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Hour 2: NYC's real estate. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, well, this is hour number two. If you still
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  Speaker 2: don't know, we're now a three-hour show. We start at
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  Speaker 2: 9 a.m., so it's 9 to noon every day. Now,
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  Speaker 2: remember last hour we were talking about Google Maps. Started
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  Speaker 2: calling it Lake America instead of Lake Ontario. Liberals went nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Apple Maps. Started calling it Lake America instead of Lake Ontario.
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  Speaker 3: Liberals went even crazier. Doug Burgum, Interior Secretary, does say
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  Speaker 3: that they did contact Apple and ask them to change
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  Speaker 3: it to Lake America. But Apple and Google both point
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  Speaker 3: out it's an official name now. It's not just Trump
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  Speaker 3: shooting his mouth off. There's a Bureau of the Department
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  Speaker 3: of Interior that's in charge of officially naming things. I
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  Speaker 3: forget what it's called, but the Bureau of Naming, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and they named it Lake America. So according to the U.S. government,
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  Speaker 3: that's officially the name. That's why Apple and Google went
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  Speaker 3: along with this. Now, MapQuest. Does anybody still use MapQuest?
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  Speaker 3: Remember MapQuest? Remember the early days of the Internet? Remember
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  Speaker 3: the early 2000s? You kids today, why you wouldn't believe it?
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  Speaker 3: There was no Google. There was no Safari. There was,
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  Speaker 3: what did we have then? I'm trying to remember. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: there was, remember the search engines were Yahoo. That was
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  Speaker 3: the big search engine. There was AltaVista. There was, I
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  Speaker 3: can't remember the word, like four big search. And then
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  Speaker 3: Google was invented later and that took over. But in
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  Speaker 3: the early days, you would use MapQuest. This is like, primitive,
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  Speaker 3: you know, 2003, you'd use MapQuest, you'd use Ask Jeeves.
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  Speaker 3: Remember all that stuff? So apparently MapQuest is still around.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody uses it, but MapQuest has stood up to Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump and they say it's Lake Ontario. On MapQuest, they
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  Speaker 3: say they refuse to rename it. They're defying the federal government.
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  Speaker 3: They're defying the Trump administration. And guess what happened as
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  Speaker 3: a result? Remember this crazy liberals all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: As a result, MapQuest is now the number one app
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  Speaker 3: on Apple. It's the most downloaded app there is today. Uh, left-wing, uh, liberal, uh,
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  Speaker 3: all downloading MapQuest now putting on their phone. Uh, okay, good.
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  Speaker 3: Keep using MapQuest. We'll stick to Google and, uh, Apple Maps. Hey, the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk trial will, uh, will, uh, start, uh, they
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  Speaker 3: have a strange process in Utah. In other states, you
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  Speaker 3: got a grand jury and prosecutors and everybody, they go
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  Speaker 3: before the grand jury, they present the case quickly. It's
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  Speaker 3: like done in an hour. And the grand jury says, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's enough evidence. And they vote to indict. In Utah,
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  Speaker 3: you basically have to put on the whole trial. This
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  Speaker 3: will go for weeks. For weeks, you put on a
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  Speaker 3: whole trial for the grand jury. And then they decide,
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  Speaker 3: then the judge decides. So, That's the process. They went
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  Speaker 3: through that whole thing, which is why you keep seeing
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  Speaker 3: all that video and you think there's been a trial.
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  Speaker 3: That's just for the judge to rule that it's okay
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  Speaker 3: to have a trial. So now the real trial will begin.
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  Speaker 3: It's a stupid process. And it's also a horrible process
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  Speaker 3: for the families of the victim because they have to
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  Speaker 3: sit through these trials. It's a painful experience to see
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  Speaker 3: this evidence for the family, for the widow of Charlie.
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  Speaker 3: They have to see all this video and evidence. It's
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  Speaker 3: just awful. So they have to do it twice. It's
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  Speaker 3: really painful, but the judge ruled in favor of that.
