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Hour 2: Mamdani's views. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 3: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's three weeks until the midterms. Three weeks until
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  Speaker 2: the midterm elections. So we've had a lot of debates.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman and Hochul will debate, I think it's this week.
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  Speaker 2: Is it tomorrow night? But it's one of these New
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  Speaker 2: York One debates where nobody will see it because it's
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  Speaker 2: on New York One. Now, the last debate was the
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General Letitia James getting slaughtered by her opponent. Letitia
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  Speaker 2: James was awful, just awful in the debate. The opponent
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  Speaker 2: was very strong, but it's New York One. Nobody saw it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the problem. Tomorrow night is the Blakeman-Hockel debate. Most
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  Speaker 2: people don't even have New York One, so they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: watch it if they wanted to. It's only got like
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  Speaker 2: a handful of viewers, and this is deliberate. Hochul has
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  Speaker 2: turned down debates on real TV stations like Channel 2, 4, 7.
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  Speaker 2: She's turned down all the debates. She'll only agree to
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  Speaker 2: New York One because nobody sees it and because it's
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  Speaker 2: very left-wing, very biased. Errol Lewis, nice guy, but really
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  Speaker 2: slanted left-wing. He'll be the moderator, so it favors Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: But Blakeman is a lot smarter. Blakeman is a lot...
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when it comes to just being right on
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  Speaker 2: the issues, it's Blakeman. Hochul is just... Double talking, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know which way to turn. She's trying to embrace Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 2: trying to appease everybody. That never works, of course. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see tomorrow night. You know, some of these debates
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  Speaker 2: are interesting. A lot of people up for re-election, not
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  Speaker 2: just in Congress, but there's a governor's race in Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Shapiro had a debate. Josh Shapiro's Jewish. And in
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  Speaker 2: the debate, he was asked about Israel being our ally.
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  Speaker 2: He was afraid to commit to that. I guess he
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  Speaker 2: thinks being Jewish is a problem among Democrats, so he
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  Speaker 2: was afraid to support Israel in the debate. Just crazy, crazy,
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable anti-Semitism, just infiltrating every inch of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: Even a guy like Shapiro, who's Jewish, who's normally a
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  Speaker 2: common-sense sort of guy, the only guy who's not afraid
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  Speaker 2: is Fetterman. The Republicans would love to have Fetterman. Here's Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see it. I think he's great. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be hard for him to get the nomination
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  Speaker 1: as a Democrat, but I'd love to have him as
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  Speaker 1: a Republican. John Fetterman's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he's going to switch parties. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, if he becomes a Republican, he'd have to
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  Speaker 2: actually buy a sport coat. He'd have to get a suit.
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  Speaker 2: He'd have to wear a tie. You can't walk around
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  Speaker 2: like you're here to You know, like you just got
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  Speaker 2: off a moving van. You got to actually dress up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's dressed like he's working at a car
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  Speaker 2: wash or something, but that's his act. Al-Sayyad, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens with him. He had a debate. He's a good,
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  Speaker 2: like Mamdani, he's a good talker. He can smile. He
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  Speaker 2: looks good. But just a terrible, awful on issues conversation. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump up in Syracuse campaigning this week. He's campaigning
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  Speaker 2: in different states every day. I mean, he talked about El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's a jihadist. Look at his statements from two
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  Speaker 1: years ago. He's a jihadist. I don't want a jihadist
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  Speaker 1: as a senator from Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: Now, he campaigned in Syracuse Friday. Bruce Blakeman was there.
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  Speaker 2: He went after Hochul.
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  Speaker 1: New York is going to defeat radical left governor Tati Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he brought Mike Tyson with him. Mike Tyson
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  Speaker 2: came to speak with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I won't be fighting him today, but I've been his
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  Speaker 1: fan for a long time. We've been friends for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Iron Mike. Nobody liked him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, remember Trump used to promote fights. He owned
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  Speaker 2: a football team. You forget his sports background. He actually
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  Speaker 2: owned a football team. Remember the generals? Was it the
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey generals? And actually promoted a lot of fights.
