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

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Speaker 1: On seventen wr she's more of the marks emosia.
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Speaker 2: Well, a lot going on. So Nick Reiner, son of
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Speaker 2: Rob Reiner, should be in court for his first court
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Speaker 2: appearance later today. We'll see what happens there. There were
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Speaker 2: other people at that party the night before the Conan
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Speaker 2: O'Brien Christmas party. Jane Fonda was there and she tweets
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Speaker 2: Rob and Michelle Reiner were wonderful, caring, smart, funny, generous people,
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Speaker 2: always coming up with ideas for how to make the
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Speaker 2: world better kinder. Now that brings us back to the
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Speaker 2: question again. I talked to Rob Reiner a many many times.
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Speaker 2: He was a warm, fun sweet guy. So why when
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Speaker 2: it came to the Trump derangement syndrome was he so vicious?
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Speaker 2: If you look at my Twitter, there's a montage of
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Speaker 2: his tweets. I mean, they weren't just I don't like Trump,
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Speaker 2: I disagree with him on this, I don't think he's
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Speaker 2: right about this, or I hate when Trump does. They
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Speaker 2: were vicious, the F word, cursing and screaming, calling him
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Speaker 2: an f in rapist of this, I mean, just the worst,
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Speaker 2: hate filled And it's not just him, Many of these people,
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Speaker 2: many Hollywood types that you know and love and they're
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Speaker 2: lovable and sweet, and then when they get on the
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Speaker 2: subject of Trump, they become these raging, angry, vicious people.
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Speaker 2: What is it about Trump that does that? I mean,
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Speaker 2: we didn't like Joe Biden so much, but you didn't
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Speaker 2: get no rage about it. You said, you know, he
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Speaker 2: made fun of Biden bumping into walls and the way
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Speaker 2: he talked, and you hated his policy on the border,
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Speaker 2: and he didn't like Biden's law there. But you know,
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Speaker 2: I didn't stay up all night raging about it. We
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Speaker 2: didn't get into a There wasn't smoke coming out of
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Speaker 2: your ears, pham coming out of your mouth in a
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Speaker 2: mad rage talking about him. We just didn't like the guy.
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Speaker 2: But and again, Rob Reiner is a good example of
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Speaker 2: a very sweet, warm guy. Why how did he get
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Speaker 2: himself into such a rage about Trump? It's not just politics,
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Speaker 2: as I was saying before, he did a lot of
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Speaker 2: great work in politics. For many years before that. He
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Speaker 2: was working on programs for kids and children in trouble,
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Speaker 2: and he worked with the governor of California, not Newsome,
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Speaker 2: whoever it was back then, and the governor was so
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Speaker 2: impressed with this work. He put him in the head
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Speaker 2: of a committee and a commission, and Rob Reiner would
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Speaker 2: fly to a Sacramento to meet with the governor every
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Speaker 2: month and did excellent work of political work. You know,
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Speaker 2: whether he agreed with her or not, but he was
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Speaker 2: very reasonable guy who talked reasonably. That he'd run the
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Speaker 2: committee commission meetings. But when it came to Trump a
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Speaker 2: raging maniac about it. I don't know what that's just
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Speaker 2: him again. You see this all over. Check out some
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Speaker 2: of your favorite star on Facebook or Twitter or they're
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Speaker 2: like nuts when they talk about Trump. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: He just sets them off, and I don't nobody's ever
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Speaker 2: been able to really explain it now. Uh. Susie Wiles
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Speaker 2: is the chief of staff in the White House. She's
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Speaker 2: been excellent, best person Trump has had around him. She's
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Speaker 2: been in politics for a long time. She worked for DeSantis,
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Speaker 2: she worked in the Reagan administration back then. She was
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Speaker 2: Susie Summer All. Her father was Pat Summer. All. Susie
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Speaker 2: Wiles great and she stays behind the scenes, she stays
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Speaker 2: under the radar. She's not looking for any attention or publicity.
