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Opening segment 7/23/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Slewah Menty. The morning starts here Curtis Sliwa and Larry
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  Speaker 1: Minty in the morning on sevent ten. Wa.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's official. I know you saw the tornadoes. You
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  Speaker 2: saw them with your own eyes, but it's not official
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  Speaker 2: until the National Weather Service comes out. So even though
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  Speaker 2: you saw a twister, even though you saw the rotation,
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  Speaker 2: you don't count. They have to go out and check
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  Speaker 2: it out and guess what as expected.
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  Speaker 1: You were right.
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  Speaker 2: It was an F one tornado, three of them, one
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  Speaker 2: in Stanhope Mount Olive area, one in Lower Berkshire Valley
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  Speaker 2: section of Roxbury Township, and the Pinebrook section of Montville Township. Now,
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  Speaker 2: an F one tornado goes about seventy three to one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twelve miles an hour. They said that these
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  Speaker 2: three were over one hundred miles an hour, so it
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  Speaker 2: was a significant event and could have caused a lot
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  Speaker 2: of damage. Down in Cape May County, Curtis, there was
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  Speaker 2: another three tornadoes, actually one tornado because it was on land,
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  Speaker 2: and two water spouts, which are really cool to look at.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and so they had two that were out
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  Speaker 2: over the ocean that were that were rotating and showing water.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be really careful of the water spouts because
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  Speaker 2: people love to look at them, but they can turn
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  Speaker 2: into tornadoes. They can come on land darn quickly and
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  Speaker 2: really cause some problems. So there were people on the
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  Speaker 2: beach taking a look at it, and so lucky it
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  Speaker 2: never came on.
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  Speaker 1: So you should never run into a water spout taking.
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  Speaker 2: No kind of impossible to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look, it's like a water right, right, it looks
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  Speaker 1: that way. But yeah, you're right, and we're gonna see
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  Speaker 1: more and more of this as the climate changes and
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  Speaker 1: it gets hotter, especially for longer periods of time, as
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  Speaker 1: are many weather men have told us that it puts
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  Speaker 1: such pressure on the atmosphere that everything that gets sucked up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, oh, your perspiration, fresh water, salt water from
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  Speaker 1: the ocean just clashes up there and then immediately causes
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  Speaker 1: the black clouds to descend upon you and Natalie, if
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  Speaker 1: you can, just for clarification purposes, so you describe it
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  Speaker 1: so well that it's not just the ominous look, it's
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  Speaker 1: not just the funnel. It's what it feels like when
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  Speaker 1: it's in your area, that it is different probably than
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  Speaker 1: anything you've ever experienced.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm questioning myself living in Morris County
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  Speaker 3: because a lot of this happened in Morris County.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I felt it.
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  Speaker 3: The atmosphere. I described that as if you had a match,
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  Speaker 3: It felt like it would explode. It was really electrified.
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  Speaker 3: You just feel tension in the air, if that's possible.
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  Speaker 1: That's how it felt to me.
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  Speaker 3: So and I didn't go to the basement. And now
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying I probably should have because now the Pinebrook
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  Speaker 3: one's even closer to me than you.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't know about that one? No, yeah, no, I think
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  Speaker 2: yesterday we were talking about two almost the entire day.
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  Speaker 3: The one in Precipity, which I guess did not get classified.
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  Speaker 3: That was the one everybody was talking about top golf
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  Speaker 3: in the Troy Hills section of Presipity. I have to
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  Speaker 3: go check that out and see what that happened, because
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  Speaker 3: they were photos and it really did look.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was definitely a torn eight.
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  Speaker 3: But Pinebrook is even closer to me. Yeah, you don't
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  Speaker 3: know what it is with Morris County.
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  Speaker 1: What you were feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, you can feel a vibration when
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  Speaker 2: there's a tornado nearby, but there's a real fast drop
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  Speaker 2: in barometric press.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it was.
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  Speaker 2: And so when that happens, you can't everybody's going to
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  Speaker 2: feel that. Animals run from it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was describing how I'd live where there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of birds and it's there yapping all day long,
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  Speaker 3: and it was as quiet as you know, nighttime it
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  Speaker 3: was like a pin drop quiet.
