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

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  Speaker 1: Wow larry natalie our audience i am wired up i
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  Speaker 1: don't think i've had maybe an hour maybe two hours
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  Speaker 1: of sleep uh yeah i had to be at bellevue
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  Speaker 1: uh to be with my nephew you may have remembered
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  Speaker 1: that story that our news department was talking about the
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  Speaker 1: other day pretty much almost at the same time as
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  Speaker 1: that horrible killing stabbing that was taking place by that
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  Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed woman in time square we'll give you more
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  Speaker 1: updates on that apparently uh, boy, she was doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Facebook entries about, uh, how she was being
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  Speaker 1: commanded to do certain things.
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  Speaker 2: So that'll be interesting later on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it turned out this occurred right across the street
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  Speaker 1: from Saks Fifth Avenue, right?
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  Speaker 3: St.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick's Cathedral. Uh, apparently there's a guy who jumped out
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  Speaker 1: of a car and slashed a 21 year old guy.
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  Speaker 1: I happen to be my nephew. Uh, so, uh, That's
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  Speaker 1: an unfolding case that is taking place. The police commissioner
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  Speaker 1: gave me a call yesterday. Apparently, they made an arrest
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  Speaker 1: of the individual. Upstate New York may have been because
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  Speaker 1: of license plate reading technology, which would go back to
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  Speaker 1: the flock cameras that you've been telling us about, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: for months. But my nephew is stabilized. He was seriously injured.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, this is what you call another case in the
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  Speaker 1: naked city of New York that made no sense whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: And so as it unfolds, I'll be able to share
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  Speaker 1: with our audience some of those details.
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  Speaker 4: I know you can't say a lot, but how's your
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  Speaker 4: nephew doing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, much better.
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 1: Much better. He's recovering well. He was with his extended
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  Speaker 1: family of friends, my older sister, obviously his girlfriend. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he was all wired up as they were monitoring him.
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  Speaker 1: He had a punctured lung, some slash wounds.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 4: That is horrible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, this happens. We don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I'm not going to tie it to the series
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  Speaker 1: of cases that involved emotionally disturbed persons. But it is
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  Speaker 1: a case that brought me to Bellevue, a place, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, where I was lucky to survive the time
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  Speaker 1: that I was shot with the five hollow point bullets
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  Speaker 1: by the Gottis and Gambinos. I got great care there.
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  Speaker 1: But while I was there, I was able to, because
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  Speaker 1: it's right where the emergency room entrance and exit is
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  Speaker 1: on 29th Street and 1st Avenue. Next to it is
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  Speaker 1: an old building, one of the original buildings of Bellevue
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  Speaker 1: that goes back to the 1700s. That's where they had
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  Speaker 1: the 300s. homeless men housed for many years, Kips Bay.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking about Kips Bay because that's where they're
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  Speaker 1: closing the AMC theater chain. All the politicians, the local people,
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  Speaker 1: our own Joe Neumeier is out there with his sign up,
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  Speaker 1: protesting that. But they've had a problem because these homeless
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  Speaker 1: men go out throughout the neighborhood, some of them very
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  Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed, And have attacked people at random.
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  Speaker 4: My God.
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  Speaker 1: They had to close that homeless shelter because it was
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  Speaker 1: falling apart.
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  Speaker 2: What a difference. I got to tell you, I haven't
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  Speaker 2: been there since they closed it. What a difference.
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  Speaker 1: You don't see the men walking about like zombies in
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  Speaker 1: Dawn of the Dead. Didn't see much of that. But
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  Speaker 1: when I came here to get ready to join you,
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  Speaker 1: Larry and Natalie, this morning in our audience, I was
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  Speaker 1: on the subway. clearly saw a guy who was schizophrenic,
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  Speaker 1: who was talking to himself.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all unusual.
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  Speaker 1: These were workers ready to go to work, you know,
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  Speaker 1: probably had a five o'clock shift, you know, start.
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  Speaker 2: They were oblivious to it. They're so used to it
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  Speaker 2: on the subway.
