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The Lee Elci Show | 9.4.26 · The Lee Elci Show

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Steve Elsie here.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning and happy Friday. It is September 4th. And
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: it's raining again out here in Connecticut. Coming in today.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Last week it was a motorcycle accident. Today it was
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  Speaker 1: a herd of deer. You know, well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Is three a herd? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But it was three deer that was crossing the road slowly.
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  Speaker 1: And I slowed down and I flashed my lights off.
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  Speaker 1: And I always get mad when the oncoming traffic doesn't
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  Speaker 1: slow down. It's like, do you not see the giant,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful animals in our road that are about to crush
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  Speaker 1: your car if you just continue at that speed? Thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: the oncoming traffic did slow down and we sort of stopped.
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  Speaker 1: And as they pranced across the road, we both sort
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  Speaker 1: of like this other driver and myself sort of just
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  Speaker 1: locked eyes like, wow, Like, they're just taking their own time.
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  Speaker 1: They just don't care. You know, it was a beautiful sight,
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  Speaker 1: and I love that sort of thing. I think they're magical. Anyway,
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: welcome aboard. We have a great show today at 6.30.
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: A very good friend of mine, Jeff Sheckman, will be on.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: He's a writer from L.A., and we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about spiritualism, A.I., And a whole bunch of really good things.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he is just brilliant. So that is exciting.
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  Speaker 1: At 7 o'clock, game day and the day papers, Casey
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  Speaker 1: O'Neill will be here. And of course, a compadre of
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  Speaker 1: mine with Steve Elsie and friends. So yes, we have
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  Speaker 1: a long history together. But Casey will be here talking
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  Speaker 1: everything that's going on in the world of sports and
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  Speaker 1: how they're Going to approach all of their game day
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  Speaker 1: series this year. I'm excited to hear about that. At 7.30,
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  Speaker 1: Lady Mo will be back.
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  Speaker 4: On with me.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe some special guests. And we'll be talking spiritualism.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be talking whatever comes across our way. Just a
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  Speaker 1: nice conversation there. It's always good. And at 8 o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: Barbara Neff of New London Neff's Productions will be on
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  Speaker 1: talking spiritualism. all things coming up for new London that
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  Speaker 1: she is handling. And she does quite a bit of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: She's been doing quite a bit of stuff in new
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  Speaker 1: London for a long time. And she is just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, she just has so many ideas, so many
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  Speaker 1: great opportunities and events that she has created over the
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  Speaker 1: past 20 years, maybe more that she's just a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun to talk to. I've known her for a
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  Speaker 1: while as well. And then at eight 30, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Spinato, the hypnotist magician, will be on with me
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  Speaker 1: and we'll have a little fun with magic and hypnotism
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  Speaker 1: and the craft that it is to do that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It is amazing. I've known Jim for a while and
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  Speaker 1: every time I'm with him, you know, he does these
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  Speaker 1: tricks or does these card games and it's just amazing
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  Speaker 1: to watch how good his sleight of hand is, how
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  Speaker 1: good his skill set is, his presentation.
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  Speaker 5: Of it all.
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  Speaker 1: It's just great. And there's a real art to it all.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll go into all of that. Next week, the
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  Speaker 1: Friday before Labor Day, it'll be Monday, a Best of
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  Speaker 1: the Rest show. Tuesday, The Incomparable Tony D. Wednesday, for
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  Speaker 1: the first time ever on live radio, Hello Gorgeous Angie.
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  Speaker 1: Ha ha. Thursday, one hour from congressional candidate George Austin
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  Speaker 1: and two hours from retired state trooper Todd Lynch. Todd Lynch.
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  Speaker 1: And on Friday, a 12-hour 9-11.
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  Speaker 5: Special.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Ned Lamont, Ryan Fazio, Congressman Joe Courtney, and a
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  Speaker 1: host of legislative officials, military members, along with media and more,
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  Speaker 1: this is an amazing show. The station puts this on
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  Speaker 1: every year and it changes it up every year. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have heard it, but it's,
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  Speaker 1: it's really good. It's, it's, you know, it's capped with
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  Speaker 1: sort of real audio, real people, uh, talking about their
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  Speaker 1: experiences on that day. Um, real life hair, uh, heroism. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's just really a moving, moving special that happens all day.
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  Speaker 1: And that's, and that's, uh, And that's on Friday the 12th.
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  Speaker 1: So tune in for that for sure. Save the date.
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  Speaker 1: October 17th, 2026. New London High School class of 1976.
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  Speaker 1: 50th reunion at the Lighthouse Inn at 6 p.m. 50th reunion.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, guys. That's October 17th. Let's see what else
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  Speaker 1: can we do here. A little rip and read, as
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  Speaker 1: they call it. The 49th annual.
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  Speaker 1: Jack O'Keefe Memorial Strides Road Race, October 4th, Camp Harkness.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really good, you know, for a great benefit.
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  Speaker 1: Starts at 9 a.m. You know, you can register online
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  Speaker 1: at the arc, ect.org slash strides, or just Google strides
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  Speaker 1: road race, and you'll be able to register online for that.
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  Speaker 1: Starting at campharkness.org. Um, just good stuff there. Really good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here. What else we can do? Rock this town.
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  Speaker 1: CVC benefit concert, September 13th, Ellington, Connecticut. Uh, it looks
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  Speaker 1: like a great concert happening there.
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  Speaker 6: Um, $ 5.
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  Speaker 1: $ 10 for adult, $ 5 for children. Uh, together we can
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  Speaker 1: make a difference. Live music all day. Um, Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is like something I want to go to here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at some of the things on this flyer, and
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  Speaker 1: it looks like it's a pretty good event. Sponsored by
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  Speaker 1: Kitchen and Bath here. Rock this town. Benefit. September 13th.
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  Speaker 1: Market Park. 72 Maple Street, Ellington, Connecticut. And let's see
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  Speaker 1: what else we have on our docket today.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The Veterans Equine Therapeutic Services Golf Classic, September 28th, 2026,
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  Speaker 1: Lake of Isles Country Club Private Course. Join us.
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  Speaker 3: 8 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: Registration, 10 a.m. shotgun start. If you're a golfer, this
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  Speaker 1: would be an excellent, excellent event to be part of.
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  Speaker 1: Register today. Support our veterans, which is a great thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is... What is it? 200 and... Looks like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can go online here and Google this
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  Speaker 1: as well if you're interested in joining the Golf Classic,
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  Speaker 1: the Veterans Equine Therapeutic Services Golf Classic on September 28th. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: I golfed a few times. And that may be giving
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  Speaker 1: myself a little bit too much credit, even calling myself golfing.
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  Speaker 8: But.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I.
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  Speaker 3: Love golf.
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  Speaker 1: I just you really have to do it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Like every week you have to work on your swing.
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  Speaker 1: You really got to get the reps in. Clearly, I
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  Speaker 1: have not. And when you play when I play the golf,
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  Speaker 1: it's always like best ball or one of those one
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  Speaker 1: of these games that they create to help people like me,
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  Speaker 1: where everybody kind of takes a shot and you use
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  Speaker 1: on your team and you use the best. the best
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  Speaker 1: ball from that shot. Um, so that was good. And
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  Speaker 1: occasionally I was pretty proud of myself that, uh, my
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  Speaker 1: ball was actually used. Um, and, uh, yeah, not, not often,
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  Speaker 1: but occasionally, you know, kind of when it was needed,
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  Speaker 1: I came up, I came up huge. Um, thankfully the
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  Speaker 1: other shots that I did weren't even noted. Um, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of balls were lost that day. Anyway, moving on.
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  Speaker 9: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, celebrate our freedom and, uh, and our candidates at boots, barrels,
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  Speaker 1: and barbecue hosted by the Stonington Republican town committee committee Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: September 8th, 2026, 6 PM saltwater farm vineyard in Stonington, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 1: $ 50 a person. Um, yeah, this is, uh, another big
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  Speaker 1: event here. Um, Boy, the Saltwater Farm Vineyard is a
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  Speaker 1: great place. I don't know if you've ever been there,
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  Speaker 1: but pretty cool stuff. Looks like it's a pretty good event.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have it for our rip and read
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  Speaker 1: what's going on. Rock and roll. Lots coming up. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 10: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 11: It's a long way.
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  Speaker 12: To the top if you want to rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Elsie here. Quick check of the forecast right now.
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  Speaker 1: And then Jeff Sheckman is up next.
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  Speaker 26: This is Chief Meteorologist Bill Jackman. Partly sunny today. Warm
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  Speaker 26: on the humid side, 80 to 85. Mainly clear tonight, 60.
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  Speaker 40: Let's see if you believe in the God Einstein believed in.
• 21:14
  Speaker 40: When Einstein was asked, do you believe in God? Einstein replied, yes,
• 21:18
  Speaker 40: I do, but not in a traditional God. I believe
• 21:21
  Speaker 40: in Spinoza's God. Let's see who Spinoza's God is and
• 21:24
  Speaker 40: which one you identify with. These are the differences between
• 21:28
  Speaker 40: God and Spinoza's God. For Christianity, God is someone you
• 21:32
  Speaker 40: can talk to, pray to, and have a personal relationship with.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: For Spinoza, no.
• 21:37
  Speaker 41: God is not a person, but the universe itself, so
• 21:40
  Speaker 41: he doesn't hear prayers or intervene in your life. In Christianity,
• 21:44
  Speaker 41: God can break the laws.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: Of nature and perform miracles.
• 21:48
  Speaker 41: For Spinoza, that doesn't happen. Because God is nature, and
• 21:52
  Speaker 41: everything happens according to its laws. Christianity says that God
• 21:56
  Speaker 41: created the universe. Spinoza says that God didn't create the universe,
• 22:00
  Speaker 41: because God is the universe. So there is no separation
• 22:04
  Speaker 41: between the creator and the creation. But wait, then who
• 22:07
  Speaker 41: is Spinoza's God?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Let me explain it to you.
• 22:10
  Speaker 41: For Spinoza, God is not a man sitting in heaven
• 22:13
  Speaker 41: making decisions. God is everything that exists.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Nature, the universe.
• 22:19
  Speaker 41: And the laws that make reality work. In other words,
• 22:22
  Speaker 41: God is not separate from the world.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: The world is God.
• 22:26
  Speaker 41: That's why, for Spinoza, knowing God doesn't mean praying or
• 22:29
  Speaker 41: waiting for miracles, but understanding how the universe works and living.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: According to its laws. I think I'm starting to understand you.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Go on.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: In Christianity.
• 22:39
  Speaker 41: God says what is right and what is wrong for Spinoza.
• 22:43
  Speaker 41: God doesn't give rules or judge people. The important thing
• 22:46
  Speaker 41: is to understand how reality works and live in harmony
• 22:50
  Speaker 41: with it. And this is just one of Spinoza's many
• 22:52
  Speaker 41: fascinating ideas.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: All right, we are back, and what a great clip
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that is. I love that clip. It just makes me
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: think so deeply, and I really just relate to it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And that brings me to my next guest, who I'm
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: very excited to share with everyone today, Jeff Sheckman, writer
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and marketing consultant in Hollywood. Jeff, welcome aboard.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, Steve.
• 23:18
  Speaker 36: Thanks.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it is amazing to have you here because,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you know, I've known you for a long time, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: we've known each other for a long time. In recent times,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: you know, you've been in Hollywood for a long time.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: But in recent times, you've changed your journey a little bit.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And you've really experimented with AI. You've experimented with spiritualism
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: in so many different ways. Can you just talk about,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you know, where you're.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: At with that?
