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

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Speaker 1: Well, see, there's a whole group of parents and grandparents
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Speaker 1: out there, were getting their kids ready, packing them up,
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Speaker 1: taking them off to their colleges or universities, and getting
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Speaker 1: ready to leave them off there until I guess it's
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Speaker 1: time to come back.
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Speaker 2: What about Christmas time?
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Speaker 3: Or so?
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Speaker 1: Larry and Natalie. Natalie is still recovering, went home from
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Speaker 1: that knee surge, and of course her able replacement in
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Speaker 1: studio recently a college graduate himself to quiet Storm.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say recently a college graduate, but I appreciate it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but you're on loan from the Mark Simone shows.
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Speaker 3: What did you do to school?
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Speaker 2: Seaton Hall?
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Speaker 3: You went to seat In Hall too?
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Speaker 2: Wow, we're both pirates connection.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Curtis, Yes, I let my kids come home at Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 4: I don't have to wait for Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I forgot all about that. Excuse me?
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Speaker 1: Ever since Haul in Wisconsin said, you know, it dealt
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Speaker 1: with colonializes. But then she said it was the best
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Speaker 1: holiday that you ever had. I'm so confused about Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1: Here's what's fascinating.
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Speaker 3: You have you have a daughter and a son that
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Speaker 3: both went to The daughter just got out of college, right,
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Speaker 3: and so two came home more the daughter or the son.
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Speaker 4: Oh, but that's not even a question. I haven't seen
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Speaker 4: my son in about three years.
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Speaker 3: It happens all the time, every single time. Boys are gone,
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Speaker 3: Like I won't see my son for Thanksgiving. Wow, it's done.
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Speaker 3: He's he'll be down in Elon and that's it. He's
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Speaker 3: he's gonna be finished. Elon Mushketch University. No, it's Elon
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Speaker 3: University in North Carolina. It's become like this hot university.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know anything about it until I've started looking
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Speaker 3: it up and I'm finding out it's first of all,
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Speaker 3: First of all, it's for very rich people. Thanks to
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Speaker 3: my son for there, because I didn't realize that at
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Speaker 3: the time. Well, you should see the houses. You see
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Speaker 3: the people. Even we went to a party with other
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Speaker 3: parents and I'm like, oh my god. He took a
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Speaker 3: video at somebody's house and he said, this is the
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Speaker 3: fourth floor in North Carolina. They do apparent they have
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Speaker 3: a lot of lumber and a lot of rooms.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, so yeah, definitely the boys don't come home.
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Speaker 4: I my son would rather do laundry going up and
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Speaker 4: down four flights of a walk up than come home
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Speaker 4: and do it here. That's how much you like staying there.
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Speaker 3: This is every mom by the way, every single this
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Speaker 3: is the way Dawn is. That's why, by the way,
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Speaker 3: can I whine for a second? Of course they are
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Speaker 3: down the shore. They got a house down the shore
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Speaker 3: this week this week seek well it's last minute. You
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Speaker 3: don't know the menty household. We That's why I'm That's
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Speaker 3: why I'm gonna take off because I have to go
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Speaker 3: down this weekend. I gotta I gotta drive down. And
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Speaker 3: by the way, everything was left with me. I said,
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Speaker 3: do we have any do we have like a rented
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Speaker 3: car or do we have we have flights or anything
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Speaker 3: that much? Like, oh my god, nothing, we have nothing.
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Speaker 3: Wait and this is all on me.
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Speaker 2: Now wait are they are you? Are they like coming
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Speaker 2: back before from the Jersey Shore before they go down?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I have to have everything ready to go.
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Speaker 3: I got so. I think she's planned this the entire time.
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Speaker 3: And then then I get up her. I get up
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Speaker 3: Friday morning to ride down to North Carolina and they're
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Speaker 3: all going to sleep in the car.
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Speaker 2: That's a nice way to spend your day.
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Speaker 1: You have to rent a rider or a U whole truck.
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Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't your son have stuff that's going down
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Speaker 1: or is it already down.
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Speaker 3: No, most of his stuff was saved down there. He's
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Speaker 3: got which is the big thing now on campuses. He's
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Speaker 3: got an East scooter and they will not store that
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Speaker 3: because it might blow up. So it's in our house instead, you.
