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

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Speaker 1: Well, let's get the latest on the weather from Ray Stagic.
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Speaker 1: You just heard from them a moment ago. But we
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Speaker 1: want to get an extended forecast and talk about some specifics,
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Speaker 1: especially about how much rain we got and how much
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Speaker 1: rain we're going to get over the next couple of days.
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Speaker 1: So Ray Stage you get here wo or Weather Channel
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Speaker 1: meteorologist Ray, you know, I want to get the rain totals.
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Speaker 1: That's one of the big things, because I know that
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Speaker 1: they were enormous in some areas. But as I'm looking
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Speaker 1: I just heard your forecast, and I'm looking ahead on
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Speaker 1: the forecast that you send, and I see showers over
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Speaker 1: the next several days. Are we talking about flooding now?
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Speaker 2: Depends on where you are. I think today will be
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Speaker 2: the last of the flood risk, and most of that
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Speaker 2: now is out into Suffolk County. It's Fairfield County, Connecticut,
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Speaker 2: and as you go up the Hudson Valley still warning
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Speaker 2: in Putnam County, there's a flash flood warning that's going
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Speaker 2: to be an effect through this morning. They've extended. It's
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Speaker 2: also for northern Westchester County and then in Longye Island
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Speaker 2: or on Long Island, we've got Suffolk County a flood
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Speaker 2: advisory till six forty five where there's some heavy rain,
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Speaker 2: and even into Fairfield County, Connecticut flood warning also into
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Speaker 2: southwestern New Haven County as well as southern Fairfield County.
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Speaker 2: So I do think the flood threat's going to be
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Speaker 2: east to north and should start tapering off today and
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Speaker 2: then we get into tomorrow the more scattered stuff, and
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Speaker 2: then Friday, maybe some dryer air trying to get back
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Speaker 2: in here. But some of the totals, as you mentioning, Larry,
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Speaker 2: were excessive, and as we said yesterday, you know, war widespread,
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Speaker 2: but still didn't mean everybody was going to get flooding.
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Speaker 2: And right around the five boroughs in western Nassau County
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Speaker 2: we saw I'm going to say, only between about a
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Speaker 2: half and three quarters of an inch. You got into
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Speaker 2: North Jersey around Patterson almost four inches of rain, four
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Speaker 2: point six y five in Hackettstown four point one, four Lebanon.
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Speaker 2: So there was this pocket in North Jersey around presipone
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Speaker 2: and back on off and toward the north and west
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Speaker 2: of and out near places like you know, let's say
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Speaker 2: Stuartsville where there's three four point sixty five inches, where
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Speaker 2: we had three to four inches of very heavy rainfall
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Speaker 2: and some leftover flooding there, and also as you went north,
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Speaker 2: some very heavy rain almost five inches at cold Spring
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Speaker 2: five point two eight up further north of that, up
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Speaker 2: near the Shokean Reservoir. But it kind of got the
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Speaker 2: picture where it rained and we got most of the rainfall.
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Speaker 2: It rained hard and very hard, and we have some
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Speaker 2: big time problems with flooding. But a lot of that's
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Speaker 2: going well north up near the Capitol District now and
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Speaker 2: out into eastern Long Island and especially into parts of
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Speaker 2: New England. As we head on through today, we'll.
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Speaker 3: See now ray again. This is taking on the same
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Speaker 3: phenomenon we've never really had before. You get drenched, I
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Speaker 3: mean it comes down in buckets throughout northern New Jersey,
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Speaker 3: hits your real hard, and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: you think a rainbow is going to appear and it's peace,
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Speaker 3: love and happiness. Oh no, it's not too bad, and
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Speaker 3: all of a sudden an hour later to boom again.
