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Hour 2: Everyone Loves Soft Serve Ice Cream · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Oh ladies and gentlemen, what a day it was yesterday
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Speaker 1: as everybody part of this radio confab largest in the
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Speaker 1: nation and world. iHeart, buttoned down, serious, structured, no chaos,
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Speaker 1: no novellas, no soap operas, professional with a capital P,
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Speaker 1: celebrated National Radio Day. Now, I'm not going to say
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Speaker 1: that everybody else in the industry didn't celebrate it, because
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of radio stations around the nation
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Speaker 1: that are not affiliated with iHeart. But this is the
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Speaker 1: largest con combine and I can tell you that on
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Speaker 1: this very special day yesterday, Tom Cuddy, who was proven
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Speaker 1: to be the best in the business both FM and
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Speaker 1: AM over the years, best he earned it. He came
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Speaker 1: up the hard way released the promo that you you
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Speaker 1: just heard in fact, quiet Storm. Chris, Can you please
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Speaker 1: play it for our audience. Thanks to you, our listeners.
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Speaker 1: In just five short months, you've made Curtis Leywise and
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Speaker 1: Larry Manty New York's number one morning talk radio show
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Speaker 1: six till nine weekdays. On sevent ten, war so we
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Speaker 1: are the number one New York morning talk show. That's
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Speaker 1: a fact. Fiction came out of the mouth of the
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Speaker 1: shock jock over at WABC, who indicated that he beat
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Speaker 1: me and Larry handily and that I should retire. But
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Speaker 1: then again, that's what he always does, and there's nobody
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Speaker 1: there to rein him in. They don't have a program director,
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Speaker 1: they don't have a news director anymore. Everybody's resigning. In fact,
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Speaker 1: they a new contribution to talk radio is Michael Cohen.
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Speaker 1: We'll say discover aiata I mean the worst of the
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Speaker 1: worst by anyway, let's put them aside. So there's no
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Speaker 1: doubt in this period of time we've established ourselves because
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Speaker 1: we have the dynamics that make for great talk. I
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Speaker 1: and Larry were of the same generation, but we oftentimes
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Speaker 1: disagree and then agree. And again we're not gonna fry
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Speaker 1: your brain. We're just going to max and relax sometimes
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Speaker 1: and enjoy this thing of ours, which has to be
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Speaker 1: entertaining before anything else. Before it's informative, before it's opinionated.
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Speaker 1: You have to have the full package. And boy, yesterday
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Speaker 1: iHeart had the full package on view because we have
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Speaker 1: a lot of great shows and they were all represented
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Speaker 1: at two Park. It is an exquisite location where when
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Speaker 1: you go out on the rooftop balcony you can reach
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Speaker 1: out and touch the Umpire State Building. It's probably got
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Speaker 1: one of the most magnificent sights of all of Manhattan
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Speaker 1: in the city. And then we went down into the
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Speaker 1: Assembly hall where there was panel discussions and the best
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Speaker 1: that I've ever heard. And I got to tell you, Chris,
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Speaker 1: I've been doing this thirty five years, and I've been
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Speaker 1: to a lot of conventions and a lot of gatherings
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Speaker 1: of radio people and it's generally, you know, they're puffing
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Speaker 1: out their chest. I me, me, I'm the best, not
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Speaker 1: like the rest. And I sort of like the shock
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Speaker 1: shock over at WABC. Wow, this was so good. Let
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Speaker 1: me set it up for you because it just made
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Speaker 1: me want to bust my buttons and bridges with pride.
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Speaker 1: Then I'm part of this professional organization. Then Honors Radio.
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Speaker 1: First off, you had the guy when I was first
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Speaker 1: introduced to him back I think it was about March
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Speaker 1: ninth when Tom Cuddy did the shittah and put me
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Speaker 1: and Larry together and said better together. And he's absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: And I see this guy in the hall and he
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Speaker 1: looked like Jim Carrey's brother. Turns out he's the president
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Speaker 1: of iHeart Communications in our Tri state area. Steve de
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Speaker 1: lenceatt Man. He was the moderator on the stage, and
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Speaker 1: I kind of knew he'd be good because it's out
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Speaker 1: of this studio. On occasion he does the podcasts CEOs
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Speaker 1: you should know all about, which means you ask a
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Speaker 1: question and then you clear out of the way. Unlike
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Speaker 1: a lot of the debates that I've been involved in
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Speaker 1: in running familiar with the moderators think that they are
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Speaker 1: the people that should be doing all the talking and
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Speaker 1: you should be limited to thirty second soundbites that don't
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Speaker 1: make any sense. He was amazing. He'd ask a question
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Speaker 1: and then he would pull back, and you had four
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Speaker 1: people who best represented radio in all of its forms.
