Latest / Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning / Hour 3: AI data centers
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- 0:00Speaker 1: So Larry and Natalie, and welcome back, Natalie, who is
- 0:03Speaker 1: recovering at home from her knee surgery, still participating with
- 0:07Speaker 1: the help of the quiet storm, Chris, who is now
- 0:11Speaker 1: no longer on loan from Mark Simone. He's back with
- 0:13Speaker 1: Mark Simone. Well, he works for us, too.
- 0:16Speaker 2: Yes.
- 0:17Speaker 1: But he's quiet.
- 0:18Speaker 3: He's helping in the back room. You know that.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Every day. Very quiet.
- 0:22Speaker 3: You haven't heard from him yet? No, no. You never will.
- 0:26Speaker 4: He's so happy to be back there and not.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Here, I think. It seems like a lifetime ago where
- 0:32Speaker 1: Larry brought to our attention the many town hall meetings
- 0:35Speaker 1: throughout New Jersey. of residents who were gathering together because
- 0:40Speaker 1: a artificial intelligence data filing center either was being constructed
- 0:46Speaker 1: in their backyard or there was plans to put up
- 0:50Speaker 1: an artificial intelligence data filing center. And you did a
- 0:55Speaker 1: magnificent job, Larry, because nobody was talking about it at
- 0:58Speaker 1: that time. Nobody in radio, TV, you know, other than
- 1:01Speaker 1: maybe local reports. And with the announcement yesterday of the
- 1:06Speaker 1: President of the United States with a little more than
- 1:10Speaker 1: two months to go to the midterm elections, he added
- 1:15Speaker 1: to what he had originally said about a week ago.
- 1:17Speaker 1: He was, I guess, boarding a flight or getting off
- 1:20Speaker 1: a flight. And for the first time, he talked about
- 1:23Speaker 1: the artificial intelligence dating filing centers in communities.
- 1:29Speaker 2: I'm only saying that if I ran a community, now
- 1:32Speaker 2: there are different types of communities, but generally speaking, if
- 1:35Speaker 2: I ran a community, if I was a mayor or
- 1:37Speaker 2: if I was a governor in the state, I would
- 1:40Speaker 2: want to have the data centers because they bring tremendous income.
- 1:46Speaker 1: So that was a little less than a week ago. Yesterday,
- 1:49Speaker 1: he didn't make public statements, but he did put out
- 1:52Speaker 1: on Truth Social the following. The only reason that communities
- 1:56Speaker 1: throughout the USA should not want data centers is that
- 2:00Speaker 1: they want to end up being backwards and poor. If
- 2:03Speaker 1: they want to be successful and rich with far lower
- 2:06Speaker 1: taxes and jobs all over the place, let data reign.
- 2:10Speaker 1: The good news is that there are plenty of other
- 2:12Speaker 1: places that want them If we kill the golden goose,
- 2:16Speaker 1: you will only have yourselves to blame. China could not
- 2:19Speaker 1: be happier with this anti-data center movement. Actually, meaning China,
- 2:25Speaker 1: they can't believe it's happening. And it was signed, the
- 2:29Speaker 1: President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, by him
- 2:33Speaker 1: entering with both feet first on this issue. I think
- 2:37Speaker 1: if I were a member in any of these communities
- 2:40Speaker 1: that have had these raucous town hall meetings where people
- 2:43Speaker 1: felt that they weren't being able to get information that
- 2:46Speaker 1: they were entitled to, I would feel that the president
- 2:50Speaker 1: is really like insulting me by saying, hey, if we
- 2:53Speaker 1: don't want a AI data filing center in our backyard,
- 2:56Speaker 1: it's because we're backwards and poor. I don't think that's
- 2:59Speaker 1: how you convert people or get them on board to
- 3:04Speaker 1: at least taking a second look. At the construction of
- 3:08Speaker 1: the data filing centers for artificial intelligence. I mean, look
- 3:14Speaker 1: at all the governors that are putting brakes on Democrats
- 3:17Speaker 1: and Republicans all over the country from Greg Abbott in Texas,
- 3:21Speaker 1: who was in the forefront of this. He's put the
- 3:23Speaker 1: brakes on. Shapiro in Pennsylvania, he was in the forefront.
- 3:27Speaker 1: He's put the brakes on. Even Virginia, where per capita,
- 3:31Speaker 1: per person, they have more of the artificial intelligence data
- 3:35Speaker 1: filing centers than anywhere else. They're putting the brakes on it.
- 3:37Speaker 1: I think the president has to understand that these kinds
- 3:42Speaker 1: of statements are just going to alienate people to you. Yeah.
- 3:45Speaker 3: First of all, he didn't call them backwards and poor.