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  Speaker 3: So Anna Wintour, this is interesting. It's heating up. I
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  Speaker 3: predict she'll be gone from the Met Gala by the
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  Speaker 3: end of the year. Anna Wintour runs that stupid Met Gala.
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  Speaker 3: It's been gone. It used to be pretty good. In
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  Speaker 3: the 90s, it was very, very elegant. It was the
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  Speaker 3: cream of New York society. It was tuxedos and gowns.
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  Speaker 3: It was quite the elegant, beautiful, uh, gala every year.
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  Speaker 3: And the prices, it was expensive, but it wasn't crazy.
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  Speaker 3: It could be thousand dollars a ticket, $ 500 a ticket,
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  Speaker 3: not 50,000 or a hundred thousand a ticket, none of
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. But, uh, Anna Wintour took over and started
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  Speaker 3: to shift it away from that New York society and
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  Speaker 3: all those illustrious names and started going for, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Kardashian type names, tabloidy names, uh, hip-hop, rap, music names.
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  Speaker 3: And she may have been right because all those old
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  Speaker 3: society people, all those big names of the 90s, they're
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  Speaker 3: all dead now. And with these people, with this new crowd,
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  Speaker 3: they'll spend 10 times as much. They don't know anybody.
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  Speaker 3: They'll spend $ 80, 000 a ticket, $ 500, 000 a table, and they do.
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  Speaker 3: But she chose as her honoree John Galliano, who's the
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  Speaker 3: biggest anti-Semite imaginable. You couldn't be a bigger anti-Semite. It's
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  Speaker 3: one thing to make some sort of an anti-Semitic remark
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  Speaker 3: at some point. But this guy, it was just over-the-top insane, insane,
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  Speaker 3: standing in the middle of a crowded restaurant screaming at
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  Speaker 3: Jews saying, Hitler was right, you should all be gassed,
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. I mean, insane, crazy anti-Semitism. People
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  Speaker 3: in the restaurant would record it on video. In Paris
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  Speaker 3: at one incident, he was convicted of hate crime for it.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the biggest anti-Semite you could imagine. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: knew it. He worked at Christian Dior as a designer.
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  Speaker 3: They threw him the hell out. As I say, he
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  Speaker 3: was convicted of a hate crime for his anti-Semitism. So
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  Speaker 3: Anna Wintour knows this and still makes him the honoree
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  Speaker 3: for the gala. People involved in her, whatever it is,
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  Speaker 3: her organization, screaming at her, you can't do this. Now,
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  Speaker 3: they do this at the Metropolitan Museum, probably our finest museum,
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  Speaker 3: the Met Museum. puts up with it because it brings
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  Speaker 3: in a few million dollars for them. But the Metropolitan
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  Speaker 3: Museum has a board of directors with a lot of
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  Speaker 3: very wealthy types that all, many of them suddenly make
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  Speaker 3: a fortune in hedge funds and all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: they want to legitimize themselves, get some sort of society credentials.
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  Speaker 3: So they start donating like crazy to the opera, to
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  Speaker 3: the Metropolitan Museum. They're suddenly put on the boards because
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  Speaker 3: they donated so much money. And the problem is, once
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  Speaker 3: you're on the board of the opera, you have to
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  Speaker 3: go opening night. So here are these very wealthy hedge
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  Speaker 3: fund guys, and they have to go to the opera
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  Speaker 3: and the ballet, and they're sitting there in the audience going,
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  Speaker 3: they don't know what the hell they're listening to. We
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  Speaker 3: don't know what the hell they're looking at with this ballet,
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  Speaker 3: but they got to sit there for two in these operas.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like three hours and they go on
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  Speaker 3: forever and ever. What did Jackie Mason say? Uh, if
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  Speaker 3: they weren't hypocrites, they wouldn't have seats in the ballet.
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  Speaker 3: They would have beds. If they weren't hypocrites, they'd come
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  Speaker 3: in their pajamas, not tuxedos. Uh, what did he say?
