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FULL SHOW: Russian plague; Update on the economy. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now on The Voice of New York, it's the Mark
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  Speaker 1: Simone Show on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Wednesday, middle of the week already. A lot
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  Speaker 2: to get to today. It's a terrible, terrible, terrible anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: October 7th. We'll look back at that. It's a happy
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  Speaker 2: anniversary for Fox News. 30th anniversary today. We'll take a
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  Speaker 2: look back at the beginnings of Fox News. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to the Yankees. Tonight is the third game. They lost
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  Speaker 2: the first two. They've got to win three in a
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  Speaker 2: row to stay in this. They're not going to win
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  Speaker 2: three in a row. They're up against the best team
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  Speaker 2: in baseball. They'll be back at Yankee Stadium tonight. It's
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  Speaker 2: a home field advantage. I don't know how much that means.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't look good. We'll get to crazy Mayor Mamdani.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to President Trump. He's going to get on
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  Speaker 2: the phone with Vladimir Putin. They're going to discuss this
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  Speaker 2: plague outbreak in Russia. Now, we went through this about
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  Speaker 2: six years ago with this virus that was in Wuhan, China,
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  Speaker 2: thinking it would stay local. It started to spread around China.
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  Speaker 2: So we... This plague came from the same thing, came
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  Speaker 2: from a lab. A test tube broke. A lab worker
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  Speaker 2: got it on him. He's in the hospital. Marco Rubio
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  Speaker 2: is on top of this.
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  Speaker 3: We encourage Russia to be transparent and share more information
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  Speaker 3: with the world so that all of us could react
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  Speaker 3: accordingly and appropriately. But we'll have to make those decisions
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  Speaker 3: on the basis of the information that we're learning and
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  Speaker 3: are being provided. And so far, that's still quite limited.
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  Speaker 2: If you're depending on Russia to be transparent, you got
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  Speaker 2: a problem there. As I say, President Trump will call Putin.
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  Speaker 2: They will speak. Very deep discussions, he says. There was
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  Speaker 2: a lab technician who died on Friday in a hospital.
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  Speaker 2: The illness is pretty serious. She died after reportedly breaking
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  Speaker 2: the test tube containing this deadly pathogen, got her infected.
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  Speaker 2: There's been significant concern that she may have died from
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  Speaker 2: pneumonic plague. which can spread from person to person, not good.
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  Speaker 2: Not good.
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  Speaker 3: Suffice it to say, we're watching it very closely, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the whole world is watching it very closely,
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  Speaker 3: because depending on what we learn about it, we would
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  Speaker 3: know how to respond.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, you've got to prevent another Wuhan virus,
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  Speaker 2: another one of those from spreading. October 7th, three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: was the most horrible virus awful genocide, Holocaust, terrorist attack,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it, launched by Hamas on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of the Palestinians. It was a horrible, horrible, horrible thing.
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  Speaker 2: Just the most brutal, ugly, you know, there's a documentary
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  Speaker 2: that was made about it that contains some of the
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  Speaker 2: graphic footage. If you watched all the news coverage, you
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen the really graphic footage, the really, really, unbelievably
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  Speaker 2: ugly stuff that happened there. This documentary is about 40
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  Speaker 2: minutes long. They would like Mamdani to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: The producer and the ambassador is asking Mamdani to sit
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  Speaker 2: there and watch it. They think if he were to
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  Speaker 2: watch this, he would understand. I think they're a little naive,
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  Speaker 2: guys like Mamdani, the left wing with the anti-Semitism. It's
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  Speaker 2: so deeply embedded into them. There is nothing, nothing that's
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  Speaker 2: going to change their mind, no matter how horrible it
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  Speaker 2: is to watch, no matter how awful it looks. They
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  Speaker 2: just think to themselves that it was justified, that it
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  Speaker 2: had to be done on behalf of Hamas. And now
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  Speaker 2: there's no indication that Mamdani will watch this documentary. It's
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  Speaker 2: 47 minutes long, but it goes, it's actual footage. that
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  Speaker 2: was shot by Hamas terrorists. They had GoPro cameras they
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  Speaker 2: were wearing. So you could actually see the brutal, disgusting slaughter,
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  Speaker 2: the raping of women, the killing of babies. It's all
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  Speaker 2: in there. Will Mamdani watch it? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. And there's no change in his mind.
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  Speaker 2: You know, October 7th unleashed a wave of anti-Semitism. You
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  Speaker 2: would think after such a brutal, unbelievable tragedy terrorist attack,
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  Speaker 2: that the world would unite behind Israel, just like after 9-11,
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  Speaker 2: they united behind the United States for 10 minutes, but
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  Speaker 2: they did. But instead, it somehow unleashed this anti-Semitism that
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  Speaker 2: was under the surface on the left, on much of
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  Speaker 2: the left. And I hate to say it, but in
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  Speaker 2: the three years, this anti-Semitism has become acceptable to in
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  Speaker 2: a lot of places all over the world and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of countries and a lot of the United States
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  Speaker 2: among the left. It's just the ugliest thing, but it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's happened. So that's three years ago today. Mamdani will
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  Speaker 2: go to a vigil tonight to honor the dead from, uh,
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  Speaker 2: October 7th. Now he does these kinds of things where
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  Speaker 2: you think he's doing the right thing, where you think
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  Speaker 2: he's turning on this, uh, You know, he'll do the
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  Speaker 2: right thing, like he signed that anti-terrorist bill the other day.
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  Speaker 2: Then he hands the pen to the lawyer for the terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: So he always does the right thing or appears to
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  Speaker 2: do the right thing and then does something awful at
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  Speaker 2: the end of it. Now, he's going to do that tonight.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to go to this vigil for the Israelis
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  Speaker 2: killed on October 7th, but then he's going to a
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian event. It's his way of doing something to signal
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  Speaker 2: the haters and then He goes right the opposite way
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  Speaker 2: to signal his base. Don't worry, I don't really mean it.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Mondani, you're going to hear these crime numbers
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  Speaker 2: all over the place. Crime is the lowest in history.
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  Speaker 2: They're talking only about shootings. Shootings are down. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: in the numbers, it looks like they may be at
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  Speaker 2: the lowest point ever. Shootings. But subway crime is up. Robbery, up.
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  Speaker 2: Hate crimes up dramatically. There's a spike in all of
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  Speaker 2: these things. So shooting is down, but they kind of just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, generalize. You'll just hear the lowest crime numbers
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  Speaker 2: in history. They're talking about shooting. Not crime, not subway crime,
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  Speaker 2: not robbery, which is the stuff most people have to
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  Speaker 2: worry about. Here's Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 4: Last year from January until the end of August, our
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  Speaker 4: city recorded 5,000 fewer reported crimes than it did through
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  Speaker 4: the same eight months in 2025. I want to put
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  Speaker 4: that into percentages. Major crime is down 6.6% across the
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  Speaker 4: five boroughs, with the largest drop in the Bronx, which
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  Speaker 4: has recorded 2,400 fewer crimes this year compared to last.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, most of it is shooting, though. Subway crime is up.
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  Speaker 4: Our subway system recorded zero rapes, shooting incidents, or shooting
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  Speaker 4: victims throughout the entire month of August. In August, we
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  Speaker 4: made history with the fewest robberies on transit ever recorded
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  Speaker 4: in that month. And we've achieved these record lows as
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  Speaker 4: ridership reaches highs not seen since the pandemic, with nearly
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  Speaker 4: 4.7 million New Yorkers riding the subway on a Wednesday
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  Speaker 4: last month.
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  Speaker 2: But overall, subway crime up. And he's not even mentioning
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  Speaker 2: the spike in hate crime. It's pretty bad. President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: speaking to reporters, there's a reporter from Bloomberg. Bloomberg is
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  Speaker 2: a very biased, slanted left-wing news organization. And they're asking
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  Speaker 2: him about the Wall Street Journal. President Trump, no filter.
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  Speaker 2: What is the Wall Street Journal now? I'm meeting with
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  Speaker 2: them tomorrow. What is the Wall Street Journal? They've been
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  Speaker 2: wrong about everything.
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  Speaker 5: So have you, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: You've been wrong about everything. You're trying to turn this
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  Speaker 2: into debate.
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  Speaker 6: There are business people.
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  Speaker 7: You're wrong.
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  Speaker 4: You've been wrong all your life on this stuff. You're
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  Speaker 4: trying to turn this into a debate.
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  Speaker 2: What's the debate? You have been wrong. You can check
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  Speaker 2: the records, pretty simple. How come you're not talking about
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  Speaker 2: the riots in France? Well, because that's not news. Pretty
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  Speaker 2: much normal. Every so often, it's like a yearly event
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  Speaker 2: in France. Riots, boycotts, worker strike happens all the time.
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  Speaker 2: This time it is escalating though in France. Police fired
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  Speaker 2: tear gas, 6,100 arrests. It's pretty bad over there. But again,
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  Speaker 2: it's something they do in France. It's like their national pastime,
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  Speaker 2: these riots, this worker strike and boycott of everything. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty bad this time. President Trump saying that much of
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  Speaker 2: it is due to they got a lot of illegals
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  Speaker 2: in there. They got a lot of migrants that have
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  Speaker 2: shown up and it's added to the numbers. So they
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  Speaker 2: love this stuff, striking, boycotting, picketing. Hey, this Krista Pike,
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  Speaker 2: this is the woman who was executed. Two lethal injections.
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  Speaker 2: She survived both of them. She's in the hospital. She's
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  Speaker 2: wide awake. She's speaking. She's talking. Krista Pike survived both
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  Speaker 2: lethal injections. Actually, I think she's the first person in
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  Speaker 2: history to survive two lethal injections. And she's conscious. She's
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  Speaker 2: speaking to everybody. She's getting medical care. She's going to
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  Speaker 2: be in the hospital for a while. But she's awake
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  Speaker 2: and talking. MSNBC is calling her, trying to sign her
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  Speaker 2: up as a correspondent or something. But she's 50 years old. Now,
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  Speaker 2: she was in such a weird medical condition, her lawyers
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  Speaker 2: kept warning the state that her veins were all screwed up,
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  Speaker 2: that her veins were all clogged, her veins were all tiny,
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  Speaker 2: and that the lethal injection would not get through her
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  Speaker 2: veins and kill her. She had a choice. Believe it
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  Speaker 2: or not, you get a choice between being electrocuted or not.
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  Speaker 2: She chose the lethal injection. Who knows? Maybe she knew
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  Speaker 2: with her veins it wouldn't work. So she was rushed
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  Speaker 2: to the hospital, been there for days and days and days.
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  Speaker 2: She's handcuffed, shackled, you know, handcuffed to the bed. Despite
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  Speaker 2: the severe damage she endured to her arms, she's still handcuffed.
