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Hour 2: Cable news channels. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now nine till noon weekdays on 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Hey, if there's some good news here, if you're a Democrat,
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Speaker 2: cover your ears for a minute. The GDP, the growth
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Speaker 2: numbers have come out. We were expected to grow 3.1%
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Speaker 2: the GDP. The numbers have come out and we've actually
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Speaker 2: grown even more. It's 3.4%. beating expectations that's pretty good
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Speaker 2: gdp growth it indicates a good booming healthy economy all
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Speaker 2: right if you're a democrat you can uncover your ears
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Speaker 2: uh so that's good news now the elections in israel
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Speaker 2: are too close to call at this point bb netanyahu
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Speaker 2: has a lead but a very slight lead so they
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Speaker 2: won't officially declare a winner yet uh netanyahu uh slightly
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Speaker 2: ahead and That lead is held for about the last
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Speaker 2: 24 hours, so that's good news. The opponent, Eisen... What's
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Speaker 2: his name? Eisenglatt. Close second. Now, at some point, it's
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Speaker 2: possible that one of them, most likely Netanyahu, will get
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Speaker 2: the other parties to form coalitions. You have to get
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Speaker 2: over 61 seats to take control, so that could happen.
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Speaker 2: But they'll keep trying to get the... the final, final,
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Speaker 2: final numbers and then declare a winner. But Netanyahu, so
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Speaker 2: far in the lead, but very slightly, and he's going
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Speaker 2: to have to get some other parties to join him,
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Speaker 2: create a coalition to be in control. We'll see what happens.
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Speaker 2: The opposition guy, former IDF, Israel Defense Forces commander, the
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Speaker 2: difference between him and Netanyahu, as far as the war,
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Speaker 2: They both would go all out to defend Israel, of course,
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Speaker 2: against any Hamas or any craziness like that. They differ
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Speaker 2: on Iran. Netanyahu would like to just go totally, totally
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Speaker 2: wipe out Iran's regime. The opponent, though, he's all for
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Speaker 2: military strikes on Iran. He doesn't believe it's possible to
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Speaker 2: get regime change. So President Trump would rather have Netanyahu.
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Speaker 2: I think Trump wants regime change. as most people do,
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Speaker 2: looking for a more permanent solution. So it's going to
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Speaker 2: be another day or two before we get a definite
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Speaker 2: winner in Israel. Hey, the evening news, they still have this,
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Speaker 2: believe it or not. It's an antiquated sort of thing.
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Speaker 2: You know, back in the good old days, you'd get
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Speaker 2: home and you'd watch the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite,
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Speaker 2: or you'd watch NBC news. It was Huntley and Brinkley,
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Speaker 2: and then it was John Chancellor, and then it was
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Speaker 2: Tom Brokaw. You know, you worked all day. You went
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Speaker 2: to school all day, whatever. You were busy all day.
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Speaker 2: And then you got home and you put on the
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Speaker 2: local news. You got all your local news at 6
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Speaker 2: and 6.30. You got all the national news. And that
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Speaker 2: was it, believe it or not. That was all you
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Speaker 2: got as far as the news. One hour, six to
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Speaker 2: seven of news on television. That was it. There was
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Speaker 2: nothing else. Now, then Ted Turner comes along and he
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Speaker 2: invents CNN. Oh, look at that. You could watch the
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Speaker 2: news anytime you want. In fact, you could watch it
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Speaker 2: all day if you want. There was nothing but news.
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Speaker 2: And remember, in the old Ted Turner beginnings of CNN,
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Speaker 2: it was fair, balanced, neutral. It was legitimate news back then.
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Speaker 2: And everybody said he was crazy. How the hell could
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Speaker 2: you have news all day? Who's going to want a
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Speaker 2: 24-hour news channel on television. They thought he was insane.
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Speaker 2: His family wanted to have him committed. They thought it
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Speaker 2: was nuts. But he always said, they got these all-news
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Speaker 2: radio stations, and in every city where they have them,
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Speaker 2: they do really well. Some cities, the all-news station is
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Speaker 2: number one. So he said, if it's working on radio,
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Speaker 2: why wouldn't it work on TV? And that's where he
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Speaker 2: got the idea. And of course, CNN took off. Big,
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Speaker 2: big help by the Gulf War, the old Gulf War.
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Speaker 2: because then everybody wanted 24-7 coverage, and they turned to
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Speaker 2: CNN for the Gulf War, and some real stars emerged
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Speaker 2: from that. That's how Wolf Blitzer became famous. Who was
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Speaker 2: the other guy? The Scud Stud. Remember him? The good-looking
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Speaker 2: guy with the Scud missiles? What was his name? I
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Speaker 2: don't remember. That's how everybody got to know Christiane Amanpour,
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Speaker 2: and there was CNN well-known anchors, Bernard Shaw and all
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Speaker 2: those guys, and that's the good old days. What was
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Speaker 2: my point? Oh, the point is, It's now 2026. You know,
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Speaker 2: you had CNN came along, then Fox News and MSNBC
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Speaker 2: got three or four. You got Newsmax. You got a
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Speaker 2: whole bunch of 24-7 news channels. And then the internet
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Speaker 2: comes along and you got a million news sites. You
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Speaker 2: can get news every second, all day, 24. So what's
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Speaker 2: the point of the evening news? What's the point of it?
