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

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Speaker 1: It's the weekend. It's gonna be beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Natalie Vaka is not here today. Chris Schweitzer is filling
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Speaker 2: in for her. She's gotten the three day weekend. It's perfect.
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Speaker 2: And we start off the show today with we want
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Speaker 2: to extend the conversation we were having before the show
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Speaker 2: because Curtis Leewa came up with a brainstorm, a tremendous
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Speaker 2: idea and I don't I want him to tell it,
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Speaker 2: but we were just talking about naming Penn Station because
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Speaker 2: everybody's talking about it being named Trump's station. And then again,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to step on your idea, but let
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Speaker 2: me just say this is brilliant.
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Speaker 3: What happened because NATALIEA Migliori, she comes in every morning,
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Speaker 3: we brainstorm what are you gonna go down into the
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Speaker 3: streets and ask people about and then bring it back
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Speaker 3: into the streets for the eight fifty four segment and
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Speaker 3: she says, well, you know, they want to change the
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Speaker 3: name of Penn Station, and she's career Transportation Secretary Sean
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Speaker 3: Duffy said, we're paying the bill, mean the FEDS for
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Speaker 3: redoing Penn Station eight billion. They don't want involvement of
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Speaker 3: the MTA they don't want involvement in New Jersey Transit
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Speaker 3: Long Island. No, no, no, it's our baby. And they
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Speaker 3: have Andy Byfort in charge. Remember the MTA guy that
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Speaker 3: everything that Cormo got rid of from. Yes, but man,
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Speaker 3: he knows transportation so great. So right away the assumption
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Speaker 3: is that they'd want to name it for Trump.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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Speaker 3: I think there are not things that are going to
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Speaker 3: be named after Donald Trump before he leaves office at
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Speaker 3: the end of his term.
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Speaker 1: So let's be a little creative here.
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Speaker 3: And I said to myself, we're always subsidizing Amtrak, the
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Speaker 3: new improved as seller versus the old Northeast Regional line,
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Speaker 3: and then obviously other services that Amtrak does around the
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Speaker 3: country sell the naming rights. What the hell, man, I
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Speaker 3: want to get off the hook. We subsidize Amtrak all
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Speaker 3: the time. They never make their budget. You know, it's
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Speaker 3: always in the red. You know, to be in the
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Speaker 3: epicenter of the Gateway to the World, New York City,
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Speaker 3: Penn Station next to Madison Square Garden, Boy, how much
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Speaker 3: do you think those naming rights can go?
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 2: As soon as you thought of the idea, I went
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Speaker 2: to Google of course, I went to AI and wanted
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Speaker 2: to find out exactly how much the stadium naming rights
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Speaker 2: are going for, because that's where the big money is
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Speaker 2: in the stadiums. I think this would bring in more money.
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Speaker 2: So to give you an idea, MetLife Stadium is seventeen
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Speaker 2: million a year. That's how much they eat each year.
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Speaker 2: Seventeen million, every single single year. But in Los Angeles
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Speaker 2: I didn't even know what was called this. The Crypto
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Speaker 2: com Arena just had the biggest deal ever twenty years,
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Speaker 2: seven hundred million dollars thirty five million dollars a year
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Speaker 2: for the naming rights and every year you get a
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Speaker 2: thirty five million check. So listen, Penn Station a billion
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Speaker 2: could have bringing a billion over twenty years.
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Speaker 3: Easily, and probably more because it's New York City. Now,
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Speaker 3: I think also, the first stop is gonna be Newark, Right,
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Speaker 3: that's Penn Station. You're not gonna get the same amount
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Speaker 3: of money in Newark then Philly. But you told me
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Speaker 3: that Philly is not Penn Station. I always assume, Hey,
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Speaker 3: the headquarters William Penn is right there.
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Speaker 1: No, it had a dull name.
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Speaker 2: It was thirtieth Street Station, and now it's named William
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Speaker 2: Gray the third thirtieth Street.
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Speaker 1: Station, the long term congressman there.
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Speaker 2: Right exactly, and nobody calls it that.
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Speaker 3: Okay, next stop Baltimore, No, no, actually Wilmington, No, no
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Speaker 3: Baltimore for no Wilmington. I would have thought that was
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Speaker 3: renamed the Joe Biden I know, I just saw that
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Speaker 3: they did. Yeah, it's Joe Biden. But nobody says that.
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Speaker 3: They just say Wilmington. And then of course Baltimore, which
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Speaker 3: is a real dive of a station.
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Speaker 1: I think that's still Penn Station. And Washington DC they
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Speaker 1: call that Penn Station.
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Speaker 2: Where's the problem in buying the naming rights? In New York,
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Speaker 2: everybody's still gonna call it Penn Station.
