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Hour 1: Spider-Man's home · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Wow, this Larry. Well, before we get to this explosive
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Speaker 1: story that is right out of James von Seven, let
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Speaker 1: us mention Natalie is a way today. She's getting her
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Speaker 1: procede on her knee and on the loan from Mark Simone.
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Speaker 1: Is a man that I have dubbed the Quiet Storm
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Speaker 1: Chris producer for the Mark Simone Show, and in honor
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Speaker 1: of two greats in the radio business no longer with us,
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Speaker 1: Frankie Crocker and Vaughan Harper, or the Quiet Storm at WBLS.
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Speaker 1: What sultry voices, I mean, doesn't get any better than that, Chris,
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Speaker 1: except you have to be heard from from time to time.
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Speaker 2: Well, there's silent people that had huge careers. It was Harpo,
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Speaker 2: there was silent Bob mister Bean. Course of course they
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Speaker 2: were all on TV. It doesn't work really well for radio.
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Speaker 2: It's a little bit harder to be a silent radio host.
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Speaker 2: Little bit, that's the most words you've said.
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Speaker 1: That's immersed words in a extricating words from him. Now,
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Speaker 1: slowly but surely he's coming out of his show.
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Speaker 2: That's a huge breakthrough. Is there anything else you want
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Speaker 2: to say?
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Speaker 1: No, I think that's it is yours.
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Speaker 2: Go ahead.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, I'm good. But taking away at your show.
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Speaker 1: You love the nickname though, I quite I love that,
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Speaker 1: so that's your nickname. But speaking, you know, there was
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Speaker 1: I saw this movie one time about Air Force One
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Speaker 1: with Harrison Ford. You know, when terrorists take it over.
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Speaker 1: He's got the marshals on boarder. This was a scene
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Speaker 1: that could have led up to something like that, because clearly,
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Speaker 1: according to the Washington Post and now every publication has it,
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Speaker 1: the President of the United States was under severe threat
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Speaker 1: when he had gone to the NATO summit. We all
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Speaker 1: remember how nice uh he made out with Erdowan there.
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Speaker 1: They were talking about working cooperatively together. All the other
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Speaker 1: nations of NATO were there, and the whole world's attention
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Speaker 1: was to whoever it was that Donald Trump, our President,
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Speaker 1: was sitting with at that moment, Zelenski, everybody else had
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Speaker 1: their turn. Little did we realize behind the scenes, the
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Speaker 1: Secret Service was working on a plan to almost I
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Speaker 1: guess you could call it smuggle the President of the
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Speaker 1: United States. Yeah, that keeps showing the scene. Have you
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Speaker 1: been watching? They keep showing the scene. They covered really well, everyone,
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Speaker 1: including all the reporters who accompany him. But we know
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Speaker 1: that our guy who were going to be talking to
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Speaker 1: in the seven o'clock hour did not go on that flight.
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Speaker 1: Did not go on the Air Force one flight, remember
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Speaker 1: the guitar jet of the gift, because he flew on
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Speaker 1: his own. So but he'll be able to give us
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Speaker 1: more details. But the President was hidden in an airport
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Speaker 1: catering container and was taken to a military jet for
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Speaker 1: a secret fight out of Turkey after the NATO summit.
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Speaker 1: Remember they had flown the baby blue old air Force
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Speaker 1: one in and everyone just assumed, Okay, we're swapping it
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Speaker 1: out because the Katari jet, although it's very luxurious and
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Speaker 1: the President loves it, just was not up to snuff
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Speaker 1: security one.
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Speaker 2: It turns out that was part of the ruse, that
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Speaker 2: was part of the fake, because they said, well, we're
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Speaker 2: gonna put We're gonna have another air Force one coming
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Speaker 2: in because this one isn't so safe, and that was
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Speaker 2: part of the fake. The amazing part of it was
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Speaker 2: how well they pulled it off. Because Trump, of course
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Speaker 2: stood in front of the plane and anchor stood in
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Speaker 2: front of the plane, answered some questions like he always does,
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Speaker 2: walked up the steps and they followed him up the steps,
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Speaker 2: you remember, because they always do in case he falls
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Speaker 2: or something like that. And then he was secretly shuttled.
