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

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  Speaker 1: Finally, finally, Larry, Natalie, and a massive audience out there.
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  Speaker 1: We have information about a name that would not resonate
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  Speaker 1: with most people. Thomas Matthew Crooks. Thomas Matthew Crooks. I
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  Speaker 1: always say never trust anybody with three names, but there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of people out there who like to
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  Speaker 1: be recognized by three names.
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  Speaker 2: How about anybody with the last name Crooks?
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  Speaker 1: Well, slowly I turn step-by-step back to July 13th of
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  Speaker 1: 2020 for Warren Butler. The president, then-citizen Trump, is having
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  Speaker 1: a huge rally before going on to Milwaukee for the
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  Speaker 1: Republican National Convention, where obviously they would officially give him
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  Speaker 1: the nomination. And then he would go on to run
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  Speaker 1: for the presidency. But it was Thomas Crooks Butler who
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  Speaker 1: had crawled on top of that building, got access to
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  Speaker 1: within shooting site of then-citizen Trump, and within the barest
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  Speaker 1: of minimal space, could easily have killed the president as
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  Speaker 1: he shot multiple times, or maybe rendered him incapable of continuing.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God he moved his head ever so slightly, and
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  Speaker 1: that was avoided. But I know both you, Larry, I,
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  Speaker 1: and so many citizens out there said, okay, they killed
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  Speaker 1: this guy, Thomas Matthew Crooks. Should be able to get
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  Speaker 1: a profile on him. It turned out he was a
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  Speaker 1: young guy. And we were waiting for volumes of information
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  Speaker 1: because we know if the government wasn't going to provide it,
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  Speaker 1: there would be reporters, intrepid reporters. They would be knocking
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  Speaker 1: on doors. They would be digging up all information. And
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, remember, Larry was like almost nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost as if he didn't exist. We know that
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  Speaker 1: Trump was almost killed, but little if anything came out
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  Speaker 1: about this guy. And then all of a sudden there
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  Speaker 1: were different stories about him that conflicted with one another.
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  Speaker 1: And we always said, well, why haven't we heard from
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  Speaker 1: the father and the mother? who raised him in their
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  Speaker 1: house along with their daughter. It seemed like nobody had
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  Speaker 1: talked to the father or mother. We just assumed that
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't talk. Well, lo and behold, Senator Grassley of
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  Speaker 1: Iowa had hearings in which they had access to the father.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Matthew. And he, it's not like he
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  Speaker 1: took the Code of Emeritus or the Fifth Amendment. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. The father was talking all about him from birth,
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  Speaker 1: meaning the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, from birth to his demise.
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  Speaker 1: So the father tells the grass league committee, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I knew it was a little strange because upon birth,
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  Speaker 1: he never screamed. You know, when they hit him on
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  Speaker 1: his backside, he wasn't yelling. He wasn't screaming. And at
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  Speaker 1: a very young age, he was always very quiet, pretty
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  Speaker 1: much to himself, very solemn. And at that point, he
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  Speaker 1: said it was very difficult to have a father-son relationship,
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  Speaker 1: as much as I tried, because he rarely expressed emotion.
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  Speaker 1: He hardly laughed. He was hard to make out. And
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  Speaker 1: then in elementary school, he seemed to be bored in school.
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  Speaker 1: So I tried to engage him. I'm trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what is it that my son might like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that would elicit some kind of emotion. And then in
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  Speaker 1: junior high school, he took a turn. This is the shooter,
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Matthew Crooks. We thought, meaning he and his wife
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  Speaker 1: thought he might have ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. and
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  Speaker 1: he went for some counseling about that. He started hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with the bad kids. He was starting to become
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  Speaker 1: a bad boy, so we did an intervention. Then in
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  Speaker 1: high school, he does a complete turn. He becomes stoic.
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  Speaker 1: He's almost like a lone wolf, and he had an
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  Speaker 1: issue with some of his teachers because he started talking
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  Speaker 1: to himself on occasion, both in the hallways, in the classroom,
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  Speaker 1: and even at home, and so we said, oh, my,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we're going to have to Get him more in-depth counseling.
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  Speaker 1: So apparently the parents are trying. It's not like, hey, kid,
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  Speaker 1: go up in your room, lock yourself in it. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. But then all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden he started to binge. He starts studying. He's taking
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  Speaker 1: college preparatory courses. He was really into it. He got
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  Speaker 1: 1,400 on his SATs.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first time. The second time he got 1,500.
