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

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  Speaker 1: That was a central park morning for me you know
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  Speaker 1: as i patrol the neighborhood larry you know looking for
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  Speaker 1: those mail thieves they're still out there and remember if
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  Speaker 1: you're sending your ballots in mail-in ballots you're running out
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  Speaker 1: of time you know you got six days left in
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  Speaker 1: the midterms so don't put it in the blue mailbox
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  Speaker 1: there is so much mail theft going on please give
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  Speaker 1: it to your mail carrier or bring it to your
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  Speaker 1: post office and make sure that your ballot gets uh
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  Speaker 1: But the reason I was in Central Park is I
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  Speaker 1: figured I'd walk here through Central Park.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that long to the iHeart Studios. They're laying
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  Speaker 2: down the blue line.
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  Speaker 1: Painted at the marathon finish line where you larry and
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  Speaker 1: you natalie are going to be parked on sunday for
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  Speaker 1: like what like half a day from uh early on
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  Speaker 1: pre-race to uh after post-race am i correct on that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah we'll be on air from eight to noon so
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  Speaker 3: we get on the air just as the professional wheelchair
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  Speaker 3: race starts and we will be there until you know
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  Speaker 3: the professionals end and All the rest start coming in,
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  Speaker 3: which takes hours and.
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  Speaker 2: Hours and hours.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I was just going to say. They're coming
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  Speaker 4: in after midnight. They're still showing up and crossing the
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  Speaker 4: finish line and their families are there waiting for them. No,
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  Speaker 4: we're really looking forward to it. Natalie, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: let me just talk about this for a second, is
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  Speaker 4: really amazing at producing these things. She is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's really easy for me because she is so good.
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  Speaker 4: I just show up and I get a book and then,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I do some studying, but She does the
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  Speaker 4: most of it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you, this morning, the safest
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  Speaker 1: place to be in New York City was Central Park.
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  Speaker 1: Not only additional cops there for the blue line being
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  Speaker 1: painted at the marathon finish line, but all the rapes
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  Speaker 1: that have been occurring there of late overnight. And so
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  Speaker 1: Madeline Migliore is going to sample people's reaction, especially women. Also,
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  Speaker 1: as I was entering, a lot of other people who
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  Speaker 1: have to get up early and go to work, and
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  Speaker 1: leave Fido at home for like eight, nine, or ten hours.
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  Speaker 1: They're walking through the park, walking the dog, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so he can take care of his needs. So then
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  Speaker 1: they can go back to the apartment, and whosoever there
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  Speaker 1: goes off to work and leaves Fido alone. And then
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  Speaker 1: they'll walk them back in the park later on in
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  Speaker 1: the day when they return. One of the stories we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be covering today, guess what? They have robots
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  Speaker 1: now that are going to be dog walkers. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: discussing that. But it was a mood elevator to be
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  Speaker 1: in Central Park. I got to tell you, it's just
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  Speaker 1: such a gorgeous park. And it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: mood elevator for some and maybe a real downer for
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  Speaker 1: others because of the trick-or-treat season with Halloween coming up
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  Speaker 1: and what has been described as escalating prices for the
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  Speaker 1: various candies that you might have had available, the various
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  Speaker 1: treats you might have had available, especially for all the kids.
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  Speaker 1: who look forward to going around either in a posse
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  Speaker 1: or with their adult minders and fill up those bags
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  Speaker 1: as much as they can. And I was traumatized, I
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  Speaker 1: must tell you, when I was a kid. I'd hit
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  Speaker 1: some of these houses and I'd get an apple and
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  Speaker 1: a nickel. I still cannot figure out why they would
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  Speaker 1: put an apple in the bag With a nickel, or
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  Speaker 1: they give you the candy corns, you know, they have
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  Speaker 1: like a paper towel with a little rubber band on
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  Speaker 1: the top, like you're.
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  Speaker 2: Going to really get something good, and it's candy corns.
