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Hour 1: Bayonne Little League Loss · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: And it is a sad day today. The word legend
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  Speaker 1: is thrown around a lot, but in this case, it
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  Speaker 1: absolutely works. There was the passing of a legend yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton, dead at the age of 80. Now, you remember,
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about Dolly Parton now for several months,
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  Speaker 1: going back a year because she was opening a play
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  Speaker 1: on Broadway called And she was never able to come
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  Speaker 1: to Broadway, and she was never able to promote it,
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  Speaker 1: and she was never able to get out on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and she had to cancel many appearances. And she kept
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  Speaker 1: putting videos out saying, I'm okay, I'm all right, don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about me. But the entire time, she was apparently
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  Speaker 1: fighting cancer. And she thinks that she got sick when
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  Speaker 1: she was caring for her husband, Carl Dean, someone she
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  Speaker 1: was married to for 52 years. He passed away Last year,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently Dolly Parton since then has never been the same.
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  Speaker 1: Her passing was announced by her nephew, Brian Seaver. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they have a close relationship with both her brother-in-law and
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  Speaker 1: her nephew because the brother-in-law helped her launch her music career.
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  Speaker 1: The nephew, Brian Seaver, is head of security and is
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  Speaker 1: always with her, so that's why he made the announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life
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  Speaker 2: wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and
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  Speaker 2: have some rest. Rest in peace, Aunt Dolly, Aunt Granny, Gigi.
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  Speaker 2: May God bless Dolly Parton, and may God bless you all.
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  Speaker 2: She will always love you.
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  Speaker 1: That was beautiful. Songs like She Will Always Love You
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  Speaker 1: that was made a hit by Whitney Houston, 9 to 5,
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  Speaker 1: the theme of the movie that she played in. She
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  Speaker 1: starred in two movies. She was nominated for an Oscar.
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  Speaker 1: She was very close to getting the EGOT. She just
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  Speaker 1: needed that Tony to get the EGOT. She might be
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  Speaker 1: the biggest star in the country. Think about it. And
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  Speaker 1: never a scandal. Never got involved in politics. I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard her say a bad word about anyone. And Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: she is the American dream because if you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: she was born in the Smoky Mountains in a cabin
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  Speaker 1: that only had one room. There were 12 kids and
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  Speaker 1: it never seemed to get to her. She always thought
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  Speaker 1: she was going to be a star. At the age
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  Speaker 1: of six, She sang her very first song that she
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  Speaker 1: wrote about a doll that her father gave to her.
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  Speaker 1: And just a couple of years ago, when she was
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  Speaker 1: on CBS this morning, she sang that song.
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  Speaker 3: And she kept writing from that song.
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  Speaker 1: And made it to Nashville first. She was on a
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  Speaker 1: local radio show and then a TV show. And then
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  Speaker 1: she went to Nashville where her uncle was waiting for her.
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  Speaker 1: She signed Curtis a recording contract when she was in
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  Speaker 1: high school. And when she graduated, she performed at the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Ole Opry. And after that, she was a star.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: You know, obviously, I wasn't a follower of her music,
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  Speaker 5: Dolly Parton. I liked it when she teamed up with
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  Speaker 5: Kenny Rogers because I always liked Kenny Rogers. And that's
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  Speaker 5: really when I was introduced to Dolly Parton. They did
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  Speaker 5: great duets together. But I also liked her because she
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  Speaker 5: reminded me of a more beautiful Yogi Berra. Give me
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  Speaker 5: a moment to explain that, please. Yogi Berra, if you
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  Speaker 5: ever went to Little Falls, Montclair State, they have the
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  Speaker 5: Yogi Berra Museum and they have all of his yogisms,
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  Speaker 5: you know, things that he's famous for saying. It ain't
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  Speaker 5: over till it's over. When you come to a fork
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  Speaker 5: in the road, take it. You know, and it goes
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  Speaker 5: on and on. And people love that because it was
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  Speaker 5: very genuine. There are a whole list of Dalai isms.