- 3:48Speaker 3: He said that if they don't want data centers they'll
- 3:51Speaker 3: become backwards and poor that was the quote so he's
- 3:55Speaker 3: not saying they are now he's just saying you could
- 3:58Speaker 3: be rich and if you don't do this you're going
- 4:00Speaker 3: to be backwards and poor because everybody else is going
- 4:02Speaker 3: to make more money so he's looking at this a
- 4:05Speaker 3: lot differently than these communities look at it for these
- 4:08Speaker 3: communities it's very personal it's it's very ground level for
- 4:12Speaker 3: him he's looking at foreign policy and he's looking at
- 4:16Speaker 3: the economy And they're the two things. So he's looking
- 4:19Speaker 3: at macro. Everybody else is looking at micro when they're
- 4:23Speaker 3: in the communities. And macro, he's right. In macro, we
- 4:26Speaker 3: need these data centers built as quickly as possible. I
- 4:29Speaker 3: get that. It's good for the economy. And it's good
- 4:33Speaker 3: in dealing with China and other countries, by the way,
- 4:36Speaker 3: that are building data centers. And they don't have the
- 4:38Speaker 3: restrictions that we have. So I understand exactly what he's saying.
- 4:44Speaker 3: And in that regard, he is right. But these data
- 4:49Speaker 3: centers don't have to be next door to somebody's home.
- 4:53Speaker 3: It's very easy to work around that. I mean, you
- 4:57Speaker 3: got Josh Shapiro now, the governor of Pennsylvania, who's jumping
- 5:02Speaker 3: on this issue right now. And he's looking at these
- 5:05Speaker 3: old industrial plants and talking about banning them coming in.
- 5:09Speaker 3: There's no communities near those plants, none. And yet he
- 5:13Speaker 3: just wants to jump on this issue. And that's what's happening.
- 5:16Speaker 3: When an issue like this becomes political, it's not rational anymore.
- 5:21Speaker 3: Now all they're thinking about is the midterm election. That's
- 5:24Speaker 3: all anybody's thinking about. And there's power in that for
- 5:26Speaker 3: people that are against data centers. And I'm not just
- 5:29Speaker 3: talking about what I agree with, the people in the
- 5:32Speaker 3: communities that come out for these town hall meetings. I
- 5:34Speaker 3: agree with them. But there's some people that want this
- 5:38Speaker 3: to fail overall. And this helps them. And, you know,
- 5:43Speaker 3: we've had a lot of people talk about Chinese propaganda.
- 5:46Speaker 3: I'm sure there is now. That's not how this started.
- 5:49Speaker 3: I'm sure there is now because, of course, they're looking
- 5:52Speaker 3: at this saying, well, let's go ahead and stoke the fires.
- 5:55Speaker 3: Let's keep going. So there is a rational middle ground.
- 6:00Speaker 3: But my fear is that we've now dealt, we're dealing
- 6:04Speaker 3: with the irrational part of an argument. It always grows
- 6:08Speaker 3: into this. where people just take sides. I mean, with
- 6:11Speaker 3: sanctuary cities, it got ridiculous. With ICE, it got ridiculous.
- 6:15Speaker 3: It's always two distinct sides. People take sides and nobody's
- 6:20Speaker 3: willing to give in. And that's what's happening with this
- 6:22Speaker 3: issue right now. It's out of control. The monster's out
- 6:25Speaker 3: of the box. Oh, yeah.
- 6:26Speaker 1: And the polls indicate that. Now, Vice President Vance, while
- 6:29Speaker 1: visiting Michigan campaigning in the U.S. Senate race, actually said, well,
- 6:36Speaker 1: I understand why people are upset because of the high
- 6:40Speaker 1: utility rates. Yeah, that's one of many issues that have
- 6:43Speaker 1: gotten people upset. So I think what the president and
- 6:46Speaker 1: the administration is doing is that they're trying to get
- 6:50Speaker 1: as much flack out there to try to alter. this
- 6:54Speaker 1: negativity towards the artificial intelligence data filing centers. I just
- 6:59Speaker 1: don't think this is going to work because this movement
- 7:04Speaker 1: has been taking place for months. I understand why the
- 7:07Speaker 1: president was oblivious to it. He had so many other
- 7:10Speaker 1: issues he had to deal with. But locally, governors are
- 7:13Speaker 1: certainly aware of it because now they're doing the pivot
- 7:16Speaker 1: and shift. And I heard terms. I'm not going to
- 7:18Speaker 1: tell you the people that I was listening to in
- 7:20Speaker 1: talk radio yesterday, what's talking to Republicans who oppose this
- 7:25Speaker 1: as being cowards. Is Greg Abbott a coward? I mean,
- 7:30Speaker 1: this guy's not a coward. Luddites, you're a Luddite. Now,
- 7:34Speaker 1: I recognize I'm a Luddite. I can barely send an
- 7:36Speaker 1: email or a text, but that's not the mass majority
- 7:40Speaker 1: of Americans who are going to these meetings. Oh, you
- 7:42Speaker 1: must be a socialist, a Marxist. It's red Chinese propaganda.
- 7:47Speaker 1: Stop the name calling because all you're going to do
- 7:49Speaker 1: is solidify them and say, what are you talking about?
- 7:52Speaker 1: My neighbors, they're not political. We just don't want that
- 7:56Speaker 1: incessant noise in our community. Who's paying for all the
- 8:00Speaker 1: water they need, the electricity rates, and they're not getting answers.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's easy fixes to these problems. There really
- 8:07Speaker 3: are easy fixes, but nobody's talking about fixes. They're just
- 8:10Speaker 3: taking these draconian measures. We're going to ban them all,
- 8:15Speaker 3: or it doesn't matter. You're a communist if you don't
- 8:18Speaker 3: believe these should go through. Both sides are getting silly,
- 8:21Speaker 3: but this is what happens in politics all the time.
