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Hour 2: Bruce Blakeman's supporters. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: His job?
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  Speaker 2: Make it all make sense.
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  Speaker 1: He's Mark Simone on 710WOR. Well, hey, it's a beautiful Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a really nice today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Rain on Thursday, but enjoy it today and tomorrow. Beautiful
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  Speaker 1: summer day. So listen, Bruce Blakeman, you know, it's got
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  Speaker 1: the deck stacked against him. It's a very tough thing
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  Speaker 1: to be a Republican, run for president. governor in New York,
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  Speaker 1: but you've seen the last few not succeed. Lee Zeldin,
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  Speaker 1: Rob Astorino, who else? There were a few others, but
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  Speaker 1: this is different. This is different. Blakeman's different. He's a
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  Speaker 1: very sharp guy, and he's been a great governor for
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  Speaker 1: five years now. Nassau County Executive, that job is this
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  Speaker 1: being a governor. You're the governor of the county, and
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  Speaker 1: he's been phenomenal at it. The best-run county in the country.
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  Speaker 1: He's considered the best county executive. So Unlike a congressman
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  Speaker 1: who you don't exactly know how they'd be as a
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  Speaker 1: manager because they're just legislators, this guy's got a track
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  Speaker 1: record as a great governor. Now, he's also a great
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  Speaker 1: speaker and he does very well campaigning and works very hard. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing. She has outraised him because she's a Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: He's raised about $ 11, $ 12 million in She's raised $ 22 million.
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  Speaker 1: She's got $ 22 million in cash. And the DNC is
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  Speaker 1: going to give her another $ 20 million. That's $ 42 million.
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  Speaker 1: So she's going to run a ton of TV commercials.
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  Speaker 1: She already started. She's running a whole bunch of TV
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  Speaker 1: commercials against him for his Trump stuff. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: a Trump MAGA, Trump MAGA, MAGA, Trump MAGA, showing him
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  Speaker 1: and Trump, hugging him and Trump. So that's to hurt him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's her problem. And here's what's going to really, really
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  Speaker 1: help Blakeman. Not that he needs help. I think he
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  Speaker 1: can win on his own. But some big things are coming.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of big super packs with endless money
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  Speaker 1: that are now coming out for Blakeman. And congratulations to
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  Speaker 1: James Dolan. Yeah, the Madison Square Garden James Dolan. He's
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  Speaker 1: put together one pack. They're spending a million dollars right
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  Speaker 1: now running ads.
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  Speaker 3: And..
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  Speaker 1: You know, don't think of just TV commercials. TV commercials
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  Speaker 1: don't mean that much anymore. I mean, it's fine, but
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  Speaker 1: you need these same commercials to run on digital and
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  Speaker 1: streaming platforms, and they're running there. Dolan right now is
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  Speaker 1: spending a million dollars running commercials to target Hochul's commercials.
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  Speaker 1: So Hochul's running all those Blakeman Trump commercials, and Dolan
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  Speaker 1: is running all these commercials about, look how ridiculous Hochul is.
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  Speaker 1: She's obsessed with Trump. In the commercial, it says, Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hochul blames Trump for everything, but the president didn't raise
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  Speaker 1: our energy bill 48 times. He didn't put illegal migrants
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  Speaker 1: in hotels and stick us with the bill. Hochul did.
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  Speaker 1: The president didn't raise taxes and tell New Yorkers to
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  Speaker 1: get the hell out. Hochul did. The president didn't give
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  Speaker 1: us congestion pricing. It's a good argument. These commercials are
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  Speaker 1: running all over the place right now. We need a
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  Speaker 1: governor who will shift the blame. We need a governor
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  Speaker 1: who will lead. So these are all for Blakeman. This
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  Speaker 1: is going to be a big, big help. He's already
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  Speaker 1: spent a million, and there's millions more coming. So this
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  Speaker 1: will help Blakeman. Now there's another PAC that's starting up,
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  Speaker 1: starting to spend. They've got millions of dollars. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to back Blakeman. It's a newly created PAC. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to have literally millions and millions. It's the Defend Empire
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  Speaker 1: State PAC, and it's going to help Blakeman. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to spend a fortune to counter hokal so she's got
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  Speaker 1: these two packs and more are coming they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be very aggressive going after her now remember it's august
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  Speaker 1: the campaign does not really start till after labor day
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  Speaker 1: so even though blakeman went from 25 points behind to
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  Speaker 1: five points behind he hasn't even started yet after labor
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  Speaker 1: day it really gets started so these packs are going
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  Speaker 1: to jump in it's not going to be pretty for
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  Speaker 1: hokal she's going to have a big problem Now, New
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  Speaker 1: York City's different. You know, New York City's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of crazy left-wing Mamdani people, but Blakeman only needs to
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  Speaker 1: win 35% of New York. That's all he needs, 35%.
