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Hour 1: Simone's Special Labor Day Show · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Labor Day, I don't know how it got here so fast,
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  Speaker 1: but it's here. So it was interesting. Trump visited NASA,
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  Speaker 1: and he's very interested in the moon, which he'll probably rename.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be probably Moon America or something, but he's really
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  Speaker 1: interested in going back there. And he's right. We shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have abandoned the space program when we did. We just
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  Speaker 1: gave up on it. It was a big part of
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  Speaker 1: the Kennedy administration program. In 1960, 61, he took office
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  Speaker 1: and he said, by the end of the decade, we'll
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  Speaker 1: land a man on the moon. It sounded insane at
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  Speaker 1: the time. It sounded like something so far in the future,
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  Speaker 1: but he did it by the end of the decade, 1969.
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  Speaker 1: So the president, before he leaves office, which is two
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  Speaker 1: years before he leaves office, he wants to land a
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  Speaker 1: man on the moon. and he thinks it's very important,
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  Speaker 1: big speech at NASA.
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  Speaker 2: From the very beginning, America has always been a frontier nation,
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  Speaker 2: and space is the highest of all the frontiers. Our
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  Speaker 2: manifest destiny is to explore and settle this great unknown,
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  Speaker 2: carry forward the light of American liberty into the stars.
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  Speaker 1: So, it's a great goal. You know, it was very
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  Speaker 1: important that we landed on Man on the Moon in 1969.
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  Speaker 1: And it led to, uh, important things. If we landed
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  Speaker 1: a man on the moon, uh, I don't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what it looked good. The pictures were fascinating. And then, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we sent more, uh, men to the moon and, uh, well,
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  Speaker 1: they walked around, they collected some rocks. Remember that one
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  Speaker 1: astronaut hit a golf ball on the moon. Uh, Outside
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  Speaker 1: of that, I don't know what the... They keep telling
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  Speaker 1: us that, well, we're going to colonize it. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to have data centers there. We're going to... I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how you're going to do any of that. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a great goal.
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  Speaker 2: Before the end of my term, American astronauts will return
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  Speaker 2: to the lunar surface. And we're looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: And we're then going to the next step.
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  Speaker 1: And when we do, they'll.
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  Speaker 2: Plant this very important flag to mark the site of
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  Speaker 2: the first permanent American settlement on the moon. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a settlement. They're building a settlement up in
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  Speaker 2: the moon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I don't know who want to live there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some people move to Rockland County and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little too far to commute. But can you
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  Speaker 1: imagine from the moon? I mean, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: We're going to live on the moon. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: They'll have a Starbucks. They'll have a Costco. There'll be
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  Speaker 1: a Chipotle. I mean, that's really all it means. So, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is fascinating. Now, you know, Jimmy Fallon is still
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  Speaker 1: on the air. That's the Tonight Show. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: The original late-night show, it's hard to cancel that. But
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel is very close to being canceled. Remember, his
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  Speaker 1: contract ended, and they wouldn't give him a new contract.
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  Speaker 1: They just put him on a one-year extension, which he's
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  Speaker 1: on now. One-year extension, and he's taking the summer off.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the Howard Stern model, and it led
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  Speaker 1: to pretty much the end of Howard Stern, which we'll
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  Speaker 1: get to coming up. But Colbert... fired, thrown off the air,
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  Speaker 1: low ratings, and who would they replace him with? Well,
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  Speaker 1: they decided to do something a little different. They turned
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  Speaker 1: the time, the one hour on CBS at 1130, over
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  Speaker 1: to Byron Allen. He actually buys the time from CBS,
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  Speaker 1: and he does a late night show, but it's nothing
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  Speaker 1: like Kimmel or Colbert or Fallon. There's no political jokes.
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  Speaker 1: There's no angry politics. It's just old-fashioned comedy. It's called
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  Speaker 1: Comics Unleashed. And they have four comedians on every show.
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  Speaker 1: And Byron Allen interviews them. But it's all prearranged. They
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  Speaker 1: know what jokes the guy has. So every question is
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  Speaker 1: to lead into part of his routine. But it's very funny,
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  Speaker 1: Comics Unleashed. Good comedy show. Now, here's the interesting part.
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  Speaker 1: It is now beating Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.