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  Speaker 1: It was very eerie. They know their senses are far more,
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  Speaker 1: far more acute than ours are.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you felt it. I mean you didn't feel like running.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently you didn't even go to the basement like you
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  Speaker 2: were told to do.
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  Speaker 1: But the bike helmet on.
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  Speaker 3: But I did put my sneakers on because somebody told
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  Speaker 3: me to put my sneakers on.
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  Speaker 1: That I did. Now remember, uh, with one of the
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  Speaker 1: weather forecasts is because we've had such extreme weather over
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  Speaker 1: the weeks, I asked. It always used to be part
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  Speaker 1: of a weather forecast they give you and the barometer
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  Speaker 1: is that they don't do that anymore. I always wonder
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  Speaker 1: what is a what is the barometer? Now you've explained it, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: the barometric pressure that so causes that funnel. It's almost
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  Speaker 1: like when we were in science class, the smashing of atoms.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how they would show, they'd be there's fire, antique energy,
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  Speaker 1: adam smashing into one another. I think that's what you
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  Speaker 1: were feeling, is that the air, the particularly the dramatic
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  Speaker 1: drop in temperature. It's almost as if atomic particles were
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  Speaker 1: crashing into one another. That's why you felt a natalie
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  Speaker 1: like you hadn't felt ever before, because you were so
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  Speaker 1: close to this tornado that was passing through your area.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: I remember during weather forecasts all the time they would
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  Speaker 3: tell you the you know, the barometer's rising dropping.
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  Speaker 1: They don't do that any they don't. They eliminated that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who it was, mister g Awpix, who's
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  Speaker 1: probably the oldest guy out there doing it now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if it was one of the Fields family,
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  Speaker 1: remember you had the father, you had the son, or
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  Speaker 1: maybe it was Hollo afull.
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  Speaker 3: Right, because I remembered if they said the barometer was falling,
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  Speaker 3: that means bad weather was probably potentially coming your way.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny when you said that about burrama metric pressure,
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  Speaker 2: and you said the tornadoes cause the barometric pressure. I
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  Speaker 2: thought to myself immediately, what comes first? The chicken or
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  Speaker 2: the egg? Is it the barometric pressure that causes the tornado,
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  Speaker 2: or the tornado that causes the barometric pressure. And it
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  Speaker 2: turns out you were correct that as it spins, air
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  Speaker 2: rushes inward towards the base of the tornado, and that
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  Speaker 2: makes the pressure go down everywhere around it. So you
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  Speaker 2: were absolutely correct. I thought it was the other way around.
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  Speaker 1: And even though they say go into your basement, because
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot of families they have basements in
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  Speaker 1: their either one family house or two family houses. But
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  Speaker 1: when you go out in the farm areas, even though
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  Speaker 1: they could build a basement right underneath the house, they
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  Speaker 1: build these special tornado shelters storm shelters, which is away
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  Speaker 1: from the house because remember that's where the tornadoes are strong.
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  Speaker 1: They'll pick the whole house up and then they'll almost
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  Speaker 1: like the Wizard of Oz, remember how the house gets
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  Speaker 1: picked up, caught in the funnel and then comes crashing down,
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  Speaker 1: Except it won't be the wicked Witch of the West
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  Speaker 1: that it crashes on, you know. But they have special
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  Speaker 1: tornado shelter storm shelters that are away from the house,
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  Speaker 1: that are underground, that have the storm door and the callers.
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  Speaker 1: And remember this is in the sixties when I'm visiting
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  Speaker 1: my grandfather and grandmother outside of Chicago. Oh no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: they leave the food on the table, rush it into
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  Speaker 1: the storm shelter. I'm like what, And then he said,
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  Speaker 1: look look, and you could see this arm and it's tornado,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just tearing through the cornfields. And then everybody
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  Speaker 1: dives in there and you gotta wait. You gotta wait.
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  Speaker 1: You can nowadays technology will tell you okay, all clear time. No,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta wait and wait and wait. And then you
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  Speaker 1: have your your sea crane radio, you know, you wind
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  Speaker 1: them up radio. You have food stuffs in case you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be there for thirty days. You have water supplies.
