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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 8-13-26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from wor New York Wakes Up.
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  Speaker 2: With Curtis Sliwa and Larry Minty. Wr Oh.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, Larry, it's chaotic in the Slawa
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  Speaker 3: household all day yesterday and the wee hours of the
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  Speaker 3: morning as I went out on my mission to catch
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  Speaker 3: these male snatchers from the blue mailboxes and during the
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  Speaker 3: day the porch pirates snatching up the packages. But in
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  Speaker 3: the interim, as I would return to the lair because
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  Speaker 3: as you know, there are cats there as a colony.
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  Speaker 2: And there's Nancy.
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  Speaker 3: She's howling, like her nickname suggests, lone wolf one. She's
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  Speaker 3: watching on TV the total solar eclipse of the Sun
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  Speaker 3: in Europe taking place. And then to add to that,
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  Speaker 3: there was the meteorites that were just like slashing through
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  Speaker 3: this ye Now, I couldn't see him in the wee
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  Speaker 3: hours in the morning, you know, we got so much
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  Speaker 3: cover here in the city. Somehow she was able to
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  Speaker 3: spot them. She was roaming through Central Park. So it's
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  Speaker 3: like a double hit for me. And actually the cats
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  Speaker 3: are all aroused too, because if Nancy, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: caretaker as arouse, they're aroused. But did you see those
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  Speaker 3: images that were transpiring from Iceland to Spain. It sort
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  Speaker 3: of took me back to twenty twenty four when we
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  Speaker 3: had our own total solar eclipse of the Sun and
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  Speaker 3: everybody was acting Kukola Munge if you're another I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I know, listen as a recovering TV anchor. I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about these things constantly all the time, every meteor shower,
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  Speaker 1: the percy is, the Geminid, the Leonid, you know, every
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  Speaker 1: there's like three of them that are big a year,
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  Speaker 1: and you talk about them constantly, and they're always disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: Every single one of them is this appointing and you
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  Speaker 1: fall for it all the time. I'd wake my kids up,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, the best viewing time is between three
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  Speaker 1: twenty and four h two in the morning, and so
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  Speaker 1: you'd rush out and they'd all be asleep, and you'd
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  Speaker 1: stand there and you look up in the sky and
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  Speaker 1: nothing happened. And then with the eclipses, what happened. You
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  Speaker 1: had to wear special glasses where you couldn't see anything
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  Speaker 1: except shadows, or if you wanted to, you could take
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  Speaker 1: a white piece of paper and you could see it happen.
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  Speaker 1: On the piece of paper. I could draw it and
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  Speaker 1: have the exact same effect.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It never is as big of a deal as they
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  Speaker 1: say it's going to be. It's always disappointing. So I
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  Speaker 1: didn't look at all for the meteors yesterday because I
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  Speaker 1: knew from years of experience, I'd be disappointed.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but that didn't satisfy my wife Nancy. But I
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  Speaker 3: will tell you they hadn't had a full eclipse of
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  Speaker 3: the Sun in Europe for about a hour one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and nineteen years.
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  Speaker 2: They were lucky. So we just had one in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I remember all the scammer scammers
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  Speaker 3: that were out there selling these you know, like these
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  Speaker 3: three D glasses you would get in some of the movies.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: They were nothing, you know, and ophthalmologists would tell you
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  Speaker 3: don't use those glasses. It could damage your iris. If
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  Speaker 3: you look up directly at the Sun, it's like iris.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even figure out where my solar plexus are,
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  Speaker 3: never mind my iris and my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: I just turt your eyes. How about that? Just in general?
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  Speaker 3: But remember the chaos about that and everybody like Lemmings.
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  Speaker 3: I remember coming out of the subway and we were
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  Speaker 3: living right next to Central Park at the time, and
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  Speaker 3: I saw hundreds of people all staring up, all.
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  Speaker 2: Staring up simultaneously.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm the street smart guy, so I'm wanting people, hey, look,
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  Speaker 3: the pickpockets are gonna have a field day here, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because we have professional pickpockets, mostly from South America here
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  Speaker 3: who could pick your pocket without you ever knowing it.
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  Speaker 2: They must have had a field day. And what the
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  Speaker 2: two minutes? Nutes? And it's never that good.
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  Speaker 1: So look it. I feel guilty. I'm part to blame,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And all the people on
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  Speaker 1: the TV news are part to blame. Because it's a
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  Speaker 1: shared experience that effects everybody. You get a wider audience,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you talk about a particular community, you're
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  Speaker 1: narrowing your audience. That's why Weather, that's why they love
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  Speaker 1: the lead with Weather on TV news because it's a
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  Speaker 1: shared experience. And so you would over promote and over
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  Speaker 1: promote these things. And I don't care. I know there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people that go, oh, it was amazing. No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't amazing. You just gave up a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time to see it. It's never amazing. Remember how many
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  Speaker 1: times by the way in New York that you were told, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the northern skies, you may get
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  Speaker 1: a glimpse of the Aurora borealis. Never, never did I
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  Speaker 1: get a glimpse of the Aurora borealis well in the northeast.
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  Speaker 2: Where is that on your body? Solar plexus irish? What
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  Speaker 2: was that term again? The Aurora borealis. It's it's the
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  Speaker 2: northern lights. That's how it's black I fell Blacken at Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 2: Prep incredible. But you know what this reminded me of
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  Speaker 2: as Nancy was watching on TV, all wide eyed and
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  Speaker 2: all the cats were surrounding or watching what was transpiring
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  Speaker 2: in Europe. The song by Don McClain.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was.