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Speaker 3: I don't ever remember rain coming down like that before,
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Speaker 3: where it hits you once real hard, it dissipates, the
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Speaker 3: sun comes out a little bit, and then all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden comes back for like a second bite.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I when you get in the summertime, these areas
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Speaker 2: of low pressure, you don't see that a lot, meaning
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Speaker 2: an organized area of low pressure, but you can see
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Speaker 2: it this morning. And what that does the rotation around you.
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Speaker 2: You kind of get these rounds of rain and thunderstorms,
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Speaker 2: and the intensity, as you'd mentioned, seems to have been
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Speaker 2: greater over the past. You know, let's say x amount
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Speaker 2: of time for the month July, I think New York
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Speaker 2: City's had I think it's twelve flood warnings issued, and
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Speaker 2: I think that's a record for any month for at
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Speaker 2: least New York City. So the stats something like that.
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Speaker 2: I kind of heard it was looking researching it this
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Speaker 2: morning and passing either way. We've had an exceptional number
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Speaker 2: of flash flood warnings around the city and you know
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Speaker 2: a larger number of thing we've had in the past
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Speaker 2: of flood events. Now what that leads to is, you know,
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Speaker 2: will we have more in the future. I think that's
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Speaker 2: the big question and maybe something that you're trying to
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Speaker 2: get at.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not even talking about isolated flooding. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about and I know you mentioned the areas that normally
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Speaker 1: flood and of course that's what we're all talking about.
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Speaker 1: But I mean I'm talking about like river flooding Passaic.
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Speaker 1: Is the Passaic River, for instance, is that threatened with
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Speaker 1: this flooding over the next couple of days because of
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Speaker 1: the rain we've already had.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, parts of the Passaic may become a little bit
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Speaker 2: more swollen than it are right now. Right now they're
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Speaker 2: looking at maybe some minor flooding. So over the next
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Speaker 2: couple of days, it's not getting get any worse. As
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Speaker 2: I said, the edge of the rainfall, the heaviest rain
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Speaker 2: is now east of that and going as we've said,
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Speaker 2: north northeast of the city and out into New England.
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Speaker 3: Well, Ray, I want to tell you I'm doing my part.
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Speaker 3: In New York City there was a great crea philosopher
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Speaker 3: called Diogenes. He would roam the streets of Athens with
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Speaker 3: a lantern and he would go up to people and say,
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Speaker 3: I'm looking for one, honest man. Never did find one.
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Speaker 3: I've walked out with my trusty stickball bat, and I
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Speaker 3: go to the catch basins the sewers, and if the
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Speaker 3: stickball bat does not go down to the grate because
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Speaker 3: of all the silt that's built up all the flotsam
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Speaker 3: and jetsam. I call the sewer department, you know, the
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Speaker 3: old ed Norton guy who never answers the phone any
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Speaker 3: longer because you just get put on hold. And I
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Speaker 3: keep reporting them because if they don't clean out the
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Speaker 3: catch basins, and now I'm proving that, Hey, if a
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Speaker 3: stickball bat can't go down the sewer grating, then that's
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Speaker 3: backed up. So any accumulation more than an inch, it's
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Speaker 3: going to back up, and it's gonna start flooding into
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Speaker 3: the nearby sidewalks and eventually go down into the basements
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Speaker 3: and cause all kinds of chaos. So there are some
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Speaker 3: answers that a lot of municipal powers and counties can take,
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Speaker 3: but I just don't see efforts anyone going to clean
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Speaker 3: out those catch basins.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a big problem. And the problem
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Speaker 2: too with a lot of the apartments actually below street
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Speaker 2: level too, So I don't you can't solve that one, right,
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Speaker 2: So you got two problems that either could be solved
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Speaker 2: in one that can't be solved. So we hope that
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Speaker 2: we stay away from some of these heavier rain events.
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Speaker 2: We may get back into a little bit wetter weather patterns.
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Speaker 2: I look ahead late in the weekend early next week,
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Speaker 2: is it going to be as heavy a rain as
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Speaker 2: this that we're seeing right now? A little too early
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Speaker 2: to say, but I think after a beautiful Friday, Saturday,
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Speaker 2: and probably most of Sunday, we could see the showers
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Speaker 2: and thunderstorm's return next week.