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Speaker 1: First off, Jim care fifty three years in the business,
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Speaker 1: wearing his T shirt raised on radio with the symbol
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Speaker 1: of the radio next to him Q one oh four
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Speaker 1: point three wax Q classic Rock. Nobody's been in the
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Speaker 1: business longer, and he explained the origin of radio from
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Speaker 1: a radio station that he listened to going up in Detroit,
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Speaker 1: which was run by the Detroit News. By the time
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Speaker 1: he finished, the audience, which was mostly millennials and gen zers,
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Speaker 1: they were like, oh wow. Even Charlemagne, a god, a
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Speaker 1: power one O five said, that's the best explanation of
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Speaker 1: this thing of arts that I've ever heard mention and
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Speaker 1: nodding their heads and agreeing without any doubt was Danielle
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Speaker 1: Manio of Z one hundred and Angie Martinez, also a
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Speaker 1: power one O five.
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Speaker 2: It was great.
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Speaker 1: So Jim Kerr set the table, and then Angie Martinez,
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Speaker 1: who I'd known for many, many years when she was
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Speaker 1: at Hot ninety seven, like twenty eight years. She's a
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Speaker 1: Brooklyn girl. She was, I guess the protege of DJ
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Speaker 1: Funk Master Flex. You know how I knew DJ Funk
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Speaker 1: MASTERFLEXA Chris. How's that both of us were elected into
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Speaker 1: the New York State Radio Hall of Fame in twenty thirteen.
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Speaker 1: It's a prestigious honor. A lot of great men and women,
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Speaker 1: small stations, large stations, not just radio but TV are
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Speaker 1: in that New York State Radio Hall of Fame. You
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Speaker 1: would think the shock shock over at WABC. Oh hey,
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen I entered. It's nice, but I'm moving on
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Speaker 1: to the Marconi Award, the National Radio Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to be in before all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: I take a dirt path like Jim Kurr and some
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Speaker 1: of these others are in. So she was great. Angie
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Speaker 1: Martinez explained how she basically was birthed into radio and
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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you heard that voice, that
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Speaker 1: Bronx voice of daniel Danielle Maniro. And I know you've
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Speaker 1: known her for a long long time. Natalie, Yeah, she's amazing,
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Speaker 1: incredible of Alstenz one hundred. She's like the co hostess.
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Speaker 3: And what you're getting at is how real these people are.
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Speaker 3: No one is more real than Danielle. And as she's
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Speaker 3: told the stories that when she got into the industry,
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Speaker 3: because she has a very distinct New York Bronx accent,
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Speaker 3: and people were like, oh, you're gonna have to get
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Speaker 3: rid of that. She's like, but this is me, this
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Speaker 3: is the authentic me, and she didn't.
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Speaker 4: That's what makes her so real.
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Speaker 1: Right, So Angie Martinez has that Brooklyn accent. You can
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Speaker 1: tell right away that Danielle Manio has that Bronx accent.
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Speaker 1: She went on to Saint John's University. They have local roots.
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Speaker 1: Jim Ker though as long as he's been here, right,
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Speaker 1: was not local. He came in from Yipsu Lanty. He
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Speaker 1: got his first radio job at fourteen fourteen, and he
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Speaker 1: was a morning show host a w PLJ, the most
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Speaker 1: iconic call letters in FM at the age of twenty one,
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Speaker 1: Morning Drive the longest running morning radio show host in
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Speaker 1: New York City history. So who was the other out
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Speaker 1: of towner? Charlemagne the God who came in from South Carolina,
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Speaker 1: And he had the line of the night, because remember,
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Speaker 1: if there's one thing New York City has a lot of,
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Speaker 1: it's rapped. It's where a rap was born. You have rappers,
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Speaker 1: you have women who know rap, men who know rap.
