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

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  Speaker 1: Now on the Voice of New York He so mark
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  Speaker 1: some own show on seven ten.
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  Speaker 2: Woor Hey, we.
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  Speaker 1: Got a lot to get to today. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: the building collapse, exactly why it happened and what's going
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  Speaker 1: on there. We'll get to I've had enough of this FIFA,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll have to talk about it. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. We'll get to NATO, the Ukraine, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to Erdigon, We'll get to Spain, we'll get to Greenland,
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Iran scum as the President calls them,
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  Speaker 1: and what's going to happen next in Iran. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: the platinir in the mid terms, and a whole lot
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  Speaker 1: more coming up. So that building collapse, it's forty second
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  Speaker 1: Street between Second and third, and they had closed off
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  Speaker 1: like a five block area around there. They've shrunken that
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  Speaker 1: frozen zone now so it's basically no traffic forty second
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  Speaker 1: forty third between second and third and it's just a
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  Speaker 1: block or two in either direction. But here's what caused
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  Speaker 1: this building collapse. It was formerly the headquarters of Peiser,
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  Speaker 1: the big drug company, maker of Viagra. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: there's a joke there somewhere that the maker of Viagara
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  Speaker 1: is shrinking, collapsing the building. You make your own joke there.
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  Speaker 1: But Peiser left and it's a big, huge, huge skyscraper
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  Speaker 1: and they decided to convert it to residential. This is
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  Speaker 1: not easy to do, and it's going to happen more
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  Speaker 1: and more. It's happening around the city. Usually older office
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  Speaker 1: buildings that nobody would want to move into, so they
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  Speaker 1: convert them to residential. You know, if they're old and
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  Speaker 1: works for residential, doesn't work for an office. But this
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  Speaker 1: Peiser conversion to residential, it was going to be sixteen
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  Speaker 1: hundred units. That's huge. That's how big a building. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a fifty sixty story skyscraper. So sixteen hundred units
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  Speaker 1: very unusual for an apartment building in the middle of Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: Those doormen at Christmas are going to be very happy.
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  Speaker 1: That's sixteen hundred tenants. That's a lot of tips. So
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  Speaker 1: they're converting the building. And now picture of the building.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big, fat skyscraper and it goes up and
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  Speaker 1: at the twentieth floor it gets smaller. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's this wide. The building is the entire
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  Speaker 1: footprint of the lot. And then at a certain floor,
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  Speaker 1: it gets smaller and it's like only half the width,
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  Speaker 1: and then from the twentieth floor up, it's like half
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  Speaker 1: the width. So what they tried to do was make
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  Speaker 1: it the full width all the way up. So at
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  Speaker 1: the twentieth floor they were adding for half the building.
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  Speaker 1: They were adding like twenty more stories on top, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what caused those steel beams to buckle. They couldn't
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  Speaker 1: hold an extra twenty stories on top, and the beams
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  Speaker 1: started to buckle, and the workmen, construction workers saw it
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  Speaker 1: and knew this was a serious emergency, and they called
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  Speaker 1: for an evacuation. Everybody got out of the building and
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  Speaker 1: it started to buckle, and it was emergency. Everything came
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  Speaker 1: flying in and they realized how badness is. The building's unstable.
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  Speaker 1: They don't think it'll topple because it's a steel building.
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  Speaker 1: They think it'll pancake down like the World Trade Center did.
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  Speaker 1: But besides all that, they were bricks and glass and
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of things flying off the building. That's why
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  Speaker 1: they had to close the streets around there. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you do about this. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to figure out a way to stabilize those beams
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  Speaker 1: so it can hold the new twenty stories on top
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  Speaker 1: of them. But I don't think that's possible. If there
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  Speaker 1: was a way to do that, they would have done
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  Speaker 1: that when they were building the building. So they may
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  Speaker 1: have to take it all down. So this could be
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  Speaker 1: a frozen zone for a long time. Who knows. It
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  Speaker 1: could be weeks, it could be a year. Who knows
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  Speaker 1: to take down all of this stuff. The company building
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  Speaker 1: this doesn't look like the greatest geniuses in the world
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  Speaker 1: to have this happen to them. And if you check
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  Speaker 1: their record, they got a lot of violations. They've been
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  Speaker 1: paying a lot of fines, and they're be getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of violations over the last year. And I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine whoever the architect was who decided to add twenty
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  Speaker 1: floors on top of those beams, didn't do his homework
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  Speaker 1: to know that the beams wouldn't be able to support it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's an absolute disaster. Mom, Donnie loved it because
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  Speaker 1: this is what he does now. Whenever there's an emergency
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  Speaker 1: of some kind of weather or a flood, a building collapse,
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  Speaker 1: he shows up there with that mayor emergency jacket on
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  Speaker 1: and acts like he's in charge. Pretends he knows what
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  Speaker 1: he's talking about.
