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Highlights of Curtis & Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Oh, I gotta tell you, Larry, he's chaotic in the
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  Speaker 1: Slewer household all day yesterday and the wee hours of
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  Speaker 1: the morning as I went out on my mission to
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  Speaker 1: catch these male snatchers from the blue mailboxes and during
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  Speaker 1: the day the porch pirates snatching up the packages. But
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  Speaker 1: in the interim, as I would return to the lair
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  Speaker 1: because as you know, there are cats there as a colony.
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  Speaker 1: And there's Nancy. She's howling, like her nickname suggests, lone
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  Speaker 1: wolf one. She's watching on TV the total solar eclipse
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  Speaker 1: of the Sun in Europe taking place. And then to
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  Speaker 1: add to that, there was the meteorites that were just
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  Speaker 1: like slashing through this guy. Now I couldn't see him
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  Speaker 1: in the wee hours of the morning, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: got so much cover here in the city. Somehow she
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  Speaker 1: was able to spot them as she was roaming through
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  Speaker 1: Central Park, so it I could double hit for me.
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  Speaker 1: And actually the cats are all aroused too, because if Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the caretakers aroused, they're aroused. But did you
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  Speaker 1: see those images that were transpiring from Iceland to Spain.
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  Speaker 1: It sort of took me back to twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: when we had our own total solar eclipse of the Sun,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody was acting Kukola munge.
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  Speaker 2: If you're I know, I know, listen as a recovering
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  Speaker 2: TV anchor. I've talked about these things constantly all the time,
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  Speaker 2: every meteor shower, the percy is, the Geminid, the Leonid,
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  Speaker 2: you know, every there's like three of them that are
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  Speaker 2: big a year, and you talk about them constantly, and
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  Speaker 2: they're always disappointing. Every single one of them is disappointing,
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  Speaker 2: and you fall for it all the time. I'd wake
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  Speaker 2: my kids up, because you know, the best viewing time
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  Speaker 2: is between three twenty and four h two in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: and so you'd rush out and they'd all be a sleep,
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  Speaker 2: but you'd stand there and you look up in the
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  Speaker 2: sky and nothing happened. And then with the eclipses, what happened.
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  Speaker 2: You had to wear special glasses where you couldn't see
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  Speaker 2: anything except shadows, or if you wanted to, you could
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  Speaker 2: take a white piece of paper and you could see
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  Speaker 2: it happen on the piece of paper. I could draw
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  Speaker 2: it and have the exact same effect. Is it never
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  Speaker 2: is as big of a deal as they say it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be. It's always disappointing. So I didn't look
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  Speaker 2: at all for the meteors yesterday because I knew from
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  Speaker 2: years of experience, i'd be disappointed.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but that didn't satisfy my wife Nancy. But I
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  Speaker 1: will tell you they hadn't had a full eclipse of
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  Speaker 1: the Sun in Europe for about a hundred and nineteen years.
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  Speaker 2: They were lucky.
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  Speaker 1: So we just had one in twenty twenty four. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I remember all the scam scammers that
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  Speaker 1: were out there selling these you know, like these three
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  Speaker 1: D glass since you would get in some of the movies.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they were nothing, you know, and ophthalmologists would
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  Speaker 1: tell you don't use those glasses. It could damage your iris.
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  Speaker 1: If you look up directly at the Sun, it's like iris.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I can't even figure out where my solar plexus are,
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  Speaker 1: never mind my iris in my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: I just turt your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Just in general?
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  Speaker 1: But remember the chaos about that and everybody like Lemmings.
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  Speaker 1: I remember coming out of the subway and we were
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  Speaker 1: living right next to Central Park at the time, and
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  Speaker 1: I saw hundreds of people all staring up, all staring
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  Speaker 1: up simultaneously, and I'm the street smart guy. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: wanting people, hey, look, the pickpockets are gonna have a
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  Speaker 1: field day here, you know, because we have professional pickpockets,
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  Speaker 1: mostly from South America here who could pick your pocket
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  Speaker 1: without you ever knowing it. They must have had a
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  Speaker 1: field day. And what the two minutes or the three minutes?
