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

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  Speaker 1: And good morning to you. Hope you're having a great morning.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I came in today, Curtis, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be something you're interested in. I
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  Speaker 1: came in today and I got this package from PETA.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently the PETA people are going to protest at
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  Speaker 1: Radio City Music Hall because of their use of live animals,
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  Speaker 1: especially camels. It says, I am not a prop. These
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  Speaker 1: are actually Christmas ornaments they have. with a camel that says,
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  Speaker 1: I am not a prop. And I got this and
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  Speaker 1: I rolled my eyes. I'll be serious with you. I
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  Speaker 1: rolled my eyes because I just thought to myself, PETA,
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  Speaker 1: you know, are they relevant anymore? Because I thought PETA
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  Speaker 1: had its moments. I remember when I was at Eyewitness News,
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  Speaker 1: I did a whole thing on calves being used for
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  Speaker 1: for veal. And I stopped eating veal ever since then.
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  Speaker 1: We did a big report on it. We did a
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  Speaker 1: big special report on it. And it was all because
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  Speaker 1: they sent me a video showing the calves mistreatment. They
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  Speaker 1: went undercover. Remember when they used to go undercover and
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  Speaker 1: show all that stuff? And I thought, wow, what a
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  Speaker 1: great organization. And then they got crazy. They went through
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  Speaker 1: this period where they were throwing blood or they were
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  Speaker 1: throwing red paint on furs, just trying to get attention.
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  Speaker 1: They'd show up in Hollywood and Somebody will be coming
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  Speaker 1: out in an expensive fur and they'd throw this.
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  Speaker 2: Red paint on them.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that they just lost their mojo after that.
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  Speaker 1: And I said that to you. I came in and
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know, are you a big supporter of PETA?
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  Speaker 1: And you said, yeah, absolutely. And I said, well, they just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I rolled my eyes when I saw this
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  Speaker 1: because I remember how powerful they were. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: the story they gave me and thinking to myself, I
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  Speaker 1: haven't eaten veal since. But they've lost it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even, you know, I know they're there, but
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  Speaker 1: they're not that big anymore. And you said to me,
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  Speaker 1: are you kidding me? They're bigger than ever, which I
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  Speaker 1: thought was not true because I don't see them on
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  Speaker 1: the news anymore. I never hear about them anymore. So,
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  Speaker 1: of course, I went to my favorite research, AI, and
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  Speaker 1: this is what it says. Yes, the people for the
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  Speaker 1: ethical treatment of animals is financially larger and more active
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  Speaker 1: than than it has ever been in history. I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm not alone. I think that piece of information is
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  Speaker 1: going to be shocking to a lot of people because
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  Speaker 1: they're not in the headlines anymore. There's no more news
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  Speaker 1: stories about them anymore. They aren't doing some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff they did in the past, including the throwing of
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  Speaker 1: the blood and the paint, and then also saying, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they have to get rid of the furs, and so
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  Speaker 1: they had all these naked bodies. showing that you strip
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  Speaker 1: your furs, you know, strip everything that's made of animals.
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  Speaker 1: And they've seemed nuts for a while. But whoever's taken
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  Speaker 1: over now apparently has done a good job. You educated
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  Speaker 1: me that everything you see in the globe about unfair
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  Speaker 1: treatment to animals, they're behind, but they just take a
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  Speaker 1: back seat.
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  Speaker 2: That's brilliant.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's see, because this is a new venture for them.
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  Speaker 3: Going against the camels, and I'm not talking about the cigarettes.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I walk a mile for a camel. The
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  Speaker 3: actual camel, whether it's a dromedary one hump or the
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  Speaker 3: two humped ones, will El Said appear in defense of camels? Because,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's of Egyptian origin. Or will he realize, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: this is part of my progressive coalition. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to enrage them. But you are absolutely correct. You know
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  Speaker 3: where this goes back to? And a lot of our
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  Speaker 3: listeners remember it because it was incomprehensible. Bob Barker, the
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  Speaker 3: host of The Price is Right, veteran, you know, tough guy.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody can black belt. You don't want to mess with
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  Speaker 3: Bob Barker. He was a hardcore vegan. And if he
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  Speaker 3: saw you wearing fur out where he lived in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 3: he would condemn that. He'd run down Rodeo Drive screaming,
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  Speaker 3: take that fur off.
