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Hour 1: Summer Camp · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: You know, Larry and Natalie and all the quiet stormers
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Speaker 1: here Chris on loan from Mark Simone, who has become
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Speaker 1: a bit of a.
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Speaker 2: Chatterbox of late.
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Speaker 3: Not a chat box, but it's chatterbox a bit of
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Speaker 3: an exaggeration.
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Speaker 2: You mean he spoke a.
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Speaker 1: Couple of times, right, But now you'll have an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to contribute to this discussion because it all came about yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I'm roaming around the Upper West Side. I'm doing chores
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Speaker 1: for Nancy and the cats, and I see this modern
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Speaker 1: bus roll up, so I'm thinking, maybe it's tourists, but
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Speaker 1: it's all these kids getting off, and they have grandparents
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Speaker 1: are there and their parents, and they're coming home from
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Speaker 1: camp up near the Finger Lakes and upstate New York.
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Speaker 1: And you know, some of them are crying, some of
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Speaker 1: them are happy. And because they're standing around and have
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Speaker 1: that chance to get in touch with them and talk
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Speaker 1: with them. And some of the grandparents have had good
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Speaker 1: experiences when they went to camp.
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Speaker 2: Their kids not so good.
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Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to speak to their grandchildren,
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Speaker 1: their children. But it just took me back to when
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Speaker 1: I was watching Ed Sullivan waiting for Topo Chico the
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Speaker 1: Little Italian Mouse to come out, because that was my favorite.
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Speaker 1: I think he was there sixty three times, and all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, Alan Sherman is out there. It's nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty three, and he's singing the camp salute, Hello Mother,
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Speaker 1: Hello Father, Camp Granada, Hello Mater, and he talks about
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Speaker 1: getting poison ivy. It was real his son had gone
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Speaker 1: to this camp up near Lake Champlain in Westport, New York.
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Speaker 1: People think Westport, Oh, Connecticut. You know Tom Cuddy shut No,
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Speaker 1: is only like a thousand people up there, and he
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Speaker 1: got poison ivy. And I remember later on in the
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Speaker 1: song and I want to need the help of Tom
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Speaker 1: Cuddy and others out there who are music officionados. He
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Speaker 1: mentions Leonard Skinner, and I'm thinking that that's where that
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Speaker 1: bunch of Southern Rebels got their name for that group,
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Speaker 1: Leonards Kennet. Oh, that's interesting spell differently spelled differently, but
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking that. But anyway, he talked about getting poison ivy,
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Speaker 1: bad weather, other activities, and it became such a hit.
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Speaker 1: I think it was number two in nineteen sixty three.
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Speaker 1: And that was a time where obviously I was a
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Speaker 1: kid and I had a chance to go to sleep
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Speaker 1: away camp up in Bear Mountain. So my mother enrolled
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Speaker 1: me with CYO, which was the Catholic Youth Organization. Jewish
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Speaker 1: kids said, the YMHA, the YWHA, Young Men Hebrew Association,
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Speaker 1: Young Women Hebrew Association, the Fresh Air Fund. Kids were
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Speaker 1: for the poor kids, you know, benefactors paid for them
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Speaker 1: to go away like two weeks the pal had a camp.
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Speaker 1: And then there were other families who like they just
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Speaker 1: believed in sending their kids after school got released before
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Speaker 1: July fourth, the next thing, they were on a us
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Speaker 1: to sleepover camp. And then eventually the kids might even
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Speaker 1: become the camp counselors who would have an undue bad
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Speaker 1: influence on the younger kids because they would introduce them
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Speaker 1: to smoke in marijuana, you know, thinking about having sex
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Speaker 1: because he'd be having sex with the other camp counselors.
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Speaker 3: All the worstess Oh that all the time.
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Speaker 2: The worst possible things.
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Speaker 3: The sex thing is a big thing among the camp counselors.
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Speaker 3: I was a camp counselor. I'll get into that. In
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Speaker 3: the second First Yesday nineteen sixty three novelty hit Hello
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Speaker 3: Mada Hello, Fodda played a direct role in the name
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Speaker 3: of the band Leonard Skinner.
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Speaker 2: Now, how is that even conceivable? Right? I mean you think.