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  Speaker 1: It is now beating Jimmy Kimmel Live in the most
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  Speaker 1: important demo of all. That's 18 to 49. That's the
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  Speaker 1: key demo for TV shows. Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed now
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  Speaker 1: beating Fallon, beating Kimmel. It's actually, is it a two-hour show? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's also on against Late Night with Seth Meyers, and
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  Speaker 1: he's beating Late Night with Seth Meyers. So, This is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: This is old-fashioned comedy. This was the idea of late-night TV.
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  Speaker 1: You'd have a few laughs, something entertaining, enjoyable laughs before
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  Speaker 1: you go to sleep. The idea was not get all
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  Speaker 1: riled up and screaming about Trump and hate Trump and
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  Speaker 1: get all mad and angry with Colbert. So Byron Allen,
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  Speaker 1: I remember when the first week, he only had 600,000. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's now beating in the key demo, which is the
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  Speaker 1: most important, He's beating Fallon. He's beating Kimmel. So that's
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  Speaker 1: big news. You're seeing a turning point there. So as
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  Speaker 1: they're getting ready to dump Kimmel, ABC might be looking
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  Speaker 1: at something like that. Let's just go to old-fashioned comedy. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you got Crazy Mom Donnie. We'll get to him coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul running against him, trying anything and everything. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know that it was actually illegal to dance in
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant In New York State, there was a law
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  Speaker 1: against it. You're not allowed to dance in a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: It's an old law from the 20s or something, from
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  Speaker 1: a million years ago. So she's so desperate for trying
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  Speaker 1: to score points in any possible way, she's repealed that law.
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  Speaker 1: You can now dance in a New York City restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So she gets Kevin Bacon. Somehow, Kevin Bacon
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  Speaker 1: gets suckered into this, doing a commercial with her. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is the problem with Kathy Hochul. She's sometimes not
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  Speaker 1: very self-aware, doesn't realize how goofy she looks, doesn't realize
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  Speaker 1: how dopey she is, doesn't realize how lame this commercial sounds.
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  Speaker 1: This is her and Kevin Bacon. Consultants convince them that
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  Speaker 1: this is cute, this is wonderful. You see the consultants
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  Speaker 1: make money on the commercial. If you need to make
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  Speaker 1: a commercial, they get a part of the production cost,
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  Speaker 1: and then you've got to air it, which means you've
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  Speaker 1: got to buy time. They get a piece of the
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  Speaker 1: time by. So consultants make a fortune. Campaign consultants make
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  Speaker 1: all their money off commercials. So they'll convince you this
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  Speaker 1: is a good idea. And when it's done, they'll say, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it's powerful. It's great. Take a listen to it.
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  Speaker 5: New York, did you know that for years, dancing was
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  Speaker 5: banned in many bars and nightclubs?
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  Speaker 1: Banned? You mean it was illegal to dance?
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  Speaker 5: That's right, Kevin Bacon.
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  Speaker 1: If I was to come into this club and wanted
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  Speaker 1: to say salsa?
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  Speaker 6: Nada.
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  Speaker 1: Macarena?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: Not gonna no no whip nay nay the state used
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  Speaker 5: to demand you get a license to allow dancing but
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  Speaker 5: we tossed that rule out what do you say to
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  Speaker 5: that kevin i say.
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  Speaker 1: Let's dance oh god yeah keep running that bruce blakeman
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  Speaker 1: will pay for you to run that he'll pay for
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  Speaker 1: the cost of running that ad that is embarrassing that
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  Speaker 1: is one awful ad hey um Tipping is out of control.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you used to tip 15% the waiter. Then
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  Speaker 1: it became more like 20%. Now you look at a
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  Speaker 1: lot of checks, it says 25%. You can check that off.
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  Speaker 1: It's out of control everywhere you go. You know, Starbucks,
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  Speaker 1: the barista wants a tip. Now, anytime you go to anything,
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  Speaker 1: a counter, anything where you, could I have this? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then they hand it to you. There's a tip
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  Speaker 1: jar right there. Like you're supposed to tip them. What
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  Speaker 1: are they there for except to hand you something? Why
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  Speaker 1: do you have to tip them? It's just out of control.
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  Speaker 1: And then the waiters will explain why they need so
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  Speaker 1: much for the tip. Personally, 25%, I mean, if it's
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  Speaker 1: really good, I'll tip 25%, but it's a lot. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big percentage of the whole thing. And here's a server.