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  Speaker 4: Candy corns are the worst. They were the absolute worst
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  Speaker 4: of all the candies you could get. People would get
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  Speaker 4: their houses egged. for giving out candy corns. That's horrible.
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  Speaker 4: That's horrible. Please don't do that to the kids. Now,
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  Speaker 4: did all the kids get apples and nickels or just you?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, all the kids. You know, we'd warn one another, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to go up to that woman's house there.
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  Speaker 1: The guy is there. He's sitting on the porch. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to get an apple and a nickel. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: somebody out there in our talk back can explain why
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  Speaker 1: so many houses gave a nickel.
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  Speaker 2: Why a nickel?
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  Speaker 4: That must have been in your neighborhood. Until you mentioned
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  Speaker 4: that today, I have never heard of that before. I've
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  Speaker 4: heard of people giving money because they forgot to go
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  Speaker 4: out and get candy for Halloween, so they give you
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  Speaker 4: like a buck. I've never, ever heard of somebody giving
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  Speaker 4: you a nickel.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're not going to get much when you go
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  Speaker 1: to the store if, in fact, you're going to buy
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  Speaker 1: treats for the kids because.
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  Speaker 2: Prices are up.
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  Speaker 1: I was on 116th Street, which is where a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the West Africans are in Harlem on Sundays. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people from the Ivory Coast. That's where we
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  Speaker 1: get so much of our chocolate from West Africa. And
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  Speaker 1: apparently they had some environmental problems, you know, flooding and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: But still, like everything else that's gone up, candy's gone up.
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  Speaker 2: It's so funny.
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  Speaker 4: You know, people keep talking about how bad prices are
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  Speaker 4: and how prices are up and how they've cut back
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  Speaker 4: and I haven't seen anybody in reality. And this is
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  Speaker 4: a great talk back. I would love to hear from people.
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  Speaker 4: If you've really cut back on your groceries because prices
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  Speaker 4: are up. Because I went out. I didn't even look
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  Speaker 4: at the prices. Now I'm going to go back and
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  Speaker 4: look at them. I bought way too many bags of candy.
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  Speaker 5: No, you didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 7: Because you have leftovers for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That's the point.
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a big candy fan.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you know, everybody does it.
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  Speaker 4: My wife took the bags of candy I did and
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  Speaker 4: put them around my desk because she's mad that I
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  Speaker 4: got too many. She goes, I don't want this near me. Here.
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  Speaker 4: And I have three huge bags of candy around my desk.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody has to remember that this year, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: it's on a Saturday. So it's going to be intense.
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  Speaker 1: Packed.
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  Speaker 7: Packed.
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  Speaker 2: The one day there'll be more kids out there than
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  Speaker 2: early voters. Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: And so far the weather is looking pretty darn nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So, yeah, you better have it.
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  Speaker 4: We don't get anybody. No matter what.
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  Speaker 2: We don't get anybody. Yeah, me either.
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  Speaker 4: Because we don't have a sidewalk.
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  Speaker 2: I have a hill.
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  Speaker 7: Kids don't want to walk hills.
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  Speaker 4: We have a hill too.
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  Speaker 7: They look at the hill and they're like, eh, not
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  Speaker 7: worth our effort.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if there was word that it's worth the schlep,
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  Speaker 1: Because last year, oh my God, there was a treasure
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  Speaker 1: trove of candy that ended up in my bag.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you they'd make this schlep.
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  Speaker 3: Curtis, our neighbor gives out full-size candy bars.
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  Speaker 7: You know, like full-size.
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  Speaker 2: Not the little bitty ones.
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  Speaker 7: Like the ones you get in the store. They won't
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  Speaker 7: even come up to get that.
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  Speaker 2: How cheap is your neighborhood?
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  Speaker 4: You all give out tiny candy and the one family
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  Speaker 4: gives out full size?
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  Speaker 7: Everybody gives out full size.