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  Speaker 1: And he's different from these other guys that ran. Lee
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  Speaker 1: Zeldin was a, you know, Suffolk County, Long Island kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy. Rob Astorino's a Westchester kind of guy. Blakeman's
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  Speaker 1: a Nassau County guy, but there's something very New York
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  Speaker 1: City about him. He spent a lot of his life
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  Speaker 1: in New York City, so he's a, People, New Yorkers
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  Speaker 1: think of him as a New York City guy, too.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got a really, really good shot at this.
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  Speaker 1: And you might see things really heat up after Labor Day,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the middle of September through the end of October.
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  Speaker 1: And she's agreed to debate Blakeman. That's big, because Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: can easily out-debate her. Easily. Because she'll yell and scream, scream,
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  Speaker 1: MAGA Trump, MAGA Trump. It's not going to be effective. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the only problem is she's only agreed to one debate.
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  Speaker 1: And it's on New York One, which nobody sees. There's
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  Speaker 1: absolutely no audience on New York One. It'll be online, too,
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  Speaker 1: and the clips will go viral. But it'd be better
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  Speaker 1: to have the debate on a real play. Also, New
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  Speaker 1: York One is the most biased, slanted, left-wing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I worked there for 17 years. They're very nice people.
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  Speaker 1: There's no nicer guy than Errol Lewis. But there's no
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  Speaker 1: more slanted, biased guy than Errol Lewis. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a bunch of those types. doing the questioning. So
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to be so great. Hey, remember yesterday
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  Speaker 1: I was telling you about the president at an IndyCar race.
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  Speaker 1: He brought it to Washington, D.C. They've talked about it
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  Speaker 1: for years, decades, but, you know, politicians just talk about something.
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  Speaker 1: Trump actually gets it done. So there it was all
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  Speaker 1: around Washington, D.C. It was beautiful to watch on TV, IndyCar,
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  Speaker 1: and you hear that, you know, those engines and roaring.
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  Speaker 1: And as I was telling you, It drives the left crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they don't like cars. They don't like gasoline.
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  Speaker 1: They don't like engine noise. They like an electric car
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like this. That's the sound they like. I
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  Speaker 1: love the sound of an engine. They hate it. So
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  Speaker 1: they got sick to their stomach watching this IndyCar, these
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  Speaker 1: roaring engines. And they're going 200 miles an hour. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're burning like a tank of gas every five feet.
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  Speaker 1: It was driving them nuts. So Adam Schiff had to
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  Speaker 1: speak out. He couldn't help himself. He denounced the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing as a disgusting spectacle to distract Americans from higher
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  Speaker 1: costs and policy failures. And Schiff yelling, while you struggle
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  Speaker 1: with the cost of gas, look how much gas they're wasting.
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  Speaker 1: More taxpayer money was spent on this self-aggrandizing distraction, and
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  Speaker 1: you get higher taxes and higher costs. Ha ha. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you pick this apart, it's Schiff that's giving you
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  Speaker 1: the higher taxes. Trump is lowering your taxes. Schiff and
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats are raising the taxes. And the race, he's
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  Speaker 1: also a Democrat. They're totally out of touch. They don't
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  Speaker 1: realize what NASCAR means to America. They don't realize what
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  Speaker 1: IndyCar means to America. You know, the number one sport,
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  Speaker 1: number one spectator sport in America, NASCAR. But they don't
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  Speaker 1: know that. Don't tell them that. So everybody went crazy
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  Speaker 1: about Schiff's comments, yelling and screaming at him, especially the
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  Speaker 1: race fans. And that's a half of America, more than
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  Speaker 1: three quarters of America. And they're pointing out, remember Schiff,
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  Speaker 1: anything Schiff says is always a lie, always a lie.