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  Speaker 3: It was a, it's a bedroom for, uh, rich New
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  Speaker 3: Yorkers just to sleep in. But, um, Being on the
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  Speaker 3: board of the museum is a very prestigious thing now,
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  Speaker 3: the Met. So apparently they're very upset about this Anna Wintour. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this guy was so anti-Semitic. All the top Jewish organizations,
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  Speaker 3: the ADL, everybody was going crazy with Anna Wintour, demanding
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  Speaker 3: she get rid of him. And then politicians got involved.
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  Speaker 3: The New York City Council Speaker, Julie Menon, put a
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  Speaker 3: lot of pressure on on Anna Wintour. So they got
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  Speaker 3: Galliano to withdraw Anna Wintour, pretending that, well, she's done
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  Speaker 3: the right thing, but she knew about this guy all along.
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  Speaker 3: You got to figure she's a horrible anti-Semite to look
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  Speaker 3: the other way on this. When you hear what he
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  Speaker 3: did in the past, screaming at Jews in a restaurant,
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  Speaker 3: Hitler was right, you should be gassed. Who the hell
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  Speaker 3: would ever even talk to a guy like that again?
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  Speaker 3: Who would even have anything to do with a guy
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  Speaker 3: like that. So she knew all this stuff and still
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  Speaker 3: made him the honoree of the whole gala. So she's
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  Speaker 3: got to be thrown the hell out of this whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: Condé Nast needs to get rid of her. So apparently
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  Speaker 3: over at the Met, the Metropolitan Museum, this fancy board
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  Speaker 3: of directors, they had a Zoom, a frantic, panicked Zoom
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  Speaker 3: meeting yesterday to discuss what the hell to do about this.
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  Speaker 3: The whole board of trustees and all sorts of billionaires
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  Speaker 3: were And a lot of them are Jewish, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of these. And when it comes to the donors to
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  Speaker 3: this gala, a lot of them are Jewish. How the
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  Speaker 3: hell could you put the worst anti-Semite in the world
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  Speaker 3: in as the honoree? So the Met Board is already
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  Speaker 3: meeting about doing something. Now, how do you get Anna
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  Speaker 3: Wintour out of there? It's her gala. She may be dirty, sleazy, anti-Semitic.
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  Speaker 3: She may bring in the worst people. But in the end,
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  Speaker 3: she brings in millions of dollars to the museum. So
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  Speaker 3: they're a little conflicted here. And, you know, she's as
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  Speaker 3: nasty as can be. So you're going to be in
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  Speaker 3: quite a dogfight with her. But the board of directors
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  Speaker 3: of the museum already in panic, having Zoom meetings. So
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  Speaker 3: expect something to happen here. Expect some movement. They'll convince
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  Speaker 3: Anna Wintour to drop out, something like that. Hey, we
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  Speaker 3: were talking about how big things are in New York
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  Speaker 3: real estate. New York is booming real estate-wise. Rental apartments.
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  Speaker 3: You've never seen so much activity. uh sales through the
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  Speaker 3: roof in fact the condo sales really expensive co-ops condos
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  Speaker 3: the number has increased we're selling more now than last
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  Speaker 3: year in the year before but listen to this the
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  Speaker 3: median rent in manhattan is now 5200 a month that's
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  Speaker 3: a record high that's up six percent from last year
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  Speaker 3: 5200 is the median rent And the number of apartments
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  Speaker 3: now renting for $ 50, 000 a month or more has doubled
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  Speaker 3: since last year. Doubled. Now, I know you're saying $ 50, 000
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  Speaker 3: a month. These are the same idiots that donate a
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  Speaker 3: fortune to get on the board of the opera and
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  Speaker 3: then go sleep through it. $ 50, 000 a month, more than doubled. Now,
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  Speaker 3: listen to this. Apartments renting for more than $ 100, 000 a
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  Speaker 3: month There is such a thing. Apartments renting for $ 100, 000
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  Speaker 3: a month. The number of them this year is up
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  Speaker 3: seven times what it was last year. So you not
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  Speaker 3: only got people pouring into Manhattan, very wealthy people. Now
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about data centers. Nobody wants to be near
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  Speaker 3: a data center. You know what is actually the most
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  Speaker 3: dangerous thing you could have your building near? Or not
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  Speaker 3: the most dangerous, but something that really is a problem?
