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

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  Speaker 1: Well, Curtis isn't here today. He had an event late
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  Speaker 1: last night. And knowing Curtis, he's not sleeping, though. Knowing Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably listening right now. Hi, Curtis. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: He picked a good day, though. How about that? What
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  Speaker 1: is it? What did they say?
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  Speaker 2: 82?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be 82. I bet you we're
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  Speaker 3: going to find him down at the beach. But just
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  Speaker 3: going down the shore.
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Curtis? Does Curtis still wear the beret when he goes
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  Speaker 1: to the beach?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he does. I'm sure he does. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he wears the satin jacket and the beret and he
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  Speaker 1: walks along all the slightly clad people. I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say nude, but that's not true. Slightly clad people.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, what beaches are you going to?
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  Speaker 1: Sandy Hook? One time I happened upon there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be, are you going down to shore?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: No, I am not.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I was actually, but I'm going to the
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  Speaker 3: Harry Styles concert tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: Yes!
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  Speaker 1: And your daughter's already been a couple times?
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  Speaker 5: She's been to two already. This will be number three.
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  Speaker 5: She's got a couple of more later.
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  Speaker 1: She must be rich.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, she's got some connections, some She's good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's say, well, you got to say, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: One, some friends gave more tickets for her birthday. And then,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it was a whole bunch of different things.
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  Speaker 1: Plus, you know, if you love somebody that much, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to go to concerts, you go to see
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  Speaker 1: them a couple of times. You don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: to see other people.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if you don't know, he has a 30
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  Speaker 3: night residency here at Madison square garden. So this is
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  Speaker 3: your probably only opportunity to ever do this. And I
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  Speaker 3: said to her, cause she said, is this a little ridiculous?
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  Speaker 3: I said, Yeah, probably, but why not?
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  Speaker 6: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: You're young and have fun. This is great. You'll remember
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  Speaker 5: this for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: Do it.
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  Speaker 1: A thousand percent. I agree a thousand percent. It's this
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  Speaker 1: age when you get to do these type of things.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's later in life that you get boring.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if she was 50 and doing this, I'd
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  Speaker 3: be like, but to tell you the truth, I actually
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  Speaker 3: know a 50-year-old woman who's several who are doing the
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  Speaker 3: same exact thing.
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  Speaker 1: So are you a Harry Styles fan?
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  Speaker 6: I am. You are?
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good. Then you're going to have a great time
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to be with your daughter. Yeah. What
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  Speaker 1: a great night that's going to be. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: it might rain tonight. It's okay.
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  Speaker 5: We don't care.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll be inside.
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  Speaker 6: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 3: One of the first concerts I ever took to, well,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't the first one, but we went to go
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  Speaker 3: see One Direction together. And that's, he was, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the boy band, he was 16 years old at the time.
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  Speaker 5: So it's kind of like full circle.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a big mother-daughter thing. You know what? If
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  Speaker 1: you want to tell us about your favorite concert, I
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  Speaker 1: would love to hear about that. I gotta, let me,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give all the information at the end. Those of
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  Speaker 1: you who give talkbacks all the time, you already know
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  Speaker 1: the information, but there's a few things I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about here. First of all, and I know that
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  Speaker 1: Natalie and her beat on the street is going to
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  Speaker 1: be doing this today. So I don't want to talk
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  Speaker 1: too much about it, but I do want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the 25-year-old man who was arrested for stabbing a
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  Speaker 1: fellow rider on the J train in Queens. It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like another mentally disturbed person. He was pacing back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: and he appeared agitated before approaching Messiah Lojano, 59, and
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  Speaker 1: stabbing him, and he later died. So it's an awful story.
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  Speaker 1: It's an awful story all around. But But here's what
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  Speaker 1: heartens me a little bit. That there was a person
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  Speaker 1: that saw this might happen and started videotaping the guy.