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Speaker 4: Larry, I hope my son is not listening because he
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Speaker 4: wants an East scooter and I've said no.
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Speaker 3: Well, he go down there and all the kids have
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Speaker 3: Heaes scooters. That's all they have. They have eas scooters.
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Speaker 3: And so he said, and everybody has an Ees scooter?
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Speaker 3: Can I get one for Christmas? And so yeah, we
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Speaker 3: got a scooter for Christmas.
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Speaker 2: Soft Larry and tough Natalie, Natalie. It is like the
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Speaker 2: drill sergeant.
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Speaker 1: You will not get an East scooter over my body.
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Speaker 3: Trust me. I'm not the one that got him the Eastern.
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Speaker 3: Trust me on that.
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Speaker 4: Well, you know what, my son goes to school and Hoboken,
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Speaker 4: so he got himself a city bike membership instead.
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Speaker 3: So that's right.
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Speaker 1: Wait, they're raising the race on that, you know, I know,
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Speaker 1: I know. God, it's like they don't have any competition either.
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Speaker 1: You say, this is America, you have competition, you know,
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Speaker 1: bicycle services where yeah, you have a fop what do
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Speaker 1: you call that? A fop or a foot but whatever,
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Speaker 1: they get your bicycle out of the rack. Now it's
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Speaker 1: one choice, one choice only, and they jack up the rate.
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Speaker 3: By the way, I want to talk about something that
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Speaker 3: is related to exactly what we're talking about. Once you
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Speaker 3: have a son in a marriage, you're done. You've been replaced,
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Speaker 3: You're finished. What what do you mean, because well, let
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Speaker 3: me just point out that my two sons are down
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Speaker 3: with my wife at the shore and I'm not there,
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Speaker 3: and they don't seem to care. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 3: they'd like me to set up the trip to go
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Speaker 3: down to North Carolina. That's what I'm talking about. Everything
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Speaker 3: now becomes the sun. Everything becomes the sun, and you
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Speaker 3: are superfluous, and you have to help me to make
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Speaker 3: sure the sun has a great life, which I want
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Speaker 3: to do, but I'd like to be more of a
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Speaker 3: part of it, you know, not just hey, we need
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Speaker 3: you for this, we'll be gone for a while.
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Speaker 1: I've already made you the celebrity shopper, right, you're the
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Speaker 1: one who does all the market to shopping supermarkets.
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Speaker 3: Well they didn't make me that, Yeah, but you got
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Speaker 3: a sharp act like I used to go. I used
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Speaker 3: to go with my Dad's not my job. It's not
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Speaker 3: my sure, I actually love doing it. But you have
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Speaker 3: a sharp eye for it.
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Speaker 1: You have a good eye for the pricing, you know,
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Speaker 1: wholesale retail. You've taken on that responsibility, so they won't
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Speaker 1: even give you any bread combs, syeah, progressional bread combs.
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Speaker 1: You stay it out and stay at home. You basically
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Speaker 1: put the apron on while they go out and enjoy themselves.
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Speaker 3: So, Natalie, if you're planning a week right to go
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Speaker 3: down the shore to do something, don't you say to
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Speaker 3: your husband do you have anything going on that week?
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Speaker 3: Can you make well? She paused, probably not. It sounds
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Speaker 3: like no.
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Speaker 4: I mean I just thought that was a given. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean yeah, no, No, it didn't didn't really matter
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Speaker 3: that I had other stuff going on this week. It's
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Speaker 3: the good And then she she makes the uh the
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Speaker 3: phone call every morning saying, hey, are you gonna make
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Speaker 3: it down today? And I went, no, I told you
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Speaker 3: I can't. I can't make it down today. I already
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Speaker 3: told you. Oh it's too bad.
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Speaker 4: And then she goes into how gorgeous is the weather,
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Speaker 4: the water, now they've eaten.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask both of you, when you're taking your
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Speaker 1: kids to university of college, I'm assuming they're staying in
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Speaker 1: a dorm and they got a dorm mate or whatever
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Speaker 1: you call that, a roommate. Uh do you ever have
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Speaker 1: to sort of negotiate terms of what it's going to
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Speaker 1: be like for your son or daughter when they have
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Speaker 1: a roommate.
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Speaker 3: No, you haven't met my son. He he pretty much
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Speaker 3: just kind of takes over wherever he goes, so and nicely.
