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Hour 2: What's wrong with Schumer? · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: On seventeen wr he it's more of the marks emosia.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a lot going on. So Nick Reiner, son of
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  Speaker 2: Rob Reiner, should be in court for his first court
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  Speaker 2: appearance later today. We'll see what happens there. There were
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  Speaker 2: other people at that party the night before the Conan
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  Speaker 2: O'Brien Christmas party. Jane Fonda was there and she tweets.
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  Speaker 2: Rob and Michelle Reiner were wonderful, caring, smart, funny, generous people,
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  Speaker 2: always coming up with ideas for how to make the
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  Speaker 2: world better kinder. Now that brings us back to the
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  Speaker 2: question again. I talked to Rob Reiner a many many times.
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  Speaker 2: He was a warm, fun sweet guy. So why when
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  Speaker 2: it came to the Trump derangement syndrome was he so vicious?
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  Speaker 2: If you look at my Twitter, there's a montage of
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  Speaker 2: his tweets. I mean, they weren't just I don't like Trump,
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  Speaker 2: I disagree with him on this, I don't think he's
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  Speaker 2: right about this, or I hate when Trump does. They
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  Speaker 2: were vicious, the F word, cursing and screaming, calling him
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  Speaker 2: an f in rapist of this, I mean, just the worst,
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  Speaker 2: hate filled And it's not just him, Many of these people,
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  Speaker 2: many Hollywood types that you know and love and they're
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  Speaker 2: lovable and sweet, and then when they get on the
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  Speaker 2: subject of Trump, they become these raging, angry, vicious people.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about Trump that does that? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't like Joe Biden so much, but you didn't
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  Speaker 2: get no rage about it. And you said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he made fun of Biden bumping into walls and the
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  Speaker 2: way he talked and hated his policy on the border,
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't like Biden's law there. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't stay up all night raging about it. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't get into a There wasn't smoke coming out of
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  Speaker 2: your ears, foam coming out of your mouth in a
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  Speaker 2: mad rage talking about it. We just didn't like that guy.
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  Speaker 2: But and again Rob Reiner is a good example of
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  Speaker 2: a very sweet, warm guy. Why how did he get
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  Speaker 2: himself into such a rage about Trump? It's not just politics,
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  Speaker 2: as I was saying before, he did a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great work in politics. For many years before that. He
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  Speaker 2: was working on programs for kids and children in trouble,
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  Speaker 2: and he worked with the governor of California, not Newsome,
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  Speaker 2: whoever it was back then, and the governor was so
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  Speaker 2: impressed with this work He put him in the head
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  Speaker 2: of a committee and a commission, and Rob Reiner would
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  Speaker 2: fly to a Sacramento to meet with the governor every
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  Speaker 2: month and did excellent work of political work. You know,
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  Speaker 2: whether he agreed with him or not, but he was
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  Speaker 2: very reasonable guy who talked reasonably. That he'd run the
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  Speaker 2: committee commission meetings. But when it came to Trump a
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  Speaker 2: raging maniac about it. I don't know what that's just
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  Speaker 2: him again. You see this all over. Check out some
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  Speaker 2: of your favorite star on Facebook or Twitter or they're
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  Speaker 2: like nuts when they talk about Trump. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He just sets them off, and I don't nobody's ever
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  Speaker 2: been able to really explain it now.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Susie Wiles is the chief of staff in the White House.
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  Speaker 2: She's been excellent, best person Trump has had around him.
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  Speaker 2: She's been in politics for a long time. She worked
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  Speaker 2: for DeSantis, she worked in the Reagan administration back then.
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  Speaker 2: She was Susie Summer All. Her father was Pat Summer. All.
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  Speaker 2: Susie Wiles great and she stays behind the scenes, she
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  Speaker 2: stays under the radar. She's not looking for any attention
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  Speaker 2: or publicity. But she did this big interview with Vanity
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  Speaker 2: Fair where she sat down with this big Vanity Fair
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  Speaker 2: writer for like eleven hours and eleven different sessions. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why. Now, the guy does have a history
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  Speaker 2: of covering chiefs of staff and has written extensively about them.
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  Speaker 2: But on the other hand, the guy's a bit Trump hater.