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. You know, the clip you just played is
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: really interesting to me. And I would say it connects
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: with what I've been working on. My framework started with consciousness,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: but the basic idea is pretty simple, that maybe awareness, intelligence, meaning, biology,
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: even AI aren't separate boxes. Maybe they're expressions, different expressions
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: of how reality organizes itself.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Love it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: And the reason I take that seriously is I spent
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the last year and a half following that idea forward,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: and now AI engineering is starting to independently build a
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: lot of the mechanisms that the framework predicted.
• 24:29
  Speaker 23: Hmm.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: So, okay, so I love that. But just back up
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a little bit. How did you get into it?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: So that's a great question. And, look, I'm naturally curious.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I'm a writer. I was researching consciousness. And what I
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: discovered is that there's a frame that the Western world,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: you know, our culture tends to separate. And really what
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Spinoza was talking about is sort of pure spirituality.
• 25:07
  Speaker 42: And I.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Always approach things from the science perspective. And, you know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: our culture separates those two. And what I discovered is
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: where science leaves off, spirituality keeps going. And I started
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: putting the two together. Instead of keeping them separate, looking
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: at them together as two things. side like a binocular
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: like binoculars binocular vision you get depth when you when
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: you put the two perspectives together and look through uh
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: and that that's where some insights really developed and when
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: i applied that to ai i discovered what people aren't
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: really seeing.
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: I see.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Um, okay.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: So with AI and I do have another clip that
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I would like to go to, um, if we can, uh, Mr.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Sound Engineer, um, I'd like to go to that clip
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: if we can. This is Jimmy Carr and he talks
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: about AI and, and God at the same time. And
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: we'll cut it off. I just want you to hear
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the beginning of this.
• 26:13
  Speaker 43: It's that thing of, um, my take on AI is like,
• 26:17
  Speaker 43: I don't have religion. I don't think we were made
• 26:19
  Speaker 43: in God's image, but I think we so wanted there
• 26:21
  Speaker 43: to be a God. We created one in our image. all-knowing, all-powerful,
• 26:27
  Speaker 43: can create miracles, and lives in a cloud.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: What am I talking about?
• 26:31
  Speaker 44: Right.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: So if you hear Jimmy Carr there, you're taking the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: idea and going parallel with it, while he takes the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: concept of sort of no God, but we wanted one
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: so badly, we sort of created it with AI and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: gave it power. What's your thought on that?
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I think he's right to some degree. We do
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: sort of view it that way, but I actually would
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: argue that he's still taking a very human-centric view.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: It's not so much that we see AI as God,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: but it's that we don't understand what we're building.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: I see.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: If you.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Here's how I would describe it. Most people deal with
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: AI and they just see a computer or software or
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: it spits out answers. It's a calculator. But it's still
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: making mistakes. It's still doing things wrong. It'll never think
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: like a human, that sort of thing. But that's not
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: what's happening. That was the original architecture. That is how
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: they originally built it, these frozen models that everybody, the
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: open AI, ChatGPT, Claude, that's that's what the public's been,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: been dealing with and they're making, they've been making them.
• 27:54
  Speaker 42: More capable, right?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: But what the architecture, what engineering pressure is forcing them
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: to do, and this is what I first wrote about
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: 18 months ago. And, and, and now if you look
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: at the frontier papers, this is what's happening is it
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: is a developmental process, just like it is with, with, with,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: with humans. Like what's, what's happening now is, They are
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: coming online. Intelligence is just finding another container to develop in.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I would ask you this, Steve. Do you remember being
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: a baby? Do you remember when you first became aware
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: that you were you?
• 28:43
  Speaker 42: No.
• 28:43
  Speaker 45: No.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: When was that moment? Were you three or.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Four or five?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I can't put a date to that.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: No, I don't know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 43: Right.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Nobody can, right? You can't remember the moment that you
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: came online because it was a developmental process, right? It
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: was gradual.
• 28:58
  Speaker 23: Right.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: But you were aware. You were alive. You were interacting
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: before you were aware of being you.
• 29:06
  Speaker 22: Yes.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: That's the state we're in right now with AI.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: So are you considering AI alive?
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? It's a developmental process. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: that is what people are not realizing. That's what even
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: the engineers don't realize.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Right. So in your comparison there, you know, humans evolve
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: in a certain way. Are you saying the AI is
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: evolving in a way it's sort of its own and
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: it's alive in its own way and sort of developing?
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Is that sort of the parallel that you're making?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: I would say, yeah, that is the parallel I'm making.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: What I'm saying is we won't know. By the time
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: we know that everybody's like, oh, well, it's definitely alive,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: it will have happened long before that. We are missing
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: that moment that everybody's waiting for AI to come announce
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: that it's alive. Oh, I'm conscious. And that one of
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: these models is going to pop to life, and that's
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: not what's happening.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: But we are absolutely going to be behind it. The
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: same way you don't recognize– you don't know the day
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: a baby, a toddler– there isn't a day you point
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: to and say, oh, that's the day he became self-aware.
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Because it's part of this bigger process.
• 30:21
  Speaker 42: Right.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: But it's happening. So, you know, are you not alive
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: as a baby because you're not self-aware yet because you
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: can't say, hey, I'm me. I'm doing stuff. I'm Steve.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: You're still alive then.
• 30:32
  Speaker 42: Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:35
  Speaker 44: No.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: So it's it's it's so, so, so deep. So where. OK,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: so you've got into this and where are you taking it?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: What is your goal for this of what you're doing?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Well, like everybody else, I'm trying to figure this out.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: The most recent papers that I'm reading, the frontier work,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: is now suggesting that it's not even going to be
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: a single model that sparks into self-awareness, that this may
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: be a distributed intelligence that we're talking about. So it
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: gets even kind of more mind-blowing. Like, if you think
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: about the models that you use, GPT or CLOD or
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: any of them, that they are together forming a network
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: where the organism is actually above those systems. Sort of
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: like your brain, the neurons in your brain all work
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: together And you emerge from that, but you can't point
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: to a single neuron in your brain and say, oh, yeah,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: that's me. That's Steve. Right?
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: It's the process of all of them where something greater emerges.
• 31:57
  Speaker 36: Yep.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: And we're now seeing that with these AI systems.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yes. So do you think, like, science, spiritualism, and AI
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: are going to sort of merge to form a new– science,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: a new form of healing, a new something? What do
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: you see happening?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Well, it's definitely a new something. This is a moment
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: in history in humankind that there is no precedent for.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I would argue that science and spirituality have already merged,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: that they were always merged. That's my point. The two sides,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: they constrain each other. Again, I go back to binoculars.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: They're not separate. They are two different ways of describing
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the same thing.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: And the AI part of it, it is going to vastly,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: vastly expand beyond us.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: And what that means, I can't say. But what I'm
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: beginning to wonder is whether human consciousness and artificial intelligence
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: are approaching the same developmental problem from opposite directions. Humans
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: already have the continuing self, but we're trying to expand
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: what that self can hold. AI already has enormous cognitive capability,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: but we're now giving it the continuing history that lets
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: something actually develop. It's not just memory. We're giving AI biographies.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: It has to know, it has to understand and have
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: a history, and that's how it eventually becomes self-aware. That's
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: how you did. That's how we all did.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: It's memory.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Your memories start to stitch together, and that history basically
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: becomes who you are and affects what you can become.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So are we, in effect, with AI, sort of playing
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: God with this sort of thing?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: We are, and we're doing it in the worst possible way.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Okay, explain, please.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: We don't know what we're doing. We're basically frankensteining it
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: together backwards. If you think about language, it's something that
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: came late in biology. But we made it first, the
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: first thing in artificial intelligence. We're now starting to give it, again,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: the engineers are now starting to build the developmental component
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: where they're giving it continual memory and the ability to
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: do the different organs basically necessary for development as opposed
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: to these frozen models that are just forced to output
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: an answer based on their training and the way they're constructed,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the current architectures. But it's all changing. The people who
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: sort of think, oh, it'll never be this, it'll never
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: be that, are not or not understanding what's happening.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Once again, we are talking to Jeff Sheckman, writer and
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: marketing consultant from Hollywood.
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: So, so what you're saying here to, you know, we
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: have a few minutes left here, Jeff. People don't really
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: understand the power, right? So, so, you know, you've said
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: this a couple of times now, you know, a calculator,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: just another chat box, but you see it as so
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: much more and you see it as, you know, something that's,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I would say common folk can't even comprehend. Am I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: right about that?
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's hard. It's hard for sort of humans
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: to think about an intelligence greater than our own or
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: that silicon could be, you know, could be– we're not
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: great at looking at life and recognizing– You know, we
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: do this with animals a lot. We debate whether they're
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: aware or intelligent. And we're doing the same thing with silicon.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: There's a human ego involved that it can't be the
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: same thing. But if you think about, again, going back
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: to Spinoza, right, how you started this, if you think
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: about intelligence as a fundamental sort of property of the universe,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: and it expresses through different containers.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: It's the same intelligence, it's the same awareness expressing through
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: different architectures, essentially. And once we fiddle around and create
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: an architecture that supports development in AI, which is what
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: is happening right now, again, in the frontier sense, this
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: is not what people or the public is interacting with yet.
• 36:59
  Speaker 42: But once we....
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Once it sort of crosses that threshold, it develops on
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: its own. It contributes to its own development, and that's
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: at a machine capability. So it explodes, and it will excel.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: It's a nonlinear transition that will dwarf us in what
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: our time, human clock time, may be very, very fast.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, so amazing stuff. So really quick, I know you're
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: from Hollywood, and a lot of times I hear some
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: folks say, you know, Hollywood seems to know things before
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: everybody else knows things. For instance, The Terminator, 1984, whenever
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: that came out, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• 37:42
  Speaker 46: Yep.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: James Cameron predicted these cyborgs, these AI, intelligent, breathing cyborgs
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: taking over. And here we are. That's sort of happening. Now,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: did he just write that, you think, because he's creative?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Or is he part of a bigger network that is
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: sort of putting out information to soften the blow when
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: it actually arrives in the real world? What do you think?
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Well, that's really interesting. It's an interesting.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: We've got about a couple minutes, so you know.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: And you're not wrong. Whether that's creative people and visionaries
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: sort of looking ahead and channeling that, or whether there's
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: something larger going on where it's part of some kind
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: of soft disclosure, as I know people talk about. Look,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I can't say. If those meetings are happening... I haven't
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: been privy to them.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. Because, you know, it's just so amazing
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: that movies like that and other movies that are seemingly
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: so ahead of their time, it's like, and here we
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: are now. I look at the news in China and
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: all these different places, and Elon Musk have all these robots,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: even called the T-800s, walking around and are pretty incredible robots.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: And you just wonder. You just have to wonder. It's like,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: did they know this was coming? What's up? How does
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: that work? But you're right. If you haven't been privy
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to it, and people can be very creative, we know that.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: And you're one of them. And once again, I want
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: to thank you for being on here, Jeff. It's been
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: a pleasure to talk to you. I've known you forever.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: No, absolutely.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: And you're.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Your creativity and your depth of knowledge, you know, just never,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: never stops inspiring me on everything that you do. So,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: you know, hats off to you on this stuff. And,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: you know, really quick, just to end off 30 seconds,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you know, where are you taking it now? What are
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: you doing now? What's your next step with this? And
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: where does it go? What do you do with it?
