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

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  Speaker 1: And it is a sad day today. The word legend
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  Speaker 1: is thrown around a lot, but in this case, it
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  Speaker 1: absolutely works. There was the passing of a legend yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton, dead at the age of 80. Now, you remember,
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about Dolly Parton now for several months,
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  Speaker 1: going back a year because she was opening a play
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  Speaker 1: on Broadway called And she was never able to come
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  Speaker 1: to Broadway, and she was never able to promote it,
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  Speaker 1: and she was never able to get out on the road,
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  Speaker 1: and she had to cancel many appearances. And she kept
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  Speaker 1: putting videos out saying, I'm okay, I'm all right, don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about me. But the entire time, she was apparently
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  Speaker 1: fighting cancer. And she thinks that she got sick when
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  Speaker 1: she was caring for her husband, Carl Dean, someone she
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  Speaker 1: was married to for 52 years. He passed away Last year,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently Dolly Parton since then has never been the same.
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  Speaker 1: Her passing was announced by her nephew, Brian Seaver. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they have a close relationship with both her brother-in-law and
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  Speaker 1: her nephew because the brother-in-law helped her launch her music career.
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  Speaker 1: The nephew, Brian Seaver, is head of security and is
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  Speaker 1: always with her, so that's why he made the announcement.
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  Speaker 2: Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful bed of plush cotton because after a life
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  Speaker 2: wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and
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  Speaker 2: have some rest. Rest in peace, Aunt Dolly, Aunt Granny, Gigi.
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  Speaker 2: May God bless Dolly Parton, and may God bless you all.
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  Speaker 2: She will always love you.
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  Speaker 1: That was beautiful. Songs like She Will Always Love You
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  Speaker 1: that was made a hit by Whitney Houston, 9 to 5,
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  Speaker 1: the theme of the movie that she played in. She
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  Speaker 1: starred in two movies. She was nominated for an Oscar.
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  Speaker 1: She was very close to getting the EGOT. She just
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  Speaker 1: needed that Tony to get the EGOT. She might be
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  Speaker 1: the biggest star in the country. Think about it. And
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  Speaker 1: never a scandal. Never got involved in politics. I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard her say a bad word about anyone. And Curtis,
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  Speaker 1: she is the American dream because if you think about it,
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  Speaker 1: she was born in the Smoky Mountains in a cabin
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  Speaker 1: that only had one room. There were 12 kids and
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  Speaker 1: it never seemed to get to her. She always thought
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  Speaker 1: she was going to be a star. At the age
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  Speaker 1: of six, She sang her very first song that she
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  Speaker 1: wrote about a doll that her father gave to her.
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  Speaker 1: And just a couple of years ago, when she was
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  Speaker 1: on CBS this morning, she sang that song.
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  Speaker 3: And she kept writing from that song.
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  Speaker 1: And made it to Nashville first. She was on a
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  Speaker 1: local radio show and then a TV show. And then
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  Speaker 1: she went to Nashville where her uncle was waiting for her.
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  Speaker 1: She signed Curtis a recording contract when she was in
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  Speaker 1: high school. And when she graduated, she performed at the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Ole Opry. And after that, she was a star.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: You know, obviously, I wasn't a follower of her music,
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  Speaker 5: Dolly Parton. I liked it when she teamed up with
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  Speaker 5: Kenny Rogers, because I always liked Kenny Rogers. And that's
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  Speaker 5: really when I was introduced to Dolly Parton. They did
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  Speaker 5: great duets together. But I also liked her because she
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  Speaker 5: reminded me of a more beautiful Yogi Berra. And give
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  Speaker 5: me a moment to explain that.
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  Speaker 4: Please.
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  Speaker 5: Yogi Berra, if you ever went to Little Falls, Montclair State,
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  Speaker 5: they have the Yogi Berra Museum and they have all
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  Speaker 5: of his yogisms, you know, things that he's famous for saying,
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  Speaker 5: it ain't over till it's over. When you come to
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  Speaker 5: a fork in the road, take it. You know, and
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  Speaker 5: it goes on and on. And people love that because
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  Speaker 5: it was very genuine. There are a whole list of Dalai-isms,
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  Speaker 5: of things that she has said in interviews and publicly
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  Speaker 5: and They had pretty much the same thing, except naturally
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  Speaker 5: she was much better looking than Yogi Perra was.