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Speaker 3: Fine, it's like RFK Bridge, No Triborough Bridge. I'll ftch
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Speaker 3: up Duck Hormo Bridge. Right, it's still tapping Z Bridge. Fine,
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Speaker 3: we need the money. I'm tired of paying for Amtrak.
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Speaker 2: But the name will be up there. That's tremendous advertising.
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Speaker 2: You know, it'll be on the tickets.
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Speaker 3: Exactly, and people will say, well, you catching your train.
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Speaker 3: You know, some will say Penn Station. Out of habit.
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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, this is a way to raise revenue.
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Speaker 3: Andy Piford. If you happen to be listening out there,
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Speaker 3: you lie me, blind me. It's a brilliant idea so
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Speaker 3: that you take the taxpayers off the hook because Amtrak
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Speaker 3: is always in the red, always in the red.
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Speaker 1: I think the guy that you have to convince is
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's got to be willing to accuse himself
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Speaker 3: and say, this is one edifice that will not have
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Speaker 3: my name on my way out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where it runs into a roadblock. It was
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Speaker 2: a nice idea where it while it lasted for those minutes.
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Speaker 3: We'll see at eight forty five next to me, eight
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Speaker 3: fifty four, the reaction that Natalie Migliori gets in the street.
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Speaker 3: She's going to be soliciting those same comments from average
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Speaker 3: everyday folks and then bringing him up to all of us. Now, meantime,
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Speaker 3: I got it.
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Speaker 2: Let me let me get people in on this because
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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear from them. First for Curtis's idea,
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Speaker 2: great idea, isn't it? Talk about that for a second. Secondly,
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Speaker 2: would you like Penn Station to be named Trumps Station
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Speaker 2: or not Trump Station?
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Speaker 1: What would you like it to be named?
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Speaker 3: Now you remember across from Penn Station in Madison Square Garden,
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Speaker 3: the old central post Office there. It was converted to
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Speaker 3: the moynihan Training Station by Andrew Cuomo. It now serves
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Speaker 3: as the Amtrak link. They can keep the homeless people
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Speaker 3: out of there, but not out of the Penn Station.
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Speaker 3: Goolag I call it. But that was the biggest post
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Speaker 3: office in New York. You know you'd be online for
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Speaker 3: a month to Sundays. But what do they always say,
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Speaker 3: through rain, snow, sleet, hurricane, dark of knight, Dark of Knight,
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Speaker 3: the mail Guide's always going to be there. And there
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Speaker 3: was a story that Natalie had referred to us about
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Speaker 3: how men and women of the postal service now have
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Speaker 3: a trick to avoid when they come to your mailbox.
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Speaker 3: It's mostly in suburban areas, you know, where your mail
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Speaker 3: boxes out near the roadside or not far from your home,
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Speaker 3: where they put something in there and to make sure
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Speaker 3: they're not gonna bit be bit by bees or wasps
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Speaker 3: when they open it up to either deposit mail in
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Speaker 3: or as you pointed out, Larry, actually pick up your
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Speaker 3: mail that is going out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what it is. It's bounce.
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Speaker 2: That's what most people call it, because bounce is the
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Speaker 2: number one.
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Speaker 1: Chris, what is the what is the term for bounce?
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Speaker 2: Is a trade name? Bounces a name of one of
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Speaker 2: these things. But it's a dryer sheet, a dryer adryer sheet. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but that bounce is the one that sells the most.
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Speaker 2: So what is the dryer sheet do?
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Speaker 3: If you're a wasp or a bee and you're like
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Speaker 3: hiding in there because I can't understand why.
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Speaker 1: It's cool it's dark, uh.
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Speaker 3: And then naturally you open it up and boof out
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Speaker 3: they come and attack the mail guy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna find out.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, that's a nemesis to them. But
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Speaker 3: the biggest nemesis of all is dogs. I've talking to
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Speaker 3: mail carrier to mail carrier, many of them who retired
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Speaker 3: after like thirty five forty years of service work in
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Speaker 3: the same route, knowing all their customers getting tips during
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Speaker 3: the Christmas season because it was so good at providing
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Speaker 3: extra service.
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Speaker 1: And they would say, Curtis without a doubt.
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Speaker 3: Dogs don't for some reason, they look into his uniform
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Speaker 3: and he go absolutely out of their minds. She gets
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Speaker 3: psychotic and they want to tear you limb from limb.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you what you're on Amazon, right, you get
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Speaker 3: Amazon a lot. I don't get it, Nancy, She's the
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Speaker 3: Amazon coin, so.
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Speaker 2: She's the one that's going to get the text then time,
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Speaker 2: because you get a text saying your Amazon driver is
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Speaker 2: now five houses away. Please secure your dog if you
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Speaker 2: have one. And that's a standard now I get that
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Speaker 2: all the time. By the way, I have an answer
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Speaker 2: to your question. Strong scented dryer sheets can deter bees
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Speaker 2: and wasps because they dislike the heavy floral or chemical odors,
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Speaker 2: which is why postal workers sometimes tuck them into mailboxes
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Speaker 2: to prevent stinging insects.
