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Opening Segment 9/1/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Menti in the morning on 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 1: she's back.
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  Speaker 2: She's back.
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  Speaker 1: Natalie is back in studio after doing rehab at home
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  Speaker 1: but still working. With the power of technology that exists now,
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  Speaker 1: you are able to zoom in for us from your home.
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  Speaker 1: But meantime, what it's done is it's knocked out of
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  Speaker 1: the box, the quiet storm, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: Poor Chris.
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  Speaker 1: On loan from Mark Simone, who was starting to come
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  Speaker 1: out of his shell. The guy was completely quiet for
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  Speaker 1: so long. He was slowly but surely climbing out of
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  Speaker 1: that shell, actually expressing himself. And now I guess with
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  Speaker 1: your reemergence, Natalie, we've sent him back into his shell.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I just didn't want him to talk
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  Speaker 2: too much because, you know.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't. I don't know what Curtis was talking about.
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  Speaker 3: He went from no words to maybe 15 in his show.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank Chris, though. I really do. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: And thank all of you guys for putting up with it. Crash,
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  Speaker 4: you guys, everybody in the newsroom. I know it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: convenient for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: But I appreciate it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I saw you walking today.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: What were the real McCoys? Remember the real McCoys grandpa
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  Speaker 3: and the real McCoys? That's who you look like when
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  Speaker 3: you're walking. It's still stiff, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Does it hurt?
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  Speaker 2: Not really.
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  Speaker 4: Although I got to tell you, this was the most
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  Speaker 4: walking I've done in three weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I've got a muscle cramp in my thigh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right. You just came back with the new entrance.
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  Speaker 3: You had to walk around. You got to walk an
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  Speaker 3: extra like block and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But that's good. I need the piece, my extra PT
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting in today. So thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's it. So from the time of your procedure
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  Speaker 1: to the time that you've walked into the doors here
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  Speaker 1: of IHART, 710WOR, it's been how many days?
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  Speaker 2: It's three weeks today.
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  Speaker 3: Three weeks today.
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  Speaker 1: Now, do you realize, Natalie, my dad had this procedure
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  Speaker 1: in the 60s.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I can only imagine.
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  Speaker 3: He had a knee operation.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the ship. a barrel came on loose
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  Speaker 1: on deck and crashed down on his leg. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember having to escort him back and forth to the
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  Speaker 1: Merchant Siemens Hospital on Bay Street in Staten Island. He
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  Speaker 1: had to have surgeries. That was back at the time
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  Speaker 1: when Mickey Mantle was well known for having knee surgery.
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  Speaker 1: This is in the 60s where you got to put
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  Speaker 1: an ace bandage on it. That was it. And then
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  Speaker 1: you try to walk around. Boy, the progress that's been
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  Speaker 1: made ever since. They didn't cut you, right?
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  Speaker 4: No, I have two little dots. They went in arthroscopically.
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  Speaker 4: So I have two, honestly, dots on my knee. And
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  Speaker 4: that was it. It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: You're out the day of.
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  Speaker 4: I'm weight-bearing the day of, walking out on my own.
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  Speaker 2: It was not comfortable for the first two weeks, honestly.
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  Speaker 3: When you say it wasn't comfortable, did it hurt?
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: People keep asking me that. And every time you go
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  Speaker 4: to the doctor for something, what's the pain level? I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, a one, a two.
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  Speaker 2: And they look at me. I said, well, what's pain?
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  Speaker 2: I said, is it stiff and achy? Yeah. I said,
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  Speaker 2: but that's not pain. I don't equate that to pain.
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  Speaker 2: I said, so no, I did not have pain.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It was always just stiff, right? You couldn't fully extend it. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Still can't, but I'm working on it. But yeah, pain
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  Speaker 4: medication they gave me, never took. I did the Advil
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  Speaker 4: Tylenol thing for two days and then I was done
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  Speaker 4: with that.
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  Speaker 3: But Curtis, you're absolutely right. The fact that they've come up,
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  Speaker 3: the advances in medical sciences are amazing. I had a
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  Speaker 3: knee injury one time that they thought may take surgery.