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  Speaker 2: It's Vanity Fair. He's a you know, left wing Trump
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  Speaker 2: arrangement syndrome type. I don't know why she sent down
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  Speaker 2: with him, but she did, and a big, long interview
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  Speaker 2: has come out. There's stuff in there that people are
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  Speaker 2: a little surprised by. It just seemed like things you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't want to say publicly. She said, you know, she's
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  Speaker 2: talking about JD. Vance. She said, well, he was always
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  Speaker 2: a conspiracy theorist. And she's talking about revenge, you know,
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  Speaker 2: law fair And I've tried to get Trump to stop
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  Speaker 2: the law fair, to stop the revenge, stop going after
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  Speaker 2: his enemies, and I tried to stop. You know, why
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  Speaker 2: would you say this to Vanity Fair. Then at one
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  Speaker 2: point she said, he's got an alcoholic personality in that
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  Speaker 2: like an alcoholic when they're in that stage, they think
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  Speaker 2: they can do anything. They believe they could get away
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  Speaker 2: with anything, do anything. I mean, I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: she would say this stuff. Now it wasn't an off
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  Speaker 2: the record interview, or maybe it wasn't. The guy violated it,
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  Speaker 2: but she hasn't said that. At one point she denied
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  Speaker 2: one of these comments. She said, well, I didn't actually
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  Speaker 2: say that, and then the guy produced a tape of
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  Speaker 2: her saying, Now, what's made it even worse? If you
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  Speaker 2: read the Vanity Fair lengthy article, most of it, although
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  Speaker 2: some of it's negative, it's quite thoughtful and negative. But
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  Speaker 2: the problem is, I guess they gave it to the
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  Speaker 2: New York Times to write an article about the Vanity
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  Speaker 2: Fair interview, and the New York Times guy when he
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  Speaker 2: wrote it, because it's the New York Times, completely distorted it.
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  Speaker 2: He took quotes out of context, and he made everything
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  Speaker 2: sound fifty times worse than it actually was in the interview.
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  Speaker 2: But the problem is most people don't read Vanity Fair.
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  Speaker 2: You got to have a subscription and pay for its people.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the world does not read Vanity Fair. Very
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  Speaker 2: few people actually do. A lot of people read the
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  Speaker 2: New York Times, so more people will just read the
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  Speaker 2: New York Times summary of the interview, and it's really
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  Speaker 2: taken out of context. Slanted, bias, distorted, So that's going
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  Speaker 2: to make it sound even worse. I mean, President Trump
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  Speaker 2: won't like it when he reads it, but somebody will
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  Speaker 2: have printed out the Vanity Fair article, the actual article,
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  Speaker 2: and handed it to him. He'll see that it looks
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  Speaker 2: a little better. There. What else is she saying there?
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  Speaker 2: She said he didn't know Kallaine Maxwell got moved to
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  Speaker 2: a nicer prison and he wasn't happy about it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if he was that unhappy, he could have
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  Speaker 2: moved her back. But it's just not stuff you say,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you're Susie wils who's an old Washington hand
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  Speaker 2: who knows how things work. Yeah, it's one thing that
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  Speaker 2: was Remember Anthony Scaramucci got himself in trouble. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why, but he started talking to the New York Times.
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  Speaker 2: He thought it was off the record. He said awful things,
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  Speaker 2: and well, oh, actually what happened was he said all
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  Speaker 2: this awful stuff and then at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: call he said, by the way, this is off the record.
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  Speaker 2: Well he was an amateur at this, you know, coming
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  Speaker 2: to Washington working in the White House politics, total amateur.
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  Speaker 2: So he didn't know how things worked. He didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: You can't say at the end of the call it's
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  Speaker 2: off the record. You have to get that set before
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  Speaker 2: you start talking. That has to be done at the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: So he didn't realize and at the end he said,
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  Speaker 2: this is off the record. Well it's too late. Then
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  Speaker 2: he didn't know that, so and then it got him fired.