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Speaker 3: So they'll do it on their own. They're not expecting
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Speaker 3: you to buy it and put it in your own mailbox.
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Speaker 1: They do it.
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Speaker 3: And this is like the guy who uses too much
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Speaker 3: Hi karate old spice, you know I call a turlet
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Speaker 3: word or a woman with that cheap knockoff chanel number five.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure that would scare away the wash and the
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Speaker 3: beast too if you put that in there.
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Speaker 1: You know you doused it in there. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if anybody else you know what for the talkbacks,
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Speaker 2: if you have tricks about how to keep some animals
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Speaker 2: or passed out of your house, aside from like chemicals,
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Speaker 2: or aside from hiring, somebody would love to hear about it.
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Speaker 2: Also would love to hear about what we were just
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Speaker 2: talking about moment ago.
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Speaker 1: Them naming rights.
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Speaker 2: Just go to the iHeartRadio app and leave us a talkback.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be playing them in the next segment.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I guess what I was out there on patrol
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Speaker 3: this morning. You know I'm nocturnal. I'm after those mailbox
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Speaker 3: bandits who put a belt into that little slit that
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Speaker 3: they have now which has like the rat glue you
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Speaker 3: know you used to catch rats and mice on both sides,
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Speaker 3: and then they lift the mail out third time. I
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Speaker 3: caught him. I had been to the twentieth Pree sainct
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Speaker 3: in the West Side. He said, what do you want
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Speaker 3: us to do? We got their photos, we know who
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Speaker 3: they are. I said, yeah, I want you to stop it.
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Speaker 3: Can't do it. So now I'm climbing the ladder. You
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Speaker 3: remember when we were kids, we were told that's a
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Speaker 3: federal crime. You could be up there in the ten
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Speaker 3: most wanted FBI pictures that they used to have your
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Speaker 3: local post office. My uncles would tell me, if they
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Speaker 3: catch you steal and mail, better to rob a bank
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Speaker 3: than steal mail. Now I gotta climb the ladder, Larry.
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Speaker 3: I'm not getting no help from the cops, the US
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Speaker 3: Postal Inspectors. You know they have Arbois. I'm going to
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Speaker 3: get action one way or the other, but you know,
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Speaker 3: three times to charm if I got to take care
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Speaker 3: of business my way. Oh boy, you may be coming
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Speaker 3: in here in the morning find out Curtis has been
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Speaker 3: arrested for assault and battle read of mail thieves.
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Speaker 1: It's coming to that. It's New York. They'll let you
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Speaker 1: right out. You'll make the show, that's right out. You'll
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Speaker 1: be fine.
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Speaker 3: Now, perfectly imperfect Curtis Leewa and Larry Minty in the.
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Speaker 1: Morning Guaranteed Human on.
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Speaker 3: Sevent ten, War believe the call to radicals and progressives
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Speaker 3: all over America will be come to Madison, Wisconsin because
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Speaker 3: of the video that you've probably seen, and if you
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Speaker 3: haven't seen it, you certainly will and if they're able
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Speaker 3: to come up with any other videos. Because the cops
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Speaker 3: involved in this stop of Corey Ruiz, aged thirty eight,
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Speaker 3: who had stabbed one of the cops as they surrounded him.
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Speaker 3: It was a report that he was trying to break
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Speaker 3: in the cars. When the police arrived, he got on
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Speaker 3: his bicycle try to get away. They surrounded him and
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Speaker 3: eventually he was shot dead by the police. But the
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Speaker 3: only video you see is from people who were standing by.
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Speaker 3: Because it turns out out and probably the most liberal
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Speaker 3: progressive police department I've ever experienced in a nation. I'll
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Speaker 3: go to it later on in this segment. Nobody had
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Speaker 3: body camps. There are five hundred cops in Madison, none
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Speaker 3: of them have body cams on. So right now we're
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Speaker 3: to a degree of prisoner of what bystanders took. We're
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Speaker 3: assuming that there were street lamp cameras or maybe cameras
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Speaker 3: on private buildings in that area. I'm sure the police
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Speaker 3: will be releasing that soon. But as soon as this happened.
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Speaker 3: As soon as this happened, nobody knew who this guy was,
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Speaker 3: Corey Ouiz. They hadn't listed yet to the number of
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Speaker 3: crimes he committed. People immediately sensed this was demonstration dejour
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Speaker 3: that this was this was George Floyd all over again,
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Speaker 3: you know, taking us back to twenty twenty. But the
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Speaker 3: police commissioners really mild, meek, well mannered. John Patterson was
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Speaker 3: at police headquarters in downtown Madison trying to explain what
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Speaker 3: they just transpired.