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Speaker 2: But she did this big interview with Vanity Fair where
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Speaker 2: she sat down with this big Vanity Fair writer for
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Speaker 2: like eleven hours and eleven different sessions. I don't know why. Now,
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Speaker 2: the guy does have a history of covering chiefs of
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Speaker 2: staff and has written extensively about them. But on the
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Speaker 2: other hand, the guy's a big Trump hater. It's Vanity Fair.
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Speaker 2: He's a you know, left wing Trump arrangement syndrome type.
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Speaker 2: I don't know why she sent down with him, but
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Speaker 2: she did, and a big, long interview has come out.
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Speaker 2: There's stuff in there that people are a little surprised by.
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Speaker 2: It just seemed like things she wouldn't want to say publicly.
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Speaker 2: She said, you know, she's talking about JD. Vance. She said, wow,
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Speaker 2: he was always a conspiracy theorist. And she's talking about revenge,
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Speaker 2: you know, law fair And I've tried to get Trump
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Speaker 2: to stop the law fair, to stop the revenge, stop
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Speaker 2: going after his enemies, and I tried to stop. You know,
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Speaker 2: why would you say this to Vanity Fair? Then at
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Speaker 2: one point she said, he's got an alcoholic personality in
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Speaker 2: that like an alcoholic when they're in that stage, they
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Speaker 2: think they can do anything. They believe they could get
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Speaker 2: away with anything, do anything. I mean, I don't know
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Speaker 2: why she would say this stuff. Now it wasn't an
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Speaker 2: off the record interview, or maybe it wasn't. The guy
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Speaker 2: violated it, but she hasn't said that. At one point
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Speaker 2: she denied one of these comments. She said, well, I
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Speaker 2: didn't actually say that, and then the guy produced a
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Speaker 2: tape of her saying, Now, what's made it even worse?
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Speaker 2: If you read the Vanity Fair lengthy article, most of it,
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Speaker 2: although some of it's negative, it's quite thoughtful and negative.
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Speaker 2: But the problem is, I guess they gave it to
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Speaker 2: the New York Times to write an article about the
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Speaker 2: Vanity Fair interview, and the New York Times guy when
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Speaker 2: he wrote it, because it's the New York Times, completely
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Speaker 2: distorted it. He took quotes out of context, and he
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Speaker 2: made everything sound fifty times worse than it actually was
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Speaker 2: in the interview. But the problem is most people don't
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Speaker 2: read Vanity Fair. You got to have a subscription and
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Speaker 2: pay for it. Most people, most of the world does
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Speaker 2: not read Vanity Fair. Very few people actually do. A
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Speaker 2: lot of people read the New York Times, so more
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Speaker 2: people will just read the New York Times summary of
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Speaker 2: the interview, and it's really taken out of context, slanted, bias, distorted,
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Speaker 2: So that's going to make it sound even worse. I mean,
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Speaker 2: President Trump won't like it when he reads it, but
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Speaker 2: somebody will have printed out the Vanity Fair article, the
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Speaker 2: actual article, and handed it to him. He'll see that
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Speaker 2: it looks a little better. There. What else is she
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Speaker 2: saying there? She said he didn't know Kallainne Maxwell got
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Speaker 2: moved to a nicer prison and he wasn't happy about it. Well,
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Speaker 2: I mean, if he was that unhappy, he could have
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Speaker 2: moved her back. But it's just not stuff you say,
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Speaker 2: especially if you're Susie wils who's an old Washington hand
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Speaker 2: who knows how things work. Yeah, it's one thing that
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Speaker 2: was Remember Anthony Scaramucci got himself in trouble. I don't
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Speaker 2: know why, but he started talking to the New York Times.
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Speaker 2: He thought it was off the record. He said awful things,
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Speaker 2: and well, oh, actually what happened was he said all
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Speaker 2: this awful stuff and then at the end of the
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Speaker 2: call he said, by the way, this is off the record.