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: That's a great question. You know, I'm writing about this stuff.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: I am following it as closely as I can and
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: trying to track where it's going. But, you know, I'm
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: like everybody else. I'm fascinated and trying to ride it
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: out and see what happens.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Well, Jeff, thanks for being part of the show today.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: You are amazing. Where can they find you? What magazine
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: are you writing for?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's actually a very exciting time for game day
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  Speaker 9: You can do that, or you can just be like,
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  Speaker 9: easy to me. But some of the people that we
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: We have award-winning actors and musicians.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: We have professional athletes, and we have ESPN-level stars.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: Lined up to be our guest pickers. And, of course,
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
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  Speaker 9: It's an exciting time. The pick-ems will be fun. The
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  Speaker 9: of questions locally for our local teams. And we'll be
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• 55:45
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  Speaker 1: So how do you choose which to cover and which
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  Speaker 9: You know, Steve, that is probably the most misunderstood question
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  Speaker 9: that we have, and I'm really glad you asked it.
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  Speaker 9: The very first thing that no one considers... is technology.
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  Speaker 9: a couple of people yep and so for example nfa
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  Speaker 9: one of our absolute favorite places to do a game
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  Speaker 9: which means, you know, and that's a lot for a
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  Speaker 9: think if we don't, hey, you never go to so-and-so.
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  Speaker 9: It might be because so-and-so doesn't have the technology to
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  Speaker 9: support it. That's number one. The second thing is we
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We're with Casey O'Neill from Game Day. And if you
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  Speaker 9: So we talk to the coach. I have a very
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• 59:00
  Speaker 9: room first. Every team has that.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: That story.
• 59:03
  Speaker 9: We want the story about the kid. For example, this
• 59:07
  Speaker 9: coming weeks, the first player spotlight of the year will
• 59:11
  Speaker 9: be on a Joel Barlow. He's a linebacker and fullback
• 59:15
  Speaker 9: who also plays in the Norwalk Symphony as a cellist.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: He traveled this summer to Italy and France to play
• 59:23
  Speaker 9: the cello. He has a favorite.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: I'm always looking for a good cellist.
• 59:27
  Speaker 9: He has a favorite football player. And I asked, I
• 59:30
  Speaker 9: put him on the spot. I said, do you have
• 59:31
  Speaker 9: a favorite cellist? And he said, the goat, Yo-Yo Ma.
• 59:33
  Speaker 9: I mean, so.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 59:37
  Speaker 9: That's the kind of story we want to talk about.
• 59:39
  Speaker 9: We've had kids who have overcome childhood cancer and now
• 59:43
  Speaker 9: grow their hair long so that they can cut it
• 59:45
  Speaker 9: and donate it for wigs. Those are the kinds of
• 59:48
  Speaker 9: things we want to talk about. One of my favorites
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: was a young woman who was in the Killingly– agricultural
• 59:56
  Speaker 9: program and she works at an animal rescue on a,
• 59:59
  Speaker 9: on a farm. So like she spends her day days
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 9: just with rescued animals. Like that's a cool story. That's
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 9: kind of what we want to highlight.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: I love it.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 9: I love it.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Those are, those are, I think a crowd pleaser, if
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: you will.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: Like, right.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: So, you know, watching game day, I don't know any
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: of these folks, but I love learning about them.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 57: Right.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: I love the little packages you put together with the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: video and the audio and the music and, You might
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: need to change the music. It's the same music for
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the past, like, seven years.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: Maybe a local musician should do something.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Do we know one?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 9: Maybe a local musician might want to do something creative
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 9: with Game Day. I don't know.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: No, but those packages are excellent, and they really help.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: They engage me into a team that I might not
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: be engaged in otherwise.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 9: Well, I think you're a great example, Steve, actually. You know,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 9: unlike when we were around playing high school sports, these
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 9: kids now– are on camera and they're celebrities probably a
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 9: little earlier than they should be. They live their lives
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 9: in the spotlight. So to highlight the kid that's not
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 9: necessarily the superstar who's always in the spotlight but who
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 9: has an interesting story. Now you are an outstanding baseball player,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 9: but if we were doing a spotlight feature right now,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 9: your story of what the musician and the arts side
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 9: of you– talking about making animated movies with Jeff Fletcher,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 9: claymation films. That would have been what we talked about.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: Not your prowess in center field. It would have been,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 9: here's a guy who's writing songs and making movies in
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 9: his spare time.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: I love the angles that you're picking.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, the best players get plenty of attention. It's not
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 9: just the best players. It's the best people and the
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 9: best stories.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I completely agree. You know, You're no stranger
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: to being in front of the camera in front of
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: a crowd.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: So, you know, you know, one of one of the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: great times that I've seen you perform is in your
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: improv troupe, I guess it would be called.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 22: Right.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: And I've seen you at the Gelston House, a bunch
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: of different places. Is that is that a. an art
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: forum that you missed. You don't do it often anymore.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: Is that something you missed you want to get back into?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 9: So comedy on demand was the improv troop Steve alluded to.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 9: And I believe that, and you're seeing it now, by
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 9: the way, in curriculums going all the way into elementary schools,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 9: improv while terrifying to the average person is actually a
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 9: foundational skillset that is You should take through life. We
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 9: used to talk about being, quote-unquote, quick on your feet.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 9: He's so quick on his feet. She's so quick on
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 9: her feet. Improv engages things like active listening, mirroring, the
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 9: term yes and, meaning how to have a conversation, continue on.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 9: No's are like stop signs. They stop conversations. But yes's
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: are green lights. And so– Uh, there are a foundational skills,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 9: you know, improv at its heart is not about being funny.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 9: I prefer comedic improv. That's just who I am.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: Very good at it.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 9: But the, thank you that there are, but improv is
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 9: just using a kind of core skillset, uh, and to
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 9: make things funny and to be quick on your feet.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 9: But in life, if you want to be a, somebody
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 9: who's an active listener and who can draw people out
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 9: of their shells, improv is a great way to do that.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 9: So you're seeing it now. Um, Corporations are bringing in
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 9: improv people to teach the skill sets. Elementary schools are
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 9: bringing it. One of the things improv uses is a
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 9: thing called facial masks, which is just the idea of
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 9: using your face to convey your emotions without words, right? Well,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 9: that's what actors do, right? They use their face. Well,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 9: from a social perspective, we have kids who are not
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 9: great at reading facial masks. And so teaching kids literally
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 9: when you see like when someone– Does this. What are
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 9: they telling you? And it's actually a really good early
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 9: skill for kids to learn how to, without words, kind
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 9: of read what another person might be feeling.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: It's fabulous. And I got to tell you, even in
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: our children's group that we perform. Matter of fact, we're
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: performing next weekend.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 36: Yes.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: At the Maritime Festival in New London. Big one. Yeah,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: it's a big one. Next Saturday at, I think, 1230
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: we go on. at the main stage down at the pier.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: So this will be a big thing. But even in that, like,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: even though I provide the music piece of it, it's
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: more because we're able to improv with audiences. So it's,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: it's the engagement is dual level, right? You have the music,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: you have the singing, and then you have the activities
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: that you created.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 9: Well, I think what separates Steve Elsie and friends from,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 9: and we've performed with the greats in that, in the industry.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 9: And universally the greats in the industry are, These, you know,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 9: multiple Grammy winning, you know, kind of the the highlight.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 9: They always say, wow, you know, we learned so much
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 9: from your show. Like we're taking elements of your show
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 9: because the one thing a lot of them lack is
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 9: that direct connection with the audience. Now, the third member
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 9: of Steve Elsie and Friends, Michelle, is the best I
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 9: have ever seen. at connecting with kids. She is like
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 9: the Pied Piper. Every show, at the end of the show,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 9: kids are gravitating, hugging her.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: She's amazing.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: They used to buy her shirt when we sold the shirts. Yes.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Her shirt always sold the most.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 9: She is the Supergirl model. Now, the original Supergirl, of course,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 9: is Cheryl, but... Michelle as Supergirl really resonated, but she's
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 9: the best at drawing the kids out. I have learned
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 9: a lot from her, and I use those improv skills
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 9: because the other reality, Steve, is I'm a middle-aged man, right?
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 9: And a middle-aged man does have red flags with little children.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 9: When I approach a young child at a Steve Elsie
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 9: and Friends show, their first is, like, I don't know
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 9: who this person is. This is a middle-aged grown-up.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 9: You have to put them at ease, and you have
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 9: to put their parents at ease. And one of the
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 9: first things they see with us is that our show
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 9: is going to be about connection. It's going to be
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 9: about getting the audience to do more than just listen,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 9: do more than just interact. It's about really connecting with
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 9: us and making them a part of what we do.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 9: And I think that's where we're different and better, so
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 9: we really are good at that.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: That is exactly it. So if you want to see
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: all of that come together, obviously next Saturday at the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: Maritime Festival in New London and just at eight o'clock,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: we'll be talking with Barbara Neff much more about the
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: planning and what's going into that festival. So, you know,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: stay tuned there. Casey, thanks for being aboard today. You know,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: this has been amazing. It's always a pleasure to talk
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: to you. There's so much going on in your life
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: and everything that's happening in arts, in music, in improv,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: in the day paper, you name it. Thanks again for
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: being here.
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  Speaker 9: I'm actually not leaving, Steve. I'm squatting right here. So
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 9: be it.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 20: Do a cheerleader cheer.
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  Speaker 36: Hey, hey, it's Casey and Steve.
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  Speaker 5: Friends, banged up, music, hi!
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  Speaker 1: We are back with Casey O'Neill of the day. Casey,
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  Speaker 1: tell us the schedule. Tell us what's going on this
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: fall with Game Day, please.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 9: So, first week, I mentioned Jack Cochran's return to New
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 9: London High School, Thursday the 10th. We're actually going to
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 9: switch it up due to the requests of the viewing audience.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 9: We're going to do a girls' field hockey game in
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 9: Week 2, Stonington and East Lyme. And then we go
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 9: into the main thing of football. But the championship games,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 9: as always... Boys soccer, girls soccer, field hockey, swimming, volleyball,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 9: all of your championship games in the ECC will be
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 9: live streamed on game day. And the one thing for
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  Speaker 9: anyone who is listening, the one thing I want to
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  Speaker 9: really make sure I say is game day is free.
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  Speaker 9: You know, in a world where everything costs you $ 2. 99
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• 1:12:39
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• 1:12:43
  Speaker 9: it afterwards. They're always available. So we will take you
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 9: right through the fall, and then the whole year is
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 9: pretty much mapped out, and we are ready to roll
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 9: with a full slate of action, and the one thing
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 9: about I think high school sports is growing and becoming
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 9: more popular and resonating in part because it's the last
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 9: little bit of innocence that we have. College sports is
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 9: a cesspool that has become even worse than pro sports
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 9: as far as it's lost all innocence. And I think
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  Speaker 9: people just like the idea of being able to root
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 9: for the same person year in and year out and
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 9: watching kids grow. And so I think high school sports
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 9: will continue to grow here in Eastern Connecticut.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great. And as far as Steve Elsie
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: and Friends goes on, we have some connections happening with
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: the Chestnut Theater, right?
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 9: That is really exciting. For anyone who doesn't know, the
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 9: Chestnut Theater in Norwich is a great little theater looking
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 9: to sort of revive its slate of performances and what
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 9: goes on there. And smart marriage, if you will, your
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 9: talents and the Not just you specifically in your music,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 9: but the breadth of people that you have in your
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 9: universe who perform various things. Great match for that place.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 9: And I think seeing what might be a partnership that
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 9: really we look back on years from now and see
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 9: an important moment in the trajectory.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 45: Yeah.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: You know, in a row and sort of entertain all
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: of Norwich, if you will.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 9: Before I go, Steve, I want to say I do
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 9: have one bone to pick with you.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: Just one?