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  Speaker 2: But Tyson... Spoke at a Trump rally. Good for him.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of football, the Giants yesterday didn't win, but they
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  Speaker 2: got a tie. The Giants tied the Commanders. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know you could have a tie anymore, but apparently that's
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  Speaker 2: the rule. In the postseason, there's no ties. You play
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  Speaker 2: until somebody wins. But in the regular season, you can
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  Speaker 2: have a tie. First one in a while, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: There have been 320 ties in NFL history. 320. Now,
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  Speaker 2: most of them, 300 of them, were from 1920 to 1973.
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  Speaker 2: This is before the overtime rules existed. Once they created overtime,
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  Speaker 2: there have only been 30 ties since then. Strange thing
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  Speaker 2: to have a tie, but okay. President Trump picked a
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  Speaker 2: new press secretary, Katie Zakaria. It's pretty good. She's a
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  Speaker 2: conservative commentator. You've seen her all over television, been on
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  Speaker 2: Fox a lot. But she also worked. For President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: she worked at his social media site, Truth Social, for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. In fact, she was one of the
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  Speaker 2: people running it. Good background. You know, more than 10
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  Speaker 2: years ago, she spent a couple of years in Beijing, China.
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  Speaker 2: Proficient in Chinese. All right. That can help. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people were pushing for her. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: recommended her. But she'll be the new press secretary. She's
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  Speaker 2: 41 years. Good looking, beautiful. Trump likes those good looking
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  Speaker 2: press secretaries. And she's married. She's got kids. It's a
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  Speaker 2: tough job. The reason Caroline Leavitt left, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're 41, your kids are a little older. But Caroline Leavitt, very,
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  Speaker 2: very young kids. In fact, one just born months ago.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough job if you're trying to raise your
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  Speaker 2: kids because it's not nine to five. It's all day
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  Speaker 2: and night, this press secretary job. You know, you're in
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  Speaker 2: the White House from like 7 in the morning till
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  Speaker 2: 6 at night. The problem with a guy like President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: he'll work till 7, 8 o'clock. So you're there a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you're the White House press secretary, your
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  Speaker 2: phone rings every hour, all night, all weekend. They'll wake
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  Speaker 2: you up for anything, anything. Like the Houthis bombed the
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  Speaker 2: airport in Saudi Arabia. You'll get woken up at 3
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. They'll want to brief you on that.
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  Speaker 2: Anything that happens in the news, you get a call,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not 30 seconds. You're going to be on
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  Speaker 2: the phone for 20 minutes getting briefed on what just happened.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a round-the-clock job. You're on call 24-7. It's
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  Speaker 2: very tough if you're trying to raise your kids. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why she left. Now, some people say, well, she
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  Speaker 2: just took a job at Fox News. If she wants
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  Speaker 2: to be with her kids, how could— She took a
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  Speaker 2: job as a contributor. That means you're a guest on
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  Speaker 2: a few shows every day. Now, that's easy. You do
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  Speaker 2: that from home. They set up a little TV setup
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  Speaker 2: in your house. And if you're on Fox and Friends,
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  Speaker 2: one room has your TV thing in it. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be on Fox and Friends, you go
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  Speaker 2: in the room there for about 10 minutes, do the
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  Speaker 2: guest appearance, and that's it. Then later in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: you go in the room again, do another TV show.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going to be on Hannity that night, You
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  Speaker 2: go in that room for three times a day. You
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  Speaker 2: got to go in that room for 10 minutes. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a full time job. It's very easy. And you
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  Speaker 2: can do it from home and easy to raise your
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  Speaker 2: kids with a job like that. Hey, Kamala Harris, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the word is she's running. She's running. Except her husband,
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  Speaker 2: Doug Emhoff, is telling friends privately he doesn't want her
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  Speaker 2: to run. He does not want her to run. He
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  Speaker 2: absolutely does not want her to run. Now, why would
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  Speaker 2: that be? I don't know. I mean, you'd want your
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  Speaker 2: wife to be president of the United States, wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 2: But maybe he knows she's going to get totally humiliated
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  Speaker 2: right out of the race and lose. So maybe he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to be associated with that. Could be, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe she's been vice president. That's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're running for president, the opposition research will
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  Speaker 2: be intense. You may be looking into him. Who knows
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  Speaker 2: what the hell this guy's got going on behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he doesn't need that. Or maybe he just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to have their life turned upside down running for president.
