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

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  Speaker 1: Oh, she's back.
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  Speaker 2: She's back.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie is back in studio after doing rehab at home
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  Speaker 3: but still working. With the power of technology that exists now,
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  Speaker 3: you are able to zoom in for us from your home.
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  Speaker 3: But meantime, what it's done is it's knocked out of
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  Speaker 3: the box, the quiet storm, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: Poor Chris.
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  Speaker 3: On loan from Mark Simone, who was starting to come
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  Speaker 3: out of his shell. The guy was completely quiet for
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  Speaker 3: so long. He was slowly but surely climbing out of
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  Speaker 3: that shell, actually expressing himself. And now, I guess, with
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  Speaker 3: your reemergence, Natalie, we've sent him back into his shell.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I just didn't want him to talk
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  Speaker 2: too much because, you know.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what Curtis was talking about. He went
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  Speaker 4: from no words to maybe 15 in his show.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank Chris, though. I really do.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. And thank all of you guys for putting
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  Speaker 5: up with it. Crash, you guys, everybody in the newsroom.
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  Speaker 5: I know it wasn't convenient for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: But I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I saw you walking today.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: What were the real McCoys? Remember the real McCoys grandpa
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  Speaker 4: and the real McCoys? That's who you look like when
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  Speaker 4: you're walking. It's still stiff, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Does it hurt?
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  Speaker 1: Not really.
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  Speaker 5: Although I got to tell you, this was the most
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  Speaker 5: walking I've done in three weeks. I feel like I've
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  Speaker 5: got a muscle cramp in my thigh.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's right. You just came back with the new entrance.
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  Speaker 4: You had to walk around. You got to walk an
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  Speaker 4: extra like block and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But that's good.
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  Speaker 5: I need the piece, my extra PT I'm getting in today.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: So from the time of your procedure to the time
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  Speaker 3: that you've walked into the doors here of iHeart710WOR, it's
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  Speaker 3: been how many days?
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  Speaker 2: It's three weeks today.
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  Speaker 1: Three weeks today.
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  Speaker 3: Now, do you realize, Natalie, my dad had this procedure
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  Speaker 3: in the 60s.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I can only imagine.
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  Speaker 1: He had a knee operation. He was on the ship.
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  Speaker 3: A barrel came on loose on deck and crashed down
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  Speaker 3: on his leg. And I remember having to escort him
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  Speaker 3: back and forth to the Merchant Siemens Hospital on Bay
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  Speaker 3: Street in Staten Island.
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  Speaker 1: He had to have surgeries. That was back at a
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  Speaker 1: time when Mickey Mantle was well known for having knee surgery.
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  Speaker 1: This is in the 60s.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you go put an ace bandage on it. That
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  Speaker 3: was it. And then you try to walk around. Boy,
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  Speaker 3: the progress that's been made ever since. They didn't cut you, right?
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  Speaker 5: No, I have two little dots. They went in arthroscopically.
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  Speaker 5: So I have two, honestly, dots on my knee.
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  Speaker 2: And that was it. It was unbelievable. You're out the
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  Speaker 2: day of.
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  Speaker 5: I'm weight-bearing the day of, walking out on my own. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it was not comfortable for the first two weeks, honestly.
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  Speaker 4: When you say it wasn't comfortable, did it hurt?
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 5: People keep asking me that. You know how every time
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  Speaker 5: you go to the doctor for something, what's the pain level?
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know, a one, a two. And
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  Speaker 5: they look at me. I said, well, what's pain?
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  Speaker 2: I said, is it stiff and achy?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I said, but that's not pain.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Equate that to pain. I said, so no, I did
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  Speaker 2: not have pain.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: It was always just stiff, right? You couldn't fully extend.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Still can't, but I'm working on it. But yeah, pain
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  Speaker 5: medication they gave me never took. I did the Advil
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  Speaker 5: Tylenol thing for two days and then I was done
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  Speaker 5: with that.
