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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
Week 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 that's it. Well,
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you know, the yearly things that happened. 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
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these fleets to roll into cities around America to celebrate
and to get out in the streets, have some fun.
Speaker 1 (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.
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. Right now. I feel very safe
here to day very much. So. Wait, who's watching the ship?
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I got other people? Okay, you have so many people? Wow.
You know I was reading up on you, admiral, and
you have spent many of your nights underwater and 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 3 (01:39):
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 where you can 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 1 (02:11):
Can I ask what makes you love it so much?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (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. Do you
guys ever see cool stuff while you're while.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You're going down?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
See cool stuff? Yeah? Yeah, Well, to be honest, we
hear it, you hear it.
Speaker 3 (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 sonermen that are man in those headsets and listen
to all these things and characterizing that.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
For us, the.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Things that I just can't talk about classification level.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Have you guys ever anything that you thought, what the
hell is that? And nobody can figure it out? Of course? Yeah,
all the time.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, And we just marked that as like you know,
you've heard of you know, unknown area 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.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
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, even
more so, I would think, yes, But of course the
reason you're down there is not for sight seeing. Oh No,
it's nice to hear a way all from time to
time say yellow is up. But keeping our waters safe
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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 New
York City right now. Now, I found that none of
them are from New York City. So they got off
the ship and they're like, what do we do now?
Leave it as you found it, clean it up. What
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does Fleet Week mean to the men and women who
are visiting New York City right now? Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
I think it's just a tremendous opportunity for them. I mean,
it's the 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 gonna find. But I just
and this is my third fleet week in this position
in New York, and it's just such an open arms approach.
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You just welcome us sailors, marines. They go into a restaurant,
they can't pay for their meal, they get drinks paide
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 and natural phenomenon that happens here
in New York City is when it rains, it makes
its own gravy. New York City is just it's New
York City. It's like it's a very saucy town when
it rains. That's funny. Keep that in mind.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Nice time, he ll are you're talking about going to
a restaurants to getting things paid for? How do you
eat spaghetti in those white outfits?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Seriously?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Well carefully, Uh, this is a town of red salt.
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 2 (05:16):
And so she takes good care of me. She bibs
me up. Yet, what happens if you do get a
stain on it?
Speaker 3 (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, standing 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 tips on how to keep uniforms clean?
Because my son has white soccer uniform and I can
never get it clean.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah, we're going to talk. We're asking the pressing questions
we are you know, Uh, of course we have the
Navy represented very well here today. We're also talking about marines,
the Coast Guard, which 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
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a world where and I'm I'm you may agree with this,
sometimes people take for granted who 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
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while you're in uniform, while you're 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 3 (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
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that would bring discredit upon the service. I guess this
is how we 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. What should we be out doing in New
York to really push the reset button for ourselves? Oh,
I would say, of course, the restaurant's world class get
to a Broadway show, Donna and I or we're going
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to go see Mulin Rouge on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Actually nice.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, so ball games, I mean world class again ball teams.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
See the Yankees, don't don't bother with the Mets.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Here we go. Okay, that's like, yeah, this is like
an army Navy, good thing going on here, here we go. This.
I deal with this every day.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Like I said, no political statements from the Navy where we're.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Agnostic on that good idea, you know. But but go
red Sox. We are no talk in Boston and I
was attacking.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
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
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your pocket, you know the stories, and you roll in
and you see that statue of liberty standing there there's
Does it hit a nerve of some sort? Does it
make you flash a thought into your mind or your heart? Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yes to me. It's nationalism, patriotism, what America stands for.
I think it's tied directly to our value system. Uh,
you know, it's our whole culture. Here, this melting pod
that we've created.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (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. 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,
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I'd love to know what states you guys are from.
May I just go around Chicago, Illinois, Fall, you're down
right down the street, the Philippines. Welcome to New York City, Florida, Florida, Okay, Kentuckyery,
South Jerseys.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So you've been here a few times? Maryland, Maryland, North Carolina.
And where are you from, Admiral I'm from North Carolina.
There you go, perfect well, Welcome to New York City,
Thank you, sir. Pretty amazing. So I don't know if
you know this, but Admiral Darryl Cuddle is uh, well,
he has responsibility over one hundred thousand.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
About one hundred and twenty five thousand.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
People, one hundred ships. You even have a thousand planes. Yes, wow,
that's a big force. I mean, I think about the
responsibilities we have. I'm thinking I've got two Schnauzers akia,
you know, it stops around there. I mean, the responsibility
is vast. Whether the pressures on your shoulders are heavy,
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how do you get through a day of stress? We
all need to learn that from you. 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
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and something to eat and a bib hopefully.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Well this is pre white, so I'm good.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
This is still you know, kind of workout clothes, 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 the 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
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of budget decisions money, you know, the decisions on what
we're going on that ship building.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
That's that type of thing. Not to be too personal,
but I may ask you your age. No, I'm sixty
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 could be fair to say in the nineteen seventies
you could have said it's an interesting time. It's always
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an interesting time. I'm not saying any times 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 like the military, but in the thinking of
what we strive for to help our country become a
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better place.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Well, that'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,
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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
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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. 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
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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.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
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, 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
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down from there. When you see that flipping around, I
think that can be concerning.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
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 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
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live in, and we thank you for that. We we
to be selfish. We need you. 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.
So we thank you so much. Thank you. It's an honor.
And I'll tell you what, Admiral Daryl Caudle, thank you.
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Thank you everyone for coming in. Get out there, enjoy
our city.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
We're about to head the Gracie match and ohe the
Mayor's socialits for breakfast or Secretary of the Navy's coming.
So yeah, we're gonna go spend the morning with the mayor.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Flee week is full of stuff. There's a lot of
parties going on.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Do people really run up to you and get like
shoe on the streets?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
I think it's I saw a guy with no pants
on down there. He's waiting for you. He's that guy.
Is he down there today? He's there every day. He
takes his pants and he rips him off and rolls
them around to the sky and screams about how much
he loves America. Thing he may be onto something. Admiral,
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thank you so much for coming and enjoy fleet weeek
here in New York City than absolutely