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  Speaker 1: 1,500. Larry combined my SATs.
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  Speaker 3: Combined.
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  Speaker 2: Weren't even 800. How many times did you take them?
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  Speaker 1: Twice. I had my number two sharpened pencils that my
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  Speaker 1: mother Francesca gave me with my two chocolate bars for energy.
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  Speaker 1: At Midwood High School, they sent you to take it
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  Speaker 1: at a public high school on a Saturday. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I thought SAT meant. Saturday, you know, that's when you
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  Speaker 1: took those tests right next to Brooklyn College. I had
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  Speaker 1: miserable scores. This kid is like, wow. So the parents
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  Speaker 1: are going, wow, he's really making us proud. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about joining the Navy. He wants to work on
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear submarine. So I have a father and son
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  Speaker 1: talk with him. Hey, you don't seem to be interested
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  Speaker 1: in girls. Ah, but I'm not gay. You know, I'm just, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fighting myself, dad. And then he got into shooting guns,
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  Speaker 1: which a lot of young guys are into.
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  Speaker 2: Especially that part of the country.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They love shooting guns. And the father was a gun
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  Speaker 1: owner and the grandfather was a gun owner. So it
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  Speaker 1: was in their family. But then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: he goes, but I'm not into hunting and fishing like
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  Speaker 1: you and grandpa. By the way, dad, do I have
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  Speaker 1: to get a background check in order to buy your
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  Speaker 1: Glock gun? So the kid is like into it. He's online.
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  Speaker 1: He's researching gun ownership, asked if he could have his
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  Speaker 1: grandpa's guns, which, as you know, in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania families, especially out there outside of Pittsburgh, western Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 1: in the more suburban rural areas, that's a tradition. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you pass down the guns from granddad to daddy to child.
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  Speaker 1: And because of the pandemic, the father, Matthew, decides to
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  Speaker 1: register him into a gun club. He couldn't hit a
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  Speaker 1: paper target if his life depended on him. So for
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  Speaker 1: four or five years, he's practicing. He's practicing. He loves
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  Speaker 1: going to the range. Everybody says this kid can't shoot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he couldn't hit the side of a bar. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: he becomes a good shooter. He buys a prism sight,
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  Speaker 1: and he starts zeroing in on his target. So the
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  Speaker 1: father's proud of him. Hey, kid, you came a long way.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't hit the broad side of a bar. Now, man,
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  Speaker 1: you hit that target right in the middle. And he's
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  Speaker 1: going online and he's buying products through who? Jeff Bezos' Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: Because he wants to order parts, tools, and items to
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  Speaker 1: increase the capacity of his rifle. Not at all unusual.
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  Speaker 1: But because his dad had had his checking account hacked
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  Speaker 1: at Citizens Bank, he becomes a little paranoid because the father, Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: is paranoid. So he goes, you know, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: use the name Bob Dole. I mean, who would the
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  Speaker 1: hell use the name of the former U.S. senator from Kansas,
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  Speaker 1: Bob Dole, because he believed that he might get hacked?
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  Speaker 2: But that was also the first hint that he was political.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That was the first time people thought, hey, this kid
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  Speaker 2: knows politics.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, think about it, Larry. Who would even know
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  Speaker 1: about Bob Dole at his age, right?
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So that is a key point that he used Bob
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  Speaker 2: Dole's name because it's a key point because all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden— He had some, he was paying attention to politics,
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  Speaker 2: very smart, and all of a sudden his mind's in politics.
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  Speaker 1: But he's got this glitch. He's paranoid about identity, people
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  Speaker 1: finding out identity. So his dad, Matthew, teaches him to
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  Speaker 1: use identity-obscuring software, CyberGhost, UPN, and the Bravest Browser. And
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  Speaker 1: he uses multiple different privacy-focused encrypted email providers, including GMX
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  Speaker 1: and MailFence. I have no idea what those things are.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 1: So the kid is already like into that world. The
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  Speaker 1: dad is interacting with him because he's teaching him some
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  Speaker 1: of this. So it's not like he's learning this from
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  Speaker 1: his friends or he's in his room and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's cyber surfing and learning all these things himself on
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  Speaker 1: the dark web. It's almost like a father and his son.
