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Daredevil Couple Gets Engaged (And Arrested) On Top Of Empire State Building · I Do, Part 2

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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Wednesday, July. First. Call them
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Speaker 1: what you want to call them, trespassers, call them daredevils,
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Speaker 1: call them criminals. I would prefer to call them the
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Speaker 1: happy couple that might, frankly, have just captured the greatest
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Speaker 1: engagement photo that has ever been taken. And with that,
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Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. That's
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Speaker 1: a hell of a proposal. Even though they got arrested
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Speaker 1: right after, that was a good proposal.
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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, you got an engagement photo
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Speaker 2: like nobody else, coupled with a mugshot photo to follow.
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Speaker 1: This is a this is a fascinating and interesting story.
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Speaker 1: It's New York, so it's all like for a lot
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Speaker 1: of us, we're like, yeah, sounds about right. But what
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Speaker 1: just happened as we sit here, folks, we are just
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Speaker 1: coming off a spectacle here in New York, the likes
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Speaker 1: of which we rarely see. Two people just climbed to
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Speaker 1: the very top of the Empire State Building and got engaged.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not just talking to the observation deck. No, no, no,
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Speaker 2: no no. They went up to the spire, like to
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Speaker 2: the point where I feel sick to my stomach just
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Speaker 2: looking at where they're standing, and then when you see
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Speaker 2: it from their perspective from the Wow, there were shots
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Speaker 2: of them from every angle because they had helicopters up
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Speaker 2: and they were videoed and photographed, and they've got they've
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Speaker 2: got an album. They can show their kids it is
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Speaker 2: and their grand kids.
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Speaker 1: It is incredible and it is illegal. So these two folks, well,
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Speaker 1: you said, climb the spire to give an idea here
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Speaker 1: of folks that we're talking about. Yes, the Empire State
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Speaker 1: Building is a certain height right, twelve hundred and fifty feet,
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Speaker 1: but when you add the spire, right that antenna that
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Speaker 1: you see at the top is actually fourteen hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty four feet. They climbed that extra spire. They essentially
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Speaker 1: robes climbed to where you can't climb any higher to
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Speaker 1: the Empire State Building. That's fair to say.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there's a tiny grate, like a circular grate that
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Speaker 2: you can stand on, but there isn't a lot of room.
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Speaker 2: And not only did they climb up there by the
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Speaker 2: way in unbelievable seat that we just have come back
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Speaker 2: from being out and we were actually in that very
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Speaker 2: area probably what an hour before this all was wit.
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Speaker 2: It feels like ninety seven when we got back. I
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Speaker 2: don't know what it felt like up on top of
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Speaker 2: that spire, but it couldn't have felt breezy. I mean,
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Speaker 2: even though you might have got some winds up there,
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Speaker 2: that had to be hot, That had to be frightening,
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Speaker 2: knowing that the whole city is literally buzzing below you
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Speaker 2: and around you because you are, yes doing something very
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Speaker 2: illegal and exceptionally dangerous. But he not only did they
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Speaker 2: both stand up there, he then got down on one
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Speaker 2: knee and proposed. Can you imagine carrying a diamond ring forget?
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there are a million safety issues, but
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Speaker 2: I would also have the added fear as a I
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Speaker 2: would think people act like it's so nerve wrecking to
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Speaker 2: carry an engagement ring anywhere on your body when you're
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Speaker 2: about to propose, Now imagine scaling the Empire State Building
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Speaker 2: with that.
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Speaker 1: I would say he was smart enough that until that
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Speaker 1: thing got on her finger, it was in some way
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Speaker 1: a rope or something attached. The entire time, you can't
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Speaker 1: take that risk. Just nervous up there because you're climbing,
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Speaker 1: and nervous because you're proposing to serve somebody and you're
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Speaker 1: doing it in front of the world. I bet it
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Speaker 1: was attached to something.
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Speaker 2: That's my first question, right, because think about how many
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Speaker 2: people we've seen the engagement fails where people women drop
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Speaker 2: the ring then they have to try to go find
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Speaker 2: it because you're nervous and maybe you weren't expecting this,
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Speaker 2: and I don't think she was expecting it, so she
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Speaker 2: might have actually gotten a little thrown at the whole proposal.
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Speaker 2: So that's scary.
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Speaker 1: We've seen guys fumble them into the sand, into the
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Speaker 1: water down. Haven't a guy did it here in New York?