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Speaker 3: That was not good.
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Speaker 2: I just you know what you should say speaking of philosophers, right,
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Speaker 2: But you know what, I don't know. I thought you
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Speaker 2: got something.
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Speaker 4: To what Curtis was saying. Yesterday, I saw a sewer
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Speaker 4: like a geyser popping. The water was coming up, I
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Speaker 4: mean into the air from the steward, probably because it
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Speaker 4: couldn't go down.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, somewhere.
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Speaker 2: And there's times too, whether it's clean catch basins or not,
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Speaker 2: that the rain comes down so hard that the drainage
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Speaker 2: just can't keep up. So we do, and we have
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Speaker 2: had events like that too, So you know, it's not
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Speaker 2: always that things by the municipalities aren't getting a proper attention.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it just rains too damn hard.
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Speaker 1: Now, let me ask him one question about about the
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Speaker 1: next couple of days, because there was something interesting he
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Speaker 1: said to you, and that was he was concerned about
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Speaker 1: the the the events next week. But as I'm looking
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Speaker 1: at at your forecast, rain today, rain, tonight, rain, Thursday,
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Speaker 1: all possible rain again on Sunday. But you seem to
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Speaker 1: be fairly confident. Well it says chance of showers on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: No, Well, when you say rain, I think the perspective
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Speaker 2: is it's basically going to rain all day, so what
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Speaker 2: it you know, it says showers, it's going to be
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Speaker 2: scattered stuff, so okay.
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Speaker 1: So you're not concerned. So when it starts raining over
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Speaker 1: the next couple of days, you're not concerned at all.
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Speaker 1: That a not until next week.
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Speaker 2: No, any concern would be most likely today in probably
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Speaker 2: first half of the day, and then it's just scattered stuff,
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Speaker 2: you know, more typical thunderstorms, widely scattered Saint Day tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: and then even on Sunday just a few showers. I
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Speaker 2: think you end up, especially Thursday and Sunday, the next
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Speaker 2: other chances of rain, with more hours of dry weather
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Speaker 2: at any one given point than we will wet. And
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Speaker 2: then early next week maybe the coverage gets a little
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Speaker 2: bit better. Ready to get out there and talk about
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Speaker 2: intensity yet, but it may be a couple of days
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Speaker 2: of on again, off again thunderstorms and rain showers.
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Speaker 3: Got it well dealing with both. You guys, you know
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Speaker 3: your weather wonks. I was the weather guy over in
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Speaker 3: San Diego. You were matching credentials yesterday. I didn't understand
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Speaker 3: what the hell you guys were talking about. So I
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Speaker 3: get a little ten. But I want to bring you
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Speaker 3: back to a ute. It's just something that everybody can
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Speaker 3: identify with. There were two things. If it didn't rain,
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Speaker 3: you said, we got to get Native Indians to do
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Speaker 3: a rain dance. And then if it rained too much.
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Speaker 3: Don't you remember we kids? I remember in kindergarten, rain, rain,
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Speaker 3: go away, Come again another day. Little Curtis wants to play.
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Speaker 3: Come again another day. Sun's sun out. You stay warm,
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Speaker 3: us up for all the day. Don't you remember that
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Speaker 3: nursery rhyme?
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 3: As you?
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Speaker 1: Oh another shot. You took a shot at Larry yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Now you're taking a shot of there. I like to extended.