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  Speaker 1: They had to point out to him the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: the race, everything was privately funded. Not only was it
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  Speaker 1: privately funded, but it brought a ton of money into
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  Speaker 1: the government because Tens of thousands of spectators poured into
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  Speaker 1: Washington and spent money. And it was actually, if you
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  Speaker 1: watch the whole thing, it was all about the pride
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  Speaker 1: of being an American. It was about great racing and
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  Speaker 1: patriotism on display. But you can't explain this to Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: They don't get that kind of stuff. Hey, also in
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  Speaker 1: the last week or so, ICE doing very well in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: ICE arrested 400 people. Criminal illegals. These are illegals with
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  Speaker 1: criminal convictions, actual criminals. Now, they went on a big,
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  Speaker 1: massive ice raid, ice sweep. They got 1,300 illegals off
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  Speaker 1: the streets of Washington, actually, in the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: In the group was 400 illegals who had criminal convictions
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  Speaker 1: and pending criminal charges. They are off the streets of Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: right now. You know, that was one of the most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous cities in America. People were terrified. You couldn't walk
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  Speaker 1: around Washington, D.C. at night. Forget it. You couldn't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: There were a couple of nice areas, little nice areas,
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  Speaker 1: but you go two blocks the other way and you're
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  Speaker 1: in a war zone. Trump has cleaned that up. People
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  Speaker 1: are now free to go out. Not that many big
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  Speaker 1: restaurants in Washington or anything like that. But now that
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  Speaker 1: it's safe, people are going out. Restaurants are making a fortune.
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  Speaker 1: Businesses are making a fortune. It's really good. Hey, I
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  Speaker 1: want to tell you something really important. If you're one
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  Speaker 1: of those intermittent fasters, you know, there are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people that don't eat breakfast anymore. They have this
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  Speaker 1: intermittent fasting. You know, I don't eat for 14 hours,
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  Speaker 1: for 16 hours. So they eat earlier at night and
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  Speaker 1: then they don't eat breakfast and they don't eat till
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  Speaker 1: like lunch. There's been studies showing that's very unhealthy. But
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  Speaker 1: a brand new huge study from one of the top
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  Speaker 1: hospitals has found if you do that, you've got an
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  Speaker 1: increased risk of dying by 29%. Eating afternoon, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't eat your first meal to afternoon, 46% higher risk
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  Speaker 1: of cardiovascular death compared to a normal early breakfast. Also
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  Speaker 1: a study from Mass General, Brigham, very good hospital, said
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  Speaker 1: later breakfast times in later life not only linked to
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  Speaker 1: a higher risk of early death, but also linked to depression, fatigue,
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  Speaker 1: and oral health problems. So if right now you haven't
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  Speaker 1: eaten yet, go eat right now. No more of that
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  Speaker 1: intermittent fasting. Just cut down on what you eat. Forget
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  Speaker 1: the intermittent fasting. Hey, oh, we've got a lot coming up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to the brilliant columnist Liz Peek. We'll take
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  Speaker 1: some calls. And a lot more just ahead. Don't forget,
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  Speaker 1: it's three hours now. Mark Simone, 9 to noon. 9
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  Speaker 1: to noon. Three hours every day here on 710WOR. Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: New York. Now three hours every weekday from 9 to
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  Speaker 1: noon on 710WOR. Well, hey, let's talk to the brilliant columnist,
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  Speaker 1: Liz Peek. You can read her at foxnews.com or thehill.com
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  Speaker 1: or check out her website. A lot of great stories
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  Speaker 1: there every day. Lizpeek.com, Lizpeek.com. Liz Peek, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm terrific.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, if you were, let's say you were a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: and during the Clinton years you went into a coma
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  Speaker 1: and you came out of it now and you turn
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  Speaker 1: on the television, there's El-Sayed and there's Mamdani at What
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  Speaker 1: would you think happened to your party?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you'd be wondering what happened to the
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  Speaker 2: United States. Honestly, Mark, I think no one saw this coming,
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  Speaker 2: particularly at a point where, despite all the gloom and
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  Speaker 2: doom talk from the left, the truth is our economy
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  Speaker 2: is growing. Jobs are plentiful. Real wages are rising. The
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  Speaker 2: stock market's hitting new highs. Those are not exactly... the
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  Speaker 2: sort of guideposts or red flags that you would expect
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  Speaker 2: to herald the surge in socialism that we're seeing from
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic Party. And let's be clear, this is not
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  Speaker 2: just a weird off-center group, the Democratic Socialists of America.