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Speaker 1: Who needs it? Uh.
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Speaker 2: I guess some older people. I'm looking at the ratings.
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Speaker 2: The demos on the evening news on the networks, very, very,
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Speaker 2: very old. So I guess it's people that don't get
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Speaker 2: their news off the internet. But it's interesting. ABC with
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Speaker 2: David Muir, that network newscast, number one with over 8
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Speaker 2: million viewers. In fact, believe it or not, most weeks,
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Speaker 2: it's the single biggest show in television, aside from football
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Speaker 2: and all that. It's the most watched show, beats everything
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Speaker 2: in primetime with 8 million. Number two, NBC with six million,
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Speaker 2: which is not bad. Pretty good. That's the new anchor
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Speaker 2: whose name is, I can't remember, but he's the guy
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Speaker 2: that replaced Lester Holton. He's doing great. Now, CBS News,
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Speaker 2: the four million, half of what ABC gets. It's a
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Speaker 2: distant third place at four million. And that's this Tony Ducoupil.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what they can do over there. I mean,
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Speaker 2: You could just put it out of its misery. No
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Speaker 2: reason to do the evening news anymore. Do something else.
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Speaker 2: Put a game show on it. It'll get triple the ratings.
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Speaker 2: Do something else. Or I guess you can just, you know,
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Speaker 2: you can make a living with 4 million viewers watching you.
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Speaker 2: So I guess they're happy with it. It's okay. But
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Speaker 2: now there's stuff going on all over the world. With
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Speaker 2: Ukraine and Russia, they are going to sit down and talk.
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Speaker 2: The U.S. will be there. They call that trilateral talks.
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Speaker 2: They will begin, uh, within days of the midterms. In fact,
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Speaker 2: probably the week after the midterm election election day is
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Speaker 2: next Tuesday and probably right after that, they'll start the talks.
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Speaker 2: It'll be, uh, Ukraine, Russia, the U S face to
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Speaker 2: face talks. They'll take place in Abu Dhabi in the UAE. And, uh, Now,
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Speaker 2: the only thing going on as far as Ukraine and Russia,
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Speaker 2: the normal fighting, the only thing going on is there
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Speaker 2: was a massive drone attack against Russia's capital. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what he was thinking because, you know, wait for
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Speaker 2: the talks, but Zelensky tried to hit Moscow hard with
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Speaker 2: a massive drone attack aiming right for the capital. Russia
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Speaker 2: managed to shoot down 10 drones heading into Moscow. So very,
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Speaker 2: very aggressive on the part of Zelensky. Hey, the marathon
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Speaker 2: is this weekend. That's on Sunday. But you got to remember,
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Speaker 2: Friday night and all day Saturday, restaurants will be going
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Speaker 2: crazy with these marathon runners. They come from all over
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Speaker 2: the world. Thousands of these runners come in and they
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Speaker 2: do this stupid thing they call carb loading where they
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Speaker 2: got to eat pasta all day and night. And if
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Speaker 2: it's an Italian restaurant, it will be clogged up with people.
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Speaker 2: You're going to find it very difficult to get in
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Speaker 2: anywhere Friday and Saturday. And actually, non-Italian restaurants deliberately changed
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Speaker 2: the menu for a special marathon menu for carb loading.
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Speaker 2: So that's this weekend. Marathon on Sunday. Be a traffic
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Speaker 2: nightmare trying to get around. So just remember that. As
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Speaker 2: I said, the GDP looks great. Growth over the last
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Speaker 2: quarter better than expected. Fed meeting yesterday. Kevin Warsh talked
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Speaker 2: about inflation.
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Speaker 3: Real activity is clearly pointing in the right direction. That's
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Speaker 3: good news. But inflation is too high. Energy and related
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Speaker 3: prices have moved higher again in recent weeks. And our
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Speaker 3: job is to ensure that relative price changes in some
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Speaker 3: sectors do not broaden out across the economy.
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Speaker 2: No interest rate hike, though.
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Speaker 3: Economic activity is expanding at a strong pace. While uncertainty remains,
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Speaker 3: owing in part to geopolitical developments, domestic spending has been resilient.
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Speaker 3: Productivity growth is strong and capital investment robust.
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Speaker 2: He's a very nice guy, Kevin Warsh. I know the guy.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes you sit and talk with him and he
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Speaker 2: tells you about that stuff. And you look at him
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Speaker 2: and you go, I don't know why a guy would
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Speaker 2: want this job. But some people love this stuff. Hugh Hefner. Uh,
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Speaker 2: I knew him a little and he used to come
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Speaker 2: on the show. Remember we used to have Hugh Hefner on.
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Speaker 2: He was, uh, you know, funny, charming and, uh, had
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Speaker 2: all those women and, uh, uh, had that big round
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Speaker 2: bed and he spent his whole day in his pajamas
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Speaker 2: walking around with that, smoking jacket. But he did have
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Speaker 2: a wife the last few years. The wife is now talking.
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Speaker 2: I don't know who to believe in all this, but
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Speaker 2: the wife and a couple of former playmates, they're all talking.