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  Speaker 5: of things that she has said in interviews and publicly
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  Speaker 5: that are pretty much the same thing, except naturally she
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  Speaker 5: was much better looking than Yogi Perra was. And I
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  Speaker 5: love the story she told. She said, look, I finally
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  Speaker 5: had that music contract, and the executives, they're saying to me,
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  Speaker 5: you won't be taken seriously. You look more like a
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  Speaker 5: hooker the way you dress than a singer. And she
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  Speaker 5: used one of those dollyisms. Don't judge me by the
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  Speaker 5: cover because I'm a real good book.
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  Speaker 1: That's right out of Yogi Berra, right? You start thinking
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. And, you know, when it came to interviews, I
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  Speaker 5: watched some of her interviews yesterday when I heard of
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  Speaker 5: her passing. You could ask her a question as an interviewer.
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  Speaker 5: Go out, get a cup of soup, a sandwich at
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  Speaker 5: the diner, come back, and she'll still be answering the
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  Speaker 5: question because as she always said, ask me anything and
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what I want to hear, which meant
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  Speaker 5: she was in total control.
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  Speaker 1: But in a nice way.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Always smiling, always laughing and self-deprecating. Oh, absolutely. Who do
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  Speaker 1: you see any longer who's self-deprecating? No, absolutely. Absolutely. And
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  Speaker 1: she was such a kind person and never, ever got
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  Speaker 1: involved with any controversies. Hers or anybody else's. Never talked
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  Speaker 1: about it. Always smiling. Always was nice. And we have
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  Speaker 1: to point out one other thing about her that she
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  Speaker 1: is especially proud of. And that is the Imagination Library,
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  Speaker 1: where she gave 300 books to children around the country
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  Speaker 1: from the age of one all the way up to
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  Speaker 1: 12 to promote literacy. She spent $ 600 million in her
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  Speaker 1: lifetime in philanthropy projects. And when she was asked what
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  Speaker 1: her legacy should be, she didn't talk about the music.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't talk about the movies. She didn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: Dolly World or her Broadway play. She talked about the charity.
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  Speaker 7: Do you ever think about what you'd want your legacy
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  Speaker 7: to be?
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of wonderful things that's happened to me.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things I'm proudest of is the Imagination Library. But,
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  Speaker 3: of course, I'm a writer and a singer, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: in both Songwriter Hall of Fames, you know, the big one,
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  Speaker 3: the country music, and the other one up there with
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  Speaker 3: the big guys. I'm just trying to leave as much stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to see how much I can do
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  Speaker 3: in a lifetime. And I've been blessed, and I've been lucky,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't take any of that for granted. But
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  Speaker 3: I just want it to be remembered well.
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  Speaker 1: She's being remembered well today. $ 600 million she gave in
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  Speaker 1: charities during her lifetime. Natalie, did you want to say something?
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  Speaker 8: You know what? That last cut got me. It teared
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  Speaker 8: me up because she was such a kind human being,
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  Speaker 8: and you just don't see that anymore. She just wanted
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  Speaker 8: to help people, whether it was helping somebody with a
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  Speaker 8: song or helping somebody who was unfortunate and couldn't afford
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  Speaker 8: books for their children. I mean, she wanted to make
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  Speaker 8: people happy. She made an amusement park. I mean, this
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  Speaker 8: woman did everything. And, you know, sometimes you can't connect
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  Speaker 8: with your kids on people that you grew up with.
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  Speaker 8: And my daughter, she was the first one who texted
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  Speaker 8: me yesterday to tell me about it.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't even seen it yet. She may be the
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  Speaker 1: biggest star in America. She was the biggest star in America.
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  Speaker 1: As you think of everybody else, I mean, Tom Cruise,
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  Speaker 1: you go through all the names. They rise and fall
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  Speaker 1: and rise and fall. Dolly Parton's always there. And you
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  Speaker 1: know why? All these for decades. Because.
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  Speaker 2: She.
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  Speaker 8: Didn't alienate one group of people.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 8: Everybody felt connected to her in some fashion.
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  Speaker 1: In fact.
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  Speaker 8: Whether it was her music or her, you know, philanthropies.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, I'm creating theater of the mind now. Imagine
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  Speaker 5: we're in a gin mill and on one side you
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  Speaker 5: got these truckers with their Confederate flag caps on and
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  Speaker 5: the drag queens dressed like Dolly Parton on the other
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  Speaker 5: side cheering her on.