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  Speaker 2: But he's telling people he does not want her to run. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the question is, does she listen to him? I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: They seem to have a good marriage. Hey, you know
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  Speaker 2: that big movie, Social Reckoning? It was the sequel to
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  Speaker 2: The Social Network. Aaron Sorkin, that left-wing writer. Aaron Sorkin,
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  Speaker 2: Social Reckoning. Oh, this is going to be a big movie. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it opened this weekend. Pretty much bombed. It did $ 5 million.
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to do like $ 40 million, but it did
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  Speaker 2: $ 5 million. It bombed. Not successful. People not interested. The
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  Speaker 2: original movie. All right. Maybe years ago it was good.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to see this now. The Democratic Socialists now
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  Speaker 2: demanding that Mamdani fire Jessica Tisch. They want her out.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Who knows? Who knows? Well, she is Jewish. It might
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  Speaker 2: be that simple. These democratic socialists tend to be extremely anti-Semitic.
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  Speaker 2: She's Jewish, from a wealthy prominent family. This is everything
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  Speaker 2: socialists hate. If you're successful, they can't stand you. This
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  Speaker 2: is the only thing where people hate whoever does well.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to this stuff, if you go into
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  Speaker 2: business and you create an incredible business and make a fortune,
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  Speaker 2: they hate you. They hate you. Everything else if you're
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  Speaker 2: the best, they love you. In sports, if you hit
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  Speaker 2: the most home runs, they love you. Could you imagine
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  Speaker 2: if everything else was like that? When it comes to sports,
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  Speaker 2: whoever's the best hitter, they hate him. They hate him.
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  Speaker 2: He should be taxed to death. Or TV, whoever has
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  Speaker 2: the number one show, we hate him. He has the
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  Speaker 2: number one show. Success is is just something these people
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  Speaker 2: can't stand. Hey, I finally watched 60 Minutes. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: watched it in years. It's back on track. They're trying
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  Speaker 2: to do the right stuff, the right kind of pieces.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is they don't have the talent to do
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  Speaker 2: it anymore. Like the opening piece was all about the
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  Speaker 2: Secret Service today, which is an interesting idea because we
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  Speaker 2: know that Butler, Pennsylvania was a disaster. The Secret Service
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  Speaker 2: under Biden fell apart. It was not working properly. All
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  Speaker 2: kinds of errors allowed that shooter to get to Butler
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  Speaker 2: and shoot at the president. So what's being done to
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  Speaker 2: clean up? It's a good idea for a piece. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if it was Mike Wallace or Morley Safer, it would
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  Speaker 2: have been a great piece. If it was Don Hewitt,
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  Speaker 2: the genius storyteller, Don Hewitt running 60 Minutes, it would
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  Speaker 2: have been a much better piece. But it's Nora O'Donnell,
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  Speaker 2: very nice woman, got an IQ like 105 maybe, not
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  Speaker 2: that bright. And The people that are writing, producing at
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  Speaker 2: 60 Minutes, it's not the top talent anymore. So it
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  Speaker 2: was a good piece. But Secret Service, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: people in there realize President Trump now holds the record
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  Speaker 2: for the most assassination attempts. Three of them. It's actually four.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that guy with the truck and the bomb approaching Mar-a-Lago?
