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Ready? 1, 2, 3.
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Patriots, gay trots, Day Trio, Black Trio, Brown Trio, and those who don't support them can. All right, listener pumps, what have you had it with?
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Okay, what I've had it with is returns. I feel like when you try to return something, they make it so hard that, like, I just. I tried to return something this morning, and it was so much work, so many phone calls. I finally just said, you know what? I'll just keep it. Like, just forget it. I just. I gave up because it was such an annoyance. So I just. I've had it with returns. I think they make it so hard on purpose.
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I absolutely think they do. I think it's. Here's one thing that really pisses me off as it pertains to airline tickets. Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, all the other radical leftists had this radical policy where if you buy an airline ticket and it gets canceled, delayed, whatever, they have to give you a refund. They have to. So it was like, actually consumer protections kanks, little Smokey and all the Christians get in there, the MAGA Christians, and of course, they kiss ass to the billionaires. And I thought, we have bailed the airlines out so many times, so many times, like, they're not allowed to fail. They can run a shitty business and American taxpayers are going to bail them out and they can't give us a refund. I just. That I thought was. So that just is the prime difference between the two parties. Of course, you know, Democrats out there messaging that, hey, maga, you know, is completely beholden to corporations because a lot of Democrats are completely beholden to the same corporations. But I thought that was just really, really something because I guarantee you a MAGA person could not defend that. That's something we all experience getting decked over by airlines every time.
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And also, like, bank overdraft fees. They. The Biden administration put a limit on it. They took the limit off. So your bank can charge you whatever they want for your overdraft fees. I just. I'm like, you're protecting the bank, not the consumer.
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It's such. Yeah. I think that's the one thing that Democrats need to do a better job messaging is that the regulations because the Dem, the Republicans have done a decades long assault that regulations are too burdensome for businesses to conduct themselves. And we don't want regulations because then we don't, we don't have free markets. The Democrats should have done a better job saying these aren't regulations, they're consumer protections. The last people that need more money are the airlines. The last people that need more money is Jeff Bezos. This is to protect you. Because they are constantly sitting around a board meeting, looking at their stock price, figuring out extra ways to you as hard as they can, and then once you're there, then they're going to bend you over and figure out if they can do it even harder. And Democrats have just done a shitty job messaging how important consumer protections are and furthermore how important regulated capitalism is and how much safer and stable the economy is. But, you know, all right, let me tell you what I've had it with, okay? So, you know, I, I did a couple of I hip news episodes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, right? Because she'll, she'll do a CNN interview, she'll do a podcast, and she's trying to act like she's AOC or Bernie. She has this economic populist message. So I had to go over to her Twitter feed to see if she's still feeding the stray cats, if she's still feeding the crazy cultists. And she is. And she wrote, there was a picture of her daughter and she wrote, children are my why. And I just have to say, I've had it with any phrase where it's like, my dog is my why. Yeah. My husband is my why, or my kids are my why. Grow up. Don't be so codependent, don't be so toxic that you put that amount of a burden on your child. And furthermore, be your own why. You know, like this enmeshment that parents have, it's no surprise it's Marjorie or Taylor Greene. But people on the left do this too. The enmeshment that people have with their kids, that it's like their lives have to be like this and not like concentric circles. And I've seen a lot of parents, particularly in like red states, where it's like the whole, their whole purpose is their kids and everything revolves around the kids. And I have two kids that I adore more than anything on the planet, but they are their own people. They have their own lives, their own individuality. And I just think that phrase, you know, pumps is my why. I mean, I just drive stupid.
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It's so stupid. I In people. I've seen like posts that are like, if you're struggling right now, you know, figure out what your why is and focus on your why. And I'm just like, shut the.
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What does that mean? What your why?
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I don't know, like, why am I doing this? Why am I here? Why is this important? It's just like if you don't know and you have to write it down, then we got problems.
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The, the hyper search to investigate your life, to figure out what you're supposed to be doing, whether it be self or what your why is. I mean, like, I just think these are fool's errands where basically you need to wake up, do what you need to do for the day, and if you have time to do something extra, great. But the majority of days are three to four out of ten. They're boring. Most everyday life is boring and mundane. And then maybe you get to go on a trip, or maybe you get to go to a friend's wedding, or maybe you're the one getting. Getting married and then you get a day that's a 10 out of 10. But those are not every single day. And people in first world countries are so spoiled that they think they need to search for what their why is. Why. Because your parents raw dogged and you're here, you're sitting here on this planet. That's why. That's exactly why your parents. You're here. Get over it. Quit being histrionic, quit making everything about yourself and do what you need to do to be a contributing person in society. Make, maybe try to fight fascism. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Yeah, no, I agree. I think it's a privilege to be able to sit around and ponder what is my why. I feel like that's something of the upper class. I feel like if you're working two jobs and you're a single parent and you're trying to pay the rent, you don't have a lot of time to sit around and think, what is my why? I think it's a privileged type conversation. That's just my opinion.