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Speaker 1: I think once in one of the the wait, great,
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Speaker 1: he's done that, it happens es he's way up to that.
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Speaker 1: Part of it is the additional terrifying part. But I
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Speaker 1: cannot explain enough, We cannot put this into enough terms.
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Speaker 1: Robes just how dangerous, how scary, how much of a spectacle,
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Speaker 1: how yes, they calling them daredevils, but the spectacle that
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Speaker 1: this created now here in New York City on an
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Speaker 1: otherwise normal but a hot summer day, Robes just had
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Speaker 1: the city buzzing today. And and a part of this robes, Yes,
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Speaker 1: this was criminal activity, but there is an asterisk but
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Speaker 1: the aster the robes is they went up there. We
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Speaker 1: haven't even mentioned. They put a banner up. We'll tell
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Speaker 1: you what the message said, but it was a banner
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Speaker 1: of love. It was a banner about peace and robes.
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Speaker 1: They got engaged. They didn't hurt anybody else. You could argue, may, okay, yes,
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Speaker 1: they cost the police of man hours, and I understand
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Speaker 1: all that rose, but there is some part of all
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Speaker 1: of us that sees a victory, that sees love, that
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Speaker 1: sees an accomplishment, that sees to sees something, and you're
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Speaker 1: not necessarily mad at them.
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Speaker 2: Look it all turned out okay, and they are going
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Speaker 2: to pay the price. They were arrested, they were booked,
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Speaker 2: they're going to face charges, and they're going to have
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Speaker 2: to pay back something to the community for the rockest
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Speaker 2: they caused. However, I agree with you also, so kind
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Speaker 2: of them not to upstage Travis and Taylor, who are
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Speaker 2: in town and the whole city's a buzz about what's
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Speaker 2: going to be happening later in the week with them,
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Speaker 2: So they chose the day before all the festivities begin
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Speaker 2: for Taylor and Travis to have their moment. Do you
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Speaker 2: think that they consider that I bet you they might have,
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Speaker 2: because now all focus was on them, their story and
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Speaker 2: their message. This banner, which reads, when the power of
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Speaker 2: love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.
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Speaker 2: People are attributing that to a Jimmy Hendrick.
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Speaker 1: Song, but then they say it came from somewhere.
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Speaker 2: Else, an actual a poet from way back when that
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Hendrix took it from.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't familiar with the saying when I saw it
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Speaker 1: up there on the sign. It was a actually huge spanner,
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Speaker 1: good size sign.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see enormous.
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Speaker 1: They carried that sucker up there, So between that and
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Speaker 1: carrying a ring, it was stressful times up there for
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Speaker 1: this couple. But they were dressed. Yes, this happened around noontime,
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Speaker 1: around lunchtime, I should say, but yes, around noon. Other
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Speaker 1: people reported seeing these two up on the observation deck.
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Speaker 1: They didn't have masks on. But they end up going
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Speaker 1: into some door somewhere where they shouldn't have been going.
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Speaker 1: I guess to climb up and say, they just kind
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Speaker 1: of walked away through a door, and it sounded a
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Speaker 1: little easy how they described it.
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Speaker 2: Get up there, these two and we'll get into their
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Speaker 2: history and who they are and let's just say this
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Speaker 2: isn't and wasn't their first rodeo.
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Speaker 1: Second third, or twelveth.
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Speaker 2: Even these folks, this couple is unreal and so they
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Speaker 2: have done this. They have continuously broken the law all
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Speaker 2: around the world to scale and climb some of the
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Speaker 2: highest buildings in the world and video the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: They document their daredevil illegal activities around the world. And
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Speaker 2: I obviously believe they knew what they were doing, They
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Speaker 2: knew where they were going, They somehow got a hold
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Speaker 2: of something to study where they knew how to get
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Speaker 2: up to that top. Bit I wouldn't know how to
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Speaker 2: do it, but I'm sure it's not probably that hard
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Speaker 2: to internet sleute this thing and figure out how to
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Speaker 2: get up.
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Speaker 1: Shouldn't be that easy, baby.
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Speaker 2: Well, who wants to do it?
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Speaker 1: I mean, aren't there some implication security implications of some
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Speaker 1: kind if somebody want to get up there and try
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Speaker 1: to jump. There have been a tempt suicide attempts from
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Speaker 1: that building before.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, this is deeply concervatives.