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  Speaker 6: And I love the story she told.
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  Speaker 5: She said, look, I finally had that music contract, and
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  Speaker 5: the executives, they're saying to me, you won't be taken seriously.
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  Speaker 5: You look more like a hooker the way you dress
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  Speaker 5: than a singer. And she used one of those dollyisms.
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  Speaker 5: Don't judge me by the cover, because I'm a real
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  Speaker 5: good book.
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  Speaker 6: That's right out of Yogi Berra, right? You start thinking
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  Speaker 6: of it. Wow.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, when it came to interviews, I watched
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  Speaker 5: some of her interviews yesterday when I heard of her passing.
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  Speaker 5: You could ask her a question as an interviewer. Go out,
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  Speaker 5: get a cup of soup, a sandwich at the diner,
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  Speaker 5: come back, and she'll still be answering the question because,
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  Speaker 5: as she always said, ask me anything and I'll tell
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  Speaker 5: you what I want to hear, which meant she was
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  Speaker 5: in total control.
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  Speaker 6: But in a nice way.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Always smiling, always laughing and self-deprecating. Oh, absolutely. Who do
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  Speaker 6: you see any longer who's self-deprecating?
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  Speaker 1: No, absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And she was such a kind person and never, ever
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  Speaker 1: got involved with any controversies. Hers or anybody else's. Never
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  Speaker 1: talked about it. Always smiling. Always was nice. And we
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  Speaker 1: have to point out one other thing about her that
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  Speaker 1: she is especially proud of. And that is the Imagination Library,
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  Speaker 1: where she gave 300 books to children around the country
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  Speaker 1: from the age of one all the way up to
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  Speaker 1: 12 to promote literacy. She spent $ 600 million in her
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  Speaker 1: lifetime in philanthropy projects. And when she was asked what
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  Speaker 1: her legacy should be, she didn't talk about the music.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't talk about the movies. She didn't talk about
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  Speaker 1: Dolly World or her Broadway play. She talked about the charity.
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  Speaker 1: You ever think about what you'd want your legacy to be?
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of wonderful things that's happened to me.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things I'm proudest of is the Imagination Library. But,
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  Speaker 3: of course, I'm a writer and a singer, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: in both Songwriter Hall of Fame, you know, the big one,
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  Speaker 3: the country music, and the other one up there with
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  Speaker 3: the big guys. I'm just trying to leave as much stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to see how much I can do
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  Speaker 3: in a lifetime. And I've been blessed, and I've been lucky,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't take any of that for granted. But
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  Speaker 3: I just want it to be remembered well.
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  Speaker 1: She's being remembered well today. $ 600 million she gave in
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  Speaker 1: charities during her lifetime. Natalie, did you want to say something?
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  Speaker 7: You know what? That last cut got me. It teared
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  Speaker 7: me up. She was such a kind human being, and
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  Speaker 7: you just don't see that anymore. She just wanted to
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  Speaker 7: help people, whether it was helping somebody with a song
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  Speaker 7: or helping somebody who was unfortunate and couldn't afford books
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  Speaker 7: for their children. I mean, she wanted to make people happy.
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  Speaker 7: She made an amusement park. I mean, this woman did everything. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, sometimes you can't connect with your kids on
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  Speaker 7: people that you grew up with. And my daughter, she
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  Speaker 7: was the first one who texted me yesterday to tell
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  Speaker 7: me about it.
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't even seen it yet. She may be the
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  Speaker 1: biggest star in America. She was the biggest star in America.
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  Speaker 1: As you think of everybody else, I mean, Tom Cruise,
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  Speaker 1: you go through all the names. They rise and fall
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  Speaker 1: and rise and fall. Dolly Parton's always there.
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  Speaker 7: And you know why?
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  Speaker 6: For all these, for decades.
