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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: No. The Mark Simone Show. Nine till noon weekdays. More Mark. 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's the final Friday of summer. Autumn begins on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: so it should be a great weekend. It's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be warm. It's going to be like the high
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  Speaker 1: will be 70 tomorrow and on Sunday. But you've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to get to today. Mayor Mamdani... They put
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  Speaker 1: out a big announcement. It has his full name on it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what his middle name is? Did you
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  Speaker 1: know this? It says Mayor Zoran Kwame Mamdani. Zoran Kwame Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard him use this middle name before, but
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  Speaker 1: he's using it in the announcement. And the New York
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  Speaker 1: City Department of Transportation, Commissioner Mike Flynn, today unveiled, well,
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  Speaker 1: they want to redo Park Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: They want to completely screw up Park Avenue from 46th
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  Speaker 1: Street to 57th Street. In other words, from Grand Central
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  Speaker 1: Station all the way up to 57th. Picture Park Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: It's traffic on both sides. In the middle is a
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  Speaker 1: median with grass on it and trees and a little
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  Speaker 1: park on it. That's why they call it Park Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: It's very nice. I have walked up and down Park
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  Speaker 1: Avenue 50 billion times. Never once, ever, ever, ever. Did
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  Speaker 1: I ever see anybody on the grass on that median,
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  Speaker 1: sitting down, lying down? Never. Why would you sit there?
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  Speaker 1: You could go to Central Park, where it's a very
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  Speaker 1: nice park. If you were to sit on Park Avenue
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  Speaker 1: or lie down there in the sun, all you'd hear
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  Speaker 1: is traffic on both sides of you. And Park Avenue,
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  Speaker 1: between 46th and 57th, as you know, is just packed.
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  Speaker 1: It's bumper to bumper. It's crazy. So the Mamdani plan
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  Speaker 1: is they'll take that little park median in the middle
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  Speaker 1: and expand it. In other words, they'll take away half
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  Speaker 1: the lanes on Park Avenue. It's like, what is it,
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  Speaker 1: three lanes on each side? They'll cut that down to
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  Speaker 1: two lanes. It's already bumper to bumper on Park Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to make it even worse. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to screw up everything. And they'll put in a big,
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  Speaker 1: big grass median. in the middle, so big that it'll
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  Speaker 1: have a sidewalk in the middle of the grass. There's
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  Speaker 1: a sidewalk on either side of Park Avenue. We really
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  Speaker 1: don't need this third sidewalk. It's absolutely idiotic, absolutely insane.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna cost a fortune. It's a total waste of money.
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  Speaker 1: And not only is it a big, big, big, wide
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  Speaker 1: grass medium in the middle, but it curves a little.
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  Speaker 1: So there'll be choke points where At some points, Park
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  Speaker 1: Avenue is down to one lane. Do you know what
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  Speaker 1: that's going to do to traffic? It will basically eliminate
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  Speaker 1: Park Avenue for traffic because nobody's going to want to
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  Speaker 1: use it. They're going to stick to Lexington or Madison
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. So it's going to be screwing up all
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  Speaker 1: the other streets. This is an absolute disaster. Now, you're saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: why would they do it if it's going to completely
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  Speaker 1: destroy traffic and make a mess and screw up every
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  Speaker 1: car in Manhattan? Well, that's the reason. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: you driving anymore. It's the war on cars. It continues
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  Speaker 1: with this crazy mayor. Now, the only good news is, luckily,
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  Speaker 1: this mayor has no experience. He's never had a job
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  Speaker 1: in his life. And he could never seem to actually
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  Speaker 1: execute anything. So they put out the plans. They go
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  Speaker 1: before Manhattan Community Board 6. But remember, they never, ever, ever, ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever actually get anything done. So, Let's hope this never
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  Speaker 1: gets done. This will be an absolute disaster. Hey, once again,
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  Speaker 1: it's UN week. The UN General Assembly is already on,
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  Speaker 1: but the world leaders all come next week. So it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a big traffic nightmare. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: which day President Trump comes, but he'll come one day.