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  Speaker 3: First responders and structural engineers are working closely with the
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  Speaker 3: project engineer to develop plans to shore up the impacted floor.
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  Speaker 3: If the floor is deemed to be secure, engineers will
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  Speaker 3: enter and begin shoring up the building. As we await
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  Speaker 3: the arrivals of materials that will stabilize the building, DOB
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  Speaker 3: engineers have been investigating with FD and Y drones.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, he sounds like he knows what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't. But if you talk fast and you talk
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  Speaker 1: to he's I'm very official and talk very fast, people
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  Speaker 1: think you know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I'm grateful to report that there have been no injuries
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  Speaker 3: at this time and that every worker has been accounted for.
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  Speaker 3: The NYPD has instituted a frozen zone from fortieth to
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  Speaker 3: forty fifth streets between first.
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  Speaker 1: Day and I actually shrunk that down. That was yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It's shrunken down to like forty third to forty first.
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  Speaker 1: He used to work on that block. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff on that block. WPIX TV is on that block.
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  Speaker 1: They were forced to move evacuate their building and move outside.
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  Speaker 1: Broadcast from outside Yesterday. News Nation is also in that
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  Speaker 1: building also forced to move outside. Across the street from
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  Speaker 1: this building is the Daily News building that's where WPIX is,
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  Speaker 1: legendary building two twenty East forty second Street, and also
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  Speaker 1: the Weston Hotel which had to evacuate because of this
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  Speaker 1: building collapse. So everybody in the hotel all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: emergency alarms went off. They were big pa system. You
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  Speaker 1: have to evacuate the building immediately. So everybody had to
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  Speaker 1: evacuate the hotel. They were eventually allowed back in just
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  Speaker 1: to get their bags, just to get their baggage and
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  Speaker 1: stuff and get out. They had like ten minutes to
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  Speaker 1: go in and collect everything and leave. So the hotel
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  Speaker 1: is still evacuated, so everybody in the hotel now forced
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  Speaker 1: to find other accommodations. Mom Donnie on the scene with
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  Speaker 1: that emergency jacket on.
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  Speaker 3: Two structural columns have buckled in addition to multiple cracks
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  Speaker 3: and sagging floors. The building remains unstable. Since arriving on scene,
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  Speaker 3: we have witnessed adition movement in one of the compromise columns.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so again half the building on the twentieth floor
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  Speaker 1: had nothing above it, so they added like twenty floors
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  Speaker 1: on top of this half and these beams can't hold it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you're going to fix that. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the other thing. They're going to have to bring
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  Speaker 1: in all kinds of engineering geniuses to look at this,
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  Speaker 1: and that's going to take weeks for them to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to fix it, whether they've got to tear
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing down or figure out if there's a
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  Speaker 1: way to fix those beams and give them the support
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  Speaker 1: they need. I doubt it. And again, the company building
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  Speaker 1: this building, they don't look like the greatest geniuses. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who's going to arrange for all this
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  Speaker 1: to take care of all of this. This is Esposito.
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  Speaker 4: The box beams, the steel beams have started to bend
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  Speaker 4: and deflect from the weight. We evacuated the building and
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  Speaker 4: started evacuations of surrounding buildings, and the building has continued
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  Speaker 4: to move since we've been on this.