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Speaker 1: So for this guy to edge his way up taking
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Speaker 1: all kinds of jobs to become number one in the nation,
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Speaker 1: syndicated now all over the nation and on Netflix. Man,
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Speaker 1: you know he had to be super aggressive because they
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Speaker 1: would say, where you're from South Carolina? Oh that's that's
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Speaker 1: the dirty South man. This is New York City man
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Speaker 1: number one, second and none. And then he had the
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Speaker 1: line of the night, Natalie, when he said, the reason
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Speaker 1: that it's so important that radio guide us is because
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Speaker 1: of all the artificial intelligence out there where you don't
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Speaker 1: know what to believe anymore. You just don't know what
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Speaker 1: to believe. You hear something, you see something, and you
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Speaker 1: think right away it's artificial intelligence. He said, you know,
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Speaker 1: when you hearing it from me, or you're hearing it
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Speaker 1: from Angie, or you're hearing it from Danielle or Jim Kerr,
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Speaker 1: is for you or me? Right, They did acknowledge me
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Speaker 1: in the audience. I appreciated that. And obviously Larry was there,
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Speaker 1: Tom Cuddy was there, Mark Simone, who's been and now
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Speaker 1: designated the number one talk show host in the business.
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Speaker 1: We all acknowledge that. And then they all concluded, no
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Speaker 1: matter what generation they were from, that this thing of
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Speaker 1: ours radio is the most intimate form of communication that
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Speaker 1: has ever been created, because you get to learn all
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Speaker 1: about the host, of the hostess, the problems that they've had,
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Speaker 1: the successes, the failures, just like the people listening have had.
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Speaker 1: They don't act like, you know, they go up on
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Speaker 1: third base and that everything you know is a success.
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Speaker 1: They acknowledge everything, and that's what makes them so beloved
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Speaker 1: by their audiences.
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Speaker 4: You know, I totally agree.
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Speaker 3: And I know you were talking about Steve Dellison, market
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Speaker 3: President and how he puts everybody together in that panel.
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Speaker 4: And as you said, it's just real.
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Speaker 3: We're not AI, We're real people with real thoughts and ideas,
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Speaker 3: and that is an amazing thing because you don't get
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Speaker 3: that everywhere.
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Speaker 1: I tell you, I've been to hundreds of these panel
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Speaker 1: discussions about radio, some better than others, but there's always
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Speaker 1: a guy or a gal on the panel who just
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Speaker 1: wants to talk about themselves. Me me, I, you know,
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Speaker 1: I like the shot shock over at WABC. Man, there
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Speaker 1: was none of that iron me. The audience couldn't get enough.
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Speaker 1: Remember it's pouring outside, Natalie. Everyone has a reason to
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Speaker 1: cut and leave. They're monitoring the weather reports on their
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Speaker 1: iPhones and smartphones. The one thing that the gen zers
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Speaker 1: do better and the millennials do better than our generation
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Speaker 1: is man, they're very good with the technology. They're all
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Speaker 1: talking amongst themselves like, Wow, it's going to be flooding.
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Speaker 1: We ain't going nowhere. Love that I didn't go nowhere.
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Speaker 1: Larry didn't go nowhere, Tom Cutty didn't go nowhere. Mark
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Speaker 1: Simon didn't go nowhere. That the information that they were
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Speaker 1: giving out in honor of National Radio Day, it couldn't
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Speaker 1: be any better. It was the proudest moment I've had
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Speaker 1: here from leaving the chaos of WABC, where they claimed
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Speaker 1: to be number one second and not wrong. Could I
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Speaker 1: hear that promo again? Please here, Chris, because this is
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Speaker 1: the real deal.
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Speaker 4: Out.
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Speaker 1: Larry is the way today taking his son in college.
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Speaker 1: But it gives us a chance to get into that
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Speaker 1: time machine to the most famous Greek American that ever existed?
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Speaker 1: Who created soft serve ice cream?
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Speaker 4: Wait, the.
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Speaker 3: Biggest one that ever existed?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of good.
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Speaker 1: Greek America, No, none comparable that. Tom Carvell born in
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Speaker 1: Athens has an ice screen truck up in Yonkers, lost
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Speaker 1: in Yonkers. He's selling at the time hard ice cream.
