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

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  Speaker 1: It's where you or comes for common sense?
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone on sevent ten wr Well, Hey, a little
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  Speaker 2: technical difficulty, but we're on everything sounds good. I can
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  Speaker 2: hear myself. We've got a lot to get to this hour. Also,
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  Speaker 2: we have a special guest in the studio. It's IRV. Right,
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  Speaker 2: turned the mic on. Try it again, Hi, it's IRV Goldfarb.
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  Speaker 2: IRV Goldfarb. Now you might be saying, whoserve Goldfarb? Well,
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  Speaker 2: every year we do this big event for charity where
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  Speaker 2: we raise money for what was the world hunger.
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  Speaker 1: Thigh hunger feeding America.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure it's Feeding America. And one of the
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  Speaker 2: prizes you can bid, you have to bid a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money, but you can win a visit to the
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  Speaker 2: studio to come sit here and IRV, why do I
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  Speaker 2: seem to know you? You?
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  Speaker 1: I won the same auction in twenty twenty two actually
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  Speaker 1: and spent a fun hour here with you at that time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you're the first auction winner ever to
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  Speaker 2: come back again and do it twice now, But the
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  Speaker 2: last time you did a couple of years ago. Were
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  Speaker 2: we in the other studio?
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  Speaker 1: I got it was impossible to find that, but the
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  Speaker 1: cab driver had no idea what I was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: This one was a lot easier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, our old studios were in Tribeca. We've left Tribeca.
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  Speaker 2: We're now in midtown Manhattan, right here on fifty fifth
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  Speaker 2: in a big, beautiful skyscraper. Much better here. Did you
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to look around?
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  Speaker 1: I did, Yeah, walked around for some of the studios.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. We got Charlemagne over in that studio over there,
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  Speaker 2: Elvis Duran down the hall, Jim Kurr that way, and
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  Speaker 2: Irv's going to just sit and is this exciting to
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  Speaker 2: sit and watch this for an hour?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean last time I was here, I was
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  Speaker 1: able to participate a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah. And of course you want to plug anything mentioning,
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  Speaker 2: that's part of the deal. Do you want to I do?
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  Speaker 1: Actually, I actually started writing a blog about a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I was in radio for twenty years and
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  Speaker 1: I worked at ESPN, So, like you, I met a
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  Speaker 1: lot of famous personages and I had some interesting stories.
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  Speaker 1: So I send it to seventy five of my closest
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  Speaker 1: friends and I got good feedback. So now I'm uploading
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  Speaker 1: those blogs onto And where did people go? They can
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  Speaker 1: go to substack. It's called Irvin's substack. Irv I n
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  Speaker 1: bostrophe s Irvin substack. Unfortunately I foun out last night.
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  Speaker 1: There are two Irvin's substack. Mine is earth gold Farb.
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  Speaker 1: You see my name, and you can read stories about
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  Speaker 1: me chauffeuring Bruce Springsteen around back when he was a
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  Speaker 1: human being. I worked for Hardy Weinstein one night. I
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of interesting story ye and people like.
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  Speaker 2: Him not crazy about the name Irvin's.
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  Speaker 1: Well, my name is Irvin, so I just put my
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  Speaker 1: name in. It just popped up as Irvin's substack. So
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  Speaker 1: I just kept like.
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  Speaker 2: Gold Farb stups stack. Gold Farb sounds like something like
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  Speaker 2: a like a German candy bull or something.
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  Speaker 1: I will go back and change it, and so I
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  Speaker 1: won't confuse with the other Irvan. I'll make a gold
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  Speaker 1: farm substack.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as long as it's doing well, that's important. Where'd
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  Speaker 2: you drive Bruce Springsteen.
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  Speaker 1: To a record store in Rochester? I met him at
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  Speaker 1: the pool. He asked if there was a record store around.
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  Speaker 1: I knew there was a record store, he said, and
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I said, you want to ride, Bruce? He said, yeah, Man,
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  Speaker 1: I don't take a ride. Put him in the car,
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  Speaker 1: draw him to the record store. People recognized him after
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  Speaker 1: a while. Chase this down the escal later and we
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  Speaker 1: sat in the car and talked for a while after
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  Speaker 1: it was an unforgettable all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well you can read these stories.
