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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now on The Voice of New York, it's the Mark
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  Speaker 1: Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's out of weight, don't I? Not really. Still
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  Speaker 2: not used to this nine o'clock. Yeah, we start at
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  Speaker 2: nine now. Three hours, nine to noon. So I'm out
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  Speaker 2: in the hallway there trying to get some sympathy for
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  Speaker 2: having to get up so early and be here at nine.
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  Speaker 2: And then I realize it's Charlemagne. It's Jim Kerr. These
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  Speaker 2: guys get here at 5 a.m. I was getting no
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  Speaker 2: sympathy from anybody. But we've got three hours to give
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  Speaker 2: you all kinds of great stuff. We've got lots of
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  Speaker 2: stuff to get to today. There's more on Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to President Trump. We'll get to quite a
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  Speaker 2: battle now going between Bruce Blakeman and Kathy Hochul. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to Meta, Facebook, that big settlement they made. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty interesting. We'll get to crazy Jill Biden.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Doing one of those podcasts, you know, when you're a,
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  Speaker 2: a lying rotten, uh, type of person, you should not
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  Speaker 2: do a podcast where you got to talk for an
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  Speaker 2: hour and a half. Cause you'll really, you'll really get exposed, uh,
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  Speaker 2: on something like that. Dolly Parton, the tributes continue from
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  Speaker 2: all over the world. Uh, even the Royal family, even
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  Speaker 2: Buckingham palace, you know, those guys with the big hats
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  Speaker 2: that never smile on the red coats and the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Long trumpets. Well, even they paid tribute to Dolly Parton. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we need the next gen. Wait, hang on. Even they
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  Speaker 2: paid tribute to Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I don't know what kind of tribute that is,
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  Speaker 2: but they meant well. It sounds like one of those
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  Speaker 2: bad marching bands at a college football game, screwing up
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  Speaker 2: a popular hit. But everybody thinking about Dolly Parton. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me just give you an important Dolly Parton lesson.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of famous people that listen, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of famous celebrities, TV people, comedians. You don't want
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  Speaker 2: to end up like Stephen Colbert where you alienate half
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  Speaker 2: of America and they throw you the hell off the
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  Speaker 2: air after a while. She stayed away from politics. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: really away. You know, the Clintons, when Clinton whispered, they
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  Speaker 2: wanted her to come, not campaign, just come be at
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  Speaker 2: an event. She just wouldn't go near any politicians, any presidents.
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  Speaker 2: She stayed away from politics. So in an interview... The
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  Speaker 2: guy tried to ask her a political question. Now listen
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  Speaker 2: to how she handled it. This is what you should do.
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  Speaker 3: We have a president of the United States who said those.
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  Speaker 2: This is when Trump was president.
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  Speaker 3: We have a president of the United States who said
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  Speaker 3: those things on that bus.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not addressing that. I do not get into that.
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  Speaker 5: Of course I have my opinion about everybody and everything.
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  Speaker 5: But I learned a long time ago, keep your damn
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  Speaker 5: mouth shut if you want to stay in show business.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not in politics.
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  Speaker 3: I'm an entertainer. And yet you're also a role model.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I am. That's why I don't... talk about people.
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  Speaker 5: So if you are deciding you may want to ask
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  Speaker 5: me something more serious, don't, because I'm not going.
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  Speaker 3: To answer it. Fair warning, I might still ask.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you can ask, but I might still tell you
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  Speaker 5: where to put it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, perfect. Doesn't talk about politics. She's not in politics.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't talk about it. That's why she had such a
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  Speaker 2: long and glorious career, and that's why there were the
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  Speaker 2: most incredible tributes to her, and everybody has nothing but
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  Speaker 2: wonderful memories of her. She didn't divide America. She just
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  Speaker 2: was perfect on that subject uh and the other celebrity
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  Speaker 2: death is you know they always claim see they all
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  Speaker 2: die in threes look at that they all die in
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  Speaker 2: threes there's absolutely no truth to that it's a simple
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  Speaker 2: magic trick you just wait till any three people die
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  Speaker 2: and then you go look at that they die in
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  Speaker 2: threes there's i that you got to have a timeline
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  Speaker 2: on that the third was like a week ago so
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  Speaker 2: you gotta have the it's got to be if it's
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  Speaker 2: three in one day okay that's they die in threes
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  Speaker 2: Or you could say it's got to be in one week,
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  Speaker 2: but they just wait till three die and say, that's it,
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  Speaker 2: they die in three. So the other death was Tim Curry.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say a lot about Tim Curry, but
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  Speaker 2: I got to be honest, I'm not a big Tim
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  Speaker 2: Curry fan. He was good in Rocky Horror Show. He
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  Speaker 2: was a very good Broadway performer. It was not somebody
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  Speaker 2: I would go out of my way to see. It
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  Speaker 2: was not... I remember a couple of times through the years,
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  Speaker 2: he was a guest on the show I was doing.
