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

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  Speaker 1: Well, before we start, I have to tell you, Larry
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  Speaker 1: and Natalie and all of our listeners, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: roam the streets in the wee hours in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you think I saw going to work this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Who's that?
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  Speaker 2: Harry Styles. No, no, no, no. He wouldn't be up there. Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Gil Lederman.
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  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, I'm at the coffee truck getting a cup
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  Speaker 1: of coffee.
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  Speaker 2: You see my coffee right here, right? With the old
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  Speaker 2: Greek cup there. And who's walking down the street? It's Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Gil Lederman. He starts early in his office.
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  Speaker 4: Early.
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  Speaker 3: How early are you talking about? What time was this?
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  Speaker 1: I think he opens his office by 6. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've gone there before, early in the morning. But he
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  Speaker 1: was bright-eyed, bushy-tailed. We're having a conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Like 4.30, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm having my cup of coffee before I came here.
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  Speaker 1: So I just want to give a shout-out to Dr. Gil.
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  Speaker 1: But again, as I'm waiting for my coffee and everything else,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think people are talking to me about?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about Dolly? Dolly Parton? Why she
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  Speaker 2: was so great? She was so wonderful. And normally... You know, in.
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  Speaker 1: A place like New York City, when you're walking around
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  Speaker 1: at 4 in the morning with emotionally disturbed homeless people,
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  Speaker 1: people who are, like, really angry that they have to.
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  Speaker 2: Get up and go to work, nothing negative about Dolly.
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  Speaker 1: I have yet to detect anybody saying anything negative about
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 3: We learned a couple of things since yesterday, and one
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  Speaker 3: that's getting a lot of attention and may be the
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  Speaker 3: most fascinating is that she has a secret song that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be released. In what, 20 years?
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  Speaker 1: 2045?
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  Speaker 3: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 5: You have a secret song locked away in Dollywood that
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  Speaker 5: will be released in 2045.
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  Speaker 6: That's the truth. No, seriously. We do a lot of
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  Speaker 6: things at Dollywood, and one year we.
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  Speaker 2: Thought about that.
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  Speaker 3: They asked me if.
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  Speaker 6: I would write a song that nobody would ever hear.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be dead.
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  Speaker 5: Gone.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I might not be, because I'll be 99.
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  Speaker 3: You know me.
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  Speaker 2: I might still be hopping around.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you'll be 99.
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  Speaker 2: You know me.
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  Speaker 3: That makes it sad, doesn't it? But anyway, there's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a new song by Dolly Parton out in 2045.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but see, when you said that. I wasn't paying
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  Speaker 2: full attention.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were talking about the secret sauce of McDonald's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Ray Kroc for the Big Mac, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Mac sauce.
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  Speaker 3: I got it. Why would you think that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, because I was, remember, McDonald's night manager, I was
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  Speaker 1: told you only use the secret sauce, the Mac sauce
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  Speaker 1: on the Big Macs, and you never give away the ingredients.
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  Speaker 3: Never.
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  Speaker 2: You take that to your grave.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, do you know it?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes. Yes, but I will never reveal it, although you
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  Speaker 1: can buy tubs of it in supermarkets now, which is
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  Speaker 1: so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: And you talked about her, something else that I found yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: you talked about her yesterday, and we both did, about
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  Speaker 3: how she never got into politics, ever. As a matter
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  Speaker 3: of fact, if she was ever invited to anything she
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  Speaker 3: thought might be political at all, she said no. And
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  Speaker 3: here she is in an interview when she's being pressed
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  Speaker 3: on politics. We have a president of the United States
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  Speaker 3: who said those things on that bus.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not addressing that. I do not get into that.
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  Speaker 6: Of course I have my opinion about everybody and everything.
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  Speaker 6: But I learned a long time ago, keep your damn
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  Speaker 6: mouth shut if you want to stay in show business.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not in politics. I'm an entertainer.
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  Speaker 3: And yet you're also a role model.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I don't... talk about people. So if you
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  Speaker 6: are deciding you may want to ask me something more serious, don't,
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  Speaker 6: because I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Going to ask.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you can ask, but I might still tell you
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  Speaker 6: where to put it.