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Speaker 3: He's really just very charming. He's uh so, yeah he
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Speaker 3: has he had a room mate last year. I don't
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Speaker 3: know because seeing Elon, most of the kids go into
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Speaker 3: frats and I'm not sure he has the same roommate.
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Speaker 1: I think he does now that Friday isn't like what
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about state.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know what, you have to admire some
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Speaker 3: of those kids they actually started on They were entrepreneurs.
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Speaker 3: They started a business. They had a whole organization going.
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Speaker 3: They did shipping. I mean that was daddy.
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Speaker 4: Got the Daddy got the safe so you could put
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Speaker 4: all the money and the coke in there.
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Speaker 3: They seem to have everything covered. They had a production
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Speaker 3: facility at a frat. They were putting it in the
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Speaker 3: little baggies at a frat. That was pretty amazing. It's
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Speaker 3: a shame because you know, they would have been great
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Speaker 3: in industry, but now it's gonna be probably ten to
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Speaker 3: fifteen years before they get out in prison.
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Speaker 1: The both of you happy, what it's time to bring
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Speaker 1: your kids to school for the start of a new session.
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Speaker 3: No, only because did I just tell you the story?
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Speaker 3: I have to do every think? No, I know, right, No,
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Speaker 3: because then they have to deal with Dawn, and so
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Speaker 3: Dawn is very upset. Like Dawn. You know, a son's
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Speaker 3: leaving their mothers is a big deal. And that's why,
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Speaker 3: you know, Natalie, you handle it pretty well.
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Speaker 4: Well because he hasn't come home. I mean, my son
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Speaker 4: hasn't been home in like a year now. And I'm serious,
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Speaker 4: because he he has an apartment, so he stayed there
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Speaker 4: all summer. It's closer to his internship. So I don't
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Speaker 4: have separation anxiety because he.
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Speaker 2: Didn't come home.
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Speaker 4: But you know, not that I'm sad about that or anything,
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Speaker 4: but you know what I was thinking, Curtis, because you're
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Speaker 4: talking about, you know, packing up the cars and getting
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Speaker 4: back to school. And Larry's renting a U haul. Do
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Speaker 4: you remember when we went to school? Whatever I had
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Speaker 4: I put in the back of my parents trunk.
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Speaker 5: That was it.
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Speaker 4: We didn't have an SUV. I don't know what I brought.
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Speaker 4: I thought to myself, did I have anything but a
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Speaker 4: bag of clothes? My kids had a truck and a
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Speaker 4: half full of stuff, both of them.
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Speaker 3: I know, it's ridiculous, now, you're right, ridiculous, it's really ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: You're right. I did the exact same thing. I had
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Speaker 3: a convertible back in college and put everything in the
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Speaker 3: back seat. That was it. That's all had. I don't
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Speaker 3: know what happened.
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Speaker 1: And Chris, you were staying in Cheating Hall, right because
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Speaker 1: you were from Rockland County.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yes, I stayed on campus. Wow, the quiet storm
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Speaker 2: had spoken. So how much stuff did you bringen?
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Speaker 6: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Not a ton that was just closed, A TV in
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Speaker 2: my Xbox mostly.
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Speaker 3: Oh the Xbox.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I played a lot of played a lot of
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Speaker 2: video games.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I actually when you guys were talking about how your
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Speaker 2: son stayed away, like stayed at school the whole time,
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Speaker 2: I went home like almost every weekend. Really yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was just like not a party or anything.
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Speaker 3: Stays there. There's better meals because I did I mention
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Speaker 3: the rich people.
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Speaker 2: Well yeah, okay, that's fair now, is it alright? Chris?
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Speaker 1: If I call you a Mama Luke because you had
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Speaker 1: to go home every weekend to be with mama.
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Speaker 2: That's fine. Yeah, he's proud. He's your mama Luke. He's
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Speaker 2: proud of it. But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
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Speaker 2: be ashamed of it. I know what I was.