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  Speaker 2: He was I think they set the all time record
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  Speaker 2: for shortest employment in the White House. It was just
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  Speaker 2: like a couple of days. And as they said, he
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  Speaker 2: got fired before the first direct deposit even got to
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  Speaker 2: his bank account for getting paid. Hey, Chuck Schumer has
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  Speaker 2: become the most annoying guy in the world. There's this
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  Speaker 2: video that's gone viral from the weekend where he's talked
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  Speaker 2: what was he talking about. He was talking about the
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  Speaker 2: brown shooting or the terrible tragedy in Australia, and he
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  Speaker 2: was just awful about it, so tone deaf and weird.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a cheap, fake, pandering politician. So he wants
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  Speaker 2: to address the terrible tragedy. But listen to this guy,
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  Speaker 2: Listen to this. This is just how bad he's become. Listen.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, I'm gonna say a few words about the
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  Speaker 4: terrible shooting in Sydney, Australia. Okay, so in first, of course,
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  Speaker 4: as I always say, no matter what, go Bills. They
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  Speaker 4: beat the Patriots today, it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody thought that was just awful. He's supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: addressing this terrible shooting, this massacre in US, but before that,
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  Speaker 2: let's go Bill. He started talking about football game, and
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  Speaker 2: everybody knows this guy's not a football fan. This guy's
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  Speaker 2: never watched a football game in his life. He just
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  Speaker 2: needs Upstate voters, so he's pandering. He has no interest
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  Speaker 2: in the in the Buffalo Bills. And then he had
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  Speaker 2: the nerve to say this yesterday. He's just the phoniest
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  Speaker 2: guy in the world.
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  Speaker 4: Listening to this and this tragedy in Sydney shows the
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  Speaker 4: abject danger of letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action
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  Speaker 4: go unchecked.
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  Speaker 2: He's the guy that did that. He's the king of that.
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  Speaker 2: You remember when Jewish students were being terrorized at Columbia
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  Speaker 2: University physically and mentally, the Jewish students living in fear
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  Speaker 2: being terrorized. Remember the anti Semitis were marching all over
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  Speaker 2: the campus. Schumer went and hid, never said a word.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, people were yelling and screaming publicly, where's Chuck Schumer?
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  Speaker 2: Why doesn't he do something? He never did, never did
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  Speaker 2: anything the whole time that went on for six months,
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  Speaker 2: the horrors of anti Semitism all over New York, at NYU,
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  Speaker 2: at Columbia, everywhere. Schumer ran and hid, just didn't do
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  Speaker 2: a damned thing about it. So for him to have
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  Speaker 2: the nerve to say this.
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  Speaker 4: And this tragedy in Sydney shows the abject danger of
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  Speaker 4: letting anti Semitic propaganda, rhetoric and action go unchecked.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Schumer's the king of doing that. Oh but he
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  Speaker 2: did it more than Schumer. So the gall of this
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  Speaker 2: guy is just unbelievable. Oh, Howard Stern contract is up.
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  Speaker 2: It's up tomorrow. That's the end of the Howard Stern contract.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he had five year contracts, one after the
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  Speaker 2: other with Sirious. When he left Terrestrial Radio went over
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  Speaker 2: to Sirius. It was for a massive, crazy amount of money.
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  Speaker 2: What was it hundred million a year? It was one
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  Speaker 2: hundred million a year I think. And then over the
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  Speaker 2: years his audience dwindled a little. They didn't quite need
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  Speaker 2: him as much anymore. And there was a period of
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  Speaker 2: was it five years ago or ten years They decided
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  Speaker 2: to cut him back from one hundred to like fifty
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  Speaker 2: million a year. So the compromise was, instead of five
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  Speaker 2: days a week, he would do three days a week
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  Speaker 2: and he would get a lot more vacation. So they
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  Speaker 2: cut him to fifty million. The contracts up. They don't
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  Speaker 2: really need him anymore. He had a lot of listeners
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning, but when he went totally woke, crazy
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  Speaker 2: trumped arrangement syndrome, he lost an enormous amount of his
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  Speaker 2: audience and very very very big loss of audience. So
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  Speaker 2: the subscribers are just a fraction of what they were.