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All right, welcome to I've had It. I'm Jennifer.
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I'm Angie.
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Where America's top DEI podcast. And we have Kylie, our producer, who has a very. For those that are listening, it's a very attractive.
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Yeah.
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Jacket with horses on it. It is. She's giving cowgirl.
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Yeah. Annie Oakley kind of thing. I like it.
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Thank you so much. I've got a couple reviews for you today.
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Okay, great.
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First one is a haiku written by Liz five Stars. And they write hbic Yaks, Centrist Jessica Browbeats, Maga Nuts. Meltdown.
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Very nice. Very well done. All right, who's next?
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Okay, the next one is five stars, titled finally some non Disappointing Whites. And they write. Most people that I've come across that look like me either only care about Taylor Swift or becoming a miniature Marge Taylor Green. I'm so glad to be reminded that just because we look vaguely like MTG from a distance, that doesn't mean we have to become demons like her.
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Keep up the good work. I think that's a really good point, but I'm just going to tell people. I talk about this on ihip News all the time. Marjorie Taylor Greene is an opportunist and a grifter, and she sees the writing on the wall with Kanks. She sees that Kanks has swollen hands, swollen ankles, bruised hands, dementia out the wazoo, doesn't know where he is half the time. And in order for the strong man, the authoritarian strongman, to keep the personality cult together, he has to emit this toxic masculinity, this toxic strength. Well, the death kneel for a lot of authoritarians is when the leader starts appearing frail and sick and old. That's happening, you guys. So as daunting as it is living in America right now, it is happening. And look no further, further than the fissures that are happening in the maga, you know, Internet podcast sphere. You have Tucker Carlson jumping ship. Marjorie Taylor Green is jumping ship trying to act like a democratic socialist while at the same time making sure she praises Jesus is mean to the lgbtq. So do not fall for it. You're going to see clips of her on the World Wide Web and she is, I'm gonna say, attempting to make a lot of sense, but it's right. No, it's no different messaging than what Bernie's had for three or four decades. It's no different messaging than what AOC has had for the last 10 years. It's no different than what Zoran Mamdani is saying. And she is just taking Democratic socialism and wrapping it up with Republican permission structure. And then she will you like every other Republican presidency ever has. They always do it. They always over the working class worse than the Democrats do. And that's a pretty low bar.
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Yeah, I, I, when I see something that Marjorie Taylor Greene said or I read something, I'm always like, oh my God, I, I'm agreeing with her. Like I have to do a mental list. Like, okay, she's crazy. She's a grifter but she's an astute politician because when I agree with her, it terrifies me. I mean, I have to do an inventory.
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That's just how I'm telling you. She's strategically seeing the curtains are closing on Kanks. I mean, he is just this guy appears frail. He talks about death all the time, whether he's going to get into heaven, where he's not going to get into heaven. We can see physically the toll. You know, like an elderly person at a nursing home. He acts like when he way he rambles, he's in a memory care wing. And the smarter Republicans are going to distance themselves because the personality cult is not going to form under J.D. vance. It just will not. And Marjorie Taylor Green don't buy it for a second because you'll see her, you guys, and you probably have seen her. She hits the algorithm and it is all she's exploiting. And this is what Republicans do. They use issues to make you feel like, oh, they care about me. But here's the thing. Marjorie Taylor Green is an architect and a participant in every single thing that we're all going through. And we can never let her off the hook for supporting an authoritarian. I don't care how much she fucking says that she's going to be for working class people. They never will be. Republicans are for corporations. And look no further than Marjorie Taylor Greene stock exchanges while she's been in Congress. All right, Kylie, do you have any news stories for us?
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I do. Here's the first one. And I've got a video to follow. So the New York Post, the headline is Stay at home. Hub sons are the trad wives of 2025. And their moms couldn't be more thrilled. And then here's the video is picking up steam.
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Stay at home signs. These young men, dubbed trad sons or hub sons, are opting out of the rat race to take on full time homemaker duties for their parents and exchange. Exchange for room and board. A family therapist tells the New York Post that the ship may be fueled by insecurity and instability with some young men feeling safest under mom and dad's roof in an uncertain world.