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Speaker 2: He went out a lug in the back at the
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Speaker 2: bottom of the plane, secretly shuttled to an Air Force
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Speaker 2: C thirty two to a on a catering truck that
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Speaker 2: was supposed to come in and bring food. They took
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Speaker 2: the food out, they put the president in the catering truck.
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Speaker 2: Then they took them to fly out, and the press
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Speaker 2: and even most of his staff were on the plane
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Speaker 2: and didn't realize he wasn't on the same plane.
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Speaker 1: Right, So the baby blue old Air Force one takes
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Speaker 1: off and goes to the same location in Britain, cause
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Speaker 1: remember she got meeting Shad. The President was secretly moved
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Speaker 1: from that Air Force plane back to the older version
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Speaker 1: of Air Force one, the baby bloom model. He then
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Speaker 1: got off in view of reporters and walked across the
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Speaker 1: tarmac to the Qatar plane that eventually would take him
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Speaker 1: back to the United States. But isn't that amazing The
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Speaker 1: reporters were all on the older Airforce swan the tried
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Speaker 1: and Chrue one the baby blue one, and they assume
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Speaker 1: the President was on board.
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Speaker 2: And that was a month ago.
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Speaker 1: Think about that.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Washington Post did a great job and
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Speaker 2: obviously somebody leaked this to them and they weren't saying
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Speaker 2: who that person is. But what an amazing story. I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is gonna be a movie. Well, they're gonna do
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Speaker 2: a movie on this.
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Speaker 1: I think the president now that a child can declare
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Speaker 1: that he should be eligible for an Emmy Award or
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Speaker 1: an Academy award, because if he didn't pull it off,
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Speaker 1: if he didn't make it look like it was just
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Speaker 1: the normal process of boarding a plane, you know, waving
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Speaker 1: when he's just about ready to get on, and pulling
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Speaker 1: that off, he could never have been.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny. I was talking to my wife about
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Speaker 2: it last night and she said, man, they really had
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Speaker 2: to convince him of that, And I said, are you
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Speaker 2: kidding me? Are you kidding me? That is the coolest
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Speaker 2: maneuver ever. Nobody, everybody that has a little bit of
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Speaker 2: kid in him, and I know Donald Trump does goes, oh, man,
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Speaker 2: this is gonna be cool. If we pull this off,
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Speaker 2: it is going to be historic. And now it is
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Speaker 2: going to be historic. People are going to be talking
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Speaker 2: about this for years.
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Speaker 1: And it was done because of this severe Iranian threat,
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Speaker 1: and we know, look there with threats before Butler. By
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Speaker 1: the way, we know more about this situation now than
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Speaker 1: we do about what transpired Butler.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm glad this is like the third time you
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Speaker 2: brought that up, and I think that it's worthy of
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Speaker 2: bringing up every single time there's an incident, because you're
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Speaker 2: absolutely right, it is a national embarrassment that Butler hasn't
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Speaker 2: been further investigated and that all the information on Butler
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Speaker 2: hasn't been released.
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Speaker 1: And remember, right prior to Butler, which was the final
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Speaker 1: campaign appearance before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, it
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Speaker 1: was a murder for higher proxy in Iranian who was arrested,
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Speaker 1: who was sent to the United States to try to
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Speaker 1: put together a hit team. And then there were others
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Speaker 1: who were hacking some of the Trump campaign official so
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Speaker 1: they were on the case of wanting to annihilate Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump before he ever dropped the first bamba on Iran
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Speaker 1: at all. He's always been a focus of an Iranian assassination.
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Speaker 1: But in the past, we know we've been told that
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Speaker 1: there have been presidential motorcades and flights that were fake
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Speaker 1: in which the president wasn't on Bush forty three. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: we were in war in Iraq, Obama, we were war
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Speaker 1: in Libya, so they were using all kinds of diversionary methods,
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Speaker 1: but nothing, nothing that approaches this what I call trichnology.
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Speaker 1: For all the proper reasons to protect protus. The President
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Speaker 1: of the United.
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Speaker 2: States come on the shoot at the bottom of the parade,
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Speaker 2: the catering truck that he had to crawl into. This
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Speaker 2: is great, This is the stuff of movies. But I
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Speaker 2: love that you keep bringing up Thomas Crooks, because you're
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Speaker 2: absolutely right. There are there are books put out out
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Speaker 2: on past assassins like Oswald. I mean, every time there's
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Speaker 2: somebody that was an assassin. How much do we know
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Speaker 2: about Thomas Crooks?
