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Highlights of Curtis & Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Day two Larry without Natalie, our producer who's been here
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  Speaker 1: forever and ever and ever in a day, going back
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  Speaker 1: to the days of the Gamblings. She'll be back on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, she's had some knee problems. So substituting
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  Speaker 1: today again on loan from Marc Simone is Chris, who's
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  Speaker 1: a young whipping snapper. So obviously you probably don't have
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  Speaker 1: many regrets in your life yet. Chris. Yeah, you haven't
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  Speaker 1: really climbed the ladder yet. But when you get to
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  Speaker 1: be as old as I am seventy two, you think
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  Speaker 1: back from time to time and you say, what is
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  Speaker 1: my biggest regret? Most people, I think Larry, if they
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  Speaker 1: went and did one of those polygrip what do they
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  Speaker 1: call that again? Polymarket? And what's the other one call?
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  Speaker 1: She would probably say probably all of his marriages. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he probably had regrets about some of that. That would
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  Speaker 1: be you, yes, exactly, But that's not my biggest regret
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  Speaker 1: at all. Really, my biggest regret is that I did
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  Speaker 1: not learn Spanish in junior high school when I had
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  Speaker 1: that opportunity. I was entering seventh grade. Bill was se
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  Speaker 1: junior high school CANARSI I was in an sp class.
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  Speaker 1: That meant you were doing pretty good academically, and you
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  Speaker 1: had to check off two boxes because they said you
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  Speaker 1: had to have a second language. You know, it's imperative
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  Speaker 1: at that time we're talking now, oh, the late sixties,
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  Speaker 1: and you had the choice Spanish or French, and the
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  Speaker 1: brighter kids always went for French. So if you were
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  Speaker 1: going to take Spanish, Larry, it was considered beneath you
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  Speaker 1: because the brighter kids that were in your sp class
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  Speaker 1: were all taking French. You know, they were actually watching
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  Speaker 1: Charles de Goal without subtitles in English, giving speeches in
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  Speaker 1: France and translating it. Like I couldn't imagine anything more
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  Speaker 1: boring in the world, but you had to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And yesterday it all came to me, Larry. In the hot, sweltering,
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  Speaker 1: humid heat, it felt like it was over one hundred degrees.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it because I love the heat. Nancy has collapsed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, almost had to give a mouth to maudl asassitation.
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  Speaker 1: Like most people, she can deal with the heat. And
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  Speaker 1: a guy comes up to me on the platform on
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  Speaker 1: the number two train where it's like a Schwitz. He goes, hey, Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: I saw you Saturday night there you had quite the
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  Speaker 1: tussle with those three guys who pulled the knives. He's
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  Speaker 1: an MTA worker, maintenance worker. And I said, well, what
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  Speaker 1: do you mean were you on that train?
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  Speaker 2: Hey?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was right in that car. Like I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: to myself, oh, you didn't have my back, But I
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  Speaker 1: was being polite and he was obviously Hispanic, and he
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  Speaker 1: said to me, you know those two guys, the two
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  Speaker 1: Mexican guys, the construction workers in the corner, were arguing
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  Speaker 1: with the Dominican guy. All they were doing is Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: But I had no idea what the hell he was saying.
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  Speaker 1: So I jumped in. He goes, those two Mexican guys
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  Speaker 1: thought that you were a friend of the Dominican guy
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  Speaker 1: and you were coming to his a and they pulled
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  Speaker 1: knives on you. You didn't realize they were gonna stick you.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I had no idea. I was just trying
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  Speaker 1: to break up the fight. Did you see the knives? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all three of them had daggers. Well what did you
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  Speaker 1: think they were gonna do with it? Uh? Quite frankly,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they saw me with the Red beret. They
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  Speaker 1: knew that I was not involved with the three, they
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  Speaker 1: would probably back off. Eventually. I threw them off the
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  Speaker 1: train and the Mexicans. Mexican's backpack got thrown over the side,
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  Speaker 1: and they dealt with Dad as I was yelling, lemigre, lemigre, lemigre,
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  Speaker 1: and the Mexicans rank because he probably thought it was
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  Speaker 1: Immigration and Naturalization service. Yeah, but it's not, Benny Hannas.
