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

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Speaker 1: We have Natalie Vodka. Natalie Vodka sighting. Yeah, we see
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Speaker 1: her remotely, but she seems like she's doing great. She's smiling.
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Speaker 1: I'll let her talk because she can tell you how
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Speaker 1: she's doing. Natalie, how you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing awesome, guys. First of all, I loved getting
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Speaker 2: up this morning. It was nice to not have to
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Speaker 2: sleep in because I don't really like that so much.
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Speaker 2: But no, honestly, had my procedure done on Tuesday, and
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Speaker 2: I am now up to be able to do a
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Speaker 2: stationary bike for five minutes today.
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Speaker 3: Apparently. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and no pain right now.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, I have had no pain. Stiffness and achey, but
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Speaker 2: no pain whatsoever. I took the bandages off yesterday. My
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Speaker 2: knee is a little swollen, but nothing terrible. And I
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Speaker 2: saw the mark that they put on my legs and
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Speaker 2: make sure they did the right leg and the right knee.
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Speaker 4: What do you mean? What do you mean the right knee?
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Speaker 3: You mean to tell me if they had put a
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Speaker 3: lipstick mark on the other knee, the surgeon may have
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Speaker 3: actually gone in there with his assistance.
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Speaker 2: The surgeon said, what k nee are we doing? I'm
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Speaker 2: like the left knee and he took and he put
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Speaker 2: his initials with a sharpie marker. I thought of you, Curtis,
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Speaker 2: because I know you love your sharpe.
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Speaker 4: Oh I do you think about that?
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Speaker 1: These doctors are probably going from room to room to
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Speaker 1: room to the room and then just saying, Okay, what
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Speaker 1: are we doing exactly here? What do I have to do?
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Speaker 3: But I gotta tell you, with all the people, Natalie,
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Speaker 3: that I've known that have had procedures involving their knees,
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Speaker 3: you know, thank God, with the problems I've had, it's
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Speaker 3: never been the knees. You saw me torking on that. iHeart, yeah, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 3: Pride never had the knee problems. They were gonna be
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Speaker 3: people flooding it with request. Who are the doctors?
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Speaker 4: My god?
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Speaker 3: Because normally people not only are they stiff, but they
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Speaker 3: have intense pain for a while before they can sort
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Speaker 3: of get back into somewhat of a natural stride.
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Speaker 2: Right now, this was not a knee replacement. I had
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Speaker 2: a as they called it, a large and complex tear
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Speaker 2: of my meniscus. Don't ask me how I did it,
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Speaker 2: because I'm not a runner, so I don't really know
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Speaker 2: how I did that. But I did, And so a
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Speaker 2: big difference. You know, knee replacement is a totally different thing.
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Speaker 1: No, same day, you seem fine. I mean that was
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Speaker 1: what was amazing. I mean, I know you have to
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Speaker 1: go through rehab to get the stiffness to go away,
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Speaker 1: but there was almost no pain right away, right Did
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Speaker 1: you heard the first day? Wow?
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Speaker 2: No, I never took the heavy drugs. I just did
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Speaker 2: the advalentile and all for about twenty four hours and
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Speaker 2: then I stopped that anything time out.
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Speaker 1: Do you have some heavy drugs?
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Speaker 4: I do?
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Oh, Chris just perked up. Did you see that?
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Speaker 4: Did you say perkose at them? Did you say percose?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Perked up? Oh I get it. You know that is
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Speaker 4: an acronym for a percocet. Can you perk me up?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Really? No, I didn't know. Oh he knew.
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Speaker 4: Look at this, of course he knew the gen Z.
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Speaker 3: But this is the quiet storm Chris, who has been
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Speaker 3: on loan to us from Mark Shimone and now we
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Speaker 3: have the benefit of I'm not going to reveal your age, Natalie,
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Speaker 3: but you've been here almost as long as they have
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Speaker 3: been morning shows, going back to Granddaddy Gambling.
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Speaker 1: Come on here, it is you've been She sounds like
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Speaker 1: she's ninety.
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Speaker 4: No, she's you've.
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Speaker 3: I've been aware of your presence as a producer here
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Speaker 3: almost as long as I mean talk radio, which is
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Speaker 3: thirty five years.
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Speaker 4: So you're you're a life for it.
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Speaker 3: No wonder why you find it difficult, because you're so
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Speaker 3: used to getting up in the morning for like most
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Speaker 3: of your life.
