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Opening Segment 8/17/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now Curtis Sliwa and Larry Minty in the morning on
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  Speaker 1: sevent tenor we'll be careful driving out there. There are
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  Speaker 1: flood watches and flood emergencies all throughout the area because
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  Speaker 1: all through the night we got sometimes really heavy downpours,
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  Speaker 1: but it was consistently raining through the night. It's raining
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  Speaker 1: right now. Just looked out the window in Upper Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: that are iHeart headquarters, and people are still holding their umbrellas.
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  Speaker 1: There is still some rain coming down. New York City
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  Speaker 1: has activated its flash flood emergency plan in response. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about this, Curtis. I was looking because
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  Speaker 1: we've had a lot of rain, a lot of rain
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  Speaker 1: over the the last couple of months through the summer,
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  Speaker 1: and so I thought, I wonder if we're setting a record.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if we're close to a record. I looked
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  Speaker 1: at New Jersey first, and nowhere near a record. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, so far, it's less rainfall than
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  Speaker 1: they normal get, not by a lot, but they normally
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  Speaker 1: get about twenty nine inches of rain a year. And
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  Speaker 1: when I saw that, I thought to myself, oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: In Hawaii right now, in some areas they were got
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  Speaker 1: they got thirty two inches in one day.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two inches in one day because they got clobbered
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  Speaker 2: at the tail end of that hurricane.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it turned into a tropical storm La La.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. But and I looked that name up too, that
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  Speaker 1: that is an Hawaiian name. It's it's okay.
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  Speaker 4: It seemed like too happy of a name for a hurricane.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, very good, Natalie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: At the service of the morning show, even though still
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  Speaker 2: in recovery from that knee surgery.
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  Speaker 3: Did you have rain in your area?
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  Speaker 4: Natalie, Oh, yeah, starting last night it was, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was coming down, but I still rise.
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  Speaker 1: Is it still raining now?
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  Speaker 4: It sounds like it. I can't see anything. It's kind
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  Speaker 4: of dark outside. But I'm surprised though New Jersey isn't
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  Speaker 4: at a higher level, because when I passed the rivers
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  Speaker 4: by me, you know, they're pretty high and that's usually
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  Speaker 4: my indication. So I'm it felt like a rainy summer
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  Speaker 4: to me. But guess not as much as we thought.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and remember though we just we came out of
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  Speaker 1: last year. It was really dry. Remember how dry it
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  Speaker 1: was last year and we had all those fires. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're talking about for a year.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine it's from the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 1: and so yeah, in the beginning of the year they
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  Speaker 1: had several fires. So so yeah, yeah. But what keeps
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  Speaker 1: hitting me about that is like, twenty nine inches is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of rain for a year. Thirty two inches
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  Speaker 1: in a day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, clobbered, clobbered.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, look at the Midwest, Indiana, many
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  Speaker 2: of those states, they were in the water, so they've
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  Speaker 2: had extreme flooding. But I want to take us back
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  Speaker 2: to New York City because you know what I and
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  Speaker 2: Nan she did yesterday and she was not a happy camper.
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  Speaker 2: As I took my walking stick, which is about up
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  Speaker 2: to my hip, from my toes to my hip, and
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  Speaker 2: I started checking the catch basins on the upper west
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  Speaker 2: side because there are one hundred and fifty thousand in
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  Speaker 2: the city of New York. This is where all the
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  Speaker 2: excess water flows into. And people are watching me and
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  Speaker 2: they're saying, what.
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  Speaker 3: Are you doing with that? I said, watched, this is
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  Speaker 3: not that long this stick. Watch how it only will
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  Speaker 3: go down about halfway. And then I put it. I said,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead, push it down, and they said, yeah, what's
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  Speaker 3: down there?
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  Speaker 2: I said, well, garbage flat some jets, you know, swill everything.
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  Speaker 3: There's nowhere for the water to go.
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  Speaker 2: So if it's more than an inch, guess what, it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna end up in your basement. It's gonna end up
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  Speaker 2: all over the streets and the sidewalks. And so you
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  Speaker 2: got to you gotta use the Basic Maintenance, which used
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  Speaker 2: to be the Department of Sewers. This is what they
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  Speaker 2: do the Ed Norton's remember of the honeymooners. Ed Norton,
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  Speaker 2: we said, I'm gonna sen it, sewer engineer. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: clean out the catch basins at least once a month.