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  Speaker 2: Her recovery, they say, is medically unprecedented. Her prognosis remains unclear,
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  Speaker 2: but they expect a long, slow recovery. Now, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: They would probably want to execute her again, but you
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  Speaker 2: can't until she recovers. And under the law, if she's
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  Speaker 2: not totally coherent, you can't execute her. She has to
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  Speaker 2: be totally coherent. There's something in the law where they
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  Speaker 2: have to be able to know what's going on, and
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  Speaker 2: they have to be able to speak and defend themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So she could just pretend to not be too coherent
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  Speaker 2: and avoid execution that way. The price of gas, hang on,
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  Speaker 2: let me check. Price of oil, yeah, it's down to $ 89.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big drop from where it was, and it'll
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  Speaker 2: keep dropping as we get more and more oil coming
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  Speaker 2: out of the straight of our moose every day. But
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that, when it's $ 4. 50 at the pump,
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  Speaker 2: You know, like $ 1. 50 of that is taxes. It could
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  Speaker 2: be $ 3 a gallon if it got rid of all
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  Speaker 2: this gas tax. Like in New York, the gas tax
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  Speaker 2: in New York, just the New York State gas tax,
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  Speaker 2: 75 cents a gallon. But President Trump now saying he's
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  Speaker 2: considering suspending federal gas tax. Just suspend it. Just take
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  Speaker 2: off the federal gas tax, and that would drop it
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  Speaker 2: a lot. Federal gas tax is about 20 cents a gallon.
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  Speaker 2: For diesel, it's about 25 cents a gallon. One reason
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  Speaker 2: to do that, it would encourage the states to do
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. So if the state and federal tax
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  Speaker 2: were taken off gas, the price would drop a dollar
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  Speaker 2: a gallon here. Dollar a gallon, which would help a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people. So I just heard that on the news.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's autumn. It's really autumn. The skating rink
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  Speaker 2: opens next week. The Rockefeller Center rink will be open.
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  Speaker 2: This is happening too fast. It was just summer. It's
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  Speaker 2: happening really fast. Passengers were on a United Airlines flight. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you go to the airport, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're so afraid there's going to be delays. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to be stuck. It's going to not take off on time.
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  Speaker 2: You could be sitting there for an hour or two.
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  Speaker 2: Passengers on this United Airlines flight had a brutal 12-hour
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  Speaker 2: delay A 12-hour delay. Passengers were grounded by one thing
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  Speaker 2: after another. There was a cockpit malfunction. Took a while
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  Speaker 2: to fix that. Then they had a severe thunderstorm. Took
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  Speaker 2: a while to fix that. Then something else happened. It's
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  Speaker 2: one thing after another. It's a 12-hour delay. And then,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, after a certain number of hours,
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  Speaker 2: there's a regulation, union rules, that the crew has to
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  Speaker 2: be changed. The crew can't work anymore. There's no rule
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  Speaker 2: that they can't keep you sitting there for 10 hours,
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  Speaker 2: 11 hours, but you can't do that to the crew.
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  Speaker 2: So they, well, I guess it's important because you want
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  Speaker 2: the crew alert when they're flying the plane. But then
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  Speaker 2: after about 10 hours, sorry, we have to, the crew
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  Speaker 2: has to go. They can't be held here anymore. So
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  Speaker 2: they have to find a new crew to come in
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  Speaker 2: and take over the plane. And that takes them a
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  Speaker 2: couple hours. So it was a 12 hour delay. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: I guess they just canceled the flight after. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine sitting there 12 hours? A lot of it was
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  Speaker 2: on the plane. Then they made everybody get off the plane,
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  Speaker 2: sit in the airport. But 12 hours of this, and
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  Speaker 2: then they canceled the flight. There was also a faulty
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  Speaker 2: door seal. Then there was a mishap with the plane's
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  Speaker 2: pushback tug. It's one thing after another. That was United Airlines.
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  Speaker 2: Give them credit for it. United Airlines. So, anyway, 30th
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  Speaker 2: birthday of Fox News today. We'll take a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: the beginnings of fox news it was 30 years ago
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  Speaker 2: you remember and nobody nobody knew what it was it
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  Speaker 2: was now it's the number one cable news channel but
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  Speaker 2: at the time nobody had ever heard of it and
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't really on anywhere there was a manhattan cable
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  Speaker 2: back then this is before spectrum and optimum and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff but they wouldn't run it and rudy giuliani
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  Speaker 2: was uh was he still yeah he was the mayor
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  Speaker 2: at the time and he pushed and pushed and pushed
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  Speaker 2: to get fox news on And it started very slowly.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity was one of the originals. Britt Hume was
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  Speaker 2: one of the originals. Bill O'Reilly was one of the originals,
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  Speaker 2: became the big star there along with Sean. And then
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  Speaker 2: one by one, it slowly grew. It took a while,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll go back to the beginning. We'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: some of the originals coming up a little later. The
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  Speaker 2: Emmy Awards, huh? Moving to Amazon Prime. The Emmy Awards
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  Speaker 2: always been on network television for seven decades. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: since 1955, it's been on every network. It was on
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  Speaker 2: NBC for years, CBS, ABC. That's it. Leaving network TV.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to Amazon. Now, Amazon says they'll make it free.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to pay for a subscription to Prime Video.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a big deal. Network TV is dying.
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  Speaker 2: Very small audience now. You know, a primetime TV show,
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  Speaker 2: Law & Order, one of these primetime shows, used to
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  Speaker 2: easily get 40 million viewers. Now they're lucky if they
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  Speaker 2: get 3 million. I mean, the numbers are way, way
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  Speaker 2: down on television and especially network television. Way down. So
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  Speaker 2: something like the Oscars used to do 100 million people.
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  Speaker 2: Now they're lucky if they can hit 10 million. And
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  Speaker 2: the only thing keeping television alive Oscars, Emmys, that sort
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. But really, it's sports. It's NFL, Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the playoff games, some of those were getting 30,
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  Speaker 2: 40 million. That's the only time network TV really comes alive.
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  Speaker 2: 60 Minutes doing pretty well. Actually, they had their biggest
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night of the season this past Sunday night. 60
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  Speaker 2: Minutes got 10 million viewers. Still not like the old days.
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  Speaker 2: The old days, they would get 60 million. But 10
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  Speaker 2: million is huge. It would make it the number one
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  Speaker 2: show on television. So one by one, The streaming services
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  Speaker 2: will steal everything from network TV. The award shows, they're
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  Speaker 2: already doing a few of the sports stuff, a few
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  Speaker 2: of the games. Once they steal it all, once they
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  Speaker 2: break those network sports contracts and get that, that's the
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  Speaker 2: end of network TV. Hey, we've got a lot to
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  Speaker 2: get to. It's Mark Simone here. Three hours every day,
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  Speaker 2: Hey, well, Cornell trying to do damage control, doing it
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  Speaker 2: slowly and not very effectively. But Cornell has hired a,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they want an investigation team. Cornell is going
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  Speaker 2: to investigate their investigation, their handling of the, uh, Cornell seven. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they have hired former U S acting attorney general, Sally
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  Speaker 2: Yates to lead the internal investigation. Well, uh, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to hire somebody, uh, Sally Yates, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. She was in the Trump administration, but Trump
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  Speaker 2: fired her. Uh, she was at one time acting attorney general.
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  Speaker 2: Trump had to fire her, but, um, That gives her
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  Speaker 2: real credibility with the Ivy League. Oh, Trump fired her? Perfect.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take her. She's conducting an independent review of how Cornell,
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  Speaker 2: if they followed their policies and what they're doing to
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  Speaker 2: prevent and respond to sexual assault claims, the university announced Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: The rules of damage control, crisis management is you admit
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  Speaker 2: what you did You apologize for what happened. And then
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  Speaker 2: you talk about what you're doing to make sure it
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  Speaker 2: never happens again. That was basically the three principles. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty bad for Cornell because they had an investigation. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't do enough. I mean, they did a lot. They
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  Speaker 2: did suspend students. They did expel a couple of them.
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  Speaker 2: There were two. Now, it looks like it was really
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  Speaker 2: only four students. They say the Cornell seven. But it
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  Speaker 2: looks like it was only four that were really doing
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  Speaker 2: the actual stuff. while others were just in and out.
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  Speaker 2: But afterwards, they didn't do enough. The students are all
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  Speaker 2: talking now about all sorts of stuff.
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  Speaker 8: So I need you to be honest with me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm told, no, maybe the other people that I spoke
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  Speaker 4: with are not being honest with me, and you are, was.
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  Speaker 9: That there was a house meeting about it with the president.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't, I'm sorry, we didn't have a meeting about it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's really good, the cover of the student meeting is hold,
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  Speaker 2: the microphone about 600 feet from the guy so you
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  Speaker 2: can barely hear him. But let me see if we
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: can hear this one.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: What people were saying was that there was, like, multiple
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: consenting adults in this room.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: There is a consensual act that.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now here's the problem. This woman, who's only 18...
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Really a girl. I mean, she's only 18. Voluntarily, she
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: wanted to go to this fraternity. She wanted to go.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: You can see it in the text and everything. She
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: went to the fraternity. She'd already had 10 drinks. She
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: was already, 10 drinks. 10 drinks. She shows up drunk
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: as can be. When she gets there, they offered her
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: ketamine and she did it. And another drink. That's 11
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: drinks plus the drugs. There were two guys she wanted
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: to have sex with, she voluntarily wanted to have sex with.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: She admits to all this in her original statement. One
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: of them put the ketamine, what is ketamine? Is it
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a powder? I guess it is. Yeah, I think it's
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: a powder. So he put it all over his, let's
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: just use the word penis. and then asked her to
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: perform an act on it. And she voluntarily did this,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: wanted to do, she admits to all of this in
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: her statement. Now, the problem is apparently this is going
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: on this threesome, which she was, it was consensual. This
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: is what she wanted. And then other guys came into
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: the room. So that's, uh, part of the problem for, um, uh,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: the prosecutors. She's looks pretty sleazy in all of this. Then, uh,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: The other problem is her statement, her original statement, is
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: different from her later statement, different from when she spoke
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to the police. There's discrepancies there. So that's the kind
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: of thing a defense attorney can use. Also, if you've
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: had 11 drinks and a lot of drugs, they'll argue
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: that she wasn't coherent enough to identify anybody. So that's
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: what these defense attorneys will use. It's not going to
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: be easy. But Cornell has started this review. They'll look
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: into it with Sally Yates, who was, again, they keep
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: saying a former attorney general. They forget to mention she
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: was an acting attorney general who got fired, so it's
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: not as impressive as it sounds. Hey, Starbucks, you can't
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: trust this Starbucks. You go into Starbucks, they got this,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: they all, every drink looks incredible. I mean, you just
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: look at the picture, you look at the description, you
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: want to have it. And then they put these things
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: in there that are sugar-free. So consumers are now suing
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Starbucks because the sugar-free drink actually had a lot of
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: sugar in it, even though it says sugar-free. And it's
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: called a protein beverage, but it was more sugar than protein. Anyway,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Starbucks is trying to defend themselves, saying what they meant
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: was there's no added sugar. Now, there's sugar in it
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: from the milk, from all kinds of things, All the
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: ingredients have a lot of sugar, so there's a lot
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: of sugar in the drink, but they're claiming that they're
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: justified in saying sugar-free in that they did not add
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: any sugar. There's no added sugar. Well, I don't know
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: if they're going to get away with that in a courtroom.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: A Starbucks spokesman said in an email, the claims have
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: no merit. The beverages are protein-packed with no added sugar. Well,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: the reason there's no added sugar, it already had a
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: ton of sugar, and all the ingredients had enough sugar
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: in it. It was sweet enough. So we'll see what
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: happens with Starbucks. But you're supposed to disclose all the
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: contents and all this stuff. So it's not sugar-free. It's
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: not low-calorie. They're probably going to have a lot of
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: trouble with this lawsuit. Hey, Fox News, 30th anniversary. 30th anniversary. Now,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: there was only a handful of people that were there
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: the opening day from the beginning. We'll talk to one
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: of them. Coming up in just a couple of minutes,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: it's Mark Simone here. On 710WOR.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Hey, it's the 30th anniversary of Fox News today. Now,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: this is hard to believe because it's the biggest number
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: one cable news network. But in the beginning, it was little, tiny,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: nobody knew it. It was an amazing success story. Very
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: few people there on day one. that are still there,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: but we've got my friend, my old friend, Eric Sean,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: great anchor, reporter, senior correspondent for Fox News. He's been
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: there since day one. Eric Sean, how you doing?