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Speaker 1: Alan Scharman Jewish comedian song still came out of Chicago.
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Speaker 1: I think he went to like fifteen different schools when
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Speaker 1: he was growing up. I guess he could never pay
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Speaker 1: the rent and they were on the move. How did
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Speaker 1: he have an influence on a group of Southern hillbillies?
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Speaker 1: Leonard Skinner doing that, Dick se Rock and a Man.
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Speaker 1: They were one of the greatest bands of all time,
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Speaker 1: greatest bands. Saw them actually in video performing at Fulton
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Speaker 1: County Stadium. You know when Ted Turner owned it with
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Bridge Man.
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Speaker 2: They rock the house.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a shame about the plane crash. I
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Speaker 3: mean the lead singer and some of the other ones
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Speaker 3: died in the bands.
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Speaker 1: Could you have ever guessed that the name for the
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Speaker 1: band from this classic camp soul here's.
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Speaker 3: The line, you remember, Leonard Skinner he got to Maine
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Speaker 3: poisoning last night after dinner, because that's the song. The
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Speaker 3: song builds to a nice ending, but the whole thing
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Speaker 3: is how horrible the camp is.
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Speaker 1: Oh so I couldn't wait to break out of the
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Speaker 1: cyo camp up in Bear Mountain you're entitled to one call.
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Speaker 1: So after one week there, I felt like it was
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Speaker 1: a prison. Yeah, prisoner. So I said to my mother,
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Speaker 1: get me out of it, please, whatever you do, And I
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Speaker 1: became a real mama Luke. I started crying, I mean,
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Speaker 1: oh man. And then all of a sudden, my aunt Lucy,
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Speaker 1: my mother, my uncle Steve came up in the fifty
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Speaker 1: four to for the station wagon. I saw them driving
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Speaker 1: towards the camp counselor's headquarters and I was.
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Speaker 2: Running after the car. I couldn't run fast enough. Get
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Speaker 2: me out of here. Man.
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Speaker 1: I had the worst I got poison, ivy mosquito bites.
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Speaker 3: So like this all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hated I hated camp. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Some of my friends they came back, you know, right
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Speaker 1: before they started school after Labor Day.
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Speaker 2: Oh, camp was great.
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Speaker 1: We were rowing, we were swimming, we broke out of camp,
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Speaker 1: we went into town, we did this and that.
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Speaker 3: And I'm saying, how is it My experiences were so
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Speaker 3: bad and theirs were so good that they were looking
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Speaker 3: forward and going back to camp after school finished next time.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: I never got to go to camp, not once except
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Speaker 3: when I worked at the camp. But I never got
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Speaker 3: to go to camp. Because my mom and dad loved me.
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Speaker 4: You know what, I did not go to camp either.
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Speaker 4: I grew up in Staten Island, and I don't know
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Speaker 4: if this was a Staten Island thing, But the only
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Speaker 4: kids who went to sleep away camp were all my
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Speaker 4: Jewish friends. They all got and I was jealous. I
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Speaker 4: was like, where are they going for the summer? And
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Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I heard their parents were having a
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Speaker 4: great time about the kids during the summer, so I
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Speaker 4: think they had something going that was smart.
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Speaker 3: So I don't remember anybody in my neighborhood going to camp.
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Speaker 3: That's it just wasn't a thing in our neighborhood. How
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Speaker 3: about how about you, Chris.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Chrish the quiet storm. Not in the Superway camps
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Speaker 2: now just day camps.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh did you sing b I n g O Bingo
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Speaker 1: was his name? Did you do that on the bush
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Speaker 1: through the day camp?
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Speaker 2: No? No, nothing like that.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, you want to elaborate a little bit
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Speaker 3: all that kind of experience.
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Speaker 5: Just play games, go to the movies, you know, go
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Speaker 5: to parks. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, regular regular camp stuff.
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Speaker 5: Go to a baseball game every once in a while,
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Speaker 5: and to a couple of Yankee games.
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Speaker 4: They weren't having sex all over camp like they were
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Speaker 4: talking ten.
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Speaker 3: The counselors are the ones having the sex.