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Speaker 1: Cannot happen that.
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Speaker 2: People know and that they were able to figure out
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Speaker 2: how to do this and how to get up to
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Speaker 2: the top before anyone could stop them or notice them.
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Speaker 2: Police were obviously climbing up after them and eventually reached them.
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Speaker 2: But they had plenty of time up there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, which which officer volunteered to go after them? You know,
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Speaker 1: I got a capin.
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Speaker 2: I'm not afraid of heights.
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Speaker 1: I'm good, So I don't know how that worked. They
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Speaker 1: ended up climbing down, Yes, they sent officers up. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: no officers climbed up to the very top dragged them down.
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Speaker 1: They knew they had to come down, but they did
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Speaker 1: put them in custody. But Ropes the incident started him,
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Speaker 1: I say, around lunch time. They end up up there.
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Speaker 1: But the first time we as the public see them,
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Speaker 1: they're wearing all black and they have masks on and Ropes.
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Speaker 1: She's wearing a mask.
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Speaker 2: She looks like, look, they look like badasses.
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Speaker 1: He had what he has, his guns out right, and
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Speaker 1: she's like a sexy catwoman.
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Speaker 2: They're amazing. I've seen other photos of her doing yoga
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Speaker 2: poses on incredibly thin metal beams overseeing huge cities. I mean,
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Speaker 2: she and he both do some pretty remarkable, pretty scary stuff,
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Speaker 2: and they've done it often, and they do it really beautifully.
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Speaker 2: To be honest, like it's gorgeous watching them. They looked
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Speaker 2: like they were in a movie, in an action movie,
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Speaker 2: and this was all planned and choreographed and they had
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Speaker 2: to do this.
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Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen the pictures yet, you just
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Speaker 1: have to. They are incredible, stunning. You have and I
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Speaker 1: guess it's probably a new state. I know the helicopter.
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Speaker 1: They had the police helicopter up as well. But the
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Speaker 1: images we're seeing are these incredible that you cannot beat
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Speaker 1: this roswasar as a picture. Yeah, two people at the
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Speaker 1: top of New York dangling off one of the most
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Speaker 1: iconic buildings in the world, and you have helicopter with
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Speaker 1: the camera trained on them, circling the building. It is
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Speaker 1: an incredible shots.
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Speaker 2: Well, he's proposing at one point.
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Speaker 1: Awesome and illegal, I understand, but it is an incredible image.
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Speaker 1: I was brother say all the time, Alex Hanold. Of
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Speaker 1: course with the Taiwan that the building he just climbed.
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Speaker 1: Skill is one thing I admire, the nerve of people
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Speaker 1: who go up and do this and they looked comfortable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we didn't say their names, by the way.
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Speaker 2: It's thirty three year old Angela Nicolau and thirty two
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Speaker 2: year old Ivan Birkus and look, they do happen to
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Speaker 2: have a Netflix show up now. I just watched the
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Speaker 2: trailer and my heart was pounding. It's stunning, it's beautiful,
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Speaker 2: it's spectacular, and it's called Skywalker's a Love Story. So
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Speaker 2: it's a hell of a promotion for that Netflix series
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Speaker 2: and wow, a pretty amazing spectacular proposal on top. So
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Speaker 2: it was kind of a win win except for the arrest.
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Speaker 2: H Well, I mean, they knew that was coming.
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Speaker 1: They knew, and I'm sure I've probably been arrested before.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they probably haven't spent any prison time. This
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Speaker 1: isn't what normally what trustpassing. It was a very public trespassing.
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Speaker 1: But beyond that, they're not accused of anything necessarily criminal.
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Speaker 1: Skywalker's a Love Story. You probably won't have to go
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Speaker 1: looking for it. It's probably going to be trending in
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Speaker 1: the top ten.
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Speaker 2: There's a link to it in almost every news article.
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Speaker 2: Lucky them and honestly, lucky Netflix. I wouldn't be surprised
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Speaker 2: to see their story now this Netflix show, so skyrocket
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Speaker 2: pardon the pun to the top.