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  Speaker 7: Out of that gratuity, the server also has to pay
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  Speaker 7: the bar back, who are the people who come and
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  Speaker 7: help clean up, make sure the tables stay clean. So
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  Speaker 7: when I give somebody a receipt and they look at
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  Speaker 7: me and they say, oh, gratuity is included, I say
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  Speaker 7: gratuity is included, but a tip is not. And if
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  Speaker 7: you can't afford the tip, then you shouldn't be out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. What the hell are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Your tip versus your gratuity. You got to pay the barman.
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  Speaker 1: The owner of the restaurant is supposed to pay him.
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  Speaker 1: You're telling me this guy got there, goes there every
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  Speaker 1: night just praying I'll tip him. He's not getting the salary.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to get paid by the restaurant. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like they're giving away the food. The prices are astronomical.
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  Speaker 1: Should be enough to cover everything. I don't know. It's
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  Speaker 1: a little too tip crazy. Sometimes you're at a, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like you order online, like a Chipotle or something. You
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  Speaker 1: do it online on the app. You order everything. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to go in there. You're never going to see anybody.
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  Speaker 1: You just go in there, pick up your bag and leave.
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  Speaker 1: There's a tip button on the app. Supposed to tip
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  Speaker 1: somebody I never saw. Well, you're tipping them for actually
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  Speaker 1: putting the order together. Well, that's his job. Do I
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  Speaker 1: put out a tip chart? Do I tell you people
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  Speaker 1: to send me money? Do I want 20%? Too much tipping.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to stop. It's getting out of control. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the Carnegie Deli is coming back. It is coming back.
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  Speaker 1: Take a look at my Instagram. You can see it.
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  Speaker 1: The picture was taken yesterday of the new place under construction. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the old Carnegie Deli was at 55th and 7th. The
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  Speaker 1: new Carnegie Deli It was a block away, and strangely, oddly,
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  Speaker 1: ironically enough, it's going to be in a location that
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  Speaker 1: used to be the Stage Delicatessen. That was the big
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  Speaker 1: rival of the Carnegie Deli. Back in the heyday, it
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  Speaker 1: was the Carnegie Deli, Leo Steiner and Milton Parker, and
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  Speaker 1: then the Stage Deli, which had been run by this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Max Asness. He was a major figure in America. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to believe. But back then, in the 50s and
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  Speaker 1: the 60s and 70s, Max Asness, the Stage Deli, it
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  Speaker 1: was big. Max Asness, he would be the mystery guest
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  Speaker 1: on What's My Line. They'd stick him in sitcoms on TV.
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  Speaker 1: They'd Johnny Carson would mention them all the time. But
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  Speaker 1: then the Carnegie became the bigger and better one for years. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, became a legendary hangout. Remind me to talk
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  Speaker 1: more about that later. There's a lot of great Carnegie stories.
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  Speaker 1: But it's coming back. You can see the picture on
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  Speaker 1: my Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: 54th.
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  Speaker 1: And 7th Avenue, where the old stage deli was. That's
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  Speaker 1: pretty interesting. Hey, we got a lot more coming. It's
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  Speaker 1: our special holiday show. Don't go away. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: more just ahead. By the end of his term, he
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  Speaker 1: wants to land on the moon. But Friday, he also
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  Speaker 1: announced he's going to build a space academy. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got West Point for the Army. You got the
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  Speaker 1: Naval Academy. You got the Air Force Academy. He wants
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  Speaker 1: to build a space academy. He said it'll be a
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  Speaker 1: top-line school. with tough admission standards and a beautiful campus
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  Speaker 1: to train the next generation of civilian and military aerospace experts.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually a good idea because one thing about all
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  Speaker 1: these astronauts and all the people they train, they do
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  Speaker 1: go into the private sector and they do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of great stuff. Remember, some of our greatest pilots were
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  Speaker 1: from NASA. He said, we're going to have an academy
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  Speaker 1: for what people in this room love the most, He
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  Speaker 1: was at the Johnson Space Center. That's the headquarters of
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  Speaker 1: NASA in Houston. Now, you know why it's in Houston.