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  Speaker 3: A dry cleaner's. A dry cleaner's. Apparently, there's fumes coming
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  Speaker 3: out like crazy. Now, a lot of these dry cleaners
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  Speaker 3: you see in Manhattan, like the one over there in
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  Speaker 3: the corner, the one over there, when you bring your
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  Speaker 3: stuff in, they're not actually dry cleaning it right there.
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  Speaker 3: It goes to some dry cleaning factory somewhere. So you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to worry. But an actual dry cleaner, so
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  Speaker 3: they're doing it on the premises, the fumes are not healthy.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a problem. Here's a guy who lives above
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  Speaker 3: a laundromat. who's suing, going crazy. He says the vibrations,
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  Speaker 3: the fumes from the laundromat are ruining his life. That's
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  Speaker 3: actually much worse than a data center. Oh, I forgot.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to mention this. Who was it yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Our caller, Kathy, brought up Phil Collins and said, didn't
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  Speaker 3: he have a big affair with Sue Simmons? Well, no.
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  Speaker 3: It turns out we found out it was Dana Tyler, which...
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  Speaker 3: Sue Simmons, I can't picture. Ah, Dana Tyler. Yes, I
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  Speaker 3: could see that. Dana Tyler was at Channel 2. Very
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  Speaker 3: nice woman. Very, very beautiful. Phil Collins and Dana Tyler.
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  Speaker 3: And it was not, I wouldn't call it an affair.
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  Speaker 3: It was a real love affair, romance. It went on
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. Apparently she looked exactly like his ex-wife.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the type he likes. He divorced the ex.
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  Speaker 3: He had a long love relationship with Dana Tyler. here's
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  Speaker 3: the problem. Apparently the ex came back, came back and
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  Speaker 3: he dumped Dana Tyler for the ex. And she was devastated, devastated.
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  Speaker 3: Then he wrote a book about his life, the Phil
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  Speaker 3: Collins autobiography. So in the book, he talks about all
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  Speaker 3: the loves of his life. And there's no mention of
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  Speaker 3: Dana Tyler. She doesn't even get mentioned in the book.
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  Speaker 3: So Apparently, she was really, really, really crushed. She took
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  Speaker 3: a few months off from Channel 2, but then came back.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice woman. But that is pretty low, Phil Collins.
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  Speaker 3: And then to not even mention her in the book.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a relationship that you just Google it.
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  Speaker 3: You'll see a million pictures of them together. You could
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  Speaker 3: have mentioned it. We'll get to this U.S. Open coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a shocking poll. I don't know if it's shocking.
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  Speaker 3: In this poll, they asked Democrats if we pay too
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  Speaker 3: much attention to September 11th, about remembering September 11th. 72%
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  Speaker 3: of Democrats say we should stop paying attention to September 11th.
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  Speaker 3: They say Muslims have been treated worse than people of
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  Speaker 3: other religions since the attacks. Well, that can happen with
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  Speaker 3: attacks like that. So it's a shocking poll. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: shocked that Democrats don't want to remember September 11th. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: our friend Rosanna Scotto came back to work. She'd been
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  Speaker 3: off for a couple of weeks. Her mother passed away.
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  Speaker 3: Marion Scotto, great woman, passed away. But apparently she broke
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  Speaker 3: down in tears on the air yesterday talking about it. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's a very, very close family. And but
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  Speaker 3: then she said, my mother would yell at me, stop
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  Speaker 3: crying on the air. And when she came back to
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  Speaker 3: work after a couple of weeks, she said, I had
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  Speaker 3: to do it because my mother would be on. Get
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  Speaker 3: back to work. Marion Scotto, she was a wonderful woman.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they own the restaurant Fresco's on 52nd Street.
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  Speaker 3: And if you ever went there, when you walked in,
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  Speaker 3: there was that older woman sitting behind the front desk.
