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

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  Speaker 1: Well, as you know, both Larry and Natalie and our audience,
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  Speaker 1: there's a whole group of people out there who have
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  Speaker 1: labeled me the nightmare. That's what they call me. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're the nightmare. Because I roam the streets.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nocturnal.
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  Speaker 1: Subway, streets.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's really important that when they call you
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  Speaker 3: a nightmare, we get the spelling down properly. Is it
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  Speaker 3: N-A-Y-O-R or M-A-R-E at the end?
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  Speaker 1: Or K-N-I-G-H-T. That's what I was just thinking.
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  Speaker 4: I could see you as a knight. Put you in
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  Speaker 4: a suit of armor.
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  Speaker 5: To tell you the truth, when you first started with us,
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  Speaker 5: and we obviously get a lot of social media about you,
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  Speaker 5: and people were.
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  Speaker 2: Calling you the Nightmare, and I was like, is that
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  Speaker 2: a good thing or a bad thing?
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't sure.
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  Speaker 2: Like Nightmare on Elm Street.
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: But no, it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great thing. Well, if you're a criminal out there,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to face Curtis Sliwa. After 12 o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: it's the witching hour. Nothing good happens after 12 midnight.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're at a bar, if you're at a club,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, nothing good happens. And especially if you're
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  Speaker 1: in the streets, you really got to watch your back then.
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  Speaker 1: It's all kinds of problems. There's homeless, emotionally disturbed. There
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  Speaker 1: are people who want to rob you. But there is
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  Speaker 1: a group of criminals now that we know exists, and
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about this. At 4 o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: it's their witching hour. They know that they will be
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  Speaker 1: unmolested out there by law enforcement because there are no
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  Speaker 1: cops out in the streets. So we just talked about
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  Speaker 1: that issue in Middle Village. The sewer guy is coming out.
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  Speaker 1: Notice what time did they emerge? 4 a.m. in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: because they know there are no cops around. The other
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  Speaker 1: one is the case that I've been on repeatedly, and
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  Speaker 1: I've talked about it here from time to time. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to call it a public service announcement because
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten so many emails and texts from people from
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  Speaker 1: all over the tri-state area who've had this happen to them.
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  Speaker 1: The theft of your mail When you do what you
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  Speaker 1: were taught to do as a kid, remember when your
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  Speaker 1: parents first brought you to one of those blue mailboxes,
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  Speaker 1: told you how to open it up, told you how
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  Speaker 1: to put the mail in? We're sending this to your
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  Speaker 1: grandpa and grandma. You know, it's their wedding anniversary. Here, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: put it in, put it in, right? And yet there
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  Speaker 1: is theft of the mail on a regular basis. Even
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  Speaker 1: our program director, Tom Cuddy, has sent me videos of
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  Speaker 1: theft of mail in Connecticut, broad daylight. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: roll up, they're on their motorbikes. They don't even bother
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  Speaker 1: covering their face. They might as well be waving at
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  Speaker 1: all the cameras and they just steal the mail. And
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  Speaker 1: I've described it before as to how they do this
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  Speaker 1: and how I chase them out of the neighborhood. And
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  Speaker 1: I had had a confrontation with some of them and
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  Speaker 1: they had gone away for a while, but I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know they're going to come back and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to come back in force. It doesn't matter. I've alerted
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  Speaker 1: the 80th precinct on the West side, West 82nd. They
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  Speaker 1: treat me like a person of no consequence.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Postal Inspectors, because this is a federal crime. When we
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  Speaker 1: were growing up, we were told, I remember my father, oh,
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  Speaker 1: anybody stealing the mail, you know, you walk into the
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  Speaker 1: post office at 10 Most Wanted, your picture could be
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  Speaker 1: up there because you don't steal the mail. They don't
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  Speaker 1: play around. And you would see the postal officers. They
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  Speaker 1: carry guns. They have badges. They don't play around.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been on their case. In fact, even on
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Magliore, remember, she took photographs of mail outside a mailbox,
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  Speaker 1: broad daylight, not far from where we broadcast iHeart, all
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  Speaker 1: dumped on the ground. You could see that these banditos
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  Speaker 1: went through the mail. You know, they sliced it open.
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  Speaker 1: If there was nothing of value in it, like a
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  Speaker 1: gift certificate or a check or anything, or cash, which
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  Speaker 1: sometimes older people will send.