- 8:24Speaker 3: Both sides get ridiculous. There is a middle ground on this.
- 8:28Speaker 3: They should pay for the water. They should supply their water,
- 8:32Speaker 3: and whatever they don't use, they should put back into
- 8:34Speaker 3: the community. They should pay for their own power. And
- 8:37Speaker 3: there should be a fund set up so that they
- 8:41Speaker 3: stick around for years, and if they don't, that fund
- 8:44Speaker 3: goes to the state or goes to communities. There's other
- 8:46Speaker 3: communities that have done this. There's an easy way, but
- 8:50Speaker 3: nobody's rational right now. Nobody's going to be rational right
- 8:53Speaker 3: now because it's gotten to the point.
- 8:55Speaker 1: It's tipped over.
- 8:56Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what, the people that run these
- 8:58Speaker 3: data centers and these AI companies have no one to
- 9:02Speaker 3: blame but themselves.
- 9:04Speaker 1: Well, that's exactly what Texas Governor Greg Abbott said. Remember,
- 9:08Speaker 1: he said, look. They've dug their own grave.
- 9:12Speaker 3: I was on board.
- 9:13Speaker 1: They sold me. I was out there. I was cutting
- 9:16Speaker 1: the ribbons. And then when I would go back to
- 9:19Speaker 1: them and ask basic questions, I was not getting any answers.
- 9:23Speaker 1: So you pissed me off and you pissed off a
- 9:26Speaker 1: lot of people. You may not be able to recover.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Give you a quick example, Wisconsin. We saw Crowley won
- 9:31Speaker 1: that gubernatorial race, a Democrat. Well, the Republican there, Tom Tiffany,
- 9:36Speaker 1: who's running against him in the general election, has a
- 9:39Speaker 1: TV ad branding Crowley as data center David Crowley. Crowley,
- 9:45Speaker 1: you don't want it and you should not get it.
- 9:48Speaker 1: This is what Crowley is saying. So it's almost like
- 9:51Speaker 1: it's risen to the surface where either Republicans or Democrats
- 9:56Speaker 1: are using it against one another. Now, that's a danger
- 9:59Speaker 1: when you have Republicans and Democrats agreeing that this is
- 10:03Speaker 1: not good in communities. I don't know if the president
- 10:07Speaker 1: saying what he did and putting out what he said
- 10:10Speaker 1: and having his– administration officials go out there and campaign
- 10:14Speaker 1: on this. Well, he's right to a point.
- 10:15Speaker 3: He's absolutely correct. I mean, there's a lot of money
- 10:17Speaker 3: to be made. He's absolutely correct about that. And there's
- 10:19Speaker 3: just a right way to do it. I don't think
- 10:21Speaker 3: he was wrong in saying what he did because there
- 10:26Speaker 3: is a right way to do this. It's not just
- 10:28Speaker 3: being done right now. It's being tarnished by politics. When
- 10:31Speaker 3: we come back, George Santos banned from another place, plus
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- 11:28Speaker 1: Apparently, he's been banned. Banned by what? Our country? Is
- 11:32Speaker 1: he being deported back to Brazil, where I think he
- 11:34Speaker 1: was birthed as a drag queen, you know, when he
- 11:37Speaker 1: was competing to be drag queen of Rio de Janeiro?
- 11:40Speaker 3: He was born a drag queen? How does that work?
- 11:43Speaker 1: Oh, he was competing in contests in Rio for the
- 11:46Speaker 1: annual carnival to be the chosen drag queen, and apparently
- 11:50Speaker 1: he lost. I think then he came to the United States.
- 11:52Speaker 1: But anyway.
- 11:53Speaker 3: I was thrown by the word birthed.
- 11:56Speaker 1: Could we send this guy back to Brazil? Is it
- 11:58Speaker 1: a possible DHS could pick him up and deport him?
- 12:01Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, there is this fascination with
- 12:04Speaker 3: George Santos just because he is such a train wreck.
- 12:07Speaker 3: You don't know what he's going to do next. Well,
- 12:10Speaker 3: now he has, first time ever, Kaushy, banned someone for life.
- 12:17Speaker 3: George Santos, congratulations. You made history. The first person ever
- 12:22Speaker 3: to be banned for life from Calchi. And remember what
- 12:26Speaker 3: he did. It was right before Donald Trump's State of
- 12:30Speaker 3: the Union address. And he bet on the fact that
- 12:34Speaker 3: whether he would attend or not. Now, they put up
- 12:37Speaker 3: a huge warning about insider trading. A huge warning. But
- 12:42Speaker 3: he ignored that warning and went ahead and bet on himself.
- 12:46Speaker 3: and he won $ 17, 839. 57 on a minimal bet. He made
- 12:55Speaker 3: that much money because nobody thought that George Santos was
- 12:58Speaker 3: going to be there or not be there. But anyway,
- 13:01Speaker 3: the prediction marketplace has banned him, and they are now
- 13:05Speaker 3: fining him $ 71, 356.
