May 23, 2024 • 15 mins
Fleet Week returns to New York city from May 22-28 with two U.S. Navy ships, three U.S. Coast Guard Vessels, and four U.S. Naval Academy Yard Patrol Boats (YPs).
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So many reasons we love love living in New York City.
It's happening right now. It's Fleet Week thirty six. Fleet
weeek here in New York City. It's one of those
things where, you know, we live in New York City.
We get into the pace, we get into the frenzy,
the chaos year round, but every once in a while,
that yearly thing happens. Several of them. There is the
Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, right, yep, there's.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That's it. Well, you know the yearly things that happened.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, But Fleet Week is that incredible week where it
really brings everyone quote somewhat to attention to realize that
there are men and women around the world who are
at float and they are there to keep us and
our allies safe. But they use one week a year
for a lot of these fleets to roll into cities
(00:54):
around America to celebrate and to get out in the streets,
have some fun.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And you get to go on some of their ships
and stuff and check out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Daniel, by the way, don't let her on. She steals
something I do not stealings. We welcome Admiral Daryl Coddle
to the show. Admiral, welcome to the show. So oh,
thank you and incredible, he says. He calls them his
front office. It's a very very very official looking room.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I feel very safe here today, very much though. Wait, wit,
who's watching the ship? I got other people?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, you have so many people? Wow?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You know I was reading up on you, admiral, and
you have spent many of your nights underwater living in
a submarine. Yes, do you have a total? I mean,
is there a way to keep account on the nights?
How much time you spent underwater?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well, assigned to ships, it's been about thirteen years on ships,
seven submarines, and most of the time we shoot for
about fifty percent of the time underway, so that's about
six and a half years under underwater.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, I thought about you, and this is your wife
over here, correct is I thought about you? Now you
there's a story in the travel section today about this
ship and buy a state room and you can just
live on the ship and go around the world year round.
That's probably the last thing on earth you want to do.
The last thing I want to do. Being back on
land is a nice treat, is it?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Can I ask what makes you love it so much?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
My gosh, it's obviously it is the people. I mean,
just the talent, the technical competency, uh, the camaraderie, the teamwork.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's all about the people. We need your leadership here
on this show. These people are just awful.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Do you guys ever see cool stuff while you're while
you're going down see cool stuff? Yeah? Yeah, Well, to
be honest, we hear it, you hear it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, no windows on a nuclear powered submarine, just all sonar.
But you'd beat surprised what's out there and what you hear.
It's all kinds of things. And again we have world
class sonarmen that are manning those headsets and listen to
all these things and characterizing that for us. The things
(02:55):
that I just can't talk about classification level.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Have you guys ever heard anything that you thought, what
the hell is that? And nobody can figure it out?
Of course? Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, And we just marked that as like you know,
you've heard of you know, unknown araa phenomenon. We got
unknown undersea phenomenon. It's that kind of thing. I'm never
sure what that is, that's rare, right, but in general
it happens sometimes. It's so interesting how we feel that
outer space is such the crazy, crazy unexplored world, but gosh,
when it comes to under the water, just the same,
(03:25):
even more so, I would think, yes, But of course
the reason you're down there is not for sight seeing.
Oh it's nice to hear a way all from time
to time say yellow is up. But keeping our waters
safe and our planet rolling in a safe direction, we
thank you so much for that, without doubt, and we
we salute you. And to have you all here in
(03:47):
New York City right now and now I found it.
None of them are from New York City. So they
got off the ship and they're like, what.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Do we do? Now? Leave it as you found it,
clean it up.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What does Fleet Week mean to the men and women
who are visiting New York City right now?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I think it's just a tremendous opportunity for them. I mean,
it's greatest city on Earth. All the things that they
can do and engage with the people in New York.
You know, a lot of people have some trepidation when
they come to a large city like this and they're
not sure what it's going to be how it's going
to play out, what they're going to find. But I
just and this is my third fleet week in this
position in New York, and it's just such an open
(04:26):
arms approach. You just welcome us sailors marines. They go
into a restaurant, they can't pay for their meal, they
get drinks paid for them, they love the nightlife, they
just get thank you for your service.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So it is really really welcoming. It's a beautiful thing.
