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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 10-23-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR. Curtis Lewa and Larry
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  Speaker 1: Minty in the morning. 710 WOR. Well, Natalie away. She
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  Speaker 1: has fatigue.
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  Speaker 2: No, actually, she's doing marathon preparation because November 1st, you
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  Speaker 2: and Natalie will be there like all day for the
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  Speaker 2: New York City Marathon, which is a great event. So naturally,
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  Speaker 2: when Natalie is not available... Who is ready and able,
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  Speaker 2: but the quiet storm and rarely says anything.
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  Speaker 1: Chris, on loan from the Mark Simone Show. This is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: You're with us again. I'm with you again. Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. What's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, but it's Friday, so there's not much coasting.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always going, oh, man, this guy is like, you're
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  Speaker 2: so bland. If we had to depend on you, we'd
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  Speaker 2: all have to go out and get jobs hanging wallpaper.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Do you realize you're devoid of any personality?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm aware. It's been like that my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm aware.
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  Speaker 3: You're okay with it, right?
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  Speaker 2: Eh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, what am I going to do?
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  Speaker 3: I'm 29.
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  Speaker 1: I can't really change it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Grab hold of your life. Make some major changes.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, let's start right now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us what you think is the biggest issue in
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  Speaker 3: the country right now.
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  Speaker 1: Throw me on the spot. I think I'll pass on
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  Speaker 1: that one. Look at that, see? And you're involved in
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  Speaker 1: talk radio. Did you ever hear that? I'll take a
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  Speaker 1: pass on that. Boy, you're like Dr. Fauci. You take
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  Speaker 1: the Fifth Amendment on everything. But anyway, Larry, you know
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  Speaker 1: what took place yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man, the lead story of almost every local newscast
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  Speaker 2: was the passage of the bill that eliminates the horse
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  Speaker 2: carriage industry in 2028.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the opposition, John Samuelson of.
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  Speaker 2: TWU Local 100, you know, we're going to sue with
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  Speaker 2: all the federal credit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Windbag. But it's pretty much a
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  Speaker 1: fait accompli.
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  Speaker 2: And I know there was a lot of interest in
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  Speaker 2: terms of how I would be treated.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not telling you right now.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep you all wondering.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I was watching the local newscast just to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Because you said yesterday, if they don't treat me well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to make a ruckus.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Like if they don't acknowledge you and if they don't
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  Speaker 3: let you inside, you're going to make a ruckus. I
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  Speaker 3: love that word, by the way, ruckus. And so I
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  Speaker 3: was looking on television for the ruckus. I'm thinking to myself, oh,
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  Speaker 3: my God, this is going to be great.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, I always deliver on those kind of promises.
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  Speaker 2: I know, and I don't want to give away too much,
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  Speaker 2: but apparently you didn't have to. Well, let's just tell
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  Speaker 2: you that my wife was with me, Nancy, because obviously
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  Speaker 2: she's involved in animal welfare and protecting the horses, free
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  Speaker 2: the horses. And she said to me at the start,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Curtis, I've been with you at a lot
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  Speaker 2: of events.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen you more mistreated. And that's saying a
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  Speaker 1: lot in 10 years of our relationship.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It was not a good start.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, right now, I'm not going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about it because there is something that is more of
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  Speaker 2: a disgracia and a shanda than even this. In my household,
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  Speaker 2: in so many households, Friday was pizza day. You know,
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  Speaker 2: whether your mom or dad got a frozen pizza or
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  Speaker 2: you went to local mom and pop pizzeria, now they
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  Speaker 2: have all these cardboard cutouts You know, franchise pizzas, which, well,
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  Speaker 2: I guess if you're going to do it, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to do it. But it always was a tradition. Friday
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  Speaker 2: was the big pizza day. And one thing I felt,
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  Speaker 2: there was a recent poll, and normally when they do
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  Speaker 2: polls about pizzerias, and even like Portnoy has one of
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  Speaker 2: his attributes is he goes around testing pizzas at pizzerias.
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  Speaker 1: People love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he can make or break a place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my favorite food. So I'm looking at this
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  Speaker 2: recent list. Okay, they have New York City first.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Jersey second. All right. And then I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: where's Connecticut?