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Speaker 1: Listen. I'm not a meteorologist. I was not trying to
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Speaker 1: match credentials with you. By yes, it was mon mono,
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Speaker 1: not at all me matching with you. I used to
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Speaker 1: know Tim Flannery, who was a baseball player. And he
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Speaker 1: got up and he got his first hit, and he
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Speaker 1: gets to first base, and Pete Rose is at first
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Speaker 1: base and he looks at him and he goes. He said,
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Speaker 1: Joe says, who the hell are you? And he said,
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Speaker 1: I'm the guy that's going to break all your records,
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Speaker 1: And he said, you won't get enough at bats to
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Speaker 1: break my records. That's how I feel. You were at
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Speaker 1: first base and I just got the first base.
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Speaker 3: His Sonny Albany centials.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear him yesterday laboring away about barometers?
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Speaker 3: That was five years? Five?
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Speaker 4: Really?
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Speaker 1: Did he fail his fourth year? Is that to happen?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Ray?
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Speaker 2: There were reasons why we were there longer than we
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Speaker 2: needed to be.
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Speaker 1: Day, Oh Race, that might be a sore point. Sorry,
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Speaker 1: Ray Raised Age, a w o R Weather Channel meteorologist.
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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. If you want to talk about the
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Speaker 1: weather yesterday, uh and what happened to you or anything
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Speaker 6: For any perfectly imperfect Curtis Leiwa and Larry Minty in
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Speaker 6: the morning Guaranteed Human.
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Speaker 3: On seventy.
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Speaker 1: There is drama playing out in real time at the
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Speaker 1: Senate in Washington, d C. At the hearing of doctor
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Speaker 1: Anthony Falci on his role in COVID and whether he
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Speaker 1: lied to the Senate. He has decided he will take
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Speaker 1: the Fifth Amendment on any questions that have to do
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Speaker 1: with COVID nineteen conclusion.
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Speaker 6: Therefore, although it pains me to do so, because of
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Speaker 6: the respect I have for the legislative branch of government
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Speaker 6: and my decades long record of cooperating with Congress, on
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Speaker 6: the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right
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Speaker 6: under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from
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Speaker 6: answering your questions.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: It is a fascinating developer, beginner, It is fascinating development.
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Speaker 1: We're going to go to the hearings live right now.
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Speaker 1: This is Ran Paul is.
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Speaker 7: Not previously published dark Tragia. Are you aware of that
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Speaker 7: doctor she who worked for the Wuhan Institute Virology, was
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Speaker 7: said to and I think in our own words, to
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Speaker 7: have over one hundred viruses that had not been previously
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Speaker 7: published that could have been a close enough relative to
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Speaker 7: create COVID nineteen are you aware of that?
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Speaker 6: On the advice of Council, I respectfully declined to answer,
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Speaker 6: based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Speaker 7: Under your testimony previously, when you denied ever having funded
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Speaker 7: gain and Function in China, it was so adam it
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Speaker 7: as to be striking to leave no room for any
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Speaker 7: interpretation of what is or isn't gain of function research.
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Speaker 7: But there's another important question. Did you fund Gain of
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Speaker 7: Function research and other bio labs around the world?
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Speaker 6: On the advisive Council, I respectfully declined to answer, based
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Speaker 6: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Speaker 7: The one research project that we do know you did
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Speaker 7: fund is the one that Ron Fucier did. It's important
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Speaker 7: to talk about because this sort of was the beginning
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Speaker 7: of the debate over gain of function. This wasn't just me.
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Speaker 7: I wasn't even aware of the debate ten years ago.
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Speaker 7: This was other scientists. Over two hundred scientists at the
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Speaker 7: Cambridge Working Group signed a protest because they didn't think
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Speaker 7: you should fund the research, and they didn't think it
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Speaker 7: should even be fund published because it was sort of
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Speaker 7: a roadmap as to how to make a BUYO weapon.