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  Speaker 1: That's because Lyndon Johnson was president at the time from Texas,
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  Speaker 1: so he put it in Houston. But where's the Space
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  Speaker 1: Academy going to be? President Trump's saying, I'm choosing a
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  Speaker 1: location now. He said, I'll announce a location very shortly.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where he's going to put it. It'll
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  Speaker 1: actually be a good training ground, too, for the United
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  Speaker 1: States Space Force. Air Force, and a lot of civilian
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  Speaker 1: spaceflight people, you know, for the spaceflight industry. But it'll attract, train,
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  Speaker 1: graduate the very best of our nation. Listen, these astronauts
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  Speaker 1: are heroes. They're great at what they do. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to admire these astronauts. But would you want to do that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't find that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a great thing that they do, but
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  Speaker 1: would you want to be sitting in that capsule, locked
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  Speaker 1: up in that little capsule? I don't even like to
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  Speaker 1: go on an airplane, a regular airplane. If you're just
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  Speaker 1: in a capsule in the dark, flying through the dark
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  Speaker 1: for days on end, it doesn't seem like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun to me. I mean, you watch Formula One,
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  Speaker 1: you say, wow, I'd love to be driving that car.
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  Speaker 1: Or you watch somebody, you know, hang gliding. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: looks like fun, but... locked in this dark space capsule
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  Speaker 1: for days on end. It doesn't look like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun. Try it. Go in your closet, close the door,
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  Speaker 1: sit there for two days. You bring enough food and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and sit in your closet for two days in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: See how much you enjoy this. And if you said
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  Speaker 1: to yourself, this is fun, then maybe you'd want to
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  Speaker 1: go to this space academy. Hey, there's the Iranian president.
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  Speaker 1: You got the IRG. You got about 90 million people
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  Speaker 1: in Iran. This IRG, these are this revolutionary army. These
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  Speaker 1: are all the lunatics. There's 180,000 of them. But there's
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  Speaker 1: 90 million civilians. And then you got this embattled Iranian
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  Speaker 1: president who runs the Iranian parliament. Sounds very impressive, but
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  Speaker 1: they work out of a cave, a bomb shelter. But
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  Speaker 1: even the Iranian president is admitting now that the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: sanctions are crippling the country, that Iranians Iran is close
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  Speaker 1: to complete collapse. President Massoud Pesachish, whatever his name is,
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  Speaker 1: he confessed Iran's economy has been dealt massive blows. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, we're in a war situation. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: treat it like we're in a war situation. But he
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  Speaker 1: said they'll fight on. They'll keep going. But even he
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  Speaker 1: admits very, very, very close to collapse. Hey, speaking of collapsing,
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  Speaker 1: Howard Stern, it's serious, is getting towards the end. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he had a contract. The last contract was $ 100 million
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  Speaker 1: a year for five years, $ 500 million contract. In the
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  Speaker 1: good old days, there were millions of people listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Howard Stern channel. Now it's more like $ 150, 000. What happened? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he went woke, lost a lot of his audience that way.
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  Speaker 1: made some Hollywood friends by going woke and becoming a
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  Speaker 1: left-wing kook, but lost most of his audience. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was two channels. If you listen to Sirius, there
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  Speaker 1: was Howard 100 and then Howard 101. It was two channels.
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  Speaker 1: One had the new stuff. One had all the older stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Sirius now shutting down. That's right, shutting down the second
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  Speaker 1: Howard Stern channel. They just took it away from him.
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  Speaker 1: It'll become Andy Cohen Radio. Uh, yeah. So they've taken
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  Speaker 1: away one channel as far as the, uh, remaining Howard
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  Speaker 1: Stern channel. Well, he'll do one show a week, one
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  Speaker 1: show a week. That's it. Just one show a week. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not all, all year. That's like 26 weeks
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  Speaker 1: a year or something. So, uh, we have, uh, vitamin
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  Speaker 1: shows on the weekends that are on more than Howard Stern. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: This is not good for him. And obviously, that $ 100
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  Speaker 1: million a year, it's greatly reduced by about 9 billion percent.
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  Speaker 1: So he's very, very, very, very low salary compared to
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  Speaker 1: the old one. Employees have been laid off. He laid
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  Speaker 1: off 12 staffers the other day via Zoom. They were
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  Speaker 1: sent home immediately following the call. They will receive severance
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  Speaker 1: packages based on how long they served. So serious problems.
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  Speaker 1: slowly winding down their relationship with Howard Stern. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: some calls. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: I had a very odd name pop into my head
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend. Jerry Gerard.