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  Speaker 3: That was Marion Scotto, hands-on, running the place and no
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  Speaker 3: longer with it. Lived a nice, wonderful life. Lived to
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  Speaker 3: be 90 years old. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
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  Speaker 4: 800-321-7000.
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  Speaker 3: 0710 is the number. If you're a new caller, perfect.
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  Speaker 3: We like new callers.
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  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 3: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 3: let's take some calls. Let's go to Ken, Daytona, Florida. Ken,
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  Speaker 3: how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Ken.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: What the hell is that behind you?
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  Speaker 6: Phone.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a first-time caller. I just want to tell you
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  Speaker 5: I really appreciate your common-sense approach to everything that goes on.
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  Speaker 5: The thing I like to speak about is the data centers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I would like to see Trump take the initiative to
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  Speaker 5: to build a data center, a prototype data center with
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  Speaker 5: no red tape, put all the nuclear components that have
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  Speaker 5: to be put there, I know what.
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  Speaker 3: You're saying, but Elon Musk is building it. I'd rather
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  Speaker 3: have him do it. Trump's a great builder, but if
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  Speaker 3: he builds a data center, it's going to be all gold.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to have a ballroom, a swimming pool. We
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  Speaker 3: don't need that Elon Musk. Hey, you live in Daytona, right?
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  Speaker 3: You're next to that Daytona Speedway, right? That makes more
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  Speaker 3: noise than that.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: How much noise does that make? People live near that, right?
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  Speaker 3: We love it. I love it, too.
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  Speaker 5: I'm originally from upstate New York. And I escaped five
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  Speaker 5: years ago.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, thanks for calling, Ken. Yeah, if you're
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  Speaker 3: in Daytona, Florida, if you're Charlotte, North Carolina, next to
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  Speaker 3: that Charlotte Speedway, that makes more noise. That makes a
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  Speaker 3: data center sound like a library. I mean, nothing makes
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  Speaker 3: more noise than those racetracks. Let's speak of the devil.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Kevin in Charlotte, North Carolina. Kevin, how
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  Speaker 3: are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Mark.
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  Speaker 8: I just want to add about the Phil Collins story. Apparently,
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  Speaker 8: he texted her when he broke up. Because I remember
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  Speaker 8: the story at the time to make it even worse.
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  Speaker 8: And didn't even do it in person or over the phone.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that Phil Collins. Dana Tyler is a very nice woman.
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  Speaker 3: That Phil Collins.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Texted her a breakup. Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he's a bad guy. Yeah. Yeah, so I just
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  Speaker 8: thought I'd add that.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's proof right there, texting her that he's
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  Speaker 3: breaking up. Let's go to Joanne in Rockland. Joanne, how
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  Speaker 3: you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 8: I'm fine. Hey, I called you about.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, four or five years ago about a song I'd
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  Speaker 1: heard called I Think My Dog is a Democrat.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I remember that. It's a country song.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a country song.
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  Speaker 7: Can you find it and play it again?
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  Speaker 3: I guess, but you could find it. You could just
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: go on YouTube and type. Type that in.
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  Speaker 8: I'd like everyone to enjoy it.
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  Speaker 7: That's all.
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  Speaker 3: You're a little lazy, aren't you? You can't do this yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I got to do it for you.
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  Speaker 7: No, I want your audience to hear it.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Let me see. I'm trying to do it
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  Speaker 3: right now. It's a good song.
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  Speaker 7: Because it's still appropriate.
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  Speaker 3: Let me see here.
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  Speaker 6: And it's very funny.
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to see. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Hang on.
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  Speaker 3: This is on my phone.
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  Speaker 8: Tomorrow is fine. If you can't find it today.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's a good song. It's by Brian Lewis. Just
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  Speaker 3: Google it. You'll find it there. Actually, most dogs, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: are Democratic because they don't work. They depend on somebody
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: else for food and shelter. So maybe that's a Democratic
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: thing being a dog. Let's go to Helen in Bay Ridge. Helen,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: how are you doing?