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And they're not alone.
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One in three U.S. adults age 18 to 34 now lives at home. Experts say it's fine as long as it's a pit stop and not the destination.
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I'll tell you what I mean, just white guys are having a tough go.
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They're air.
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It's hard. Here's where I am on that. I believe when any Human being group is having a crisis. It's a crisis, but welcome to what every other group, every other demographic has had to deal with since forever. And I think this is what happens when you get equality of genders, equality of races, and we're nowhere there yet. But if you look at all of these white men that are highly unqualified, that are running the federal government, they would have never gotten these jobs, you know, without their white skin and their ability to kiss Donald Trump's ass. So we just have a problem. And I just think white women. Quit helicoptering your kids. Quit babying your, quit your kids. Quit doing for your kids what they should be doing for yourself. Don't infantilize your kids. Don't baby talk your sons. They are young men. Treat them as such. The psychology is firm in this. Every therapy, every therapist across the board is in agreement with this. Don't baby your teenage slash young adult sons. It is a recipe for their future to completely face plant because nobody, nobody gets treated like that. And here's the thing. I don't know when this happened, when parents started infantilizing their kids so much, but I see it all the time. When I was probably like 12, I had a key to my house, I had a latchkey kit. My parents never baby talked me. I don't remember. I have no memory of my parents baby talking me. And now I feel like there's just like these adults that baby talk young adult kids. And to me it's so cringy and weird. I, I just, I don't even know how to process it. It's so disrespectful to the young adults being to infantilize them. And I just, I don't know where this came from. But I guarantee you all the hub sons mommies are infantilizing them and baby talking. Weird.
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It's weird. No, my mother, I was a latchkey kid, she would say, okay, call me when you get home. And she'd tell me like, I need you to do this, like I need you to vacuum or I need you to set dinner. I mean, it was just like you took care of your own because she wasn't going to. And then I fell into the trap of doing everything for my kid until I was like, I'm gonna have a heart attack because it's making me so crazy. And thank goodness I pulled back when I did because now they're better. But it's just like it is a epidemic of parents doing for their kids. You see it at sports. My kids, the next lebron James treat him differently school. You know, my kid didn't win the award. We have participation trophies.
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I agree. You can.
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All these Hubson have helicopter power parents.
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One that are baby that are baby talking their grown sons. And I think it's weird as. Okay, next up, Kylie. All right, one in five high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship or knows someone who has. A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools, including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools. Wow, you guys. Okay, this to me is really, really sad. And we have to go to our guests shortly. But I just want to say for people that are around mind pumps age who have kids that are in high school or, you know, just started college somewhere within that 10 year gap, you know, we had our kids and then these cell phones came out. They were flip phones. It was no big deal back when we were raw dogging. And then around the time that our kids were toddlers, they morphed into these smartphones. And then it was like, oh, my God, look at this. Look at what my phone does. It's like a computer in your hand. And then your kids get to fifth grade, sixth grade, and their friends have phones and you're like, oh, I'm gonna get you a phone so I can find you and I can track you. And that seems like a good idea. And then, you know, I, I definitely did this and I'm not proud of it, but a lot of times it was just easier for me. I was stressed out. My husband had a. You know, we all know Josh has been to rehab five times. And there were times where I was just like, get your phones and play video games on your phones or go play video games, because I can't do this. I have to turn on robot mom. Like, I can do the bare minimum. I can feed you and I can remove you from the house if it catches on fire. Fortunately, my kids are okay. You know, they're both ones in law school, one's in college. But there were no, there was no guidance. And I regret how, you know, how much time we all spent at home and everybody looking at their phones. And it's just, it's a sad thing when I watch old movies or sitcoms. Pumps like from the 80s or 90s and you see that people are just interacting. There's no phone in the hands and, you know, landline phone calls. I always want to be cautious, to be nostalgic about times because I think that's oftentimes a full fool's errand. But I do think the lack of cell phones in our formative years was better. I think we had, we have better skills and I see that this generation is so risk adverse and I think a lot of that has to do with cell phones.
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Yeah, the shaming. And then they're constantly comparing. My life isn't as good as their life and they're prettier than me because it took 7,000 pictures and Photoshop and all that.
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What?
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The performative nature of the whole social media and cell phone. And I just, it's crazy. Like when I look at it, it is crazy, but I just want to go back to this just real quick. These people have a relationship with AI and they know it's AI. Is that what that says?