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Speaker 1: The truck breaks down along the roadside and it starts
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Speaker 1: to melt, and being the good businessman he was, he said,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to let this go to waste. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to serve it right on the road side. And
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Speaker 1: that's how soft ice cream Carvel came about. He created
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Speaker 1: the franchising between New York, New Jersey, Florida, and the
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Speaker 1: classic commercials that he did himself.
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Speaker 2: Hit It.
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Speaker 6: Fudgie, the whale is Beck. That's the whale of a
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Speaker 6: cake for whale of a Dad that you're participating Caravel
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Speaker 6: ice Cream story, Yep, and this year your caravel, Neila
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Speaker 6: makes him loaded with fudge and nuts, and you can
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Speaker 6: get fudging with an ocean to serve twenty people.
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Speaker 2: But if you want to send.
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Speaker 6: Fudgie the whale to a whale of a dand anywhere
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Speaker 6: in the Carvel territory, you call them the phone number
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Speaker 6: that you see here.
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Speaker 1: You you had a happy name man. So when everybody
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Speaker 1: was leaving New York, which has happened in the past
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Speaker 1: in the sixties and seventies, a million people left a
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Speaker 1: lot of them to Florida. Guess what they discovered in
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Speaker 1: Florida when they got there. Carvel. Because he franchised it
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Speaker 1: all throughout Florida in so many other states. He was
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Speaker 1: ahead of his time, and he was really the king
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Speaker 1: of soft serve ice cream. And it happened because of
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Speaker 1: a calamity. It's sort of like when you take the
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Speaker 1: lemon and you make lemonade. It was amazing and you
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Speaker 1: should be proud, Natalie, your Greek here it is, I
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Speaker 1: am from Athens. And he was the most synonymous because
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Speaker 1: he was proud of his Greek heritage. He always talked
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Speaker 1: about it, and he recognized franchisees all over. In fact,
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Speaker 1: wasn't your husband. Didn't your husband work in a carvel store?
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Speaker 4: He did.
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Speaker 3: His grandfather was one of those franchisees. He was one
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Speaker 3: of the I don't know about early on because if
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Speaker 3: you guys remember that commercial with all the carvel owners
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Speaker 3: standing in the background, I think he was in that commercial.
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Speaker 3: So he owned one in New Jersey for a very
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Speaker 3: long time. My husband worked there for years. It was
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Speaker 3: a great business. When they had I think it was
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Speaker 3: like two for one Sundays on Tuesdays or something like that.
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Speaker 3: They said their line would be around the store. People
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Speaker 3: just went there to get two Sundays and would just
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Speaker 3: sit there and devour them absolutely.
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Speaker 1: And now the Koreans, the Koreans, they pool in money
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Speaker 1: the family, they'll buy a carvel franchise. And actually in
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Speaker 1: this summer it's booming. In the winter not so busy,
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Speaker 1: but it's still a great iconic name. And who can
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Speaker 1: forget what followed mister Softy. You remember, Oh, we used
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Speaker 1: to go running down the block. We would hear that.
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Speaker 1: And now you don't know if it's a real missed
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Speaker 1: the Softy truck or a fake miss the Softy truck.
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Speaker 1: There are so many of them out there, but again
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Speaker 1: missed the softy out of the truck. It was part
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Speaker 1: of our tradition in growing up, Natalie, So I wanted
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Speaker 1: to pay tribute today to Tom Carvell, without a doubt,
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Speaker 1: the greatest Greek American entrepreneur of all time.
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Speaker 3: And you know what was amazing about his saft serve.
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Speaker 3: You remember he made the flying saucer and the flying
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Speaker 3: saucer where there was two chocolate cookies and he would
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Speaker 3: take the soft serve in the middle and squish it together.
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Speaker 3: There was nothing better than a flying saucer from Carvel,
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Speaker 3: the best.
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Speaker 1: And for those who were insomniacs and could not sleep
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Speaker 1: at night, they had the Carvel log cake in their
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Speaker 1: freezer and they would take it out and just take
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Speaker 1: a slice of it until it was all sliced away.
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Speaker 4: Fudgie the well and cookie put that's right.
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Speaker 1: And Tom Turkey. Don't forget Tom Turkey for Thanksgiving, that's right.
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Speaker 1: So we paid our respects to the tradition of the
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Speaker 1: iconic voice of Tom Carvel doing his own commercials. But
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Speaker 1: right now, let's get the news at seven thirty from Daria.