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  Speaker 2: They don't do it, and I'm sure they're not doing
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  Speaker 2: it in some parts of the outer suburbs.
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  Speaker 1: And so you have a walking stick, No, only for measuring, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if a catch bation goes down. That's a euphemism for
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  Speaker 1: a cane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like Buford pusher and walking tall. No,
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  Speaker 2: not a two by four.
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  Speaker 4: Like the cane I have.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. There you go, there's your cane.
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  Speaker 2: Well, one day we may all be walking around with
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  Speaker 2: a cane. Larry, you and me and the senior city
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  Speaker 2: down wo or senior citizen at home? Who else? Joe, right,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Bartlett'll be there. John Gambling will be there. If
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  Speaker 2: you alumni, will be there.
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  Speaker 1: I love walking stick. Though that I have a walking stick,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a cane. I can walk perfectly fine.
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  Speaker 1: I just bring a walking I only bring it to
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  Speaker 1: measure things exactly well.
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  Speaker 2: People thought I was really being weird until they saw
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  Speaker 2: Wow half way down. Now you think that's bad. You
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  Speaker 2: go out to the Southwest. I've spent time out there.
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  Speaker 3: I know you have.
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  Speaker 2: Larry not far from Las Vegas is the biggest reservoir
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. It was created when they put
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  Speaker 2: up the Hoover Dam, which was one of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: development projects ever in the United States, and it feeds
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  Speaker 2: the Colorado River. Unfortunately, the Southwest has been going through
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  Speaker 2: severe drought and all.
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  Speaker 3: The states feed off the Colorado River. But if you
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  Speaker 3: look at the reservoir there, it's like down and a half.
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  Speaker 2: I mean boats are surfacing that it had been lost
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  Speaker 2: like decades ago. Pretty soon we'll be we'll see the
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  Speaker 2: bones and whatever other animals may have fallen into that reservoir.
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  Speaker 3: It's really getting bad.
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  Speaker 2: That affects drinking water power to twenty five million people.
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles major metropolitan areas Phoenix, Las Vegas, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just prolonged. So you know, when you go to the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East, you go to the Persian Gulf as I been.
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  Speaker 2: I remember nineteen ninety eight there was the fiftieth anniversary
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  Speaker 2: of the State of Israel and some of the people
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  Speaker 2: who are guiding me around.
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  Speaker 3: Say, hey, Curtis, would you like to see the river Jordan?
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  Speaker 2: I said, oh, yeah, naturally, Saint John the Baptist baptizing Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: When we went there, I saw a little trickle of water,
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  Speaker 2: little trickle of water.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the rivers?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? The biggest problem in the future is not going
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  Speaker 2: to be battles over oil, petroleum or even olive oil.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be water.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And they're getting this right now in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But all those countries that I've discussed in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 2: including the Persian Gold and in Israel, they built these
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  Speaker 2: desalinization plants. It takes about four years to build a
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  Speaker 2: plant to turn the salt water into fresh water, requires
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  Speaker 2: a lot of electricity in order to do it. But
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna desperately need them in some places that are
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  Speaker 2: facing severe drought.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I want to talk about like right now, because
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  Speaker 1: what is happening in the Southwest is a big, big deal,
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  Speaker 1: because it's happening in Europe, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you've seen what they're doing in Europe. They now have
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  Speaker 1: limited cooling water supplies for nuclear and coal fired power plants.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how severe it's getting now. If you think
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  Speaker 1: about what we're doing in this country. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's in Romania and Poland, the regional energy supply has
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  Speaker 1: been killed by the drought. And I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: that was a thing, but it is. And so now
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  Speaker 1: you think of all of these data centers that are
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  Speaker 1: being built across the country, and there is renewal, renewed
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  Speaker 1: interest in nuclear power plants. They're gonna put up more.
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  Speaker 1: Jersey's looking at it again, They're going to start up
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  Speaker 1: some of theirs. Pennsylvania's looking at it again. New York's
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  Speaker 1: a little slow on it, but at least they're interested.
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  Speaker 1: How do you cool all those things if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have the supply of water like what they're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: in Europe right now. This is a real, an incredible emergency.