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  Speaker 1: And that will completely screw everything up. Fake news is
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  Speaker 1: all over the place here. Pete Hegseth. They're going after
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  Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth. He's doing a big speech, and he's demanding
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  Speaker 1: that the troops... next to him at the speech and
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  Speaker 1: behind him, be impeccably groomed. He's demanding impeccable grooming. They're
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  Speaker 1: going after Pete Hegseth for this. He is seeking fit,
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  Speaker 1: well-groomed troops to attend his State of the Forces address.
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  Speaker 1: Everything I've ever seen of the military... You're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be well-groomed. Doesn't the sergeant walk along and fix that collar?
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  Speaker 1: Comb your hair. I think that's part of the military.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to be well-groomed. And fit? I would assume
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  Speaker 1: every one of our troops are fit. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: the idea of the military, fit and well-groomed. I think
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be that way. But what are they
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  Speaker 1: trying to claim? That he's deliberately staging who's behind him?
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you. That's every politician.
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  Speaker 1: That's every political rally. They do that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's always done. If you're, you know, they all do it.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, everybody, they all do it. You know, Trump rallies,
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  Speaker 1: they're always careful to put minorities behind him. Lots of
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  Speaker 1: minority faces behind him because they thought that might help.
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  Speaker 1: If a guy wasn't great with the female vote, when
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  Speaker 1: he did a rally, they put all women behind him.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you need, you put it. It's always done that way.
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  Speaker 1: Perfectly normal. Hey, this Kennedy Center controversy. President Trump, now
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  Speaker 1: he sounds childish when he says, well, if I can't
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  Speaker 1: have my name on the building, we might tear it down.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds very childish, but I've heard him explain this
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  Speaker 1: at length. He has sort of a point. You know,
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  Speaker 1: whenever a place is in disrepair, whenever a great cultural
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  Speaker 1: institution needs to be repaired, fixed, it's usually the private sector,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Carnegie Hall or wherever. Usually a billionaire donates
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  Speaker 1: the money to fix it, and then they name the
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  Speaker 1: thing for him. If you go to Carnegie Hall, they
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  Speaker 1: have the Stern Auditorium. That's Leonard Stern. They have the
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  Speaker 1: main hall is the Perlman Stage. That's Ron Perlman. Wherever
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  Speaker 1: you go, you go to cultural institutions, you go to
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  Speaker 1: the museum, the Tisch Wing of the museum, because they
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  Speaker 1: spent the money to pay for the whole thing and
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  Speaker 1: fix it up. So Trump has a point there. If
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be the one, he's going to put
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  Speaker 1: in the money. And he's the one that fixes it.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to. It's tradition that you get your name
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  Speaker 1: somewhere on the building. You know, you don't change the
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  Speaker 1: name of Carnegie Hall, but you name the stage after
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  Speaker 1: the guy. Something. So he's not saying take the name
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy Center off. He's just saying put his name somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the building. So he's right. That's typically done. But
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  Speaker 1: this is different. It's a public building. It's a government-run building.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know. Reporters asked him
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 2: For the Trump administration, for me, to get involved and
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  Speaker 2: to take that on long term and to carry it
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  Speaker 2: or to raise money to carry it, I think that
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  Speaker 2: the Trump administration should certainly have recognition. Because frankly, if
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  Speaker 2: we don't do that, it's going to close.
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  Speaker 1: It'll end up being ripped down.