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  Speaker 2: 16th. And I'm saying to myself, what? And I'm looking, Texas, Missouri, Oregon,
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  Speaker 2: you don't go there for pizza. We're rated ahead of them. 16th. Now,
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  Speaker 2: for many of our listeners, they know, when you cross
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  Speaker 2: over from the New York State border, as I have
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  Speaker 2: many times going in in Connecticut, right along I-95, entering Greenwich,
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  Speaker 2: very trendy Greenwich from New York, There's a big sign
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  Speaker 2: that says, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: To Connecticut, home of the pizza capital of the USA.
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  Speaker 2: And likewise on I-84 when you're entering Danbury from New York.
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  Speaker 1: They've earned that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have that. They have that ultra thin coal
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  Speaker 3: or brick oven pizza.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: What do they call it? There's a name for it.
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  Speaker 1: Abitz. Napolitano. Abitz. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you for the question.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a German-Irish guy correcting me.
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  Speaker 1: That is the correct pronunciation. Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 2: But if you've ever been to Little Italy in New Haven,
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  Speaker 2: it's right before you hit the interstate.
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  Speaker 1: There is a place, Worcester Street in Worcester Square.
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  Speaker 2: They got like the three pillars of some of the
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  Speaker 2: best pizza in the world. And I've had it all
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  Speaker 2: over the world, especially in Italy itself. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're not even rated Connecticut. There's Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napolitano.
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  Speaker 2: There's Sally's, what is that you say.
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  Speaker 1: A pizza?
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  Speaker 2: Abitz.
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  Speaker 1: Abitz. And modern, Abitz. Those are just three of the many.
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  Speaker 2: Connecticut is rated 16th. So I said, who did this survey? Because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, these are like polls. There were these instant
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  Speaker 2: pop-up surveys. A survey by Maine Lobster.
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  Speaker 3: Laughter.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I understand that maybe Platner needs new work. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the oyster guy who got washed out in the Senate race.
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  Speaker 1: You know, lobsters. What the hell would you have a site.
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  Speaker 2: Called Maine Lobster raiding pizzerias all throughout the country from
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  Speaker 2: California to New York, from Texas, right on up to Maine?
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  Speaker 3: Where was New Jersey on the list?
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  Speaker 2: Two.
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  Speaker 3: Number two.
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  Speaker 1: Which I accept, too.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: New York City.
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  Speaker 2: But always— and look, I'm the New York guy— You know,
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  Speaker 2: my favorite, I just did a barstool thing just on
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  Speaker 2: food in the tri-state area. Stromboli's on First Avenue in St. Mark's,
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  Speaker 2: owned by the Albanians. Albanians, Montenegrins own most of the
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  Speaker 2: pizzerias now. I lived on that for a year in
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  Speaker 2: the 80s. And then there's, oh, you got to be
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  Speaker 2: careful here because it's, the pizzeria has competition. They all
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  Speaker 2: have competitions. There's like battles all the time. The original
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  Speaker 2: pizza on Avenue L. This is another original pizza on
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Avenue. Not the same. And today, my number three,
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  Speaker 2: New Park Pizzeria, which was the victim of pizza war.
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  Speaker 2: A van went right through this side on Cross Bay Boulevard.
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  Speaker 2: They're reopening today. That's part of the pizza wars. They
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  Speaker 2: go to war against one another.
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  Speaker 3: I love New Jersey pizza. There's a place in Edgewater
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  Speaker 3: called Al's Sourdough Pizza. Oh, my God. It was the
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  Speaker 3: best pizza I ever had. I love sourdough bread, and
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  Speaker 3: I love sourdough. So, man, was that good. But I
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  Speaker 3: have been to about four or five pizza places in
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  Speaker 3: New Jersey that I would put in the top ten
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  Speaker 3: of any list in the country.
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  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, especially along the shore. You find out
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those pizzerias originally were in Newark. You know,
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  Speaker 2: North Ward, Newark, Bloomfield Avenue, St. Lucie's, the Italian section,
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  Speaker 2: and actually as their client's. Move to the Jersey Shore.