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  Speaker 2: What do they do with checks? They wash them.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like a place you go where they'll actually
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  Speaker 1: take and bleach the checks, and then they'll write it in,
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  Speaker 1: and then they'll try to cash it, and they have
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of contacts to do that. So it can
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  Speaker 1: be quite lucrative, but it's all based on volume. So
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  Speaker 1: I've been chasing these guys in the wee hours of
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  Speaker 1: the morning, and the cops have warned them, man. You
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  Speaker 1: may not know this guy with that red beret, but
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  Speaker 1: you do not want to meet him. He's on a
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  Speaker 1: mission and he's here to stop you. And it stopped
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  Speaker 1: for a while. So two guys early this morning, I
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  Speaker 1: see them. Brand new motorbike, same color, same make, same model.
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  Speaker 1: No license plates, of course, not in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: They're dressed all in black. You know, they have the
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  Speaker 1: baklavas around their face. They have the black wool caps
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  Speaker 1: on and they're right on the corner. And I can
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  Speaker 1: see they're like they're preparing to go into action to
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  Speaker 1: steal from the blue mailboxes. So like a ninja, I
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  Speaker 1: sneak up on them from behind. And I have, if
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  Speaker 1: you notice, notice I don't have my dress shoes. I
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  Speaker 1: have my sneaker shoes on. So they can't hear me coming.
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  Speaker 1: And then I scream it.
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  Speaker 2: Get the F out of my neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: And I bump one and he drops what he has.
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  Speaker 1: And look at this. I showed it to you, Larry.
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  Speaker 1: They were in the process of putting the stickum on
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  Speaker 1: the belt because they take their belt and they put
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  Speaker 1: it down the slot of the blue mailbox, which they
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  Speaker 1: now make the slot so tiny thin you can barely
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  Speaker 1: get the mail in.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny.
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  Speaker 3: He's showing me an envelope and taped on the front
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  Speaker 3: of it, I guess just glue stuck on the front
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  Speaker 3: of it. It says, glued traps for mice and insects.
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  Speaker 3: And he was so excited when he came in today.
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  Speaker 3: He said, look at this, look at this.
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  Speaker 2: I got him.
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  Speaker 3: And so I thought he had a mouse problem because
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  Speaker 3: I thought to myself, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you have cats?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. We have no rat, no mice problem. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: a cockroach doesn't even feel safe scurrying along the floor.
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  Speaker 2: Because I was trying to figure out what you were
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  Speaker 2: doing with a glue trap for mice, but it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: This is what they were. They were preparing their belt.
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  Speaker 1: They were going to go on their mission. And they
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  Speaker 1: had it stuck on this one letter. It was to
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  Speaker 1: an address in Chicago. And let me read this, because
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  Speaker 1: it's mostly people of our generation who send letters in cart. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you even have the card that was inside.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And I doubt there was any money. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they snatched whatever money.
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  Speaker 2: This is legal?
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  Speaker 1: This is legal.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the outside of the car says, amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Wahoo.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations. Well done.
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  Speaker 2: You did it. Yay.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell it's like a family. We are all
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  Speaker 1: rooting for you and can't wait to visit. Call us anytime.
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  Speaker 1: We love you so much and miss you already.
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  Speaker 5: Awful that that person isn't getting that.
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  Speaker 1: Mom.
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  Speaker 2: And it's too. They will now. They will now.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to send it there. And we are also
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  Speaker 1: proud of you as you take this big step forward
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  Speaker 1: towards starting college. We know it will be an exciting
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  Speaker 1: next four years for you as you pursue your dreams.
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  Speaker 2: You know that. We know that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll support you with whatever you need. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is heartfelt.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: These are grandparents? Is that what that is? No, parents.
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  Speaker 2: They're the parents?
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  Speaker 1: Mom. XOXO mom. So you say to yourself, this is
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  Speaker 1: our generation. This is how we communicate.
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  Speaker 2: Remember?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you trust the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Mail. You know, put it in the blue mailbox. Guess what?
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  Speaker 1: They steal the mail. Most of it is of no
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  Speaker 1: value to them. And then they just discard it. They
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  Speaker 1: throw it on the street. And so there is no
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  Speaker 1: effort on the part of the NYPD or the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Postal Inspectors to stop these banditos. So I'm taking it
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  Speaker 1: on my own. I'm going to make sure that this
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  Speaker 1: card gets to the person. The address in Chicago is
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  Speaker 1: on it. But now you've seen the evidence. And if
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to do anything about it, I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: matters into my own hands. So to you and Tom
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  Speaker 1: Cuddy and the ownership and management of iHeart, If I
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  Speaker 1: happen to miss a morning, don't worry about it. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be out in an hour. Don't worry, 80th Precinct. You
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  Speaker 1: can sit on your ass there and do nothing, but
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  Speaker 1: you'll release me in an hour because unless you kill somebody,
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  Speaker 1: everybody gets released in New York City.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, nice job.