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Speaker 7: So what they did was the avian flu. And this
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Speaker 7: is important and maybe the most important question we get
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Speaker 7: to here. Today, the avian flu is about fifty percent
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Speaker 7: mortality for humans. The good news though about animal viruses
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Speaker 7: is they don't infect humans very well. It will infect humans,
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Speaker 7: but doesn't go human to human very well. Ron Futier,
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Speaker 7: with the money that you provided to him, did an
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Speaker 7: experiment where he caused purposeful mutations to create a new virus,
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Speaker 7: an avian flu that didn't just infect birds well, but
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Speaker 7: actually infected mammals well, went fair to ferret in an
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Speaker 7: aerosolized manner. People saw this and were aghast, you know,
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Speaker 7: at the decision making process that you decided to fund this.
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Speaker 7: But this is when you know the debate came about
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Speaker 7: and you wrote in support of this in the Washington
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Speaker 7: Post and you said, even if a scientist is bitten,
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Speaker 7: even if a pandemic should occur, the knowledge is worth
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Speaker 7: the risks. Do you still stand by that? Would you
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Speaker 7: have to qualify at all whether or not the knowledge
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Speaker 7: of gain of function is worth the risks, particularly in
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Speaker 7: this case, since we now know fifteen million people died worldwide.
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Speaker 7: Many people believe this came from the lab. Do you
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Speaker 7: think that the risks really are worth the benefits for
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Speaker 7: gain of function research.
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Speaker 6: On the Advisive Council, I respectfully decline to answer, based
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Speaker 6: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Speaker 7: All right, we're going to finish with this question. And
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Speaker 7: it's based really on that statement, that general statement, and
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Speaker 7: your support for gain of function, the idea that the
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Speaker 7: benefits outweigh the risks. So there are many other people
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Speaker 7: who disagree. They aren't politicians or not. I don't know
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Speaker 7: what party they're in. David Relman is probably one of
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Speaker 7: the most esteemed, and he is a scientist at Stanford.
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Speaker 7: He I think has classified clearance. He's been a consultant
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Speaker 7: to our government probably for a decade or more, and
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Speaker 7: he's written about this publicly. He says the opposite. He
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Speaker 7: said that the risks of this research do not outweigh
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Speaker 7: the benefits. He said there risk we shouldn't do it.
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Speaker 1: Richard E.
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Speaker 7: Bright, who's been involved in this to be for two decades,
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Speaker 7: says the same thing, does it really we really shouldn't
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Speaker 7: be doing this at all? There's a quote also by
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Speaker 7: if Kevin S.
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Speaker 3: Felt.
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Speaker 7: Quote is at at the very.
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Speaker 3: End brand Pole Crush examining Faucio's taking the Fifth Amendment
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Speaker 3: to each question.
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Speaker 7: It's a crisper scientist at MIT also wrote about this
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Speaker 7: gain of function. I implore every scientist's funder and nation
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Speaker 7: working in the field, please stop. No more trying to
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Speaker 7: discover or make pandemic capable viruses. No more experiments likely
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Speaker 7: to disseminate blueprints for plagues. Doctor Fauci, would you like
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Speaker 7: to at least answer this one question for us today
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Speaker 7: and let us know whether or not you've changed your
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Speaker 7: mind on whether or not the benefits of gain of
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Speaker 7: function research outweigh the risks.
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Speaker 6: On the Advisive Council. I respectfully declined to answer based
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Speaker 6: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Speaker 7: Sure well, the Chairman has denied your assertion of privilege
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Speaker 7: and directed you to answer them, but you nonetheless refuse
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Speaker 7: and stand on privilege despite the existence of the part.
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Speaker 7: The Committee will have to consider after this yearing what
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Speaker 7: appropriate action should be taken against you for the failure
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Speaker 7: to testify after being directed to do so. It's against
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Speaker 7: the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will
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Speaker 7: be repercussions to your refusal to testify today Center Peters.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we missed at the very beginning when he
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Speaker 1: gave him the warning that he has no constitutional right
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Speaker 1: to take the Fifth Amendment and that they're going to
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Speaker 1: You heard him say there's going to be repercussions for this.