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Speaker 2: First of all, there were a lot of celebrities at
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Speaker 2: that Playboy mansion. Ooh, he had parties all the time.
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Speaker 2: I went to a few of those, and he'd have
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Speaker 2: movie night parties. The funniest thing with the movie night,
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Speaker 2: Hefner loved movies. You'd all get in this room and
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Speaker 2: he'd had all the bunnies and the playmates and they'd
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Speaker 2: show a movie. The problem was these playmates, these centerfolds,
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Speaker 2: they're all 23 years old. Hefner would always show a
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Speaker 2: movie from the 1940s. These people didn't know what the
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Speaker 2: hell they were looking at. They'd never seen black and white.
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Speaker 2: They didn't know who the hell Humphrey Bogart is or
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Speaker 2: any of these people. So they would just... Doze off.
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Speaker 2: He would love these movies. All the classics from the 40s.
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Speaker 2: They had no idea why they were looking at this.
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Speaker 2: And then, of course, there was the grotto and all
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Speaker 2: of that. And there were celebrities that were taking advantage
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Speaker 2: of all of this. So Hefner's ex-wife said the worst
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Speaker 2: was Jack Nicholson, who was always there, treating it like
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Speaker 2: a drive-thru. She said Nicholson was such a frequent visitor.
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Speaker 2: uh that they called it jack's drive-thru at one point
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Speaker 2: he would and she said it was not only women
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Speaker 2: but sometimes if you needed food he'd just come through
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Speaker 2: you know they had buffets everywhere everything uh so nicholson
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Speaker 2: always there but she also gets into a lot of
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Speaker 2: stuff about hefner and the sex life and how uh
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Speaker 2: yeah he did have uh three four you know the
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Speaker 2: problem is If you sleep with a million centerfolds and
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Speaker 2: a million playboys, I've seen this with famous actors. If
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Speaker 2: you sleep with millions and millions and millions and millions
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Speaker 2: and beautiful women, after a while, it kind of gets
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Speaker 2: boring to you. You've done it 10 million times. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't do anything for you. So then they've got to
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Speaker 2: start having two women at once and three women at
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Speaker 2: once and four women at once. And then after a while,
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Speaker 2: that gets boring. Do you remember Peter Lawford? His wife
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Speaker 2: told me once she said that. After that, he was like...
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Speaker 2: It would be ducks and horses, anything, whatever he had
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Speaker 2: to do. But she says Hefner had more and more
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Speaker 2: women at the same time. And then he bought out
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Speaker 2: these dirty sex toys, wanted them to use them. And
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Speaker 2: then he would have twins and wanted them to have
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Speaker 2: sex with each other. She said it just got more
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Speaker 2: and more and more gross. But I don't know. What's
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Speaker 2: the point of saying all this now? Why bring it up? Hey,
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Speaker 2: this Katie Zachariah, I don't know why she's doing these shows.
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Speaker 2: She runs around doing these TV shows. You know, the
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Speaker 2: smart thing to do, go away for a while, give
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Speaker 2: it six months, let it die out. But she goes
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Speaker 2: on with Piers Morgan, who's always looking for trouble. So
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Speaker 2: he's tearing into her about exactly how did you get fired?
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Speaker 2: What did President Trump say to you? And she's being
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Speaker 2: very diplomatic and very gracious. And she said, well, President
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Speaker 2: Trump and I have a good relationship and I still
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Speaker 2: admire what he's doing for the country. And she started
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Speaker 2: talking about his accomplishments. And he starts yelling at her.
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Speaker 2: Cut the crap, he said. You're not his press secretary anymore.
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Speaker 2: I'm asking you, what happened when you got fired? Well,
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Speaker 2: she didn't really want to talk about it. He said,
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Speaker 2: you're dodging the question. Well, she's being gracious. He said,
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Speaker 2: it was very nice to me. He was very kind
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Speaker 2: to me and my family. And he said, what did
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Speaker 2: he say? He said, well, President Trump has already revealed
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Speaker 2: what he said. There's no reason to do this. But
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Speaker 2: That's Piers Morgan. He comes from the British tabloid world
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Speaker 2: where you try to create a sensation. But what the
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Speaker 2: hell is she doing on this show? Stay home for
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Speaker 2: a while. Stay home. You know, the problem is when
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Speaker 2: she was press secretary, it wasn't going well. Then she
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Speaker 2: did that infamous Hannity interview where she wasn't good at all.
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Speaker 2: And he was asking the tough questions in a very
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Speaker 2: nice way. I mean, it wasn't browbeating or anything, but
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Speaker 2: she didn't handle it that well. And that helped speed
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Speaker 2: up her departure. So Since she's not good at these interviews,
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Speaker 2: don't do them. Don't do them. Write a book. Write
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Speaker 2: an article. Do something else. But don't do these interviews
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Speaker 2: and give the host a chance to just beat you
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Speaker 2: up or showboat for the cameras. So Kamala Harris, one
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Speaker 2: of the great goofballs of the world, Kamala Harris, is
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Speaker 2: now running around speaking to Democrats, advising them. Kamala Harris, though,
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Speaker 2: is warning Democrats against impeaching Trump. If somehow the Democrats
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Speaker 2: take control, she said, don't spend all day impeaching. Use
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Speaker 2: the energy and resources for something better. Get something done
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Speaker 2: for America.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Do you believe Kamala Harris giving common sense advice? But
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Speaker 2: she also said, hold everybody accountable. These Republicans are ruthless, ruthless.