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  Speaker 2: And if you had to interview him for 10 minutes,
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  Speaker 2: it was a painful 10 minutes. I mean, you try
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  Speaker 2: to do 10 minutes with Tim Curry. But a nice guy. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Rocky Horror Show was such a phenomenon.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just a sweet transvestite eater. From Transsexual Transylvania.
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  Speaker 2: You can sort of get the idea why I was
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  Speaker 2: not a big fan of this music. It was not the....
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you stay for the night? Or maybe a bite?
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  Speaker 6: I could show you my favorite obsession. I've been making
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  Speaker 6: a man.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Now, I think, is this Natalie? I think
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  Speaker 2: she went out in the street and asked people. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't fear death. No, that's Tim Curry talking. This is interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't fear death.
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  Speaker 6: I try to avoid it, as I think we all do,
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  Speaker 6: but I suspect that.
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  Speaker 2: In the end I will welcome it. All right. Not
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  Speaker 2: the funniest guy in the world, but again, a nice guy,
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  Speaker 2: and we're sorry to see him go. But the Rocky
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  Speaker 2: Horror Picture Show, that was a big deal, staying up
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  Speaker 2: all night. You had to be really drugged up to
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  Speaker 2: actually love the Rocky Horror Picture Show. uh here are
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  Speaker 2: just people that i think this is natalie migliore he
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  Speaker 2: went out and just asked people for their reaction he
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  Speaker 2: was so diverse but i think he was just in
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  Speaker 2: such iconic films from our child my childhood.
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  Speaker 1: Grew up in ohio we used to go to the
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  Speaker 1: midnight showings rocky or picture.
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  Speaker 7: Show tim curry uh is just like a once in
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  Speaker 7: a lifetime performer.
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  Speaker 2: Thank goodness uh anyway um I got to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: I never once went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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  Speaker 2: The closest I came, again, was having to interview him
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  Speaker 2: a few times when that was hot. And it was
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  Speaker 2: a struggle to fill 10 minutes with that guy, but
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  Speaker 2: a nice guy. He was always a very, very nice guy. So, hey,
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  Speaker 2: the lawsuit was a massive lawsuit. Many attorneys general, I
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  Speaker 2: think it was 29 states got in on this because
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  Speaker 2: they were suing Facebook. The company's called Meta. They were
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  Speaker 2: going after Meta. And why were these, if you're the
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  Speaker 2: attorney general, why would you join in and get it? Well,
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  Speaker 2: because Meta's got like a trillion dollars. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money there. They smelled blood. More importantly, they smelled money.
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  Speaker 2: So they're suing Meta like crazy. And then it was
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  Speaker 2: announced that all of a sudden, as this trial's going,
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  Speaker 2: it was announced yesterday that Meta Facebook would settle. They
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  Speaker 2: would settle. They offered an $ 18 billion settlement. And you
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  Speaker 2: might say, oh my God, $ 18 billion. It sounds like
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  Speaker 2: a big amount. Mark Zuckerberg could find that much if
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  Speaker 2: you look through his sofa cushions. It's nothing. It's nothing
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  Speaker 2: to them. You know, they make, in revenue, they make
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  Speaker 2: $ 165 billion a year. $ 18 billion is pocket change. And
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  Speaker 2: in the settlement, they don't have to pay $ 18 billion.
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  Speaker 2: They pay 7% now. They pay a little every year,
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  Speaker 2: and of course it's a write-off. It'll cost them absolutely nothing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: where does this $ 18 billion go? Well, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: lawyers will collect a lot of fees on this. These
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  Speaker 2: various attorneys general all are bragging, we've done it, we've
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  Speaker 2: brought them to their knees, they're going to do this,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do that. The problem is they kept
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  Speaker 2: saying the algorithm was addicting kids. Well, By the way,
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  Speaker 2: part of the settlement, Facebook doesn't have to change the
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  Speaker 2: algorithm in any way, which seemed to me was the
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  Speaker 2: whole point of the lawsuit. They don't have to change it.