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Speaker 1: But what you just heard was history, and I'm glad
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Speaker 1: we were able to bring it to you. Live by
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Speaker 1: the way for those I think most people though, but
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Speaker 1: just in case you're not aware of gata function research,
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Speaker 1: it is taking a virus and making it more powerful
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Speaker 1: and more dangerous and possibility of creating a pandemic so
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Speaker 1: that you can then just come up with a cure
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Speaker 1: for it before that ever happens. The problem is if
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Speaker 1: there is a leak, the pandemic is unleashed on the world.
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Speaker 1: And many believe in that there are emails that back
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Speaker 1: this up, that that's exactly what happened in.
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Speaker 3: Wuhan, probably one of the most famous movie scenes of
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Speaker 3: all time. And The Godfather, Remember Michael Corleone before a
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Speaker 3: congressional committee investigating organized crime. He's mean asked questions Tom Hagen,
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Speaker 3: the CONSIGLIERI tales and whispers in his air chairman based
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Speaker 3: on my Fifth Amendment right, I refuse to answer the
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Speaker 3: question because it could be self incriminating. Remember, he answered
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Speaker 3: each and every question. It's a scene right out of
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Speaker 3: The Godfather, and these are serious questions. He's learned. Man,
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Speaker 3: he made decisions. He's refusing to explain them now. And
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Speaker 3: Ryan Paul has his own diaries, has all the information.
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Speaker 3: This is not only dramatic, but this, as you pointed out, Larry,
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Speaker 3: I'm glad you made this decision. It's history in the making.
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Speaker 1: It is history in the making. And I know legally
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Speaker 1: this can't be held against him, but we can hold
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Speaker 1: it against him because he is covering his own butt
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Speaker 1: right now. This is what he's doing in front of
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Speaker 1: the world. Everything that Rand Paul was asking is absolutely true,
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Speaker 1: and it is too embarrassing for him to answer those questions. Remember,
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Speaker 1: he can't be charged with anything right now. He has
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Speaker 1: a blanket pardon, a preemptive pardon, so he can't be
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Speaker 1: charged with anything. But this smug sob is sitting there
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Speaker 1: refusing to acknowledge what he did. And we read his diary,
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Speaker 1: right You've read portions of his diary. This is a
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Speaker 1: narcissist who belie leaves that he is impregnable. He believes
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Speaker 1: he is above mere humans. He believes he is above
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Speaker 1: Rand Paul. And he sits there smugly, refusing to tell
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Speaker 1: the world what he did. I believe what Ron Johnson said.
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Speaker 1: This man is going to go down as one of
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Speaker 1: the great villains of all time.
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Speaker 3: Now I believe his lawyer. He's come lawyered up, he's
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Speaker 3: packing his bags. They may actually exit this hearing based
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Speaker 3: on this Fifth Amendment defense of not implicating himself.
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Speaker 1: Let's jump back in for one second to find out
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Speaker 1: what's going.
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Speaker 2: On and initial response to COVID nineteen. This report contained
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Speaker 2: seventeen key findings.
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Speaker 1: That Senator Peters. I think that his attorneys walked out
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Speaker 1: because it's pretty clear what he's supposed to do right now.
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Speaker 3: Wow, the drama and Larry Minty on se wr the
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Speaker 3: Voice of New York. Another race to dominate AI continues.
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Speaker 3: American companies and now the Red Chinese and Mark Zuckerberg
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Speaker 3: had an editorial in Today's New York Times, and I
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Speaker 3: need rich de Murrol rich on Tech, which has heard
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Speaker 3: Sunday nights from eight to eleven right here on woor
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Speaker 3: He's our tech expert to break it down for me,
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Speaker 3: because I got to tell you Rich some of the
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Speaker 3: language in there, I didn't quite necessarily get a hang on.
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Speaker 3: What's the Zuck talking about?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think, look, anytime you talk about AI right now,
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Speaker 5: there is a lot of opinions on how much we
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Speaker 5: should restrain it, how much we should move forward, whether
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Speaker 5: we should be open or close sourced with the models
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Speaker 5: that we allow people to have, and of course, like
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Speaker 5: you mentioned, China being a big aspect of this as well.