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Speaker 4: During the struggle, the man, we're told pulled out a
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Speaker 4: knife or produced a knife, fixed blade knife, and an
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Speaker 4: officer was injured by this while attempting to arrest him.
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Speaker 3: So as you can see, he's just psych Sergeant Joe
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Speaker 3: Friday giving you the facts, and he goes on to
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Speaker 3: his next point, and listen to what happens.
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Speaker 4: The thinness of trust in the city right now did
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Speaker 4: not start name.
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Speaker 5: You can stop talking because we don't want to hear anything.
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Speaker 1: You've been saying.
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Speaker 3: Now that's not from a fellow police officer, and I
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Speaker 3: like the official. That's from demonstrators who bum rushed their
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Speaker 3: way in to imagine police say quarters. This guy, his
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Speaker 3: name is Carlos Jackson. He's in charge of a group
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Speaker 3: called All Power to the People. So a whole bunch
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Speaker 3: of them are in there with signs and he's ranting
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Speaker 3: about corruption, revolution and Zionists.
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Speaker 1: Just listen to as he takes the microphone from the police.
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Speaker 3: Commissioner, takes it out of his head, and the police
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Speaker 3: commissioner just steps back and lets him take over the
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Speaker 3: press conference.
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Speaker 5: We've seen the camps, we've seen it was a knife
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Speaker 5: in this young man's hand.
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Speaker 1: We don't want to hear that today.
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Speaker 5: We didn't want to hear it when they put their
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Speaker 5: neck on George Floyd's Nay, we don't their foot on
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Speaker 5: towards Floyd's day, and we don't want to hear it today.
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Speaker 3: And all he had to do is mention those magic
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Speaker 3: words George Floyd, with people behind him holding up signs.
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Speaker 3: One it's one older black woman is holding a sign
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Speaker 3: up that says corrupt cops deserve to die, and then
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Speaker 3: another sign if you kill Patterson, proving that they probably
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Speaker 3: didn't graduate high school. I still can't figure out, but
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Speaker 3: it had to be somewhat ominous to the police commissioner
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Speaker 3: who allowed them to finish, and then he went back
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Speaker 3: to talking about what happened. But meantime, there were already demonstrations,
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Speaker 3: you know, like in Minneapolis who had the George Floyd
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Speaker 3: Square when no one was permitted to come in. They've
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Speaker 3: already organized this Corey Durell Ruiz Square. There was demonstrations
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Speaker 3: last night, and I have a feeling there'll be demonstrations
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Speaker 3: this weekend. And already the family of Corey Ruiz has
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Speaker 3: retained Ben Crump.
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Speaker 1: Ben Crump, who.
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Speaker 3: As you know, is side by side with Al Slim
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Speaker 3: Shady Sharpton. He's the lawyer of choice. He left Birmingham, Alabama,
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Speaker 3: where they were doing that Wells case. The autopsy didn't
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Speaker 3: come out as they had hope for an independent autopsy,
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Speaker 3: so he dropped that case. And now he's in Madison,
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Speaker 3: and I'm assuming Al Slim Shady Sharpton will follow and
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Speaker 3: be there sometime this weekend.
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Speaker 2: The really concerning part of it is I hope you're wrong.
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Speaker 2: I hope this doesn't become George Floyd. But you could
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Speaker 2: tell from that protester who took the mic. They want
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Speaker 2: this to be George Floyd. The fact that they're now
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Speaker 2: naming a carter like they did with George Floyd, the
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Speaker 2: fact that he invoked his name twice.
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Speaker 1: This is what they want and this.
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Speaker 2: Is the perfect community to try and pull this off,
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Speaker 2: because the police seem like they're apologetic for being police
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Speaker 2: officers in the first place giving up the mic. As
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Speaker 2: a matter of fact, when other police officers tried to
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Speaker 2: run over and get them away, the chief said no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: let them talk, let them talk, So he just gave
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Speaker 2: up the microphone. What other city in the country would
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Speaker 2: that happen in.
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Speaker 3: Well, I can name a few, but Madison leads the
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Speaker 3: way and it is the epicenter of radical thought. Antifa
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Speaker 3: has a huge operation there. They're not that far away
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Speaker 3: down the road to Chicago. You know the turbulence there,
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Speaker 3: huge dsa effort there. And you better believe people in
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Speaker 3: Minneapolis are saying, hmm, well, you know we're not having
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Speaker 3: problem with ice now, but boy, that's a hop skipping
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Speaker 3: and jump away. So I'm assuming there's a call out
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Speaker 3: for everyone to come. Let me give you an idea
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Speaker 3: of why this is so wrong of people to malign
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Speaker 3: the cops of Madison. I have never met such docile cops.
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Speaker 3: Cops before I was in Chicago organizing Guardian Angels where
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Speaker 3: cops would wear three guns and show you they had
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Speaker 3: one on their ankle, they had one in their holster,
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Speaker 3: and they had one in their back.