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  Speaker 1: So he has this all in video. And then when
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  Speaker 1: it happened, people rushed to try to stop it and
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  Speaker 1: then ran after him. Got off the platform and ran
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  Speaker 1: after him. He had to go up on a roof
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  Speaker 1: and they filmed him on the roof. So the police
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  Speaker 1: were able to get him because of that. Doesn't that
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  Speaker 1: restore your faith in humankind? Because you hear so many
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  Speaker 1: of these stories in the subway where people look the
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  Speaker 1: other way and don't want to get involved. Here you
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  Speaker 1: had not one, but several people that got involved. And
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  Speaker 1: so hats off to them. You're wonderful human beings. It's
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  Speaker 1: a shame that somebody couldn't have stopped him before he
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  Speaker 1: did this, but I understand how quickly those things can happen.
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  Speaker 1: And God bless you. All of you. That's wonderful. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do a neck hurting turn right here because
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  Speaker 1: I do want to talk a little bit about Sydney Sweeney.
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  Speaker 1: See how much of a turn was that? That's a
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  Speaker 1: big one. But I want to talk about it because
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  Speaker 1: I think she's a talented young woman. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem that people have with her, mostly women
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  Speaker 1: have with her, is that she uses her sexuality. And
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  Speaker 1: she uses it all the time. And she became more
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  Speaker 1: famous from an ad than she ever did from any
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  Speaker 1: of the movies she was in. She became famous before
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  Speaker 1: there was an American Eagle Jeans. Is that the name
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  Speaker 1: of it? American Eagle Jeans? Yeah. And, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: she talked about she has great jeans and that became
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  Speaker 1: a huge controversy. It was the best thing that ever
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  Speaker 1: happened to American Eagle. And it was the best thing
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  Speaker 1: that ever happened to Sidney Sweeney. All of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: she became a huge star. So there is a new
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  Speaker 1: company named Novig that is sports betting. So they hired
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  Speaker 1: her because they're thinking maybe she could do the same
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  Speaker 1: for us that she did for American Eagle. Only in
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  Speaker 1: this one, she doesn't have any clothes on. She just
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  Speaker 1: uses sports equipment and her hair to cover the parts
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  Speaker 1: you can't show on TV. Thinking of sports? Prove it.
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  Speaker 5: Novig is just sports.
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  Speaker 4: So they wanted to.
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  Speaker 3: Show to sports.
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  Speaker 1: And the people have come after her. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Novig loves that people, because it's in the news all
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  Speaker 1: the time now. It's Novig is being talked about all
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  Speaker 1: the time. This is exactly what they wanted. So the
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  Speaker 1: people that are upset about it are doing exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney wanted and what the company wanted. But it's
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  Speaker 1: all of these woke women that are coming after her.
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  Speaker 1: How dare she? How dare she use her sexuality? I
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  Speaker 1: thought that's what that movement was fighting for. That women
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  Speaker 1: should be able to do what they want with their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: That women should have the total control of their bodies.
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  Speaker 1: That there should be a freedom. If somebody wants to
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  Speaker 1: have sex with people, they're allowed to. If somebody wants
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  Speaker 1: to show their body, they're allowed to. How come that
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  Speaker 1: same group of women that defends the very thing that
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney is doing has a problem with it once
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  Speaker 1: she does it? I really don't understand. All I know
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  Speaker 1: is that group of women that have a problem with this,
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  Speaker 1: they look silly right now because you're the one that's
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  Speaker 1: making her a star and you're the one that's going
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  Speaker 1: to help sell Novig. So exactly what they wanted happened.
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  Speaker 1: But it got me thinking, and Natalie, I want you
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  Speaker 1: to get in on this too. It got me thinking,
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  Speaker 1: what are some of the biggest and most successful endorsements
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  Speaker 1: by celebrities of all time and one immediately jumps to
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  Speaker 1: mind because one is by far the most successful and
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  Speaker 1: that is michael jordan with nike i've.
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  Speaker 2: Lost almost 300 games 26 times i've been trusted to
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  Speaker 2: take the game winning shot and missed.
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  Speaker 4: I've failed over and over and over again in my life.