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  Speaker 4: He became.
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  Speaker 3: Their role model, but they figured we got to do
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  Speaker 3: something really extreme. I call it because every group has
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  Speaker 3: gone through this stage when they're first being birthed. It's
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  Speaker 3: the splash and then dash. You make a big splash
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  Speaker 3: and then there's no organizing and mobilizing afterwards. You got
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  Speaker 3: a headline and then you do a dash because you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be arrested. You don't want to be
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  Speaker 3: served civilly, you know, because then depositions, you got to
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  Speaker 3: lawyer up. So under the cover of darkness, sometimes they
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  Speaker 3: would commit these vandal acts. And I think they realized
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  Speaker 3: it sort of ran out, you know, ran out of gas.
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  Speaker 3: After a while, their donors would say, okay. And what
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  Speaker 3: do you have to show for it?
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  Speaker 1: And they became the villains. People felt sorry for the
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  Speaker 1: people in the furs. It was exactly the opposite that
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  Speaker 1: they thought was going to happen. And that's why I
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  Speaker 1: thought that they weren't relevant anymore. But you told me that, no,
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  Speaker 1: they were behind the horse carriages in Central Park. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you the update. They decided, OK, we've got to
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  Speaker 1: form coalitions because we're considered to be the loony kazoonies.
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  Speaker 1: We're considered to be the crazies of the animal welfare movement.
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  Speaker 1: There were animal welfare people didn't want to have anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with them. Say, no, if they come to
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  Speaker 1: our demonstration, it'll taint it. They'll steal the limelight. People
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  Speaker 1: will think it's a PETA demonstration.
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  Speaker 3: So they started working in coalitions and they would always
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  Speaker 3: take a step back. So they'd be part of the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: They would bring some of their supporters. They had their
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  Speaker 3: PETA shirts on. But the leaders would not demand to
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  Speaker 3: be up at the podium, you know, like politicians. We
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  Speaker 3: must speak. Why must you speak? Because you know who
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  Speaker 3: I am? Yeah, who are you? So the PETA people understood, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: If they invite you to come up and speak on
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  Speaker 3: behalf of the organization, quick, swiftly, to the point, don't
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  Speaker 3: say anything totally off the hook. And so now these
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  Speaker 3: coalitions started forming, and they said, wow, what happened to PETA?
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  Speaker 2: They've matured. They like to say that in the movement.
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  Speaker 2: They've matured. So they'll show up.
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  Speaker 3: They'll be at the back of the line. They have
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  Speaker 3: been successful with other groups. The fashion shows always had fur.
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  Speaker 3: The fashionistas in Milan and Paris and New York that
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  Speaker 3: set the trends would always have furriers involved at some
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  Speaker 3: point of their fashion week. Well, in coalition with so
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  Speaker 3: many other groups, they've done away with furs in the
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  Speaker 3: New York Fashion Week. They've done away with furs in
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  Speaker 3: the Paris Fashion Week. The only ones left are Milan,
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  Speaker 3: and they're just about ready to say no mas, no mas,
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  Speaker 3: because they come in with huge numbers. And then PETA
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  Speaker 3: takes a back step.
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  Speaker 2: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't hear about PETA in any of the things
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: Which is brilliant on their part. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: how much they've grown now. They now have more money
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  Speaker 1: than they've ever had before. They have $ 124 million in
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  Speaker 1: the bank. And now they have 10.4 million members, which
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  Speaker 1: is bigger than they ever were. And that's what you
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  Speaker 1: get when you're not crazy. When people can believe in
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  Speaker 1: your cause and you don't embarrass them for believing in
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  Speaker 1: the cause.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy got them the headlines. So you remember, what is PETA?