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  Speaker 1: And let's face it, that person on that subway, as
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  Speaker 1: he was talking to himself, having a full-scale conversation, something
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  Speaker 1: that he was privy to, we would not be privy to,
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  Speaker 1: might have snapped at a moment's notice. But everybody in
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  Speaker 1: a subway car, it's just this is the norm now.
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  Speaker 1: This is the norm.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And then, as you notice, I had to get an
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  Speaker 1: extra cup of coffee this morning as I'm at the
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  Speaker 1: coffee wagon down the block. Here's a woman walking down
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  Speaker 1: the street, well-dressed in, like, construction garb.
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  Speaker 2: She's a large woman. She's got a stick in her hand.
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  Speaker 2: She's screaming at the top of her lungs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There are people waiting online for the cool fee with me, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm saying, do I need to do a physical intervention?
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  Speaker 1: She's not really threatening anybody. She's screaming at like inanimate objects,
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  Speaker 1: waving the stick at them. And I'm saying, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: New York City, circa 2026.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody else online for.
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  Speaker 1: The cool fee, oblivious to it, as if they had
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  Speaker 1: window shades on their eyes and were just not going
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  Speaker 1: to focus on that.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't going to let that disturb their morning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a huge problem. And we used to be
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  Speaker 4: able to take these people off the streets to give
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  Speaker 4: care to them. But we had a Supreme Court ruling
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  Speaker 4: in 1975 that put an end to that. We have
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  Speaker 4: to get another ruling. We have to get some kind
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  Speaker 4: of case to go to the Supreme Court. It's interesting
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  Speaker 4: you bring this up because yesterday I'm leaving the station
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  Speaker 4: and I texted Natalie. There's a homeless guy sitting here
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  Speaker 4: yelling F you at everybody. Every single person that went by. Well, no,
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  Speaker 4: he skipped me. Apparently, he liked me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's a listener.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be surprised at how many homeless men and women
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  Speaker 1: listen to the show. I wouldn't say they have a
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  Speaker 1: seat crane radio, but they have one of these old-fashioned
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  Speaker 1: small radios.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that makes me feel so much better because I
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  Speaker 4: actually felt left out. I was thinking, what's wrong with me?
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  Speaker 4: How come I didn't get it?
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  Speaker 6: And it's interesting because even this morning, I was coming in.
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  Speaker 6: I was walking on 6th Avenue. You know, pretty busy.
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  Speaker 6: busy even at four something in the morning. I came
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  Speaker 6: across at least two or three people walking towards me
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  Speaker 6: where I was like, okay, I really got to keep
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  Speaker 6: my eyes open here.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it didn't look right.
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  Speaker 6: I was like, okay, I might just walk right in
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  Speaker 6: the middle of the street because I think it's safer
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  Speaker 6: right now.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it amazing that you are afraid more of crazy
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  Speaker 4: people than you are of like real criminals? Because when
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  Speaker 4: I walk in, I'm not looking for somebody that might,
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  Speaker 4: you know, jack me up. I'm looking for a crazy
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  Speaker 4: person that might come up and do something every single time.
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  Speaker 4: If I see somebody like talking to themselves across the street,
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  Speaker 4: I'll go another way. I don't want to get near them.
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  Speaker 1: And remember they're, they're like in the middle of this
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  Speaker 1: schizophrenic attack. They're having a conversation with a person that
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  Speaker 1: they actually see. It can almost reach out, feel them
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  Speaker 1: and touch them. You know, they're looking at an angle.
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  Speaker 1: You could be right in front of them having a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: They were oblivious to you, Larry. even though they love
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  Speaker 1: you on the radio. You're the choice of the emotionally
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  Speaker 1: disturbed and the homeless roaming the streets.
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  Speaker 4: Makes so much sense.
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  Speaker 2: We could use all the listeners that we could possibly get.
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  Speaker 2: I welcome them. But it just shows you this is
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  Speaker 2: a continuation.
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  Speaker 1: The old school way was if a cop was on
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  Speaker 1: the beat and they saw what they call an EDP,
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  Speaker 1: he and her and their partner would take them in
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  Speaker 1: for psychiatric observation.