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  Speaker 2: And that is why I succeed.
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  Speaker 1: That ended up being a 20-year relationship, and that made
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  Speaker 1: him hundreds of millions of dollars. It made Nike billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars. And later on, they got Tiger Woods for
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  Speaker 1: golf as well. And so Nike has been brilliant at this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: another one I want to bring up, and this was
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  Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney before there was a Sidney Sweeney. She was young.
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  Speaker 1: This was controversial. It is a Calvin Klein ad with
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  Speaker 1: Brooke Shields.
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  Speaker 7: You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Calvin Klein jeans. Now, how old was she in then?
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  Speaker 5: She was too young.
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  Speaker 1: 14 or 15 or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: That's the whole thing about that ad. I mean, her mom,
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  Speaker 5: you know, this girl's 14 years old. Would you ever
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  Speaker 5: do that to your kid?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't think so. I don't think so. It's
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  Speaker 1: extremely successful. Yeah. Like Sidney Sweeney, the same thing. It
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  Speaker 1: made her a superstar. She was already getting big because
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  Speaker 1: she was already modeling, but man, she took off after that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I think those are two really good ones when you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about endorsements and the ones that have been successful.
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  Speaker 1: But one that, well, I'll tell you what, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to play it because you might agree that this
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  Speaker 1: might even be bigger Bigger than the Jordan 1. Not
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  Speaker 1: bringing in so much money, but bigger at least for
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  Speaker 1: this athlete. My George Foreman Grills, America's favorite grilling machines,
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  Speaker 1: are number one on everyone's list. Moms want them.
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  Speaker 6: Dads want them.
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  Speaker 1: Grandmas want them. Even college kids. It's great for the
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  Speaker 1: whole family.
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  Speaker 5: I love the commercial.
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  Speaker 1: He's so good.
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  Speaker 5: This was commercial.
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  Speaker 1: But isn't he great?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because you know what? Everybody did want one. Moms
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  Speaker 5: wanted one. College kids wanted one.
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  Speaker 6: He was right.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wanted one. Did you ever have one?
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  Speaker 5: Of course I had one.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have one, Crash? Go guess.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like at some point everybody had one.
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  Speaker 1: I had one and it got stolen.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and it's funny.
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  Speaker 6: I had one.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I used it very often, but we
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  Speaker 5: had one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd love to know from people. So there's a
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  Speaker 1: few topics on the table, but certainly I'd love to
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  Speaker 1: know from people who you think were some of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest endorsements of all time. And for that, or if
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  Speaker 1: a reminder, as if you couldn't have figured this out
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  Speaker 1: on your own, Curtis Lewa has the day off today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, with his schedule, the speeches he has to give,
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  Speaker 1: he just was not available for this morning. So, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you have a great weekend. When we come back, Well,
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: a New Jersey girl has created a new American girl doll.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: A little girl did this all on her own. It's
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. You're going to hear from her next. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: a chance to hear Stevie Wonder see Stevie Wonder and
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  Speaker 1: hear Stevie Wonder at a sold-out MSG concert at 825.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be giving away tickets. Also, our 2026 iHeartRadio Music
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  Speaker 1: Festival presented by Capital One. relive all the biggest moments
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  Speaker 1: of that concert. And there were many streaming on Disney
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Plus and Hulu. You can go and watch it right
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  Speaker 1: now if you want. The conversation continues. Curtis Lewa and
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  Speaker 1: Larry Mendte.
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  Speaker 6: 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kathy Hochul released what can only be called a
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  Speaker 1: seething statement about the rape at Cornell University. I should
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  Speaker 1: say the alleged gang rape. at Cornell University, and she
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  Speaker 1: has appointed a special prosecutor, and the special prosecutor is
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  Speaker 1: New York Attorney General Letitia James. Uh-oh. Cornell's in some problems.