- 13:11Speaker 1: So what, is he going to do those videos, you know,
- 13:14Speaker 1: those happy birthday videos where he was making money for
- 13:17Speaker 1: a while?
- 13:17Speaker 3: Cameo?
- 13:18Speaker 1: He's on Cameo. Yeah, I know, but can you imagine
- 13:22Speaker 1: what kind of a friend would rent him out to
- 13:24Speaker 1: do a video to wish you a happy birthday? You'd say,
- 13:28Speaker 1: this is the best you could do? This degenerate George Santos?
- 13:32Speaker 3: Well, it's funny. At least it's very funny, you know,
- 13:35Speaker 3: to have that. Now, listen, he's already been hit for
- 13:40Speaker 3: $ 35, 000 by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. They investigated and
- 13:46Speaker 3: they're the ones that found out about this. But remember
- 13:48Speaker 3: how much he took his scheme to? So he bet
- 13:53Speaker 3: on not being there, right? And then he put out
- 13:57Speaker 3: a video saying he was going to be there. Oh,
- 13:59Speaker 3: guess what? I've been invited to the.
- 14:01Speaker 1: State of the Union.
- 14:02Speaker 3: Completely changed the betting. Completely changed the betting. And all
- 14:06Speaker 3: of a sudden, he was well in the minority, and
- 14:09Speaker 3: that's how he made so much money. So it was
- 14:12Speaker 3: more than just betting on himself.
- 14:14Speaker 1: Can't we do the two-life crew?
- 14:16Speaker 3: What was that?
- 14:16Speaker 1: Two-life crew, right? Banned in the USA. Can't we ban
- 14:19Speaker 1: him from the USA and send him back to Brazil? Well, listen,
- 14:23Speaker 1: he's not the only one. Remember the teleprompter operator? No,
- 14:26Speaker 1: I know. But this guy, no matter what he does,
- 14:29Speaker 1: it's corrupt.
- 14:31Speaker 3: It's fun having him around. It's just fun. First of all,
- 14:35Speaker 3: for content and fun to point at him and laugh
- 14:38Speaker 3: every once in a while because he is such a
- 14:41Speaker 3: train wreck.
- 14:42Speaker 1: But you know what he is?
- 14:43Speaker 3: He's an affable train wreck. Like when he talks, it's
- 14:46Speaker 3: like he's nice. He's funny. But, you know, he probably
- 14:50Speaker 3: should be in jail.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Remember the veteran whose dog was ill on the roadside
- 14:55Speaker 1: and George Santos stopped and said, I'll set up a
- 14:58Speaker 1: GoFundMe for you. And he stole all of the money
- 15:01Speaker 1: and never went to the veteran. That veteran haunts him
- 15:04Speaker 1: everywhere he goes now. Where's the money for my dog
- 15:07Speaker 1: who died? I mean, could you do anything worse?
- 15:11Speaker 3: Yes, he's done lots of things. God, he's despicable.
- 15:15Speaker 1: He's dreck.
- 15:16Speaker 3: But aren't you waiting to see what he does next week?
- 15:18Speaker 3: You know this isn't going to stop him. No, I
- 15:21Speaker 3: want him sent to Gitmo. Send him to Gitmo. Let's
- 15:24Speaker 3: get some talkbacks. A lot of you want to talk
- 15:27Speaker 3: about smoking weed.
- 15:28Speaker 5: About your actual topic, I'm a millennial. I refuse to believe.
- 15:34Speaker 1: It's hard to.
- 15:35Speaker 5: Believe that older people smoke more than millennials and And
- 15:39Speaker 5: Jen's in that sort of thing, because I don't know.
- 15:42Speaker 5: And like Natalie said, perhaps it seems like more younger
- 15:45Speaker 5: people are doing it because they do it outside more.
- 15:49Speaker 5: But it's everywhere. If you look around where younger people congregate,
- 15:56Speaker 5: especially in the city.
- 15:57Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you. I'm shocked at the poll.
- 16:00Speaker 3: And I think a lot of times, you know, I
- 16:02Speaker 3: don't trust polls all the time, especially these talker polls
- 16:07Speaker 3: that come out.
- 16:08Speaker 4: I think the funniest thing that's happened during this conversation
- 16:11Speaker 4: about this today is everybody's insulted when it's not them.
- 16:14Speaker 4: What do you mean my generation isn't the one that's
- 16:16Speaker 4: smoking weed the most?
- 16:18Speaker 1: You don't know.
- 16:19Speaker 4: I'm 63, but smoking since I was 13.
- 16:22Speaker 1: They're passionate.
- 16:24Speaker 3: Well, and plus he's going, what are you talking about?
- 16:26Speaker 3: I've never seen an older person smoke. Me and my
- 16:29Speaker 3: friends smoke every single day. Of course, they're a little
- 16:32Speaker 3: insulted by it.
- 16:34Speaker 6: All right.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Here's another one about Donald Trump.
- 16:37Speaker 7: All right.
- 17:02Speaker 3: All right. Well, now let's see what happens, because, you know,
- 17:06Speaker 3: I don't believe all the experts who say it's not
- 17:09Speaker 3: going down. I think it's going to go down in
- 17:11Speaker 3: the next month. But if it does, you call back
- 17:13Speaker 3: or leave another talk. Oh, so you're doing a Sir
- 17:16Speaker 3: Isaac Newton. Whatever goes up must come down. Now let's
- 17:19Speaker 3: get our 830 news with Daria.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Morning, Curtis.
