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BONUS RADIO: Celebrating America's 250th Birthday in Times Square · That KEVIN Show

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  Speaker 2: We are live from Times Square celebrating America two point fifty.
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  Speaker 2: We've been talking about this day for months and we're
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  Speaker 2: so excited that it's finally here. And if you're coming
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  Speaker 2: down to Times Square, if you're in the New York
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  Speaker 2: area and you're coming down to Times Square, please be kind.
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  Speaker 2: Don't see my big forty five foot bald head on
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  Speaker 2: the billboard and make fun of me. I'm very sensitive
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  Speaker 2: about such things. We gotta have kindness in Times Square today.
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  Speaker 2: That lady who's laughing right there is Christy Nicholas, and uh, Christy,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a good sport about you are a very good sport.
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  Speaker 6: And I noticed that you're you're donning a beautiful hat,
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  Speaker 6: says The Kevin Show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep the shine down under the under
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  Speaker 2: the tent here today.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Lou Bassine is also with us. You hear him on
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  Speaker 2: Mondays with us talking about finance and investing and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: And Lou, your your your non bald head is alsome.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not follically challenged, though, no you're not.
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  Speaker 8: It is a weird feeling to see your your mug
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  Speaker 8: up in Times Square it is.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a it's a cool feeling and we're here
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  Speaker 2: celebrating because the guy next to you made it all possible.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Harris, we call him T Square. Actually, Michael Jay,
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  Speaker 2: the Saturday Night Live comedian, was the one that was
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  Speaker 2: the one that coined it. But he said T square
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  Speaker 2: and he's been T square ever since.
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  Speaker 4: This is you.
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  Speaker 2: This is the love of your life. Next to missus, Harris,
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  Speaker 2: your your your next closest love is is where you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting and what you're doing right now.
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  Speaker 9: After my kids, it is Times Square, wife, kids, Time Square.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you need a dog, Tom.
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  Speaker 2: I just got to say, listen, Times Square is the
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  Speaker 2: place to be.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you so much to everyone for being here and
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  Speaker 9: for broadcasting the show live from Times Square.
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  Speaker 2: Really is amazing how many people come through here on
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  Speaker 2: a given year. On a given year close to one
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  Speaker 2: hundred million.
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  Speaker 9: We have about two hundred and fifty thousand people per
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  Speaker 9: day who come through Times Square.
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  Speaker 2: Check me by saying a year that's right.
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  Speaker 9: Here, stump me because usually it's a day the curbless.
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  Speaker 8: Does the World Cup change that or do you have
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  Speaker 8: events each year that kind of bring here in the
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  Speaker 8: steady average?
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  Speaker 9: There is always a reason for people to come to
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  Speaker 9: Times Square, and we've maintained our numbers with the World Cup.
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  Speaker 9: It's just different folks come.
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  Speaker 3: It's very different. In fact, funny funny photo.
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  Speaker 6: On Sunday, you had the summer Solstice, which is a
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  Speaker 6: wonderful longest day of the year, but they celebrate here
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  Speaker 6: at Times Square alliance with a yoga from sunrise to sunset.
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  Speaker 6: So when you had the sunset yoga in the evening,
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  Speaker 6: you had all of these mats all over the four
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  Speaker 6: or five different plazas that they have in Times Square.
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  Speaker 6: But then the Norwegian showed up from their victory. They're
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  Speaker 6: wearing their red shirts, they're all over and they start
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  Speaker 6: doing the rowing, the Norwegian rowing, So you had yoga's
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  Speaker 6: the Viking rowing, and.
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  Speaker 3: It was such a dichotomy.
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  Speaker 6: It was so funny, and it's only in Times Square
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  Speaker 6: that that could actually happen.
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  Speaker 9: And it really is where the world comes together to play.
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  Speaker 9: Because in between the Norwegians and the yoga, the folks
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  Speaker 9: from Senegal came out. So at one point the Norwegians
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  Speaker 9: put the Norwegian flag up on Georgia m Cowen and
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  Speaker 9: then the Senegals, Senegalese went up and took it down
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  Speaker 9: and put the Senegal flag down, and it was just
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  Speaker 9: such good spirited fun. And one of the guys from
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  Speaker 9: Senegal wasn't tall enough, so one of the Norwegians was
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  Speaker 9: sort of helping him up. And it really is where
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  Speaker 9: the whole world comes together, puts a side, differences and
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  Speaker 9: just has a great time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb here.