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  Speaker 2: So three and a half. The previous record, I think,
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  Speaker 2: was Gerald Ford. Two assassination attempts on Gerald Ford. But
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  Speaker 2: they got all kinds of new vehicles. They showed, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Beast and all that stuff. And they got the
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  Speaker 2: cars that accompany the President. But they got this new thing.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like a tank, like four times the size
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  Speaker 2: of a normal tank. Incredible, frightening-looking military-type vehicle. Who knows
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  Speaker 2: what the hell goes on in there. But whenever she
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  Speaker 2: asked him, well, what capability? We don't discuss capabilities that
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  Speaker 2: this has. But apparently the big, big threat they're really
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  Speaker 2: worried about is drones. Now, a drone can fly overhead
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  Speaker 2: with an explosive. But the Ukraine-Russia war, Zelensky has been
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  Speaker 2: a genius at drone development. And they've come up with
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of advanced drones. They've come up with what
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  Speaker 2: they call swarms, where it could be 50 drones at once.
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  Speaker 2: So it's interesting. Secret Service, this is the one thing
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  Speaker 2: they're preparing for, a drone strike against a president. So
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  Speaker 2: they've developed stuff. Special military drones that can go up
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  Speaker 2: there and capture a drone out of the sky. Now
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to just blow up the drone in
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  Speaker 2: the sky because it might contain explosives and that would
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  Speaker 2: rain down on everybody. So this drone that they have
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  Speaker 2: can go up there, shoot a projectile at the other drone,
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  Speaker 2: capture it in a net and bring it safely down
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  Speaker 2: to the ground. So that pretty impressive. But as they
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  Speaker 2: pointed out, there could be drone swarms where it might
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  Speaker 2: be a hundred drones at once. You can't capture them all.
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  Speaker 2: What are they doing about it? They're not sure yet.
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  Speaker 2: They're not sure. So that's the future of that stuff
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  Speaker 2: and warfare. So the other thing they do on 60 Minutes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was always supposed to be a celebrity profile.
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  Speaker 2: That was usually the last piece, you know, a look
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  Speaker 2: at some famous celebrity. The problem is nobody's famous anymore
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  Speaker 2: to everybody. Everything is so fragmented. Everything's so splintered. Like
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  Speaker 2: if we go over there across the hall to Power
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  Speaker 2: 105 and we take the three biggest artists they're playing,
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  Speaker 2: you won't know who they are. If you go to
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  Speaker 2: the oldie station and take the three biggest artists and
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  Speaker 2: bring them over there, they won't know who they are.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody knows who anybody else is. The final 60 minutes
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  Speaker 2: profile of the big celebrity, John Battista. John Battista, who
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  Speaker 2: was the band leader on Colbert. Colbert had like 1
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  Speaker 2: million viewers. That's out of 300 million in the country.
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  Speaker 2: They know who he is, but I guarantee you most
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  Speaker 2: of it's an older audience watching 60 Minutes. Most of
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  Speaker 2: them had no idea who the hell this guy was
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  Speaker 2: or why we're watching a 10-minute piece on where he lives,
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  Speaker 2: where he's going, what he did last night. Who cares
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  Speaker 2: about all this? Anyway, we've got a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take some calls. Coming up, 800-321-0710 is the number. 800- 321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 5: Live from the WOR LifeVac studio.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the rain has stopped. It's Columbus Day, the big
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  Speaker 2: parade today. There shouldn't be any more rain until Friday.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's going to be 80 degrees? 80 on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: Sunny and 80. Hey, we'll take some calls. We always
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  Speaker 2: love to have new callers. If you've never called us before,
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  Speaker 2: it's 800-321- Zero seven 10 is the number. And let's
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  Speaker 2: go to Lauren in New Jersey. Lauren, how you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning. Happy Columbus day to you and everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: You're welcome. So, um, yeah, I think the great thing
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  Speaker 6: about one of the great things about, uh, president Trump
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  Speaker 6: is that he's into substance and truth. And except for
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  Speaker 6: when Zelinsky showed up at the meeting at the white
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  Speaker 6: house in his t-shirt, um, We don't care what people
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  Speaker 6: look like or how they dress.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the substance. We don't?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no.
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  Speaker 6: We don't?
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  Speaker 1: Of course we do.
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  Speaker 2: You see Fetterman show up in shorts in Congress. You think,
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  Speaker 2: what the hell is he dressed like that for? Don't you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's how he is.
