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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister New York mar smone on wor.
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  Speaker 2: Well the breaking news straight of hormose open. Stock market soaring,
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  Speaker 2: It's heading to fifty thousand. Stock market up over one
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  Speaker 2: thousand points, S and P five hundred at an all
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  Speaker 2: time record high. Check oil prices here, yep. Still dropping.
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  Speaker 2: US oil WTI eighty one dollars a barrow, Brent crude
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  Speaker 2: dropping to eighty six dollars a barrow, but that'll continue.
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  Speaker 2: It's an amazing victory for the United States. The war
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  Speaker 2: should be wrapping up pretty soon. This is not going
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  Speaker 2: to make Democrats happy. Morning Joe on suicide Watch lot
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  Speaker 2: of over the New York Times. Very gloomy over there.
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  Speaker 2: They did not want to see us win this, President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Look at look how righty turned out to be yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I will say the Warren Iran is going along swimmingly.
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  Speaker 2: We can do.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever we want, and it should be. It should be
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  Speaker 1: ending pretty soon. It was perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very upset over at MS now CNN, very upset
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  Speaker 2: over there. I'm sure the Pope's not too happy about
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  Speaker 2: us doing so well on our in the President continuing
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  Speaker 2: to speak out about the Pope.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing against the Pope. His brother's MAGA all the way.
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  Speaker 1: I like his brother Lewis, I'm not fighting with him.
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  Speaker 1: The Pope made a statement he says Iran can have
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  Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. I say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: And if the Pope looked at the forty two thousand
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  Speaker 1: people that were killed over the last two or three
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  Speaker 1: months as a protester with no weapons, no nothing, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you take a look at that. So I could disagree with.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you to you don't want to ever go after
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  Speaker 2: a pope or say anything negative about a pope. But
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  Speaker 2: in this case, the guy brought it on himself, this
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  Speaker 2: Pope Leo, and he's got a history of this all
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  Speaker 2: his life, sounding off on politics, going way out of
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  Speaker 2: his lane. He got no business speaking about all of
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  Speaker 2: this stuff. But this pope has been huge for open borders.
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  Speaker 2: He wants open borders everywhere. He does not think we
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  Speaker 2: should go after Iran, the most terrorist awful regime in
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  Speaker 2: the world. We should leave him alone and not bother them.
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  Speaker 2: Strange views for a pope. Even if you had those views,
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  Speaker 2: even stranger that you would go public with him. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make much sense at all. So that's the good news.
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  Speaker 2: Eric Swallwell, as we mentioned, earlier this week, facing criminal
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  Speaker 2: charges in New York, now facing possible criminal charges in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles, and it looks now like the Justice Department
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  Speaker 2: will go after him. Janine Piro, US attorney in d
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  Speaker 2: C now investigating, so he may be facing three criminal cases.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump yesterday asked about Eric Swalwell. Three word response,
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  Speaker 2: He's a sleeze bag. Well, that sums it up. He's
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  Speaker 2: a sleeze bag, always has been. Trump said, he's a
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  Speaker 2: bad guy. I don't know anything about the charges, but
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  Speaker 2: he's a bad guy. Every Democrat now coming out in Congress,
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  Speaker 2: the ones that were defending him all along, some of
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  Speaker 2: them are running and hiding, like Adam Schiff and those
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  Speaker 2: type of guys that kept promoting him, Jimmy Kimmel. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: promoted him more than Jimmy Kimmel. They're all running and hiding.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of Democrats and a lot of Republicans
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  Speaker 2: coming out and saying he was just a bad, bad,
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  Speaker 2: bad guy. Now. The other thing is with a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these women in these accusations that what happened with
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  Speaker 2: the women, it was in hotels. And the problem is
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  Speaker 2: if you time you do this, you go to a hotel,
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  Speaker 2: there's a paper trail, there's surveillance video. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: can back up the woman's case. And it turns out
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  Speaker 2: he spent a lot of money on these hotels, five
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  Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars, and it turns out it was donor money.
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  Speaker 2: The donors cash was spent on all these luxury hotels,
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  Speaker 2: five hundred thousand in just the last year. He racked
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  Speaker 2: up thirty seven thousand in hotel bills. US and Mexico
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  Speaker 2: spent a lot of money on hotels. All right, let's
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  Speaker 2: get to something more important. You know, you used to
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  Speaker 2: have cable TV, and the cable bills got out of control.
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  Speaker 2: Your cable bill used to be fifty sixty bucks. Next thing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was one hundred bucks. Then it was
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  Speaker 2: two hundred bucks. Now it got to be three hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Your cable bill was insane. You had two thousand channels.
