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Hour 3: This weekend’s box office · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Wow. So yesterday, Larry Natalie, Speaker Johnson shut the door.
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Speaker 1: That's it. No more discussions, no more votes on anything
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Speaker 1: until after the midterm elections. But the last whispers for
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Speaker 1: the Senate before they pack it up and go home
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Speaker 1: had to do with the Senate, which had a kill
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Speaker 1: switch bill, which I thought was probably a Democratic initiative.
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Speaker 1: It turned out it was Senator Kennedy from Louisiana. who
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Speaker 1: went back and forth with Rand Paul. It was Senator
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Speaker 1: Kennedy who's like the soundbite machine. He wants the kill switch.
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Speaker 1: Rand Paul says, no, no, no, no. They can turn
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Speaker 1: it off on their own. And it just added to
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Speaker 1: the continuing debate that is now starting to engulf the nation.
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Speaker 1: So I was taken aback by that because I thought
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Speaker 1: the Republicans were pretty much aligned. In fact, I didn't
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Speaker 1: even know that Senator Kennedy had met with Bernie Sanders,
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Speaker 1: who was leading the effort to stop it. He's not
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Speaker 1: even like pumping the brakes. He just stopped it. So
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Speaker 1: that was an interesting twist and turn.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all of the Democrats seem to want to stop it.
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Speaker 2: They now are the reactionaries. They've decided that AI is
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Speaker 2: going to be a big thing in this election coming
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Speaker 2: up only because they're making it a big thing. This
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Speaker 2: wasn't an issue a week ago. But, oh my God,
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Speaker 2: all of the draconian things that are going to happen.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be the end of the world. We
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Speaker 2: are at a dangerous and unprecedented moment in world history.
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Speaker 1: We're dealing here with real peril, not science fiction. We
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Speaker 1: don't have the time.
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Speaker 2: Dr. Frankenstein is telling us the monster has escaped.
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Speaker 1: Help us stop this. The monsters escape. Help us. Stop us.
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Speaker 1: So you're right.
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Speaker 2: Senator John Kennedy, who is the funniest guy by far
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Speaker 2: in the Senate, talked about this bill that would allow
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Speaker 2: the government to have a kill switch, to stop it.
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Speaker 2: But he doesn't want to stop it. He's come out
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Speaker 2: and said, no, no, no, I want them to keep
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Speaker 2: going the way they go. But somewhere along the line,
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Speaker 2: if it gets out of control, we need a mechanism
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Speaker 2: to stop it, to shut it down.
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Speaker 3: And.
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Speaker 2: Rand Paul heard that and said, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: let's not do something like that. Let's talk about it.
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Speaker 2: Let's set up a commission to look at this so
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Speaker 2: we can get some real answers.
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Speaker 4: And I really fear reactionaries who jump forward and, you know,
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Speaker 4: want to stop the Terminator may not be the most
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Speaker 4: thoughtful approach to AI.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: It is not the most thoughtful approach. But, you know,
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Speaker 2: John Kennedy, on the same hand, didn't. come up with
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Speaker 2: an outrageous bill. It was just something there in case.
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Speaker 2: It was a button to push if you needed to
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Speaker 2: push it because there's an emergency. So he was upset
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Speaker 2: with Rand Paul because he thinks Rand Paul was being disingenuous.
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Speaker 2: He was just trying to kill his bill.
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Speaker 6: My mama didn't raise a fool, and if she did,
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Speaker 6: it was one of my brothers. I mean, no disrespect
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Speaker 6: to my friend Senator Paul. I understand what he's trying
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Speaker 6: to do. But he's not talking to Bambi's baby brother here.
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Speaker 6: The committee's the way to kill this. You vote against
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Speaker 6: my bill, you can object, but at least be intellectually
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Speaker 6: honest and say, I don't want to do this. Don't
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Speaker 6: appoint a committee. That's the weenie way.
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Speaker 1: I love him. He's so good. But it shows you
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Speaker 1: that as this is being discussed more, and we're even
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Speaker 1: going to discuss it with our movie reviewer, Joe Neumeier,
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Speaker 1: because there have been a number of AI films. We
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Speaker 1: saw Vance refer to the Terminator. We saw Rand Paul
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Speaker 1: refer to the Terminator movie, you know, with Schwarzenegger and that.
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Speaker 1: That's the images that some people have. When you say AI,
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Speaker 1: they think, oh, robotic armies that you don't have control
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Speaker 1: of that could take over the world. So I think
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Speaker 1: unless there is more adequate explanation that can assuage people.
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Speaker 1: what are you going to think of? You know, you're
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Speaker 1: going to think of how 2000 Space Odyssey, you're going
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Speaker 1: to think of these other movies. So I think there
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Speaker 1: needs to be a discussion in plain old English of
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Speaker 1: what the pros are and what the cons are. And
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Speaker 1: we're not at that point yet.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But now every candidate in the country has to come
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Speaker 2: up with an AI position, which.
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Speaker 1: They didn't have one before.