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  Speaker 3: That's really great that you're doing this because there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people that send some heartfelt notes that never
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  Speaker 3: get there.
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  Speaker 2: Don't put it in the blue mailbox.
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  Speaker 1: Go to your post office or your postal guy or
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  Speaker 1: gal when they come to give you the mail. Give
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  Speaker 1: them the mail that's going to be mailed out. Do
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  Speaker 1: not put it in a blue box or you're playing
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  Speaker 1: Santa Claus. And if there's any value in that, you
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  Speaker 1: can forget about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you what, too. When you were reading
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  Speaker 3: that note... I used to love to get letters. You
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  Speaker 3: don't get letters anymore or cards anymore. Everybody just emails
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  Speaker 3: you now.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I got a couple of cards when I was, you know,
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  Speaker 5: home recuperating from surgery for my knee.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, a lot of people, a lot of texts,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of calls. But I got a couple of
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  Speaker 2: cards and it was so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: My sister, who.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately has passed, used to write letters all the time.
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  Speaker 3: used to write letters constantly. So you'd, you'd get, you'd
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  Speaker 3: look forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's special.
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  Speaker 1: When you get a hand written letter, you realize, wow,
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  Speaker 1: whoever wrote this, put a lot of effort into it.
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  Speaker 1: This is not junk mail. You know, this is not a,
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Lee, we're running for mayor. Please send me money
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  Speaker 1: so I can become your next mayor. This is like, boom,
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  Speaker 1: this is a personalized note. And you really, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how many other messages you get, those are the ones
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  Speaker 1: you always remember. You save them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I used to, I still have my sister's letters that
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  Speaker 3: meant so much to me. My dad did the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: My dad wrote to everybody. And he used to tell
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  Speaker 3: stories about them and make up poems about them. And
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  Speaker 3: everybody has saved my dad's stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So, Larry, if I have to do what I have
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  Speaker 1: to do, and only I know what has to be done,
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  Speaker 1: you all have to forgive me. if I happen to
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  Speaker 1: be missing an action one morning in broadcasting here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a little paperwork. You know, the cops. I'll be out
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  Speaker 1: before the cops finish the paperwork. But this has got
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  Speaker 1: to stop. And if Jessica Tisch, the NYPD commissioner, won't
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  Speaker 1: prioritize this or the U.S. Postal Service, it is a
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  Speaker 1: federal crime. And remember, they also follow the guys and
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  Speaker 1: gals in the morning. You run into them on the
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  Speaker 1: Amazon little bicycles, you know, with the trailer behind them.
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  Speaker 1: The porch pirates, they also come out at 4 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: in the morning because they know there are no cops around.
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  Speaker 5: I just can't stop thinking about this mom who put this,
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  Speaker 5: you know, letter in there for her son.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling the same thing. And I'm thinking, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: If there was money in it and it's gone, it's gone. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: But she might think that she sent it. Her son
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  Speaker 5: never responds. Then she gets angry at her son. Like,
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  Speaker 5: how could he not even like call me after that note?
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  Speaker 5: And it could spiral into like a whole family feud now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great point. That's a really good point.
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  Speaker 2: You saved a lot of heartache. You did. You just
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  Speaker 2: saved a whole lot of heartache.
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  Speaker 1: Think of how many thousands every day this happens to.
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  Speaker 2: So now if you were to get arrested, I'd do
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  Speaker 2: the show by myself? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Look at his face. But I expect now in the
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  Speaker 1: chance that Alvin Bragg may hear it's Curtis Sliwa, America's
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  Speaker 1: number one vigilante, and decide to make an example of me,
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  Speaker 1: will my... Fellow brothers and sisters in solidarity, pony up
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  Speaker 1: the money, the bail money to get me out.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually. How many days after? After two or three shows.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, on that note, we've resolved the missing bodega cat issue,
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  Speaker 1: but there are quite a few twists and turns there
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  Speaker 1: in Park Slope in Brooklyn. Plus, a chance to see
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  Speaker 1: Richard Marks at 825.