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  Speaker 2: It's in very, very bad shape.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, maybe it's been a
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  Speaker 1: little childish, but he's got a point there. So if
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  Speaker 1: he does nothing, the building will collapse at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently it's in total disrepair, been neglected for years. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a government that's been running it and doing the construction.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently they've done it all wrong through the years. Pipes
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  Speaker 1: are all mismatched and they've had tremendous water intrusion, which
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  Speaker 1: is making the building crumble. That's why two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: a big chunk of the ceiling just caved in, just
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  Speaker 1: fell down right over the lobby. That's usually where everybody's waiting.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily it was, you know, the weekend the place was closed,
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  Speaker 1: but had that fallen when the place was open, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people would have been injured or killed with
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  Speaker 1: all that ceiling falling on them. So pretty, pretty, pretty
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  Speaker 1: bad stuff. Hey, that Macklemore, who was Ed Sheeran's opening act,
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  Speaker 1: making all kinds of stink and noise and everything, but
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  Speaker 1: Robert Kraft and all the, it wasn't just Kraft, it
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  Speaker 1: was a bunch of owners of stadiums that didn't want
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  Speaker 1: this anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, awful Macklemore appearing in their place. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: and if you own the venue, of course you can
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  Speaker 1: decide who appears there. You know, if Nazis wanted to
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  Speaker 1: rent your venue, of course you can say no to them.
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  Speaker 1: And if Ed Sheeran wants to rent it, great. But
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  Speaker 1: if he's going to have Macklemore, you can say no.
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  Speaker 1: Perfectly fine. Macklemore huffing and puffing and yelling and screaming.
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  Speaker 1: But listen to John Fetterman, who's usually the voice of reason.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to Fetterman on Macklemore.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't that guy get the irony? of saying and doing
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  Speaker 3: that at a musical festival when 10-7 started, when Hamas
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  Speaker 3: showed up to kill people during a concert at Nova.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, good point. The Hamas Holocaust, the genocide that Hamas committed,
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  Speaker 1: the rape, murder, mutilation, robbery, killing babies was during a
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  Speaker 1: music festival. So it is pretty ironic. Hey, here's a story.
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  Speaker 1: You will not hear this reported anywhere. Nobody will. You'll
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  Speaker 1: never see this in the New York Times. You will
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  Speaker 1: never see this on the network news. But numbers revealed
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  Speaker 1: Americans are now richer than ever. Household income has hit
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  Speaker 1: a record high, absolute record high. And over the last
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  Speaker 1: year and a half, the poverty rate fell to its
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  Speaker 1: lowest level ever. This is according to U.S. Census data.
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  Speaker 1: Real median income is up 3% year to year. This
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  Speaker 1: is inflation adjusted, by the way. The highest ever. Americans
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  Speaker 1: are richer than ever. Household income higher than ever. And
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  Speaker 1: the poverty rate fell to the lowest percentage ever. It's 10.2%.
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  Speaker 1: Lowest ever. Highest income ever in America. Lowest poverty rate
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  Speaker 1: ever in America. Pretty good news. So Michigan has got
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  Speaker 1: this crazy Abdul El-Sayed running. Democratic, socialist, friends with the lowest,
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  Speaker 1: most vile anti-Semite, Hassan Piker. Morning Joe having El-Sayed on
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  Speaker 1: for a whole half hour trying to push him over
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  Speaker 1: the finish line. It's a big thing for Elsa. I
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  Speaker 1: had to go do that Morning Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: That could be two, three hundred thousand viewers. In Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: probably three thousand viewers. Morning Joe mostly watched in New York,
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Middle of America, almost no viewership.
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  Speaker 1: But Chuck Schumer and his super PAC. He runs that
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  Speaker 1: Senate super PAC. Chuck Schumer is doubling down on. Hassan, uh, no,
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  Speaker 1: not Hassan Piker, Abdul El-Sayed, also a little anti-Semitic, but
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  Speaker 1: Schumer is going to go in there and spend an
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  Speaker 1: additional 10 million in the Michigan Senate race. You see
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  Speaker 1: the key to this, it's an open seat. It's an
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  Speaker 1: open seat. Uh, it had been held by the Democrats,
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  Speaker 1: but the guy retired. So if the Republicans take Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: which they most likely will, uh, then that's the key
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  Speaker 1: to the Senate. Republicans take Michigan, they win the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: So Democrats going crazy here. They're going to go spend
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  Speaker 1: $ 10 million there. Now remember, the Democrats don't have much money.
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  Speaker 1: The DNC has very little money. The RNC has been
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  Speaker 1: fundraising like crazy, has a $ 200 million war chest. So
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  Speaker 1: they can go in there and they can do all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of stuff. So figure Mike Rogers eventually wins a
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  Speaker 1: new poll. 71% think Trump administration lacks plan to end
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  Speaker 1: the Iran war. There's a bad part to this poll.