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Speaker 1: What year was this? This was the late eighties. Dailies
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Speaker 1: excuse me, the dailies. The dailies. Oh yeah, yeah, dailis.
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Speaker 3: They gave me a hard time, but it's it's always
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Speaker 3: been a rough town, rough to gang gang central. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: So there are problems in Madison because the biggest problems
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Speaker 3: in Madison or Friday Saturday nights when the university is
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Speaker 3: in session, because they love to drink. And I've been
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Speaker 3: at college towns like Ohio State Main Street, Syracuse University
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Speaker 3: where they have this and his drunken, rowdy body behavior.
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Speaker 3: I've never seen anything as bad as Madison. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it's part of the culture. So will you being asked
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Speaker 3: to patrol? So the police commissioner calls me up in Evance,
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Speaker 3: David Cooper, who has police commission for like twenty is
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Speaker 3: seventy two to ninety three, and he says, I'd like
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Speaker 3: to meet with you in advance. You coming, I said, well,
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Speaker 3: I'm coming up. You know, I'm pounding the hound. I'm
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Speaker 3: taking the greyhound up from Chicago. He goes, yeah, let's meet.
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Speaker 3: I said, should I come to police headquarters? He says, no,
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Speaker 3: I don't want to meet in police headquarters. I don't
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Speaker 3: like police headquarters. This is the police commissioner saying this.
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Speaker 3: I said, is there a problem there? You're doing any
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Speaker 3: repair work as bestis abatement. Now he goes, it's militarization
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Speaker 3: of American law enforcement. Let's meet at a nearby vegetarian restaurant.
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Speaker 3: I had never been to a vegetarian restaurant before. Now
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Speaker 3: this guy was famous at the time. He would be
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Speaker 3: a regular guest on Ted Copple, a nightline. He believed
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Speaker 3: cop should have no guns. He didn't have a gun.
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Speaker 3: There should be no arrests. I mean, you think AOC
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Speaker 3: and DSA and Mondamion.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: He pioneered the whole concept of de escalation. He wrote
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Speaker 3: the book Imagine twenty years now, you knew Frank riz
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Speaker 3: on Philadelphia, who is the exact opposite.
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Speaker 1: I mean, rough, yeah, you don't mess with Frank with
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Speaker 1: this guy.
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Speaker 3: I'm sitting there I'm having my first vegetarian meal, and
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Speaker 3: he's telling me about all the things the police do
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Speaker 3: wrong in his own town, which when I walked around,
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Speaker 3: they were pleasing, pleasant, polite. They would basically not exert
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Speaker 3: any authority at all. That's why this situation is so unfair,
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Speaker 3: because they couldn't be more pliable, they couldn't be less adversarial.
19:48
Speaker 3: But hey, if it looks like George Floyd initially, the
19:52
Speaker 3: radicals are gonna make it into George.
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Speaker 2: I hope you're wrong. And I think the media plays
19:57
Speaker 2: a big part on this. I hope we come in
19:59
Speaker 2: on Monday and it's a story, but not a huge
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Speaker 2: national story. That's that's what I'm kind of praying for.
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Speaker 2: And I think there's a many many differences in this story.
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Speaker 1: With George Floyd.
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Speaker 2: George Floyd, you had a guy kneeling on somebody's neck
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Speaker 2: as he says I'm dying. I'm dying. You don't have
20:17
Speaker 2: a guy stabbing a police officer and then getting shot afterwards.
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Speaker 2: So I hope that the particulars and the facts in
20:25
Speaker 2: this case make it different than George Floyd. But you're right,
20:28
Speaker 2: I mean, it has the potential. The media is going
20:31
Speaker 2: to play a big part in this because obviously these
20:34
Speaker 2: protesters want that, and they've already said it.
20:36
Speaker 3: And this guy has a long track record of crimes committed,
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Speaker 3: serious and minor violations.
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Speaker 1: He's homeless.
20:43
Speaker 3: At the point that the police got that nine one
20:46
Speaker 3: one call, he was trying to break into cars, So
20:50
Speaker 3: citizens are calling in nine one one. The cops surround him.
20:54
Speaker 3: There are four cops. The problem is, and this I
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Speaker 3: still can't have them, Larry. This is not a police
21:02
Speaker 3: department that would resist body cams.
21:04
Speaker 1: This is a.
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Speaker 3: Police department that would have been the first you would
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Speaker 3: have thought with body cams, which actually helps the cops
21:10
Speaker 3: in these kinds of interactions. At first police thought it
21:13
Speaker 3: would be a hindrance. No, it actually helps clear them.
21:16
Speaker 3: It gives their point because you get to watch the
21:19
Speaker 3: video itself. Now we have a video in which you
21:22
Speaker 3: see one cop kick him in the head while he's
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Speaker 3: down right there. It looks bad, but he's already stabbed
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Speaker 3: one of the cops right exactly.