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  Speaker 1: A little unusual, but. You know, but not all that
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  Speaker 1: unusual from a lot of fathers and sons growing up,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in that part of western Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I read a lot of this, and I was
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  Speaker 2: kind of disappointed that we found out you just gave
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  Speaker 2: a wealth of information about him. We found out all
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  Speaker 2: that information about him. Why did he shoot the president?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Where was that in all of that report? Why did
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  Speaker 2: he go out and shoot the president? So my feeling
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  Speaker 2: is sometimes with this kind of information that is fascinating,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, that gets released. But we still don't
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  Speaker 2: know why he got so many shots off. We still
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  Speaker 2: don't know why he got up there. We still don't know.
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  Speaker 2: why they cremated the body. We still don't know exactly
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  Speaker 2: what he was. So I think that many times they
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  Speaker 2: drip this kind of stuff out. So we'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about it a lot. We feel like they're
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  Speaker 2: now disclosing stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's been over two years.
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  Speaker 2: It's been over two years and we still don't know
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  Speaker 2: what his motivation was. And we still don't know why
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  Speaker 2: they hid so much information. We don't know why they're
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  Speaker 2: just leaving this stuff out now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, That's the interesting part, is Grassley's committee obviously did
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  Speaker 1: a deep dive. Not that deep. No, but went to
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  Speaker 1: talk to the father. The father didn't say, sorry, do
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  Speaker 1: you have a warrant? You know, I'm not at liberty
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  Speaker 1: to discuss anything.
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  Speaker 2: But Curtis, the key questions are still out there. But
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  Speaker 2: it's been a long time for those key questions to
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  Speaker 2: still be out there. Very simple questions. And nobody talked.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to the state police. Talk to the medical examiner
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  Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. They got a lot to say. Talk to
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  Speaker 2: all those people. This stuff's fascinating. It's really important, but
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't get to the core issue.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and you see the fact that they've released some.
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  Speaker 1: It's like anything. They released the Epstein files. You want more.
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  Speaker 1: You release files now the CIA are on the involvement
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  Speaker 1: of Bush and Clinton and not doing anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they don't release the stuff that's top secrets. There's
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  Speaker 2: going to be some stuff that's blacked out that we're
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  Speaker 2: never going to know, and we should know. We should know.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe you're right. I'm hoping you're an optimist in this.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're saying that this is released and there's
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  Speaker 2: more to come. My feeling is we're never going to know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that may well be true, but I would have
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  Speaker 1: never thought after all this time, almost 800 days, that
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  Speaker 1: we would ever learn anything until both of us were
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  Speaker 1: dead and, you know, something was unearthed that we were
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  Speaker 1: all not aware of. But did that tell you anything
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  Speaker 1: about why he shot the president? No, but it also
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  Speaker 1: indicated that it wasn't what people were trying to say initially.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know when he turned. He obviously turned, and
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  Speaker 2: that's not in there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see, now that the father obviously has been a
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  Speaker 1: willing participant, because we thought the family would not participate
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  Speaker 1: with anyone, I think it's incumbent— that people try to
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  Speaker 1: talk with the family and get in on the public record.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about the media. I'm sure they already know.
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  Speaker 2: Many of the questions I'm asking right now, I think
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  Speaker 2: they know the answers to. And I think that's not
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  Speaker 2: being released. And this is a little bit being released
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  Speaker 2: so we can say, look, they're being transparent. They are
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  Speaker 2: not being transparent.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, Jimmy, don't fail me now, failure. You go to
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  Speaker 1: sleep with him at night. He's on from 9 to
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  Speaker 1: 12 right here at 710WOR, the biggest talk radio station
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  Speaker 1: in the nation. And then you wake up with Larry
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  Speaker 1: and me in the morning at 6. Jimmy, the President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States saved my life. when he said
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  Speaker 1: yesterday about artificial intelligence, the robots will not be taking
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  Speaker 1: over because I can still do my robot dance from
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  Speaker 1: my disco dancing days, and I won't have to worry
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  Speaker 1: about the competition from them. What about you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I did not know that you had this illustrious
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  Speaker 4: dance background, Kurt. That explains a lot, though.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I'm not an AI guy.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I went to Nassau Community College. They think AI
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  Speaker 4: stands for Allen Iverson, the basketball player. So we haven't
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  Speaker 4: been worried about this at all. But I'm not scared, man.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever the opening in the negotiation is do it our
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  Speaker 4: way or everyone's going to die, you kind of know
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  Speaker 4: you're getting ripped off. That was climate change. That was
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  Speaker 4: the vaccine. That was net neutrality. We're going to be fine, okay?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I watched.