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  Speaker 4: Remember him?
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Gerard. He was the channel 11 sports guy, right?
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  Speaker 3: He was a channel 11 sports guy. And that brings
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  Speaker 3: me to two points. One, I noticed you haven't had
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  Speaker 3: Warner on in a while.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, Warren is a regular on the morning show.
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  Speaker 1: He's here on our morning show every week.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll try to have him on once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: He's always good.
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  Speaker 4: And... And, uh, and, uh, and Kitey Tong.
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  Speaker 3: Had her last, uh, broadcast on PIX, uh, over the weekend. Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yesterday, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: She's retiring, Kitey Tong. Very nice woman, but, um.
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  Speaker 3: Very nice. I, I was her stage manager on occasion.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you were? You worked at Channel 11?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I was Larry Mendte's stage manager on occasion.
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  Speaker 1: All right, wait, I'm trying to remember. It was Channel
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  Speaker 1: 11 Action News, and it was Pat Harper, Steve Bosch, right?
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  Speaker 3: That was before my time. I was there when Tamsyn
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  Speaker 3: Fidel was on. I was usually either on the weekends
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  Speaker 3: or during the week on occasion. But.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, so Tamsa Fidel was on a weekend and, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I can't even remember now.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, nothing personal, but you can't compare.
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  Speaker 4: It's not that long ago.
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  Speaker 1: You can't compare Warner Wolf to Jerry Gerard. Warner Wolf
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  Speaker 1: was like the biggest sportscaster in local TV. He was
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: like a giant.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, and Jerry was very low-key and very unconventional in
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: his approach to sportscasting.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you had the big Channel 4, Channel 2,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Channel 11, Channel 9. That was like nothing personal, but
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: that was like the roadshow kind of cast.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Warner was the superstar, without a doubt.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: And who else was there? You had... Sal Marciano, right,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: for a while?
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Sal, yeah, I think Sal took over for, did Sal
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: take over for Warner? Warner got fired at some point,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: somewhere along the line, somewhere.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: And then you got Marvin Scott, who's like 112 years old,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: still doing something. Oh, God, Marvin Scott, my favorite.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I would fix his tie before he went on just
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: to distract him. And then all of a sudden he
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: would be like, hey, I like this guy.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: He was a very.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Nice guy, though.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: And Mr.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: G would come by where I would sit with the
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: program for the night. You got a joke for me tonight?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: I always had a joke for him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Very nice guy, Mr. G. In fact, if you check
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: out Mr. G's Instagram, he does videos every day now. Yeah.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: He was great.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Great guy.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Good call, Mike, as always. Thanks for calling. Yeah, Kitee Tong. Remember,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: she was like a young junior starting at Channel 7
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: and a lot of time has gone by. Kitee Tong, retired.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: But it's time to move on.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm 80 years old now. Nearly.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: As you know, Shirley. 80 years young.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling it. I'm tired. And it's time to make
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: room for the young bloods, right? Yeah, all right. She's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a very nice woman, Katie Tong. But she looks great.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Looks fine. I don't know. Maybe she just wanted to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: get the hell out of there. It is Channel 11
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: after all. But did she say what's next?
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: But it's time to move on.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm 80 years old. Move on. What does
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: that mean? Is she going to get another job? She's
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: got something coming? You never know. You never know. Hey,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it's Mark Simone here. 9 a.m. till noon. We're three
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: hours now. 9 a.m. till noon. every day. Then at noon,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: you got Buck and Clay. That's a really good show
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: every day at 12 noon. And then three o'clock, you
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: got the most listened to radio show in America. Sean
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Hannity got Jesse Kelly at six, the very funny Jimmy
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Fela every night, nine to midnight, more of our special
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Labor Day holiday show coming up healthy fast food. Well,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: it's become all those salad places, sweet greens, chopped. All
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: those salad places are all over the place and they're great. And, uh,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Chopped is, you would think McDonald's would figure out how
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to copy this, but those places, one reason it's so healthy,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of lettuce in everything. It's called sweet greens.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Or the other ones, there's a lot of lettuce. Well,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: with all that, whatever that disease is that's in the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: lettuce that's making everybody sick has caused a huge drop
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: in sweet green sales, chopped sales, way down right now.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: There's no reason for that. It's perfectly safe, but business
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is way down. That's good for us. We can get
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: in faster. And let's take some calls. Let's go to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, how you doing? This is how
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the phones are in Pennsylvania. What'd you say?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought it was Joe Biden for a minute.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: What do you want to say, Bill?
