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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Wow, I'm going to pimp off of what the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: coach said last night. After they lost their opening game,
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  Speaker 1: banners down, world championship rings given out, Madison Square Garden,
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  Speaker 1: the Mecca of basketball.
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  Speaker 2: And let me just say, I predicted that. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that later on.
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  Speaker 1: But Coach Mike Brown said, yeah, our starting five look
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  Speaker 1: like they were running in mud.
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  Speaker 2: Fatigue. And there's reasons for that. And these are young men,
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  Speaker 2: you know, their testosterone crashing through their cranium.
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  Speaker 1: They'll never have more energy than at this point in
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  Speaker 1: their life. But we ourselves are champions here at 710WR,
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  Speaker 1: the most listened to talk station in New York. And
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  Speaker 1: the recent ratings prove that. The guy in the morning there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, WABC, Israel first. Jews, Muslims, Zorhan is a terrorist,
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  Speaker 1: is wearing thin. Man, the demos were incredible. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that maybe tomorrow. But I will tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: I must salute you, Larry and Natalie, as veterans, because
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  Speaker 1: you are in a cycle now where you're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to be fighting off fatigue.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you their schedules, right?
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  Speaker 1: We've got the pre-election coverage right now going right on
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  Speaker 1: up to November 3rd itself. Then all-night coverage on November
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  Speaker 1: 3rd that Larry and Natalie and others here will be
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  Speaker 1: involved in. Best coverage in all of radio. Then you've
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  Speaker 1: got to be back the very next day. Then before
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  Speaker 1: you know it, you grab a little sleep. November 1st,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing live coverage of the New York City Marathon.
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  Speaker 1: The whole world will be listening. So if ever there
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  Speaker 1: was a point where you veterans would be fatigued, It
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  Speaker 1: would be in this cycle.
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  Speaker 2: I would think so.
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  Speaker 1: And I was so happy to learn about two weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago that you, Larry, on a normal day, drink about 14,
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  Speaker 1: 15 cups of caffeinated coffee.
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  Speaker 2: I still can't.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's actually tamed down that number a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It varies.
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  Speaker 4: It varies from day to day because I've already had
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  Speaker 4: four cups this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, that big thing I bring in that.
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  Speaker 5: Which is two cups.
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  Speaker 2: Takes two cups. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's two cups. And then I've had two more. So
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  Speaker 4: I drink a lot of coffee. But listen, what you're
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  Speaker 4: talking about, like in a schedule for a regular news reporter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sometimes you're covering stories all night long.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes you, you know, for instance, when I was anchoring,
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  Speaker 4: when there's a snowstorm, you're on all day.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And then you're up the next morning early. They get
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  Speaker 4: a hotel. You're up the next morning early. You're back on.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the job. This is what we do.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. And you've done it for
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  Speaker 1: how many Emmys have you won in your lifetime?
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  Speaker 2: 97.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to talk about awards tomorrow because the
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  Speaker 1: guy over at WABC thinks he's getting the biggest award ever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we're going to bust this bubble tomorrow. What's the
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  Speaker 2: biggest award ever? I have permission from Tom Cuddy. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to do a deep dive. Well, just tell me
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  Speaker 2: what the award is. The New York State... TV and
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  Speaker 2: Radio Hall of Fame. Oh, okay. Okay, I won it
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  Speaker 2: in 2013. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's nice, but that's like you got to first base.
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  Speaker 1: You and I, Natalie, we're on third base. We're going
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  Speaker 1: for the National Radio Hall of Fame. But we'll get
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  Speaker 1: into it tomorrow. Yeah, there's so many Hall of Fames.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in three. So just to show you how insignificant some.
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  Speaker 1: Of them are. You're the best. I've been in this
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  Speaker 1: business 35 years. But 2013, I won that award. Oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to W. Did they put you in your
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  Speaker 1: high school Hall of Fame? No, remember, they kicked me
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  Speaker 1: out in high school. But from prep, they shined their
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  Speaker 1: boots on my backside, kicked me to the curb.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 5: I don't even know if my high school has a
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  Speaker 5: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: We do.
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  Speaker 5: Tottenville High School, is there a Hall of Fame out there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Purple Pirates. Purple Pirates, you're right.
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  Speaker 4: When I was inducted into the Hall of Fame, that's
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  Speaker 4: when I told the story about the priest who used.
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  Speaker 2: To take us on trips.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, probably not the best story that you could have told, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wondering, Larry. I'm wondering.