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  Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, there's nobody like her.
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  Speaker 10: She could get away with that.
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  Speaker 9: Somebody else would sound angry and nasty by saying, nope,
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  Speaker 9: not going to answer it.
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  Speaker 10: She just sounded adorable and endearing.
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  Speaker 9: I just can't take it.
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  Speaker 1: How can I be Dolly?
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  Speaker 9: I want to be her.
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  Speaker 2: Well, go to Dollywood. Why don't you go to Dollywood?
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  Speaker 10: No, seriously? I never thought of going. I'm not a
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  Speaker 10: music person in the first place, but I am going
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  Speaker 10: to go. I definitely am going to go. You know
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  Speaker 10: they broke the website? You could not get on it
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  Speaker 10: the day she passed away. So many people were jumping on.
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  Speaker 10: And my daughter and her friends want to go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, really?
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  Speaker 10: She's like, yeah, we love her.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder how many people feel the exact same way
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  Speaker 3: you feel. You answered the question a second ago by
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  Speaker 3: saying that the website was jammed up.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I'd love to hear from people. If anybody else
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  Speaker 3: out there was inspired by this to go to Dolly World,
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  Speaker 3: to listen to some Dolly Parton songs, you just go
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  Speaker 2: And you know what's amazing?
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  Speaker 1: Not only a great businesswoman, a great philanthropist, started Dolly World,
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  Speaker 1: so many other things. In the midst of the lockdown
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  Speaker 1: and pandemic, coming up with the money for the vaccine
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  Speaker 1: research that was critical to saving lives.
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  Speaker 2: We can go on and on and on.
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  Speaker 1: But she knew early on for her to be accepted,
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  Speaker 1: that part of her could not be revealed. She had
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  Speaker 1: to have that self-deprecation, the wigs, the platinum wigs, the
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  Speaker 1: six-inch stiletto heels that oftentimes made her look like the
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  Speaker 1: madam of a brothel. Like, remember that movie she was
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  Speaker 1: in with Burt Reynolds when she was the madam of
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  Speaker 1: the brothel? I'm trying to remember the name of that.
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  Speaker 1: That was a great movie. She did so many great movies.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, right. Whorehouse of Texas. I mean, And she
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  Speaker 1: understood that. And that was her path. And I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to myself late last night, who's comparable? Because that was
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  Speaker 1: a different era. You don't have to be that way
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  Speaker 1: any longer.
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  Speaker 2: But who is comparable? And I said, right in our backyard.
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  Speaker 2: I love Lucy. Lucille Ball. She came from Jamestown, New York,
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  Speaker 2: little town upstate. Poor family.
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  Speaker 1: At the age of 14, she was hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: a greaser at the time. He was like 21 years old. Now, imagine,
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  Speaker 1: she's 14, he's 21. The family is saying, we've got
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  Speaker 1: to get her out of here. It's like she's with
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  Speaker 1: the Fonz of Jamestown, New York, if there was even
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  Speaker 1: a Fonz. And they said, what do you want to do, Lucy?
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a chorus girl. I want to dance.
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  Speaker 2: I want to sing.
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  Speaker 1: I have all this talent. Well, you've got to go
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  Speaker 1: to New York City. So she goes to New York City.
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  Speaker 2: And right away, you know, the.
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  Speaker 1: Teacher who's teaching her, you know, acting and dancing and
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  Speaker 1: all that says, you got.
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  Speaker 2: To have an angle.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be bright. They're not going to accept you.
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  Speaker 1: You're a bright young lady. You got to be ditzy.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be comedic. And by the way, everybody
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  Speaker 1: here has either blonde hair or brown hair. She had
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  Speaker 1: brown hair at the time. Try being a redhead. There
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  Speaker 1: aren't that many redheads in show business. So, boy, she
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  Speaker 1: was out there. She had that chorus girl. She became
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  Speaker 1: a B-grade movie starlet in Hollywood in all those B movies.
