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610 CKTB | Tale of Two Love Stories: Silding’s Algorithmic Spectacle · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Litkey has a take Good morning John.
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  Speaker 2: Litkey, Good morning Jeans Delitis.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's give a little bit of love to our
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  Speaker 1: friends in the US. They're celebrating the July fourth weekend.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people traveling today, fireworks tomorrow, except in Buffalo,
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  Speaker 1: which makes no sense. But New York City is giving
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  Speaker 1: us a literal tale of two love stories this holiday weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And they couldn't be any more different except the scene
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  Speaker 1: for these two love stories for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's a tale of two opposites, warring factions,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, have weaponized romance. On one side, Taylor
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  Speaker 2: Swift and Travis Kelcey are staging what can only be
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  Speaker 2: described as a American royal wedding at Madison Square Gardens,
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  Speaker 2: shutting down so many blocks around right in midtown Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: They've got the NYPD acting as private security, a budget
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  Speaker 2: that could, quite frankly, you know, build homeless shelters if
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  Speaker 2: you will. I think they're at twenty five million so
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  Speaker 2: far as being reported. But just blocks away, you've got
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  Speaker 2: two daredevils who decided that renting an arena wasn't good
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  Speaker 2: enough for them, so they decided to scale the empire
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  Speaker 2: state building's broadcast spire illegally triggering a tactical helicopter hunt.
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  Speaker 2: And they actually they had a proposal though at the
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  Speaker 2: very top of it, and then they promptly got arrested,
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  Speaker 2: and they've been arraigned and they have been released right now.
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  Speaker 2: But it's the billionaire versus the romantic outlaws Gene and
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  Speaker 2: New York taxpayers for the bill were both in a
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  Speaker 2: certain extent.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the one dominating the universe, Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: and Travis Kelsey. They aren't just getting married today. They've
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  Speaker 1: essentially turned Madison Square Garden into a private fort Chris.
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  Speaker 2: It's wild. I mean, fortress could almost be an understatement.
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  Speaker 2: It is a corporate panopticon. The city permits allow them
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  Speaker 2: to have the space from I think five PM until
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  Speaker 2: the event ends at two, but they've got until four.
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  Speaker 2: They've constructed what could only be described as a fairy
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  Speaker 2: tale castle directly on the arena floor of Madison Square Gardens,
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  Speaker 2: although what it looks like entirely is being completely shielded
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  Speaker 2: from the public. They've installed giant walls to block any view.
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  Speaker 2: Madison Square Garden doesn't have any windows, so there's no
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for drone shots. But as I said, this is
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  Speaker 2: around twenty twenty five million dollars. Guests are bound by
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  Speaker 2: non disclosure agreements, phones are confiscated at the door, and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's not just a wedding. This is peak establishment
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  Speaker 2: power footprinting over Manhattan. But as you were saying in
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  Speaker 2: the prior segment, she does incredible things. Her and Travis
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  Speaker 2: just donated twenty six million dollars to charities a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days ago, one of the main recipients being Dolly
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  Speaker 2: Parton's book charity that gives away so far one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and eighty million books to children. So I mean she
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  Speaker 2: she does an incredible thing by helping people out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's flip the script. They say, just a
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  Speaker 1: few blocks away a couple of days ago, with the
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  Speaker 1: Empire State Building, another high profile couple took romance to
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  Speaker 1: a terrifying extreme. I guess we could say, so in
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  Speaker 1: your take, what did they pull off?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is spectacular, Gene. These daredevils are from the
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  Speaker 2: Netflix documentary Skywalkers, So this is what they do. But
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  Speaker 2: they decided, you know, diamond ring and a champagne glass
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  Speaker 2: that's two pedestrian. So they bought a standard tourist ticket
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday for the Empire State Building. They went into
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  Speaker 2: a utility closet waited overnight like teenagers evading mall cops.