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  Speaker 3: And this guy who was very well known at the
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  Speaker 3: time came with a bunch of students that were following him,
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  Speaker 3: walked up to me when I was sitting there took
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  Speaker 3: out a needle, shot it in my knee and kept walking.
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  Speaker 3: It was cortisone. They gave me cortisone and I was
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  Speaker 3: fine the next day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing. And just to, this was not a
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  Speaker 2: knee replacement. This was a meniscus. I mean, much different,
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  Speaker 2: much different recovery.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, so, uh, Remember I told you, when you first
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  Speaker 3: had it, I said, go get a shot of cortisone.
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  Speaker 3: Because I think that solves everything, but not everything.
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  Speaker 2: Not everything.
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  Speaker 1: But your tolerance for pain. You see, different people have
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  Speaker 1: different tolerances for pain. Like when the doctor prescribes, let's say,
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  Speaker 1: a painkiller, a strong painkiller, Percocets. They like to give
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  Speaker 1: people Percocets. Some people can't take enough because they just
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  Speaker 1: have no tolerance for pain or stiffness or anything that.
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  Speaker 1: really gives them anxiety. What would you say your tolerance
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  Speaker 1: for pain is?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's pretty high. Considering I was walking for a
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  Speaker 2: year with this problem.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's the problem. I have a high tolerance for
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  Speaker 3: pain too. The problem is you catch things too late. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And some serious things you might catch too late. Like
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  Speaker 3: you might have a nagging pain in your stomach and
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  Speaker 3: think it's nothing and something you can deal with. And
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  Speaker 3: then it turns into something serious. I've heard that happen. Many,
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  Speaker 3: many times. So anytime you have the smallest pain, you
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  Speaker 3: should get it checked. You should.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it is incredible because when I think of
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  Speaker 1: all those boomers at the time in the 60s who
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  Speaker 1: would end up with a serious knee injury or a
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  Speaker 1: hip injury or a back injury or a shoulder injury,
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  Speaker 1: and then you would never see them. They'd be like sitting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, either in a wheelchair or they'd be at home.
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  Speaker 1: They could barely get up. And now through the modern
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  Speaker 1: medical miracles of whether it's surgery or medication or lasers
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  Speaker 1: and even stem cells, which they won't permit in this country,
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  Speaker 1: but you can go overseas and get stem cells. It's
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  Speaker 1: just tremendous, the strides that they've made. And it's even
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  Speaker 1: going to get better. Well, we're going to be talking
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  Speaker 1: about AI, the data filing centers later. It really now
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  Speaker 1: has become a national issue for the midterms. The president
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  Speaker 1: is waiting on it. But one of the positives clearly
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  Speaker 1: is in the field of medicine.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the greatest examples of exactly what you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about is sports. Remember, it used to be if
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  Speaker 3: you had a knee injury, you were out for the season.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, some of the knee injuries that are easily
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  Speaker 3: fixed now, now people are back in a week and
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  Speaker 3: a half. It has been incredible, especially with that type
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  Speaker 3: of injury, especially with the one that you went through.
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  Speaker 3: That was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, while you were convalescing, have you
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  Speaker 1: shown the New York Post the article on how geezers,
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  Speaker 1: as they call them, Our generation, geezers, right? Baby boomers
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  Speaker 1: are dealing with pain in New York. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: get reefer. They're going to get weed.
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  Speaker 3: They're smoking weed in.
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  Speaker 1: Greater amounts than millennials or Gen Zers. And I attribute
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  Speaker 1: this to the generation we grew up in in the
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  Speaker 1: 60s where that was like crossing the Maginot Line.
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  Speaker 3: You don't smoke marijuana. But now it's legal.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the pent-up frustration of a generation in
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  Speaker 1: the 60s that was told, no, no, no, no, don't smoke, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Now that they see that it's legal, they can't get
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  Speaker 1: enough of it. I find that unbelievable that the number
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  Speaker 1: of users is greater, 55 plus, than amongst millennials who
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  Speaker 1: are younger and obviously Gen Zs who are younger. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's them who are vaping at 12 noon
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  Speaker 1: in Midtown here when.