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Speaker 5: The camp was also like a thousand feet from my house,
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Speaker 5: so oh far away.
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Speaker 2: That's not come on, that's not a good camp experience.
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Speaker 6: It was.
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Speaker 2: It was fine, about a thousand feet away from your house.
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Speaker 2: You right by my high school.
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Speaker 1: Did you have the Elmer's glue with the sticks that
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Speaker 1: you know you had in the good Yuma barge and
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Speaker 1: you had to make all kinds of.
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Speaker 5: House Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah we did that. The arts
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Speaker 5: and crafts and the macaroni are yeah.
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Speaker 1: Okay, god you had some of those experiences.
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Speaker 3: Boy, dragging information out of Chris, it's like being in
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Speaker 3: a police precinct.
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Speaker 1: Or being like in Ditmo with the terrorists, you know,
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Speaker 1: asking them about terrorist activities, and then we do we
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Speaker 1: have to waterboard you to get Total'd rather you're not, but.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll let you go.
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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks Chris.
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Speaker 3: You have a way of telling the stories.
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Speaker 2: Great, thank you.
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Speaker 1: But I'd be so interested in hearing from Mom any
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Speaker 1: listeners of their camp experiences, or their parents, or their
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Speaker 1: grandparents or even their kids or grandchildren, because some families
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Speaker 1: it's like a tradition.
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Speaker 2: Everybody, absolutely everybody goes to sleep away camp.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know the camps are ranked, like you're like, oh,
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Speaker 4: you went to that camp.
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Speaker 2: I went to this camp. And I know.
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Speaker 4: People who were in their seventies and eighties who continue
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Speaker 4: to go to camp reunions like you have a college reunion.
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Speaker 4: Their camp reunions are even more important to them than that.
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Speaker 3: It's starting to sound like a cult. I'm almost glad
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Speaker 3: I didn't go.
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Speaker 2: I am telling you.
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Speaker 1: The kids that I grew up with had better experiences
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Speaker 1: going to summer camp sleep away camp than they did
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Speaker 1: in school.
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Speaker 2: They look forward to it.
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Speaker 3: So I was a counselor to camp. I never went
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Speaker 3: to a camp, but it was a counselor at camp
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Speaker 3: because when I was in high school, Lisa Pinto, my
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Speaker 3: first love, broke up with me and I just had
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Speaker 3: to get out of town Italian Girl and I went,
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Speaker 3: yeah Italian Girl and went to uh Florida for the
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Speaker 3: summer to work at Camp Challenge, a camp for handicapped
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Speaker 3: kids disabled that it was the best experience of my life.
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Speaker 3: I really wanted to work at disney World and be Goofy.
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Speaker 3: That's what my dream was at the time, but I
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Speaker 3: didn't have a car, so they wouldn't hire me.
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Speaker 1: Hold on, you wanted to be the goofy character at
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Speaker 1: disney World.
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Speaker 3: Disney World, Yeah, remember disney World was pretty new back No. No,
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Speaker 3: it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Speaker 1: In that costume. Yeah it's humid, dad, it's hot. You'd
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Speaker 1: be fitching underneath that.
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Speaker 3: I was eighteen. I didn't think it out. I just thought,
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Speaker 3: you think you.
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Speaker 1: Were going to attract chicks by being goofy?
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Speaker 3: No, but I did at Camp Challenge, that's for sure.
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Speaker 3: So it ended up being the vetterest election. No, I
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Speaker 3: grew up a lot. It was wonderful. I still know
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Speaker 3: some of the kids that were there.
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Speaker 1: Wow. She So even though there's not an alumni CU,
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Speaker 1: you've maintained contacts.
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Speaker 2: See.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially with some of the kids. There's a kid
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Speaker 3: named Marco who had severe autism and couldn't speak, and
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Speaker 3: I just fell in love with the kid, and I
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Speaker 3: keep in touch with his parents. He's doing really well.
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Speaker 3: He's he's come along.
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Speaker 2: This is just so nice.
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Speaker 4: Larry want most I want more information on Lisa Pinto.
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Speaker 3: What you're looking I thought about the camp thing. I
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Speaker 3: thought you'd look up camp challenge, not Lisa Pinto.