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  Speaker 4: But Curtis, you're absolutely right. The, the fact that they've
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  Speaker 4: come up, the advances in, in medical sciences are amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I had a, I had a knee injury one time
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  Speaker 4: that they thought was going, may have, may take surgery. And,
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  Speaker 4: This guy, who was very well-known at the time, came
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  Speaker 4: with a bunch of students that were following him, walked
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  Speaker 4: up to me when I was sitting there, took out
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  Speaker 4: a needle, shot it in my knee, and kept walking.
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  Speaker 1: It was cortisone.
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  Speaker 4: They gave me cortisone, and I was fine the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing. And just to– this was not a
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  Speaker 2: knee replacement. This was a meniscus. I mean, much different,
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  Speaker 2: much different recovery.
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  Speaker 4: So– Remember I told you when you first had it,
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  Speaker 4: I said, go get a shot of cortisone because I
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  Speaker 4: think that solves everything but not everything.
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  Speaker 1: Not everything.
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  Speaker 3: But your tolerance for pain. You see, different people have
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  Speaker 3: different tolerances for pain. Like when the doctor prescribes, let's say,
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  Speaker 3: a painkiller, a strong painkiller, Percocets. They like to give
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  Speaker 3: people Percocets. Some people can't take enough Percocets. because they
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  Speaker 3: just have no tolerance for pain or stiffness or anything
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  Speaker 3: that really gives them anxiety. What would you say your
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  Speaker 3: tolerance for pain is?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's pretty high. Considering I was walking for a
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  Speaker 2: year with this problem.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the problem. I have a high tolerance for
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  Speaker 4: pain too. The problem is you catch things too late.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And some serious things you might catch too late. Like
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  Speaker 4: you might have a nagging pain in your stomach and
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  Speaker 4: think it's nothing and some something you can deal with,
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  Speaker 4: and then it turns into something serious. I've heard that
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  Speaker 4: happen many, many times. So anytime you have the smallest pain,
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  Speaker 4: you should get it checked.
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  Speaker 1: You should.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it is incredible because when I think of
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  Speaker 3: all those boomers at the time in the 60s who
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  Speaker 3: would end up with a serious knee injury or a
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  Speaker 3: hip injury or a back injury or a shoulder injury,
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  Speaker 3: and then you would never see them. They'd be like sitting.
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  Speaker 3: You know, either in a wheelchair or they'd be at home.
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  Speaker 3: They could barely get up. And now through the modern
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  Speaker 3: medical miracles of whether it's surgery or medication or lasers
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  Speaker 3: and even stem cells, which they won't permit in this country,
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  Speaker 3: but you can go overseas and get stem cells. It's
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  Speaker 3: just tremendous, the strides that they've made. And it's even
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  Speaker 3: going to get better. Well, we're going to be talking
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  Speaker 3: about AI, the data filing centers later. It really now
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  Speaker 3: has become a national issue for the midterms. The president
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  Speaker 3: is waiting on it. But one of the positives clearly
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  Speaker 3: is in the field of medicine.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and one of the greatest examples of exactly what
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about is sports. Remember, it used to be
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  Speaker 4: if you had a knee injury, you were out for
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  Speaker 4: the season. I mean, some of the knee injuries that
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  Speaker 4: are easily fixed now, now people are back in a
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  Speaker 4: week and a half. It has been incredible, especially with
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  Speaker 4: that type of injury, especially with the one that you
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  Speaker 4: went through. That was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know why you were convalescing if you
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  Speaker 3: saw in the New York Post the article on how geezers,
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  Speaker 3: as they call them, Our generation, geezers, right? Baby boomers
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  Speaker 3: are dealing with pain in New York. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: get reefer.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to get weed.
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  Speaker 3: They're smoking weed in greater amounts than millennials or Gen Zers.
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  Speaker 3: And I attribute this to the generation we grew up
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  Speaker 3: in in the 60s where that was like crossing the
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  Speaker 3: Maginot Line.
