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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Where's that Ray Stajic? Where is he? Come on, Natalie.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Later in the morning. Come on, Larry. 6.50.
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  Speaker 3: I got a little piece of my mind to share
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  Speaker 3: with him because he was the most laid back weather
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  Speaker 3: forecaster of the many that we got pounded with over
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  Speaker 3: 72 hours. And you yourself, a weather forecaster of extraordinary talent. Larry,
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  Speaker 3: in the years you spent in San Diego, same weather
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  Speaker 3: map every day.
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  Speaker 2: Sunny in 70, see, in January, that's when things will
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  Speaker 2: change a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: But you understand all the terminology, and you understand how
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  Speaker 3: we were goading him.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, why are the weather forecasters.
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  Speaker 3: On TV preaching death, destruction, and, oh, my God, this
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  Speaker 3: could be the mother of all nor'eases. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 3: Ray was so laid back, well, maybe, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: could be possibly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Let me, I'll tell you a real quick story.
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  Speaker 2: I was in a meeting one time when a storm
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  Speaker 2: was moving up the coast. It was days away, but
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  Speaker 2: the weathercaster said, if this hits, it could be the
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  Speaker 2: storm of the century. It was the last night of ratings.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think we led with? Storm of
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  Speaker 2: the century, and it didn't hit. But we won the book.
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  Speaker 2: We had extraordinary ratings that night. But in this one,
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  Speaker 2: I always say fear, fright, hysteria, and hype. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: hype actually delivered because our area was blanketed, the tri-state area.
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  Speaker 2: There were all different situations, the way there was massive flooding,
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  Speaker 2: where trees were being unearthed and knocked down and chaos,
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  Speaker 2: no electricity.
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  Speaker 3: But it was over two days. So it wasn't just
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  Speaker 3: like it came in and it went out to sea.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It hung around for two full days.
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  Speaker 3: Including the cancellation of the ACDC concert.
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  Speaker 1: In MetLife Stadium. ACDC! Of course it was canceled. And
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  Speaker 1: Global Citizen. They had to cancel that last minute too.
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  Speaker 2: I know that was last minute. They were going to
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  Speaker 2: go ahead with that. Most of the concerts were, the
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  Speaker 2: outdoor concerts were canceled. Canceled ahead of time. They held on.
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  Speaker 1: Ringo Starr.
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  Speaker 2: They held on to the very end.
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  Speaker 4: Ringo Starr was canceled at the PNC Arts Center last night.
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  Speaker 1: All over. All over.
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  Speaker 2: Can I defend Ray Stajic for a second? Oh, please don't.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was level-headed. He gave us every single fact.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that after having to suffer through hype and
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  Speaker 2: hype and hype and hype and hype. And I think
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  Speaker 2: the problem is people are used to that. Now, this time,
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  Speaker 2: you're right. The hype came through. So those that are
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  Speaker 2: level-headed don't look as bad because they're not screaming, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God, it's Armageddon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but wait a second. Don't give them a pass
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  Speaker 1: on this. I'm sorry, Larry.
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  Speaker 3: I want him to do his mea corpus, mea corpus,
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  Speaker 3: mea maxima corpus.
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  Speaker 1: He was wrong.
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  Speaker 3: He did not prepare us adequately for what was happening. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I will admit, talking to some of my relatives in
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  Speaker 3: old Howard Beach, oh.
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  Speaker 1: This was as bad as Superstorm Sandy. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Nowhere near as bad as Superstorm Sandy. But it had
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  Speaker 3: its moments.
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  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 2: It really hit bad down in South Jersey along the
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  Speaker 2: coastline down there. They're going to take a long time
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  Speaker 2: to recover from this because it was one of those
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  Speaker 2: storms like in Cape May and Atlantic City and Wildwood
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  Speaker 2: where there was no city anymore. I mean, the bay
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  Speaker 2: met the ocean. It was all covered with water. In
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  Speaker 2: some areas like Cape May, 18 inches of water they got.
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  Speaker 2: And to top it off, they had winds of up
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  Speaker 2: to 70 miles per hour. So South Jersey was hit hard.