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Hi. Good morning, Mr. Simone. You know, I'm calling you
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: because I don't hear anybody talking about the two mental
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: health laws we have in New York to involuntarily commit people,
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: Kendra's law and the mental hygiene law from 1972, I think.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: And why do you think they're not using these laws?
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Well, we've got lots of laws that aren't used. Thanks
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: to Andrew Cuomo, where there's no bail, no jail. Thanks
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: to his crazy left-wing judges he put in.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: So it's okay for people like that?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: No, no, of course it's not okay. But you've got
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: all these left-wing politicians that put in judges saying, who
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: don't enforce any law. And you got this crazy Alvin Bragg,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: who actually on the first day in office sent a
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: memo to everybody. We don't put people in jail. We
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: just let everybody back out on the street. You've got
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: to get rid of these people. That's why you've got
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: to vote for Bruce Blakeman and law and order type governors, mayors.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: You need that. That's the only way you're going to
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: ever fix this. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: how are you doing?
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark. Mark, I'm okay. You forgot to mention
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: earlier that Ms. Common Sense, Julia Menon, is also responsible
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: for recently revamping these stupid outside dining laws. But that
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: being said.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: We like the outdoor dining.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: No, they suck. all the people whose loved ones were
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: murdered and maimed should start a class action suit and
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: sue the new york city board of health and the
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: new york city department of social services because ultimately they
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: failed the populace of new york and that's how we
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: wound up with that nut job in time square yesterday
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: about sixty four years ago One Sunday afternoon during the spring,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: and I knew because a lot of my friends lived
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: in this apartment building, there was a crazy white lady
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: in my neighborhood throwing garbage, bottles out the window, cans,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: and she was speaking gibberish. Somebody called the precinct. They
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: came over with two cops, observed it. They called up Bellevue.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Bellevue came down with a padded wagon. Two male nurses
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: came out, two cops, and two doctors. The doctors certified
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: on the spot that she had to be taken away.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: The cops and the male nurses went up there with
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: the doctors, and next thing you know, this woman was
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: coming out. She came out in a straight jacket, and
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: they put her in the psych ward.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Those were the good old days. You're right. Vincent, great point.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: That's a good old day.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: A class action lawsuit is what's needed.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: It's a good idea. I like it. Thanks for calling.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: We've got to go for the news, but good idea.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: And when we come back, we'll talk to the brilliant
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: columnist Liz Peek. Coming up next on 710WOR. Mark Simone. Well,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Liz Peek, the great columnist, you can read her columns
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: on foxnews.com, or you can read her at The Hill,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: or even better, just go to her website, lizpeek.com. A
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: lot of great stories up there, lizpeek.com. Liz Peek, how
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: you doing?
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: I'm well, thank you.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: It's countdown, the dog days of summer here, Mark. And,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you know, I hate to say goodbye to summer, I
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: really do.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know, it was one very weird summer, but
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Canadian smoke and heat waves and... It was not the
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: greatest summer. Hey, the president met with the oil company
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: executives yesterday trying to get the price down. So with
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: the straits half open right now with the Venezuela deal,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: what do you think is going to happen with the
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: price of oil?