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Speaker 2: Well he was an amateur at this, you know, coming
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Speaker 2: to Washington working in the White House politics, total amateur,
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Speaker 2: So he didn't know how things worked. He didn't know that.
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Speaker 2: You can't say at the end of the call it's
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Speaker 2: off the record. You have to get that set before
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Speaker 2: you start talking. That has to be done at the beginning.
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Speaker 2: So he didn't realize and at the end he said,
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Speaker 2: this is off the record. Well it's too late. Then
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Speaker 2: he didn't know that, so and then it got him fired.
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Speaker 2: He was I think they set the all time record
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Speaker 2: for shortest employment in the White House. It was like
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Speaker 2: a couple of days. And as they said, he got
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Speaker 2: fired before the first direct deposit even got to his bank.
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Speaker 2: Accainn for getting paid. Hey, Chuck Schumer has become the
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Speaker 2: most annoying guy in the world. There's this video that's
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Speaker 2: gone viral from the weekend where he's talked what was
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Speaker 2: he talking about. He was talking about the brown shooting
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Speaker 2: or the terrible tragedy in Australia, and he was just
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Speaker 2: awful about it, so tone deaf and weird. He's just
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Speaker 2: a cheap, fake, pandering politician. So he wants to address
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Speaker 2: the terrible tragedy. But listen to this guy, Listen to this.
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Speaker 2: This is just how bad he's become. Listen.
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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm going to say a few words about
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Speaker 1: the terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay, so in first,
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Speaker 1: of course, as I always say, no matter what, go Bills.
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Speaker 1: They beat the Patriots today, it's a big deal.
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Speaker 2: Everybody thought that was just awful. He's supposed to be
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Speaker 2: addressing this terrible shooting, this massacre in Ustry. Before that,
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Speaker 2: let's go Bill, he started talking about football game, and
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Speaker 2: everybody knows this guy's not a football fan. This guy's
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Speaker 2: never watched a football game in his life. He just
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Speaker 2: needs Upstate voters, so he's pandering. He has no interest
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Speaker 2: in the in the Buffalo Bills. And then he had
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Speaker 2: the nerve to say this yesterday. He's just the phoniest
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Speaker 2: guy in the world.
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Speaker 1: Listening to this and this tragedy in Sydney shows the
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Speaker 1: abject danger of letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action
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Speaker 1: go unchecked.
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Speaker 2: He's the guy that did that. He's the king of that.
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Speaker 2: You remember when the Jewish students were being terrorized at
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Speaker 2: Columbia University physically and mentally, the Jewish students living in
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Speaker 2: fear being terrorized, Remember the anti Semits were margin all
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Speaker 2: over the campus. Schumer went and hid, never said a
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Speaker 2: word in fact, people were yelling and screaming publicly, where's
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer? Why doesn't he do something? He never did,
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Speaker 2: never did anything the whole time that went on for
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Speaker 2: six months, the horrors of anti Semitism all over New York,
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Speaker 2: at NYU, at Columbia, everywhere. Schumer ran and hid, just
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Speaker 2: didn't do a damned thing about it. So for him
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Speaker 2: to have the nerve to say this.
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Speaker 1: And this tragedy in Sydney shows the abject danger of
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Speaker 1: letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action go unchecked.
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Speaker 2: Well, Schumer's the king of doing that. Oh but he
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Speaker 2: did it more than Schumer. So the gall of this
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Speaker 2: guy is just unbelievable. Oh, Howard Stern contract is up.
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Speaker 2: It's up tomorrow. That's the end of the Howard Stern contract.
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Speaker 2: You know, he had five year contracts, one after the
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Speaker 2: other with Sirius. When he left Terrestrial Radio went over
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Speaker 2: to Sirius. It was for a massive, crazy amount of money.
