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Opening Segment 9/4/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: UOR. Can we just sit and marvel of the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of this weekend that's before us? It's going to be gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a second. How was the travel today for you
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  Speaker 2: guys coming in? Light. Very light.
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  Speaker 1: Light. How about nobody? Yeah, I mean, it was empty.
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  Speaker 3: And what is it going to be like on your
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  Speaker 3: exodus out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, all depends on timing.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 4: That's a tricky one. I mean, honestly, coming in this morning,
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  Speaker 4: I thought to myself, is it Saturday?
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  Speaker 1: Did I? It was worse. Sadly, at least people are
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  Speaker 1: going to the theater. Nobody was coming in.
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  Speaker 2: What's happening?
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  Speaker 4: But, you know, I've always felt like if you could
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  Speaker 4: get out by 11, you know, if you're going to
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  Speaker 4: one of the shores, either by the Long Island or
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey, that's your safest bet. Anytime after 11, it
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  Speaker 4: gets tricky.
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  Speaker 1: Because if people are renting down there, they have to
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  Speaker 1: get in somewhere between noon and three. So they have
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  Speaker 1: to leave anywhere. So you're right. Between 11 and two o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: That's when it's massive, especially when you're going down the
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  Speaker 1: turnpike for the exit for the Garden State Parkway. That
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  Speaker 1: gets packed up for miles. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So this is good advice for me because I got
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  Speaker 3: to speak at the University of Pennsylvania today at four.
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  Speaker 3: So if I'm going down the turnpike, what's the best
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  Speaker 3: time for me to get there? Because once I'm past
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  Speaker 3: the exit Garden State Parkway towards Atlantic City, it should
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  Speaker 3: go easy till exit four. Then, naturally, I want to
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  Speaker 3: go to Camden first. I want to get to the
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  Speaker 3: grunge and then go over to Ben Franklin Bridge and
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  Speaker 3: then to the University of Penn. Oh, yeah, my old battlegrounds.
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  Speaker 1: I would skip the Ben Franklin Bridge altogether. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can do that just by getting off and taking
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  Speaker 1: 95 down. So you can skip the Ben Franklin Bridge
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  Speaker 1: because that might end up being a problem altogether. You know,
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  Speaker 1: going your way, though, it's probably going to be light
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  Speaker 1: going your way, but you're going to see a lot
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  Speaker 1: of traffic, a lot of traffic.
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  Speaker 2: Coming the other way.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so that's good advice because I would have assumed,
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  Speaker 3: you know, easy going, easy going. Everybody's already broken out. But, see,
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  Speaker 3: that's why I have to go to the pros. You
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  Speaker 3: guys live that ride each and every day, off-peak, peak, holiday,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. So I'm going to be telling the
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  Speaker 3: missus and my little crew that's coming with me, uh-uh.
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  Speaker 3: What time do we got to be past the Garden
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  Speaker 3: State Parkway, you say, the turnoff for Atlantic City?
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  Speaker 1: By 11 or noon?
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  Speaker 4: If you're all the way down there, I'd say by
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  Speaker 4: noon you're safe.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for that advice. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want you to be late for the Ivy League.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, 4 o'clock. That's a great campus.
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  Speaker 4: I went to tour that campus once.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: Penny? Yes! It's really nice on campus. You can't live
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  Speaker 1: a block off the campuses because there's a lot of crime.
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  Speaker 2: In those areas.
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  Speaker 3: But interesting is that Again, remember when I went to Stanford,
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  Speaker 3: it was on the Memorial Day weekend. People said, nobody's
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  Speaker 3: going to be in Palo Alto, you know, Memorial Day week.
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  Speaker 3: The place was packed. They insist the place is going
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  Speaker 3: to be packed today. They had to look for another
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  Speaker 3: venue because they just got back to school.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I even asked my son, I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: do you want to come down the shore this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: He's like, no, everybody's here.
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  Speaker 1: Like, why would I want to go down there? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Penn has some huge theaters, too, and huge areas. I
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  Speaker 1: think they have the Annenberg Auditorium seats almost, like, 1500
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  Speaker 1: or 2000.
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  Speaker 3: Let's hope they got that for me. I'll be able
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  Speaker 3: to let you know when we're back on Tuesday, but interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I was talking with Larry in advance and all, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Larry loves the AI loves to Google, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: I say, Hey, you know, uh, my history with the
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  Speaker 3: labor day parade, when my dad took me there in 1960,
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  Speaker 3: Nixon versus Kennedy. And that's when Jimmy Hoffa and the
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  Speaker 3: teamsters broke for Nixon and the Republicans and Against the Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: And you did a Google for Labor Day parade.