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Speaker 4: No, I'm looking up every Lisa Pinto.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, she got married, I forget her new namet married.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember my first love was Angela Sika Italian
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Speaker 1: Talian girl.
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Speaker 2: Right of course she got married.
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Speaker 1: But I'm saying is wow, it crushed you so much
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Speaker 1: that you decided to get up, go to Florida, become
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Speaker 1: a camp counselor, and you became a double mench helping
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Speaker 1: handicapped kids.
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Speaker 3: It was a great experience. It was an unbelievable experience.
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Speaker 3: It might have been the best experience of my teenage
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Speaker 3: years going down there and doing that. Thank Lisa Pento
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Speaker 3: for breaking.
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Speaker 2: Up, without which that probably never would have happened.
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Speaker 3: No, it never would happen. I never would have old.
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Speaker 1: look look at the rapids coming at you. And yet
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Speaker 1: very little attention and recognition.
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Speaker 8: What if that life saver was an illegal emigrant that
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Speaker 3: At least named him, said what he said now, but
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Speaker 3: he wasn't. Yeah, I know, I love that guy. He
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Speaker 3: I love him.
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Speaker 1: Remember when we had a shortage of life cards here
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Speaker 1: in New York City, you know, the opening of the
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Speaker 1: season is Memorial Day weekend, then to Labor Day, and
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Speaker 1: Eric Adams, swagging man with no plan, wanted to use
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Speaker 1: the illegal venice whealings. And he said, people ask him why, Oh,
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Speaker 1: they all know how to swim. What do you mean,
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Speaker 1: like the dumbest responses if you have a shortage of lifeguards. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I understand you're throwing that out there as a possibility,
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Speaker 1: but oh, Venezuelans know how to swim.
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Speaker 3: It's probably true. It is probably actually true.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, that's It's such a sweet moment. I love when
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Speaker 3: that happens. And again again, I'll just say it one
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Speaker 3: more time. If there are any lifeguards out there, if
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Speaker 3: you see a lifeguard doing something wonderful, just just let
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Speaker 3: us know about it. Leave us a talk back, and
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Speaker 3: let us know about it so we can praise them.
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Speaker 2: Up next, giving new meaning to the term happy valley.
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Speaker 3: Like first, I think we have to do this.
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Speaker 2: Oh I know that, but I storm? Yeah, who would
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Speaker 2: have ever thought? Happy valley? Penn State.
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Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, Chris, quiet storm because this affects your
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Speaker 1: age group.
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Speaker 3: But first the news with Daria.
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Speaker 2: Albinger, Jerry's lifeguard. Are you were you a lifeguard?
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Speaker 9: I was?
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Speaker 10: I was a lifeguard while I was in college, and
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Speaker 10: lord knows, I've tossed you guys a yeah.
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Speaker 3: My son's a life very now. And then my son
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Speaker 3: is a lifeguard and my dad was a lifeguard. So
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Speaker 3: we're from a family of lifeguards.
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Speaker 10: Are you one too?
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Speaker 3: No? No, not me. I was broken hearted at a
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Speaker 3: camp in Florida at that time.
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Speaker 2: So because of Pinto.
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Speaker 10: high of eighty seven today. The trial of Luigi Mangioni
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Speaker 10: ABC's Karent Why in Washington, the state of New Hampshire
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Speaker 3: I'm really grateful for the rescuers who came in and
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: The other day, I'm shitting with our program direct at
20:55
Speaker 1: Tom Cuddy and he's shaying, you have a like dead film,
20:57
Speaker 1: Animal House and Drop Dead. I said to him no,
21:01
Speaker 1: because I couldn't relate. I didn't go to college, but
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Speaker 1: I can relate to the movie that came out New
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Speaker 2: Rock, Chris Rock.
21:15
Speaker 1: You know about bagging and distributing crack cocaine in the eighties,
21:19
Speaker 1: because I and the Guardian Angels used to bust those
21:22
Speaker 1: kind of houses.
21:23
Speaker 2: Who would have ever thought.