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  Speaker 2: And it's never that good. So look it, I feel guilty.
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  Speaker 2: Part to blame, you know what I mean, And all
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  Speaker 2: the people in the TV news are part to blame.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's a shared experience of affects everybody. You get
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  Speaker 2: a wider audience, you know, when you talk about a
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  Speaker 2: particular community, you're narrowing your audience. That's why Weather, that's
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  Speaker 2: why they love the lead with Weather on TV news
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  Speaker 2: because it's your shared experience. And so you would over
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  Speaker 2: promote and over promote these things. And I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of people that go, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it was amazing. No, it wasn't amazing. You just gave
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  Speaker 2: up a lot of time to see it. It's never amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Remember how many times, by the way in New York
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  Speaker 2: that you were told, hey, if you look at the
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  Speaker 2: northern skies, you may get a glimpse of the Aurora borealis.
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  Speaker 2: Never never did I get a glimpse of the Aurora
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  Speaker 2: borealis in the northeast.
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  Speaker 1: Where is that on your body? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Solar plexus irish? What was that term again, the Aurora borealis.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's the northern lights. That's how it's black. I
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  Speaker 3: felt incredible. But know what this reminded me of as
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  Speaker 3: Nancy was watching on TV, all wide eyed and all
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  Speaker 3: the cats were surrounding and watching what was transpiring in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: The song by Don McClain is so cool.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great pull by you.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I remember that song.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard that song.
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  Speaker 1: He was a great He was a classic American songster.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, Don McClain, and I've heard lots of his songs.
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  Speaker 2: I had never heard that long. Oh I love that song.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I had an instant memory recall, because you
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  Speaker 1: feel like that when you meet somebody for the very
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  Speaker 1: first time and you say, oh God, that's the one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a.
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  Speaker 1: Great It's like an eclipse of the son.
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  Speaker 2: That's perfect because everybody else, even ABC was using the
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  Speaker 2: Bonny Tyler song.
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  Speaker 1: Oh we're gonna use that later on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that does total clips of the heart right, the
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  Speaker 3: Welsh woman there right.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, that point was when I was a youngster.
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  Speaker 1: My aunt Mary was like my second mother. My mom.
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  Speaker 1: Francesca was the thirteenth last drop of Nicoletta and Fidela Bianchino,
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  Speaker 1: who were from Andrea, right on the adriaticosin what they
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  Speaker 1: call body, the provincia their body. And Aunt Mary would
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  Speaker 1: tell me these old wives tales. And she would say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when there was any kind of cover of
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  Speaker 1: the sun, it didn't have to be a total eclipse,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, he had partial eclipses. She would say,
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  Speaker 1: any woman who was pregnant in Andrea had to go
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  Speaker 1: inside the house, had to stay inside of their mud
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  Speaker 1: hovels there and not theme out, because the fear was
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  Speaker 1: that you could end up possibly losing your child. This
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  Speaker 1: is the old wives tale. The other thing she said
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  Speaker 1: is to protect yourself when these eclipses would come, you
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  Speaker 1: would have to wear red undergarments, red with safety pins,
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  Speaker 1: metal safety pins, which would act as a shield. And
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, I look at her incredulously. See
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  Speaker 1: that Chris quiet storm. That's a five dollar word, that's
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  Speaker 1: multi syllabic. Look at her increduliously.
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  Speaker 2: Let Chris try it. Try that word, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, Chris, your first words in the morning, go ahead?
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  Speaker 1: Can you can you say for me?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: Can you spell it for me? Increduliously I can barely
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  Speaker 1: pronounce it. Now you want me to spell yes? But
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  Speaker 1: that's his first words of the morning. The quiet stole
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  Speaker 1: on Loan from March morning. Natalie's still recovering from her
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  Speaker 1: knee surgery. But there are other wives tells depending on
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  Speaker 1: where you were from, you know, if you and China,
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  Speaker 1: they would say that the dragon would come out and
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  Speaker 1: swallow the sun and they call fit back up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for a total eclipsed. So each every FNK group, they
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  Speaker 1: had all of these superstitions surrounding an eclipse partially clips
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  Speaker 1: or as we saw yesterday, the full eclipse of this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, even the last cup eclipses again because we covered
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  Speaker 2: the agnausea. And they'd say, oh, they have more berths
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  Speaker 2: every time there's an eclipse. There's no berths. That's completely
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  Speaker 2: not true. I've looked into it. It's completely not true.