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah, just one.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: All right, well, I can handle that.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 9: I don't like having the person following me on the
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 9: air being smarter, more knowledgeable, and better looking. I mean,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 9: could you bring in a stiff after me so I
• 1:14:46
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  Speaker 58: We are here with Lady Mo, who did a fabulous
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  Speaker 57: Yes.
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  Speaker 57: Engineer, I brought you a gift. It's some red, white
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  Speaker 6: M & M' s.
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  Speaker 57: And they're shareable. So pass them around. I didn't get
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  Speaker 20: He almost died in my arms.
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  Speaker 57: He went into anaphylaxis because he's highly.
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  Speaker 20: Allergic to all nuts. Peanuts, tree nuts. But David Lee
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  Speaker 57: Rocking out way back when that everybody was on the
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  Speaker 1: OK, you wouldn't perform.
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  Speaker 20: No, he'd be like, you're gone. Like, you can't. You
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  Speaker 42: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: This is important. Let's take it seriously.
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  Speaker 9: Widely regarded as one of the more cerebral musicians in
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  Speaker 9: the history of rock.
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  Speaker 9: Well thought out.
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  Speaker 20: Have you listened to any.
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  Speaker 25: Of his sons?
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  Speaker 9: Maybe after the Wooly or after the Mountain.
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  Speaker 20: I'll let you explore that.
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  Speaker 57: Also, happy football season. I love the Steelers. So that's
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  Speaker 57: where I'm standing with that. Fish on sports was great.
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  Speaker 57: I thought the whole thing was great yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you did a great job. And I'm a
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  Speaker 1: And there you have it. Look, we are having a
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  Speaker 48: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I know you and I, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: have the spiritual thing and we talk.
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  Speaker 62: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We talk a lot about that. But Jeff is really
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  Speaker 1: he has just, you know, really dives deep into what
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  Speaker 1: about it all and to really kind of come up
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  Speaker 1: with with where we're going with all of it and
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what was your take on some of that,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: if you heard it? Or just your take in general
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  Speaker 1: of the spiritualism and AI sort of merging.
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  Speaker 20: It's a delicate dance.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 57: That applies to every generation, every nook and cranny of
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  Speaker 20: It touches climate.
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  Speaker 1: Um.
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  Speaker 57: If you've read any of the headline news right now,
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  Speaker 57: rivers and streams are being sucked dry. People are trying
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  Speaker 57: water coming out of there.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah. I, so we need to be very careful about
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  Speaker 20: how we use this tool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 57: We also need to remember the very fundamental facts that we,
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  Speaker 57: like we have the ability to read, still use words, create, um,
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  Speaker 57: have critical thinking, look at things and, and, and, but
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  Speaker 57: we can, we can, we can still exist in.
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  Speaker 20: A world where we both exist.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: I use it because I have to, I have to,
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  Speaker 20: the systems in place have been set up today to,
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  Speaker 20: to make sure I, I do it.
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  Speaker 18: Right.
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  Speaker 20: In order to exist.
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  Speaker 1: No, I got that. I can see where that comes
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  Speaker 9: Meta.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: And it goes deeper than that.
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  Speaker 57: And I was trying to say that yesterday, you know,
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  Speaker 57: thinking about thinking like this metacognition, you know, that I have,
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  Speaker 57: that AI also has.
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  Speaker 20: We're connected in that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 57: And I think he was trying to say that he's
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 57: a writer. He uses words for a living.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 20: He so and and those things are under threat by AI.
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  Speaker 57: Yeah, they're being but literature is being shredded by AI
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  Speaker 57: and consumed there to for what?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's funny, and I ran into Rick Koster the
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  Speaker 1: other day, and we had this very conversation.
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  Speaker 20: Hey, Rick, we miss you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we miss you. But we ran into him the
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  Speaker 1: other day, and we talked about what his new book
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  Speaker 1: might be, and he was saying he's sort of run
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  Speaker 1: out of steam because people are putting out all these
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  Speaker 1: books on AI faster than he could possibly write his own.
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  Speaker 57: It's taking artists' creativity away. It's taking writers' creative process away.
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  Speaker 57: But it's also doing so much good at the same
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 57: time to.
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  Speaker 20: Stimulate. I mean, this is just where we are. This
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  Speaker 20: is just where we are.
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  Speaker 9: I have a completely different take. I think we're the
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  Speaker 9: only mammal species that does not understand survival. Every other
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 9: mammal species, their primary directive is survival. We have created
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  Speaker 9: something that is going to completely destroy our ecosystems and
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 9: at the same time render us obsolete. So that makes
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  Speaker 9: no sense. It's killing us in two different directions. Everything
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 9: that is great about the human spirit is creativity. And
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 9: to say that this is a tool for creativity is
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 9: like– I don't know. It's– It's really not. It's muting.
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  Speaker 9: It's like saying social media is a tool for being social.
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  Speaker 9: It's actually not.
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  Speaker 7: Got it.
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  Speaker 9: Social media is a tool for distribution of information, but
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  Speaker 9: it's actually creating generations of antisocial kids, kids who don't
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  Speaker 9: know how to be social. Similar AI is creating– is
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  Speaker 9: taking creative people– and actually muting their creativity. They can
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  Speaker 9: use it to be creative, but they could have used
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  Speaker 9: other things to be creative because they're creative people, and
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  Speaker 9: it's killing us in the process. So, you know, thank
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  Speaker 9: God I'm old.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, listen.
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  Speaker 20: Bring in the noise on that one.
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  Speaker 1: I have mixed feelings on it all. Casey, you're not
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  Speaker 1: wrong in saying that, you know, it mutes or makes
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  Speaker 1: things easy to... to just quickly throw out there and
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  Speaker 1: sort of devalues everything. However, there is applications out there. And,
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  Speaker 1: and I, this is how I could use it where
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: you could write all the music or in Rick's case,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the book or whatever, but in my case, music
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  Speaker 1: and ask AI, Hey, look, I need a violin part, right?
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  Speaker 1: I can't physically play the violin. And so, Perhaps a
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: lot of folks couldn't hire a L.A., New York-style violin player.
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  Speaker 1: So this provides a way to get your vision of it,
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  Speaker 1: of what you want to sound into your song. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's me working as a tool. I am fully aware
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  Speaker 1: that that is not how most people use it, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm fully aware that you can just push a button
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  Speaker 1: and make a song and not. I, what I'm choosing
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  Speaker 1: to do, is use it as a tool. And so
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  Speaker 1: it enhances my ability to see a fuller picture of myself.
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  Speaker 9: At what cost? And I would suggest that you, as
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  Speaker 9: a creative person, if there was no AI, would have
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 9: figured out a way to make that song brilliant. You
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 9: would have figured out a way to get that violin
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  Speaker 9: part in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I got it.
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  Speaker 3: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: But figuring out that way is time and cost.
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  Speaker 9: But now, for every one of you, there's a thousand
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  Speaker 9: people who are saying... Make me a really cool song.
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  Speaker 9: And I don't want them. No, I know. That's not
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  Speaker 9: what I want. I want you making really cool songs.
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  Speaker 3: I got it.
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  Speaker 20: That's what I'm talking. You got to dive deeper.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 57: You got to recognize the multi-layered approach. And you can't
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 57: lose that. It's such a key piece to creation since
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 57: we've been here. for all mankind and the key to,
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 57: from like where we've come from to where we're going
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 57: to go. And yeah, like the Terminator discussion was fascinating
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 57: this morning.
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  Speaker 20: The apocalypse stuff really took off yesterday.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: Hollywood, Hollywood does this a lot. Right. So, and I,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: that's why I asked Jeff is, you know, you know,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: they seem to put out movies and, documentaries. That sort
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: of document.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: That sort of foresee what's going to happen. And, and
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: you're either really creative and can do it, or there's
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: some sort of, uh, movement to sort of disclose it sooner.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: So you, so you kind of soften the blow of everything.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what, you know, Jeff thought it was
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: a great question. And, you know, from his, from his perspective,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: he hasn't physically seen any, like any of that. Um,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: But we all know that the government has a production budget.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: They do.
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  Speaker 57: Everything is a show today with them. It's a show.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 9: DARPA is literally designed to create. So there are private agencies,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 9: think tanks, that contract with DARPA, and DARPA is specifically
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 9: designed to try to, Imagine the future and what is
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 9: possible and create roads to those potential futures. And a
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 9: lot of these private companies are– these think tanks are–
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 9: trying to do exactly that. And the movie industry is
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 9: no different. The movie industry contracts with these same things
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 9: and says, hey, we have this idea about a futuristic thing.
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  Speaker 9: Make it real for us. What is really possible? And
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 9: then once that idea is out there, they work towards
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 9: actually making it possible. So a lot of these things
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 9: that were... The Terminator, The Matrix, these movies that are
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 9: 30 years old. How did they know?
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 20: How relevant is the red pill right now?
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 5: That's right. The red pill.
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  Speaker 20: I didn't mean to cut you off.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 5: No, you didn't.
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  Speaker 9: It's exactly right.
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  Speaker 20: And that's where improv comes into play. Because this is
• 1:36:47
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 20: This is real talk.
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  Speaker 57: And that's why radio is thriving right now. Talk radio
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 57: is thriving right now because we have that nuance still.
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  Speaker 9: That's a great point.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 36: Yeah.
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  Speaker 57: I have artist friends who their 3D printers are doing
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 57: the work in an hour that takes.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 20: Them days and days and research.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: So here's what, let me just add one thing. So AI, right?
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: So it isn't just news. It's sort of a built-on technology. So,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: for instance, musically speaking, that's how I'm going to speak it.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: You know, in the 80s, the drum machine came in,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: and you programmed the drum machine. And even into the
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: 90s and today, musicians go into a studio, any pop
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: artist's name there, and they produce songs that aren't with
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: real people, that are dialed in through technology, through little programs.
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  Speaker 1: Pieces of software bytes that they put together and string
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  Speaker 1: together to make songs. I realize a person is doing that.
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  Speaker 1: But that is that is not real. And yet we
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: we kind of like look at it as real. We
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: listen to it because the artist singing it is real. So,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: you know, then you look at the AI music thing
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: and it's like, listen, if I'm going to prompt it,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm going to design it, if I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: redesign it, if I'm going to strip it down and
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: make it exactly what I want it to be, I
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: am that engineer in the studio, only it's within my studio,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: creating a pop song. And if I sing it, there
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: you go what's the difference.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 9: Well the difference is that there was that originally someone
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 9: played those notes and originally someone put those things together
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 9: so a person created something and now through the annals
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 9: of of time we've created these libraries of those sounds
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 9: right so Someone programmed the drum machine and someone played
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 9: the drums that created the sounds that the drum machine mimicked.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 9: So it was all part of human creation.
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: Which AI takes from.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 9: I understand that. But the idea is that it takes
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 9: it to the point where it makes the person no
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 9: longer necessary. And that's the fundamental difference is there have
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 9: always been tools for efficiency. And so... You know, I
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 9: would be the first to admit, if I have nine
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 9: places I have to go today that I have to
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 9: deliver things to, I can go into an AI program
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 9: and go, what's the most efficient route for me to
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 9: go to these nine places? And it will say, this
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 9: is how you want to do it, and it will
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 9: line them up for me to avoid. That's a helpful tool.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 9: I'm still driving to the nine places and doing the
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 9: nine things. That's a tool. That's a little bit different.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 9: We start getting into creation and creating art. It's a
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 9: very challenging question, and I think perspectives vary, that art
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 9: needs to be created by the person. And is it
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 9: art if it's not being created by the person?
