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Hour 1: Graham Plattner's victory. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: You just heard the news.
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Speaker 2: Now you'll find out what it all means. He smarts
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Speaker 2: amone on seven to ten. R. Well, hey Wednesday, you
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Speaker 2: got a big, big night tonight the Knicks game four tonight.
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Speaker 2: It was a game four, game five. I can't remember
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Speaker 2: Game four tonight. Game four tonight at the garden. You
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Speaker 2: know everybody said, well, Trump went to a game, So
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Speaker 2: that's what Jinks did. They won thirteen in a row.
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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, Trump's there. They lost. Mom Donnie
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Speaker 2: was there. You know, you forget forgetting Mom Donnie was
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Speaker 2: there for the first time. He was the jinx. It
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Speaker 2: was the Mom Donnie curse. First time Mom Donnie shows up,
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Speaker 2: they lose. That's the curse. So hey, Trump, a long
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Speaker 2: long time Knicks fan, Mom Donnie all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: pretending to be a Knicks fan.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: I think that's what screwed them up, the Knicks complaining
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Speaker 2: about the referees, the calls, the file shots, all the anyway,
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Speaker 2: we'll get to all of that. We'll get to Platner,
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Speaker 2: We'll get to Nancy Mace, We'll get to Scott Pelley,
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Speaker 2: the most pompous man ever. We'll get to Artemis and
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Speaker 2: a whole lot more coming up. Oh, also, we'll get
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Speaker 2: to CNN what a future they're going to have. And
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Speaker 2: now Iran fired a couple of drones, fired a couple
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Speaker 2: of shots at us. We responded, the President announcing it
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Speaker 2: was a proportional response. We took out a lot of
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Speaker 2: stuff along the coast of the Straight of horm Moose,
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Speaker 2: especially at the opening of the Straight of horn Moose.
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Speaker 2: We took out a lot of stuff there. Iran kept
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Speaker 2: firing back. We responded. They responded to the response, So
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Speaker 2: that means more is coming, the President indicating it will
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Speaker 2: be a much much bigger, massive response this time, and
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Speaker 2: that we'll probably for the first time, start taking out infrastructure, bridges,
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Speaker 2: power plants, all of that sort of stuff, which is
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Speaker 2: you're going to hear. By the way, and let me
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Speaker 2: just point this out, and it could happen to night.
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Speaker 2: They could take out bridges, power plants. You're gonna hear
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Speaker 2: every Democrat saying this is a violation of international law,
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Speaker 2: this is a war crime. You'll hear this a thousand times,
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Speaker 2: and the network news will report it as if it's
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Speaker 2: a real It's not a violation of international law. There
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Speaker 2: is actually no such thing. As international law, it doesn't exist.
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Speaker 2: It's just a term they throw around. It's not a
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Speaker 2: war crime. It's usually what you do day one of
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Speaker 2: any war. And every time the US fought a war Iraq, wherever,
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Speaker 2: day one you take out power plants and bridges. It's
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Speaker 2: so usually the first thing you do. So don't pay
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Speaker 2: any attention when they start all of that stuff. The
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Speaker 2: blockade continues, President Trump, what has.
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Speaker 4: Proven to be a very powerful thing is the blockade.
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Speaker 4: The blockades turned out to be much stronger than bombing,
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Speaker 4: And it was really a combination. Was our initial thrust and.
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Speaker 2: Then the blockade. I remember, the blockade halts their entire economy.
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Speaker 2: Iran has no economy and no revenue, no money coming
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Speaker 2: in as long as that blockade, as long as they
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Speaker 2: can't use the straits. Hey, these pilots that were shot down,
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Speaker 2: these helicopter pilots, more details coming up. Apparently we knew
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Speaker 2: it was a drone. That was the helicopter was attacked
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Speaker 2: by a drone, but apparently the drone landed right in
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Speaker 2: the helicopter, right between the two pilots. There was fire
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Speaker 2: and smoke and everything. But you know, they think those
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Speaker 2: drones are made to explode when they get inside. So
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Speaker 2: the pilots ejected quickly, but very brave guys.
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Speaker 4: Hey, pilots are fine, yeah, and what nobody jured. Now
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Speaker 4: we are going to issue report tomorrow. But the pilots
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Speaker 4: are fine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And they were quickly rescued. By the way,
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Speaker 2: they were rescued by a drone drone boats. There's an
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Speaker 2: unmanned drone boat that could be sent, and they used
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Speaker 2: an unmanned drone boat. These were developed a few years ago,
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Speaker 2: actually during the Biden years. They were developed. One of
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Speaker 2: the few things Lloyd Austin accomplished to get these things built.