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  Speaker 2: North Jersey was hit hard, too. Long Beach was hit hard.
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  Speaker 2: Seabright was hit hard. I mean, there was all up
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  Speaker 2: and down the coast. But for some reason down south,
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  Speaker 2: it really hit to the point where it's going to
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  Speaker 2: take a long time to recover.
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  Speaker 3: So what you're saying is Natalie's ranch house got wiped
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  Speaker 3: out on the Jersey Shore.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's so funny because I know you're a
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  Speaker 4: South Jersey guy. When you call Long Branch, not that
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  Speaker 4: North Jersey, because people up north by me, you know,
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  Speaker 4: way up north.
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  Speaker 1: In morris county call that south jersey.
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  Speaker 2: South jersey i know it's not anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Near i know i know but it's all relative we.
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  Speaker 2: Put the dividing line all the way across the state
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  Speaker 2: of trenton that's yeah everything above trenton.
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  Speaker 3: So your your fabulous ranch house was it wiped out
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  Speaker 3: on the jersey shore natalie.
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  Speaker 4: Oh well the house that uh you know my my
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  Speaker 4: relatives live in down the shore thankfully they came up
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  Speaker 4: they stayed up here for the you know up north
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  Speaker 4: for the weekend uh They kept electricity. That was an
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  Speaker 4: amazing thing about this storm. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 4: power outages, but where you suspect them to be out,
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  Speaker 4: they weren't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. There was no sustained winds.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was the key. Having sustained winds will knock out
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  Speaker 2: a lot of power. When you have gusts, most trees
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  Speaker 2: can withstand a gust. Most power lines can withstand a gust.
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  Speaker 2: That's why it's important to listen to the forecast. When
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  Speaker 2: you hear them say there are 50-mile-per-hour sustained winds... Then
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  Speaker 2: you're in trouble. Then things are going to fall down.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was checking in with relatives that live in
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  Speaker 4: Union Beach and Lavalette, you know, where you always get flooding.
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  Speaker 4: And they got the flooding. They definitely did. But they
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  Speaker 4: were with power. They were safe. They just had to
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  Speaker 4: ride it out.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one thing that Jersey and the Rockaways and the
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  Speaker 3: South Shore, Long Island, Nassau and Suffolk, which got hit,
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  Speaker 3: we'll equally have to share in is the taxpayer cost
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  Speaker 3: of beach nourishment, because you're going to have to replenish
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  Speaker 3: all those beaches that were washed out to shore. And
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  Speaker 3: this happens every cycle.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 2: And the shame of it is most of those beaches
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  Speaker 2: just did replenishments, just did them up and down the
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  Speaker 2: Jersey shore. And now they're going to have to get
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  Speaker 2: back to it, but it's important for the future to
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  Speaker 2: remember that. That when you get a nor'easter, not like
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  Speaker 2: Superstorm Sandy, that was a completely different story. When you
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  Speaker 2: get a nor'easter, it's going to hit the coastline bad. Like,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, Natalie, where you were, bad winds.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, up by in northern New Jersey?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, see.
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  Speaker 4: It was like nothing almost. You kept thinking to yourself,
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  Speaker 4: what's happening? Why isn't anything happening?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, same here. I'm in Linden. I'm thinking to myself,
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  Speaker 2: I thought we were supposed to get a lot of rain.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's always going to hit the coastline worse
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  Speaker 2: than anywhere else. That's why Long Island got hit so bad.
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  Speaker 3: If you notice, once again, the complaints of people of
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  Speaker 3: Brooklyn and Queens that were hit the hardest, especially in Queens.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get to the Rockaways. I'll get to Hamilton Beach. And,
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  Speaker 3: of course— The number one Howard Beach area, old Howard
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  Speaker 3: Beach momentarily, was back up in sewers.
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  Speaker 6: What have I been railing about over and over? The
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  Speaker 6: sewers are all clocked up with garbage, flotsam, jetsam. There's
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  Speaker 6: no even flow when you get a heavy rainfall, especially
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  Speaker 6: if it's three inches in an hour.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. It ain't going down those sewers.
