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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 9-8-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR. Curtis Sliwa and Larry
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  Speaker 1: Menti in the morning, 710 WOR. So Larry and Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: what was it like your weekend vacation extravaganza for the
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  Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend? First, let's start with the injured one.
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  Speaker 1: Hop along, Natalie. Did you make it down to the
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  Speaker 1: Jersey Shore for the end of the season?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I did. And it was gorgeous. Except there was
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  Speaker 2: one day of flies. The dreaded flies.
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  Speaker 3: The greenheads? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Was it the greenheads? On Friday.
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  Speaker 3: So when you go down to Jersey Shore, anytime the
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  Speaker 3: wind comes off the bay, it's coming from the west,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to get greenhead flies. And they bite you.
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  Speaker 3: And it hurts. It hurts when they bite you. And
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  Speaker 3: there's some communities down there that have more greenheads than
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  Speaker 3: other communities.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if given the choice, though, Larry and Natalie, getting
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  Speaker 1: bit by the green-headed flies, as you call them, or
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  Speaker 1: the jellyfish, which would be preferred?
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  Speaker 3: It depends on the jellyfish. I know what I'm getting
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  Speaker 3: with the greenheads. Some jellyfish just make you itch. Some
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  Speaker 3: do nothing. Some hurt like hell and for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it depends on the jellyfish. But greenheads are a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody that's been to the Jersey Shore can tell you
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  Speaker 3: about greenhead flies.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, never heard of that. So I just learned something.
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  Speaker 1: The thing I didn't learn, though, since I was down
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  Speaker 1: in Philly, was on the way back, just listening to
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  Speaker 1: news reports, is that the sharks who have been circling
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  Speaker 1: off the Jersey Shore apparently are going to have a
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  Speaker 1: longer stay because of El Nino sharks. The waters are warmer,
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  Speaker 1: so they're not going to be vacating all that soon.
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  Speaker 1: So even though people probably won't be going swimming that much,
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  Speaker 1: sharks are going to be enjoying themselves off the Jersey
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  Speaker 1: Shore from Point Pleasant down in Cape May.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's always been sharks.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right.
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  Speaker 3: The water is cleaner. It's a little bit warmer up here.
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  Speaker 3: And so we're getting more sharks. Same thing on Long Island.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing in New Jersey. I will just do a
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  Speaker 3: shout-out real quick to my grandson. He had his birthday
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  Speaker 3: this weekend, so I went to his birthday party. I
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  Speaker 3: took him out. He said it was the best birthday ever.
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  Speaker 3: Six-year-olds are great. Everything's the best ever. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: just a wonderful little kid. I had a whole lot
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  Speaker 3: of family events, but I did make it down to
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  Speaker 3: Ocean City just so I could say I went on
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  Speaker 3: Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you.
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  Speaker 3: We walked the boardwalk, and then I got out of here.
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  Speaker 3: No greenheads, but they don't come out at night.
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  Speaker 1: And where did you take your grandchild to? Did you
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  Speaker 1: take him to Chuck E. Cheese?
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  Speaker 2: Legoland. Oh, Legoland.
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  Speaker 3: We started at Legoland, and then we were in a mall,
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  Speaker 3: and they had that. thing or the trampoline that they
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  Speaker 3: strap you onto and it's got the.
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  Speaker 2: Elastic bands oh my god and you.
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  Speaker 3: Shoot way up so he did that too and then
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  Speaker 3: I took him to Dave and Buster's and of course
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  Speaker 3: giving him like unlimited on the different things you know
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  Speaker 3: you play the games you get tickets and then you
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  Speaker 3: win some prize that's not worth anything compared to what
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  Speaker 3: you paid for it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, man, you were a great grandpa. Definitely. Wow, man,
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  Speaker 2: no wonder why he wants to go with you, grandpa.
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  Speaker 2: You know what he did say at the end, though?
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  Speaker 3: Because we ordered a bunch of presents for him, and
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  Speaker 3: they just came after his birthday.
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  Speaker 4: And at the end of it, he said, Granddad, that
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  Speaker 4: was the best birthday ever. And I said, oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: We'll do it again next year if you want to, Timmy.
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  Speaker 4: And his daughter says, can I do this for my birthday?
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  Speaker 4: And I said, yeah, you can do it for your birthday.
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  Speaker 4: You can do it for your birthday. And then he said,
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  Speaker 4: but is this all the presents I get? Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: He was mooching. He was mooching.