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Speaker 2: This drone boat. It's got a range for like a
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Speaker 2: thousand miles. It can show up pick up pilots in
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Speaker 2: the water. And the reason they used this drone boat
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Speaker 2: it's in the Strait of Hormose and they were worried
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Speaker 2: about mines. If you sent a man ship in there
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Speaker 2: could blow up with the mine. So they used this
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Speaker 2: and the pilot successfully rescued. Now the deal is still
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Speaker 2: apparently coming. He can it's supposedly a deal.
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Speaker 4: I don't think Garar in his second point, I think
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Speaker 4: we're very we're very close to having a very very good, strong,
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Speaker 4: powerful deal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So again, if you watch all the crazy shows,
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Speaker 2: the Morning Joe's, the CNNs, the New York Times, they've
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Speaker 2: been going after him for he kept keep saying there's
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Speaker 2: a deal. CNN they thought this was a brilliant accomplishment.
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Speaker 2: CNN counted how many times during this conflict Trump has
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Speaker 2: made the claim that they're close to a deal. It
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Speaker 2: turns out it's a wopping thirty eight times, according to CENA,
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Speaker 2: and they act like they conducted some massive investigation. There's
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Speaker 2: a thing called Lexus Nexus, and it keeps a transcript
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Speaker 2: of everything, every speech by everybody, everything on the airwaves,
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Speaker 2: every newsca, every show. So you can go to the
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Speaker 2: Lexus Nexus, which every newsroom has, and you could just
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Speaker 2: type in how many times as President Trump said, we're close,
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Speaker 2: and it'll spit out the number instantly. It's not that complicated.
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Speaker 2: CNN actions acts like this was a major thing that
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Speaker 2: they've come up with. The fact that he said at
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Speaker 2: thirty seven thirty eight times would indicate I don't know,
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Speaker 2: you could interpret it to mean we are close to
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Speaker 2: a deal. If he mentioned it once and never said
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Speaker 2: it again, then I think, man, maybe we're not so close.
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Speaker 2: He never mentioned it again. But if he keeps saying
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Speaker 2: at thirty eight times, they're probably close to a deal.
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Speaker 2: And you know it's not like remember Trump, the master negotiator,
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Speaker 2: has spent his life negotiating with business people, unions. People
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Speaker 2: are running a business of some kind. They have to
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Speaker 2: make a deal at some point. They've got to do
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Speaker 2: what's logical for them, what's most profitable for them. In
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Speaker 2: this case, you're dealing with lunatics, with crazy people, so
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Speaker 2: they don't have to ever do anything logical. So that's
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Speaker 2: the tough part here. But they should see another round
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Speaker 2: of massive strikes. Democrats will go nuts tomorrow. But we'll see,
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Speaker 2: we'll see. We're close. We're close. So Platner actually won
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Speaker 2: last night, was quite shocking. He won big too. He
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Speaker 2: got seventy five percent of the vote. That's pretty amazing.
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Speaker 2: Platner actually wins big. Now he's going after Collins. That's
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Speaker 2: his whole thing. He immediately in the in the victory speech,
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Speaker 2: just shifted right away going after Colins.
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Speaker 3: Susan Collins has used her privilege and power to funnel
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Speaker 3: sixty million dollars in federal contracts, sixty million of our
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Speaker 3: tax dollars to her lobbyist husband. If that's not corruption,
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Speaker 3: I don't know what is.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like Kathy Hockel, sounds like that's like half the Congress.
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Speaker 2: If you're against that, I don't know where you're going
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Speaker 2: to Congress where everybody does that there. But you see,
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Speaker 2: he's becoming Trump. Now, he's going to be coming after me.
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Speaker 2: It's not me thereafter, it's you there after you, And
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Speaker 2: he's going to do all the Trump stuff. He's going
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Speaker 2: to be the new Trump.
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Speaker 3: I will stand up for you and against billionaires and
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Speaker 3: greedy corporations. I will serve you the people of May,
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Speaker 3: not some lobbyist or party boss. I will be the
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Speaker 3: champion for your dreams as if it were my own,
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Speaker 3: no matter the challenge or the expense.
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Speaker 2: Now, in Trump's case, was going for the deep state,
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Speaker 2: but he basically stole Trump's twenty sixteen convention speech. But
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Speaker 2: he's going to go after the billionaires and the big corporations.
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Speaker 2: Now it's main. I don't think there's any billionaires there.
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Speaker 2: Maybe there's two corporations. It's not a big billionaire corporate
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Speaker 2: kind of a place Maine. But that's a difference. It
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Speaker 2: sounded good.
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Speaker 3: If you believe as I do that we can change
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Speaker 3: our politics and change our country, then you must also
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Speaker 3: believe that people can change.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's referring to all the horrible things he has
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Speaker 2: done and said, all the horrible things he put online,
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Speaker 2: all the horrible things he tweeted, all the disgusting things
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Speaker 2: he said. He's changed now. The only thing is he's
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Speaker 2: forty one, and one of these horrible things were like
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Speaker 2: a year ago he was forty. I mean, I could
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Speaker 2: see if you were sixteen and now you're forty one,
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Speaker 2: you changed. How much could you change from a year ago?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. So Nancy Mace, who went against Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump and then he went against her, just got wiped
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Speaker 2: out last night. I mean, a total embarrassing disaster, showing
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Speaker 2: she didn't come in third place, she didn't come in
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Speaker 2: fourth place. She came in a very distant fifth place.