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  Speaker 4: New York's new wake-up call. Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty
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  Speaker 4: in the morning. On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the whole world is talking about AI and the
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  Speaker 1: many ancillary subjects that affect artificial intelligence. Yesterday, Rich DeMuro,
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  Speaker 1: Rich on Tech, which is heard Sunday nights from 8
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  Speaker 1: to 11, right here on 710WOR. Conference in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: you had the CEO of Anthropic and the CEO of
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  Speaker 1: OpenAI on one side of the stage saying, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: got to put the brakes on this thing. It's starting
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  Speaker 1: to get out of control. But the guy who provides
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  Speaker 1: almost all the chips from the video, the CEO, Jensen Wang,
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  Speaker 1: taking the Trump attitude, no, no, no, no, full speed ahead,
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  Speaker 1: no guardrails, no government interference. It's very, very confusing for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Can you help us sort this out? What are the pros?
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  Speaker 1: What are the cons? So that maybe some of our
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  Speaker 1: listeners can come to their own conclusions. I mean, I agree.
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  Speaker 6: This is, and I'm sure at that conference in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 6: it is a hot topic. Everyone has a take on this,
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  Speaker 6: whether you work at one of these AI companies or
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  Speaker 6: whether you're a consumer. And, you know, when you throw
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  Speaker 6: around things like AI is going to eliminate humanity, that's
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  Speaker 6: a big claim. And we don't know if that's possible anymore.
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  Speaker 6: how that would happen or if that could happen. But
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  Speaker 6: we do know one thing, AI is advancing. It is
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  Speaker 6: unlike anything that we've ever had, I think, that I've
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  Speaker 6: ever seen as a tech tool in my lifetime. And
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  Speaker 6: I think that it is advancing at such a rapid clip.
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  Speaker 6: And the thing is, this is what we don't know.
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  Speaker 6: We don't know what happens to these systems when they
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  Speaker 6: are left to do what they want to do. And
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  Speaker 6: so there's one term I think that people should understand,
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  Speaker 6: and it's alignment. This is the idea of that AI
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  Speaker 6: is on our side, right? On the side of humanity.
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  Speaker 6: But guess what? There are always bad people out there.
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  Speaker 6: There are always people that are going to program this
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  Speaker 6: stuff to not be aligned with us. And we don't
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  Speaker 6: know if AI will continue to stay aligned with our values.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, lots of us have different values.
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  Speaker 6: So what are those values exactly? So I understand that
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  Speaker 6: the CEOs of these companies that want to get this
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  Speaker 6: debate out in the open are I also think there's
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  Speaker 6: a lot of money at stake, obviously, on the side
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  Speaker 6: of NVIDIA. They have invested a lot in this. They
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  Speaker 6: stand to make a lot of money based on all
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  Speaker 6: the investment in AI. And these companies, OpenAI and Anthropic,
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  Speaker 6: are already well-established. So any regulations may continue to help
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  Speaker 6: them thrive versus a startup. But the bottom line, I think,
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  Speaker 6: Larry and Curtis, is that there are many players in
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  Speaker 6: this industry, not just here in the U.S., not just
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  Speaker 6: these big companies we're talking about. There are so many
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  Speaker 6: different sides to this entire situation.
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  Speaker 3: There was a couple other things they kept mentioning at
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  Speaker 3: the conference, and it was the first time I heard it.
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  Speaker 3: They kept saying every once in a while it left containment.
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  Speaker 3: We have 18 cases of it leaving containment. And I
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  Speaker 3: kept wondering, what the heck does that mean? And I
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  Speaker 3: did some digging, and all it means is that it
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  Speaker 3: was autonomous. It went out on its own. It was
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  Speaker 3: thinking on its own, and it did something. That's, that's
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  Speaker 3: a little frightening. It is.
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  Speaker 6: And it's, it's one of these things where, you know,
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  Speaker 6: if you use open AI, if you use, you know,
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  Speaker 6: chat GBT on your computer, there's this idea that it
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  Speaker 6: can take over your computer, right? It can actually do things.
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  Speaker 6: We call this agentic AI and smartphones are getting the
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  Speaker 6: same way where your phone can actually take action.
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  Speaker 2: And a simple example is if.
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  Speaker 6: You wanted to call an Uber, you would just tell
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  Speaker 6: your AI, Hey, I need a ride to the airport.
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  Speaker 6: And it would grab you that ride in the background.