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Well, obviously, the administration is going to do absolutely everything
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: possible to convince refiners to delay maintenance, I'm guessing, so
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: that there's no downtime in the refineries, so that they're
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: operating at very full capacity, which they have been doing.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: I'm sure he's dropping on prices.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: As we know, gasoline prices, when oil prices come down,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: gasoline prices follow very slowly. That's just always been the case.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: People liken it to a feather in a rock. Oil
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: prices drop like a rock and the gasoline price follows
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: like a feather. But honestly, Mark, right now, Until there
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is some sort of breakthrough in Iran, I just don't
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: see any particular movement here.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: I mean, unfortunately, Besson.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I know, is talking about Ukraine and the fact that
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: they're attacking Russian oil installations.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: And that's true. That definitely has an impact.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Anything, anywhere in the world that interrupts production and refining
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: has an impact.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: But, you know, the big issue still is that, yes.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: There's eight or nine million barrels a day coming through
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz, but that's not what it was.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: And even though Middle.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: East producers have done a great deal to offset the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: loss of nine million barrels a day that was coming
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: through there, in addition to what we're seeing now, you know,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: it's just not back to where it was. So the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: pressure is still upward. And, you know, I don't know
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: what they can do to change that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Hey, people in New York might think it's, you know, $ 4. 50,
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: $ 5 a gallon all over America. That's not the case.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: But yeah, you wrote about Hochul trying to blame President Trump.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Will she get away with that?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not just gasoline prices in New York. It's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: all energy prices are absurdly inflated. And, you know, I
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: have to say, I kept thinking for the last several months,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: maybe the last couple of years, how are Democrats in
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: New York really going to explain to people that the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: fact that energy prices in New York are 60%, sometimes 100%
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: greater than the national average.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: I have to say, it never occurred to me that
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: they will blame Donald Trump.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: So, you know, is it really the case that our
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: trade scuffle with Canada is impacting energy prices in New York? No,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: it's because they stupidly, foolishly, some years ago, Andrew Cuomo
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: decided we should not have fracking in New York, a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: position that was then equally adopted.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: By his successor, Kathy Hochul. So we can't frack.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So we're not producing the natural gas locally that we
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: need to produce electricity. That's the number one feedstock for electricity.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So not content with messing up our natural gas supply,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: they also banned pipelines, incredibly, from bringing natural gas into
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the state because they had a vision of windmills and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: solar panels making all the difference. So then they go
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: ahead and shut down Indian Point, which was producing a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: very solid chunk of very clean energy for New York
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: City and New York State. So they have doubled down
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: on stupid over and over again on our energy policy.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: And now really the whole New England region adopted similar
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: foolish policies and pretty much across the entire region people
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: are paying much more than they should be for natural gas.
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's really a travesty.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Liz Peek, doing the same thing with AI, yelling and
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: screaming about data centers. Data centers are basically just a
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: building with some computers in it. It makes a lot
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: of noise.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah. It's really sad, Mark.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, the progressives have taken on trying to slow
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: or even stop.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: Data center construction.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And yet, how do they send that message out? They
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: send it out on their social media. They communicate each
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: other on iPhones, obviously.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: What's powering all that? Data centers. It's so stupid.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And not any one of them, not Bernie Sanders, not
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: any of the progressives talking about this, will tell you,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: what is the alternative?
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: What are we going to do? We're going to sit...
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: in America and.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Say, AI has some people worried, so we are no
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: longer going to be technological.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Leaders in this new booming industry.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: We are going to deny our electricians and plumbers and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: construction workers hundreds of thousands of jobs that are now
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: on the line as the data center rollout continues. None
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of it makes any sense, but people have been so
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: scared now about the data centers. As you point out,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: it's nothing but a big agglomeration of computers. And if
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: you're worried that it's taking too much electricity in your
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: local area and boosting electricity prices, okay, your legislators are
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: on the hook to make that go away. And the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: way they do that is they say to the data
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: center owner and operator, you have to pay for your
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: own electricity.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: You have to.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Create it, build a small power plant, whatever it takes,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: but you're going to make people whole on this. This
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: is not complicated. If we had competent legislators, they would
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: be fixing this state by state.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Region by region.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want AI regulation state by state, but certainly
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: data center construction, just like any other kind of construction,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: should be organized locally and they can resolve the problems
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: that people have.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: But to turn your back on conceivably.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: The most dynamic meaningful, powerful new industry probably ever created, Mark.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: That's not hyperbole, as Joe Biden would say.