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  Speaker 2: And what did you come up with?
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  Speaker 1: I forget.
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  Speaker 2: The West Indian Day, Caribbean Day parade.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Which I'll be at every year. But that's Monday. That's
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  Speaker 3: in Crown Heights. There'll be about a million people there.
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  Speaker 3: The traditional Labor Day parade is no more. It'll take
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  Speaker 3: place a few weeks later. It'll be on a Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Our own Jim Kerr, you know, leads our SAG-AFTRA unit
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  Speaker 3: because he's a lifelong member. Remember, it was SAG-AFTRA. the
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  Speaker 3: nanny who walked, remember? They took everybody out of the
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  Speaker 3: TV studios, the movie studios, the script.
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  Speaker 2: Writers, all over AI.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about Fran Drescher.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the nanny. I think most people know her as
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  Speaker 3: the nanny. And I had put a word out to her.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't speak directly to her, but one of her
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  Speaker 3: assistants said, what about the radio division?
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  Speaker 2: We're ready to walk out. And they said, no need
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  Speaker 2: for that. Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 3: Thank God I ended up here at iHeart where they
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  Speaker 3: have said AI stands for actual intelligence. We're not going
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  Speaker 3: to use artificial intelligence. But that was one of the
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  Speaker 3: issues for that SAG-AFTRA strike. Remember, that went on for many,
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  Speaker 3: many weeks. There hadn't been a strike since I think
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  Speaker 3: it was 1960 when Ronald Reagan and a Democrat, the
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  Speaker 3: president of SAG-AFTRA, was out on the picket line with
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  Speaker 3: Marilyn Monroe before she hooked up with the Kennedys because
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  Speaker 3: they were striking the movie studios.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I told this story in the air before you
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  Speaker 1: talked about SAG-AFTRA and going up against AI. I know
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  Speaker 1: a guy that owns radio stations in New Jersey. His
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  Speaker 1: name is Bob McGowan. And I talk to him every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while. He has AI doing his overnight
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  Speaker 1: shifts on rock stations, on top 40 stations. And he
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  Speaker 1: says he loves it. It's unbelievable. You can't tell the difference.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, and no longer do you have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with stubborn DJs. He said, if I want the
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  Speaker 1: time to, Every 15 minutes. Damn it, I'll get the
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  Speaker 1: time every 15 minutes. I just program it.
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  Speaker 4: Have you heard it?
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell the difference?
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  Speaker 1: No, I have heard it. And I can't tell the difference.
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  Speaker 4: Because I still think there are some things that people
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  Speaker 4: are using AFR and it's not great. There was actually
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  Speaker 4: an interesting article about restaurants using it for advertisements and menus.
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  Speaker 4: And so the food is not real. It's not a
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  Speaker 4: picture of the meal. And it just looks funky. There's
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  Speaker 4: something off about it.
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  Speaker 1: There's good AI and there's bad AI. The really good AI,
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  Speaker 1: you've seen it online. Can you actually tell the difference
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  Speaker 1: in the really good AI? How about some of the
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  Speaker 1: ads you've seen in politics? I mean, the really good
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  Speaker 1: stuff looks like it's actually the politician. The really bad stuff,
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  Speaker 1: like Blakeman did, it was Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 3: But let me do a pivot and shift on you
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  Speaker 3: to maybe what was one of the most preferred movies
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  Speaker 3: in your lifetime, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just assuming based on your Irish roots.
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  Speaker 3: The Irishman, you know, the Scorsese movie that went on,
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  Speaker 3: what was that, three and a half, four hours? Oh, my, oh, no, my,
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  Speaker 3: but it was all about Jimmy Hoffa. They had Pacino
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  Speaker 3: playing Hoffa. God, come on. That was not good. They
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  Speaker 3: had De Niro playing the Irishman, right? They had Pesci
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  Speaker 3: playing the mob guy, the Italian mob guy from Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember who else, man.
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  Speaker 3: There were a few others. Oh, your favorite guy, Angelo Bruno.
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  Speaker 3: Angelo Bruno was Harvey Keitel. But the guy that they–
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  Speaker 3: I forget who they played. It was the guy who
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  Speaker 3: actually whacked Hoffa, Anthony– Tony Provenzano was the head of
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  Speaker 3: the Teamsters Union in Union City.
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  Speaker 2: That's where all the trucks were.
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  Speaker 3: And he had gotten into a beef with Hoffa when
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  Speaker 3: Hoffa was sent away to Leavenworth for jury tampering, conspiracy, racketeering, everything.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was 67. And, man, he carried it
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  Speaker 3: out after Hoffa was given a commutation by Nixon. Remember...