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Speaker 2: Correct. But all of a sudden they have to come
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Speaker 2: up with one. And that's why Mike Lawler and Josh
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Speaker 2: Gottheimer got together. Now, Lawler tries to be a moderate,
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Speaker 2: but he's probably not a moderate. Josh Gottheimer is an
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Speaker 2: honest-to-God moderate, and that's the only way he'd win in
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Speaker 2: the district he's in. Mike Lawler, though, and he, they
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Speaker 2: both got together and came out to give their new positions,
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Speaker 2: which I'm sure is happening all across the country right
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Speaker 2: now on AI.
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Speaker 6: This isn't about stopping AI or stifling innovation.
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Speaker 5: It is about making sure that we can safely deploy AI.
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Speaker 4: It tells NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
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Speaker 4: get in a room and set standards so organizations can
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Speaker 4: find every agent on their network, verify who built it,
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Speaker 4: who's running it, watch it in real time for anything suspicious,
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Speaker 4: and cut off its access the second something looks wrong.
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Speaker 2: And you see, there's the moderate ground. What they're saying
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Speaker 2: is we need control over it. But we don't want
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Speaker 2: to be, you know, omnipotent on this. They want to
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Speaker 2: be able to say, you still control this. We just
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Speaker 2: need to know what's going on. That seems to be
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Speaker 2: the middle position, but that's not where the Democrats.
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Speaker 1: Are right now.
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Speaker 2: That, you know, Josh Gottheimer always goes off the reservation
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Speaker 2: with the Democrats, but the Democrats are shut it down.
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Speaker 2: They are shut it down. This is too dangerous. You
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Speaker 2: heard them person after person after person.
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Speaker 1: I think what gives them the reason to carry this
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Speaker 1: forward for the next 46 days before the elections are determined,
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Speaker 1: midterm elections, is they've seen on the previous issue of
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Speaker 1: the data centers, artificial intelligence data filing centers, that it
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Speaker 1: has brought Democrats and Republicans together in opposition of the
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Speaker 1: people who are putting you know, these data filing centers
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Speaker 1: into communities, into their backyards. So I'm thinking, they're thinking, oh,
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Speaker 1: this can be like the centipede approach, data filing centers,
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Speaker 1: and now AI itself, the very reason you needed data
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Speaker 1: filing centers. So it'll be up to the candidates. I mean, look,
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Speaker 1: they're going to have more than enough time to try
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Speaker 1: to explain themselves. And I'm sure they're going to be
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Speaker 1: constituents who are not going to know, and they're going
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Speaker 1: to want to know some answers. It may well be
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Speaker 1: you win your election because, You're on top of this
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Speaker 1: issue as opposed to maybe somebody who's ducking the issue. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's only going to be a handful of congressmen.
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Speaker 2: But Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler, they are those congressmen.
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Speaker 2: Anybody who is in a district that is going to
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Speaker 2: be close or is a purple district has to come
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Speaker 2: up with a position. If you're going to win by
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Speaker 2: 90 points, you don't care. But in those districts, you're
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Speaker 2: going to hear from a lot of people. But it's
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Speaker 2: fascinating how well this worked. This is really a democratic strategy,
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Speaker 2: and it worked brilliantly. You have to give them credit
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Speaker 2: for it because nobody was talking about this a week
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Speaker 2: and a half ago.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, with the General Assembly coming together, all
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Speaker 1: the world leaders, they are probably going to propose cuts.
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Speaker 1: Even the king of England weighed in on this. I
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Speaker 1: hate that guy.
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Speaker 5: Shut up!
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Speaker 1: But anyway, he weighed in on it. The dangers of AI.
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Speaker 1: You know there's going to be a proposal that comes
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Speaker 1: out of the meetings that take place, very high-end meetings
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Speaker 1: at the General Assembly, of maybe having something similar to
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Speaker 1: what we have now, the International Atomic Energy Agency that
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Speaker 1: monitors weapons and nuclear power plants, you know, that is
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Speaker 1: somewhat internationally independent, because especially with the lead-up meeting that
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Speaker 1: the president is going to have at the White House
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Speaker 1: at the end of this month with President Xi, That's
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Speaker 1: going to be a priority issue. There's no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: It's building up to that. Yeah, we have to be
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Speaker 1: really careful.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we have to be really careful when it
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Speaker 2: comes to AI and sharing with our adversaries and our friends.
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Speaker 2: Because as has been pointed out many times, we are
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Speaker 2: far ahead in AI. And sharing information or working together
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Speaker 2: with other people on AI right now, they want very
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Speaker 2: much information.
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Speaker 1: We shouldn't want it.
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Speaker 2: We shouldn't want it because right now we dominate on
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Speaker 2: AI and whoever dominates on AI is going to rule
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Speaker 2: the future.
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Speaker 1: Well, we already know when it comes to intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks,
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Speaker 1: Red China doesn't respect any of that. They steal. They're
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Speaker 1: like pirates out there. Whatever they can get their hands on,
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Speaker 1: they steal. And some of the best scientists in this
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Speaker 1: field happen to be from mainland China. Most of them
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Speaker 1: are from the United States. Yeah, some of them are
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Speaker 1: from the United States.