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  Speaker 3: And they refuse to clean out those sewers like they
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  Speaker 3: did when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was watching WCBS and there was a gentleman
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  Speaker 2: standing out. They had him out there live and he
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  Speaker 2: was standing out there, water a little bit below his knees.
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  Speaker 2: And he was pointing out all of the garbage and saying,
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  Speaker 2: this happens all the time here. They've got to clean
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  Speaker 2: out these sewers. And I thought of you right away
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  Speaker 2: because you've been You've been on that since I've known you.
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  Speaker 3: Larry, 150,000 of them that never get cleaned out. Now
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  Speaker 3: let's go to the areas where if you had a
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  Speaker 3: small spritz of rain, they'd be underwater. Old Howard Beach,
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  Speaker 3: Hamilton Beach, and that's not the blender, and the Rockaways.
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  Speaker 3: Because they also have that phenomenon of the back bay
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  Speaker 3: flush as the ocean is in front of them, which
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  Speaker 3: you described down in southern New Jersey. So they have
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  Speaker 3: Jamaica Bay and then they have the Atlantic Ocean. And
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  Speaker 3: both of them come.
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  Speaker 1: Flight and they're flooded.
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  Speaker 3: And they're always flooded. You saw the guys and gals
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  Speaker 3: in the kayaks. going to the A train station in
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  Speaker 3: what we used to call downtown Howard Beach. Used to
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  Speaker 3: be a theater there. I remember going there as a kid.
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  Speaker 3: There was always flooding. Flooding in Hamilton Beach. They have
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  Speaker 3: houses on sticks. I mean, literally up on sticks. What
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  Speaker 3: do you think the reason you're on sticks is because
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  Speaker 3: of the flooding?
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  Speaker 2: Can I give a quick real estate tip?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going to an area And the homes are
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  Speaker 2: on sticks and everybody owns a kayak.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: That should be a big clue. No matter what the
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  Speaker 2: real estate agent tells you, you may want to ask
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  Speaker 2: some questions.
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  Speaker 1: You live there. You know it's going to get flooded.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're going to want the.
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  Speaker 3: Taxpayers to basically bail you out again and again and again.
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  Speaker 1: These are marsh areas.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when I like the Dutch who built dikes
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  Speaker 3: and knew that they would be flooded all the time
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  Speaker 3: from the North Sea. We continue to have these same problems, Larry,
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  Speaker 3: over and over. It costs a lot of money to
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  Speaker 3: get it all back together again.
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  Speaker 1: But we never seem to improve the situation.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to spend the money. And I believe, and listen,
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  Speaker 2: I have no proof of this. So I just want
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  Speaker 2: to say that when I go out, when I start this,
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  Speaker 2: because it makes no sense that they have all of
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  Speaker 2: these flood areas. It's not just New York. This is
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  Speaker 2: across the country. They have all these flood areas. and
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  Speaker 2: they don't do anything to rectify it. And my belief
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  Speaker 2: is there's a lot of money to be made.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: And then, remember, the Fed's got to come in and
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  Speaker 3: bail you out because everybody screams, woe is me.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second. This happens, what, every few years?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You're still living there? You're still in the same condition?
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  Speaker 1: You're going around in kayaks when there's flooding?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to sell. I mean, it's really difficult
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  Speaker 2: to sell in those areas. I feel so bad for
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  Speaker 2: the people that live in areas that are flood areas.
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  Speaker 2: And they do nothing. The government does nothing to fix
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  Speaker 2: it because they invested in their house. They love their house.
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  Speaker 2: One day they want to sell it. or their kids
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  Speaker 2: want to sell it and they're never going to get
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  Speaker 2: the money for it.
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  Speaker 3: There's a move afoot, and I'd love talkbacks on this,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's South Shore, Staten Island, or those areas I mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: to buy back those lands that are always underwater and
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  Speaker 3: turn them into what they were originally, marshlands. Because the
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  Speaker 3: floods are constantly coming.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that ship has sailed. People get wiped out. Ain't
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  Speaker 2: going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they should because they have no remedy. They have
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  Speaker 3: no remedy other than, okay, you're underwater again. What are
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  Speaker 3: we going to do?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can talk about that, but certainly we want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about how you survived this storm and how
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  Speaker 2: But most of the spots didn't get hit that hard.