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Speaker 1: We don't see that.
21:31
Speaker 3: And obviously we see what looks like a cop pulling
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Speaker 3: his gun, and we know he was shot to death
21:36
Speaker 3: by the cops. They're acknowledging that if he.
21:39
Speaker 2: Was still on the ground when those shots were fired,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be a huge story. That's a that's
21:45
Speaker 2: a big problem. And I just for the first time
21:48
Speaker 2: I thought of that, that he was down on the
21:50
Speaker 2: ground and did he get back up, because if he
21:52
Speaker 2: didn't get back up, there was no threat.
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Speaker 1: Oh boy.
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Speaker 3: Uh, they're hoping it becomes George Floyd too, you know. Well,
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Speaker 3: in fact, they're ready to leave Maine. You know, they're
22:02
Speaker 3: protesting against is telling their organizers can we leave to
22:05
Speaker 3: go over the manage whichcon no, No, that's Midwest. They
22:09
Speaker 3: got in in check. Yeah, we got a Senate race
22:12
Speaker 3: going on. They're going to annoying Taylor, you know, the
22:14
Speaker 3: lumberjack to replace the oyster farmer who's already renounced the
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Speaker 3: Schmakta Putch Chucky Chi.
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Speaker 1: Show, New York's New wake Up Call Curtis Leewa and
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Speaker 1: Larry Minty in the Morning.
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Speaker 2: On seven ten WR Well, let's bring in Joe Neumeyer,
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Speaker 2: film journalist, wo.
22:33
Speaker 1: R movie minuted hosts.
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Speaker 2: Joe, I have never seen anything like this, and you're
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Speaker 2: the experts, so maybe you've seen this before. But Imax
22:43
Speaker 2: theaters are sold out through the summer and on the
22:46
Speaker 2: secondary market, prices for the Odyssey are up to twenty
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Speaker 2: five hundred dollars for one seat. Have you ever seen
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Speaker 2: anything like that?
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Speaker 1: I never have.
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Speaker 6: It's really it's an extraordinary thing that I think really
23:02
Speaker 6: sort of speaks to a couple of things, Larry. I
23:04
Speaker 6: think it kind of talks to how hungry people are
23:07
Speaker 6: for something interesting in movie theaters. I think it speaks
23:10
Speaker 6: to sort of people wanting to see something that they
23:12
Speaker 6: can't watch on their phone, or if they would watch
23:14
Speaker 6: on their phone, all they would see would be the
23:16
Speaker 6: sis nose or you know, just the eye of the
23:18
Speaker 6: psych clops or something. And I think it also speaks
23:21
Speaker 6: to wanting to be part of a moment. People have
23:23
Speaker 6: heard about the movie. They want to make the call
23:25
Speaker 6: for themselves. Is it good? Is it not good? Are
23:27
Speaker 6: there things they like about it? And they want to
23:29
Speaker 6: be part of the conversation. But I've never seen anything
23:31
Speaker 6: like this. I was thinking about serious movies in summer.
23:34
Speaker 6: The only thing that I can sort of think about
23:36
Speaker 6: sort of like this a little bit is is both
23:39
Speaker 6: Saving Private Ryan and Unforgiven. Back in the nineties, where
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Speaker 6: those were movies that came out in summer and they
23:44
Speaker 6: didn't have explosions or superheroes or you know, anything like that,
23:48
Speaker 6: and people needed to go see them. It's an extraordinary thing.
23:50
Speaker 6: The box office is out of control.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing.
23:53
Speaker 6: It's really an amazing thing.
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Speaker 2: Let me add to your list. Remember Jaws. When Jaws
23:57
Speaker 2: came out?
23:58
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know what's interesting because there's I kind of
24:02
Speaker 6: break up and maybe you gots do the same thing.
24:04
Speaker 6: I break up movies into like, you know, what are
24:05
Speaker 6: those those huge movies that kind of made the moment
24:08
Speaker 6: of the summer or something like that. And then one
24:10
Speaker 6: of the perfect movies to see in summer. And I
24:12
Speaker 6: never would have thought, I mean maybe I would have
24:14
Speaker 6: that it's something like The Odesty would have made that.
24:16
Speaker 6: But Jaws is on that list, Independence Day is on
24:19
Speaker 6: that list. Speed, the Great Cano Reeves movie that's a
24:22
Speaker 6: lot of fun is on that list. And then my
24:24
Speaker 6: ultimate summer movie is Back to the Future. I just
24:27
Speaker 6: feel like that's the movie that, you know, I remember
24:29
Speaker 6: seeing it in nineteen eighty five capture a certain thing.
24:32
Speaker 6: But I think for this generation now to see something
24:34
Speaker 6: that you know something, I mean, Supergirl flop, who knows
24:37
Speaker 6: what Spider Man will do next week. I mean, these
24:39
Speaker 6: are all just those are the typical things. The Odyssey
24:42
Speaker 6: is not that, and I think they want that to
24:44
Speaker 6: be their summer movie.