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  Speaker 3: Behind the counter when I saw her.
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  Speaker 2: She took me by surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Ten years had passed since our brief encounter when I
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  Speaker 3: got caught with the sun in my eyes. It was
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  Speaker 3: a totally eclipse of the sun. Totally eclipse of the sun.
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  Speaker 2: That is so cool. That's a great pull by you.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I remember that song. I never heard that song.
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  Speaker 3: He was a great He was a classic American songster.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, Don McLain, and I've heard lots of his songs.
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  Speaker 2: I had never heard that one. Oh I love that song.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I had an instant memory recall, because you
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  Speaker 3: feel like that when you meet somebody for the very
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  Speaker 3: first time and you say, oh God, that's the one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great thing. It's like an eclipse of
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  Speaker 2: the sun.
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  Speaker 1: That's perfect because everybody else, even ABC was using the
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  Speaker 1: Body Tyler song.
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  Speaker 2: Oh we're gonna use that later on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that does total eclipse of the heart, right, the
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  Speaker 3: Welsh woman there, right. But anyway, that point was when
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  Speaker 3: I was a youngster. My aunt Mary was like my
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  Speaker 3: second mother, my mom. Francesca was the thirteenth last drop
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  Speaker 3: of Nicoletta and Fidela Bianchino, who were from Andria, right
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  Speaker 3: on the Adriatic coastin what they called Body, the Provincia
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  Speaker 3: the Body. And Aunt Mary would tell me these old
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  Speaker 3: wife's tales, and she would say, you know, when there
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  Speaker 3: was any kind of cover of the son, it didn't
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  Speaker 3: have to be a total eclipsed, but you know, you
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  Speaker 3: had partial eclipses.
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  Speaker 2: She would say.
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  Speaker 3: Any woman who was pregnant, and Andrea had to go
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  Speaker 3: inside the house, had to stay inside of them mud
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  Speaker 3: the hovels there and not come out because the fear
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  Speaker 3: was that you could end up possibly losing your child.
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  Speaker 2: This is the old livestylee.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing she said is to protect yourself when
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  Speaker 3: these eclipses would come, you would have to wear red undergarments,
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  Speaker 3: red with safety pins, metal safety pins which would act
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  Speaker 3: as a shield. And I said, you know, I look
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  Speaker 3: at her increduliously. You see that, Chris, quiet storm. That's
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  Speaker 3: a fight dollar word. That's multi syllabic. Look at her, increduliously.
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  Speaker 2: Let Chris try it. Try that word, Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Chris, your first words in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead? Can you can you say for me? What?
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  Speaker 2: Can you spell it?
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  Speaker 3: For me? Increduliously? I can barely pronounce it now you
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  Speaker 3: want me to spell yes? But that's his first words
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  Speaker 3: of the morning, the quiet loan from Marchmore. Natalie's still
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  Speaker 3: recovering from her knee surgery. But there are other wives
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  Speaker 3: tales depending on where you were from. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: you and China, they would say that the dragon would
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  Speaker 3: come out and swallow the sun and they'd call fit
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  Speaker 3: back up, you know, for a total eclipsed. So each
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  Speaker 3: every FNK group, they had all of these superstitions surrounding
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  Speaker 3: an eclipse. Partially eclipsed, or as we saw yesterday, the
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  Speaker 3: full eclipse of this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, even the last couple eclipses. Again because we covered
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  Speaker 1: the adnausea, and they'd say, oh, they have more berths
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  Speaker 1: every time there's an eclipse. There's no berths. That's completely
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  Speaker 1: not true. It's I've looked into it. It's completely not true.
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  Speaker 1: An eclipse of the sun of the moon has no
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  Speaker 1: effect on the human body unless it's the sun and
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  Speaker 1: you stay right into it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that's the only bad effect.
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  Speaker 3: Now again, the other old wives tale is if it's
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  Speaker 3: occurring near your birthday, you're gonna have health problems.
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  Speaker 2: True or not true, you sooth share. No, absolutely, how
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  Speaker 2: could that be true? Tell me how that goes, you
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  Speaker 2: know what.
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  Speaker 3: In order to find out, when we return tomorrow, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to the local gypsy down the box. I can't
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  Speaker 3: understand how they can rent these storefronts right at like
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  Speaker 3: forty thousand dollars a month and all they do is
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  Speaker 3: read your palms.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I'm gonna ask, oh, that's right. You got to
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  Speaker 2: call them roma people. Now you can't call them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna ask them if that's true, because they are
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  Speaker 3: the guardians of all the old wives tales they go
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  Speaker 3: from India to Ireland as they travel the tinkers across
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  Speaker 3: the European planes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as I think about it, you go to
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  Speaker 1: the gypsies, I go to AI for information, and it's
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  Speaker 1: probably basically the same thing. It's pretty close in that
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  Speaker 1: I would love to hear from people about their experiences
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  Speaker 1: with these these lunar effects or solar effects. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the eclipses and solar flares we got before the northern lights,
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  Speaker 1: all the things you've been told we're gonna be exciting,
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  Speaker 1: you had to look at Did it ever live up
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  Speaker 1: to the hype for any of you? And did you
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  Speaker 1: go outside to try to see this stuff? You go
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  Speaker 2: Hey do you like pop tarts? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I loved pop tarts, but I was deprived of them
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