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  Speaker 3: Because.
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  Speaker 7: She didn't alienate one group of people.
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  Speaker 6: That's true.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody felt connected to her in some fashion.
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  Speaker 6: In fact.
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  Speaker 7: Whether it was her music or her, you know, philanthropies.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, I'm creating theater of the mind now. Imagine
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  Speaker 5: we're in a gin mill and on one side you
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  Speaker 5: got these truckers with their Confederate flag caps on and
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  Speaker 5: the drag queens dressed like Dolly Parton on the other
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  Speaker 5: side cheering her on.
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  Speaker 6: Can we hear like a potpourri of her songs now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Do you play that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know why that's important to play her songs? Because
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  Speaker 1: at the core, what made her Dolly Parton, what made
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  Speaker 1: her famous was songwriting. She was one of the best
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  Speaker 1: songwriters in America for decades. Dolly Parton, dead at the
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  Speaker 1: age of 80. She's going to live on through her music.
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  Speaker 1: And Natalie, how do you think that Broadway play is.
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  Speaker 6: Going to do?
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  Speaker 7: That is going to sell out in a second. I'm
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  Speaker 7: sad that the tickets weren't on sale yet because I
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  Speaker 7: was going to get one.
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  Speaker 4: So now it's going to be tough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's going to be the biggest play
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  Speaker 1: on Broadway for a long time. I think it's going
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  Speaker 1: to run for a while. I know it didn't get
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  Speaker 1: great reviews the first time it opened. They say they
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  Speaker 1: fixed it. I don't think it's going to matter. I
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  Speaker 1: think people just want to go as a tribute to her.
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  Speaker 5: I think her best contribution outside of music is when
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  Speaker 5: she set up Dolly World. right outside of Knoxville where
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  Speaker 5: it was basically Dixieland where they would recreate Confederate victories
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  Speaker 5: over the Bluecoats. And she walked onto the premise because
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  Speaker 5: they said, yeah, you could have your Dollywood here and
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  Speaker 5: we'll do our recreations here. She goes, you know, this
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  Speaker 5: Dub Mland ain't nobody's fool, but we ain't going to
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  Speaker 5: get no Northerners down here. They get 4 million people
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  Speaker 5: a year to Dolly World because she said, what are you, crazy?
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  Speaker 5: The South didn't win the war? You're going to continue
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  Speaker 5: to do that? I can't be a part of that.
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  Speaker 5: And she basically bought him out lock, stock, and barrel. Well,
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  Speaker 5: there's still joy in Bayonne. You know how they say
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  Speaker 5: there is no joy in Mudville? Well, there's still joy
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  Speaker 5: in Bayonne. They couldn't be prouder of their team, even
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  Speaker 5: though they lost last night. and were eliminated from the
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  Speaker 5: Little League World Series. We'll talk about that. Plus, we
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  Speaker 5: want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 6: Larry Menti in the morning. On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 5: Rich DeMuro, our tech expert here at WOR. I need
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  Speaker 5: a favor from you. You may have to do an intervention.
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  Speaker 5: There's information that 50% of U.S. adults use AI chatbots. 48%
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  Speaker 5: have conversations with AI chatbots not about work. And our
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  Speaker 5: own Larry Menti is engaged with chatbots trying to convince
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  Speaker 5: them that the people protesting about AI data filing centers
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  Speaker 5: in their neighborhoods are justified.
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  Speaker 6: Can you do an intervention with Larry, please? Hold on,
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  Speaker 6: hold on. This is fake news, Rich.
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  Speaker 1: These weren't chatbots. That's just him thinking that. These are
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  Speaker 1: actual people that are upset with me because I was saying,
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  Speaker 1: that there's a middle ground on these AI data centers.
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  Speaker 6: You can talk about the chatbots.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the AI data centers afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: A middle ground? I didn't think there was a middle
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  Speaker 4: ground anywhere anymore. I thought it had to be one
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  Speaker 4: way or the other for everything, including data centers.
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  Speaker 6: I think you're right.