24:45
Speaker 3: That's interesting thing you've lived with Hollywood, the producers raising
24:49
Speaker 3: the money, trying to follow a trail where they can
24:53
Speaker 3: guarantee box office because this has done such bahfol box
24:58
Speaker 3: office with unlitt, I made a potential. Now, uh, you
25:02
Speaker 3: know all these movie houses, are they suddenly gonna say, oh,
25:05
Speaker 3: we got to move in this direction. You know, forget
25:08
Speaker 3: that those kids doing movies on their iPhones and smartphones.
25:13
Speaker 3: We got to raise two hundred and fifty million dollars
25:15
Speaker 3: and do one of these mega movies.
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Speaker 6: It's a good plinkers. It's funny because it is the
25:21
Speaker 6: exact opposite. Right here, you've got like back rooms and
25:24
Speaker 6: obsession movies that these kids made on their iPhones or
25:26
Speaker 6: they made for five bucks and they made a lot
25:28
Speaker 6: of money. And then you've got the honesty that like,
25:31
Speaker 6: you know, there's very you know, there's cgi in it,
25:33
Speaker 6: but it is very like it's these are actual boats,
25:35
Speaker 6: they're actual caves that they've filmed on. There's actual cast
25:40
Speaker 6: of hundreds of people on a beach not just cgi stuff.
25:43
Speaker 6: So it's one extremely to the other.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
25:45
Speaker 6: I mean, I think that there may be an acceptance
25:47
Speaker 6: of of okay, look like there's only certain filmmakers who
25:51
Speaker 6: can who could pull this off, or who they'd want
25:53
Speaker 6: to back and put their money on. But I think
25:56
Speaker 6: there's also like, there's only so many titles like that.
25:58
Speaker 6: And also let's put out that the idea of like,
26:00
Speaker 6: who would have guessed that these that younger kids would
26:03
Speaker 6: go to see a movie that's based on a three
26:05
Speaker 6: thousand year old story, right, I mean, it's not a
26:08
Speaker 6: graphic novel from last year. It's a it's a classic story.
26:12
Speaker 6: And I don't know how many of those they can
26:14
Speaker 6: kind of they can drum up, and I don't know
26:15
Speaker 6: if that's the if that's their thinking. But the other
26:18
Speaker 6: thing is Imax, right, I mean I've seen the movie now,
26:20
Speaker 6: I've seen it twice fully in Imax, one of the
26:23
Speaker 6: great giant one at Lincoln Square and then one in
26:26
Speaker 6: at the Palisades Mall in Nayak, and then once on
26:29
Speaker 6: a very small screen not in Imax. I saw most
26:33
Speaker 6: of it there. Just the kind of compare it. It
26:34
Speaker 6: doesn't lose much on the on the smaller screen. I
26:38
Speaker 6: mean it does, of course, but the power is still there,
26:40
Speaker 6: which I think speaks to the storytelling and the and
26:43
Speaker 6: the kind of the quietude.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've seen this movie three times, two.
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Speaker 6: And a half, I thought twice, and my wife hadn't
26:50
Speaker 6: seen it. I saw, so let's be honest. But because
26:53
Speaker 6: the half the halftime that I saw was on the
26:55
Speaker 6: I just want to see what it looked like on
26:57
Speaker 6: the regular on a regular screen, because I saw it
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Speaker 6: on the Imax the other two times and it looked
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Speaker 6: fine enough that I said, I'm gonna go get some power.
27:03
Speaker 1: This is a good reviewer.
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Speaker 3: He didn't just go to he says, but the average,
27:10
Speaker 3: the average version is not going to be able to
27:12
Speaker 3: go to Imax maybe until two days from now that
27:15
Speaker 3: as you described.
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Speaker 1: It, Larry, it's sold out on this movie. What's interesting,
27:19
Speaker 1: he said two and a half times. I'm assuming the
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Speaker 1: half was the regular screen.
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Speaker 6: That right, the half was the regular screen. I figured, like,
27:26
Speaker 6: it's the first half hour and then the last half hour.
27:29
Speaker 6: I get catch the middle hour and a half.
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Speaker 2: I want to go back to something you said in
27:33
Speaker 2: the very beginning, because it was fascinating to me and
27:35
Speaker 2: I'm gonna paraphrase it because I don't have the exact quote,
27:38
Speaker 2: but you seem to say that finally Hollywood has made
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Speaker 2: a movie that is worth seeing over and over again,
27:47
Speaker 2: is going to sell out.
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Speaker 1: Have you been? Have you been concerned with what Hollywood
27:52
Speaker 1: is putting out?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that's a good, a very good point
27:56
Speaker 6: to bring up. I have been. I mean obviously, like
27:58
Speaker 6: through the Pandemic was one thing, but even before for that,
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Speaker 6: I mean, look the Marvel movies that they can be fine,
28:04
Speaker 6: they can be Drek, the superhero stuff in general and whatever.