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  Speaker 1: Can we hear like a potpourri of her songs now?
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  Speaker 1: Do you play that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know why that's important to play her songs? Because
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  Speaker 1: at the core, what made her Dolly Parton, what made
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  Speaker 1: her famous was songwriting. She was one of the best
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  Speaker 1: songwriters in America for decades.
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  Speaker 8: That is going to sell out in a second. I'm
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  Speaker 8: sad that the tickets weren't on sale yet because I
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  Speaker 8: was going to get one. So now it's going to
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  Speaker 8: be tough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's going to be the biggest play
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  Speaker 1: on Broadway for a long time. I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to run for a while. I know it didn't get
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  Speaker 1: great reviews the first time it opened. They say they
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  Speaker 1: fixed it. I don't think it's going to matter. I
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  Speaker 1: think people just want to go as a tribute to her.
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  Speaker 5: I think her best contribution outside of music is when
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  Speaker 5: she set up Dolly World right outside of Knoxville where
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  Speaker 5: it was basically Dixieland where they would recreate Confederate victories
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  Speaker 5: over the Bluecoats. And she walked onto the premise because
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  Speaker 5: they said, yeah, you could have your Dollywood here and
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  Speaker 5: we'll do our recreations here. She goes, you know, this
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  Speaker 5: Dub Mland ain't nobody's fool, but we ain't going to
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  Speaker 5: get no northerners down here. They get 4 million people
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  Speaker 5: a year to Dollyworld because she said, what are you, crazy?
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  Speaker 5: The South didn't win the war? You're going to continue
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  Speaker 5: to do that? I can't be a part of that.
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  Speaker 5: And she basically bought him out lock, stock, and barrel.
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  Speaker 5: Well there's still joy in Bayonne. You know how they
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  Speaker 5: say there is no joy in Mudville? Well, there's still
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  Speaker 5: joy in Bayonne. They couldn't be prouder of their team,
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  Speaker 5: even though they lost last night and were eliminated from
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  Speaker 5: the Little League World Series. We'll talk about that. Plus,
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  Speaker 5: we want to hear from you. about Dolly Parton, go
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  Speaker 1: the little league baseball team that lost and was eliminated
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  Speaker 1: last night from the World Series. They're holding their heads
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  Speaker 1: up because everybody's proud of you. Everybody in the area
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  Speaker 1: is proud of what they have done. They won 18
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  Speaker 1: straight games. blowing through New Jersey, blowing through the regionals.
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  Speaker 1: They won their first two World Series games, and then
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  Speaker 1: they went up against the best of the best, and
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  Speaker 1: they held their own, but it all ended last night
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  Speaker 1: when they played a Little League team from Hamilton, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: in Williamsport, and lost 5-2. But Bayonne, man, couldn't be prouder.
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  Speaker 1: At Coles Tavern, which is the real popular spot to go,
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  Speaker 1: the drinking and eating spot owned by Kevin Call, when
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  Speaker 1: the game was over, guess what happened? There was no sadness.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody applauded.
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  Speaker 9: They played their hearts out. They did something no other
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  Speaker 9: Bayonne team ever did before. So no Bayonne team ever
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  Speaker 9: went past the regionals. I told them we're going to
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  Speaker 9: personally throw them a pizza party here.
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  Speaker 1: That was Kevin Cole, the owner of the tavern. Man,
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  Speaker 1: people couldn't be prouder. I didn't see anybody that looked
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  Speaker 1: down walking out of that place.
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  Speaker 5: Remember, most people couldn't find Bayonne on a map if
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  Speaker 5: their life depended on it. They put Bayonne on the map.
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  Speaker 5: The only previous time of significance was when Chuck Wepner
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  Speaker 5: got in the ring with Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight
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  Speaker 5: championship of the world. He was the bouncer. They have
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  Speaker 5: a statue in his honor in Bayonne. But boy, they
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  Speaker 5: got to be busting their buttons and bridges with pride.
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  Speaker 5: Because normally in our region, it's either Tom's River in
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  Speaker 5: New Jersey who goes to Williamsport or the South Shore,
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  Speaker 5: Staten Island.