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  Speaker 1: Look, even the president himself has been admiring the ass
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  Speaker 1: of a U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senator from Ohio. Yeah. He never touched me. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why he didn't like me. I mean, apparently the
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  Speaker 2: other people he liked. Larry, it happens to us. I
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  Speaker 2: was holding hands with Zara Mondami and people said that
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  Speaker 2: was homoerotic. It happens. I was a cute kid. What
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  Speaker 2: was wrong with me? Oh, my God. You were prime meat.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, were you an altar boy?
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  Speaker 4: No, they threw me off the older boys for making
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  Speaker 4: fun of Mike Dick's name.
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  Speaker 2: Thank God they did. But let's get to fatigue here.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give you the facts.
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  Speaker 1: Fatigue is the main or secondary reason for 10% to 20%
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  Speaker 1: of all consultations that you seek from your primary care physician.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just went through this, Natalie, how difficult
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  Speaker 1: it is to even get an appointment of late. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you miss that appointment, you'll be waiting a month or
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  Speaker 1: Sunday for the next one.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Imagine 10 to 20% of the people, many of
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  Speaker 2: them listening right now, the reason they go to their
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  Speaker 2: primary care physician is, doc, I feel fatigued. I'm tired.
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  Speaker 1: You know, right away the doctor would, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting older. This happens when you get older. And
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  Speaker 1: then they'll recommend to guys, this is the latest, testosterone therapy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, your testosterone is low, they do the blood test.
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  Speaker 1: For women, it's sort of like, well, you're multitasking, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because the guy doesn't do as much work in the
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  Speaker 1: house as you. So maybe you have to delegate some
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  Speaker 1: of the work to him. Oh, that'll never happen.
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  Speaker 2: That causes then a mental health care crisis for the ladies.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of people marvel at the energy that
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  Speaker 1: I have. And you've observed it, Larry, Natalie, you've observed it,
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  Speaker 1: people have observed it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what?
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  Speaker 5: Your energy exhausts me.
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  Speaker 2: It does. I'm just saying. That's a great line.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks could have used that last night on the hardwood.
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  Speaker 1: But it appears that I am one of those rare exceptions.
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  Speaker 2: We know that President Donald Trump is a rare exception.
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  Speaker 2: The guy almost never goes to sleep. Never.
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  Speaker 6: Never.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas Edison was known for that.
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  Speaker 1: Four hours a night, in fact, to force himself to
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  Speaker 1: get up in nearby Edison, New Jersey, he would put
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  Speaker 1: his feet above his navel on the desk. And what
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  Speaker 1: that does is it causes your kidneys to growl at
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  Speaker 1: about four hours into the sleep. You are the nastiest
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  Speaker 1: SOB you can imagine when you get up because you've
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  Speaker 1: got to go relieve yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You can't go back to sleep. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I've tried that Edison remedy. But apparently there's a rare exception.
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  Speaker 1: A genetic variation, 1% of the population only needs four
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  Speaker 1: to five hours naturally to wake up refreshed. Most everybody
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  Speaker 1: out seven to nine hours minimal. You see, I am
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  Speaker 1: that genetic exception. I'm trying to figure out why my dad, right,
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  Speaker 1: he obviously would get normal sleep. My mom would get
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  Speaker 1: normal sleep. I just don't understand it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's funny, the word fatigue, I just looked
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  Speaker 4: it up because I wanted to see how many people
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  Speaker 4: suffered from it, but this is what it says about it.
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  Speaker 4: Fatigue is extreme, persistent tiredness and a lack of energy
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  Speaker 4: that will not go away with rest.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that?
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  Speaker 4: No, I never knew that that is actually a medical
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  Speaker 4: condition that you can have. And it doesn't matter how
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  Speaker 4: much sleep you get. You're still going to be fatigued.
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  Speaker 4: So I, I've, I don't think I've ever been fatigued,
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  Speaker 4: but man, I, you know, some people out there, they
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  Speaker 4: have to go seek treatment for that.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just sleep that's going to cure it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of times if you depend on caffeine,
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  Speaker 2: which is a legal drug, everybody acknowledges caffeine is a drug.
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  Speaker 2: You get an initial blast and then you crash. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: An initial blast. I went through that whole syndrome. I
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  Speaker 2: would drink. two 48-ounce bottles of Coca-Cola while doing a program, a.m.