28:07
Speaker 6: But yeah, like once that era of and I always
28:10
Speaker 6: compare it to the Western movies, right, Curtis, the Western
28:12
Speaker 6: movies of the fifties, like there was a Western every
28:15
Speaker 6: other one.
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Speaker 2: Did you say, Curtis, what did you say that Agis
28:20
Speaker 2: does a little Agis?
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Speaker 3: Wasn't it?
28:21
Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 1: No, no, not at all. No.
28:23
Speaker 6: But I'm sure Curtis, you know, went to go see
28:24
Speaker 6: man who Shot Liberty Valance.
28:25
Speaker 3: Or something when it came, oh, let's face it, the
28:28
Speaker 3: spaghetti westerns uh in Italy with Clint Eastwood and before
28:32
Speaker 3: he suddenly came back here to become the megastar that
28:35
Speaker 3: he was.
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Speaker 6: Right, right, I mean, so those were like the dominant
28:39
Speaker 6: genre of the of the fifties and early sixties, and
28:42
Speaker 6: then it kind of they peered out after a while.
28:44
Speaker 6: And I think these when those superhero movies got their
28:47
Speaker 6: claws in the in the Hollywood's wallets, they were like, oh,
28:50
Speaker 6: you turn them out, turn them out, you know, swamp thing.
28:52
Speaker 6: Let's have a movie about everybody and and that stuff.
28:55
Speaker 6: That really did concern me because none of it really
28:57
Speaker 6: had any any ump to it. You know, I like
29:00
Speaker 6: some things and some things I didn't, but I was
29:02
Speaker 6: concerned that this was just going to be their model
29:04
Speaker 6: or bad horror films. And horror is having a resurgence
29:07
Speaker 6: now and the kids like it, that's fine, But this
29:09
Speaker 6: does make me feel like they can see that the
29:12
Speaker 6: audience has got a brain, and let's give them something.
29:15
Speaker 6: You know, might end up not being good, might end
29:17
Speaker 6: up not being as powerful or as momentous as the
29:21
Speaker 6: Odyssey is, but give people something of quality that makes
29:25
Speaker 6: me feel good. And people are going to the theaters.
29:27
Speaker 6: We need movie theaters, you know, let's keep them going. Yeah.
29:29
Speaker 2: I love I love that people are now. Like with Spielberg,
29:33
Speaker 2: people would go see the movie. He was the star
29:35
Speaker 2: of every one of his movies. Everybody went to see
29:37
Speaker 2: a Spielberg movie. Christopher Nolan is now getting into that sphere.
29:43
Speaker 2: People are now saying, this is a Christopher Nolan movie.
29:46
Speaker 2: I have to see it. That's fascinating to me.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, director as Starr, you know, the only other
29:52
Speaker 6: thing that I can think of that sort of like
29:53
Speaker 6: it's like Alfred Hitchcock, right, Like, there was a time
29:56
Speaker 6: in the late fifties where a Hitchcock film, and he
29:58
Speaker 6: was on TV with Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He was a
30:01
Speaker 6: personality and every film every year that came out of
30:04
Speaker 6: you know, was north By Northwest or it was Psycho
30:06
Speaker 6: or you know, people knew it. People said, this is
30:09
Speaker 6: a Hitchcock film. Spielberg was the only other one after that,
30:11
Speaker 6: and and then and Scarssese to a degree, I think
30:14
Speaker 6: there was a point where everybody, you know, in the nineties,
30:16
Speaker 6: whether it was you know, Goodfellas or Cape Fear. But
30:19
Speaker 6: I think Nolan absolutely is that. I mean, it's it's
30:21
Speaker 6: nobody cares who's playing Odysseus and Matt Damon's really good.
30:24
Speaker 6: They care it's a Nolan film.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
30:26
Speaker 3: So I'm going to the prediction market right now, Joe Neumayer,
30:29
Speaker 3: and I'm putting up what is the likelihood that Joe
30:32
Speaker 3: will see the Ulysses Classic for now a third time?
30:38
Speaker 1: And we'll add the half hon to him.
30:41
Speaker 6: Maybe I have to find some sort of thing, because
30:42
Speaker 6: there is there's the four D.
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Speaker 1: Thing right where you can go in the station.
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Speaker 6: Something I'm not gonna I'll skip that one. I don't
30:50
Speaker 6: need that. I don't need an usher throwing water at
30:54
Speaker 6: me to make me feel like, oh, I'm in the
30:56
Speaker 6: sea with them.
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Speaker 3: I knew, I knew you were going to instract that
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Speaker 3: from you, Joe, but do appreciate you. A wr movie reviewer,
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Speaker 3: same time, same place, next week, Tori