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  Speaker 3: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. But that video
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  Speaker 3: you're referring to that they first put out where you
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  Speaker 3: see the mama cow delivering the calf and right away
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  Speaker 3: they take the calf away. They'll throw it in the
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  Speaker 3: back of a truck, never to be seen. And the
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  Speaker 3: cow is crying and running towards the truck. That caused
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  Speaker 3: many people no longer to eat veal like yourself. And
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  Speaker 3: quite frankly, if you went into an Italian-American community.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, they'd tell you, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: If you were in a Sopranos episode, you're not eating
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  Speaker 3: a veal parmesan?
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  Speaker 2: What are you giving to Peter?
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  Speaker 1: The mistreatment of the calves goes beyond just taking them away.
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  Speaker 1: Then they don't want them to have any muscle structure.
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  Speaker 1: So they make them stand by themselves and for months
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  Speaker 1: and months and months until they slaughter them. And then
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  Speaker 1: we eat veal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and guess what? I'm on my way January 1st.
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  Speaker 3: This will be my New Year's resolution. I will be
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  Speaker 3: a full-scale vegan. A full-scale vegan.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean exactly? What can't you eat?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Nancy is going through the whole list now, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at it, and I'm like, what can I eat?
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  Speaker 2: Start easy.
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  Speaker 7: Start light.
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  Speaker 2: But I understand.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We have a culinary delight that will partly get me
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  Speaker 3: there this morning.
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  Speaker 7: I will help you get there.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe we'll get you to be an ovo-lacto-vegetarian to start out,
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  Speaker 8: where you can have eggs and dairy.
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  Speaker 7: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, daria, daria. Bring me in, bring me in. Ovo-lacto. Ovo-lacto.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm bringing you some spanakopita this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh.
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  Speaker 7: From the St.
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  Speaker 8: Anthony's International Festival. That's my church in Bergenfield, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 8: which we're having this Friday and Saturday. And I wanted
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  Speaker 8: you guys to get a taste of what we're going
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  Speaker 8: to do. So the best way to describe spanakopita, and
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  Speaker 8: I hope I don't upset my fellow Greek here, it's
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  Speaker 8: a Greek strudel. It's a savory Greek strudel.
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  Speaker 9: No meat.
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  Speaker 7: No meat in it.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: No eggs.
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  Speaker 7: Spinach, it does have eggs.
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  Speaker 5: It does have eggs.
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  Speaker 1: And cheese.
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  Speaker 4: You can't eat it.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to ease into it.
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm working my way. We're going to ease into it.
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  Speaker 7: By the time Greek Lent begins, you'll be vegan.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Greek Lent.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: You'll be vegan.
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  Speaker 8: And then you can do it with me and we'll
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  Speaker 8: both be miserable to deal with.
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  Speaker 7: I love a festival.
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  Speaker 2: I love a good one.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, and this is a good one. This sounds amazing.
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  Speaker 8: This is a good one because we are a pan-Orthodox church,
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  Speaker 8: which means we have Greek food? Middle Eastern food, Slavic food,
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  Speaker 8: and Latin American food because a lot of converts from
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  Speaker 8: Latin American heritages have become Orthodox. So you can get spanakopita,
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  Speaker 8: You can have a little bit of kielbasa and sauerkraut.
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  Speaker 7: And we have really good podogies. I know you and
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  Speaker 7: I are both part Polish.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 8: We have good podogies there. You could have grape leaves.
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  Speaker 8: You could have arroz con pollo. And you could chase
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  Speaker 8: it with a Russian body.
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  Speaker 10: This is crazy.
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  Speaker 5: This is amazing.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: And it's called spanakopita?
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  Speaker 7: Spanakopita. That is one of the things that we are
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  Speaker 7: known for. And you allegedly have some for us?
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  Speaker 4: Where is it?
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to heat it up for you right now.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to heat it up for you right now.
