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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 8-7-26_2 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wr Sleewah MENTI The Morning
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  Speaker 1: starts here Curtis Sliwa and Larry Minty in the Morning
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  Speaker 1: on sevent ten War.
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  Speaker 2: Day two.
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  Speaker 3: Larry without Natalie, our producer who's been here forever and
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  Speaker 3: ever and ever in a day, going back to the
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  Speaker 3: days of the Gamblings. She'll be back on Monday, as
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  Speaker 3: you know, she's had some knee problems, so substituting today
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  Speaker 3: again on loan from March Simone is Chris. It's a
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  Speaker 3: young whipping snapper so obviously you probably don't have many
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  Speaker 3: regrets in your life yet.
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  Speaker 2: Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you haven't really climbed the ladder yet. But when
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  Speaker 3: you get to be as old as I am seventy two,
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  Speaker 3: you think back from time to time and you say,
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  Speaker 3: what is my biggest regret? Most people, I think Larry
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  Speaker 3: if they went and did one of those polygripp what
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  Speaker 3: do they call that again, polymarket? And what's the other one?
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  Speaker 3: Calchi would probably say probably all of his marriages. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he probably had regrets about some of that.
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  Speaker 4: That would be yes, exactly, but that's not my biggest
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  Speaker 4: regret at all. Really, my biggest regret is that I
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  Speaker 4: did not learn Spanish in junior high school.
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  Speaker 3: When I had that opportunity, I was entering seventh grade.
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  Speaker 3: Bill was junior high school CANARSI. I was in an
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  Speaker 3: sp class. That meant you were doing pretty good academically,
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  Speaker 3: and you had to check off two boxes because they
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  Speaker 3: said you had to have a second language. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's imperative at that time we're talking now, oh, the
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  Speaker 3: late sixties, and you had the choice Spanish or French,
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  Speaker 3: and the brighter kids always.
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  Speaker 2: Went for French.
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  Speaker 3: So if you were going to take Spanish, Larry, it
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  Speaker 3: was considered beneath you because the brighter kids that were
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  Speaker 3: in your sp class were all taking French. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they were actually watching Charles the Goal without subtitles in English,
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  Speaker 3: giving speeches in France and translating it. Like I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: imagine anything more boring in the world, but you.
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  Speaker 2: Had to do it. And yesterday it all came to me, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: In the hot, sweltering, humid heat, it felt like it
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  Speaker 3: was over one hundred degrees.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it because I love the heat.
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  Speaker 3: Nancy has collapsed, you know, almost had to give a
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  Speaker 3: mouth to marvel asassitation.
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  Speaker 2: Like most people, she can deal with the heat.
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  Speaker 3: And a guy comes up to me on the platform
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  Speaker 3: on the number two train where it's like a Schwitz.
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  Speaker 3: He goes, hey, Curtis, I saw you Saturday night there.
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  Speaker 3: You had quite the tussle with those three guys who
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  Speaker 3: pulled the knives. He's an MTA worker, maintenance worker. And
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  Speaker 3: I said, well, what do you mean will you on
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  Speaker 3: that train? Heah, yeah, I was right in that car.
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm saying to myself, oh, you didn't have my back,
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  Speaker 3: but I was being polite and he was obviously Hispanic,
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  Speaker 3: and he said to me, you know those two guys,
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  Speaker 3: the two Mexican guys the construction were because in the
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  Speaker 3: corner were arguing with the Dominican guy. All they were
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  Speaker 3: doing is Spanish. But I had no idea what the
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  Speaker 3: hell he was saying, so I jumped in. He goes,
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  Speaker 3: those two Mexican guys thought that you were a friend
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  Speaker 3: of the Dominican guy and you were coming to his aid,
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  Speaker 3: and they pulled knives on you. You didn't realize they
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  Speaker 3: were gonna stick you. I said, I had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: I was just trying to break out the fight. Did
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  Speaker 3: you see the knives?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all three of them had daggers.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what did you think they were gonna do with it?
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  Speaker 3: Quite frankly, I thought they saw me with the red beret.
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  Speaker 3: They knew that I was not involved with the three.