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  Speaker 1: But in the statement she released, she was really searing
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  Speaker 1: about the way Cornell handled the rape investigation, and also
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  Speaker 1: the way that the Tompkins County District Attorney chose not
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  Speaker 1: to prosecute or even investigate further alleged sexual assault. They
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  Speaker 1: just based everything on what Cornell University told them. So
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  Speaker 1: she wrote in her statement, this has, in turn, undercut
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  Speaker 1: my faith and the public's faith in the district attorney's
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  Speaker 1: ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case at this time.
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  Speaker 1: You remember, This attorney, this district attorney, was working with
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  Speaker 1: the university. And the university had a statement from the
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  Speaker 1: victim that he claims that he never saw.
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  Speaker 3: And she says, quote, I can say with 100% confidence
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  Speaker 3: I was raped.
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  Speaker 4: That wasn't information that I had, first of all. Second
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  Speaker 4: of all, that is a legal conclusion. If she had
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  Speaker 4: said those words, we certainly would want to have explored
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  Speaker 4: that more.
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  Speaker 3: Well, according to the transcript, she did say those words.
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  Speaker 4: Well, like I said, that wasn't provided to me.
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  Speaker 1: So you dropped the investigation at that point? You must
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  Speaker 1: have gone only with what Cornell University supplied you. Because
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  Speaker 1: had you interviewed Jane Doe, the accuser yourself, she could
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  Speaker 1: have said the exact same thing to you. So although
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  Speaker 1: I don't like Letitia James taking over the case because
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  Speaker 1: I think everything is political with her and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be political ambition first and the victim and Cornell
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  Speaker 1: University second and a far third, but I do believe
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  Speaker 1: there needed to be a special prosecutor on this case
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  Speaker 1: because clearly this district attorney was way over his head.
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  Speaker 1: And Cornell University, it sounds like, just bullied him and
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  Speaker 1: didn't give him the information they needed. But Cornell University,
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  Speaker 1: now they have given up everything. They've said, yes, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to help. We're going to do everything we need
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  Speaker 1: to do. They know they're in trouble at this point.
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  Speaker 1: They know how bad this looks. I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about what happened at Cornell university last night, but I
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  Speaker 1: also want to get into the fact that this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when the horrible things like this happens, many times it
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  Speaker 1: calls attention to something that deserves attention, an issue that
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  Speaker 1: deserves attention because now women are coming out from across
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  Speaker 1: the country. And at that town hall at Cornell last
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  Speaker 1: night saying something like this happened to me, that it
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  Speaker 1: happened at my university. So this is pervasive. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: an isolated incident at Cornell University. This is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the start of stories happening across the country. And
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing because it's going to bring necessary change.
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  Speaker 1: Did you want to say something?
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  Speaker 3: No, I agree with you because I have been seeing
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  Speaker 3: on my social media feed women from all over the country,
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  Speaker 3: all types of life, age talking about their experience with this.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not always at universities. Sometimes it was at
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  Speaker 3: a convention, a vacation, when they were 14, when they
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  Speaker 3: were 44. And the only good thing that could come
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  Speaker 3: out of this is that other women realized they were
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  Speaker 3: not the only one that this happened to and that
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  Speaker 3: it's okay to say something. Because there were some women
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  Speaker 3: who were holding their stories for 30, 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. You know, it is tough to admit
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  Speaker 1: to that. She was counseled. The Jane Doe was counseled.
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  Speaker 1: Don't come forward.
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  Speaker 5: And a lot of the women will admit, I was drunk.
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  Speaker 5: So I thought it was my fault because I.
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  Speaker 3: Put myself in a situation where I wasn't 100% in
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  Speaker 3: the moment and could do something about it. But that's
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  Speaker 3: not— being drunk does not give anybody the right to rape someone.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in New York State it does. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that as well. There's a law that allows that, and
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to change that now. So a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good is coming from this horrible story. And you talked
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  Speaker 1: about women coming forward. There is a woman, a very
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  Speaker 1: brave woman, who came forward. Her name's Liv Reinertsen, and
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  Speaker 1: she went to a purchased college, a SUNY college. And
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  Speaker 1: it was there that she says— Almost immediately when she
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  Speaker 1: got to college, she was raped.