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Hey, Mark. Good to talk to you. We go way
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: back to the early 90s. It's great to talk to you.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: And always see you, of course.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, before Fox News, I'm trying to remember, you
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: were Channel 5, right? The local Fox.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Yes. Channel 11 in the 80s, went to Channel 5
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: in 1989. And in 1990, Mr. Murdoch decided to start
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: a national coverage for all our Fox stations, including Channel 5.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: So when you say it's just like one, it was me.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: It was me and a cameraman. And that was it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: All you need is that and you plug into a
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: satellite truck somewhere and we traveled all over the world.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: And then in 1996, I was covering the O.J. Simpson trial.
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: For all the Fox stations and the network. And that
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: is when we started the Fox News Channel.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: So back then, the only thing that was big on
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: cable was CNN. And then Rupert Murdoch, visionary, decides to
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: start Fox News. And when you tell us about the
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: very beginning, like the first days, it was like a
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: small staff, right? It was kind of primitive back then,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: wasn't it?
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, man, it was like Dixie Cups and String. Of course,
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: we had people who knew the business. I'd been at
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Channel 11 and Channel 5 for a long time at
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: that point. But you couldn't see it in New York.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: We started, and it was not on the cable systems.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Mayor Giuliani was a big proponent of doing that. So
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: when we started... I was actually the first day in
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Jerusalem because the day before on that Sunday, October 6th,
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: they realized we have a Jerusalem bureau, but there's no reporter.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: So I flew. You got to do something. So I
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: flew that night, and my first live shot was from Jerusalem.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: And that day, there was an earthquake while we were
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: alive on the air, and the building kind of swayed
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: while we were alive on the air. Uh, and I think,
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: I like to say, I think that we, Fox News
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: started an earthquake in the media business after that. And then,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: you know, remember Sam Goodies?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Of course, Sam Goodies, the record store.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Sam Goodies, the record store. And that was, that
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: then became the first studio. And it was, you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: very small. And then it just exploded beyond what we
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: have today. I was made fun of by the networks.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: I would one time went to the White House pool
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: to feed some videotape. And they said, who are you?
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: And I said, I'm Eric Sean from, where are you from?
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: I said, well, Fox. And they were like, Fox doesn't
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: have a news. You know, hey, Bart Simpson is here. Hey,
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: you look like Homer. You don't look like Homer. Oh,
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: they would bust my chops, Mark. But I think at
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: the end, we had the last laugh.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: So the first week of Fox News, what was on?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I remember there was Hannity, right? Hannity and Combs.
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: Hannity and Combs.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: And they did a lot of, they did the news
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: and then there are all these programs called Fox On,
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: like Fox On, you know, politics, Fox On foreign affairs.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: My favorite was Fox On Pets. I think we've got
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: to bring Fox On Pets back. But they, it just,
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: it evolved.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: And from what it is. In the beginning, Bill O'Reilly
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: was on? Bill was on.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: I had known Bill from Channel 11. He was on
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: PIX for a very short time. And Bill O'Reilly, Hannity,
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: and Combs, of course. Catherine Cryer had come from ABC,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: had a show. Mike Schneider, who had been an ABC anchor,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: he was the anchor of the Schneider Report, which then
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: became Fox Report, which then became, you know, with Shepard Smith.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: It kind of just all evolved. You know, Steve Doocy
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: on Fox and Friends in the Morning, and it just
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: kind of evolved. evolved to what we have obviously today
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: and have had the past number of decades.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: And what was Roger Ailes telling you guys back then?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: He was like a genius programming consultant. And what did
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: he tell you?
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: He really was.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: Just go do it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: Be yourself.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Just go do it. And I think that's one of
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: our secrets. Like you think of why did it catch on?
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: I think because we are the audience. We're not pontificating.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: We're not talking down to people.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: It's just us.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: And I think that energy is on the air. I
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: also think the soul, you know, of like the New
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: York Post, what was News Corp at the time, it's renegades,
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: like pirates, underdogs. I think that we still have that
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: same spirit today, that scrappy, I like to call it
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: the scrappy New York spirit that we still have. And
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: I think that is really the soul of the DNA
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: of the company. And all these years later, even though
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: we've become number one, I still think we have that.
• 29:09
  Speaker 11: Well, you know what?
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: We like each other. We all like each other, which
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: I've heard is different. It can be different from other places.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, definitely. Hey, Eric, Sean is like the original
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Fox News guy. So if you go to Fox News now,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: it's a major operation. It's an enormous operation. Millions of
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: people are there. Back in the beginning, it was just
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a handful of people, right? Were you a little short
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: of crew and.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: All that Yeah, we'd go to a story, and CNN
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: would have like 15 people, 20 people.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I'd have four.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: It'd be me, a producer, a cameraman, and the satellite
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: truck operator, who maybe we rent. You rent the satellite truck,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: you plug in, and that's how you go live. And
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: the young producers would say, oh, my God, CNS has
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: so many people. And I'd say, no, no, no. We
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: have the attitude. You know, we have a spirit. We
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: have an attitude, I think, that is special. And I
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: think that as long as we should never, you know,
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: lose that, I think that's one of the secrets of
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: what we've come. And now we have, you know, there's
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: Fox Radio, there's Fox.com, Fox Nation, the streaming service. I
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: have shows on that now, the Jimmy Hoffa series, a
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: whole range of programs. And that streaming is huge, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: that's become a whole other thing. new frontier for the company.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, Eric Sean is like a Jimmy
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Hoffa expert. Now, I would assume Jimmy Hoffa, they just
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: cremated him. The body's not anyplace. Didn't they just cremate him?
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry to say that. He's not buried in New Jersey.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: Part of our show, our series, Riddle, the search for
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: James R. Hoffa, we went out to the Moscato's dump
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: in Jersey City under the Pulaski Skyway. I think it
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: was a very simple mob hit. Uh, he had, if
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: you watch our series, the, I sat down with James
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: P Hoffa off his son, former president of the team
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: system himself. Uh, and I think it was just a
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: simple mob hit, uh, Dito, a Jackaloni, uh, Billy Jack,
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: part of the Detroit mob picks him up at the
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: restaurant with another guy. I think it was Tony Powell,
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Tony Palazzolo taking my house and, and just like in the,
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: in good fellas, you know, member, uh, No, I'm talking
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: about like a hit in Goodfellas. Oh, yeah. When he
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: walks in and Pesci walks in and thinks he's going
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: to have a meeting. And I think it was very simple.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: And all of this, you know, came out of Gabe Agulio.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Gabe was the final last suspect in New Jersey. He
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: had nothing to do with it. I just think it
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: was all part of Detroit.
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: And that that's all part of our series and what we,
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: what we did in that show.
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: But these guys driving around or where's the body it's
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: under giant stadium. It's in the metal. They just either
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: cremated them or chopped them up like a, The Sopranos
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: doing the meat packing plant, something like that.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there was actually a paper packaging type plant that
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: crushed all this stuff. And truly, one of the mob
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: guys went there that night. You can put these little
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: pieces together to think, I think that's probably what happened.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: But I'm open and I'm still open and we're still
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: open and I've got another new tip now. So we
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: may continue.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: You should watch Fox Nation. It's their streaming service. And
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Eric Schoen has a lot of good stuff on Fox Nation.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we have a whole mob series where I sit
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: down with former mob guys. And Lou Ferrante, who was
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: hijacked with the Gambino family. And then we interviewed Lou Kasman.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: If you remember, it was called Gotti's Guy. He's a
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: very controversial figure. The Gotti family hates him. I understand that.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: but it's a whole series. And we just debuted, uh,
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: stories of American mafia. This third season is on Fox nation.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Now that that went up this week.
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: We're going to have to have you fascinated with that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have to have you back just to do
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: mob stuff because he's great on this. But, uh, uh,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: the point of all this was Fox news 30th anniversary.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Did you ever think you'd be there 30 years later?
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, I can't believe it. And it's gone, gone by
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: in a flash, you know, uh, it just really has.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mark. I want to thank the viewers and
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: everyone for their support. That, that, that, creates our success. Wow.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Eric, Sean, great work. Keep it up and we'll talk
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: again soon. Thanks for being with us.
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: All right, Mark.
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: Of course.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: All right. Take care.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Fox News, 30 years old today. Hey, that Fox Nation,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: that's their streaming service. Sign up for that Fox Nation.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: He's got all these great mob specials. Oh, there's a
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Sinatra documentary on there. It's called Echoes of an Icon.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: It's one of the best Sinatra documentaries. I'm on it.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: That's not why it's the best. It's really good. But
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff on Fox Nation. And, of course,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Fox News, the number one cable news network, 30 years.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: It's Mark Simone here on 710WOR. Mark Simone.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: New York.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, it's autumn, but it's going to be nice today.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: It'll be about 65, 66 degrees, sunny. It's going to
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: be sunny for the next few days. That's the good news.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: It'll be warm tomorrow. It'll be 76 it'll get near
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: 80 tomorrow 70 on friday the weekend looks like it'll
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: be about 70 degrees might be rain on sunday but
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: the next four days bright beautiful sunny days great weather
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: forecast at least for the next uh four days so
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: we got a lot to get to in the next
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: hour we'll get to president trump we'll get to the
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: economy we'll get to october 7th and a whole lot
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: more Coming up right after the news, 710WOR. Now on 710WOR.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Mark Simone. Much more Mark. Thank you, Shadow Stevens. Well,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: we got a big two hours coming up. If you
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: just joined us, you missed the first hour. Don't forget,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: it's 9 to noon every day. It's three hours, 9
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: to noon every day. Many people talking about Chuck Schumer
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: being the most useless guy in the world. Why, even
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: on Morning Joe this morning, I was watching Morning Joe.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: They were going after Schumer, the most bored. They call
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: him bored. Just a bored guy. Doesn't do anything. Well,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: you can't say he's not doing anything. Just moments ago,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: he announced he is launching an investigation. You know, President
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Trump has those ads running on TV about the Trump administration.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: You know, all the good things they're doing, something like that.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: And they're being paid for by the government. So the
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: fake news, the media, the Democrats are outraged. This is
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: unheard of for the taxpayers to have to pay for
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: campaign ads. Well, first of all, every administration has done this.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Every administration has done this. I could run down the list,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: but it's too long. The other thing is Donald Trump
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: is not a candidate. They're saying it's a campaign ad.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: He's got taxpayers paying for campaigns. It can't possibly happen.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: be a campaign, that would be impossible. Donald Trump is
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: not a candidate. He's term limited it out. He can't
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: run again. He's not a candidate. He's not going to
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: be a candidate. And Schumer calling for an investigation. He's
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: doing this just because he always tries to pretend he's
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: doing something and he always picks something ridiculous and meaningless
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: to anybody. You know, when he does those fake Sunday
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: press conferences, It's always about nothing. It's about something the airline,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: the seats on the airlines aren't wide enough. It's always
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: something stupid. And it's something that nobody will ever even remember,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: so he doesn't have to actually do anything about it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: It's like this investigation into that taxpayer-funded ad. Two months
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: from now, nobody's going to remember this. So he is
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: the most useless senator ever elected. He's the highest-ranking Jewish
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: government official in America. And when the anti-Semitism problem hit
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: New York, students being terrorized at Columbia, where was he? Gone, hiding.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: He's never there when you need him. That's Schumer. He's
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: always there when you don't need him. He's never there
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: when you need him. Even the Democrats hate him. The
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Democrats can't stand this guy. Here's Ro Khanna, top Democrat now.