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  Speaker 1: On Irvin's substack.
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  Speaker 2: Irvin's Substack. And what did you do with ESPN?
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  Speaker 1: I was mostly I did stats, baseball stats, hockey stats.
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  Speaker 1: I put the graphics up on the scene on the screen,
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  Speaker 1: so very good numbers guy, excellent.
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  Speaker 2: So and paid a lot of money to be our
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  Speaker 2: auction winner. Money goes to charity to feed the hungry.
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  Speaker 2: And again, first time anybody's ever done this twice?
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  Speaker 1: So should I do it again next year? Should I
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  Speaker 1: back off?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want, as long as you keep winning.
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  Speaker 2: We have a high roller audience and they do spend
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money on charity.
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  Speaker 1: I would have thought that with a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: would be into this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyway, what IRV will be with us throughout
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  Speaker 2: the hour. We'll get back to IRV and to jump
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  Speaker 2: in if you want. Hey, Rosie o'donald snuck back into
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  Speaker 2: the country. You remember, she's leaving. She's leaving the country,
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  Speaker 2: never going to set foot in the Marria. While Trump
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  Speaker 2: is president. She did sneak back, apparently about two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: said she wanted to see her family. She missed her family.
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  Speaker 2: You ever see her family. I don't think anybody want
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  Speaker 2: to see them again. But she did come back, and
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  Speaker 2: she also said being insane, she said she wanted to
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  Speaker 2: make sure it was safe. She wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 2: she could get in and out of America. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what she's picturing, getting kidnapped, getting arrested Ice agents.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what she's imagining. But she came and went.
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  Speaker 2: Everything was fine, she saw our kids. Nobody cared. If
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  Speaker 2: you look at her nowadays, nobody would recognize her. You
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't know it was Rosie O'Donnell. She looks absolutely she
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  Speaker 2: looks like Jim Acosta. Now she looks totally different. She
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  Speaker 2: does have Irish citizenship. And you got to remember she
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  Speaker 2: started the feud, this blood feud with Trump back when
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  Speaker 2: she was on the View. She started talking about him
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  Speaker 2: one day and you remember she somehow took her hair
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  Speaker 2: and put it in the shape of Trump's hair, and
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  Speaker 2: she really got ugly, personal ugly, imitating him. And then
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  Speaker 2: he went after and she got worse. You know, these
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  Speaker 2: are like two insult kings going after each other. So
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  Speaker 2: it really got ugly, and she did sneak back into
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  Speaker 2: the country. Now, also Allen who left the country, I
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  Speaker 2: just bought another twenty five million dollar mansion in Santa Barbara,
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  Speaker 2: indicating she's going to want to come back a lot
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  Speaker 2: more so. Apparently when you leave America, you really, really
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  Speaker 2: really don't enjoy it. Other celebrity news, Spike Lee a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people upset with him. He showed up at
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  Speaker 2: the NBA All Star Game, the first Israeli born player
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  Speaker 2: competing in the NBA All Star Game. Spike Lee shows
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  Speaker 2: up wearing a Palestinian outfit, a Palestinian flag, a Palestinian this,
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  Speaker 2: a Palestinian that. It's stupid, it's disgusting, it's anti Semitic
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  Speaker 2: in that situation, but it's Spike Lee. Would you've expected
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  Speaker 2: any different from Spike Lee. It's just it's the problem
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  Speaker 2: that democrats have. You know, when Jesse Jackson. First you
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  Speaker 2: had Martin Luther King, big civil rights leader, a big
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  Speaker 2: left winging guy. Great job. Then you had Jesse Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: not not Martin Luther King, but it wasn't so bad.
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  Speaker 2: And then somewhere along the way, the Nation of Islam
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  Speaker 2: Phara con jumps into the civil rights movement, bringing with
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  Speaker 2: him anti Semitism. It then starts to creep into the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Party. Maybe I don't know there has it been
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  Speaker 2: there all along, maybe, but it brought it out. There's
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  Speaker 2: an anti Semitic problem that Democrats are going to have
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  Speaker 2: to deal with. It's gonna it's gonna just haunt them
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  Speaker 2: forever if they don't get rid of it. It's gotten worse.