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  Speaker 2: We're at Bellevue.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the psychiatric ward is. And they'd be remanded
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  Speaker 1: there for 21 days. They wouldn't become a ward of
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  Speaker 1: the state yet, so they're not committed to the state.
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  Speaker 1: But after 21 days, two different shrinks have to come
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  Speaker 1: up with an analysis of the person. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: it gave them a chance to clean up, get some
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  Speaker 1: clothes on, you know, get away from the streets and
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  Speaker 1: the subways or the parks, wherever they were living. 21
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  Speaker 1: days is a good amount of time. it allows you
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  Speaker 1: to do an examination of maybe what's mentally ailing the person.
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  Speaker 1: And then if they need further treatment, that's when they
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  Speaker 1: have to get committed to the state. But once you
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  Speaker 1: get committed, it ain't easy to get uncommitted.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's part of the problem.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's very few people across the country, not just
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  Speaker 4: in New York, get committed nowadays because there's a Supreme
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  Speaker 4: Court ruling. I mean, I would love to see a
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  Speaker 4: state challenge that. And what you should do, what we
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  Speaker 4: should do, is every time there's somebody that gets attacked,
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  Speaker 4: they should sue. They should sue and try to get
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  Speaker 4: it to go up to the Supreme Court. Because I
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  Speaker 4: think the current Supreme Court and the problems and the
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  Speaker 4: crime in the country might be there for that. All right,
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  Speaker 4: let's take a real neck-breaking switch on the topic.
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  Speaker 2: For a second.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, because a lot of people, based on my
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  Speaker 1: analysis of our Turley paper, you know, the Canadian blend
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  Speaker 1: and the American blend, thought that I had lost. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: they thought I had all the furniture upstairs and rearranged
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong rooms.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was true, because you and Natalie together have
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  Speaker 4: these tender tushies, apparently, where you require... this deluxe toilet
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  Speaker 4: paper to touch your behind. Me, I have a behind
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  Speaker 4: of steel. I don't even know, I can't even figure
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  Speaker 4: out the argument about toilet paper. But it got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of talkbacks.
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  Speaker 8: You have never lived until you went to an outhouse,
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  Speaker 8: as when I did when I was a kid, sat
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  Speaker 8: on an outhouse. We either had a corn cob, but
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  Speaker 8: we had Sears catalogs and JCPenney catalogs. And guess what?
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  Speaker 8: If America would go back to that, There'll be better
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  Speaker 8: readers in America today. Reading all the ads.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the end of the story.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how in your bathroom you'd have a basket, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess people would sit there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Me, for me, it was In-N-Out. But she's right. And
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  Speaker 2: The Outer House was similar to that.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to him bragging. Before you wipe your tush.
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  Speaker 2: Before you wipe your tush. American needs soft turlet paper.
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  Speaker 3: So you should... Start using bamboo paper because it's really
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  Speaker 3: not bad and it doesn't destroy the forest. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure Nancy would appreciate that, Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: It sounds horrible. Bamboo toilet paper sounds horrible. I'm looking
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  Speaker 4: it up, actually.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that expensive. That's not bad. what my initial
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  Speaker 2: reaction was. I thought you meant the rolling paper, bamboo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, only a pothead would think that. Here you go.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, Larry.
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  Speaker 4: Don't squeeze the shaman. I mean, I go to Costco,
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  Speaker 4: I get the ultra soft shaman, and I don't go
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  Speaker 4: anywhere else but home. I don't know if you heard
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  Speaker 4: at the beginning, that's attacking me, saying I don't care
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  Speaker 4: what kind of... Listen, you don't know my butt, and
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  Speaker 4: so I can use any toilet paper I want. Back off, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the reason this came up is because of the tariff.
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  Speaker 1: We have enough of our own paper fiber to make
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  Speaker 1: 8 million tons of American toilet paper to meet our needs.
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  Speaker 1: But the soft fiber comes across the border from Canada.
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  Speaker 1: It's called a blend, just like gasoline. They have blends.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they change seasonally. We're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: that later on. The president talking to the big oil producers,
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  Speaker 1: and they say, we need more refineries. He's saying, you
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  Speaker 1: need to drop the price. You guys are Hazara, you're pigs.