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, you know, I'm getting to be Joe Biden old.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm checking my false teeth in the morning.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: To see if I ate dinner.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: All right, check him again.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, my question is, have you ever watched a
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: video of yourself after a few shooters where you're trying
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: to walk a straight line?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Ah, what the hell is he talking about? You mean
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the cops pulled you over for drunk driving and you
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: had to walk a straight line?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're in front of a critical audience, like
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: the car.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Well, most of us aren't getting pulled over for drunk driving,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: but you, I could listen to you at nine in
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the morning. Was it happy hour already?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's Pacific time out here at six
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: in the morning.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: It says Pennsylvania. Where are you now?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: No, I'm in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry. I'll talk slower. So you were pulled
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: over for drunk driving?
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: No, I'm just saying I'm watching these YouTubes of Chinese
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: robots walking.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, talk to this guy like it's a normal conversation.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: All right, Bill.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I'm watching a YouTube of a bunch of Chinese robots walking,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: and that's what they walk like.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: That's a great story. Anyway, thanks for slowing us up here.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Dr. Bob in Long Island. Dr. Bob,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Yes, good, Mark. I like the extra hour we get
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: to hear you.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: It's great. It's working out well.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: I hope you get to enjoy it as time goes on.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Enjoy it. It's more work. I've got to get up
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: an hour earlier, but the audience wants it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but we appreciate you.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: That's for sure.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: Meanwhile, you've brought one of our favorite places, Mackinac Island
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: and the Grand Hotel.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's magnificent. It's not my kind of a vacation.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It's too quiet, but, you know.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Well, somewhere in time, there was a movie somewhere in
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour years ago with
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: some fabulous music, and they play it throughout. The hotel,
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: the Grant Hotel, it's really like going back in time
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: 100 years.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: It's a fabulous place.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I hate to break it. Even more than that,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: it's like 140 years. It's a magnificent old hotel. It
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: is as grand as the name implies. Who was the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: great decorator? Carlton Varney decorated the whole place. It's beautiful. Right,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: that's right.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Wow, you know your stuff. Also, the PSA should have
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: been done on Biden Day.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you're a great doctor. You're a top doctor
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: in a top hospital. This explanation that over 70 you
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: don't do PSA tests every year, that's crazy, isn't it?
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: Well, there was some indication that reduction in mammograms and
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: PSAs and everything was indicated, but the medical societies for
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: these specialty tests countervene with that. They said that should
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: not be followed. You should have testing done on a
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: regular basis and not shortcut things.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but let me ask you something. Sometimes the, what
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: is that, colonoscopy, you know, every five years. Now they're
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: telling some people every 10 years where they're saying you
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: don't need a PSA test after 70. Is that the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: bean counters doing that to save some money?
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: It seems to be. It seems to be a good
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: question for my buddy, Dr. Oz, because there's a lot
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: of indication that people's screening tests Tests have been decreased
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: in frequency as people get older, but that's not the case.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: It should be maintained throughout. You know, the life expectancy
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: is up in the 80s right now. It used to
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: be 10 years less just a few years ago.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, thanks, Dr. Bob. He's an expert, a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: great doctor. It's good to get an expert opinion on that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: So Biden was wrong to not keep getting those screenings.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: And it's hard to believe that he's in the White House.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Those White House doctors are so thorough that they wouldn't
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: do a prostate exam in Prostate exam every year. Let's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing? Good morning, Mark. Yes, Mike.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: It appears the Democrats were trotting out their 2028 presidential
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: team this weekend with.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: El Sayed and Cortez. A little terrifying prospect. That's a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: good point. I never thought. You're on a regular phone.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: You're not in a car right now. Yes, I'm not
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: driving at the moment. First time ever. What, it's one
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: day in Florida? You don't have to go anywhere?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: No.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what happened. Let's go to Peter
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Peter, how are you doing?