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Speaker 2: Do it to them. Hold everybody accountable. You know, actually,
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Speaker 2: the Republicans aren't so ruthless when it comes to hearings
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Speaker 2: in the House. You know, you watch those Democrats when
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Speaker 2: they hold hearings. Oh, my God, they are brutal. There's
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Speaker 2: a million soundbites that night. But Republicans, they're not so
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Speaker 2: good at doing hearings. But she says, go after everybody.
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Speaker 2: Go after Pete Hegseth, who I think is hollowing out
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Speaker 2: our military, politicizing our military. You know, you can't really
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Speaker 2: go after Hegseth for that because— In the last year
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Speaker 2: that he's been there, we have pulled off the most
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Speaker 2: successful military operations in history. From the Maduro capture to
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Speaker 2: the taking out that nuclear mountain in Iran. And he's
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Speaker 2: pulled off some amazing stuff. The rescue of the downed
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Speaker 2: pilots in the middle of Iran. Some amazing military operations.
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Speaker 2: All successful on his watch. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
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Speaker 5: 800-321-7000.
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Speaker 2: 0710 is the number. Give me a call, especially if
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Speaker 2: you're a new caller.
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Speaker 5: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 2: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, the Mark Simone Show. Hey,
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Speaker 2: let's take some calls. Let's go to Tom in Delaware. Tom,
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Speaker 2: how you doing?
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Speaker 4: Hey, Mark. Thanks for taking the call. I've been here
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Speaker 4: about two and a half years. I moved from New
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Speaker 4: York after 68 years living there. And I just want
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Speaker 4: to make a comment on the governor race in Maryland.
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Speaker 4: The governor there is Wes Moore.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And if you drive along Route 50, you can see
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Speaker 4: the signs.
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Speaker 5: You know, more is less.
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Speaker 2: No more lies.
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Speaker 4: And they really trash him. But life in Delaware is good.
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Speaker 2: What do you do down there in Delaware? I'm retired.
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Speaker 4: So in the summer, I try to go to the beach.
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Speaker 4: I'm three miles from Bethany Beach.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful beaches. What do you do in the winter down there?
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Speaker 4: Well, a lot of people socialize and drink and, you know,
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Speaker 4: party and carry on.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: That's not bad.
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Speaker 4: That's not bad.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Sounds good. You notice when you say
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Speaker 2: to somebody in Delaware, what do you do down there?
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Speaker 2: You get, well, it's not like New York. You're missing
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Speaker 2: a lot of fun when you leave New York. Let's
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Speaker 2: go to Randall in Maryland. We were just talking about Maryland. Randall,
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Speaker 2: how you doing?
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Speaker 4: Good, Mark.
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Speaker 6: Boy, you're right about Les Moore. We, We don't like
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Speaker 6: Les Moore whatsoever. He's a fraud. But I wanted to
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Speaker 6: thank you for bringing up Dan Rather again. You called
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Speaker 6: him the father of fake news. That is right. And
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Speaker 6: didn't he also call the election prematurely before the West
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Speaker 6: Coast for John Kerry?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he was always fake news, always fake news.
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Speaker 2: He tried to tamper with the Bush-Clinton election with his
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Speaker 2: fake economy and crisis reports, and then he finally went
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Speaker 2: too far.
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Speaker 5: And he got caught.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he finally went too far.
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Speaker 6: He got caught.
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Speaker 2: Actually using forged documents, and he was so bad at it,
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Speaker 2: and he got caught so badly, even CBS had to
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Speaker 2: fire the guy. It was always a little slant to
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Speaker 2: the news, but he went. into total fraud fake news.
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Speaker 2: You can thank Dan Rather for that. Is this, it
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Speaker 2: says Al from, is this the, Al used to be
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Speaker 2: one of our most frequent callers. Is this Al Harris?
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Speaker 7: Mark, good morning. It's a pleasure. It's a pleasure, Mark. Mark,
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Speaker 7: you want to hear something? Monday, I'm home.
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Speaker 2: Is this really Al?
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Speaker 7: It's Mark. I had surgery. My voice isn't the same, Mark. Mark,
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Speaker 7: Monday morning, I'm listening to you. About 10 o'clock, I
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Speaker 7: had company, so I had to shut the radio off.
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Speaker 7: My buddy calls me up. He goes, Al, you want
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Speaker 7: Mark Simone? We're asking for you this and that. I
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Speaker 7: told him he was joking around. So I finally, the
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Speaker 7: last couple of days.
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Speaker 2: I used to call all the time. Al was your former,
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Speaker 2: what did you do for a living?
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Speaker 7: I had a correction.
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Speaker 2: All right, that's right. Did I ever meet you?
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Speaker 7: Oh, a couple of times. Mark, I got pictures of
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Speaker 7: you all over my house.