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  Speaker 1: You're making so much profit. We're going to get into that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the same thing. That's why we need to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of these tariffs, or we're never going to
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  Speaker 1: have soft toilet paper again in our lifetime larry it's amazing.
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  Speaker 6: That he doesn't care curtis.
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  Speaker 1: Dr spock don't you remember his book he said all
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  Speaker 1: male problems evolve from the use of the porcelain palace
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  Speaker 1: at a young.
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  Speaker 4: Age oh he's been debunked a million times.
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  Speaker 1: No that's not spot from star trek let's get that straight.
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  Speaker 4: It is it is exactly star spot from star trek
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  Speaker 4: All right. When we come back, remember when Pete Davidson
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  Speaker 4: and Colin Yost bought the Staten Island Ferry and were ridiculed? Well,
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  Speaker 4: they haven't even ridiculed themselves. Now they finally figured out
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  Speaker 4: what to do with it. We'll tell you about it
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  Speaker 4: coming up next. Plus, a chance to see air supply
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  Speaker 4: and students. Learn more at iHeartRadio.com slash teachers. Well, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 4: after some airstrikes in Iran, mostly in southeast Iran, near
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  Speaker 4: the Strait of Hormuz, to try to clear that, and
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  Speaker 4: they were taking out some boats that were going to
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  Speaker 4: lay mines down. As a matter of fact, there were
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  Speaker 4: apparently some drones that were going to put mines in
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  Speaker 4: the water. They had to take them out of the air.
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  Speaker 4: Most of the strikes were on that. They were also
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  Speaker 4: in retaliation for some strikes against U.S. allies in the region.
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  Speaker 4: They are now going after definitely... the IRGC, because they
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  Speaker 4: think they are standing in the way of any protest
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  Speaker 4: in the country, and the protest would help us immensely.
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  Speaker 4: But we do have some breaking news, because more shots
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  Speaker 4: have been fired, more missiles have been launched. Iran fired
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  Speaker 4: on U.S. allies in the Gulf early today, a night
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  Speaker 4: of American bombardment that Iranian officials say included a deadly
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  Speaker 4: strike on a wedding party. That's just coming across. So
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  Speaker 4: We'll get you some more information on that. But the
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  Speaker 4: headline in all of this is that after weeks and
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  Speaker 4: weeks of nothing but negotiations and then the blockade and
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  Speaker 4: a lot of threats, Iran and the United States are
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  Speaker 4: now trading missiles again. I guess they didn't listen, Curtis,
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  Speaker 4: when Donald Trump said last night, if there's anything, if
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  Speaker 4: you fire back.
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  Speaker 2: On our allies.
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  Speaker 4: we are going to take Iran off the map. I
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  Speaker 4: guess they've gotten used to him saying that.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: But I also, I would want to hear from Pete Hegseth,
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  Speaker 1: our Secretary of War and the head of the Joint
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs of Staff. They don't really have like daily updates,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you're at war. In this particular situation,
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  Speaker 1: I just think one question needs to be answered. Where
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  Speaker 1: do the Iranians keep finding their missiles? Because every other
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  Speaker 1: day we're hitting a missile launching site places where missiles
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  Speaker 1: are stored. And I believe that's all true. Obviously, drones,
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  Speaker 1: small speed boats, they can go lay out the mines
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  Speaker 1: either far underneath the water in the Straits of Hormuz
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  Speaker 1: or near the surface.
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  Speaker 2: I get all that.
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  Speaker 1: But you would think with all the bombings that the
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  Speaker 1: Pentagon has conducted, with great accuracy. We see the video,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the strikes are right on. We're assuming they're
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  Speaker 1: missiles in those silos and such. They look like missile silos,
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  Speaker 1: but they keep seeming to pull like a rabbit out
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  Speaker 1: of a hat. They keep getting missiles. Now, are they
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  Speaker 1: getting missiles from Russia, in which Putin yesterday said, I
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  Speaker 1: support Iran? Are they getting missile technology from Red China?
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  Speaker 1: So you got to ask yourself, Either our analytics are
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  Speaker 1: incorrect about their missile supply, or they're getting new supplies
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  Speaker 1: of missiles that they're using against these Persian Gulf countries.