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  Speaker 1: So for Bayonne to actually get.
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  Speaker 5: Into Williamsport, those are memories that will be with people
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  Speaker 5: in Bayonne forever and all those who left Bayonne and
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  Speaker 5: have settled in different parts of the United States forever. boy,
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  Speaker 5: they'll cherish those memories.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they won 18 games in a row. And they
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  Speaker 1: won on the biggest stage two games in a row. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's great teams across the country. And frankly,
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  Speaker 1: I want to check the birth certificates of some of
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  Speaker 1: the kids that I've saw play.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: They look like they're shaving already. I know. They get
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  Speaker 1: in their car, they drive home. That's your first sign.
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  Speaker 1: But congratulations. Listen, I think they're coming back today. And
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  Speaker 1: I know there's going to be a huge welcome, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk more about them tomorrow. But, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: continue to remember the legacy of Dolly Parton, who died
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at the age of 80 from a battle with
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  Speaker 1: cancer that she was not public about. And I know
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  Speaker 1: that many of you want to share your memories about
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  Speaker 1: her and talk about Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 6: Self-deprecating, and I love you. I love you as a
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  Speaker 6: talk show host, as a politician, and you and Dolly
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  Speaker 6: are going to be... Long live, in this world, everybody's
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  Speaker 6: hearts and minds.
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  Speaker 5: I think he was talking about you. Yeah, well, I
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  Speaker 5: am self-deprecating. I am the politician here. I've run twice
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  Speaker 5: for mayor. But put me up next to Dolly Parton?
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  Speaker 5: My God, that's a superstar. Hey, I'll take that compliment.
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  Speaker 5: You weren't getting that back, pal. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: let me give a compliment. We are number two in
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  Speaker 5: talkbacks in the nation. Second only to KFI, the superstation
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  Speaker 5: in L.A. And you know who's made us number two? Natalie,
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  Speaker 5: our producer, for all the great talkbacks that she brings
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  Speaker 5: to the airwaves. That means we are number two in
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  Speaker 5: the nation with the number of talkbacks that we've received.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. You know who else deserves some credit? The
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  Speaker 1: people that call in and give us the talkbacks. Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: They're the only reason we get that, so thank you
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  Speaker 1: for that.
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  Speaker 4: Last week, my granddaughters, ages seven and five, went on
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  Speaker 4: their requested vacation to Dollywood, and they had a wonderful
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  Speaker 4: time learning all about her because they can sing all
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  Speaker 4: her songs, and I'm proud that they're growing up.
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  Speaker 5: Do you ever see the young girls who will come
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  Speaker 5: on with the coat that Dolly Parton said her mother
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  Speaker 5: sewed for her from all the scraps.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's the multicolored coats.
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  Speaker 5: And you see them, and that's paying tradition to how
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  Speaker 5: difficult it was for so many Americans where they'd have
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  Speaker 5: to gather scraps together and they'd wear whatever they could.
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  Speaker 5: And she always kept that tradition alive. And to this day,
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  Speaker 5: young girls come with that. Their mothers bring them to Dollywood.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though. I just love that talk back.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell it's somebody that normally would not leave
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  Speaker 1: a talkback, and it's just a proud grandmother who wanted
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  Speaker 1: to talk about her granddaughters and how Dolly touched their lives.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for that talkback. And all
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  Speaker 1: the talkbacks, we have some still here. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: get to them in the next hour. But right now,
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  Speaker 1: Daria Albinger is waiting patiently for the 630 News.
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  Speaker 4: Daria.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 7: Sunny and warm today with a high near 80 degrees. Well,
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  Speaker 7: her first duets were with Porter Wagner, and one of
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  Speaker 7: her last was with Pitbull. And she was amazing in
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  Speaker 7: both of them. The world is mourning Dolly Parton, who
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  Speaker 7: lost her battle with cancer at the age of 80.
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  Speaker 7: Channel 7 entertainment reporter, Joelle Grosciullo.
