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Mark interviews Fox News contributor Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show, Live from the
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  Speaker 1: Doubo r Life back studios. Well, Lizpeak the Brilliant column list,
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  Speaker 1: the Foxnews contributor reader columns at Foxnews dot com, Orthehill
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Check out lizpeak dot com, and of course
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  Speaker 1: follow her on Twitter and she's with us now. Liz Peak,
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  Speaker 1: How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm great, Thank you for having me on Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Hey last night. What'd you think the primaries? I know
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  Speaker 1: you thought Platner would win, but did you think he'd
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  Speaker 1: win that big?
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  Speaker 2: Well? Who was the competition?
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  Speaker 3: All these headlines about Platner winning the primary? Did you
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  Speaker 3: think that Janet Mills was going to get a big
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  Speaker 3: following after she dropped out of the race, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: one of the other I mean, honestly, I'm kind of
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  Speaker 3: surprised that everyone is highlighting that race when no one
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  Speaker 3: ever mentioned any other name race. Have you ever seen
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, I've seen no commentary about who else
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  Speaker 3: was running, So yes, I think it's By the way,
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  Speaker 3: it's not just that there was no competition, it's also
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  Speaker 3: the Plattner's.
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  Speaker 2: Following is energized.
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  Speaker 3: They wanted to show the world that no matter whether
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  Speaker 3: he's a Nazi, and he's a person who is harmful
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  Speaker 3: to women, and he's a liar, and he's a fraud
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  Speaker 3: and all the things that I think you.
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  Speaker 2: And I would agree on.
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  Speaker 3: Boy, they're in for the long run, and they couldn't
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  Speaker 3: be happier to support it. The question is whether that
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  Speaker 3: lasts two November, whether there are other allegations that come out,
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  Speaker 3: whether Susan Collins begins to punch back, which she needs
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  Speaker 3: to do.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we'll see. I don't think this story
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  Speaker 2: is written, So.
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  Speaker 1: Then is it? What would you have to do to
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  Speaker 1: turn off Democratic voters? If the Nazi tattoo and the
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  Speaker 1: other stuff doesn't do it, what would you have to do? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I think again, Remember who votes in the primaries, mar
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  Speaker 3: It's the extreme on both sides. The extreme right comes
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  Speaker 3: out to vote, the extreme left comes out to vote.
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  Speaker 3: It is not all those centrist main voters who have
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  Speaker 3: supported Susan Collins and defied for mediocre polling for decades.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Susan Collins is a non Trump Republican.
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  Speaker 3: That is a pretty safe place to be I think
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  Speaker 3: in the state of Maine, obviously, between now and November.
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  Speaker 3: If we do not see a resolution of the Iran war.
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  Speaker 3: If oil prices fight because we run out of crude inventories,
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  Speaker 3: if any number of a dozen things happen that basically
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  Speaker 3: worsen the people's perceptions of the administration. Obviously, Republicans are
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  Speaker 3: going to take it on the chin, including someone like
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  Speaker 3: Susan Collins, who again is not a Trump Republican.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, failing.
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  Speaker 3: That, if we just have sort of neutral if we
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  Speaker 3: get through this around war, if oil prices and gasoline
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  Speaker 3: prices come back, I just think a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: energy behind someone like grand Platner goes away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, let's peak. He wrote an excellent column it's
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  Speaker 1: up on foxnews dot com about Democrats and turning their
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  Speaker 1: back on Israel, their anti Israel stuff. It's shocking. But
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  Speaker 1: when is this ever going to end? This anti Israel
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  Speaker 1: nonsense by the Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's astonishing that the Democratic Party, now
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  Speaker 3: seventy two percent of the party now thinks we should
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  Speaker 3: not be supporting Israel, we should not give any aid
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  Speaker 3: to Israel. That's really concentrated amongst young voters. Young voters
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  Speaker 3: have been convinced by their left leaning faculties that Israel
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  Speaker 3: is the villain in the Middle East. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: a pretty astonishing thing when both left and right have
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  Speaker 3: taken on Israel for various issues. On the left it's
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  Speaker 3: all about values. Right, it's about colonialism and this spurious
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  Speaker 3: charge of genocide against the Palestinian people. People should remember
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  Speaker 3: the Palestinians voted in Hamas a terror organization. Hamas killed
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  Speaker 3: twelve hundred Israelis on October seven, twenty twenty three, for
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  Speaker 3: no reason whatsoever except that they were going to a
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  Speaker 3: concert and Hamas wants to kill Jews.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it is an appalling organization.
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  Speaker 3: My point in this article, Mark is not that everyone
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  Speaker 3: has to support Israel, but if you don't, you have
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  Speaker 3: to fess up to is who you are supporting. Are
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  Speaker 3: you supporting Hamas and Hezbala and the Hutis, the propzies
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  Speaker 3: of Iran that carry out their dirty work? Are you
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  Speaker 3: just basically pro Iran? Because Israel's at war with Iran.
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  Speaker 3: There is no neutral territory. It's a binary choice. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, you can sort of say a pops on
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  Speaker 3: both their houses. That's kind of understandable. We don't necessarily
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  Speaker 3: have to engage in every Middle East conflict, emotionally or militarily.
