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Opening Segment 8/18/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is Goodestleewa and Larry Minty in the morning sevent
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  Speaker 1: ten war.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Larry and Natalie and oh the quiet Stormers
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  Speaker 2: here Chris on loan from Mark Simone, who has become
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a.
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  Speaker 3: Chatterbox of late.
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  Speaker 1: Not a chatterbox, but it's chatterbox a bit of an exaggeration.
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  Speaker 4: You mean he spoke a couple of times, right, But
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  Speaker 4: now you'll have an opportunity to contribute to this discussion
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  Speaker 4: because it all came about yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I'm roaming around the Upper West Side.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing chores for Nancy and the cats, and I
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  Speaker 4: see this modern bus roll up, so I'm thinking maybe
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  Speaker 4: it's tourists, but it's all these kids getting off and
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  Speaker 4: they have grandparents are there and their parents and they're
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  Speaker 4: coming home from camp up near the Finger Lakes and
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  Speaker 4: upstate New York.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, some of them are crying, some of
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  Speaker 3: them are happy. And because they're.
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  Speaker 4: Standing around and have a chance to get in touch
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  Speaker 4: with them and talk with them. And some of the
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  Speaker 4: grandparents had had good experiences when they went to camp,
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  Speaker 4: their kids not so good. I didn't get a chance
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  Speaker 4: to speak to their grandchildren their children. But it just
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  Speaker 4: took me back to when I was watching Ed Sullivan
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  Speaker 4: waiting for Topo Chico the Little Italian Mouse to come out,
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  Speaker 4: because that was my favorite. I think he was there
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  Speaker 4: sixty three times, and all of a sudden, Alan Sherman
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  Speaker 4: is out there. It's nineteen sixty three, and he's singing
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  Speaker 4: the camp salute, Hello Mother, Hello Fada Camp Granada, Hello Mather,
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  Speaker 4: Hello Fada.
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  Speaker 2: Here I am at Camp Granada.
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  Speaker 5: Camp is very entertaining, and they say we'll have some
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  Speaker 5: fun if it stops raining.
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  Speaker 4: And he talks about getting poison ivy. It was real
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  Speaker 4: his son had gone to this camp up near Lake
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  Speaker 4: Champ playing in Westport, New York. People think Westport, Oh, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 4: You know Tom Cuddy's no is only like a thousand
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  Speaker 4: people up there, and he got poison ivy. And I
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  Speaker 4: remember later on in the song and I want to
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  Speaker 4: need the help of Tom Cutty and others out there
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  Speaker 4: who are music officionados. He mentions Leonard Skinner, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: thinking that's where that bunch of Southern Rebels got their
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  Speaker 4: name for that group.
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  Speaker 3: Leonard Skinner.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's interesting spell differently, spelled differently, but I'm thinking that.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, he talked about getting poison, ivy, bad weather,
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  Speaker 4: other activities, and it became such a hit. I think
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  Speaker 4: it was number two in nineteen sixty three. And that
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  Speaker 4: was a time where obviously I was a kid and
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  Speaker 4: I had a chance to go to sleep away camp
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  Speaker 4: up in Bear Mountain.
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  Speaker 3: So my mother enrolled me.
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  Speaker 4: With CYO, which was the Catholic Youth organization. A Jewish
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  Speaker 4: kids had the YMHA, the YWHA, Young Men Hebrew Association,
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  Speaker 4: Young Women Hebrew Association, the Fresh Air Fund. Kids were
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  Speaker 4: for the poor kids, you know, benefactors paid for them
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  Speaker 4: to go away like two weeks. The PAO had a camp.
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  Speaker 4: And then there were other families who like they just
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  Speaker 4: believed in sending their kids after school got released before
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  Speaker 4: July fourth, the next thing, they were on a bus
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  Speaker 4: to sleepover camp. And then eventually the kids might even
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  Speaker 4: become the camp counselors who would have an undue bad
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  Speaker 4: influence on the younger kids because they would introduce them
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  Speaker 4: to smoking marijuana, you know, thinking about having sex because
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  Speaker 4: they'd be having sex with the other camp counselors.
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  Speaker 1: All the worstess oh that all the time.
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  Speaker 3: The worst possible things.
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  Speaker 1: The sex thing is a big thing among the camp counselors.
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  Speaker 1: I was a camp counselor. I'll get into that. In
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  Speaker 1: the second first Yesday nineteen sixty three novelty hit Hello Mother, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Fodder played a direct role in the a of the
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  Speaker 1: band Leonard Skinner.