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Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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Speaker 1: Can we pause for a second, because Chris put the
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Speaker 1: mic in front of his mouth, and usually, like the
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Speaker 1: angels sing, now.
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Speaker 4: Heaven's open, he's going to speak.
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Speaker 1: God, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I just you guys are talking about me. I wasn't
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Speaker 4: sure if you needed me to chime in at all,
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Speaker 4: so I was. I was getting ready just in case.
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Speaker 6: You know, it's always disappointment, even off even though Natalie
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Speaker 6: obviously had goals.
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Speaker 3: Through this procedure, we've benefited Larry because at least temporarily,
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Speaker 3: we're the only show in all of radio that has
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Speaker 3: two producers available to us during the length of our program.
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Speaker 3: I've never had that in thirty five years. You talk
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Speaker 3: radio usually one producer and that's it. Well, Chris is
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Speaker 3: always working on the show every day. Yeah, I'm just thinking,
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Speaker 3: I'm in the background. I'm in the shadows, Chris Schwizer.
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Speaker 1: This is Curtis.
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Speaker 4: Chris, and you've earned that name quite so.
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Speaker 3: And let me announce to all of our many listeners
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Speaker 3: out there that with everything going on in the news,
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Speaker 3: we're going to get to it later on Mangione. You know,
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Speaker 3: the uses the aircraft carrier with the problems that have
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Speaker 3: been taking place for the crew is there was a
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Speaker 3: piece the best piece I've ever read in a radio periodical,
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Speaker 3: and there have been many over the years. Some of
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Speaker 3: them no longer exist, Larry, there used to be quite
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Speaker 3: a few. But the bible of our business is sing
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Speaker 3: of ours in all of radio, TV and all of
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Speaker 3: broadcasting is Barrett Media. And yesterday I looked in my
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Speaker 3: box and Tom Cuddy are great program director, sent this
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Speaker 3: piece and I read it and I said, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: this is such a magnificent piece about your life and
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Speaker 3: time Larry, as a broadcaster, and how you segued from
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Speaker 3: being a leading anchor in the nation to eventually hosting
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Speaker 3: talk radio here at seven to ten WR no easy feat.
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Speaker 3: Many have tried, many have just they haven't been able
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Speaker 3: to make that transition. And I recommend everybody Natalie, were
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Speaker 3: we able to post at it all for everybody to
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Speaker 3: take a look at.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm going to put that up on Facebook
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Speaker 2: right now and then I'll get it up on Instagram.
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Speaker 3: Amazing, And I explain because you had a long conversation
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Speaker 3: with I guess the young lady who wrote the piece
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Speaker 3: for Barrett Media.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I have been really fortunate, really really lucky that I've
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Speaker 1: been able to do just about everything. If you check
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Speaker 1: all of the broadcasting boxes. I have been a sports anchor.
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Speaker 1: I have been a weather man, although a lot of
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Speaker 1: people don't think that counts because I did it in
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Speaker 1: San Diego. I have been an anchor. I've been a
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Speaker 1: national news anchor. I've been a local news anchor. I
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Speaker 1: started it. I was an entertainment host at Access Hollywood,
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Speaker 1: so just about. I've been an investigative reporter. I've been
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Speaker 1: a documentarian and in the background almost always. I've done
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Speaker 1: some radio I mean either I've been invited to shows,
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Speaker 1: and I was a regular on some shows, like in
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Speaker 1: sports radio WIP in Philadelphia, I was on there all
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Speaker 1: the time, and WBBM in Chicago, he was on there
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Speaker 1: all the time as a guest. That have me on
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Speaker 1: every single week. And then it when I started doing
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Speaker 1: the commentaries at WPIX channel eleven, Yeah, channel eleven, and
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Speaker 1: they also aired at thirty stations across the country and
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Speaker 1: all the big markets, and we did them every single day.
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Speaker 1: And that's when when WABC called me and we worked
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Speaker 1: together there, yeah, a couple of times, a couple of
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Speaker 1: times at WABC. And then Tom Cutty. Wow, I mean listen,
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Speaker 1: I just you know, I get a phone call from
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Speaker 1: Tom Cutty saying, listen, I heard you on the air,
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Speaker 1: you know, come on over here, and of course I
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Speaker 1: jumped at it. I mean get getting the chance to
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Speaker 1: work with Tom Cutty is a big deal. Even the
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Speaker 1: person that wrote the article for Barrett said I'd love
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Speaker 1: to meet him. I would, I would love to work
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Speaker 1: with him someday. So I think that there's people around
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Speaker 1: the country that if they have the opportunity to work
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Speaker 1: with Tom, are always going to take it because you know,
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Speaker 1: you're going to learn so much.