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  Speaker 1: She never made it to the A stage. And then
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  Speaker 1: she met Desi Arnaz, you know, the band leader, the
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  Speaker 1: Cuban band leader. Back then, band leaders were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, they were the big thing. They were like
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  Speaker 1: the Harry Styles at the time. And Desi Arnaz had
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  Speaker 1: quite the following.
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  Speaker 2: So CBS, they're just getting involved in TV. She goes,
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  Speaker 2: I have this idea.
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  Speaker 1: Me and my husband, Desi Arnaz, the band leader, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about in our home.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no. America is not going to go for
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  Speaker 2: this guy who has this thick accent who's Cuban. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go with an American guy to do that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take it on the road. And she went on the
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  Speaker 1: road and it was received really well in Vaudeville. And
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  Speaker 1: she comes back to CBS. They said, Lucy, we told you.
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  Speaker 1: no we ain't doing it with Desi Arnaz America will
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  Speaker 1: not go for that accent and the guy from Cuba
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  Speaker 1: she says well guess what then we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: do it and he thought about it and thought about
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  Speaker 1: it and they folded just like remember when Dolly Parton
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  Speaker 1: was approached by Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Parker
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  Speaker 1: and they wanted to use her song and they didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to give her the rights you know say you
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  Speaker 1: should be honored you know Elvis you know blue suede
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  Speaker 1: shoes wants to do and she was honest no no
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  Speaker 1: no but that's my song Those are my rights. And
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  Speaker 1: she wouldn't give him the song. So all this stubbornness
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  Speaker 1: leads to something. We saw it with Stallone and Rocky.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote the script. Hollywood said, no, no, we don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to do it. He said, well, then you
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  Speaker 1: can't have the script. Chaz Palminteri, Bronx Tale. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want you to do it. We want you to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, if you hold out for what you believe in,
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  Speaker 1: there's success. And then she goes on number one sitcom
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  Speaker 1: in America, I Love Lucy. Her husband is cheating on
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  Speaker 1: her like there's no tomorrow. He's seen with every starlet imaginable.
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  Speaker 1: So she goes, I'll fix your wagon. So they start
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  Speaker 1: Desilu Productions, right? She divorces him.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Kicks him out. Said, I had it with you. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know they created Mission Impossible, Star Trek?
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  Speaker 2: So many shows. It was her. It was her. She
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  Speaker 2: devised having more than one camera on set.
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  Speaker 1: She was brilliant, but that never came out in terms
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  Speaker 1: of her acting, her dancing, her performance as America's sweetheart,
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  Speaker 1: Lucille Ball, the person you wanted to be next door,
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  Speaker 1: to be your next door neighbor, the redhead, the ditzy redhead.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhat similar in terms of the rise. And bulletproof to criticism.
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  Speaker 1: Bulletproof to criticism as Dolly Parton was. Look, Dolly Parton
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of the Deep South with the Holy Rollers,
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  Speaker 1: the Southern Baptists, embraced the LGBTQ.
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  Speaker 2: Community and didn't get any blowback.
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  Speaker 1: Most drag queens, if you ask them who you want
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  Speaker 1: to dress up as, they'll tell you Dolly Parton. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of the South. You could do that
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  Speaker 1: in Greenwich Village. You could do that in West Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Try doing that in the hills of Tennessee with the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Rollers up there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, at that point, she was so big at that point, though.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it's too big to fail almost.
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  Speaker 3: that you can't go after somebody when they're that big
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  Speaker 3: and as you pointed out she was that self-deprecating no
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  Speaker 3: that's a that's a pretty good one uh if you
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  Speaker 3: can think of any others someone else that has been
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  Speaker 3: universally loved and beyond criticism Lucille Ball is a great one.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you have another one. Give us a talkback. Go
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  Speaker 3: to the iHeartRadio app and look for the talkback section.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to be playing them next. We're also going
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  Speaker 3: to be talking about, well, they say these celebrity deaths
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: come in threes, right? Well, the very next day, Tim Curry,
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  Speaker 3: the actor from many movies, Home Alone 2, he was
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  Speaker 3: on Broadway for a long time with, what was it,
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  Speaker 3: Little House of Horrors? Did I get that one wrong?