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  Speaker 2: and p.m., because sometimes they do two shifts. Can't do
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  Speaker 2: that anymore. But there are some people, they live on caffeine.
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  Speaker 2: You happen to be one of them. It benefits you.
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  Speaker 2: It gets your motor going, your motor. You have the
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  Speaker 2: biggest job of everybody here because you live the furthest away.
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  Speaker 2: You have to drive. You get in here early when
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  Speaker 2: we're not even here. You're cutting up tape. You're doing research.
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  Speaker 2: So by the time we get here, You've already spent
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  Speaker 2: half your day here. Yeah, I'm ready to sleep.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Larry, for doing it all. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: But no, you do.
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  Speaker 5: You do have a crazy schedule, and you do work
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  Speaker 5: all day.
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  Speaker 2: All day.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'll text you, and you're doing something. But
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  Speaker 3: it is interesting about the fatigues.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Thank you. Watch that microphone, okay? Most definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Because that is the first thing doctors say now when
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  Speaker 3: you're going for your annual physical, you know, are you tired?
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  Speaker 5: Are you resting enough? But the fatigue, I can always,
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  Speaker 5: if I'm exhausted, I could sleep and I feel better.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know it was a condition. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: just figured you have fatigue, you didn't get enough sleep.
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  Speaker 4: Get some sleep and you'll be fine. I never knew
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  Speaker 4: that that was a condition. Maybe somebody that's listening knows
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  Speaker 4: all about that, and maybe there's somebody out there that
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  Speaker 4: suffers from that. If you want to leave us a talkback,
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  Speaker 4: just go to 710WOR. com, and then you'll see the talkback feature.
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  Speaker 4: You can set a preset for 710WOR, as a matter
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  Speaker 4: of fact, while you're there. And don't forget, the best
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  Speaker 4: The best talkback of the day, of course, takes home
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  Speaker 4: a Curtis and Larry in the morning t-shirt I think
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  Speaker 4: I messed that up for a second you go to
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  Speaker 4: the iHeart radio app and you set a preset for
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  Speaker 4: 710WOR it's under the 710WOR section that the talkback.
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  Speaker 2: Feature is and then Larry you discovered one of my
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  Speaker 2: secrets right after the program I'll go into one of
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  Speaker 2: the side studios make my call so it doesn't interfere
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  Speaker 2: with everything and all of a sudden, I'll nod out
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  Speaker 2: for a few minutes. Yeah. And you're gone. And you are.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: It really is amazing. I told you the story. I
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  Speaker 4: did a story on sleep deprivation one time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And they took me to a sleep clinic. And they
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  Speaker 4: told me, and they put things all over me, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like sensors all over me. And they told me, okay,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to let you sleep. They sent me, took
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  Speaker 4: me into a dark room, completely dark room. And I
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  Speaker 4: fell asleep. And then they came and they woke me
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  Speaker 4: up and said, how long were you asleep? I said,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, four or five hours. And they said,
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  Speaker 4: you were asleep for 10 minutes because you fell into REM.
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  Speaker 4: You were so tired. You fell right into REM. And
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  Speaker 4: that's really all you need.
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  Speaker 2: And that, I think, is what I do. To be alert.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like Tom Cuddy the other day said, oh, I passed
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  Speaker 1: the studio. You were dead asleep. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: disturb you. I said, I wasn't sleeping.
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  Speaker 2: But I was. Yeah. For a very brief period of time.
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  Speaker 2: And that may well be what contributes to the fact
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  Speaker 2: that I only need like four to five hours a night.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, please give us a talk back because
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  Speaker 4: I know this is a real problem across America and
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  Speaker 4: across our listening area if you don't get enough sleep
• 11:08
  Speaker 4: and how you deal with that. Now, let's talk about
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  Speaker 4: Christina Applegate because Christina Applegate, turns out she doesn't have MS.
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: She doesn't have multiple sclerosis, and she's really upset about that.
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  Speaker 4: We'll tell you why. Plus a chance to see Journey
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  Speaker 4: at 825.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning. Absolutely
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  Speaker 2: love the show since I made the switch over from
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  Speaker 2: you know who.