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Speaker 2: The people that are working on AI and the people
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Speaker 2: that came up with AI, they're all here.
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Speaker 1: That's why we had such a head start. Imagine that
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Speaker 1: these rogue AI scientists from red China are having their
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Speaker 1: AI agents communicating with our AI-created chatbot agents to try
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Speaker 1: to take over the system. I could easily see a
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Speaker 1: scenario like that. Yeah, all I know.
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Speaker 2: Is every time I have seen someone come out that
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Speaker 2: is one of the founders of AI and one of
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Speaker 2: the top scientists in AI, they don't look Chinese. And
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Speaker 2: so my feeling is that there's an assumption of that
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Speaker 2: only because, well, there's this assumption that the AI are
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Speaker 2: smarter at everything, and.
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Speaker 1: That just ain't the truth.
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Speaker 2: And so I'm not sure that we're too worried about
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Speaker 2: people that are already working in AI in this country,
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Speaker 2: but we certainly, certainly are worried about spies and espionage.
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Speaker 2: There's no question about that. And listen, can the AI
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Speaker 2: be dangerous?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Is it something that we have to talk about constantly
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Speaker 2: and be worried about? No, it really isn't. It isn't
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Speaker 2: that big of an issue right now. It has just
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Speaker 2: become an issue because the midterms are a few weeks away.
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Speaker 1: Well, up next, we're going to get a sense. of
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Speaker 1: what's happening at the San Gennaro Festival. It's the 100th anniversary.
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Speaker 1: It started yesterday. I'll be there later today and almost
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Speaker 1: every day of the 12-day event to see if, in fact,
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Speaker 1: it remains a traditional Italian event or has been watered down,
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Speaker 1: as many participants have said, especially after the last few years,
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Speaker 1: plus a chance to see Richard Marks next. Well, they
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Speaker 1: lead up to the 100th anniversary San Gennaro Festival down
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Speaker 1: at Little Italy has been that Duran Mondami on his
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Speaker 1: ethnic map did not even include Little Italy. There is
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Speaker 1: a feeling that there is less and less of an
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Speaker 1: Italian influence. I still encourage everybody to go down, even
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Speaker 1: if they've been to the feast before, to go for
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Speaker 1: 12 days. I'll be down there tonight and most of
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Speaker 1: the days. But I will tell you this, Larry, you
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Speaker 1: work your way from the northern part, Houston, Street Town, Mulberry.
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Speaker 1: And you see St. Patrick's next year. That's the old St.
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Speaker 1: Patrick's Cathedral, small. Catacombs are there. You should go into
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Speaker 1: the catacombs. If you never get a chance to go
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Speaker 1: to Rome, go see those catacombs. It's amazing. And then
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Speaker 1: walk the rest of the length to Canal. And what
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Speaker 1: you'll see is you'll see some of the traditional Italian vendors.
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Speaker 1: You know, they're selling their wares. They're selling their cultural
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Speaker 1: items and a lot of their food products. A lot
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Speaker 1: of the restaurants are still Italian. But you also see...
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Speaker 1: a lot of different vendors, you know, selling these like
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Speaker 1: cheap touristy trots, uh, tchotchkes, you know, he said, well,
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Speaker 1: what the hell is that having to do with, uh,
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Speaker 1: the San Gennaro festival? Some of the, uh, stores are
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Speaker 1: now Chinese restaurants because they're coming in from Mott Street
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Speaker 1: and most of the population is no longer Italian. It's
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Speaker 1: Gen Zers and millennials who have come from many different areas.
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Speaker 1: But again, you really should go, uh, and, uh, experience it.
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Speaker 1: If you never experienced it, and if nothing more, if
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Speaker 1: you do go this time, you probably walk past St. Patrick's,
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Speaker 1: which was the original St. Patrick's Cathedral. Go into the catacombs.
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Speaker 1: That is an amazing experience.
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Speaker 2: No, I want to. You've sold it very well. I'm
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Speaker 2: not going to be able to this year. I'm going
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Speaker 2: to Ed Sheeran.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. I'm going to Ed Sheeran. Saturday night.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: But next year, I'll be able to go, and I
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Speaker 2: will definitely go. You sold it well. We got a
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Speaker 2: lot of talkbacks today, and they all want to talk
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Speaker 2: about men and women doing chores.
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Speaker 7: In regards to the dishwasher, I've learned after 45 years
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Speaker 7: of marriage, if you do something wrong a couple times,
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Speaker 7: you don't get asked to do it again. So load
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Speaker 7: it wrong, and it will no longer be your responsibility. Hey,
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Speaker 7: I have some beautiful shrubs that completely died when I
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Speaker 7: sprayed for poison ivy. I wouldn't be asked to do
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Speaker 7: that again either.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 1: You're brilliant.
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Speaker 6: Do it wrong.
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Speaker 1: I'm not thinking of this the right way. Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 1: I just won't do anything anymore. Larry Curtis. I emptied
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Speaker 1: a dishwasher. I arranged a dishwasher like Natalie, too. Certain
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Speaker 1: things got to go certain ways. I also do the laundry.