• 37:33
  Speaker 13: I'm a New Deal Democrat, not a donor class Democrat.
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: I'm a New Deal Democrat, not a corporate Democrat. I'm
• 37:46
  Speaker 13: a New Deal Democrat, not a Chuck Schumer Democrat.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he's talking about. Schumer is the donor
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: corporate Democrat. Every big, big donor, every, not just Democrats,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: every big Republican donor, they all have Schumer's cell number.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: All the corporations have Schumer's cell number. You need anything,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: you call him, he's there. If you're a constituent, forget it.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: You can call all you want. Nobody's going to help you. Cornell, ooh,
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: they've brought in a special investigator. They're going to investigate themselves.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: As we mentioned before, they've announced they've hired Sally Yates,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: former attorney general. And a lot of fake news pointing
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: out she was a Donald Trump attorney general. Well, no, no, no,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: that's totally misleading. That's really not the case. She was
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: an Obama deputy attorney general. She was an Obama administration,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: a deputy attorney general under Loretta Lynch. Remember Loretta Lynch?
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Wasn't she the one that targeted, was it conservative groups,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: conservative organizations targeted them? And anyway, Loretta Lynch, uh, When
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: Trump was elected, Loretta Lynch immediately resigned. And it took,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: as it would with any new president, it takes a
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: few weeks to get an attorney general confirmed. So when
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Loretta Lynch resigned, the deputy, Sally Yates, had to become
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: the attorney general. She was the deputy. So she was
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: the attorney general. And Trump couldn't stand her. She's a
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: big Trump hater. He had an executive order about... I
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: forget what it was. It was an executive order banning refugees.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: or something about the border, the travel ban, whatever it was.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: It was an executive order. She refused to enforce it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: She actually defied her own boss, the president, refused to
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: enforce it, and he fired her. So she kind of
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: left in disgrace, unless you're an MSNBC viewer. Then she
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: was heroic So this is perfect for Cornell. Elite Ivy League,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Trump hating. This is perfect. She was fired by Trump.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: That's the credential that they're looking for. She will be
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: conducting an investigation into Cornell as to whether they handled
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: things properly. Now, obviously, obviously they didn't handle things properly. Otherwise,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't be front page news for two weeks if
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: it's all over the place. Every time you go to
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: the news site, every time you watch TV, there's a
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: picture of that hideously ugly fraternity house. And Cornell, if
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: they'd handled it properly, wouldn't be here. It's two years
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: after the incident. Two years later, had they handled this,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: we wouldn't be hearing about it all the time. So
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: she's going to investigate. And then her investigation will conclude
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: that they did follow Cornell procedures, but the procedures need
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: to be modified and updated. They'll do something like that.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Then these kids will go to trial. You know, there's
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: going to be trials. You got seven people named in
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: all of this. It looks like four were the actual
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: ones committing something. But that means seven trials. That means
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: four trials. I would imagine they'll all be separate trials.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: So this will go on for a couple of years.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: This is the worst thing for Cornell. Applications to Cornell
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: are dramatically down. This is going to cost them a fortune.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know what else they could do at this point,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: but we'll see. As I mentioned, maybe it was yesterday,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: this is not uncommon, this kind of thing. There have
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: been 8,000 of these incidents reported at American colleges. There's
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: some colleges that, and not just the Ivy League ones,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: but it's all over. Some of these colleges have up
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: to 175 incidents a year reported. But altogether, in a year,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: there's like 8,000. of these incidents at college campuses. So
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: they had these car shows all over the place. You
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: see them all over the place. It's the Concourse Elegance
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: that travels the country. They do one everywhere, wherever you are.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: If you're in New Canaan, they got that caffeine and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: carburetors car show. If you're in Long Island, there's that,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I forget what they call it, that car show at Halston's,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: at Blackstone's. They have them all over the place. So
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: there's one. a big one in Newport, the Audrain Concours.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: And Jay Leno, you know, he bought a house in
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Rhode Island. That's like his vacation home in Rhode Island.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: So he loves this car show. And Jay Leno was
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: a big part of it, emceeing it and brought some
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: of his cars to this great car show. And guess
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: who showed up yesterday at this car show? Yeah, Joe Biden.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Everybody was stunned. Joe Biden shows up with, I guess
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: it was his grandson. Biden was there, pretend, you know,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: listen to his grandson's name, Robert Hunter Biden. What a
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: name to have. Bobby Biden, but it's Robert Hunter Biden.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: It was at State Park, Newport, Rhode Island. And you
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: walk around and you look at the cars and they're
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: beautiful old cars. And they're all polished and shined up.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: And it says Biden was there because he's a car enthusiast.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: You know, they keep trying to convince you this guy's
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: a car enthusiast. He's got one old Corvette sitting in
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: the garage. I don't think it even works. This old,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: old Corvette is sitting in the garage. It's a 1967 Corvette.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: That's not a car enthusiast. You see Jane Leno's garages?
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: It's not even a garage. His garage is actually two
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: enormous airplane hangars. cut together, actually next to each other,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: but they got like a hallway between them. And he's
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of the
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: rarest cars. Jerry Seinfeld, same thing. That's what you do
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: if you're one of these guys. You buy an airplane
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: hanger at an airport. You can do that. You can
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: buy your own hanger if you go to one of
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: these airports where all the private jets use. There's certain airports,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: New Jersey, Teterboro, there's all these airports that have private
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: jets coming and going. And if you're a big corporation,
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: you've got seven private jets coming and going, you buy
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: a hangar at the airport. You have your own hangar
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: where you keep your planes. And those hangars have a
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: second floor. And in the second floor, they put bedrooms,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: they put like a whole, it looks like a suite
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: at the Ritz-Carlton, and that's where they keep the pilots
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: or whatever. And if you're a Jay Leno or a
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld and you've got 111 cars or something, you also.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Legally become a car dealer, you actually get incorporated and
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: legally certified as a car dealership. That way, you get
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: all kinds of tax benefits and all kinds of stuff
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: kicks in. So compare that to Joe Biden, who happens
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: to have an old Corvette sitting in the garage. Nobody's
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: ever seen him drive this car. The guy can't even walk.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: Be honest. Would you get in a car driven by
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden He's not even capable of driving a car,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: but there he was walking around the show. Now, it
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: turns out later, what was he doing there? It turns out, huh,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: it says he was actually invited there by Jay Leno.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Leno asked him to come. All right. I don't know why,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: but I guess it helped promote the car show. So
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: it's the anniversary of October 7th, the most horrible, awful
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Holocaust committed by Hamas. a terrorist attack as big as 9-11,
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: actually bigger in some ways because more people, percentage-wise of
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: the population, were killed on October 7th than on 9-11.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: It was the most brutal, ugly, disgusting terrorist attack. Not
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: only all the killing, but babies were slaughtered, women were raped.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: This is Hamas at work, and it's the third anniversary today. Now,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: according to this study, More than half of Jewish New
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Yorkers fear for their safety after these attacks. 42% say
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: they've been verbally harassed or had real problems. 51% say
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: they feel unsafe, compared with 38% of non-Jewish voters. 55%
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: of Jewish voters say it's clearly gotten much worse since
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: October 7th. Yeah, since October 7th, it unleashed, I guess
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: it was always there somewhere, but it unleashed this anti-Semitism.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: It somehow brought it out into the open, even among
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Democrat candidates, even among Democrat officials. It's just open anti-Semitism.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: And they'll try to convince you that you could be
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: anti-Israel without being anti-Semitic. You can't really make that case
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: because if you don't want Jews to have a homeland,
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: you're anti-Semitic. It's that simple. You can't say, I don't
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: hate the French, but I don't want them to have
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: a country. Do you know any other ethnic group where
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of people would declare they shouldn't have
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: their own country, they shouldn't have their own state? Of
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: course Jews have to have Israel. So anybody that's against
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Israel is anti-Semitic. And somehow it became acceptable after October 7th,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: for people to say it in public. Even officials, even
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: government officials can actually openly spew this anti-Semitism. Even candidates
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: can openly spew this stuff. Bruce Blakeman catching up to
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul. It looks pretty much neck and neck. They're
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: both within the margin of error. I'm talking about in
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: the real polls, not the public polls, the real polls.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: That's why she is spending a fortune on these attack ads,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: going after Blakeman. He is also, now he's vowing to
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: end all the New York sanctuary policies. You got Mike
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Lawler running, going after Hochul. The debate is coming up
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: next week. It's on New York One. I'm just telling
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: you because nobody has New York One. Nobody sees New
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: York One. Nobody watches New York One. It's also the
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: most left-wing biased place in the world. That's why it's
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: the only debate that Hochul will agree to. So it's
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: only 27 days. 27 days away. It's less than a
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: month away in the election. President Trump, every single day,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: every single day, working in the White House for most
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: of the day. Then in the afternoon, he flies out
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: to a different state, does a massive rally, sometimes two,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: three hours of him speaking. Today, it's Texas. He'll be
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: in Texas for a rally. Then he'll come back every day. Now,
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: this is the other thing you got to think about.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: The polls make it look like the Republicans are way behind.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: They're not way behind. They're a little behind, which is
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: not a bad place to be. You want to be
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: a little behind four weeks out and surging and have momentum.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: You want to surge at the end. You don't want
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: to peak early. That may have been the Democrats' problem.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: But here's the most important number. Republicans are behind. a little,
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: but the number that's behind is less than the number
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: they always outperform the polls by. So that looks good
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: for them. Also, you've got to factor in Donald Trump
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: is a ruthless, relentless warrior at the end of a campaign.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: He'll be campaigning around the clock. in the final couple
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: of weeks, so we'll see what that does. The whole
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: election is going to be determined by turnout. Whichever side
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: turns out, that's who's going to win. If Democrats get
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: massive turnout, they win. If Republicans get big turnout, they win. Generally,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: Republicans don't turn out in a situation like this. If
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: it's the party in power, a lot of them just
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: don't bother, but we'll see. Now, a lot of Democrats
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: are disgusted with their candidates, so you might see low
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: turnout on both sides, but We'll see what happens. I
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: feel naked right now because I left my Apple Watch.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: It's in the charger. This is the first day in
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: a couple of years without it on. You just feel helpless.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can look at my phone and get
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: the exact time. But with that watch, it would tell
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: you everything. Your pulse, your blood oxygen level, your this,
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: your that. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: 800-321-2100.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: 0710 is the number.