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  Speaker 6: And then it would just say, okay, I found you
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  Speaker 6: your top three options. Which one do you want me
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  Speaker 6: to book? Now, that's a simple, easy use of AI autonomously.
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  Speaker 6: But when you think about all the things that people
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  Speaker 6: may program AI to do, hey, go out and find
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  Speaker 6: that nuclear reactor and see if there's any issues in
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: their programming that we can exploit. Now, and this thing
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: is like a pit bull, right? It goes out there
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: and it just figures out any way it can to
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: get into that system. And that's the scary part.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: One last question on this, Rich, before we move on
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: to other issues involving the tech world. They have this
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: one level they call superintelligence. I'm assuming that means even
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: if Einstein was sitting there, that form of AI could
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: outbattle intellectually anything that Einstein laid on the table. What
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: is the difference when they say, well, there's superintelligence?
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Well, I think superintelligence refers to beyond the capacity of
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: humans to understand it. I think that's really what it
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: comes down to. Right now, when you think about it,
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: if you use AI, you're sitting there and some of
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: the things it does, you're like, oh, that's pretty good.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: But I understand that. I can do better. But when
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: we get AI that is smarter than any human anywhere,
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: and by the way, we already have kind of access
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: to this. If you think about AI as an extension
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: of your brain, we don't know all the answers instantly
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: about everything. There may be experts in fields that know
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: very specific things, But when you think about AI, it's
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: been programmed to know almost everything about everything in the world.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: And that's really super intelligence when you think about it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: And right now, it's just locked into these chatbots. But
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: in the future, that may be walking around in some
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: sort of robot that understands everything, not just in the world,
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: but around it as well. And it just kind of
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: blows your mind when you start thinking about all of
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: the implications of this.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Let's get away from the scary stuff for one moment
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: and get to the fun stuff. I understand that you
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: have been able to handle one of Apple's iPhones that
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: are foldable.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: What was the experience like?
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, I've used a lot of foldable phones over
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: the past seven years, back to the very first one
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: that Samsung had, and I think it was 2019. This
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: is the iPhone Duo. It's basically a small... passport style
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: screen outside. It opens up to a big screen inside,
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: almost eight inches. So it's almost like a mini iPad
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: in your pocket. It's expensive, $ 2, 000. But Apple really addressed
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: many of the concerns I've had with foldables, which is
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: the software is usually terrible.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Apple made it great.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: The apps usually don't take advantage of this big screen
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: and larger form factor. Of course, app developers are very
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: excited to make their apps look great on this. And
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: they didn't have MagSafe. They weren't very durable. And they
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: didn't have, you know, stylus support. Apple has given this
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: thing all of those. So pre-orders start in October. This
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: thing will be in Apple stores on October 23rd. I
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: believe it will sell out. I think if you travel,
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: if you like having two apps open side by side,
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: or you just want the latest, coolest, greatest thing from Apple,
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: you'll love it. Camera's not going to be as good
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: as the Pro models, that's for sure.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I do appreciate that.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Rich.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: A very momentous occasion, and you brought a lot of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: clarity to this AI subject. It still has people wondering,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: which way do we go? Do we go any way?
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thank you again, Rich, again.
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• 19:20
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• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: An amazing eruption has taken place on Ed Sheeran's North America,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: South America tour. He was going to devote months. going
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: from Canada all the way down to Argentina and Chile.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: As you know, he's got quite a following out there.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: He's done a number of amazing videos, a number of
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: amazing songs. And his opening act, Macklemore, who's a rapper,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: white rapper, in fact, from Seattle, set it off when
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: they were at MetLife Stadium. And at MetLife Stadium, right
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: when he got into a song that was dedicated, Heinz Hall,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to what has happened with the Palestinian people, this was
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: on September 5th, while introducing the song, he said, free Palestine,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: free Palestine, and then added, To all my Jewish brothers
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and sisters, criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: it is in no way criticism of you. Now, there
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: were a number of Jewish people who were in attendance
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: who took offense to it. They took videos of it.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: There were others that didn't seem to have a problem
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: with it, but it took on a life of its
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: own because the tour is heading up to Gillette Stadium
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: outside of Boston. This is where the New England Patriots play.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And it's owned by Robert Kraft. And in fact, the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: two hoped-for concert dates, which had already been booked, were
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: taking place next week. Two nights with Ed Sheeran and Macklemore.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, within the last 48 hours,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran has said, look, Macklemore will no longer be
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: my opening act. It's not anything that I chose. The
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: promoters of the tour have decided they can't go forward
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: because there are other venues that will not accept him
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: as part of my concert. He then went on to say,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: I have my personal views on this devastating conflict, but
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not here to do politics. I'm here just to
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: entertain the crowd. Macklemore doubled down, and then apparently the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: people who were going to replace Macklemore on the tour
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: as the opening act They also decided that they would
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: not participate. So it's come down to a situation where
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Robert Kraft is the person who lobbied the other venues
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: not to accept the concert with Ed Sheeran if Macklemore
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was part of it. So it wasn't just Gillette Stadium,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: which he controls. He's the owner and operator of it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: but he lobbied the others. And now he's trying to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: backpedal a bit and say, well, look, I agree. I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: agree with Macklemore on some of the issues affecting Palestinian people.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I'd like to have a sit down and discuss this.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: But what he did was anti-Semitic. And this gets to
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the whole debate that is raging, not just in our area,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: but all throughout America. If you criticize the government of
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Israel now, does that make you anti-Semitic?