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  Speaker 2: So I was supposed to be living in a bedroom
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  Speaker 2: right next door to my rapist. And so my only
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  Speaker 2: ask from the university was that he would be removed
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  Speaker 2: from that housing assignment. And they told me that they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: So she was living next to her rapist and she
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  Speaker 1: was not pressing charges. She didn't want to make this
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  Speaker 1: difficult for anybody, actually. She just wanted to go on
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  Speaker 1: with her life. But she said to the university, could
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  Speaker 1: you just do me a favor and move him out
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  Speaker 1: of the building that I'm in? I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: see him every day. He was right next door in
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  Speaker 1: the dorm. I don't want to see this man every day.
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  Speaker 1: And they said they couldn't do that. I got a
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  Speaker 1: feeling these are stories that we're going to be hearing
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  Speaker 1: every day from across the country. And it's sickening. It
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely sickening that people are sending their daughters to
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  Speaker 1: these universities and they're not being protected. And I'm so
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  Speaker 1: happy this story has come forward. And I feel horrible
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  Speaker 1: for what happened to this young lady, but I'm so
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: happy that she's suing Cornell University. Because across the country,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: good things are going to happen from this.
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  Speaker 6: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: And just women telling their stories is a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah, because they've been living in silence.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: And many have been living in pain. And so they
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: finally get to deal with this. They get to see
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Jane Doe as a sort of Joan of Arc, that
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: they can say, well, wait a second. She came out.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I can come out. I can come out. Now, I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: know that she's going by Jane Doe, but she still
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: is suing Cornell University. And her name's going to come
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: out eventually as they go through this. But she couldn't
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: live with this anymore, her attorney says. Couldn't live with
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: this anymore and said, I don't want this to happen
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: to somebody else. And so she's come forward with her case.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: And my feeling is there's worse cases all across the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: country that we don't know about yet. But you know what?
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: We're going to know about it. And you just talked
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: about a second ago about just because you're drunk, that
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't give someone– The right to rape you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: And yet, in New York, and it's been very difficult
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: to get rid of, in New York there is a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: law called the voluntary intoxication law, where if you voluntarily
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: get so drunk that you can't say no, then it's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: your fault, basically. That, you know what, you can't charge
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: rape at that point. And they've been fighting this for years.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And they had a rally in Albany. And some of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the advocates and some of the legislators that want to
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: get rid of it. of this spoke about it.
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  Speaker 7: These are our allies who've been fighting with us for
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: the last seven years. Let me repeat that seven years
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  Speaker 7: we have been fighting an uphill fight to end this loophole.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Either you're on the side of sexual assault survivors or
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you're not on their side. There's no middle ground. Choose
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: a side.
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  Speaker 5: When we go back to Albany, this will be a priority.
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  Speaker 1: Day one. So so many good things may come from this,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: by the way. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz has been trying to
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: push for legislation time and time and time again. He
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: is from the Bronx, by the way, and he was
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: at that rally yesterday. And he talks about the fact
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that he's been trying to get rid of this voluntary
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: intoxication law for years and years and years and years
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and years. You heard the advocate a second ago says
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: it's been seven years. And what's more disgusting to me
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: is the reason that the other assemblymen and the state
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to get rid of that law. Some people
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: do not want more people going to jail.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's the reality.
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: My opinion is if you did something really bad, like
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: rape somebody.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: You should go to jail. Duh.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. Of course that should happen. But for
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: some reason, they look at college campuses as a different world. Like, oh,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: these things happen. No, those things aren't supposed to happen.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: So I think from a horrible situation, and I'm so
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: glad that this Jane Doe filed suit, some really good
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: things are going to happen, not only in New York.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: but across the country. And the conversation continues. Curtis Lewa
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and Larry Menti.
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  Speaker 6: 710 WOR.