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  Speaker 2: I know, but let's say it's your wedding and he
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  Speaker 2: shows up with the sneakers and the shorts and the baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't you say, can't you get dressed up for my wedding?
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's different. That's a special event.
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  Speaker 4: Well, so is Congress.
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  Speaker 6: Well, maybe he would change, but I don't think he'd
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  Speaker 6: be dictated to by President Trump. And Katie just happens
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  Speaker 6: to be a beautiful, highly intelligent woman. And it's really
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  Speaker 6: amazing how beautiful women just seem to be, I don't know,
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  Speaker 6: more representative in the constitutional republic, non-woke progressives.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's a Trump thing. Trump likes people, as he
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  Speaker 2: would say, out of central casting. He likes a good-looking,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful spokesperson, unlike other presidents who have some pretty raggedy-looking
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  Speaker 2: spokespeople before. Although Trump started, the first spokesperson was Sean Spicer.
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  Speaker 2: And he was good, but he was like an establishment guy.
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  Speaker 2: But then he went with the beautiful blondes.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, because she was competent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't just because she looked great.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a tough job. You've got to be good
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  Speaker 2: at that. All right, Lauren, thanks for calling. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: to Simon in Brooklyn. Simon, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to get your thoughts on Hochul trying to
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  Speaker 6: get the Jewish vote.
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  Speaker 7: By putting out a statement three days ago that she
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  Speaker 7: backs the federal scholarship tax credit program now. which, you know,
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  Speaker 7: anybody could stand there and say, oh, I support this, support.
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  Speaker 2: That, but our policies are just the opposite. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: who's she fooling over there? In her defense, listen, she's
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  Speaker 2: not that bright. She has an IQ maybe, what, 95?
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  Speaker 2: She's not that bright. She's a cunning politician, you know,
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  Speaker 2: years in politics, but not that bright. You know, Blakeman,
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  Speaker 2: he could talk about anything. He knows what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 2: But what you're talking about, the federal tax credit initiative,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the hell you said, she doesn't understand any of that.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're not that bright, it's tough to do
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  Speaker 2: what she's doing. She's like walking this tightrope between the
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  Speaker 2: left-wing socialist Mamdani crowd and normal people. And it's tough
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  Speaker 2: to do. You got to be really skilled to do that.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't really have that kind of skill. Her whole
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  Speaker 2: life right now is just trying to get Mamdani not
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  Speaker 2: to turn on her. She wants the Mamdani voters to
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: get elected governor. You have to win 37% of New York.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Some will say 35%, but she just wants to, if
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: she's going to beat Blakeman, it's going to be in
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: New York City. Blakeman easily wins the rest of New
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: York State, but she's trying to get big turnout in
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: New York City. So she's trying way too hard to
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: appease the Mamdani crowd. It's not really her, but again,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: she's a weathervane, whatever way the wind is blowing. Let's
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: go to Dennis in Howard Beach. Dennis, how you doing?
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Hey, Mark.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: First time in a long time. Well, listen, Mark, I'm
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: starting to become a panicker.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to think if they run a commercial of
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: all the nonsense that the Democrats did, like the protests
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: and charging the White House, the trans people.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do run those.
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: But they see.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: More of them. Well, you're not going to see them.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: They run them, but they don't run them here. They
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: run them where the races are, where competitive races are.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: If you let me. So you got to remember that
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: if you're living in Ohio, if you're living in Texas,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: if you're living, you're seeing these commercials all the time. Hey,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: by the way, Elon Musk has jumped in with $ 275 million.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: He is putting that money into these campaigns right now,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: just for the midterms, $ 275 million. Now, of course, Republicans,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: they love it. And Democrats are yelling and screaming, this
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: is horrifying, a billionaire pumping money into campaigns.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Even though it's what they did for years with George
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Soros and a dozen other guys like that. But Republicans
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: finally have a billionaire pumping money in. in, $ 275 million
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: right now, just in these couple of months here for
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the midterms. Let's go to Al in Parsippany. Al, how
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Hello, Mr. Simone.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, Al.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Okay. I heard on another station about your favorite dish. Well,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: if they asked me that, I would say Sophia Loren
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: and Gina Lola Brigida.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Well, Gina Lola Brigida is dead. Sophia Loren is like
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: 95 and alive.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Well, it doesn't matter because it's just a joke.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Does anybody know what he's talking about? Does anybody know
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: what he's talking about? Al, you sound like a nice guy.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Not making much sense, but you sound like a nice guy.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: So what was the joke?