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  Speaker 3: He knew the regular low didn't show up.
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  Speaker 2: The nice thing, yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 3: The nice thing about a six-year-old is they're going to
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  Speaker 3: be honest with you. Nothing gets held back. And I said, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: there's more.
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  Speaker 2: There's more. They just didn't come yet.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you something. I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: kids at the University of Pennsylvania. You're founded by your
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  Speaker 1: favorite revolutionary personality. You've done a documentary on Benjamin Franklin, 1751.
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  Speaker 1: And all the kids that came to hear me could
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  Speaker 1: have been my grandkids. I could have been their grandpa
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  Speaker 1: because I'm 72. They were like 22, 21, 20, you know.
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  Speaker 2: In that age range. Just having started their school, Ivy
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  Speaker 2: League school.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, great campus. Walking that campus. I remember years ago
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  Speaker 1: walking that campus. But it has maintained the aging status
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  Speaker 1: so well. I love that campus, even though it's down
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  Speaker 1: right in the heart of the city.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It is a gorgeous campus. My favorite concert ever was
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  Speaker 3: in the quad there. I got to see Bonnie Raitt
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  Speaker 3: when she was kind of first starting out, before her
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  Speaker 3: big album, Nick of Time. Man, it was unbelievable. And
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  Speaker 3: it's gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what the quad is? I passed the quad, yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And then I passed, obviously, where Army-Navy plays and not
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  Speaker 1: far away in.
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  Speaker 2: That old— Yeah, Franklin Field. That's the old— that' s where the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles used to play. Yeah, yeah, and throw snowballs at
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  Speaker 2: Santa Claus, right?
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  Speaker 1: But it was great, and the kids couldn't be nicer,
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  Speaker 1: many of them from all over the world, because being
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  Speaker 1: an Ivy League school, it attracts a real diverse number
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  Speaker 1: of students. So we went through all the subjects that
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  Speaker 1: Gen Zers are interested in, did my typical presentation, spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time on AI and artificial intelligence data
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  Speaker 1: centers and flock cameras and all the key issues that
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  Speaker 1: the young people are very hip to now. But afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: when I had a receiving line, Because it was a long,
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  Speaker 1: long line. I had a chance to converse with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the young people, naturally, on the eve of
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  Speaker 1: the attack on 9-11, 25th anniversary. I was asking them
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  Speaker 1: what their knowledge is of what happened on that date,
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  Speaker 1: because none of them were born at that point. None
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  Speaker 1: of them were birthed. One-third of our American population was
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  Speaker 1: not born at the time of the attack on 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: So now these are considered the brightest of the.
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  Speaker 2: Brightest, right? Ivy League.
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  Speaker 1: You had to do very well in order to get
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  Speaker 1: into that Ivy League school unless you were a legacy entrant.
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  Speaker 1: And these didn't strike me as legacy entrants. And their
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  Speaker 1: knowledge was limited, very limited.
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  Speaker 2: And I asked them.
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  Speaker 1: There were people there from St. Louis, the suburbs, very
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  Speaker 1: affluent suburbs, Ladue, Clayton. There were people from California. There
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  Speaker 1: were people from all over the country.
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  Speaker 2: Very limited.
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  Speaker 1: And I would ask them all, as I've asked my
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  Speaker 1: own sons, well, did they teach you about 9-11 in school?
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  Speaker 1: Was there a dedicated time, a curriculum maybe on the
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  Speaker 1: anniversary itself of 9-11?
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  Speaker 2: Because everybody goes to school. It's not a day off.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: You know why?
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  Speaker 4: Not really.
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  Speaker 2: It was just mentioned. They didn't go in-depth.
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  Speaker 1: And so when we have a generation now, which oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: is starting to question, if you go along the lines
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  Speaker 1: of Hassan Piker, who said, America deserved 9-11, there is
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  Speaker 1: an element of thought amongst young people.
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  Speaker 2: They're not quite sure, but they basically say, did we
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  Speaker 2: do anything wrong? to deserve it or to cause it?
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  Speaker 2: Or was there a history there.