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Speaker 1: H, Larry, Natalie and everyone, the residents of Happy Valley,
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Speaker 1: those who teach at Penn State University or attend Penn
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Speaker 1: State Universe. I'm not all that happy with the news
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Speaker 1: that is dominating the national news spend of how two
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Speaker 1: fraternities at Penn State University were locations in which kilos
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Speaker 1: of cocaine were being brought in from Philly and New
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Speaker 1: York City. They were being cut and packaged in the
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Speaker 1: off campus Fradhause and then distributed to students and even
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Speaker 1: to people who were willing to pay a premium price
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Speaker 1: in Happy Valley. And this went on from twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three to twenty twenty four. The leader of the pack
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Speaker 1: was Agostino Abatello from Westbury, New York, whose father when
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Speaker 1: he answered the phone because he's been indicted to that,
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Speaker 1: we had no idea our son was involved in that.
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Speaker 1: But the second character, Thomas Robinson, his father is a
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Speaker 1: corporate lawyer in Pittsburgh who was actually enabling them, storing
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Speaker 1: the cocaine and the money in his safe and giving
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Speaker 1: them instructions on how best to transport what the drugs
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Speaker 1: once it's cut and package, so us to avoid detection.
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Speaker 2: A family affair.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good. He ses sharing his family's business, but
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Speaker 3: business tips. That's nice.
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Speaker 1: But you know, normally knee jerk reaction would be you say, oh,
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Speaker 1: transporting kilos of cocaine out of New York City and Philly.
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Speaker 1: Probably some black guys doing this. No, these are the
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Speaker 1: whitest guys you've ever seen in your life. When you
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Speaker 1: look at the mugshot of this Agostino Abbatella from Westbury.
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Speaker 1: He is a total geek. I mean he is the
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Speaker 1: white version of Ercle, I mean with the glasses and
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Speaker 1: everything else. But apparently the brains of the operation. And
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Speaker 1: now people were saying to themselves, how is it that
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Speaker 1: this went on twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four all
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Speaker 1: over campus and nobody ever dropped on, nobody ever ratted
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Speaker 1: them out. And I want to know, it's a combination
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Speaker 1: of Animal House and New Jack City. When the pledges
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Speaker 1: came in and dead of facing hazing and beatdowns, and
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Speaker 1: you know, things said were pretty insulting the pledges. The
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Speaker 1: hazing consisted of having to package the cocaine and prepared hazing.
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Speaker 4: That is hazing, absolutely when you're pledging a Greek organization.
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Speaker 4: Hazing really is defined as one anything that you're doing
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Speaker 4: that you don't want to do. It could be standing
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Speaker 4: out and making your you know so, wearing certain clothing.
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Speaker 4: Hazing is not just always getting you beat.
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Speaker 2: With a paddle.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right, And and that's why some of
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Speaker 3: these kids were not charged. They weren't charged because they
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Speaker 3: were forced to intimidated. As a matter of fact, Dave Sunday,
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Speaker 3: who was the Attorney General in Pennsylvania, explained what the
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Speaker 3: operation was like at the frats.
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Speaker 7: The evidence showed that cocaine was primarily packaged at the
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Speaker 7: fraternity houses, and that packaging was done by fraternity brothers
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Speaker 7: and oftentime pledges and men.
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Speaker 3: Any of the pledges were forced to do it. I
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Speaker 3: don't think one of the pledges were charged, because we're
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Speaker 3: talking about dozens of people and only thirteen were charged
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Speaker 3: in two out of state. Let me get the one
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Speaker 3: last bite from him, and because he wants to reiterate
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Speaker 3: to everyone because people hear college and they hear cocaine,
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Speaker 3: and he's afraid they don't take it seriously.
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Speaker 7: There was nothing junior or childlike about this type of conduct.
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Speaker 7: This was an upper level trafficking organization for this region
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Speaker 7: in Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 3: And it was going across state lines. And so there
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Speaker 3: may be federal charges. There's a lot of felony charges
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Speaker 3: being charged. Is this is extremely serious?
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Speaker 1: Well, we'll deal with this at another time, But I
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Speaker 1: don't buy this fact that the pledges shouldn't be held culpable.
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Speaker 2: Come on, man, I bet.
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Speaker 1: You they all saw knew Jack City where they had
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Speaker 1: a strip down to their bvds because yeah, they didn't
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Speaker 1: want him carrying product out. But let's flip this script
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Speaker 1: to Philly, where they were getting some of the ki
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Speaker 1: los of cocaine, to a story that's also dominating the
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Speaker 1: national news.