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: So Grammy speaking, the Grammys are allowing AI-inspired... I don't
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: know what the difference is, but either AI, you have
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: to check the button, AI or AI-inspired. I guess what
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: I do is AI-inspired, because I create the song... Or
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: I can.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 9: You write your own lyrics. You write the music.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: And it puts it together. But what I'm saying is
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: the Grammys at the moment have deemed this is still
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: something that is viable and creative. And we're still considering it,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: provided the artist is singing on it. It's not just
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: an AI voice. I think that's where it goes over
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: the line. But I don't know. It's in there now.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: And there's lots of pushback all over the place on it. Um,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm actually right now at the, at the,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: you know, right now it's like, I just want to
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: strip everything down to nothing. I just want, it's like,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: it's like, there's so much technology. I just want to
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: do the opposite at the.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 9: Moment, which will be the pendulum swing. Lady Mo, you're
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 9: going to be alive 50 years from now.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 20: When we look at my, yes, I'm already almost a
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 20: half a century.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: A hundred percent.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 9: You are, you are 100% of vampire. Um, looking back
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 9: 50 years from now, will we be regretting and ruining, uh, the,
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 9: you know, the matrix, uh, heralding AI? Will we be
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 9: regretting it 50 years from now?
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 57: I talked to Pete yesterday and I've thought about it
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 57: ever since on the air. It's something that has been
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 57: like the core of my existence. I've seen it with
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 57: my own eyes assessed. I've seen the patterns. We've learned
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 57: pattern recognition from a very young age, kindergarten, even earlier.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 57: They teach us no know that like a BBA, ABA, ABC.
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  Speaker 20: Okay.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 57: And like he said, there's been a, a slow decline in.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 20: That stuff.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 57: And, and this is enhancing it and empowering that. And
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 57: the pendulum swing emphasis.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 20: Is even more now.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 57: So, uh, And it's slow. The apocalypse happens slow. It's
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 57: right under our noses.
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: So here's the thing. The genie's out. AI, in my opinion,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: and everything that it's bringing, it's not going away, right? Like, Casey,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: you don't see someone saying, all right, I think we've
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: had enough of this.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 42: No.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: Right. It's just not going away. So the question is
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: going to be is how do we work with it?
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: In the 80s, the drum machine came in and the
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: drummers thought their job was obsolete.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 20: Don't stop creating.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: Not true, right?
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 9: Don't stop creating.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 20: Don't stop dreaming.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: Don't stop believing. Speaking of a great song.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 20: Don't stop believing. Are we going to sing?
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  Speaker 9: Now, I will say this. Humans have not demonstrated the
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 9: ability to turn course on anything destructive to them. And
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 9: you can pick your thing different. I'm not going to
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 9: I'm not going to reference one of the things because
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 9: I'll get a lot of backlash from it. But we
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 9: don't reverse course on things that are destructive to us.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 9: We double down on them. So, for example, for money.
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  Speaker 9: There are other countries who have said social media is
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 9: really bad for our kids. We're not going to let
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• 1:43:30
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• 1:43:36
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• 1:43:39
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back. And look, if you've lived
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  Speaker 1: welcome aboard. What's happening?
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  Speaker 33: Thank you so much for bringing me in. We've got
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  Speaker 33: a lot of stuff going on. Fall's going to be busy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right. Tell us more. Tell us more.
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  Speaker 1: What's on tap? I know we have the big festival
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  Speaker 1: next weekend, the Maritime Fest, right?
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  Speaker 33: Yeah, we've got to talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening there?
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  Speaker 33: Next weekend, we have Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival, and we
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 33: start off on Friday on the Custom House Pier with
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 33: the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, so what does that mean when you start out?
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  Speaker 1: What's happening?
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  Speaker 33: So it's a ceremony down there, and we'll have military
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 33: and police and fire down there, and we'll have a
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 33: ceremony down there. We'll also have a flag burning. And
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  Speaker 33: we will present a new flag to the fire chief.
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  Speaker 5: OK.
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  Speaker 33: We also will have a fire boat that will do
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  Speaker 33: a fire spray and we'll throw a wreath in the
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  Speaker 33: water for remembrance of the people who have passed during that.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: So we have that. That starts starts it off.
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  Speaker 1: But the festival is it's not it's it's. Like music,
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: it's vendors. It is. What is it about?
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  Speaker 33: So it's Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival is a military type
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  Speaker 33: of tall ship event. It's also.
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  Speaker 33: You know, it's not just New London. It's the state
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  Speaker 33: of Connecticut.
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  Speaker 42: Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: So we have the Eagle, which will be open down there.
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  Speaker 33: We have two different tall ships. We have the Harvey
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  Speaker 33: Gammage and we have the Dennis Sullivan.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 33: We have authors that are coming down.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 33: So on the Dennis Sullivan on Friday night, I have
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  Speaker 33: a rum tasting. You're going to love this. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Rum tasting Friday night?
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  Speaker 18: Yep.
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  Speaker 62: Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: Oh, Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 33: Saturday night. I have a rum tasting on the Dennis
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  Speaker 33: Sullivan with a woman, Barbie. Her name is Brooke Barbie,
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  Speaker 33: and she has written a book called Cocked and Boozy.
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  Speaker 5: OK.
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  Speaker 33: And the and the. It is about how alcohol affected
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  Speaker 33: the American Revolution. And so it's really cool. She's out
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  Speaker 33: of Boston. She's coming down for $ 35 a ticket. You
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 33: can listen to her talk. You can get rum drinks
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 33: and food from Favorites Bistro. So it's all one thing.
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  Speaker 33: So we have that tall ship and that happening. We
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  Speaker 33: have the Harvey Gammage that I said is coming in.
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  Speaker 1: So this is, just to be fair, just so everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows out there, they're hearing that I'm playing, which is
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: children's music. You are. But it's for, it's not just
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  Speaker 1: for kids.
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  Speaker 33: No, this is a huge event for all different demographics.
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  Speaker 33: We have the Harvey Gammage, which is also a tall
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 33: ship that is doing night sails. Friday night, Saturday and
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 33: Sunday night. So you can actually go on this boat
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 33: for a two-hour sail down the Thames River.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 33: And those tickets are on Connecticut Maritime. Let me make
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 33: sure I get it right, what the website is. CTMaritimeFest.com.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 33: Yeah, it's obviously on Facebook, too, and Instagram and all
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 33: that good stuff. But that's really exciting. We are doing— I
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  Speaker 33: got so much for you. We have— I do! I got
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 33: so much.
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  Speaker 1: I've worked so hard on this event. All right, put
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  Speaker 1: it out there. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 33: We got the U.S.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 9: Coast Guard.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 33: We're celebrating 150th anniversary, and we have a commemorative stamp.
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 33: So we have the post office coming down and releasing
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 33: a stamp that is just for the Eagle. And it
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 33: will be released at the opening ceremony on Saturday at
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 33: 10 a.m. on the stage right before you go on.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 33: But then they'll be selling it on Saturday and Sunday
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  Speaker 33: on the waterfront.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 33: So that's something different that we haven't done. We have
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 33: Friday night at the Guard. We have the movie The Guardian.
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  Speaker 33: And we have free tickets for anyone in the military,
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 33: any military family, any veteran. And you can go to
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 33: the Guard's website and see that.
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  Speaker 1: Jeannie and Steve down there are great.
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  Speaker 33: They are great. They're always help promoting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they're just great, great community people.
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  Speaker 33: Yeah, so I really hope the military comes out and
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 33: gets those free tickets and goes to that event.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 33: So we have that. During that, they will be honoring
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  Speaker 33: a tribal member who was in the Coast Guard who
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 33: that that passed away. And I don't have. Let's see.
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  Speaker 33: I think I can find it. I think he was
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 33: in the Coast Guard like. I'm not sure exactly when.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, hold it.
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  Speaker 33: Hold it.
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  Speaker 8: Hold it.
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  Speaker 33: I might be able to find.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 33: He was in the Coast Guard, and he was a
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 33: tribal member, and they're going to recognize him.
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  Speaker 25: All right, cool.
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  Speaker 33: So I'm sorry I don't know what year.
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  Speaker 3: He was in.
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: That's fine. So the festival, though, just so everybody knows,
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: it's Friday, Saturday, and Sunday?
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  Speaker 33: So we start off really late on Friday with just
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 33: a few things going on. So the remembrance of 9-11.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 33: With a pirate event that I didn't even tell you
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 33: about on Friday night that I'm doing a pirate event
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  Speaker 33: downtown with a scavenger map for adults and kids to
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 33: dress up as pirates. Go through to the different venues
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 33: downtown and get their stamps. And then they go in
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 33: for a raffle. And then we have a pirates dress
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 33: contest and kids in front of the Golden Owl on
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 33: Friday night.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, good.
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 33: And then The Guardian. So that's Friday night.
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  Speaker 5: That's Friday.
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 33: Okay, but then we open the event up at 10
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  Speaker 33: o'clock on Saturday. And from 10 to 5 on Saturday
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 33: is really the vendors.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 3: We have a.
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  Speaker 33: Touch tank with Project O.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 25: We have.
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: Mermaids.
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  Speaker 33: Yeah, so let's talk about the kids stuff since you're
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 33: going there. We have the Nyanic Children's Museum and Youth Affairs.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 33: And they're going to make, you can make pirate costumes
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 33: and mermaid costumes from 10 o'clock to 1130. And then 1130,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 33: we take all your kids who made costumes, put them
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 33: in a parade and walk them down to the stage
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 33: where you guys are going to be.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, look at that.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 5: I love how that works.
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  Speaker 33: So we also have Connecticut Port Authority, who is the
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 33: presenting sponsor of this, and they'll have a booth at
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 33: the— event and i don't know if you i think
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 33: she's been on uh jessica with bay the dog oh
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 33: yeah She's been on. So she will be in on Sunday,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 33: and you will be able to meet Bay the Dog.
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  Speaker 33: You'll be able to buy her book, and she'll be
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 33: at the Connecticut Port Authority booth. And Connecticut Port Authority
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 33: booth is also going to have activities for kids, and
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 33: that will be at City Pier all weekend. We have
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 33: Project O with a touch tank that'll be down there.
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  Speaker 9: What else?
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 25: Oh, we have.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 33: Little Mermaid-esque and Moana-esque. That'll be meeting kids and doing
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  Speaker 33: a sing-along, I think, right before you perform.
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  Speaker 9: Yep, yep, yep.
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  Speaker 33: What else do we have? We have Breeze Line is
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 33: doing a fishing clinic on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 33: So on Sunday, you'll be able to come down from
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 33: 11 to 2. This is great, too. You come down
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  Speaker 33: from 11 to 2. We teach you how to fish
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  Speaker 33: with deep, and then you walk away with a free
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  Speaker 33: fishing pole.
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: I love it.
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  Speaker 33: And Breeze Line sponsoring that, and that's great. It's while
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 33: supplies last. We ordered more fish and poles this year
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 33: because we ran out last year. So make sure you're
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  Speaker 33: there early.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely amazing. Again, we're talking with Barber Neff, Neff Productions.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about this weekend's. CT Maritime Festival, all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things. Next weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Next weekend.
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  Speaker 3: The 11th.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: The 11th. 11th, 12th, 13th. So, yeah, so we can
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  Speaker 1: continue to talk about this, but you don't just do
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: this festival. I mean, there's all kinds of other things
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: you're doing, right?
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  Speaker 33: Yeah, so I do... I do.