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  Speaker 3: When somebody pulls a knife, they're probably trying gonna stab here.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. I didn't see the
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  Speaker 1: two knives from the Mexicans. I did the Dominican. But
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting how he said they thought because they're talking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, back and forth, screaming that you were with
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  Speaker 1: the Dominican guy until you pushed everybody off the train.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't quite figure it out, and then naturally you're screaming, lemigra, lemiga, lemiga. Figure,
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  Speaker 1: let me get the hell out of here. They probably
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  Speaker 1: had no papers. And I said to myself a week later,
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  Speaker 1: you see, if I had learned Spanish and Buildersey Junior
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  Speaker 1: High school instead of French, which I couldn't even order
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  Speaker 1: from a French menu. Now, if my life depended on it,
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  Speaker 1: I would have understood what they were saying, other than
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  Speaker 1: saying to me Marico and bunet chocho, bunet to all
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  Speaker 1: the curse words, the vile curse words. Said, I pick
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  Speaker 1: up because people will yell at me from time to
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  Speaker 1: time and I'll ask Spanish speaking guardian angel that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound very good, They said, you damn write it ain't
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  Speaker 1: very good. You could learn Spanish. Now, you could learn Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: You know who used to talk about that and try
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  Speaker 1: to convince me. He actually sat in the studios of
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  Speaker 1: seven ten Woor doing overnights, Barry Farber. He knew about
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  Speaker 1: sixteen different languages. He would teach languages. So, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: should learn most of your guardian angels speak Spanish at
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  Speaker 1: that time. He was correct. I never did. And let
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  Speaker 1: me give you the most recent see if this floats
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  Speaker 1: your both. More than half of Americans think kids should
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  Speaker 1: learn Spanish at school. Half of Americans forty five million
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  Speaker 1: people speak it at home, meaning Spanish in the house.
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  Speaker 1: One fifth of the people think that the kids should
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  Speaker 1: be taught Mandarin, which was very cool and very hip,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people were doing that before the
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  Speaker 1: lockdown and pandemic. You don't barely see any mainland Chinese
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  Speaker 1: people here anymore, and fourteen percent said it's not important
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  Speaker 1: at all to learn French, which is still teaching public schools.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're absolutely right about the French. My son,
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  Speaker 3: one of my sons in high school took Chinese, and
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was brilliant. Thought it was brilliant until
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  Speaker 3: I found out did you know this, No, that there
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  Speaker 3: are private schools around the country with the Chinese pay.
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  Speaker 3: The Republic of China pays for that program.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Chinese.
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  Speaker 3: The Red Chinese pay to teach Chinese in private schools
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  Speaker 3: all across the country.
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  Speaker 1: So that when they take over, we'll understand on what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying. I guess so.
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  Speaker 3: And then if you go for all four years you
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  Speaker 3: go on a trip to China, tell me that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: sound like some type of the doctrination.
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  Speaker 1: Larry. Before the lockdown and pandemic, when we closed the
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  Speaker 1: door to the Red Chinese, they were the number one
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  Speaker 1: tourist in New York City. You know how you knew
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  Speaker 1: what was them? You know, because tourists somebody's always their
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  Speaker 1: host or their guide, and they fly a flag. They
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  Speaker 1: would always have the Red flag. Number two. The Red
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  Speaker 1: Chinese would always spit in the streets. That's I knew
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  Speaker 1: they were from mainland China. They spit in the streets
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  Speaker 1: because there they do that. They don't think twice about it.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you see somebody spitting in the street, you said,
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  Speaker 1: oh god, No, you don't see them anymore. And you
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  Speaker 1: know the other group you don't see much of the
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  Speaker 1: used to, I mean flooding here were Canadians. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't see many of them.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah, they're anti American now. Yeah, they stop
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  Speaker 3: going down the Jersey Shore too. I mean the Jersey
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  Speaker 3: Shore is packed with Canadians almost every summer. Many of
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  Speaker 3: them stop, some of them still go, but they go
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  Speaker 3: down there and am down there.
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  Speaker 1: But they're still in Florida. You see those maple leaf flags.
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  Speaker 1: Hey you went to a Catholic school for a while, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I went Catholic school first, the Christian nuns, Irish Christian
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  Speaker 1: nuns from Saint Matthew's. They didn't offer Latin. That was
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  Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Prep, the Jesuit High School. I went to
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  Speaker 1: Mandatory Caesars, Gallic Wars. I always got the crib notes.