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  Speaker 1: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 4: This week it didn't get a lot of attention, but
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  Speaker 4: 28 foreign nationals were uncovered by the Trump administration, by
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  Speaker 4: federal prosecutors, because they said, were green card holders, but
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  Speaker 4: they were also registered to vote. So they found fraudulent
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  Speaker 4: voter registration and they turned it in and they had
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  Speaker 4: a press conference and they made a big deal about
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  Speaker 4: it saying, see what we found, we found 28. And
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  Speaker 4: the attorney general of the state of California laughed it
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  Speaker 4: off and said, that's a drop in the bucket as
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  Speaker 4: if any voter fraud is okay. But what's worse than
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  Speaker 4: that is they only look through 20,000 voters, voter registration,
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  Speaker 4: only 20,000, and they found 23.
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  Speaker 2: There's 23 million people in California. If you extrapolate that,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about 25,000 voters. That can change elections. This
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  Speaker 2: attitude towards... verifying who people are when they vote by
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats is getting infuriating. Do you know that most
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  Speaker 2: states require some type of voter ID? Most states do.
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  Speaker 2: 36 states do. Most of them do.
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  Speaker 4: Of the ones that don't require really anything is New Jersey,
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  Speaker 4: New York, and California. And all of them are Democratic states.
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  Speaker 4: with some of them being run by Democrats, but they
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  Speaker 4: flip back and forth sometimes, like Arizona. There is just
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  Speaker 4: simply no reason when every American wants this. When I
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  Speaker 4: say every American, I'm talking 80 to 90 percent that
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  Speaker 4: poll after poll after poll shows. They want free and
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  Speaker 4: fair elections. Americans want this. And so why is the
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  Speaker 4: Democratic Party so against it? I mean, in fighting the
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  Speaker 4: SAVE Act, it is ridiculous. And the things they made
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  Speaker 4: up that it was like Jim Crow again, it is
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  Speaker 4: nothing like Jim Crow. Having somebody to show up and
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  Speaker 4: prove their identity is, as a matter of fact, an
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  Speaker 4: antithesis of Jim Crow, where you had to pay.
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  Speaker 2: A poll tax. And then women, apparently it's very difficult
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  Speaker 2: for women. They're not smart enough to get their birth certificates.
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  Speaker 2: Come on. This is about cheating. That's all it can
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  Speaker 2: be about. There's no other reason unless the Democrats believe
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  Speaker 2: this is going to benefit them. But this is just
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  Speaker 2: the latest in a whole series. Oh, absolutely. We just
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  Speaker 2: talked about Pennsylvania the other day. 2,400 uncovered in Lancaster County.
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  Speaker 2: And New Jersey. Yeah, New Jersey. 6,000 in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: So you're spot on.
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  Speaker 1: 23 million eligible voters in California out of a population
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  Speaker 1: of 40 million. That's like the largest state, almost a
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  Speaker 1: little less than doubling Texas, which is the fastest growing state.
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  Speaker 2: We know there are a lot of illegal aliens in California.
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles, there are more illegal aliens than legal people.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm proud of initiative and referendum.
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  Speaker 1: I promote that, where people get to vote instead of
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  Speaker 1: the elected officials, in that case in Sacramento, here in Albany,
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  Speaker 1: or New Jersey in Trenton, because the citizens went out
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  Speaker 1: and got their signatures. Not an easy task. because the
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  Speaker 1: opposition tries to knock off the qualified signatures. So on
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  Speaker 1: one of the propositions in California, one of the bluest
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  Speaker 1: of all states, the citizens, when they go to vote
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  Speaker 1: for the governor this time or the mayor in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: or the other congressional districts that are up for grabs,
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  Speaker 1: get to vote for. a initiative and referendum, which they're
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  Speaker 1: used to doing in California and Arizona. They're the best
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to that, which would prohibit citizens from
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  Speaker 1: voting unless they present government issue ID. Now, we know
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  Speaker 1: the majority of the people in California are Democrat, but
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  Speaker 1: that goes along with the national polls that say the majority, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: of Republicans and, yes, even Democrats, are in favor of, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when you go to vote, you should show a government ID.
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  Speaker 1: And when you go to the poll, if for any
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  Speaker 1: reason you left it at home, you misplaced it, they
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  Speaker 1: have something called an affidavit. It's different. It's not an
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  Speaker 1: absentee ballot. It's not a mail-in ballot. It's an affidavit.
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  Speaker 1: You fill it out there, they put it in a
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  Speaker 1: special box. which they can then check to see if,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, you are valid to vote. And sometimes a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these very close elections, those affidavits can be
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  Speaker 1: the deciding factor.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So look at all these potentially neck and neck close races.