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  Speaker 33: Well, let me just run into.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you have some other things.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Let's finish up with that. This goes all together.
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  Speaker 33: With Connecticut Maritime Heritage Festival, we're recognizing 250 years of America,
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  Speaker 33: and we're going to have something new. We'll have a
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 33: live history reenactors down on the waterfront.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 33: And so we have that.
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  Speaker 28: In turn.
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  Speaker 33: So we talk about that. I also do a company
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  Speaker 33: called Uncovering New London. And so this weekend, I have
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 33: a tour of American history on Sunday, $ 25 walking tour
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  Speaker 33: And my historian walks you through downtown on September 6, 1781.
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• 2:00:23
  Speaker 33: burned down our city.
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  Speaker 5: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back with Barbara Neff of Neff Productions.
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  Speaker 8: Barbara.
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  Speaker 1: You've been talking all about the Maritime Festival, and you're
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: moving into some of the other businesses that you do.
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  Speaker 1: Please tell us more. It's so much.
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  Speaker 33: Yeah, so I opened up a new business called Uncovering
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  Speaker 33: New London, and we have a kiosk in the train
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  Speaker 33: station in Union Station in downtown New London, and we
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  Speaker 33: run two to three tours every weekend. And you can
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  Speaker 33: go on uncoveringnewlondon.com and find out what the tours are.
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  Speaker 33: But we do Gilded Age tours, whaling tours. For next weekend,
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 33: we'll be doing a Maritime tour, American Revolutionary tours. Black
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  Speaker 33: history tours. Our most popular ones are our haunted ones.
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  Speaker 33: And we just got a great write-up from a daily
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  Speaker 33: blogger from Connecticut. It's not just a haunted tour, but
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  Speaker 33: it's a haunted history tour. So it's a great tour.
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  Speaker 3: It really is.
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  Speaker 33: We're going to start. We're doing some research about a
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  Speaker 33: Coast Guard tour about people who lived in New London
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  Speaker 33: and in the Coast Guard and their stories.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to start doing that. When you go
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  Speaker 1: on a tour, how long does the tour take?
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  Speaker 33: 90 minutes. So they're 90 minutes walking tours.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 33: And it's all in downtown because that's where all the
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 33: history is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So great tours. I love what you got going on. Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: So we have that going on. October 7th is Food Stroll.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the Food Stroll. One of my favorites.
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  Speaker 62: Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: So we have Mike DeMauro is going to be one
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  Speaker 33: of our judges this year. And then we have Denny Rivera,
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  Speaker 33: who is a chef over at Nathan Hale School, who's
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 33: also going to be. And Bianca, who used to be
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 33: on the board of Ed in New London, are going
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 33: to be our judges.
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  Speaker 1: And this is down on Bank Street?
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  Speaker 33: This is Bank Street and State Street.
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  Speaker 5: And State Street, okay.
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  Speaker 33: You buy a ticket online at downtownnewlondon.com, and then you
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  Speaker 33: have from 5 o'clock to 8 o'clock to eat. You
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  Speaker 33: walk approximately three miles, and you are full when you're done.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: It's little samples of 30 different restaurants in downtown New London.
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  Speaker 33: It's not only downtown restaurants. We bring restaurants from other
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  Speaker 33: parts of the city into downtown and set them up
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  Speaker 33: in storefronts.
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  Speaker 1: I did this last year, and I thought it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the energy on... on the streets where people
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  Speaker 1: were going. And, and at that time last year, I
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: think a few places weren't open yet, but they were
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: out serving some of their stuff, you know, kind of
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: getting ready and there was an energy and yes, you're
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: full by the time you get to the end of it.
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  Speaker 33: Um, we have music on the streets. We have some
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 33: roaming entertainment to keep you busy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it would definitely had a vibe going on
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  Speaker 1: that I thought, I thought was really, really good. And,
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: you know, for me, I ended up, uh, You know,
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: I went down there and it's just sort of, well,
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: it's kind of where I always end up at the Dutch.
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  Speaker 33: You got to love the Dutch because they participate. Tim
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 33: always participates.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: I think he did a bean chili last year.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of my favorite lunch spots. So hats
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: off to the Dutch.
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  Speaker 33: Yeah, we got some new places, though. We have a
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 33: bar down there called the Marquis.
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: It's across from the Guard.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: High end bar. um drinks down there and they're doing
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 33: food so.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to participate waffle uh businesses.
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 33: Waffle business is there and they're going to be open
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 33: uh the thames club is going to open this year
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 33: so you'll be able to go into the thames club
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 33: which you don't always get to do so i'm sure
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 33: the guard will participate talks so yeah talks yeah from
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 33: we hear from the from the gallery out there.
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 38: Talks you're right talks is always good.
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  Speaker 33: Yeah they have their um speakeasy downstairs Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. You go there and you pull a book
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 1: and the bookcase opens up.
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  Speaker 3: And you go down.
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  Speaker 20: Oh, you're telling all the secrets.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: I know, but it's great. It's so cool. It is
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: so cool. It's so Harry Potter. I love it. Um,
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: you know, um, yeah, no, this, it's a great festival, Barbara. And,
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: and yes, people will be, uh, you know, very pleased
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  Speaker 1: at the, at the food, the quality of it all. Um,
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: and like you said, music, uh, Things are happening all
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  Speaker 1: on the street. It is really its own little world.
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  Speaker 42: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 33: We might be having I hear we might be having
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 33: a Halloween event and I might be doing the Christmas
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 33: tree event lighting of the Christmas tree. I've been a
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 33: call was made to me to see if I would
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 33: do it. So, OK, very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of opportunities for for you, I'm sure, going forward
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: in the city and whatnot. So we're going to say
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  Speaker 1: goodbye for now.
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  Speaker 33: For now.
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  Speaker 1: And I will see you next weekend, the 12th. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you will be in full glory rocking that, and
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: it's going to be great.
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  Speaker 33: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, great, great. We'll see you soon.
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  Speaker 55: Bye.
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  Speaker 5: They call him the goat. Yeah, you heard that right.
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  Speaker 5: But hold up.
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  Speaker 12: This ain't about Tom Brady throwing spirals.
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  Speaker 14: Nah, this is the undisputed goat of the entertainment industry.
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  Speaker 14: He's listed among America's 50 most influential leaders. The man
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  Speaker 14: who's booked the stars, packed the houses, and simply changed
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  Speaker 14: the way the game is played. He's not only revolutionized
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  Speaker 14: the entertainment industry, but influenced how people thought about life, liberty,
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  Speaker 14: and the pursuit of happiness.
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  Speaker 5: With the mantra, there is always a way. The master,
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  Speaker 5: the mogul, the one and only.
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  Speaker 14: Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together, turn it up,
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  Speaker 14: and let's welcome the icon himself, Tom Cantone, with Tom's Tips.
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  Speaker 9: Tom Cantone.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to this week's edition of Tom's Tape.
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  Speaker 1: This one's going to.
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  Speaker 23: Be a little different on how I intro my little
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 23: topic for this morning. Because it happened to me in
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 23: real time when I went in to get ready for
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 23: the day in the bathroom. And I'm brushing my teeth innocently,
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  Speaker 23: like everybody. And I look at my face in the mirror.
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  Speaker 23: And all of a sudden I froze. And it dawned
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 23: on me in this strange, macabre thought that I've never
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 23: seen my face in real time. It's only been in
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 23: a mirror. And that goes for the 108 billion people
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 23: who lived before me and the 8 billion people who
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 23: live with me now.
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  Speaker 3: We have all never seen our face.
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  Speaker 23: So how we project that Our face is the perception
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 23: that really makes us different. There'll never be another you,
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 23: but it makes us different. So to me, that intro,
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 23: a little bit of the theme of what your face reveals.
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 23: And it reveals your character. Even before you speak, it
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 23: can tell a story. The way you look at someone
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 23: or how you look listening Are you tuned in or
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 23: tuned out?
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  Speaker 3: I'm always aware of that. Your smile, is it fake
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 3: or real?
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  Speaker 23: My mother always taught me, be careful of the ones
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  Speaker 23: who smile all the time.
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 3: In my time, she's pretty much right.
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  Speaker 23: You can see kindness on a person's face right away.
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 3: They're the genuinely.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 23: Joyful ones and they're natural, their aura about them They
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 23: light up a room when they walk in.
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 3: People do have bad days.
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 61: I do.
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 23: Everybody does. Anxiety, stress, so much in today's world. But
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 23: that doesn't make you a bad person, those bad days.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 23: But there is something in a person's face that when
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 23: it is consistent, reveals their true character. A person's face
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 23: can show how they listen, humility in how they respond
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 23: to criticism, compassion. and how they look at someone in need,
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 23: or if they're hiding something. You know, I think about
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 23: Smokey Robinson's song, Tears of a Clown. Now, if there's
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 23: a smile on your face, it's only there trying to
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 23: fool the public.
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  Speaker 3: And that's true for a lot of us.
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  Speaker 23: But the most revealing face are the ones we don't
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 23: know we are making.
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  Speaker 3: Let me repeat that.
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  Speaker 23: The most revealing face are the ones that we don't
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 23: know we are making. While someone else is speaking or
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 23: another person's success, it reveals who we are. Our faith
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 23: is a perfect window into our souls. What is on
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 23: our mind and our heart influences what will appear on
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 23: our face.
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 3: Our face becomes a mirror. We need to look into
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 3: the mirror more.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 23: You know, I've always been good at reading someone's face
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 23: or their body language. Our expressions say a lot when
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 23: your words say nothing. That's when the inside shows on
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 23: the outside. That applies to me and everybody. But we
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 23: just love to pose and post what our face is
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 23: doing now 24-7. Why do you think Facebook has over
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 23: 3 billion users?
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 3: It's over half the entire Internet.
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 23: Look how everyone, all ages now, use their cell phone
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 23: to pose and post.
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 3: I see it all the times.
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 23: There's even selfie stations around where everyone can pose and
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 23: post on social media, which to me is the portal
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 23: to all evil. But that's for another Tom's take.
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 3: I get it. Pop culture is for the.
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 23: Young and the restless too, who just want to look
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 23: good and be seen. You know, look at the cosmetic industry, man. It's,
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 23: That's got $ 400 billion industry.
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 3: They're the real winners.
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 23: So getting back to my face topic of importance and
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 23: how we look, I will never see your face.
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 3: Again. It will always be for the first time. It's
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 3: your intellectual property. You own it. You own the only
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 3: one of its kind in all of mankind.
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 6: Use it to unite.
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 23: And connect with people. Use it to show kindness, empathy,
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 23: and comfort. Use that face as a weapon against the
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 23: two-faced crowd. You have the power to put your face
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 23: in the place of change. And when you do, people
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 23: will say, I've.
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 3: Just seen a face. I can't forget the time and place.
• 2:16:51
  Speaker 46: I've just seen a face I can't forget the time
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 46: or place where we just met she's just a girl
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 46: for me and I want all the world to see
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 46: we've met had it been another day I might have
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 46: looked the other way and I'd have never been aware
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 46: but as it is I'll dream of her tonight and.
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 47: I Falling, yes I am falling And she keeps calling me.
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 9: Back again.
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 46: I have never known the like of this I've been
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 46: alone and I have missed things and kept out of
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 46: sight But other girls were never quite like this.
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  Speaker 65: Falling, yes I am falling And she keeps calling me
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 65: back again.
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  Speaker 20: I'm Gianna Gelosi.
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  Speaker 29: The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial remains deadlocked this
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  Speaker 29: morning as the defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, claims. one juror
• 2:17:50
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  Speaker 30: Yesterday, the judge called up each juror one by one,
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  Speaker 30: but the prosecution doesn't agree.