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  Speaker 1: I did lousy in Latin. I hated it. Yeah, but this,
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  Speaker 1: this is the language that will introduce you to all
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  Speaker 1: of the languages. I hated being in Latin class.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's funny that that's what they told you. I
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  Speaker 3: always thought it was in doctrination. I thought they wanted
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  Speaker 3: you to become a priest. It was like a recruiting
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  Speaker 3: by teaching you Latin so you could then Oh look,
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  Speaker 3: you already speak Latin.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you become a pret seminary. But remember in
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  Speaker 1: our era they did away with the all Latin mass.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden it was the folk mass.
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  Speaker 1: You know, during the age of the Hippies, more of
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  Speaker 1: Englis issue was introduced into the match. But before the
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  Speaker 1: Hippie era, it was the Latin mass. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: was all Latin. You never understood what the hell it
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about. You just knew when to do the
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  Speaker 1: shine of the Cross, when to sit, went to kneel. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and if you were a good boy and had gone
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  Speaker 1: and done your confession, now I can receive communion on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know when to sit and neil because of
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  Speaker 3: those really arrogant people in church that know everything and
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  Speaker 3: you just they they you follow them. You're not following
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  Speaker 3: the priest. You follow the person next to you. If
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  Speaker 3: they know what they're doing, they stand, you stand you said,
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  Speaker 3: they said, I will tell you this. You started this
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  Speaker 3: whole thing with a great question, and you're The great
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  Speaker 3: question was what is your biggest regret?
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  Speaker 1: Biggest regret?
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  Speaker 3: And I think I think everybody has one, I mean
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  Speaker 3: and and some of them are deep, and some of
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  Speaker 3: them are frivolous, and some of them are not learning
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  Speaker 3: a language. You know, that's a good one. But I
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  Speaker 3: the way for the greatest regret, I'll tell you mine,
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  Speaker 3: because I think being a parent is all about regret.
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  Speaker 3: Half the time, you just regret that you didn't do
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  Speaker 3: this right. You didn't do this right, you didn't do
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  Speaker 3: this right. My two oldest kids, I wish I would
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  Speaker 3: have spent more time with. You know, I was so
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  Speaker 3: involved with my career and moving all around the country
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  Speaker 3: and taking jobs around the country that you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: making it up with the two youngest. But they noticed that.
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  Speaker 3: My two oldest noticed that and go, oh, you get
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  Speaker 3: to spend time with dad.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. I would wish I had I was able
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  Speaker 1: to do that. Let me tell you my dad was
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  Speaker 1: away eight months. He is a merchancy. I welcomed that
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  Speaker 1: I had more freedom when he left away because when
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  Speaker 1: he was home for four straight months, because they were
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  Speaker 1: home four straight months, he didn't tolerate any nonsense. I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't pull anything on him. He said, Loo, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think, Come on, Curtis, I'm not going for that.
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  Speaker 1: Your mother might go for that, your sisters might go
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  Speaker 1: for that, your aunt's and your uncles. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: for that. So it was like two different worlds for
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  Speaker 1: me when Dad was home, man, I couldn't get away
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  Speaker 1: with anything. When he was away, I could get away
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  Speaker 1: with almost everything. Yeah, I know what you mean. I
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  Speaker 1: was the same way not except my father was always around.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't get away with anything all the time, but
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  Speaker 1: perfectly imperfect. Curtis Leewa and Larry Minty in the Morning
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  Speaker 1: Guaranteed Human on seventy tenor on the line now, Larry
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  Speaker 1: rob Ascherino, our guy here at WR you want to
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  Speaker 1: listen on Saturday's four to five because he's run for governor.
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  Speaker 1: Did a great job against Andrew evilized Clomwall. But we're
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  Speaker 1: less than ninety days out. Now it's the sprint between
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochle a governor and her challenge in Nassau County
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  Speaker 1: Executive Bruce Blakeman. So last week we discussed how Hokele
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  Speaker 1: had imposed a moratorium on the building of AI datafiling
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  Speaker 1: centers for a year in New York State. Blakeman said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't be doing that. And now the new local
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  Speaker 1: issue is Calshi Hokel and Attorney General Tis James assuing them,
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  Speaker 1: claiming it's a betting market. Blakeman is objecting, saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's an investment tool, it's overseen by the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: You should not be suing them. So we're really getting
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  Speaker 1: down to the local issues now that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people need to know before they cast their vote. Would
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  Speaker 1: that be correct? Rob?