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  Speaker 1: You don't smoke marijuana. But now it's legal.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the pent-up frustration of a generation in
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  Speaker 3: the 60s that was told, no, no, no, no, don't smoke, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Now that they see that it's legal, they can't get
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  Speaker 3: enough of it. I find that unbelievable that the number
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  Speaker 3: of users is greater, 55 plus, than amongst millennials who
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  Speaker 3: are younger and obviously Gen Zs who are younger. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's them who are vaping at 12 noon
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  Speaker 3: in Midtown here when.
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  Speaker 1: The purple haze rolls in.
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  Speaker 3: But apparently the stats, they have to keep stats, you know,
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  Speaker 3: at these legal dispensaries where they sell marijuana.
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  Speaker 4: It's 55 plus. You know, I have a hard time
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  Speaker 4: believing that only because what I see with my own eyes.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, when I'm walking around the streets of not
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  Speaker 4: just New York, but any city that is now legalized marijuana.
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  Speaker 4: Tell me if I'm not right about this. Everybody you
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  Speaker 4: see smoking marijuana on the streets, they're younger. They're in
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  Speaker 4: their 20s or 30s.
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  Speaker 2: But I think they're not doing it in the streets.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing it in their homes. I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: different group.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know anybody?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: You do know people that smoke pot at home?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Really?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know a person. I don't know a single person.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe, Larry, they do it, but they know your opinion,
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  Speaker 3: so they don't let you know.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care if they do. I really don't care
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  Speaker 4: if they do. When I was younger, I tried it.
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  Speaker 4: It's just that, you know, like I curled up in
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  Speaker 4: the corner in a fetal position, so I knew it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't for me. You know, that was not– it was
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  Speaker 4: not going to work for me, but– But yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't care. I used to go to parties where they
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  Speaker 4: were smoking. I got secondhand smoke and went and curled
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  Speaker 4: up in the fetal position again because it had a
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  Speaker 4: horrible effect on me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 3: You're getting secondhand smoke in the streets of New York
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  Speaker 3: City with a purple hand.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard it. What is the one that smells like skunk?
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  Speaker 4: There is one that smells like skunk. Have you smelled
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  Speaker 4: it as you're walking around? Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 7: Cheap.
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  Speaker 4: They should outlaw just that.
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  Speaker 1: It's cheap weed. It could be cheap, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Speaking of purple, I don't know if you guys have
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  Speaker 5: heard this. Have you heard about the purple meanie? The
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  Speaker 5: jellyfish that's hitting the Jersey Shore?
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  Speaker 2: I have, yeah. That's stinging people?
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know. And it's supposedly a vicious sting.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a kid over the weekend.
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  Speaker 5: come out of the water with his mom up to
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  Speaker 5: the lifeguard station, you know, in tears, holding his hand.
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  Speaker 5: He's like, and he wasn't talking. The mom's like, he
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  Speaker 5: was stung.
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  Speaker 2: He was stung.
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  Speaker 5: And I really think this could have been it because he,
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  Speaker 5: it didn't look like a regular jellyfish problem.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Over the weekend, you saw this?
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  Speaker 6: I did.
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  Speaker 2: I went to the beach.
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  Speaker 4: You went to the beach? You didn't come into work, though.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: As part of your rehab, you went to the beach.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 5: The funny thing is, I did get cleared by the doctor.
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  Speaker 5: So I went, and they told me, sand is going
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  Speaker 5: to be tough. You make sure somebody's holding you. They're
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  Speaker 5: absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: I was wondering.
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  Speaker 2: Like a step a minute.
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  Speaker 3: On the matter of the jellyfish, when I was a kid,
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  Speaker 3: I went and spent a summer down in Miami Beach
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  Speaker 3: with my uncle and aunt, Lou Chia and Jimmy Scavone.
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  Speaker 3: And they had the lifeguards put out the jellyfish warnings.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go into the surf jelly. Ah, what do you
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  Speaker 3: mean jellyfish?