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  Speaker 2: So they really don't want to pay them all that
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  Speaker 2: money anymore, so there was a massive pay cut coming
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  Speaker 2: or just get rid of them all together. Well, they've
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  Speaker 2: been in talks and they reached an agreement over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Howard Stern will stay. Now he's being very fuzzy about
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  Speaker 2: how he's staying. He just said, signed a new contract
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  Speaker 2: and I've decided to stay another three years. And he
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  Speaker 2: said I was able to win it all, get it all,
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  Speaker 2: get everything I want. And then he kept talking about
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  Speaker 2: free time, how free time is the most valuable thing.
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  Speaker 2: He wants his free time. He said, I've worked all
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  Speaker 2: my life. I need me time, free time to do
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  Speaker 2: what I want. Well, it's a three year contract, which
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  Speaker 2: is less than five years. When they cut the length
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  Speaker 2: of the contract down, that's a lack of confidence. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the most insulting thing you can get in broadcasting is
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  Speaker 2: a one year contract. They didn't do that to him,
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  Speaker 2: and he knows that's too insulting, that would be humiliating.
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  Speaker 2: So he got a three year contract. They wouldn't give
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  Speaker 2: him a five year deal. They got a three year deal.
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  Speaker 2: And nobody knows the details. Some are speculating he's going
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  Speaker 2: to work one day a week. That he's taken a
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  Speaker 2: massive pay cut, and so in exchange for that, it'll
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  Speaker 2: be something like one day a week or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: He already in the last contract when he took the
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  Speaker 2: huge pay cut, went to some ridiculous amount of vacation time.
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  Speaker 2: It's like thirty weeks of vacation a year. So this
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  Speaker 2: will probably be like one day, two days a week,
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  Speaker 2: very few weeks a year. They have the right to
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  Speaker 2: all his old shows. He's got a ton of old shows.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have the rights to him for the
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  Speaker 2: next twelve years, so they'll still be a stern channel,
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  Speaker 2: but it'll be very few live shows. The details again,
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he's not explaining the details means they're
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  Speaker 2: not impressive to him. So we'll see. Hey, the healthcare
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  Speaker 2: situation got to do something. Healthcare costs are scheduled to
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  Speaker 2: just explode increase. Everybody'll paying a lot more for healthcare.
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  Speaker 2: It's because of Obamacare turned out not to work. The
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  Speaker 2: whole idea of Obamacare was a disaster for two reasons. One,
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  Speaker 2: if you have the government take over a business, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to cost a lot more money because government is
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  Speaker 2: all bloat, waste, fraud. So if the private sector were
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  Speaker 2: running healthcare, they would streamline it get the cost down.
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  Speaker 2: If you put it all into government running, it cost
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  Speaker 2: go way up. The other problem was the idea of
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  Speaker 2: Obamacare was you'd force or you'd force everybody on it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: older people use a lot of healthcare. They got all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of serious medical things that costs a fortune, So
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  Speaker 2: the insurance comps got to pay a fortune for these
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  Speaker 2: older people. But the idea was you get all the
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  Speaker 2: younger people, people in the twenties thirties, They never get
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  Speaker 2: any healthcare. They don't need anything, so they're paying in
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  Speaker 2: and taking nothing. So all the money they're paying in
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  Speaker 2: will pay for the old people who were taking money out. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that idea of forcing everybody on it didn't pass. They
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get that through, so the younger people are not
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  Speaker 2: forced to be on it. And younger people twenties, thirties,
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  Speaker 2: they don't need health care coverage. They don't ever have
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  Speaker 2: any big healthcare needs, so they weren't buying Obamacare. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't buy it, they rejected it. So all you had
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  Speaker 2: were the older people taking money out. You didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the younger people putting money in, so the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: fell apart. That's why they're talking about subsidies. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it was called the Affordable Care Act, but it got
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  Speaker 2: so out of control that nobody could afford it, so
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  Speaker 2: you had to have subsidies to pay for it. Obviously
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  Speaker 2: it was affordable, you wouldn't need the subsidies, So Democrats
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  Speaker 2: would like to just keep the subsidies, keep the taxpayers
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  Speaker 2: funding it. But Trump, and he's probably right about this,
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  Speaker 2: is you got to redo this whole thing. You got
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  Speaker 2: to get the government out of it, You got to
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  Speaker 2: make it efficient and make it work, so make the
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  Speaker 2: cost not astronomical. Then you got the crazy Democrats, Hakeem Jeffreys.