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  Speaker 2: More and more mainstream Democrats, people like Gavin Newsom and
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul and so forth, are embracing policies that To
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  Speaker 2: your point, Hillary Clinton doesn't agree with and most and
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  Speaker 2: certainly Bill Clinton wouldn't have embraced.
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  Speaker 3: He was all about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, signing on to welfare reform. His hands were
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  Speaker 2: tied a little bit. He was forced to do it
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  Speaker 2: by Newt Gingrich. But the reality is Bill Clinton is
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  Speaker 2: revered now, I would say, on both sides of the
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  Speaker 2: aisle for having ushered in a balanced budget. Can we
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  Speaker 2: even imagine such a thing when we're spending $ 7 trillion
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  Speaker 2: and our debt just went over $ 40 trillion? The answer
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  Speaker 2: is no. I mean, we really... You know, we're really
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  Speaker 2: looking at some really difficult things here. And I think
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  Speaker 2: the most difficult is the undermining of American values. And
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  Speaker 2: I know that sort of sets people's hearts beating on
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  Speaker 2: the left because they think it's a sort of right
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  Speaker 2: wing way of saying we don't like, you know, illegal immigration.
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  Speaker 2: We don't like all kinds of things that they do,
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  Speaker 2: that they do like racial diversity and so forth. That's
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  Speaker 2: really not true at all. What we do like, or
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  Speaker 2: what conservatives embrace, including myself, is meritocracy. And we don't
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  Speaker 2: like DEI because it is the enemy of meritocracy. We
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  Speaker 2: like individualism. We like freedom of expression. The fact that
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  Speaker 2: you've had instances of the government trying to shut down
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  Speaker 2: free speech, it's just horrifying. This Nick Shirley law that
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  Speaker 2: just was signed by Gavin Newsom in California is a
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  Speaker 2: tremendous abridgment of free speech. And you know, kind of
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  Speaker 2: another instance of the Democrats standing up for fraud. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: it makes your head spin how much stuff is going on.
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  Speaker 2: And truly, to answer your question in a sort of
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  Speaker 2: sane way, the Democratic Party has lost its footing entirely.
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  Speaker 2: And they are not, I think, in line with what
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  Speaker 2: many voters want. Now, if you ask voters in Do
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  Speaker 2: you want to tax the wealthy more? A lot say yes,
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  Speaker 2: because that doesn't hurt them. But then when you get
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  Speaker 2: into the details of do you like big government socialism
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  Speaker 2: and big government interference in our economy, the answer is 100%,
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  Speaker 2: not 100%, but 80% no. Do you like free market
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  Speaker 2: capitalism as opposed to just capitalism? The answer is a
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  Speaker 2: very positive yes. That's what John McLaughlin said. an admittedly
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  Speaker 2: right-leaning pollster has found. But it is interesting, if you
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  Speaker 2: just introduce the slightest bit of nuance that conjures up
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  Speaker 2: what we love about our country, opportunity, freedom, liberty, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: you find very different responses.
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  Speaker 1: So Liz Peek, you think all this was caused by
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump? I mean, we love him, but he can
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  Speaker 1: be overly abrasive, but he's also very tough and effective.
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  Speaker 1: You think they just went nuts thinking that's the only
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  Speaker 1: way to battle this guy?