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  Speaker 3: They would probably back off. Eventually. I threw them off
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  Speaker 3: the train and the Mexicans. Mexican's backpack got thrown over
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  Speaker 3: the side, and they dealt with Dad as I was yelling, lemigre, lemigre, lemigre,
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  Speaker 3: and the Mexican's rank because he probably thought it was
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  Speaker 3: Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's not, Benny Hannas. When somebody pulls a knife,
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  Speaker 5: they're probably trying gonna stab here.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta be.
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  Speaker 3: Honest with you. I didn't see the two knives from
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  Speaker 3: the Mexicans. I did the Dominican. But it's interesting how
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  Speaker 3: he said they thought because they're talking, you know, back
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  Speaker 3: and forth, screaming that you were with the Dominican guy
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  Speaker 3: until you pushed everybody off the train. They didn't quite
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  Speaker 3: figure it out, and then naturally you're screaming, lemigra, lemiga, lemiga.
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  Speaker 2: Figure let me get the hell out of here. They
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  Speaker 2: probably had no papers. And I said to myself a.
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  Speaker 3: Week later, you see, if I had learned Spanish and
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  Speaker 3: builders junior high school instead of French, which I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: even order from a French menu.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if my life depended on it, I would.
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  Speaker 3: Have understood what they were saying, other than saying to
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  Speaker 3: me maricole and bunetocho bugnet to all the curse words,
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  Speaker 3: the vile curse words that I pick up because people
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  Speaker 3: will yell at me from time to time and I'll
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  Speaker 3: ask Spanish speaking guardian angel that doesn't sound very good.
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  Speaker 2: They said, you damn write it ain't very good.
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  Speaker 5: You could learn Spanish. Now, you could learn Spanish.
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  Speaker 2: You know who used to talk about that and try
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  Speaker 2: to convince me.
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  Speaker 3: He actually sat in the studios of seven ten wor
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  Speaker 3: doing overnights, Barry Farber. He knew about sixteen different languages.
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  Speaker 3: He would teach languages, So you should learn most of
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  Speaker 3: your guardian angels speak Spanish at that time.
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  Speaker 2: He was correct. I never did.
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  Speaker 3: And let me give you the most recent poll see
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  Speaker 3: if this floats your both. More than half of Americans
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  Speaker 3: think kids should learn Spanish at school.
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  Speaker 2: Half of Americans forty five.
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  Speaker 3: Million people speak it at home, meaning Spanish in the house.
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  Speaker 3: One fifth of the people think that the kids should
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  Speaker 3: be taught Mandarin, which was very cool and very hip,
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of people were doing that before the
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  Speaker 3: lockdown and pandemic. You don't barely see any mainland Chinese
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  Speaker 3: people here anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And fourteen percent said it's not important at all to
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  Speaker 2: learn French, which just still teaching public schools.
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  Speaker 5: I think they're absolutely right about the French. My son,
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  Speaker 5: one of my sons in high school, took Chinese, and
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  Speaker 5: I thought that was brilliant. I thought it was brilliant
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  Speaker 5: until I found out did you know this, No, that
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  Speaker 5: there are private schools around the country with the Chinese pay.
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  Speaker 5: The Republic of China pays for that program.
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  Speaker 2: The Red Chinese.
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  Speaker 5: The Red Chinese pay to teach Chinese in private schools
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  Speaker 5: all across the country.
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  Speaker 2: So that when they take over, we'll understand what they're saying.
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  Speaker 5: I guess so. And then if you go for all
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  Speaker 5: four years you go on a trip to China, tell
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  Speaker 5: me that doesn't sound like some type of indoctrination.
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  Speaker 3: Larry, before the lockdown and pandemic, when we closed the
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  Speaker 3: door to the Red Chinese, they were the number one
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  Speaker 3: tourist in New York City. You know how you knew
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  Speaker 3: what was them, you know, because tourists, somebody's always their
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  Speaker 3: host or their guide, and they fly a flag. They
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  Speaker 3: would always have the red flag number two. The red
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  Speaker 3: Chinese would always spit in the streets. That's I knew
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  Speaker 3: they were from mainland China. They spit in the streets
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  Speaker 3: because there they do that. They don't think twice about it. Here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you see somebody spitting in the street, you said,
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  Speaker 3: oh god, No, you don't see them anymore. And you
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  Speaker 3: know the other group you don't see much of the
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  Speaker 3: used to I mean flooding here were Canadians.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't see many of them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're anti American now. Yeah, they stopped going down
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  Speaker 5: the Jersey Shore too. I mean the Jersey Show is
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  Speaker 5: packed with Canadians almost every summer. Many of them stop.