• 50:40
  Speaker 8: 800-321-0710.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Mark Simone. Mr. New York.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. Let's
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing?
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark.
• 51:03
  Speaker 14: I'm doing very well, thank you. Mark, as the next governor...
• 51:08
  Speaker 14: Bruce Blakeman, will he be addressing congestion pricing, the.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: Tolls for bridges?
• 51:15
  Speaker 14: And the second question is, where right now is all
• 51:19
  Speaker 14: of this revenue going.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: If you please?
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Out the window, usually. It goes to important things like waste, fraud,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: and bloat. That's what it covers. Yeah, Bruce Blakeman, I
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: guarantee you, this is another reason you want to vote
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: for him. I guarantee on day one, the congestion pricing
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: tax ends that night. and he'll get rid of a
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: lot of taxes. This is what he did in Long Island.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: He'll make you safer. He will start to cut taxes,
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: and you can be sure there will be no tax
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: increases with him. Now you're going to say, well, he's
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: got a big Democratic legislature. He had the same problem
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: in Nassau County. He's pretty good at working with them
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: and getting things done. But we've got to hope and
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: pray that Bruce Blakeman becomes the governor. Everything will change.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: He can also do some stuff to rope in Mamdani.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: and keep away some of his crazy nonsense. Bruce Blakeman,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: you can help him. Go to BlakemanForNewYork.com. BlakemanForNewYork.com. Let's go
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: to Arthur in Cedarhurst, speaking of Nassau County. Arthur, how
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: are you doing?
• 52:20
  Speaker 15: I'm well, thank you, Mark.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: How are you? Good.
• 52:23
  Speaker 9: Good.
• 52:24
  Speaker 15: First of all, long-time fan going back to Sundays with Sinatra.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Wow, very good.
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 52:32
  Speaker 15: My simple question is, there's an emergency on the measles.
• 52:36
  Speaker 15: Do you know how many measles cases this year have come.
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: Up in New York State?
• 52:42
  Speaker 12: No.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: How many?
• 52:42
  Speaker 16: A little over 100.
• 52:44
  Speaker 15: It was 16 in September. This is a massive outbreak
• 52:50
  Speaker 15: of an emergency, or is this a political ploy?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. It's very, very, very, very, very few cases. Yeah,
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: it's a good point. What are you doing, Cedarhurst, Arthur?
• 53:01
  Speaker 15: I'm a computer consultant.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 53:05
  Speaker 10: Six computers.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Too complicated. You really fix computers? Yes, I do. You know,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: we can't get it to work, and then we call
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: you guys, a guy like you comes in, and you
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: go into parts of the computer we've never even seen
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: you do. Is it really that complicated, or could anybody
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: learn this stuff?
• 53:22
  Speaker 15: It's not any more complicated than the job you do.
• 53:25
  Speaker 15: And anybody can't do your job. Not everybody can do
• 53:28
  Speaker 15: my job.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: All right. Good answer, Arthur. Thanks for calling. Let's go
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: to Dan in Queens. Dan, how are you doing?
• 53:35
  Speaker 11: Good, good, Mark. Mark, Blakeman has got to be the
• 53:39
  Speaker 11: biggest populist in the country, either Republican or Democrat, besides
• 53:45
  Speaker 11: the sanctuary city today. Last week, him coming out with
• 53:49
  Speaker 11: saying he would reduce New York state taxes 50 percent
• 53:53
  Speaker 11: for moderate income people. That's like revolutionary, really. I wish
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: they could get that.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: It's more common sense than it used to be the
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: way a lot of politicians were, but I guess nowadays
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: that's considered revolutionary. Yeah, no, Blakeman's got a brilliant tax
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: plan he's put out, and it would dramatically reduce taxes.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: You know, our budget here in New York is some
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: preposterous number. It's, I don't know, it's like $ 270 billion
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: in New York. It should be about $ 100 billion. I mean,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: it's double, triple what it's supposed to be.
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: Florida.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Has a much bigger population than New York. Their budget
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: is half of what ours is. It's all just waste, fraud, bloat.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: It's easy to cut the budget in half, which would
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: mean your taxes would be cut in half. Let's go
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: to Jerry in Greenwich. Jerry, how you doing? Very well.
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Mark. Thank you for taking my call. Every
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: time I watch television, I see Bernie Sanders. He speak
• 54:55
  Speaker 7: like a crazy maniac. I mean, I think this guy
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: should be committed. He set out to ruin America, and
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: all the people that listen to him, they think they
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: should be committed too.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. He's not crazy. He's got a
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: good act. Hey, the guy's got like four mansions now.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: He's flying around on jet planes. He must know something.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, private planes.
• 55:17
  Speaker 7: Everything he says is a lie.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Well, he's a politician. He's in Congress. What do you
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: expect him to do? They all lie. But good point, Jerry. Yeah,
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: he's your typical socialist. He'll give you a handout now
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: and then. The guy literally has three mansions. Three mansions.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: He's got a home everywhere. He's a multimillionaire. He makes
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: like $ 180, 000 as a senator. Somehow he's got $ 30 million
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: in cash on hand. He's made a fortune. And all
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: he does is lecture you, and he's yelling and screaming,
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: but the top 5% or the top 2% only pay 1%.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows what he's talking about, but it sounds good. And,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: you know, he has the hair sticking out, so he
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: looks a little crazier. He's your typical socialist. Oh, when
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: we come back, this new study comes out. You're like, 80%
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: of Americans think the economy's in trouble. You know, it's
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: actually just the opposite. We'll talk to a real expert,
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: John Carney, the Breitbart business editor. The Breitbart Business News,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: it's the first thing the top economists read every day.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Scott Besson has said he reads it every morning first thing,
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: Larry Kudlow. But he'll give us the real story on
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: the economy. We'll get to that coming up next on 710WOR.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR Life Facts Studios, Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, John Carney is the editor of the Breitbart Business Digest. Now,
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  Speaker 10: Very good.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks for having me, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, look at this survey. It says the majority of Americans...
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  Speaker 2: think the economy is in bad trouble, the economy is
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  Speaker 2: going bad. That's not the case, is it? Why do
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  Speaker 2: they think that?
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  Speaker 9: So, yeah, I'm not sure they really do think it.
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  Speaker 9: I know that all the surveys show that people are
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  Speaker 9: really unhappy with the economy. But when you look at
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  Speaker 9: how people are behaving, meaning, you know, look at retail sales,
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  Speaker 9: personal expenditures, they're actually behaving like the economy is doing
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  Speaker 9: quite well. People are spending a lot of money. Traditionally,
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  Speaker 9: when people start to worry that the economy is doing badly,
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  Speaker 9: they pull back on spending because they start saving for
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  Speaker 9: the rainy day that they think has already begun. But
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  Speaker 9: we don't see that anywhere in the numbers. So yes,
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  Speaker 9: when people are surveyed about the economy, they say they
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  Speaker 9: don't like it. But when people are, you know, when
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  Speaker 9: they go online to shop or when they go into
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  Speaker 9: a shopping mall, they are not behaving as if they
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  Speaker 9: think the economy is in terrible shape.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look at that. Even I got fooled by the
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  Speaker 2: fake polls with their fake metrics. And so, yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: that's good to know that the economy is in good shape.
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  Speaker 2: And well, what about people that make the argument? Well,
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  Speaker 2: Wall Street's doing well, but not the rest of us.
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  Speaker 9: So Wall Street has done well. By that, you mean
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  Speaker 9: like stocks.
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  Speaker 2: Are up a lot.
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  Speaker 9: The thing is, people underestimate how broadly stocks are owned
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  Speaker 9: in the US. Yes, the wealthy own most of the
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  Speaker 9: stocks because they're wealthy. But a large percentage of Americans,
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  Speaker 9: through their retirement plans, own stocks. And so it's not
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  Speaker 9: true that there is this strict divorce of When the
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  Speaker 9: stock market goes up, that doesn't help regular people.
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  Speaker 8: Of course it does.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knows this.
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  Speaker 8: People have 401ks.
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  Speaker 9: They have IRAs. They have pensions. And these actually have
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  Speaker 9: benefited tremendously from the stock market doing as well as
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  Speaker 9: it has, especially over the last.
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  Speaker 8: Year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Also, when it's up, doesn't that lead to the businesses
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  Speaker 2: spending more money, creating more factories, jobs, that sort of stuff?
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely. It works on both sides. One of the reasons
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  Speaker 9: stocks are up so much is because the economy is
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  Speaker 9: doing well. Corporate profits are up because the economy is
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  Speaker 9: doing well. Investors expect it to do even better. Stocks
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  Speaker 9: aren't rising because rich people felt like paying more for stocks.
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  Speaker 9: They're rising because the bid for the stocks goes up
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  Speaker 9: because people are willing to pay more because they think
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  Speaker 9: the profits are going to continue to increase.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: On the other side of it, as you said, when
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  Speaker 9: the stocks are rising, companies actually tend to be able
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  Speaker 9: to invest more because one thing is they can buy
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  Speaker 9: things with their own currency in effect. So they do
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  Speaker 9: acquisitions of other companies, buying them with their stock. And
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  Speaker 9: managers tend to take this as an affirmation that they
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  Speaker 9: should keep investing because investors are saying, yes, we like
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  Speaker 9: what you're doing. Keep going. So they continue to expand operations,
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  Speaker 9: which means more employment and more output for the economy.
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  Speaker 2: So the last year or two, wages are up, right?
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  Speaker 2: But they're up more than the inflation is. Are people
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  Speaker 2: actually taking home more now?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: So this is an important nuance that a lot of
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  Speaker 9: people miss. For a couple months this year, we had
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  Speaker 9: the hourly wages actually didn't beat inflation. Hourly wages were
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  Speaker 9: down slightly. But because people were able.
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  Speaker 8: To work more, meaning their businesses were doing well enough
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  Speaker 8: that they said, hey, can you guys put in some
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  Speaker 8: extra hours? I also think people, because we stopped.
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  Speaker 9: Taxing overtime for a lot of jobs. People are willing
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  Speaker 9: to work more.
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  Speaker 8: So one of the things.
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  Speaker 9: That we've seen is that weekly wages, which is actual paychecks,
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  Speaker 9: and that's where people's spending power comes from, not an
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  Speaker 9: hourly wage. The weekly wages are beating inflation and have
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  Speaker 9: for the past three months. They did fall short for
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  Speaker 9: two months out of the whole Trump presidency. So we
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  Speaker 9: have 18 or 19, depending on how you want to count.
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  Speaker 9: And only in two months, did weekly wages not beat inflation.
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  Speaker 9: By the way, that's a huge difference from what we
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  Speaker 9: saw under Joe Biden, where over the course of Joe
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  Speaker 9: Biden's entire, yes, there were periods where weekly wages beat
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  Speaker 9: inflation under Biden.
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  Speaker 8: But over the course of, because inflation.
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  Speaker 9: Ran so hot for so long under Biden's presidency, weekly
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  Speaker 9: wages fell behind over the entire time he was president.
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  Speaker 9: Whereas Donald Trump They're up for his presidency.