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  Speaker 2: An eclipse of the sun of the moon has no
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  Speaker 2: effect on the human body unless it's the sun and
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  Speaker 2: you stay right into it. Now, that's the only bad effect.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, the other old wives tale is if it's
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  Speaker 1: occurring near your birthday, you're gonna have health problems, true
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  Speaker 1: or not true? You sooth share.
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely, how could that be true? Tell me how
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  Speaker 2: that goes.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? In order to find out when we
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  Speaker 1: return tomorrow, I'm going to the local gypsy down the box.
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  Speaker 1: I can't understand how they can rent these storefronts right
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  Speaker 1: at like forty thousand dollars a month and all they
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  Speaker 1: do is read your palms. Right, I'm gonna ask, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. You gotta call them Roma people. Now you
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  Speaker 1: can't call them. I'm gonna ask them if that's true,
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  Speaker 1: because they are the guardians of all the old wives tales.
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  Speaker 1: They go from India to Ireland as they travel the
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  Speaker 1: tinkers across the European planes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as I think about it, you go to
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  Speaker 2: the gypsies. I go to AI for information, and it's
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  Speaker 2: probably basically the same thing. It's pretty close in that
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  Speaker 2: I would love to hear from people about their experiences
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  Speaker 2: with these these lunar effects or solar effects. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the eclipses and solar flares we got before, the northern lights,
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  Speaker 2: all the things you've been told we're going to be exciting.
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  Speaker 2: You had to look at did it ever live up
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  Speaker 2: to the hype for any of you? And did you
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  Speaker 2: go outside to try to see this stuff? You go
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  Speaker 1: Oh? I loved pop tarts, but I was deprived of
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  Speaker 1: Curtisleewa and Larry Menti in the Morning.
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  Speaker 5: On seventen WI Alexandria Ocossio Cretez put out a video
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  Speaker 5: this week where she made She said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: tell you something very personal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to share with you some personal information. And
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  Speaker 2: then she said she was freezing her eggs. You know,
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  Speaker 2: my body, my choice. That's what the modern woman does,
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  Speaker 2: at least the modern democratic woman. You put career first,
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  Speaker 2: always put career for I.
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  Speaker 1: Have made the decision to start freezing my eggs, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to share that.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a very personal thing to share. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: my god, if women do it all the time, but
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  Speaker 2: they don't tell everybody, she let the world know. So
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  Speaker 2: then people started saying, well, is she's still out seeing
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  Speaker 2: her boyfriend? I mean, she has been dating this guy
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. Is she still with him? And
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  Speaker 2: then there was rumors, now long before she did that video,
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  Speaker 2: months before she did that video, she broke up with them.
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  Speaker 2: So of course, when she was out walking her dog,
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  Speaker 2: a reporter asked her, are you and Riley Roberts still together?
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  Speaker 5: I don't comment on my private life, but thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Your mother wants she loves Riley and wants to see
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  Speaker 2: you guys get married.
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  Speaker 1: Is she going to get her wish again? I don't
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  Speaker 1: comment on my private life, but thank you all.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, is there anything else well you can tell
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  Speaker 2: about the relationship? No, I'm she's a good reporter and
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  Speaker 2: the barking was good in the background because she was
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  Speaker 2: a dogged reporter going after her. But how about the fact,
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  Speaker 2: Curtis that she decided to share with the world one
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  Speaker 2: of the most personal things a woman can do, and
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  Speaker 2: then just two days later say no, no, no, my
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  Speaker 2: private life is probably.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't just day one of introducing us to
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  Speaker 1: freezing her eggs and taking those horse hormonal shots that
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  Speaker 1: my sister Alita did. Remember I told you Alita, at
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  Speaker 1: the age of fifty five, was the oldest woman ever
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  Speaker 1: to have twins in the United States. Wow, And she
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  Speaker 1: had to use that same procedure because of her age.