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Speaker 4: What about the Carvilanch? Do you guys forget the carvil Anch?
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Speaker 7: What was that that was Carvell's take on the DQ blizzard,
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Speaker 7: and it was better.
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Speaker 1: Better.
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Speaker 4: That's good for me.
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Speaker 7: Next trip, try one cloudy. Today's seventy six degrees showers
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Speaker 7: moving back in for the weekend. Your Weather Channel forecast
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Speaker 7: is coming up. There's a state of emergency in Naessa County,
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Speaker 7: where yesterday storms may have included a tornado.
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Speaker 8: The weathers land several parts of the tri state as
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Speaker 8: Queen's residents tried to keep storm water out of their basements,
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Speaker 8: and it isn't the first time.
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Speaker 2: Twice this year, once last October during Halloween, three times
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Speaker 2: with sindispan of not even one year.
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Speaker 8: Officials are confirming at one tornado touchdown and another waterspout
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Speaker 8: sun and Surf Beach Club in Atlantic Beach, injuring one
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Speaker 8: worker who denied medical treatment.
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Speaker 4: Natalie Migliori WOAR News.
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Speaker 7: State of emergency is also in effect in Dover, Delaware,
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Speaker 7: where officialcy a large tornado knockdown trees and power lines
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Speaker 7: and tore the roofs off of buildings. A woman from
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Speaker 7: Albany is in federal custody. The FBI says thirty five
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Speaker 7: year old Jessica Bowie pledged allegiance to ISIS and was
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Speaker 9: tend to view those who disagree with them as the enemy,
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Speaker 7: The FBI says they became aware of Bowie after she
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Speaker 7: the San Diego based USS Lincoln is heading home. The
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Speaker 1: did a great job in running for governor. But he's
20:49
Speaker 1: been traveling the country going to where all the primaries
20:53
Speaker 1: have taken place for Senate candidates and House candidates, and
20:57
Speaker 1: he brings that all to you on Newsmax and also
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Speaker 1: obviously on his show here Wor Saturdays from four to five,
21:05
Speaker 1: Rob will what about seventy two days out of November
21:08
Speaker 1: third the midterm elections? And I got to say, it's
21:13
Speaker 1: starting to look like the Democrats could potentially win the
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Speaker 1: majority of the Senate. Why do you think these changes
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Speaker 1: are transpiring so quickly now?
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Speaker 10: I don't know. I think part of it is it's cyclical, right.
21:30
Speaker 10: We're in this basically the sixty year of a presidency,
21:33
Speaker 10: which is never good. And you know, people have some
21:36
Speaker 10: problems with the economy and some issues. Trump arrangement syndrome
21:40
Speaker 10: still still there, and you know, and then there's some
21:44
Speaker 10: candidates that the Republicans put up there aren't the greatest,
21:48
Speaker 10: like in Texas. But I see the biggest issue right
21:51
Speaker 10: now is Republicans are sitting on just brinks trucks full
21:55
Speaker 10: of money and they have not unloaded it yet. And
21:58
Speaker 10: with seventy two days to go, oh, you know, you
22:02
Speaker 10: every day that Republicans aren't spending what they should against
22:06
Speaker 10: their opponents and defining their opponents is a win for
22:08
Speaker 10: the Democrat and you've got to change things quickly. So,
22:12
Speaker 10: I know, Elon Musk apparently is going to spend like
22:14
Speaker 10: two hundred million dollars on Republican's behalf. Trump and his
22:18
Speaker 10: packs are sitting on like a half a billion plus.
22:20
Speaker 10: You know, they got the Senate campaigns, the House. What
22:25
Speaker 10: are they doing. You've got races all over that should
22:28
Speaker 10: not be should not be close, like Alaska, like Texas, Ohio.
22:33
Speaker 10: We're gonna lose North Carolina, and you know Maine is
22:37
Speaker 10: a toss up. I mean, think about what that would
22:41
Speaker 10: bring if the Democrats take over again. We had just
22:43
Speaker 10: a slight taste of the chaos with Biden. When the
22:47
Speaker 10: actual crazies are in there running everything, I mean, the
22:52
Speaker 10: country will be unrecognizable and and we won't be laughing anymore.