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  Speaker 3: He supported Nixon with the Teamsters in 60 against Kennedy.
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  Speaker 3: So Nixon commutes his sentence in 71 with the provision
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  Speaker 3: that you will never run for the presidency of the
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  Speaker 3: Teamsters again. And what did Jimmy Hoffa say?
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  Speaker 2: Oof, I'm running again.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when the mob guys decided we got to
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  Speaker 3: take him out. And I know how it was done.
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  Speaker 3: And I hope we get some talkbacks on this because
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  Speaker 3: they've done movies, documentaries. He goes to make his bones
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  Speaker 3: with Anthony, Tony Pro Provenzano. at a diner in Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: And instead, he comes out in a 55-gallon drum and
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  Speaker 3: then gets up getting buried right underneath the Pulaski Bridge.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you've gone under the Pulaski Skyway many times
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  Speaker 3: over it, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you too, Natalie.
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  Speaker 3: Over the Pulaski Skyway, you see that in the opening
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  Speaker 3: credits of The Sopranos.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is really pretty.
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  Speaker 3: It's the ugliest bridge ever. But underneath on the Jersey
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  Speaker 3: City side is the old PJP landfill. It's still this
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  Speaker 3: smoke that comes out of it. It used to be
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  Speaker 3: owned by the Genovese crime family. That's where they put
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  Speaker 3: the 55-gallon drum, that toxic waste drum with Jimmy Hoffa,
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  Speaker 3: not where they claim, you know, at MetLife Stadium there.
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  Speaker 2: Under the goalposts. No, no, no, no, no. It's under
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  Speaker 2: the Pulaski skyway.
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  Speaker 1: And how do you know this?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, I've heard it from a bunch of wise
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  Speaker 3: guys from the Genovese crime family. But everybody likes to
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  Speaker 3: do their own adaptation. Scorsese spent, what, three and a
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  Speaker 3: half hours trying to spin it differently? That it was
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  Speaker 3: one of your peeps that whacked him?
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You see, Scorsese didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: put this on an Italian guy.
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  Speaker 1: Which one of my peeps? Is it the Germans or
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  Speaker 1: the Irish? No, the Irish.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You really believe that De Niro was the Irishman? Come on.
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  Speaker 3: I know he played Jimmy Burke in Goodfellas, the Irishman,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm telling you, I really hated that movie, The Irishman.
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  Speaker 1: You know, wrapping up everything we talked about, you know
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  Speaker 1: what movie could have used AI? The Irishman.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the anti-aging technology they used? It was awful.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Pacino.
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  Speaker 3: You know who Pacino looked like in that movie? He
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  Speaker 3: looked like Stevie Van Zandt, you know, in The Sopranos.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell is this? Why are you still always
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  Speaker 3: using the same characters? He just would keep Casino, Goodfellas.
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  Speaker 3: We could just go on and on. Three and a
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  Speaker 3: half hours of torture to have to be told that
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  Speaker 3: an Irishman was the guy who killed Jimmy Hoffa.
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  Speaker 2: That is a lie.
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  Speaker 3: It was Anthony Tony Provenzano, the Italian guy, did it.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard theories from everybody. So you're saying yours is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Although my memory at the age of six, right?
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day parade. Larry, you can't imagine it. All the
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  Speaker 2: unions are there. And the sidelines on Fifth Avenue packed.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, packed with people.
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  Speaker 3: So they're supporting the Democrat, although they supported Humphrey in
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  Speaker 3: the primary against Kennedy because he was more union friendly.
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  Speaker 3: They always thought that Kennedy, as they called it, crime family.
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  Speaker 3: was a union busting family and they didn't trust the
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy boys, but they went with them. And then here
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  Speaker 3: are the teamsters ready to get into a fight with
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  Speaker 3: my dad, the National Maritime Union. You know, they were
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  Speaker 3: supporting Kennedy with their crooked president. Forget what the hell
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  Speaker 3: his name was. They were always raiding the pension funds,
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  Speaker 3: always stealing the men and women's money.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like I'm a six-year-old kid.
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  Speaker 3: What am I going to do if my dad gets
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  Speaker 3: into a fight with the National Maritime Union, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the guys who went out to sea against the Teamsters
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  Speaker 3: who are all.
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  Speaker 2: Tough guys too?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what. We want to get to
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  Speaker 1: your talkbacks. A lot to talk about. You can tell
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  Speaker 1: us exactly where Jimmy Hoffa is because apparently everybody has
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  Speaker 1: a theory. Curtis says he's right.
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  Speaker 3: Is he?
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