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  Speaker 3: The purple haze rolls in. But apparently the stats, they
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  Speaker 3: have to keep stats.
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  Speaker 1: You know, at these legal dispensaries where they sell marijuana.
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  Speaker 3: It's 55 plus. You know, I have a hard time
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  Speaker 3: believing that only because what I see with my own eyes.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when I'm walking around the streets of not
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  Speaker 3: just New York, but any city that is now legalized marijuana.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me if I'm not right about this. Everybody you
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  Speaker 3: see smoking marijuana on the streets, they're younger. They're in
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  Speaker 3: their 20s or 30s.
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  Speaker 4: But I think they're not doing it in the streets.
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  Speaker 4: They're doing it in their homes. I think it's a
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  Speaker 4: different group.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know anybody?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You do know people that smoke pot at home? Oh, God, yes. Really?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know a person. I don't know a single person. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe Larry, they do it, but they know your opinion.
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  Speaker 1: So they don't let you know.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah. Maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if they do. I, I, I really
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  Speaker 3: don't care if they do. When I, when I was younger,
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  Speaker 3: I tried it. It's just that, you know, like I,
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  Speaker 3: I curled up in the corner in a fetal position.
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  Speaker 3: So I knew it wasn't for me. You know, that
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  Speaker 3: was not, it was not going to work for me, but, um, But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't care. I used to go to parties where
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  Speaker 3: they were smoking. I got secondhand smoke and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: went and curled up in the fetal position again because
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  Speaker 3: it had a horrible effect on me. Well, guess what?
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  Speaker 1: You're getting secondhand smoke in the streets of New York
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  Speaker 1: City with a purple hand.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard it. What is the one that smells like skunk?
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  Speaker 3: There is one that smells like skunk. Have you smelled
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  Speaker 3: it as you're walking around? Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Cheap.
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  Speaker 3: They should outlaw just that.
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  Speaker 2: It's cheap weed.
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  Speaker 3: It could be cheap, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking of purple, I don't know if you guys have
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  Speaker 4: heard this. Have you heard about the purple meanie? The
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  Speaker 4: jellyfish that's hitting the Jersey Shore?
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  Speaker 1: I have, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's stinging people?
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know. And it's supposedly a vicious sting.
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  Speaker 4: I saw a kid over the weekend come out of
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  Speaker 4: the water with his mom up to the lifeguard station
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  Speaker 4: in tears, holding his hand.
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  Speaker 2: He wasn't talking. The mom's like, He was stung. He
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  Speaker 2: was stung. And I really think this.
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  Speaker 4: Could have been it because it didn't look like a
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  Speaker 4: regular jellyfish problem.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Over the weekend, you saw this?
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  Speaker 2: I did. I went to the beach.
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  Speaker 3: You went to the beach? You didn't come into work, though.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't. As part of your rehab, you went to
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  Speaker 2: the beach.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing is I did get cleared by the doctor.
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  Speaker 2: So I went and.
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  Speaker 4: they told me, sand is going to be tough. You
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  Speaker 4: make sure somebody's holding you. They're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: I was walking like a step a minute.
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  Speaker 1: On the matter of the jellyfish, when I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: I went and spent a summer down in Miami Beach
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  Speaker 1: with my uncle and aunt, Lou Chia and Jimmy Scavone.
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  Speaker 1: And they had the lifeguards put out the jellyfish warnings.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go into the surf jelly. What do you mean jellyfish?
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  Speaker 3: I went in there. Boy, did I get stunk.
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  Speaker 1: Afterwards, whenever I saw a jellyfish wanting in the surf,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't going in.
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  Speaker 3: Man, does that hurt. I don't mind the stinging one.
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  Speaker 3: What are the little ones that make you itch?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the ones that are like little pieces that get
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  Speaker 4: stuck in your hair?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can't get it off you. You take
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  Speaker 3: a shower, you're trying to get it off you. Whatever
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  Speaker 3: that is, I hate them. I'd rather be stung than
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