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  Speaker 2: This is not gonna be the serious Time Square interview
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  Speaker 2: we did that in hour one. I'm going to bet
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  Speaker 2: that each of the four of us have a very
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  Speaker 2: funny Times Square story in our past, and I want
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  Speaker 2: to know what yours is, Tom Harris, you have more
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  Speaker 2: stories of Times Square than anybody at the table. What's
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  Speaker 2: the funniest one that's happened to you or you've been
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  Speaker 2: part of.
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  Speaker 9: I think that every day I'm in awe, that I
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  Speaker 9: am shocked. Every day in Times Square. There's not a
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  Speaker 9: day that goes by that I don't say wow. That
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  Speaker 9: sort of surprised me, and I think on Sunday, the
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  Speaker 9: fact that three thousand Norwegians were rowing on the Red steps,
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  Speaker 9: it was kind of like, Wow, this is pretty cool
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  Speaker 9: and then at one point they all started to do
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  Speaker 9: a yoga pose because we were doing yoga. Next show up,
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  Speaker 9: that's right, And I told Gary Winkler, who does our events,
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  Speaker 9: we're counting them in our numbers for.
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  Speaker 2: To Okay, I'm not a funny guy.
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  Speaker 4: I don't have any funny experiences.
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  Speaker 2: I get something memorable, memorable.
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  Speaker 4: This is the top of the list.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think I would ever imagine being here with
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  Speaker 8: a good friend, someone that I hadn't met before, the
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  Speaker 8: head of the Times Square Alliance, the queen of public
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  Speaker 8: relations in New York City, uh, and just witnessing everything
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  Speaker 8: going on because sometimes, as in New Yorker, you don't
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  Speaker 8: think of coming through Times Square. It's when you have
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  Speaker 8: visitors that come in is when you head here. But
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  Speaker 8: I think this is one of it has to be the.
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  Speaker 2: Most christine, most memorable, funniest whatever.
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  Speaker 6: So we've done these broadcasts before in Times Square and
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  Speaker 6: they're all very special, but the one in December was
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  Speaker 6: you know, like twenty degrees below, and we decided to
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  Speaker 6: do it anyway, and we had a lot of restaurant
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  Speaker 6: tours come out and one one guy.
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  Speaker 3: Called the product cold, like is this supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: be she's.
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  Speaker 2: We're supposed to eat, We're supposed.
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  Speaker 6: To get it in front of them, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: this is delicious.
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  Speaker 3: It was frozen.
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  Speaker 6: And then of course serendipity brought their frozen hot chocolate,
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  Speaker 6: which technically was actually frozen chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: Was delicious.
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  Speaker 3: But I have to say one of the special moments.
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  Speaker 6: That I have here with my family is every Valentines,
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  Speaker 6: the Times Square Alliance creates love and Times Square and.
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  Speaker 3: In the evening they allow those who are married.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they do the engagements, they do the weddings
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  Speaker 6: early on, but then those who have been married, and
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  Speaker 6: if they have a special milestone, they allow them to
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  Speaker 6: renew their vows. So Nick and I last year were
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  Speaker 6: celebrating twenty five years of marriage. Marital bliss. I will say,
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  Speaker 6: because I married Saint Nicholas. If you will, oh that
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  Speaker 6: is she is, yes, okay, she she just call her husband. Well,
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  Speaker 6: he does give a lot and also the fact that
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  Speaker 6: he married me makes him partly.
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  Speaker 2: Saintly but a lot of parting.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, But our children were there to experience it and
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  Speaker 6: it was just really special. And so our kids were
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  Speaker 6: there along with like a few thousand other people. And
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  Speaker 6: then we went to Virgil's for a very romantic dinner
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  Speaker 6: at Virgil's barbecue with the kids.
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  Speaker 2: With the sauce of everything. Okay, fine, you guys all
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  Speaker 2: did serious ones best. Times Square memory was one of
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  Speaker 2: my earliest visits to New York because I didn't grow
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  Speaker 2: up here and I was doing radio in Chicago. Got
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  Speaker 2: off the air at like seven or eight pm New
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  Speaker 2: York time, had to catch a flight. By the time
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  Speaker 2: we got here, got into our hotel, I had not eaten.
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  Speaker 2: So my buddy and I said, well, what's open? And
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  Speaker 2: it was like going on midnight, maybe after midnight. So
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  Speaker 2: they're like, well, everything at Times Square, So just head
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  Speaker 2: over to Times Square and the Sabarrow was open at
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  Speaker 2: after midnight.