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  Speaker 1: That was so provocative that it caused these hijackers to
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  Speaker 1: crash into the buildings and into the Pentagon, into the
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  Speaker 1: fields of Western Pennsylvania? That is some of the thought now,
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to during the attack, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: First five years, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know you and I and others were dealing with all
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  Speaker 1: these 9-11 truthers, you know, these deniers like Rosie O'Donnell,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Sheen for a while. Oh, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: It was George Bush who wanted this.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of the way they said about Roosevelt wanted to
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  Speaker 1: set us up at Pearl Harbor to get us into
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  Speaker 1: the war because Americans didn't want to get into the war.
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  Speaker 2: But him and Churchill won. But I don't want.
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  Speaker 3: You to talk about them and people think that was
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  Speaker 3: the prevalent feeling. If you remember that time, I don't
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  Speaker 3: remember a time when there was more pro-American feeling in
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  Speaker 3: this country.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: When there were flags everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: So they were the minority, a slim, slim minority.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say for the first five years that lingered. And
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  Speaker 1: then the more prevalent thing was about the charter flights
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  Speaker 1: that the Bush administration had gotten the Saudis, including relatives
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  Speaker 1: of Osama bin Laden. That was the biggest construction company
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  Speaker 1: in all of the Middle East. Two dozen of them
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  Speaker 1: got them out of here and flew them right to
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia when there were no flights permitted. Right. That
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  Speaker 1: lingered a long time, right? I'm up to Tom Kane Sr.
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  Speaker 1: And I forget who the congressman was from Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Remember where they put out the 9-11 commission?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm embarrassed because I interviewed both of them and
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  Speaker 3: I forget the other one.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: I'll look it up.
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  Speaker 1: Now, remember, some of it was redacted. So there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of families that were upset about the Saudi
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  Speaker 1: involvement or the perceived Saudi involvement into the Bushes. Were
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  Speaker 1: they favoring the Saudis at that point? And then it's
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  Speaker 1: sort of like nothing for a while there, nothing. And
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  Speaker 1: now this sort of amongst young people that I talk
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  Speaker 1: to who are Gen Z is some, not all. Did
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  Speaker 1: we do anything to trigger this off? Because there are
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  Speaker 1: others out there who are suggesting that. that there is
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  Speaker 1: a long history to this before the attack itself.
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  Speaker 2: Can I give you the reason for this?
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: There is a void in this country and even an
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  Speaker 3: aberration in this country of American history. We're leaving out
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  Speaker 3: in the schools anything that might be controversial, anything that
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  Speaker 3: was too pro-American. And then we have this alternate history,
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  Speaker 3: like for instance of slavery, and we have an alternate history,
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  Speaker 3: as if it's not bad.
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  Speaker 1: Enough.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's there's things that are now added to it.
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  Speaker 3: And if you try to teach history the way that
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  Speaker 3: we learned it, there are there's revolt. There's how dare you?
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  Speaker 3: How dare you say that? So many schools have dropped history,
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  Speaker 3: just dropped it. Many schools found it too controversial. History
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be controversial. And so there's a void. And what
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  Speaker 3: happens when there's a void? Somebody fills it. And who
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  Speaker 3: fills it? Influencers, people on the Internet. So all the
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  Speaker 3: things you're hearing don't come from schools that they're learning
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  Speaker 3: because they didn't learn anything there. It comes from them
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  Speaker 3: going on the Internet and being influenced by the Hassans,
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  Speaker 3: Pikers and others of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll certainly have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: The British students at University of Pennsylvania seem to know
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  Speaker 1: more about the history of 9-11 than our own American students.
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  Speaker 1: Guess what came in? An invitation over the weekend from Oxford.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. So I'll be able to find out when that.
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  Speaker 1: Date is set what the British students learned about that
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  Speaker 1: in growing up because most they are British, but they
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  Speaker 1: also have an international student body.
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  Speaker 2: Is that coming up soon? No, not soon.
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  Speaker 1: That probably won't be until after the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 1: But San Francisco State, very liberal, very progressive.
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  Speaker 2: A few other schools that have come in. So it'll
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  Speaker 2: be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I'll always at the end start in my conversations with
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  Speaker 1: individual students, start sort of layering it in. What were
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  Speaker 1: you taught about 9-11? Because I've told you what my
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  Speaker 1: three sons were. I would ask them. They went to
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  Speaker 1: public schools here. Did they talk about 9-11?
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  Speaker 2: No, Daddy. Why not? They didn't want to hurt anybody's feelings. What?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting silly.
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  Speaker 3: Everything about history is like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it's not being taught. This has been a
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  Speaker 2: podcast from WOR.