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Speaker 2: All right, this really is Alvin. Okay, I believe you.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. Sure, Mark. Mark, you know something? I went
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Speaker 7: into the hospital three years ago for a spine surgery.
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Speaker 7: I was supposed to be in and out in two days.
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Speaker 7: I was in there five months. They severed my artery.
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Speaker 7: I'm on a feeding tube.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 7: I'm walking around with a cane, yada, yada, yada. But Mark,
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Speaker 7: I have not stopped listening to you.
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Speaker 6: All right.
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Speaker 2: Well, you sound good, Al. You know, your old voice,
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Speaker 2: it was higher, lighter, was a... like this voice. I
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Speaker 2: like this voice, but you sound tougher this way, Al.
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Speaker 2: Pretty good.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Mark.
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Speaker 7: You know, something just, you know, I'll never forget the
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Speaker 7: first phone call they gave you. It was about 15
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Speaker 7: years ago. You were talking about Chick-fil-A.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: And I said they built one in Amityville. And I go,
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Speaker 7: it's a brothel, you know, Chick-fil-A.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: That was my first joke.
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Speaker 2: I forgot he used to make these bad jokes. But
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Speaker 2: he's a nice guy.
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Speaker 7: But, Mark, thank you and your callers. Your callers for
20:21
Speaker 7: remembering me.
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Speaker 2: Everybody remembers you.
20:24
Speaker 7: It blew my mind, Mark. It really did. Hey, Mark,
20:28
Speaker 7: on the serious side, you know, you mentioned Tony Coppola.
20:32
Speaker 7: You know, I put him on a couple of times. Just,
20:36
Speaker 7: you know, he comes off like a nice guy. Very
20:39
Speaker 7: nice looking. The other day when I saw him interviewing Trump.
20:43
Speaker 7: You know, the snake came out.
20:45
Speaker 6: No, no.
20:46
Speaker 2: Well, they're all crazy left-wingers.
20:47
Speaker 5: I know.
20:49
Speaker 2: Hey, Al, we got to go. But you sound good, Al.
20:51
Speaker 5: Thank you.
20:52
Speaker 2: It's good to hear from you. You sound okay.
20:53
Speaker 7: I'm just talking to you. Greg Weismore, thank you.
20:55
Speaker 5: Bye-bye. All right.
20:56
Speaker 2: Good to hear from you. Take care. Yeah, he was
20:59
Speaker 2: one of our most frequent callers years ago. Sounds different now,
21:02
Speaker 2: but he sounds good. He sounds good. Anyway, we got, oh,
21:06
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21:10
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21:12
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23:08
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23:11
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23:20
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Speaker 1: I survived a wild night in Fairfield, New Jersey with
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Speaker 2: I heard you sold out the whole place.
23:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kachina Calandra. You know you've made it when you're
23:36
Speaker 5: on the breadstick circuit, you know? Yeah. A lot of
23:40
Speaker 5: guys wanted to get on Carson.
23:41
Speaker 1: They wanted to get on the Vegas Strip. I wanted
23:43
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23:45
Speaker 5: And a ship has sailed in. It was great. We
23:48
Speaker 5: loved it. Good, rowdy crowd.
23:49
Speaker 1: You cannot offend a New Jersey audience. And believe me,
23:53
Speaker 1: I tried everything. It didn't happen.
23:56
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24:00
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24:09
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24:12
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24:22
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24:26
Speaker 5: One of the things they do in Manhattan.
24:27
Speaker 1: And they do a little bit out on Long Island
24:29
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24:32
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24:34
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Speaker 5: So.
24:40
Speaker 1: It wasn't an ambush. It was a premeditated attack, and
24:43
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Speaker 5: So shout out to WOR. They did a good job
24:47
Speaker 5: on that.
24:48
Speaker 2: Because of you. You did it.
24:50
Speaker 5: I guess.
24:53
Speaker 2: Let's talk seriously about the Cheesecake Factory. I got the
24:56
Speaker 2: impression that Obama did not really understand what Cheesecake Factory
25:00
Speaker 2: means to Americans, real middle America.
25:04
Speaker 5: Number one.
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Speaker 1: Number two, his apology of, he said— You know, I
25:08
Speaker 1: have two daughters. I hung out at the Cheesecake Factory.
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Speaker 5: That was my jam.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't going to the Cheesecake Factory, okay? Or they'd
25:16
Speaker 1: be putting up pictures to defend him, you know? They
25:20
Speaker 1: don't have those pictures because he wasn't going because he
25:23
Speaker 1: is an elitist snob.
25:25
Speaker 5: I should tell you this, you.
25:26
Speaker 1: Know, because everybody always says, well, you know, Michelle Obama
25:29
Speaker 1: is going to run someday. She's not going to run
25:31
Speaker 1: someday because she hates everybody. She doesn't want to be
25:34
Speaker 1: around little people like us on the campaign trail, and
25:37
Speaker 1: neither does he.
25:38
Speaker 5: So when he showed up and did his.
25:40
Speaker 1: Little– he does his little routine and he bangs on
25:42
Speaker 1: Trump and everything else, and the crowd loves it. But
25:45
Speaker 1: you know who doesn't love it? Everybody else. Like, Obama
25:48
Speaker 1: is a star if you're in the room. But if
25:51
Speaker 1: you look at his endorsement record, okay, Obama's presidential endorsements
25:55
Speaker 1: have clothed half the people in Honduras. There's President Hillary hoodies. There's,
26:00
Speaker 1: you know, Kamala Harris 2024 first email.