And I tell you what you picked. The bad news
is you chose a very, very nice sunny week because
one of the incredible natural phenomenon that happens here in
New York City is when it rains, it makes its
own gravy. Yeah, New York City is just it's New
York City. It's like it's a very saucy town when
it rains.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's funny. Keep that in mind when it rains, Danielle.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Are you're talking about going to restaurant into getting things
paid for? How do you eat spaghetti in those white outfits? Seriously?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well carefully. Uh, this is a town of red salce.
It is incredibly the town of red solce. So I
got a great wife over here that bibs me up
and make sure that I do not screw that up.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And so she takes good care of me. She bibs
me up. Yet, what happens if you do get a
saint on it?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Do you have to immediately go home? Well, there's a
you know, as an admiral. One of the fortunate things
I do is I have a person takes care of
that too, understanding like right there, there you go and
uh so, uh, he brings a bunch of uniforms and
he makes sure that I'm good to go.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Wait, do you have.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Tips on how to keep uniforms clean? Because my son
has white soccer uniform and I can never get it clean. Yeah,
we're going to talk.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We're asking the pressing questions, you know. Uh, of course,
we have the Navy represented very well here today. We're
also talking about marines, the coast Guard, so of course,
you know, we see them every day out in our harbor,
and thank goodness, and you know, and I do think
we live in a world where and I'm I'm you
may agree with this, sometimes people take for granted who
(06:11):
we have serving not only our interests here but beyond.
And we thank you and and for you to actually
see you in action, relaxing and having a good time.
That means a lot to us, especially in New York.
We welcome you as your hosts. I guess you know
what is not allowed while you're in uniform, while you're
(06:34):
walking around the streets of New York City. There's got
to be a list of things that I don't know.
Is there a physical list that you give them up
in a pencils?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So much a list as it is just our training
that we discuss these types of things. I mean, it's
we want you to be appropriate. We want you to
do things that we would you know, certainly nothing illegal,
but you know, nothing political. You're not gonna, you know,
in uniform take a stand in a certain political position.
You're not gonna uh uh, you know, make do something
(07:02):
that would bring discredit upon the service. I guess this
is how it generalize it. So just go to professional
appropriate behavior. And if any of these guys said, hey,
what do you want us to do? You've done, you've
done this.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
What should we be out doing in New York to
really push the reset button for ourselves?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh, I would say, of course, the restaurant's world class.
Get to a Broadway show Donna and I or we're
going to go see Moulin Rouge on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Actually nice.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, so ball games, I mean world class again ball teams.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
See the Yankees, Donkeys, don't bother with the mets.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Here we go okay, like yeah, this is like an
army navy, A.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Good thing going on here, mets here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
This. I deal with this every day.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Like I said, no political statements from the navy where we're.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Agnostic on that good idea, you know. But but go
Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
We are in Boston and I was attacked in Well,
you can't talk to you anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So I'm assuming you you all, you all float in
at different times, uh, through the harbor, under the Arizonta bridge,
you come on in. What is it like? Because I must,
I must kind of use my imagination. What what would
it have been like to have been an immigrant back
in the day when you came over here with your
family from Europe wherever, and you have four dollars in
(08:28):
your pocket, you know the stories, and you roll in
and you see that statue of liberty standing there there's
Does it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Hit a nerve of some sort? Does it make you
flash a thought? Into your mind or your heart. Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yes, to me, it's nationalism, patriotism what America stands for.
I think it's tied directly to our value system.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You know, it's our whole culture here, this melting pod
that we've created.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And this is what you see in our in our
armed forces and our navy. We are that melting pod.
