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

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  Speaker 1: You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
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  Speaker 1: it all means. It's Mark Simone on.
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  Speaker 2: 710WOR. Well, hey, don't forget we're 9 o'clock now, 9
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  Speaker 2: to noon, three hours every day. A lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: going on. Jimmy Kimmel, the cancellation of Kimmel has been announced.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that. I hate to scare you about
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  Speaker 2: summer coming to an end, but NFL season begins tonight.
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  Speaker 2: The opening game of the NFL season is tonight. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that. We'll get to, hey, these 9-11 air
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  Speaker 2: quality files that have been released are quite upsetting to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to tonight's convention, the Republican midterm convention. We've
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  Speaker 2: never seen a midterm convention before. It's a good idea,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a lot of buts to it. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to that. New Hampshire primary last night. Sununu won the
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  Speaker 2: Republican side.
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  Speaker 1: We also need to shake up Washington with real reform.
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  Speaker 3: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing. You see, every politician says that every election. Every
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  Speaker 2: two seconds they've been saying that for a hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: It never happens. On the Democratic side, Pappas won.
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  Speaker 1: The voters of New Hampshire have sent a clear message.
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  Speaker 3: They're fed up with what's happening in our politics and
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  Speaker 3: they're ready for change.
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  Speaker 4: Woo!
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so again, same stuff. Now, there's only one scary
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  Speaker 2: thing that came out of New Hampshire. Democratic turnout was
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. Republican turnout was kind of low. That's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be a big problem for Republicans in
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  Speaker 2: the midterms. They've got to get turnout. That's the key
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  Speaker 2: to everything. I mean, if everybody in the world voted,
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  Speaker 2: they'd probably have an easy time of winning. But turnout
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  Speaker 2: is the key. And again, it's an off-year election. People
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  Speaker 2: don't always turn out. Democrats are fired up. They're angry.
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  Speaker 2: So the turnout was a little better for Democrats and
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  Speaker 2: a little low for Republicans in New Hampshire. Now, they've
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  Speaker 2: got plenty of time to correct that, so they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to work on making sure they get turnout,
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  Speaker 2: a ground game, all that sort of stuff. That's one reason,
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  Speaker 2: the main reason for tonight's Republican midterm convention. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: in Dallas. The president has decided he'll speak tonight. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a couple of problems. One, you got this
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  Speaker 2: big NFL game on against it tonight. That's not going
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  Speaker 2: to help. And it's not just any NFL season opener.
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  Speaker 2: It's a rematch of the Super Bowl. Seahawks and Patriots
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  Speaker 2: will play tonight. So it's the two Super Bowl teams
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  Speaker 2: playing again. It's the first NFL official season game. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to get a huge audience, so that's not going
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  Speaker 2: to help this Republican midterm convention. Now, the idea of
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  Speaker 2: the Republican midterm convention is, is they'll fire up their
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  Speaker 2: base and they'll get people out and they'll show people
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  Speaker 2: why they got to vote Republican. Well, that's all great,
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  Speaker 2: but who's going to watch it? Who's going to actually
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  Speaker 2: see this convention tonight? It won't be on any of
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  Speaker 2: the networks. It won't be covered by fake news. It
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  Speaker 2: won't be covered by the New York Times or any
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  Speaker 2: of this. You're not going to see it on MSNBC
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  Speaker 2: or CNN. You won't see it on the broadcast networks. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Fox News has said they would cover it, but... The
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  Speaker 2: problem there is you've got to figure most of the
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  Speaker 2: Fox viewers are already going to be voting Republican, will
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  Speaker 2: already be voting, you know, already supporting Trump. So basically
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  Speaker 2: that's just preaching to the choir. So that's the problem
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  Speaker 2: with tonight. It's a two-night convention. President Trump will speak tonight. J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance will speak tomorrow. President Trump will probably speak again tomorrow. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the other problem is he's got to be really careful tonight.
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  Speaker 2: really careful with this speech, you know, affordability crisis, all
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  Speaker 2: of that. Well, it's not really that much of a crisis.
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  Speaker 2: If you look at the actual economy, the numbers, the data,
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  Speaker 2: it's a pretty strong, pretty good economy. He's got to
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  Speaker 2: be careful selling that because if you make it sound
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  Speaker 2: like you're oblivious, people feel there's an affordability crisis. There
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  Speaker 2: may not be the crisis they think, but if they
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  Speaker 2: feel it, You got to be careful with that. The
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  Speaker 2: other problem is you don't want to make Trump too
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  Speaker 2: much the face of the midterms, which he is kind
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  Speaker 2: of doing, saying, assume I'm on the ballot. Well, the
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  Speaker 2: problem is, again, that inspires Democratic turnout. That'll increase Democratic turnout.