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Speaker 1: Nothing?
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Speaker 2: Nothing, nothing. And I got to tell you, the media
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Speaker 2: was awful on this story. They just moved on from it.
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Speaker 2: They completely moved on from it. And it was obviously
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Speaker 2: stuff is still being hidden. It was hidden at the time.
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Speaker 2: It's still being hidden. And it makes you suspicious. It
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Speaker 2: has to. It makes you suspicious, it makes you curious.
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Speaker 2: You bring it up over and over, and good for
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Speaker 2: you because it deserves to be. Well, you're one of
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Speaker 2: the few that doesn't forget it.
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Speaker 1: No, can't, because even prior to that, the president was
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Speaker 1: using private planes because he was just the candidate, the
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Speaker 1: former president. They had to use decoy planes because they
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Speaker 1: didn't feel they were being properly provided security, which they
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Speaker 1: weren't by the Biden administration. You know, it was a
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Speaker 1: dollar short day late for Trump. It's like this guy's
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Speaker 1: the target of an assassination on a regular bit. Not you, Biden,
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Speaker 1: lucky for you, but Donald Trump. And again this just
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Speaker 1: brings to the forefront how this president has a target
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Speaker 1: on his back no matter where he goes.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well there's been four now, four assassination attempts.
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Speaker 2: It's been pretty incredible. By the way, we're only here today,
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Speaker 2: all of us, because we didn't win the power ball.
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Speaker 2: And so because I would think that if you were
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Speaker 2: to have hit it, or if Chris would, if you
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Speaker 2: hit it, would you be out of here?
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Speaker 3: I would not be here today now if I hit
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Speaker 3: the power ball.
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Speaker 1: So Natalie said she wouldn't be here, I would have.
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Speaker 3: I would have waited until she was she was healthy again,
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Speaker 3: and then I would have oh, oh yeah, you like
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Speaker 3: the night in shining off, Oh my god, and then
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Speaker 3: I would have taken real quick, and then I would
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Speaker 3: have taken my nine hundred million dollars and you never
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Speaker 3: would have seen me again.
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Speaker 1: He's talked more here in this segment than I've ever
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Speaker 1: heard Chris talk here and all the time that I've
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Speaker 1: been here when they joined me with you Larry in
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Speaker 1: the Morning, and by the way, Jimmy failure will be
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Speaker 1: with us the entire eight o'clock hour. We got to
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Speaker 1: ask him if he played power Bowl. Yeah, that's a
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Speaker 1: great idea. By the way, Powerball.
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Speaker 2: The President's escape from what they thought might be an
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Speaker 2: assassination attempt. Anything we talk about today would love to
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Speaker 2: to talk about your former neighborhood coming up and the
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Speaker 2: Spider Man house that by the way, there's a guy
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Speaker 2: that lives there and he's now talking to the media,
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Speaker 2: so we're gonna hear from him. Also, we have a
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Speaker 2: contest coming up, right, do we have a contest today?
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Speaker 2: What is the contest today? John Fogerty and Steve Winwooden
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Speaker 2: coming up. Chances to win that at eight twenty five. Curtis,
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Speaker 2: you've talked about this house a whole lot on twenty
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Speaker 2: Ingram Street in Forest Hills, Queens. You grew up in
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Speaker 2: the area.
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Speaker 1: No, No, I lived there for a while, raised my
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Speaker 1: two youngest sons on Ingram off of Yellowstone Boulevard. Now
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Speaker 1: that's on the other side where the house is that
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Speaker 1: was actually owned by the Parker family, real Parker family
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Speaker 1: of quote Peter Parker aka spider Man. This is ww
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Speaker 1: stan Lee created this image so much so that people
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Speaker 1: they don't think there's a real superman or a real Batman.
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Speaker 1: They don't go scurrying around, you know. But they really
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Speaker 1: think as a result of the way stan Lee wrote
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Speaker 1: it that Peter Parker Akah, Spider Man lived in this house,
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Speaker 1: was raised by Aunt may in this house, was in
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Speaker 1: one of the movies, and that basically developed all of
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Speaker 1: his skills in the greater Forest Hill area. And then
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Speaker 1: he disappeared for five years. He went globe trotting, and
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Speaker 1: now he's come back with this new blockbuster movie. And
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Speaker 1: I posted on Instagram about a week ago Sunday night.