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  Speaker 2: John Carney is the editor of Breitbart Business Digest. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you watch MSNBC, all I saw was that diesel
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  Speaker 2: prices are the highest ever. It's going to cost us
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  Speaker 2: all a fortune. Is that really the case?
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  Speaker 9: No. This is another thing where– They're just wrong about this.
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  Speaker 8: So diesel prices are up.
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  Speaker 9: And in terms of nominal dollars, they're up. But everything
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  Speaker 9: is up in terms of nominal dollars. If you adjust
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  Speaker 9: diesel prices for inflation, which is what you need to
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  Speaker 9: do to figure out whether diesel prices are especially high,
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  Speaker 9: they're high. But they are not at a record high.
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  Speaker 9: They were higher in 2022. They were higher actually back
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  Speaker 9: in 2008. So we're not– look– I would like diesel
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  Speaker 9: prices to come down. I think they will come down.
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  Speaker 9: They have come down, by the way, since their highs
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  Speaker 9: in mid-September, but they are not at a record high.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So oil prices, obviously the Iran war is affected. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: the Ukraine war is affected. Once all that ends, prices
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  Speaker 2: on oil and gas are going to plunge, aren't they? Yes.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, and in fact.
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  Speaker 9: I think they're going to plunge much faster than people think. Um,
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  Speaker 9: we're going to see, uh, a big decline in these
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  Speaker 9: prices right now. Brent crude, the international standard is about $ 101. Uh,
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  Speaker 9: before this all started happening, we were down in the sixties.
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  Speaker 9: I think we're going to see that crash back to
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  Speaker 9: those levels, uh, relatively quickly. The problem is, uh, The
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  Speaker 9: war keeps going on, right? And it keeps, in a sense,
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  Speaker 9: growing because we now have not just the Strait of Hormuz,
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  Speaker 9: but the Houthis attacking pipelines, attacking the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 8: So it's keeping prices elevated.
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  Speaker 9: When those situations get resolved, we will see it come
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  Speaker 9: back down. It is being driven by war.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, for those of you listening in California, you will
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  Speaker 2: not see it come down.
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  Speaker 9: How do they think about the war driven aspect of
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  Speaker 9: this is that one of the things that means is
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  Speaker 9: that it doesn't bleed as much into other prices.
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  Speaker 8: If oil prices are seen as being permanently.
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  Speaker 9: Higher, then you will see the price of shipping rise.
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  Speaker 8: You'll see the price of consumer goods start to rise, but.
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  Speaker 9: Because it is a temporary increase, Stores like Walmart and
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  Speaker 9: Target don't pass that on to their customers because, frankly,
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  Speaker 9: they don't want to drive away their customers. They are
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  Speaker 9: in a competitive world. They try to keep their prices low,
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  Speaker 9: and they are willing to absorb a temporary price increase
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  Speaker 9: where they might not if the price increase was permanent.
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  Speaker 2: That's interesting. Hey, you've got to give California credit, Gavin Newsom.
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  Speaker 2: How did they get the gas prices up to $ 6. 50
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  Speaker 2: a gallon? How did they pull that off?
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  Speaker 9: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 8: It's a combination of three things. One, they haven't.
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  Speaker 9: Allowed pipelines to come into California. So we make all
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  Speaker 9: of this gas out, all of this oil, and we
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  Speaker 9: make natural gas in the Dakotas, in Oklahoma, in Texas,
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  Speaker 9: and there's no way practically to get it over to
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  Speaker 9: the West Coast of the United States because they haven't
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  Speaker 9: allowed pipelines. The other thing is that they don't allow
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  Speaker 9: them to build new refineries. This is all done because
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  Speaker 9: of climate change and environmental ideology. So California has to
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  Speaker 9: get its gas mostly from the Middle East. And it
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  Speaker 9: produces some oil at home, but decreasing amounts again.
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  Speaker 8: And then they also impose.
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  Speaker 9: A very large tax on gasoline. So Between the tax
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  Speaker 9: and the pipelines and the crackdown on refineries, California has
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  Speaker 9: the highest gas prices in the nation.
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  Speaker 2: Nine to noon every day. So you've got the riots,
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  Speaker 2: the protests, France. It's normally not that big a deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the national pastime of France. Boycotting, picketing, work stoppage, riots.
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  Speaker 2: They do this every year in France. It always happens.
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  Speaker 2: But this looks a little worse than the usual ones.
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  Speaker 2: This seems a little bigger. 6,100 people have been arrested.
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  Speaker 2: They've had tear gas everywhere. This one seems 715 police
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  Speaker 2: officers have been interrogated. Well, it turns out that there's
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  Speaker 2: a reason for that. It turns out this is not
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  Speaker 2: just the normal French with their work strikes, with their boycotts,
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  Speaker 2: with their protests over something. This is a combination of forces.
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  Speaker 2: It's the regular French and the protests and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But this group has been infiltrated with radical Islamic people.
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  Speaker 2: Radical Islamic groups have infiltrated the protest, kicked them up
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  Speaker 2: a few notches. That's why it's more violent. That's why
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  Speaker 2: it's getting uglier. And as President Trump pointed out, all
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  Speaker 2: this illegal immigration into France, not just France, but much
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  Speaker 2: of Europe, but these migrants that have come in, all
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  Speaker 2: these illegals are fueling this. I mean, like throwing gas
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  Speaker 2: on the fire. So the normal French riots and strikes
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  Speaker 2: and all that are much, much worse. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know where this is going to end. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: This is going to escalate. This is going to get
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  Speaker 2: pretty bad before it's over. So, you know, we don't
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  Speaker 2: have pennies anymore. I mean, you may have some, but
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  Speaker 2: the government officially ended the penny. They don't make pennies anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And they say that whatever pennies are out there, you
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  Speaker 2: could still use them, but there's no more pennies Now,
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  Speaker 2: they act like the penny's going to go away eventually.
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  Speaker 2: How does that happen? I mean, I don't have any
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  Speaker 2: pennies here, but a penny's pretty well made. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to crumble. They'll always be there. Those
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  Speaker 2: of you that have been saving pennies in a jar,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell you're going to do
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  Speaker 2: with them. But listen to this. Congress now wants to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the nickel. I guess this is inflation.
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  Speaker 2: The penny is worthless now. They say there's no reason
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  Speaker 2: to have nickels anymore. What would anybody use a nickel for?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Sometimes you go in the supermarket or
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  Speaker 2: someplace and you're in line behind somebody who still wants
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  Speaker 2: to use cash. It's a very silly thing to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Who uses cash anymore? You pay with your phone, you
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  Speaker 2: pay with your credit card. Who uses cash anymore? You
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  Speaker 2: can pay with your Apple Watch. But they sit there
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  Speaker 2: and take out cash and then the The cashier has
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  Speaker 2: to count out dollars and quarters and nickels. I guess
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  Speaker 2: that's where you use a penny now and then. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of silly. But they're going to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: the nickel. You'll know it's really bad when the quarter disappears.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you know. The only problem with
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: paying digitally, when you're in Rome and you want to
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: throw the coin in the fountain for good luck, what
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: are you going to do? You're going to throw your
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: phone in there and then go get it out? It's
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: not the same. You know that Skydance is officially now,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: the whole merger is complete, official. It's done. That's it. Skydance, Paramount, CBS,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: they now own Warner, Discovery. That'll include HBO. That includes CNN.
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  Speaker 2: So it's funny, the uproar about CNN. They're so concerned. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I hope they don't tamper with CNN, you know. CNN
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  Speaker 2: is in last place. It's a total disaster. Fox News
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  Speaker 2: celebrating their 30th anniversary today. The number one cable news
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  Speaker 2: channel by far. If you add MSNOW and CNN together,
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  Speaker 2: not even half of the viewers that Fox has. Fox
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  Speaker 2: is way out in front. MSNOW, not doing so well.
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  Speaker 2: It's in second place, but way behind, way behind. And
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  Speaker 2: NBC threw it out. It used to be part of NBC.
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  Speaker 2: They threw it out of the company. They threw it
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  Speaker 2: out of the building. They demanded that their name come
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  Speaker 2: off it. So there's MS Now. And then way behind
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: them is CNN with a couple hundred thousand viewers. It's
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: absolutely a failure. It still has Anderson Cooper and names
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: you would know, Wolf Blitzer, but very few viewers. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why. I mean, if a normal company
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: bought that, bought a bunch of stuff, and one of
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: them was CNN. They changed it into something else. Something else.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: You make it a gardening channel, make it Real Housewives,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: make it old TV shows, make it a Law &
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: Order channel. You do much better. Much better. But they
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  Speaker 2: had a town hall yesterday with the new chairman, David Ellison.
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  Speaker 2: He's the chairman of Skydance, the worst name in the world, Skydance,
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  Speaker 2: And Anderson Cooper was doing the questioning. Boy, and Anderson
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  Speaker 2: Cooper spoke right up, demanding to know, are you going
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  Speaker 2: to tamper with CNN? And Ellison said, as it relates
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  Speaker 2: to editorial, we believe in complete and total editorial independence.
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  Speaker 2: And boy, Anderson Cooper went right after him. Ellison said,
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  Speaker 2: we trust Mark Thompson. He's running CNN, and he'll continue
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  Speaker 2: to lead the network. So Cooper said, you're pledging to
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  Speaker 2: not interfere with the news coverage? Correct, Ellison said. Correct,
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  Speaker 2: I will not interfere. Now, I guess that reassured everybody,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: but they also announced there's going to be massive layoffs. Now, CNN, again,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: has the tiniest ratings. They're not doing well. They don't
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  Speaker 2: make any money. There's going to be massive layoffs. So
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: they will not interfere with editorial. They'll just lay off
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  Speaker 2: whoever they don't like. There's a lot of waste and
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: fraud at these networks. If you're a big, successful network
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: and the ratings are booming, you can afford it. But
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: even a place like Fox, even a place like Fox,
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  Speaker 2: which is doing very well, it's extremely popular. Not a
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: lot of layoffs, but they do cut back, you know,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: year to year to year to year. It's different every year.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: You know, you used to go in the green room.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: There was a buffet. It was an incredible feast. You
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: go to the buffet now, it's bananas and apples and
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. It's not the most elaborate expensive, but
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 2: all the networks are doing that. That's normal. But it's CNN.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: You're going to see real, real layoffs. You're going to
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: see some cost cutting over there. And they deserve it.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: They absolutely deserve it. They get no ratings. Now, remember,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: this is a big conglomerate they have purchased. Warner Brothers, Discovery.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: It owns a lot of stuff. Discovery, HBO, all this
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: HBO Max. So CNN is a little tiny thing of it.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: So you can leave it alone for a while. And
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: who was it on the show this week? Was it
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly? Somebody. Jimmy Fallon. Somebody said, just leave it
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: the way it is. It's getting no ratings. It's dwindling
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: every second. Let it just die in the vine. Let
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: it just die of its own accord. Hey, a terrible
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: anniversary today, October 7th. Terrible, terrible thing. The worst, most
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: ugly terrorist Holocaust attack by Hamas on behalf of the
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: Palestinians against Israel.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 9: It.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: It's just so horrifying. You know, you've probably, I'm sure
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: you've never seen what really happened. The really, really ugly footage,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: the killing of babies, their throats being cut, the raping
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: of women. These Hamas terrorists were wearing GoPro cameras. They
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: filmed the whole thing. They videoed the whole thing. And
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: some of that's been put together in a 47 minute documentary. Uh,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: the Israeli, uh, Ambassador has invited Mamdani, crazy anti-Semitic Mayor Mamdani,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: to come watch it. It's 47 minutes long. He said, Mamdani,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: if you watch this, I think you'll understand. I think
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: you'll truly understand why the Jewish state is so important. Now,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: this ambassador, being very, very naive, he's not going to
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: understand anything. He's going to feel this is the way
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: they are. They just indoctrinated it. This anti-Semitism is burned
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: into people. They'll just think it was justified. It was
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: justified by what happened. But he won't watch it. But
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: Mamdani tonight will go to a vigil to mourn those
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: killed in that attack. He's leaving that and actually going
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: to a Palestinian event. He always looks like he's doing
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: the right thing. And then the next act makes it
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: clear he's not. Hey, that Carl Heastie, he runs the
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: State Assembly. He's the state assembly speaker. You got the assembly,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: big part of the legislature. It's this Carl Heastie who's really,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: that legislature in Albany is the worst. The worst with
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: their taxes, with their no bail, no jail, with their
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: crazy left-wing kooky stuff. Carl Heastie, the leader. You know,
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: he's been spotted on this very expensive trip to Rio.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: He's in Brazil. And who's there with him? Well, this lobbyist.