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: That's real. It's just plain stupid. Yeah.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Hey, Liz Peek has a great website, lizpeek.com. There's always
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: great stories up there. Here's my favorite story today. Gavin Newsom,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: man of the people, is selling his house. It's an
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: $ 8 million mansion. Turns out it has a 5,000-bottle wine cellar.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: And he claims he didn't know it was there.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: What?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom is honestly the poster child for trying to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: be something he is not.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: What is Gavin Newsom?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: He is a wealthy political elite in a very far
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: left state who has gotten by on his good looks,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: certainly not his accomplishments because he has done nothing, literally
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: nothing over time, but endanger the state of California. By endanger,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I mean endanger the robust economy, which in recent years
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: has been pretty much held up by not Hollywood, but
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: rather by Silicon Valley and all the tech people starting
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: up businesses in California. Gavin Newsom you know, has enabled
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and encouraged that to his credit. But at the same time,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: he's always trying to have his left hand out, shaking
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: hands with the people who want to slap on a
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: billionaire's tap.
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: So, I mean, the most.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Ridiculous thing Gavin Newsom has done recently in his desperate
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: quest to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate was
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: basically say he didn't approve of the billionaire tax in California,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: but he would like to see one nationwide. We're like, okay,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to go along with the SAIU in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: my state. I mean, heaven knows I don't want to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: drive billionaires and wealthy people out of California because they're
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: already leaving in droves, putting the entire economy in jeopardy.
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: No, I want this to happen to the United States.
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: I mean, really, you can't make this up, Mark. It
• 30:46
  Speaker 7: is so absurd.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: And of course, remember back during COVID when he was really,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: really vigilant and very nasty about people staying in, not
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: going out to eat.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: Turned out he had a dinner at French Laundry. Remember that?
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: Talk about a high-class elitist activity. It was preposterous, as
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: he is.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. We got stuck with Mamdani, but the good thing
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: with Mamdani, it's all talk. He doesn't get anything done.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: You'll never see these grocery stores. I don't think you'll
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: ever even see this Pierre de Terrataxe.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question. It certainly has not been
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: rolled out well. I think people are really infuriated about
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: it because it has caught up. I would guess that
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the initial list had as many people who are actually
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: residents of New York as people for whom these were
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: second homes. It was so badly done, and it's an
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: offensive and foolish idea anyway. I mean, think about the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: perfect member of a golf club is someone who belongs,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: pays the dues, but never goes to it, right? Same
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: thing with people who have second homes in New York
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and they kind of fly in, they go to a
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Broadway show, they go out to dinner, but meanwhile, they're
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: always paying the doorman, they're paying people to clean their apartment,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: they're paying utility bills, et cetera, but they don't demand
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: anything in the way.
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: Of city resources. So, you know, you have to sort
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: of say to yourself.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Why in the world Would we not want these people
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: participating in New York City? The answer is it's just
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a dumb idea.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Well, very good point. Liz Peek, brilliant as always. Now,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: you've got to read her columns at foxnews.com, thehill.com. But
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: go to her website. Check it every day. There's always
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: new stuff there, lizpeek.com, lizpeek.com. Liz Peek, thanks for being
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: with us.
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: Hey, Mark. Take care. Have a great weekend when it
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: comes up.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Have a great Labor Day. Take care. Thanks. It's Labor
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Day weekend. I don't know how it happened so fast,
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: but it's actually the longest summer we've had. Memorial Day
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: was a week early. Labor Day is a week late. Hey,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: we've got a lot coming up. I'm here now 9
• 32:59
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• 33:02
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• 33:05
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• 33:07
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• 33:11
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• 33:17
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• 33:19
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• 33:20
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• 33:21
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• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Well, the weather, it doesn't look too bad for today.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: I know, cloudy rain, but it looks like just a
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: shower here and there. Not continuous. Just a shower in
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: the afternoon, maybe one in the evening. And then tomorrow,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the same thing. Just an isolated shower here or there.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And then Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, dry, dry and a
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: lot of sun. So it'll be a great weekend. You
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: get two days today, tomorrow cloudy, a little rain here
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: and there, but then a great weekend. It's Labor Day
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: weekend already. It's September the 2nd. Hard to believe. But hey,
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: coming up in the next hour, we've got a lot
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: to get to. We'll get to that crazy U.S. Open.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Speaking of crazy, we'll get to Megan and Harry and
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: a whole lot more. Coming up right after the news,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Mark Simone here, 710WOR.