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

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  Speaker 1: Mark simone on 710 wor hey well uh two weeks
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  Speaker 1: from today election day two weeks from today election day
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  Speaker 1: make sure you vote that's the key who's gonna win
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  Speaker 1: depends on turnout republicans get the turnout they win democrats
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  Speaker 1: get more turnout they win oh make sure you vote
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  Speaker 1: now it's gonna be some night two weeks from Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: two weeks from tonight, you're going to be glued to
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  Speaker 1: the TV watching all these races.
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  Speaker 2: Looks very good for Republicans in the Senate, the House.
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  Speaker 2: It's too close to call. I know you're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear a million different opinions. It's too close to call.
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  Speaker 2: Netflix is in trouble. You know, a million years ago, Netflix,
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  Speaker 2: they really pioneered streaming. And remember, the stock was like
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  Speaker 2: 40 bucks and then it went to 400. It was
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  Speaker 2: like the hottest thing in the world. Everybody was watching Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: And Netflix got better and better and better. While the
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  Speaker 2: networks were dying, Netflix went all over Hollywood hiring the
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  Speaker 2: best writers, the best producers, the best directors, the top actors,
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  Speaker 2: paying them a fortune, more than the networks would, paying
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  Speaker 2: them a fortune to create big, big blockbuster shows. They
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  Speaker 2: had better comedy, sitcoms, better dramas, better everything than them.
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  Speaker 2: than the networks could ever do because they were spending
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  Speaker 2: more money. They were hiring all the top talent. It
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  Speaker 2: was unbelievable. Netflix just got bigger and bigger. It got
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  Speaker 2: so big. I think it was Eisner was first at
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  Speaker 2: Disney who said to himself one day, why are we
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  Speaker 2: selling all this stuff to Netflix? Why don't we create
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  Speaker 2: our own streaming service and not give it all to Netflix?
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  Speaker 2: So they did. And then it was NBC and Paramount.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else said, What are we selling them content for?
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  Speaker 2: We'll create our own streaming service. So next thing you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's like eight major streaming companies. And now Netflix has
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  Speaker 2: been having a lot of trouble attracting talent, finding anything different.
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  Speaker 2: So they've lost a lot of viewers, a lot of streamers.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not so much Netflix's fault. They just didn't
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  Speaker 2: see all this coming. And I don't know what you
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  Speaker 2: could have done to stop it. But now, It's just
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  Speaker 2: like network TV or cable TV. The pie is now
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  Speaker 2: getting split a million different ways. So Netflix doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: the audience anymore. It doesn't have the, as a result,
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  Speaker 2: the subscribers revenue has dropped. Netflix just laid off a
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  Speaker 2: thousand people earlier, about a week ago. And then the
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  Speaker 2: numbers again are dropping. And it's what happened to cable TV.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you were the first, HBO was the
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  Speaker 2: first cable network. They had everybody on cable. Well, now
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  Speaker 2: there's 400 cable channels. It's a whole different world. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: on CNN, you mentioned before, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central loves him.
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  Speaker 2: They just re-signed him for a couple of years. On CNN,
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  Speaker 2: where they have no ratings, they're in last place all
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  Speaker 2: the time, constantly. CNN, these anchors at CNN are so delusional.
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  Speaker 2: So elitist. You know, on this show, we do very
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  Speaker 2: well on this show. We're number one. We kill the competition.
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  Speaker 2: We got big ratings. We're very happy. But if we
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  Speaker 2: were in last place, if we were the worst, we
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  Speaker 2: had low ratings. You can't get delusional about it. You
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  Speaker 2: got to wonder what to do, how to fix it.
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  Speaker 2: But over at CNN, all of these people there, these anchors,
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  Speaker 2: these CNN anchors, they think they're untouchable. They think they're
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  Speaker 2: gods of broadcasting. They're terrible. They're in last place. They
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  Speaker 2: got nobody watching. So Christiane Amanpour, a very distinguished Christiane Amanpour. Now,
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  Speaker 2: she was great as a war correspondent back in the
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  Speaker 2: Gulf War. That's where she really, really made her name.