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  Speaker 4: In my area, they do.
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  Speaker 7: I give out the fun size, but I tell them
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  Speaker 7: to take as many as they want. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 7: not like giving them one.
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  Speaker 4: That's just like a notch above an apple.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, I'm better than pretzels.
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  Speaker 4: That's true.
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  Speaker 5: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, worst thing, worst thing, worse than the apple and
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  Speaker 2: a nickel? Hard-boiled eggs.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Hard-boiled eggs.
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  Speaker 3: Stop.
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  Speaker 2: Not true. I am not kidding you. A hard-boiled egg.
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  Speaker 4: These are people that forgot to buy candy. I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, oh, my God, I forgot to buy candy.
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  Speaker 2: Quick, boil the eggs.
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  Speaker 3: I was telling you guys off air that there was
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  Speaker 3: one person when my kids would go, It was a dentist,
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  Speaker 3: and he gave out toothbrushes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look. Let's face it. Who racks up during Halloween?
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  Speaker 2: The dentist.
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  Speaker 3: The dentist.
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  Speaker 1: Because, man, all the kids that are going to have
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  Speaker 1: to end up going for their checkups and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: their first cavity is getting filled.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, I remember going to buy candy. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: go to Costco or something, you know, buy the big,
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  Speaker 3: big bags. But I must have spent over $ 100 on chocolate.
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  Speaker 7: And I thought to myself, wow, that's. It's getting steep.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? I love that I don't even look
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  Speaker 4: at the prices because I'm sure I spent more than that.
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  Speaker 4: I spent a fortune on candy and for no reason.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, because three people showed up.
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  Speaker 4: Because my grandkids were coming over to the house and
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  Speaker 4: I was excited. That's why it was. And then I
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  Speaker 4: went out and just kept buying candy and kept buying
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  Speaker 4: candy and kept buying candy. But I'll tell you what,
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  Speaker 4: the worst, worse than the eggs, worse than the toothbrush
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  Speaker 4: are the people that turn their lights out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's rude.
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  Speaker 7: Don't do that to the kids. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, they got a special treatment of toilet paper. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, that's what we do. We bomb their
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  Speaker 1: houses with turley paper. I just figured out what the
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  Speaker 1: eggs are for.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 4: To egg the houses that put the lights out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but not a hard-boiled egg. Oh, even better.
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  Speaker 4: Even better.
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  Speaker 7: Now, that'll break a window.
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  Speaker 2: Man, you're devious. You're devious. A hard-boiled egg.
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  Speaker 3: And egg prices have come down. I was paying like
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  Speaker 3: two bucks for a dozen the other day, so, you know, better.
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  Speaker 3: When they were $ 7.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I just keep hearing stories.
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  Speaker 3: About people saying they're not going to buy chocolate this year.
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  Speaker 7: They're going to buy pretzels or potato chip bags. I
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  Speaker 7: don't believe it. I feel like people are going to
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  Speaker 7: still buy chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Kids love potato chips, but when they get a bag
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  Speaker 1: of pretzels, it's sort of like, ah.
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  Speaker 2: That's when I take it.
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  Speaker 7: I'm like, oh, little bags of pretzels. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Kids want candy. They don't want something you made. They
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  Speaker 4: don't want potato chips. They don't want pretzels. They don't
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  Speaker 4: want little boxes of cereals. And they certainly don't want
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  Speaker 4: a toothbrush. So if you're going to give out something,
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  Speaker 4: give out candy. If not, turn your lights out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they don't want a little blueberry muffin, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put in, again, a paper towel, you know, with a
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  Speaker 1: rubber band at the top.
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  Speaker 4: They'll accept muffins depending on the age of the person
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  Speaker 4: giving to them. Like if it's a nice old woman
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  Speaker 4: coming up with a thing of muffins, you're polite. You go, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: so sweet. That's so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Look, this is when you prove that you're a politician.