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  Speaker 2: They move their business to the Jersey Shore. The one
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  Speaker 2: that's famous is Raza.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Raza in Jersey City. That's the one they talk
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  Speaker 3: about nationally. Look, I love the pizza in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: I've never had a bad slice there in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: But not to have pizza.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Connecticut and especially the little Italy there on
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  Speaker 2: Worcester Square, Worcester Street.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's incredible, the pizza there.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 3: I've never had pizza in Connecticut. I've been to Connecticut
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  Speaker 3: several times. I've just never had pizza there. But I've
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  Speaker 3: heard people rave about it. And by the way, on
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  Speaker 3: some lists, it was number one. So to be number
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  Speaker 3: 16 is kind of ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Behind Wyoming, Idaho, you know, places that don't even know
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  Speaker 2: what pizza is.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 2: How can people weigh in on this fact of life here,
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  Speaker 2: which for many of us is very important, Pizza Day
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  Speaker 2: on Friday?
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine everybody has a favorite pizza. And there's
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  Speaker 3: probably some places that are incredible that we don't know about.
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  Speaker 2: Now let me teach you a trick. You're paying attention, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: You're taking notes. You can do this at any local
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  Speaker 2: mom-and-pop pizzeria. Friday is their busiest day. They usually have
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  Speaker 2: some young Italian stallion, or they even have Mexicans now.
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  Speaker 2: It took me a while to get used to Mexicans
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  Speaker 2: making pizza, but they're not too bad. So they're twirling
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  Speaker 2: it up, and all the girls are looking. So I
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  Speaker 2: walk in Friday about five, six o'clock. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: when they're busiest. And I said, hey, Salvin, Jens, do
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  Speaker 2: me a favor. I got no time here. Just take
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  Speaker 2: that sliced pizza. You know, they keep it in trays
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  Speaker 2: underneath because they just use it.
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  Speaker 1: Just say, I don't want you to warm it up
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  Speaker 1: in the oven.
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  Speaker 2: Here's 20 for the pie, and I'll give you another
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  Speaker 2: 10 because you're going out of your way for me.
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  Speaker 1: Just put it in the box. I got to go. Sorry, Mr. Sleeve,
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  Speaker 1: I can't do that. What do you mean? I'm a
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  Speaker 1: good customer. You see me from time to time. I
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  Speaker 1: know Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Sliwa, but I can't do that. What do you mean
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  Speaker 2: you can't do it? Just take the sliced pie. You
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  Speaker 2: don't even have to heat it up. Here's 20 for
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  Speaker 2: the pie, 10 for you. Put it in a box.
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  Speaker 1: I got to go.
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  Speaker 2: Can't do that. And you know why, Chris and Larry?
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  Speaker 2: Because for years they used technology. They told us you
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  Speaker 2: get more value with a box pie. You know, they'll
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  Speaker 2: make a whole pie for you, put it in the box. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you get more value than the slice. Turns out the
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  Speaker 2: slice pie is bigger. So if they were to take
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  Speaker 2: the slice pie and put it in the box, they
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  Speaker 2: can't close the box because it's flapping over on the sides. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So I got to tell you, whether they're Montenegrins, they're Albanians,
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  Speaker 2: or they're crazed Italians, you know, like Mr. Bacigalup from
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  Speaker 2: the old Abbott and Costello show, they go nuts on me.
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  Speaker 2: They say, why are you giving away our trade secrets?
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  Speaker 3: Now they have those boxes that are fit for slices.
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  Speaker 3: Have you seen them?
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  Speaker 1: They had little boxes.
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  Speaker 3: That are triangles. Thanks for agreeing, Chris. That was very good.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen them before. That was excellent. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. That's amazing, Chris. I'm actually waiting on that.
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  Speaker 1: He said, uh-huh, which was wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, my wife, Nancy, all Polish, right,
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  Speaker 2: to get through Stony Brook because she didn't come from
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  Speaker 2: a family of wealth. She had to make 400 pizzas
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  Speaker 2: a day for the kids. Oh, that's wonderful. But remember,
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  Speaker 2: starting out, you know, overnight, you got to put the
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  Speaker 2: yeast in, the dough's got to raise, you got to
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  Speaker 2: pound it, you got to throw it in the air. Naturally,
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  Speaker 2: you got all kinds of baking paraphernalia all over you.
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  Speaker 2: It's 400 a day and you're all Polish and you
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  Speaker 2: know how.
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  Speaker 1: To make pizza?
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, when we come back, you know
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  Speaker 3: of his roles and you're going to know who he is.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about that. Plus, you got a chance to
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  Speaker 3: see Journey at age 25.
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