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Yes, but it's a loneliness epidemic and it's really not far off from like at first, in the late 90s, early 2000s people when the Internet first came out, chat rooms. So it's just some, you know, screens sending you messages backwards. It's the same thing with AI this doesn't surprise me because I think people are so lonely and people fall prey to superficial flattery and, and you know, especially younger people, they want to feel loved and they're isolated by these cell phones. That doesn't surprise me. And to me it's, it makes me sad because I definitely could have done a better job raising my kids and limiting their cell phone use. I, that's a regret that I have. I just, you know, it was easier, it was a path, the least resistance. I wanted to dick off on my phone too. It was selfish mothering on my part and there's just no guidance, no, no results. But I think, you know, I knew like, this isn't right.
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Right.
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And if it was easier, like at a restaurant, just get on your phone.
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Or if you were in a car.
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On a road trip, get your phone. You know, I mean, it was convenience on my part, but also just like emotionally, I wasn't able to be there emotionally, so the phone was. But yeah, so they know it's AI when they're having a relationship. I'm just clearing that app.
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Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think they know, but I mean to me, whether it's AI or some person behind a screen in a chat room, to me it's the same level of non verbal communication. It's just an extension of what, what's been going on for decades. And I think it just speaks to the, the loneliness that cell phones cause our species. And the isolation, the radicalization, all of the, all of the problems from it. All right, great pre show everybody. We have a great guest. She's a real housewife of New York City. Former real housewife of New York City. And let's welcome to I've Had It Carol Radziwill. This episode of I've had it is.
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All right, let's welcome to. I've had it. An author, a former reality star, and a brand new substacker, Carol Radziwill. Carol, how are you today?
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Good. How are you guys? I can't believe I'm here with you. You know, I watch you.
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C
You do?
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Oh, you do?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I used to watch you on Real Housewives.
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Well, that's kind of like. That's a different kind of watch. I watch you guys for information. Like, I think I, I watched you like, early on. How long have you been doing this?
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Three years this month.
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Oh, yeah, I think I was like two years ago, I was like, who are these ladies? They're really funny.
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I mean, you know, we, we try, we try. You know, we started just talking about Daily Grievances, Carol.
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I love that.
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And then, you know, it morphs into your Daily grievances. Are these fascists. And so, you know, you have to talk about that all the time. Yeah, and I remember back, I remember, I think I watched a few episodes of Real Housewives of New York back when Hillary was running against Trump.
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Oh, yeah.
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And you were going crazy. And I was right there with you. Like, you were going. No, I was right there with you, like, totally manic. Like, okay, she's up two points here, but down here, and then we can do this. And if she wins this state, then the blue wall. And I was like, yes, yes, yes. I was totally in on the whole thing. Just completely in. I mean, how devastating was that?
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By the Way that was filmed during, obviously during the general, but in 2016. And what I said about Donald Trump then, it was super early. Like, you know, it was like I was sort of, like, invested in the primary, obviously, you know, because of my background. I think I'm just generally, you know, interested, generally speaking, in, like, elections and what's going on in the country. And even though I haven't reported for 20 years, but. And then by the time we started filming in September. That was in September, you know, it's kind of like all, like the rest of the country, all I could talk about, because it was just so crazy, was like a reality show. It literally felt like a real. I'm like, this is a reality show. This is. This guy's not serious. And, and I, the stuff I said about him that Bravo kept in the show, I was like, holy shit. Like, I mean, I called him a buffoon, a clown. You know, I talked about a rape case that was currently at that time in the Supreme Court, New York downtown with an underage girl, and that disappeared after he was elected. But, like, I was just talking about all, thinking, Bravo's not gonna air this. First of all, it's like, Paul, and this was before they started really getting, they do more politics now. And, and the other women were just like, scurrying, you know. You know, they just, one castmate was like, well, what about Hillary Z Man? And then I was like, what you're talking about? What about the 3 million emails that George Bush deleted when he left office? This is not, this is not like an abnormal thing to do, but, like, there was no talking to them, and the other castmates were, like, hiding in cupboards, and it was just extraordinary. And then by the time that election rolled around, obviously, after James, James Comey did that, you know. You know, did what he did. And I'd never forget having a scene the, the week, the few days or the week before the election party that I was planning. And I, and I said, I don't know if I'm planning a party or a funeral. Like, it, I don't know if you remember, but, like, that last week after the Comey thing was, it just turned around.
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C
I remember.
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But there was still hope, obviously. I mean, we were devastated. I remember the next day, I gotta be honest. I, I, I've taken a seat, a back seat to talking about Paul. I mean, for a while, that's all I Talked about through 16, 17, 1890, but sort of taking a backseat because the, the people who support him, and I'm talking The real, the real true believers. I'm not talking about Republicans. Half my family Republicans. It's like those people or, or normal. But the true believers really, really are nasty.