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  Speaker 3: That's not it.
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  Speaker 2: You mean Little Shop of Horrors? Yeah, that's not it. No,
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: The horror picture show, the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: You see, I know, Larry, you never went 12 midnight
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  Speaker 1: to your local theater.
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  Speaker 8: I did.
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  Speaker 3: I did.
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  Speaker 2: Rocky Horror?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Which character did you mimic?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't mimic characters. I watched other people mimic characters.
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  Speaker 3: I just wanted to watch the event. But I've gone
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times. A couple of times?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Oh, there are things you are learning here
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  Speaker 2: about Larry.
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  Speaker 3: Because once you go, you've got to take someone else
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  Speaker 3: to go. You have to say, oh, you've got to
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  Speaker 3: see this. You've got to see this. And so, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: I've been a couple of times. You ever been?
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  Speaker 2: One time.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: One time only.
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  Speaker 3: Why are you making that face?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just suggesting that you like that artsy-fartsy stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't artsy-fartsy at all. It was a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: kids spraying water and shooting each other with stuff and
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  Speaker 3: yelling out during the show.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, Larry. It's okay.
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  Speaker 3: You're getting weird. Plus a chance to see Chicago at
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  Speaker 3: age 25.
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  Speaker 2: When you're perfectly imperfect. Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in
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  Speaker 2: the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Guaranteed human.
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  Speaker 2: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 3: Well, perhaps the biggest story and the longest running story
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  Speaker 3: of the day, because it changes everything, is this settlement
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  Speaker 3: with Meta that runs, of course, Facebook and others and Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: And it has come to an agreement that where it
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  Speaker 3: is going to pay $ 17 billion and put in restrictions
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  Speaker 3: on its sites because they are basically admitting, although they
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  Speaker 3: won't say this, they are basically admitting that they have
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  Speaker 3: constructed their products. So they are addictive and damaging to children.
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  Speaker 3: This is an amazing step forward. And the, A lot
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  Speaker 3: of states got involved in this, including New Jersey and
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  Speaker 3: New York. As a matter of fact, 48 states were
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  Speaker 3: involved in this, 51 if you include all the territories
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  Speaker 3: that were involved in as well. But the lead was
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  Speaker 3: the DA in California.
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  Speaker 4: This is a major breakthrough, a milestone moment, a watershed moment,
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  Speaker 4: because when it comes to protecting our children's mental health,
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  Speaker 4: there is no time to lose. Instead of getting tied
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  Speaker 4: up in years of trials and appeals... We have secured
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  Speaker 4: the changes we were after.
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  Speaker 3: I call him a DA. He's the Attorney General of California.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Rob Bonta. And a big credit to
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  Speaker 3: him because they ran the case out there because that
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  Speaker 3: is where META is headquartered. Let me give you some
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  Speaker 3: of the things that this is going to mean. There's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a daily usage cap, setting a two-hour
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  Speaker 3: daily limit that requires parental permission to disable. So that's
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  Speaker 3: going to be automatic. Once they get the age of
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  Speaker 3: a child or once a parent wants that, then they're
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  Speaker 3: going to have this two-hour limit. Overnight curfews from midnight
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  Speaker 3: to 6 a.m. No child will be able to get
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  Speaker 3: on any Metaproduct. It has curbs too, hiding counts, reducing notifications,
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  Speaker 3: and removing extreme makeup filters so that these little girls
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  Speaker 3: can look like adult girls. verification, implementing stricter age checking tools.
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  Speaker 3: And so it is a, it is a sweeping reform.
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  Speaker 3: Does more have to be done? Yes. But think about this.