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  Speaker 1: But she's done a day two and she's going to
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  Speaker 1: do a day three every time she has to take
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  Speaker 1: the shots. She's guiding women through the process. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: very personal, right, But I don't think there's anybody who
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  Speaker 1: knows more about AOC all out crazy. Alexandro Cassio Cortez
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  Speaker 1: and you are struly Curtis Slieba, because when she got elected,
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  Speaker 1: she claimed she was living in Parkchester in the Bronx,
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  Speaker 1: her family had had an apartment. They left there and
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  Speaker 1: they went up to Yorktown in Westchester. You have to
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  Speaker 1: have some money there. She went to Yorktown High School.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't Jenny on the block in the Bronx going up,
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  Speaker 1: she was Sandy, but then went on to Boston University,
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  Speaker 1: but claimed she was living in part Chester. So what
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  Speaker 1: I did was I took a milk carton and I
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  Speaker 1: put her picture on it. And it's a very vast complex.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. And I went from a complex the complex,
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  Speaker 1: say did you ever see this woman?
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  Speaker 2: No, nobody saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out she's living in East Elmhurst now
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  Speaker 1: and apparently did break up with this guy. I used
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  Speaker 1: to call him carrat Top. He has red hair. They
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  Speaker 1: had met each other at Boston University. Then they broke
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  Speaker 1: up and they rediscovered one another, and apparently she decided
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  Speaker 1: that was it. It was over in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: We had no idea. So when she was being asked
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  Speaker 1: about this, you got to understand that, Hey, if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to open up part of your private life to
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  Speaker 1: the most intimate things that you're doing for yourself and
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  Speaker 1: maybe for your future child. You can't suddenly shut the
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  Speaker 1: door on a guy. You know, one was embarrassing for
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  Speaker 1: her during the lockdown and pandemic of twenty twenty. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she was obviously a fauci i. You know, she was
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  Speaker 1: part of that devoted worship masks six feet. She went
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  Speaker 1: down to Miami Beach with Riley. You know, he's carrat top,
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  Speaker 1: he's got the red hair. They were sitting there, they
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  Speaker 1: were drinking cocktails, no masks, no distance, laughing it up.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, no, no AOC. The rules are. You're running
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  Speaker 1: for public office. Everything is subject now to being on
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  Speaker 1: the radar screen. Trust me, I've been through the process.
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  Speaker 1: But so is Cuomo, so was Zorhan, so is Eric Adams.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of the PROJSS. You can't suddenly close it.
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  Speaker 1: Do just explain, all right, we went our separate ways, right,
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  Speaker 1: they were engaged. They went to Puerto Rico, they got
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  Speaker 1: engaged with a family. Oh, by the way, she can
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  Speaker 1: answer the questions she wants to answer. I get that.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that it's her personal life.
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  Speaker 2: She can answer the questions she wants to answer, but
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  Speaker 2: don't be a hypocrite about it, Like you can't share
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  Speaker 2: certain things and then keep certain things secret, especially when
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  Speaker 2: they're related. You know that the two things are tightly related.
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  Speaker 1: Well, remember animal rights activists would normally take it at
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  Speaker 1: task because she didn't get a rescue dog a French
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  Speaker 1: bulldog pedigree. But no, she has toughlon. You know, some
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  Speaker 1: politicians have it, other politicians don't. But she's the direct
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  Speaker 1: reverse of the speaker for the President of the United
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  Speaker 1: States who conducts those daily press conferences. We'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to ask John Decker about her leaving, and she is
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  Speaker 1: leaving for family because she had just recently brought her
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  Speaker 1: second child into the world.