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  Speaker 1: They have all of this in case in case something
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  Speaker 1: falls on top of you.
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  Speaker 2: Sure if it's all across the country. There's a whole
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  Speaker 2: section of the country called Tornado Alley and they're required
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  Speaker 2: with homes to have those shelters.
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  Speaker 3: And I have to thank you because I did have.
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  Speaker 3: You did gift me a seacrane radio, the wind up
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  Speaker 3: Solar one, and I did have it out and I
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  Speaker 3: was actually on the weather band, which was really interesting.
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  Speaker 3: There's like seven weather bands and you could tune in
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  Speaker 3: and you get your very very specific weather of what
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  Speaker 3: was going on at that moment, so it was great.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, they're amazing. I you know, I think a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people think when I'm talking about the sea
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  Speaker 2: crane radios, I'm just saying it because we're doing the ads. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I believe in this. Well Natalie can just prove it
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  Speaker 2: because I gave her one and I gave Curtis one.
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  Speaker 2: I think that they're that important. I gave everybody in
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  Speaker 2: my family one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm nocturnal, so I'm listening to it all
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  Speaker 1: night long. Nanty, when you turn that, you get some sleep.
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  Speaker 1: But is she in the other room? No? Oh, no, right,
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  Speaker 1: because I try to keep it as close to my
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  Speaker 1: ear as fris well. You know, I have a difficult
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  Speaker 1: time hearing the beginning with so man she gets upset.
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  Speaker 1: Although remember, and I mentioned it briefly yesterday. In the
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  Speaker 1: midst of a crisis like we had the Cold War
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  Speaker 1: the fifties to the sixties, when the Kita Krushchev threatened
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  Speaker 1: to bury us, you know, basically drop an Adam bomb
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  Speaker 1: on us. We had ten thousand bomb shelters in New
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  Speaker 1: York City in apartment buildings. It's now two fifty and
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  Speaker 1: most of them are now turned in by the custodians
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  Speaker 1: of the building into basically supply areas, you know, basically storage.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna we may end up going through a phase
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  Speaker 1: now because of the extreme weather. Well, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs realize, yeah, we're gonna build your special storm shelters,
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  Speaker 1: tornado shelters, and you know it will be the first
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  Speaker 1: one online to get it our own. Natalie and she
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  Speaker 1: had a crane radio. Go in there, my cann We'll
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  Speaker 1: be down there.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember were you ever in a classroom where
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  Speaker 2: alarms went off because it was it was a bomb attack.
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  Speaker 1: Every day the siren would go exactly we had to
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  Speaker 1: get under the desk. You had to put your head
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  Speaker 1: between your two cheeks, and man, you had better wiped
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  Speaker 1: up when you went to the bathroom because you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: come up and get a breath of air until the
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  Speaker 1: nun told you all clear, all clear. Every day when
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  Speaker 1: you were in school.
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  Speaker 2: Same with me, except we didn't have to put our
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  Speaker 2: head in between our butt cheeks. I think that you
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  Speaker 2: had a teacher with a sense of humor.
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  Speaker 1: A nun.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this, look at this cut tight on the
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  Speaker 2: other nuns come here, Look what I got them doing.
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  Speaker 1: You had to do whatever the nuns told you because
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  Speaker 1: we had a three foot ruler. They hit you so
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  Speaker 1: hard your mother would feel the vibration. Golden ruler. We
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  Speaker 1: got hit with the golden ruler, got it, old golden rule? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So, uh no, but I remember that, man, the sirens
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  Speaker 2: going off every day. When did they stop that?
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  Speaker 1: I think when they realized that we had a combination
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  Speaker 1: between us of sixty thousand war heads, ain't one another.
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  Speaker 1: I realize, Hey, come on, we're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to do anything if it goes off.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to lose weight, Hey, there's a new diet
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  Speaker 2: out there based on the Bible. We'll tell you about it.
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  Speaker 2: Plus a chance to see John Mellencamp at a twenty
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  Speaker 2: five