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  Speaker 2: And again, he's got to be careful with the speech tonight,
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  Speaker 2: not seeming oblivious to people's concerns. Empathy is important. So
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  Speaker 2: he's got to be careful because they could start cutting
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  Speaker 2: up his speech tonight to make campaign commercials on the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic side. And he's just got to be careful. The
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  Speaker 2: other thing with that speech, he's got to make sure
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't make himself too much the face of the party.
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  Speaker 2: And another concern, he did accomplish a lot while in
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  Speaker 2: office the last two years. He really did accomplish a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But you gotta be careful not to just talk about
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  Speaker 2: the past. You can't just list what you, what you
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  Speaker 2: did before. You got to promise something that's coming, you know,
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  Speaker 2: no tax on tips, all those things that people loved.
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  Speaker 2: That's already there. You got to have something new to promote. Now,
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  Speaker 2: knowing him, the guy that always pulls a rabbit out
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  Speaker 2: of the hat, he'll unveil something tonight. Uh, that'll be
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  Speaker 2: pretty amazing. So we'll see. It'll happen tonight. Again, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what kind of coverage or where it'll get
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  Speaker 2: any coverage. Um, Hey, as far as 9-11, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are saying, well, Mamdani finally done one good thing.
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  Speaker 2: There were these secret files that show that everybody in government,
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  Speaker 2: local government, city government, state government, federal government, they all
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  Speaker 2: knew the air quality was horrible, that it was poisonous,
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  Speaker 2: that it was really dangerous, and they deliberately covered it up.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason they covered it up, if you'll read
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  Speaker 2: through these files, the reason they covered it up was
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  Speaker 2: They saw a potential for extreme liability. They would have
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  Speaker 2: to pay unbelievable amounts of insurance claims on everybody working
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  Speaker 2: down there, living down there, to avoid that massive, calamitous
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  Speaker 2: liability problem. They covered it up. Press conference yesterday, Mamdani,
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  Speaker 2: John Stewart, a Mamdani buddy, who's always been quite the
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  Speaker 2: advocate for those 9-11 families.
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  Speaker 1: There was poison everywhere. in the air and on the
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  Speaker 1: ground and in the windowsills and in your air conditioners
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  Speaker 1: and covering your pets and your clothes. And it stayed
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  Speaker 1: there for months. Everyone knew. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, why would Mamdani do such a noble thing? He
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  Speaker 2: released in the files. Why would he be so? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think the main motivation here is he wants to
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  Speaker 2: take down the establishment of the people he's always being
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  Speaker 2: compared to, Rudy Giuliani, the greatest mayor ever, George Pataki,
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  Speaker 2: a great governor. He's trying to destroy their reputations. That's
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  Speaker 2: one reason he wants to release this. He wants to
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  Speaker 2: discredit all of them. And he wants to do it
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  Speaker 2: before he goes down there for the 9-11 ceremony. People
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  Speaker 2: are very upset he'll be there. He's not George Pataki.
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  Speaker 2: He's not Rudy Giuliani. Well, he's trying to bring them
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  Speaker 2: down by releasing all this information. But It's still important
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  Speaker 2: that we get to see it. They did cover up.
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  Speaker 2: They knew how bad the air was, and they covered
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  Speaker 2: it up.
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  Speaker 3: We hold an obligation to each of those New Yorkers
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  Speaker 3: to ensure that Never Forget is not just a platitude,
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  Speaker 3: but that it is something material to lead with the
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  Speaker 3: honesty and responsibility that have too long been lacking, and
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  Speaker 3: to fight for those who were there, devoted to the
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  Speaker 3: city that they loved.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's be honest, deep down, Mamdani, does he really
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  Speaker 2: care about the firemen and the policemen and the first
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  Speaker 2: responders and those great heroes? Does he really care? No.
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  Speaker 2: He hopes you all drop dead, but he'd love to
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  Speaker 2: discredit all the establishment politicians who covered things up.
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  Speaker 3: The 170,000 pages posted today are only the first release.