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  Speaker 7: It's phyllo dough with lots of butter. So it is
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  Speaker 7: not vegan. Lots of butter.
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  Speaker 8: It's got a filling that's made with spinach and ricotta cheese.
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  Speaker 8: And we put feta in ours. I know some people
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  Speaker 8: don't put feta in theirs. Put a little bit of
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  Speaker 8: dill in ours as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's flaky. It's golden.
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  Speaker 7: And I eat it for breakfast sometimes. You could eat
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  Speaker 7: it any time of day. I know people are going
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  Speaker 7: to be asking. Can you just tell us where this
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  Speaker 7: is going to be? This is going to be at St.
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  Speaker 7: Anthony Orthodox Church.
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  Speaker 8: We're located at 385 Ivy Lane in Bergenfield, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 8: northern New Jersey.
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  Speaker 7: Not far at all from here. And by the way,
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  Speaker 7: we have a lot of listeners to WOR.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 8: So I wanted to say hi to Jackie and to
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  Speaker 8: Leslie because I know they're listening.
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  Speaker 7: I also have some sweets for you guys, too.
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  Speaker 2: And it starts Friday, right?
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  Speaker 7: It starts Friday, 11 o'clock to 10 o'clock, Friday and Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: That's wonderful. Join us.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be at the bar. Come say hi.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the alleged food that you have.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 7: I'll be bringing it in.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Darian. Taught you in the news. Well,
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: when we come back, there is a huge online Springsteen
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  Speaker 1: fan club that is now disbanding.
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  Speaker 2: Guess why?
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  Speaker 1: Over politics. Plus a chance to see Tommy James and
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  Speaker 1: the Shondells at 825.
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  Speaker 8: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty.
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  Speaker 2: They're better together.
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  Speaker 4: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, you go to sleep at night with Jimmy Fell.
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  Speaker 3: You hear 710WOR, number one talk station in New York.
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  Speaker 3: 9 to 12. And then you wake up with Larry
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  Speaker 3: and me in the morning at 6. And Jimmy, I
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  Speaker 3: thought there was a cardinal rule thou shalt not criticize
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  Speaker 3: your fellow comedians, but... Dave Chappelle on stage, Madison Square Garden,
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  Speaker 3: packed crowds Saturday night in one of his riffs said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know why I was feeling so
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  Speaker 3: good on.
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  Speaker 2: The day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm not supposed to be right, but I
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  Speaker 3: was feeling so good. What say you, Jimmy Fallon?
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  Speaker 5: Well, as someone who knows Chappelle. If he's feeling good,
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  Speaker 5: it's because of the weed. I don't want to confuse
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  Speaker 5: the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: But he's not smoking a strand called Charlie. He's smoking
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  Speaker 6: purple haze. Quite aggressively, I might add.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, on that story, I got to tell you really quickly.
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  Speaker 6: I always disagree with people on the right who get mad.
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  Speaker 6: Because the truth is, and I've said this a million
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  Speaker 6: times when the left was trying to cancel comedians, comedy
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  Speaker 6: is just comedy. You're supposed to treat it like a buffet.
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  Speaker 6: If you see an item you like, you throw it
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  Speaker 6: on the tray. If you don't like the item, you
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  Speaker 6: just keep on walking. Everybody gets their own tray. And
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  Speaker 6: the reason I feel that way is obviously I don't
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  Speaker 6: agree with a word Chappelle said, But the minute you
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  Speaker 6: start trying to cancel comedians, you become the thing we
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  Speaker 6: just campaigned against. You know, I wrote a New York
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  Speaker 6: Times bestseller about this thing about the left canceling people
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  Speaker 6: called Cancel Culture Dictionary. And if you like reading at
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  Speaker 6: a third grade level, Curtis, you're going to love this book.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still struggling with comic books. Come on. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but everybody can make their own choice on Chappelle.
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  Speaker 1: You agree with that, right? Like, if I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to listen to him anymore?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think his comments are gross.