26:04
Speaker 5: We broke the glass ceiling. It's all down there. They're
26:06
Speaker 5: walking around in it right now.
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Speaker 1: They're wearing Tampa Bay Rays World Series championship outfits.
26:10
Speaker 5: As we speak. That's what Obama does. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: That's a good point. There would be photos of him
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Speaker 2: in the Cheesecake Factory if he'd ever been there. Totally.
26:21
Speaker 2: You must experience this, though, with some of these, you know, Washington, D.C.,
26:27
Speaker 2: Upper East Side, Southampton crowd. They've never been to real America.
26:30
Speaker 2: They've never heard of the Olive Garden. They don't know
26:32
Speaker 2: what it is. They think the Cheesecake Factory is a
26:35
Speaker 2: little store that sells cheesecakes. They think that's all it is.
26:40
Speaker 1: You know one of my favorite things, because you're right
26:42
Speaker 1: about that, They don't travel. What they consider to be
26:45
Speaker 1: the flyover states are actually the best states. You're never
26:50
Speaker 1: going to walk out the door in Findlay, Ohio, and
26:52
Speaker 1: see some wizard with no pants on. sitting on a
26:56
Speaker 1: park bench like you might here in New York. And
26:59
Speaker 1: they don't realize that those people, culture-wise, have everything we
27:02
Speaker 1: do now. In the age of the internet, everybody has
27:04
Speaker 1: the same restaurants, everybody has the same stores.
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Speaker 5: It's all the same. But the most offensive thing.
27:09
Speaker 1: New York coastal elites ever did regarding the Cheesecake Factory is,
27:13
Speaker 1: do you remember when.
27:14
Speaker 5: Bloomberg started slapping calories on all the menus? Yeah.
27:18
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, Bloomberg, okay, nobody was counting calories
27:22
Speaker 1: at a place called the Cheesecake Factory. It was implied
27:27
Speaker 1: in the bargain that I might be eating a little
27:29
Speaker 1: unhealthy tonight.
27:31
Speaker 5: Okay.
27:32
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, man.
27:35
Speaker 2: I love the Cheesecake Factory, but like you, you look
27:38
Speaker 2: at the menu. I know it's calories, but sometimes like
27:41
Speaker 2: 3,800 calories on one entree. Who knew it was that bad?
27:44
Speaker 2: But it's worth it, isn't it? So guys like you, Hannity,
27:50
Speaker 2: you're different from people on MSNOW or CNN. You know,
27:53
Speaker 2: they just live in the bubble. But guys like you, Hannity,
27:57
Speaker 2: all these, you travel the country. You've been in a
28:00
Speaker 2: diner in Pittsburgh. You've been in an IHOP in the
28:02
Speaker 2: middle of Nebraska. So it's an experience none of those
28:07
Speaker 2: Democrats have. They never talk to real people, do they?
28:11
Speaker 1: No, they don't even talk to their staff. They don't
28:13
Speaker 1: even talk to their coworkers. Like, you know what's interesting
28:17
Speaker 1: about Fox, okay? You can throw on Hannity at 9 o'clock,
28:20
Speaker 1: and you might see a Fox & Friends host on
28:22
Speaker 1: there as a guest, meaning a morning guest. You might
28:24
Speaker 1: see a midday guest. We all do each other's shows.
28:27
Speaker 1: There's a little more of a community here. You've never
28:29
Speaker 1: turned on Morning Joe and seen Rachel Maddow on the panel.
28:34
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
28:34
Speaker 1: You're never going to turn on Rachel Maddow and see
28:36
Speaker 1: Mika Brzezinski doing a nighttime hit. Because they all think
28:39
Speaker 1: they're the center.
28:40
Speaker 5: Of the universe, and they hate everybody.
28:43
Speaker 1: So you can't imagine how they feel about going out
28:46
Speaker 1: to Long Island to the Embassy Diner and, you know,
28:49
Speaker 1: meeting Gus and one of the guys over there.
28:51
Speaker 5: Serving you good Greek food. Oh, my God. You know
28:53
Speaker 5: what I mean, Gus? These people are monsters. Monsters.
28:57
Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon, Ilan Omar. Now they find out this is
29:00
Speaker 2: just breaking her real name, Dan Sullivan. So maybe she could.
29:04
Speaker 8: Join us too.
29:07
Speaker 2: You got me.
29:08
Speaker 6: Good job.
29:09
Speaker 5: That's amazing.
29:10
Speaker 2: So, hey, this is Dan Sullivan. Trump is right. These
29:14
Speaker 2: people should be arrested for this fraud, shouldn't they?
29:17
Speaker 5: Totally.
29:17
Speaker 1: But I want to be up front with the audience.
29:19
Speaker 1: We tried to do this in 2024. We wanted to
29:22
Speaker 1: find another Kamala Harris, but we couldn't get into the
29:24
Speaker 1: AA meetings.
29:26
Speaker 5: It was tricky. But yeah, no, it's a definite scam.