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Speaker 2: She had all kinds of explanations for why, apparently I
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Speaker 2: chose wrong.
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Speaker 5: If the goal was winning an election.
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Speaker 6: I'm at peace with that, because when a candidate is
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Speaker 6: okay with corruption, when a candidate is okay with cover ups,
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Speaker 6: something is broken.
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Speaker 5: And that's not political opinion. That is a moral emergency.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's not her fault. It's your fault. It's
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Speaker 2: all your fault. One of the things that screwed her
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Speaker 2: up was Epstein. She got so busy attacking Trump over Epstein.
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Speaker 2: There's nobody that had less to do with Epstein than Trump.
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Speaker 2: If you read now the Epstein files, you see that
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Speaker 2: there were bitter enemies. Epstein hated Trump and was always
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Speaker 2: out to get them. But many of these people can
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Speaker 2: remember the Epstein files. He was a horrible guy, and
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Speaker 2: he had this thing for underage women personally, that's what
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Speaker 2: he did. Had nothing to do with these other guys
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Speaker 2: except maybe Prince Andrew. Maybe there were one or two
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Speaker 2: friends that were in on that. But all of these
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Speaker 2: other guys with Epstein, you can read all this in
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Speaker 2: the files. They were just after women, adult women. That's
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Speaker 2: what Epstein had, adult women all over the place at
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Speaker 2: his parties. He was always introducing you to adult women.
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Speaker 2: That's what Clinton liked. That's what all these guys liked,
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Speaker 2: the underage women. That was him on the side privately,
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Speaker 2: but they had themselves convinced that it was underage women.
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Speaker 2: For everybody. There was a client list. You never had
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Speaker 2: a sex business. There were no clients. So she went
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Speaker 2: crazy pushing this Epstein file and it just did her in.
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Speaker 2: She mentioned that last night I voted to.
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Speaker 5: Release the Epstein files and lost some support for that.
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Speaker 5: As a survivor, I chose to stand on principle and
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Speaker 5: stand against.
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Speaker 7: The Epstein cover.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but the files are out. Read them. There's
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Speaker 2: nothing in there. Nothing. The only thing in there about
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Speaker 2: Trump is how much Epstein hated him. So they were
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Speaker 2: not friends a million years ago. For two seconds they were.
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Speaker 2: But you know who's got to testify today. In fact,
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Speaker 2: he's already there. Bill Gates has to testify in front
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Speaker 2: of the Congressional Committee about Epstein. Now it's going to
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Speaker 2: be behind closed doors, but later today stuff will leak
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Speaker 2: out from the way he's been behaving on this. He
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Speaker 2: has been confessing even to his employees. Again with Gates,
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Speaker 2: it was older women. It was not underage women. But
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Speaker 2: with Epstein, it was a lot of women. For Gates,
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Speaker 2: a lot of women, and they were older women. But
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Speaker 2: he's going to have to testify. He'll be under oath
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Speaker 2: all day to day. He's going to have to testify
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Speaker 2: about this. I have a feeling he'll confess to a
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Speaker 2: lot of stuff on the way in. He said to reporters,
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Speaker 2: I'm glad to be here to you know, do what
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Speaker 2: I can to help. I'm glad, trust me, the last
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Speaker 2: thing on Earth he wants to do is go under
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Speaker 2: oath and testify about Epstein. He's glad to be here.
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Speaker 2: So he didn't look at him. He didn't look so
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Speaker 2: glad to be there. But that's coming up. Hey, the Artemis.
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Speaker 2: They've announced the new Artemis Astronauts. This is the new
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Speaker 2: lunar mission.
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Speaker 8: The crew will fly their journey in lower th orbit
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Speaker 8: on a circular trajectory around Earth Oriyan in the Blue
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Speaker 8: Origin Lander design well rendezvous in space, spending about two
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Speaker 8: days in docked operations, conducting test technology demonstrations, including inside
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Speaker 8: of Blue Origin spacecraft.
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Speaker 2: Does this sound like a lot of fun to you
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Speaker 2: in this little capsule up there practicing docking? I mean,
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Speaker 2: out of all the things you could be doing in life,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't rather be watching the Knicks to night? Who wants
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Speaker 2: to be in this space capsule around in the.
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Speaker 8: Area intended doc perform integrated stack? Have crew crossed the hatch?
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Speaker 2: I mean? Is that your idea of fun? Integrated stack
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Speaker 2: control crossing the hatch? Is this what you like to
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Speaker 2: do all day for a living.
