staten Island. I feel for you in Elizabeth.
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  Speaker 3: I know there was flash flooding. I know there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of cleanup going on today. So the only good
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  Speaker 3: news is you're going to have some nice weather over
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  Speaker 3: the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Now, was this appropriate for me?
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  Speaker 2: Because, you know, I'm the guy who knows about the
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  Speaker 2: catch basins overflowing. You need to clean them out, especially
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  Speaker 2: with this extreme flash flooding we get. This will be
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  Speaker 2: like number eight this summer, and we haven't even reached
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day yet. But a few of the folks in
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  Speaker 2: Staten Island, they've seen my posts lately, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: catch basins.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday I did one, all the.
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  Speaker 2: Garbage in the tracks that are backing up the catch basins,
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  Speaker 2: which leads to floods and track fires. Curtis, can you
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  Speaker 2: come out here with some of your guardian angels and
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  Speaker 2: help us from underwater? And what do you think I said,
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  Speaker 2: Quiet Storm? Chris on loan from Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. Chris on loan from Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie, not away.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I told them? I said, why don't
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  Speaker 2: you call your friend? You're a Cuomo sexual. You voted
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  Speaker 2: for him, not me. Why don't you call Andrew Evil
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  Speaker 2: Eyes Cuomo?
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  Speaker 3: Why did you bring Chris on that? Do you think
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  Speaker 3: he's a Cuomo sexual? Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: No, no. But, you know, just to get him active because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Natalie is not with us today.
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  Speaker 1: She'll be back with us on Monday. So you're going solo. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: In the producer's seat today.
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  Speaker 3: Let's give him a few minutes. Go ahead. What do
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  Speaker 3: you want to say?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I had nothing to say on this right now.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. I didn't pay attention.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, Natalie Migliore talked about date night at
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  Speaker 2: City Field last night.
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  Speaker 1: Did they get rained out? No, they played. They lost, obviously.
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  Speaker 5: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was a given. Did anybody get hooked up? Did
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  Speaker 1: anybody score? That I don't know. I was not there.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't keep score on that?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: That's all anybody cared about.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I saw.
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  Speaker 4: The Mets lost, but I'm sure... Hopefully somebody won last night.
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  Speaker 2: What else is new, right? What else is new? But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: let's get to the number one story. Larry, you were
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  Speaker 2: talking about it right at the tail end of the
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  Speaker 2: show yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We had so many talkbacks. People wanted to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: The historic settlement that Zuckerberg and his lawyers agreed to
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  Speaker 2: in the case, the civil case against him that was
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  Speaker 2: being heard in Oakland, California, California against him. but it
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  Speaker 2: also involved attorney generals from all over the country. What
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  Speaker 2: were the details of that settlement which protected Zuckerberg from
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  Speaker 2: having to get up on that stand and make a
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  Speaker 2: complete fool out of himself?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this should get a whole lot more attention than
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  Speaker 3: it's getting, actually, because this is going to be the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of a long trend now. It's going to be
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  Speaker 3: years and years and years in this because Meta has
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  Speaker 3: basically admitted that, yes, They were manipulating their products to
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  Speaker 3: be more addictive to children, and they're going to end
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  Speaker 3: up paying $ 18 billion in a settlement for that. But
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  Speaker 3: that's not the most important part. The most important part
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  Speaker 3: is the precedent it sets, and that now others, that
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  Speaker 3: X and Twitch and all of the other social media
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  Speaker 3: platforms are going to be forced to follow suit. So
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  Speaker 3: watch what's going to happen. These dominoes are now going
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  Speaker 3: to start falling over the next year. This is what
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  Speaker 3: the meta agreement is. There will be two-hour daily limits,
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  Speaker 3: a default two-hour usage cap on Facebook and Instagram that
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  Speaker 3: requires parental consent to remove. Overnight curfews, restrictions on the
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  Speaker 3: app usage between midnight and 6 a.m., a ban on
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  Speaker 3: push notifications on weekdays between 8 and 3 p.m. There's
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  Speaker 3: a long list of these. But what it does, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to limit what your kids can do and how
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  Speaker 3: long they can stay on social media. Because their own research,
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  Speaker 3: which they hid, they buried, showed that this had a
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  Speaker 3: deletory effect on youth, that it was hurting our youths.
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  Speaker 3: And it was making them angry. It was making them isolated.
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  Speaker 3: And in some cases, it was making them suicidal. And
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  Speaker 3: so this is a tremendous ruling. I'm glad this is
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  Speaker 3: now out in the open. But you also had a
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  Speaker 3: lot to say about this.
