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CURTIS & LARRY OPENING SEGMENT 8-12-26_2 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast from douboor Now Curtis.
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  Speaker 2: Lee and Larry Minty in the morning on sevent ten,
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  Speaker 2: doubleuoar Go Boys of New York.
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  Speaker 1: Who we're playing her today? We're down one player. Natalie
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  Speaker 1: Ivaka went through knee surgery yesterday. We've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: it over the last couple of weeks that this was
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. She went through it yesterday and we
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  Speaker 1: uh we sent out a message earlier today to see
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  Speaker 1: if she'd be up and she could be on the
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  Speaker 1: show early, but you know, she just went through surgery
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  Speaker 1: and so thank god that she is resting. We'll try
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  Speaker 1: to get her on somewhere through the show, but filling
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  Speaker 1: in today like just yesterday. The verbose Chris Schweitzer, I
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  Speaker 1: thought you might jump in. That's often how people describe
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  Speaker 1: me verbos. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he's going to
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  Speaker 1: make an extra effort to speak today.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis, Yeah, well, I remember yesterday he was making major progress.
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  Speaker 2: I've given him the nickname the Quiet Storm in honor
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  Speaker 2: of two of the greatest radio personalities of all time,
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  Speaker 2: Frankie Crocker and Vaughan Hopper. That was the name of
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  Speaker 2: the show at night on WBLS when it was the
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  Speaker 2: number one R and B station in the nation. As
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's on loan from the March Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: I asked you ask Mark. He knows all about radio.
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  Speaker 2: He'll tell you about these two guys. Yeah, but you
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  Speaker 2: all pumped up yesterday now with your new name, the
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  Speaker 2: Quiet Storm. See we're telling you you're quiet. And what
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  Speaker 2: does he do? As a typical gen Z got the reverse?
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  Speaker 1: I got a zag. Yeah, the reverse? You notice that.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's not Let's just count the words. He said
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  Speaker 1: about a dozen words right now. You just said about
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred. So let's put you to the test here.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie obviously recovering from the knee surgery. But do you
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  Speaker 2: play power ball? Because I don't, Larry obviously does, Natalie does,
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  Speaker 2: and probably most of the people who work at iHeart
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  Speaker 2: and some capacity do. It just seems everybody went, well,
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  Speaker 2: the big prize is a billion dollars, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm driving in a Jersey turnpike. I get I'm
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  Speaker 1: coming up close to the Lincoln Tunnel and there it
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  Speaker 1: is on the sign. I check every day to see
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  Speaker 1: where the powerball and the other one is and how
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  Speaker 1: much they are up for and they said just one billion,
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  Speaker 1: one b it said, and I checked it out online
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  Speaker 1: and it is one billion dollars. Now, if you take
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  Speaker 1: the cash option and not take the payments out over
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  Speaker 1: thirty years, you end up with four hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: three million. I mean, who can live on that? Seriously?
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  Speaker 1: So that's four and thirty three million, and the chances
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  Speaker 1: of winning if you were to buy one ticket, like
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  Speaker 1: that's the way Natalie does it. She just buys one
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  Speaker 1: ticket for two dollars is one in two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety two million, two hundred and one thousand, three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty eight. And if you were to buy two tickets,
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  Speaker 1: you can cut that in half. It would only be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million. So you get two tickets.
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  Speaker 1: But I play all the time, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Since you're a player, and most of our listeners probably are.
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  Speaker 2: This phenomenon of power ball, it seemed to me first
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  Speaker 2: just came. Each state had its own lotto, and they
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  Speaker 2: always told you, oh, it's gonna raise money for education,
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  Speaker 2: public education.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they sold it lotto.
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  Speaker 2: I always wondered about that, how much of it actually
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  Speaker 2: goes to public education and not to bureaucracy that it's
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  Speaker 2: paid to support this. But Powerball, if I understand it correctly,
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  Speaker 2: it's like one of these first lottos to spread their
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  Speaker 2: tentacles all over America to get state after the state enrolled,
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  Speaker 2: that's the reason that the jackpot could keep soaring. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not just New Jersey. It's not just New York.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably dozens of states now that have signed on.
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  Speaker 2: So you got all of America like Powerball, right, and
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  Speaker 2: that's how they can have the huge jackpots. But and
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  Speaker 2: it's meghem millions too, and now Mega millions. It's really
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  Speaker 2: funny because Mega Millions was falling behind Powerball. That's the
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  Speaker 2: competition those two and Mega Millions was falling behind, and
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  Speaker 2: they thought to themselves, oh, it's because our jackpots aren't
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  Speaker 2: big enough. So now to get a Mega millions ticket,
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  Speaker 2: it costs five dollars for each one instead of two dollars.