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  Speaker 1: And they're hitting them as sometimes their refineries, their ability
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  Speaker 1: to ship their natural gas, their oil.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is just a continuation. This is like
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  Speaker 2: a war of attrition.
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  Speaker 1: They're all focused on the midterm elections, meaning Trump has
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  Speaker 1: to do something to get some relief from this war
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  Speaker 1: before then. And the Iranians know, hey, you can take
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  Speaker 1: our last dollar out of our pocket, no air conditioning,
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  Speaker 1: no food. If we can make it to the midterms,
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  Speaker 1: we may end up with a majority of Democrats in
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  Speaker 1: the House and the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate, and then things change.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the hope has been all along that we strangle
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  Speaker 4: the country economically to the point where there'll be an
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  Speaker 4: uprising in the country, which there was once before. But
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  Speaker 4: Iran is ahead of that game, and the IRGC has
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  Speaker 4: been trying to swell any of that. One of the
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  Speaker 4: guys that's been out in front for the administration, unusually
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  Speaker 4: in a situation like this, is the Treasury Secretary. It
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  Speaker 4: turns out the polling shows he may be one of
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  Speaker 4: the most popular people in the Trump administration with very
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  Speaker 4: few negatives. So he is way out in front of this.
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  Speaker 4: He's been talking about Operation Economic Outcast, where they're just
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  Speaker 4: going to strangle them economically. But he had a whole
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  Speaker 4: lot to say. I mean, he was the only one
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  Speaker 4: speaking the last couple of days about Iran.
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  Speaker 5: We are tracking down the IRGC's assets and data. I
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  Speaker 5: will say it on World Wide TV, just so you know.
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  Speaker 5: We know where in the British Virgin Islands your accounts
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  Speaker 5: are at these trust companies. We know the $ 100 million
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  Speaker 5: houses you have around the world, and we are going
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  Speaker 5: to freeze those. We are going to, our partners, we
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  Speaker 5: are going to close all of that down.
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  Speaker 1: All of that is good, and nobody gets killed in
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  Speaker 1: the process of that. You're freezing money. probably that was
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  Speaker 1: gotten by ill-gotten means to begin with. What I really
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: enjoyed yesterday, moving away from the Treasury Secretary for a second,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: about all of his abilities to economically strangle the Iranian
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: government so that they don't have any money to operate on,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: is the President sitting with all the big major moguls
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: of the oil companies and saying, come on, guys, how
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: is it that You keep raising the price at the pump,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: and you are making ungodly profits. So a little bit
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: taken away from the capitalism. You know how capitalists are.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: As long as we can make the money.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was obscene. I mean, the amount of
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: money they made was obscene. Let me say one last
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: thing about the operation. Actually, there's two fronts right now,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: and both of it, as Curtis aptly put it, is
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: about the midterms. One is getting more ships through the
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Straits of Hormuz, and that's up 400%, but it's not
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: where it was, and that's why you're seeing the strikes
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: in southeast Iran. And the other one is the oil
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: supplies and strangling them with money, making sure that no
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: oil gets out of there, but at the same time
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: making up for the oil from Venezuela.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: And now.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: putting pressure on the oil companies. And listen, they made
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: record profits. We're talking about Exxon making double the amount
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: of money they normally make in a quarter with tens
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: of billions of dollars. And we're talking about Shell tripling
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: the amount of money they made. So while others are suffering,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: these companies are doing extremely well. And so Donald Trump,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: who has a tremendous relationship with the oil industry. They
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: have supported him on every single race. And he knows
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: this stuff as well as anyone being a businessman is
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: going to say, you know, come on, you've got, you've
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: got to reduce the prices at the pump. You're making
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: obscene profits. You don't need to charge those prices. They're
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: going to come back and say, we don't set the prices.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: It's set on a barrel, but they're, they went up
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: higher than they should have when the barrels didn't move.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: because of the reaction to the shooting. So I think
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: this is going to be a come to Jesus for
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: the oil companies. And I wouldn't be surprised if over
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: the next couple of weeks, those prices come down.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Well remember we've discussed this before this is not like
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: sir isaac newton whatever goes up must come down it
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: goes up like a rocket and drops like a feather
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: very slowly but the oil executives what they say to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the president is look mr president no disrespect to you
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you're not responsible for this But the last time we