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  Speaker 1: Esposito police chief, I believe they all sound like sid
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  Speaker 1: from Blue Bloods. That's how you know they're police. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. That's going to be a long
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  Speaker 1: situation fixing that. And the problem is you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a great mayor right now. You've got a mayor who's
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  Speaker 1: twelve years old, never had a job before, not a
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  Speaker 1: management guy. This is where you need a Rudy Giuliani
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  Speaker 1: or Mike Bloomberg who would start managing this, bringing in
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  Speaker 1: every expert from all over the world to see how
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  Speaker 1: fast you could get this fixed. So we'll get back
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  Speaker 1: to the building now. President Trump, of course, was in
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  Speaker 1: Turkey two days of talks with NATO, and he's not
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  Speaker 1: happy with a lot of people there. In fact, he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about cutting off Spain, cutting off Spain from all business, tourism, everything,
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  Speaker 1: because when we needed them the most in the Iran War,
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  Speaker 1: Spain not only wouldn't help, they refuse to let us
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  Speaker 1: use their airs, their air bases, anything. They were totally
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  Speaker 1: totally uncooperative with us. So I can understand him, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: cut them off, cut them off. In fact, all of NATO.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of let them have it because they were
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  Speaker 1: of no help. And you know, if there was ever
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  Speaker 1: a problem with a NATO country, we're supposed to go
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  Speaker 1: in and rescue them. But when we needed a little help,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't need much of anything to let us use
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  Speaker 1: an air baser, lend us a ship or nothing, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you're going to see all funding cut
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  Speaker 1: to NATO. Let them fend for themselves, you know, let
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  Speaker 1: them become Ukraine. And that's a good example, because Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: was totally dependent on us. We had to give money
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  Speaker 1: and weapons and everything. And over the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: they built their own weapons factory, their own drones factory.
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  Speaker 1: They're totally independent. Now they don't need our money, they
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  Speaker 1: don't need our help. They can build all the drones
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  Speaker 1: they need, and they're gonna able to not only hold
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  Speaker 1: the Russians off, they may even start to win this thing.
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  Speaker 1: So President Trump has been talking to Putin. More and more.
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  Speaker 1: Putin realizes he's not going to win and this possibility
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  Speaker 1: he could actually lose this. So he and Trump are talking.
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  Speaker 1: There could be a deal, and it'll probably happen, not
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  Speaker 1: right away, but just before the midterms. It couldn't just
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  Speaker 1: keep an eye on this. The Ukraine War could be
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  Speaker 1: settled by President Trump. He is talking to Putin.
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  Speaker 5: I had a very good talk with President Putin, who,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, has a lot of respect for President
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  Speaker 5: a lot of respect for him. We had a long
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  Speaker 5: talk yesterday less than a long time. And I also
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  Speaker 5: spoke with President Jolynsky right after that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they both want to make a deal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so expect that to happen just before the midterms. Erdigon
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  Speaker 1: is the president of Turkey. Now they're totally awful. Erdigon
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  Speaker 1: is awful. We should not be giving them anything, but
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  Speaker 1: we're giving them fighter planes and fighter jets. But it's
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  Speaker 1: all part of a chess game that has to do
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  Speaker 1: with Iran, has to do with Russia, has to do
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  Speaker 1: with Ukraine. Net Nyaho not happy about this, but we will.
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  Speaker 1: We're not giving them planes, we're selling them plays.
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  Speaker 5: The decision we're going to make. We have a very
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  Speaker 5: good relationship. I would think that many people. I can
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  Speaker 5: tell you many people, including the people sitting right here, thinks,
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  Speaker 5: you know, why wouldn't we do that. We have a
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  Speaker 5: better relationship with Turkey, and Turkey's been in many ways
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  Speaker 5: much more loyal than other countries that we think would
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  Speaker 5: be loyal.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good point. Well, we needed help Iran. Turkey
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  Speaker 1: helped more than these NATO countries. You wouldn't expect that,
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  Speaker 1: but that's the way it worked. Net Niyah, who is
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  Speaker 1: speaking to Trump but through a cable TV, through social media,
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  Speaker 1: and you.
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  Speaker 2: See the decline in support for Israel. Okay, and it's
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  Speaker 2: years before, several years before the guys of war took place. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And you asked why did that happen? Well, the one
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  Speaker 2: correlation you see, which is almost it's the perfect correlation,
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  Speaker 2: is the penetration of TikTok and other social media in
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  Speaker 2: the United States. And as the penetration increases, the support
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  Speaker 2: for Israel decreases. And let me tell you something else,
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  Speaker 2: the support for America decreases.