29:29
Speaker 1: And my favorite thing about it is Every Democrat has
29:32
Speaker 1: spent the last week telling us Trump's going to interfere.
29:35
Speaker 5: He's going to send in ICE. They're going to confiscate
29:37
Speaker 5: the ballots.
29:38
Speaker 1: They constantly accuse us of cheating while they're actually cheating.
29:42
Speaker 1: You know, they put two Dan Sullivans.
29:44
Speaker 5: And I saw a girl on CNN last night. Okay.
29:46
Speaker 5: She said.
29:47
Speaker 1: Well, there's a history of this, because if you remember
29:49
Speaker 1: when RFK was running against Biden, the Republicans supported RFK.
29:54
Speaker 5: I'm like, but they have two different names. One is
29:56
Speaker 5: Joe Biden. The other is RFK Jr.
29:59
Speaker 1: The only person who wouldn't know the difference is.
30:01
Speaker 5: Biden, you know?
30:04
Speaker 2: Now, apparently Republicans wanted to do it, but they couldn't
30:06
Speaker 2: find a guy named Mohammed Abdul El-Sayed. It's not easy
30:09
Speaker 2: to do.
30:12
Speaker 5: That's too funny.
30:13
Speaker 1: You know, wouldn't it be easier at this point if
30:16
Speaker 1: the media just did tell us, like, which terror groups
30:19
Speaker 1: he doesn't have ties to? It's like he collected them
30:23
Speaker 1: like Pokemon cards, man.
30:24
Speaker 5: You got to catch them all. This is crazy.
30:26
Speaker 6: Yeah.
30:28
Speaker 2: Hey, in New York, Bruce Blakeman looks very, in the
30:31
Speaker 2: real polls, not the fake ones, the real polls, it
30:33
Speaker 2: looks deadlocked. You think he can actually win?
30:37
Speaker 5: Yes, he's on my show this weekend. He's going to
30:39
Speaker 5: be on Saturday night.
30:41
Speaker 1: And, you know, let's hope, you know, people actually tune
30:45
Speaker 1: in with an open mind, because.
30:46
Speaker 5: If you listen to him talk.
30:48
Speaker 1: You go like, oh, this guy could actually lead the state.
30:50
Speaker 1: If you listen to Kathy Hochul, you realize she's only
30:54
Speaker 1: governor because she was the one chick in Albany that
30:56
Speaker 1: was too annoying for Cuomo to hit on. She doesn't
30:59
Speaker 1: know what she's doing, and she's like following Mom Donnie now.
31:02
Speaker 1: Now she wants to– every tax, every dumb spending initiative
31:05
Speaker 1: because she wants to be on the right side of
31:07
Speaker 1: Mom Donnie, which of course for the state is the
31:09
Speaker 1: worst thing that could possibly happen. So– Let's hope the
31:12
Speaker 1: Jimmy fail-a-bounce gets old Brucie Blakeman over the finish line.
31:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, so watch him on Saturday night. It's a great
31:18
Speaker 2: show every Saturday night at 10 o'clock. And can people
31:21
Speaker 2: be in the audience? Can they get tickets? Are there
31:23
Speaker 2: still some for.
31:23
Speaker 5: Yep.
31:24
Speaker 1: Tickets are always free. If you want to come to
31:25
Speaker 1: a taping, we tape Friday night, and the tickets are
31:27
Speaker 1: free at foxacrossamerica.com. Come down this weekend. You'll see the governor.
31:33
Speaker 1: You're going to see a lot of Fox people because
31:35
Speaker 1: it's the midterm, so they send the adults out. I
31:37
Speaker 1: can't have my comedy buddies on the Make Balloon Animals
31:40
Speaker 1: this weekend. There's going to be a lot of adults,
31:42
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a good show. We're fired
31:43
Speaker 1: up for it.
31:43
Speaker 5: We can't wait.
31:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great free date if you want to
31:46
Speaker 2: bring somebody Friday evenings, but the tickets are free. Go
31:49
Speaker 2: to Foxacrossamerica.com. And then the radio show is every weeknight,
31:54
Speaker 2: 9 to midnight. But it's really funny. But how do
31:57
Speaker 2: you keep that up for three hours? Non-stop jokes for
32:00
Speaker 2: three hours.
32:02
Speaker 5: You know what, man? I'm just in it. And you've
32:04
Speaker 5: got to remember this. I'm used to keeping it up
32:06
Speaker 5: for 12 hours. I was a taxi driver.
32:08
Speaker 1: And as a taxi driver, you've got to be entertaining
32:11
Speaker 1: for 12 hours or somebody's going to hit you in
32:12
Speaker 1: the head with a thermos, choke you out on the
32:15
Speaker 1: West Side Highway.
32:16
Speaker 5: So for me, I'm working like a thorough quarter of
32:19
Speaker 5: a shift right now. This doesn't bother me at all.
32:21
Speaker 2: When you were in a taxi drive, weren't people a
32:23
Speaker 2: little shocked? They get in the cab and they find
32:24
Speaker 2: out you speak English and you've got a real personality?
32:26
Speaker 2: That's unusual.