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  Speaker 2: Think about this. First of all, she is the youngest
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  Speaker 2: Press secretary in history. She got the job at twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven years old. Already she had her second child, so
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  Speaker 2: she has two little children at home. She's very conservative,
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  Speaker 2: very Christian. You see that she wears a cross all
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  Speaker 2: of the time. She is the antithesist of AOC. We
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  Speaker 2: have complete opposite people that show us what the democratic,
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  Speaker 2: modern woke woman does. She freezes her eggs and then
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  Speaker 2: what a woman who is a conservative Christian does she
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  Speaker 2: goes home and makes the choice to be with her children,
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  Speaker 2: and man, I'm going to miss her. She was a firestorm.
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  Speaker 2: She was maybe the best at twenty seven, the best
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  Speaker 2: press secretary I have ever seen, and the way she
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  Speaker 2: would take on reporters and she would do it all
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  Speaker 2: with a smile.
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  Speaker 1: How many have a criminal record versus those who are
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  Speaker 1: just in the country illegally.
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  Speaker 2: All of them because they illegally broke our nation's laws,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes,
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  Speaker 2: I know the last administration didn't see it that way.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a big culture shift in our nation to
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  Speaker 2: view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal.
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  Speaker 3: But that's exactly what.
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  Speaker 1: They are all god, a criminal record and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: if they broke our nation's laws, Yes they are criminal.
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  Speaker 2: She was amazing. I mean, she had the party line
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  Speaker 2: down perfectly, and she always defended the president. She never
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  Speaker 2: slipped up. She wasn't like Krarine Jean Pierre, who had
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  Speaker 2: to find notes all the time and hemmed and hawed constantly.
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  Speaker 2: She was a motor mouth and that was noticed by
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, who loved her.
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  Speaker 1: It's Caroline Great. You know when she.
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  Speaker 6: Goes on television Fox like, I mean, they dominate, They
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  Speaker 6: dominate when she gets up there with that beautiful face
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  Speaker 6: and those lips that don't stop but pup like a
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: little machine gun.
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  Speaker 2: He got criticized a lot for talking about her lips,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: but he adores her. The question is who now? Who
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: takes that job?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully he doesn't bring back the mooch Scarmucci who
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: maybe was she a worst? What did he lasts like
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: all one week? I mean that guy looked like he
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: was running a pumping dumb scheme, you know, in a
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: basement in bentioners. But we'll get into it with John Decky.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: He probably has a heads up on that. In a
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: seven o'clock hour.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would love to know if there's anybody in
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: mind and who's filled in. If you remember the last
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: time they kept bringing in the cabinet, they didn't even
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: let anybody. She was irreplaceable, and I think that she
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: probably still.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Is step perfectly imperfect. Curtis Leewa and Larry Minty in
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: the Morning Guaranteed Human on seven tenor we.
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  Speaker 7: Want to get right to John Decker Woor White House
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  Speaker 7: and Washington correspondent, host of the podcast By the Way,
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: the White House Breathing Room with John Decker, which is
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: excellent when you can find that on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 4: John.
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  Speaker 2: I want to start with something that was announced recently
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  Speaker 2: and it got everybody's attention that US Attorney Janine Piro made,
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  Speaker 2: which is a rare move to convene a twenty three
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: member special grand jury in Washington, d C. I know
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of the publications have noted this came after
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: she got it talking to with the White House for
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: what Trump considers dropping the ball on the reflecting pool damage.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if the two are related at all.
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  Speaker 2: We probably don't even know what this is all about.
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  Speaker 2: But could you explain what a special grand jury is
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  Speaker 2: and why it's so rare?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's rare. You know, a few cities around the
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: country have convened special grand juries to investigate specific crime.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Sometimes it's a special grand jury, for instance, Larry and
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Curtis to investigate organized crime. We don't know specifically why
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: this special grand jury was convened. We don't know how
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  Speaker 4: long this special grand jury will be.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: The duration of it.