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  Speaker 3: Now that this has happened, now that they have admitted
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  Speaker 3: that their product is addictive and especially addictive to young
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  Speaker 3: children and that it has done them harm, although they
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  Speaker 3: haven't come out and said that, I mean, They are
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  Speaker 3: now saying, we don't want any culpability on this. I
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  Speaker 3: get that. But you don't give up $ 17 billion and
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  Speaker 3: change your product completely without some type of admission. This
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  Speaker 3: means that all of the other social media platforms are
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  Speaker 3: now on notice. And they have a choice. Are they
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  Speaker 3: going to make these changes now ahead of potential lawsuits
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  Speaker 3: now that you have precedent? Or are they going to
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  Speaker 3: try to fight this? My feeling is everybody's going to
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  Speaker 3: fall in line.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there are others waiting to see what the Zuck
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  Speaker 1: would do. Zuckerberg made a decision to go into court
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  Speaker 1: and actually be willing to testify. And I think after
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  Speaker 1: they just spent $ 2 billion in one quarter on legal
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  Speaker 1: fees alone, because, you know, the ones who make money
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  Speaker 1: on this are the lawyers.
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  Speaker 8: Imagine, in one quarter alone, that's three months, Mehta was
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  Speaker 8: billed $ 2 billion in legal fees, and then they told him, Zuck,
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  Speaker 8: you're going to get on the stand, and they are
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  Speaker 8: going to report interviews that you've done about your own
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  Speaker 8: two children.
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  Speaker 1: He has two children now. that you would not allow
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  Speaker 1: your children to use social media because it's bad for them.
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  Speaker 2: And then your number one investor.
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  Speaker 1: Who really helped make Facebook now meta was Peter Thiel,
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  Speaker 1: who has left the country. He's into this whole antichrist thing.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: He's living in Argentina now with his husband and his children.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Peter Thiel limited his kids to an hour and a
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: half a week. Tim Cook would not let his nephew
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: on social media. And even Bill Gates would not get
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: his children a cell phone until they were 14. Wouldn't
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: even allow them access. So they were going to use
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: all this information. It's sort of like, do as I say,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: but not as I do.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: They knew the problems ahead of time. But you know
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: who the real heroes are in this whole thing? Are
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: all of the whistleblowers from Meta that came forward. They're
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: the ones that changed that case. Whistleblowers and former employees testified,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: for instance, that Meta held internal data proving that Facebook
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: and Instagram harmed young children but hid those findings from
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: the public and even internal staff. They had a former
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: safety researcher. Arturo Behar, who testified that design elements like
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: infinite scrolling and autoplay and default popularity counters were prioritized.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: to boost engagement rather than protect kids. And witnesses came
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: forward claiming CEO Mark Zuckerberg chose a don't ask, don't
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: tell approach and ignored internal warnings about critical safety gaps
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: while publicly claiming safety was his top priority when he
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: ignored safety completely. So all of that, Curtis, culminated in
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: in a $ 17 billion settlement. And I'm going to give
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: you a lot of credit because you said the worst
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: witness in the world would be the personality-laden CEO Mark
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Zuckerberg in testifying because he was awful on the stand.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: But you know what was brilliant? They let him get
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: up and say all these things, and then they had
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: all of these witnesses coming up afterwards, all of these
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: whistleblowers saying... That was a lie. That was a lie.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: That was a lie. That was a lie. And you
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: know what they had? They had proof.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: They had memos.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: And the other thing was, Meta, through Zuckerberg, kept saying,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: we can't be held responsible for what users post. Yes,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you can, by monitoring what they post. But it costs
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: money to do that. You see, I don't know how
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: many times people have tried to get in touch with
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: these social networking companies online. It's like dealing with the
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz. You never get a person on the phone.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: You have to send an email. Maybe somebody gets back
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to you. So even if you're complaining, you don't know
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: if this is just going into this vast sort of
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: chamber where nobody ever gets answers. He clearly knew this
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: was a problem. He was making a lot of money
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: at that time. The investors like Peter Thiel and others
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: knew it, but they would just be, billions and billions
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and billions and who cares? Yeah.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: We all assume that in the past. Now we know
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: it for a fact. Well, now we know that there
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: was internal documents saying that, that they ignored and they
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: told everybody to ignore them. Curtis, I can't tell you
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: how big this ruling is. This changes everything.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. But I need you to do a deep dive.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We don't have time to do this story today because,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: But apparently a bunch of towns in New Jersey that
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: got a payout from the opioid settlement, you know, from
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: that private company that was pushing those opioids, have spent
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the money on all the wrong things. Now, the payouts
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: are going to take place, as you pointed out, $ 17 billion.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And that doesn't even account yet for what TikTok has
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: to do, Snapchat. They were all waiting for Meta first
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: because they're going to come in and settle. It's got
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to be a way. Like, we're getting a billion in
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: New York State. How is that money going to be spent?