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Speaker 3: I will pulling out that if you had a son
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Speaker 3: at Penn State that's a freshman and they got forced
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Speaker 3: to join this, you would feel much much differently because
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Speaker 3: you know the peer pressure that a freshman has. But
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Speaker 3: you're right, the one the history in Philly is a
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Speaker 3: lot more fun than that story that the one at
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Speaker 3: Penn State is just awful. It is kind of fun
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Speaker 3: because this guy is just a jerk. I was going
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Speaker 3: to use a different words. He's I don't believe he's
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Speaker 3: dangerous at all, and you know I know that because well,
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Speaker 3: let me just explain the story first, and you've probably
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Speaker 3: seen it on the news because it's the weirdest thing
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Speaker 3: in the world and this is the new world we
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Speaker 3: live in. This is a guy with a horror mask
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Speaker 3: and he wore a couple different ones, and he had
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Speaker 3: some stuff that looked like a weapon, although they say
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Speaker 3: he didn't have any real weapons, and he would run
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Speaker 3: after people by the way. This is happening right in
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Speaker 3: center City, Philadelphia, outside of City Hall, and he's chasing
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Speaker 3: people on the street and when he gets in their face,
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Speaker 3: he put it's a camera in their face and says,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna kill you. How do you feel about that? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: so he's making a video. He's he wants to be
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Speaker 3: on TikTok and he wants to be in.
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Speaker 4: The r That was me And if I had a
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Speaker 4: heart attack and died because I was scared to death,
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Speaker 4: that's this is terrifying.
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Speaker 3: It is terrified, terrifying. No one got hurt. No one
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Speaker 3: got hurt. All the people were allowed to run away,
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Speaker 3: except for one woman named Jamika. They shouldn't have messed
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Speaker 3: with Jamika because they were. He was going after her,
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Speaker 3: and then she decided she can't run because she might
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Speaker 3: drop her bags.
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Speaker 5: The sailant saw me, so he started to chase after me.
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Speaker 5: And then during our chase, I started to think, I
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Speaker 5: have heavy bags. I don't want that to slow me down,
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Speaker 5: and I also don't want him to pull me from
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Speaker 5: the back of the strap. So I figured that if
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Speaker 5: anything's gonna happen, I wanted to see it with my
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Speaker 5: own two eyes. So then I turned around. I started
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Speaker 5: yelling at him, don't follow me, you know, screaming at him.
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Speaker 3: She got he got close to her, and she did
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Speaker 3: a karate kick to his chest.
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Speaker 5: If I could tell that he wasn't armed, he had
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Speaker 5: a phone in one hand and clearly couldn't fight. So
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Speaker 5: that's whenever I kept him in the chest, and that
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Speaker 5: he stumbled back and then he ran away.
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Speaker 3: Now Jamaica apparently has seen a few things in her
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Speaker 3: life because she was actually disappointed in the guy.
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Speaker 5: I don't think that he was expecting someone especially smaller
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Speaker 5: than him. I know he's not from the descriptions that
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Speaker 5: I've heard of him, he doesn't seem very tall, but
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Speaker 5: someone of a smaller build combating him and especially like
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Speaker 5: hitting him straight in the chest, I don't think that
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Speaker 5: he was expecting to have that, which again shows me
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Speaker 5: that I feel like he's an inexperienced person.
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Speaker 3: He's inexperienced at this. He's not a professional.
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Speaker 1: Jamika Earns Aquin s wa, she still with attitude. Don't
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Speaker 1: mess with her, because man, she too that spinning hook kick,
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Speaker 1: and that guy was running running, and he still haven't
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Speaker 1: caught him.
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Speaker 3: Right. No, I don't think he's going to be doing
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Speaker 3: it anymore. I don't. I think this is just a
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Speaker 3: you know, a jerk, and he is a little idiot
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Speaker 3: that wanted the be famous on TikTok and because of that,
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Speaker 3: you know, now there's a manhunt for him.
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Speaker 1: Tech has heard Sunday nights from eight to eleven PM
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Speaker 1: on wor and Rich. The Blazing Headlines Everywhere Social Media
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Speaker 1: addiction trial, the focus on Zuckerberg and Meta. But I
23:17
Speaker 1: got to tell you, didn't New Mexico have a civil
23:20
Speaker 1: trial against him where he testified lost and then a
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Speaker 1: civil charge of five hundred and sixty seven million dollars
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Speaker 1: was waged against Meta.