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Speaker 3: Oh the best in the business, both when it came
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Speaker 3: to music and FM and talk here on AM seven
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Speaker 3: to ten WR. The part that I feel people really
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Speaker 3: need to look at is how you so described our
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Speaker 3: relationship and agreeing to disagree at times, but then other
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Speaker 3: times agreeing and then having a civil discussion. So even
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Speaker 3: if we get combative, which is gonna happen from time
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Speaker 3: to time, we take the gloves off because then you're
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Speaker 3: not gonna sense it in the next segment, because we
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Speaker 3: here it to provide news, information and entertainment to the
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Speaker 3: many listeners, not to have an ongoing, you know, wrestling
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Speaker 3: match like it's the WWF like some stations have had
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Speaker 3: over the years. And I gotta tell you, Larry, that's
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Speaker 3: exactly why Tom Cutty put us together. He said we
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Speaker 3: were better together, and he's absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. He calls us the odd couple, which is really interesting.
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Speaker 1: That's what makes it more interesting. But as I said
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Speaker 1: in the article, neither of us we know what the
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Speaker 1: line is, and neither of us has ever crossed the line.
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Speaker 1: It's never been personal, ever been personal. It is always
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Speaker 1: about content and people in relationships and families, they have
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Speaker 1: disagreements about politics or certain events, and so we have them.
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Speaker 1: And we are just a replica of America. That's exactly
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Speaker 1: what's happening across America. But we, I hope, are a
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Speaker 1: shining example of how you can have a discussion and
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Speaker 1: still be friends.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you don't really see that on television any longer.
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Speaker 3: You don't see that in podcasts. You don't see that
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Speaker 3: obviously on traditional talk radio. And just as an example,
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Speaker 3: I listen to a lot of talk radio, a lot
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Speaker 3: of podcasts whenever I can. I don't hear people talking
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Speaker 3: about AI artificial intelligence the way we have from every aspect,
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Speaker 3: especially the flock cameras. You brought that to our attention.
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Speaker 3: You know what was happening in Connecticut and across the nation.
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Speaker 3: Most of the rest of talk radio, you can pretty
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Speaker 3: much figure out what they're going to talk about. They
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Speaker 3: all have their different way of presenting, but nobody goes
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Speaker 3: into a lot of the subject matters that we do
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Speaker 3: that are of interest to everybody, like the flock camerage.
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Speaker 3: Everyone it's what's united left and right AI. It's united
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Speaker 3: left and right. Dependent on your opinion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, But let me just thank Tom Cutty for
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Speaker 1: one last thing. Tom Cutty and when I told him
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Speaker 1: about the Barrett Media article, he looked at me and
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Speaker 1: he said, did you mention your wife in the article?
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Speaker 1: And I I said, no, there you go, you'd better
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Speaker 1: fix that. So I wrote to her immediately, and I said,
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Speaker 1: I don't think I mentioned my wife. Can you put
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Speaker 1: her in somewhere, because you go, I've already filed it,
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Speaker 1: but I know how important that is. Let me see
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Speaker 1: what I can do.
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Speaker 4: She's in the business. Smart Tom Cuddy Lifeline.
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Speaker 1: He saved me. But because I have such a big mouth,
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Speaker 1: I told my wife the whole story, so she thanks
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Speaker 1: you too, Tom, Thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: I cannot more highly recommend a piece. And I've read
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Speaker 3: a lot in my lifetime. They've been at one point
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Speaker 3: there are like four major journals. They're focused on the
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Speaker 3: kind of radio that we do, and they've been whittled down.
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Speaker 3: And Barrett Media is the bible in broadcasting. Everybody goes
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Speaker 3: to it. And I've never read a more thorough, comprehensive
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Speaker 3: piece that actually puts it all together, connects all the
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Speaker 3: dots about this thing that we so love and we
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Speaker 3: do each and every day. Congratulations, Congratulations Larry.
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Speaker 4: Curtis Leewa and Larry Minty in the morning.
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Speaker 1: After, we love the show. Since I made the switch
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Speaker 1: over from you Know Who.
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Speaker 5: On sevent ten, WR.