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Speaker 5: But I think what he was doing is basically saying
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Speaker 5: he is very optimistic about He thinks that it's going
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Speaker 5: to create jobs, create opportunities, not take away all these
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Speaker 5: jobs and take away opportunities. He also thinks that people
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Speaker 5: should be empowered to use this, and he does believe
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Speaker 5: that a more open foundation of AI is a good thing.
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Speaker 5: And you know, there's two schools of thought there. Number
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Speaker 5: one is you make all these models, and the big
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Speaker 5: companies control them, and then of course the governments control
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Speaker 5: what those big companies can do. And the second is
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Speaker 5: that you just kind of put these out there as
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Speaker 5: an open source model and let people be the judge,
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Speaker 5: let them figure out what they can do with them.
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Speaker 5: And that's kind of what China's been doing. They've been
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Speaker 5: putting out these models that are very high powered that
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Speaker 5: anyone can use and download and make things for free
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Speaker 5: out of versus our two big companies, Anthropic and Open AI,
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Speaker 5: very closed about their models. They don't necessarily let people
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Speaker 5: just download what they're doing. You got to pay for
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Speaker 5: the access.
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Speaker 1: So, as you know, it's been pretty well established in
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Speaker 1: our conversations. I'm an Apple guy. I'm an Apple guy
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Speaker 1: all the way. I talk to people about why they
23:01
Speaker 1: don't go with Apple because I think it's so much better.
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Speaker 1: It may not be, but I think that it's because
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Speaker 1: of the cost. And now this lease program seems fascinating.
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Speaker 5: Explain Yeah, I mean, basically, if you if you understand
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Speaker 5: the concept of leasing a car, that is what Apple
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Speaker 5: is doing with their new program called Apple Upgrade. So
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Speaker 5: you can now lease your iPhone, you can lease an
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Speaker 5: Apple Watch, you can lease a maccomputer, a tablet. Keep
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Speaker 5: in mind, it's not the cheapest or I shouldn't say cheap,
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Speaker 5: because Apple is never cheap, but the entry level products
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Speaker 5: are typically not included, but all the rest are. And
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Speaker 5: so we're talking an iPhone for eighteen bucks a month,
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Speaker 5: We're talking an Apple Watch for twelve dollars a month.
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Speaker 5: It is either twelve or twenty four months that you
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Speaker 5: can have this, but at the end you either have
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Speaker 5: to give it back, you have to continue with a
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Speaker 5: new product, or you got to pay the difference. And
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Speaker 5: the other side of this is that if they're you know,
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Speaker 5: your device is damaged or broken at the end, just
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Speaker 5: like a car lease, you're going to have to pay.
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Speaker 5: And one other thing about this, so, you know, you
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Speaker 5: think about all these Apple products that they have. I
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Speaker 5: think that the problem is people are not upgrading enough.
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Speaker 5: And I think that's what Apple is trying to get
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Speaker 5: around here by saying, hey, look, let's dangle this shiny
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Speaker 5: new thing in front of you. It's only twelve dollars
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Speaker 5: a month, instead of people sticking with their phones for
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Speaker 5: three to four years, which is what they're currently doing now.
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Speaker 3: Rich Ariana Grande, as big as he gets in the
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Speaker 3: music world, is suing anonymous hackers. First off, how do
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Speaker 3: you sue anonymous hackers? That's the reason they're anonymous.