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  Speaker 1: There are times you want to say what?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: And you're, oh, this is the best Halloween I've ever had.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mrs. McGillicuddy.
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  Speaker 1: This is really outstanding. And you walk away and you say, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wearing deep boots today, man. I'm shoveling the flotsam
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  Speaker 1: and jetsam here.
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  Speaker 4: C-Crane radio. What would you do? What kind of plea
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  Speaker 4: would you make to murder? If you got something in return,
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  Speaker 4: what would that be? What would you want in return
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  Speaker 4: for a guilty plea? Because you're not going to believe
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  Speaker 4: what this one guy asked for in return for a
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  Speaker 4: John Mulaney at age 25.
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  Speaker 2: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning. The conversation
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  Speaker 2: continues on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Right on time, Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, heard every
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night from 8 to 11 here on 710WOR. The
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  Speaker 1: lead story yesterday, Anthropic, only in business five years, going
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  Speaker 1: to end up possibly putting out an IPO, and they
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  Speaker 1: think they can raise $ 2 trillion, $ 1 trillion more than
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk. But explain this to me. They lost $ 81
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  Speaker 1: billion yesterday. How is it that people are going to
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  Speaker 1: be investing money in a company that reports that they
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  Speaker 1: lost $ 81 billion?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's the price of doing business and starting a
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  Speaker 6: business like this. I mean, we remember when Amazon started,
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  Speaker 6: they could not turn a profit for a long time.
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  Speaker 6: Tesla could not turn a profit for a long time.
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  Speaker 6: And then what happens is as these companies establish themselves,
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  Speaker 6: as the customers understand the need for what they are
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  Speaker 6: putting out there, that's when the money starts to come in.
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  Speaker 6: And obviously, we know Tesla has done pretty well. Amazon
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  Speaker 6: has done pretty well. That's what we expect with Anthropic
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  Speaker 6: because AI is becoming part and parcel for every company.
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  Speaker 6: And the kind of tools that Anthropic is putting out
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  Speaker 6: right now, yes, the coders are playing with them. The
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  Speaker 6: business people are playing with them. But when companies need
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  Speaker 6: to subscribe to AI as a service to run pretty
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  Speaker 6: much everything that they're doing, that's where a company like
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  Speaker 6: Anthropic can do really well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I get these messages all the time that
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  Speaker 4: are really weird. Like, why won't you write me back
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  Speaker 4: as if it's someone that knows me? Or there's something
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  Speaker 4: wrong with your phone. We need to talk to you immediately.
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  Speaker 4: You know, please answer this text. I don't answer any
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  Speaker 4: of them because I just think it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 4: I think that if they really needed me, they'd call me.
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  Speaker 4: Are these scams? Are these people trying to scam me?
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  Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. I mean, the scams are everywhere. And
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  Speaker 6: it's funny, right now we're in, you know, obviously political season.
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  Speaker 6: So we're getting a lot of those texts as well.
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  Speaker 6: But no matter what, look, if you're getting a text message,
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  Speaker 6: it's funny you say that because I got a text
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  Speaker 6: message the other day and it said, hey, Rich, can
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  Speaker 6: we discuss this business proposal or whatever? And I just
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  Speaker 6: deleted it. And my wife comes home. She goes, hey,
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  Speaker 6: did you get that text from Jeff, our neighbor?
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  Speaker 2: I said, what?
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  Speaker 6: I just deleted it because I just assume anyone that's
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  Speaker 6: writing anything like that is a scam. And so it
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  Speaker 6: was a misunderstanding. I had to go into my deleted text,
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  Speaker 6: recover his conversation. And we're going to talk, it's not
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  Speaker 6: a business proposal. He wanted to pitch me on doing
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  Speaker 6: a story. But my point is, I just assume it's
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  Speaker 6: all fake. So yes, if you're getting a link in
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  Speaker 6: anything that's incoming, you have to be very critical of.