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  Speaker 1: And we know some of them will end up maybe
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  Speaker 1: just a few hundred votes separate the candidates. Now, more
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  Speaker 1: than ever, I'm hoping that California puts this initiative into effect,
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  Speaker 1: even though the governor went out of his way and
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  Speaker 1: that same attorney general who left.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's not a lot. Yeah, he's right.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a lot. There's a lot more illegal aliens
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  Speaker 1: voting in California. And the will of the people prevails
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  Speaker 1: because the Democrats will challenge that in court. They'll try
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  Speaker 1: to tie it up in knots. I've always said the
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  Speaker 1: people united will never be defeated. I know that's like
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  Speaker 1: a left-wing turn, but I believe that because the people
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  Speaker 1: there in California have had it, including Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm also really fascinated about New Jersey because you'll remember
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  Speaker 4: when Mikey Sherrod, I'm glad you brought that up. When
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Mikey Sherrill came out and said there was 6,600 erroneously
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: registered voters, people who shouldn't be in the country, who
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: were registered to vote. And then she said, and yes,
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: this has been around for the last two elections and
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: nobody caught it. And so she's done her job in
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: trying to fix that up. I will give her credit
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: for that, that she said it and that she's been
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: trying to fix it. But then the federal government said, well,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: that's really interesting. Can we see all your voter rolls?
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Because we'd like to go through them. And she took
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: them to court. She said, no, absolutely not. You can't
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: see our voter rolls. Now, why? Why can't the federal
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: government look at your voter rolls? So this is a
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: court right now. And this is going to be a
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: huge court case, by the way, because if they get
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: the right to look at New Jersey's voter rolls, that's
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: especially if it goes to the Supreme Court.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: They'll be able to do that across the country.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Incredibly imperative that we know that when the vote is
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: being cast, it's only people eligible. Now, will there be
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: an occasional one or two or three who'll get through?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course. But let's face it, California, which is
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: flush with illegal aliens, and the Democrats are encouraging them
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: to register because, look, all you got to do is
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: show up with a Verizon bill. You don't have to
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: show up with, I get a Verizon bill at, You know,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Sepulveda here, 2042 Sepulveda in the San Fernando. It's all
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you need. Come on.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Most illegals are not going to go and vote, but
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: enough could turn an election.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Absolutely.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Especially some local elections, especially some congressional elections. I mean,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: the vote totals are pretty big when it comes to
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: the statewide elections and the federal elections. But in a
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: congressional election, it can be a hundred-some votes. It can
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: be really close. Oh, sure, it's happened time and time again. So, no,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: you're absolutely right. I still remember the first time I
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: was in a state that you couldn't show your voter ID.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: And I went to vote, and I took out my license.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: You'd think I pulled a gun. The way they reacted.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: They said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're right. No,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: please put that away. You're right.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: So if you go, no matter where you're listening to this,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: because we have a nationwide impact, WOR710, so powerful a
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: signal and also on the stream. You go in there
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: and if they give you a hard time, demand an
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: affidavit ballot because they're not going to resolve it there,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: especially if you go on the day. of the vote
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: it's a little too crowded You fill out the affidavit ballot.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: They put it in a special box.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: It will be counted.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Especially if it's a neck-and-neck race, but it will be
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: counted afterwards. They just have to check if you don't
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: have the ballot. A lot of times people, oh, I forgot. Okay,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you fill out the affidavit. Demand that. It's not an
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: absentee ballot. It's not a mail-in ballot. It's called an affidavit.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Because you got to swear to it, you know, right there.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I am the person that I claim to be with
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: potential penalties if, in fact, you're proven to be a fugazi.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Several of these cases right now that we've been talking
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: about are headed towards through the court systems and headed
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: towards the Supreme Court. Please pay attention to them. In
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: the past, anything that has to do with voting, the
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Supreme Court has sided with the states because, you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: in the Constitution, it says anything that's not explicitly given
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: to the federal government goes to the states and they
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: didn't say anything about voting and how to vote. So
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: the states get that. However, I'm really interested when it
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: comes to federal elections, because you would think that the
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: federal government should, that's under their purview. And I would
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: think that the federal government would have some say in
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: In the federal elections. So I want to know why
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: no one in a lawsuit has separated the two. Because
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I believe if you separate federal elections, you might be
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: able to get it done. You might be able to
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: get it up to the Supreme Court and have them