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Speaker 8: The lander and get critical test of the life support
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Speaker 8: systems that can only be done in space.
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Speaker 2: All right, so they're happy about it. Now the next
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Speaker 2: lunar landing, I think it's not for a while, and
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Speaker 2: they said they're going to stay there for a while.
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Speaker 2: You see these pictures of the moon, so look like
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Speaker 2: a place you'd like to hang out. It looks like
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Speaker 2: a lot of fun to be up there. I mean
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Speaker 2: you get to look all the way back at the Earth,
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Speaker 2: but just looking back at what you're missing down there. Hey,
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Speaker 2: we'll get to Scott Pelley coming up, the most pompous
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Speaker 2: man ever, will play more of his interviews. He was
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Speaker 2: the king of fake news. Scott Pelly, Leslie Stall and
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Speaker 2: the others they're staying with sixty Minutes and apparently the
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Speaker 2: new owner. It's David Ellison, who's the chairman, the owner,
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Speaker 2: the whole, the big boss. Apparently he called Leslie Stall
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Speaker 2: at home on Sunday and had a nice conversation with her,
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Speaker 2: happy that she's going to stay. Stall is eighty four
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Speaker 2: years old, which is young for a sixty Minutes correspondent,
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Speaker 2: but she told the staff that she had a nice
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Speaker 2: talk with Allison. He called her this is good just
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Speaker 2: to upset Scott Belly. Why did he call her? Why
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Speaker 2: did he not call me? I'm Scott Belly. So and
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Speaker 2: they also, you know, they're about to buy CNN Paramount
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Speaker 2: sky Dance is about to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery. CNN's
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Speaker 2: in there. They announced that Barry Weiss will also run CNN.
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Speaker 2: So you guys over there at CNN, you old old
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Speaker 2: fake news guys, I don't know. Now, you gotta remember,
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Speaker 2: Barry Weiss is not a Republican. She's not a conservative,
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Speaker 2: she's a Democrat. She's from the New York Times. All
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Speaker 2: these people are putting in her Democrats. They're not Trump's,
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Speaker 2: they're not right wing Republican types. But if you're over
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Speaker 2: there at CNN, they got to have to change things.
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Speaker 2: CNN has no ratings, no audience. It's basically failing. And
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Speaker 2: you got guys there making a fortune. You know, you
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Speaker 2: got like, hey, wolf Blitzer, very nice guy, but get
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Speaker 2: millions and millions, and it's really not worth it anymore.
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Speaker 2: Do you know anybody that says, oh, look what time
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Speaker 2: it is, Oh I gotta go watch wolf Blitzer. Nobody's
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Speaker 2: tuning in for wolf Blitzer, nobody else what time he's on.
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Speaker 2: Do you have any idea what time he's on? No,
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Speaker 2: So they're going to try to trim the fat over there,
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Speaker 2: the big bloated budget. So some of those guys should
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Speaker 2: be worried. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred
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Speaker 2: three to two one zero seven ten is the number
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Speaker 2: eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Piece, mister
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Speaker 2: New York Mark Simone, wor Hey, we'll take some calls.
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
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Speaker 2: the number eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Peter in Jersey City. Peter, how you doing.
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Speaker 9: I'm good, Mark, thanks for taking the call. Just two things.
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Speaker 9: First of all, go back to the beginning. And we
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Speaker 9: all know that President Trump exaggeration. You know he always
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Speaker 9: does that. But they did not finish what they started.
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Speaker 2: What are we talking about. Give us a clue as
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Speaker 2: to what you're talking to.
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Speaker 10: The war?
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Speaker 2: The war, well, let's not finish yet.
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Speaker 9: It did not finish yet.
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Speaker 2: I know it's not finished yet. It's in the middle.
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Speaker 9: Well, they dealing with disease minds.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we know that. I think the idea here is
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Speaker 2: he'd liked to negotiate a settlement and you could finish it.
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Speaker 2: You could just go wipe everybody out. That's not tough
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Speaker 2: for our military to do. I think he wants to
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Speaker 2: get a settlement, make a deal, and not have to
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Speaker 2: kill everybody and anybody and wipe everything out. Also, you
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Speaker 2: got to number. You could take out all their oil facilities.
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Speaker 2: You could take out carg Island. You could take out everything,
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Speaker 2: but then it'll be years before they can produce oil again.
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Speaker 2: So that would keep the price of oil high for
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Speaker 2: a long time. So they'd like to do this the nicest,
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Speaker 2: easiest way. But if you have to, it can go
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Speaker 2: back in. You could wipe out everybody. You could finish
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Speaker 2: the job whenever you want. You could finish it, but
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Speaker 2: I think you'd rather do it through a deal. Let's
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Speaker 2: go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim, how you doing?