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Speaker 1: Well, you eve been telling you about the flock controversy
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Speaker 1: all across the country there's one hundred and twenty six
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Speaker 1: thousand FLOCK surveillance cameras on streets and buildings all across
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Speaker 1: the city. You pass maybe one hundred FLOCK cameras on
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Speaker 1: your right endo work. They are prevalent, and it all
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Speaker 1: sounds orwellian, doesn't it. I mean, the fact that big
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Speaker 1: Brother is watching you all the time. Flock is different
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Speaker 1: than other surveillance cameras because it not only gets your
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Speaker 1: license plate, but it also gets the make and year
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Speaker 1: and model of your car. And so with that information,
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Speaker 1: it automatically goes to AI and they know just about
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Speaker 1: everything about you, not only where you're going, where you've been,
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Speaker 1: but also some facts and figures about you and your life.
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Speaker 1: And so a lot of people like the ACLU and
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Speaker 1: several politicians have come out and said, wait, that's too much.
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Speaker 1: That makes us a surveillance state. And one of the
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Speaker 1: guys recently that's had a voice in this is Glenn Jacobs,
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Speaker 1: who is the mayor of Nash of Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Speaker 5: A few weeks ago where a family was a few
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Speaker 5: weeks ago, where a family was pulled over again, police
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Speaker 5: get out the cars because they think it's a very
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Speaker 5: dangerous situation. They thought it was a stolen car. It
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Speaker 5: was not. It was an error with the flock cameras.
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Speaker 5: Those are not isolated incidents. Those may be more traumatic
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Speaker 5: than what we've seen otherwise, but this system is notoriously erroneous.
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Speaker 5: There's a city in California at seventy one percent of
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Speaker 5: the hits were the wrong license plate. So we're talking
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Speaker 5: about something that is not only not safe, it's unconstitutional.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so the CEO has been pretty good with this.
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Speaker 1: Garrett Langley has been touring the country, going all across
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Speaker 1: the country, been very open about what FLUCK does, has
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Speaker 1: been on all of the networks. Anytime it's brought up
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Speaker 1: like it was in Connecticut last week, anytime it's brought
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Speaker 1: up for legislation, he is there and he wants to
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Speaker 1: point out all the good things that FLUCK does.
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Speaker 7: Last year alone, we helped solve more than a million crimes.
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Speaker 7: And that's from national stories like the brown shooter to
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Speaker 7: every day stolen cars. And you look at last month,
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Speaker 7: over one thousand missing people detected and over twenty two
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Speaker 7: thousand stolen cars. So it's every day you hear stories
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Speaker 7: of just incredible results.
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Speaker 1: But he admits they make mistakes. He admits it. He says, yes,
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Speaker 1: there's been mistakes made, but a lot of it is
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Speaker 1: not us, it's the database is wrong. And so whatever
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Speaker 1: he has come out Curtis and he's so smart in
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Speaker 1: doing this. He's getting out ahead of all of the backlash,
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Speaker 1: and so he's come out with some reforms. For instance,
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Speaker 1: Flock has been saving your information for a month. That's
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Speaker 1: what they tell everybody. One month, they save your information,
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Speaker 1: then they get rid of it. Now they're going to
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Speaker 1: cut that down to seven days because they say ninety
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Speaker 1: percent of the crimes and the missing people they're able
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Speaker 1: to help solve within seven days, so after that, they
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Speaker 1: don't think it's really that necessary. The other thing they're
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Speaker 1: going to do, and this is where most of the
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Speaker 1: problems have been, they want written authorization. Every time a
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Speaker 1: police officer or somebody that has access that shouldn't have
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Speaker 1: access is going to use flock to get written permission,
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Speaker 1: so you can't use it before you get written permission
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Speaker 1: from your superior and then he has to send that
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Speaker 1: also to Flock, so they have a record of it.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's going to be enough
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Speaker 1: at this point, but at least they're doing something.
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Speaker 4: No, absolutely not.
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Speaker 3: He's only doing this because he never put the guardrails
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Speaker 3: in to begin with, Like AI, no guardrails, you know,
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Speaker 3: we have to do this one hundred and twenty dollars
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Speaker 3: in cameras that share the information with one another. It's
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Speaker 3: it's Rwellian. It's it's like what the red Chinese do.