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  Speaker 3: Now, how is that even conceivable?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 4: I mean you think Alan Shearman, Jewish comedian song still
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  Speaker 4: came out of Chicago. I think he went to like
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  Speaker 4: fifteen different schools when he was growing up. I guess
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  Speaker 4: they could never pay the rent and they were.
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  Speaker 2: On the move.
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  Speaker 4: How did he have an influence on a group of
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  Speaker 4: Southern hillbillies? Leonard Skinner doing that Dixie rock and a man.
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  Speaker 4: They were one of the greatest bands of all time,
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  Speaker 4: greatest bands. Saw them actually in video performing at Fulton
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  Speaker 4: County Stadium. You know when Ted Turner owned it with
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  Speaker 4: the Atlanta Bridge Man. They rocked the house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a shame about the plane crash. I
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  Speaker 1: mean the lead singer and some of the other ones
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  Speaker 1: died in the band's son.
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  Speaker 4: Could you have ever guessed that the name for the
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  Speaker 4: band from this classic camp soul.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the line you remember, Leonard Skinner, he got toemine
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  Speaker 1: poisoning last night after dinner, because that's the song. The
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  Speaker 1: song builds to a nice ending, but the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: is how hard the camp is.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, so, I couldn't wait to break out of the
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  Speaker 4: cyo camp up and bear Mountain. You're entitled to one call.
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  Speaker 4: So after one week there, I felt like it was
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  Speaker 4: a pristison, yeah, prisoner. So I said to my mother,
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  Speaker 4: get me out of here, please, whatever you do. And
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  Speaker 4: I became a real mama Luke. I started crying, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: oh man. And then all of a sudden, my aunt Lucy,
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  Speaker 4: my mother, my uncle Steve came up in the fifty
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  Speaker 4: four to Ford the station wagon. I saw them driving
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  Speaker 4: towards the camp counselor's headquarters and I was running after
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  Speaker 4: the car.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't run fast enough. Get me out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I had the worst I got poison, ivy mosquito bites, like, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I hate it. I hated camp. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Some of my friends they came back, you know, right
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  Speaker 4: before this started school, after Labor Day.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, camp was great.
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  Speaker 4: We were rowing, we were swimming, we broke out of camp,
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  Speaker 4: we went into town, we did this.
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  Speaker 3: And that, And I'm saying, how is it?
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  Speaker 4: My experiences were so bad, and theirs were so good
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  Speaker 4: that they were look him forward and going back to
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  Speaker 4: camp after school finished.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. I never got to go to camp, not once
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  Speaker 1: except when I worked at a camp. But I never
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  Speaker 1: got to go to camp because my mom and dad
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  Speaker 1: loved me.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, I did not go to camp either.
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  Speaker 5: I grew up in Staten Island and I don't know
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  Speaker 5: if this was a Staten Island thing, but the only
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  Speaker 5: kids who went to sleep away camp were all my
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  Speaker 5: Jewish friends. They all got and I was jealous. I
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  Speaker 5: was like, where are they going for the summer? And
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you, I heard their parents were having a
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  Speaker 5: great time about your kids during the summer, so I
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  Speaker 5: think they had something going that was smart.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't remember anybody in my neighborhood going to camp.
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  Speaker 1: It just wasn't a thing in our neighborhood. How about
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  Speaker 1: how about you, Chris.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Krash the Quiet Storm. Not in the Superway camps, No,
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  Speaker 6: just day camps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh did you sing b I n g O Bingo
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  Speaker 4: was his name? Did you do that on the bush
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  Speaker 4: through the day camp?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 6: No, nothing like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well know, you want to elaborate a little bit kind
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  Speaker 1: of experience.
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  Speaker 3: Flu play games, go to the movies, you know, go
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  Speaker 3: to parks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, regular regular camp stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Go to a baseball game every once in a while
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  Speaker 3: and into a couple of Yankee games.
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  Speaker 1: Having sex over camp like they were ten ten. The
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  Speaker 1: counselors are the ones having the sex.
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  Speaker 6: The camp was also like a thousand feet from my house, sohay,
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  Speaker 6: that's not come on, that's not a good camp experience.
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  Speaker 1: It was acamp.
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  Speaker 3: It was fine, but a thousand feet away from your house.
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  Speaker 4: You right, my high school, did you have the Elmer's
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  Speaker 4: glue with the sticks that you know you had in
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  Speaker 4: the good Yuma barge and you had to make all
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  Speaker 4: kinds of house Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah we did that.