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Speaker 1: And you know what? Then there's other things that she does.
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Speaker 1: She makes my iced tea. You know, there's other things.
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Speaker 1: She puts my towel in the bathroom when I have
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Speaker 1: to use it.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 1: That's all teamwork. It's not so bad, Larry. No, it's
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Speaker 1: not that bad. I just prefer to do nothing.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, my wife is always angry at me and my
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Speaker 8: two boys. Never do nothing right about the dishwasher. So
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Speaker 8: one day we decided, gee, we're just.
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Speaker 1: Going to eat on paper plates.
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Speaker 5: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Problem solved.
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Speaker 8: We can't mess up putting our spoon or fork inside
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Speaker 8: the utensil basket. And God forbid I complain about her
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Speaker 8: driving and parking.
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Speaker 1: This is amazing.
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Speaker 2: We talked about this three hours ago and people are
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Speaker 2: still calling in about it. There should be a movement
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Speaker 2: because everybody is experiencing the same thing. It really is
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Speaker 2: the difference between men and women. And women believe they're
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Speaker 2: always right.
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Speaker 1: Who's on Venus and who's on Mars? What was that?
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. We're much different.
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Speaker 2: We're not supposed to talk about that, but we're much different.
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Speaker 1: The only job men should be doing in the household
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Speaker 1: is vacuuming.
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Speaker 5: Because we vacuum like we mow the lawn.
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Speaker 2: We see those invisible lines that the vacuum leaves.
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Speaker 5: Women vacuum randomly.
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Speaker 1: A mess here.
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Speaker 5: You can look at the floor.
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Speaker 1: You can still see the dirt.
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Speaker 2: I almost cut you off after vacuuming. That's a horrible idea.
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Speaker 2: A horrible, horrible idea.
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Speaker 9: Well.
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Speaker 1: Gender issues will always resonate. We will continue. That's why
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Speaker 1: you got to listen to all three hours of Curtis
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Speaker 1: and Larry, 6 to 9, Monday through Fridays. But right
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Speaker 1: now it's 830. Let's get the news from Daria.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Curtis.
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Speaker 10: Morning, Larry.
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Speaker 3: Partly sunny and warm today.
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Speaker 1: Less humid. High 80 degrees.
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Speaker 3: A federal judge has issued a new order after President
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Speaker 3: Trump doubled down on his latest demands.
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Speaker 1: To add his name to the Kennedy Center.
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Speaker 11: Trump told our Karen Travers that if his name doesn't
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Speaker 11: go up on the building, he will tear the whole
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Speaker 11: thing down.
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Speaker 8: I think that the Trump administration should certainly have recognition
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Speaker 8: because frankly, if we.
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Speaker 5: Don't do that, it's going to close.
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Speaker 1: It'll end up being ripped down.
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Speaker 11: This morning, a federal judge now warning the administration they
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Speaker 11: must give him 30 days notice of any major renovation
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Speaker 11: to the Kennedy Center.
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Speaker 3: ABC's Mary Bruce, a second? death has been confirmed in
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Speaker 3: the South Bronx, the site of the city's latest Legionnaires
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Speaker 3: disease cluster. Health officials say that all cooling towers where
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Speaker 3: Legionella bacteria was found, including Yankee Stadium and Lincoln Hospital,
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Speaker 3: have been drained and disinfected. Jewish students are expected to
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Speaker 3: rally outside Gracie Mansion today as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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Speaker 3: Netanyahu plans to visit for the U.N.
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Speaker 1: General Assembly.
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Speaker 10: Hundreds of students are expected outside Mayor Zoran Mamdani's official residence,
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Speaker 10: where they will hold a prayer service in support of
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Speaker 10: the prime minister. Mamdani has been staunchly opposed to Netanyahu,
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Speaker 10: even calling for his arrest when he arrives in New
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Speaker 10: York City. It comes as Israel's ambassador called the claim ridiculous,
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Speaker 10: saying it should be Mamdani who should be arrested for
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Speaker 10: sending officials to meet with the Iranian ambassador at the U.N.
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Speaker 1: Natalie Migliore, WOR News.
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Speaker 3: Of Omaha is calling it quits. Warren Buffett says he'll
17:09
Speaker 3: step down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after resigning less
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Speaker 3: than a year ago as CEO. The 96-year-old will be
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Speaker 3: replaced by his son Howard. And you might have just
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Speaker 3: finished breakfast, but it's time to start thinking about lunch
17:21
Speaker 3: because it's National Cheeseburger Day. A lot of restaurants, including McDonald's,
17:26
Speaker 3: Burger King, Applebee's, and Five Guys are are all running
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Speaker 3: specials today. Mets lose to Philadelphia. Yankees were off. Next news,
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Speaker 3: 9 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger on 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations to Rosanna Rush from Ronkonkoma, which is where Nancy
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Speaker 1: would take the Long Island Railroad before heading over to Bohemia,
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Speaker 1: where she was living, who just won a pair of tickets.