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Speaker 2: I'm confused, what is this case?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well there's been a couple of cases. We had
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Speaker 6: one in New Mexico, which, like you said, yeah, a
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Speaker 6: lot of money Meta has to pay out. And then
23:41
Speaker 6: there was also one in Los Angeles from a teenager
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Speaker 6: that said she was addicted to Instagram and all these
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Speaker 6: other platforms and she was paid out millions of dollars
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Speaker 6: or should be. And now we've got this new trial.
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Speaker 6: This is led by twenty nine states, so it's more
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Speaker 6: of a coalition, but it's being led by four states
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Speaker 6: in general, California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey. So this
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Speaker 6: is a This is probably the largest of all of
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Speaker 6: the trials against Meta. Meta says this could cost them
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Speaker 6: up to one point four trillion dollars. The States argue, no,
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Speaker 6: it's probably closer to two hundred billion dollars. But no
24:17
Speaker 6: matter what, this is a big deal and it's all
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Speaker 6: about the idea that Meta ignored all the signs and
24:24
Speaker 6: kept pushing forward to get teens addicted to this app, Instagram,
24:30
Speaker 6: and they did not care about all the warning signs.
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Speaker 6: That's what's being argued in court right now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be fascinating to find out what
24:36
Speaker 3: happens with that u g chat GBT launched a new
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Speaker 3: mode for teens.
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Speaker 6: Is this related in somehow, Well, that's what I think
24:46
Speaker 6: is interesting. So we have this trial start yesterday, and
24:49
Speaker 6: on the same day, chatchybt comes out with this new
24:52
Speaker 6: feature called CHATCHYBT for teens. So clearly, and we've heard
24:55
Speaker 6: there's been already you know, issues with teens and chat gybt.
24:59
Speaker 6: We've heard of SUICID, we've heard of you know, these
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Speaker 6: teens thinking that the chat is their friend. And so
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Speaker 6: I think chat gubt is trying to get ahead of
25:07
Speaker 6: all of these issues that other big tech companies have
25:10
Speaker 6: seen when it comes to teenagers. So basically, if you're
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Speaker 6: thirteen to seventeen, even if you don't put that into
25:16
Speaker 6: the app as your age, because a lot of people lie,
25:18
Speaker 6: especially teenagers, it will look at signals and say, okay,
25:21
Speaker 6: we know you're thirteen to seventeen. Now you're going to
25:24
Speaker 6: be put into this bucket and it's becoming you know,
25:28
Speaker 6: it acts more like a tutor instead of just an
25:30
Speaker 6: answer machine. So if you ask for an answer for something.
25:32
Speaker 6: It's going to say, hey, why don't we walk you
25:34
Speaker 6: through the steps to finding that answer? And then, of
25:36
Speaker 6: course there's a whole bunch of safety guardrails around self harm,
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Speaker 6: eating disorders, violence, explicit content, and so open Aye is
25:44
Speaker 6: really trying to say, hey, look, we've seen what the
25:46
Speaker 6: other tech companies have done with teens. We are trying
25:49
Speaker 6: to get ahead of this, get in front of it,
25:51
Speaker 6: and make this a safe place for teenagers.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Question, we see that Meta and Zacherberg are the focus
25:59
Speaker 1: of these prosecutions, but I know there are other social
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Speaker 1: media sites in which there are thousands of suits out there.
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Speaker 1: Why has Zuckerbird chosen to fight instead of just settle
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Speaker 1: like a lot of these other social networking media sites.
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Speaker 2: Have done well.
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Speaker 6: He may think they're not in the wrong, and you know,
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Speaker 6: that's what the courts are here to decide. I mean,
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Speaker 6: so far we've seen some of the information come out.
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Speaker 6: You know they're going to have you know, like metas said,
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Speaker 6: they have a whole bunch of safety features they've put
26:30
Speaker 6: in along the years. I mean, you have to understand
26:32
Speaker 6: from the from the side of Meta, you know, they
26:34
Speaker 6: were going along just like we were. We were all
26:36
Speaker 6: trying to understand this new technology, use this new technology.