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  Speaker 3: I think it has been part of the problem, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: I find myself wondering, I'm sure you do too, what
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  Speaker 2: happens in three or four years when Trump has been
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  Speaker 2: out of office, almost regardless of who succeeds him, will
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  Speaker 2: the temperature come down and will enthusiasm for completely nutty
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  Speaker 2: ideas on the left recede? Another question is this, suppose
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  Speaker 2: we've actually, it has gone unheralded, but we've actually seen
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  Speaker 2: movement towards a realignment in the Middle East, which perhaps
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  Speaker 2: will dull this anxiety on the left about Palestinian people
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  Speaker 2: and Gaza. If indeed you have an independent commission setting
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  Speaker 2: up to govern Gaza, if Hamas actually agrees with that,
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  Speaker 2: which it seems like maybe they are doing to some degree.
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  Speaker 2: If Israel gets out of Lebanon, et cetera, is Israel
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  Speaker 2: going to be the big bogeyman that the left is
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  Speaker 2: using now, the big kind of cudgel? No, I think
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  Speaker 2: they'll move on. And so the question is, what's next?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. But I do think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of this is color. A lot of the protests, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the lurch left by the Democratic Party, certainly
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the anti-Israel excitement is because of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then the left, they always have to create
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  Speaker 1: a boogeyman to be terrified of. Right now, it's data centers.
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  Speaker 1: Do we really need to be so terrified of a
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  Speaker 1: data center? It makes a little noise, but outside of that,
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I mean, people are reasonably concerned about rising
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  Speaker 2: electricity rates. Frankly, there's a very easy way to fix this.
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  Speaker 2: You just make the data center, the hyperscalers, the data
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  Speaker 2: center owners and builders responsible for providing their own electricity.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever that costs, however you word the legislation, this is
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  Speaker 2: really up to the states. In my view, they should
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  Speaker 2: just make these rules. that you have to provide your
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  Speaker 2: own water or use a very limited amount of water, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, is possible, and basically pay for the–
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  Speaker 2: provide extra electricity, provide for whatever you're spending. And then
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  Speaker 2: what's the big problem? There really shouldn't be any because
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  Speaker 2: you have, for example, union workers across the country saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this is a lot of jobs. that are being offered here,
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  Speaker 2: we want in on this. So the Democrats have a
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  Speaker 2: problem because a lot of their union backers are really
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of this argument. But Mark, I
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  Speaker 2: really set out to figure out whether China actually was
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  Speaker 2: promoting all this AI resistance. It certainly makes sense, right?
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  Speaker 2: Because they want to win this AI race. And the
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  Speaker 2: biggest speed bump now in the United States is not
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  Speaker 2: technology dominance, which we have. It is the data center opposition.
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  Speaker 2: So you come to find out, guess what? It actually
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  Speaker 2: is being promoted by China. They have a very strong
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  Speaker 2: vested interest in slowing our AI build out, our data
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  Speaker 2: center build out, and they're hard at work making that
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  Speaker 2: happen through nonprofits that are dominated by or controlled by
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  Speaker 2: by this guy, Singham. I kept reading articles about him
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  Speaker 2: and thinking, who is this guy? So finally, I did
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  Speaker 2: my own research on it. And it's true. And he's
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  Speaker 2: very much in the hands, the putty in the hands
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  Speaker 2: of Beijing. And he's doing their bidding. And he's funding
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  Speaker 2: groups that go out and excite people about data centers,
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  Speaker 2: feed the narrative, the anti-data center narrative.
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  Speaker 1: And Guess what? It's working.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's really tragic. Incredibly, the AI guys, the CEOs,
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  Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg et al.