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: had a big refinery built was 1977. We got enough oil.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: We don't have refineries to process it. And you know
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: what happens. Refineries, especially like with all the travel in
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the summer, they had to create a different blend for gasoline.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: They have diesel fuel. They have home heating fuel oil.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: They have jet fuel. So we have 130 petroleum refineries
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: in all of America, which you say, boy, that's not
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a lot. Because oftentimes some of them have to come offline,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you know, just to get maintenance. And then they're not
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: operating for a while.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: So what?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: The third largest refinery we have was in Louisiana. It
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: was built in 1977. We have a few little smaller ones.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: You know who has most of the refineries in the world?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Red China.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: And if they don't get the oil, which they can't
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: produce on their own. They don't have the means. The
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: resource isn't there on the ground. then that also limits
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the supply on the marketplace because they'll refine it according
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: to order and then ship it out to countries that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: are in need.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: But when Biden was president, the oil company said that
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: it takes three to five years of construction to build
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: an oil refinery. And it costs, depending on the size
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: of it, from $ 3 billion to $ 15 billion. So that's
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: a lot of money and a lot of time. And
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: they said very publicly... Why would we ever invest that
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: kind of money when you have a political party that
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: may take over the Congress, that may take over the
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: White House at any time, saying, we don't want you
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: to exist anymore. We want to get rid of you.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: We want to go to other types of fuels because
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: you're killing the atmosphere. So why would we invest that
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: kind of money when the political climate is so unstable?
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: They have a great point.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: And also, nobody wants a refinery in their backyard.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Look, when you're on the Jersey Turnpike and you pass
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Newark Airport and you're passing South Amboy, Amboy, and you
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: see all those petrochemical plants and the old Hess refinery
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: there that still refines gasoline and other products from the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: barrels of oil that comes in. Man, people say, I
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: don't want to live anywhere near an oil refinery. So
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that's the other problem.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: You know where American refineries are going to go now? Venezuela.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Venezuela.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Venezuela.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: They already started building two. Yeah, and they got a
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: lot of work to do. They used to do refinery,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: standard oil. My dad would take loads from Caracas in Venezuela,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and he pointed out that it was such a rich
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: country at that time. They not only were able to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: dredge up the oil, which was not the light crude oil,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: It was the heavier oil that they use for.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Diesel and home heating fuel oil.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: But as cement, you walk around the streets, pull the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: mangoes right off the trees.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: You could survive on that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, this country has more oil than anybody else
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: in the Western Hemisphere that's all underground.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: I should go someday. I have relatives in Venezuela. I've
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: never seen. They've come up here. I've never seen them.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: You know, when we fled Germany. Many of them went
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: to Venezuela. My dad, he had such great memories. And
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: then naturally it all went south.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: When Hugo Chavez came in, remember, and then Maduro, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: naturally he's out of circulation now, but hopefully they get
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: back on track.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Stream plus it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Perfectly imperfect.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: In the morning.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Guaranteed human.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Well, as we've been talking about, the flock issue has
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: taken off to the point where it's become a political
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: issue right now. So let's talk to Rich DeMuro. Rich
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: on Tech is heard Sunday nights from 8 to 11 p.m.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: On WOR.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: And you can see what he has to say and
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: even send him some messages on at Rich on Tech
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: on Instagram. Rich, the flock issue has become a national issue.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: You have now governors banning it in Florida and Texas.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Many communities are banning it and getting rid of it
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: and canceling their contracts. I spoke with a police chief
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: yesterday who said, yeah, we, we had to cancel our
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: flock contract, but then he said, so now we're going
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: with Axon, which is another company that does the same thing. And,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: and I guess some go with Motorola. Some will go with,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I don't know the other company it's for Kata, but
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: it seems like it's the brand that's getting all the attention,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: but people aren't realizing they're just going to go with
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: somebody else.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the thing.