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  Speaker 1: Jensen Huang speak yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: And he is, of course, as smart as anybody out there.
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  Speaker 4: The only thing that threw me is, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you saw those clips, but he's wearing a shiny
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  Speaker 4: leather jacket. And I don't think anybody wants assurances on
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  Speaker 4: the fate of humanity from a guy who's dressed like.
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  Speaker 1: He's running a disco.
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  Speaker 3: Did he go into your closet?
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  Speaker 1: Did he go into your closet? Seriously.
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  Speaker 4: Seriously. Well, there wasn't a lot of room because I'm
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  Speaker 4: currently in.
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  Speaker 1: The closet, as you know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we knew. Hey, I think it's fascinating that the
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  Speaker 2: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is now
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  Speaker 2: possibly going into bankruptcy as early as today. Turns out
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  Speaker 2: taking that Donald Trump name off, it wasn't such a
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  Speaker 2: good idea.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, but I still care because I don't want.
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  Speaker 1: To see it go under. It has a legacy.
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  Speaker 4: Why not some JFK-inspired performances? Can we get some Marilyn
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  Speaker 4: Monroe impersonators in there? Maybe we set up a road
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  Speaker 4: obstacle course for a Ted Kennedy Baja off-road challenge. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm invested, man. I want to see it stick around.
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  Speaker 1: Now, remember the replacement at night you first talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: for the dearly departed Emmy Award winner. Who was it
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  Speaker 1: who won the Emmy Award for a talk show yesterday, Larry?
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knew that was going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Right, but he's gone, and now it's all comedy all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Apparently, that format is doing quite well, am
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  Speaker 1: I right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the comics unleashed?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because what's happening is, you know, Byron Allen, who
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  Speaker 4: is a super smart dude.
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  Speaker 1: He actually.
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  Speaker 4: It is a breakthrough idea, but it dawned on him
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  Speaker 4: that people who tune into a comedy show want to laugh.
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  Speaker 4: So he was like a pioneer in that regard in
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  Speaker 4: late night because no one's prioritized that in the last
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  Speaker 4: 10 years. And that's kind of what he knows is
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  Speaker 4: that unbeknownst to Colbert or maybe Jimmy Kimmel, people don't
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  Speaker 4: want to hear right before they go to bed that
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  Speaker 4: fascists have taken over the government. Women and blacks are
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  Speaker 4: losing their rights.
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  Speaker 1: We're all going to die. Go to bed, everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Good night. That's all he's doing is he's doing comedy
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  Speaker 4: in the year 1992, which is all we try to
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  Speaker 4: do on my show is just do comedy. You don't
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  Speaker 4: have to editorialize. You don't have to care. So that cold,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, Colbert thing good for them last night,
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  Speaker 4: but it was embarrassing, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. A lot of the stuff they did were embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know any of the shows did the Emmys
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  Speaker 2: are like dying because it's streaming and there's 9 million
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  Speaker 2: shows and not everybody watches this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're actually changing the name of the ceremony to
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  Speaker 4: the Googles because you have to Google all the nominees
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  Speaker 4: so you can find out who's winning for what. It's
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  Speaker 4: like dancing with the stars, dancing with the Googles. You
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  Speaker 4: have no idea who half of these people are.
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  Speaker 2: Don't bring up Dancing with the Stars. Curtis is still upset.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't get selected.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Natalie here was supposed to get me into the
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  Speaker 1: 35th anniversary edition. She did a lot. She did a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know.
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  Speaker 4: Did they know? Nat, did they know about his robot dance?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: We should have led with that, and they might have
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  Speaker 4: changed it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what? If I had just sent the twerking,
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  Speaker 3: he would have been on it. That's what happens. It's
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  Speaker 3: all my fault.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, Kurt, you know, the Trumps do love you.
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  Speaker 1: How about you and Don Jr.
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  Speaker 4: Do the Russian edition Dancing.
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  Speaker 5: With the Czars? Dancing with the Czars. That is a classic. Oh, man,
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  Speaker 5: I can't top that. I can't top that.
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  Speaker 1: Let me take you back to the days when you
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: were riding that yellow cab around like an average hack.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: What would this price of gasoline do to your ability
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  Speaker 1: to take home enough money to pay the basics?
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  Speaker 4: It would actually kill you. At $ 4 a gallon, you're
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  Speaker 4: losing about $ 80 to $ 90 a day in a $ 20
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  Speaker 4: tank of gas.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so at these prices.