22:56
Speaker 10: So I still think there's time for Republicans to win.
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Speaker 10: I still think they can win Michigan with Rogers. I
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Speaker 10: still think in the end, Texas is going to be
23:04
Speaker 10: Texas and Tallarico will be defined for what he is
23:10
Speaker 10: Alaska has got this stupid rank choice voting and too
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Speaker 10: Dan Sullivan's running, so who knows what the heck is
23:16
Speaker 10: going to happen there. But it's it's scary, It really
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Speaker 10: is scary.
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Speaker 1: Curtis, Well, you're correct, because I don't know why they're
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Speaker 1: sitting on the money like a hen would an egg
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Speaker 1: ready to hatch it. Look at Kathy Hockle, she just
23:30
Speaker 1: looked at that Ciana pol She lost half her lead
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Speaker 1: to Blakeman, who's surging. She just put a dump out
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Speaker 1: the other day. I mean, you know, she's sitting on
23:40
Speaker 1: a lot of cash. I gotta say, even though I
23:43
Speaker 1: disagree with Hockel, it's a well done ad. It's not
23:46
Speaker 1: Ai and what does it talk about? Affordability, cost of living,
23:51
Speaker 1: the war in Iran? All three of these things Republicans
23:55
Speaker 1: have to carry into the midterms because Trumpet time seems
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Speaker 1: to be distracted on those issues.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and you know, I mean, I this happens every
24:06
Speaker 10: every presidency. You know, as it gets deeper and deeper
24:10
Speaker 10: into the end of the term, you know, people start
24:12
Speaker 10: to tune it out. And that's just natural, and it's
24:15
Speaker 10: going to happen for Trump. It's gonna it's gonna happen
24:17
Speaker 10: for the next president as it happened in the presidents before,
24:20
Speaker 10: and that party kind of suffers, you know, because people
24:23
Speaker 10: they just think everything is the same, right. Trump is
24:25
Speaker 10: a Republican, so all Republicans are like Trump, and that's
24:28
Speaker 10: not the case. You know, a lot of these races too, Alaska,
24:32
Speaker 10: Texas for instance, some others. There's a lot of specific
24:36
Speaker 10: issues in that state that people are talking about other
24:41
Speaker 10: than you know, the economy or Trump or the war
24:45
Speaker 10: and and you know, you and I talked about this
24:47
Speaker 10: on the show too, right with Larry. The AI data
24:50
Speaker 10: centers are becoming a major major issues. Mike Rogers in
24:57
Speaker 10: Michigan now just kind of backtracked a little bit and
24:59
Speaker 10: said he's supports a one year moratorium. Texas is a
25:02
Speaker 10: lot closer than it should be. Even in the governor's race,
25:06
Speaker 10: Abbott was very much in favor of AI data centers.
25:10
Speaker 10: He's backtracking. So it's a very big issue in the
25:13
Speaker 10: next seventy two days and Republic.
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Speaker 1: That's actually cuts across.
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Speaker 10: Both, you know both. That's why Hopell of course put
25:20
Speaker 10: the moratorium. She wasn't stupid on this one.
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Speaker 1: Now the president himself is no fan of mail in ballots.
25:28
Speaker 1: It clearly does not work in California, where they could
25:31
Speaker 1: be counting well past the election date a week or more. Yet, Florida,
25:36
Speaker 1: they've streamlined it ever since their disaster in two thousand,
25:40
Speaker 1: where we had to find wait for eight weeks of
25:43
Speaker 1: deliberations and the United States Supreme Court to determine that
25:46
Speaker 1: Bush forty three head beat Gore. They really tailored it.
25:51
Speaker 1: A third of Floridians vote by mail, and they have
25:54
Speaker 1: their results that night. No complaints, Nobody says, you know, oh,
25:58
Speaker 1: you know, influence the election. Why can't we get everything
26:03
Speaker 1: to function the way Florida does, where you have all
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Speaker 1: these tools in the toolbox, but everything is decided by
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Speaker 1: the night of the election.