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  Speaker 2: And now they get that, they usually get the bigger jackpots.
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  Speaker 2: So this is pretty exciting. There's a billion dollars. When
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  Speaker 2: I walk into a convenience store, grocery store, candy store,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, bodega's, and I see
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  Speaker 2: that the line for people just buying the basics milk
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  Speaker 2: and bread is almost like one or two people. And
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  Speaker 2: then the special machine that they get hooked up from
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  Speaker 2: the state. It's like twelve, fifteen, twenty people.
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  Speaker 1: That happened already, because it's funny. I went yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: I was expecting to see that. I went too, wah
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  Speaker 1: wah wah, and I was expecting to see that, and
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  Speaker 1: I got right to the machine. There wasn't a big line,
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  Speaker 1: but I remember in the past they'd be huge lines
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  Speaker 1: to wait to get the power ball. I think people
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  Speaker 1: are getting used to these now, it's like. And also
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  Speaker 1: you can buy them online, which you couldn't do before,
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  Speaker 1: so it's going to be fascinating. I mean, how high
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  Speaker 1: will this go? Which are the scratch offs here?
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  Speaker 2: Because what I see is people standing around with like
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  Speaker 2: a dime in their hand just scratching off, scratching off scratch.
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  Speaker 2: They seem to have a formula in mind. They seem
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  Speaker 2: to have a relationship with the person they're buying it from,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a regular newsstand, candy store, balldega grocery store,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where they wish one another luck, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and always the store points out how many winners they've
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  Speaker 2: had in the past. It always like to say that, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you want to buy here, because look at all the
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  Speaker 2: winners we've had. Like there's this guy in North Carolina
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  Speaker 2: who was playing their local lottery. There again, it was
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  Speaker 2: supposedly set up to help education. He won the second time.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the New York Post.
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  Speaker 2: The second time in two years he won one hundred
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars on the scratch. He walks home with seventy
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  Speaker 2: two thousand after taxes. And yet it was two years
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  Speaker 2: ago he won the two million dollar prize in North
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  Speaker 2: Carolina and walked away with eight hundred and fifty eight thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's a big chunk out of that. That's more
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  Speaker 2: than fifty percent they took in taxes. How do you
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  Speaker 2: end up becoming a multiple winner? I always wondered, if
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  Speaker 2: they're not manipulating this to get more in money in
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  Speaker 2: the pop more and more money in the pot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't. I think that they have enough money.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have to manipulate it to get the more money.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they're will be look at, they have
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  Speaker 1: the golden goose right now, Why are they gonna screw
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  Speaker 1: with it? They're not gonna screw with this, it's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the I'm looking at the top ten
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  Speaker 1: powerball jackpots and Mega millions jackpots. This billion dollars doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make the top ten, doesn't make the top ten. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're the biggest. Was over two billion. That was back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. And of course somebody in California
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  Speaker 1: won of the top ten. California's won three. Nobody from
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  Speaker 1: this area has ever won one, which means we're due. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you keep thinking that.
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  Speaker 2: You keep thinking that, Larry as you line up to
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  Speaker 2: get now not only your power Bowl ticket, but also
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  Speaker 2: what your Mega million ticket?
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  Speaker 1: Right? No, I don't get Mega million. It's five bucks now,
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  Speaker 1: really didn't get it.
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  Speaker 2: And there's the local lotto, all the different games they have,
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  Speaker 2: the state lotto.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Then for a while there they had something called Kino
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  Speaker 2: or something like that where you could walk into a
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  Speaker 2: gin mill and like every half hour there was a
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  Speaker 2: new drawing, just like being addicted to crack.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny though, because people say to me, why
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  Speaker 1: are you playing power ball? You're just throwing away your money.
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  Speaker 1: I got like it's two bucks. It's two bucks for
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  Speaker 1: a chance at a billion dollars I'll take that. I'll
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  Speaker 1: put two dollars in for a billion dollars. Of course
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  Speaker 1: I spend more than that. But Natalie's really good about it.
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  Speaker 1: She only spends two dollars. That's one ticket. She's disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: One ticket.
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  Speaker 2: And we have not encouraged Chris to get on board,
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  Speaker 2: have or to speak.