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  Speaker 3: Where are they?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, they've really been just completely behind the eight
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: ball in talking up the benefits of AI and what
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: it means to communities to have this huge bump in
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: tax revenues, which they do provide.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, they're afraid to become the face of these
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: centers because- the left is convinced everybody they're like nuclear reactors,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: just as dangerous, which of course they're not.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's so stupid. It really is so stupid. People
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: would rather, yeah, people would rather have a nuclear power
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: plant in their backyard than a data center. I wouldn't
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: mind either. I think they're fine. You know, again, they
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: promote our economy. And Mark, the other thing is that
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: if you do any research at all on demographics, we
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: need AI to build up our workforce. I mean, right
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: now we have millions of baby boomers retiring finally late,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: later than expected, but they are retiring. And you have
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: people self-supporting a lot, real downturn in immigration and immigrants
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: in this country wanting work. And you have college graduates
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: coming out with skills that are totally misaligned for today's workforce.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: So, you know, the.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Reality is we actually need AI to prosper, to encourage
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the growth of our economy. And hopefully, you know, common
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: sense will prevail here and it'll happen.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Liz Peek, always great talking to you. Great
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: stuff as always. And now, how many times are you
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: on TV today? You're going to see her all over television.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm remote this week. And I was on Bottom
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Line last night. I'll be on Varney tomorrow. Some of
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: my shows are happier with my remote status than others.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: But I appreciate their forbearance. And I'll be back in
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: And now, go read her columns. Go to foxnews.com. You
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: can read Liz Peek there, thehill.com. But also, make sure
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: you go to her website. It's a great site to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: check every day for great stories. Lizpeak.com. Lizpeak.com. Lizpeak, thanks
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: for being with us.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks so much for having me, Mark. Have a
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: terrific day.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: All right. Take care. Yeah, everybody's remote this week. Everybody's,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: you know, there's very little traffic out there yesterday. Very
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: little traffic today. It's going to be a big vacation week.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Next week, the biggest vacation week of summer, because this
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: is hard to believe. Next week is the week leading
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: up to Labor Day. A lot of people take off
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a bunch of days there. Yeah, you're a week and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a half from Labor Day. I know, it's hard to believe. Hey,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls coming up. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 21:38
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• 21:41
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• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Mark Simone, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Hey, we'll take some calls. Let's get some new callers.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: If you haven't called before, 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: We've got people listening all over America. Let's take some calls.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Patsy in Georgia. Patsy, how are you doing?
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I'm fine, Mark.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I'm good.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: I'm calling because I love Liz Peek, and I think
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: she makes wonderful points. But I'm afraid that when we
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: talk to the average American and try to convince them
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: that that capitalism is the way to go. We have
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: to stop using terms like capitalism and socialism and actually
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: paint a picture on how this will affect each family individually, specifically. Like,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: what are the things in their lives that will actually
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: change under a regime like this? Unfortunately, we have to
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: dumb it down to that point.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I disagree. Americans are not as dumb as you
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: make them out to be. People are smarter than you think.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: They get it. If you got it, they'll get it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: They'll get it. Where are you in Georgia?
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I'm in St. Simons Island.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's the intellectual capital of the world? I see
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: where you're coming from. That makes sense.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Well, I just think that when I talk to young
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: people like my grandchildren, the terms that I use are
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: often not completely..
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, the problem is, you're right in some ways, but
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the problem is you sent those kids to college and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: they came back from total indoctrination and now they're crazy
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: exactly mom donnie voting socialist you got to keep your
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: kids out of those colleges that's.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Exactly but they don't really know how it affects them
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: personally they think they think in concept and oh yeah
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: that sounds like.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah but you gotta remember you're not going to undo
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: four years of college indoctrination in a couple of months
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it's going to take a long time.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: No that's true.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: All right patsy thanks for calling let's go to uh
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: phil in uh new milford connecticut phil how you doing Hi,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: New Milford, New Jersey. How you doing? Oh, my God.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: You got a new Milford there, too? They're everywhere, these
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: new Milfords.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's Milford. There's new Milford.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Old Milford. Sort of Milford. A little Milford.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Well, I defer to your expertise on this question. And
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: the thing is, if I subscribe to the usual TV
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: package to support, I want to watch my real news channels,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: but I end up subsidizing CNN podcasts. and MSNOW and
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: all these idiots, how does the rating people know what
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I'm watching?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Well, on the radio we use meters. We can tell people,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: we've got 20,000 people hooked up to meters. We know
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: what they're watching. Same thing with television. They know when
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you turn your channel what you're watching and all of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: that stuff. Well, that's good to know. Yeah, they know
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: what you're watching and you're not watching. Don't worry. If
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you're not looking at CNN, CNN will not get credit
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: for you. It's not about what you pay. It's about
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: what you actually tune on, what channel you turn to.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: They know. They know. A half-hour audience listens online. They're streaming.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: They're on their phone listening right now. We know exactly
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: when you're listening, when you tune in. We even know
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: when you turn the volume up, turn the volume down.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Ratings are pretty scientific nowadays. Let's go to Virginia in Massapequa.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Hi, Mark.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: How are you doing?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: I was listening to your show and I wanted to
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: comment on intermittent fasting because that's something that I do
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: have experience with.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: And I don't believe those studies, and I actually tried
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: to look it up and there are studies from 2024
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: where they're trying to say that it correlates with heart
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: disease and I don't believe that that's true.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Well, you cannot believe it, but there's a lot of
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: studies where they just simply study people. They check the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: actual data records. Yeah, that's true. If you don't eat
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: for 16 hours and you don't eat before noon, you
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: are increasing your risk of heart stuff and other stuff.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but they don't know what they're actually eating. There
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: are people that fast and they'll eat a healthy meal,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: and there are people that fast and they think, oh,
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I didn't eat all day, so I deserve some fast
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: food or a half a bag of chips. So really..