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  Speaker 1: I went in there.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, did I get stung. Afterwards, whenever I saw a
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  Speaker 3: jellyfish wanting in the surf, I wasn't going in. Man,
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  Speaker 3: does that hurt.
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  Speaker 4: I don't mind the stinging one. What are the little
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  Speaker 4: ones that make you itch?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, the ones that are like little pieces that get
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  Speaker 5: stuck in your hair?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you can't get it off you. You take
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  Speaker 4: a shower, you're trying to get it off you. Whatever
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  Speaker 4: that is, I hate them. I'd rather be stung than
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  Speaker 4: deal with that.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Curtis, sometimes I get upset at conservatives online.
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  Speaker 1: And this is one of those times.
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  Speaker 3: Because there are things you can criticize Kathy Hochul about
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  Speaker 3: every single day.
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  Speaker 4: Every single day on policy, every single day we suffer
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  Speaker 4: from what she has done. But a lot of times
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  Speaker 4: there are some cheap shots that shouldn't be taken. For instance,
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  Speaker 4: when Kathy Hochul went to the Islamic Cultural Center of
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  Speaker 4: New York and Queens, she wore a head covering, which
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  Speaker 4: was respectful of the religion, right? Everybody says it was
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  Speaker 4: a hajib. You know, is that how you pronounce it? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was a headscarf. It was just a scarf she
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  Speaker 4: put over her head. So that was false to start with.
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  Speaker 4: But when it spread like wildfire, it went crazy on
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  Speaker 4: social media saying, look, she's a Muslim lover. And how
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  Speaker 4: bad are the Muslims? First of all, the Muslims aren't
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  Speaker 4: that bad. Secondly, there is an extreme wing of the
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  Speaker 4: Muslims that are really bad, but there's an extreme wing
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  Speaker 4: of a lot of cultures that are really, really bad.
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  Speaker 4: And so the fact that she just wore a head covering,
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  Speaker 4: there's more important things. Stop going after the low-hanging fruit. Now,
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  Speaker 4: what I suspect is people that were just looking for
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  Speaker 4: clicks and looking for attention and that they weren't really
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  Speaker 4: that upset about it. But let me just remind you
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  Speaker 4: that In the Catholic Church, women used to have to
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  Speaker 4: wear headdresses. They used to have to wear hats or
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  Speaker 4: a veil over their head or something. That was until
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  Speaker 4: the mid-1970s they had.
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  Speaker 1: To do that.
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  Speaker 4: And to this day, if a politician's wife visits the
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  Speaker 4: Vatican or a female politician visits the Vatican, they have
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  Speaker 4: to wear something over their head and they have to
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  Speaker 4: wear all black. And they do it out of respect
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  Speaker 4: to the religion. So, Stop this stuff. It just makes
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  Speaker 4: conservatives look small. And I hate anything that's silly that
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  Speaker 4: we say because there's much more serious things to go after.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I concur. And I think in this case, Blakeman
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  Speaker 3: went for the bait, the clicks. This is not an
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  Speaker 3: issue that's on the minds of voters. So Ted Cruz
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  Speaker 3: brought it up because it is an issue in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: The number of mosques and madrasas that have popped up.
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  Speaker 3: It's the state with the largest growing Muslim population. And
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  Speaker 3: they're investing in mosques and madrasas. And you see a
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  Speaker 3: lot of women with their head covering.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. You want to make that an issue in Texas?
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  Speaker 3: Blakeman, don't be stupid to follow Ted Cruz. You got
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  Speaker 3: a million Muslims. You saw their power in the city election.