We are a diverse group group. All states, of course,
are represented, many many countries are represented, even in this room,
and so and so it's an important symbol. I think
when you come to New York, this is kind of
ground zero for that philosophy. Wow, speaking of everyone in
the room, I'd love to know what states you guys
(09:16):
are from. May.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I just go around Chicago, Illinois, Fall, you're down right
down the street, the Philippines. Welcome to New York City, Florida, Florida, Okay, Kentucky,
South Jerseys. So you've been here a few times? May, Maryland, Maryland,
North Carolina. And where are you from, Admiral I'm from
(09:38):
North Carolina. There you go, perfect well, Welcome to New
York City.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Thank you sir. Pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So I don't know if you know this, but Admiral
Darryl Cuddle is uh, well, he has responsibility over one
hundred thousand, one hundred and twenty five thousand people, one
hundred ships. You even have a thousand planes. Yes, wow,
that's a big force. I mean I think about the
(10:03):
responsibilities we have. I'm thinking, well, I've got two schnauzers, akia,
you know it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Stops around there.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mean, the responsibility is vast. Whether the pressures on
your shoulders are heavy, how do you get through a
day of stress? We all need to learn that from you.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well, one, I get up about four in the morning
every morning, so like you folks who do morning shows,
I get it very early. I found that four to
five o'clock is about the only period I own. So
I'll work out then, and I come down and my
beautiful bride Donna has a breakfast. You know, she's maybe
kind of a smoothie and something to eat.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And a bib hopefully. Yeah. Well this is pre white,
so I'm good.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
This is still you know, kind of workout clothed, right
and but anyway, Yeah, so but then when I get
to work, it is no kidding, pretty much back to
back to back and decision briefs and just trying to
make the you know, the right call. So it's at
my level, at a headquarters level, it's a lot of
meetings and so we're trying to actually posture our forces
in the right place on the earth. It's a lot
(11:04):
of budget decisions, money, you know, decisions on what we're
going to on that ship building. It's that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Not to be too personal, but I may ask you
your age. No, I'm sixty. I'll be sixty one in September.
I'll be sixty this August. So you and I have
grown up in the United States that has seen a
lot come and go, come back, and go go away.
It's an interesting time. I guess it can be fair
to say in the nineteen seventies you could have said
it's an interesting time.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It's always an interesting time.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I'm not saying any time is more spectacular than any
other time that you and I have seen in the
United States. What do you believe we as Americans need
to brush up on in order to be not more
the military, but in the thinking of what we strive
for to help our country become a better place.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Well, it's I think just a fundamental question. That's where
you land on that. I see a decline and usually,
and I think historically you see this post conflict, we're
on a bit of a decay curve, I would call
it from our nationalism, our appreciation of what we are,
what our armed forces do every day, and so there
are usually some event that kind of recenters the country.
(12:16):
And so these events happen periodically, and it's not that
you're wanting something like that to happen, but I think
you do get that coalescing and condensation, if you will,
of philosophy and everyone being on the same page and
then we kind of start diffusing again and kind of
going into our separate corners. The economy drives that a bit,
you know, and how things are going. So I think
it's Fleet weeks and things like that are those type
(12:40):
of things where we get to come into a community
and get people hope, and I think hope is so
important and that they get to see that the sky
is not falling. We've got great Americans, diverse group that
are out there serving in our armed forces, and it
just kind of, I think is a recentering moment for
a big city like New York.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It certainly is for us.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Remember after nine to eleven living here in New York
City and our studios were looking at the World Trade
Towers as they fell to the ground. But after the
aftermath was really where we learned the most, and that
was this nationalism. There's this this feeling of unity. But
people who used to just bicker and bitch lack of
(13:22):
a better word, at each other, we're now hugging each
other and trying to see what they could do for
each other. It took that reset, but it was just
an awful, awful price to pay for that reset. Well,
I found in many countries, I hate to use the
word third world, but they're you know, they're not like
the United States. And you ask those folks when you
go there where they're from. They always say the local tribe,
(13:44):
their local community. You know, we have historically said we're Americans,
and then we'll say, you know, I'm from the United States,
and then we kind of drilled down from there. When
you see that flipping around, I think that can be concerning. Wow,
it is just an honor to have you here in
our studio today. Thank you so much, and welcome to
our city. It really, it really is a major major
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piece of United States history. And keep in mind the
United States. It's so new compared to the other countries
around the world. But having you here is it adds
this gloss to this sometimes very tarnished town we live in,
and we thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
We we to be selfish. We need you.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
We need you guys, not only out on the on
the waters, but also here to celebrate, celebrate everything that
you've accomplished and everything that we could strive to accomplish
because of your accomplishments.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So we thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's an honor. And I'll tell you what, Admiral Darryl Caddle,
thank you. Thank you everyone for coming in. Get out there,
enjoy our city. We're about to head the Gracie manchin Oh.
The Mayor's socialis for breakfast or Secretary of the Navy's coming.
So yeah, we're gonna go spend the morning with the mayor.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Flee week is full of stuff. There's a lot of
parties going on.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Do people really run up to you and fet like
issue on the streets?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I think it's sir, I saw a guy with no
pants on down there.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
He's waiting for you. He's that guy. Is he down
there today? He's there every day?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
He takes his pants and he rips him off and
rolls them around in the sky and screams about how
much he loves America. May be onto something, Admiral, thank
you so much for coming and enjoy fleet.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Weeek here in New York City than appre absolutely
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So many reasons we love love living in New York City.