21:25
Speaker 1: Then you go up to Happy Valley in Pennsylvania, home
21:29
Speaker 1: of penn State University, and it was sort of like
21:32
Speaker 1: the suburban version of New Jack City, except dealing with
21:37
Speaker 1: powder cocaine out it. Two frats and two Long Island
21:41
Speaker 1: boys were at the head of it. Agostino Abatello. It
21:46
Speaker 1: was from Westbury. He was like the leader of the pack.
21:49
Speaker 1: There were fourteen of them, and then there was Thomas Robinson.
21:53
Speaker 1: And what they did was get their frat brothers and
21:58
Speaker 1: their pledges to actually start processing cocaine on campus that
22:04
Speaker 1: Agostina would bring back from Westbury. And then they were
22:08
Speaker 1: chopping it up, they were packaging it, they were selling
22:11
Speaker 1: it on campus. This was since twenty twenty three, twenty
22:14
Speaker 1: twenty four, and then all of a sudden authorities got
22:17
Speaker 1: wind of it. Agostina was begging and pleased, don't give
22:20
Speaker 1: me up, don't give me up. But eventually some of
22:24
Speaker 1: them decided to eat the parmesan cheese, and fourteen of
22:28
Speaker 1: them were taken away and chained in shackles on the
22:32
Speaker 1: Purp Walk. He'll imagine this is a drug trafficking crew
22:36
Speaker 1: operating openly on campus.
22:38
Speaker 3: And off campus in Happy Valley, dealing with powdered cocaine. Yeah.
22:44
Speaker 1: Uh.
22:44
Speaker 3: Di Agostino. His father is also charged and he was
22:48
Speaker 3: apparently helping to buy the cocaine. He was trying to
22:50
Speaker 3: hide what happened afterwards. He was the one that was
22:53
Speaker 3: getting the money and laundering the money. So it was
22:56
Speaker 3: a huge operation. They would go and they'd buy a
23:00
Speaker 3: kilogram in Philadelphia or by a kilogram in New York City,
23:03
Speaker 3: and then take it back to the frat and they
23:05
Speaker 3: had a whole operation going. They were chopping it up
23:08
Speaker 3: and selling little bags of it all around campus. Everybody
23:12
Speaker 3: on campus knew about them. Everybody in campus talked about him.
23:16
Speaker 3: He was known as the number one coke dealer in
23:20
Speaker 3: Happy Valley, which leads me to go, well, who are
23:23
Speaker 3: the other coke dealers? If he's number one, who's number two,
23:27
Speaker 3: who's number three? And also, if everybody was talking about this,
23:33
Speaker 3: why did it take so long to bust this ring?
23:36
Speaker 1: Because snitches get stitches and end up in ditches. Even
23:40
Speaker 1: in a suburban academic atmosphere, you know, there was a
23:43
Speaker 1: code of omerta, you don't rat anyone out. And I
23:47
Speaker 1: think what happened here was once the authorities started moving
23:50
Speaker 1: in and they pinched one guy or another guy, then
23:53
Speaker 1: they decided, man, I ain't gonna be doing eight to
23:56
Speaker 1: ten years, you know, in some prison in Pennsylvania. And
24:00
Speaker 1: that's when they started coughing up up the ladder. Because
24:02
Speaker 1: you know, you get the small fish first, the pledges,
24:05
Speaker 1: who obviously thought this was part of being part of
24:08
Speaker 1: the frat.
24:08
Speaker 2: Let me give you the two frat names.
24:10
Speaker 1: There was the Delta Upsalam, which was on campus, and
24:16
Speaker 1: Sigma Hi, which was off campus. Delta Upsalon has been suspended,
24:22
Speaker 1: but Sigma Hi, which had their house off campus, wasn't
24:26
Speaker 1: a recognized frat by the university. And I've seen that
24:29
Speaker 1: when I do my speeches at university, you see off
24:31
Speaker 1: campus to say, oh yeah, but they're not register recognize
24:35
Speaker 1: their like animal house.
24:37
Speaker 2: They're absolutely wild and crazy.
24:39
Speaker 4: Curtis, that's actually a really good point when your kids
24:42
Speaker 4: go off to college, if they're going to talk about,
24:44
Speaker 4: you know, going into greek life, which I actually don't
24:47
Speaker 4: think is a terrible thing. Both of my kids were
24:48
Speaker 4: in it. I was in it, thankfully, we all had good,
24:51
Speaker 4: you know experiences. But find out if they're recognized by
24:55
Speaker 4: the university, because if they are not recognized by the university,
24:59
Speaker 4: tell them absolutely stay away.