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  Speaker 2: You know it's funny. The State of New York has
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  Speaker 2: pushed gambling everywhere right, casinos everywhere, they want online betting everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: every vice possible in New York. But this because the
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  Speaker 2: state ain't getting its cut. Like a mafioso, they don't
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  Speaker 2: want to deal with it, so they're gonna sue because
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  Speaker 2: god forbid, they don't get their little take. That's what
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  Speaker 2: it is all about. But there's a ton of money
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  Speaker 2: that the State of New York could get. Now. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I perfectly I don't do DraftKings. I don't do those things.
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  Speaker 1: Just because they're probably real addictive.
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  Speaker 2: I could probably sit there all day, like too many
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  Speaker 2: people are betting on every little frickin thing. But it's legal,
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  Speaker 2: And if all the other things are going to be
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  Speaker 2: legal in New York, why would cow sh be be
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  Speaker 2: out of the picture. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: I do want to talk about John Fetterman, though, I
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  Speaker 3: think he's the most fascinating guy in politics today, and
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  Speaker 3: he's not real popular among the Democrats right now. That
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  Speaker 3: Paul was taken in Pennsylvania, that showed that only twenty
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  Speaker 3: two percent of Democrats support John Fetterman, but seventy three
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  Speaker 3: percent of Republicans support him. Now, look, people are lining
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  Speaker 3: up to primary him. Do you think he's eventually gonna switch?
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  Speaker 2: You know what this is like? I don't know. This
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  Speaker 2: is probably like going to Vegas, going to a strip club,
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  Speaker 2: paying the woman to strip in front of you, and
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  Speaker 2: thinking you're in love and that she loves you. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: let's be honest for a second. Fetterman is pretty liberal
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  Speaker 2: on a lot of things. He is a Democrat, and
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  Speaker 2: just because on a couple of votes he's had some
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  Speaker 2: common sense or things like Israel, you know, it's like
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  Speaker 2: quick to jump on him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I have respect for him because he's the only guy
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  Speaker 2: that's holding out right now in his party and talking
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  Speaker 2: some nonsense and confronting the evil in his party. But
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  Speaker 2: I want him to be the Republican nominee for Senate
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  Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania. No, absolutely, not, Like nine out of ten
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  Speaker 2: things we disagree on and that will continue.
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  Speaker 3: So No, I don't want.
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  Speaker 2: That, but I do respect him, and I'm thankful that
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  Speaker 2: he's doing what he's doing. But no, I want a
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  Speaker 2: hardcore Republican in Pennsylvania. It's the same thing as South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Lindsey Graham's daughter, I know nothing about
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  Speaker 2: now Lucky. I'm not voting in South Carolina, but if
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  Speaker 2: I were a Republican there, I'm really not so sure
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  Speaker 2: that I would vote for her because for six years
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  Speaker 2: in the future, I have no idea really what she
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  Speaker 2: stands for other than her brother, who I like. But
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  Speaker 2: I you know, it's kind of the it's similar things
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  Speaker 2: to me at this point. I want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting what i'm buying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you were the Democrats, i'd want to run Fetterman.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to get Republican votes. I mean, he's going
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  Speaker 3: to get probably all the Democratic votes because it's a
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  Speaker 3: Democrat and they're not going to vote for the Republican.
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  Speaker 3: But he's going to get those votes. John Thune, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, wants them the come over.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you'd want anyone to come over just to
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  Speaker 2: build your numbers. I mean, Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: but he caucuses with them. But I mean that would
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  Speaker 2: be that would be pretty wild. If Federman switched parties
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  Speaker 2: or just announced that he was going to be an
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  Speaker 2: independent and and caucas with the Republicans, then I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: he's a guy with no party anymore. And L say
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  Speaker 2: Ed in Michigan has just taking total shots at Fetterman
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  Speaker 2: because Fetterman has a streak of independence, which he's supposed to.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking by the way, speaking of L. S a Ed, So,
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  Speaker 2: I was just in Michigan covering that primary. So on
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, I walk out of my hotel in Detroit
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  Speaker 2: and I'm have my pluggage and I walk out and
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  Speaker 2: just to my left there is Abdul l Sayed at
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  Speaker 2: eight in the morning, and I saw him, like, I
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  Speaker 2: went up and I said hello to him and just
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  Speaker 2: you know, said a couple of things. And what struck
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  Speaker 2: me was that he is He's just like ma'm DOMI.