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  Speaker 6: I think there is a problem with political violence on
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  Speaker 6: the left that they're never made to own. So I really,
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  Speaker 6: I don't mind that Republicans.
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  Speaker 5: Are getting mad and going after them for that.
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  Speaker 6: But the fool's errand really is like the comedy that's
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  Speaker 6: canceling the comedian never surges in like popularity, specifically not
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  Speaker 6: with like younger voters.
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  Speaker 5: So it's kind of like, you know, you're rolling the dice.
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  Speaker 6: But as a consumer, yeah, you have every right not
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  Speaker 6: to listen to this garbage because it is it's garbage.
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  Speaker 6: And he knows what he's doing, you know, and he's
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  Speaker 6: kind of cheaply surfing off of that left wing, you know,
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  Speaker 6: political fetish with violence.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the.
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  Speaker 6: Luigi Mangione thing where the women are writing letters to Luigi.
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  Speaker 6: And apparently he writes back, according to my wife.
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, now I get it. Now I get it. It
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  Speaker 11: went right over my head, that one. Well, let's take
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  Speaker 11: it up a notch with Comedians in Trouble. A guy
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  Speaker 11: that not only got canceled, he's going to go to prison,
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  Speaker 11: Russell Brand.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know him? Have you run into him?
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  Speaker 5: I have never met Russell Brand.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I was a cab driver when they were
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  Speaker 6: having all those white parties at P.
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  Speaker 4: Diddy's house.
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  Speaker 5: I dropped off more people than I partied with.
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  Speaker 6: You know, unfortunately, they weren't the best tippers.
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  Speaker 5: They would give you just the tip.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Are there comics you worked with where you'd say to
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  Speaker 1: other people, to other women comics or other women, you
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  Speaker 1: want to stay away from him?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I personally didn't have the experience, but I
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  Speaker 6: knew of like everyone knew the Louis C.K.
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  Speaker 5: Story back in the day. OK, that was kind of
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  Speaker 5: a known thing.
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  Speaker 6: There wasn't so much a thing for Russell Brand because
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  Speaker 6: he wasn't doing like clubs in the city, meaning like
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  Speaker 6: he didn't come up with any of us. He just
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  Speaker 6: like showed up in America as kind of a famous
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  Speaker 6: comedy actor who was now in movies and, you know,
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  Speaker 6: making the rounds online.
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  Speaker 5: But I absolutely, you can.
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  Speaker 6: Always tell around comics, like two things for real, Larry,
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: like every, there's a lot of comics you meet in
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: the beginning, right? That you don't get too close to,
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: cause you know, without a doubt, they're going to be
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: in rehab in three years and they're not going to
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: be hanging out anyway.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: So that's, and then that other cultural thing, like you said,
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: with Russell brand, I didn't see a lot of that,
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: but again, it doesn't mean it ain't out there because
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: there's a lot of dirt bags and showbiz.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: You know? Uh, now, uh, Since you have the top-rated
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: entertainment show on the Fox News Channel Saturday night, because
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: it's not political. It's really entertainment. You spread it, sort
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: of like Fluffanutter. You give everyone their props. Are you
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: going to be inviting the new star of the Fox
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: News Channel?
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Free Diddy!
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Free Diddy now! The new face of MAGA, Anthony Constantino!
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: Listen, I talked about him for the last five minutes
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: of my monologue Saturday night because Constantino reminds me of
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: Donald Trump if he switched from Diet Coke to Hunter
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: Biden's Coke.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Let us enjoy that one for a second. Yeah,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: let us marinate that. Please, please. That was such a
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: great line.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: What a time.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: What a time to be alive.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: So, you know, very interesting.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: I don't know that he has a speechwriter, Anthony Constantino.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: But if he does, I assume it's Andrew Dice Clay.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: But it's very pugnacious.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: And I enjoyed it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Like, I found it funny, you know.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the weird thing is it's going to make
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: him a celebrity. Just the fact that he seems like
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a walking train wreck is going to get him probably
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: more attention than most people getting into office.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, 100 percent, because we do we live in this
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: world now. It's we're not going back. OK, social media
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: really is the defining force in politics now.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: It just is, unfortunately.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: And everybody now is a political influencer with a side
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: hustle in Congress.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: That is reality. That's what AOC is doing.