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Yeah.
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Oh, they're very nasty.
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I got death threats. I had to file police reports. Like, it was like. And I'm just like a dumb housewife on a reality show. So. So, yeah, that. That was 2017.
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Yeah. All right, Carol, let me ask you. Let's just get out of politics for a second. Let me ask you, ask you what you've had it with. Oh, so the hook of the show.
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I know. I love, I love the title. I've had it with a lot of things. Like, it comes and goes. Like every day there's some new thing. But lately I've really had it with the Resi app. I know that sounds crazy, but it's not. Because if you live in New York and we used to be able to like go out at night in our neighborhood, we had neighborhood places, restaurants. Rolls is a big restaurant right in my neighborhood. And you would be able to get a reservation, like you'd be able to get a table even without a reservation. Like at 7:30 or 7 or 8, whatever. Not at 5:30 or 10:30. And ever since this Resi app came about, and I never use it because it's like a point of honor with me, you, you cannot walk in a single restaurant in New York City and just say, hey, you know, do you have a table for two? Oh, I'm sorry, you know, there's a three hour wait. Or like, don't tell me there's a three hour wait. Like, that's not, that's an insane thing to tell someone, you know, like to say you're booked for the night or whatever. But the Resi app has made it. So I think people from the tri state area, can they book all of these, all of these reservations for like date night. What? All these things, whatever it is. And they come into the city, they clog all the restaurants up and like regular, like neighborhood New Yorkers can't get into restaurants. So I've had it with that. I mean, it's a real. It's a, it's a problem. I've had it.
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I've had it with people calling reservations resies. I just, I've had it with the whole thing. The Resi apple. I'll get us a resi. Oh, do you have a resi for us tonight? And it's cute when somebody with a British accent or an Australian accent says it, but when just A normal boring American is trying to cute up the American version of English. It bugs the out of me.
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And I'll tell you something for the we're the big pie popular. I won't name them because I'll never get a table. But the big, the popular restaurants, we've all read about them in Dumois and you know, they do this thing now and I'm not a hundred percent, but I'm like 98 sure. So I'll say it like fact. There's third party, third party companies that take up all the reservations and sell them to wealthy people who will pay you pay a premium. You like. I want a reservation at say, Carbone. It's hard to get a reservation there. I want a reservation at 8:30 on Saturday. And then these companies have that table and they will give you that reservation. And you pay them like an extra hundred dollars. You pay them, they have a hundred dollars. And then you obviously whatever your, your you know, bill is at the restaurant, but there's like concierge, it's like ticket scalping. But now it's restaurant. It's resi scalping. Now I'm not, I'm not a hundred percent sure this is, I know it's going on like an underground way, but I think this is going to become more and more of a thing. And I know this because a friend of mine has done it and I was like, damn, how did you get that reservation? I know that. And he said, he told me so it's maybe under the radar right now, but this is what's happening. So like just regular people just can't get these reservations because who's going to pay, pay 400 for dinner and then an extra hundred dollars to this company to get the table. It's just insane. It's like it's kind of ruining New York. I'm really, I'm really depressed about it.
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It's like an oligarchy in restaurant. Like the oligarchy is ruining everything.
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Everything, everything. It's like toxic capitalism. Everyone is on a hustle, a grift. It's really terrible. It's really terrible. It's like I used to get crazy about the COVID shacks too. I mean we had a few on our street and I live in the West Village, so the streets are small. And like, I get it like in 2020 and 2021 for two years, whatever, you're trying to like make up the difference. But these restaurants, they were like abusing it. Like anything, you know that, you know, four years later they still have their shitty Covid shacks up that are. That are not ADA compliant. They're fire hazards. They're blocking traffic. They're like. And they're. They're dirty. So there are more rats. There's garbage. And like, I spoke to a friend of mine who owns two restaurants, very popular restaurants in the West Village, and she. And I was like, when are you going to take these down? Come on. And. And I know they're flush with cash, so it's not like a money thing anymore. It's just like a greed thing. And she's like, well, you know, the law says that we can. And like. I'm like, okay, legally, maybe you're. You're. There's a loophole that allows you to keep these. But, like, what about morally? What about the moral question and all of this? It just drives me crazy. What about the. The stakeholders, the people who live in the neighborhood that frequent your restaurant? They don't want these anymore. It just. I was on like a. My Soapbox about that for years. No, the city council guy, I love him. Mary Fashner. He would. He's barely starting or Stop. Teeth. Stop taking my calls. I would see him at party, like. Like myself at a restaurant opening, and he's like, oh, no, here she comes.