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  Speaker 4: I'm wearing a blonde wig, powdering my Adam's apple and
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  Speaker 4: turning tricks behind the chevron. You know, this isn't even
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  Speaker 4: a debate at this point.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, where.
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  Speaker 4: Are you going, LaGuardia? Can I get you anything else
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  Speaker 4: on the way?
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  Speaker 2: What the hell do you do to your Adam's apple?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hear that. What was that verb?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you powder it so they don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see. I see.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so happy I didn't know that. Listen, I want
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  Speaker 2: to say something serious for one second. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to congratulate Fox News because Fox News was the only
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  Speaker 2: outlet that covered the rape of a six-year-old girl in
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey. All of the networks ignored it. All the
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  Speaker 2: local news ignored it because she was raped by an
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  Speaker 2: illegal alien. So please, whoever was responsible for that and
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  Speaker 2: doing that, thank them because without them, we probably wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: even know about it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, listen, I appreciate you talking about that story
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  Speaker 4: because it starts with the local coverage. If the local
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  Speaker 4: coverage doesn't pick it up, it doesn't go wider. So
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  Speaker 4: somebody must have caught it at Fox, you know, because
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  Speaker 4: another network might have did something like cursory, like a reader,
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  Speaker 4: like because it wasn't big coverage at all. You know
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying? So, yeah, good on whoever did and
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  Speaker 4: good on you guys if you've been talking about that. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just to be clear, I obviously had.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not even allowed to pick a floor for the
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  Speaker 4: elevator when I get in. But, yeah, it's nice to know.
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  Speaker 1: That's very bright of them not to let you pick
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  Speaker 1: a floor. Very astute, very smart. In fact, that requires AI,
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  Speaker 1: actual intelligence. Boom. Thank you, Jimmy. Don't fail me now,
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• 19:12
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  Speaker 4: You're the best, Kurt. See you on the dance floor, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Roboto.
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  Speaker 3: Perfectly imperfect.
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  Speaker 8: Guaranteed human.
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  Speaker 2: On 710WOR.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore. Ah, Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: back from the streets, questioning people about the talk. of
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  Speaker 1: the nation, artificial intelligence. But first, What was the actual
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  Speaker 1: intelligence of the people you were talking to today? Because
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: it varies from day to day.
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  Speaker 3: They were all right.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not, you know, at least I didn't run into
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  Speaker 8: any robots, which I've been, honestly, I actually went to
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  Speaker 8: a restaurant the other night and they're using a robot
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  Speaker 8: to serve people.
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  Speaker 3: So it's very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Do you tip a robot?
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  Speaker 3: That's what my fiance and I were talking about. I
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  Speaker 3: was like, what do you do when a robot brings
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  Speaker 3: you Your food.
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  Speaker 2: Give him a can of oil.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: But a guy takes your order and then the robot
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  Speaker 8: comes over. But anyway, that's the start of it. The
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  Speaker 8: tip of the iceberg, artificial intelligence, which is stirring up
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  Speaker 8: a lot of debate between me and my fiance is
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  Speaker 8: whether we tip the AI robot that comes to your table.
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  Speaker 8: But as several researchers sound the alarm calling for more
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  Speaker 8: guardrails when it comes to AI, this comes after the
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  Speaker 8: Anthropic CEO cautioned that a swarm of AI agents might
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  Speaker 8: be able to take over the Internet in six months
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  Speaker 8: to a year, essentially saying AI poses a threat to humanity.
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  Speaker 3: I do believe it's going to take over. It's already
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  Speaker 3: taken over our everyday lives. So all over the Internet,
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  Speaker 3: in our homes, on our phones.
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  Speaker 8: Everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: I believe so at the rate of this going.
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  Speaker 7: I think I use it daily for anything, honestly. Assignments,
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  Speaker 7: help with an email.
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  Speaker 1: Heavily invested in it, yes. Take over the world?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: It's entertaining.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not sure about taking over the world, but it
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  Speaker 9: is entertaining.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, so notice how every guy said no and every
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  Speaker 8: woman said yes. I was noticing that as I was
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  Speaker 8: editing it together. But that's the pattern I'm seeing now.
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  Speaker 8: Several other tech moguls have stepped in to back these concerns,
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  Speaker 8: including chat GPT CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Some
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  Speaker 8: brushing off the concern more than others, including President Trump
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  Speaker 8: and those on the street, since they use it for
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  Speaker 8: daily tasks rather than, you know, what's being dubbed computer warfare.