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Speaker 1: To see Richard, March, December 20th at the Paramount Theater
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Speaker 1: in Huntington. Tickets on sale at Ticketmaster.com. Coming up next week,
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Speaker 1: tickets to see Kenny G at 825. And up next,
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Speaker 1: our movie guy, Joe Neumeier. And with artificial intelligence, the
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Speaker 1: talk of the town, want to know the best AI
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Speaker 1: movies that you can stream this weekend. But speaking of
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Speaker 1: this weekend, don't miss our iHeartRadio Music Festival presented by
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Speaker 1: Capital One tonight and tomorrow. We've got the biggest names
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Speaker 1: across all styles of music together on one stage in
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Speaker 1: one weekend, including Snoop Doggy Dogg, the Google Dolls, Kenny Chesney,
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Speaker 1: Laney Wilson, and more. Streaming live on Disney +. and
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Speaker 1: Hulu from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 2: Joe Neumeier, WOR movie minute host and film journalist. And Joe,
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Speaker 2: I was looking forward to talking to you because I
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Speaker 2: just saw that Spider-Man is now domestically the best-selling movie
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Speaker 2: at all time, 937 million.
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Speaker 1: What did you think of that movie again?
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Speaker 5: I'm never going to live this down on my gravestone.
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Speaker 5: It's going to say he wasn't crazy about Spider-Man. I
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Speaker 5: liked it. I wasn't crazy, but I liked the other
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Speaker 5: ones more. But I'm really happy that it's a movie
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Speaker 5: that people have embraced. They've gone to the movie theaters
19:21
Speaker 5: a zillion times to see it. It's the number one
19:23
Speaker 5: movie that beat The Force Awakens of all time. um
19:27
Speaker 5: and i'm happy for spidey and he's a new york
19:29
Speaker 5: guy so you know we.
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Speaker 1: You called it slow right you said it was a
19:33
Speaker 1: little slow.
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Speaker 5: Right in the beginning i called it a little slow
19:36
Speaker 5: yeah it's a little long and it's a little bit
19:37
Speaker 5: of a downer but you know what what do i
19:40
Speaker 5: know what do i know.
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Speaker 2: People are going back to see it two three times
19:45
Speaker 2: oh my.
19:45
Speaker 12: Gosh rub it in.
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Speaker 5: Larry well there i am like you know sitting alone
19:50
Speaker 5: being like why is everybody going to see spider-man i
19:52
Speaker 5: but i liked it i just wasn't crazy like the other.
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Speaker 1: One joe joe you proved to be like gumby on
19:58
Speaker 1: this because larry lobbied you and you took it from
20:01
Speaker 1: a three to a three and a half because of
20:03
Speaker 1: larry but you felt the pressure you didn't do it
20:07
Speaker 1: because you wanted to.
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Speaker 5: Right, right. But you know what? If you ask me
20:12
Speaker 5: to see it again today, yeah, I'd say, okay, I'll
20:14
Speaker 5: see that Spider-Man brand new. I'd see it again.
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Speaker 1: Why not?
20:17
Speaker 5: Maybe there's something I missed. Clearly, I'm behind the eight
20:20
Speaker 5: ball on this one. I don't know. But I liked it.
20:23
Speaker 5: I liked it. I just didn't like it as much
20:24
Speaker 5: as those other Tom Holland movies. The first one, Homecoming,
20:28
Speaker 5: all those ones were terrific. But here's the problem. I
20:32
Speaker 5: gave Spider-Man three stars, and I'm also giving Resident Evil
20:36
Speaker 5: this week three stars. So it's sort of like, you know,
20:38
Speaker 5: where am I falling in there? They're all, they're all
20:40
Speaker 5: the same movie to me. And that's not true. Spider-Man
20:42
Speaker 5: is obviously a, it's a really fun movie and it
20:45
Speaker 5: has a lot going on in it. Um, resident evil,
20:48
Speaker 5: which is this week's big movie, I think is also
20:50
Speaker 5: going to make some money. If I can make Spider-Man money,
20:52
Speaker 5: so I could be the number one film of all time,
20:54
Speaker 5: but it's, it's actually kind of an okay horror film. Um,
20:57
Speaker 5: I kind of can't believe I'm saying that because I
20:59
Speaker 5: really didn't like many of those other Resident Evil movies.
21:02
Speaker 5: But this weekend, if people are not terrified by the
21:04
Speaker 5: headlines about AI, they can go to Resident Evil and
21:08
Speaker 5: be terrified by this thing. It's a basic kind of
21:10
Speaker 5: monster movie. It's got sort of references to the great
21:13
Speaker 5: movie The Thing, both the 50s classic and the 1982 remake.
21:18
Speaker 5: And it's just about like a guy who's running from
21:19
Speaker 5: zombies and monsters. And for 90 minutes, by the way,
21:23
Speaker 5: 90 minutes is a very short movie night. You can
21:26
Speaker 5: go in, be out within two hours. Um, you know,
21:29
Speaker 5: so you don't have to bring your lunch like you
21:30
Speaker 5: have to for the Odyssey or something.
21:32
Speaker 1: Can you, are you permitted to bring your lunch into
21:34
Speaker 1: the movie theater any longer? I thought they prevent you
21:37
Speaker 1: from doing that, Joe.