26:40
Speaker 6: We didn't really know its effects on teenagers or ourselves
26:43
Speaker 6: even as adults. So did they kind of as they
26:46
Speaker 6: went along understand these things and say, Okay, let's put
26:49
Speaker 6: these safety features in because we noticed kids can't stopping
26:52
Speaker 6: or did they say in their internal documents and emails, Hey,
26:56
Speaker 6: kids can't stop scrolling. Let's get him. Let's get them
26:59
Speaker 6: to role even more. And I think that's what this
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Speaker 6: case is trying to figure out. Was there some internal documents,
27:06
Speaker 6: was there internal chit chat about how do we addict
27:08
Speaker 6: these children? Or is this just a side effect of
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Speaker 6: this technology that they invented.
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Speaker 3: I see the Fray Federal Trade Commission is out with
27:16
Speaker 3: warning about searching online to pay your bills, and it's interesting, Rich,
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Speaker 3: I've been caught up in this before. I've never fallen
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Speaker 3: forward completely, but when I had to pay a bill
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Speaker 3: and it's not already set up in my phone or
27:30
Speaker 3: on my computer, I do a search, and then when
27:33
Speaker 3: you go to it, it just seems a little off.
27:36
Speaker 3: And I've always been wary of that. So now I
27:40
Speaker 3: see from the story it's a.
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Speaker 6: Thing, absolutely, and this is a larger issue that I'm
27:46
Speaker 6: seeing in general with people searching for things online when
27:51
Speaker 6: it comes to customer service, tech support, bill pay. Basically,
27:55
Speaker 6: any time you are not going directly to the URL
27:58
Speaker 6: for a company, there are other companies that are trying
28:01
Speaker 6: to get you to go to their website. They may
28:04
Speaker 6: charge you extra fees, they may scam you. There may be,
28:08
Speaker 6: you know, a product that they may push you into
28:11
Speaker 6: buying that you don't actually need. And the FTC is
28:13
Speaker 6: getting hip to this. Basically they're saying that online bill pay,
28:17
Speaker 6: there are a lot of impersonators out there, So when
28:19
Speaker 6: you're searching for that bill to pay, whether it's for
28:21
Speaker 6: your medical company, whether it's for your phone company, be
28:24
Speaker 6: very careful about the ads or the sponsored links up
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Speaker 6: at the top. It may look like you're paying your
28:30
Speaker 6: phone company, but it might be a third party service
28:32
Speaker 6: that's going to charge you.
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Speaker 2: Could be a.
28:34
Speaker 6: Dollar or two more, three dollars, five dollars, whatever it is.
28:37
Speaker 6: But still times millions of people doing this, So it
28:40
Speaker 6: went in doubt, and I think the best advice is
28:43
Speaker 6: really to use the address that is printed on your bill,
28:47
Speaker 6: Especially when it comes to those random medical bills you get,
28:50
Speaker 6: they all use a different billing system type that url
28:53
Speaker 6: into your web browser. That's the safest way to pay retch.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, a lot of people would say to me,
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Speaker 1: you ran familiar time. That's why I don't want any
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Speaker 1: more of these emails about your fundraising for political ventures.
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Speaker 1: And yet I see that apparently you can do more
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Speaker 1: political fundraising emails on Gmail inboxes. How did that happen?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: I thought this was kind of interesting. Basically very quiet
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Speaker 6: change from Google. Starting September eighth, Google's launching a program
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Speaker 6: that basically lets verify candidates, political parties, and these packs
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Speaker 6: avoid Gmail spam filters. I don't know if you remember this,
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Speaker 6: but during the election, Republicans were complaining that gmails spam
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Speaker 6: filters filtered out their fundraising emails and let the Democrat
29:37
Speaker 6: email slip through.
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Speaker 2: Well, Google says they've.
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Speaker 6: Got a new program that basically verifies you are who
29:43
Speaker 6: you say you are, you are one of these political groups,
29:45
Speaker 6: and now they will allow those emails to land inside
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Speaker 6: inboxes instead of going straight to spam. But of course
29:53
Speaker 6: there are some restrictions so that this is not abused.
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Speaker 6: So the bottom line here is that if you have
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Speaker 6: a Gmail account, they see some more political emails going
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Speaker 6: to your inbox and that's for a reason Gmail change
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Speaker 6: the way that they handle those.
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Speaker 3: Always great. Thank you, Rich, Rich DeMuro rich on Tech
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Speaker 6: Thanks again, Rich, Thanks guys, appreciate it.
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