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  Speaker 3: All we need are four House Republicans to join us.
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  Speaker 3: They're two hundred and twenty of them. All we need
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  Speaker 3: are four and we can extend the Affordable Care Act
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  Speaker 3: tax credits in a straightforward fashion.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Democrats don't mind big bloated government programs. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans too. Most of these Republicans just as bad as
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats. They like these big bloated government programs. Why
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  Speaker 2: because big bloated government programs. While that means contracts, to
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  Speaker 2: hand out massive contracts, you hand it out the donors
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  Speaker 2: to people you want to have become donors. You can
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  Speaker 2: make a lot of money for your campaign and for
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  Speaker 2: your packs with these contracts. So that's why they like it. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I saw Bruce Blakeman yesterday. He got a very good
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  Speaker 2: chance to be the next governor of New York. He's
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  Speaker 2: the perfect choice to be the next governor of New York.
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  Speaker 2: News Max had a great Christmas party yesterday. Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 2: came later in the party and everybody applauding him. They
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  Speaker 2: love this guy's gonna do very well in the governor's
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  Speaker 2: race January, which is January twelfth, I think it is
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks from now he gets inaugurated again's second
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  Speaker 2: term as county executive. Now, President Trump likes Elise Stefanic
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  Speaker 2: and he loves Bruce Blakeman. Been close to Blakeman for years.
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  Speaker 2: He has said all kinds of wonderful things about Elise
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  Speaker 2: Stefanic and was back in her. But now with Blakeman
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  Speaker 2: in the race, what does he do? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Now they're both great. But Elise Stephonic
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  Speaker 2: is a legislator. She's a great talker. You put her
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  Speaker 2: on those congressional committees. She's a great interrogator. Voy does
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  Speaker 2: she tear into people. But that's her talent. Blakeman, on
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  Speaker 2: the on the other hand, his talents are what you
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  Speaker 2: need in the governor. He is a governor now he's
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  Speaker 2: the governor of Nassau County. He's a manager. He runs things.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it's really what the governor's job is. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, you don't always want a legislator in
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  Speaker 2: that job. You want a manager. And that's Blakeman. So
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  Speaker 2: to me be the much better choice for that. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Steve
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  Speaker 2: in White Plains, Steve, how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Merry Christmas? Mark?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Steve.
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  Speaker 5: Mark. The Democrats caused most of these issues with healthcare,
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  Speaker 5: and over the last ten to fifteen years they have
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  Speaker 5: been very successful at convincing the American public, at least
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  Speaker 5: according to all the polls. I see that it was
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  Speaker 5: the Republican's fault for all these healthcare issues that we're having.
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  Speaker 5: And if the Republicans don't do something to extend the
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  Speaker 5: subsidies or something else quick and healthcare costs increase, like
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: they will forget the midterms. Am I missing something here?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Yes? Too early to work. There are a million years
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: from now. The whole landscape will change eight times before
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: the midterms. Hey, let me ask you a better question.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Are you a former radio guy? Yeah?
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: You asked me that usually.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: When I call it, well, you sound like a radio
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: sort of announce here. You either that or your car salesman.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Which is it?
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: No, I did radio for thirty five years.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, do you have that radio sound or Lexus
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: salesman Lexus of West Yes.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: I don't like the salesman concept.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: No, definitely not. All right, Well, you sound great, Thanks
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: for calling. Let's go to Chris and Queen's Chris, how
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Hey, Mark, the big fan for.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: I can't believe that they're talking about a long time
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: what do you call it?
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: But they don't give anything.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know what you said, but as long
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: as you did, you got your point across the k. Yes,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you made your point. We don't know what it is,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: but you made it. That's important. Let's go to uh
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing?
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: Good morning?
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Mark. I'm doing very well. Thank you, Mark.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: If I had the capability to be an advisor to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: suse you whiles, I would recommend that she'd go on
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Fox News channel and asks Sean aunt Hannity to interview her,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and knowing Sean, he would probably give her the full hour.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's saying, you know, to explain this vanity
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: fair piece, I don't know. The better better idea might
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: be just let it go. Uh, don't waste too much
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: time on it. It's it's good fighter for MSNBC and
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: the Trump Arrangement syndrome crowd. But it'll burn out on
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: its own by after a day or two. Let's go
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: to Pam and Patterson. Pam, how you doing?