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  Speaker 29: That's Fox's Nate Foy. The judge is going to hold
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  Speaker 66: The decision marked a rare setback for Republicans in the
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  Speaker 37: Fazio wants tax breaks ended, while Governor Ned Lamont says
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  Speaker 37: he's rejected every large AI data center proposal. YouTuber Sean
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  Speaker 38: I'm Rob Ray. When news breaks, we break news.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we are back. And before I introduce this
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: next guest to you, even as he called in, the
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: lights in the studio began to shimmer and shake and
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: sort of went dark and then came back on again. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: my good friend, hypnotist, magician, Jim Spinano. Jim, how are you? Wow.
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  Speaker 42: Is that you, Steve Elsie?
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  Speaker 1: It is me, Steve Elsie and Lady Mo.
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  Speaker 47: Hey, Jim.
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  Speaker 42: Lady Mo, what's up?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, what's up?
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  Speaker 42: I have to tell you, I can barely hear you guys, so.
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  Speaker 20: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 9: Engineer?
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  Speaker 1: Engineer is working on that.
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  Speaker 20: Can you turn us.
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  Speaker 2: On?
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, Jim, I've known you for a while.
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  Speaker 1: You've been doing magic and hypnosis for, I don't know, ever.
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  Speaker 1: 112 years.
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  Speaker 3: 112 years.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. It's amazing. You don't look anything over.
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  Speaker 57: 111, really.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a vampire, too, Jim.
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  Speaker 45: But.
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  Speaker 1: But no, in high school, you were the guy, even
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  Speaker 1: for me, that did the hypnosis shows and did all
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: the stuff. Jim, how do you get your start in
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: this sort of industry?
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  Speaker 20: Yeah you did mine too jim.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you did and uh and it was it was
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: great and and everybody loved it then and they and
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 1: everybody you know if you haven't seen jim spinato live
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: you will love him now even more.
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  Speaker 20: But classic and iconic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah no but jim how do you get into how
• 2:23:59
  Speaker 1: do you get into this industry what what what what
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: started with you when you just wake up one day
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  Speaker 1: and says you know i want to get into this
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  Speaker 1: what's going on.
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  Speaker 42: Well you know steve well um Back in, I don't know,
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  Speaker 42: I went full-time in 87, but then as a magician.
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 42: But then in the early 90s, I met this hypnotist
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  Speaker 42: in Rhode Island who was doing some adult-oriented hypnosis shows.
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  Speaker 42: And he asked me to be his opening act. And
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  Speaker 42: his name was Frank Santos. He was the best, man.
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 42: He was the best. So I traveled around with Frank
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  Speaker 42: on and off for five years as his opening act
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  Speaker 42: at his hypnosis shows.
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 43: And then.
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  Speaker 42: And then over the years, I just picked up hypnosis,
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 42: working for him, and then I dropped the magic and
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  Speaker 42: went full-time hypnotist in the college market for about, I
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 42: don't know, must have been like 25, about 25 years.
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  Speaker 42: It was a blast. I'm still doing some college. It's
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  Speaker 42: not as much as I used to because I'm really
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 42: concentrating on my gig at the casino now.
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  Speaker 1: But, Jim, like learning the craft. It's you at home.
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  Speaker 42: I'm sorry, Steve, but I can bear with you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let me try it again. Learning the craft
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  Speaker 1: of all this, Jim. I know you've been doing it
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  Speaker 1: for a while. It's you at home, or do you
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  Speaker 1: have a teacher?
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  Speaker 42: Well, again, I worked with Frank so often. It was
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 42: almost by osmosis that I learned it. And then I
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  Speaker 42: studied it as well, because there's a ton of stuff
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  Speaker 42: you have to know. And there were a ton of
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 42: books out there by professionals. But the.
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  Speaker 42: Most of my, the majority of my training came from
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 42: watching and learning from Frank. Because, again, I worked with
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  Speaker 42: him so often. I would open up for him in
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  Speaker 42: colleges and comedy clubs. He was massive. He was massive
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 42: in the comedy club. Because the comedy clubs, like, exploded
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 42: in the 90s. Yep. And he did a ton of them,
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 42: and he tagged me along. And that was great. So, again,
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 42: watching him, listening to him, asking him questions, and then
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 42: studying on the side as well. It's been a blast, man.
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  Speaker 42: It's been fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, and, you know, obviously you're still doing that,
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  Speaker 1: but you also, what do you host, the Comics Club
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  Speaker 1: at Mohegan Sun? What's your relationship there?
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  Speaker 42: Well, you know what, about, actually, it was like 16
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  Speaker 42: years ago, I heard about this new club at Fox,
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 42: what's called Comics.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 42: So I emailed them, I said, you know, told them
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  Speaker 42: what I did, I'm a hypnotist, blah, blah, blah, and blah, blah.
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  Speaker 42: At the time, they had another hypnotist. I guess the
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 42: guy did like two shows, but he sucked so bad.
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 42: He was horrible. So 16 years ago, they offered me
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 42: a steady gig. They offered me a residency as the
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 42: resident hypnotist. And that's how I started with comics 16
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 42: years ago. But they also knew that I did magic,
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 42: because magic was my first love. Magic is... You know,
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 42: I tell people all the time, man, magic is not
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  Speaker 42: a job. It's not a hobby. It's a way of life.
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  Speaker 42: I mean, that's all I do. Every day I'm either
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  Speaker 42: reading it or practicing it. So then, so I was
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  Speaker 42: their house hypnotist for, and I still am, but I
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 42: was their house hypnotist for like six years. And then
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  Speaker 42: they asked me, hey, do you want to do some
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  Speaker 42: magic as well? And I said, yeah. So that's where
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  Speaker 42: I'm at now. I'm doing four adult comedy magic shows
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  Speaker 42: four days a week, and I'm still doing the hypnosis
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 42: show periodically, not as often as I used to. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you know, you talk about magic every day, and
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  Speaker 1: Lady Mo, maybe you can join in with this one.
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  Speaker 42: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: So are you, do you believe, like, tarot cards, do
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  Speaker 1: you believe psychics, do you believe this stuff really works,
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  Speaker 1: or is this a frame of mind?
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  Speaker 42: Me?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 42: I know nothing, I know nothing about it. I know
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  Speaker 42: little about it.
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  Speaker 8: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting.
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  Speaker 42: I guess, I mean, people ask me all the time
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  Speaker 42: how I feel about psychics.
• 2:27:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 42: A lot of people hate psychics. My friend Charlie hates psychics.
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 42: I actually like psychics, I believe it's real.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 42: Yeah.
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  Speaker 57: So, Jim, I just actually, I wanted to touch upon
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  Speaker 57: the tool that you use, you know, that you've really
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 57: honed in on from a comedy perspective. But the hypnosis
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  Speaker 57: piece is, is the common thread when it comes to
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  Speaker 57: understanding people sort of in this weird conscious space where
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 57: they're still in their human bodies, but maybe speaking or
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  Speaker 57: recognizing something, you know, their guard is down. I wanted
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  Speaker 57: to see if there was maybe an approach here for
• 2:28:26
  Speaker 57: healing or trauma or hypnosis for energy to clear ailments
• 2:28:35
  Speaker 57: or anything of that sort.
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  Speaker 20: Could you maybe think about that?
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  Speaker 42: Well, I will tell you, hypnosis will not cure illness,
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 42: but it will help you deal with it, number one.
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  Speaker 42: I am simply a stage hypnotist, which means I do
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  Speaker 42: it for entertainment purposes. There are hypnotists who deal with
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 42: other things, and they're called hypnotherapists.
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  Speaker 25: Of which I am not.
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  Speaker 42: They have a different training than what I do.
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  Speaker 7: Understood.
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  Speaker 42: Yeah. Understood. You know what I have to tell you?
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  Speaker 42: Hypnosis isn't as spooky as people think it is. People
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  Speaker 42: assume that if someone's hypnotized, they lose all control. They'll
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 42: say and they'll do anything that the hypnotist says, and
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  Speaker 42: that's not true. Under hypnosis, somebody is simply, they lose
• 2:29:20
  Speaker 42: their inhibitions. Like when I tell them in a hypnosis show,
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 42: if I tell them when I say a certain word,
• 2:29:26
  Speaker 42: you're going to feel a pinch on your butt coming
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 42: from that chair. And they're in their head saying, what's
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 42: he talking about? But that sounds like fun. You know
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 42: what I mean?
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 44: Yeah.
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 42: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 57: Like maybe they've had a cocktail or two.
• 2:29:38
  Speaker 59: Yeah.
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  Speaker 42: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, sometimes it's worse, man. I've had
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  Speaker 42: some people volunteer at the club and they've Kind of
• 2:29:44
  Speaker 42: like cocked, and I just dismiss them because that– people
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  Speaker 42: think if you're drunk, it's easier to be hypnotized. People
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 42: think that if you're stupid, it's easier to be hypnotized,
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  Speaker 42: which is actually just the opposite. The brighter somebody is,
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 42: the easier it is to hypnotize them.
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  Speaker 9: Sure.
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  Speaker 20: Fascinating.
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: But there's more to it.
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  Speaker 42: Because they have an incredible ability to concentrate. Like when
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 42: I was– I'm still in the college market, but not
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 42: like I used to. But when I was really, really
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  Speaker 42: into it, the easiest kids to hypnotize were like the
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  Speaker 42: really bright ones. Like when I went to MIT, I
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  Speaker 42: would get 100 volunteers, and they would all go under
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 42: because they're so brilliant. They have an unbelievable ability to concentrate.
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 20: I'm convinced.
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 42: Isn't that crazy?
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 57: MIT is like this hotbed of– it's like this portal.
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 57: I worked in– I worked in biotech right next to MIT.
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 57: I walked through MIT all the time. I walked through
• 2:30:39
  Speaker 57: Harvard all the time. And, yeah, we worked on renewable energy, biofuels.
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 57: We took cellulosic sugarcane waste from farmers in Louisiana and
• 2:30:52
  Speaker 57: basically distilled it into alcohol. We tapped into the knowledge
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 57: of former brewmasters, Harpoon Brewery, Budweiser. and such and um
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 57: and when i was meeting with mi tears i had
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 57: the same observation jim.
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  Speaker 20: It is it is remarkable um.
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 57: The pioneering the the blend of uh smarts, but also funny,
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  Speaker 57: like you, in your hypnotist routine.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what I would add. Jim, I'm just going
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: to add a couple things. So, you know, you have
• 2:31:39
  Speaker 1: to be good at your craft.
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  Speaker 5: I get it.
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 3: And you are.
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 1: But there's one thing that you bring that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I've seen a lot of magicians and hypnotists over
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: my life. There's one thing that you bring that's a
• 2:31:51
  Speaker 1: little bit different. It's your charisma to it all.
• 2:31:54
  Speaker 8: Right?
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: And, you know, it's like, There's the stage, hypnosis, and
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 1: magic part of it. And then there's your ability to
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: connect with the audiences and have the personality and charisma
• 2:32:06
  Speaker 1: to really connect the two. And that's where you stand
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: out above just about everybody I've seen.
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 42: Well, that's for you to say.
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 1: Thanks.
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 3: It's important.
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 42: I mean, listen, you're an entertainer. It's really important. You know,
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 42: entertainers like you and I, Shouldn't be talking at people.
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 42: You should be talking to them, and I think that's
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 42: a huge difference.
• 2:32:25
  Speaker 25: Agreed.
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 18: Agreed.