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  Speaker 1: It's time now for Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WOR movie
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: minute host. By the way, as I've mentioned a couple
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: of times, and I know Joe, you're upset about this.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Curtis Lewa is off today. He's, had an event that
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: he had to go to last night. Hey, listen, we've
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: talked about this before, that this time of year is
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: not usually a good time of year for movies because
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: people don't have any more vacation time left, kids are
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: back in school, and so they know they're not going
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to make so much money. But every once in a while,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a good movie sneaks through. Every once in a while.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: So is that going to happen this weekend?
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Well, it's not. However, I will say this, Larry. So
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: let's get that right out of the way right off
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: the bat. But this weekend is actually proving to be
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: a really interesting one at the box office, and I'll
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: explain that. Because what you're having is a movie that
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: a lot of people are calling the worst film of
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: the year so far. And then you have another film
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: that a lot of people are calling the worst film
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: of the year. And I don't think either one of
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: them are that bad.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: They both tried different things. So maybe that sort of,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: you know, speaks to what we're talking about.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: It's that time of year. And here come the two
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: worst films of the year come marching in hand in hand,
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: but let's, let's start off with the one that I
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: think is, is better, which is Verity. And a lot
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: of people have been giving this movie a lot of guff.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: They've been saying, Oh, you know, it's really, it's trashy
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: and it's, and it's, you know, it's trying to be
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: this 80s thriller thing. And to which I sort of
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: say like, yeah, okay. You know, that might be kind
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: of fun. And it actually is. It's with Anne Hathaway
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: and Dakota Johnson and, And it's based on one of
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: the books by this author named Colleen Hoover. And a
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: couple of movies, three movies have been made from her
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: books before. She's very popular. It's like an airport novelist
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: kind of thing. You find her books in airports. But
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: this one sort of reminds me a little of the
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: movies of the 80s, like Body Double or Dressed to Kill,
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: or Single White Female, things like that. Even a little
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: like Jagged Edge. Dakota Johnson is a young author who's
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: hired to finish the novel of a very popular novelist
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: who's paralyzed from an accident. She's played by Anne Hathaway. And,
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: of course, she moves into their house, and something starts
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: to happen with the husband, who's played by Josh Hartnett.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: And there's sort of all these mysterious things going on.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: There's lots of mixture of fact or fiction, what's real,
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: what's not. Is Anne Hathaway really paralyzed? It's totally over
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: the top. But really, I thought it was kind of fun.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: And I think a lot of critics are taking it
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: like it's supposed to be a Hitchcock film. It's not.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: It's supposed to be sort of like a trashy 80s film,
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: which it is. So I think Verity is a lot
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: of fun. I give it four stars. Just don't go
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: in expecting high art. Because a lot of people are
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: calling it trash. And it's sort of like it's just
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: trashy fun. So that's the one movie.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Four stars?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Four stars.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because of what? Four stars. I'm giving it four stars.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: I gave Spider-Man three. I know.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I wasn't going to say it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: Curtis would say, and what did you give Spider-Man, Joe Neumeier?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: That is going to be his line for the rest.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Everything is going to compare to the three of Spider-Man.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: It's going to be on my tombstone. It's going to
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: be on my tombstone. Yes, I gave Spider-Man three stars.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: How much money has that made so far? Spider-Man.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Spider-Man. More money than they actually have on the world.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: So it makes too much money. Let's just leave it
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: at that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: So what's the other movie?