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  Speaker 1: We're assuming a lot about the future that we're always
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  Speaker 1: going to have a plentiful water supply until we.
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  Speaker 2: Don't well think of it, Natalie Chris here, Oh the
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  Speaker 2: quiet storm is in again, on loan from March Simone
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  Speaker 2: to assist us in studio. Have anything to say this morning,
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  Speaker 2: Chris about water and the need for water?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? No, nothing, nothing in particular.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you got a bottle you know that you can
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  Speaker 2: hydrate yourself with it is in liquor. You know that
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  Speaker 2: isn't a wine splitzer I have. I have a nice
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  Speaker 2: cold one on the other What do you think about water?
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  Speaker 2: He's good, that's brilliant, brilliant commentary. By the way, are
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  Speaker 2: you aware of, Chris, that every human being sixty percent
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  Speaker 2: of their body is composed of water.
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  Speaker 3: I think I've heard that before you good good biology class,
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  Speaker 3: you were paying attention? Yeah, good, good good. But think
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  Speaker 3: of it, Peter, A.
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  Speaker 1: Certain punt, I'm sorry, say, a certain time during the
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  Speaker 1: day where you just talk a lot, like you get
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  Speaker 1: it all out. Then they like people want you to
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  Speaker 1: shut up because you're talking so much.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. Maybe if I had a couple of drinks. Yeah, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you we can try that one. I mean, we get
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  Speaker 3: a well chatter box. Maybe the last hour of the
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  Speaker 3: day for us eight am is like three pm. I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you what we'll do.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do us the young people you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Because wake up, because wake up at three in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: When uh Natalie makes sure we turn in studio, I'll
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  Speaker 2: get a nice bottle of Jamison, which I can't drink
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  Speaker 2: any We'll let you have a few belts after you
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  Speaker 2: finished the March Siman show, and we'll see how chatty you.
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  Speaker 4: Know what, guys, I've seen him really chatty. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 4: think it's us because no, I've seen him chatting with
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  Speaker 4: Natalie Migliori a lot. So I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: What's the same age?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but now I'm insulted. So you know, you talk
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  Speaker 1: a lot to other people.
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  Speaker 3: You don't want to hear about my relationship problems. That's
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  Speaker 3: what she We do we do on the air, how
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  Speaker 3: does he.
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  Speaker 1: We can do a whole we can do a whole
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  Speaker 1: segment on it.
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  Speaker 3: I'll pass. I'm good. What have we got next to us?
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what we'll do this week.
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  Speaker 2: There are huge stories out there about how gen zsu
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  Speaker 2: personal relationships are different than any of the group has
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  Speaker 2: ever been, including millennials and baby boomers. Uh so we'll
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  Speaker 2: we'll definitely and we'll tap into you and get a
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  Speaker 2: little input, maybe even tap into Natalie Magliori, because.
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  Speaker 3: Get a little bit of that gen Z thing going
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  Speaker 3: on here.
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  Speaker 1: So, so are you dating now?
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  Speaker 3: I am man, you are?
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  Speaker 1: And how's it going on?
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  Speaker 3: It's going well, that's all you're getting out of me.
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  Speaker 2: He went to see his girlfriend in the Greater Detroit
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  Speaker 2: metro area. And guess who was coming back on the
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  Speaker 2: plane with him ahead of when you got booed on
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  Speaker 2: that stage in Wisconsin, Eric Adams swagger Man with no
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  Speaker 2: playing And.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't let us know.
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  Speaker 1: I would have been all over that tell us.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I didn't know why he would. We couldn't
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  Speaker 3: figure out why he was there, so I didn't think
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  Speaker 3: it was No. Well, we kind of helped.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't there for that reason. He was there to
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  Speaker 1: find out if this girlfriend was real and not imagine her.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, she lives in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: She's just from Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I say, yeah, yeah, yeah, she was back visiting fans.
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  Speaker 2: She read catch in the rye at Starbucks when she's
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  Speaker 2: having a double latte.
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  Speaker 3: Uh no, she's not big in the coffee.
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  Speaker 5: Oh okay, yeah, way in on this conversation here Larry,
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  Speaker 5: if you want to, if you don't want to set
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  Speaker 5: Chris up with your daughter, go to the iHeartRadio app
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  Speaker 1: It's still coming down hard and I heard it is
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