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: I'm good, Mark. Thanks for taking the call. Hey, Mark,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: do you know if the administration is doing anything about
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: the ideology of the Muslim movement around the country? Dealing
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: with that in any way, shape, or form?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Which movement?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Muslim. Oh. Sharia law.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Nobody's proposing Sharia law yet, but the one thing they're
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: doing about it is getting just worried about the crazy
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: communist socialists, the crazy Al-Sayeds and stopping them. It looks
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: like J.D. Vance has been put in charge of stopping
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Al-Sayed in Michigan. He's the one speaking out. He's the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: one going there. Now, the reason for that would be J.D.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Vance from Ohio, Ohio, Michigan. It's all kind of the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: same place. Oh, there's a rivalry between the Wolverines and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes. But he can speak the language, the Ohio-Michigan language,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: so they got him there. And he's a pretty good
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: attack dog, so he'll be going after El-Sayed like crazy.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: They got to stop this guy. Now, it's not just
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a case of stopping the socialism, communism, wacko. Michigan, it's
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a Democratic Senate seat currently. It's a Democratic seat, but
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the Democratic senator is retiring today. So it becomes an
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: open seat. If the Republican Rogers can win, Democrats pick
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: up a seat in the Senate. And that would make
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: it almost impossible for Democrats to win the Senate. So
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: it's an important, important race. Hey, we got a lot
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: more coming. It's our special holiday show. Don't go away.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: There's a lot more just ahead. He's suddenly out and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: about in all kinds of swanky places. We'll see if
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: we can figure out what that's all about. He's also
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: talking about... housing and slumlords. And does he forget that
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: he personally is the biggest slumlord in New York City?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: He's actually literally a slumlord with his NYCHA housing, New
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: York City Housing Authority. NYCHA houses are just terrible. And
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: if Mamdani had any real sense or was an honest guy,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: you'd start to realize these NYCHA houses are the worst slums.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You got to tear them down. Or you got to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: just gut them and rebuild them. Now, many people have said,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: if you really want to fix these housing projects, talk
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to Donald Trump. He's the best in the world at this.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: If you need to gut them and rebuild them. Now,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: if the government does it, it could take 10 years
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to do one building. If somebody like the Trump Organization
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: or any professionals do it, it'll take six months. You
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: could have them all done real fast. So if he
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: were an honest guy, he would ask President Trump, could
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you have the Trump Organization do it? Let's test it out.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Let's do a building, rebuild it so it's not a slum,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: so everything's working properly, good electricity, heat, air conditioning, all
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: that stuff. But he won't do it. Harry and Meghan,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: their California dreamin' is over. It's all over for them
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: in California. They're totally washed up, can't get a job,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: can't do anything. You know, they had to Started with
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: that big Netflix deal. Ooh, they got a lot of money.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: A big Netflix deal, multi-year. Netflix did a documentary. It
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: got big ratings and a big multi-year deal. Well, after
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that first big ratings documentary, everything else they tried was
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: a total bomb. Nobody watched it. Netflix finally canceled the agreement.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: They got out of the contract. Same thing happened with Spotify. Ooh,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of money to do. Whatever they did first,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: it did okay. Then it just petered out and then nothing.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Spotify had to fire them. So they've been fired from
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: every job they've had. Everything. Nobody had any interest in them.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: The last couple of years, they tried to get something
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: else going. They tried and tried and tried. Nobody will
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: give them a penny. Nobody will hire them. You know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: after two, three years of this. And nobody will give
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: you one penny for anything. Nobody will put you on
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: TV anymore. Nobody will pay any attention. to you. What
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: do you do? I guess you got to just give
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: up and leave. So that's why they're going back to England.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: They say that, well, they spent a long vacation in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the UK and enjoyed it so much they've decided to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: go back. They want to have their children spend more
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: time in the country that's an important part of the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: family's story. Well, actually, they just can't get anything going
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: here in the United States. So they figure back there,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: maybe somebody will be interested. The royal family has totally
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: cut them off, ostracized them. They will not be part
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: of the royal family. So they announced they're going to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: be Private Royals Plus. They're not royals. They're not in
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the royal family. So they made up a whole fake title.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: They're Private Royals Plus. It's Harry's fault if he had
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: married a very famous American actress, you know, like Prince Rainier.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He married Grace Kelly, who was a major, major, major
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: movie star in 1956 or whatever it was. She was
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: like the biggest movie star in America, female. But Harry,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: you married somebody who's like 15th billing in suits from
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: 12 years ago. I mean, it's a very minor character.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: More of our special Labor Day holiday show coming up.