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Speaker 2: What was it hundred million a year? It was one
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Speaker 2: hundred million a year, I think. And then over the
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Speaker 2: years his audience dwindled a little. They didn't quite need
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Speaker 2: him as much anymore, and there was a period of
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Speaker 2: was it five years ago or ten years they decided
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Speaker 2: to cut him back from one hundred to like fifty
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Speaker 2: million a year. So the compromise was, instead of five
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Speaker 2: days a week, he would do three days a week
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Speaker 2: and he would get a lot more vacation. So they
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Speaker 2: cut him to fifty million. The contract's up. They don't
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Speaker 2: really need him anymore. He had a lot of listeners
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Speaker 2: in the beginning, but when he went totally woke, crazy
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Speaker 2: trumped arrangement syndrome, he lost an enormous amount of his
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Speaker 2: audience and very very very big loss of audience. So
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Speaker 2: the subscribers are just a fraction of what they were.
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Speaker 2: So they really don't want to pay them all that
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Speaker 2: money anymore. So there was a massive pay cut coming
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Speaker 2: or just get rid of them all together. Well, they've
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Speaker 2: been in talks and they reached an agreement over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Howard Stern will stay. Now he's being very fuzzy about
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Speaker 2: how he's staying. He just said, signed a new contract
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Speaker 2: and I've decided to stay another three years. And he
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Speaker 2: said I was able to win it all, get it all,
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Speaker 2: get everything I want. And then he kept talking about
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Speaker 2: free time, how free time is the most valuable thing
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Speaker 2: he wants his free time. He said, I've worked all
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Speaker 2: my life. I need me time, free time to do
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Speaker 2: what I want. Well, it's a three year contract, which
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Speaker 2: is less than five years. When they cut the length
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Speaker 2: of the contract down, that's a lack of confidence. Now,
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Speaker 2: the most insulting thing you can get in broadcasting is
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Speaker 2: a one year contract. They didn't do that to him,
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Speaker 2: and he knows that's too insulting, that would be humiliating.
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Speaker 2: So he got a three year contract. They wouldn't give
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Speaker 2: him a five year deal. They got a three year deal.
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Speaker 2: And nobody knows the details. Some are speculating he's going
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Speaker 2: to work one day a week. That he's taken a
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Speaker 2: massive pay cut, and so in exchange for that, it'll
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Speaker 2: be something like one day a week or something like that.
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Speaker 2: He already in the last contract when he took the
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Speaker 2: huge pay cut, went to some ridiculous amount of vacation time.
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Speaker 2: It's like thirty weeks of vacation a year. So this
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Speaker 2: will probably be like one day, two days a week,
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Speaker 2: very few weeks a year. They have the right to
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Speaker 2: all his old shows. He's got a ton of old shows.
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Speaker 2: I think they have the rights to him for the
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Speaker 2: next twelve years, so they'll still be a stern channel,
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Speaker 2: but it'll be very few live shows. The details again,
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Speaker 2: the fact that he's not explaining the details means they're
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Speaker 2: not impressive to him. So we'll see. Hey, the healthcare
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Speaker 2: situation got to do something. Healthcare costs are scheduled to
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Speaker 2: just explode increase. Everybody'll paying a lot more for healthcare.
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Speaker 2: It's because of Obamacare turned out not to work. The
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Speaker 2: whole idea of Obamacare was a disaster for two reasons. One,
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Speaker 2: if you have the government take over a business, it's
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Speaker 2: going to cost a lot more money because government is
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Speaker 2: all bloat, waste, fraud. So if the private sector were
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Speaker 2: running healthcare, they would streamline it get the cost down.