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Speaker 10: And Florida has two time zones. The Panhandle is a
26:14
Speaker 10: separate time zone. And they get it right. They get
26:16
Speaker 10: it right immediately because they know what they're doing. They
26:20
Speaker 10: confronted their problems with the you know, Bush versus Gore. Look, California,
26:25
Speaker 10: California gets the results they want to get right. They
26:28
Speaker 10: take their sweet ass time because they got to figure
26:30
Speaker 10: out which bags account and which bags throw out. I mean,
26:35
Speaker 10: it's it's not that hard. It really and truly is
26:41
Speaker 10: isn't because when you either mail in or on the
26:45
Speaker 10: machines that the you know, the readers, they're done. The
26:49
Speaker 10: minute you shut that off, they're tabulated. You just really
26:53
Speaker 10: send that result into the Central Bard of Elections and
26:55
Speaker 10: boom that the results tabulate. I don't see why it
26:58
Speaker 10: takes that long. It should never take that long. So
27:01
Speaker 10: it's in competence. And then maybe the corruption work.
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Speaker 1: Well, it can work as it worked for the president
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Speaker 1: who won the seven battleground states and won the popular
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Speaker 1: vote by using all the tools in the toolbox well
27:14
Speaker 1: ahead of time. And let's just hope that the whole
27:17
Speaker 1: process can reform itself to give the voter an opportunity
27:21
Speaker 1: to know that each and every vote really does count.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and you know in these elections like Michigan where
27:28
Speaker 10: Detroit is notorious for coming in late looking at what
27:34
Speaker 10: they need, that's where the Republicans better have their election
27:38
Speaker 10: integrity teams, you know, scattered about it all the voting
27:41
Speaker 10: places and polling places. Same thing in like an ann
27:44
Speaker 10: arbor where it's all kookie left baccos, you know, same thing,
27:48
Speaker 10: But we always put in we don't emphasize that as
27:52
Speaker 10: much as we should and.
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Speaker 1: We need to Well, thank you, Rob Aschenarino, because up
27:56
Speaker 1: next we got to go to the streets as namually
27:59
Speaker 1: make comes up to the suitees to talk about public
28:03
Speaker 1: opinion towards Zuckerberg as he's on trial with Meta for
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Speaker 1: messing with young people. Oh yeah, up next your now,
28:14
Speaker 1: it's sevent ten wars Beat on the street with Natalie
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Speaker 1: Migliori from the flooded streets up to the dry suites.
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Speaker 1: I see you've assembled the jury for Zuckerberg of Meta
28:28
Speaker 1: here in New York City as he goes on trial
28:31
Speaker 1: in California. What do the people say about this Zuck?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and we're talking about young people right, who are
28:38
Speaker 8: really in the thick of using his social media platforms
28:42
Speaker 8: Facebook and Instagram.
28:44
Speaker 4: Really. As the trial gets underway.
28:46
Speaker 8: This week, the question arises as to how social media
28:50
Speaker 8: has impacted kids and their mental health.
28:52
Speaker 4: We hear about it all the time.
28:54
Speaker 8: At least twenty nine states are taking part in the
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Speaker 8: lawsuit against the social media operator, with key allegations hinging
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Speaker 8: on Meta deliberately purposely designing these platforms to exploit the
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Speaker 8: vulnerable minds of kids and teens.
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Speaker 5: I think social media in general has always affected everyone,
29:13
Speaker 5: but definitely meta has had a negative input on a
29:18
Speaker 5: lot of the younger generation. The way they use social media,
29:21
Speaker 5: what they see on social media, everything in general has
29:24
Speaker 5: been sort of increased in a negative way, and it's
29:28
Speaker 5: definitely terrifying.
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Speaker 11: I don't think it affected me that much. Like social
29:32
Speaker 11: media has been beneficial for me and it helps me
29:34
Speaker 11: communicate with my friends.
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Speaker 2: I feel like social media lookia has affected a lot
29:38
Speaker 2: of my mental health, Like the looks maxing stuff. I
29:40
Speaker 2: feel like that's made me like a lot more insecure
29:42
Speaker 2: and like more like wanting to compare myself to other
29:45
Speaker 2: people I see online and stuff. So I feel like
29:47
Speaker 2: it has affected me a pretty good amount.
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Speaker 1: Of Wow, you found all these GenZers out there?
29:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, they want to talk to another gen zer.
29:54
Speaker 1: Well you let them know Kurtishly was host max ing here. Yeah,
29:58
Speaker 1: but what else did they add?