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  Speaker 7: I think it depends on the person. If you know
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  Speaker 7: how to use it wisely, you can just use it
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  Speaker 7: as a template to help you out.
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  Speaker 2: But I have friends that do.
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  Speaker 3: What do they use it for?
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  Speaker 9: They basically make spoofs on things that happen in New
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  Speaker 9: York City a lot.
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  Speaker 6: I think it makes people think deeper and learn more.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's going to make the world a better place,
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  Speaker 6: like me.
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  Speaker 3: What's an example?
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  Speaker 6: Not knowing how something operates and then getting more insight
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  Speaker 6: much quicker and easier.
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  Speaker 3: I see a lot of people I know using ChatGPT, etc.
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  Speaker 4: It was just.
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  Speaker 7: Nothing I was ever interested in.
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  Speaker 3: I'm more of a real life type of person. She
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  Speaker 3: lives in the real world is what she's saying. But
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  Speaker 3: maybe they are using it, people, the general public, for
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  Speaker 3: stupid things.
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  Speaker 8: As tech CEOs warn about AI taking over humanity, we've
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  Speaker 8: got maybe some gems of society making AI adult films,
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  Speaker 8: if you catch my drift. It all comes as the
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  Speaker 8: Manhattan District Attorney announced yesterday that he shut down about
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  Speaker 8: a dozen websites selling these kinds of deep fake products,
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  Speaker 8: sort of a You know, putting videos and some are
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  Speaker 8: celebrities and sexually explicit ideas.
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  Speaker 1: A fake deep throat. A fake modern day Linda Lovelace.
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  Speaker 3: You are correct. But it looks a little real, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: to people.
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  Speaker 1: I beg to differ.
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  Speaker 2: That would be a wonderful way to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: We're not getting into that. I need another cup of
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: coffee before I talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: What about the classic Debbie does Dallas, the Dallas Cowboys, right?
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  Speaker 3: Debbie does Dallas AI.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Deep fake. So really what we're, that was a great line.
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  Speaker 8: What you said, I'm just going to, I'm just going
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: to roll past it. Cause I'm going to get in
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  Speaker 8: trouble with HR if I keep going with this. So
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: is it getting harder for people to spot AI?
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  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say hard, because most of the time it's
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  Speaker 7: common sense, but it will get harder.
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  Speaker 9: No, there's still leagues away from being totally deepfake material,
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  Speaker 9: like shadows, stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Things that they can't replicate fully. Glare of the Sun, probably.
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  Speaker 9: Not too sure, but things along that line, you can
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  Speaker 9: still kind of tell that it's not there yet.
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  Speaker 7: There's been a few where I'm like, oh, this is AI.
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  Speaker 7: But there's always like a little bit of something that
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  Speaker 7: gives it away in the background because it can never
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  Speaker 7: produce like a perfect image.
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  Speaker 1: Deep fakes.
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  Speaker 3: How do we combat that?
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  Speaker 6: I have no idea. It's above my pay grade. That's
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  Speaker 6: an Elon Musk question.
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  Speaker 3: So we must turn to Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather not.
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  Speaker 3: I still can't get over this.
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  Speaker 1: What we.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: But anyway... Move on.
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  Speaker 4: I know. I need to.
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  Speaker 3: But a lot of.
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  Speaker 8: Lately, too, with these deep fakes even coming under into
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: question is also brands are now starting to allegedly use
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  Speaker 8: AI to generate product sales, in a sense. So they're
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  Speaker 8: coming under fire, too, which a lot of people we
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: were talking about on the street as well.
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  Speaker 3: So there are just so many different levels to AI,
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  Speaker 3: in a sense.
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  Speaker 4: Like.
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  Speaker 8: Lawmakers seem to be thinking about, you know, our security
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  Speaker 8: and our national security in a sense. And people are,
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  Speaker 8: you know, talking about making spoofs, you know, and porn
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  Speaker 8: and all this stuff in the general thing.
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  Speaker 3: So really differing concerns.
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  Speaker 8: And varying levels, I guess, depending on what kind of
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  Speaker 8: clearance you have on our national security level.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still interested in the robot who served you at
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  Speaker 1: the restaurant. Is this a coming wave?
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  Speaker 3: I'll take a video of it next time. We go
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  Speaker 3: there often. Not for the robot, just because the food's
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: pretty good, I got to say.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Migliore will be back tomorrow morning at 7.50.