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: It's not healthy to go 16 hours without eating. Now,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: according to these studies, you could do it a couple
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: days a week. You can't do it every day. It's
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: not healthy. And why do you do it?
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Look up, Google the word autophagy.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: It's spelled A-U-T-O-H-A-G-Y.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: It's a sunny day. I was going to go out
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and enjoy the day and have fun. I'm not staying
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: home to Google autophagy or whatever the hell you said. No,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: but seriously, why are you doing this intermittent fasting?
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Because autophagy is when your body, or picture this analogy.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: I read this, and this is a really good analogy.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I'm begging you. Stop saying autophagy.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: Listen, listen. Your refrigerator is your body. And listen, your
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: refrigerator is your body. And you keep putting food in,
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: and all the.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Bad things get shoved to the back. Have some breakfast. Now,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: look at this over here. Here's a banana. Here's some watermelon.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Could you have a healthier breakfast?
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Well, that's a lot of sugar.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, it is?
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to lie.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Sure it is. Of course it is.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't think of that.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: If you have diabetes, you can't be eating stuff like that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: But what I'm trying to say is if you have
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: a refrigerator and you never clean that food out and
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: you keep putting food in, you never get rid of it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: You just have to.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Now, if we saw you, are you perfect weight and everything?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: No body fat?
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Of course not.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: No.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: What the hell are we listening to you for?
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: I'm not doing it now. I've done it in the past.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Are you a little overweight?
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: I like to have cream in my coffee. No, I'm
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: about where I should be.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm about where I should be.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, you sound a little cranky. I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: think this intermittent fasting is good for you.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: No, I have a sore throat. I'm not cranky. I'm
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: not cranky. I don't do IF all the time, but
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: I did it for quite a long time.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, again, it's IF. It's intermittent fasting.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Intermittent fasting.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: All right. So what do you do for a living, Virginia?
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: I coffee sell.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: That's the right market.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: What do you do for a living?
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Are you asking that before? I can't tell you. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: couldn't tell you. I'd have to kill you. I can't
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: tell you.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Is that illegal?
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: I work for a company.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: All right, I'll make a deal with you. Tell me,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: then you can kill me. It's fine. I'll agree to that.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: I'm off today from work, though. You guessed it correctly.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: I'm in retail. In the past, you guessed it correctly.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're in retail?
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: So I'm off today.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Yay.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Are you one of those annoying salespeople? You haven't even
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: got both feet through the door and you're like, can
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I help you? Can I help you?
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: Like all over.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: No, no, nothing like that.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: No.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, you sound like a nice person, Virginia.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Eat something. Let's go to, uh, Roxy
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in Connecticut. Roxy, how you doing?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Wow. Good morning.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: And, um, glad to get through to you this morning.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Well, that's good. Connecticut. Where are you in Connecticut?