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  Speaker 4: The two self respecting Italians right here going please.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, that was bad. I'm married to
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  Speaker 2: one now. But it's but that's a fine dining, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, to Texans, to Texans, it is. But I was,
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  Speaker 2: I was, I was so hungry, and they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: to Barrow is open. And I don't know if you remember,
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  Speaker 2: but Sabar had the window all the pizza where you
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  Speaker 2: could sit and look out the window while you ate
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  Speaker 2: your slice. And we didn't. I didn't know how to
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  Speaker 2: call it a slice. It was, but it was like
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  Speaker 2: the first time. So we're watching this is like by
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  Speaker 2: the time we get our food, it's like after one
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  Speaker 2: thirty two o'clock in the morning, and here down the
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  Speaker 2: street comes five hundred bicycles on a race at two
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  Speaker 2: am in Times Square. And I said, dang it, this
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  Speaker 2: is the funnest city on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: I'm moving here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna work here someday, Like I just made the
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  Speaker 2: decision then, And it was because it was all Times
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  Speaker 2: Square's fault. Yeah, because they had the bike racer in
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  Speaker 2: the marning you.
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  Speaker 6: To get on a bike, because I just can't imagine
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  Speaker 6: Kevin McCollough on a bike.
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  Speaker 2: Bicycles, but having a race at two am.
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  Speaker 1: That's prime New York memory right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's Times Square. When we come back, very special guests
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  Speaker 2: talking about America's role on the globe. Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: It's that Kevin Show live from Times Square.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is from New York. Exact Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
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  Speaker 2: It's that Kevin Show and four hundred cities across the
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  Speaker 2: country joining us. Thank you for being here with us.
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  Speaker 2: We're on location today very special broadcast from Times Square,
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  Speaker 2: acknowledging America's two fifty kind of the kickoff to the
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  Speaker 2: whole America two fifty July fourth tunnel that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have here in New York. It's going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk in just a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: actually about the sale fourth two fifty event, and that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be spectacular to see. And someone who may
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  Speaker 2: be very interested in it is joining us now. Kat McFarlane,
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  Speaker 2: former Deputy National Security Advisor, national security advisor to multiple
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  Speaker 2: presidents at one time, the equivalent civilian rank of a
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  Speaker 2: four star admiral or general in the Pentagon. KT Mike
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  Speaker 2: hosts today. Lou Bassinice and Christine Nicholas also joined us,
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  Speaker 2: and Christine was regaling me with stories of your past
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  Speaker 2: political exploits here in New York State. So it's been
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  Speaker 2: had an old home week. But talk to me a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, Kat, about the significance of America's role, including
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  Speaker 2: our military from the very beginning, because Washington and Adams
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  Speaker 2: and some of these guys right out the shoot had
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  Speaker 2: to decide about global conflict as it pertained to America's
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  Speaker 2: well being in safety and what are your thoughts as
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  Speaker 2: we approach two fifty.
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  Speaker 7: Well, first of all, let's go back to two fifty
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  Speaker 7: and what did the United States? What were these patriots,
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  Speaker 7: these founding fathers, what were they debating? What did they
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  Speaker 7: think face them when they signed the Declaration of independence?
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  Speaker 7: They were taking on They knew they'd have to fight,
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  Speaker 7: and they knew that they had an occupying army, the
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  Speaker 7: British Army, and they were taking on the single most
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  Speaker 7: powerful military in the world, not just in the you know,
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  Speaker 7: not just in their continent, not just in their neighborhood.
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  Speaker 7: In the world. The British Empire was like the Roman Empire.
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  Speaker 7: It ruled the world. And these patriots, they wanted freedom
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  Speaker 7: so much. They believed in freedom and the ability to
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  Speaker 7: govern themselves and democracy and representative government. They believed in
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  Speaker 7: it so much that they put their fortunes on the line,
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  Speaker 7: they put their lives on the line, and in fact,
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  Speaker 7: many of them died for the cause. So right from
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  Speaker 7: the get go, it was an ambitious project, and it
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  Speaker 7: was a dream, and it was something that everybody would
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  Speaker 7: have laughed. In fact, when the British surrendered at Yorktown
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  Speaker 7: to General Washington, the band played the world's turned upside down.
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  Speaker 7: So from the very beginning, we, against all odds prevailed.