25:01
Speaker 3: Let me give you the statement from Penn State. We're
25:04
Speaker 3: horrified by these serious allegations against current and former students.
25:08
Speaker 3: So former students were involved criminal activity, including hazing such
25:12
Speaker 3: as this has no place at our institution, and we
25:15
Speaker 3: will cooperate with law enforcement in every way we can.
25:19
Speaker 3: We will continue to enhance our efforts around health and
25:22
Speaker 3: safety and hazing, educational efforts at all of our organizations. Oh,
25:27
Speaker 3: it's going to be fun at Penn State for the
25:30
Speaker 3: new semester coming up. They're all going to be learning.
25:32
Speaker 3: Everybody's going to have required teaching about drugs and hazing.
25:37
Speaker 3: Where did hazing come from? Was there hazing involved in
25:39
Speaker 3: this at all?
25:40
Speaker 1: They are implying that this was part of the hazing,
25:43
Speaker 1: that you had to package the product. You know, you
25:46
Speaker 1: had to go to the frat house, probably do what
25:48
Speaker 1: you did in New Jack City, take all your clothes
25:51
Speaker 1: off so they could see you weren't taking any product
25:53
Speaker 1: with you out to door, and they package it, you know,
25:56
Speaker 1: in thet yeah, in the little plastic bags with what
26:00
Speaker 1: ever marking they had on to you know, claim that
26:02
Speaker 1: was their brand. My god, you know what this reminds
26:05
Speaker 1: me of. It just came to me slowly, I turned
26:08
Speaker 1: step by step. His name was the Chemist. He was
26:11
Speaker 1: the son of one of the most famous Americans of
26:14
Speaker 1: all time. In politics, she almost became Vice President of
26:18
Speaker 1: the United States. Remember she was on the ticket with
26:21
Speaker 1: Walter Mondale. She was Geraldine Ferrara. They tried to say
26:26
Speaker 1: that she was a normal housewife. She wasn't. She lived
26:28
Speaker 1: in Forest Hills, the gardens. Her son was called the
26:32
Speaker 1: Chemist at Dartmouth. All right, heavy league school. You went
26:36
Speaker 1: to the chemist's frat in order to score cocaine. He
26:40
Speaker 1: was selling cocaine and I think they took a plea
26:43
Speaker 1: or something like that. But it's not at all unusual
26:47
Speaker 1: that there are people who are on campus selling drugs
26:50
Speaker 1: and then you're told don't knock them out.
26:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you see it in every movie. It's always
26:54
Speaker 3: in some dark room. The guy's got glasses halfway down
26:56
Speaker 3: his nose, he's got the funny hair, and he's cooking
26:59
Speaker 3: up all of the drugs. If you've never been to
27:02
Speaker 3: State college, let me explain something. This isn't like a
27:06
Speaker 3: small college. There's there's fifty thousand students, and there's eighty
27:11
Speaker 3: thousand people at state College. Inside State College, in the
27:15
Speaker 3: surrounding area there's one hundred and fifty thousand people. So
27:20
Speaker 3: we're talking about a mid size city with a lot
27:23
Speaker 3: of college students. One third of them are college students.
27:27
Speaker 3: So it's not like this can happen and everybody's involved
27:31
Speaker 3: in it, or it can happen and everybody knew about it. No, no, no, no, no,
27:36
Speaker 3: It's just like any other mid size city. It could
27:39
Speaker 3: be happening and nobody knew.
27:41
Speaker 2: Ah.
27:42
Speaker 1: Well, it's probably part of chemistry one on one right, Well,
27:46
Speaker 1: capital is well, capitalism supports that man business majors, they
27:52
Speaker 1: becoming socialists.
27:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, unless they have that in prison. I gotta feeling
27:57
Speaker 3: all of them are going to be put away for
27:59
Speaker 3: quite a long time. Hey, listen when we come back.