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Speaker 11: Mark? I was listening to two morons on TV last night,
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Speaker 11: Stephen A. Smith and Chris Cuomo, and Stephen A. Smith
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Speaker 11: was talking about how Trump cost the Knicks the game
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Speaker 11: and he's going to cost him the series, and how
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Speaker 11: those poor people couldn't have their block party because the
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Speaker 11: Knicks having won in the titles is nineteen seventy three,
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Speaker 11: when they won in seven games with my man Will
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Speaker 11: Clyde Fraser was Stephen Smith. In nineteen seventy three, the
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Speaker 11: Knicks won in five games in Los Angeles because I
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Speaker 11: remember watching the game till one in the morning, Mark,
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Speaker 11: it was Jill Russell and Keith Jackson doing the game
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Speaker 11: him on ABC. The game started ten o'clock our time.
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Speaker 11: So for all the money, this clown makes Mark Stephen A.
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Speaker 11: Smith the gay. Nineteen seventy three, the Knicks one in
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Speaker 11: five games, not seven.
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Speaker 2: Well, listen, you can make us. Stephen A. Smith a
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Speaker 2: nice guy, not too bright. He's not the brightest guy
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Speaker 2: in the world. But he's colorful. He's got a lot
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Speaker 2: of energy, he's animated. He's good on TV. You know,
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Speaker 2: he's one of those guys you just want to keep watching.
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Speaker 2: He's got a lot of personality.
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Speaker 11: I think he got mixed up, Mark, because the Knicks
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Speaker 11: won it in seventy I.
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Speaker 2: Understand that's that doesn't mean every if you talk for
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Speaker 2: ten million hours on the air, you're going to make
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Speaker 2: a mistake somewhere in there. Yeah, I've done it. Everybody's
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Speaker 2: done it. Everybody's done that. Yeah, no, every so often
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Speaker 2: you say something, you got your fact wrong or so
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Speaker 2: it happens. But again, he's a He's a great personality,
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Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith, but not the brightest guy in the world. Well,
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Speaker 2: let's go to Kevin in New Jersey. Kevin, how you doing?
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Speaker 10: Listen little how we are you good? There's a miss smart.
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Speaker 10: There's a game show that comes on at night. There
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Speaker 10: are six celebrities. And what's nice about it? When when
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Speaker 10: a question comes.
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Speaker 2: Are you talking about that at midnight on Sittney Channel
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Speaker 2: two CBS. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the New Byron Show.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. And a thing I like about it is that
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Speaker 10: when I asked a question or your celebrities give out
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Speaker 10: nice jokes and they're very smart. I'll tell you something,
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Speaker 10: if you could have one of those celebrities on your show,
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Speaker 10: it'll be very good, very good.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well, maybe maybe you should leave the programming.
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Speaker 10: To us, right, I like how you work.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. You didn't notice it's
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Speaker 2: a good show. It's a very good show. Byron Allen
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Speaker 2: produces it. You didn't notice it. They just out and
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Speaker 2: out copied Hollywood squares.
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Speaker 10: Well, no, they're not really. I notice that they're up there.
19:57
Speaker 10: I know that they're they're updoing.
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Speaker 2: It's fascinating he can get away with that. It's a
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Speaker 2: cheap version of Hollywood Squares. Byron Allen just copied Hollywood
20:07
Speaker 2: Squares and the same thing, although it's cheaper. It's a
20:10
Speaker 2: much cheaper version. Instead of nine celebrities, it's six celebrities.
20:14
Speaker 2: Instead of a huge, huge audience, it's a small audience.
20:17
Speaker 2: And it's the same. It's Hollywood Squares. They ask a
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Speaker 2: question and then first the celebrity gives a very funny
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Speaker 2: answer that the writers gave him, and then after everybody
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Speaker 2: laughs and he's done, then he gives a real answer.
20:29
Speaker 2: It's Hollywood Squares, but it's very well done. It's on
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Speaker 2: CBS instead of Colbert, they've replaced it with two Byron
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Speaker 2: Allen shows. He has the whole hour. First half hour
20:41
Speaker 2: is Comics Unleashed. It's a bunch of committed it's just
20:44
Speaker 2: like Gutfeld. It's four comedians and chairs and they're discussing topics.
20:48
Speaker 2: The only difference is no politics, no politics. And then
20:52
Speaker 2: the second half hour is the game show. That's a
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Speaker 2: total copy of Hollywood Squares, but it's very good. Let's
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Speaker 2: go to John and Queen's John you doing.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, I'd like to ask you about that. The basketball game.
21:05
Speaker 12: I don't think it was spare one that. I don't
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Speaker 12: know what his name. The tour guy on.
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Speaker 2: The on Texas the Spurs, what's his name? Wimbley?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, the tour guy pushed what's his name on
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Speaker 12: the fraud. I don't think that's spare Well.
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Speaker 2: It's basketball. You know, anything can happen. Now, you're not
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Speaker 2: the only one, even the coaches complaining about the referees.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
21:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that gets seven foot four guy. I mean
21:35
Speaker 2: sometimes he jumps up there and he's above the basket.