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: side with you. I mean, it's really a Hail Mary,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you the truth.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: No, but you're accurate. In the past, they have not
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: done it. You can make that argument according to the Constitution.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: You know, state rights prevail. Okay, got it. Pennsylvania does
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: its own thing. You know, California does its own thing.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Some clearly are very effective. Others give you pause to think,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: is there corruption going on? Especially when they're counting mail-in
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: ballots 10 days a week. And they don't let anybody in.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: How about that in Atlanta and in Philadelphia?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you can't come in. You can't take a
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: look at this. And in this very contentious election in Michigan,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: which we talked about earlier in the 7 o'clock hour,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Wayne County, which incorporates Detroit, where most of the votes are,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: has a history.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Of ballot corruption. It's controlled by the Democratic machine. So, yeah,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: let's hope that in California... It prevails, that ballot initiative,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: because if it could prevail in a blue state like California,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: so overwhelmingly blue, where even Democrats and independents cross that
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: marginal line and say, no, the Republicans are absolutely right.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: The majority of the people in the United States want
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to prohibit people from voting who do not present a
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: government issue ID. And there are other alternatives if, in fact,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you show up and you don't have that government ID.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning. The conversation continues.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: I can't wait to talk to our tech guy, Rich DeMuro,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: because he was at Zoomtopia. I didn't even know Zoomtopia
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: existed until I just read about it from Rich DeMuro,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: but I'm fascinated by it, and I'll tell you why.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: But let me just tell you, Rich on Tech is
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: heard Sunday nights from 8 to 11 on WOR. You
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: can also reach out to Rich... yourself at Rich on
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Tech on Instagram. So Zoomtopia, I guess, is a conference
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: they have for Zoom, but this one apparently is about AI.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: And here's the question I want you to answer, Rich,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: and you might've got this from Zoomtopia. Can I get
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: an AI version of myself to pretend I'm at these
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Zoom meetings so that I don't have to attend them?
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Good morning to you, Larry.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: So here's the deal. So number one, Zoomtopia, I went
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: because the irony was not lost on me that this
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: company that does virtual meetings has this big in-person conference.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: And I said, okay, I.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Have to go to that and see what it's all about.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: So yeah, they announced a whole bunch of features. And
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: the first thing that the onstage of the CEO of
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Zoom came out and the first question the presenter asked
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: them was, She said, why didn't you send your virtual avatar?
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: Isn't that much easier than being here in person? And
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: he said, well, it's much cheaper for me to be
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: here in person because a virtual avatar costs money. So
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: the answer to your question is, yes, you can have
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: a custom avatar. Go to your Zoom meetings. I'm looking
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: at the Zoom website right now. It's $ 16. 50 a month
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: for the first four months, and then it's $ 22 a month.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: But here's the thing. They announced all kinds of new
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: features for Zoom at this event. One of them, and
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: this didn't even occur to me, is basically a deep
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: fake detection.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: So it can detect if someone in your meeting is fake,
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: is not a real person. I mean, this is where
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: we are in 2026.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: They ruin everything. That would have been wonderful to have
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: an avatar. Think about it. Yeah. All the bad Zoom
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: meetings you've been on.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: And how many guys' careers could have been saved when
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: they were on the Zoom during the lockdown and pandemic
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: when they were found with their pants off and they
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: were stimulating themselves?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: You remember that, Rich?
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, do I remember that? I mean, I was asking
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: the Zoom folks, like, this brand got their name from
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: the pandemic, right? Like, everyone in the world uses Zoom now.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: I think what they're trying to do now is like
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: move past that idea of like, oh, when I do
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: a video call, it's Zoom.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: No, they want to be everything.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, at this event, they had all kinds of
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: new features that they showed off, including this one's wild.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: It touches up your look. Okay, we know we can
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: do that on Zoom. But now they've got one that
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: touches up your voice. So if you have a heavy accent,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: you can actually toggle a switch and it will smooth
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: out your accent, which to me is wild. There's one
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: called Pose Correction. So Larry, if you're looking at your
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: notes down on your paper next to your screen, it
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: will actually make it look as if you're still looking
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: at your camera and engaging with people. So yeah, you
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: can pretty much check out of your meetings and still
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: look like you're engaged at this point.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: And only $ 16 a month?
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Larry's looking into the budget right now.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: You know, remember Rich, Larry, and Natalie when Ariana Huffington
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: was like the go-to guest for years, you know, with
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Huffington Post? I can never understand what the hell that
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: woman was talking about because of her accent.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So this would have made her more understandable?