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  Speaker 2: But then she went on to be a CNN anchor, host.
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  Speaker 2: She took over for Charlie Rose. But even that show,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Charlie Rose show in its heyday had
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  Speaker 2: 60,000 viewers.
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  Speaker 3: That was about it.
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  Speaker 2: It was never, I mean, it was a very fine show,
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  Speaker 2: but it never had any audience. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 2: a very elite Manhattan sort of audience, but that was
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  Speaker 2: about it. And Christiane Amanpour, nice woman, tries hard, very left-wing, biased,
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  Speaker 2: but she's got no audience. So she's leaving CNN. The
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  Speaker 2: word is they tried to cut her salary. She's getting
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars. You know, that's another thing. If you're
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  Speaker 2: over at CNN, big anchor, and you're in last place,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got no viewers, and you're getting 500,000 a year, okay.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're getting 5 million a year, it's insane.
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  Speaker 2: So there's new owners of CNN, normal, sane, rational business people,
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  Speaker 2: and they come in and they look at Christiane Amanpour.
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  Speaker 2: You've got 12 viewers. You're in last place. Why are
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  Speaker 2: you getting 8 million a year? So apparently they really
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  Speaker 2: tried to cut her salary, so she's leaving. She made
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  Speaker 2: the announcement after more than four decades. It says, one
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  Speaker 2: of the most recognizable faces. Walk down the street with
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  Speaker 2: Christiane Amanpour. See how recognizable she is. 99.999% of the
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  Speaker 2: people walking by have no idea who the hell she is.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you told them who she is, they still
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't know who she is. She put out a statement,
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  Speaker 2: after many months of thought and a few sleepless nights,
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  Speaker 2: I've decided to separate from CNN, my partner of 43
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  Speaker 2: fantastic years.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, very gracious statement. Sleepless nights.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, back when you were in last place, that's when
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  Speaker 2: you should have the sleepless nights. I'm in last place.
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  Speaker 2: I got low viewers, no audience. What the hell can
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  Speaker 2: I do? She said it was philosophical differences. Some people
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  Speaker 2: said philosophical differences. Other people that know what they're doing
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  Speaker 2: said she was also offered to stay at a Drastic
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  Speaker 2: pay cut, which she didn't want to do. She did
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  Speaker 2: say she doesn't like the new owners. These are the
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  Speaker 2: people that took over CBS and put Barry Weiss in.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these left-wingers, they're furious about Barry Weiss. They
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  Speaker 2: think Barry Weiss is a crazy Republican conservative coming in.
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  Speaker 2: She's a liberal. She's a Democrat. Barry Weiss is a
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  Speaker 2: liberal Democrat. The problem is she's a Bill Clinton Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a sane Democrat. Normal, old-fashioned Democrat, not a crazy,
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  Speaker 2: a woke socialist Democrat. She's a Bill Clinton Democrat, but
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  Speaker 2: she's from the New York Times. She's a Democrat. But
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  Speaker 2: even Christiane Amanpour said in an interview, I have great
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  Speaker 2: concern about her. Clearly, I'm concerned. I'm concerned because of
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  Speaker 2: what's happened, the way she's handled CBS News. What has
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  Speaker 2: she done at CBS News? Except trying to get it
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  Speaker 2: back to the way it was. I mean, do I
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  Speaker 2: have to list what's happening there? Hemorrhaging viewers. probably hemorrhaging money,
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  Speaker 2: the ideological realignment of CBS. Well, all she did is
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  Speaker 2: realign it from crazy left-wing back to normal left-wing. Remember, Amanpour,
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  Speaker 2: she's very left-wing. She's had a lot of backlash before. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: she was very anti-Israel in her coverage. Remember when they
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  Speaker 2: released the Israeli hostages, she said on the air in October,
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  Speaker 2: they were probably treated better than the average Gazan citizen.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know these Israeli hostages were beaten, raped, tortured,
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  Speaker 2: but the very biased Christiane Amanpour said they were treated
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  Speaker 2: better than.
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  Speaker 3: The people in Gaza.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely ridiculous. She got a lot of flack for it.