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Speaker 3: And now that his biggest government customer, California, is going
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Speaker 3: to shut him down. It as the most cars in
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Speaker 3: the nation, the most cameras, the most criminals, because they
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Speaker 3: the most prisoners. Los Angeles to say no, we're gonna
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Speaker 3: we're gonna shut down the contract. Sacramento, the state legislature
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Speaker 3: is saying no, no, we're gonna have hearings on this. They
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Speaker 3: gotta be guardrails. So he's trying to stay ahead of
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Speaker 3: the curb. Just like with AI. They don't want guard rails,
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Speaker 3: except now because they got the leaders of the pack,
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Speaker 3: you know, and they say, well, now would set time
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Speaker 3: for the guardrails.
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Speaker 4: I'd have to say that.
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Speaker 3: This is the one thing that's brought together a lot
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Speaker 3: of people on the right and left. So if you're
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Speaker 3: on the right and you're a libertarian, as I am.
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Speaker 3: You're opposed. If you're on the left, you know you
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Speaker 3: don't trust government at all, you know, in this capacity
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Speaker 3: by storing this information. So I think he's gonna have
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Speaker 3: to be out on the road constantly, because this movement
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Speaker 3: has gained so much momentum that it's actually united people
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Speaker 3: who sometimes can't even sit in the same room because
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Speaker 3: they disagree on everything else under the sun.
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Speaker 1: But it's not that easy, right, I mean, it really
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Speaker 1: isn't that easy, And that's why I'm so torn on it,
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Speaker 1: because if you listen to both sides of the argument,
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Speaker 1: they both make incredibly valid points. And one of the
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Speaker 1: most valid points is did you know that they find
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Speaker 1: missing people ten thousand a week? And much of it
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Speaker 1: is because of them. I mean, it is incredible all
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Speaker 1: of the crimes that they've helped to solve, and some
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Speaker 1: very serious crimes where they saved lives, where there was
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Speaker 1: somebody that wanted a killing spray was traveling someone else
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Speaker 1: and they were able to get them. So it's an
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Speaker 1: extremely valuable tool, and I get that part of it,
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Speaker 1: but the fact that they have an error rate of
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Speaker 1: eight percent and the fact that there are people that
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Speaker 1: have access to this that shouldn't have access to it
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Speaker 1: and use it for nefarious reasons, is what they have
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Speaker 1: to stop. So I don't think you throw out the
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Speaker 1: baby with the bathwater. I think it's an incredibly important
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Speaker 1: tool to have. But you're right, it's guardrails. It's guardrails.
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Speaker 1: And maybe this isn't enough yet, Maybe what he's saying
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Speaker 1: isn't enough. Maybe there has to be more. But what
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Speaker 1: doesn't get rid of it?
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Speaker 3: What theeo's name again, Eric Langley, Eric big Brother Langley.
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Speaker 3: We don't need big brother man. You're always black and
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Speaker 3: white on these things.
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Speaker 1: Middle ground.
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Speaker 3: He's made a lot of money and he wants to
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Speaker 3: save that cushion because he's now threatened with losing a
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Speaker 3: lot of it.
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Speaker 4: But we're on it.
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Speaker 3: We're the only program actually covering flock extensively like we
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Speaker 3: do AI. So a credit to you because you're the
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Speaker 3: one who brought this issue to the forefront when Connecticut
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Speaker 3: was grappling with it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well everybody's grappling with it now. It's really interesting
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Speaker 1: as states and mayors all across the country. By the way,
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Speaker 1: I miss I miss said his first name. It's Garrett Langley.
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Speaker 1: Garrett Langley, Garrett Big brother Langley, I apologize for that, perfectly.
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Speaker 3: Imperfect Curtis Leewa and Larry Minty in the morning guaranteed Human.
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Speaker 4: On seven Genar.
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Speaker 3: You know Larry ann Natalie who's joined us while recovering
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Speaker 3: at home, and to our vast audience, you've heard me
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Speaker 3: say over and over ever since Tom Cuddy, the great
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Speaker 3: program director did the shittoc and put me and Larry
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Speaker 3: together with Natalie, that the best day of my life
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Speaker 3: was I got that marriage license downtown to marry Nancy.
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Speaker 3: It's been the best thing that's ever happened to me,
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Speaker 3: absolute best thing. We met ten years ago, engaged a
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Speaker 3: year later, and so you have to go, even if
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Speaker 3: you're having a religious ceremony, as Natalie remind me of
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Speaker 3: the how Cavern, remember she reminded.
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Speaker 4: Me say today, No it's not no.
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Speaker 2: I knew you were a week at that point too.