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Hey, I have answers to your two questions.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Rob Ryer's son went back to that hotel room after
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: the murders. Yeah, I had heard that. Yeah, And so
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: I think he brought some of the blood back with
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: him on a sheet or whatever and kind of swathed
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: himself in it like a serial killer, because that's part
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: of the control, Like, look, I got control of you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: That's something a serial killer would do. And then second
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: I think, oh god, I'm running a blank here. Oh
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: and in terms of why his father would be so
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: vitriolic all of a sudden, while everybody describes him as
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: so sweet, well, perhaps the apple doesn't fall far from
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: the tree. Well, did you get my drift?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: It's not just him, there's a lot. Well, we all
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: know people like this. They're nice, sweet normal people. You
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: get him on the subjec of Trump. They're like vicious,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: hate filled maniacs when they talk about Trump. It's it's
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: just unbelievable.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: But perhaps he was that way with his family at times,
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: and we don't know about it. A lot of people
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: hide that.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: You know, well, well, I don't know. The other kids
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: look pretty nice. The rest of the family looks pretty nice.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: They all I don't know. I'm not a psychiatrist, but
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: you know who is Curtis Leiwell, we'll talk to him next,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Curtis next. We had a lot of questions to ask
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: him now that the mayoral race is totally over, completely over.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: It's a few things I want to we'll well, we'll
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: get to that next on seven to ten w R.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: It's more of Mark Simone on seven tenor.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Well, ladies and gentlemen, the man who should be the
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: mayor of New York right now A Curtis Lee Well,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: of course, also one of the great radio hosts of
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: the last few decades, had the number one morning show
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: for many, many, many, many many years, and he'll be
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: filling in for me. I'll be off the last two
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: weeks of the year next week and the week after, Curtis,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: we'll be filling in ten to noon every weekday, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: he's with us. Now, Curtis sliwa, how you doing?
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: Oh great now that you've given me an opportunity to
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: let my voice be heard on my favorite radio station,
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: w R. Nope, he doesn't get any better than this, Mark,
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: because obviously you lead and everybody else follow. So I
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: know you've got a huge following because all during the campaign,
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: people would stop me wherever I was going and says, well,
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Mark's talking about you. Now. I didn't get that from
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: any other radio station or any other talk program.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Hey, now that it's all over, let me ask you
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: about this campaign. First of all, Now, obviously you could win.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: You could out talk everybody in the race. You got
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: a much longer career resume than mom Donnie. But they
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: started this mantra he can't win, Curtis can't win. Curtis
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: can't win. They just drilled this into people. I heard
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: people start repeating it like it's true. It was ridiculous.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: How did that ever get started?
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: But actually got started right after Andrew Cuomo tossed in
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: the towel because he got so badly beaten in the
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: primary that. If you remember Mark, when he had the
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: race on March first, he was at forty percent in
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: the Democratic polls, Zorhan Mandammi was last at one percent.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: By the time of June twenty four, they hadn't even
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: counted the rank choice of votes, yet he lost by
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: thirteen percent and it was no Moss.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: The big savior then was gonna be Eric Adams. They
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: were gonna somehow resurrect the crook out of the grave
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: and put, you know, put a new set of clothes
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: on him and say, oh no, he's a new Eric Adams.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: And the people didn't buy it. And then every day thereafter,
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: the masters of the universe, the billionaires, the influences, the
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: insiders kept this dropout game. Dropout, you got to drop out.