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: One click, one click. And I asked Zoom, I said, look,
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: did you think this was a little controversial to put
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: in a feature that smooths out an accent? And they said, no,
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: this is optional. You turn it on. You don't turn
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: it on for other people. You turn it on for yourself.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: And they're saying, look, if it makes it easier to
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: communicate with people worldwide, there you go. I mean, they
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: also introduced features that like live translate. I mean, just
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: so much stuff. But to me, the thing that really
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: stuck with me is they want you to do everything
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: through Zoom online. And it kind of records and makes
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: notes about every single conversation you have so that then
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: you can kind of go in and ask questions later
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: about anything that you've ever mentioned in a meeting, which
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: is kind of smart.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Now, Rich, my household, like so many now in America,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: is the bane to cable and network programming because my wife, Nancy,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the millennial, cut the cord.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: So what I do is I depend on my stream
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: because the smartphone knows pretty much now what I want
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: to look at.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: And I mean, it floods me with the cuts, the cuts.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: But AI has gotten so good. No, it's not SI.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: AI has gotten so good. I can no longer tell
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: what's a fugazi fake and what's real.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Shouldn't there be something on.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: That feed that says this is AI generated?
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: You know, look, there are tools on both sides. Like
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: if you scroll through Instagram or Facebook, if you look
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: real close up at the top by the person's name
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: that posted it, it will say AI content. If you
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: go on X or Twitter, whatever they're calling it these days,
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: it'll say AI generated in some aspects. So they are
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: looking for flags inside images and videos when people upload
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: them to show people that, hey, look, this was made
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: with AI. The problem is, There are equally a whole
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: bunch of tools online that can remove those signals in
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: about five seconds. And so you can upload your image
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: or video that was created with AI, and it will
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: wipe out that watermark on the back end. These are
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: things that you can't see with the human eye, but
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: computer systems look for. But there are lots of websites
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: that just remove those watermarks off the file. So it's
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: a cat and mouse game. At the end of the day,
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: I think you just have to use your sense. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: understand that, like, is this too good to be true?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Is this real?
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: There's a photo of Taylor Swift going around this week
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: of her pregnant. And I almost sent it to my wife.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: And I was like, hold on, let me fact check
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: this for one second before I send this. And sure enough,
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: it was like, nope, totally fake.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the pictures are almost undetectable with the videos that
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: are made by AI. The big tell on them, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: you tell me if you've seen this too, the big
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: tell on them are the voices. They're almost too clear.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: Yes, and there's this scam going around on YouTube and
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: other social media networks where basically people email me all
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: the time saying, hey, Rich, I want to buy an AirTag,
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: but I don't want to pay that much, so I
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: found this random scam. AirTag brand, and here's a video
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: about it. And I watched the video, and these people,
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: they upload AI-created videos with a reviewer that's like, hi,
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: I am reviewing the new AirTag 3000, and it is excellent.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, this is fake. And there's like a
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: hundred of those videos they just flood the web with
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: it so that you know these systems find them take
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: them down and more go up.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Now rich most americans like me just want simpler tech
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: what can be done to achieve that because it seems
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: it's getting more and more complicated Oh, I agree.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: And imagine my life where I'm testing 10,000 gadgets a day.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: So it is very complicated. In my home, there's just
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: a whole bunch of stuff that I'm like either testing
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: or just finishing testing or getting ready to set up
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: the next thing. But they did a poll, Quad and
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: the Harris Poll, 75% of Americans want a simpler relationship
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: with technology, and they feel like that's an upgrade, not
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: a sacrifice. And so I think what happens is people
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: like the idea of going off social media for a
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: little bit, So you don't have to do it every day.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: Maybe take a Sunday, take a couple hours of the day,
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: just leave your phone at home, make sure your loved
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: ones can get in touch with you. Or if you're
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: with them, that's when I find you can really disconnect.
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: When I'm with my wife and two kids and I
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: know everything's good in the world, well, that's debatable. But
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: you know what I mean?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: They're all there.
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: And I can say, okay, let's leave the phone behind
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: for a couple minutes and just be engaged here.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: It'll make you feel better. I appreciate that, Rich DeMuro.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: It's Rich on Tech, heard every Sunday night from 8
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: to 11 here on the number one talk station in
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: New York, 710WOR.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Appreciate that once again. We'll be with you same time,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: same place.