21:40
Speaker 5: Actually, Curtis, they give, they, you can bring all your
21:43
Speaker 5: food in or you can buy the food there. People
21:45
Speaker 5: are chowing down and meals at movies now in ways
21:47
Speaker 5: I've never seen before. Like it's like they're having a
21:50
Speaker 5: Thanksgiving dinner or something. So, you know, popcorn is fine
21:55
Speaker 5: for me, but you see people there with the chicken
21:57
Speaker 5: wings and whatever. I don't know. But, yeah, you can
22:00
Speaker 5: bring it in. You can also order, I guess, you know,
22:01
Speaker 5: the three-course meal that they give you at the concession stand.
22:06
Speaker 5: But three stars for Resident Evil. It's a lot of
22:08
Speaker 5: fun if you want to go to it. And it's
22:11
Speaker 5: kind of creeped out. It's got a creepy kind of
22:13
Speaker 5: monster thing. that I haven't seen before, and it's based
22:17
Speaker 5: on the video games, which I've never played, but people,
22:20
Speaker 5: they're very popular. The six previous movies were, that's crazy,
22:24
Speaker 5: going back to 2002. But this one's okay. So three
22:27
Speaker 5: stars for Resident Evil. Like I say, if you want
22:30
Speaker 5: to be distracted from the nightmare that's going on, you know,
22:34
Speaker 5: every day with AI and whatnot, right?
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Speaker 1: So you gave it three stars? You gave it three stars?
22:39
Speaker 1: It's going to be a huge blockbuster.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's... Exactly. If I'm kind of okay on it,
22:46
Speaker 5: then it's like Spider-Man. Then people are going to say, oh,
22:48
Speaker 5: let's go with it. That's the one to go to. Okay.
22:51
Speaker 1: Well, now, Joe, you said the magic word. In the
22:54
Speaker 1: last week, out of nowhere, AI, artificial intelligence, has dominated
23:00
Speaker 1: the headlines. A lot of people still aren't sure of AI.
23:04
Speaker 1: So can you recommend, especially for this weekend, any good
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Speaker 1: movies about AI that people can just go back and stream?
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Speaker 5: I sure can, and I'm with you, Curtis, in terms
23:15
Speaker 5: of how scary AI is or how crazy it is.
23:17
Speaker 5: I kind of feel like, why pay your credit card
23:18
Speaker 5: bill now if AI is going to be taking over
23:20
Speaker 5: in about five years? And I'm not recommending that. Let
23:24
Speaker 5: me make sure I put that out there. I'm not recommending–
23:26
Speaker 5: people should take care of their.
23:31
Speaker 1: He's gun-shy now.
23:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, now I'm like, oh, man, I didn't pay my
23:35
Speaker 5: credit card bill.
23:37
Speaker 1: You're sounding like a politician, Joe Neumeier.
23:41
Speaker 5: Oh, God, no, not that. Here's the thing. I've got
23:45
Speaker 5: some good AI movies, but one or two of them
23:48
Speaker 5: are as terrifying, I think, as what we've got. The
23:50
Speaker 5: one I'm going to recommend that not a lot of
23:53
Speaker 5: people know about, because we've talked about 2001, A Space Odyssey,
23:56
Speaker 5: of course, and how that you know, how the supercomputer
23:59
Speaker 5: in there goes crazy. But two years after that came
24:01
Speaker 5: a movie called Colossus the Forbin Project. And it's a
24:05
Speaker 5: very unknown sci-fi movie that kind of is what we're
24:09
Speaker 5: going through right now. It's from 1970, and it's about
24:13
Speaker 5: a supercomputer, an AI system that merges with the Russian,
24:17
Speaker 5: the Soviet AI system, and they threaten nuclear Armageddon on
24:22
Speaker 5: the world. And it's ahead of its time. Not a
24:25
Speaker 5: lot of people know. It's actually on YouTube. You can
24:27
Speaker 5: watch it there. It's directed by the guy who made
24:30
Speaker 5: the great New York movie, The Taking of Pelham, 1, 2, 3.
24:34
Speaker 5: But it's really creepy and good, and it's an unknown
24:36
Speaker 5: sci-fi movie, so I definitely recommend this unknown movie called
24:40
Speaker 5: Colossus the Forbidden Project, but it's a little scary. Then there's,
24:43
Speaker 5: of course, War Games from 1983, which is also kind
24:46
Speaker 5: of scary, but a lot of these movies have to
24:48
Speaker 5: get kind of action-y. And then the Terminator movies we
24:51
Speaker 5: always sort of think about, but the ones that remind
24:53
Speaker 5: me more of what are going on now are like
24:55
Speaker 5: terminator 3 and and even the fourth one terminator salvation
24:59
Speaker 5: they're not as great obviously as judgment day or the
25:02
Speaker 5: or the original but they kind of show how skynet
25:05
Speaker 5: takes over which i think is kind of where we're
25:07
Speaker 5: at right now uh looking at like what's going to
25:10
Speaker 5: happen and then there's spielberg's minority report oh i love.