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  Speaker 1: Shame on the parents. It's their responsibility to oversee what
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  Speaker 1: their children are doing. Not Zuckerberg. He knew how to
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  Speaker 1: keep his kids away from social media.
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  Speaker 2: Is it too much work for the parents today?
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  Speaker 1: Take their electronics away.
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  Speaker 3: I don't disagree with you a thousand percent, but let's
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  Speaker 3: say I do disagree with some of that. I do
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  Speaker 3: disagree with some of that. You're right. Zuckerberg did keep
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  Speaker 3: children away that he knew. And other people that were
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  Speaker 3: involved with META also kept children away. But that's not
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  Speaker 3: to say that all the blame should be on the
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  Speaker 3: parents because– now that we've seen the settlement, they knew
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  Speaker 3: exactly what they were doing. They knew how they could
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  Speaker 3: get to kids. They knew how they could hold them on.
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  Speaker 3: And then they formed communities online where kids were getting bullied,
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  Speaker 3: could now get bullied online. And so, yeah, they have
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  Speaker 3: to take some responsibility. I don't disagree. Parents need to
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  Speaker 3: take some responsibility too. I don't disagree with you at all,
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  Speaker 3: but you can't let Mark Zuckerberg, and the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the social media companies off the hook.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sort of like letting the drug dealer off
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  Speaker 2: the hook. The drug dealer knows he could get your
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  Speaker 2: kid hooked. Now, you could be, well, the parents, you
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  Speaker 2: should have had more oversight. But meantime, it's the drug dealer, right,
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  Speaker 2: who is the one pushing the drug. He was pushing
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  Speaker 2: a drug. Look at Zuckerberg and all of his minions.
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  Speaker 2: They had the data. They saw that young people had
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  Speaker 2: this insatiable appetite.
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  Speaker 1: Like adults do, too. You know, this could be applied
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  Speaker 1: to adults. I mean, how many times are adults scrolling, scrolling, scrolling?
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  Speaker 1: Are you going to get to bed? What are you
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  Speaker 1: going to get? What's so important on that stupid cell phone, Phil?
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  Speaker 1: You know, the wife will say, well, you know, it's addictive.
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  Speaker 1: It is addictive.
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  Speaker 3: Well, some kids, this became their whole life.
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  Speaker 2: Well, remember, when we were kids, we didn't have that,
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  Speaker 2: but we had the little Sony... radio that we would
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  Speaker 2: hide under the pillow so we could listen to radio
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  Speaker 2: especially baseball games when for me the Yankees were away
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  Speaker 2: on the west coast and the game started late and
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  Speaker 2: I know my parents they'd go on patrol you know
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  Speaker 2: to make sure I was asleep and I'd fake it
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  Speaker 2: meantime I had the radio underneath the pillow the moment
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  Speaker 2: they went back to their bedroom boom turned them I
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  Speaker 2: was listening through the pillow I don't ever remember my
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  Speaker 2: dad or my mom trying to take that that radio
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  Speaker 2: away which would have guaranteed I couldn't have been.
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  Speaker 3: Listening Yeah, I hate sometimes when people criticize parents. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't know who this woman is, so I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to criticize her. But many times they're not parents
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  Speaker 3: and they don't have kids. When you're at a restaurant
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  Speaker 3: and you give your kids a social media thing, that
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  Speaker 3: is your time to yourself. And now you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with them at dinner. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: It's a passion. Absolutely. It's a pacifier. And so then
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  Speaker 3: you have other people going, oh, my God, look at them.
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  Speaker 3: Look at them. They just gave their kids social media
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's a $ 1, 000.
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  Speaker 1: iPhone right there. Why are they giving a $ 1, 000 iPhone
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  Speaker 1: to their kid?
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  Speaker 3: It's like, shut up, please. I want an hour. Can
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  Speaker 3: I have an hour just to eat? You obviously don't
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  Speaker 3: have kids.
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  Speaker 5: You're missing the whole point with the meta-settlement. Zuckerberg was
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  Speaker 5: right by not allowing his kids to be online that often.
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  Speaker 5: He's being a responsible parent. And that's the heart to
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  Speaker 5: that whole case. Parents have taken their responsibility away and
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  Speaker 5: blaming other.
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  Speaker 1: People for it. And also, where's all that money going
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  Speaker 1: to go?
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  Speaker 5: That's just going to go into some big fund for
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  Speaker 5: the states to spend on whatever they want. They're not
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  Speaker 5: going to do anything with the money to help the kids.