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  Speaker 7: And then when they wrote the constitution, there were two
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  Speaker 7: things that were very different from other counts. Well, first
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  Speaker 7: of all, having a constitution was different. Other countries don't
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  Speaker 7: have constitutions. The British had sort of a history of laws,
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  Speaker 7: but not a written constitution like we do. And they
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  Speaker 7: did two things which are really different. They said that
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  Speaker 7: the military would be would never be important enough to
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  Speaker 7: take to give orders to the civilians. So we have
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  Speaker 7: something close civilian control of the military. In every other
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  Speaker 7: country in the history of the world, the military, once
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  Speaker 7: you make it powerful enough and powerful enough and large enough,
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  Speaker 7: the military often takes over. That's exactly what happened when
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  Speaker 7: Julius Caesar, I mean the Roman Empire, the Roman Republic
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  Speaker 7: gave way to the Roman Empire, and because the military
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  Speaker 7: took power. If you look at country after country after country,
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  Speaker 7: it was the military that took power once they became
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  Speaker 7: so powerful. But in our country we have civilian control
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  Speaker 7: of the military. And why is that so different. Well,
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  Speaker 7: we have the most powerful military or in the history
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  Speaker 7: of the world, and our military officers are banned from
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  Speaker 7: taking political positions. They're not allowed to even talk about
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  Speaker 7: their political party, they can't campaign. They're meant to be neutral.
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  Speaker 7: They're meant to be nonpartisan, not partisan, not bipartisan. They're
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  Speaker 7: meant to be nonpartisan. And I've seen in my career,
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  Speaker 7: whether it was in Vietnam, whether it was in Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 7: rock at various times in my career where I've watched
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  Speaker 7: the military who look at the civilian leadership and the
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  Speaker 7: decisions that civilian leaders are making and are horrified. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: they know it was going to they knew what was
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  Speaker 7: going to be a failure, they knew they were being
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  Speaker 7: asked to do impossible things. And then I watched, especially
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  Speaker 7: after Vietnam, as the civilian leadership washed their hands of
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  Speaker 7: the military, saying this is this is a military's fault
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  Speaker 7: that we lost Vietnam. So not only did they have
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  Speaker 7: made political decisions based on their own political careers that
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  Speaker 7: were really aver cereal to the military, but then they
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't even own up to it. And so when I
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  Speaker 7: came back into the government, I worked in the Nixon
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  Speaker 7: and Ford administrations, went out during the Carter administration, and then
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  Speaker 7: came back during Reagan. It was to watch what had
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  Speaker 7: happened to the American military. By the late nineteen seventies
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  Speaker 7: early nineteen eighties, we had our most junior serviceman Corman.
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  Speaker 7: They couldn't afford they weren't food stamps, they were below
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  Speaker 7: the poverty line. We weren't paying our military. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 7: were asking them to do all these things. We weren't
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  Speaker 7: paying them, and we weren't giving them the tools to
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  Speaker 7: do their job. We had ships that couldn't sail because
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  Speaker 7: they didn't have they didn't have enough, they didn't really
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  Speaker 7: have the spare parts to work. We had airplanes that
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  Speaker 7: we had. For every airplane that flew was capable of flight,
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  Speaker 7: we had one sitting right next to it on the
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  Speaker 7: turmact it was cannibalized for equipment. We had pilots that
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  Speaker 7: couldn't fly because they didn't have enough certificated certified flying hours,
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  Speaker 7: and we had it didn't work. I mean, we had
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  Speaker 7: so abandoned our military after Vietnam, and yet the military
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  Speaker 7: didn't those people, those men and women, they didn't abandon us.
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  Speaker 7: And I've all often saw it that America loses its way.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, look, this is the nature of politics, right
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  Speaker 7: it's the nature of self governance. We make mistakes, we
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  Speaker 7: correct them at the next election or the next one
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  Speaker 7: after that. And we can often go through periods and
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  Speaker 7: I think today might be one of them where we
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  Speaker 7: lose confidence in our country and in our purpose in
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  Speaker 7: this world. But you know who never loses confidence in
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  Speaker 7: the purpose. It's the American military. And what those those
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  Speaker 7: rusts are finding is that Americans are really fantastic and
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  Speaker 7: they're tweeting about it. And because we're seeing it through
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  Speaker 7: their eyes, I think there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 7: who are sort of standing a little bit taller and
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  Speaker 7: you know, we aren't so bad.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jatie and farl Lubasittor. I think that's such great perspective.
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  Speaker 8: We're learning the blessings that we have that we take
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  Speaker 8: for granted. I think you have such a unique vantage
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  Speaker 8: point for knowing the threats that have been neutralized over
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  Speaker 8: the years that us, as every day Americans, aren't aware of.
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  Speaker 8: My question is what gives you the confidence that there's
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  Speaker 8: another two fifty that we can keep our country safe.
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  Speaker 4: Is it the military? Is it the men and women?
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  Speaker 8: Is it a structural advantage that we have from you
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  Speaker 8: from your worldview? Why are we so unique and set
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  Speaker 8: up for continued safety and security.
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  Speaker 7: I'm so glad you asked me that question, because after
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  Speaker 7: I left the Trump administration in the first term, I
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: was really down and I was upset about what the world,
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: what the you know, the Beech State and the media
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: and the Democrats were doing to President Trump with impeachment.