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Speaker 1: I had come back from visiting my son and I said, look,
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Speaker 1: it's ten o'clock an item right on Ingram Street. It's
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Speaker 1: in the gardens where the house is. And there were
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Speaker 1: these Asian kids going up and down on bicycles asking me, oh, Curtis, Curtis,
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Speaker 1: where's the house. Where's the house that Spider Man lives in.
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Speaker 1: I said, kids, I hate to bust your bubble. It's
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Speaker 1: no real Spider Man, but this is the house that
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Speaker 1: said And they leave in letters and they're leaving all
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Speaker 1: kinds of chow.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just imagine being the guy that lives there.
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Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three he moved in. So this is
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Speaker 2: long after every the letters and what you were talking
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Speaker 2: about people coming to the house. They get letters all
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Speaker 2: the time. Still. His name is Jack Shy. He is
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Speaker 2: sixty four years old. Again, he just moved in here
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Speaker 2: three years ago, and the real estate agent didn't tell
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Speaker 2: him about the house until after he signed the papers.
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Speaker 4: We decided by this house, and then the agent that
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Speaker 4: told to me this is Spikeman's house.
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Speaker 2: I'm very surprised, but he's not unhappy about it. And
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Speaker 2: people come by, as you said, all the time.
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Speaker 4: Almost every every day. Some people they take picture for
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Speaker 4: the house.
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Speaker 2: And he goes out and talks to them, and he
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Speaker 2: talks about the house. If they want to come in,
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Speaker 2: he lets people come in. And the other thing he
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Speaker 2: gets are thousands and thousands of.
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Speaker 4: Letters, maybe a thousand later. Is very young, and I
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Speaker 4: asked my daughter to answer this later.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And in fact, if you go to the main
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Speaker 1: post office that serves the Gardens and Forest Hills, it's
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Speaker 1: on Queen's Boulevard. Yeah, bags and bags of mail because
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Speaker 1: it goes right to that zip code. And they realize
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Speaker 1: you can't be delivering all that mail to this house.
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Speaker 1: But there are people, doesn't matter how many movies have
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Speaker 1: been made, who really think that Spider Man is a
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Speaker 1: real person. And I've had to tell people because they
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Speaker 1: come up to me. All Curtis, can can you deliver
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Speaker 1: this letter there? You know where he lives? Right, you're
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Speaker 1: friends with Spider Man? I said, No, Spider Man is
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Speaker 1: not a real person. Yeah, well he's a crime fighter. Right,
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Speaker 1: you're a crime I said, one is real and one
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Speaker 1: is imaginary. It doesn't matter these people think that. And
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Speaker 1: by the way, the Baffo box office, it has surpassed
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Speaker 1: any other movie this summer just blown off the hinges internationally.
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Speaker 2: In Nashtal it is threatening to be the biggest movie
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Speaker 2: of all time and that's going to take a little
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Speaker 2: bit more time to do. But man, it's a Hollywood
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Speaker 2: is back. They've had a great summer so far. Let's
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Speaker 2: get some talkbacks. And the first one, you know, Natalie Vodka,
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Speaker 2: as Curtis said at the top of the show, is
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Speaker 2: out today. She's just getting a simple knee surgery, a
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Speaker 2: torn meniscus. And this was sweet. Somebody left the message
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Speaker 2: thinking about Natalie.
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Speaker 4: And Natalie, good luck with your knee.
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Speaker 5: I'm suffering with the torn meniscus now also, so I'm
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Speaker 5: very anxious to see how you make out.
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Speaker 2: And the first segment. We talked about this secretive escape
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Speaker 2: that Donald Trump made from Air Force One that nobody
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Speaker 2: in the media knew. We just found out about it
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Speaker 2: a month later because there was word a threat on
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Speaker 2: his life from Iran, and this talkback wanted to talk
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Speaker 2: about that.
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Speaker 6: You know what situations like this where even people who
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Speaker 6: don't stand behind the president still tend to remember that
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Speaker 6: they stand behind the office. It's like whenever one from
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Speaker 6: another school picks on your nerds and you're like, hey,
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Speaker 6: we can do that, you can't kind of triggers. You know,
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Speaker 6: we'll see if there's a patriotic response to this or not.