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Speaker 1: They haven't yet Netflix officially, I haven't seen at least
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Speaker 1: as of this Recording said officially any hand they had
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Speaker 1: in this, but Deadline is reporting that they do have
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Speaker 1: people at Netflix telling them that we ain't have nothing
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Speaker 1: to do with this. This had nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: us shooting something, promoting something, no documentary we're doing, or
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Speaker 1: even yes, trying to promote the previous documentary. They did
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Speaker 1: this on their own. And the images are spectacular. And
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Speaker 1: if you don't believe us, go to Instagram, their Instagram
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Speaker 1: and look at these photos. I please, anybody show me
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Speaker 1: better engagement photos.
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Speaker 2: They should blow those up for sure.
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Speaker 1: These photos. Please, somebody should.
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Speaker 2: Where are they going to get married? That's what I
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Speaker 2: want to know. How do they top that.
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Speaker 1: On the ground? Hopefully? My god, but he lays on
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Speaker 1: one knee on this little thin disk.
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Speaker 2: It's insane, it is, it's impressive.
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Speaker 1: It is so impressive. I keep saying, so illegal to
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Speaker 1: talking about criminals. I am actually applauding criminals right now.
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Speaker 1: But we need to give it context. It's just you
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Speaker 1: got to see these.
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Speaker 2: Pictures, and I loved how the Empire State Building reacted
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Speaker 2: to it. I thought this was cool, to the point
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Speaker 2: where we're all saying, yes, it's criminal, Yes it was risky,
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Speaker 2: and it could have posed a danger. It seems as
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Speaker 2: if it could, at least to the people on the ground,
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Speaker 2: to the folks on the ground, and certainly to the
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Speaker 2: two people who were up on top. But the Empire
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Speaker 2: State Building said this there was at no time danger
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Speaker 2: to tenants, visitors, and Empire State Building Observation Desk deck guests.
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Speaker 2: It is to be emphasized that the Empire State Building
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Speaker 2: Observation Deck atop the world's most famous building in the
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Speaker 2: center of New York City does offer a practical way
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Speaker 2: for the most memorable marriage proposals.
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Speaker 1: And those pictures are gonna suck compared to what you
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Speaker 1: can get if you climb to the top.
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Speaker 2: But then they put a link so that if you
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Speaker 2: want to get married, or you want to get if
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Speaker 2: you want to be proposed to your girlfriend or your
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Speaker 2: boyfriend on top of the Empire State Building, they actually
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Speaker 2: give you a happily Ever Empire proposal package starting in
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Speaker 2: one thousand dollars. I mean, it's hilarious. They're capitalizing on
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Speaker 2: the attention of these.
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Speaker 1: Two And you know what, I think, doesn't this suggest
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Speaker 1: Robes that they're taking it the same way we are? Yes, okay, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: they're not mad and they're using these people as a
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Speaker 1: promotional opportunity.
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Speaker 2: I think it's kind of awesome.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know Robes if it was already booked up.
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Speaker 1: But you hear that I want to get proposed to
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Speaker 1: at the top of the Empire State Building. Who wants
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Speaker 1: to do that? Apparently a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's booked until August thirty. First, there is not.
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Speaker 1: A date available for you to go propose and get
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Speaker 1: engaged at the Empire State Building before August. It's the
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Speaker 1: only date available. Now it opens up in September and
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Speaker 1: October because well, engagement season's over.
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Speaker 2: I guess, but I didn't even I didn't know you
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Speaker 2: had to get a proposal package or I guess it's
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Speaker 2: just offered. Can't you just anyone go up there and
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Speaker 2: just go down on one knee?
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Speaker 1: Oh, yes you can do that. But if you want
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Speaker 1: the wine and.
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Speaker 2: The champagne and the photograph and.
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Speaker 1: The picnic and the private area, and yes they are
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Speaker 1: cool though it used to sound cool.
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Speaker 2: Now it's yeah that we game.
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Speaker 1: But on the observation deck, you mean on the eighty
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Speaker 1: six floor. I want to go to the top.
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Speaker 2: You do not? I know you all too well, and
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Speaker 2: I never will forget when the two of us were
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Speaker 2: hanging off the edge there with ropes, and that was
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Speaker 2: one of this I mean, that was scary to me.
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Speaker 2: That was frightening. Can you imagine not having ropes, not
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Speaker 2: being harnessed, standing on the edge right there? Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: And again, Rose, I do I have that moment? Just
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Speaker 1: my god? What if anything had gone wrong? And you
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Speaker 1: mentioned the wind earlier today, I don't know if they
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Speaker 1: took that into account, but there were low winds yep today,
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Speaker 1: So on the.