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  Speaker 3: More will be shared over the next 12 months. Every
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  Speaker 3: document on this portal will be accessible to every New
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  Speaker 3: Yorker free of charge.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't just release him. He put him up online.
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  Speaker 2: He put a search thing in there. We'll see how
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  Speaker 2: much attention it gets, but he's trying to really damage
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  Speaker 2: the reputations of all the establishment politicians.
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  Speaker 3: These are documents that show what the city knew about
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  Speaker 3: the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it,
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  Speaker 3: and how they acted to limit liability. They contain details
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  Speaker 3: about DEP's response. They show how asbestos was found nearly
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  Speaker 3: everywhere that inspectors tested. And they will help New Yorkers
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  Speaker 3: access the health care they need.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty scary stuff. It's pretty ugly stuff. And it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty outrageous stuff. But again, his motive isn't as noble
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  Speaker 2: as you think. He's really just trying to destroy Rudy,
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  Speaker 2: George Pataki, and all the leaders that were down there.
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  Speaker 1: The city began covering their ass three weeks in. In
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  Speaker 1: a memo, the memo is entitled Legislative Alternatives to the
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  Speaker 1: Fiscal Responsibility for 9-11. These people had to fight, sick
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  Speaker 1: and dying, for years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty bad stuff. All right, it's depressing. Let
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  Speaker 2: me give you some good news. Jimmy Kimmel will be
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  Speaker 2: going off the air. It's the end of the Jimmy
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  Speaker 2: Kimmel era. Been on a long time. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: been 24 years. This guy's been on 23 or 24 years. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: we've explained to you that when your contract is up,
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  Speaker 2: you get another contract. Three years, five years. Some people
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  Speaker 2: like three years. Some people like five years. Well, this
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  Speaker 2: time around, they didn't give them a new contract. They
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  Speaker 2: just gave them a one-year extension, which is pretty insulting.
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  Speaker 2: It happened once to Johnny Carson. Every five years, they'd
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  Speaker 2: show up and sign the new five-year contract, and all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, they showed up one year, and the
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  Speaker 2: NBC guy said, how about a one-year contract? Well, Carson,
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  Speaker 2: right on the spot, said he was retiring. He knew
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  Speaker 2: what that meant. So they did it to Kimmel. They
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  Speaker 2: gave him a one-year extension, which is as insulting as
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  Speaker 2: you can get. It's just about up. It'll be up
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  Speaker 2: at the end of this season. So they've announced one
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  Speaker 2: more season. Well, they haven't actually announced it, but the
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  Speaker 2: word is one more season, and he'll go off the
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  Speaker 2: air in May. And that'll be the end of Kimmel.
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  Speaker 2: I think one of the things that sped it up
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  Speaker 2: was when they got rid of Colbert over at CBS,
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  Speaker 2: it was replaced with just a real comedy show, not
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  Speaker 2: an angry political show, not a biased, angry show with
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  Speaker 2: an agenda, just a genuine comedy show, laughs, Byron Allen's
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  Speaker 2: Comics Unleashed. And it's crushing Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel
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  Speaker 2: in the most important thing, 18 to 49 year olds,
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  Speaker 2: the demo that the TV networks want, 18 to 49.
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  Speaker 2: Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed, crushing both of them. And it's
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  Speaker 2: a much cheaper show to do than Fallon or Kimmel.
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  Speaker 2: So I think when Kimmel goes off the air, that's
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  Speaker 2: what they got in mind. They'll go with a real
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  Speaker 2: comedy show. Just this Byron Allen is a genius. This
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  Speaker 2: guy was a comedian, stand-up comedian. Then he got into
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  Speaker 2: the business end. He's now a billionaire. This Comics Unleashed,
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  Speaker 2: if you watch the way they produce it, it's four comedians.
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  Speaker 2: He interviews them. And they actually beforehand, they give the
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  Speaker 2: producers all their best routines, their best material. And they
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  Speaker 2: write up questions to get those routines out. So it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty scripted. Although it doesn't look it, but it ends up,
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  Speaker 2: everything is very funny. It's a very funny show. There's
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  Speaker 2: no political jokes, not even topical jokes. It's just funny stuff.
