Newport

And, um, very, very touching to hear that, that, you know, that happened.

And I was actually, You know, my dad was always traveling, so we'd stay at my grandmother's in Newport, Rhode Island, which was probably less than two miles where the statue was built.

So thank your other caller, Mark, I think his name was, for letting us know that that monument was built in Newport, because I got to make a trip down there.

I was born in Newport, and I want to see that, you know, the maker of that or where it was made, so...

But very, very interesting call anyways.

But my feeling on him particularly, you know, my feeling on Anthony Fauci about New Year's, about the gallows in Times Square.

The access is.

And finally, let's talk about Newport, Rhode Island.

The Vanderbilts built their summer cottages there, which is a delightfully dishonest name for a house like the Breakers, the 70-room Italian Renaissance Palace, finished for Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1895.

Same year, same family, darker story.

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Um, and I will say, so watching this when I was younger, it was around the time that we, we lived in Connecticut at the time and we had gone to New, have you ever been to Newport? No.

So Newport, Rhode Island, for those that don't know, is this beautiful seaside town where all the rich, powerful people in the turn of the century, 1900s, would go and build their like summer mansions.

Sure.

It's where the Newport Folk Festival is.

Yeah.

And so they're all now museums, these beautiful, gorgeous mansions that you can tour because they're extravagant and they're insane.

And I remember we went to Newport, we toured a bunch of them, and there was one that reminded me of this house so much because they had... a mirror room there was a straight up mirror room but it was it was the dining room and the you walked in and every single wall was a mirror and it was just so spooky and weird um yeah

It's the size of a small town.

I'll tell you though, Newport Beach is worth visiting.

Isn't Newport worth visiting, Derek? Like seeing those mansions, the gilded.

Yeah, Newport.

Yeah, that

area is definitely beautiful.

Well, I was focused.

I wanted to go to Newport and look at the boats and some of the mansions.

Yeah, that's where we've been.

We've been to Newport two different times.

Did you go to the Vanderbilt Mansion? What is it called? Help me out.

Breakers.

Yeah.

Isn't that where they used to have the America's Cup races off the coast of Rhode Island?

Miss McGuire says good morning.

Newport, Rhode Island, Paralegal says good morning.

Hello to all of you, Ali Foley, Becky B., pigeon nest tunes uh good to see you as well let me um encourage all of you if you're watching for the first time to go ahead and say hello in the chat we would love to hear from you same goes for everybody who might be watching on facebook or on x we would love to hear from you as well uh please be part of the conversation let me introduce myself to those of you who might be new my name is joshua ritter i'm a former prosecutor with the LA district attorney's office.

I was there for 10 years before I left to go into private practice as a criminal defense attorney.

If you want me to give you an exact number, I don't know what the split is.

I know that it's obviously the majority doing this, and with each passing day, it becomes more and more doing this.

Newport, Rhode Island Paralegal, and we love you doing it so you can be here.

Well, I appreciate you guys.

Let me finish this story because we're going to be talking about the haunted Belcourt Castle.

The Belcourt Castle is in Newport.

It was built in the 1890s.

a monumental residence filled with elaborate rooms, decorative objects, and a theatrical extravagance of the Gilded Age.

They're not verified demonstrations of spirits.

The mansion's collections, age, and theatrical interior also encourage the growth of stories around individual rooms and objects.

Newport's great houses were designed to create an impression.

Visitors entered spaces filled with carved wood, metalwork, paintings, and objects collected from distant places.

He'd made a mint and possibly some dodgy deals in New York City.

He had a huge house that he'd built in Newport, Rhode Island, and he had retired and liked to spend his winters in Egypt and in Italy.

Davis could afford to do what the Egyptian government at that time couldn't.

The Egyptian government was flat broke after bankruptcy in the 1870s.