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: I was upset for my own career, and I went away.
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: I went into my husband and I took a plane
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: from from New York to the western coast of Scotland
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: to Glasgow. We got in a car and we drove
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: to this shore the western most part of Scotland, got
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: on a ferry for eight hours and we went to
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: an island in the middle of the Hebridian Islands, in
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: the middle of the land.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I really wanted to get away.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: I wanted to get so far away. I went to
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: my wife Allow Island, where there were more sheep than people,
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: and it was raining all the time, and there was
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: no Wi Fi the cell phones, There was no TV,
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: I mean, there was nothing. There was just a lot
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: of Scotch and a lot of rain and a lot
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: of sheep. And so I thought about what's happened to
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: my country. It's never been this bad. And then the
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: more I thought about it, yeah, it's been this bad
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: before and we've gotten through it. And then I thought, well,
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: why are we so different? Why are we so special?
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: You know, plenty of countries are wealthy, plenty of countries
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: have a great history, plenty of countries have good governess
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: or natural restort, whatever it is. And I thought and
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: thought and thought, and I realized, you know, what makes
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: America the one nation that is truly exceptional is that
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: we reinvent ourselves and we do it with great regularity.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Every and all that kat We're out of time, but
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: thank you for celebrating America with us today for a
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: few minutes. We appreciate it.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: It's a pleasure and an honor. Thank you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Kevin mccallaugh coming back from times where stay here stick
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: around for more of that, Kevin.
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: Next here he is from New York.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Exact Kevin, Kevin McCullough. Do I actually feel the train
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: vibrating the table as it goes underneath this? Where else
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: can you have that experience doing that? Kevin? Show, Christy Nicholas,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: the earth move under your feet? What line is this?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: What are we? What are we? On T.
• 19:42
  Speaker 11: Three.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, we're live from Times Square. That's Christine Nicholas.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: You normally hear her on Fridays. Luke Bassanie is also here.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: He's with us on Mondays. Kevin mccallaugh, glad to have
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: you with us every day.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: And Chris O'Brien is back with us, who was with
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: us to talk about sail Forth just a few weeks ago.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: And Chris, for people that have not heard anything about it,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: and we're on in three hundred and ninety nine other cities,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and the last time you were with us, it is
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: one of the most spectacular things that New York will
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: experience in this two fifty season. Tell us about it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: It's amazing, it's and we're about ten days out now
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: and it's just it's really incredible. So it's nice to
• 20:18
  Speaker 12: be back to share this with your audience.
• 20:21
  Speaker 13: Kevin.
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: The ships are coming from around the world. We've been
• 20:25
  Speaker 12: tracking that. Actually, we have this amazing tracker on our website,
• 20:28
  Speaker 12: soforth dot org and you can see exactly where they're
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: coming from and where they're coming from. But they're all
• 20:33
  Speaker 12: here now, so they're in this giant clump, but you
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: can zoom in and look at them. But they just
• 20:40
  Speaker 12: left Norfolk and now they're headed to Baltimore and then
• 20:43
  Speaker 12: they come to New York next for the fourth right.
• 20:47
  Speaker 12: But you know, it's really it's been this journey because
• 20:50
  Speaker 12: we've been at this since April of twenty twenty, this planning.
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: That was the first time we got the attaches together
• 20:58
  Speaker 12: to talk about you know, our plan tell them about
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: America's two fiftieth is this is coming and we want
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: these ships to join America to celebrate this milestone moment
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: for the country. And it takes that long to get
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: these ships because they're in high demand all around the world,
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: and so they're not only and.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: We're talking about tall ships, we're talking about old ships.
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: Well they're not all. They're actually they're modern sailling vessels.
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: They've been updated. Most of the ships that are called
• 21:28
  Speaker 12: the Class A the very large tall ships. You know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 12: the mass rise up to about one hundred and eighty
• 21:33
  Speaker 12: feet or so. Some of the ships are four hundred
• 21:36
  Speaker 12: feet long. And so these ships they operate as active
• 21:40
  Speaker 12: training ships for their navies, So the academy cadets for
• 21:43
  Speaker 12: their navies from their countries around the world are being trained.
• 21:47
  Speaker 12: It's such an amazing experience being on a tall ship, and.
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: It does such a good job at creating great leaders.
• 21:55
  Speaker 12: You know, you learn, you're challenged, you learn how to leave,
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: you learn.
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: How to know, you know, face your fears.
• 22:02
  Speaker 12: You're up there one hundred and seventy feet on the
• 22:04
  Speaker 12: mass and the wind, you know, sending these sails.