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  Speaker 2: He is smiling, He's very personable. You could see how
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  Speaker 2: he could win people over who are you know, have
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  Speaker 2: no idea what he stands for, what's going on. And
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  Speaker 2: to me, that's what makes him so dangerous. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he can win over people. And once he's in he's
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  Speaker 2: in just like Mam DOMI.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting because he's been labeled the socialists, although
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  Speaker 1: he claims he's not who we know he is. That's
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  Speaker 1: his platform. The Republicans are now using the term a
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  Speaker 1: communists to apply to anybody associated with the dsay. That's
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  Speaker 1: their main strategy to try to hold the midterms, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Senate obviously in the House, which is precarious. But
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  Speaker 1: the President is finally now addressing to what I believe
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  Speaker 1: are the three main issues for all Americans, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: their political ideology. Affordability number one on their minds of course,
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  Speaker 1: the living an iron, and all three of those are
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  Speaker 1: not playing to the Trump factor at this side. Rob
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: What does he have to do to start turning that around,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: because we're now in the sprint, it's less than ninety days.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's affecting everybody. You know, Democrats are seizing
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: on it. Republicans are really nervous about it. You know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: the Iran thing. He's got to bring that to a
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: halt and figure that out really soon and just have
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: peace and so the markets will will settle down. Oil
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: prices will go down, gas prices will come down. That
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: has to happen. But you know, the frightening thing is,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: for the first time, first time ever, when Trump has
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: been president, in the polling, Democrats are getting more support
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: on the economy than Republicans. Now you think about what
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: the economy would look like under Biden and when what
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: it was, and what the future Democrats are espousing. That's
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: pretty frightening. But that's a frustration with people like I
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: don't care. I'm pissed off at what's going on. You
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: talked about electricity, and Bruce Blakeman's got such a great issue.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I got my freaking khan ed bill the other day
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: for July. It was seven hundred and thirty seven dollars
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: from my regular house.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Third highest, third highest in the nation behind Hawaii and
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: one other state. We got ours too. It knocked my
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: eyeballs out because I hate air conditioning. I turned it
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: off and then she keeps it on for her shelf
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and the catch the raight rob are unbelievable.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Hey, second, is that Alaska? Second, they have to heat
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: the up there? Could you imagine up there?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: No, it's crazy, but that is a real issue, and
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: that was all you know, these electric rates get approved
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: by hokals people her appointees, and there is absolutely when
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: when she starts talking out of her stupid mouth about affordability,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: he's got to hit her hard as he can. And
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: this is a big issue.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I concur, I concur just looking at those bills. I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: know everybody is. It's Larry, I know it's bad where
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you are. It's ten times worse here. It really. You
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: can kind imagine going from like one hundred and twenty
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: five dollars today seven hundred and twenty nine dollars.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: It's bad across the country. It's happening. This is happening
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: across the country. But third worst, especially if you're up
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: there with what I imagine Alaska is. Rob, thanks a lot
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: for talking with us. Have a great show this weekend.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Rob Astorino host of The Rob Astorino Show on WR
• 19:31
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• 19:35
  Speaker 3: so you can see a smiling face from one to
• 19:38
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• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Westchester count zing twenty.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: New York's new wake Up Call Curtis Leewa and Larry
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Minty in the Morning on seven ten wor giving new
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: meaning to the term Mantezuma's revenge. We remember weeks ago
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: we started with the Cyclo spora, that infection that caused
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: you to hermetically seal yourself to the porcelain palace for
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: days and days on end, we saw it was attributed
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to Taylor lettuce that came out of Central Mexico and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: ended up in a lot of the Taco Bell products.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Michigan alone has had twelve thousand cases too dead. Nationally,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: twenty five thousand have been made ill, some of them
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: have been hospitalized. Is a fifteen state outbreak, and they're
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: still saying it's attributed to Taylor lets and Taco Bell products.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: But not to be left out, Chipoli, Yes, Chipoli, which
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: was proud larry to open up its first store in
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Mexico that won't make it, like Taco Bell opened up
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to that didn't make it. They ju justed the grand
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: opening of the store in Mexico City. And it turns
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: out that Ay, according to traces, are responsible for the
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: breakout of Salmonila in twenty seven states because of the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: holopano peppers that are tainted. The FDA. The CDC has
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: said thirty six people have been hospitalized. Many are at
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: home ill and they're finding that in their tracing that
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of other people may also be in jeopardy.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: But Chipoli doing its best. That said, there will be