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  Speaker 2: She later apologized, calling it insensitive and wrong. She had
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  Speaker 2: to apologize because the backlash got intense. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: even if she apologized, she believed what she said, this
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  Speaker 2: real anti-Semitic crap that she said. Jerry Seinfeld getting a
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  Speaker 2: lot of flack. He had to give up colleges because
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  Speaker 2: the college students would just boo him like crazy college kids.
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  Speaker 2: But he's trying to do normal shows, does the Beacon
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  Speaker 2: Theater here in New York and big venues around the country.
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  Speaker 2: So he's in Chicago and the hecklers, they're going after
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  Speaker 2: Seinfeld because of Israel. It's absolutely ridiculous. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: you go to A Seinfeld show, all he's going to
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  Speaker 2: do is jokes about your phone, jokes about your dishwasher.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's nothing to do with politics. Never made
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  Speaker 2: a political comment in his life. But they're going after him.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to these hecklers.
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  Speaker 3: 22,000 Palestinians.
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  Speaker 4: Our children never killed. With our taxpayer money. With our
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  Speaker 4: taxpayer money. And you're making jokes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm racist.
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  Speaker 3: Step aside.
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  Speaker 2: I'm into it. Listen to these lunatics. What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like I went to a mental institution and
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  Speaker 2: recorded this. There's like rabid dogs, these lunatics. 22,000 Palestinians!
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  Speaker 4: Our children that were killed with our taxpayer money! With
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  Speaker 4: our taxpayer money and you're making jokes?
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  Speaker 3: Nuts.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Seinfeld is in the middle of the show. And again,
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about, you know, using your phone. He's talking
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  Speaker 2: about Instagram. It's just funny, cute stuff. And this guy
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  Speaker 2: starts screaming.
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  Speaker 1: Seinfeld! Seinfeld! Listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: You're a racist. There are 74,000 dead Palestinians. 74,000!
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  Speaker 1: Palestinians have been killed by the racist state of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Get the f * * * out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Sign f * * * out. You will see. Palestinians
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  Speaker 1: will be free.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, I'll find out how much you paid
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  Speaker 2: for the ticket. I'm sending it to Israel. So but
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't deserve this. I mean, these are just crazy,
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  Speaker 2: insane lunatics. The last guy in the world who deserves this.
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  Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld hasn't got a political bone in his body.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I was talking about Elon Musk. He's announced Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk is going to give one share of SpaceX to
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  Speaker 2: every child in America next year. Every child. Now, a
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  Speaker 2: share of SpaceX is about, I think it's about $ 146
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 3: A share.
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  Speaker 2: So there's about 73 million children in the U.S. under 18. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so to give everybody a share of a space would
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  Speaker 2: cost him about $ 10 billion.
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  Speaker 3: $ 10 billion is like 35 cents to us. 10 billion
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  Speaker 3: for him. He could find that much in his, uh,
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  Speaker 3: sofa cushions that slipped in there.
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  Speaker 2: 10 billion. Now a share of SpaceX, it's a very
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  Speaker 2: great company. And a lot of people bought SpaceX. The IPO,
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  Speaker 2: I think was around 140 bucks. And it went to 500,
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  Speaker 2: but it's back to like around 140. But you'll make
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money on SpaceX stock. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to wait 20 years, but you'll make a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money. SpaceX will be an incredible stock. It'll go
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  Speaker 2: to a thousand. But in 20 years or 10 years
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  Speaker 2: or so, you're going to have to hold it a
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  Speaker 2: long time. So that doesn't mean you should buy SpaceX
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  Speaker 2: because you're going to have to wait a long time.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're a little kid, a little child, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: by the time you're ready for college, It'll be worth
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  Speaker 2: a lot more money. So that's a great thing that
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  Speaker 2: he's doing. Anthropic is now saying they'll do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Anthropic getting in on that action, but great for Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 2: It's a $ 10 billion giveaway. Hey, out in California, Department
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  Speaker 2: of Justice, they're trying to find voter fraud everywhere and
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  Speaker 2: they're finding it. Every time they look, they find it.