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Speaker 4: Oh man.
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Speaker 1: But by the way, that's every guy in the world,
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Speaker 1: So don't feel too bad.
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Speaker 3: But I will never forget the licensing procedure because a
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Speaker 3: lot of people go down there. It's right near City Hall,
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Speaker 3: right near the court buildings, and you go in, everyone's respectful.
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Speaker 3: You get online, it's like a bank tell as you
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Speaker 3: go up, you give you information and then they asked
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Speaker 3: you to take a seat. And there was a glitch
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Speaker 3: with me because I've had many marriages. My first wife,
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Speaker 3: Corin Drayton, that very few people know about, I was
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Speaker 3: married to for only one year, and she discovered Jacobe,
20:18
Speaker 3: I discovered Myers, and we went our separate ways. But
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Speaker 3: the paperwork was up in the Bronx. It was handled
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Speaker 3: in Bronx County. So the clerk there demands he says,
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Speaker 3: I see, mistress Lee, Well obviously know who I am,
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Speaker 3: that you've been married multiple times, but you're missing paperwork
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Speaker 3: for the first marriage. I said, I don't have that. Said, well,
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Speaker 3: we can't issue you a license to marry Nancy unless
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Speaker 3: you come up with it. And you know my wife's
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Speaker 3: any attorney she tried online wasn't there. She went up
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Speaker 3: to Bronx County and a clerk helped her find it out.
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Speaker 3: In Hunt's point, it was in boxes because they hadn't
20:59
Speaker 3: put everything online.
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Speaker 4: And thank god for that.
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Speaker 3: Well they would not have issued a license as if
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Speaker 3: I was committing marriage for it. Now, while we're sitting
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Speaker 3: there for hours, I mean hours, we're watching all these
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Speaker 3: people meeting with one another for the very first time.
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Speaker 3: You know, damn well, they never met one another. You
21:15
Speaker 3: could see they were communicating in foreign languages. Most were Asian,
21:19
Speaker 3: but some were like European. They meet for the first time,
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Speaker 3: they get married, and you know it's a scam. They're
21:25
Speaker 3: gonna get a green card and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: there's gonna be a quick divorce.
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Speaker 4: Thank god, Todd Blanche.
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Speaker 3: One of the first things he's done after being voted
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Speaker 3: in as the permanent Attorney General for the President of
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Speaker 3: the United States, Donald Trump went after these fake marriages.
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Speaker 8: Today we are announcing the arrests and unseiling of an
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Speaker 8: indictment out of the Southern disc of New York charging
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Speaker 8: eleven individuals for allegedly overseeing an extensive, decade long marriage
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Speaker 8: fraud scheme involving more than one one thousand sham marriages
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Speaker 8: between Chinese nationals and United States citizens.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing that he came
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Speaker 1: out of the box with that. Now, to be fair,
22:12
Speaker 1: there were investigators looking into this for some time and
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Speaker 1: he saw it and said, are you ready to go?
22:17
Speaker 1: And they said yes. And it got to be his
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Speaker 1: first real big hit.
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Speaker 4: In the shut Yeah, in New York, Manhattan.
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Speaker 1: It's wonderful. But let me let me let him talk
22:27
Speaker 1: a little bit more about this scam, because it's worth
22:31
Speaker 1: talking about. They were paying thirty thousand dollars for the
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Speaker 1: marriage and then one hundred thousand dollars for the green card.
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Speaker 8: This is one of the largest marriage frauds prosecutions in
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Speaker 8: United States history. This scheme was not a quick, fly
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Speaker 8: by night operation, but rather a years long, multimillion dollar
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Speaker 8: cottage industry to criminally assist people who would not or
22:53
Speaker 8: legally could not otherwise become citizens of the United States.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, forget birthright citizenship. This was a huge scam and
23:03
Speaker 1: apparently there's going to be more arrest in more states
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Speaker 1: to come.
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Speaker 3: New York was just the first, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida.
23:12
Speaker 3: It's systemic. Now, what they're supposed to do is be questioning, curious,
23:19
Speaker 3: like you know one another. They get you in a
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Speaker 3: separate room. What is the color of his toothbrush? They
23:24
Speaker 3: get all this information in advance, and they separate you
23:27
Speaker 3: and that's when they can catch you stumbling and mumbling,
23:30
Speaker 3: and then they should throw you right out on your
23:32
Speaker 3: talkers and arrest you for marriage for it. Me and
23:36
Speaker 3: Nancy were trying to play by all the rules. But
23:39
Speaker 3: you know something, I'm looking back on it now, and
23:42
Speaker 3: it was actually fortuitous that we waited four or five
23:45
Speaker 3: hours to watch this all transpiring. Because they'll even do
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Speaker 3: a ceremony then you know, the civil ceremony, the photographer,
23:52
Speaker 3: and you're looking at the bride and groom and say,
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Speaker 3: I said in Nancy, they.