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Speaker 2: If you put it all into government running, it cost
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Speaker 2: go way up. The other problem was the idea of
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Speaker 2: Obamacare was you'd force or you'd force everybody on it. Now,
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Speaker 2: older people use a lot of health care. They got
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Speaker 2: all kinds of serious medical things. It costs a fortune,
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Speaker 2: so the insurance comes got to pay a fortune for
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Speaker 2: these older people. But the idea was you get all
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Speaker 2: the younger people, people in the twenties thirties, They never
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Speaker 2: get any healthcare. They don't need anything, so they're paying
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Speaker 2: in and taking nothing out. So all the money they're
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Speaker 2: paying in will pay for the old people who were
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Speaker 2: taking money out. Well, that idea of forcing everybody on
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Speaker 2: it didn't pass. They couldn't get that through, so the
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Speaker 2: younger people are not forced to be on it. And
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Speaker 2: younger people twenties, thirties, they don't need health care coverage.
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Speaker 2: They don't have any big healthcare needs, so they weren't
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Speaker 2: buying Obamacare. They didn't buy it, they rejected it. So
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Speaker 2: all you had were the older people taking money out.
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Speaker 2: You didn't have the younger people putting money in, so
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Speaker 2: the whole thing fell apart. That's why they're talking about subsidies.
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Speaker 2: You know, it was called the Affordable Care Act, but
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Speaker 2: it got so out of control that nobody could afford it,
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Speaker 2: so you had to have subsidies to pay for it.
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Speaker 2: Obviously it was affordable, you wouldn't need the subsidies. So
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Speaker 2: Democrats would like to just keep the subsidies, keep the
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Speaker 2: taxpayers funding it. But Trump, and he's probably right about this,
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Speaker 2: you got to redo this whole thing. You got to
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Speaker 2: get the government out of it, you got to make
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Speaker 2: it efficient and make it work, so make the cost
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Speaker 2: not astronomical. Then you got the crazy Democrats, Hakeem Jeffreys.
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Speaker 3: All we need are four House Republicans to join us.
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Speaker 3: They're two hundred and twenty of them. All we need
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Speaker 3: are four and we can extend the Affordable Care ACCIS
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Speaker 3: credits in a straightforward fashion.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Democrats don't mind big bloated government programs. You know,
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Speaker 2: Republicans too. Most of these Republicans just as bad as
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Speaker 2: the Democrats. They like these big bloated government programs. Why
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Speaker 2: because big bloated government programs. Why that means contracts. To
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Speaker 2: hand out massive contracts. You hand it out the donors
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Speaker 2: to people you want to have become donors. You can
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Speaker 2: make a lot of money for your campaign and for
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Speaker 2: your packs with these contracts. So that's why they like it. Hey,
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Speaker 2: I saw Bruce Blakeman yesterday. He got a very good
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Speaker 2: chance to be the next governor of New York. He's
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Speaker 2: the perfect choice to be the next governor of New York.
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Speaker 2: News Max had a great Christmas party yesterday. Bruce Blakeman
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Speaker 2: came later in the party. Everybody applauding him. They love
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Speaker 2: this Guy's gonna do very well in the governor's race January,
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Speaker 2: which is January twelfth, I think it is a few
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Speaker 2: weeks from now he gets inaugurated again's second term as
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Speaker 2: county executive. Now, President Trump likes the last Stefanic and
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Speaker 2: he loves Bruce Blakeman. Been close to Blakeman for years.
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Speaker 2: He has said all kinds of wonderful things about Elise
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Speaker 2: Stefanic and was back in her. But now with Blakeman
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Speaker 2: in the race, what does he do? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Now they're both great, But Elise Stephonic
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Speaker 2: is a legislator. She's a great talker. You put her
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Speaker 2: on those congressional committees. She's a great interrogator. Voy does
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Speaker 2: she tear into people. But that's her talent. Blakeman, on
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Speaker 2: the on the other hand, his talents are what you
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Speaker 2: need in the governor. He is a governor now he's
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Speaker 2: the governor of Nassau County. He's a manager. He runs things.
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Speaker 2: That's what it's really what the governor's job is. It's
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Speaker 2: you know, you don't always want a legislator in that job.
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Speaker 2: You want a manager. And that's Blakeman. So to me
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Speaker 2: be the much better choice for that hey, we'll take
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Speaker 2: some calls. Next eight hundred three two one zero seven
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