28:04
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've heard about this, but in
28:07
Speaker 3: New Jersey there's an area, one area in particular, where
28:10
Speaker 3: there used to be an aerospace plant and they've closed
28:14
Speaker 3: it up, and the houses that are built on that
28:18
Speaker 3: area where the aerodynamics of the aeroplane stuff used to
28:24
Speaker 3: be is well, a lot of people are getting cancer
28:29
Speaker 3: and they're calling it a national cancer cluster now and
28:33
Speaker 3: the state just keeps denying it that it's happening. We're
28:36
Speaker 3: going to talk more about that when we come back.
28:41
Speaker 2: Ah.
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Speaker 3: There's a story in our area that deserves a lot
30:10
Speaker 3: more attention than what it's been getting. It's in Keyport,
30:13
Speaker 3: New Jersey. Keyport, New Jersey is just across the Raritan
30:17
Speaker 3: Bay from say Totinville, and it sits on the bay
30:22
Speaker 3: and it used to be home to a landfill and
30:26
Speaker 3: an arrow an airplane facility where they would make airplanes there,
30:32
Speaker 3: and so that it sits there and because of that
30:35
Speaker 3: there is benzene, arsenic and lead in the ground below it.
30:41
Speaker 3: And so the people who have since built houses there
30:45
Speaker 3: over what used to be that landfill in the airplane
30:49
Speaker 3: facility have been getting cancer. There's some of the residents
30:55
Speaker 3: have kept track of it, and they say there were
30:57
Speaker 3: forty cases ten years ago. Now there there are four
31:01
Speaker 3: hundred cases of cancer, including Salvatore Legori, who just found
31:08
Speaker 3: out that he has blood and bone marrow cancer. He
31:12
Speaker 3: lost his son a few years back to cancer, and
31:16
Speaker 3: he just found out that his stepdaughter now has cancer.
31:21
Speaker 11: What do you think caused us cancer?
31:23
Speaker 3: Now that my stepdaughter had auto mune and I got cancer.
31:28
Speaker 3: I'm convinced it's the vapors coming out of his basement.
31:31
Speaker 3: So the dep in New Jersey keep saying that we've tested,
31:36
Speaker 3: we keep testing, and there is nothing, and so they're
31:40
Speaker 3: going to test again because now there's a whole new
31:42
Speaker 3: cluster of cancer cases. And so the head of the
31:47
Speaker 3: deep is a guy named he's the commissioner, guy named
31:52
Speaker 3: Ed Pottersnak, And this is him explaining, we're.
31:56
Speaker 6: Testing eight palms and businesses in the surrounding area to
32:00
Speaker 6: see what they call vapor intrusion, if there are vapors
32:03
Speaker 6: underground that could make their way up into those places
32:05
Speaker 6: where people work or live.
32:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, the results won't be out for a couple of weeks,
32:11
Speaker 3: but they keep testing and testing and testing, and they say, no,
32:15
Speaker 3: there used to be a problem with the landfill, but
32:18
Speaker 3: there's really not a problem anymore. We've done a lot
32:21
Speaker 3: of the tests. There seems to be nothing to the
32:24
Speaker 3: level where it caused cancer. Except something's causing cancer.
32:27
Speaker 1: Excuse me, New Jersey, which has more super fun sits
32:31
Speaker 1: in any other place in the world.
32:33
Speaker 2: I remember going to Manville.
32:35
Speaker 1: Which is where they made all the asbestists, and it
32:37
Speaker 1: had teared down half the town. You can't build on
32:40
Speaker 1: it because you know how how aspecialist is. We didn't
32:44
Speaker 1: realize it back then. But very toxic. But I remember
32:49
Speaker 1: taking the ferry from New York to Keyport. I spoke
32:53
Speaker 1: it to that high school, and I remember that's why
32:55
Speaker 1: I was introduced to the jug handles on Route thirty
32:58
Speaker 1: Sikes when they picked me up.
32:59
Speaker 2: What the hell that's a jug handle.
33:01
Speaker 1: But people were talking about that back then, that aerospace location.
33:08
Speaker 1: And remember in Long Island they had the same problem
33:11
Speaker 1: at the Grummin Aerospace plant. They used to be manufacturing,
33:15
Speaker 1: you know, high intensity aircraft for the military. For civilian use.