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  Speaker 1: Also in the poll, support to Israel drops to record low.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrible. Well, does he have a plan to end the,
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  Speaker 1: you don't really need a plan to end the Iran war.
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  Speaker 1: You can end it whenever you want. Just go in
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  Speaker 1: and wipe them out. He just, I don't know. It
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  Speaker 1: could be he doesn't have the nerve to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't want to do it. Doesn't, Want to see all
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  Speaker 1: that death? I don't know. Could be he's waiting until
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  Speaker 1: after the election to do something. Americans don't understand why
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  Speaker 1: we went in. Well, the reason, it's pretty simple, and
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  Speaker 1: he's explained that dozens of times, as has everybody else,
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  Speaker 1: explained this over and over again. They don't want Iran
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  Speaker 1: to have a nuclear weapon. The thinking is that once
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  Speaker 1: they have a nuclear weapon, it would be impossible to
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  Speaker 1: go to war with them. There's no way you could
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  Speaker 1: go in there and ever go to war with Iran
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  Speaker 1: if they have a nuclear weapon because they are lunatics
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  Speaker 1: and they would use it. So you got to make
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  Speaker 1: sure you do it before they have a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: So the reason we went in there, they had some uranium.
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  Speaker 1: They were enriching it. They claimed for commercial use, electricity, energy,
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  Speaker 1: that sort of stuff. But commercial use, you enrich it
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  Speaker 1: to 20%. Well, next thing you know, they enriched it
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  Speaker 1: to 40%. If you get to 90%, you got a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. 90% is.
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  Speaker 1: Nuclear weapon. Well, then they kept enriching, enriching, and they
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  Speaker 1: got it to 60%. 60% was two weeks away from 90%.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why we went in when we did and
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  Speaker 1: took out the reactors and all that. There were two
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  Speaker 1: weeks away from having 90%, which would have been the weapon. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: remember that passenger that was duct taped on the airplane?
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  Speaker 1: He was yelling and screaming, caused a tirade and yelling
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  Speaker 1: all the most disgusting stuff. And there were a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of guys on the plane that had to restrain him
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  Speaker 1: And they got duct tape and they tied him all up,
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  Speaker 1: duct taped him up, duct taped him up. Plane made
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  Speaker 1: an emergency landing. They had to arrest the guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: finally spoken out. And he claims he was drunk. But
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  Speaker 1: they checked. All he had was two orange juice and
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  Speaker 1: vodka cocktails. Orange juice and vodka. Two of them. Could
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  Speaker 1: two make you that crazy? I don't think so. The
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  Speaker 1: guy in the next seat said he was talking to him.
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  Speaker 1: They were casually chatting when suddenly he snapped. It was
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  Speaker 1: over religion. The topic turned to religion. You're sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a plane next to a guy. Who the hell talks
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  Speaker 1: about religion? First of all, who even talks to the
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  Speaker 1: person next to you? Even if you talk to the
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  Speaker 1: guy next to you, where are you going? What are
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  Speaker 1: you going to Chicago for? Oh, I'm going. Why would
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  Speaker 1: you even be talking about religion? But he said, the
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  Speaker 1: guy just snapped. He said, I've never seen someone change
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  Speaker 1: in a split second like that. Well, So it can't
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  Speaker 1: be the alcohol. It's got to be that he was just,
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  Speaker 1: the guy's just a lunatic. He was a real estate agent. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Case closed. Lunatic. No, I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good real estate agents. No, apparently he's been fired.
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  Speaker 1: He lost his job over this. I would hope so.
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  Speaker 1: He was hollering profanities, racial slurs, terrible stuff about Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and God. Arizona real, you know, see, Arizona. The heat,
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  Speaker 1: it gets to you after a while. Hey, we'll take
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  Speaker 1: some calls next, 800-321-0710 is the number. Call me right now,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're a new caller. We like lots of
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  Speaker 1: new callers.
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  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.