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  Speaker 1: The conversation continues.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Mendte.
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  Speaker 5: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, AI, of course, over the last month has taken
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  Speaker 2: over the conversation. Not only at the UN, but across
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  Speaker 2: the country, and it is squarely now in the midterms elections.
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  Speaker 2: And last night, Dario Amadei, who is one of the
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  Speaker 2: leaders in saying the world is going to end, one
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  Speaker 2: of the tech leaders, now there are plentiful, there's a
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  Speaker 2: whole bunch of them, had dinner with Donald Trump at
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  Speaker 2: the White House. Now, we don't really know exactly what
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  Speaker 2: was said at this point. There's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: lot more tomorrow. but I'm sure Donald Trump was telling
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  Speaker 2: him to cool down a little bit. But from the
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  Speaker 2: very beginning, and I know Curtis has a lot more
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  Speaker 2: to say about this, but let me just say this.
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  Speaker 2: From the very beginning, I've been suspicious about this whole
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  Speaker 2: AI thing. You mean they just found out in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the midterms a few weeks ago? They just
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  Speaker 2: found out what a risk this is? They just decided
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  Speaker 2: to tell us? And the fact that Amodei came out
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  Speaker 2: and said that this was going to happen And then
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  Speaker 2: everybody else said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, me too,
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  Speaker 2: really got to me. Then I watched his speech at
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  Speaker 2: the UN. And his speech at the UN really crystallized
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  Speaker 2: to me what is going on.
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  Speaker 7: The first is misuse of AI models.
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  Speaker 2: Let me set that up a little bit better, because
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  Speaker 2: he said that this is one of the greatest threats
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  Speaker 2: to humanity. Then he went through the risks, and he
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  Speaker 2: says there are two.
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  Speaker 7: The first is misuse of AI models. For example, misuse
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  Speaker 7: by bioterrorists to create biological weapons. The second risk is
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  Speaker 7: loss of control. Model capabilities accelerating beyond developers' ability to
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  Speaker 7: control them.
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  Speaker 2: And because of those two risks, he's saying this could
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  Speaker 2: wipe out civilization.
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  Speaker 7: If managed poorly, I even believe that AI could be
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  Speaker 7: a risk to humanity as a whole. At Anthropic, we
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  Speaker 7: believe we have the best track record in the industry
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  Speaker 7: for preventing these risks, both operationally and in our research.
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  Speaker 2: Fire and brimstone, dogs and cats sleeping together. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he was calling for an end of the world. And
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  Speaker 2: then after he did that and scared everybody at the UN,
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  Speaker 2: this was the tell. He went into a sales pitch.
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  Speaker 2: Who can fix all this? Anthropic.
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  Speaker 7: We test every model for dangerous capabilities in areas like
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  Speaker 7: cybersecurity and biology. We put strong safeguards on our most
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  Speaker 7: capable models, and we publish our work in these areas.
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  Speaker 7: We have pioneered... research in areas like mechanistic interpretability and
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  Speaker 7: alignment science that improve our ability to steer and control
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  Speaker 7: our models.
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  Speaker 2: So he was the first one out. And Curtis, he said, Anthropic,
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  Speaker 2: Anthropic is the one to go with. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to fight this, if you want to save humanity, you
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  Speaker 2: have to talk to me because I am front and
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  Speaker 2: center on this. And so right when he said that,
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  Speaker 2: everybody knew what he was doing, apparently, in the industry.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody came out and said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're better at it. We're better at it. We're better
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  Speaker 2: at it. So it is really suspect to me, and
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  Speaker 2: at first I thought it was politics. Now I understand
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  Speaker 2: it's money. That these companies want more control over AI globally,
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  Speaker 2: and they want to be the guardrail. They want to
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  Speaker 2: be the guardians of AI around the world. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think?