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: It's a low-level lobbyist that has risen up because he's
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: friends with Carl Hastie for a million years. Now, who
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: paid for this very expensive Rio de Janeiro vacation? They
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: won't say. The lobbyist won't say. Hastie won't say. But
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: this guy was his roommate at college. And since Hastie
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: has become the Speaker of the Assembly— All of a
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: sudden this low-level lobbyist is suddenly making a fortune. He
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: made $ 5 million last year. So who paid for this
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: elaborate vacation that Hastie's on? Hastie won't say. And the
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: lobbyist won't say. Hey, now, you know, you act like
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: Mamdani's doing nothing, accomplishing nothing. Well, look at this. He's
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: entering into two contracts. totaling $ 9 million to provide gender-affirming
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: sex reassignment care to transgender patients under the age of 18. Kids, teenagers.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: The move backs a policy that the Federal Department of
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: Justice has challenged as medically dangerous and illegal. Of course
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: it is. And it's ridiculous to do that to kids.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: But Mamdani is taking money out of our paychecks and
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: doing this. Sebastian Maniscalco. We love Sebastian Maniscalco. He's been
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: on the show many times. Probably the biggest comedian in
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: America right now. But a lot of comedians are mad
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: at him, really mad at him. He's taking a lot
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: of heat right now. Over there at SiriusXM, they've been
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: redoing things. They got rid of the Howard Stern 101 channel.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: They took one of Stern's channels away. They created an
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 2: Andy Cohen channel. And, you know, they had a couple
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: of comedy channels, and one of them was, I forget
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: what it was called, the comedy channel, raw comedy. It
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: was raw comedy. Well, they got rid of that, and
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: they've handed it over to Sebastian Maniscalco. There's going to
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: be a Sebastian Maniscalco comedy radio 24-7 channel. Makes sense.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: Guy's the biggest comedian in America. Makes perfect sense to
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: give him a channel. Ooh, but all the comedians are
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: mad at him. These comedians, Liz Mele and Greg Stone
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: and others, they're all signing petitions. They are all demanding
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: that Sebastian, you know, because a lot of these comedians
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: got exposure on the old channel and they're furious, furious.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: They got petitions. They're calling on Maniscalco to reverse course,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: arguing the revamped channel will sharply concentrate airplay content only
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: to the best-known comedians and not the newer ones. Now,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: this is interesting. What will Sebastian Maniscalco do? He's a
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: really nice guy. He's a very nice guy. He's a
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: very diplomatic guy. He's a very image-conscious guy. Who knows?
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Will he reverse things? Will he alter the channel to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: make sure? It's easy to do if you're going to
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: feature all the best-known comedians, which is the smart thing
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: to do for this channel. Obviously, that's what people want
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: to hear, and that's what you should do. You put
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: in a couple of hours of the day where it's
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: all new, unknown comedians. That's what you do. Watch. This
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: is what he'll do. He'll come. If I can come
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: up with this, he'll come up with this. And that's
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: what you're going to see at some point. So, hey,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: 60 Minutes. Remember, they love picking on 60 Minutes because
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: it's Barry Weiss running things now. You know, the left,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: the fake news goes after her as if she's some Trumpster.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: She's a Democrat. She's a liberal Democrat. Always has been.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: She comes from the New York Times. She's not conservative,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: but they hate her because she was, ooh, she tampered
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: with 60 Minutes. But this past week, 60 Minutes got
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: the biggest ratings of the season, 10.2 million. 10.2 million.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: That's even bigger than last season at this point, so
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: that's pretty good. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: is the number. And if you're a new caller, because
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: we always love hearing from new callers, 800- 3, 2, 1, 0, 7, 10.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: Now nine till noon weekdays.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: More Mark.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR. Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to, uh,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: Randall in Maryland. Randall, how you doing?
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 11: Hi, Mark.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 8: Mark, do you know what's worse than picking your own
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 8: pumpkins and apples?
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: What?
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 7: Picking your own peas at one of your, your, uh, agricultural,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 7: pick your own.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: Is that a big thing down there in Maryland, picking peas?
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 8: Well, there's guys around here that do all kinds of stuff,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 8: strawberries and different stuff. My wife and I decided one
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 8: Saturday morning we'd go pick fresh peas. And we came
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 8: back with a big basket full of them and came home,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 8: shelled them, and all we had was a big bowl
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 8: of peas that weren't any good than frozen peas from
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 8: the supermarket.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 2: What is wrong with you people? Picking pumpkins, picking apples,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: picking strawberries, picking peas. Now, stop it. Go over there
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: to Whole Foods. Go over there to Morton Williams. Go
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: over there. Go to Uncle Joseph's.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 10: I got a lot of time on my hands.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Well, all right. Thanks for calling. Go
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: into any good supermarket. They got 42 kinds of apples
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: right in the front. You know, you got some orchard.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: They got their one kind of apples. It's got spots
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: all over it and worms on it.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: Go to a supermarket. They've got all these different kinds
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: of apples. They polish them. They shine them. They look
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: much better. What do you want to be, green acres?
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: You're out in the woods picking your own fruit? Stop it.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Barbara in Tarrytown. Barbara, how are you doing?
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Mark. I'm doing good. How are you?
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: Let me check. Not bad. Not bad.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 12: I'd like to let you know I am someone, and
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 12: I know people, that also use C-A-S-H.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 7: Cash.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 12: You don't whip out a credit card.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: All right, so let me get this straight. You're the
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: lady in front of us in the supermarket line holding
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: everybody up paying cash, and they've got to make changes.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 12: So bad. Get there earlier. I know a lot of
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 12: people use cash.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: Don't you know how to use a credit card?
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 12: There's nothing wrong with cash.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: You have a credit card, right?
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 12: But I don't use it. I have it for an emergency.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: What do you have it if you don't use it?
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 12: Because my husband wanted a credit card.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 15: Oh.
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 12: And he never used his.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, your husband won't let you use it, right?
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 12: No, he's not going to let me use it.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: Now, I heard that your credit card was stolen once
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: and your husband didn't report it because the thief was
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: spending less than you. Is this true?
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 12: I heard that from who?
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 12: You couldn't have. He couldn't have.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: All right. Now, why do you want to use cash?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: You have a phone, right? You got an iPhone.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 12: No, I do not. I'm on a landline phone that
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 12: works wonderful.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: Well, you're very old school, aren't you?
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 12: Well, I'm 86 years young.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. All right, 86. You're allowed to use cash.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: I'm allowed?
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 12: Now you give me permission?
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, we grant you permission.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 12: And when I purchased a toast oven using cash, when
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 12: I got my change, because I had given the cashier
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 12: more than the item cost, I should have got it.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 12: Part of my change should have been three pennies, but
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 12: I didn't get those three pennies.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: You don't have pennies anymore. First of all, what are
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: you paying cash for everything for? What are you, Tony Soprano?
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: You got to pay cash for everything?
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 12: Because I like to use cash.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 12: I know people.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 10: Yes, Mark.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: All right. So, hey, thank you for calling. You sound
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: like a very, very nice woman. I'm glad you called.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you for calling. You see, this is the type.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: They just want to be annoying. They want to hold
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: you up in line. They want to count out the cash.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: You got that credit card. Use it. Let's go to
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 2: Mike in Long Island. Mike, how you doing?
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 5: So, Simone.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 6: I have a question for you.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 6: As Ellison changes Paramount's name to Skydance, what happens to
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 6: the recognizable arches with Paramount's name above the famous Bronson Gate?
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 6: entrance on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood?
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a very good question. That's a very good point.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: That famous Paramount, uh, entrance. Uh, you're right. We're going
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: to have Skydance. We're going to have like a ranch,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: like a Roy, Roy Rogers ranch Skydance. It sounds like
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: a company, uh, Robert Redford would create somewhere in Colorado.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: It's a terrible name. That's a good question. Let's go
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: to Michael in New Jersey. Michael, how you doing?
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 16: Uh, very good, Mark. Good morning. I wanted to, uh,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 16: mentioned the fact that with 20 million illegals coming across
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 16: the border two, three, four years ago.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 9: The.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 16: Republicans should be screaming from the rooftops about the affordability issue,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 16: and especially in the sanctuary cities where these 20 million
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 16: illegals have been housed, driving up the rental rates.
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 16: Like, phenomenally.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: Well, that's what Republicans did a few years ago. It
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: was actually Donald Trump that came up with the issue
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: of affordability and came up with the word affordability. He
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: kept using it in the campaign. It was his big issue.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: And Democrats basically just stole it from him. Now they're
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: using the word. But, yeah, it's a good point. With illegals,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: that's one reason our budget is double the budget of Florida,
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: even though Florida has a bigger budget. bigger population our
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: budget is double theirs illegals migrants by the way our
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: medicare costs medicaid costs are like triple what florida's are
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: and that's because of illegals that we're we're paying for
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: let's go to bill uh hamburg new jersey bill how
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: you doing.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 10: Well i got a pulse mark that's a.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: Good thing that's good that's good um yeah.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 10: Two quick points um big trump supporter People are saying
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 10: that the economy is good, but the 20s still keep flying.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 10: out of my wallet like they're single. Number two.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: What do you mean? What are you, a strip club?
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: Why do they keep flying out of your wallet?
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 10: Well, I agree with that earlier call, that lady. I
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 10: am a cash guy.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: Why do you pay cash? Do you have a credit card?
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 10: Yes, I do.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: Why don't you use it?
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 10: Like you say. I use it if I buy a
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 10: gift card.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you a simple question. You're in the supermarket.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: You take the credit card. You hold it over the
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: thing for one second. You're done. Cash, you got to
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: take it out. You got to count it. You got
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: to get changed. Why bother with all that?
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 10: I know. But now there's a record of my credit
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 10: card number out there flying around.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, so you are at a strip club.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 8: Admit it.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: You don't want to be on the record.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 10: Well, here's my second statement. The woman who was supposed
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 10: to be executed, it was a botched job. So I
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 10: hate to sound harsh, but why didn't they just take
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 10: her out in the courtyard and shoot her?
