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Opening Segment 9/2/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Larry and Natalie, our audience. I am wired up.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've had maybe an hour, maybe two
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  Speaker 3: hours of sleep. Yeah, I had to be at Bellevue
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  Speaker 3: to be with my nephew. You may have remembered that
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  Speaker 3: story that our news department was talking about the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much almost at the same time as that horrible
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  Speaker 3: incident killing, stabbing that was taking place by that emotionally
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  Speaker 3: disturbed woman in Times Square.
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  Speaker 2: We'll give you more updates on that.
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  Speaker 3: Apparently, boy, she was doing a lot of Facebook entries
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  Speaker 3: about how she was being commanded to do certain things.
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  Speaker 3: So that'll be interesting later on. Well, it turned out
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  Speaker 3: this occurred right across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue, right?
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  Speaker 2: St.
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  Speaker 3: Patrick's Cathedral. Apparently, there's a guy who jumped out of
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  Speaker 3: a car, and slash the 21-year-old guy, who happened to
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  Speaker 3: be my nephew. So that's an unfolding case that is
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  Speaker 3: taking place. The police commissioner gave me a call yesterday. Apparently,
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  Speaker 3: they made an arrest of the individual. Upstate New York
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  Speaker 3: may have been because of license plate reading technology, which
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  Speaker 3: would go back to the flock cameras that you've been
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  Speaker 3: telling us about, Larry, for months. But my nephew is stabilized.
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  Speaker 3: He was seriously injured. But, boy, this is what you
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  Speaker 3: call another case in the naked city of New York
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  Speaker 3: that made no sense whatsoever. And so as it unfolds,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be able to share with our audience some of
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  Speaker 3: those details.
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  Speaker 2: I know you can't say a lot, but how's your
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  Speaker 2: nephew doing? Oh, much better. Good. Much better. He's recovering well.
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  Speaker 3: He was with his extended family of friends, my older sister,
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  Speaker 3: obviously his girlfriend. You know, he was all wired up
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  Speaker 3: as they were monitoring him. He had a punctured lung,
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  Speaker 3: some slash wounds.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. That is just horrible. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this happens. We don't know why.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, I'm not going to tie it to the series
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  Speaker 3: of cases that involved emotionally disturbed persons. But it is
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  Speaker 3: a case that brought me to Bellevue, a place, as
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  Speaker 3: you know, where I was lucky to survive the time
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  Speaker 3: that I was shot with the five hollow point bullets
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  Speaker 3: by the Gattis and Gambinos. I got great care there.
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  Speaker 3: But while I was there, I was able to, because
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  Speaker 3: it's right where the emergency room exit, entrance and exit
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  Speaker 3: is on 29th Street and First Avenue. Next to it
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  Speaker 3: is an old building, one of the original buildings of
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  Speaker 3: Bellevue that goes back to the 1700s. That's where they
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  Speaker 3: had the 300s. homeless men house for many years, Kips Bay.
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  Speaker 3: We've been talking about Kips Bay because that's where they're
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  Speaker 3: closing the AMC theater chain. All the politicians, the local people,
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  Speaker 3: our own Joe Neumeier is out there with his sign up,
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  Speaker 3: protesting that. But they've had a problem because these homeless
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  Speaker 3: men go out throughout the neighborhood, some of them very
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  Speaker 3: emotionally disturbed.
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  Speaker 2: And have attacked people at random. My God.
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  Speaker 3: They had to close that homeless shelter because it was
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  Speaker 3: falling apart.
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  Speaker 2: What a difference.
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  Speaker 3: I got to tell you, I haven't been there since
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  Speaker 3: they closed it.
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  Speaker 2: What a difference.
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  Speaker 3: You don't see the men walking about like zombies in
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  Speaker 3: Dawn of the Dead. Didn't see much of that. But
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  Speaker 3: when I came here to get ready to join you,
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  Speaker 3: Larry and Natalie, this morning in our audience, I was
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  Speaker 3: on the subway walking. clearly saw a guy who was schizophrenic,
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  Speaker 3: who was talking to himself.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all unusual.
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  Speaker 3: These were workers ready to go to work, you know,
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  Speaker 3: probably had a five o'clock shift, you know, start.
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  Speaker 2: They were oblivious to it. They're so used to it
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  Speaker 2: on the subway.
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  Speaker 3: And let's face it, that person on that subway, as
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  Speaker 3: he was talking to himself, having a full scale conversation,
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  Speaker 3: something that he was privy to, we would not be
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  Speaker 3: privy to. might have snapped at a moment's notice. But
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  Speaker 3: everybody in a subway car, it's just this is the
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  Speaker 3: norm now.