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  Speaker 3: Well, in terms of Dario at Anthropic, and the reason
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  Speaker 3: the president had dinner with him at 10 o'clock last night,
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  Speaker 3: in Washington, D.C. at the White House, coming back from
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  Speaker 3: the golf tournament that the president was at, is because
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  Speaker 3: he has been at war with the Pentagon. The Pentagon,
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  Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War, wanted complete control of
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  Speaker 3: Anthropic by purchasing the software and then determining how it
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  Speaker 3: could be used. And Dario said, no, no, there's certain
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  Speaker 3: guardrails with our product you cannot.
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  Speaker 1: So that's tied up in the courts now.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the president realizes he's hearing from Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: that out there on the stump, this idea that this
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  Speaker 3: is fake news, you know, this is the favorite term
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  Speaker 3: of President Donald Trump, fake news, fake news. And you
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  Speaker 3: say to yourself, wait a second, the president put out
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  Speaker 3: there on a social networking, the only guardrails AI needed
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  Speaker 3: was a strong and smart, high IQ president, and the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Has that in spades.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the president may be an expert on many things,
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  Speaker 3: but we know he's not an expert on AI. And
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: I think that's why you see on Tuesday they are
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: assembling the CEOs of AI companies, whether they're friendly to
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: the administration or not friendly. trying to come up with
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: one way to deal with this. Because the president, remember,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: promised I'm going to have an AI czar. I'm going
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: to have a committee on AI. He realizes this is percolating.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: He can't just leave it. Like, no guardrails, full speed ahead.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: We're going to beat the red Chinese. We don't need
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: there to be guardrails. The whole world wants guardrails.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: But you heard from Anthropic, they already have guardrails. They
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: already got them.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: That's anthropic. But there are other companies that are involved
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: in this.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: But they all say the same thing. They all say
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: the same thing. They just want control.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I understand.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: And we want, at least I want, government control of this.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: So there's a chorus out there, as you heard.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: From the U.S.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Senator Kennedy of Louisiana. He wanted a kill switch. Let's
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: face it, he's a very prominent Republican. They're going to
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: debate that. They're going to debate other measures. But I
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: would not leave it to the companies themselves to have
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: the guardrails, to know when to shut it down, when
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: it gets out of control. So I'm looking forward to
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: see what comes out. when all the AI executives of
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: all the companies competing for contracts meet with the president
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: and his staff, and try to come up with a
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: policy other than this is fake news.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Because, you know, after a while, Larry, it gets old.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Fake news, really?
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Where does this happen? How does it happen so quickly?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: We were all into AI a month ago. Everybody, the
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: whole world was into AI. It was going to change
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: the world. There wasn't this fear. Then this guy puts
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: out a post saying that, oh, there's a 10% chance
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: it's going to end the world. And, of course, everybody
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: else then got on board and said, yep, yep, he's right, 10% chance.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Where was this before? It is odd. It is really
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: odd how quickly this story blew up from one guy's post.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: saying there's a 10% chance the world could end. All
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: of it's very suspicious to me. We weren't worried about
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: it a couple months ago. Now we think it's going
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: to be the end of the world, and it needs
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: government control, and it needs to be seen all the time,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: and there need to be guardrails. There needs to be
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: a kill switch. Look, I'm not smart enough to know
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: about AI and exactly what the harm it could do.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: But I know that every time there's been a problem
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: in the past, and there's been over a hundred problems
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: in the past, they've been able to deal with it
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: and quickly.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Well, the only ally the president has high profile is
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: the guy who makes all the super chips, who started
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: working in a Wendy's and worked his way up, put
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: together a consortium, and now is probably Nirvana, I think
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: is the name of the company. could well be the
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: world's wealthiest man right up there with Elon Musk. He's
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: the only supporter of the president, full speed ahead, no guardrails.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Even Elon Musk signed on to the letter that says
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: we need guardrails. So let them have their debate. Let
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: them have their discourse. But Larry, you're going to get
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: killed in the midterm elections if the president keeps acting
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: like AI is not of importance to the public.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Hearing this. AI is going to change the midterms. It's
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: not going to change the midterms. It doesn't even register
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: in the top 10 when it comes.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: It may.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to say it may not, but it
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: would have to grow substantially from where it is now. Well, remember,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: gas prices are the number one. Oh, there's no doubt.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Gas prices, diesel, groceries, mortgages, you're right. But Bill Gates