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: no more holopenos. You want halopenos, you can forget your police. Now,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: those are the products that are causing problems from Mexico.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: But there is another product, the third product here that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Americans love, they adore. They some of them can't survive
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: without it. The avocados. Now, there's nothing wrong with the avocados.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: They're not tinted, they don't have e coli, they don't
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: have salmonela, they don't spread this cyclos spora. But they're
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: on embargoed in Mitchellacon where the majority of them are
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: grown now in Mexico by the cartels. The cartels will
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: not allow our FDA inspectors to take a look at
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: it before they transported across the border and track the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: trailer trucks and brought to the wholesalers and then the retailers.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So the President of Mexico to free the avocados that
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: are under embargo by the cartels has sent one and
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: five hundred troops to basically ransom them because you know
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: there's probably going to be some cash because they're the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: cartels control so much so that America can have their guacamole,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: their avocados. You know, I live in a household with
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: my wife Nancy. She loves the avocado. She eats them,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: you know, she opens them up to pit this, she
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: eats them, she puts them in everything. I'm sure you're
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: a big avocado family, a guacamole family. Yeah, it's funny.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Because of all this, I'm more concerned about what's happening
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: in the Mitchell Colin and listen, it's nowhere near here,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: and there is now a travel advisory by the way
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: to go anywhere near that area. It is funny that
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: what you were saying, because the US government has put
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: out a thing saying there is a threat against Americans
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: and American interests in that area, so they have evacuated
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: a lot of people from that area. The funny thing
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: is it's not really a tourist area. It's not somewhere
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: where you're going to go. It's pretty far down in
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the peninsula, right around Mexico City, but closer to the
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Atlantic coast where you're right. It's a big agricultural place.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: But they have stopped all inspections. They've pulled out staff,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: and they put out this travel advisory. So to me,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: there's something more going on there. There's something that's a threat.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: You know who's happy about this though, because most people
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: are upset about it, especially Americans are upset about it.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: The California growers are really thrilled about this because they've
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: been saying for a long time you've got to stop
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: all these imports of avocados. You're killing us. I know
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: they're cheaper, but look, we have a vibrant avocado population
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: in this state and we want to sell our product.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: So believe me, they welcomed this.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Well. You know, when I first learned that avocados was
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the main crop in California, came to a commercial from
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Duke Schneider. Now, there was a time Duke Schneider played
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: center field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the LA Dodgers
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and the Talk in New York City. Depending on your loyalties,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: who's the bettest center field that Willie Mays with the Giants,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Mickey Mann with the Yankees, A Duke Schneider with the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dodgers. I would go on forever. So here's Duke
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Schneider not in paraphernalia. Baseball parafernalia goes. You know me,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I'm Duke Schneider. I'm also an avocado farmer in California.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: And I used Grecian formula in my hair. And he's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: showing out now. The fact was he retired from baseball.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Obviously you didn't make a lot of money. Then you
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: were lucky if you made one hundred thousand dollars a
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: year as a top player. But he ha avocado farm.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So I got really interested. And you're right, most of
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: avocados used to be grown in California. Now you'd be
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: lucky to find in avocado in California other than in
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the local supermarket. It's funny.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: When I was in California, San Diego, I live in Escondido,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: and it's called the avocado Capital of the world, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: so I said that they have a big festival every year.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, ice Ta showed up one
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: time to perform there and at at the avocado festival,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: and I said, Hey, where are all the avocado farms?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: And then went they're going, well, how do you call
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: yourself the avocado capital?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Do you think of how many Americans went from San Diego,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: where you were at the time, to Tjtjuanta to Enchinada
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: down to the Baja, stopped at all those joints along
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the way, and the one thing they wanted was a guacamole.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah I love it didn't matter what you drank. Yeah
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I have the guacamole. So yes, Montezuma's revenge as consumed
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: alapanos and lettuce from Taylor in Central Mexico, but avocados
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: are now being kept hostage by the cartel. Absolutely.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: By the way, I'm looking at this advisory that just
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: came out from the Michico and State, from the State
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Department about the Michicoan State. It's saying that there is
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: a threat of kidnapping. Any American in the area could
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: be kidnapped, and so they're taking this extremely seriously, and
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: they've pulled all government employees, not just the inspectors, all
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: government employees out of the re