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  Speaker 1: The people I talked to yesterday feel the way you do,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So, I mean, look, these chatbots, we are asking
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  Speaker 4: so many questions of the chatbots. I'll be honest, I'm
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  Speaker 4: I'm running almost any decision I make through a chatbot,
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  Speaker 4: and it's not because I overwhelmingly trust it with everything.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's two levels of this. Number one, there's
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  Speaker 4: romance and relationships. People are asking for advice, and they're
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  Speaker 4: trying to learn more about themselves and their friends and
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  Speaker 4: their loved ones. That's number one. Number two is offloading
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of the tiny decisions we have to
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  Speaker 4: make on a daily basis, like which hotel do I
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  Speaker 4: stay at? Give me an itinerary for this place. I'm traveling.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think is better time to go? You know,
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  Speaker 4: like those kind of questions. So I don't think it's
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  Speaker 4: necessarily bad. I think where it gets kind of weird
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  Speaker 4: is when people are developing a relationship. And Larry, you're
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  Speaker 4: not there just yet.
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  Speaker 6: Are you? I don't even know if they were chatbots.
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  Speaker 1: That's just Curtis assuming they were because we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about AI data centers. We've been talking about this for
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  Speaker 1: a long, long time, actually. And we're getting blowback from
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  Speaker 1: a whole number of people. that think it's all Russian propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: That the fact that there's anybody that doesn't want these
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  Speaker 1: AI data centers in their communities or springing up all
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  Speaker 1: across the country, that that is all Russian propaganda. And
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  Speaker 1: what I've been saying, Rich, just so you know, is
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  Speaker 1: I said, look, we were onto this for several months,
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  Speaker 1: almost six months we've been talking about this before a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people were talking about it because we watched
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  Speaker 1: the town hall meetings and we watched the city council meetings.
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  Speaker 1: But it's funny, Rich, and I'm sure you're you're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with this too, is that there's two distinct sides and
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  Speaker 1: nobody's willing to come up with a solution.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and here's what's going to happen. If we don't
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  Speaker 4: allow any of these data centers, and obviously they need
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  Speaker 4: to be regulated, they need to be in places where
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  Speaker 4: they are benefiting the communities that they're putting them in,
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  Speaker 4: they need to create jobs, they need to not take
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  Speaker 4: power away from the people in the immediate area and
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  Speaker 4: make sure water is still available. But the reality is,
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  Speaker 4: if we don't build these things, we will fall behind.
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  Speaker 4: And that's not a joke. We need to be able
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  Speaker 4: to compute with AI. It takes a lot. And we
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  Speaker 4: just don't have the resources. And so if we don't
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  Speaker 4: do this, other people will do it, like China, like
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  Speaker 4: other countries, that will open source these models that they're
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  Speaker 4: coming up with. And there goes all the money that
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  Speaker 4: the U.S. people have invested in these major companies. because
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  Speaker 4: they thought it was going to work out.
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  Speaker 1: Agree with you a thousand percent. And you basically said
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  Speaker 1: many of the things that I've been saying to people,
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  Speaker 1: but there's two distinct sides and they don't see a
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  Speaker 1: middle ground. I don't want to spend all the time
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  Speaker 1: on this. You have other things to talk about. We
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  Speaker 1: can talk about it another time, but yeah, it is,
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  Speaker 1: it is the issue and it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: big issue in these midterms coming up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's for sure. And look, I think that a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people are latching onto it because of that.
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  Speaker 4: So anytime you get a hot topic issue that people
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  Speaker 4: are very invested in one side or the other, It
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  Speaker 4: becomes the only thing to talk about, whether people really
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  Speaker 4: have an opinion on it or they really know what
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  Speaker 4: they're talking about or not.
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  Speaker 5: Rich DeMuro, let me do a pivot and shift. We
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  Speaker 5: have a Gen Z-er amongst us. He is the Quiet Storm, Chris,
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  Speaker 5: our producer in studio while Natalie is recovering from knee
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  Speaker 5: surgery at home. She's participating. But Chris is one who
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  Speaker 5: would jump at any offer. of a party invitation that
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  Speaker 5: comes online. He's like Spuds McKenzie. You invite him to
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  Speaker 5: a party, he's there with his PlayStation.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, he's going. Could you warn him and the
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  Speaker 6: other Gen.