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  Speaker 10: Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 co-star, Jane Fonda, writing in part,
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  Speaker 10: More than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always
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  Speaker 10: be with us because she was so present, so powerful,
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  Speaker 10: so generous and playful. that she is woven into all
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  Speaker 10: our lives and hearts forever. Sally Field took to social
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  Speaker 10: media alongside a photo from their film Steel Magnolias saying,
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  Speaker 10: if there are truly angels on earth, then we have
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  Speaker 10: just lost one. And here in New York, a musical
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  Speaker 10: about the life of Dolly Parton has been planned to
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  Speaker 10: officially open on what would have been Dolly's 81st birthday.
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  Speaker 7: And the city honoring the singer, songwriter, businesswoman and philanthropist
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  Speaker 7: and so much more by lighting the Empire State Building
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  Speaker 7: pink last night. At least three teenagers are dead after
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  Speaker 7: a crash on the Belt Parkway.
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  Speaker 11: A vehicle with five males inside crashed with another vehicle
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  Speaker 11: while both were going eastbound on the Belt. This was
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  Speaker 5: So they're out there trying to lobby our own Larry
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: Mendte against standing with me and so many others against
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: the AI data centers that are being built in residential neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Curtis, we've been talking about AI data centers and
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the fact that communities are uprising against them. For the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: last few months, we've been talking about it. We were
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: talking about it when nobody else was talking about it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: You're the one who brought it to everybody's attention, all
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: those town hall meetings in Jersey. Now everybody else is
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: starting to mention it because it may impact the midterm elections.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all of a sudden it's become a big issue
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: for a long time. It was just a community issue.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: There were some communities throughout New Jersey especially, but it's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: across the country now, that were saying, look, we don't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: want one of these things next to our homes. That's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: a reasonable request, right? And if it's going to be
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: next to our homes, we want these safeguards. That's a
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: reasonable request, right? And so we were calling attention to
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: it because they had a point there. These things were
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: being forced down their throats because there is a huge
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: conglomeration of AI companies and high-tech companies that are putting
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars into making this happen. And
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: everybody wants to do it fast. What I was surprised about,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: I guess, is the pushback to that. Not by the politicians.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I understand the politicians not. have some people that they owe,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: that they get some money into their campaigns. I get that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That's all legal, but they're going to now speak out
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: for all these AI data centers. There is a lot
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of money to be had. It's great for the economy.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I think AI is the next great human innovation. I'm
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: all for AI, but the data centers don't have to
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: be in communities. And yet I constantly– we got it yesterday, Curtis.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Remember the talkbacks yesterday? Yeah, sure, sure.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Remember, they're all– they're like bots. Blame it on the
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: red Chinese. Blame it on the red Chinese. Just stop already.
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: This was organic.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but some of them are not bots because I
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: was talking to them yesterday. My mailbox was flooded with
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: social media. Wait, you were talking to chatbots? No, maybe. Maybe.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Don't go there, Larry. Don't go there, Larry.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: Pretty soon you'll be talking more to the chatbots than
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: your lovely wife.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Who knows these days, but I feel like I was
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: talking to people because for some reason I'm the target.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: For some reason they're coming after me.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: You are, I would say, more moderate in this position
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: than me. They know they're wasting their time with me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: We're going to knock ourselves out. But maybe we can
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: get Larry, who's like halfway there to begin with, maybe
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: we can get him to jump over the offside and
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: blame everything on the red Chinese. Wow.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: But you know what I'm talking about because we had
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: talkbacks to this.
• 22:54
  Speaker 12: Hey, Larry and Curtis, the whole AI data center thing. Yeah,
• 22:57
  Speaker 12: that's Chinese propaganda. I think people on the inside truly
• 23:03
  Speaker 12: know that. However, the media is driving the message. It's
• 23:07
  Speaker 12: the same stupid messaging that drove the NIMBY crowd back
• 23:12
  Speaker 12: in the day and put us so far behind on
• 23:14
  Speaker 12: nuclear technology. Look, industrial centers run factories that we don't hear.