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  Speaker 3: But you can't really say that I'm against Israel and
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  Speaker 3: not claim who you're for. I think what's interesting is
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  Speaker 3: on the right, the American far right now, like Tucker Carlson,
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  Speaker 3: some of these people are saying, well, we have no
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  Speaker 3: self interest in defending Israel. We are not aligned with Israel.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there is credibly no other nation, there's maybe
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  Speaker 3: one or two nations in the entire world that have
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  Speaker 3: the military, intelligence and technology capabilities of Israel. That makes
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  Speaker 3: them an important ally no matter what. Consider the intelligence
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  Speaker 3: we get from Asade well, probably the best intelligence organization
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  Speaker 3: on Earth, not just about what's going on in the
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  Speaker 3: Middle East, but also about what's going on in Russia,
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  Speaker 3: what's going on in China. Masad is everywhere, and they
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  Speaker 3: are incredibly capable, and we use their intelligence and yes,
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  Speaker 3: we share intelligence with them. Militarily, Israel has an incredibly
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  Speaker 3: strong and capable army, which we have seen because we're
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  Speaker 3: not the only people fighting in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Israel is helping with that as well.
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  Speaker 3: And technologically it's the biggest source of startups other than
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  Speaker 3: the US and the world, so which which really is
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  Speaker 3: beneficial to US. Iran a hostile nation that you know,
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  Speaker 3: talks about death to America repeatedly and has nothing or Israel,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what would the Middle East look like without Israel there?
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  Speaker 1: What would happen to the east of the country the.
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  Speaker 3: Question, because by the way, it's not just Israel versus
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  Speaker 3: all of the Arab countries, it's and person nation whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It's also Shia Muslims versus Sunni Muslims. Israel is not
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  Speaker 3: the only problem that they have, and we've seen in
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  Speaker 3: this and more right of being because Iran has taken
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  Speaker 3: on bombing Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, et cetera, Leben Jordan and
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  Speaker 3: other Gulf states that are now more or less aligned
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  Speaker 3: with Israel. So it you know, to now sort of
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  Speaker 3: throw Israel under the bus, it makes no sense whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: But these people don't make sense.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's peak on Friday the big ipo SpaceX. Is
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  Speaker 1: that going to be the most impressive IPO we've ever seen?
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  Speaker 1: Or is it going to be one big circus on Friday?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think what's interesting is that SpaceX is being
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  Speaker 3: valued very very richly, at one hundred times last year's revenues.
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  Speaker 2: Just as an example, it is.
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  Speaker 3: A price tag that assumes everything goes right. It assumes
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  Speaker 3: that Elon Musk will be able to fairly soon commercialize
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  Speaker 3: data centers in outer space and make all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: technological breakthroughs with driverless cars, reusable rocket launchers, et cetera.
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  Speaker 3: I never bet against Elon Musk. I think the guy
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  Speaker 3: is brilliant. The question is whether all of that brilliance
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  Speaker 3: and excitement about this company is already in the stock price,
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  Speaker 3: the evaluation price. I sort of think it is mark
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I've taught I've had dinner the other
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  Speaker 3: night with a few people who all of whom have
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  Speaker 3: some position in SpaceX because of private investments and so forth,
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  Speaker 3: and there was a pretty good sense that they might
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  Speaker 3: take some money off the table. I think that will
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  Speaker 3: keep the stock from you know, people are being paid
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  Speaker 3: out who've been involved with this thing for several years,
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  Speaker 3: and most have made multiples on their money. I think
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  Speaker 3: you'll see some profit taking. But again, do you want
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  Speaker 3: to own SpaceX or be involved for the long term? Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure I would buy on the offering.
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  Speaker 1: No, And that day, if it'll probably go crazy, the
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  Speaker 1: price will just explode. But like the Tesla stock, it'll
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  Speaker 1: go after that, it'll bounce up and down. There's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of other times you can totally it if you want
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  Speaker 1: to get in totally.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, my view of the tech sellof
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  Speaker 3: and the volatility and tech stocks recently A the valuations
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  Speaker 3: are high.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. But also you have two.
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  Speaker 3: Other big IPOs coming and Tropic and Open AI, and
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  Speaker 3: we're going to see a lot of real data about
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  Speaker 3: how these companies are doing, what they're spending, what their
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  Speaker 3: capital expenditures look like, what their revenues look like. It
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  Speaker 3: takes a little bit of the fantasy land aspect away
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  Speaker 3: from these valuations and these investments and brings them down
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  Speaker 3: to earth. And I think that's I think that's causing
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  Speaker 3: a little heartburn amongst the AI enthusiast crowd.
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  Speaker 1: A lit Peak brilliant has always great stuff. Go to
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  Speaker 1: a You can read list Peak's column Great Combat Israel
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  Speaker 1: at Fox News and The Hill dot com. Her columns
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  Speaker 1: are up there, and follow her on Twitter and she's
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  Speaker 1: all over television, and check out lizpeak dot com. Lizpeak,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Take care all right, take care. Yeah, SpaceX on Friday
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  Speaker 1: price one hundred and thirty five dollars. It could go
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  Speaker 1: absolutely crazy. It could go to two hundred five hundred twelvedred.
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  Speaker 1: You never know, but remember after that, like every elon
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