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  Speaker 2: You only watched ten of them, but you had thousands
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  Speaker 2: of It was ridiculous. Then cutting the cord began. People
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  Speaker 2: began cutting the cord. I don't need the cable system.
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  Speaker 2: That was pretty easy at YouTube. Maybe I'll get Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he had a couple of streaming services. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now there's so many streaming services, and every time you
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  Speaker 2: got a streaming service, every two seconds they're raising the price.
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  Speaker 2: And between your this streaming service and net streaming service,
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  Speaker 2: you're right back up that two three hundred a month
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  Speaker 2: on this stuff. But people are starting to rebel. The
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  Speaker 2: lot of cord cutters are now what would you call this,
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  Speaker 2: stream cutters? Stream cutting is going nuts right now. Netflix,
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  Speaker 2: HBO Max are having subscriber revolts. You know, it was
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  Speaker 2: nine dollars a month, and it was a lot of them.
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  Speaker 2: It's now twenty seven dollars a month for Netflix, HBO
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  Speaker 2: Max is twenty three dollars a month. You all adds up.
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  Speaker 2: Because it used to be the problem with cable you
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  Speaker 2: had to have all, you know, five hundred channels, and
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  Speaker 2: it's the same thing with streaming. If you want to
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  Speaker 2: watch everything, you got to have Netflix, Disney, Hulu, HBO Max.
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  Speaker 2: The problem was Netflix was the original and it was great,
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  Speaker 2: and Netflix paid a fortune to all all the different
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  Speaker 2: studios for content. They bought all the movies and TV
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  Speaker 2: shows and everything, and they bought them from Disney and
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  Speaker 2: from Paramount and from Universal. And Netflix was booming, and
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  Speaker 2: then the heads of those companies like Bob Iger. They
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  Speaker 2: even said it publicly. He said, you know, I started
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  Speaker 2: looking at this Netflix and how much money they were making,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought to myself, well, why are we giving
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  Speaker 2: them content? Why don't we set up our own channel
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  Speaker 2: and stop splitting it with them. So they created their
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  Speaker 2: own Disney channel, and then Paramount said, huh, why are
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  Speaker 2: we doing that? So then there's a Paramount channel. And
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  Speaker 2: then so all the suppliers all of a sudden have
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  Speaker 2: their own channel. And now it's too expensive. Who's going
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  Speaker 2: to pay for all these different streaming services? And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what the answer to this is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you have YouTube, it's free. There's not a lot
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  Speaker 2: of new stuff. Well there is, but I mean far
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  Speaker 2: as series and movies, and not a lot of new stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But you can watch everything in the world on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: And hey, I'll give you another one. This is my
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  Speaker 2: new favorite streaming st servis it's free, doesn't cost anything.
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  Speaker 2: Pluto TV. Pluto TV, just put that app on your computer,
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  Speaker 2: on your phone. It's got like one hundred and fifty channels.
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  Speaker 2: And what they do is every show has its own channel.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a lot of new stuff, but there's a
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  Speaker 2: Blue Blood's channel, there's a breaking bad channel. There's a
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  Speaker 2: law and order channel. It's free. I mean it has commercials.
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  Speaker 2: They break for commercials. But Pluto TV it's you'll love it.
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  Speaker 2: You look, there's a Colombo channel and it's got old
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  Speaker 2: stuff too. This and all in the Family channel and
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  Speaker 2: each show has its own twenty four hour channel. You'll
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  Speaker 2: love it. Pluto TV. It's great. So hey, now President
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  Speaker 2: Trump's trying to build the ballroom. So this crazy left
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  Speaker 2: wing judge Richard leons, first they stop construction. Now the
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  Speaker 2: new ruling from a new judge, Senior District judge, construction
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  Speaker 2: cannot continue without congressional approval. President Trump saying, well, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the stuff under the ballroom is very important
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  Speaker 2: national security. There's military stuff, there's a situation room, there's
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  Speaker 2: a bunker, there's all sorts of stuff. So the judge said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you can continue construction underground, but not above ground. Absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: So they'll keep pushing this to higher and higher court.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll get permission for the ballroom. Listen, it's
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  Speaker 2: been done a million times. They added things to the
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  Speaker 2: White House, the West Wing that wasn't there originally, that
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  Speaker 2: was added to the White House. You can add stuff
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  Speaker 2: to the ballroom looks a little too big, but I
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  Speaker 2: mean the building from the outset looks almost as big
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  Speaker 2: as the White House itself. But we got very lucky
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  Speaker 2: in that the current president is the world expert in
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  Speaker 2: how to build a ballroom. He's done it all over
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  Speaker 2: the world. So when are you gonna ever have that
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  Speaker 2: situation again? We have a president who happens to be
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  Speaker 2: the world's greatest expert on building ballrooms, so let him
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  Speaker 2: build the ballroom. Now, the next battle will be the arch.