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  Speaker 2: Then they breached a maintenance hatch on one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: third floor, scaling the broadcast antenna, masks on zero safety gear,
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  Speaker 2: really dangling by their fingertips over the skyline. And then
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  Speaker 2: they set up a selfie camera and the guy drops
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  Speaker 2: to one knee. They unfurl a massive black banner quoting
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  Speaker 2: about peace and love. You know, most people get sweaty
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  Speaker 2: knees just dealing with a restaurant host is helping you
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  Speaker 2: with an engagement. But this guy did it staring down
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  Speaker 2: a lethal drop. It's completely unhinged. It's beautifully cinematic, and
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  Speaker 2: it's complete counter programming to the Taylor Swift Travis Kelsey wedding.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, we probably get documentaries about both
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 1: I bet it is a tale of two different receptions.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor and Travis get a massive police detail to protect
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  Speaker 1: their privacy, but the daredevil couple get a New York
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  Speaker 1: Police Department tactical squad helicopters, and the reception was in
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  Speaker 1: jail Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I guess it just goes to show what
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  Speaker 2: money can buy you. And if you've got enough zeros
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  Speaker 2: at the end of your net worth, the NYPD will
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  Speaker 2: gladly shut down Midtown for you and deploy surveillance drones
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  Speaker 2: and act as concierge security while private, while expensive lobster
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  Speaker 2: is being brought in. But you know, if you're an
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  Speaker 2: influencer couple, you're going to be dealing with the Emergencies
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  Speaker 2: Service Unit of the NYPD and they're going to roll
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  Speaker 2: in and take you down in zip ties. But that's
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  Speaker 2: sort of how things have always worked here, right. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not trying to compare the two situations in every way,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just it was a very interesting, again tale
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  Speaker 2: of two love stories and two spectacles that are taking
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  Speaker 2: place right now. And it's I guess fitting that it's
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  Speaker 2: so hot in New York that we've got these hot
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  Speaker 2: spectacles too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I actually really really liked the massive banner the
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  Speaker 1: Daredevil's hung. It was actually written by Jimmy Hendrix. When
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  Speaker 1: the power of love beats the love of power, we
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  Speaker 1: will have peace, and he wrote that in the sixties.
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  Speaker 1: I've admired that quote for years and years and years. Mind,
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  Speaker 1: you do you think that was a direct shot at
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  Speaker 1: the corporate mega wedding down the street.
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  Speaker 2: If it wasn't, Jean, the universe possesses a magnificent sense
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  Speaker 2: of irony. I mean the dichotomy again. You have the
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  Speaker 2: love of power absolute at Madison Square Gardens. That was
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  Speaker 2: an exercise and supreme societal control. Billionaires, Hollywood A listers,
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  Speaker 2: and sport elites safely cocooned inside this fortress perimeter. But
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  Speaker 2: then you got the two outlaws hanging from a lightning
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  Speaker 2: rod in the clouds, showing that the power of love
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  Speaker 2: conquers all. It's a brilliant poetic contrast. The show Billions
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  Speaker 2: actually noted that American America knights people by letting them
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  Speaker 2: buy NFL teams, But Taylor and Travis didn't bother buying
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  Speaker 2: a team. They didn't even have to. They've become the
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  Speaker 2: entire macroeconomic ecosystem. Whereas the Skywalkers couple tried the stage
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  Speaker 2: a twenty minute rhetorical coup against that empire with a
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  Speaker 2: bed sheet and a Hendrix quote, and they walked away
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  Speaker 2: with a grand jury threat for their troubles. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it was obviously a direct threat shot at it.
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  Speaker 2: But I think also Taylor Swift and Travis choosing to
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  Speaker 2: have their wedding on the eve of the two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fiftieth anniversary of America is their way of cementing
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  Speaker 2: themselves to that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, at the end of the day, you've got
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  Speaker 1: one couple spending millions to hide inside the arena and
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  Speaker 1: another risking their lives to be seen by the entire world.
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  Speaker 1: So what does that tell us about modern romance?
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  Speaker 2: John Litkey, Romance in twenty twenty six is dead unless
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  Speaker 2: you've optimized it for maximum algorithmic spectacled gene. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we've become a culture of hyper extremes. On the one end,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a gate capt hyper elite privacy event where
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  Speaker 2: billionaires spend tens of millions to ensure that the public
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  Speaker 2: can't look. On the other you've got the reckless clout
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  Speaker 2: chasing visibility, where you could risk a one hundred story
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  Speaker 2: plunge just to capture a viral content for Instagram. But
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  Speaker 2: I think the takeaway is clear. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: marry like modern American royalty, you have to commandeer Madison
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  Speaker 2: Square gardens and confiscate everyone's phones and force them to
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  Speaker 2: sign NDAs. But if you want to marry like a
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  Speaker 2: folk hero outlaw, you climb the lightning rod, you kiss
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  Speaker 2: the sky, and pray that your lawyers can convinced the
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  Speaker 2: judge that felony trespass is a protected form of romantic expression.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, could you imagine, like tonight, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden word leaks out that Madison Square Garden was
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  Speaker 1: just a big hoax, and like the wedding is like
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  Speaker 1: a thousand miles somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: That would be absolutely perfect, What a cherry on top
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  Speaker 2: of everything there. Just I mean, she's not going to
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  Speaker 2: get any good will by doing that, I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: that much, but it would be it would be delicious irony.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely Hey, great take this Friday morning. Thank you, John Litkey,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Jim. Okay, we'll see you next Tuesday. There
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  Speaker 1: he goes John Litkey, always with a great take. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just looking out the window here in the