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Speaker 2: That's really well put. It was like a month ago,
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Speaker 2: so I think if there was going to be a response,
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Speaker 2: I guess we've responded already with continued airstrikes on Iran,
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, Donald Trump is fine. Donald Trump didn't talk
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Speaker 2: about it at all. Donald Trump turns out a pretty
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Speaker 2: good actor. I guess we saw that once at home alone,
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Speaker 2: that he was a pretty good actor, and saw that
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Speaker 2: live Man.
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Speaker 1: This is Academy Award winning, Emmy Award winning performance. Remember
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Speaker 1: the Emmy that andrewis Elijah Cormo had to give back YEP,
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Speaker 1: because it all proved to be fake, those twelve noon
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Speaker 1: shows that he put on in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: lockdown and pandemic. And by the way, later on when
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Speaker 1: Jimmy foul is with us, we're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: how Fauci privately raised concerns that the COVID nineteen vaccine
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Speaker 1: could theoretically bend to miscarriages and expecting mothers, but publicly no, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: this was That's why these diaries were so important. He
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Speaker 1: had many doubts, legitimate doubts, but the moment light's action
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Speaker 1: camera absolutely no red flags for pregnant women. Go ahead,
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Speaker 1: move forward and get the COVID nineteen. By the way,
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Speaker 1: when he got his vaccine, all of a sudden, he
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Speaker 1: was out of side, out of mind for a while.
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Speaker 1: With all those boosters, he might have died.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he got an ailment that several people got,
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Speaker 2: an affliction that several people got, and he never talked
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Speaker 2: about it, never admitted to it, never talked about it.
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Speaker 2: This man is maybe the most famous liar in American history.
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Speaker 2: Now let's get the news at six point thirty with
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Speaker 2: Daria Albinger Darius.
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Speaker 1: Next turns out that that Liberty Island capsizing that led
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Speaker 1: So Larry that Capshine boat that was captained by Manuel
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Speaker 1: Hernandez around the Statue of Liberty that led to the
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Speaker 1: death of the mother and her five month year old child.
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Speaker 1: Turns out it's worse than we could possibly have anticipated
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Speaker 1: it to be and maybe sort of an indication of
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Speaker 1: what is going on in this industry which has always
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Speaker 1: operated under the radar screen. Manuel Hernandez as the captain.
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Speaker 1: He was a captain of this boat. He was subcontracted
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Speaker 1: out by a company he works for called Zeus Luxury Rental,
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Speaker 1: and apparently he was available also to drive their limousine.
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Speaker 1: So he's a multitask guy. He would need a limousine.
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Speaker 1: I'll drive their limousine. I got my own boat which
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Speaker 1: they would subcontract out for him to take tours out
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Speaker 1: into the East River. They stop at a restaurant first,
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Speaker 1: they go around the Liberty Island. Except his twenty four
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Speaker 1: foot which could carry twelve people, Max was in dry
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Speaker 1: dock because it had broken down mechanical issues. So in
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Speaker 1: order to fulfill the contractual obligation, he borrowed the twenty
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Speaker 1: one foot boat called City on the seat of his friend.
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Speaker 1: Much smaller boat could only legally sit ten. And so
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Speaker 1: the meeting on Randall's Island. That's where the doc is
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Speaker 1: and right away the man who had hired it for
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend it was forty first birthday, he was somewhat questioning.
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Speaker 1: He goes, how come the boat isn't on the dock.
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Speaker 1: He says, well, we just have to walk down a
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Speaker 1: little bit. And in order to get on the boat
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Speaker 1: that replaced the original boat, you had to crawl out
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Speaker 1: on the rocks and then get into the boat. So
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Speaker 1: right there, it should have been a warning. Right, you're
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Speaker 1: not getting on the dock, which is Randall's Island. You're
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Speaker 1: walking down a little bit and there's a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a jetty and you're walking on rocks in order
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Speaker 1: to get on to the twenty one footer. And this
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Speaker 1: is where the mother is asked, Hey, you got a
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Speaker 1: life vest for your kid? You know, we got to
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Speaker 1: have life fest for kids thirteen and under. No, we
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Speaker 1: don't have a life fest. It's okay, come on. So
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Speaker 1: the captain already is violating almost every rule in the book,
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Speaker 1: but especially the life vest for the child. They go
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Speaker 1: to a restaurant. You know, they're drinking, they're having a
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Speaker 1: good old time. It's a birthday party. Once they finished,
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Speaker 1: and I think that restaurant was in Long Island City,
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Speaker 1: they head over to the Statue of Liberty. They're starting
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Speaker 1: to make the turn. Hernandez makes a U turn. He's
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Speaker 1: the captain and they run into a swell that may
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Speaker 1: have been created by a larger ship that was passing by,
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Speaker 1: and that's when they capsized and they all ended up
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Speaker 1: under the boat, all fourteen. Eventually they scurry on top
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Speaker 1: of the hull. Unfortunately, the mother of the child and
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Speaker 1: the child herself did not make it and they drowned.