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: on the weekend let off another hand grenade. He was
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: on NBC Meet the Press, and he said, AI, unchecked,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: could cause a billion deaths. And he called for regulation. Now,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: when you have all these people, and they're prominent in
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: their fields, I realize for Bill Gates, he's trying to
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: distance himself from being a best friend of Jeffrey Epstein
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: along with Woody Allen. Apparently met with Jeffrey Epstein 30 times.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: But he's also blaring his horn.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: So you say to yourself, the one thing that does
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: make sense, AI in the wrong hands could cause a
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: lot of trouble out there.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And look, every one of them says there has to
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: be guardrails. Then they talk about their guardrails. They said
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: there are already guardrails. It's just that they have them
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and they want to be the ones that control everything.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: It's just, to me, it's so obvious what's going on.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: To me, it's so obvious that these people want absolute
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: control over AI. They don't want it taken from them.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: They don't want countries to run it, and they want
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: to be the only ones that decide what the guardrails
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: are and when a kill switch should be shut off.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Because they've already admitted they have the guardrails. They've already
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: admitted there's been some problems that they've been able to
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: take care of easily. But now, all of a sudden,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: we go to this draconian thing where the world is
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: going to end. There's got to be a reason for
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: that to accelerate so much.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Although it's a subtopic of the conference, they're going to
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: be talking about AI data filing centers. And Wall Street
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: basically sent out a signal to all the big companies
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: who are trying to build these data filing centers with
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: AI all across the country that there's too many of them.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: then in fact, this could create a bubble. You have
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: all these data filing centers that may not be the need.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: We're pouring billions and billions and billions of dollars into this.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: They are suggesting when it comes to the AI data
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: filing centers that these companies put the brakes on it
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: because the demand is not there for that many centers.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: We talked about this before. We've been talking about this
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: for a while, that it's a bubble. There absolutely is
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: a bubble. And the reason these data centers are opening
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: so quickly is And there is all these false promises
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: and they don't want to build anything. They want existing.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: They want existing warehouses is exactly what you said. It
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: is because they got to get their money right now.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: They got to get up. They got to get their
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: money because they know a lot of these are not
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: going to exist in the next couple of years.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Well, if you want to get your talkbacks in, please
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: do on this subject and any of the others that
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: I discuss, especially my shots at Ray Stajic. Our weather forecast.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Who are we going to hear from again in the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: 8 o'clock hour? I get a second opportunity to do that.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: The conversation continues.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: 710WOR.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Now, it's 710WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Well, this is the segment where we normally have Natalie Migliore. So,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: we kind of played that as a reminder for you
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: that she's been off. But she is going to be
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: back on Wednesday. Natalie Migliore is going to be back
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday, and we're looking forward to it. Now, you've
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: seen a lot of the video, right, of cars with
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: water up past the doors and people trying to drive
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: through flooded areas. What kind of damage does that do
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: to a car? Luckily, we have one of the best
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: in the area to talk about that. Ron Ananian, host
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: of The Car Doctor, which is available weekly on the
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app. He's also owner of R.A. Automotive in Waldwick,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. So we want to talk about a couple
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: of things, but let's start with that because you've got
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of people dealing with it right now, Ron.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: First of all, good to have you back. And also,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: what should people be doing if their cars were flooded out?
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Well, if their cars are flooded out, Larry, good morning,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: by the way, to everybody. if their cars are flooded
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: out before driving it, a mechanical review, and I would
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: consider calling my insurance company because it doesn't take much
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: to total a modern-day car, even if you didn't drive it.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: If the water gets above the center of the wheels
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: and it gets inside the vehicle, there's an awful lot
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: of computer power in there that just got wet. And
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: is it going to be fixable, repairable, correct? You don't know.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: And you don't want to start taking that chance and
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: just assume. Even if the car runs good today, you
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: still want to have it checked by a mechanic and
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: looked over because water goes everywhere.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Now, Ron, this is Curtis Sliwa. If you're shopping for
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: a used car, a pre-owned car as they now call it,
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: sometimes they might be cars that actually went through a
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: flooding situation. How could you check to make sure you're
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: not getting a potential lemon in that regard?