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  Speaker 1: It's an interesting theory. You know, why did this anti
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  Speaker 1: Semitism all of a sudden the last year or two
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  Speaker 1: or three whatever, go crazy and it just explode. Well
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  Speaker 1: he could be right, social media, Instagram, but remember all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, all that digital stuff, it's just a magnifying glass.
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  Speaker 1: Behavior never changes, never. So whatever people are doing on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok anstry, they were doing it anyway, they just weren't
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  Speaker 1: doing it on such a big platform. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: people putting up pictures of what they ate. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: you study history in the days of the cave Man,
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  Speaker 1: when they put hieroglyphics on the wall, there were actually
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  Speaker 1: they found that some people put up what they had
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  Speaker 1: for lunch. That kind of stuff. So human behavior doesn't change,
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  Speaker 1: it just moves to a different medium. So TikTok, Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: whatever they're doing on there, they were doing it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: It's just now they're doing it on a much greater
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  Speaker 1: scale and it's exploding much faster. So also you've got
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats going crazy with anti Semitism, communism, socialism. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll always remember it's the mom Donnis that are the
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  Speaker 1: greedy ones. The socialists are the greedy ones. It's the
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  Speaker 1: socialists that like to take Elon Musk put up a
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  Speaker 1: great death thing today about somebody put up. It wasn't him,
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  Speaker 1: it was its a mom. Donnie is just a taker.
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk is a maker. He makes things. Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 1: just takes things. That's the thing about democrats and socialists.
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  Speaker 1: The socialists, socialist communists the greediest people of all. They
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  Speaker 1: want to take your money, they want to tax you
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  Speaker 1: to death. They want to take everything. They want to
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  Speaker 1: seize things. They want to seize your property, seize your business,
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  Speaker 1: sees everything. They're the greedy ones. They're not about going
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  Speaker 1: out and earning stuff. They're just take sees. That's the
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  Speaker 1: socialist So uh hey, uh stampway. I just heard that
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  Speaker 1: on the news. Price of Forever stamps up till it
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  Speaker 1: what eighty three cents the people who still use stamps. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: online banking is great. You got to be careful with
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  Speaker 1: it sometimes because well, because you can do your online
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  Speaker 1: banking with the utilities with American Express, the credit card company,
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  Speaker 1: but when it comes to a lot of things, they
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  Speaker 1: don't have a portal that you can use to pay
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  Speaker 1: on and sometimes you gotta be careful with this. You
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  Speaker 1: pay the bill online and it didn't go to exactly
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  Speaker 1: the right account. That happens sometimes. Hey, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you might have gotten a letter from your bank that
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  Speaker 1: they're taking away your safe deposit box. And if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't get a letter like that, you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: it pretty soon. And you get this letter, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: think you're being debanked like Donald Trump, but says you
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  Speaker 1: have until September to clean out your safe deposit box.
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  Speaker 1: We're no longer going to provide it for you. And
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  Speaker 1: I know Chase is doing that a lot of banks.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a new thing in banking. A safe deposit
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  Speaker 1: boxes cost them money. They don't make any money off it.
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  Speaker 1: It takes up a lot of physical space. To have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of safe deposit boxes requires a lot of
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  Speaker 1: real estate, so it costs a fortune, and then they
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  Speaker 1: have to maintain it and guard it and don't make
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  Speaker 1: any profit on it. So banks getting rid of safe
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  Speaker 1: deposit boxes. They've also found that in today's world, just
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  Speaker 1: about everything really important is digital. Nobody needs an actual
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  Speaker 1: safe deposit box. So but when you get that letter,
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  Speaker 1: don't think you're being d banked. It's just the safe
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  Speaker 1: deposit box. Trump got that letter one day from Chase
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  Speaker 1: saying he was being debanked. They would no longer take
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  Speaker 1: him as a customer. All his accounts would be closed.
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  Speaker 1: And you know how, the the most awful letter you
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  Speaker 1: can get. You know how the letter ended. At the
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  Speaker 1: end it said thank you for your attention to this matter.
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  Speaker 1: That's where he got the phrase. That's why he uses
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  Speaker 1: it all the time. He's a trolling Chase by using
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  Speaker 1: that that line all the time. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the
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  Speaker 1: number eight hundred three two one zero seven ten