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  Speaker 3: They had never voted before. 10% we were lucky to
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  Speaker 3: vote and then with johan mandami because he was under
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  Speaker 3: attack by a lot of conservatives for the culture uh
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  Speaker 3: for the religion they rallied around him even though culturally
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  Speaker 3: they had nothing at all in common with him they're
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  Speaker 3: some of the most conservative people who walk the earth
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  Speaker 3: this is not good this is like a guarantee of
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: saying you'll never get these muslims uh to even consider Republicans.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: It's so foolish. It has nothing. Look, in the past,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: I've seen pictures.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Of Ivanka, Nikki Haley, Laura Bush, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: when she attended the funeral in Wake for the NYPD
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: detective Islam who was killed, remember, on his second job.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: It's what you do where you don't go inside. You know,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that's it. You have a choice. Don't go inside.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: But to make this an issue, Blakeman, there's so many
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: issues you can hurt her on.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Well, he seems to be against a lot of things.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I need to know more about what he's for. And
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: I think that's a problem with a lot of politicians
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: these days. They attack, and it's usually on the Democratic side.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: They attack and they attack and they attack. I hate
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump. Whatever Donald Trump does, I hate. Now we're
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: seeing it on the Republican side in this state. He's
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: got to get out and say something. If he wants
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: to get out of the data centers, that's great. On
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: the flock cameras, that's great. On how expensive it is,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: that's great. But come out with a position, and I
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: think he should be putting out a position every single day.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Now, we saw the mayor doing the dancing, the horror,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: and the tarantella with other city council people because now
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: it's official. Outdoor dining will exist throughout the year. And
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: they're saying especially like November, December, January. So think about it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: With all the homeless people we have that I deal
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: with every day, all the emotionally disturbed people, they're all
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: over the place, in the subways, in the streets. You're
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: basically giving them a little homeless shelter in the winter
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: because there's going to be garbage stored there.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: There's going to be rats and mice. What are you doing?
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Well, here, how about a resident complaining about this?
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: I'd like to know, does Julie Manning or anyone on
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: the city council know live upstairs from one of these
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: outdoor dining kiosks? I'm sure they don't. All of the noise,
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: the traffic, the rats in the evening. Homeless people take
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: over the kiosks. There's drug dealing going on there. Sex
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: going on in there.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: It's awful. Sex going on in there. That's all true.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: The Lower East Side, that's what was going on. People,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: prostitutes were turning tricks in these sheds. you know, low-budget prostitutes,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: but still it was taking place. This is all more
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: of this naivete of the mayors on Mondami and the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: city council.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to have sheds.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: If you were a homeless guy, Larry, wouldn't you want
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: to cop a squat in a shed overnight?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: I'd be looking for sheds. Exactly.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And by the way, if you were a rat.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Or a mouse.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I'd actually cop a squat in one and then sleep
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: in another. I wouldn't sleep where I squatted. This is
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: such naivete.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, the one case, Slam Dunk, the
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: case involving the murderer of Tupac Shakur. There were no debates.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: There were no conspiracies. The guy was found guilty, lickety-split.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: He talked about it in his book. He said it
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: on podcasts.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I did it. I did it. And finally, a jury
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: came back in, what, 30 seconds and said— Three hours. Yeah,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: you did do it.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, three hours is like a minimum for— you know, you
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: don't want to go out right away. You want to
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: be able to look like you actually talked this over.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: But you're right, almost immediately— And the guy's name is
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Dwayne Kethy D.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Davis.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: It was a rival gang fight. They pulled up next
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: to him in a little community outside of Las Vegas
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: at a red light. and opened fire and killed him.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: And Dwayne Keffie D was in the car and drove back,
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: and they went into his car because they wanted to
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: get an automatic weapon that he had out of the
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: car so they could have it. And he bragged about
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: this in interviews, in podcasts, in a book. So all
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: of the theories about rival rappers going after him and P.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Diddy going after him, all are false theories. It was
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: just a gang takedown.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Absolutely love the show since I made the switch over
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: from you know who.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Daria. Well, John Decker, WOR White House and
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Washington correspondent and host of the podcast, The White House
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Briefing Room with John Decker. You can find that in
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: the iHeartRadio app, by the way. It really gets you
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: started for the day. Everything coming out of Washington, he covers.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: But let's start, John. Thanks for joining us again. Let's
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: start with the Trump administration announcing what they said was
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: the biggest oil deal of all time, which gives them
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: access to 65 billion barrels of oil reserves in Venezuela.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: I think his hope is that the oil prices will
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: come down before people start making decisions about the midterms.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: But I would believe it would take a little bit
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: longer than that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Well, you're right. You know, there are a lot of
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: things that need to happen before we see gas prices
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: come down as a result of this oil deal that
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: the president announced first on social.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Media over the weekend.