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: They asked what your favorite dish was. And I said
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: if I responded, I would say Sophia Loren and Gina
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Lola Bridges.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, I got it. Your favorite dish, and then you
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: say Gina Lola Bridges. Well, that would be a very
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: funny joke if this were... Ralph Cramden in 1954. First
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: of all, there's nobody that knows.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: I know that.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Nobody who knows who Gina Lola Bridget is anymore. And nobody,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I hate to break it to you, knows who Sophia
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Loren is. And I hate to break it to you,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: but nobody knows that term, a dish, meaning a hot
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: looking woman. That's something Ed Norton would say. Whoa, what
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: a dish. It's, A little outdated, don't joke. But see
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: if you can modernize that. Stick in some modern names. Yeah,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Sophia Loren is still alive. It looks pretty good for.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Mid-90s.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, she doesn't look like she used to look.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: But she doesn't look like the mother in the Golden
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Girls either. So she's doing pretty well. Hey, we got
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: a lot coming up. We'll get to the greatest pollster
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: in the world in the next hour. He'll give us
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the real numbers. And when we come back, we'll talk
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: to the greatest columnist in America today. Michael Goodwin. We'll
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: talk to him next on 710WOR.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Marks them all.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: New York.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Well, the best columnist in America is Michael Goodwin. You
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: can read him every Sunday, every Wednesday in the New
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: York Post. All of his columns are up on the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, how are you doing?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Mayor Mamdani, listen, we know he doesn't like Israel. Not
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: crazy about the Jews, but apparently he doesn't like the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Italians either. He's now snubbing his third Columbus Day parade
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: this weekend today. But maybe that's a good thing. Do
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: we really want him in the Columbus Day parade?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Well, I do think there is a pattern here, of course, Mark.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: And he snubbed the Israel Day parade and this one now.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: To me, the pattern is that he really is just
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: preaching to the converted all the time. He's not really
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: trying to build bridges or carry out the normal civic
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: duties of a mayor. He's just all politics all the time,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: all agenda all the time. He wants ICE to let
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: the criminals run in the streets. He wants the NYPD out.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: not to arrest the bad guys as they happened before
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: and born, apparently. So I think that there's just a
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: huge mistake that he's making in terms of his mayoralty.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, I really don't see how he can succeed
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: this way by kicking off, you know, one group at
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: a time in this, as David Dinkins used to call it,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: this gorgeous mosaic, right? Others think of it as the
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: melting pot. But Mamdani seems to have no love in
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: his heart for New York.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Hey, you've been covering politics for a long time. Did
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: you ever think you'd see a guy like this, who
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: was just a slick talker with a big smile, with
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: absolutely no experience of any kind, no real skill, just
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: getting himself into Gracie Mansion? Right.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: No, that's a good way to put it, because normally
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: we think it was the mayor, you know, tries to react,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: the problems, right? Who sees something in addition to having
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: a vision for projects or whatever. But we think of
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: a mayor as someone who reacts. So whether it's a
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: midnight fire or a triple homicide, the mayor would often
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: go to the scene or you would have representatives of
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: the mayor. And That's not Mamdani. He's not really engaged
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: in that kind of role of the job that we
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: have become used to, whether it was, you know, in
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: modern times. I mean, Ed Koch, even David Dinkins would
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: go to police shootings. Rudy Giuliani, of course. I mean,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Michael Bloomberg. I mean, they set the tone for responding
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: in a way that showed they cared. And they saw
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: a problem. They cared enough to show up in the
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: middle of the night or whatever day and time it
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: was to be on the site. That was important to
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: be there. Mamdani doesn't feel that way. He goes to
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Marble Hill at midnight. But what does he do? He
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: condemns law enforcement. He says that this is an outrage.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: and that, uh, he uses his avenue to the president
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: and to the governor to express outrage at those who
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: would tackle the violence and instead accuse them of causing violence.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: And the criminal is now the innocent New Yorker.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I don't know where this is all going
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: to go. The other thing is the antisemitism. And, uh,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: The fact that they all get away with the word
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: genocide when applying it to Israel... It's obscene. It's obscene.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: It's obscene. How did they even get away with this?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Where's the media to criticize them for it?