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: The other movie is called Digger. And it's the new
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: movie with Tom Cruise, which is pretty much how anybody
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: sort of knows it. It's the Tom Cruise movie. And
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: it's Tom Cruise, like, under some makeup. and he plays
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: like an older guy in his 60s or early 70s.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: He's an oil baron, and there's been an accident at
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: one of his rigs. And so this rich guy, this
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: guy who's named Digger, played by Cruise, and it sets
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: off an environmental disaster. And he kind of gets the president,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: who's played by John Goodman. It's a comedy. It's kind
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: of like Doctor Strange. He gets the president and his
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: cabinet to kind of rally around, and they try and
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: figure out, what to do, and all their decisions are
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: based upon greed or deflecting blame or not even addressing
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: the problem. It's about the climate. But here's the thing.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: It's not good. It's trying to be Doctor Strange's love,
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: and it goes way over the top, and it's crazy.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: But there is a twist in the movie, and it
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: takes a really big swing And it takes a big chance.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: And for that, I applaud it. Because, you know, sometimes
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: those movies that take really crazy chances can be kind
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: of interesting or fun, or at the very least, they're
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: not boring, right? So movies like Vanilla Sky or The
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, you know, things like that,
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: they may not be necessarily always successful or what everybody
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: wants to see, but they're interesting. And I give that
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: to this Tom Cruise movie. It's interesting. I'm not saying
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: people should go see it because it's really not. After
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: 45 minutes, you go like everyone's shouting. I don't really
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: want to sit in this anymore. But if you do
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: stick through it, it's okay. It has an idea.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: It does.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: It's sort of a science fiction thing.
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  Speaker 5: I got to say, that name is a terrible name.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Terrible name. Terrible name. Digger. Digger.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: And to tell you the truth, I was watching a
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: movie last night that Crazy Stupid Love with Steve Carell.
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: And I actually think it's a funny movie. I think
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: it's a good movie.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: It is a funny movie.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I have heard, though, and it didn't do well in
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the box office, and Steve Carell at one point said
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: it's because the name was terrible. It was a terrible
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: name for the movie because it doesn't really give you
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: any sense of what that movie is about.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, tells you nothing. Are they crazy? Are they stupid?
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: Are they in love? Who knows? You know, are.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: They all free?
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: It could be anything. And Digger reminds me of the
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: name from Boogie Nights, Dirk Diggler, which was the Mark
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: Wahlberg character.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Right? What were you going to say, Larry?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, Steve Carell, I think he's
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: way underrated as an actor. He's tremendous. Would you agree?
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Totally agree. I absolutely agree. I've done a couple of
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: Q & As with him, but he's really good. I
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: think he's also one of those actors, and like Steve
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: Martin is sort of another one, Robin Williams was another one,
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: who started in comedy, but actually has all these great
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: layers of drama to him, and I think that Carell
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: is one of them. He's really great. in so many things, even,
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: even like small things that people maybe don't know about,
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: seek him out if he's in it. And, and Rory's
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Oscar nominated for Little Miss Sunshine. He's really great in
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: so many things.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: He was, you know, but I think he's just terrific. Yeah,
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: I agree.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: And that movie, it's so good. Ryan Gosling is in
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: it and Julianne Moore is in it. It's a great cast.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: And I just think it's one of those underrated movies.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: I just really enjoy it.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: You know what's really funny? I wanted to ask you
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: about this, and I think we should probably do this
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: every week because I think a lot of people out
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: there don't want to go to the movies or there's
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: nothing good out like Digger. And so they sit at
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: home and they're looking for something to watch. And so
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I've done this at home. You're going through and you're
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: clicking through all the different channels and you're clicking through
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: all the different shows online. So maybe we can give
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: people something that they should watch every weekend at home.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: That's a great idea. And maybe we can even sort
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: of relate it a little bit to, you know, movies
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: like some of the movies that are out, but maybe better. So,
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: you know, we listed a couple of them just now,
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: but there's a couple of them on Amazon right now
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: or on Netflix that are a few good ones. Single
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: White Female is one of the ones that Verity reminds
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: me of. I'd recommend that to people. It's a great
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: New York movie from the early 90s also. It's a
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: lot of fun. And Jagged Edge, which people always forget,
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: but it's Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close It's a terrific
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: sort of courtroom thriller. It reminds me a lot. There's
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: a lot of things like it on TV now. So
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Jagged Edge is one of those that I would say,
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: seek it out. It's right there on Amazon. It's a
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: really great movie. It's a lot of fun and thrilling too. Exciting.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Joe Neumeier, film journalist, WR, Movie Minute host. Thanks so much.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Talk to you next week.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Larry.