33:20
Speaker 1: It's groundwater. It's definitely groundwater. A lot of breast cancer,
33:24
Speaker 1: a lot of cancers. It becomes like a cancer belt.
33:26
Speaker 1: So easy for them to dismiss it. But why not
33:30
Speaker 1: just dig it all up, change the dirt like you've
33:33
Speaker 1: done it in so many other places. I realize it's expensive,
33:37
Speaker 1: but better safe than sorry, as opposed to letting these
33:41
Speaker 1: poor people.
33:42
Speaker 3: How many have been diagnosed with cancer? They say the
33:45
Speaker 3: residents claim four hundred. They have been keeping track. That's
33:49
Speaker 3: one hundred percent increase in just a few years. Yes,
33:53
Speaker 3: that's amazing. Now they don't think it's the groundwater, although
33:56
Speaker 3: they are testing the groundwater. I know they're testing the groundwater,
34:00
Speaker 3: testing the soil. But the man we just talked to
34:04
Speaker 3: a second ago who had his whole family hit by cancer,
34:08
Speaker 3: Salvatore Legori. He says it's the vapors coming out of
34:12
Speaker 3: his basement. He said, they got to test the gases.
34:15
Speaker 3: There are still gases coming up.
34:17
Speaker 2: You know what. They've had town hall meetings packed.
34:20
Speaker 1: I would say to the people who are administering these tests,
34:24
Speaker 1: ask them a simple question, would you live here and
34:28
Speaker 1: then watch them sweat and schit?
34:31
Speaker 3: Yeah?
34:31
Speaker 2: Probably would say no.
34:32
Speaker 1: No, not because it's not a nice neighborhood keyboard, but
34:36
Speaker 1: I just wouldn't live here. I think better safe than
34:39
Speaker 1: sorry when you have that many cases, you know, whether
34:42
Speaker 1: you go up to Love Canal, remember Love Canal between
34:44
Speaker 1: Buffalo and Niagara Falls, parts of Long Island which have
34:48
Speaker 1: been a cancer belt, huge numbers of breast cancer out in.
34:53
Speaker 2: Staten Island near the dump, not far Win.
34:56
Speaker 1: Hey, Natalie, you were born and raised you know the
34:59
Speaker 1: biggest been a landfill ever fresh kills the number of
35:03
Speaker 1: people developed cancer around there. Until Rudy Giuliani and Guy
35:07
Speaker 1: malon Ari shut it down. But that was like the
35:10
Speaker 1: biggest stump in the world.
35:11
Speaker 3: Remember in Aaron Brocknovich what you just said a moment
35:14
Speaker 3: ago let them live there or let them Remember when
35:17
Speaker 3: she's sitting with the attorneys from the other side and
35:20
Speaker 3: they're drinking the water and he said, by the way,
35:22
Speaker 3: that's local water, and they all spit it out.
35:24
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that scene. Oh now, Natally, you remember
35:28
Speaker 2: growing up near the dump, right.
35:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I worked at the Staten Island mall.
35:32
Speaker 1: Oh my god, threw away probably glow in the dark
35:36
Speaker 1: at night.
35:36
Speaker 4: Oh, Curtis, when you came out on an August night, that.
35:40
Speaker 3: Was that was something. It hit you like a brick
35:44
Speaker 3: that smell.
35:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it wasn't swamp gas. It was all the
35:48
Speaker 1: toxic chemicals, the garbage. Oh my god, it was horrible.
35:52
Speaker 1: Thank god Rudy and Guy malan Ari, the borough president
35:55
Speaker 1: shut it down. It was a horror for those residents.
35:58
Speaker 3: In Keyport who's living it through it right now. They
36:00
Speaker 3: say there's no odor and that's so it's a silent killer.
36:03
Speaker 3: And but the cases, I mean, New Jersey to be
36:07
Speaker 3: so cavalier about it, get your act together. And get
36:10
Speaker 3: out there and help them. Well, Donald Trump spoke yesterday
36:13
Speaker 3: about a whole lot of things. We'll have it for
36:15
Speaker 3: you right after these seven o'clock news