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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 8-13-26 · 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.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and no pain right now.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I have had no pain. Stiffness and achy, 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 3: What do you mean? What do you mean the right knee?
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  Speaker 4: You mean to tell me if they had put a
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  Speaker 4: lipstick mark on the other knee, the surgeon may have
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  Speaker 4: actually gone in there with his assistance.
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  Speaker 2: The surgeon said, what nee are we doing? I'm like
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  Speaker 2: the left knee and he took and he put his
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  Speaker 2: initials with a sharpie marker.
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  Speaker 3: I thought of you, Curtis, because I know you love
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  Speaker 3: your sharpie. 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.
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  Speaker 3: Just saying, Okay, what are we doing exactly here? What
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  Speaker 3: do I have to do? But I gotta tell you what.
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  Speaker 4: All the people, Natalie, that I've known that have had
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  Speaker 4: procedures involving their knees, you know, thank God, with the
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  Speaker 4: problems I've had, it's never been the knees. You saw
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  Speaker 4: me torking on that. iHeart, Yeah, yeah, okay, Pride never
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  Speaker 4: had the knee problems. They were gonna be people flooding
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  Speaker 4: it with request. Who are the doctors? My god? Because
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  Speaker 4: normally people not only are they stiff, but they have
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  Speaker 4: intense pain for a while before they can sort of
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  Speaker 4: 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 how.
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  Speaker 3: I did that. But I did.
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  Speaker 2: And so a big difference. You know, knee replacement is
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  Speaker 2: a totally different thing.
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  Speaker 3: No, same day, you seem fine. I mean that was
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  Speaker 3: what was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you have to go through rehab
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  Speaker 1: to get the stiffness to go away, but there was almost.
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  Speaker 3: No pain right away, right did you heard the first day? Wow?
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  Speaker 2: No, And I never took the heavy drugs. I just
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  Speaker 2: did the advalaniele and all for about twenty four hours
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  Speaker 2: and then I stopped that anything time out.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have some heavy drugs? I do? Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Chris just perked up. Did you see that?
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  Speaker 3: Did you say perkose out there?
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  Speaker 4: Did you say perkose?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Perked up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 4: You know that is an acronym for a percocet. Can
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  Speaker 4: you perk me up?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Really? No, I didn't. Oh he knew look.
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  Speaker 4: At this, of course he knew the gen Z. But
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  Speaker 4: this is the quiet storm Chris, who has been on
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  Speaker 4: loan to us from Mark Simone, and now we have
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  Speaker 4: the benefit of I'm not going to reveal your age, Natalie,
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  Speaker 4: but you've been here almost as long as you have
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  Speaker 4: been morning shows, going back to Granddaddy Gambling.
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  Speaker 3: Come on here it is you've been sounds like she's ninety.
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  Speaker 4: No, she's You've I've been aware of your presence as
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  Speaker 4: a producer here almost as long as I mean talk radio,
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  Speaker 4: which is thirty five years. So you're you're a life
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  Speaker 4: for it. No wonder why you find it difficult because
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  Speaker 4: you're so used to getting up in the morning for
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  Speaker 4: like most 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 3: Heaven's open, he's going to speak. 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.
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  Speaker 3: I was getting ready just in case.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's always disappointment, even off even though Natalie
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  Speaker 5: obviously had goal.
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  Speaker 4: Through this procedure, we've benefited Larry because at least temporarily,
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  Speaker 4: we're the only show in all of radio that has
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  Speaker 4: two producers available to us during the length of our program.
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  Speaker 4: I've never had that in thirty five years. You talk
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  Speaker 4: radio usually one producer and that's it. Well, Chris is
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  Speaker 4: always working on the show every day. Yeah, I'm just
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  Speaker 4: thinking I'm in the background. I'm in the Shadows, Chris Schweizer.
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  Speaker 3: This is Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: Chris, and you've earned that name quite so. And let
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  Speaker 4: me announce to all of our many listeners out there
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  Speaker 4: that with everything going on in the news, we're going
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  Speaker 4: to get to it later on Mangoni. You know, the
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  Speaker 4: US session in the aircraft carrier, with the problems that
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  Speaker 4: have been taking place for the crew is there was
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  Speaker 4: a piece, the best piece I've ever read in a
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  Speaker 4: radio periodical, and there have been many over the years,
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  Speaker 4: some of them no longer exist, Larry, there used to
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  Speaker 4: be quite a few. But the bible of our business,
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  Speaker 4: this thing of ours in all of radio, TV and
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  Speaker 4: all of broadcasting, is Barrett Media. And yesterday I looked
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  Speaker 4: in my box and Tom Cuddy are great program director,
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  Speaker 4: sent this piece and I read it and I said,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, this is such a magnificent piece about
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  Speaker 4: your life and time Larry, as a broadcaster, and how
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  Speaker 4: you segued from being a leading anchor in the nation
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  Speaker 4: to eventually hosting talk radio here at seven to ten
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  Speaker 4: WR no easy feat. Many have tried, many have just
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  Speaker 4: they haven't been able to make that transition. And I
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  Speaker 4: recommend everybody, Natalie, were we able to post that it
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  Speaker 4: all for everybody to 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 4: Amazing, and I explain because you had a long conversation
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  Speaker 4: with I guess the young lady who wrote the piece
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  Speaker 4: for Barrett Media.