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Is it going to be spent to protect children or
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: help children who have mental health issues as a result
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: of this addiction, which it is? Look, I'm addicted to it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I see all of a sudden a scroll. I'm on
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a scroll. An hour later, I'm still on the freaking scroll.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I'm saying I got other things to do.
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: But Curtis, yes, you're 100 percent right.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: It's not just kids that get addicted. I see adults,
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: seniors scrolling all the time.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: But the great harm is to kids.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, of course.
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: But it is an addiction to everybody.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And the fact is that I'm happy it was Zuckerberg
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: because he was always so righteous and you know, he
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: would act like there was nothing wrong with his stuff.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: But when they uncovered all of this in depositions and
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: in deep research, you know, e-attorneys did.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Whistleblowers. Right.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: This is what you said. You won't even let your
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: kids anywhere near your own product.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: How many times? It's like the AI data filing centers.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: If you were to ask the proponents, would you want
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: your home right next to an AI data filing center?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Of course not.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Would you want your children or grandchildren to use your
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: social media products?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Of course not.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: But it's good enough for the rest of the general public.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: There's not a jury you're going to be able to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: convince after that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Well, the worst thing is that they lied. They lied
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: and they lied and they lied and they lied and
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: they knew the truth. And so my fear is that
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: all of these other companies, that X and all the
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: other social media sites, Twitch and whatever, all of them,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: I don't know them all, but all of them are
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: going to try to make some changes really quickly so
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: they don't run into this too.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Well, this is the biggest question I have. They want
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: age proof. We all know we lied about our age
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to get cigarettes, booze, beer. You know, there are different routes.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It's more difficult than if you just go in and
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: use the product. But how are they going to guarantee?
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Because kids are going to figure it out faster than
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the adults. I know my three sons. They run circles
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: around me when it comes to social networking. Look, I'm
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a Luddite compared to them. Some of these kids are
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: going to figure out how to get around these firewalls.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: But they've done nothing. So doing something is what is
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: important right now. Let's take this as baby steps. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: want to look at this. I want to look at
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: this agreement, too, because if it precludes lawsuits from people
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: who were harmed by this, children that committed suicide across
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the country, then I damn this agreement because they deserve
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: to be heard.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: And they deserve their day in court. I want to
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: take a look at it. I think you're right.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And also, I think Florida, to their credit, although I
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: want to do a deeper dive on that for tomorrow's program.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I think Florida has been the lone wolf to say,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that's good that they settled, but we're not settling. We're
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: going into court. And you know, Florida has led on
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of these things. To DeSantis' credit, along with
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: his attorney general, they've been in the forefront of.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to take a deeper dive into it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: But right now, it's all good and it changes everything.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: And guess what?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Absolutely love the show since I made the switch over
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: from you know who.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Well, this is going to be really interesting because I
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: think Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and Republican candidate for
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: governor may now have his issue. He's been coming up
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: in the polls, but he's still double digits behind. And
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: as of right now, you would have to expect that
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul is going to win easily. However, she has
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: pushed forward and signed legislation to prevent local law enforcement
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: from working with ICE officers. And there's few exceptions to that,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: but they're few and far between. And so she came
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: out yesterday warning Bruce Blakeman that he better get on board.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: It was the only county in the state that hadn't
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: signed up for this. Everybody else said, yep, we're going
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: to do it. We're going to do it. So she
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: was waiting for Blakeman with this threat.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: I expect him, like everybody else in this state, to
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: follow the laws of New York. And there are consequences
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: if you do not. And again, someone like that will
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: intentionally misrepresent, which is a nice way of saying lie.