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  Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, here he goes, wait
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  Speaker 1: a second to talk. I played, I played on on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: I played, and I just I'll play tonight. Yeah, how
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  Speaker 1: much are you gonna spend? I'll buy a couple of tickets,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot, like two or three. Nobody ever admits
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  Speaker 1: to how many power ballsy how did you buy one? Two?
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  Speaker 1: It's like ten? No, I by ten, but come away
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  Speaker 1: with forty hours.
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  Speaker 2: I got a ticket, you know, And I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: figure this out with so many tickets sold. It's not
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  Speaker 2: like you have a formula, like you know you're going
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  Speaker 2: to the horse track and y you know you have
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  Speaker 2: the racing form and you figure out stats and past races.
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  Speaker 2: But there are guys who have been online who tell
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  Speaker 2: me they have a formula. What time to arrive, what
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  Speaker 2: to ask for, when to ask for if there's a
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  Speaker 2: certain guy behind the counter that they don't know not
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  Speaker 2: to buy the ticket. Then they got this whole thing
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  Speaker 2: worked out. And I'm saying, you spend most of your
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  Speaker 2: day thinking about this. You see, you're damn right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe there is a way. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: there's any possible way they have that's set up, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe some of the people that are listening right now
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  Speaker 1: that play power Ball or play Mega Millions do have
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  Speaker 1: a formula. So go to the iHeartRadio app, leave us
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  Speaker 1: you said this too, I gotta feel in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that listen play the power back.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there's no doubt. They may not want to admit it,
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  Speaker 2: but I know they do. Now the other thing that
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  Speaker 2: I've noticed from our broadcast, because we're the only show
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  Speaker 2: that talks about AI on a f you intelligence. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to give you an update on that at the
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  Speaker 2: end of this hour. But I had a few people
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  Speaker 2: come up to me yesterday as I was jumping from
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  Speaker 2: the streets to the subway, saying, fluck the flock.
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  Speaker 1: Fluck the flock.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, We're the only ones talking about these flock cameras.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody else, you know, they all talk about the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Gives me a headache, I'm sorry. Talk radio for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, is an echo chamber. The same subjects over
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  Speaker 2: and over. To me, the two most important issues that
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  Speaker 2: affect people, no matter what your ideology, no matter what
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  Speaker 2: where you live, rural areas, suburban areas, urban areas, AI,
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  Speaker 2: It's going to impact everybody in a positive and negative
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  Speaker 2: or maybe not at all. And of course, these flock cameras,
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  Speaker 2: as you pointed out Lowry the other day, they were everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine I have people coming up to you fluck the flock.
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  Speaker 2: And at first I'm wondering, you know, because my hearing
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  Speaker 2: is not that good. Are they cursing me out like
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  Speaker 2: some people?
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  Speaker 1: Do? You know?
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  Speaker 2: Ef usely you know, you should have dropped out, but no,
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  Speaker 2: they've developed this.
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  Speaker 1: Line, fluck the flow. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And they said it was listening to you and Larry
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  Speaker 2: you were describing it. It's just the conversation I was
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  Speaker 2: having with my wife or my friend. It's like, these
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  Speaker 2: are the issues that really impact people. Some of these
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  Speaker 2: other talk shows. The pet tax, well we'll be talking
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  Speaker 2: about that, but that really doesn't impact that many people
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  Speaker 2: in New York City. Would impact thirteen thousand when implemented.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny you said that, because I heard from a
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  Speaker 1: couple of people that send emails that they didn't know
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  Speaker 1: at all that this was happening, and they didn't know
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  Speaker 1: it was so pervasive. It's in every single states and
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  Speaker 1: there's thousands of them in New Jersey and New York.
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  Speaker 1: And in case you weren't listening, just to set you
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  Speaker 1: up on what they are, they are surveillance cameras run
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  Speaker 1: by a private company that take your license plates, put
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  Speaker 1: them through AI and they get all this information and
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  Speaker 1: they keep a record of where you've been. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: we can talk more about it. Maybe we'll talk to
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  Speaker 1: you this morning, Towell. By the way, it is, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also saved. It's it's solved a million cases.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to disappoint you. Warwell was a socialist
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  Speaker 2: animal farm.
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  Speaker 1: Want to go back to I've got a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: of research. I'm ready for you now.
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  Speaker 2: I just telling you you pointed out I'm signed right,
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  Speaker 2: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get your talk facts one week come back.
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