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  Speaker 3: You got to stop demonizing the parents. And that's not
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  Speaker 3: to say that they don't have a responsibility. You just
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  Speaker 3: got to stop demonizing the parents. It's hard enough. And
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  Speaker 3: I know most parents, most parents love their children and
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  Speaker 3: would do anything for them. But to be able to
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  Speaker 3: look at them 24 hours a day to find out
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  Speaker 3: what they're doing and to set rules that you know
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  Speaker 3: they're going to keep is a hard thing. It's a
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  Speaker 3: difficult thing. And again, I don't know this gentleman, but
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the people that criticize parents Parents are
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  Speaker 3: not parents. They're not parents.
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  Speaker 2: Zuckerberg did the right thing. You think Zuckerberg is at home?
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  Speaker 2: You think his wife is at home?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. They're billionaires.
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  Speaker 2: They have nannies. They have au pairs. They have two
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  Speaker 2: children now. So they are like the oversight. You take
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  Speaker 2: a single parent raising kids, right? Mostly it's women nowadays
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  Speaker 2: in America. 50% of families end up going through divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Women's got to work a job, right? She's sometimes having
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  Speaker 1: to take on a second job.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: When does she have time to super? Well, Zuckerberg does it.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't do it. He's not at home. It's so.
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  Speaker 3: Easy to stand on the sidelines and criticize and say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you're not doing it the right way. It's difficult to
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  Speaker 3: get in the game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I know Meadow lost this lawsuit, right?
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  Speaker 3: So think about this a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Making something addictive.
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  Speaker 3: Let's look at all of our food, all the fast
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  Speaker 3: food restaurants, all the products that they have out there.
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  Speaker 3: that when you eat them, they make you want to
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  Speaker 3: have more. Are they going to sue all these places?
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  Speaker 3: Because you might as well, you open that door.
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  Speaker 5: You might as well step through it now at this point.
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  Speaker 3: It's much different. I know what you're trying to say.
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  Speaker 3: It's much, much different. The addictiveness of social media is
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  Speaker 3: a mental thing, and it can cause serious, serious problems.
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  Speaker 3: This will make you fat, and that's some serious problems
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  Speaker 3: with that, but you can beat that.
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  Speaker 2: Wait until they start with YouTube, right? How many people
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  Speaker 2: out there right now listening to us? They're adults mostly,
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  Speaker 2: unless there's a kid in the back of the seat
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  Speaker 2: who is required to listen to Larry and me in
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  Speaker 2: the morning because they have no choice. How many people
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  Speaker 2: are watching YouTube morning, noon, and night, right? They don't
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  Speaker 2: even watch the big screen TV anymore. They've cut the cord.
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  Speaker 2: They're not watching networks or cable.
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  Speaker 1: All they do is watch YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube, YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be next in line. You know they're getting sued.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think next is TikTok. I think that's what's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be next. You know who's going to be angry?
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  Speaker 2: Ellison, who did this as a favor to Trump so
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  Speaker 2: we get it away from the red Chinese. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to say, so I buy in to control TikTok for America,
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  Speaker 2: and now I'm going to be sued as a result?
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  Speaker 1: Where do I get relief? Please, I did everybody a favor.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, TikTok is not as popular any longer.
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  Speaker 2: As when the Red Chinese ran it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know about that. Oh, no, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do a deep dive on that. But man, with Chris,
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  Speaker 3: this is more of your generation.
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  Speaker 1: TikTok? I use Instagram more. And TikTok? Personally, yes.
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  Speaker 3: But what about people just a little bit younger than you?
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  Speaker 3: All I hear about is TikTok videos going back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: Every time somebody seems to get arrested, it's a TikTok video.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 4: It's close. I think it depends on the more specific
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  Speaker 4: age range. But, yeah, I think probably a little younger
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  Speaker 4: might be slightly more TikTok. And all the artists are
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  Speaker 4: making it on TikTok. All the people that are trying
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  Speaker 4: to get.
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  Speaker 1: A recording career. Yeah, the young new artists. I think
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  Speaker 1: you got to know their patterns, right? Instagram. And that
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  Speaker 1: was controlled by Zuck, you pig.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. When we come back, listen, we want to hear
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  Speaker 3: from you, especially about the weather. And if you saw
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  Speaker 3: that blood-red moon last night or any of the partial eclipse,
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  Speaker 3: that's when we come back. We'll be talking about weather,
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  Speaker 3: the lunar sightings, and you.
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  Speaker 1: This has been a podcast from WOR.