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  Speaker 2: But Facebook came up with a whole list of things
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  Speaker 2: they'll do, which don't amount to much. They all sound good.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have nighttime blocks on the app. So
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  Speaker 2: you won't be able to use it after a certain hour.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to have enhanced age assurance measures. Pfft. To
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  Speaker 2: ensure underage, they just came up with all these titles
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  Speaker 2: and all these names, and it sounds good. We'll have
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  Speaker 2: additional tools to help parents and guardians protect their children
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  Speaker 2: as part of what was described as a consent judgment.
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  Speaker 2: So these guys act like they got a victory from Meta.
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  Speaker 2: They got $ 18 billion. That's pretty good. Meta did not
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  Speaker 2: admit to any wrongdoing as part of the settlement. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the settlement's pending court approval. And by the way, these
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  Speaker 2: product changes don't apply to WhatsApp. Meta owns all this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: These changes don't apply to WhatsApp, Messenger, or the AI chatbots. Now,
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  Speaker 2: and this is only a 10-year truce. They're only going
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  Speaker 2: to do this stuff for 10 years. This is the
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  Speaker 2: biggest settlement ever from a tech company. The biggest one
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  Speaker 2: before was also Meta, $ 5 billion to the FTC in 2019.
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  Speaker 2: The Meta stock is up. because everybody thinks this is
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  Speaker 2: a good thing for them. They got out of this easy.
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  Speaker 2: $ 18 billion is just pocket change. The different attorney generals
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  Speaker 2: in various states all bragging about what they got.
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  Speaker 1: The company will create an enhanced mechanism for teens to
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  Speaker 1: report potentially harmful content and has agreed to respond to.
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  Speaker 2: 90% of those reports within... Six hours.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: There's already a mechanism to report something you don't like.
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  Speaker 1: This is a major breakthrough, a milestone moment, a watershed moment,
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  Speaker 1: because when it comes to protecting our children's mental health,
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  Speaker 1: there is no time to lose. Instead of getting tied
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  Speaker 1: up in years of trials and appeals, we have secured
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  Speaker 1: the changes we were after.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. Nobody knows what these changes are.
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  Speaker 4: One of the important pieces of this settlement agreement, assuming
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  Speaker 4: the court adopts it, is that there is that ongoing
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  Speaker 4: monitoring and audit feature that we have as states to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that we're holding them accountable and they're doing
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  Speaker 4: exactly what they're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. There's an ongoing monitoring. Again, you'll see
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  Speaker 2: nothing change if you're using meta.
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  Speaker 4: The priorities are to make sure that we are remedying
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  Speaker 4: past harm and ensuring that in the future, similar harms
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  Speaker 4: don't take effect. So they will go to programs and
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  Speaker 4: things of that nature.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. They got it done, you see? They've
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  Speaker 2: put in, what the hell do they call it? Enhanced monitoring.
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  Speaker 2: And again, a bunch of titles. It sounds like the
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  Speaker 2: big thing for them is they got $ 18 billion out
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  Speaker 2: of META.
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  Speaker 4: What META is going to do here is... immediately, subject
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  Speaker 4: to the court's approval, of course, of this settlement. But
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  Speaker 4: what they're able to do immediately to start to remedy
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  Speaker 4: these harms is completely groundbreaking.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. These harms. Now, I'm on Facebook. I'm on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Meta owns that. I don't think it's harming me. You
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  Speaker 2: do get addicted. It is a little silly that you
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  Speaker 2: start looking. As soon as you wake up, you're looking at, like,
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  Speaker 2: Instagram posts. scrolling through everything. It is kind of silly,
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  Speaker 2: but you got to remember when all this stuff is invented,
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  Speaker 2: all this new tech and everybody says it's changing everything,
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  Speaker 2: it's changing people and their life. It really isn't. Human
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  Speaker 2: behavior has been the same for thousands and thousands and
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  Speaker 2: thousands of years. It just moves to a different platform.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever crazy things you're doing online, you were doing them before.
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  Speaker 2: You're just doing them online now. You know, when the Instagrams,
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  Speaker 2: people put up pictures of their lunch. This is not false.
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  Speaker 2: This is absolutely true. Archaeologists, they're studying hieroglyphics in caves.
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  Speaker 2: There were times where people would put up what they
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  Speaker 2: had for lunch. I mean, this is, again, human behavior,
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  Speaker 2: always the same. It just went digital. That's all. When
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  Speaker 2: you wake up, oh, you're wasting all your time. The
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  Speaker 2: kids wasting their time on... Instagram, TikTok when they wake up,
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  Speaker 2: looking at that. You know, a million years ago, kids,
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  Speaker 2: when they woke up, wasted their time watching Captain Kangaroo
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  Speaker 2: or Bozo the Clown or cartoons or the Three Stooges.