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  Speaker 4: Typically they're around eighteen months or so. But during the
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: course of its duration, it can investigate not just one,
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  Speaker 4: but a number of matters that the US Attorney for
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  Speaker 4: the District of Columbia chooses to bring to the special
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: grand jury. And perhaps Jeanine Pirout feels that she can
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: have better luck with a special grand jury and the
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: process that is contained in that rather than what she
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: has experienced through the regular grand jury process. You know,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: she has not been successful in terms of some high
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: profile cases brought by the US Attorney's office. The case
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: against Jerome Power, for instance, Larry and Curtis, the former
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: FED chairman, that didn't go anywhere, and the case against
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: those five Democratic senators for making that video that seems
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: that seemed to urge service members to ignore what they
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: viewed as unlawful orders, that too went nowhere as well.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Well one just for real quick follow up, because I
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: understand that even without bringing charges, they can release a
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  Speaker 2: detailed public report regarding, for instance, if it has to
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  Speaker 2: do with government or official misconduct, even if the evidence
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  Speaker 2: does not result in a criminal indictment. That that seems unconstitutional,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to be able to defame somebody without bringing charges.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've seen that before. Special counsels. You know that
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: term Special councils have released reports before. Sometimes they do
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: not end up charging specific individuals, but contained in the
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: narrative of a special council's report sometimes evidence they believe
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: of crimes being committed. You know, we saw that with
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Robert Muller, for instance. Robert Muller seemed to indicate crimes
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: may have been committed by then President Donald Trump in
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: his first term, but nothing became of that. So this
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: is not that unusual. But I think that this really
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: when you think about it, with what has happened over
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: the course of the past few weeks with the reflecting
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: pool Aarry, I think it's really a way to modify
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: President Trump to convene a special grand jury, and we'll
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: see if indeed that satisfies the president.
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  Speaker 1: John Dekker, where are we with the ballroom? You're right there.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: There's construction going on all the time. I think a
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: federal judge put a moratorium on it as the President
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: observed that, or is he just putting his hard hat
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: on and pushing ahead.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Well, there are two cranes that are outside on the
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: south lawn every day when I go to the White House,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: and one of those cranes has to do with construction
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: of the ballroom. Now, construction above ground concerning the ballroom
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: has ceased. That's her restraining order imposed by a federal judge.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Actually that judge my former law professor, and that was upheld,
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: by the way, by the d C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: But construction continues below ground. That's where the White House says.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: There are certain security features that are being put in
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: place at the White House that federal judge is allowing
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: to continue.
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  Speaker 2: Can we talk about Caroline Levitt a little bit, because
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: you've dealt with her a lot, and I thought she
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: was excellent at her job, the youngest person ever to
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: have that job, and now she's going off to be
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: a mom. A couple of questions, just first your reaction
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: to that, and how what you think about Caroline Levitt
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: and also who might replace her.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Well, I was surprised, just like everybody, when I saw
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: that social media post by President Trump yesterday. Caroline Levitt
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: just came back from eternity leave a few weeks ago. Really,
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: I think she's conducted two briefings since she's been back,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: and then we get this surprise announcement that she's leaving
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: the White House at the end of this month. She
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: has been a forceful defender of President Trump, loyal certainly,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: not only working for him since day one as his
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: press secretary of his second term, but also working in
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: his first term as well, and serving as the press
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: secretary for the Trump twenty twenty four presidential campaign. So
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: she's devoted chunk of her life to President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: So she is leaving at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 4: As for a replacement, I've seen some names mentioned, but
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: they're just names. You know. Monica Crowley is one of
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: those names that does work for the administration right now.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: She is a possibility. She has the kind of experience
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: that would be necessary to be the White House Press secretary,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: formerly serving as a commentator on Fox News. And you know, look,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I think that whoever it is that the President names
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: to replace Caroline Levitt is going to have some big
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: shoes to fill because she really did, I think to
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: do it. She did an excellent job serving as the
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: White House Press Secretary for the past eighteen months.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Now let me take you back, because you've seen them
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: wall come and go. I have first term in office.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Poor Sean Spicer, right out of the box when confronted
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: with pictures of Morocco Obama's inauguration, and obviously President Trump's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: had to somehow defend that. No, Trump actually had more people,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: he just was never given an opportunity to have oxygen
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: you have to And then the mooch, Scott Scaramucci, what
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: was that like ten days? And then Carine Jean Pierre,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: even though she was Biden's a spokesperson. You know what
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: they all three have in common. I don't know if
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: you ever figured this out, John Deca. They all came
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: out of Long Island, born, raised, went to school. I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: would suggest maybe there'd be a prohibition on having anybody
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: from Long Island speak on bef of whoever the president is.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's too funny. I never knew that connection. That's
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: pretty funny. Yeah. Caroline Levitt is the seventeenth White House
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  Speaker 4: Press secretary that I have dealt with, so I've seen
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: a lot coming well. I put her certainly in the
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: top tier of White House press secretaries in terms of
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: the job that she did defending the president. And she
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: was one of those people who sat in on meetings.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: You know, sometimes people like Karine Jean Pierre, they're on
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: the outside looking in, and they made not actually know
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: what is actually happening in the West wing. That's not
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the case with Caroline Levitt. She knew and was involved
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: in policy discussions every step of the way. So, like
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I said, some big shoes to Phil whoever it is
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: that ultimately is the replacement for Caroline Levitt.