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  Speaker 6: If you're making the action a little bit safer, but
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  Speaker 6: if you're Googling for a phone number, if you're going
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  Speaker 6: to a random website, making a purchase from there, you
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  Speaker 6: always have to be careful.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a big one right now with the, they're
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  Speaker 4: saying that it's the FTC and you have to deactivate
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  Speaker 4: your phone. Is that right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, this one, I mean, there's just so many of
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  Speaker 6: these going around. The latest is you get a call,
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  Speaker 6: someone says they're an FTC official, and they say that
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  Speaker 6: your phone number has been listed doing illegal business activities overseas.
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  Speaker 6: So we need you to cooperate or we're going to
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  Speaker 6: shut off your phone number immediately. Now, as you can imagine,
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  Speaker 6: some people that get this call may be a little
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: disoriented and saying, wait, what? I can't get rid of
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  Speaker 6: my number. I've had this forever. And so they will
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  Speaker 6: threaten to disconnect unless you send money or personal information.
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  Speaker 6: Do not do any of that stuff. Hang up. If
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  Speaker 6: it's a problem, they will get in touch with you
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  Speaker 6: the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Rich, last Friday, there were lines and lines for
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  Speaker 1: the new Apple first foldable iPhone. What's your review of
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  Speaker 1: the opening days for all those who waited.
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  Speaker 2: For hours and hours to get that in their hand?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, look, you're always going to have the Apple
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  Speaker 6: early adopters and, you know, the fans of this company
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  Speaker 6: want to test what's new from them. And the foldable phone,
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  Speaker 6: the iPhone Duo, yes, it went on sale on Friday, $ 2, 000,
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  Speaker 6: not an inexpensive proposition, but it's kind of neat. You've
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  Speaker 6: got this screen on the outside that's a little small.
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  Speaker 6: little bit wide and then you've got this nice big
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  Speaker 6: screen on the inside. Now I will tell you the
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  Speaker 6: outside screen is kind of a pain. We're very used
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  Speaker 6: to our current phones that have a nice long screen.
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  Speaker 6: This one is very short, so you don't see all
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: of the content at once. Apps are trying to rewrite
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: their code to make these apps look better. It's not
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: always the case, but on that inside screen, it's just
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: quite incredible. You have basically the equivalent of an iPad
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: mini in your pocket. And in fact, in my review,
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: That is how I use this device the most. I
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: found myself just sitting on the couch, scrolling through websites,
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: watching videos, reading magazines, all on that nice inner screen.
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: It could also work as a Kindle because it has
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: a matte finish. So I like that aspect. The biggest
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: issue to me is the lack of Face ID. This
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: does not use Face ID. It goes back to a
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: fingerprint sensor, which I know sounds, okay, fine, we can
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: do that. It takes a lot longer to open and
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: use this device than you can imagine. And so it
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: takes a little bit of work and you do notice
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: that as you're using it. That's the biggest downside, I think.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: You know, of all the social media sites, I think
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: the one that is, and they are legion, the amount
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: of social media sites, the one that is the most impressive,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: the one that really stands alone is YouTube. And it's
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: been around for a long time and nobody really has
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: ever taken it on. I guess that's going to change now.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: That's going to change because Instagram, who famously does not
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: like long form video on there, they are going to
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: now allow certain creators to upload videos in a horizontal
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: version up to 90 minutes long. And why are they
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: doing this? Well, YouTube is eating their lunch when it
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: comes to podcasts and daily shows. And basically anyone that thinks, okay,
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: where can I upload this video? They're going to YouTube.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: And Instagram has been great. And TikTok has been great.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: for short form content. But guess what? A lot of
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: people like watching long form content too. And there's a
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: lot more podcasts out there that are doing this. And
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: so Instagram is now allowing this to happen with certain podcasters, comedians, influencers,
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: and basically it'll be the same thing. You're scrolling through Instagram,
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: watching a real version of it, like a vertical video.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: And then you go, Oh, that's interesting. They said something cool.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: Let me tap in and I can watch the entire
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: video on Instagram, or I can send that video to
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: my TV.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Rich, real quick, Microsoft is offering buyouts to 30% of
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: their personnel, claiming it's because of AI. What prospects do
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: those men and women have if they take the buyout
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: in the future?