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me go back to the concert for a second, though.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I feel so bad for Ed Sheeran at this point.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, Ed Sheeran didn't ask for this. I've seen
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Ed Sheeran in concert a couple of times. I'm a
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: fan of his. I've seen many interviews with him. He
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: tries to play it straight down the middle, never talks
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: about politics, never talks about anything controversial. And for this
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: to be laid on his doorstep, now all of the
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: sudden is just completely unfair. So let's just take him
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: out of the conversation because he really had nothing to
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: do with this. And now he's been put in this situation,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: which is horrible. Now you have them trying to find
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: other opening acts, and they're all now saying, we're not
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: going to do it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: One after another, after another, after half the people you
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: don't know. At Macklemore, by the way, of all the
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: people that are listed... like Boyegas. Who the heck is that?
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: All the other people that are listed, nobody knows, or
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: they have a very small fan base. At least Macklemore
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: was a name. And it wasn't just Kraft, it was
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: the promoter as well. The promoter is the one that
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: was talking to all the owners. Kraft did it at
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: his own place. I'm not sure he pressured everybody else.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: The promoter said, We're not going to do this anymore.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: We're not going to have this. I really believe, even
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: though Ed Sheeran's statement doesn't say this, I think Ed
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Sheeran wants to be as far away from this as
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: he possibly can be. Can you imagine if he went
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: from city to city to city to city and each
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: person got up and made some type of political statement
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: before he got up?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: That's the whole show.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: They take all of the attention away from the headliner,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: which is not their job. And so, listen, in this
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: whole thing, I feel like Ed Sheeran's a victim. And
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: nobody else is in this whole thing. He's taking a
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: lot of incoming people, aren't following him. People feel like
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: he should be supporting Macklemore, which he did as much
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: as he could without trying to get political. And I'm
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: sure that everybody listening right now, and I'd love to
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: hear your talk backs, everybody listening right now, they don't
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: go to a concert to hear anything political unless they're
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: being told ahead of time this is going to be
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: a political concert. Unless they're being told ahead of time,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: like Springsteen used to do, now he just springs it
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: on you, Springsteen used to say, we're going to do
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: a political concert and I wouldn't go because I knew
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: what he was going to say. But listen, Macklemore was wrong.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: He was absolutely wrong. I know he's being hailed as
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: a hero by the left right now, but he was wrong.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: He shouldn't be up there espousing his political opinion.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: When he's the opening act.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: It's not fair to the venue owner. It's not fair
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: to the promoter. It's not fair to the headliner. And
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: so I'm glad he's off the tour. I'm glad he is.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, Ed Sheeran can handle it
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: by himself.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's no doubt he could handle it by himself.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: But you're assuming that Ed Sheeran did not know this
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: about Macklemore. Macklemore has a history of doing this. Did
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran, when they signed him up, because now he's claiming, oh,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: it's the promoters, the promoters who put him on the bill.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I don't buy that. When you're the star, you determine
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: who your opening acts are. If you're not happy with
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the opening acts, you don't go on tour. Did Ed
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Sheeran have a conversation with Macklemore? They're friends. He said, hey, Mack,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you know, if you're on my tour, I'd prefer that
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: you not do any political references because this is obviously
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: a tour that's going to go from North America to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: South America. It's going to take many weeks, many months.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of people involved with this. So
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: you're blaming Ed Sheeran for this? No, I'm just wondering
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: because obviously Ed Sheeran is not talking.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran, by the way. Ed Sheeran.