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Speaker 1: And boy, it was just a total mess, total mess.
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Speaker 1: Every rule in the book. This guy, Manuel Hernandez and
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Speaker 1: the company Zeus Luxury Rental seemed to have violated. They
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Speaker 1: didn't have any credentials from the Coast Guard, didn't seem
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Speaker 1: to have any of the paperwork necessary to fly by
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Speaker 1: night kind of operation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they even advertised that they could take fourteen people,
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Speaker 2: knowing that their could capacity was ten, so they took
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Speaker 2: fourteen thinking he probably thought, hey, guess what, we're fine.
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Speaker 2: We're fine with fourteen. They advertised fourteen. But they were
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Speaker 2: lying all on this company should be put out of
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Speaker 2: business News Luxury and I'm sure that's coming. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: they're going to hit them with everything they told investigators.
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Speaker 2: He admitted to everything. That was what was great about
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Speaker 2: him about Hernandez, I mean, the only good thing about
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Speaker 2: him is he said he never applied for a license
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Speaker 2: or required US Coast Guard certification. He told investigators he
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Speaker 2: was hired by the tour operator, as you said, as
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Speaker 2: a limo driver, but every once in a while he
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Speaker 2: had a limo license. Every once in a while he just, Hey,
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Speaker 2: if they didn't have a rot driver, I got a
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Speaker 2: twenty four foot of Yeah, he just hopped on the boat.
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Speaker 2: So it raises a whole lot of questions. It's a tragic,
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Speaker 2: tragic story, and you hate to learn lessons this way.
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Speaker 2: But how many of these things are happening? And why
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Speaker 2: haven't they cracked down on this before? I give an
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Speaker 2: example of this company, Zeus Luxury Rental. They had a
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Speaker 2: boat that was paid for for another party. This is
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. The captain was drinking with the
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Speaker 2: celebrate celebrants and the boat burst into flames right outside
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Speaker 2: of the Bronx in the water of the East River.
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Speaker 2: Twenty passengers had to jump out. Two died, including a
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Speaker 2: seven year old. So you say to yourself, here's a
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Speaker 2: company that's already questionable, and you wonder what kind of
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Speaker 2: actual supervision is there the coast Guard. They've been major
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Speaker 2: cuts locally in the coast Guard. They used to be right.
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Speaker 1: There on the Governors Island. You know, you come into
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Speaker 1: New York Harbor, all the Coast Guard was there. Then
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Speaker 1: they moved them up towards Rhode Island. They still have
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Speaker 1: a few boats that are stationed here, but nothing of
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Speaker 1: what's necessary. And there's so many times put this aside
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Speaker 1: of boaters drunk that they catch boating although the place.
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Speaker 2: Right, I get it, I understand, and you're right. I
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Speaker 2: hope it's not because of cuts. But then again, it
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Speaker 2: would be incompetence if it wasn't because of cuts. But
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Speaker 2: if you have all of these organizations that have all
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Speaker 2: of these boats, you know where the boats are. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you can't hide the boats. You know where the boats are.
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Speaker 2: How come there's an inspector going around every single one
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Speaker 2: of them and talking to the owners. That should start
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Speaker 2: to day to make sure that this doesn't happen again
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Speaker 2: and tell them what the penalties are going to be.
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Speaker 2: This poor guy, and I say that that, you know,
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Speaker 2: even though he ended up killing two people, but he
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Speaker 2: thought he was just making money. He thought he was
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Speaker 2: doing everything right. He was a limo driver that got
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Speaker 2: another gig. Didn't know probably that he had to be licensed,
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Speaker 2: because he said everything. He told them everything. He said, No,
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Speaker 2: I don't have a license for this. No, this is
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Speaker 2: how it worked. So he came forward with everything, which
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Speaker 2: makes me believe he thought he was just making some
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Speaker 2: extra money. He probably didn't even know all the rules.