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Speaker 2: Ground, don't know what it was like up there, fifteen
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Speaker 2: hundred feet up.
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Speaker 1: That's a good qunch is obviously more. But they seemed
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Speaker 1: to be steady, seemed to be doing fund seemed to
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Speaker 1: be calm. They were less nervous than I was. On
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Speaker 1: the ground. When I proposed to you, I was in
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Speaker 1: a seat. I was comfortable.
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Speaker 2: You were seated.
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Speaker 1: I was seated when I proposed to you. Yes, folks,
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Speaker 1: there was no knee involved. We'll get into that later.
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Speaker 1: That this is not our party today because they have
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Speaker 1: trumped all proposals that I have ever ever seen. But robes.
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Speaker 1: We are used to spectacles. So much of the conversation
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Speaker 1: today the local reports and whatnot. And again for folks
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Speaker 1: who don't know, can you know the Empire State Building,
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Speaker 1: but to give you an idea of where it is, Robes,
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Speaker 1: we drove past Madison Square Garden today where there's some
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Speaker 1: event happening this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you've heard about it.
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Speaker 1: So the Empire State It took us how long would
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Speaker 1: you say to drive around the block of Madison Square
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Speaker 1: Garden At.
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Speaker 2: Least twenty five minutes.
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Speaker 1: Just to go around what is that one.
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Speaker 2: City blocks around? It was crazy traffic, crazy pack. I
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Speaker 2: took some video is actually of how insane. This was
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Speaker 2: one of those days where you're like, if people who
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Speaker 2: don't live here were just to find themselves driving in
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Speaker 2: these streets, they would be like, who in the hell
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Speaker 2: could ever live? For? It was chaos.
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Speaker 1: So that area, that chaotic area, to give you some perspective,
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Speaker 1: is what two avenues.
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Speaker 2: Over correct seventh and eighth Avenue and this took place.
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Speaker 2: It's around fifth Avenue is where the Empire State Building is.
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Speaker 1: These areas are in you can't get when they say
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Speaker 1: the heart of Manhattan, this is what they're talking about.
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Speaker 1: These areas and the Empire State Building ropes. It's in
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Speaker 1: an area on Fifth between thirty third and thirty four,
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Speaker 1: very busy area. But if you're right there at the
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Speaker 1: Empire State Building, it's actually impossible to see. You can't
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Speaker 1: see it the time.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and I saw the line funny enough because I've
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Speaker 2: never gone up to the top of the Empire State Building.
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Speaker 2: I've lived in the city board twenty three years and
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Speaker 2: I have never been to the top. We should probably
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Speaker 2: do that one day.
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Speaker 1: It is cool. I took the being ones when she
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Speaker 1: was three. Never been something like that.
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Speaker 2: But I saw the line funny enough because I had
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Speaker 2: plenty of time to look around because we were stuck
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Speaker 2: in such crazy traffic. I actually saw the line for
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Speaker 2: people lining up to go onto the Empire Stable thing.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 2: It was far insane.
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Speaker 1: So this is happening, So people started collecting on the ground.
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Speaker 1: But it was interesting to hear local reporters talking to
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Speaker 1: local folks who they said, a bunch of New Yorkers
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Speaker 1: in line.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, another day in New York.
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Speaker 1: It kind of is baby. We see some of the
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Speaker 1: weirdest stuff here and it.
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Speaker 2: Does do regis, we really do.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't even register. But we've seen things like this.
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Speaker 1: A few daredevils in the past, and yes, somebody has
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Speaker 1: climbed the Empire State Building before. Yeah he got arrested.
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Speaker 1: To stay here.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ. Look,
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Speaker 2: we know it was illegal, we know it's criminal, but
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Speaker 2: we kind of kind of just loved what happened today
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Speaker 2: because everybody's okay, nobody got injured, and we all just
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Speaker 2: kind of felt the love up there on top of
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Speaker 2: the Empire State Building.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give folks a little bit behind the
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Speaker 1: curtain here. We have with our podcasts that we do,
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Speaker 1: we put them sometimes in certain categories for where they
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Speaker 1: get posted, and we have anytime there's a crime story,
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Speaker 1: we can put it in a particular feed where it
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Speaker 1: goes into a crime section, and then we have a
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Speaker 1: love story or a romance or if anything about relationships. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we have a relationship section you can go into. And
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Speaker 1: when we do that full disclosure, we'll get more downloads
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Speaker 1: and it's essentially going out to more people who might
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Speaker 1: be interested in those particular things. So it's either a
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Speaker 1: crime or a relationship. Robes gets on today tells our
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Speaker 1: editor Jonathan, this is both, baby.