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: These are oil patches, essentially. And it's not necessarily true
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: that oil is going to start gushing out of these patches.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: So that's problem number one. Literally billions of dollars needs
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: to be invested. to extract that oil. And the oil
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: itself is not going to, you know, essentially get to
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: gas stations all across the country with the oil that
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: the president's referring to. It would be used to replenish
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: the strategic petroleum reserves, which have been depleted significantly by 40%
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: since the beginning of this conflict with Iran. So that
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: is really the goal here. And of course, the president's
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: hope of, you know, seeing gas prices drop at least
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: oil prices come down, were dashed because of now the
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: resumption of the military conflict over the weekend involving the
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: United States and Iran.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: All right, John Decker, put your constitutional hat on to
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: the United States Supreme Court, which back to back has
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: dealt with the president's desire to complete his ballroom underneath
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: the White House, the 90,000 square foot ballroom. There was
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: an issue statement. Now the full court ruled on it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I think people look at that and they say, John,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: sometimes it takes years for an issue to get to
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: be reviewed by the United States Supreme Court.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Why is this going so rapidly? How can it go
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: so rapidly?
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: It's going so rapidly because of emergency appeals that have
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: been filed by the Supreme Trump administration. They have lost it,
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: both the trial court and the appellate court level. They
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: made an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. And
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: we were surprised yesterday with a decision that was rendered
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: by all nine justices yesterday, five to four decision. And
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: the majority ruled that the entity that was bringing this
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: lawsuit in the first place did not have legal standing
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: to bring this constitutional issue forward. to the courts in
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: the first place. What does that mean? It means that
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: the entity that brought the lawsuit was not harmed in
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: any way. And for that reason, the Supreme Court said,
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: we're not going to essentially stop any kind of construction
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: on that ballroom, which has been going on for months.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: It takes place 20 hours a day, seven days a week,
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: And the work continues. Interestingly enough, writing a dissenting opinion
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: was the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: joined the three liberal justices in saying that he believed
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: that the administration would ultimately lose because he believes that
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: because Congress has not given approval to this project, the
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: project should not move forward.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to get back to Iran for a
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: moment because I was surprised when Donald Trump yesterday said
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: that he's not really sure if they're talking to the
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: right people. He's not really sure of who is in
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: charge right now. He said, I don't even think they
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: know who is in charge in Iran. Can you comment
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: on that and tell us, do we know who's in
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: charge of Iran?
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, there are three entities that, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: have been dealing with this conflict. One is the mullahs.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: You know, the supreme leader always has essentially a seat
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: at the table and making these very important decisions on
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: behalf of Iran. Then you have the political leadership in Iran,
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: individuals like the speaker of the Iranian parliament. And then
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: you have the IRGC, the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps. They, too,
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: have a seat at the table. So that's the way
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: that Iran is run. And essentially, you have to get
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: an assent from all three parties. of those types of
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: individuals that I mentioned before anything is agreed to in Iran,
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: especially something as important as ending the war or bringing
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: a halt to the fighting between the United States and Iran.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: So that's who.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Essentially has been running Iran. That's who the U.S. has
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: been dealing with. for the most part. So, for instance, Larry,
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: when way back on April the 11th, when Vice President J.D.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Vance led a U.S.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Delegation, they met with Iranian negotiators in Islamabad, they were
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: simply meeting with the political leadership of Iran. And then
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: they'd have to take what was proposed by the U.S.