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Speaker 1: No, and again, there are these companies fly by Night.
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Speaker 1: They operate. They start in the spring because obviously you
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Speaker 1: have to have decent weather, and they generally phase out
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Speaker 1: halfway through fall. And you know, the season is is
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Speaker 1: much warmer than it used to be, so you can
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Speaker 1: push a few weeks into the fall. You can start
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Speaker 1: a little earlier in the spring, and they make themselves
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Speaker 1: available and it's word of mouth and they can make
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Speaker 1: a lot of money. But I mean, just imagine you're
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Speaker 1: the patrons. You're on the dock. You're told, well, the boat,
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Speaker 1: my boat is not here, my twenty four footer, but
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Speaker 1: there's a twenty one foot boat that my friend has
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Speaker 1: given me to take you guys out. We just got
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Speaker 1: to walk down there on the rocks in order to
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Speaker 1: get into the boat. I think, right then and there, everybody,
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Speaker 1: even though they wanted to celebrate this birthday, should have said,
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Speaker 1: you know, something something wrong about.
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Speaker 2: This especially child.
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Speaker 1: Oh not have had that baby. She left her seven
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Speaker 1: year old son at home with someone else to watch him.
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Speaker 1: I tell you, I cannot imagine why you would take
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Speaker 1: a five month old child out there.
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Speaker 2: No, there's a lot of horrible questions and no good
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Speaker 2: answers on this story. But I do hope this spur
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Speaker 2: is a bigger investigation and what's out there, because I
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Speaker 2: would have to and we should follow up on that.
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, we should call the Coast
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Speaker 2: Guard and find out I'll take care of that. I'll
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Speaker 2: give him a call and just say, hey, wor you know,
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Speaker 2: are there going to be new investigations and new inspections
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Speaker 2: because of this coming up next? This is incredible. Do
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Speaker 2: you know that in New Jersey the state can come
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Speaker 2: and take your property without giving you a reason as
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Speaker 2: to why they need it. The Supreme Court has backed
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Speaker 2: them up on that. We'll give you all the particulars
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Speaker 2: coming up in just a minute. That's what eminent don't
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Speaker 2: mean is a necessary government evil. It allows them to
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Speaker 2: come and take your property if they need it. For instance,
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Speaker 2: they have to give you a good reason, though, for
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Speaker 2: a highway or an airport, if you happen to have
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Speaker 2: property in that area, they come, they negotiate with you,
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Speaker 2: they give you a fair settlement, but they have the
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Speaker 2: right in those particular instances if they have a good
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Speaker 2: reason to take your home. That's all across the country.
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Speaker 2: Every state except New Jersey. Why because it's not in
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Speaker 2: their laws, in their state laws. Now, I think this
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Speaker 2: is going to be challenged, and I think it's going
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Speaker 2: to go up to a bigger court. But right now,
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Speaker 2: let me give you the reason we're talking about this.
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Speaker 2: It is a hotel in Seaside Park, which is right
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Speaker 2: below Seaside Heights, below above the State Park. It's the
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Speaker 2: Seaside Park Hotel. And the guy, the firm that owns
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Speaker 2: it is Shri Giote And they were asked the building
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Speaker 2: was condemned rundown. I'll tell you that, so it's it's not.
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Speaker 2: It's something that they've never wanted there because the guy
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Speaker 2: didn't keep it up and the firm didn't keep it up,
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Speaker 2: and they've wanted it gone. And so they came and
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Speaker 2: they said, because of eminent domain, we're taking your hotel.
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Speaker 2: And he said why, and they said, we're just taking
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Speaker 2: it because we're allowed to do that. And he fought it,
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Speaker 2: he got attorneys. They were fighting it for a long time,
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Speaker 2: and then they came up with a reason, a bogus reason,
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Speaker 2: he thinks, where they said, we're going to build a
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Speaker 2: parking lot. We need a parking lot. Well, a parking
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Speaker 2: lot isn't an absolute necessity. You can't tear down the hotel.
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Speaker 2: They just didn't like the hotel, and so the suit
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Speaker 2: went up and up and up and up and up,
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Speaker 2: and it finally got to the New Jersey Supreme Court,
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Speaker 2: and incredibly, in a six to one decision, they decided
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Speaker 2: that no, they didn't have to give you reason that
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Speaker 2: they're allowed to come in and just take your property.