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Speaker 1: That i was just thinking that when you were.
25:16
Speaker 5: Talking Yeah, that's a really great and scary movie, too,
25:19
Speaker 5: because it sort of has a, it's set in like
25:22
Speaker 5: the 2050s, and AI sort of knows what you're going
25:25
Speaker 5: to do before you even do it. And then there's
25:28
Speaker 5: the movie called Her, which is, it's both romantic and
25:31
Speaker 5: creepy and unsettling. From 2013, it's with Joaquin Phoenix, and
25:35
Speaker 5: he falls in love with his, with essentially his AI system,
25:38
Speaker 5: who's voiced by Scarlett Johansson, and that very much feels
25:42
Speaker 5: like where we are now, and it, I'm not giving
25:44
Speaker 5: anything away to say that at the end, there's sort
25:46
Speaker 5: of this moment where the The AI systems all sort
25:49
Speaker 5: of go off to kind of be with each other,
25:51
Speaker 5: leaving humans alone. And it's a very unsettling ending, but
25:56
Speaker 5: it's a great movie, and it's called Her from 2013.
25:59
Speaker 5: Like I say, it's also– it's got all these things
26:02
Speaker 5: in it. It's about a guy falling in love with his–
26:04
Speaker 5: essentially with his iPod or with his cell phone.
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Speaker 1: Joe, I'm really– Having second thoughts for having asked you
26:13
Speaker 1: about all these AI movies, it's going to scare the
26:15
Speaker 1: hell out of people even more.
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Speaker 5: There's not a lot of feel-good movies about AI. Yeah,
26:18
Speaker 5: there's not a lot of feel-good.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it amazing, Joe, how far ahead sometimes Hollywood is
26:27
Speaker 2: when it comes to science? All the things in Minority
26:29
Speaker 2: Report that you talked about, they all came true.
26:32
Speaker 1: They're all available right now.
26:34
Speaker 5: They're all right now. People often used to say this
26:37
Speaker 5: about Star Trek, too, right? Star Trek also. I love
26:40
Speaker 5: Star Trek, but people are like, you know, a lot
26:42
Speaker 5: of these guys who designed these systems got them from
26:44
Speaker 5: Star Trek. I had a Hollywood the same thing. Her
26:46
Speaker 5: and Minority Report, Colossus, The Forbidden Project, we're living in
26:50
Speaker 5: that reality now in a lot of ways. Yeah, really
26:52
Speaker 5: ahead of the time.
26:54
Speaker 1: Well, I do appreciate it, Joe Neumeier, our movie expert
26:58
Speaker 1: here at 710WOR. Sorry that he had to scare all
27:03
Speaker 1: of you out there with all of his AI movie selections,
27:06
Speaker 1: but that's what's out there available for you to see.
27:09
Speaker 1: Up next, all props, all praise to our producer Natalie,
27:13
Speaker 1: who followed that story of the missing male from beginning
27:17
Speaker 1: to end, and she has a resolution to it. So
27:22
Speaker 1: the other morning, as I do every morning, Monday through Friday,
27:26
Speaker 1: when I'm coming to join Larry and Natalie here at 710WOR,
27:30
Speaker 1: I patrol my neighborhood for one specific reason. It's a
27:35
Speaker 1: problem that's affecting everyone in the tri-state area. Mail theft.
27:40
Speaker 1: These are guys who will be on motorbikes fully clad.
27:44
Speaker 1: I mean, they're totally covered from the tip of their
27:46
Speaker 1: nose to the tip of their toes. They will roll
27:49
Speaker 1: up on a blue mailbox. They will take their belts.
27:54
Speaker 1: They put the stick them on it that you catch
27:56
Speaker 1: rats and mice with. And they go fishing in the
27:59
Speaker 1: box and they keep taking your mail out that you
28:01
Speaker 1: probably dropped in it. That doesn't matter. They're looking for
28:04
Speaker 1: things of value in the mail. And they will then
28:06
Speaker 1: go through all the mail at a different location. If
28:09
Speaker 1: there's valuables, they know what to do with it. If
28:11
Speaker 1: there's no valuables, they destroy it, throw it away. So
28:14
Speaker 1: you're thinking, oh, your mail never got through. So the
28:17
Speaker 1: other day, like a ninja, I saw the both of them.
28:20
Speaker 1: They didn't see me. And I snuck up on them
28:23
Speaker 1: and gave them an elbow shot and grabbed out of
28:27
Speaker 1: their hand a letter that had this stick them on
28:30
Speaker 1: it because they were already applying it to the belt.
28:33
Speaker 1: You know, they were trying it out at first and
28:35
Speaker 1: then they jet it out of there. And we talked
28:38
Speaker 1: about it was a letter written by hand by a
28:42
Speaker 1: mother to her son who is just going to Chicago University,
28:46
Speaker 1: wishing him all the best from her and. her husband
28:50
Speaker 1: and how they were so proud of him. You know,
28:53
Speaker 1: this is really heartfelt. This is our generation. This is
28:55
Speaker 1: how we communicate. And then Natalie went to work. And Natalie,
29:00
Speaker 1: you tried to find out who they were. You reached
29:03
Speaker 1: out to them. You were working, like, for the past
29:06
Speaker 1: 48 hours on it.