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  Speaker 2: But then everything in the democratic world has gotten worse.
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  Speaker 2: They've just gotten totally insane, absolutely crazy, just over the
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  Speaker 2: top nuts in the last few years. So heyres have
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  Speaker 2: you seen the JFK Junior mini series?
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  Speaker 1: I saw the promos for it, I haven't seen the series.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently this is the hottest series in the world. JFK Junior.
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  Speaker 2: It's mostly about his me, Carolyn Bassett. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: was like the ultimate playboy of Manhattan women, all of them,
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  Speaker 2: but then he met this one woman. And this is
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  Speaker 2: like for a lot of women, the fairy tale love
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  Speaker 2: story that the ultimate bachelor can fall in love and
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  Speaker 2: want to settle down and want to get married, and
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  Speaker 2: it's all about their relationship and this and that how
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  Speaker 2: they got married. This incredible love story. Now, JFK. Junior
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  Speaker 2: was a very good friend of mine. We used to
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  Speaker 2: go out a lot, and he was quite the unbelievable bachelor.
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  Speaker 2: And he did meet Carolyn Bassett and settled down. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't see him as much after that, but then I
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  Speaker 2: started to see him again a lot, and he was
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  Speaker 2: going out. So I don't know what they show in
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  Speaker 2: this miniseries, but after a while with this marriage, he
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  Speaker 2: was out again roaming around. So it wasn't quite the
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  Speaker 2: fairy tale you imagine. Now, apparently in the series, he
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  Speaker 2: meets her and he takes her on the first date
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  Speaker 2: to a certain restaurant in the village East village. I
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  Speaker 2: don't have the name of it. It's an Indian restaurant,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess they actually went to the real place
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  Speaker 2: and filmed it there. And you see them going the
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  Speaker 2: first day to this Indian restaurant in the village. Well,
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  Speaker 2: apparently because of that, this restaurant is now the hardest
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  Speaker 2: reservation in the world to get. People are lined up
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  Speaker 2: for miles. They all want to get into this restaurant. Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: I knew the guy pretty well and he was a
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  Speaker 2: great guy, but nobody had worse taste in food than him.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't know anything about The only person that had
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  Speaker 2: worst tastes in food probably his mother. They In fact,
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  Speaker 2: when his mother had a big dinner party, everybody knew
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  Speaker 2: to eat first, because it's like that old waspy society
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  Speaker 2: food where that's nothing has any flavor. But so I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't go by him on what restaurants to go do.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter. The place is packed all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I've noticed a lot of this. This is the new
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  Speaker 2: thing with making the movies about people, like with JFK
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  Speaker 2: jor you make it into much more of a perfect
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  Speaker 2: marriage than it actually was. Or have you seen them
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  Speaker 2: movie Marty Supreme Just saw it a few ways ago. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's unbelievable, action packed, it's amazing. Now I knew the
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  Speaker 2: real guy. His name was Marty Reesman Uh and he
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  Speaker 2: was a nice guy, but he was maybe the most
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  Speaker 2: boring human being you could ever be around. He was
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  Speaker 2: and he was a ping pong player champion. And if
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  Speaker 2: you see the movie, all the ping pong stuff is true,
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  Speaker 2: but all the other stuff is just made up. The gangsters,
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  Speaker 2: the gun chases, the car chases, gunfire, the movie stuff.
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  Speaker 2: All of that was made up, total fiction. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the new style of biography. Start with the real story
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  Speaker 2: and then just make up all kinds of nonsense. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: there's a nail salon. I don't want to mention the name,
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  Speaker 2: but it's really nice. It's beautiful, it's excellent. Everybody tells
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  Speaker 2: me it's the finest nail salon in the city. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking. I don't know. I just looked it up
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  Speaker 2: on Yelp. It got the worst review I've ever It's
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  Speaker 2: got horrible reviews. It's magnificent. How could I get such
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  Speaker 2: bad reviews. I'm reading the Yelp reviews. This woman says
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  Speaker 2: it's I will never set foot in there again. They
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  Speaker 2: had Fox News playing on the TV. There's another one.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to boycott. I won't mention the name. Boycott it.