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Well, kind of a tough time right now for buyouts.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: 60,000 people is almost a quarter of their workforce. That's
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: a lot of people looking for jobs in the time
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: where companies are adapting. Microsoft, make no mistake, they're not
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: hurting for money. They're just changing where they spend their money.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: So all these people that are being offered this buyout, Copilot, Finance,
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Human Resources, Xbox, Windows, those are all the places that
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: are fine. Where the places are growing is people in sales, marketing, security, engineering.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: They can't leave.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: So it's about redistributing where they're spending their money. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: these 60,000 people, yeah, they're going to be put in
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: a job market where Every company right now is saying,
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure we need to hire people right now
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: because AI is changing our business as we speak. Let's
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: just sit and wait and see when the dust clears
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: to figure out what we're going to do next.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Well, that's horrible news. Rich DeMuro, Rich on Tech, is
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: heard Sunday nights from 8 to 11 p.m.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: On WOR.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: You can also talk to Rich at Rich on Tech
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: on Instagram. He also has a lot of information there.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Check it out. Thanks a lot, Rich.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. The conversation continues.
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: 710WOR. Well, Curtis, as you know, 60,000 runners are expected
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: to take part in the TCS New York City Marathon
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: on Sunday. But the man who runs it all, what
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: a job, Ted Metellus, the New York Roadrunner's Chief Event
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Production Officer and Race Director. He is an extremely busy
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: man right now. Ted, I want to thank you so
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: much for taking the time to talk to us today.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: How do you prepare for the race? I know how
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: the runners do.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: How about you?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Well, it's much like the runners, Larry. First, good morning
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: and thank you so very much. It's good to chat.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: So all of our runners right now are tapering. So
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: they are getting their last miles in and tuning up
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: for what will be a great day of running. And
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: the team at New York Roadrunners are doing very much
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: the same thing. Checking the list twice, making sure everything
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: that we have is ready to go, and looking forward
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: to an amazing race day on November 1st.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: And congratulations. This is the 50th anniversary of the Five Boroughs.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: What has changed? Take us through the 50 years. What
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: has changed over those years?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Well, Larry, you know what they say. For those of
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: us who are above 50, you only turn 50 once
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: the first time. So 1970 was the very first New
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: York City Marathon that happened in Central Park. where runners
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: did about four loops of the park. And the race
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: grew from the first race that had 55 finishers to
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: last year's race where we had over 59,000 finishers. So
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: much has changed over the years. You know, the running
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: community has changed. The demographic of our runners have changed.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: the races have become more diverse, more accessible. We're seeing
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: more younger people running the marathon distance, especially over the
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: last 10 plus years coming out of COVID and older
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: people that are getting out there and challenging themselves and saying, hey,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: This is a bucket list item I've always wanted to do.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: So it's been incredible to see our city change and
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: evolve as well. Neighborhoods that have developed, mostly industrial spaces
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: that we ran through in years through Queens are now
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: beautiful neighborhoods and spaces there. So it's been an amazing
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: story to tell about the growth of the Roadrunners, the
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: growth of the marathon and the growth of our great city.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Now, I understand that for the first time in 15 years,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: there's going to be a course change. And I know
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: the Bronx are near and dear to your heart. And
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: the change is in the Bronx. Tell us about it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: I am a Bronx native, born and raised, a proud
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: graduate of All Hollows High School. And it was really
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: interesting to see the work that we've put in over
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: the last five plus years to make this adjustment in
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: the Bronx. We rarely make adjustments on the route unless
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: there's something pretty substantial that lies into it. So as
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: I mentioned before, with all of the change and development
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: in our city, What we started to see in the
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Bronx neighborhoods were a lot of development there that did
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: not exist about 10 plus years ago. Supermarkets that are
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: being built and other community elements that are there that