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  Speaker 2: This is the norm.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know. And then, as you notice, I had
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  Speaker 3: to get an extra cup of coffee this morning as
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  Speaker 3: I'm at the coffee wagon down the block. Here's a
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  Speaker 3: woman walking down the street, well-dressed in, like, construction garb.
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  Speaker 3: She's a large woman. She's got a stick in her hand.
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  Speaker 3: She's screaming at the top.
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  Speaker 2: Of her lungs. There are people waiting online for the
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  Speaker 2: cool fee with me, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm saying, do I need to do a physical intervention?
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  Speaker 3: She's not really threatening anybody. She's screaming at like inanimate objects,
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  Speaker 3: waving the stick at them. And I'm saying, welcome to
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  Speaker 3: New York City, circa 2026. And everybody else online for
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  Speaker 3: the cool fee, oblivious to it, as if they had
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  Speaker 3: window shades on their eyes and were just not going
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  Speaker 3: to focus on that.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't going to let that disturb their morning. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's a huge problem. And we used to be able
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  Speaker 2: to take these people off the streets to give care
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  Speaker 2: to them. But we had a Supreme Court ruling in
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  Speaker 2: 1975 that put an end to that. We have to
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  Speaker 2: get another ruling. We have to get some kind of
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  Speaker 2: case to go to the Supreme Court. It's interesting you
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  Speaker 2: bring this up because yesterday I'm leaving the station and
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  Speaker 2: I texted Natalie. There's a homeless guy sitting here yelling
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  Speaker 2: F you at everybody. Every single person that went by. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: he skipped me. Apparently, he liked me. Yeah, because he's
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  Speaker 2: a listener.
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  Speaker 3: You'd be surprised at how many homeless men and women
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  Speaker 3: listen to the show. I wouldn't say they have a
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  Speaker 3: seat crane radio, but they have like one of these
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  Speaker 3: old-fashioned small radios.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that makes me feel so much better because I
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  Speaker 2: actually felt left out. I was thinking, what's wrong with me?
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  Speaker 2: How come I didn't get it?
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  Speaker 4: And it's interesting because even this morning, I was coming in.
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  Speaker 4: I was walking on 6th Avenue, you know, pretty busy.
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  Speaker 4: pretty busy even at four something in the morning, I
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  Speaker 4: came across at least two or three people walking towards
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  Speaker 4: me where I was like, okay, I really got to.
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  Speaker 2: Keep my eyes open here. Oh, I know. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it didn't look right.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, okay, I might just walk right in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the street because I think it's safer
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  Speaker 4: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it amazing that you are afraid more of crazy
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  Speaker 2: people than you are of like real criminals? Because when
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  Speaker 2: I walk in, I'm not looking for somebody that might,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Jack me up. I'm looking for a crazy
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  Speaker 2: person that might come up and do something every single time.
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  Speaker 2: If I see somebody like talking to themselves across the street,
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  Speaker 2: I'll go another way. I don't want to get near them.
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  Speaker 3: And remember, they're like in the middle of this schizophrenic attack.
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  Speaker 3: They're having a conversation with a person that they actually see.
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  Speaker 3: It can almost reach out, feel them and touch them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're looking at an angle. You could be
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  Speaker 3: right in front of them having a conversation. They're oblivious
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  Speaker 3: to you, Larry. even though they love you on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: You're the choice of the emotionally disturbed and the homeless
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  Speaker 3: roaming the streets.
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  Speaker 2: Makes so much sense. We could use all the listeners
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  Speaker 2: that we could possibly get. I welcome them. But it
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  Speaker 2: just shows you this is a continuation.
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  Speaker 3: The old school way was if a cop was on
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  Speaker 3: the beat and they saw what they call an EDP,
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  Speaker 3: he and her and their partner would take them in
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  Speaker 3: for a psychiatric observation where Bellevue, That's where the psychiatric
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  Speaker 3: ward is. And they'd be remanded there for 21 days.