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Speaker 12: I did find them. The woman, the mom, was very nice.
29:11
Speaker 12: She got back to us. She said that she wanted to–
29:16
Speaker 12: that the card was for her son. She did say that.
29:18
Speaker 12: And she said, please toss it. I'll write him a
29:20
Speaker 12: new one and avoid using that postal.
29:22
Speaker 9: Boxes moving forward. And I was like, don't use the,
29:25
Speaker 9: don't just use it at all. Just don't find another,
29:27
Speaker 9: just go to the mail, the post office. But she
29:30
Speaker 9: says she appreciates our efforts being good Samaritans and helpful neighbors.
29:34
Speaker 12: But she said to toss the letter.
29:36
Speaker 5: Wait a second.
29:36
Speaker 1: Toss the letter?
29:37
Speaker 2: Did she know that Curtis was going to come over
29:39
Speaker 2: personally and give the letter back to her?
29:42
Speaker 12: She said toss it.
29:44
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means.
29:45
Speaker 2: She knew that was an offer? Did she know Curtis
29:48
Speaker 2: Lee was coming to her place?
29:50
Speaker 12: I did say we wanted to hand it back to her.
29:52
Speaker 1: And she said toss it instead? You know, in one way,
29:56
Speaker 1: I'm sort of happy, Larry. Because I live in that neighborhood.
30:01
Speaker 1: And a lot of these, I can't even call them older.
30:03
Speaker 1: They're my age now. They're within my age range. She
30:06
Speaker 1: has a kid in college. Right. But I'll have a
30:10
Speaker 1: conversation with them. And then, like, after a few words, Curtis,
30:14
Speaker 1: I love what you do. I've listened to you on
30:17
Speaker 1: the radio over the years. You're really a mensch, a
30:20
Speaker 1: double mensch. Why didn't you drop out and let Cuomo
30:24
Speaker 1: run against Johan Mondami?
30:26
Speaker 2: Maybe she's so mad about that she doesn't even want
30:29
Speaker 2: to see you.
30:30
Speaker 1: Exactly. It was very nice.
30:33
Speaker 12: She said, I appreciate Curtis's efforts to be a good
30:36
Speaker 12: Samaritan and helpful neighbor.
30:38
Speaker 1: But I don't want to see him. But that's okay.
30:40
Speaker 12: Who ever wants to see their neighbors?
30:43
Speaker 1: Everybody shut the door. Curtis Lee will come into your house.
30:46
Speaker 1: Come on. No, I know. Don't take it personal. I
30:49
Speaker 1: don't because I know the neighborhood I live in and
30:53
Speaker 1: I deal with this every day. Curtis, not for nothing.
30:57
Speaker 1: Don't you think if you had dropped out and campaigned
31:01
Speaker 1: with Cuomo, we wouldn't have to be dealing with Zoran
31:04
Speaker 1: Mondami now. Hey, would you call her back and say,
31:08
Speaker 1: I will deliver it, see what happens? See what happens. Well, anyway,
31:14
Speaker 1: great job, Natalie. This is what a great producer does
31:17
Speaker 1: from beginning to end. She was on it every step
31:21
Speaker 1: of the way. But our conversation about loading the dishwasher,
31:25
Speaker 1: which was a winner through all three hours, it held over,
31:29
Speaker 1: took off this morning. I'll talk back in the morning.
31:31
Speaker 1: And winner of the Curtis Lee and Larry Menti in
31:33
Speaker 1: the morning T-shirt is a man who looks at it
31:36
Speaker 1: quite logically. All right.
31:38
Speaker 13: I'm a man who definitely organizes the dishwasher. But I'm
31:42
Speaker 13: also the person who generally does all the dishes in
31:45
Speaker 13: the house. So I love the dishwasher the right way.
31:48
Speaker 13: You want to fit as much in there so you
31:50
Speaker 13: can only have to run it and empty it maybe
31:52
Speaker 13: one or two times a week. Put all your forks
31:55
Speaker 13: in the same place. Put all your spoons in the
31:57
Speaker 13: same place. Makes loading it fast, makes emptying it fast.
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Speaker 13: It's just smart movement.
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Speaker 1: It's logic.
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Speaker 5: Logic!
32:04
Speaker 1: Way too much thought into that, but that's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 2: And our Talkback of the Week and winner of this
32:10
Speaker 2: AC Crane Radio talked about the hot topic of the week, AI.
32:16
Speaker 1: Why are the Democrats so afraid of dying from AI?
32:18
Speaker 1: We'll be dead from climate change soon anyway. Very good.
32:23
Speaker 2: And remember the C Crane Radio for the listener who
32:26
Speaker 2: demands better. Sea Crane Radio is with legendary reception.
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32:32
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32:54
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33:02
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33:04
Speaker 1: Arthur Perry. He was in here once and gave me
33:06
Speaker 1: Botox in my forehead. I can't wait. I can't wait
33:10
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33:12
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33:16
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