- 17:21Speaker 8: It isn't too bad right now outside. Just some light
- 17:23Speaker 8: rain in some places, but it is expected to get
- 17:25Speaker 8: heavier as the day goes on in the city. Storm
- 17:28Speaker 8: emergency plan. is now in place, the mayor's office reminding
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- 17:33Speaker 8: to move to higher ground if need be. The NYPD
- 17:37Speaker 8: is conducting an internal investigation into yesterday's officer-involved shooting, which
- 17:41Speaker 8: left a stabbing suspect dead in Times Square. Commissioner Jessica
- 17:46Speaker 8: Tisch says officers did what they're trained to.
- 17:48Speaker 9: And that is to protect themselves when a perpetrator, in
- 17:52Speaker 9: this case, a woman, is coming at them armed with
- 17:57Speaker 9: and waving two knives.
- 17:59Speaker 8: Commuters and visitors looked on as Pamela Cisneros allegedly stabbed
- 18:03Speaker 8: a man and fatally stabbed a woman. Police then tried
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- 18:49Speaker 8: Nearly 30 years later, there's a guilty verdict in the
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- 19:16Speaker 1: Thanks, Daria.
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- 19:37Speaker 3: lot of things to get upset with Kathy Hochul about.
- 19:41Speaker 3: She says something almost every day that you can blast.
- 19:46Speaker 3: But wearing a headscarf at a mosque?
- 19:48Speaker 6: Really?
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- 21:15Speaker 3: You know, Curtis, sometimes I get upset at conservatives online.
- 21:34Speaker 3: And this is one of those times because there are
- 21:38Speaker 3: things you can criticize Kathy Hochul about every single day,
- 21:42Speaker 3: every single day on policy, every single day we suffer
- 21:46Speaker 3: from what she has done. But a lot of times
- 21:50Speaker 3: there are some cheap shots that shouldn't be taken. For instance,
- 21:56Speaker 3: when Kathy Hochul went to the Islamic Cultural Center of
- 21:59Speaker 3: New York and Queens, she wore a head cover. which
- 22:03Speaker 3: was respectful of the religion, right? Everybody says it was
- 22:08Speaker 3: a hajib. You know, is that how you pronounce it?
- 22:10Speaker 1: Hajib?
- 22:11Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good. It was a headscarf. It was just
- 22:15Speaker 3: a scarf she put over her head. So that was
- 22:18Speaker 3: false to start with. But it spread like wildfire. It
- 22:24Speaker 3: went crazy on social media, saying, look, she's a Muslim lover,
- 22:28Speaker 3: and how bad are the Muslims? First of all, the
- 22:31Speaker 3: Muslims aren't that bad. Secondly, there is an extreme wing
- 22:35Speaker 3: of the Muslims that are really bad, but there's an
- 22:37Speaker 3: extreme wing of a lot of cultures that are really,
- 22:40Speaker 3: really bad. And so the fact that she just wore
- 22:44Speaker 3: a head covering, there's more important things. Stop going after
- 22:48Speaker 3: the low-hanging fruit. Now, what I suspect is people that
- 22:53Speaker 3: were just looking for clicks and looking for attention and
- 22:57Speaker 3: that they weren't really that upset about it. But let
- 22:59Speaker 3: me just remind you that In the Catholic Church, women
- 23:05Speaker 3: used to have to wear headdresses. They used to have
- 23:07Speaker 3: to wear hats or a veil over their head or something.
- 23:10Speaker 3: That was until the mid-1970s they had to do that.
- 23:13Speaker 3: And to this day, if a politician's wife visits the
- 23:18Speaker 3: Vatican or a female politician visits the Vatican, they have
- 23:23Speaker 3: to wear something over their head and they have to
- 23:25Speaker 3: wear all black. And they do it out of respect
- 23:29Speaker 3: to the religion. So, stop this stuff. It just makes,
- 23:34Speaker 3: it makes conservatives look small. And I don't, and I
- 23:37Speaker 3: hate anything that's silly that we say, because there's much
- 23:41Speaker 3: more serious things to go after.
- 23:43Speaker 1: Oh, I concur. And I think in this case, Blakeman
- 23:47Speaker 1: went for the bait, the clicks. This is not an
- 23:51Speaker 1: issue that's on the minds of voters. So Ted Cruz
- 23:54Speaker 1: brought it up because it is an issue in Texas.
- 23:56Speaker 1: The number of mosques and madrasas that have popped up, it's,
- 24:00Speaker 1: It's the state with the largest growing Muslim population, and
- 24:04Speaker 1: they're investing in mosques and madrasas, and you see a
- 24:07Speaker 1: lot of women with their head covering. Okay, you want
- 24:10Speaker 1: to make that an issue in Texas? Blakeman, don't be
- 24:13Speaker 1: stupid to follow Ted Cruz. You got a million Muslims.