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Speaker 2: This is both. We got a crime and we got
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Speaker 2: a relationship and it's rare. Honestly, this is one of
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Speaker 2: those stories where it actually fits both categories without a doubt.
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Speaker 1: Usually when it happens is because a spouse murdered the other.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, it's usually for all the bad reasons. Usually
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Speaker 2: a crime and romance don't go well together. But this
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Speaker 2: is one of those rare moments where a crime in
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Speaker 2: romance actually worked out well. And they probably are smiling
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Speaker 2: in their damn mug shots because they actually some of
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Speaker 2: the reporters who could see, you know, they had cameras
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Speaker 2: trained on them with the helicopters saying she was admiring
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Speaker 2: her ring as she was headed down.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the shot of her her hands out and you
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Speaker 1: see the entire New York City, Scotland she.
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Speaker 2: Is admiring her ringle it's crazy. Anyway, we've got a
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Speaker 2: smile on our face talking about it. It was it
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Speaker 2: was kind of cool. I'm not gonna lie. I thought
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Speaker 2: it was pretty damn cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and again we have to we're smiling because it
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Speaker 1: worked out, and maybe that's okay to smile. But Rose,
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Speaker 1: what if a police officer, oh, hey, gud I get her, Yes,
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Speaker 1: what if one of them had fallen in and kids
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Speaker 1: in New York have to watch somebody fall to their
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Speaker 1: death right talking about a different story. That is why
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Speaker 1: it does Robes have You got to take this stuff
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Speaker 1: a little more seriously. But Romes. We have to look.
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Speaker 1: We are romantics, we all are, and we we recognize
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Speaker 1: something that we saw is daring and beautiful and interesting
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Speaker 1: Robes and it took guts. I just this is something
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Speaker 1: I think, more so than anything, New York is applaud
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Speaker 1: and you know, it's given attention to something that is
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Speaker 1: ours here in New York. The Empire State Building, it's
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Speaker 1: like a romantic place. It really is a special, special,
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Speaker 1: iconic it is.
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Speaker 2: I know you're not a big sleepless in Seattle lover
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Speaker 2: and rom comms in general, but that is one of
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Speaker 2: the most iconic moments in that movie, with Meg Ryan
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Speaker 2: and Tom Hanks at the airport. No, well, eventually I think,
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Speaker 2: do they run to the airport, but there's the whole
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Speaker 2: Empire State Building and the observation deck and the whole Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they were supposed to meet, and then yes, it's a
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Speaker 2: whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Is it in there? The whole climax of the movie.
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Speaker 2: I honestly i'd have to watch it, but they're one
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Speaker 2: of the major climaxes in the movie. It's all about
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Speaker 2: the Empire States.
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Speaker 1: Quack aside, isn't there some romant ormcom where somebody's in
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Speaker 1: the airport the whole time or something?
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Speaker 2: Well, there's always.
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Speaker 1: Okay, sorry forget it. I'm okay, I just got got
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Speaker 1: sidetracked that. Let's get back on the track here. Yes,
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Speaker 1: with the Empire State Building, it has been scaled before
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Speaker 1: a French they called him the French spider Man road.
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Speaker 1: But he did it back in nineteen ninety four. He
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Speaker 1: free climbed this sucker on the outside, no ropes, no nothing.
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Speaker 2: That's hard to even imagine. That's remarkable. But he was
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Speaker 2: a professional, correct, I mean, much like these two daredevils were.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're not quite doing the same thing. Well,
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Speaker 2: they're not doing the same thing at all that those
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Speaker 2: folks that done. But yeah, this was a remarkable spectacle
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Speaker 2: that took place in nineteen ninety ninety four.
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Speaker 1: That was it still the tallest building in the world
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Speaker 1: at the time.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be able to tell you.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember that. But anyway, he pulled this off.
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Speaker 1: But he promptly arrested, no jail.
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Speaker 2: Down, bare hands and feet, without ropes or safety nets,
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Speaker 2: and yes was met with handcuffs at the end.