• 23:20
  Speaker 12: The same can be done with AI.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Now, that's very reasonable, and you sound like a smart guy.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: But I don't believe you're right. And the reason I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: don't believe you're right is because this started months ago.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: We're just paying attention to it now. Well, we were
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: paying attention to it months ago, but most people are
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: now paying attention to it. And now that people are realizing,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: especially the high-tech industry is realizing, uh-oh, we got a
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: problem here. I think a lot of the talk about
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Russian propaganda is actually high-tech propaganda. Because they want you
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to believe that there's nothing wrong with these AI data centers,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that this is all the Chinese trying to be first,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: and that's why then you jump on board. I believe
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: that's what's happening, a lot of it. Is there Chinese propaganda? Sure, absolutely.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Now there is, but that's not how this started. That
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: is not how this started.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: And also, Larry, the spokespersons for the industry did such
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: a poor job. Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank, he tanked.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: He got eviscerated on TV. Steve Moore on radio, Zoey Swift,
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Mark Simone, right?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He tanked. And now the latest one coming out.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Of Silicon Valley who's on trial, civil trial for using
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: metaphor pervs is Mark Zuckerberg. You couldn't have three worse spokespersons.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: So it's a little late to start catching up now. Yeah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: and to everybody that called. And again, you seem like
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: you're extremely knowledgeable and you seem like you're well-read. And
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: I've had two hours of conversations yesterday online going back
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: and forth with people.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And I know they know what they're talking about. But
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: let me ask you this. What is unreasonable about working
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: with the communities? What is unreasonable about putting safeguards on
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: when it comes to water and it comes to power
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and it comes to noise? What is unreasonable about getting
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: money up front instead of money promised? What is unreasonable
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: about making certain that all the things they say are
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: going to happen positively to these communities really happened? There
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: was a tremendous, there was a guy that was working
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: in the industry that went to a town hall in Michigan.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: We played him on the air here. And he said, look,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: they're all trying to get in fast because there's going
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: to be a bubble and not everybody's going to survive.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And that's happened every single time one of these high-tech
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: explosions has happened. So it's reasonable that that's going to happen.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: He said, if they're promising all this stuff, if they're
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: promising this many jobs for this many years, then pay
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the money up front. And have the state hold it
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and pay it out. And that way, when they close
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: up in a year, we have that money. I don't
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: know why you're fighting for the AI data centers. And
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you're giving them carte blanche on where they should be
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: and what they should do and what they should impose
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: on a community. I really don't understand that. I would
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: side with the communities every single time. But I'm a
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: little concerned about you. Natalie, I think you're going to
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: have to do an intervention.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: You know how chatbots clone one another?
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: I think they're going at Larry now. These chatbots.
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: We noticed that specifically on this talk.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Be careful, Larry. The first time. The first time. But
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I know these, look at these people, many of them
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: write to me a lot. And so I know they're real.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I know they're real. And I'm not going to, Just
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: brush them aside by saying, oh, they're chatbots. These are
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: real people, and they have real opinions. I just think
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in this case, your opinion needs to develop more because
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: you're being misguided. You're being misguided, and there are some
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: people that are really, really concerned. If you don't have
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: one of these places right next to you, certainly you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: shouldn't even be in the conversation. Because they're the ones
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: that are affected all of the time. So we'll continue
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the conversation. I really enjoyed it yesterday. I don't mind
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: talking to you about it. But it can't be two
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: brick walls. There is a middle ground in all of this.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And I've given you the middle ground. And so we
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: should follow it as some states already are. Now I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: guess I'm spending another two hours today. Yeah, they're going
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to keep coming at you. They're going to keep coming. Well,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: South Carolina's U.S.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Senate Republican primary, they determined that it would be Lindsey
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: Graham's sister who would go on.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: But it was a real close race. Well, you remember
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: when Lindsey Graham died, his sister Darlene Graham was sworn
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in to replace him and just to for the rest
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: of the term. That's what everybody thought at the time.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: And then she announced, guess what? I'm going to run
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: for Senate. And immediately Donald Trump supported her for Senate.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And then she had some problems in the debates. She
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: didn't know foreign policy. She was asked a question about Taiwan.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: And she said, I'm going to be honest with you.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I know nothing about this. And so she took a
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: big hit. But she won anyway in a special election.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: In the primary, you'll remember, nobody got 50%. So there
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: was a runoff of the top two. Ralph Norman, who's
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: been a congressman there, very popular for a long time,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: against Darlene Graham. And everybody thought Darlene Graham. I just
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: said it yesterday. I said yesterday, Darlene Graham, she's going
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to win easily. She didn't win easily. She won by
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: just a few percentage points. She got 52% of the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: vote to 48% of the vote for Ralph Norman. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: this easily could have gone the other way. So let's
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. But first, here is
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Darlene remembering her brother.