It's happening right now. It's Fleet Week thirty six. Fleet
weeek here in New York City. It's one of those
things where, you know, we live in New York City.
We get into the pace, we get into the frenzy,
the chaos year round, but every once in a while,
that yearly thing happens. Several of them. There is the
Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, right, yep, there's.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
That's it. Well, you know the yearly things that happened.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, But Fleet Week is that incredible week where it
really brings everyone quote somewhat to attention to realize that
there are men and women around the world who are
at float and they are there to keep us and
our allies safe. But they use one week a year
for a lot of these fleets to roll into cities
(00:54):
around America to celebrate and to get out in the streets,
have some fun.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And you get to go on some of their ships
and stuff and check out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Daniel, by the way, don't let her on. She steals
something I do not stealings. We welcome Admiral Daryl Coddle
to the show. Admiral, welcome to the show. So oh,
thank you and incredible, he says. He calls them his
front office. It's a very very very official looking room.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I feel very safe here today, very much though. Wait, wit,
who's watching the ship? I got other people?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Okay, you have so many people? Wow?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You know I was reading up on you, admiral, and
you have spent many of your nights underwater living in
a submarine. Yes, do you have a total? I mean,
is there a way to keep account on the nights?
How much time you spent underwater?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Well, assigned to ships, it's been about thirteen years on ships,
seven submarines, and most of the time we shoot for
about fifty percent of the time underway, so that's about
six and a half years under underwater.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, I thought about you, and this is your wife
over here, correct is I thought about you? Now you
there's a story in the travel section today about this
ship and buy a state room and you can just
live on the ship and go around the world year round.
That's probably the last thing on earth you want to do.
The last thing I want to do. Being back on
land is a nice treat, is it?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Can I ask what makes you love it so much?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
My gosh, it's obviously it is the people. I mean,
just the talent, the technical competency, uh, the camaraderie, the teamwork.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's all about the people. We need your leadership here
on this show. These people are just awful.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Do you guys ever see cool stuff while you're while
you're going down see cool stuff? Yeah? Yeah, Well, to
be honest, we hear it, you hear it.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, no windows on a nuclear powered submarine, just all sonar.
But you'd beat surprised what's out there and what you hear.
It's all kinds of things. And again we have world
class sonarmen that are manning those headsets and listen to
all these things and characterizing that for us. The things
(02:55):
that I just can't talk about classification level.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Have you guys ever heard anything that you thought, what
the hell is that? And nobody can figure it out?
Of course? Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, And we just marked that as like you know,
you've heard of you know, unknown araa phenomenon. We got
unknown undersea phenomenon. It's that kind of thing. I'm never
sure what that is, that's rare, right, but in general
it happens sometimes. It's so interesting how we feel that
outer space is such the crazy, crazy unexplored world, but gosh,
when it comes to under the water, just the same,
(03:25):
even more so, I would think, yes, But of course
the reason you're down there is not for sight seeing.
Oh it's nice to hear a way all from time
to time say yellow is up. But keeping our waters
safe and our planet rolling in a safe direction, we
thank you so much for that, without doubt, and we
we salute you. And to have you all here in
(03:47):
New York City right now and now I found it.
None of them are from New York City. So they
got off the ship and they're like, what.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Do we do? Now? Leave it as you found it,
clean it up.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What does Fleet Week mean to the men and women
who are visiting New York City right now?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:05):
I think it's just a tremendous opportunity for them. I mean,
it's greatest city on Earth. All the things that they
can do and engage with the people in New York.
You know, a lot of people have some trepidation when
they come to a large city like this and they're
not sure what it's going to be how it's going
to play out, what they're going to find. But I
just and this is my third fleet week in this
position in New York, and it's just such an open
(04:26):
arms approach. You just welcome us sailors marines. They go
into a restaurant, they can't pay for their meal, they
get drinks paid for them, they love the nightlife, they
just get thank you for your service.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So it is really really welcoming. It's a beautiful thing.
And I tell you what you picked. The bad news
is you chose a very, very nice sunny week because
one of the incredible natural phenomenon that happens here in
New York City is when it rains, it makes its
own gravy. Yeah, New York City is just it's New
York City. It's like it's a very saucy town when
it rains.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
That's funny. Keep that in mind when it rains, Danielle.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Are you're talking about going to restaurant into getting things
paid for? How do you eat spaghetti in those white outfits? Seriously?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well carefully. Uh, this is a town of red salce.