• 22:06
  Speaker 13: It's incredible.
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: And so the ships are fantastic at creating really strong,
• 22:12
  Speaker 12: great leaders.
• 22:12
  Speaker 13: But they have a dual mission.
• 22:14
  Speaker 12: They have an international goodwill mission as well, so they
• 22:19
  Speaker 12: travel the world. They're in incredibly high demand as goodwill
• 22:23
  Speaker 12: ambassadors for their nation. So when one of these ships
• 22:25
  Speaker 12: sails into your port, it is it's an official visit.
• 22:28
  Speaker 12: And so when we have so many coming together, it's
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: it's a real happening, you know, And it's I liken
• 22:35
  Speaker 12: it to the Olympics in a way, because these countries
• 22:38
  Speaker 12: are sending their best and their brightest on on board
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: the decks of these ships, which are basically the crown
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: jewels of the nations that operate them. So it really
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: is a powerful statement that when these ships come together.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Did you say, three hundred, three hundred hundred ships are
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: we gonna have?
• 22:55
  Speaker 13: No, We're not going to have. They're three hundred feet long, someone.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Three hundred comedy, So how many total vessels here?
• 23:00
  Speaker 12: So we'll have forty nations all together, there'll be eighty
• 23:06
  Speaker 12: eighty ships.
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: More or less.
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: There'll be some smaller ones we don't really count, but
• 23:10
  Speaker 12: there'll be eighty ships between the tall ships that we're
• 23:13
  Speaker 12: just talking about and the International Naval Review ships, which
• 23:17
  Speaker 12: are active duty gray hull naval vessels. And so part
• 23:22
  Speaker 12: of what's happening here in the Port of New York
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: and New Jersey on July fourth is it's coming together
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: of the active duty fleets and of these goodwill ambassador fleets,
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: you know, to join in the milestone moment.
• 23:36
  Speaker 13: And so the protocol part of.
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: The day on July fourth will be the International Naval
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: Review where the ships render honors to the United States
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: of America, be a reviewing ship, and then the tall
• 23:48
  Speaker 12: ship parade kicks off, and then that's the international goodwill
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: the celebratory part of the day, and then the ship's parade,
• 23:55
  Speaker 12: the tall ships parade and render honors back and they'll
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: render those honors to a reviewing vessel where currently it's
• 24:03
  Speaker 12: the Vice President of the United States will be So these
• 24:06
  Speaker 12: ships are you know active duty military vessels. They are
• 24:12
  Speaker 12: you know, outfitted appropriately as active duty military vessels. You know, no,
• 24:18
  Speaker 12: you know, serious weapons on board that you might be
• 24:22
  Speaker 12: thinking of.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: We just expanded our naval fleet. Frankly, that's how I'm
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: going to look at it.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: And now Chris is going to go ask him to
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: take a few more off just to make you feel better. Well,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: it's it's interesting about it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: It's interesting because, you know, the because the Vice President
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: is going to be here, and the Secret Service security
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: footprint is so high that typically the tall ships render
• 24:44
  Speaker 12: honors with the cannon salute.
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: No cannon salute, not this time.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: All right. More info is a sailforth dot org. Fourth
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: is the number four th sail Forth dot Org. Chrystalbrian, congratulations,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: thank you for stopping it. Kenn, you gotta stand coming
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  Speaker 2: right back. It's live from Times Square.
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  Speaker 1: It's that Kevin Show.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: It's America two fifty. Stay here, thank you, d.
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  Speaker 9: Here.
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: He is from New York, exact Kevin, Kevin McCullough.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: So glad you're with us. It's that Kevin Show from
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Times Square today. Outside we're from Times Square all the time,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: but we're normally in the bunker that nobody can find
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: or see. Today, we're actually out in the middle of
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Times Square. There's a little bit of rain coming down,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: but you know what, there's tons of people still out
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: here living life and having fun. So we're glad to
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: be with you. It's our celebration of America two fifty
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: and again. If you want to know more about the
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: sale fourth event, sale forth for th dot org saleforth
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: dot org. We're also joined by Christine Nicholas, who is
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the CEO of Nicholas and Lentz Communication. When Lou Bassini
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: said earlier maybe the most important PR person on the planet,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I totally embraced that. And Lou Bassine himself a fairly
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: significant guy Fox News, Fox Business contributor or sometimes see
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: him on the news channel as well, and host of
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: The Big Skinny dot com The Big Skinny podcast. He's
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: with us every Monday talking stocks and investment. But friends,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I called you together here today, uh, not to get married,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: but to uh to have to have it great. We're
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: both happily have a great conversation about a great country
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: that's worth celebrating, and I think that's what we've done
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: so far. But Christine, I want to focus in on
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: on your expertise, because we talked to lou in the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: first half and he told us about investment and so forth.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Tourism to America, and we're seeing it with World Cup,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: We're seeing it with everything that's that's going on. H
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: even the Knicks. Okay, well we'll go yay nixt. Tourism
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: is part of America's greatness because when people come here,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: it is something that they have not yet expelien erience
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: and it is unlike anything else. You're a tourism expert,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: you have seen this, You've advised other countries, You've been
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: all over the place. What is it about America that
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: still makes it the land that everybody wants to get to?