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  Speaker 2: Out in California, there are 20,000 suspected non-citizens that have voted,
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  Speaker 2: they've asked California to cooperate. They've identified the 20,000 non-citizens
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  Speaker 2: who voted. California will not cooperate, but they're going in
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  Speaker 2: there anyway. They just arrested, it's called Operation Protect the Vote.
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  Speaker 2: They just arrested 24 of these people, foreign nationals who
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  Speaker 2: fraudulently registered to vote in the U.S. They arrested them
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  Speaker 2: earlier this week and took them away. 24 have been arrested. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that's what you got to do because there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of illegal people fraudulently registering to vote. Now, when
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  Speaker 2: they see people getting arrested and put in jail for that,
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  Speaker 2: that's the only thing that's going to discourage this. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if nothing's going to happen to you, you'll keep doing it.
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  Speaker 2: But when you see people actually getting arrested, handcuffed, taken
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  Speaker 2: out of their house, felony charges, thrown in jail, that's
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  Speaker 2: the only way you're ever going to stop this stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Knicks tonight, they're going to get their, what do you
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  Speaker 2: call them? Not World Series rings, playoff rings. championship rings
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  Speaker 2: they'll get them tonight after the game there were a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people like me probably who never watched basketball
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  Speaker 2: never paid any attention but those uh playoffs were so
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  Speaker 2: exciting last at the end of last season and the
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  Speaker 2: championship so exciting started watching it every night it was
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  Speaker 2: great you finally understood the magic of basketball so maybe
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  Speaker 2: you'll start watching this year but you got to remember
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  Speaker 2: the knicks aren't so hot until the end they definitely
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  Speaker 2: Don't really pick it up until the end of the season,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't have to sit through that. Bagels. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if this were five years ago or ten years ago,
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  Speaker 2: you'd say, well, who makes the best bagels? Well, it
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  Speaker 2: was H & H bagels in Manhattan were considered the best.
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  Speaker 2: There was Essa bagel. Out in Queens, there was Utopia bagel.
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  Speaker 2: That's very good, that Utopia bagel. They always were winning
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  Speaker 2: as the best bagel in New York City. Out in Queens.
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  Speaker 2: And all these bagel things, you know, they try to expand.
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  Speaker 2: Utopia Bagels came into Manhattan. First, 34th Street, now there's
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  Speaker 2: one on 53rd. H & H has opened a few stores.
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  Speaker 2: Essa Bagel is opening more. So they're trying to expand.
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  Speaker 2: But the one that came out of nowhere and is
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  Speaker 2: becoming the bagel of America is Pop-Up Bagel. It started
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  Speaker 2: during the pandemic. These two kids in Westport, Connecticut, college
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  Speaker 2: kids or whatever they were, During the pandemic, started making
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  Speaker 2: bagels at home, and they worked and worked on it
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  Speaker 2: and tried and tried. They perfected the pop-up bagel, and
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  Speaker 2: they made the most unique cream cheeses that were a
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  Speaker 2: little softer. You could just dip the bagel, and they
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  Speaker 2: opened in Westport. That's the original first store. Then I
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  Speaker 2: think there was one in Greenwich, around Connecticut, and they
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  Speaker 2: became very big. Then they came into New York, and
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  Speaker 2: somewhere along the line, a big hedge fund, saw how
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  Speaker 2: good this product was and put in like 400 million.
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  Speaker 2: There's now, I think, like 100 pop-up bagels around the country.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be the most famous bagel in the world.
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  Speaker 2: They are delicious. And they get away with stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you had to buy a bag of 12. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: smallest order you can get, you have to buy a
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  Speaker 2: bag of three. There's nobody can eat three bagels. But
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  Speaker 2: you have to buy minimum three. So you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to give away one or two. but it's a
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  Speaker 2: way to charge you more for each order. But again,
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  Speaker 2: hedge fund, hundreds of millions. They're opening all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: Even around here, there's a new one coming to Stanford, Huntington,
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  Speaker 2: Walt Whitman Mall. You're getting one. Just come back in
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  Speaker 2: about three years. They'll be like Starbucks. There'll be a
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  Speaker 2: pop-up bagel everywhere. I don't know what the other bagel
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  Speaker 2: companies are going to do. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
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