- 24:17Speaker 1: You saw their power in the city election. They had
- 24:20Speaker 1: never voted before. 10%, we were lucky to vote. And
- 24:24Speaker 1: then with Johan Mondami, because he was under attack by
- 24:28Speaker 1: a lot of conservatives for the culture. for the religion.
- 24:31Speaker 1: They rallied around him, even though culturally they had nothing
- 24:35Speaker 1: at all in common with him. They're some of the
- 24:36Speaker 1: most conservative people who walk the earth. This is not good.
- 24:40Speaker 1: This is like a guarantee of saying you'll never get
- 24:43Speaker 1: these Muslims to even consider Republicans. It's so foolish.
- 24:48Speaker 3: It has nothing.
- 24:49Speaker 1: Look, in the past, I've seen pictures of Ivanka, Nikki Haley,
- 24:53Speaker 1: Laura Bush, police commissioner Jessica Tisch when she attended the
- 24:58Speaker 1: funeral in Wake, For the NYPD detective Islam who was killed, remember,
- 25:02Speaker 1: in his second job. It's what you do where you
- 25:05Speaker 1: don't go inside. You know, that's it. You have a choice.
- 25:07Speaker 1: Don't go inside. But to make this an issue, Blakeman,
- 25:11Speaker 1: there's so many issues you can hurt her on.
- 25:14Speaker 3: Well, he seems to be against a lot of things.
- 25:16Speaker 3: I need to know more about what he's for. And
- 25:20Speaker 3: I think that's a problem with a lot of politicians
- 25:23Speaker 3: these days. They attack, and it's usually on the Democratic side.
- 25:25Speaker 3: They attack and they attack and they attack. I hate
- 25:27Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Whatever Donald Trump does, I hate. Now we're
- 25:31Speaker 3: seeing it on the Republican side in this state. He's
- 25:35Speaker 3: got to get out and say something. If he wants
- 25:37Speaker 3: to get out of the data centers, that's great. On
- 25:39Speaker 3: the flock cameras, that's great. On how expensive it is,
- 25:42Speaker 3: that's great. But come out with a position, and I
- 25:45Speaker 3: think he should be putting out a position every single day.
- 25:48Speaker 1: Exactly. Now, we saw the mayor doing the Dancing the
- 25:52Speaker 1: Horror and the Tarantella with other city council people because
- 25:56Speaker 1: now it's official. Outdoor dining will exist throughout the year.
- 26:00Speaker 1: And they're saying especially like November, December, January. So think
- 26:05Speaker 1: about it. With all the homeless people we have that
- 26:07Speaker 1: I deal with every day, all the emotionally disturbed people,
- 26:09Speaker 1: they're all over the place, in the subways, in the streets.
- 26:13Speaker 1: You're basically giving them a little homeless shelter in the
- 26:16Speaker 1: winter because there's going to be garbage stored there. There's
- 26:20Speaker 1: going to be rats and mice. What are you doing?
- 26:23Speaker 3: Well, here, how about a resident complaining about this?
- 26:27Speaker 6: I'd like to know, does Julie Manning or anyone on
- 26:30Speaker 6: the city council know live upstairs from one of these
- 26:33Speaker 6: outdoor dining kiosks? I'm sure they don't. All of the noise,
- 26:37Speaker 6: the traffic, the rats in the evening. Homeless people take
- 26:42Speaker 6: over the kiosks. There's drug dealing going on there. Sex
- 26:47Speaker 6: going on in there.
- 26:49Speaker 1: It's awful.
- 26:50Speaker 3: Sex going on in there.
- 26:51Speaker 1: That's all true. The Lower East Side, that's what was
- 26:53Speaker 1: going on. People, prostitutes were turning tricks in these sheds.
- 26:58Speaker 1: you know, low-budget prostitutes, but still it was taking place.
- 27:01Speaker 1: This is all more of this naivete of the mayors
- 27:05Speaker 1: on Mondami and the city council. Oh, we're going to
- 27:07Speaker 1: have sheds. If you were a homeless guy, Larry, wouldn't
- 27:10Speaker 1: you want to cop a squat in a shed overnight?
- 27:14Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. I'd be looking for sheds. Exactly.
- 27:17Speaker 1: And by the way, if you were a rat or
- 27:19Speaker 1: a mouse.
- 27:20Speaker 3: I'd actually cop a squat in one and then sleep
- 27:22Speaker 3: in another. I wouldn't sleep where I squatted.
- 27:26Speaker 1: This is such naivete. Oh, by the way, the one case,
- 27:30Speaker 1: Slam Dunk, the case involving the murderer of Tupac Shakur...
- 27:36Speaker 1: There were no debates. There were no conspiracies. The guy
- 27:39Speaker 1: was found guilty, lickety-split. He talked about it in his book.
- 27:43Speaker 1: He said it on podcasts. I did it. I did it.
- 27:46Speaker 1: And finally, a jury came back in, what, 30 seconds
- 27:48Speaker 1: and said— Three hours. Yeah, you did do it.
- 27:51Speaker 3: Yeah, three hours is like a minimum for— you know, you
- 27:54Speaker 3: don't want to go out right away. You want to
- 27:56Speaker 3: be able to look like you actually talked this over.
- 27:59Speaker 3: But you're right, almost immediately— And the guy's name is
- 28:03Speaker 3: Dwayne Keffy D. Davis. It was a rival gang fight.