It is incredibly the town of red solce. So I
got a great wife over here that bibs me up
and make sure that I do not screw that up.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And so she takes good care of me. She bibs
me up. Yet, what happens if you do get a
saint on it?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Do you have to immediately go home? Well, there's a
you know, as an admiral. One of the fortunate things
I do is I have a person takes care of
that too, understanding like right there, there you go and
uh so, uh, he brings a bunch of uniforms and
he makes sure that I'm good to go.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Wait, do you have.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Tips on how to keep uniforms clean? Because my son
has white soccer uniform and I can never get it clean. Yeah,
we're going to talk.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
We're asking the pressing questions, you know. Uh, of course,
we have the Navy represented very well here today. We're
also talking about marines, the coast Guard, so of course,
you know, we see them every day out in our harbor,
and thank goodness, and you know, and I do think
we live in a world where and I'm I'm you
may agree with this, sometimes people take for granted who
(06:11):
we have serving not only our interests here but beyond.
And we thank you and and for you to actually
see you in action, relaxing and having a good time.
That means a lot to us, especially in New York.
We welcome you as your hosts. I guess you know
what is not allowed while you're in uniform, while you're
(06:34):
walking around the streets of New York City. There's got
to be a list of things that I don't know.
Is there a physical list that you give them up
in a pencils?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So much a list as it is just our training
that we discuss these types of things. I mean, it's
we want you to be appropriate. We want you to
do things that we would you know, certainly nothing illegal,
but you know, nothing political. You're not gonna, you know,
in uniform take a stand in a certain political position.
You're not gonna uh uh, you know, make do something
(07:02):
that would bring discredit upon the service. I guess this
is how it generalize it. So just go to professional
appropriate behavior. And if any of these guys said, hey,
what do you want us to do? You've done, you've
done this.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
What should we be out doing in New York to
really push the reset button for ourselves?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh, I would say, of course, the restaurant's world class.
Get to a Broadway show Donna and I or we're
going to go see Moulin Rouge on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Actually nice.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Yeah, so ball games, I mean world class again ball teams.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
See the Yankees, Donkeys, don't bother with the mets.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Here we go okay, like yeah, this is like an
army navy, A.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Good thing going on here, mets here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
This. I deal with this every day.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Like I said, no political statements from the navy where we're.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Agnostic on that good idea, you know. But but go
Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
We are in Boston and I was attacked in Well,
you can't talk to you anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
So I'm assuming you you all, you all float in
at different times, uh, through the harbor, under the Arizonta bridge,
you come on in. What is it like? Because I must,
I must kind of use my imagination. What what would
it have been like to have been an immigrant back
in the day when you came over here with your
family from Europe wherever, and you have four dollars in
(08:28):
your pocket, you know the stories, and you roll in
and you see that statue of liberty standing there there's
Does it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Hit a nerve of some sort? Does it make you
flash a thought? Into your mind or your heart. Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Yes, to me, it's nationalism, patriotism what America stands for.
I think it's tied directly to our value system.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
You know, it's our whole culture here, this melting pod
that we've created.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And this is what you see in our in our
armed forces and our navy. We are that melting pod.
We are a diverse group group. All states, of course,
are represented, many many countries are represented, even in this room,
and so and so it's an important symbol. I think
when you come to New York, this is kind of
ground zero for that philosophy. Wow, speaking of everyone in
the room, I'd love to know what states you guys
(09:16):
are from. May.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I just go around Chicago, Illinois, Fall, you're down right
down the street, the Philippines. Welcome to New York City, Florida, Florida, Okay, Kentucky,
South Jerseys. So you've been here a few times? May, Maryland, Maryland,
North Carolina. And where are you from, Admiral I'm from
(09:38):
North Carolina. There you go, perfect well, Welcome to New
York City.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Thank you sir. Pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So I don't know if you know this, but Admiral
Darryl Cuddle is uh, well, he has responsibility over one
hundred thousand, one hundred and twenty five thousand people, one
hundred ships. You even have a thousand planes. Yes, wow,
that's a big force. I mean I think about the
(10:03):
responsibilities we have. I'm thinking, well, I've got two schnauzers, akia,
you know it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Stops around there.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mean, the responsibility is vast. Whether the pressures on
your shoulders are heavy, how do you get through a
day of stress? We all need to learn that from you.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well, one, I get up about four in the morning
every morning, so like you folks who do morning shows,
I get it very early. I found that four to
five o'clock is about the only period I own. So
I'll work out then, and I come down and my
beautiful bride Donna has a breakfast. You know, she's maybe
kind of a smoothie and something to eat.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And a bib hopefully. Yeah. Well this is pre white,
so I'm good.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
This is still you know, kind of workout clothed, right
and but anyway, Yeah, so but then when I get
to work, it is no kidding, pretty much back to
back to back and decision briefs and just trying to
make the you know, the right call. So it's at
my level, at a headquarters level, it's a lot of
meetings and so we're trying to actually posture our forces
in the right place on the earth. It's a lot
(11:04):
of budget decisions, money, you know, decisions on what we're
going to on that ship building. It's that type of thing.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Not to be too personal, but I may ask you
your age. No, I'm sixty. I'll be sixty one in September.