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Well, it's, you know, ignorance compounded by hatred. I mean,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: they don't understand the definition of the word even, but
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: they throw it around because... it's a catchy phrase for
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the crazy kids in that cafe, right? And it just
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: makes no sense in logic or facts, but that doesn't
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: matter to them. They have an agenda. And that's what
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I think, Mark, it's very different about this mayor from
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: any other mayor. He doesn't give ground to the duties
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: of the mayor, one of which is, of course, to
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: represent all 8 million New Yorkers, not just the ones
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: you like, not just the ones who like you. That's
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: why you've got to show up for things like parades.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: People care about that. People want to see you on
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: the day that they are celebrating something about their history,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: their ethnicity, anything else. He doesn't show up because he
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: doesn't care about how you feel. about your issues. He
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: only cares about how he feels and how is, as
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I say, the Pied Piper of the socialist rats.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: So if you're a socialist, if you hate billionaires, if
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: you hate hedge funds, if you hate the Wall Street community,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: why are you in New York? What are you even
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: doing here? It's like if you hate hotels, don't go
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: be the mayor of Las Vegas. I mean, that's the
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: main thing there. Why is he even here? Why doesn't
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: he go somewhere where they're, you know, what he likes?
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: And it's also a matter of ignorance, right? That if
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: you don't understand, you're mayor, and you don't understand how
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: important the wealthy are to New York. I mean, forget
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: the taxes they pay. The philanthropy. You think poor people
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: give away their money?
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: No.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Only millionaires and billionaires build these hospitals and libraries and
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: all kinds of things. And so for him not to
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: understand and appreciate how they are helping him make New
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: York better and more attractive, and yet he scorns them
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: as though somehow they are like lepers who have to
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: be avoided.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, Letitia James had one debate. She was awful
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: in the debate. She just got clobbered by that opponent.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: The problem is nobody saw it. It's on New York One, so.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow night is the Hochul-Blakeman debate. Do you think anybody
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: will see that? Do you think it will have any
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: effect on the race?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, debates generally only have an effect when
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: one candidate screws up. Now, I don't think we've ever
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: seen anything quite like Joe Biden, right, when his debate
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: with Donald Trump in 24. But we have seen other
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: mistakes that candidates make that can swing the vote. But
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: that one was the most dramatic of all. It basically
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: drove Biden out of the campaign. But look, I think
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: unless there is a real screw up on one candidate
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: or another, I think it's more likely to have a marginal,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: very small effect on the race itself. Yeah.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Although Blakeman's a hell of a campaigner. He's done very
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: well here. He's gotten the numbers closer and closer. You
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: think deep down that the polls are not even measuring
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: how people just don't feel safe with Kathy Hochul, despite
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: anything the polls say? More people will go for Blakeman
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: than they're measuring?
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: I hope that's right, Mike. What I fear is that
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: this is what life is like in a deep blue state. Well,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: there's no argument that breaks through to those who are
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: sort of just going to vote even for, as someone
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: once said, if there were a dead raccoon on the
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: D line, right, people would vote for it. I mean,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: that's just a problem of habits and of party affiliation
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: that is not open to ideas or different ways of
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: doing things. And that's what I feel New York is in.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: As we all know, it's been since 2002 when George
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Pataki won his third term as governor. That was the
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: last time a Republican won a statewide race in New York.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: So U.S. senators, comptroller, attorney general, governor, right? So we're
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: due for a change of pace, if only to shake
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: things up and try some new ideas.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the Democrats have gone so far to the left.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: And we've never seen anything like this before, the anti-Semitism,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: a mayor that actually hates a group of people in
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: New York. We've never seen anything like that, have we?