21:37
Speaker 2: He just drops it into the basket. But he did.
21:39
Speaker 2: There was some pushing and shoving, and they're complaining about
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Speaker 2: their refs.
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Speaker 7: Maybe we fouled that many times, but they fouled too,
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Speaker 7: and it's not shown at the end of the day
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Speaker 7: on this box score.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so a lot of people think what went wrong
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Speaker 2: Monday night. It wasn't Trump being there. Maybe it was
21:57
Speaker 2: Mom Donnie being there, but no, it was the referee.
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Speaker 2: They kept calling fouls on the Knicks but not on
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Speaker 2: the Spurs.
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Speaker 7: I never thought I'd be in the NBA Finals and
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Speaker 7: see a team get twenty four free throw attempts in
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Speaker 7: the second half to none of the team's eight. There
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Speaker 7: were opportunities for fouls to be called.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. Twenty four free throws. Yeah, okay,
22:25
Speaker 2: Well that can change the outcome of a game. That's
22:28
Speaker 2: I think what really happened there. Hey, when we come back,
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Speaker 2: we'll talk to the brilliant columnist Liz Peak. Lots of
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Speaker 2: stuff to talk to her about next, and don't forget,
22:37
Speaker 2: we'll get to Scott Pelly, the most pompous man ever,
22:41
Speaker 2: coming up a little later on Welcome back to the
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Speaker 2: Mark Simone Show.
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Speaker 4: Live from the Doubo r Life Back studios.
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Speaker 2: Well, Liz Peak, the brilliant columnist, the Fox News contributor,
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Speaker 2: reader columns at Foxnews dot com or The Hill dot com.
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Speaker 2: Check out lizpeak dot com and of course follow her
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Speaker 2: on Twitter and she's with us now. Liz Peak, how
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Speaker 2: you doing.
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Speaker 1: I'm great? Thank you for having me on Mark.
23:11
Speaker 2: Hey last night, what'd you think the primaries? I know
23:14
Speaker 2: you thought Platner would win, but did you think he'd
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Speaker 2: win that big?
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Speaker 9: Well?
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Speaker 1: Who was the competition? All these headlines about Platner winning
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Speaker 1: the primary? Did you think that Janet Mills was going
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Speaker 1: to get a big following after she dropped out of
23:28
Speaker 1: the race, or you know, one of the other I mean, honestly,
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised that everyone is highlighting that race
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Speaker 1: when no one ever mentioned any other name race. Have
23:41
Speaker 1: you ever seen I mean honestly, I've seen no commentary
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Speaker 1: about who else was running. So yes, I think it's
23:49
Speaker 1: By the way, it's not just that there was no competition,
23:52
Speaker 1: it's also the Plattner's following is energized. They wanted to
23:58
Speaker 1: show the world that no matter whether he's a Nazi
24:01
Speaker 1: and he's a person who is harmful to women, and
24:07
Speaker 1: he's a liar, and he's a fraud and all the
24:09
Speaker 1: things that I think you and I would agree on, boy,
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Speaker 1: they're in for the long run and they couldn't be
24:14
Speaker 1: happier to support it. The question is whether that lasts
24:18
Speaker 1: two November, whether there are other allegations that come out,
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Speaker 1: whether Susan Collins begins to punch back what she needs
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Speaker 1: to do so you know, we'll see. I don't think
24:29
Speaker 1: this story is written, so.
24:31
Speaker 2: Then is it. What would you have to do to
24:33
Speaker 2: turn off Democratic voters if the Nazi tattoo and the
24:36
Speaker 2: other stuff doesn't do it, what would you have to do?
24:39
Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 1: I think again, Remember who votes in the primaries, Mark,
24:43
Speaker 1: it's the extreme on both sides. The extreme right comes
24:47
Speaker 1: out to vote, the extreme left comes out to vote.
24:50
Speaker 1: It is not all those centrist main voters who have
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Speaker 1: supported Susan Collins and defied her mediocre polling for decades.
25:01
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Susan Collins is a non Trump Republican.
25:06
Speaker 1: That is a pretty safe place to be, I think
25:09
Speaker 1: in the state of Maine. Obviously, between now and November.
25:14
Speaker 1: If we do not see a resolution of the Iran war,
25:18
Speaker 1: if oil prices fight because we run out of crude inventories,
25:22
Speaker 1: if any number of a dozen things happen that basically
25:26
Speaker 1: worsen the people's perceptions of the administration, obviously Republicans are
25:32
Speaker 1: going to take it on the chin, including someone like
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Speaker 1: Susan Collins, who again is not a Trump Republican. But
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Speaker 1: you know, failing that, if we just have sort of
25:42
Speaker 1: neutral ground, if we get through this Iran war, if
25:46
Speaker 1: oil prices and gasoline prices come back, I just think
25:49
Speaker 1: a lot of the energy behind someone like Grand Platner
25:52
Speaker 1: goes away.