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C
Are you kind of. Are you kind of a Karen in the West Village?
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The only against. No, because I don't call them. If I'm calling the manager, it's to say that they're taking advantage of the regular. Like the, The. The. The underdog. They're taking advantage like. Like we had a Covid shack and they were dumping the garbage in front of this townhouse that belonged to Helen Jean. Her name was she. May she rest in peace. She died a couple months ago. She was like, 97 years old. And because the garbage was in front of her townhouse, she was getting ticketed by. By sanitation for having garbage on the sidewalk. But it was the restaurant's garbage, you know, so it's like, yeah, in that case, I'm gonna be the Karen to help. Help Helen Jean, who's 107 to. To stop getting these tickets. So, you know, basically I was like, we're gonna do it two ways. You're gonna move the garbage cans to the other side of the shack.
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D
Or.
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Or I will. So they.
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Karen for good.
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A Karen for good. Yeah. A Karen for, like, people who don't speak up. And maybe I.
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All right, let's talk about when we were emailing with you before. Let's talk about You've had it with willful ignorance. And this is something that I have completely had it with people that willfully play dumb or willfully play, oh, I'm just dingy. I didn't realize when this, you know, this person is fully competent, fully able. It just, it, this gets right under my skin, right up there with people calling reservations resies.
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I think that there, it's like multi layered, that kind of situation. There are people who, when you present them with a fact that you could have, even if you just read the headline of any newspaper on social whatever that is a fact that they'll say, well, I mean, send me, you know what, how do you, you know, like you're saying it like as opinion. Well, send me the article or send me what research do you have? Like, as though, oh wait, I'm now your research assistant. No, this is what's going on. This is the fact you go do the fucking research search, you go find the article. Like that kind of like playing dumb, playing like, like all of a sudden I'm turning into like. You see this a lot on Instagram in the comments. Well, how, how can you back that up? Show me the article. I'm not showing you, dude. Not showing you anything. Go look it up. Critical thinking skills, like, you have a brain in your head, two eyes and a brain. Like, look it up, find out this is what's going on. And so I hate that. And then when people just don't understand, like, they just, you know, when they do, like, why don't you understand? Like I said in my sub stack, this last one was the most political I've, I've gotten. And I'm trying not to do it, but you know, like the troops rolling into to Portland, I have family in Portland, you know, the ice, abducting people, people and putting them in these weird like rape vans, like unmarked vans, like used to call them rape vans. And, and, and you know, protesters being thrown to the ground and dragged and arrested and women being arrested in front of their kids, Their kids being like, just look. You don't. There's no, you know, how much more evidence of malfeasance and illegality do you need? Like, do you need to study? Like, I don't understand constitutional law, but I don't need to understand constitutional law to see with my two eyes in my brain that this is un American. But like, there's people that'll be like, well, I, you know, well, I don't know the laws and this. And first of all, it's not illegal. I Mean, it's a misdemeanor to enter the country illegally. Like it's a misdemeanor, like jaywalking, like it's not a felony if you enter the country and you declare asylum. Like that's a legal right that we have in this country. Like declaring asylum, whether it's from economic asylum or political asylum, that's a legal right that we still, I believe, still have on the books in this country. So tell me all the laws that.
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Are being broken, you know, but that's not what, that's not what any of it's about. These poor immigrants are being scapegoated because the working class has been overlooked by unregulated capitalism and the laborers have been demeaned by the Republican Party labor unions. And the reason all of these billionaires are billionaires isn't because they're any different than anybody else, is because of a labor force. They have an amazing labor force that both parties, the Republicans and I mean.
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F
It turns out the Democrats are just.
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In that vacuum or maybe not justice. Yeah, we've left this vacuum and that's how fascism has, you know, has been born. And so these poor immigrants are being scapegoated. And you know, it's. I can from. I used to live in Oklahoma City full time forever. And you have. Yeah.
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F
Oh, is it.
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C
It's very white religious. It's cool. Oklahoma City is a purple city, but generally the state is very evangelical white. You know, like think about like, you know, decades old socially, like, you know, you have people that get married at 21 so that they can have sex, you know, just, you know.
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F
So do you guys know anyone in Oklahoma that got raptured?
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No, I wish.
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C
No, I was always the lone atheist in Oklahoma and so.
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Yeah.