32:27
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something? People would literally want you
32:32
Speaker 1: to call their parents and leave them a voicemail.
32:35
Speaker 5: You wouldn't believe what I saw in New York City.
32:37
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding.
32:39
Speaker 5: You're like your own little tourist attraction. You're right about that.
32:43
Speaker 2: Hey, the marathon is this Sunday. That is one of
32:45
Speaker 2: the stupidest sports. I mean, I can see being a
32:48
Speaker 2: great golfer, learning how to play tennis. But learning how
32:52
Speaker 2: to run for 25 miles, where would you need this skill?
32:55
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a strange thing.
32:57
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the way Mom Donnie's going with the police,
33:00
Speaker 1: learning how to run might be a good thing. Maybe
33:04
Speaker 1: not for 25 miles, but if you could make it
33:06
Speaker 1: across the park in one piece, you'd be an anomaly
33:08
Speaker 1: these days.
33:09
Speaker 5: So we'll take that.
33:11
Speaker 2: If Blakeman wins, he can kind of keep a lid
33:14
Speaker 2: on some of the Mom Donnie nonsense. Also, it'd be
33:17
Speaker 2: a great thing in this anti-Semitism world world now to
33:21
Speaker 2: have a Jewish governor, wouldn't it?
33:24
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's what we need just because, you know,
33:27
Speaker 1: what they're getting wrong, and there's really no politician who's
33:30
Speaker 1: doing a perfect job of explaining this, is everybody on
33:34
Speaker 1: the Mamdani side of this conflict is an idiot. Okay,
33:38
Speaker 1: like think about right now, the people are yelling free Palestine, okay? Palestine,
33:42
Speaker 1: well Gaza, is currently run by people who don't hold elections. OK,
33:47
Speaker 1: so it's not Israel that's keeping them under wraps. It
33:50
Speaker 1: is Hamas, the terror group, you idiots. I'm like, so
33:53
Speaker 1: when you say free Palestine, you maybe want to follow
33:55
Speaker 1: it up with from who? Israel ain't in control of it,
33:58
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe Blakeman could do that. And, you know,
34:00
Speaker 1: I was not supposed to be the voice of reason
34:03
Speaker 1: as a guy who went to Nassau Community College.
34:05
Speaker 2: But here we are.
34:06
Speaker 7: Yeah.
34:07
Speaker 2: Two state solution. Didn't we just try that? Look how
34:10
Speaker 2: it worked out. It wasn't so successful. So listen to
34:13
Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon tonight, 9 to midnight. What are you going
34:16
Speaker 2: to be doing on tonight's show?
34:18
Speaker 1: Well, because we're in that homestretch preview of the new
34:21
Speaker 1: White House press secretary, you're probably going to hear Caroline
34:23
Speaker 1: Sunshine and Anna Kelly, two people who were talked about
34:26
Speaker 1: quite a bit as the next replacement for Katie Zachariah
34:31
Speaker 1: and her mighty one-day tour de force. These girls got
34:34
Speaker 1: big heels to fill.
34:35
Speaker 5: You better wish them luck.
34:37
Speaker 2: That's a good show tonight. Listen to Jimmy Fallon. Every weeknight.
34:40
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, you're going to love the show. You're
34:42
Speaker 2: going to get addicted to it every weeknight, 9 to
34:45
Speaker 2: midnight here on WOR. Make sure you watch his TV shows,
34:50
Speaker 2: the best late-night show on television, Saturday nights at 10,
34:53
Speaker 2: Fox News Channel. Jimmy Faleth, thanks for being with us.
34:57
Speaker 5: You're the best, Mark. See you.
34:58
Speaker 1: All right.
34:59
Speaker 2: Take care. Hey, don't forget, coming up at noon, Buck Sexton,
35:03
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35:10
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35:15
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35:21
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35:27
Speaker 2: Well, a busy day. President Trump in South Carolina right now.
35:33
Speaker 2: As you know, he's been congratulating just crisscrossing the nation
35:37
Speaker 2: for the last couple of weeks, state after state after
35:40
Speaker 2: state after state. So South Carolina now heads back to
35:43
Speaker 2: the White House, meetings throughout the afternoon. Then he's got
35:46
Speaker 2: a couple of more rallies, but they'll be done, televised rallies. Well,
35:50
Speaker 2: he'll do it from the White House. Then tonight, Halloween
35:54
Speaker 2: stuff at the White House, the Halloween party, kids, all
35:57
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. It's going to be a beautiful
36:00
Speaker 2: day here. It's going to be sunny in the 60s,
36:03
Speaker 2: upper 60s. And it'll be like that the next few days. Now,
36:07
Speaker 2: don't forget, Saturday night at 2 a.m., we go off
36:11
Speaker 2: daylight saving time. Saturday night, 2 a.m., you set all
36:14
Speaker 2: the clocks back one hour to 1 a.m. Starting Sunday,
36:17
Speaker 2: it'll be dark out by 5 o'clock. Sunday's also the marathon.
36:21
Speaker 2: That's going to be a messy day here in New York.
36:25
Speaker 2: Election day is just five days away. Coming up Tuesday,
36:29
Speaker 2: it's election day. Get out and vote. Do the early voting.
36:32
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36:34
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