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: The run.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: And it's unfortunate, but we're like a year removed from
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: politicians doing upside-down handstands and giving us their plank routines
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: in order to get nominated, meaning there's no mention of
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: policy or anything. At least Constantino talks policy in the
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: way that he does, so I give him that for
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: at least being substantive. I don't know that I'd have
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: any of those substances before I.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Drove, but I'm just saying.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: By the way, mentored by the star of a new
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: reality show, George Santos, who paved the way for the
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Anthony Constantinos of the world.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: Listen i i love george santos i mean he's the
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: original swing voter you know when you think about it
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: because he was doing a little bit of everything he
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: told me that on my shell the boys.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: The girls how much can you talk about your feelings
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: since he used to work with him about what pete
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: hegseth is going through right now you.
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: Know it's funny man like i'll give you everything i
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: got on that one um The thing I like about
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: what Pete has done at the Pentagon is they're breaking
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: recruiting records. So he is doing a great job of
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: catering to the people who want to break stuff and
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: kill people, as Rush Limbaugh used to describe the military.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: But there's obviously this other bloodlust for him that started
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: long before he got into office, you know, even during
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: the confirmation hearings. So it's like I'm torn on this
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: because I actually like that he's growing the recruiting numbers
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: in a way that the previous administration wasn't.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: You know, again, we were, you know, bringing in drag queens.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: We were getting pronouns for generals. We don't need that.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? We do need the guys
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: that are going to save Private Ryan, not the guys
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: that are going to transition Private Ryan.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: So we do.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: But on the other side of this thing, I honestly
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: don't know, you know, who the blame for Iran is,
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: because the president standing by it is like, if I
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: had it to do over, I'd do it again.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: And J.D.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Vance is trying to distance himself.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: But the point is, if you're asking me, would I
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: be surprised to be back on a Fox and Friends
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: couch with Hegseth next week?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: No, I would not.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: It'll be nice to see him again.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Well, Jimmy Fallon, you can listen to him tonight on
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Fox Across America with Jimmy Fallon. He's also host of
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy Fallon on the Fox
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: News channel. Thanks a lot, Jimmy.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Love you guys.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Now it's time to bring in John Decker, WOR White
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast, The
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: White House Briefing Room with John Decker. That can be
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: found on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning to you, John. Listen,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you know, we're all members of the big iHeart family.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And with that, you know, people in the family are
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: so proud of you. You've been the star of these
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: White House polls and press conferences. And I just want
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to play a question that you asked to the president yesterday.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 21:21
  Speaker 12: President, you on the campaign trail, you had said that
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: you had stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Why
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: not just declare an end to the conflict and be
• 21:32
  Speaker 12: done with it?
• 21:33
  Speaker 9: Because we have some great allies there and we have
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: to make sure they're not hurt and they would be hurt.
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: They are right now a lot safer than they were.
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: six months ago, because Iran's been very much decapitated. But
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: they're still the bully of the Middle East a little bit.
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: And I see that. We want to make sure they're OK.
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: We want to make sure it's a long-term solution, not
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: just a short-term. They'll never have a nuclear weapon, but
• 22:00
  Speaker 9: we have to make sure that's a long-term.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: So it's ending quickly.
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: But we want to take care of people that have
• 22:06
  Speaker 9: been very good to us over the years.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: There's so much to read in that question and answer,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: because I believe, John, if somebody from MSNOW or CNN
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: had asked that question, he would have attacked them. But
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I think he has some respect for you, and that's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the reason you got that answer.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Well done. Great question.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And it was nice that you set it up by
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: being respectful in the White House.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks.