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: I think it's the freedoms that we enjoy. And when
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: you see or you.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: You know, you watch the Instagram feeds of the.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: Folks that are here from all over the world coming
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: for a World Cup. Like Freddy, there's Freddy's just one
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: of a gazillion of them. It's just they're exuberant about
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: being here in New York, especially Times Square. But you know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: it's and I'll for lose you know, point of view.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Tourism is an expert.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: It's an export that you that requires no shipping fees.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: You know, you don't have tariffs or whatnot. But every
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: time a tourist comes into town, whether they're from Europe,
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Asia or even from Milwaukee, they're a tourists. It's got
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: to be the definition is more than fifty miles away.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: For reasons other than commutation. They are pumping money into
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: our economy so much so that this is about a
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: sixty billion dollar industry just you know, in fact, more
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: than sixty billion. That's just the tax benefit that we
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: get from the sixty five million tourists that come in.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: And you're just talking about New York City. Yeah, that's
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: just me. Sulfi Stadium, San Francis, Like every place is
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: experiencing this right now.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it's wonderful.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, look here in New York with the World Cup,
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: it's been electric. It's been exciting. They may have over
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: promised a little bit on the hotel rooms because you know,
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: our stadium that they're playing in is out in New Jersey,
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: so a lot of folks decided to come to New Jersey.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: But when they win, they come here.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's just like when the Knicks victory when
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Nicks one in five. I've been through a lot of
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: ticker tape parades, which is how we celebrate in New
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: York City. We go to Lower Manhattan where New York
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: started it all, you know, right there Bowling Green. That's
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: where we purchase Manhattan from. You know, Peter Minuett purchased
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: Manhattan from the Native Americans. So that is still our
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: focal point. That is where our creades begin whenever we
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: are celebrating greatness. So they had the Knicks parade last week.
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: There were two million people that went downtown to go
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: celebrate the Knicks.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: That is more than you know. And look, I'm a
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: big Yankee fan. I have been all my life.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: I consider it a blessing that.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: My parents, you know, stowed on me that I am
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: a Yankee fan and not a Mets fan.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I know it's hard to be a Mets fan.
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: I do respect the met the Met fans in the
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: city because they're like long suffering and the Jets fan
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: I respect them.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: But you were getting to a non sports point, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I'm getting to the.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: Point that the two million people went down there, which
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: is more even they just released the subway numbers today,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: and when you know, when you look at New Year's Eve,
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: we're in Times Square, so of course you look at
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: New Year's Eve, they have an additional of like two
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: hundred thousand people that just ride the subway. Here, they
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: had something like two million additional people riding the Summay
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: just for the for the parade.
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: Listen, you are the expert on all things tourism here.
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: I'm going to try and ask the hardest question ever. Okay,
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: I've got twelve hours to spend in New York my
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: first time here. I would say, what's one thing I
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: have to do? But I'll give you, I'll give you
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: some grace. What are three things that are quintessential New
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: York for you?
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: I think you have to come to Times Square for sure.
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: I would you have to go to one of the
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: observation decks. I know everybody races to the Empire State Building,
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: which of course is so historic. But if you want
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: to see the Empire State Building and be at an
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: observation deck, you might want to go to the top
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: of the rock. And then I think you do need
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: to take the time and go to the Statue of
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: Liberty or Ellis Island because it's the same.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: You know Statue City cruises that goes there, they.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Go to both islands, but you will get a flavor
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: for you know why we're such a great city. Why
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: is it because we come from all different backgrounds and
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: we it's the great melting pot and we all started
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: for the most most part in that area and then
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: we made it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: You know, you can't.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: You can't fake it till you make it here in
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: New York at the point it catches up, it catches
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: up to you. But you know what it's it's just
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: one of these amazing cities and it's like no other.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: And that's those were the three. If you can slow
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: it up Broadway Show, I would do that. Get on
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: a subway. It doesn't matter, like take it a few stops,
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: but you have to get on a New York City
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: subway just for the sites alone, the sounds, the noise.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: I always recommend.