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Speaker 2: And they said that's the reason they had to do
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Speaker 2: this because there's not a rule, there's not a law
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Speaker 2: that says they have to do that in the state.
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Speaker 2: And so this is a huge loophole in New Jersey
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Speaker 2: law that allows the government to come in and take
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Speaker 2: your property if they feel Apparently, in his case, and
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Speaker 2: I'm just surmising this because his house was the hotel
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Speaker 2: itself was condemned. I'm assuming they just didn't like them there.
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Speaker 2: They didn't They thought it was an isore, and he
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Speaker 2: apparently wasn't doing anything with it, and they finally said,
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Speaker 2: you know what, we're just gonna take it. We're just
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Speaker 2: going to take it over. Now. He's gonna get paid.
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Speaker 2: But he did not want to give it up, and
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Speaker 2: so he shouldn't be forced to give it up. He
31:49
Speaker 2: could be forced to sell it. They could put they
31:52
Speaker 2: could really put pressure on him or to fix it up.
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Speaker 2: But I can't, you know, by finding him and finding
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Speaker 2: him constantly over and over and over again. But now
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Speaker 2: that the Supreme Court has basically codified this, that means
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Speaker 2: any town you live in in New Jersey, they're allowed
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Speaker 2: if they just don't like you or your property to
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Speaker 2: take it for really no good reason.
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Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you. I remember a case. We
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Speaker 1: were patrolling Atlantic City, the Guardian Angels and I from Philadelphia.
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Speaker 1: There were problems there, prostitutes who were getting killed and
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Speaker 1: just being dumped. And we passed this house. It was
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Speaker 1: in a lot of Verra Coking who refused to give
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Speaker 1: up that house to Donald Trump, who wanted it for
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Speaker 1: a limousine parking lot because you know, he had all
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Speaker 1: the casinos. And that was tied up in court for years,
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Speaker 1: and I think eventually Donald Trump just went, no mos Nomas,
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Speaker 1: it's just not worth it. I'm getting killed as an
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Speaker 1: older woman and her husband, and you know they were
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Speaker 1: claiming they were victims. There was Atlantic City, Oh I remember, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he had Remember he had the three casinos and he
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Speaker 1: wanted the parking lot for the limo service.
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Speaker 2: I've seen the house, yes, I've driven by the house.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing. It's just this little house and everything is
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Speaker 2: built around it, all with glitter, and there's that little house.
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Speaker 1: She would not give it up. Her husband would not
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Speaker 1: give it up. That Donald trying to do everything he
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Speaker 1: could to say, well, why why he could, I'll give
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Speaker 1: you enough money, he can buy a mansion so much.
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Speaker 1: She said, no, no, this is my hacienda. This is
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Speaker 1: my house.
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Speaker 2: That is such a great example. So where how did
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Speaker 2: we get from that yes to this?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think we're going to have to do the
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Speaker 1: d dive because clearly what you're saying is I remember
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Speaker 1: it's spring Lakey, irishrevi Are. I was at the Breakers
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Speaker 1: on the Ocean, huge old hotel, magnificent. You know, I
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Speaker 1: was having lunch. This was after a superstorm Sandy did
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Speaker 1: so much damage and they were rebuilding the boardwalk. And
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Speaker 1: I mean, according to this rule, somebody could come along
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Speaker 1: and say we want the Breakers on the Ocean there.
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Speaker 2: This is what they ruled exactly under New Jersey's Eminent
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Speaker 2: Domain Act. It doesn't have anything that protects the homeowner
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Speaker 2: nor its local land and building law. The only requirement
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Speaker 2: is the municipality pass an ordinance themselves. So if they
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Speaker 2: pass an ordinance because they want your house, and they say, hey,
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Speaker 2: we're allowed to take this house, they're allowed to take
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Speaker 2: your house.
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Speaker 1: You have homework to find out how this woman and
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Speaker 1: her husband beat Donald Trump on this when he wanted
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Speaker 1: a parking lot.
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Speaker 2: For his house. Was famous since he was absolutely famous. Hey,
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Speaker 2: John Decker is coming up next. We have a lot
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Speaker 2: to talk to him about, especially with Donald Trump's Great
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Speaker 2: Escape that's coming up after the seven o'clock Newson