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: You look in the trunk. Good morning, Curtis, by the way.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: You look in the trunk. You look at the spare tire.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Even if the spare tire well is dry, nobody ever
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: looks in the trunk. It's really kind of amazing. My
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: 50 years of doing this, every time I catch it,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: it's the spare tire well will be dry. If it
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: doesn't have water in it, it's dry, but there's a
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: ring around the well, like the ring around the bathtub.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: You can see that it had water in it, and
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: it's real obvious. The other thing is if you're buying
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: a used car, don't be afraid to ask the dealer,
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: is this a local car? Did you have this on
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: the lot? Where did you get it from? because sometimes
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: they come from other areas, and even the dealer doesn't
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: know they're buying a flood car. So it's a problem
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: for everybody. Diligence is the word that comes to mind
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: when I'm dealing with flood cars. You've got to look
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: at everything.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: We're hearing a lot about a motor oil shortage. What
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: should people be doing right now to make sure that
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: they are getting motor oil, maybe at the prices they
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: are now? Because if there's a shortage, they're going to
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: go up and up and up.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Well, it's already gone up, Larry. What I was paying
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: $ 100 for in April, I'm now paying $ 172. Oh, my gosh. Yeah,
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: that's a 72% increase. There's a shortage of all the
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: lighter viscosity oils, the 08, the 016, the 020s. There's
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: an extreme shortage of all that. A lot of the
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: manufacturing is overseas. A lot of the manufacturing plants don't
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: seem to exist anymore for one reason or another. So
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: it's a game that if you're going for an oil change,
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't wait, you know, oh, gee, I've only got
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: 5,000 on it. I'm going to stretch it another 1,000 miles.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: You may not have the option of choice of availability,
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: much less price, because it's a two-pronged problem. It's price
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: and availability. I've got the shop stacked, ceiling to floor
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: with oil. I saw this coming in April. I've been
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: buying oil since mid-August. I was placed on a two-case-a-day
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: restriction back at the beginning of the summer. Two and
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: a half, three weeks ago, I was placed on a
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: one case a week restriction. So it's there. It's gotten bad.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: And you're seeing the story break across the country now.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: And I'm happy to say we're breaking it here in
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: New York as far as breaking news because it's a
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: big deal without oil. They're going nowhere.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Ron, when I got out of high school, I was
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: pumping gas, and I would actually take the dipstick and
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: check people's oil. And at times when it would come
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: out thick and black and gooey, I'd show them. I'd say,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: you really need an oil change. And the guy would
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: tell me, mind your own business. Just pump the gas
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: and leave me be. What should a person be doing
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: in terms of the difference in how many months between
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: oil changes?
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: So my rule, Ron's rule, is five months, 5,000 miles
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: on the majority of vehicles. Can you stretch it to
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: 7,000 or 8,000 miles, six or seven months? You sure
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: can if you're buying a good grade, a good quality
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: of oil. But this conversation is about, is that good
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: quality of oil still available? And it's not. There's such
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: a shortage right now. And people are going to see
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: it when they go to buy that oil change, and
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: you're going to see it over the next four to
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: six months in terms of availability. My understanding is from
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: my supply houses, we're going to see a big price
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: bump come the end of October, and we expect the
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: shortage to peak somewhere mid-November to late November. Now, this
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: isn't a case for panic. I don't want anybody to
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: panic here. There's availability. You're going to pay more. Don't
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: start stockpiling oil. I've got a supply of oil because
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: I've got a lot of cars to do. If you're
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: doing your own car, buy two oil changes ahead. That's
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: all you'll probably need because if it goes beyond that,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: we've got bigger problems.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Great information. Thanks so much. Ron Ananian, host of The
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Car Doctor, available weekly on the iHeartRadio app and owner
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: of RA Automotive in Waldwick, New Jersey.