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Speaker 1: Don't know what another.
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Speaker 4: They don't even know their names.
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Speaker 3: They just been hooked up an arranged marriage to get
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Speaker 3: that green card, and then in a year's time to
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Speaker 3: get a divorce, and they are American citizens by then
24:09
Speaker 3: they will qualify for American citizenship. Take to test and
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Speaker 3: scam the system. You know, these what you call overseas brides.
24:17
Speaker 3: You need an overseas bride. See, they did the arrangement
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Speaker 3: right here in Terra FIRMA. Oh my god, No, it's
24:25
Speaker 3: a big deal. But when I hear these stories over
24:27
Speaker 3: and over again, I think to myself, my god, you know,
24:31
Speaker 3: you have all these people out in our country saying
24:34
Speaker 3: how awful it is and how we have to change it,
24:38
Speaker 3: and yet everybody wants to come here. They'd be willing
24:41
Speaker 3: to pay. They're willing to put their lives on the
24:44
Speaker 3: line to take boats or go across the border to
24:47
Speaker 3: get here. This country is the wealthiest country and the
24:53
Speaker 3: freest country in the history of the world. That's why
24:56
Speaker 3: everybody wants to be here. And then my second part
24:59
Speaker 3: of that that is, so, then why do they want
25:02
Speaker 3: to get here and change it? Like why do they
25:04
Speaker 3: want to come here? These people that want socialism? What
25:07
Speaker 3: do they do? They long for the oppressiveness of what
25:10
Speaker 3: they had. They want to make major changes to our
25:13
Speaker 3: country for what reason?
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Speaker 1: For what reason? You came here for? All of the
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Speaker 1: things you defile, all the things you decry, is what
25:24
Speaker 1: you came here for. So what the heck are you doing?
25:28
Speaker 1: Well else? Ie, Mom, Donnie, all of them?
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Speaker 3: I know. Well, remember they're political. These people are not political.
25:34
Speaker 3: They're capitalists. They're coming here because they got the money
25:37
Speaker 3: to begin with. That's a lot of money, one hundred
25:40
Speaker 3: thousand dollars to basically be received here legally, because then
25:45
Speaker 3: you want to be able to make even more money.
25:47
Speaker 3: And if you're country of origin in this place mainland China,
25:51
Speaker 3: red China collapses, then all of a sudden, you're an
25:54
Speaker 3: American citizen. So just also, these are the purest capitalists
25:59
Speaker 3: in the world.
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Speaker 1: There is if you listen to the press conference, there
26:04
Speaker 1: is some hint that there might be espionage involved as well,
26:08
Speaker 1: that they might be sent by the Chinese government.
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Speaker 3: If given an opportunity, I'm going to alert Todd Blanche.
26:14
Speaker 3: I said, you know, the price varies depending where you
26:17
Speaker 3: are in the city, like, for instance, up on Fordham Road,
26:20
Speaker 3: we've been talking about how they want to put buses
26:22
Speaker 3: and buy cleans here. That's where I was the manager
26:24
Speaker 3: of McDonald's farm. The Guardian Angels depended on who you're
26:28
Speaker 3: looking for. If it's light skin, you pay more money.
26:33
Speaker 3: If it's darker skin, you pay less money. That's how
26:36
Speaker 3: the specificity is. And they do it right out in
26:39
Speaker 3: the open. I get it, my god, Todd Blanche is
26:44
Speaker 3: going after somebody something that was being done right in
26:48
Speaker 3: front of our faces.
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Speaker 4: Basically it was marriage for it.
26:52
Speaker 1: And then all the people that will applaud this still
26:55
Speaker 1: say well, there should be no ice, they shouldn't get
26:57
Speaker 1: everybody out of the country, which, by the way, is
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Speaker 1: the same. They have the same motive to make sure
27:04
Speaker 1: that people come to this country, that we want in
27:06
Speaker 1: this country, and not just those who scam their way
27:10
Speaker 1: in or sneak their way well.
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