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But anyway, I, you know, I think that multiculturalism is something that all of these, you know, deeply homogenous white culture people enjoy. They love to go eat Mexican food on the weekends. They love to watch the Oklahoma City Thunder, which is the NBA team, which is dominated by African Americans. And so I think the Democrats have done a really piss poor job messaging how important multiculturalism is. Meanwhile, the Republicans have done a stellar job attacking blue cities. And Democrats haven't defended them and said these are economic centers, their crime rate is lower in these places per capita. And so, you know, the takeaway I have from all of this is the Democrats. To me, current Democratic leadership, there are some outliers, feel like the party of preserving the status quo. It feels conservative to me. The current Democratic Party feels conservative to me because they just not go forward. You have this rock star candidate, mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani. Whether you like him or not, he has massive grass grassroots support. He is a national superstar and you've got people in the Democratic Party. He won a free and fair election and they won't endorse him. Whether you agree with him, it's 7 out of 10 things, 6 out of 10. You endorse him and say, hey, he's a little bit further left than me. I don't know about all this free shit he's talking about, but he won. So let's give it a twirl.
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All right Carol, let's move along here to our game called had it or Hit It.
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A
Oh my God.
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C
Welcome to had it or Hit It. I would hit it.
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I hit it every day, sometimes twice a day.
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Carol had it or Hit it.
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Cats.
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Hit it. Is that the good thing or the Bad thing.
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Good.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Hit it.
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Hello.
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I have two cats. Cats are better than anything. Cats are better than boyfriends.
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C
What are your cat's names?
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Well, I was just discussing that. I call them II they're hey guys. They answer to hey guys every day, like 10 times a day. I'm like, hey guys. They come running, hey guys. Hey guys. So maybe one's hey and one's guys, But I call them baby. I. I have names for them, but they change. Like they're. They were recently Taylor and Travis, and then before that they were George and Tammy from Tammy Wyette and George Jones. Like they have.
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Yeah.
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But mostly they just answered the hey guys.
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Hey, guys.
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Hey, guys.
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C
All right. Had it or hit it? Fox News.
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F
Had it. I mean, I don't watch it. It's ridiculous. I mean, I see it on Tick Tock.
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C
It's so ridiculous. We see it online, too. It's so.
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F
It's like a comedy show.
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C
It is. It's so crazy. It's like an entertainment channel. It's like the WWE of news.
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F
Yeah.
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C
Has this WWE vibe to it. Yeah. Honestly, the whole Trump presidency does.
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B
Yeah. Yeah.
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F
It's the biggest clown. I mean, I will tell you, Donald Trump is the greatest we've ever seen, by the way. Like, in terms of like this ability to. To like cult figure con grifters. Like, he. He. There's. Honestly, I don't think we've seen. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think we've ever seen anyone at this level. And his ability to turn really dark, menacing stuff into. Into almost like comedy. Like, if he wasn't, I think he'd be a great late night comedian. Comedian. Like, not a president. I mean, he's. It's so crazy to think that this guy is. Is a. Is a president, but he's like, he's. He's. He is. It's like the greatest show. Like the greatest con of all.
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B
Yeah, he's the biggest con artist ever.
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Like the greatest we've ever seen.
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B
Yeah.
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C
Okay. Had it or hit it, The Supreme Court.
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F
Had it. Just because I just don't like how a lot of them were. Were confirmed. Like, I agree. Kavanaugh, like, oh, remember he's crying about having beers with Squib and tubing.
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Like, you know what's so irritating about Brett Kavanaugh is now we know that Christopher Ray's FBI sat on 4, 000 emails and complaints about sexual allegations against him. They sat on and they didn'. Senate. And when you think about the seat that was stolen from Obama. You know, it's. So we have this, these Christian nationalist minority rule. And in places like Oklahoma, that that rule is felt very acutely because there's a total abortion ban and the erosion of gay rights. And it's really. When you let these Christian nationalists have what they want, it causes a lot of suffering, specifically disproportionately to poor people and minorities.
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And it's.
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C
And they all do it in the name of Jesus. And it's just so hypocritical.
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F
Oh, crazy. But, you know, the Republicans know how to use power and the Democrats don't. Like, like, oh, no, I'm blanking at it. The majority leader Schumer. No, no. The Senate.
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C
John Thune or Moses. Mike Johnson.
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F
There was straw.
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He's stroking.
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F
I'm stroking out now. The majority. The, The Kentucky. Kentucky.
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Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell.
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F
Oh, my God, I'm having a stroke now. He knows how to use power and.
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C
Yeah, totally.