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Um, uh, I'm in Old Saybrook along the shoreline.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Very beautiful there. Very beautiful. You got that big, huge,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: beautiful hotel there right in the water.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Saybrook Point Inn. I was just there the other day.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And a lot of great places there. So in
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the summer, no more, you know, forget going to Cape
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Cod or somewhere. Just go to Old Saybrook. It's beautiful.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Don't bring a lot more people.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Forget Old Saybrook. Don't go there. It's really a mess.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Don't go there.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: I watched or I taped the NASCAR race, and it
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: was just heart-pounding pride with a flyover, with the band
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: opening the songs. It was just, I thought, very memorable.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: And to see the race going on with all the
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: beautiful buildings in the background, it was stimulating. And I
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: taped it, of course, so I could zip through and
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: pick up the highlights.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: But it was really beautiful.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: American win.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: But if you're a Democrat, it was sickening. It's got flags.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It's got military. It's got cars. Privately funded.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: It was privately funded.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, because I love NASCAR, I love IndyCar.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: You don't have to record this stuff. Later in the day,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: in the evening, I don't know who does it, but
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: it's always there. You just go type IndyCar whatever highlights,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and somebody's put up a 25-minute reel of all the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: highlights every day. That is good. Every day.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: My husband used to race vintage cars, so I do
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: like racing.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, thanks for calling. Yeah, because I can't,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I've got to be honest, I can't sit through the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: whole run. I'm going to watch him drive around a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: track for four hours. But you watch the highlights at night.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: 20 minutes, and it's great. Also, it's the middle of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a summer day. I've got to go out. I'm not
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: going to sit at home watching TV. But it's always
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: on YouTube, all the highlights of every race, every night.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Joe in Elmwood Park. Joe, how are
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: you doing?
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark. Real fast, you mentioned we lost Shelley Fabray.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Did you know we lost Leslie Parrish, too? She was, like,
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: the last one from the Manchurian candidate.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Leslie Parrish was an actress?
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, she was... Josie and Manchurian Candidate.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. That's not exactly a big name, but Manchurian
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Candidate was a great movie. 1964, Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: It's about a president. Oh, no, wait. It was 63. 62.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: They held it up. It was about a presidential assassination.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was too close to Kennedy.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: It did very well, but then Kennedy was assassinated. They
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: had to pull the film off the market.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Frank Sinatra did that.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it wasn't so much Sinatra. The movie studio
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: had to pull it off the market. Manchurian Candidate was
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: a great film. Go back and watch it. It's about
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a presidential assassin. It's an amazing movie. But because right
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: after Kennedy gets assassinated, they withdrew the film from the market,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and they could never show it on television, so it
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: was hidden, never seen. It was one of the greatest
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: movies never seen for like 30 years. And then somewhere
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: in the 90s... Frank Sinatra's on the Larry King show.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And Larry King said, that was one of the greatest movies.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And because of the Kennedy assassination, they took it off
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the market. It's never been seen since. And Sinatra said, yeah,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: it was a great movie. I wish they'd release it.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: And Larry King said, you know, you own it. He goes,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: I do? He said, yeah, you own the rights to it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: It's your film. You own it. He said, I'll have
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: it released tomorrow. And it was released the next day.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: So you can go watch it. The Manchurian Candidate. Hey,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: coming up at noon, Buck Sexton and Clay Travis with
• 32:29
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• 32:32
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• 32:36
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• 32:39
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• 32:42
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• 32:45
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• 32:46
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• 32:48
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• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up with that actress that died? Leslie Parrish.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: She died last night. She was 90, and she was
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: in The Manchurian Candate, but she was also in Three
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: on a Couch. Remember that Jerry Lewis movie? She was
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in Little Abner. That was a big movie musical, 1959.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: She was in The Giant Spider Invasion. I don't know
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: what that is, but it doesn't sound like something I'd
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: want to watch. But more important, look at this part
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: of her career. She was in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: She was in Batman with Adam West. She was in
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: an episode of Perry Mason. Now, see, that's great. And
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: she was in Star Trek. So she died at the
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: age of 90. Hey, it's going to be a beautiful
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: day today. Nice sunny day. It's going to be a
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: beautiful sunny day tomorrow. So good chance of rain on
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Thursday and maybe Friday. So these are going to be two,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: today and tomorrow, two of the nicest days of summer.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: You got a week and a half until Labor Day weekend.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It's hard to believe. A lot to get to in
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the next hour. But don't forget, it's three hours every day.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: It's 9 to noon. I start at 9 a.m.
• 34:02
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• 34:02
  Speaker 1: 9 to noon every day. And if you're a podcast listener, why,
• 34:06
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• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone here, back after the news on 710WOR.