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  Speaker 5: Zers that there are a lot of fake invites out there,
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  Speaker 5: and why are they doing that?
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  Speaker 4: This one is, this is like the scam that will
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  Speaker 4: not die. This has been going on for a while now,
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  Speaker 4: but I continue to get these personally on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 4: My wife got one yesterday. She emailed me. She said,
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  Speaker 4: are you sure I know this person? I said, it's fake.
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  Speaker 4: And what's happening is these scammers are hijacking people's email addresses. So,
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  Speaker 4: you know, when you have a weak password and a
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  Speaker 4: weak login, scammers get access to your account. What do
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  Speaker 4: they do? They immediately use it to their advantage. So
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  Speaker 4: they send out these invitations or anything else from your email.
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  Speaker 4: So it looks like it came from a trusted friend
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  Speaker 4: and it's either an Evite or a paperless post or
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  Speaker 4: a punch bowl or any other of a thousand different
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  Speaker 4: party invites. And it says, hey, you're cordially invited to
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  Speaker 4: my party invitation, whatever it is. And it says, click
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  Speaker 4: here to learn the details. And you're like, well, I
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: know this person. Let me click. Well, you click there.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: It's going to download something on your computer. It's going
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: to put malware on there. It might put remote access software.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Don't do it. I've had so many people email me saying, Rich,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: I fell for this. I did it. It took me
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: all week to get my computer back to normal.
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: I got one of those. I'll tell you what, Rich.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Did you click?
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: No, I did not because it was a lunch invitation
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: from a friend. I'm like, she would not be sending
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: me a lunch invitation. So I sent her a text.
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: I said, did you want to go out with the
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: lunch with me?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: She's like, what?
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: I got this e-bike.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: I don't even know.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: She had no idea.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: She's like, oh, no.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Now, Natalie, did she ask you if you were paying
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: for the lunch?
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: She's like, yeah, if you pay, where are we going?
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: It's amazing, Rich. You were always working.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I see you were at a restaurant show. I know
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: you go to these tech shows all the time, but
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: you went to the restaurant show because there's some advances
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: in tech at the restaurants?
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I mean, restaurants, huge adopters of technology
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: because everyone I talk to says that, and this is
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: wild to me to understand this, but they all say,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: every single person I talk to at any restaurant show
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: says there's not a lot of people that want to
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: work It's tough to find people to make the pizzas,
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: to make the food, to serve the food, which I
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: still can't believe. You would think there'd be unlimited amounts
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: of people to do this stuff, but they are turning
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: to technology to try to fill some of those gaps
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: and obviously automate some things. I saw a pizza oven
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: that can make up to 200 pizzas in an hour
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: thanks to a robot that stretches the dough. I also saw,
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: and I thought this was probably the best thing that
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I saw. I thought it really solves a problem. You
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: know how you go to a restaurant, you're on the patio,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: and it's got those space heaters, you know, they have
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: to move around. I'm a little cold, I'm a little hot.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: It's such a pain for everyone involved, right? You gotta
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: flag someone down, the guy doesn't wanna do it, they
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: light it for an hour. So this company called Focal,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: it's a San Francisco startup, they put in basically the
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: idea of like almost like hanging lights it looks like
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: but each one is a tiny mini heater that's directed
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: at each individual seat and you from your seat can
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: turn it on turn it off and adjust the level
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: so if you're sitting with one other person and They
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: want it hot. You want it cold. You can have
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: it that way. And nobody has to move anything around.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I thought that was brilliant. I think every restaurant is
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: going to have that in the future.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Love that. Genius.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Rich DeMuro. Can I have that in my house?
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Rich on Tech is heard Sunday nights from 8 to
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: 11 p.m.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: On WOR.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: At Rich on Tech on Instagram is how you can
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: reach out to him. Rich, thanks so much.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Larry, stay off those chatbots, please.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Larry, stay off those chatbots.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yes.