- 28:07Speaker 3: They pulled up next to him in a little community
- 28:10Speaker 3: outside of Las Vegas at a red light and opened
- 28:13Speaker 3: fire and killed him. And Dwayne Keffie D was in
- 28:17Speaker 3: the car and drove back and they went into his
- 28:20Speaker 3: car because they wanted to get an automatic weapon that
- 28:23Speaker 3: he had out of the car so they could have it.
- 28:26Speaker 3: And he bragged about this in interviews, in podcasts, in
- 28:30Speaker 3: a book. So all of the theories about rival rappers
- 28:35Speaker 3: going after him and P. Diddy going after him, all
- 28:39Speaker 3: are false theories. It was just a gang takedown.
- 28:42Speaker 1: Well, up next, I'm going to try to convince you why, Larry,
- 28:46Speaker 1: we have to do an end to this tariff battle
- 28:49Speaker 1: with Canada. And it happens to do with your tush.
- 28:53Speaker 1: It's something that everybody has to do every day of
- 28:57Speaker 1: their life. Your dupa, your tush. But let me tell
- 29:01Speaker 1: you a situation that has occurred in our backyard that
- 29:04Speaker 1: should be alarming to you and indicate to you why
- 29:08Speaker 1: you have to protect yourself now. from predators, predators who
- 29:11Speaker 1: will go to data brokers and people's search sites to
- 29:15Speaker 1: gather up your personal information. There was a nurse on
- 29:17Speaker 1: Long Island. She sold an old iPhone on Facebook Marketplace.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Only one listing. That was it, she thought. The guy
- 29:26Speaker 1: who answered it was a total stranger from Jersey. Over
- 29:29Speaker 1: the next three years, he found her phone number and
- 29:32Speaker 1: just started collecting information that was available for a few
- 29:35Speaker 1: bucks online. Then he found her parents' home address. then
- 29:39Speaker 1: he shows up then there are threats unwanted packages late
- 29:43Speaker 1: night visits to the house a complete catastrophe she did
- 29:47Speaker 1: everything right and she still couldn't get him off her
- 29:51Speaker 1: doorstep and she always wondered like everyone else how did
- 29:55Speaker 1: he acquire all this information anybody can Bad people can
- 30:00Speaker 1: from data brokers and people's search sites. There are no
- 30:02Speaker 1: laws against that. So you got to put up the
- 30:05Speaker 1: firewall the way I do it and the way you
- 30:07Speaker 1: should do it is with incognito. Get a pen and
- 30:09Speaker 1: a pen and write this down and share it with
- 30:11Speaker 1: friends or relatives who are jammed up the same way.
- 30:14Speaker 1: Incogni will force data brokers and people search sites to
- 30:17Speaker 1: delete you. Then it keeps checking because they understand it
- 30:21Speaker 1: may pop back up and like whack-a-mole, they'll knock it off.
- 30:25Speaker 1: Incogni has scrubbed my info from many sites. It could
- 30:28Speaker 1: do exactly the same for you, your loved ones, and
- 30:31Speaker 1: those you know. Notice, at night, you lock your doors
- 30:34Speaker 1: every night, right? Just to be safe rather than sorry. Tonight,
- 30:37Speaker 1: lock down your address. Lock down your personal information. Go
- 30:41Speaker 1: to incogni.com slash Curtis for 60% off. Let me spell
- 30:45Speaker 1: it for you again. That's I-N-C-O-G-N-I dot com slash Curtis. Yeah, Natalie.
- 30:51Speaker 1: Welcome back, Natalie, who is recovering from her surgery at
- 30:55Speaker 1: home but still producing this show with the help of
- 30:59Speaker 1: The Quiet Storm. Who's gone, Chris. He's back to Mark Simone.
- 31:03Speaker 1: He's not gone.
- 31:04Speaker 3: He's still with us.
- 31:07Speaker 1: But he's back to being quiet.
- 31:08Speaker 3: You're doing really well, by the way, for being on
- 31:10Speaker 3: a gurney. It's amazing how good you are. What a trooper.
- 31:16Speaker 1: But welcome back, Natalie. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- 31:18Speaker 1: Welcome back. Now, I want to convince you, Larry, that
- 31:20Speaker 1: we've got to get away with these tariff wars with
- 31:23Speaker 1: Canada for one clear reason. There's one product that all Americans... 99.9%
- 31:30Speaker 1: of Americans use 8 million tons of it a year,
- 31:35Speaker 1: toilet paper, toilet paper. And you may say, well, why
- 31:39Speaker 1: does it have to be resolved? Don't we have enough
- 31:42Speaker 1: paper pulp here in the United States to make toilet paper? Yes,
- 31:46Speaker 1: we have enough. The problem is you need a blend
- 31:49Speaker 1: of fibers. In order to soften the toilet paper, you
- 31:54Speaker 1: got to get the Canadian fiber. That's what goes into Charmin.