• 22:32
  Speaker 10: There's a tone, there's a way to approach the president
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: and still get a good answer from the president. And
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: I think through all the years that I've known President Trump,
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: first time I interviewed Donald Trump was way back in 1999.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: I've built up what you describe as a well of
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: respect with President Trump. So to me, that's an important
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: question because as you know, it's the vice president who
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: said the war in Iran is the reason why the
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: midterms went the way they did It's the president who
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: said he agrees with the vice president. And that's the
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: reason why I asked that question to the president yesterday.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: It was a perfect question. It was just a perfect question.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Don't you think, Curtis?
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: It goes along with me saying declare victory and get
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: the hell out of there.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I hear that from so many. I hear that from
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: people that are fans of the president. And I hear
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: it from.
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: People who describe themselves as, you know, never Trumpers, you know.
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: And so it's one of those issues that really actually
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: unites people in terms of wanting to see an end
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: to that conflict.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: You know, when we were most united on election night,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: John Decker, in the wee hours of the morning, the
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: president who never sleeps, gave an interview in which he said, yep,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I see, yep, yep, I'm willing to accept the results
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: of this election, the Democrats winning.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: That was then. And then all of a sudden, Monday night,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Truth Social. This is Trump. Does anybody really believe this
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: election was honest? It's all about the machines which are
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: more important than the voter.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: No, no, tell me, John Decker, he didn't start this, this, this,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: the steal, you know, the election denial.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Is he, is he starting this?
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: Well, I think when the president spoke to Fox News
• 24:21
  Speaker 10: in the aftermath of those election results late on Tuesday night,
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: His guard was down, you know, and to a certain extent,
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: you know, when your guard is down, you answer truthfully,
• 24:33
  Speaker 10: you answer honestly. And, you know, now the president, you know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: on reflection, realizes what has happened, that Democrats come January
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: the 3rd will retake control of both the House and
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: the Senate.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: There has to be a logical explanation for this, Curtis.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: And the logical explanation, according to the president, is that
• 24:52
  Speaker 10: this was an election that was rife with fraud.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: And he's the only one out there saying it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: I don't hear others either within the administration or allies
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: of the president saying the same thing.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully it's a one-off. He got it out of
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: his system and now he's going to move on to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: other things. So we should move on to other things
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like Pete Hegseth is going to have a press availability today.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: This is going to be quite a fight. in the
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: House of Representatives, because the last time he was there,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: it was fireworks. This time, I think it's going to
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: be even more.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I agree with you.
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: And I honestly don't know how this vote is going
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: to turn out. Now, we know it's not going to
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: be a party-line vote because the person who brought the
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: articles of impeachment to the floor of the House is
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: a Republican. So at least there will be one Republican
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: voting with every Democrat trying to impeach Pete Hegseth. There
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: could be others because there are Republicans in the House
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: that are heading out the door, Larry. This is their
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: final weeks in the House of Representatives. To a certain extent,
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: some of them blame the president for that. So you
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: could see a few other Republicans join with Democrats in
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: trying to impeach Pete Hegseth. We'll know the answer to
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: that question likely within the next 24 to 48 hours.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Now, did the president address the CCP spy that he
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: was having the urge to merge with from Singapore that
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: he gave super chips to, most valued by everyone, that
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: went to the red Chinese? Did the president acknowledge that
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: apparently he had been told this by a memo from
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Rubio that the guy is compromised because of this love
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: affair he had with that CCP woman?
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: Well, the president gave an answer to that very question.
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: And he says he doesn't remember reading or seeing that
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: memo that was written by Marco Rubio, reported by the
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: New York Times, not denied in any way by the
• 26:58
  Speaker 10: State Department. So that memo certainly was written. And that
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: memo spells out the danger that the CEO, the president,
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: the founder of NVIDIA could be under in the sense
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: that he was having an affair with someone.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Who was a spy for the Chinese government.