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Speaker 5: Good question. Well, I think what's happening here. I think
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Speaker 5: there's a lesson for all of us. Now, you know,
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Speaker 5: I don't think anyone's crying for Ariana Grande. She's been
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Speaker 5: very successful. But the problem is, over the past couple
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Speaker 5: of years, her unreleased music videos photos have gotten out
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Speaker 5: there in a big way on the Internet. And how
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Speaker 5: are they getting out there? The hackers are targeting people
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Speaker 5: close to her. So even though she may not even
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Speaker 5: use Dropbox or she may not have these photos on
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Speaker 5: her computer that she just took, you know, for a photoshoot,
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Speaker 5: the people around her do, and so these hackers are
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Speaker 5: appealing to them and tricking them into giving up access.
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Speaker 5: And so I think the lesson for us Number one,
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Speaker 5: she's suing to try to figure out who these people
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Speaker 5: are that are actually getting access to her stuff, and
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Speaker 5: they'll figure it out eventually. But I think for the
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Speaker 5: rest of us, you have to understand that you may
25:27
Speaker 5: be secure, but there are other people, your family members,
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Speaker 5: your friends, who may give up information about you and
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Speaker 5: be tricked. Especially if you're in a corporate aspect, you're
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Speaker 5: a big high level executive or anyone, they may give
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Speaker 5: up information about you that could then lead hackers to
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Speaker 5: get into your account. So I think the lesson here
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Speaker 5: is that we need to be careful with all requests
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Speaker 5: that we get, no matter who they come from.
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Speaker 1: It's funny everything old is new again, I guess, even
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Speaker 1: with tech. I remember we all had flip phones. Remember
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Speaker 1: that everybody had a flip phone, and the Apple came
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Speaker 1: out with their iPhone and it seemed to change everything.
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Speaker 1: Everybody went with just a device that almost looked like
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Speaker 1: a small computer. Tell me about this Samsung new foldable
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Speaker 1: foldable phone, because it seems like it's selling. It's like hotcakes.
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Speaker 1: Is it like an old flip.
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Speaker 5: They've got three models this year, so yes, they do
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Speaker 5: have one. It's called the Flip eight, which yes, looks
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Speaker 5: like kind of if you remember the old Motorola rasor
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Speaker 5: that everyone had that was a very successful device. That's
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Speaker 5: one of the phones. And that's the least expensive at
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Speaker 5: twelve hundred dollars, which by the way, felt very expensive
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Speaker 5: for a flip phone back in the day. We got
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Speaker 5: them for a penny or remember that. Yeah, yeah, and man,
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Speaker 5: of course, your your bill was more expensive every month.
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Speaker 5: But they have three models. They've got two that are
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Speaker 5: more like a book style foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold
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Speaker 5: eight Ultra and then the Galaxy Z Fold eight. The
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Speaker 5: fold eight is the one that's getting a lot of
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Speaker 5: attention because it looks like a mini passport, and so
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Speaker 5: you open it up like a book. It's small, it's compact,
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Speaker 5: it fits in your pocket.
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Speaker 1: It's got this.
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Speaker 5: Nice think ish screen on the outside, but then a
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Speaker 5: really big screen on the inside, which is perfect for
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Speaker 5: watching videos, looking at photos, maybe doing spreadsheets. That starts
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Speaker 5: at nineteen hundred dollars. The Ultra starts at twenty one
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Speaker 5: hundred dollars. These are very expensive, but they're very popular.
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Speaker 5: People are kind of taking a liking to them. They
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Speaker 5: are in stores on August seventh. But again, Larry and Curtis,
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Speaker 5: I think this goes back to what I was just
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Speaker 5: talking about with Apple. We know that Apple is coming
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Speaker 5: out with a foldable or supposedly later this year. We
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Speaker 5: also know it's going to be very expensive. No one
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Speaker 5: wants to spend twenty twenty five hundred dollars on a phone.
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Speaker 5: But if they're leasing you that new foldable that's got
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Speaker 5: the best technology for fifty bucks a month, seems much
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Speaker 5: more easy to you know, take in and say okay, fine,
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Speaker 5: I'll do that payment.
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Speaker 1: So they're getting out ahead of that. That's brilliant, Thanks
27:52
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