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Lindsay, for your service to South Carolina and
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: to this country. It's just not the same without you here.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: So that's why she won. She won because– not because
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: of a history of service to the country, not because
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: she knows a lot about foreign policy because she doesn't,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: not because she was absolutely qualified for the job she
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: won because she was Lindsey Graham's sister that's what it
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: was and there's a lot of emotion and a lot
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: of good feelings about Lindsey Graham so Ralph Norman gives
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a concession speech and I don't know how to phrase
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: this It was the most bizarre concession speech I've seen
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: in a long time because he was not happy. But,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you know, the president got involved. He has that right.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: That's his prerogative. As I told, I never, well, y'all,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: his policies are good.
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: I never understood why he got in this race to beat,
• 30:19
  Speaker 13: you know, but it is what it is, and I'll
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: accept it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Had Donald Trump not endorsed Darlene Graham, she would have lost. Yeah,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: no doubt.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: She's not ready for primetime. Same way we criticize AOC
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: much younger for when she went over to the European
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Union and didn't know our policy towards Taiwan, aka Formosa.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: You know, she was flummoxed. She has time to recover.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: You know, she's probably hitting the books now, all kinds
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: of geopolitical, you know, advisors and mentors. But Let's face it,
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: Lindsey Graham's sister, nice woman, but not ready for prime
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: time for the U.S.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Senate.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: She only got it because Trump chose her. Notice he
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: had to come into Myrtle Beach over the weekend. He
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: had to use his Trump cred. He dumped a million
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: dollars of his PAC money in the final vote. And
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: as you pointed out, she only beat him by 4%.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: And Norman, if he had had another week, probably would
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: have beaten her.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I think so. And also, it wasn't just the million dollars.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: There was the Republican National Committee poured money into that.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: He didn't have any of the cash that she had.
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: We did this for service, and I hate it for
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: the state. But the public, South Carolina, made the decision.
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: We had $ 8 million spent against us.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: I couldn't.
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: We couldn't come up with that much money.
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Well i i almost won i know if we went
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: to uh what is that poly grip what do they
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: call that again the two probably right we could do
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: a prediction on the fact that joe bartlett now a
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: proud resident of south carolina in retirement mr wor is
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: not going to be voting for any republican down in
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: south carolina i can assure you that why is that Oh,
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: he's so anti-Trump.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. He is. It's interesting. I wonder if
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: he is registered as a Republican, and I wonder if
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: he voted for Norman.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Well, I think we're going to have to talk to
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: him soon.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Well, talk to him, but you can look that up
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: in registration. That's public. You can find out if he's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: registered as a Democrat, an Independent, or a Republican. All right.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: That's open to everybody. I'll get on that.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: While he's playing bocce so he doesn't find out. But
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: what this may do, not to say that a Democrat
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: can win that seat, that is solid Republican seat, is
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: some Republicans may be so disappointed they stay home.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: They just stay home. Maybe, but she's still going to
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: win the seat. I mean, she's going to win it
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: pretty easily. And I think Donald Trump is pretty happy
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: about this because she's probably going to do anything he wants.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: She's going to vote any way he wants. And so
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: he's happy. She's going to be in there.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: He's worried a little bit more, though, about Tom Cotton,
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: who basically is the new Lindsey Graham, you know, in
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: terms of his support for the president, in terms of
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: his support for the military and for our intervention around
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: the world. That recent poll had Tom Cotton in Arkansas
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: behind the Democrat who nobody knew. Mr. President, you got
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: a lot of work out there. You better be getting
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: out there. Leave Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster, the White House. You better
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: get into those 50 states and start campaigning for the Republicans.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. I'll tell you what, the one
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: thing we didn't need for the midterms was we have
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: a war with Iran, but now we're going to have
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: a tariff war with Canada. I really don't get this one.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of with Curtis on this. I don't understand
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: what Donald Trump's doing, but we'll talk about the both sides.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: That's coming up right after the 7 o'clock news.