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  Speaker 3: They wouldn't become a ward of the state yet, so
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  Speaker 3: they're not committed to the state. But after 21 days,
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  Speaker 3: two different shrinks have to come up with an analysis
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  Speaker 3: of the person. But in the meantime, he gave them
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  Speaker 3: a chance to clean up, get some clothes on, you know,
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  Speaker 3: get away from the streets and the subways or the parks,
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  Speaker 3: wherever they were living. 21 days is a good amount
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  Speaker 3: of time. it allows you to do an examination of
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  Speaker 3: maybe what's mentally ailing the person. And then if they
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  Speaker 3: need further treatment, that's when they have to get committed
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  Speaker 3: to the state. But once you get committed, it ain't
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  Speaker 3: easy to get uncommitted. See, that's part of the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very few people across the country, not just
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  Speaker 2: in New York, get committed nowadays because there's a Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court ruling. I mean, I would love to see a
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  Speaker 2: state challenge that. And what you should do, what we
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  Speaker 2: should do, is every time there's somebody that gets attacked,
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  Speaker 2: they should sue. They should sue and try to get
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  Speaker 2: it to go up to the Supreme Court. Because I
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  Speaker 2: think the current Supreme Court and the problems and the
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  Speaker 2: crime in the country might be there for that. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's take a real neck-breaking switch on the topic for
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  Speaker 2: a second.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, because a lot of people, based on my
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  Speaker 3: analysis of our Turlet paper, you know, the Canadian blend
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  Speaker 3: and the American blend, thought that I had lost. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: they thought I had all the furniture upstairs and rearranged in.
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  Speaker 2: The wall rooms. Yeah, that was true, because you and
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  Speaker 2: Natalie together have these tender tushies, apparently, where you require...
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  Speaker 2: this deluxe toilet paper to touch your behind. Me, I
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  Speaker 2: have a behind of steel. I don't even know. I
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  Speaker 2: can't even figure out the argument about toilet paper. But
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  Speaker 2: it got a lot of talkbacks.
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  Speaker 5: You have never lived until you went to an outhouse,
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  Speaker 5: as when I did when I was a kid, sat
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  Speaker 5: on an outhouse. We either had a corn cob, but
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  Speaker 5: we had Sears catalogs and JCPenney catalogs. And guess what?
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  Speaker 5: If America would go back to that, There'll be better
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  Speaker 5: readers in America today.
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  Speaker 2: Reading all the ads. And that's the end of the story.
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  Speaker 3: In your bathroom, you'd have a basket, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: Saturday evening post, Reader's Digest.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess people would sit there. Yeah. Me, for me,
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  Speaker 2: it was In-N-Out. But she's right. And The Outer House
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  Speaker 2: was similar to that. Before you wipe your tush. Before
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  Speaker 2: you wipe your tush. American needs soft toilet paper.
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  Speaker 1: So you should start using bamboo paper because it's really
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  Speaker 1: not bad and it doesn't destroy the forest. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure Nancy would appreciate that, Curtis.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds horrible. Bamboo toilet paper sounds horrible. I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: it up, actually. It's not that expensive.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what my initial reaction was. I thought you
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  Speaker 3: meant the rolling paper, bamboo.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, only a pothead would think that.
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  Speaker 2: Here you go. Oh, no, Larry, Larry. Don't squeeze the shaman.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I go to Costco, I get the ultra
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  Speaker 2: soft shaman, and I don't go anywhere else but home.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you heard at the beginning, that's
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  Speaker 2: attacking me, saying I don't care what kind of... Listen,
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  Speaker 2: you don't know my butt, and so I can use
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  Speaker 2: any toilet paper I want. Back off, buddy. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: reason this came up is because of the tariff.
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  Speaker 3: We have enough of our own paper fiber to make
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  Speaker 3: 8 million tons... American toilet paper to meet our needs.
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  Speaker 3: But the soft fiber comes across the border from Canada.
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  Speaker 3: It's called a blend, just like gasoline. They have blends,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they change seasonally. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 3: that later on. The president talking to the big oil
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  Speaker 3: producers and they say, we need more refineries. He's saying,
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  Speaker 3: you need to drop the price. You guys are Hazara,
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  Speaker 3: you're pigs. You're making so much profit. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: get into that. But it's the same thing. That's why
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  Speaker 3: we need to get rid of these tariffs. So we're
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  Speaker 3: never going to have soft toilet paper again in our lifetime, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't care, Curtis.
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  Speaker 2: Dr. Spock, don't you remember his book?
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  Speaker 3: He said all male problems evolve from the use of
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  Speaker 3: the porcelain palace at a young age.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's been debunked a million times. No, that's not
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  Speaker 2: spot from Star Trek. Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 2: It is exactly spot from Star Trek. All right. When
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  Speaker 2: we come back, remember when Pete Davidson and Colin Yost
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  Speaker 2: bought the Staten Island Ferry and were ridiculed? Well, they
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  Speaker 2: haven't even ridiculed themselves. Now they finally figured out what
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  Speaker 2: to do with it. We'll tell you about it coming
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  Speaker 2: up next. Plus, a chance to see Air Supply at 825.