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: And given all of the interactions between Jensen Huang and
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: the president, between Jensen Huang and the Chinese government, you
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: can understand why that memo was written by Marco Rubio.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: What do you expect over the next two years?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Because you've been there before with people that have taken
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: a bath during the midterms, and he has reached his
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: hand across the aisle on a couple of issues very
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: early on, which is unlike him. Can we expect him
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to be conciliatory, or do you think that was just
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: in the moment when he was taking in the results?
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: You know, I don't know the answer to that, Larry, because,
• 27:56
  Speaker 10: you know, every president that is essentially counting down the
• 27:59
  Speaker 10: dead days until they leave the White House does think
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: about their legacy. Now, the president has a physical legacy,
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: all the things that he's done to the property of
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: the White House. But you also want to have a
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: legacy beyond that. He has a legacy certainly at the
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: Supreme Court. But does he want to have a legacy
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: for these final two years and move legislation through Congress
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: to do that? It's something in which you need compromise,
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: you need conciliation. And so we'll see whether the president
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: decides to move in that direction to try to move
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: forward legislation on, for instance, immigration, something he brought up
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: that on Tuesday night, last Tuesday night, as the results
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: were coming in.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: That's an area, he says, in which he could cooperate
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: with Democrats.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: John Dagger, over the years, you've seen chiefs of staff
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: come and chiefs of staff go. some with accommodation, some
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: with a lot of vitriol. Susie Wiles leaves for another
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: position and Stephen Miller is elevated from deputy chief of
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: staff to the chief of staff. First off, what is
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: the role of the chief of staff? And number two,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: was that a signal that he has a wartime consigliere now?
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: Well, that's what I hear. That's what I've read. You know, that's,
• 29:14
  Speaker 10: Stephen Miller's style. You know, he is a pugilist.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: He is a fighter.
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: He is not a compromiser. So if you want someone
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: in that role to have that kind of tone and
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: tenor set at the White House as it relates to
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: relations with Congress, the president chose the right person in
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller is a longtime aide to the president.
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: He's the architect of his implementation.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Crackdown. And the president trusts Stephen Miller.
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: So what I expect is Stephen Miller being given essentially
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: free reign to run the White House in the way
• 29:51
  Speaker 10: that he wishes and to deal with Congress in the
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: way that he wishes. And what I do expect is
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: a lot of battles between the White House and Congress,
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: which will be controlled by Democrats for the next two years.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: You know, the midterm results are sort of like a
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: starting gun for the 2028 presidential election, where people are
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: already starting to claim their ground, especially the governor of Florida,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis. Give me a ballpark. We were trying to
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: figure this out here. How many people do you think
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: are going to throw their hat in the rain for
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the Democrats, and how many for the Republicans?
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say maybe 10 to 15 on each side.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: I think that it's just an interesting environment.
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: We don't know what the environment is going to be
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: like two years from now. It may not be what
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: it exists right now.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Maybe the U.S.
• 30:44
  Speaker 10: Economy makes a huge comeback, and it's just firing on
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: all cylinders. And if that's the case, that's the perfect
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: environment for someone like J.D.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Vance on the Republican side to keep.
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: That good economic feeling going within the administration. On the
• 31:03
  Speaker 10: other hand, if the feeling or environment is like it
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: was on Tuesday night, last Tuesday night, it's not a
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: good sign for someone within the administration. And then Ron
• 31:14
  Speaker 10: DeSantis could take advantage as an outsider running for the
• 31:18
  Speaker 10: Republican nomination. On the Democratic side, you have so many
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: governors and and some that just did really well, like
• 31:25
  Speaker 10: Josh Shapiro, won by more than 20 points, who will
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: certainly throw their hat in the ring. You have a
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: number of senators. Certainly, Cory Booker is going to run
• 31:34
  Speaker 10: for president. Any Republican or Democrat who's run for president
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: in the last 10 years will certainly give a strong
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: look at running again in 2028.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent, host of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: which can be found on the iHeartRadio app. John, it's
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: going to be a fascinating two years. I can't wait
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to talk to you about it. Thanks, Larry.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Curtis. Have a great day. Bye-bye.