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: So it became very difficult Mark to engage in any
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: kind of conversation because the first question I'd have to
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: ask every day. Answer every day was no, I'm not
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: dropping out. They bribed me, people were threatening to kill me,
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: my wife, Dohmed, my staff, and I said, no, I'm
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: not dropping out. And I lived up to that until
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: November fourth, where clearly Johan Mandami was elected mayor of
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: the city of New York by the people of New York.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, now here's a better question. You knew Andrew Cuomo
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: can't win. I knew he can't win. He was a
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: terrible governor. He did awful things as governor. Everybody can't
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: stand the guy. But he went around for the three
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: or four years to every big donor, every big Upper
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: East Side Southampton, all this craft, and he convinced them
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: that only he could win. And these are otherwise very
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: smart people. How did they fall for this nonsense? They
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: actually convinced themselves only he can win.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Look, Mark, there's nobody better connected than you with all
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: the heavy hitters in New York, whether it's the Hampton's
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: or in New York City or around America. They may
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: be good on Wall Street, but they know nothing about
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: the streets in New York City. And by the way,
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: they know nothing about politics. As was evidence, they backed
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Clomo in the primary, he lost, then they backed Derek Adams,
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: then they went back to back in Clomo. Look, they
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: may invest your money. Well in a hedge funt, you'll actmen,
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: actman every day. This guy would tweet out ten and
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: fifty two words in his midlife crisis. But they couldn't
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: have been more hopelessly wrong, and clearly they At first
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: they disparaged Cuomo when he lost to Dami, then they
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: revived him, and all they kept doing was supporting Democrats.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: So I guess what you got what you wanted, Johann Mondommi.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: You just strengthened him and Mark. What was that love
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: class between Donald Trump the President and Johan Mondomie at
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: the White House? Come on, they played us. We were
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: played all during the campaign.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: So what do you think Mondanni? I? Somehow I still
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: think maybe he was counting the socialists. Maybe, and maybe
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: he's not as bad as we think. What do you think?
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: Well, look, he is what he is. He has not surrendered,
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: he has not retreated. He is an idea log. Everybody
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: who gets elected mayors entitled to a grace period. He'll
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: have his grace period. But unlike everybody else in fear
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: frightened stereo shirt, I'm selling my prisoners. I'm moving the Florida. Hey,
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: where have they gone? Mark is still here? Are you kidding?
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Having backdoor meetings with Rohaimandami? So the fact is, I'm improved,
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: o't And by the way, may I compliment you for
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: a second, Mark, because you're going on this well deserved vacation.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: What are they gonna do over your competition? You realize
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: that Greg Kelly for years would listen to your program
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: before he would come on, uh in the twelve o'clock hour.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: Basically you would do his show prep for him, like
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: Comedian's up in the porch belt. They used to steal
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: jokes from one another.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Wow, but does a great show?
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: They do it you away, but we all.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Listen to each other. We all take from each other.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: It's it's so but now.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Come on, Mark, But you're the best. That's why they
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: do it from you. They know that.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Then you got to you gotta do a good job
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: in the next two weeks. Curtis will be filling in
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: for me the next two weeks. Now you have done.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: They used to make fun of how many hours you'd
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: be on the radio twenty hours a day, fourteen hours
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: a day six Will you be able to fit it
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: into just two hours a day?
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh, there's no doubt about it. Hey. Look, there
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: was a time at WABC, as you know, because you
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: and I we were together there doing the morning show
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: with Ron Koby whose mommy is a comedy who was
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: the predecessor to Johan Mandami. Yeah, I mean you wanted
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: to know what Oran Mandami was. Look, that was Don
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Coopy and the three of us would sit in that
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: room doing the morning show. That was total chaos.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Oh that's right.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know how you. I don't know how you
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: survived that much.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I forgot you. Yeah, you two weren't talking for about
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: six months. I had to like host the uh or
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: be the moderator of the show while you two were there.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: But it's it's much better doing the show by yourself,
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: isn't it. It's always much better.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, and I and I insisted on that. I
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: had always done shows that partners, and I insisted that no,
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: if I'm the do talk radio anymore, it's gonna be solo.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: I will either sink or swim based on what I say,
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: not be on what my partners say. But boy, you
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Every morning for four hours,
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: Mark Simone the referee between Ron Koby who was Doorhan
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: Mondomi before he was even born and Curtis Sleewan, and
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: I mean it got hey, it got pretty hot and
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: heavy there. You almost had to put in a nine
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: one one call sometimes.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: So well, next week will be You'll have fun here.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: If you've come up, you've seen the studio, you've visited,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: you've in fact, a lot of your old coworkers were
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: here when you came. Right.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: Well, let me let me tell you something for people
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: who don't know. Because War was the first radio station
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: I was ever interviewed on. I was the newspaper boy
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: of the year. I had gone Washington d C got
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: an award for Richard Nixon, and my first interview was
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: with Arlene Frances whoa did the afternoons mid to mid days,
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: and I got the bug. You know what it's like.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: You had the bug for years. I've had the bug.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: And then when Bob Grant went to War, I mean
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: it was a continuation. And by the way, I remember
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: when I transported all of his items from WABC where
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: they exiled him to wr and then he kicked off
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: books over at WABC. You remember that you worked with
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: him at WBCA, back with R. Peter Strauss and Ellen.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: That's true, although Bob Grant and I didn't get along.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: So Bob Grant was a complicated guy. I think you'd agree.