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: It's like this technology is here to stay. In fact,
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: you know, police also operate cameras that are installed on
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: their cars. So when they're cruising down the street, you know,
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: they can identify license plates. I mean, this technology is
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: not new. So flock has become sort of the public. Uh,
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: you know, take all end all, everyone knows this brand
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: name and of course not good for them. Uh, or
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: maybe it's good for them in the future, but at
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: this point, you're right. They're going to go with competitors.
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: Axon they're known for the body cameras. They were very
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: controversial years ago. They survived that. Motorola, I mean, nobody
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: even knows that they make these cameras, but yes, they
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: make a lot of corporate solutions. Keep in mind, that's
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: different from the Motorola that.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: We know for the phones.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: They kind of split off a couple of years ago,
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: and they do a lot of these industrial solutions for
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: law enforcement.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: But the reality is.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: Look, this is not going away anytime soon. I think
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: that flock is just taking a lot of the heat
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: right now. Have you seen this map, this dflock.org map?
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: I mean, this is pretty wild. It shows you a
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: heat map of all of these cameras nationwide. And you
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: can kind of scroll down or zoom into your community
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: to see exactly where these maps are located. And it's
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: not just flock. It's all the different license plate reading
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: maps or cameras out there. So that's an interesting place
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: to look just to see how prevalent these cameras are
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: across our country.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, great.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Criminals can look at it and evade the cameras now.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: So that's great. They're just helping people that committed crimes.
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: I actually think it's more of the other side of it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: I think it's actually they're trying. I mean, look, we
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: know there's been some people that are trying to ruin
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: these cameras, take them down. I think that's more of
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: the intention of this website. I mean, clearly the website
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: is just there to inform people. But I think there
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: are some nefarious uses of this kind of information saying, hey, look,
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: look where these things are. Go out there in your
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: community and maybe mess with them if you want. We've
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: seen stories about that across the country. So I don't
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: think this story is going away anytime soon.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Had a split and their subdivision goes in a different
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: way like burner phones, right? You know, Motorola burner phones.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: You know whose birthday it was yesterday, Rich DeMuro? The
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: king of all burner phones, the former disgraced Mayor Eric Adams,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: who had seven burner phones on him. And apparently for
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: his birthday gift, some of his cronies were sending him
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: more burner phones because, you know, basically every month you
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: got to replace them.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Is that still the case with Motorola?
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Uh, you can't have enough. No, you know, Motorola, look, they,
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: they're mostly focused on some of their real phones. Now
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: they've got some actually decent smartphones. I think when it
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: comes to burner phones, you know, Nokia has made, made
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: a resurgence. I, you know, if someone has a flip phone,
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: it doesn't mean they're a bad person necessarily. It just
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: means that maybe they don't want a smartphone. Maybe they
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: don't want all the tracking of a smartphone. Uh, you know,
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: I don't know, but those things still have a life
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: out there somehow.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Not for me.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm looking at Amazon right now at the
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: price of a pack of toothbrushes. In this one, you
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: can buy four for $ 12. You can buy three for $ 6. 99.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: And you're going to talk about a toothbrush that goes
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: for $ 499? What could it possibly do to make it
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: worth that?
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: This is not just any toothbrush. Obviously, you're familiar with
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Dyson toothbrushes. Well, they came out with a $ 500, you
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: can't even call it, it's called a camera jet toothbrush.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: This thing has a camera built into it. So it's
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: basically an electric toothbrush, a water flosser, and a camera
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: all in one. And so they basically said, you know what,
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: the water picks of the world, the electric toothbrushes of
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: the world, they're all terrible. So let's put a camera
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: that can look between your teeth, check for the plaque,
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: and fire this water stream to get rid of the
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: plaque in between your teeth. Not only do that, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: it also brushes your teeth with ultrasonic waves, but then
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: it also sprays a little mouthwash in there at the
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: same time.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: So I'll be honest.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: I want to try this thing because it's been a
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: while since my standard toothbrush that I had been meaning
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: to replace for years has gotten an upgrade.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's a lot cheaper ultimately than a
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: trip to the dentist's office to get it cleaned.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: I have to ask, is there some kind of monthly
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: subscription that goes along with this?