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  Speaker 2: They tape five of them in one day. So it's
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  Speaker 2: one day in the studio. And it's a very economical,
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  Speaker 2: cheap show to do. As opposed to Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel,
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  Speaker 2: where you've got an orchestra, you've got an audience you've
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  Speaker 2: got to bring in and out every day. Although Kimmel
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  Speaker 2: and Fallon have been doing so poorly that they quietly
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  Speaker 2: just cut those shows down to four days a week,
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  Speaker 2: three days a week. They don't even do a show
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  Speaker 2: every day. So Kimmel will go off the air in May.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be the end of him. That's two down. One
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  Speaker 2: to go. Well, actually, you can leave. One thing about
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon, he really is genuinely a comedian. So when
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  Speaker 2: he sees the writing on the wall, he'll switch the
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  Speaker 2: Tonight Show back to comedy. There'll be no more Trump
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  Speaker 2: derangement syndrome throughout the monologue. Let's go back to a
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  Speaker 2: straight comedy show. And he'll do very well that way.
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  Speaker 2: He can pull that off. So NFL Tonight, opening night.
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  Speaker 2: Halloween stuff is everywhere. Do you know I was walking
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  Speaker 2: by a house yesterday, 64th? Between Madison and Park. It
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  Speaker 2: was the first house I saw with the Halloween decorations up.
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  Speaker 2: Already decorated for Halloween. Absolutely ridiculous. But it's starting. So, hey, 9-11.
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  Speaker 2: You know Howard Lutnick? He's the Commerce Secretary. He was
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  Speaker 2: the chairman of the hedge fund, Cantor Fitzgerald. Big, huge fund.
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  Speaker 2: And all their offices were in the World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 2: And Lutnick had a couple of floors of the World
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  Speaker 2: Trade Center. In 9-11, he lost hundreds and hundreds and
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of employees. They were killed, almost lost the whole company.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow he rebuilt it. It survived and thrived. And Lutnick
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  Speaker 2: is the chairman. He would have normally been there, but something,
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  Speaker 2: his wife couldn't pick up the kids from school. So
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  Speaker 2: she asked him, could he do it that one day?
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  Speaker 2: And that's the only reason he wasn't there. President Trump
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  Speaker 2: talking about this.
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  Speaker 4: This was the first time in years that he wasn't
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  Speaker 4: there early in the morning. So you could say he
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  Speaker 4: owes a lot to his son and he owes a
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  Speaker 4: lot to his wife. But he brought his son to school.
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  Speaker 4: And because of that, he got to see it from
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  Speaker 4: the West Side Highway. He saw the planes go into
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  Speaker 4: the towers and he said, oh, my God, my people,
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  Speaker 4: my people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So a lot of these cases of people that
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  Speaker 2: normally would have been there The great chef restaurateur, Michael Lomonaco,
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  Speaker 2: he ran the, remember the beautiful restaurant on the top,
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  Speaker 2: Windows on the World? He was the guy running it.
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  Speaker 2: He would have been there. Something happened. He had a
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  Speaker 2: doctor's appointment or something. So one day he wasn't there
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. Amazing. Just amazing stories from there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was talking about this yesterday. These ceremonies every year,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like, I don't like, going through this. I
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  Speaker 2: hate reliving it. It's the 25th anniversary, so it'll be
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  Speaker 2: a huge ceremony. And yesterday I said, in Pearl Harbor,
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  Speaker 2: in Hawaii, do they still do this every year? Do
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  Speaker 2: they still put themselves through this every year? It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of painful to relive it. But do they have a
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  Speaker 2: ceremony every year? Do they make a big deal? I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about that yesterday. I actually called people in
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  Speaker 2: Hawaii and asked them. Yes, they do. Every year. It's
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  Speaker 2: a huge event. It's on television. If you're in Hawaii,
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  Speaker 2: it's on all your television stations. Every year, even this year,
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  Speaker 2: it's 85 years later. It's still a massive event there.
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  Speaker 2: And it's quite a ceremony every year in Pearl Harbor.
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not, Japanese government officials fly over for it,
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  Speaker 2: participate in the ceremony, and give apologies. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: major ceremony every year in Pearl Harbor. And apparently this
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  Speaker 2: will be in December, the first year they do the
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  Speaker 2: ceremony without any survivors there. The last survivor died recently.
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  Speaker 2: The last year they had one survivor there, but they
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  Speaker 2: still do it every year. Hey, we've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: to get to. We'll get to the governor's race. Interesting
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  Speaker 2: poll that just came out. We'll get to Lindsey Clancy
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  Speaker 2: and a whole lot more coming up. Mark Simone here,
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  Speaker 2: 9 to noon. It's three hours every day, 9 to noon.