- 31:57Speaker 1: You know, Mr. Whipple, when you squeeze the Charmin and
- 32:01Speaker 1: it's soft on your tush, on your duper. If we
- 32:05Speaker 1: don't do it, and I learned all of this at
- 32:07Speaker 1: the Markel paper plant, which was right on I-80, you know,
- 32:10Speaker 1: where Patterson met Elmwood Park and then it burnt down
- 32:13Speaker 1: because they would use recycled paper everywhere. Man, Larry, you
- 32:18Speaker 1: got to come on board. America will be grumpy if
- 32:21Speaker 1: they have to wipe their tuchus, their dupa, with scratchy paper.
- 32:26Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question.
- 32:27Speaker 5: Yes.
- 32:27Speaker 3: Has there ever been a time when you went, oh,
- 32:30Speaker 3: my God, that's great toilet paper?
- 32:33Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Have you?
- 32:34Speaker 4: Yeah, you go, wow, they actually spend the extra cash
- 32:37Speaker 4: on this one.
- 32:38Speaker 3: I've never had a moment where I came out and
- 32:41Speaker 3: said to my wife, Hey, you know what in there?
- 32:43Speaker 3: Great toilet paper.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Oh, my God. You go to those rest stops. They
- 32:46Speaker 1: have all those thin pieces. You need a thousand of
- 32:50Speaker 1: them to do what two pieces of Charmin would have done. Absolutely.
- 32:54Speaker 1: I'm a cognoscente when it comes.
- 32:56Speaker 3: To toilet paper. Maybe I have a crack of steel
- 32:59Speaker 3: because I have never felt the difference in toilet paper.
- 33:04Speaker 7: Never.
- 33:05Speaker 3: Come on.
- 33:06Speaker 1: Never. I have never.
- 33:07Speaker 3: Never did I go and go, well, you know, can
- 33:10Speaker 3: I talk to your owner for a second? Your toilet paper.
- 33:12Speaker 3: I've never, never had a moment like that.
- 33:14Speaker 1: I'm shocked. I'm shocked.
- 33:17Speaker 3: Have anybody complained about toilet paper before?
- 33:20Speaker 1: Talkbacks, please. Send some talkbacks. We're going to bring this
- 33:23Speaker 1: back up tomorrow.
- 33:25Speaker 6: Always.
- 33:25Speaker 1: I mean, we grew up with that commercial, right?
- 33:28Speaker 3: Mr.
- 33:28Speaker 1: Whipple squeezed the Charmin because it was softer than any
- 33:31Speaker 1: other brand.
- 33:32Speaker 3: That's who you go to, Mr. Whipple, in this conversation?
- 33:35Speaker 4: See, I kind of agree because in my household, my
- 33:38Speaker 4: mom always used to buy Scots. Because we had, in
- 33:42Speaker 4: New York, we had septics. And you couldn't use the good.
- 33:46Speaker 1: Stuff with septics. That's right. What's wrong with Scott paper?
- 33:49Speaker 1: It was a little hard, itchy. It was American. Only
- 33:53Speaker 1: American fibers. No Canadian fibers.
- 33:55Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
- 33:56Speaker 1: This is a very serious issue.
- 33:57Speaker 3: You people with your gentle anuses are a problem in
- 34:01Speaker 3: this country.
- 34:02Speaker 1: I am telling you, without the blend, you get a
- 34:05Speaker 1: scratchy result. You don't. You want to go scratchy and
- 34:09Speaker 1: you talk us all day.
- 34:11Speaker 3: Well, that happens naturally.
- 34:12Speaker 1: Oh, man. Anyway, Larry, let me tell you something. You're
- 34:19Speaker 1: lost now. I don't know what more I can do
- 34:23Speaker 1: to convince you it's something we all have to use
- 34:26Speaker 1: each and every day. Turlet paper.
- 34:28Speaker 3: It'll be plenty of it. It'll be plentiful. It'll be fine.
- 34:31Speaker 1: Anyway, I know we'll have a lot of talkbacks on
- 34:33Speaker 1: that for tomorrow, but this morning we had talkbacks about
- 34:36Speaker 1: which generation smokes the most weed, but the talkback of
- 34:40Speaker 1: the morning and winner of the Curtis Sliwa and Larry
- 34:42Speaker 1: Menti in the morning t-shirt had a comment on the
- 34:44Speaker 1: variety of weed that smells.
- 34:46Speaker 3: Like a skunk. I'm 62 years old right now, and
- 34:50Speaker 3: I've smoked marijuana for the last 40 years.
- 34:54Speaker 5: No cigarettes.
- 34:55Speaker 1: It's marijuana.
- 34:57Speaker 5: And the stinky stuff you're smelling, we call it some
- 35:01Speaker 5: really good stuff.
- 35:03Speaker 3: Have a good day, guys. Really good stuff, just so
- 35:05Speaker 3: you know. That's our pod expert. Let's party with that guy.
- 35:09Speaker 1: And remember, the Talkback of the Week will win a
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- 35:18Speaker 1: about the Lindsay Clancy conversation case, just head to 710WOR. com,
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- 35:30Speaker 3: Well, here at WOR, and especially with Curtis and Larry,
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- 35:42Speaker 3: We want to hear what you think about New York's
- 35:45Speaker 3: outdoor dining and the issue with Governor Hochul wearing a
- 35:48Speaker 3: head covering at a mosque. Tomorrow, once again, another chance,
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