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  Speaker 5: Some of them still go, but they go down there
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  Speaker 5: and camp down there.
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  Speaker 2: But they're still in Florida.
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  Speaker 3: You see those maple leaf flags. Hey, you went to
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  Speaker 3: a Catholic school for a while, right, Yeah, I went
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  Speaker 3: Catholic school first. The Christian nuns, Irish Christian nuns from
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  Speaker 3: Saint Matthew's.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't offer Latin.
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  Speaker 3: That was the Brooklyn Prep, the Jesuit High school. I
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  Speaker 3: went to mandatory Jesus Gallic Wars. I always got the
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  Speaker 3: crib notes. I did lousy in Latin. I hated it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but this is the language that will introduce you to
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  Speaker 3: all of the languages.
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  Speaker 2: I hated being in Latin class.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that's funny that that's what they told you. I
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  Speaker 5: always thought it was indoctrination. I thought they wanted you
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  Speaker 5: to become a priest. It was like a recruiting by
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  Speaker 5: teaching you Latin so you could then Oh look, you
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  Speaker 5: already speak Latin.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you become a priest seminary.
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  Speaker 3: But remember in our era they did away with you
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  Speaker 3: all Latin mass. Then all of a sudden it was
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  Speaker 3: the folk mass. You know, during the age of the Hippies,
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  Speaker 3: more of the English was introduced into the mass.
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  Speaker 2: But before the Hippie era, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was the Latin mass. You know, it was all Latin.
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  Speaker 3: You never understood what the hell they were talking about.
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  Speaker 3: You just knew when to do the shine of the
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  Speaker 3: cross went to shit, went to kneel, and if you
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  Speaker 3: were a good boy and had gone and done your confession,
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  Speaker 3: now I can receive communion on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know when to sit and Neil because of
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  Speaker 5: those really arrogant people in church that know everything and
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  Speaker 5: you just they you follow them. You're not following the priest.
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  Speaker 5: You follow the person next to you. If they know
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  Speaker 5: what they're doing, they stand, you stand, you said, they said,
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  Speaker 5: I will tell you this. You started this whole thing
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  Speaker 5: with a great question, and you're The great question was
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  Speaker 5: what is your biggest regret?
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  Speaker 2: Biggest regret?
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  Speaker 5: And I think I think everybody has one. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: and some of them are deep, and some of them
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  Speaker 5: are frivolous, and some of them are not learning a language.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that's a good one. But I think that
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  Speaker 5: you didn't do this right. You didn't do this right,
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  Speaker 5: you didn't do this right. My two oldest kids, I
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  Speaker 5: wish I would have spent more time with. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I was so involved with my career and moving all
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  Speaker 5: around the country and taking jobs around the country that
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'm making it up with the two youngest.
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  Speaker 5: But they noticed that. My two oldest noticed that and go, oh,
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  Speaker 5: you get to spend time with dad. That's great. I
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  Speaker 5: would wish I had I was able to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you my dad was away eight months
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  Speaker 3: he year as a merchancy. Oh wow, I welcome that
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  Speaker 3: I had more freedom when he went away, because when
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  Speaker 3: he was home for four straight months, because they were
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  Speaker 3: home four straight months, he didn't tolerate any nonsense. I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't pull anything on him. He said, Lo, what do
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  Speaker 3: he think? Come on, Curtis, I'm not going for that.
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  Speaker 3: Your mother might go for that, your sisters might go
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  Speaker 3: for that, your aunts, your uncles. I'm not going for that.
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  Speaker 3: So it was like two different worlds for me. When
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  Speaker 3: dad was home, man, I couldn't get away with anything.
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  Speaker 3: When he was away, I could get away with almost everything.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know what you mean. I was the same
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  Speaker 5: way not except my father was always around. I couldn't
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  Speaker 5: get away with anything all the time.
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