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: Off the air, Oh, no doubt about it. But let
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: me tell you something. He was magic on the radio.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: And that's all it counts. Yeah, that's all it counts.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: And that's what you've been for so many years, Mark Simon.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: So to be able to substitute for you while away,
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. And
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: I listened to wo R Now you got a lot
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: of great shows. I have no reason to listen to
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: anything else, including always blaming Curtis WABC the station.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: But since you announced you're going to be here, did
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: they contact you? Have you heard from anybody there?
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: They're worried, aren't They're worried because remember, I haven't told
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: the true story of what went on there, all that
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: drop out you got to drop out? Where do you
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: think it started?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Mark?
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: It started at WABC, And there are a lot of
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: bones buried there. And the question is, in the two
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: weeks that you've given me the opportunity of management at
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: WOR and iheartnesscepstitute for you, will I dig up any
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: of those bones and air the trunk of what went
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: on during the most historical and unprecedented Mayor Old campaign
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: in the history of New York City politics.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't go after them. But I can't just
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: blame them. I heard this from every Upper east Side idiot,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: every Hedge fund idiot. Curtis can't win, Curtis Kit, that
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: was ridiculous. He's got to drop out. It was ridiculous.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: And as you say, these guys made billions at what
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: they know and have never made a penny given political
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: advice to anybody.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: So, by the way, where's their friend Andrew Cuomo? Where
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: is he?
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Wait?
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: You go? As he fled to Barda like he said
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: he would do if Jore on Monday got elected. Man,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: come on, Mark, you know everything? Where is into?
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I think they now realized we were right. This guy
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: couldn't win anything anymore. And I don't think we're done
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: with him. He'll try and come back again. But hey,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: we're out of time. But everybody listen. Next week, for
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: the next two weeks, Curtis Lee will be filling in
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: for me ten to noon, curtisly with ten to noon.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Be listening, and of course follow him on Instagram and
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Twitter and all of that. So well, Curtis, good luck
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: next week. I'll be listening, have a good time.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you. I know where all the bones are
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: buried them to bury them, and I may be digging
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: them up for the two weeks that you're away.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks. Take care,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: h Thank you Mark. Thanks. Yeah, make sure next week.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I'll be off next week, in the week after. I've
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: been taking the next two weeks off. Final two weeks
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: the year by Christmas break. Curtis will be here every morning.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: This should be really interesting stuff. Curtis every morning for
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: the next two weeks, ten to noon here on seven
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: to ten. Wr mister new yours marximone, you're the best. Well,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: let's see. Nick Reiner, the son of Rob Reiner, is
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: expected to be in court at any moment. Right, that's
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: noon here. It's so, it's nine o'clock in Los Angeles,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: nine in the morning. The very secretive about everything, the
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles police. Even when the word came out that
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: two dead bodies were found at Rob Briiner's house, they
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: wouldn't say it was him and his wife. They kept
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: that quote. So they keep everything very quiet. But they've
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: arrested Nick Reiner and he's expected to be brought into
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: court today, first time in court. They will arraign him.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: They will formally charge him. He's being held in isolation.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: He's on suicide watch. So you may see some video
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: of this at any moment, appearing on TV. They we're
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: out of time. I'll be back tomorrow ten to noon.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: And remember, if you can't listen ten to noon, get
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: the podcast. You can hear the show anytime you want.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Dare night, but I'll be back tomorrow ten. I'll talk
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: to you then on seven ten WR