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  Speaker 2: They have Fox News on the TV there. This is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: This is how just modern day democrats the most intolerant
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  Speaker 2: people in the world. I've had a lot of restaurant
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  Speaker 2: managers tell me that, you know restaurant that has TVs
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  Speaker 2: around the bar or all over it, but that if
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  Speaker 2: Fox News is on, people will start yelling and screaming,
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  Speaker 2: demanding they changed the channel, or demanding they changed their
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  Speaker 2: table so they don't have to look at Fox News again,
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  Speaker 2: counting the left wing to be totally intolerant all the time. Hey, herv,
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  Speaker 2: where do you live in Jersey?
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  Speaker 1: Union City?
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  Speaker 2: So when you came into the city, what was your
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  Speaker 2: impression as far as garbage snow?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was kind of brought up in New York,
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  Speaker 1: so that doesn't surprise me. What did stand out this time?
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  Speaker 1: I am seeing more masks again. I'm seeing more, I
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  Speaker 1: say a little bit in Jersey, but I'm seeing them
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  Speaker 1: here the more I come into the city. You what
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  Speaker 1: that's all about.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, it's good. It's the left wing identifying themselves
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  Speaker 2: with the Mets. Although it was pretty cold the last
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  Speaker 2: few weeks. I saw a lot of people wearing masks
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  Speaker 2: during the cold snap. But it was great. The snow melted,
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  Speaker 2: it's almost all gone. The garbage got picked up. Although
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  Speaker 2: today walking around I know it's the garbage's back. Enormous
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  Speaker 2: piles of garbage on every street. So that's mom, Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: Not good with the not good with anything right now.
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  Speaker 2: A management disaster, and by the way, the emergency response
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  Speaker 2: director who's been there for years, just left. He quit. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is he kept recommending his number two,
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  Speaker 2: the deputy director, and said she'd be perfect. She's been
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  Speaker 2: there almost thirty years. She knows what she's doing. The
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  Speaker 2: good news is Mom, Donnie just appointed her, made her
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  Speaker 2: the director. A lot of people thought he'd bring in
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  Speaker 2: some left wing crazy kook, but he did appoint her.
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  Speaker 2: So that's pretty good news. Hey, we'll take a break.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 2: zero seven. Ton is the number. Eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 2: one zero seven ten. Now listen. As I said, we
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of big high rollers in the audience.
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  Speaker 2: This station has the highest they're called the c Suite index.
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  Speaker 2: That's how many CEOs CFOs coos. Listen. Our c suite
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  Speaker 2: indexes two seventy two normals one hundred. So we got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of big executives. We got IRV over here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big winner of our auction price. But what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing is we're going to have a big exclusive
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  Speaker 2: business networking event coming up. It's going to be March nineteenth,
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  Speaker 2: six to eight pm. It'll be in the evening cocktails
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  Speaker 2: and it'll be a lot of CEOs, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: business leaders, and if you want to come to it
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  Speaker 2: you can. You have to RSVP because the space is limited.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're going to have this at this beautiful new venue.
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  Speaker 2: It's called two Park Avenue. It's Park Avenue. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's like fortieth Street. It's just two blocks from Grand Central,
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  Speaker 2: but to Park Avenue. It's this beautiful office building. The
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  Speaker 2: venue is on the top and it hasn't credible views.
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  Speaker 2: Also has this big, magnificent terrace. So the event's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a lot of CEOs, a lot of business leaders.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to come to this and network and mingle,
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  Speaker 2: you can do that. I'll be there. I'll be talking
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  Speaker 2: a little, Larry MENTI will and Curtis Sliwa will speak
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  Speaker 2: and if you've never seen if you've never seen Curtis speak,
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  Speaker 2: he's just dazzling doing those speeches. But if you want
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  Speaker 2: to come, it's six to eight pm. You have a
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  Speaker 2: chance to meet a lot of business leaders CEOs to
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  Speaker 2: Park Avenue. This is a beautiful if you want to
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  Speaker 2: do a corporate event, a business event, this is one
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  Speaker 2: of the most beautiful new event spaces to Park Avenue. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to come, you got a RSVP, Just
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  Speaker 2: go to seven ten wr dot com slash Live seven
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  Speaker 2: ten WR dot com Live to March nineteenth, but we'll
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  Speaker 2: take some calls next on seven to ten wo r