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: He's blaming the promoters.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Promoters don't have that kind of power to tell you
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: your opening act has to be Macklemore.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: That's what Ed Sheeran seems to be implying is that
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: this is my opening act. This is what I was
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: told to do. This guy is a friend of his.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: He knows Macklemore has done this before. And in fact,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Macklemore made this announcement in midlife right before he did
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: his song, Heinz Hall, which refers to the building at
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Columbia University that was taken over.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: By the pro-Palestinian crowd that, in fact, right now it's
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: all part of the news. Mahmoud Khalil is suing Columbia
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: because he led that demonstration.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: We know that story.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: So all of the.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Other people that are now on Ed Sheeran's side saying
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: that McLemore shouldn't have done that to him, they are
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: all being misguided. Sheeran lied, obviously, because you're saying, because
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: he says the promoters decided this, not me. And the
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: promoters are also saying this was our decision. But they're
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: all lying. So now this has turned not only, in
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: your mind, not only into some guy showing up and
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: ruining a concert, but now a big conspiracy against him.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: No. I mean, do you really think– as big as
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran is, that he is forced to have Macklemore
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: as his opening act?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Do you really believe that? Oh, no, I didn't think
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: he was going to do this.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: I did not think he– I think for– because he
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: went way overboard in this because he said F Israel
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: at one point. So he went way overboard. He didn't
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: say that. I'll get it for you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Let me be specific again.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Because this falls right into the trap that if you
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: criticize the Israeli government now of Bibi, you immediately get
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: called an anti-Semite, which is exactly what Robert Kraft was saying.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: What he said was, free Palestine, free Palestine. And then
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: he went on to say, hey, this is not a
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: reflection on Jewish people at all. This is a reflection
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: on what obviously McLemore believes is genocide, apartheid in Gaza.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: To all my Jewish brothers and sisters, criticism of Israel,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: criticism of apartheid, being against genocide. It is in no
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: way criticism of you.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: So let me go.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Find the clip that we played the other day where
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: we bleeped him out, and then you can believe it.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I'll play that a little bit later in the show.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: All right, so assuming it is.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: But he also said that. That's a direct quote.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: You did say that. Right.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: But the fact is that he has a history of
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: doing this in concerts. I would just like to know
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: if Ed Sheeran, who is a friend of his— Had
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: a conversation before they started this huge tour, North America
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and South America. And he said, hey, you know, I'd
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: like you to just forget the political stuff.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: He says he didn't know. Ed Sheeran has come out
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: and said he didn't know. And he said this was
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: not my decision to have him in there. He didn't
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: know he was going to say that.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Should he have known?
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: That's your point. That's a stronger point instead of calling
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: him a liar. I don't think this guy is lying.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I don't think Ed Sheeran's lying. I think he got
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: screwed by Macklemore because now there's negative publicity. This guy
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: never has any negative publicity about.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Him, ever. Oh, you're correct.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: You're correct. And I and Nancy, we love his songs.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: We love his videos. I just think the person who
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: is going to benefit most from this now is Macklemore.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: He'll be able to go on his own tours.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And he'll be able to go to countries that are
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: very pro-Palestinian, including Ireland and Scotland and Spain and a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of countries. So the best to Ed Sheeran,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: obviously the best to everybody who is part of that
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: tour who is depending on that income that they're not
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: going to get, all the roadies, all the people we
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: don't even think about that have basically put away a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: year of their life because this is.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: How they earn their income. I think it's still going
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: to sell out. People will want to see Ed Sheeran.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to continue.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Nobody comes for the opening act.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: No, I know, but I don't know if Ed Sheeran
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: wants to be at a concert where all of a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: sudden people start pulling out Palestinian flags in support of
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Macklemore and the other artists.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you he's not going to cancel this concert
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: because he'll get sued.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: He'll get sued by all of the owners, the venue owners.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: And I think Robert Kraft himself should never have inserted
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: himself as the spokesperson for Because he's like the worst
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: possible spokesperson you can have. I mean, here's the rubbing
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: tug guy. Remember at the Super Bowl, decided to go
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: get a kimchi cutie to give him a happy moment.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: This is not the guy you want speaking on behalf
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of all the owners and operators of the arenas in
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: America who said, we're going to cancel out on you, Ed,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: but you got to let Macklemore go.