I'll be sixty this August. So you and I have
grown up in the United States that has seen a
lot come and go, come back, and go go away.
It's an interesting time. I guess it can be fair
to say in the nineteen seventies you could have said
it's an interesting time.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
It's always an interesting time.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I'm not saying any time is more spectacular than any
other time that you and I have seen in the
United States. What do you believe we as Americans need
to brush up on in order to be not more
the military, but in the thinking of what we strive
for to help our country become a better place.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Well, it's I think just a fundamental question. That's where
you land on that. I see a decline and usually,
and I think historically you see this post conflict, we're
on a bit of a decay curve, I would call
it from our nationalism, our appreciation of what we are,
what our armed forces do every day, and so there
are usually some event that kind of recenters the country.
(12:16):
And so these events happen periodically, and it's not that
you're wanting something like that to happen, but I think
you do get that coalescing and condensation, if you will,
of philosophy and everyone being on the same page and
then we kind of start diffusing again and kind of
going into our separate corners. The economy drives that a bit,
you know, and how things are going. So I think
it's Fleet weeks and things like that are those type
(12:40):
of things where we get to come into a community
and get people hope, and I think hope is so
important and that they get to see that the sky
is not falling. We've got great Americans, diverse group that
are out there serving in our armed forces, and it
just kind of, I think is a recentering moment for
a big city like New York.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It certainly is for us.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Remember after nine to eleven living here in New York
City and our studios were looking at the World Trade
Towers as they fell to the ground. But after the
aftermath was really where we learned the most, and that
was this nationalism. There's this this feeling of unity. But
people who used to just bicker and bitch lack of
(13:22):
a better word, at each other, we're now hugging each
other and trying to see what they could do for
each other. It took that reset, but it was just
an awful, awful price to pay for that reset. Well,
I found in many countries, I hate to use the
word third world, but they're you know, they're not like
the United States. And you ask those folks when you
go there where they're from. They always say the local tribe,
(13:44):
their local community. You know, we have historically said we're Americans,
and then we'll say, you know, I'm from the United States,
and then we kind of drilled down from there. When
you see that flipping around, I think that can be concerning. Wow,
it is just an honor to have you here in
our studio today. Thank you so much, and welcome to
our city. It really, it really is a major major
(14:06):
piece of United States history. And keep in mind the
United States. It's so new compared to the other countries
around the world. But having you here is it adds
this gloss to this sometimes very tarnished town we live in,
and we thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
We we to be selfish. We need you.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
We need you guys, not only out on the on
the waters, but also here to celebrate, celebrate everything that
you've accomplished and everything that we could strive to accomplish
because of your accomplishments.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
So we thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's an honor. And I'll tell you what, Admiral Darryl Caddle,
thank you. Thank you everyone for coming in. Get out there,
enjoy our city. We're about to head the Gracie manchin Oh.
The Mayor's socialis for breakfast or Secretary of the Navy's coming.
So yeah, we're gonna go spend the morning with the mayor.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Flee week is full of stuff. There's a lot of
parties going on.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Do people really run up to you and fet like
issue on the streets?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I think it's sir, I saw a guy with no
pants on down there.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
He's waiting for you. He's that guy. Is he down
there today? He's there every day?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
He takes his pants and he rips him off and
rolls them around in the sky and screams about how
much he loves America. May be onto something, Admiral, thank
you so much for coming and enjoy fleet.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Weeek here in New York City than appre absolutely
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