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: The most touristy thing is get on a double decker
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: bus and go up top because it's a free transportation
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: around and you get to see a lot and it's.
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: Cool in the summer.
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: It could be it could be ninety five degrees in August.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: But when you get on the top of that double
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: decker bus and it catches Someway.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: It's really beautiful. You you saw COVID come and go
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: in your city. You you were on the mayor's staff
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: when nine to eleven went down, and you were charged
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: with the impossible task of getting Broadway open. Like ways,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: what why does this city and why does this country
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: always rise from the ashes so strongly?
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I think it comes from our roots. I mean, we
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: are a nation of for.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: We're not a single ethnicity, but we're a nation of immigrants.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I mean, even if you are there are very few
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: Native Americans, but for everyone, and even if you came
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: colonial times, we're a nation of immigrants.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: That means that we had to leave something that was
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: special to us to come here.
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: It just that alone, just the feeling of loss, missing people.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: It makes us stronger, grittier, and we know that we
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: have to work.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Hard to succeed. And there are no sloths in New
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: York City.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: But it's the country that if you do work hard,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: you are rewarded.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: You have the.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Ability to do something you can't do in other places,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: which is really cool.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, all right, pursuit of happiness.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: When we come back a few closing thoughts and a
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: celebration of America in music.
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: Stay with us, stick around for more of than Kevin.
• 33:05
  Speaker 15: Next serving it up. It's a no drink minimum. It's
• 33:20
  Speaker 15: that Kevin Show.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to That Kevin Show. Final few minutes live
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: from Times Square and Friends. I've asked everybody else at
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the table what they thought the secret to the resilience
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: of America is. I would say, if I was asked
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: the same question, that I think we owe a good
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: portion of this out of gratitude to God for his
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: blessing on what our country is and how long we've
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: lasted and where we go. So as we kind of
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: get ready to say goodbye, take a listen to a
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: very special production that was made just for today, Gommerica.
• 34:00
  Speaker 11: Land The stand Beside.
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: Han guide.
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: Through the line with the light from above, from the mountains,
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: through the prairies, through the oceans, Flide with fo.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: God, Some.
• 34:32
  Speaker 11: My home, Sweet home.
• 34:38
  Speaker 14: God Some.
• 34:43
  Speaker 11: Land the stand beside can guide through the light with
• 34:55
  Speaker 11: the light from above, from the mountain.
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: Soon the lightly.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter where you're from, It doesn't matter who
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: you are, or what you've had against you or for you.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: If you come to this country, you have great opportunity,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: and Christine and Louis we roound out the end of
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  Speaker 2: the show. Here just some final thoughts on America two fifty.
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  Speaker 2: Lou will start with.
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  Speaker 8: You get out and travel outside of America, because every
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  Speaker 8: time I've done that and come home, it gives me
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  Speaker 8: a new.
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  Speaker 4: Found love for this country.
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  Speaker 8: We have people for what we have, and I didn't
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  Speaker 8: do that for the first time until I was almost
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  Speaker 8: twenty years old.
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  Speaker 2: So wow, it's rio.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say, get out and travel America.
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  Speaker 6: I've driven across country and it is a beautiful land
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  Speaker 6: and beautiful people, and.
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  Speaker 3: I just feel so blessed to be part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's been a special time and we're just kicking
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  Speaker 2: off really because July fourth is going to be enormous
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  Speaker 2: for the city, for the country. We're going to continue
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: to have amazing events across the country. We've made it
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty years. I do think we can
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: make it another two hundred and fifty, but I would
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  Speaker 2: say that in order for that to happen, we have
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  Speaker 2: to remember some really key things, and that is who
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  Speaker 2: we were, where we came from, why we fought the
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: fights that we fought, and that if we stay the course,
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  Speaker 2: I think the potential is enormous. I think so.
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  Speaker 6: Look, no other country has people at their borders, risking
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: their lives to get in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a reason for that, and nobody wants to leave. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: everywhere else on the planet has the opposite.
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  Speaker 4: Push the Hotel California country.
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  Speaker 2: They want to get out, but they don't want to
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  Speaker 2: necessarily come here. It's the opposite. They want to get
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: in and they don't want to leave. And friends, we
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  Speaker 2: don't want you to leave. We want you to be
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  Speaker 2: here every single day and wherever you've joined us from,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. If you want to re listen to any
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: of this, go to that kevinshow dot com. Get the
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: podcast and we'll talk to lou next Monday again, and
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Christine will talk to you every Friday in the foreseeable future.
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  Speaker 2: Friends from Times Square, Kevin McCullough saying, God bless America.