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Speaker 8: Look, now, I'm talking to fifteen or sixteen year old kids,
30:03
Speaker 8: and they've got mixed opinions. You can hear, and it
30:06
Speaker 8: really depends on where the parents are in terms of
30:10
Speaker 8: letting them be on social media, how long, where they
30:12
Speaker 8: put their phone when they go to sleep at night,
30:14
Speaker 8: sort of rules ground rules in the house. When talking
30:18
Speaker 8: to people in their mid twenties, they're not sure that
30:21
Speaker 8: these platforms are entirely responsible for our phone addictions.
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Speaker 12: It's fifty to fifty because I feel like the effect
30:30
Speaker 12: that social media has in us is also like what
30:33
Speaker 12: we cause it to have on us, you know what
30:34
Speaker 12: I mean. So we use it too much, and that's
30:37
Speaker 12: also our fault. So we can't just say social media
30:39
Speaker 12: is the problem because we don't you do anything.
30:41
Speaker 4: To change that.
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Speaker 13: It's all us. Social media is crippling to people to
30:46
Speaker 13: the point where people are people are self diagnosed in
30:48
Speaker 13: themselves with you know, medical things and all that kind
30:50
Speaker 13: of stuff just to social media, you know. So it's
30:52
Speaker 13: just it's crippling us. Hopefully we can get back into
30:54
Speaker 13: real life.
30:55
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Real life is where we're at, where the States claim
30:58
Speaker 8: Meta created and a day did product design that features
31:02
Speaker 8: algorithms and persistent push alerts with visual filters that spur
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Speaker 8: body dysmorphia and jump back down to the younger generation,
31:12
Speaker 8: and they really do think that social media is responsible
31:15
Speaker 8: for it.
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Speaker 4: They think that it needs to be rained in.
31:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I feel like social media like affects really
31:21
Speaker 2: affects teenagers growing up.
31:23
Speaker 11: I think should be because if you're feeding like some
31:27
Speaker 11: inappropriate stuff to the younger age groups, then that's not
31:30
Speaker 11: good and that could and that could influence the way
31:32
Speaker 11: that the the way that they go up and the
31:34
Speaker 11: way they see thinks. So there should be some guidelines
31:37
Speaker 11: and some restrictions.
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Speaker 8: Now, if Meta loses picking, yeah, yeah, was that a
31:42
Speaker 8: gen alf for it?
31:44
Speaker 3: Because he sounded really young.
31:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, fifteen sixteen.
31:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's the top of the top of the
31:49
Speaker 3: end of gen alpha, which, Yeah, their entire life has.
31:52
Speaker 4: Been social media from birth.
31:55
Speaker 8: Yeah, correct, And so I thought that was a pretty
31:57
Speaker 8: informative I'm pretty informed opinion that he had formed. The
32:02
Speaker 8: crazy thing was when I went to walk away from
32:04
Speaker 8: these guys, they were all making fun of each other
32:07
Speaker 8: on just about like social media and how it impacts
32:10
Speaker 8: them and stuff like, you know, and I said to
32:12
Speaker 8: my I said to them, I go, the boys are
32:14
Speaker 8: all right, you know, the boys are They're gonna be
32:16
Speaker 8: all right. The kids are okay. But it's certainly how
32:21
Speaker 8: this uh, how this trial plays out. We've got six
32:24
Speaker 8: weeks on it, so about depending so how it plays out,
32:28
Speaker 8: we're gonna have to see and if if Meta is
32:32
Speaker 8: in trouble they're gonna be forced to pay billions of
32:35
Speaker 8: dollars and potentially redesign there.
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Speaker 1: Well, let me give you props here, Natalie Magliori. What
32:43
Speaker 1: an amazing group of people responding to your questions this morning.
32:49
Speaker 1: The other week was like NPR ish today. It had
32:53
Speaker 1: youth centric themes. Wow, you're getting eight now, get this
32:57
Speaker 1: a panoply of different countries. Maybe it is.
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Speaker 8: Well, that's that's the goal, right, We got to reach
33:03
Speaker 8: everybody I try.
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Speaker 4: I gotta go get the dictionary. Hold on.
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Speaker 1: You'll be back Monday with Larry who's taking his gen
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Speaker 1: z into college. But up next Iran and North Korea.
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Speaker 1: But first, the news at eight o'clocks