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  Speaker 2: Seventeen Press secretaries. How old are you look?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: You're like Dorian Gray.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing you. You look like you're in your twenties.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you. You're not going to say you're age now?
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  Speaker 1: Okay now, John Decker, one quick question on that. I've
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: noticed as she steps down, because obviously she just recently
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: had another child. She's always smiling. So even when she's
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: giving a gatling gun response and a tough fanswer on
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: behalf of the president, she's always smiling. This seems to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: be the new political way, whether you're zorn mondami El said,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: or in this case, the outgoing spokesperson for the president.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's part of the younger Cha generation. No matter
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: how bad the news, no matter how bitri are like
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: you are, you always have a smile at the end
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think that's what made her good,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: you know, and that's what made her effective as a
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: White House Press secretary. She was amiable, you know. And look,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I've been friends with Caroline for a number of years.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: She sent me a text yesterday, and you know, I'm
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: sad to see her go. I know she'll be successful
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: in terms of whatever she decides to do. She's run
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: for Congress before, a reminder, so I don't think we've
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: seen the last of Caroline Levit in terms of public service.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: I would not be surprised at all to see her,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: you know, in elective public office representing the state of
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: New Hampshire, her home state.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: You know, I think that Donald Trump's worst nightmare is
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: coming through and coming true, I should say, And this
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Iran conflict war is going to stretch into the midterms
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: in September. Do you see an end in sight? Because
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not seeing it.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: The President may want to see an end an off ramp,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: but the problem, of course is Iran really wants to
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: impact the midterm elections. And for that reason, I think
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: that what we see that's been taking place over the
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: course of the past few weeks, past few months, in
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: terms of the inability of cargo ships and oil tankers
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: to get through the straight up from US. I think
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: that continues all the way through early November when the
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: midterm elections take place.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Well, John, there's a new campaign slogan, vote against Trump,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: vote with Iron. Yeah, there you go.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: But now, John, as more information leaks out, as the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Trump administration acknowledges the switch that took place from Air
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Force one the old one, Yeah, to the container to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: obviously a special flight, and then back to the gift
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: from Qatar once he left in do we know what
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the exact threat was, because now I'm noticing when I
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: read Israeli publications as saying that the Israelis had given
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a heads up to the Secret Service that there was
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: an imminent threat opposed to the President while he was
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: at that NATO conference in Turkey.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Well, the concern was of a shoulder fired missile. Keep
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: in mind I made this point before that Ankara, which
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: is where the President was for the NATO summit and
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: was leaving from and route to the UK, is only
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: one thousand miles from Tehran, and Iran has missiles that
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: are capable of traveling twenty five hundred miles, So there
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: was a real concern about the safety, the security of
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: the mode of transportation that the President used to depart
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Turkey just a few weeks ago, and that was the
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: reason why the Secret Service essentially put that mission in
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: motion to switch the president a third plane. I asked
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: the President the other night when we came back on
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Air Force one. I was on the new Air Force
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: one and I asked the President, were you surprised that
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: the Secret Service directed you to take that third plane?
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: And the President said, no, I have a target on
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: my back. You know, Iran wants to kill me. I'm
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: a consequential president.