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F
He knows how to use it. And, and the Republicans generally are, like, brilliant at that. And the Democrats don't know what they're doing. It's just.
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C
And they just shamelessly use it. And it shows always how we're playing two different games. Right. Democrats, you know, show up and they want to have civilized discussion about things and take it through committee and do all of these things. They're not going to cram this right down your throats, and that's just going to be the end of it. And it's just that the way we're playing two different games is just so devastating that the Democrats haven't had more courage at fighting this. Because like I said, in red states, the erosion of civil liberties has. Is well underway.
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F
Well, what do you guys think of Gavin Newsom? I hit it with Gavin. I like his style. It's like, reminds me of you guys making fun, mocking, using the Republican sort of playbook and turning it around on them. I think that's so effective.
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B
I do, too.
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C
I think I, I am for anybody that will fight hard. And I think JB Pritzker is doing a really good job at this. I think Gavin Newsom is doing a really good job of this. Bernie and AOC are doing a really good job at this. And so, yeah, I'm for anybody who can fight. There are some people in the Democratic leadership that I want to push and nudge along a little bit further. But all in all, Jeffries, Hakeem. Yeah, yeah.
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F
I'm so disappointed.
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C
Yeah.
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F
Schumer needs to be pushed. Well, she needs to retire.
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C
Shimmer needs to retire. He needs to pass the torch to somebody who get in there. Because here's the thing that pisses me off.
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F
It's another Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Diane.
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C
It is. Here's the thing that pisses me off. These guys are so dorky. The Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, J.D. vance Moses, Mike Johnson, Ted Cruz. These are the biggest dweebs this country has ever produced. It should be a layup to relentlessly and mercilessly just go after him non stop. You know, like Moses, Mike Johnson. Are you on Grindr? Why are you checking your son porn? I mean, just go for the juggler. Our democracy is on the line. Just rip off everything. Just go charge out of Grinder account.
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F
But like, it does.
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C
Well, of course he has one. Of course.
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F
You guys talk about it more than any. But how come that doesn't stick? You guys are doing the Lord's work. Like, we're trying understand why none of this is sticking. A lot of these Republican. The pastor is now in. In jail for poor.
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C
Rape.
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F
Yeah, rape. And of a. Of a mind like this. A crate. This is crazy. What's happening on that side. And nothing sticks. I'm telling you, Trump is the. The best we've ever seen. And all his accolades, all the people he's protecting, it's. It's really. It. If it wasn't so monstrous, it would be. It would be admirable. Like, I'd be like, wow, you're really.
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C
A great cult leader. Okay, last one, Last one.
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F
I would drink the Kool Aid. I mean, literally.
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C
Yeah.
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B
Oh, 100.
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C
Yeah. Okay, last one, Carol. Had it or hit it. The United States of America.
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Oh, bummer. You know, I've. I can't. I. I kind of. In this moment, I've had it. But, like, it's hard to say that. And as a New Yorker, I think of, like, when people, like when I travel, I'm like, I just say I'm a New Yorker and I don't say American. You know, it's really. I remember a time where I used to travel overseas a lot at ABC News, and to be an American and to have an American passport meant something. You felt safe. You felt like maybe it was. It wasn't that way, but you felt that way now this past summer. And, you know, I was in Europe, and you just feel like you're embarrassed. You're embarrassed people. And people are making fun, rightly so, of the tactics and the antics that are going on. They just can't believe it, really. Most European countries, people that I'VE met. They just. They can't believe what's going on.
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C
Carol, thank you so much for joining us. And I just recently moved to New York and I will make us a resi.
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A
What?
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C
In the West? Yeah, I'll make us a resi on the Resi app and we'll go have our resi.
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F
Let's have a resi.
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C
With you guys. With you guys.
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F
That'd be so lovely.
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C
All right, Carol.
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F
Okay, bye.
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C
Thank you so much. You, too. Bye. Bye. You know what's so cool about her? She was married to Lee Radziwill, who is Jackie Kennedy's sister's son. So Lee Radziwill is the sister of Jackie Kennedy, her son. And I remember when JFK Jr. And Carolyn Bessette died. I remember seeing her because she was their friend, like, really good. They were like really good friends. 30 something in New York. So went through all of this, which I think she's done. You know, the book and everything about it. But her husband dying and then her friends dying. I mean, that's so traumatizing.
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B
Yeah. And I think she wrote one of her books is about overcoming grief and working through grief.
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C
Yeah. I think it's called what Remains.
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B
Okay.
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C
Yeah, I think that's the title of it. What reminds me, I really like her.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'll tell you what I've had it with.
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Caca.
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