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: I didn't see any word of a monthly subscription, but
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: I would not be surprised if everything has a subscription, but.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: That's, that's exactly what I thought, Curtis.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I said, you know what?
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: I just got my teeth cleaned. You know, it's like
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: 150 bucks, whatever it is after insurance. So I'll gladly
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: pay $ 500 to not have to deal with another cavity
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: filling in my lifetime.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: But we'll see. I mean, this thing is, it's different.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: It's big.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: We'll see if this thing lasts the test of time.
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: You know, sometimes these products come out you know, the
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: first generation because it doesn't really take off. They never
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: come out in the second one, but they've done pretty
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: well with their vacuums and other things. So we'll see
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: how this one is.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro, I try to force you to apologize to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: me because I use MySpace and they're making a comeback.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I want you to apologize to me because I am
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: probably the last guy to use MapQuest and I.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: See they're having a tremendous comeback. I apologize.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: Once again, you're right on AOL. Clearly, you're right on
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: MapQuest because it is the number one app on the
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: iPhone right now.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: People are downloading it because they refuse to change the
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: name of Lake Ontario to Lake America. They're the last holdout.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: Apple Maps finally changed it. Google Maps was first to
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: change it. And now people are going there. And here's
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: the thing. So I, doing my due diligence.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Opened up the app today on the iPhone. And what
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: else did I find?
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: Blockbuster Video. You can get directions to the locations there.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: Circuit City is still on there. Radio Shack. No!
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: You're kidding me! I am kidding.
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: But yes, I would not be surprised.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: That would be great.
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: So all of you who made fun of me about
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: MySpace and then MapQuest. You know, these things come in threes.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: What's next?
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: AOL address? Do you have an AOL address?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: No.
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: Come on.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Everybody has one.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Get one of them.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: We all have one.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: We just hide it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. I'd love to be Rich DeMuro.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Rich DeMuro goes all around the country. Do you go
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: to Europe for some of these conventions, by the way?
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: I was in London a couple weeks ago.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. He gets to go all these places.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: They treat him like a star when he gets there.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: They want him to try all his products. So you
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: were recently in New York. What did you see there?
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: So Sonos actually had an open house in New York City,
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: and basically they showed off. I love Sonos. This is
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: your whole home audio system. So they basically came up
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: with the idea. They said, you know what, we make
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: great speakers, but now we're going to kind of take
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: control of your whole audio in your home with a
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: new operating system. So they're calling it Sonos 27, and
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: it's going to mix not just better voice commands for
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: your speakers, so now you can control your speakers with
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: your voices. in a much easier way, just like we
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: do with AI, but they're also bringing AI.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Into the mix.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: So if you're sitting at your computer all day on ChatGBT,
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: you can now control your Sonos system right from ChatGBT.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: That's interesting.
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: They also came out with a new pair of headphones
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: that the first pair were great a couple of years ago.
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: These are even better. and then a new sound bar
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: that sounds amazing. I mean, I've had Sonos for at
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: least 15 years in my home, and it's one of
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: these products that, yes, they are very expensive, more expensive
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: than a Bluetooth speaker, but if you start with one,
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: you can add them over time, and the speakers always work.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: I mean, I have speakers as old as, you know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: 10 years old. They still work fine. So now they're
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: just trying to bring them into kind of the modern
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: era with easier voice commands and more AI.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Very expensive, but do you get your Sonos for free?
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: I have gotten some for free in the past, yes,
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: but I have bought a majority of my systems. In fact,
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: my soundbar needs an upgrade because I paid a decent
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: amount for that thing, but I've had it for 10 years.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: That thing needs an upgrade.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: The new soundbar is about $ 700, and so I will
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: either be testing that or buying that myself, one or
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: the other.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Well, it's good to be rich, DeMuro. You get some
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: of the stuff.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Some of the tchotchkes.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, is heard Sunday nights from
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: 8 to 11 p.m. on WOR. You can also see
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: what he has to say on Instagram, at Rich on
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Tech on Instagram. Rich, thanks a lot.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. See you.