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  Speaker 6: The arts and crafts and the macaroni are yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, God you had some of those experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Boy. Dragging information out of Chris, it's like being in
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  Speaker 1: a police precinct.
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  Speaker 4: Or being like in Ditmo with the terrorists, you know,
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  Speaker 4: asking them about terrorist activities, and then we do we
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  Speaker 4: have to waterboard.
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  Speaker 3: You to get total information.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather you're not, but you know, all right, well
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  Speaker 1: let you go, Okay, thanks, Thanks Chrissy. You have a
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  Speaker 1: way of telling the story. It's great, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: But I'd be so interested in hearing from many listeners
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  Speaker 4: of their camp experiences, or their parents, or their grandparents,
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  Speaker 4: or even their kids or grandchildren, because some families, it's
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  Speaker 4: like a tradition.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody, absolutely everybody goes to sleep away camp.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, no camps.
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  Speaker 5: Are ranked like you're like, oh, you went to that camp.
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  Speaker 1: I went to this camp.
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  Speaker 5: And I know people who were in their seventies and
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  Speaker 5: eighties who continue to go to camp reunions like you
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  Speaker 5: have a college reunion. Their camp reunions are even more
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  Speaker 5: important to them than that.
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  Speaker 1: You're starting to sound like a cult. I'm almost glad
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go.
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  Speaker 4: I am telling you the kids that I grew up
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  Speaker 4: with had better experiences going to summer camp sleep away
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  Speaker 4: camp than they did in school.
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  Speaker 3: They look forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I was a counselor to camp. I never went
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  Speaker 1: to a camp, but it was a counselor at camp.
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  Speaker 1: Because when I was in high school, Lisa Pinto, my
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  Speaker 1: first love, broke up with me and I just had
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  Speaker 1: to get out of town. Italian Girl, and I went, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Italian Girl, and went to Florida for the summer to
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  Speaker 1: work at camp. Challenge, a camp for handicapped kids disabled.
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  Speaker 1: It was the best experience of my life. I really
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  Speaker 1: wanted to work at disney World and be Goofy. That's
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  Speaker 1: what my dream was at the time, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a car, so they wouldn't hire me.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on, you wanted to be the goofy character at
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  Speaker 4: disney World.
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  Speaker 1: Disney World, Yeah, remember disney World was pretty new back No. No,
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  Speaker 1: it was the coolest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 4: In that costume. Yeah, it's you mean, did it's hot?
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  Speaker 4: You'd be fitching underneath that.
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  Speaker 1: I was eighteen. I didn't think it out. I just thought,
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  Speaker 1: you think you were going to.
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  Speaker 3: Attract chicks by being goofy?
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  Speaker 1: No, but I did at the camp challenge, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So it ended up being the vetter selection.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up a lot. It was wonderful. I still
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  Speaker 1: know some of the kids that were there.
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  Speaker 4: She So, even though there's not an alumni coupe, you've
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  Speaker 4: maintained contacts.
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  Speaker 1: She yeah, okay, especially with some of the kids. There's
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  Speaker 1: a kid named Marco who had severe autism and and
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  Speaker 1: couldn't speak, and I just fell in love with the kid,
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  Speaker 1: and I keep in touch with his parents. He's doing
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  Speaker 1: really well. He's he's come along.
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  Speaker 3: It's just so nice.
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  Speaker 5: Larry wants I wanted more information on Lisa Pinto.
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  Speaker 1: What you're looking at?
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  Speaker 3: I thought about the camp thing.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you'd look up Camp Challenge, not Lisa Pinto.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm looking up every Lisa Pinto.
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  Speaker 1: There is no she got married, I forget her new names.
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  Speaker 1: Get married.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember my first love was angel Is Sika
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  Speaker 4: Talian Talian girl.
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  Speaker 3: Right of course she got married.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm saying is, wow, it crushed you so much
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  Speaker 4: that you decided to get up, go to Florida, become
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  Speaker 4: a cam counselor, and you became a double mench helping
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  Speaker 4: handicapped kids.
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  Speaker 1: It was a great experience. It was an unbelievable experience.
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  Speaker 1: It might have been the best experience of my teenage
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  Speaker 1: years going down there and doing that. Thank Lisapino for breaking.
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  Speaker 3: Up, without which that probably never would have happened.
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  Speaker 1: No, it never would have happened. I never would have old.
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