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  Speaker 2: They're better off on Instagram than looking at Mo hit
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  Speaker 2: somebody in the face with a hammer. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: much better nowadays. There's actually more going on on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: You actually learn a lot of things. You learn about
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  Speaker 2: here's a new restaurant, here's a new this, here's a
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  Speaker 2: new that. It's a lot better than Moe with his
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  Speaker 2: two fingers poking the guy in the eyes. Anyway, we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. Bruce Blakeman had a
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  Speaker 2: great press conference yesterday. So Kathy Hochul, her and the
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  Speaker 2: legislature passed this crazy, stupid law that local places, towns,
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  Speaker 2: counties are not allowed to cooperate with ICE. So if
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  Speaker 2: you've got a gang member, a murderer, a rapist, a robber,
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  Speaker 2: The illegal alien running around your town and ICE wants
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  Speaker 2: to get him. You can't help. You have to stay
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  Speaker 2: on the sidelines. Blakeman, this is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: big campaign issue. Now, Hochul, why is she being such
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  Speaker 2: a left-wing kook? Because she's trying to get reelected. She's
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep the Mamdani crowd happy because you can't
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  Speaker 2: get elected governor unless you win at least 35% in
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  Speaker 2: New York City. So she needs his backing. That's why
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  Speaker 2: she's doing this. But Blakeman yesterday went after her.
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  Speaker 7: This is one of the saddest days of my life
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  Speaker 7: as county executive. That because of this terrible and bad
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  Speaker 7: law that we have to adhere to, I know it's
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  Speaker 7: going to make it more dangerous here in Nassau County.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Blakeman usually does the right thing, stands his ground,
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  Speaker 2: but apparently consulted with all the lawyers and everything. They said,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to follow the law. You can't break the
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  Speaker 2: law here. So even though he's the best with his
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  Speaker 2: county at cooperating with ICE, you know, if you cooperate
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  Speaker 2: and you give them local police and locally blend them,
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  Speaker 2: jail cells, whatever, it makes it a much cleaner, safer
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  Speaker 2: operation for everybody. If you can't get the local police
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  Speaker 2: to help you go arrest somebody. You got to send,
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  Speaker 2: you know, five times as many people and it gets messier.
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  Speaker 2: So but Blakeman had no choice, had to cooperate. This
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  Speaker 2: is Hochul's law that she's bragging about and pushing.
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  Speaker 7: This law is written in the blood of the victims past,
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  Speaker 7: present and future.
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  Speaker 2: And it's going to be a big problem for Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: She's got a debate with him coming up. The campaign
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  Speaker 2: didn't even really start. It starts after Labor Day. She's
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  Speaker 2: going to have to defend this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I want local police using local taxpayer dollars to focus
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  Speaker 5: on catching local criminals.
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  Speaker 2: That's what this does. When ICE goes after a gang
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  Speaker 2: member or a robber or a rapist or a criminal,
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  Speaker 2: illegal alien, they're local. They're going into a community and
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  Speaker 2: getting your criminals off the street. I mean, If they
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  Speaker 2: don't do it, the police have to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: she should talk about, well, when I'm going after local criminals,
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  Speaker 2: what's the point? Thanks to Cuomo and his no bail,
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  Speaker 2: no jail and these crazy New York DAs, you could
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  Speaker 2: arrest the person. They'll be back on the street in
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  Speaker 2: a half hour. Nobody gets put in jail. Cuomo's no bail,
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  Speaker 2: no jail. Everybody's released immediately. That's why Cuomo created this
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  Speaker 2: crime wave. And if you talk to the NYPD off
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  Speaker 2: the record, they'll tell you it's the same 2,500 criminals
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  Speaker 2: over and over and over again. They know who they are.
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  Speaker 2: If they could lock them up, they could go get
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  Speaker 2: them all in the next week and have them all
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  Speaker 2: off the street. Anyway, we've got a lot more to
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  Speaker 2: get to. You're going to hear, oh, my God, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to love this story from the Hamptons. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Tiger Woods. People are a little concerned about him.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to the Strait of Hormuz. We'll get to Iran, Canada,
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  Speaker 2: and more. Coming up, it's Mark Simone, 9 to noon
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  Speaker 2: every day on 710WOR.