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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of News Speratu,

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Speaker 1: because we talked about the news, but mostly no Sparatu.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jack and I'm thrilled to be joined

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Speaker 1: by today's special guest.

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Speaker 2: Co host, Kaitlyn Dorante. Katie Durany.

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Speaker 3: That's one of my my father, Jimmy Duranty.

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Duranty, he was very old.

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Speaker 3: And our son, Kevin Durant, the son that I saw.

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Speaker 3: I forgot that I said that Jimmy Duranty was my father.

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Speaker 3: We have a kid together.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's horrible.

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Speaker 3: Are falling apart?

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Speaker 1: Well, we're breaking news on this one, all right, Caitlin,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. This is the

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Speaker 1: episode where we tell people what is trending right now

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday afternoon. We'll start with like a good one

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Speaker 1: because there's not a lot of them to go around.

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Speaker 1: Congestion pricing is working. We talked at the time that

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Speaker 1: it was being rolled out that it felt like something

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Speaker 1: out of like another era or like another country, Like

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Speaker 1: a small progressive policy that is like kind of common

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Speaker 1: sense is meant to positively affect people's lives, like it

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Speaker 1: is done on behalf of people instead of corporations.

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Speaker 3: And this is happening in America.

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Speaker 1: In America, in New York City, which is part of

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Speaker 1: a big one. Yeah, that's one of the big that's

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Speaker 1: one of the big ones. I think I gotta double

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Speaker 1: check my Wikipedia, but I think New York City one

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Speaker 1: of the big ones. It's a great city. You could

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Speaker 1: open up a business and then planes could fly into

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Speaker 1: the towers. That's that's also wow any given day. That's

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Speaker 1: what Eric Adams said about New York City, the city

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Speaker 1: that he is the mayor of, about why it's a

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Speaker 1: good city. You know, you never know what's going to happen,

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Speaker 1: big plot twist. You know, you're just celebrating your business

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Speaker 1: that open and then nine to eleven. Anyways, this is

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Speaker 1: a piece of policy that you know, progressive politicians were

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Speaker 1: fighting for for a long time, where basically they were

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Speaker 1: going to charge people fifteen dollars. They you know, via negotiation,

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Speaker 1: it got pushed down to nine dollars. The idea is

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Speaker 1: to dissuade people from driving their cars into New York City,

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Speaker 1: a thing that they do repeatedly for some reason. Even

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Speaker 1: though I can't think of a worse hell, I've done

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Speaker 1: it a couple of times in my life. It is

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Speaker 1: a fucking nightmare.

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Speaker 3: The scariest experience I've ever had driving in Manhattan.

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Speaker 1: I pulled out of a car rental place in Manhattan,

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Speaker 1: like my first time ever driving in Manhattan. I had

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Speaker 1: at fifty miles per hour, giving me a finger, Like wow,

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Speaker 1: I was like second one.

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Speaker 2: They're like fuck you. I was like all right.

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Speaker 1: Anyways, you know, it's not only a policy that is

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Speaker 1: designed to positively impact people's lives in a way that

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Speaker 1: pushing back against cars and car culture, which is simply

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Speaker 1: not done in these United States. Simply not Yes, so

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Speaker 1: of course tons of freak outs. We covered them last

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Speaker 1: it's like the most beautiful. It takes as long to

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Speaker 3: Like, oh, does one like parking costs a bazilion do?

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Speaker 3: Like why would you we? New York is one of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we're just like tar brand gun brand, Like

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Speaker 1: Because despite the freak out, the law went into effect

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Speaker 1: It was like, all right, well we should be getting

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Speaker 3: I thought it already cost like eight dollars if you

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Speaker 1: Their bowls specific to like various tunnels and stuff. But

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Speaker 3: So I was going to ask what they're using these

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all of public transit. Okay, that's nice. It's nice,

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Speaker 2: But they got one through.

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Speaker 1: They got their one through, So congratulations to New York.

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Speaker 1: The big news of today is that it appears there

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Plus, I mean, as people have pointed out, there's

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Speaker 3: many people are pointing out, ceasefire is like the first step.

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Speaker 3: There's so much to do beyond this and the siege

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is trying to get back to a you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Oh and there's also just some pulling that suggests that,

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, and Severance is

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Speaker 2: Kitlyn. Did you ever watch Severns.

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Speaker 3: I only saw the pilot and then I was like,

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm busy. I have movies to watch. Why would

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Speaker 1: I think it's one of my favorite streamers of the past.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely like a mystery box thing that I've yet

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Speaker 1: But I didn't think it ended particularly well.

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Speaker 1: Are you a being lost head?

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Speaker 3: write the screenplay to Star Wars before George Lucas can.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. That is wild that that is something that

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Speaker 3: Lost that is a plot point of Lost.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's great. So seventh good show. They have season

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Speaker 1: two coming up. And the reason we know that because

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Speaker 1: They were like, don't shut up much to anyone.

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Speaker 1: Well, Kaitlyn durn say, what a pleasure having you?

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Speaker 3: Caitlyn University. Anyway, you can, Yeah, check out all that

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