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think they have that. I think there's
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: four states that allow a firing squad. You can pick
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: your execution, apparently, in that state. Instead of electrocution, she
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: chose the lethal dose. So we'll see. But I want
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: you to start using a credit card, all right?
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 10: No, I'm not going to do that.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: Come on. What's the problem if you have a little record?
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 10: I don't want my information flying around.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: You don't want your purchase recorded. All right. Well, what
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: do you think is going to happen? You think somebody's
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: going to call you in two years from now? We
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: see here that you bought a can of peas in 2026.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: It's a supermarket. Who cares? Just use a credit card.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we'll talk to Ann Coulter, the
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: great columnist, the best-selling author. We've got lots to talk
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: about with her. Coming up next on 710WOR. Welcome back
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: to The Mark Simone Show.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: Well, Ann Coulter, the best-selling author, the great columnist. Hey,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: also make sure you watch her Rumble channel. She's got
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: a great Rumble channel, lots of great stuff there. Also,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: Follow her on Twitter. And Substack's even better. You can
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: go to anncoulter.substack.com. She's got videos and interviews and podcasts.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: Ann Coulter, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 15: Fantastic.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 17: How are you, Mark Simone?
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good. I hate to bring this up,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: but didn't you go to Cornell?
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 17: Oh, yes, I did. I'm writing about it. I talked
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 17: about it at my Substack last week.
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, so the Cornell of when you were there, was
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: it a nice place? Yes.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 17: Well, as you'll see in my column, I think this
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 17: story has a different, there's a different moral to it
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 17: than what the New York Times is drawing here. No,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 17: the fraternities and sororities are great.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: You will admit that that is the single ugliest fraternity
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: house ever. It's hideous looking.
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  Speaker 17: Well, it's interesting that I, of course, was in a sorority,
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  Speaker 17: I guess about a third of the undergraduates are in
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  Speaker 17: mostly fraternities. There are about 50 fraternities, at least when
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  Speaker 17: I was there. I think there were only seven or
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  Speaker 17: eight sororities. But they tend to, you know, hang out
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  Speaker 17: with the same– the same top two sororities would hang
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  Speaker 17: out with the same, say, ten fraternities. And I and
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  Speaker 17: none of my friends had heard of this Chi Phi,
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  Speaker 17: so we sort of assumed in looking at some of
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  Speaker 17: the pictures– It was kind of a mediocre fraternity. Tri-Del
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  Speaker 17: was definitely not a hot girl sorority, and the reason
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  Speaker 17: I mention that, as I discussed in my Rumble podcast,
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  Speaker 17: is that in real life is always the exact opposite
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  Speaker 17: of the way Hollywood portrays just utter sexual licentiousness. It's
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  Speaker 17: always the really good-looking people engaging in mulct, You know, polymory,
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  Speaker 17: as the New York Times calls it.
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  Speaker 2: Poly what?
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  Speaker 17: Polyamory, I think they call it.
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  Speaker 2: Polyamory, that sounds good. So instead of saying, would you
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: like a threesome, I could say, how about a little polyamory?
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  Speaker 17: Yes, except you're too good looking to propose it. And
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  Speaker 17: you would not speak to a girl who would be
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  Speaker 17: willing to accept it. And I just always think that
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  Speaker 17: it's worth pointing out that there's an element of sadness
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  Speaker 17: and desperation in all of these cases. But the true
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  Speaker 17: facts of the case, which, oh my gosh, I mean,
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  Speaker 17: one interesting thing about, I've been following very closely the
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 17: New York Times coverage. And, you know, they state in
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  Speaker 17: these articles that they have the full 100-plus page file
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  Speaker 17: on the case, and that is all the transcripts with
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 17: Jane Doe, the transcripts with the accused, et cetera, et cetera,
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  Speaker 17: interviews with, I guess, sorority mates and other members of
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 17: the fraternity. But they're only ladling it out to us
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 17: in a particular– So I mean, some of the, I think,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 17: most important points in this little saga did manage to
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 17: work their way into the media. So for example, a
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 17: few days after this really sordid affair, Jane Doe herself
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 17: was texting the one guy she was going to have
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 17: sex with, and showing how enthusiastic he was about seeing her.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 17: There was no dinner, no flowers, no chocolate. She just
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 17: hauls herself three miles across campus to his fraternity to
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 17: have sex with him one night, and then he proposes
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 17: a threesome. A few days later, huge furor breaks. It
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 17: goes through the sororities and fraternities like wildfire. She texts
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 17: him saying, People need to grow up. Sex and sexual
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 17: relations are changing. People are going to be doing this
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  Speaker 17: all the time in the future. And I'm very open-minded.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 17: So she was really pushing that line pretty hard until
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 17: it became clear that no one was really buying this
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 17: and her reputation was shot. I mean, it did take
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 17: her three weeks to suddenly realize that. that she had
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 17: been the victim of an incredibly traumatic experience because, you know,
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 17: that happens all the time when people are raped, mugged, knifed.
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  Speaker 17: It takes them three weeks to realize that it happened
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 17: to them.
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  Speaker 2: So is this how they behave at college now? What
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: happened to Richie Cunningham taking the girl to the malt shop?
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: This is a date now at a college campus?
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  Speaker 17: No, quite clearly it isn't, or it wouldn't have led
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 17: to the reaction among, at least among the fraternities and sororities.
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  Speaker 17: I mean, Cornell is a very, very big college. There
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 17: are seven different colleges at Cornell. As I've mentioned before,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 17: only the arts and sciences, the one you get a
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 17: BA from, is the Ivy League school because they have
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 17: these weird schools like the agriculture school. and industrial relations school.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 17: There's even a school they had, because, you know, it's way,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 17: way up north, and it used to be all male,
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 17: as many, maybe most colleges, well, all colleges, but most
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 17: colleges were. They needed to get some girls out to
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 17: the hinterland, so they had a school of home ec.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 17: And the school was still there, but they've changed the
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 17: name of it to human ecology. Now, there are some
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 17: great courses in each one of these schools, these schools,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 17: particularly if that's what you want to do in life.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 17: But my point is they're very, very different. They have
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 17: a different type of student, each one of these schools.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 17: And it's such a big school that there are different groups.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 17: So what's going on in the sorority fraternity world? The
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 17: rest of the campus can be completely oblivious to it.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 17: And no, the sorority and fraternity world, it's still Richie
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  Speaker 17: taking you to the mall shop.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but this college president, you know, he said, well,
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: we think we handled it correct. If you'd handled it correctly,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't be front page news two years later every day.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: So obviously... I don't think so.
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  Speaker 17: I think they did handle it correctly from looking at everything.
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  Speaker 17: I mean, for one thing, there's absolutely no risk that
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  Speaker 17: a college is not going to pursue... a claim of
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 17: rape with sufficient ferocity. As I mentioned in my column today,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 17: because of their aggressiveness toward any hint of misbehavior toward
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 17: a co-ed, in the last 10 years, colleges have been
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 17: subjected to hundreds of lawsuits by male students brought up
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 17: before these Title IX investigations. They've paid out $ 100 million, approximately. So, no,
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 17: you don't have to worry about the Cornell administration, you know,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 17: scoffing this off and saying, oh, boys will be boys.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 17: And in the end, what their investigation found was that,
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 17: I guess, two of them were very guilty and got
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 17: expelled entirely. Two of them were suspended. And two.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 17: On closer examination, even according to Doherty. did nothing at all.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 17: I don't know why she's throwing them in here. They
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 17: were trying to protect her if anything was going amiss
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 17: from all the information we have. And yes, nonetheless, they
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 17: had to attend sexual harassment training classes or something.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 16: No.
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  Speaker 17: Oh, and of course, the fraternity was banned.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. Well, they did take a lot of action.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 17: Permanently, forever. So, no, there was aggressive action taken as
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 17: any university, the most aggressive action any university would possibly take.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 17: They're not the prosecutor. They don't prosecute these cases. They
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 17: summarized it. She looked at the summary. She wrote a
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 17: lot of notes in it. She signed it, and that
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 17: was given to the DA in her own words. She
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 17: only mentioned rape twice. Once was this really weird thing
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 17: she said about how she was thinking, you know, if
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 17: she took enough ketamine and passed out and they had
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 17: sex with her, well, then it could be called rape. Well,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 17: that's a weird thing to think about as you're continuing
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 17: to do.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 10: Ketamine.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 17: And at the end of everything she described, which involved
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 17: a lot of her being the one to say oh
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 17: we're all consenting adults here uh... she says at the
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 17: end of it something like which is repeated in every
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 17: new york times article about this every article i think
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 17: this is just positive proof the and she says uh...
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 17: something like i'm i'm one hundred percent sure i was
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 17: right well that's you know kind of a conclusory legal
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 17: statement i mean i could be you know ripped off
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 17: in the purchase of a car and But if I
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 17: have an agreement and a contract and then go and say, oh,
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 17: I was robbed. No, that's not– you can say that,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 17: but you're not the one making a legal conclusion. What
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 17: we get from you are the facts.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: So– and the other problem they have is it's an
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: election and Kathy Hochul's in trouble and using this with
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: Letitia James. They're going to exploit the hell out of this,
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: aren't they? It's not going to help Cornell.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 17: I think that may end up being a mistake if
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 17: more facts come out before Election Day. I mean, you
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 17: know how most of these things have gone. It didn't
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 17: help Mike Nifong. He was doing the exact same thing
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 17: for the exact same reason. He had an election coming up.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 17: He was the prosecutor that had to go to prison
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 17: for how he went after the Duke lacrosse players. Total
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 17: BS case. But he was up for re-election, and that's
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 17: why he That's what was apparently driving him to this
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 17: utterly mad behavior.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Well, Ann Coulter, we're out of time, but everybody
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: should follow her on Substack, anncoulter.substack.com. And then your Rumble channel,
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: you've got new stuff every week, right, on Rumble?
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 17: Yes, though I may skip this week.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 5: What?
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 17: We'll put out an announcement. Well, I've got a lot
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 17: to do.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: Check out the Rumble channel anyway.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 17: The Yankees are really taking my time this week.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: Well, that's just tonight, and then that should be over.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 17: I hope not, but you could be right.
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 2: And then make sure you follow her on Twitter. It's
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: Ann Coulter. AnnCoulter.substack.com. Ann Coulter, thanks for being with us.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 17: Good to talk to you, Mark Simone.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 5: Bye-bye.
• 1:41:58
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• 1:42:02
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  Speaker 17: Well, hey, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Going to be a beautiful day today. It'll be in
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: the 60s, but sunny. Tomorrow's the warmest day. Tomorrow will
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: be like 75 degrees, but it's going to be sunny
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: for four days in a row here. Bright sunshine should
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: be great. It might be some rain on Sunday, but
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: otherwise great weather. Yankees tonight at Yankee Stadium. This could
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: be the final game of the series. They've got to
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: win tonight to stay in the series. If they lose,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: they're out. That's it. Now, they'd also have to win
• 1:43:11
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• 1:43:15
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• 1:43:20
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• 1:43:24
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• 1:43:27
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• 1:43:30
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• 1:43:33
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