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: to those other two entities before getting assent. And obviously,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: all three Bodies that I'm describing have not agreed in
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: any way to ending this war or, for that matter,
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Vice President J.D. Vance.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: He went to attempt to deal with Maine and the
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Republican Party there. He would not answer any questions about
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: the economic war against Canada, the tariff war. He was
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: in Michigan, wouldn't answer any questions about that. That's obviously
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: a midterm issue in some of the border states. Do
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: you see that being resolved? Because that certainly does hurt
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: our border states because of their trade back and forth
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: with Canada.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, you're right, Curtis. You know, and, you know, it's
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: one of those issues that could lead to the defeat
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: of Susan Collins, who's a Republican running for another term
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: in the U.S. Senate. And she is the only Republican
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: running for reelection in a state won in 2024 by
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Kamala Harris. So she has some headwinds. And now there's
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: another headwind, and that's this trade war or trade dispute
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: between the United States and Canada. And there are other
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: border states, as you mentioned, Curtis, that are dealing with
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: this because of the enormous amount of trade between the
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: United States and Canada involving places like Michigan and Iowa.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: And interestingly enough, there are Senate races there as well.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: You asked me, will it get resolved? I think that
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: Susan Collins and those other Republicans that are running the
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: certainly hope it gets resolved soon because it is making
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: their life more difficult in terms of trying to win re-election,
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: in her case, to the Senate and in some other
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: cases to Congress for Republicans that represent districts that border Canada.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: And so we'll see what happens. Right now, it doesn't
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: look like there is any movement in terms of resolving
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: that trade dispute.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: The Trump administration and several Republicans, by the way, are
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: blasting Prime Minister Mark Carney. They're saying he didn't want
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: a deal all along, that they had a deal, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: at the last minute, he pulled out of it. He
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: won election on this issue of being anti-Trump and anti-American,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: and his popularity has gone up since this tariff deal
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: has happened. Exactly the opposite in our country, but in Canada, apparently.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: This is popular. Yeah, he is.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: You know, we're talking about, like, super popular, like an
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: 80 percent approval rating right now for Mark Carney. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: you're right, Larry, he did campaign on getting tough or
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: remaining tough with the United States as it relates to
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: trade negotiations. And he's following through in that promise. So
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: difficult to see how, you know, there's any concession made
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: by Canada when, you know, he's popular in the positions
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: that he's taken so far in this trade dispute. That
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: also makes it difficult to get to the point where
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: this trade dispute is resolved.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Speaking of disputes, the president has jumped in both feet
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: on the proliferation of the AI data filing centers throughout America,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: in blue states, red states, it doesn't matter. And yesterday,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think he made any verbal statements, but he
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: published on Truth Social simply that if you're opposed to
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: these data centers, then I guess you want to end
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: up being backwards and poor.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: And not successful and rich.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I do not think that is a successful strategy because
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: if he would listen to governor Abbott, who's done a
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: pirouette and some of the other red States he'd realize
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: is there's a lot of anger in communities who just
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: don't want them in their backyard. Doesn't do not want
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: them within proximity to their homes.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: Right. You mentioned governor Abbott of Texas. A lot of Republicans,
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: you know, have essentially done one eighties on their position
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: on these data centers, uh, initially very much for them
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: in their communities. in districts simply because of the potential
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: for economic prosperity, you know, the jobs that it would
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: potentially create in their districts or in their communities. But
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: now they realize it's not popular with their constituents, and
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: that's the reason for the reversals that we've seen being
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: made by a number of Republican politicians. So the president
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: not essentially listening to what Governor Abbott is saying, putting
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: out that post on Truth Social, And this is another
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: one of those issues in some communities, not all, but
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: in some communities that could impact who controls the House
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: after the November midterm elections.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: John Decker, WOR White House correspondent and Washington correspondent and
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: host of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: John Decker. John, as always, thanks a lot. Great to
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: talk to you.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Larry. Thanks, Curtis.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Have a great day. Talk to you soon.