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  Speaker 2: Trump wants to build, the Victory Arch. It looks like
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  Speaker 2: the Arc de Triumph in Paris or the one down
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  Speaker 2: in Washington Square Park, although it's much much bigger, much bigger,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty feet high. White House is only
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  Speaker 2: seventy feet high. But this is huge, this arch. But
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  Speaker 2: it's absolutely magnificent. The Commission of Fine Arts voted approval
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  Speaker 2: of it, so he can continue. Now, people will take
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  Speaker 2: this to court and try to stop it. It's called
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  Speaker 2: the Victory Arch, not the Trump Arch. It's at the
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  Speaker 2: National Mall. Now they're arguing all kinds, the left wing
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  Speaker 2: coops that hate anything Trump does. They're arguing that it
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  Speaker 2: obstructs the view from Arlington National Cemetery. If you're Arlington
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  Speaker 2: National Cemetery and you're looking towards d C, it obstructs
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  Speaker 2: the view. But I hate to say it, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a cemetery. Everybody's dead. I don't think they need a view.
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  Speaker 2: The people that are in the see materia. It's really good.
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  Speaker 2: Not gonna be that important. It also seems to dwarf
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  Speaker 2: the Lincoln Memorial. But it looks beautiful and it's a
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  Speaker 2: great thing to do for the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: which is coming up. Two hundred and fiftieth anniversary is
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  Speaker 2: this summer. It's going to be quite be great to
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  Speaker 2: have it done by then. Hey, our old buddy Brian Williams.
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  Speaker 2: I know he got in a little trouble here and there.
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  Speaker 2: I know he went a little left wing on that
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  Speaker 2: ms NOW show, MSNBZ show. But Brian Williams a good
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  Speaker 2: guy who's a regular on this show all the time.
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  Speaker 2: We love Brian Williams. He's coming back Netflix. Netflix has
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  Speaker 2: just signed him up. He will launch a video podcast
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  Speaker 2: called We're Back with Brian Williams, interviews with newsmakers, actors, musicians, journalists.
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  Speaker 2: He's quite a personality. He's good newsman, but he can
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  Speaker 2: talk about entertainment all that stuff. So look for this
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  Speaker 2: Brian Williams podcast soon. And Williams was quoted as saying,
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  Speaker 2: with scientists predicting that every American will have a podcast
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  Speaker 2: by twenty thirty, I thought it was time for me
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  Speaker 2: to get in the game. All right, I agree. Gavin K. Newsom,
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  Speaker 2: the crazy governor California. You know, he wants to run
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  Speaker 2: for president. I don't think he's gonna make it, but
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  Speaker 2: he wants to run for president. And he's been the
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  Speaker 2: worst governor in America, and under his leadership, California has
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  Speaker 2: become a total disaster. So what do you do about that?
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't know how to fix it, so he can't
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  Speaker 2: clean it up and fix it. So he's done what
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  Speaker 2: he can do, which is he's hired a PR firm.
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  Speaker 2: He came to New York. Edelman is a big political
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  Speaker 2: PR firm. He's hired Edelman, big powerful PR firm, twenty
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  Speaker 2: million dollar contract, and what he wants them to do
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  Speaker 2: is clean up the image of California. California may be
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  Speaker 2: a disaster economically, everything may be terrible, there, but too
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  Speaker 2: complicated to fix it, so hire a PR firm to
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  Speaker 2: make it sound like it's great twenty million dollar contract. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I imagine the other thing in this is he wants
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  Speaker 2: them to make him look great, and since he's the
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  Speaker 2: one giving out the contract, they'll be sure to make
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  Speaker 2: him personally look great. However, a lot of lawmakers in
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  Speaker 2: the legislature in California are starting to take a look
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  Speaker 2: at this deal. They think it's a little sleazy that
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  Speaker 2: he's spending taxpayer money on this, and they want to
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  Speaker 2: look at the contract. They want to know how they
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  Speaker 2: got this contract with the selection process was. So there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a little bit of fighting over this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing. And see what happens a you know, you'd
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  Speaker 2: see certain things a certain restaurant, like there's a New
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  Speaker 2: York restaurant or another restaurant and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: they're all over the country, you know, or certain things
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, there's like a Popeyes everywhere, or
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  Speaker 2: how did Burger Kings? You know, like Jersey Mikes is
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  Speaker 2: a good example, like kind of a local Jersey Mikes.