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Speaker 1: No jail time. But that tells you robe what the
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Speaker 1: punishment might be for these folks. No, they don't end
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Speaker 1: up in prison necessarily any other them. They pay some fines,
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Speaker 1: they have to pay some money back. They who knows whatever,
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Speaker 1: but ropes whatever they hit them with that Instagram photo,
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Speaker 1: I have to say, it's worse.
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Speaker 2: It's remarkable.
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Speaker 1: His price, it's remarkable.
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Speaker 2: And then there was nineteen seventy four Philippe Petite.
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Speaker 1: That's famous one, right, the.
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Speaker 2: French high wire artist. He performed an unauthorized tight rope
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Speaker 2: walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center
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Speaker 2: back in August of nineteen seventy four. But he also
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Speaker 2: just is known for doing these daring, daring feats robes.
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Speaker 1: That was. If you haven't seen the movie, I can
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Speaker 1: think it's called The Walk. I never met. I never
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Speaker 1: get his name, right, Jordan Gordon, Joseph it.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I don't please, Now that you just said
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Speaker 2: it that way, I'm never gonna.
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Speaker 1: Remember Jordan Goes, Gordon.
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Speaker 2: Jordan Joseph Levitt.
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Speaker 1: I believe yes, he's starting that played the French tightrope walker,
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Speaker 1: but that was one robes the whole city because it
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Speaker 1: took him a while and he had to plan this
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Speaker 1: thing out. He had to get the rope from one
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Speaker 1: tower to another. He had a whole team involved, and
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Speaker 1: sure by the time police realized what he was doing,
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Speaker 1: he was already out on the rope and they were
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Speaker 1: waiting on each side to arrest him. But nobody's gonna
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Speaker 1: go out and get him.
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Speaker 2: He's that's I can't even get my head around that.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: But at that time, the whole city just stopped and
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Speaker 1: was looking up and you could see this guy. That
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Speaker 1: was a hell of a spectacle. If you haven't seen
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Speaker 1: that movie, check it out. Yes, fun Watch, I've seen it.
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Speaker 2: It's it's been a while since I've seen it. But
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're like on the edge of your seat
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Speaker 2: watching this. But no, I mean, congratulations. We should say
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Speaker 2: on the take a couple to the engagement. And by
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Speaker 2: the way, I know the sleepless and Seattle thing. I
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Speaker 2: wanted to just say because I know so many women
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Speaker 2: listening are like, hello, you're an affair to remember was
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Speaker 2: the original where they're supposed to meet if he still
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Speaker 2: loves her. They're supposed to meet at the observation deck
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Speaker 2: at the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. This is
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Speaker 2: an affair to remember. It's it's no but but that
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Speaker 2: is what that is what the sleeps Is in Seattle
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Speaker 2: movie is based on because she's they're saying, she's saying
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Speaker 2: how much she loves that movie, and they talk about
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Speaker 2: how basically she gets hit and is paralyzed and can't
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Speaker 2: go up and doesn't meet him, and he doesn't know
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Speaker 2: why she didn't meet him, and then at the end
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Speaker 2: he finds out that basically she doesn't want to saddle
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Speaker 2: him with this horror of actually, yes, having to meet
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Speaker 2: her and get engaged. But anyway, Tom Hanks does end
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Speaker 2: up with Meg Ryan, and it's just one of those moments.
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Speaker 2: So people when they go up to the observation deck,
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Speaker 2: they're remembering an affair to remember, and they're remembering Sleepless
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Speaker 2: in Seattle there because that's his kid and they lost
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Speaker 2: the mom. The mom died. And then Meg Ryan falls
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Speaker 2: in love with him because he calls into a radio show.
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Speaker 1: You recognize us, Oh yes, I'm showing her the image.
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Speaker 2: We should watch sleepless. Yes, maybe instead of watching Team
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Speaker 2: USA play in the World Cup, we can watch sleepless.
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Speaker 1: Folks who just wanted to let you know about love
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Speaker 1: and crime. But a hello story here that happened in
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Speaker 1: New York today. It's always something, ain't it here in
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Speaker 1: New York? Who knew all eyes on Madison Square Garden
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Speaker 1: we should have been looking at the Empire State.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had our eyes in the wrong famous building,
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Speaker 2: all right, But we'll be looking at msg U Thursday.
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Speaker 2: And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot alongside DJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.