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: we needed to look at closely and say, hey, how
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: do we change the course, make the route better? but
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: also help the neighborhood out a little bit here. And
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: that's exactly what we did. The section that we have
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: in the Bronx right now is beautiful. It still has
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: the runners going over the Willis Avenue Bridge, making the
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: turn on 131th Street, then another turn on Alexander Avenue,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: which is remaining the same. But instead of making another turn,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: the runners go straight up to 141st Street. They're making
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: immediate turn onto 3rd Avenue and then making their way
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: over to Madison Avenue Bridge. So it takes some turns off,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: makes it a little bit faster for the runners, gets
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: to see some really beautiful sections of that neighborhood in
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: that community. And, you know, a little bit of a
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: fuss up for 50 years. So it's kind of, you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: it's like changing an outfit or getting a haircut.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Now, I know that's, well, it's a little bit harder
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: than that, I'll tell you that. I know that accessibility
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: is extremely important to the TCS New York City Marathon,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: and now you have a new category for para-athletes. Tell
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: us about it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Yes, we are piloting a para-athlete division. So we've always
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: had an athletes with disability para program, but not to
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: the scale that we have right now on the competitive side.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: We do have competitive wheelchair athletes, professional athletes that are
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: incredible and they have participated in all of the Abba
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: World Marathon majors, and many of them have won.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Year over year. But for your.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Non-professional athletes, having this para category allows these athletes to
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: now track themselves and compare themselves to other athletes with
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: similar disabilities.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: And you also are expanding your sustainability efforts as well
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: because you have a partnership with Culligan International. Tell us
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: about that.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Yes. So like many things, it's planting a seed that
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: we watch grow year over year. So coming out of
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: the 2020-2021 marathon. So 2020, the marathon was canceled due
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: to the pandemic. 2021, we brought the marathon back. And
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: we wanted to make some modifications and changes, one of
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: which was really amplifying that athletes can bring their own
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: hydration tools with them. These athletes can refill their bottles,
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: but they didn't need to use any of the cups
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: along the course if they so choose. We've continued to
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: enhance that program now with bottle refill stations partnered with
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Culligan are almost like a NASCAR pull-in station for these runners.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: I've actually participated in an event that had them and
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: it was fantastic. You slide right into this section, you
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: grab your bottle, you refill and you're gone. You're back
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: at it again. Having this sustainability component has been tremendous.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: So I have to give a shout out to our
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: accessibility team for the amazing work that they've done to
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: continue to make the TCXU City Marathon, the most accessible
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: event in the world, and our sustainability team that is
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: tracking us to being the most sustainable marathon in the world.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, Ted, I've talked to you a
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: couple of times and I can't believe your energy. You
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: are so full of energy and I know you're working
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: around the clock. What happens on November 2nd? Do you
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: just pass out?
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: No, quite the contrary, Larry. Like, I appreciate that. You know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: I was saying the energy you give is the energy
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: you receive. And on November 2nd, I'm still working. We
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: have a elite athletes program that we do. They're their
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: media session. We hang out with them. And then I'm
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: checking in on the team. I'm going to the start
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: line in Staten Island to check in on the team.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I'm at the finish line with the team there. I'm
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: making sure that folks are taken care of. I'm following
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: up with our city agency partners.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: So the week goes on.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: It's not until Friday that I'm able to take a
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: little bit of a break and take that weekend off
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: like the rest of the team, rest, recover, and start
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: planning for 2027. They're lucky to have you.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Ted Metellus, New York Roadrunners Chief Event Production Officer and
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Race Director of the TCS New York City Marathon. I
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: know you hopped out of a car to talk to us.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: So thank you so much. And I know you've got
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: to start running again. That's it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I'm on the move.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: So on my way to the finish line.