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: I agree. It's unique, certainly in my lifetime. And I've,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: you know, covered a lot of mayors and studied them
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: and I have a pretty good sense of what worked
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: and what didn't work. I don't see how this can
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: work unless the city has lost its mind as well
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: as its soul.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Well, how much longer? Two and a half years? Three, right?
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Three plus four, yeah.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not through the first year yet.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're right. You're right. What am I saying? It's
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: three and a half, almost four years. And then, of course,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: you move on to MSNBC where he'll have his own
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: show and do much better there. Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: You can read his column in the New York Post,
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: yesterday's column. Next one is Wednesday. All his columns are
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: up on the New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, thanks
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: for being with us.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: My pleasure.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mark. Take care. We've got a lot coming up.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: In the next hour, John McLaughlin, the best pollster in
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the world, Where does it really stand? The governor's race,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: the midterms will get you the real numbers coming up
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: in the next hour. A lot more just ahead. Don't
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: forget at noon, Buck Saxton and Clay Travis. That is
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: a great show. Two hosts for the price of one.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Three o'clock, you got the most listened to radio show
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: in America, Sean Hannity. Actually, I'll be filling in for
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Sean today. And I think Bruce Blakeman will be on
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: with us on the show today, too. And then 6 o'clock,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: he got the great Jesse Kelly. 9 o'clock, he got
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the very funny Jimmy Fallon. Every night, 9 to midnight
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: on 710WOR. Mark Simone.
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: New York.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Speaking of that, the crazy Mom Donnie, as we've been saying,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: may have gone too far. On October 7th, with that
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: ridiculous attack on Israel, on October 7th, third anniversary of
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: the Holocaust against Israel, just the horrible, horrible attack from Hamas,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: the ugly attack on Israel on that day, even Bill
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Maher now, coming out against Mamdani. There were a lot
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: of people, especially Democrats, who would defend Mamdani, saying, you know,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: It's unfair to throw around anti-Semitism. He's anti-Israel, but he's
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: not anti-Semitic. They would do that. They all stopped doing
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: that after what Mamdani posted on October 7th. Even Bill Maher,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: now going after him, saying he's just totally tone deaf,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: really doesn't get it. What he did on October 7th
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: was disgusting. He put up this awful anti-Semitic tweet that
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: was just horrible. And then to top it off, going
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: to the Palestinian restaurant for dinner that night just to
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Rub it in Israel's face. So he's lost a lot
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: of Democrats with that. Hey, the rain has stopped. It's
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: going to be a nice day today. It's going to
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: be 72, mostly sunny. That's perfect for the parade. Columbus
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Day parade today, Fifth Avenue. So don't think I drive
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: in anywhere around midtown Manhattan. It's going to be a
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: traffic mess because of the parade, but it'll be a
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: great parade. Columbus Day parade today. Mamdani boycotting it, snubbing it,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: refusing to show up for it. Hey, the rest of
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: the week looks pretty good. 74 tomorrow. Look at this. Wednesday, 82.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: 82 on Wednesday. Then it goes back into the 60s
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: for Thursday and Friday. Then it goes into the 50s. Yeah,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Saturday the high will only be 52. If you go
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: out now, right, it's a cool crisp. It's a fall
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: day out there. And then back into the mid-60s for
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: a while. All right, not bad. There's this long-range forecasting.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: from real weather sources, not the stupid farmer's almanac that
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: shows an El Nino condition that will mean a lot
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: less snow this winter. Should be a pretty good winter,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: not a lot of snow, if that forecast is correct.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: So we've got a lot to get to in the
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: next hour. We'll talk to the best pollster of all,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: get the real numbers, and more coming up on 710WOR.