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  Speaker 2: Next thing, you know, they're all over the country. How
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  Speaker 2: did that happen. Well, it's these big big hedge funds, Blackstone,
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  Speaker 2: Bain Capital. They find a good little restaurant, a little something,
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  Speaker 2: and then they pump in a fortune and take it national.
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  Speaker 2: And they look for a kind of place like dunkin Donuts.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty easy to run a dunkin Donuts. It's pretty
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  Speaker 2: you know, they make it pretty simple. They streamline the
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  Speaker 2: whole process. So all these big, big, big hedgehunds are
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  Speaker 2: now looking at bagels now, great bagels. That was strictly
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  Speaker 2: a New York, Los Angeles, Florida kind of thing, but
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  Speaker 2: they're now looking at bagels. You know, you had a
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  Speaker 2: hand roll a bagel and make it perfect. There's certain
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  Speaker 2: places Utopia Bagels and Queen's probably the best in New York.
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  Speaker 2: There's a Essa Bagel, and there's a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: bagels in New York. But these hedge funds, the apparently
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  Speaker 2: there's better technology now it's not so complicated to make
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  Speaker 2: these bagels. So the hedge funds are now getting into
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  Speaker 2: the bagel business. They want to take these bagels and
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  Speaker 2: make them national. Like the biggest, newest, hottest one is
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  Speaker 2: pop Up Bagels, which started as a pop up but
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  Speaker 2: now I got a whole bunch of stores in New York.
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  Speaker 2: They can actually start in Connecticut. There's Connecticut, and there's
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  Speaker 2: pop up bagels all over New York. The big hedge
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  Speaker 2: ones are about to pump tens of millions and they
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  Speaker 2: want to open these pop up bagels all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: They are delicious. You can't buy one. That's part of
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  Speaker 2: the it's a great deal for them. You have to
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  Speaker 2: buy twelve. You have to buy a minimum of three.
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  Speaker 2: But they're delicious. Z one hundred. Right down the hall,
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  Speaker 2: there's a pop up bagel buffet this morning. They're great.
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  Speaker 2: But you're gonna start see bagels all over America. So
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  Speaker 2: no matter where you are, you could be in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of a green acre's Georgia and they'll be pop
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  Speaker 2: up bagels there. Hey, what's gonna happen with the Ed
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  Speaker 2: Sullivan Theater? Colbert is going off the air. I've been
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  Speaker 2: trying to look into this. So far at CBS, nobody
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  Speaker 2: has any plans to sell the theater. It's a big
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  Speaker 2: Broadway theater. Was a Broadway theater for you. You got
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  Speaker 2: like sixteen hundred seats. If you reconfigure it the way
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  Speaker 2: it was. It was a TV studio all through the
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  Speaker 2: fifties and sixties, not just Ed Sullivan, but you know
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  Speaker 2: that's where they did Password and I've Got a Secret,
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  Speaker 2: and What's My Line? And Candid Camera. They were all
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  Speaker 2: coming out of the Ed Sullivan Theater. Then it was
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  Speaker 2: the Ed Sullivan Show went off. In the seventies, it
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  Speaker 2: became a private TV studio I think was Reeves Teletape
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  Speaker 2: owned it and all through the eighties and into the nineties,
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  Speaker 2: like from late seventies until about ninety two when Letterman
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  Speaker 2: moved in. It was a TV facility. You could rent
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  Speaker 2: it and Kate Nally came out of the Ed Sullivan
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  Speaker 2: Theater and a lot of you know, I remember doing
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  Speaker 2: telethons every year like that was that big one, the
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  Speaker 2: Cerebral Palsy Telethon was done out of the Ed Sullivan Theater.
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  Speaker 2: I used to be on that every year. Was great
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  Speaker 2: because you'd find one of the old guys that've been
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  Speaker 2: working there since the Beatles and he'd show you that
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  Speaker 2: this is where the Beatles dressing room was, this is
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  Speaker 2: where they came down. It was also behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: They're a disgusting place where rats and everything around, but
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  Speaker 2: they cleaned it up when they CBS bought it for Letterman, So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Colbert's about to go in there. What are they going
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  Speaker 2: to do with it? No plans yet, although a couple
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  Speaker 2: of people at CBS have told me privately they don't
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  Speaker 2: know if they'll keep it for they want to continue
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  Speaker 2: doing stuff TV shows, But to run that theater is
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  Speaker 2: very expensive, that big theater. It's much easier just to
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  Speaker 2: move it into a TV studio, whatever late night thing
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  Speaker 2: they do. Then try to run that huge theater takes
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ushers, a lot of manpower, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of this. Hey, well, take some calls. Next eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten is the number eight
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