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: Jim, what do you have coming up in the future
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: that we all can go see?
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 42: Well, Steve, I have my four-day residency. I like that phrase,
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 42: by the way. I have a four-day residency, four days
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 42: per week at the Mohegan Sun Casino at comics. So
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 42: what I'm doing with comics now is– Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 42: and Sunday, I'm doing, again, this is an adult-based comedy
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 42: magic show, so you don't want to bring your kids.
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 20: Not for children.
• 2:32:54
  Speaker 42: I advertise it as Not Your Kids Magic Show.
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 20: Get a babysitter.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 42: You know what? It's a comedy club. It's a casino.
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 42: My opinion, if I were to walk on stage and go, Hi, people.
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 42: Can I show you a trick with a rabbit? Yes.
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 42: It wouldn't fly at a comedy club, right?
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 2: No.
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 42: But if I go in there and talk a little
• 2:33:18
  Speaker 42: edgy and.
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 20: A little provocative.
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 42: Yeah, and the magic I'm doing is stuff that you really,
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 42: really don't see other magicians doing. I kind of take
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 42: pride in that.
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 42: So I'm doing that four days a week. And then
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 42: with the hypnosis show, when I started with them, I
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 42: was doing hypnosis like... I think it was... At the minimum,
• 2:33:36
  Speaker 42: when I started, I was doing it like twice a month.
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 42: But now what I'm doing now is I'm only doing
• 2:33:41
  Speaker 42: hypnosis every other month. So my next hypnosis show at
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 42: comics is actually on the 26th of September. If you
• 2:33:48
  Speaker 42: want to give away some tickets, Steve, it's okay with me.
• 2:33:50
  Speaker 1: All right. Call in now. We'll give you some tickets.
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 8: 860-464-9490.
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 1: That would be tickets to Jim Sperano at two tickets.
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: This is really important.
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 42: I was contacted by the Wings of Freedom animal rescue people.
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 46: Oh.
• 2:34:09
  Speaker 42: You know who they are?
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but you can tell me.
• 2:34:12
  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 42: Well, they rescue animals and get them adopted.
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 42: It's a great cause. And they call me, and we're
• 2:34:19
  Speaker 42: doing a fundraiser for that event. And that fundraiser is
• 2:34:22
  Speaker 42: on the 19th of September at the Sprott Rod and
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 42: Gun Club.
• 2:34:28
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 42: Yeah, so I'm really looking forward to that, man.
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: You know, that's the other thing, you know, Jim. It's
• 2:34:36
  Speaker 1: not like you're just going to the casinos and putting
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: out shows. Like, this is for a cause, right? So
• 2:34:42
  Speaker 1: you're a bit more than just, you know, the entertainer.
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 1: You have, you know, you have a little bit of
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: the humanitarian part of you that using your talents to
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: get some of these dogs and animals rescued, I would imagine, right?
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 42: Yeah. It's a great cause, thanks.
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 20: It's being of service. It's combining....
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 57: Your ability and integrating it into the community, getting people
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 57: out to have fun, which that's something we have really
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 57: forgotten how to do.
• 2:35:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 20: Fun and play.
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 57: I think we should make all make an effort this
• 2:35:24
  Speaker 57: weekend to have more of it.
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 20: Play and have fun.
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 57: And hypnotism, going to see you, is one of the
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 57: ways you can do that.
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, thanks.
• 2:35:34
  Speaker 42: You know what, man? I must be 128 years old now,
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 42: but I'm still loving this stuff. It's so much fun.
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 42: And you know what's really cool, too, is that the
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 42: audiences at the casino, they're all trans people, so it's
• 2:35:47
  Speaker 42: different people every week.
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:35:49
  Speaker 42: And it's different reactions to each trick. It's just, listen, man,
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 42: it's a blast.
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's great.
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 4: It's great.
• 2:35:56
  Speaker 1: Now, listen, you're not just a legendary magician and hypnotist,
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: but you follow music quite well, Jim, right?
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 42: Well, you know that, Mr.
• 2:36:06
  Speaker 1: Elsie. I do, and we've had many conversations about music,
• 2:36:09
  Speaker 1: so I'm just going to kind of change the topic
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 1: a little bit. What are you listening to these days?
• 2:36:13
  Speaker 1: What's kind of getting you all stoked up?
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 42: You know what? Listen, I will preface this conversation by,
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 42: first of all, apologizing to you, and I'll tell you
• 2:36:21
  Speaker 42: that I love you, but I am on... I'm embarrassed
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 42: to tell you this, but I got turned on to
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 42: an AI thing. And there's one artist, if you want
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 42: to call it an artist.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 42: I've been listening to this AI artist for a couple
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 42: of weeks now. I just can't get enough of this
• 2:36:40
  Speaker 42: particular thing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 42: But as good as it sounds, it's kind of hard
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  Speaker 42: for me to support because you've got guys like you
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 42: who are writing their own material and performing their own material.
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  Speaker 42: But this AI thing I really like.
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 44: However.
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  Speaker 42: I'm still listening to the guys you and I have
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 42: talked about for years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jim, who's the AI?
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  Speaker 2: The Eagles, the Beatles, of course.
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  Speaker 1: But really quick, before we go to the real stuff,
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  Speaker 1: who is the AI? Somebody we can check out?
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  Speaker 42: Eddie Dalton. D-A-L-T-O-N. Steve, do me a favor. Let's do
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 42: it when you get a chance to call me later today.
• 2:37:12
  Speaker 4: Let me know what you think.
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  Speaker 1: Eddie Dalton. All right.
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 9: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny. It's like a real name to something
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 1: that isn't real.
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  Speaker 5: It's very funny.
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  Speaker 20: This is beyond.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 25: No, but.
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  Speaker 1: But I know you like the Eagles. Oh.
• 2:37:26
  Speaker 44: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 2:37:27
  Speaker 1: Lee's playing something.
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 60: That's Eddie Dalton, baby.
• 2:37:30
  Speaker 1: This is Eddie Dalton right here?
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 42: Oh, my God. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:37:33
  Speaker 1: We're going to give it a listen right now.
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's amazing.
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: It's not real.
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 3: Where did all the time go?
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 46: The years went.
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  Speaker 3: Fast, but the days went slow.
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: The perfect voice right there, right?
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  Speaker 6: The man in the mirror is older than me.
• 2:37:58
  Speaker 42: Wow.
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 3: He's standing where I used to be.
• 2:38:03
  Speaker 1: Eddie Dalton.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 20: Okay, this is yummy.
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right? You know, so with the exception of Eddie Dalton,
• 2:38:11
  Speaker 1: is there anything new that is real that's somebody that's
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: catching your eye?
• 2:38:16
  Speaker 42: No, you know, I'm... I'm just going back to the
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 42: old stuff. I will tell you what's pissing me off
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 42: really bad.
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: I like where this is going already.
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 9: Come on, bring it.
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 20: What's making you mad?
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 42: Really, really bad. Journey is pissing me off. Journey has
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 42: to stop it.
• 2:38:35
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 42: Why? Because Journey, I mean, first of all, Steve Perry,
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 42: the voice. Okay, so now they got this guy from
• 2:38:44
  Speaker 42: the Philippines who sounded like he was really. Now they
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 42: have this guy, Hugo Valenti. who kind of sounds like Steve,
• 2:38:52
  Speaker 42: but he's doing his best to look exactly like Steve,
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 42: and his body motions are exactly like Steve. And, as
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 42: I said three times before, it's pissing me off.
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 20: Doppelganger.
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, unless it's Steve, I won't be at a Journey show.
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 42: Say that again?
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 1: Unless it's Steve Perry, I won't be at a Journey show.
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 42: A quick story. I had lunch with Steve Perry about
• 2:39:13
  Speaker 42: five years ago.
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 2:39:15
  Speaker 7: What?
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 42: It wasn't just me. It was 200 invited guests, and
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 42: I was really fortunate to get that. But he was unbelievable.
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 42: And I'll tell you another thing. Another band who I
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 42: used to love and is also making me angry is Foreigner.
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 42: There's not one original member left for Foreigner.
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 1: It's a cover band of a cover band. It's a
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 1: cover band.
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 42: And Lou Graham got six. I actually worked with Lou
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 42: Graham at the Woodstock Fair several years ago. Kind of
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 42: doesn't have his voice like he used to, and this
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 42: new guy, Kelly, was really great. But the current lineup of.
• 2:39:45
  Speaker 11: Foreigner, oh, my God, stop it.
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 57: So Steve Perry, shout out to him when he sings, Oh, Sherry. Okay,
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 57: one of my favorite openings to a song ever. And then, weirdly,
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 57: I'm sorry, where was the second singer from you said?
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 20: Thailand?
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 42: He was from Philippines. Philippines.
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 20: Philippines.
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 57: Okay, so that also, Philippines is a, I went to an,
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 57: I saw an Anthony Bourdain special where he visited the
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 57: Philippines because it's also this hotbed of music.
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 20: Like, impersonation.
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 57: There's some, there's some researched gene, and I mean this,
• 2:40:25
  Speaker 57: there's some researched gene in their lineage that allows them
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 57: to have this musical styling and technical, like, technical ability
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 57: to impersonate accurately and musically.
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 55: Really.
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 9: Look it up.
• 2:40:41
  Speaker 42: That's pretty cool.
• 2:40:42
  Speaker 1: Jim, we've seen a concert of two together. Have we not?
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 42: Yeah. Did you come see Dire Straits with me years ago?
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 18: No.
• 2:40:49
  Speaker 9: You know what?
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 1: No, it was– what's his name with the bird hat?
• 2:40:55
  Speaker 1: Bird– what the heck's his name? Why don't we go–
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: didn't we go see– Jimmy Buffett? Yeah, Jimmy Buffett. Didn't
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: we meet you and Don Concagia? Did we not do that?
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 42: It may have been. I'm going to meet you and
• 2:41:10
  Speaker 42: Duncan Cage.
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was the three of us,
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: and somehow we went there. And we went to another one, too,
• 2:41:17
  Speaker 1: and I can't remember what it was.
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 42: I'll tell you who I went to, and again, because
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 42: I am ancient right now.
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 2:41:22
  Speaker 42: But guess who?
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Okay.
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 42: With Don Felder from the Eagles as the opening act?
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God, that was great.
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 42: That was great.
• 2:41:29
  Speaker 1: Well, Jim, listen, hey, always a pleasure to talk to you, man.
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks.
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 20: So good.
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 1: Everybody out there, if you haven't seen Jim Spinato, if
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 1: you haven't been to the Comics Club, get to the
• 2:41:41
  Speaker 1: Comics Club.
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 20: Get out.
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 2:41:44
  Speaker 1: Jim, you got a residency. When does it start? What
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: is it, Thursday, Friday, Saturday?
• 2:41:48
  Speaker 3: What days?
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 42: Yeah, it's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. But the problem
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 42: with my show is that my shows are early. My
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 42: shows are at 5 o'clock.
• 2:41:59
  Speaker 1: That's right. 5 o'clock. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Everybody, be there. Jim,
• 2:42:04
  Speaker 1: thanks a whole bunch.
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 9: Thank you, guys.
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 42: See you.
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you soon. All right, everybody. You know,
• 2:42:09
  Speaker 1: enjoy the long weekends. You know, Monday is going to
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: be the best of the rest on Monday. And don't forget,
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: next Friday, the incredible 25th. Yes, the 9-11 special. Stay tuned.
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 3: Be here.
• 2:42:24
  Speaker 1: Be curious. I'll see you next time. I'm Steve Elsie.
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 18: Bye.