25:53
Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, let's peak He wrote an excellent column it's
25:57
Speaker 2: up on foxnews dot com about Democrats and turning their
26:01
Speaker 2: back on Israel, their anti Israel stuff. It's shocking. But
26:07
Speaker 2: when is this ever going to end? This anti Israel
26:10
Speaker 2: nonsense by the Democrats.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. And I think it's astonishing that the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party, now seventy two percent of the party now
26:21
Speaker 1: thinks we should not be supporting Israel, we should not
26:24
Speaker 1: give any aid to Israel. That's really concentrated amongst young voters.
26:28
Speaker 1: Young voters have been convinced by their left leaning faculties
26:34
Speaker 1: that Israel is the villain in the Middle East. I mean,
26:36
Speaker 1: it's a pretty astonishing thing when both left and right
26:41
Speaker 1: have taken on Israel for various issues. On the left,
26:45
Speaker 1: it's all about values. Right, it's about colonialism and this
26:50
Speaker 1: spurious charge of genocide against the Palestinian people. People should
26:55
Speaker 1: remember the Palestinians voted in Hamas a terror organization. Hamas
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Speaker 1: killed twelve hundred Israelis on October seven, twenty twenty three,
27:08
Speaker 1: for no reason whatsoever except that they were going to
27:10
Speaker 1: a concert and Hamas wants to kill Jews. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it is an appalling organization. My point in this article,
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Speaker 1: Mark is not that everyone has to support Israel, but
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Speaker 1: if you don't, you have to fess up to who
27:24
Speaker 1: is who you are supporting. Are you supporting Hamas and
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Speaker 1: Hezbala and the Hutis, the proxies of Iran that carry
27:34
Speaker 1: out their dirty work? Are you just basically pro Iran
27:37
Speaker 1: because Israel's at war with Iran? There is no neutral territory.
27:41
Speaker 1: It's a binary choice. So you know, you can sort
27:45
Speaker 1: of say a pops on both their houses. That's kind
27:47
Speaker 1: of understandable. We don't necessarily have to engage in every
27:52
Speaker 1: Middle East conflict emotionally or militarily, but you can't really
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Speaker 1: say that I'm against Israel and not claim ye four.
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Speaker 1: I think what's interesting is on the right, the American
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Speaker 1: far right now, like Tucker Carlson, some of these people
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Speaker 1: are saying, well, we have no self interest in defending Israel.
28:12
Speaker 1: We are not aligned with Israel. You know, there is
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Speaker 1: credibly no other nation, there's maybe one or two nations
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Speaker 1: in the entire world that have the military, intelligence and
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Speaker 1: technology capabilities of Israel that makes them an important ally
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Speaker 1: no matter what. Consider the intelligence we get from Masade, well,
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Speaker 1: probably the best intelligence organization on Earth, not just about
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Speaker 1: what's going on in the Middle East, but also about
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Speaker 1: what's going on in Russia, what's going on in China.
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Speaker 1: Masad is everywhere, and they are incredibly capable, and we
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Speaker 1: use their intelligence and yes, we share intelligence with them. Militarily,
28:56
Speaker 1: Israel has an incredibly strong and capable army, which we
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Speaker 1: have seen because we're not the only people fighting in Iran.
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Speaker 1: Israel is helping with that as well. And technologically it's
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Speaker 1: the biggest source of startups other than the US and
29:11
Speaker 1: the world. So which which really is beneficial to US?
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Speaker 1: Iran a hostilation that you know, talks about depth to
29:19
Speaker 1: America repeatedly and has nothing or Israel. I mean, it's
29:22
Speaker 1: just stupid.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what would the Middle East look like without Israel there?
29:26
Speaker 2: What would happen to the east of the country the.
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Speaker 1: Question, because by the way, it's not just Israel versus
29:31
Speaker 1: all of the Arab countries, it's and person nation whatever.
29:36
Speaker 1: It's also Shia Muslims versus Sunni Muslims. Israel is not
29:41
Speaker 1: the only problem that they have, and we've seen this
29:44
Speaker 1: and more right I being because Iran has taken on
29:46
Speaker 1: bombing Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, et cetera, Leben Jordan and other
29:53
Speaker 1: Gulf states that are now more or less aligned with Israel.
29:57
Speaker 1: So it, you know, to now sort of throw is
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Speaker 1: under the bus. It makes no sense whatsoever. But these
30:03
Speaker 1: people don't make sense.
30:04
Speaker 2: Hey, let's peak on Friday the big ipo SpaceX. Is
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Speaker 2: that going to be the most impressive IPO we've ever seen?
30:13
Speaker 2: Or is it going to be one big circus on Friday?