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  Speaker 3: 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.
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  Speaker 3: I've been an investigative reporter.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a documentarian and in the background almost always.
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  Speaker 1: I've done some radio, I mean either I've been invited
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  Speaker 1: to shows, and I was a regular on some shows,
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  Speaker 1: like in sports radio WIP in Philadelphia, I was on
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  Speaker 1: there all the time, and BBM in Chicago, he was
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  Speaker 1: on there all the time as a guest.
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  Speaker 3: That'd have me on every single week. And then it.
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  Speaker 1: When I started doing the commentary is at WPIX channel eleven, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: channel eleven, and they also aired at thirty stations across
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  Speaker 1: the country and all the big markets, and we did
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  Speaker 1: them every single day. And that's when when WABC called
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  Speaker 1: me and we worked together there, Yeah, a couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times at WABC. And then Tom Cutty. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: I mean listen, I did you know. I get a
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  Speaker 1: phone call from Tom Cutty saying listen, I heard you
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  Speaker 1: on the air, you know, come on over here, And
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  Speaker 1: of course I jumped at it. I mean get Getting
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  Speaker 1: the chance to work with Tom Cutty is a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Even the person that wrote the article for Barrett said
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to meet him. I would, I would love
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  Speaker 1: to work with him someday. So I think that there's
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  Speaker 1: people around the country that if they have the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to work with Tom, are always going to take it
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  Speaker 1: because you know, you're going to learn so much.
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  Speaker 4: Oh the best in the business. Both went and came
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  Speaker 4: to music and FM and talk here on AM seven
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  Speaker 4: to ten.
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  Speaker 3: WR.
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  Speaker 4: The part that I feel people really need to look
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  Speaker 4: at is how you so described our relationship and agreeing
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  Speaker 4: to disagree at times, but then other times agreeing and
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  Speaker 4: then having a civil discussion. So even if we get combative,
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  Speaker 4: which is gonna happen from time to time, we take
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  Speaker 4: the gloves off because then you're not gonna sense it
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  Speaker 4: in the next segment, because we here it to provide news,
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  Speaker 4: information and entertainment to the many listeners, not to have
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  Speaker 4: an ongoing, you know, wrestling match like it's the WWF
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  Speaker 4: like some stations have had over the years. And I
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  Speaker 4: gotta tell you, Larry, that's exactly why Tom Cutty put
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  Speaker 4: us together. He said we were better together, and he's
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  Speaker 4: absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: 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 4: Yeah, and you don't really see that on television any longer.
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  Speaker 4: You don't see that in podcasts. You don't see that
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  Speaker 4: obviously on traditional talk radio. And just as an example,
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  Speaker 4: I listen to a lot of talk radio, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of podcasts whenever I can. I don't hear people talking
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  Speaker 4: about AI artificial intelligence the way we have from every aspect,
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  Speaker 4: especially the flock cameras. You brought that to our attention.
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  Speaker 4: You know what was happening in Connecticut and across the nation.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the rest of talk radio, you can pretty
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  Speaker 4: much figure out what they're going to talk about. They
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  Speaker 4: all have their different way of presenting, but nobody goes
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  Speaker 4: into a lot of the subject matters that we do
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  Speaker 4: that are of interest to everybody, Like the flock cameras.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone it's what's united left and right AI, it's united
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  Speaker 4: 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 3: And I said, no, there you go, you'd better fix that.
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  Speaker 1: So I wrote to her immediately and I said, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I mentioned my wife.
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  Speaker 3: Can you put her in.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere you cause you go, I've already filed it, but
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  Speaker 1: I know how important that is.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see what I can do. She's in the business.
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  Speaker 4: Smart Tom Cuddyfeline.
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  Speaker 3: He saved me.
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  Speaker 1: But because I have such a big mouth, I told
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  Speaker 1: my wife the whole story. So she thanks you too, Tom,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I cannot more highly recommend the piece.
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  Speaker 1: And I've read a lot in my lifetime. They've been
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  Speaker 1: at one point there are like four major journals. They're
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  Speaker 1: focused on the kind of radio that we do, and
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  Speaker 1: they've been whittled down. And Barrett Media is the bible
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  Speaker 1: in broadcasting. Everybody goes to it.
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  Speaker 4: And I've never read a more thorough, comprehensive piece that
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  Speaker 4: actually puts it all together, connects all the dots about
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  Speaker 4: this thing that we so love and we do each
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  Speaker 4: and every day. Congratulations, Congratulations Larry.
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  Speaker 3: Well you should talk about this. What's coming up next? Liz?
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  Speaker 3: This is really your list?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, remember we had Natalie MAGLORI go down and
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  Speaker 4: sample people on New Jersey being the second best place
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  Speaker 4: to live in America, and I gud get out of
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  Speaker 4: the third best location to go to in the world,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm saying, oh far to that, dude. Wait do
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  Speaker 4: you hear what is number one? And number two? Also
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  Speaker 4: a chance to see John Fogidi and Stevie Winwood at
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  Speaker 4: a twenty five.
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