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: about what we're actually talking about because we are not
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: disallowing cooperation with local law enforcement when it comes to crimes.
• 25:01
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: If there's a crime in progress that they're not saying
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: you can't help at that point. I got it. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: got it. So if you're going to a crime and
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: if there's an illegal involved, then yes, it's okay. But
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: that doesn't cover everything. And Bruce Blakeman announced that he tried,
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: he looked at everything, he tried to get out of this,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: but no, he's gonna follow the law.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: This is one of the saddest days of my life
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: as county executive, that because of this terrible and bad
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: law that we have to adhere to, I know it's
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: gonna make it more dangerous here in Nassau County.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Yep. And if one thing were to happen with an
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: illegal in Nassau County, that could change the trajectory of
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: this race. I'll tell you the one thing Bruce Blakeman
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: always had going for him. The one thing was he
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: was the safest county, not only in New York, but
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: in America, according to U.S. News and World Report. And
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: much of that was because they worked with ICE. If
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: they arrested somebody and it was a criminal and they
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: were going to release him from jail, ICE just showed up,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: no fuss, no mess. They were handed over. If there
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: was a criminal that they were going after, Nassau County
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Police would help out. And so now, if something were
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: to happen before Election Day with an illegal, well, that's
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: going to be on Kathy Hochul's hands.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: This law is written in the blood Of the victims past,
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: present and future.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: You see that he's already he's already playing it up.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Well, I would have used another analogy because she went
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: out on a limb and said he's the only county
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: holding out from this. Well, when she was the county
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: clerk in Erie County, the Democrat county clerk, she was
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the only county that refused to issue driver's licenses to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: illegal aliens when Eliot Spitzer, the governor, won it.
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: She made a national reputation. Oh, my dead body, will
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: an illegal alien get a driver's license here? How quickly
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: she changed. You know, she did the pirouette. But this
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: goes back, unfortunately, to Ed Koch. He was the one
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: who first said, no, we're a sanctuary city.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: We're not going to cooperate with the immigration and naturalization
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: service because we want the illegals to come into a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: police precinct and report crimes against them.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Rudy upheld it. Pataki upheld it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: So unless there are these issues that Bruce can elevate
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: from the headlines and make it very personal– If I
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: were Kathy Ockel, I'd use that argument against him, and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: then he can use the argument against her that, yeah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: but when you were the county.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Clerk, you defied Eliot Spitzer. You said, I stand alone.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I don't care because I'm doing the right thing.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: And I think it eventually comes down to, in these
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: last two months, will there be issues in New York
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: State that Bruce Blakeman can latch onto and say, you see,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: because of the lack of cooperation, this person did a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: home invasion. This person walked into a grocery store, shot
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: it up, because then you personalize it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: God forbid killed someone. God forbid killed law enforcement. God
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: forbid that were to happen. But if that were to happen,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: that will completely change the trajectory of the race. Because
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: he can point at her and say, we were the
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: safest county in the country, and look what you did.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: He's going to get some tactical air support on the Hill.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: The Republicans who are in charge are going to have
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: hearings on this. And they're going to drag DAs from
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: New York City in front of congressional hearings to explain
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: why they don't cooperate with ICE. Because it is splitting hairs.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: civilly and criminally. As you pointed out, you got to
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: participate on the criminal charge. But a civil charge is
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you came in illegally. That's a civil charge. They're basically saying, no,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: we're not going to cooperate with you, even if there's
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a crowd, even if there's a riot surrounding your detention
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: of this person who is here illegally, you're on your
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: own ice. And that's what leads to a lot of
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the problems that we then see on video. They get amplified.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And it's a bad look where, as you know, law
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: enforcement should be there backing up the feds to make
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: sure nobody gets hurt, not just the ICE agents, the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: people that they've just detained, the crowd, everyone else who
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: was involved in that situation.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the proof is going to be in the pudding
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: and hopefully nothing happens. But that hearing down in Washington,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman should be there. They should have him come
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: down and testify.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: They probably will.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I hope they do.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: They will elevate him because he could use that boost
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: as we will be in the final two months, which
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: will be a sprint.