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Speaker 1: Well, I think what's interesting is that SpaceX is being
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Speaker 1: valued very very richly, at one hundred times last year's revenues,
30:26
Speaker 1: just as an example.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: A price tag that assumes everything goes right. It assumes
30:35
Speaker 1: that Elon Musk will be able to fairly soon commercialize
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Speaker 1: data centers in outer space and make all kinds of
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Speaker 1: technological breakthroughs with driverless cars, reusable rocket launchers, et cetera.
30:51
Speaker 1: I never bet against Elon Musk. I think the guy
30:54
Speaker 1: is brilliant. The question is whether all of that brilliance
30:57
Speaker 1: and excitement about this company has already the stock price.
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Speaker 1: The valuation price. I sort of think it is mark
31:04
Speaker 1: And you know, I've taught I've had dinner the other
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Speaker 1: night with a few people who, all of whom have
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Speaker 1: some position in SpaceX because of private investments and so forth,
31:15
Speaker 1: and there was a pretty good sense that they might
31:17
Speaker 1: take some money off the table, and I think that
31:19
Speaker 1: will keep the stock from you know, people are being
31:23
Speaker 1: paid out who've been involved with this thing for several years,
31:26
Speaker 1: and most have made multiples on their money. I think
31:30
Speaker 1: you'll see some profit taking. But again, do you want
31:33
Speaker 1: to own SpaceX or be involved for the long term? Yes,
31:37
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I would buy on the offering.
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Speaker 2: No, And that day if it'll probably go crazy. The
31:43
Speaker 2: price will just explode. But like the Tesla stock, it'll
31:49
Speaker 2: go After that, it'll bounce up and down. There's plenty
31:51
Speaker 2: of other times you can totally if you want to
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Speaker 2: get in totally.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, my view of the tech selloff
31:57
Speaker 1: and the volatility and tech stocks recently, A valuations are high.
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Speaker 1: Everybody knows that. But also you have two other big
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Speaker 1: IPOs coming and Tropic and Open AI, and we're going
32:09
Speaker 1: to see a lot of real data about how these
32:13
Speaker 1: companies are doing, what they're spending, what their capital expenditures
32:17
Speaker 1: look like, what their revenues look like. It takes a
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Speaker 1: little bit of the fantasyland aspect away from these valuations
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Speaker 1: and these investments and brings them down to earth. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's causing a little heartburn
32:31
Speaker 1: amongst the AI enthusiast crowd.
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Speaker 2: Liz Peak brilliant has always great stuff. Go to you
32:38
Speaker 2: can read Liz Peak's column Great Combat Israel at Foxnews
32:43
Speaker 2: dot com and The Hill dot com. The columns are
32:46
Speaker 2: up there, and follow her on Twitter and she's all
32:49
Speaker 2: over television, and check out lizpeak dot com. Lizpeak, thanks
32:54
Speaker 2: for being with us.
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Speaker 1: Mark, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 2: Take care all right, take care. Yes, SpaceX on Friday
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Speaker 2: price one hundred and thirty five dollars. It could go
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Speaker 2: absolutely crazy. It could go to two hundred five hundred twelvered.
33:09
Speaker 2: You never know. But remember after that, like every elon
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Speaker 2: musk Stock, it'll go up and there'll be plenty of
33:16
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Speaker 2: Well, Hey, a couple of beautiful days. Today. It'll be
33:53
Speaker 2: some rain here and there tonight too. The rain will
33:56
Speaker 2: get worse tomorrow. It might be some rain Friday night. Now,
33:59
Speaker 2: tonight is the big game, Madison Square Garden Game four. Now,
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Speaker 2: when the President came in, they created this frozen zone
34:09
Speaker 2: that was some thought way too big. It was like
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Speaker 2: thirty fifth Street down to thirtieth Street. It was like
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Speaker 2: five blocks. It was from sixth Avenue to eighth Avenue
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Speaker 2: is a big, huge frozen zone. But that's for the
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Speaker 2: President coming in. Well, for some stupid reason, they've decided
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Speaker 2: to do it again tonight for the game. So it'll
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Speaker 2: be a frozen zone from like sixth to eighth Avenue,
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Speaker 2: thirty fifth to thirtieth. Nobody will be allowed in unless
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Speaker 2: you have a ticket to the game. Now, there are
34:37
Speaker 2: restaurants and things in that frozen zone. I don't know
34:39
Speaker 2: how people get into them. I guess you got to
34:41
Speaker 2: prove you got a reservation or something like that. But
34:44
Speaker 2: it's going to cause a messy Nicks are not happy
34:47
Speaker 2: James Dolan the garden. They're not happy criticizing the mayor
34:51
Speaker 2: for sticking them with this frozen zone. I guess the
34:53
Speaker 2: reason is they don't want a big Watch party forming
34:56
Speaker 2: and getting out of hand like what happened in Bryant
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Speaker 2: Park the other Hey, we got a lot to get
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