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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mr. New York, Mark Simone, 710WOR. Well, it's hour number two.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. If you still don't know, we now start
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  Speaker 1: at nine o'clock. This show's now three hours, nine to noon,
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  Speaker 1: every day on 710WOR. If you're a Democrat, cover your
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  Speaker 1: ears for a minute. Price of oil dropping again. It's
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  Speaker 1: down to $ 89 a barrel. Eighty-nine. It's coming down. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll keep coming down because apparently we're getting more oil
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  Speaker 1: than we even thought coming through the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: We're up to about average about 10 million barrels a day.
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  Speaker 1: One day we hit 17 million barrels. That's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of oil coming through every day. So the pied-a-terre tax,
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  Speaker 1: this ridiculous Mamdani tax, this pied-a-terre tax. So a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people got Randy Mastro, Randy Mastro, a former deputy
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  Speaker 1: mayor and a great lawyer. And he put together this
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  Speaker 1: big lawsuit against Mamdani and the city to block the
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  Speaker 1: pied-a-terre tax. And they filed in Staten Island, which is
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  Speaker 1: smart because that's the Manhattan. You've got a crazy left-wing
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  Speaker 1: kook of a judge who loves Mamdani. And the judge
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  Speaker 1: ruled they were right, that the rollout had been done improperly,
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  Speaker 1: that they can't send out 17,000 letters when there's not
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  Speaker 1: that many pied-a-terre taxes. They can't just send a letter
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  Speaker 1: demanding that people prove that they're innocent on this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in America, you're guilty until proven innocent. It's up to
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  Speaker 1: the city to prove they owe it, not up to
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  Speaker 1: the homeowner to prove they don't. So on that basis,
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  Speaker 1: Mastro won, but all the judge ruled is that the
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  Speaker 1: rollout was done incorrectly, that you'll have to roll out
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  Speaker 1: this thing differently. But the idea is you got to
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  Speaker 1: stop this tax. Well, Wilbur Ross... Good old Wilbur Ross,
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  Speaker 1: former Commerce Secretary. Wilbur Ross has filed a lawsuit. And
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  Speaker 1: Steve Wynn, you know Steve Wynn, Las Vegas, the casinos,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. These two billionaires. So now they've jumped
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  Speaker 1: into this fight. But the Wilbur Ross lawsuit is brilliant.
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  Speaker 1: They're filing this lawsuit. And they're filing in Southampton. They
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  Speaker 1: both live there. And they both have, well they don't
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  Speaker 1: live there, they live in Florida. But they both have
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  Speaker 1: pied-a-terre is there, Southampton. Now, this lawsuit is the one
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  Speaker 1: that could overturn and completely destroy the pied-a-terre tax. A
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  Speaker 1: pied-a-terre tax means you live in another state, you live
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else, and this is just a part-time home you
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  Speaker 1: keep in New York. I don't know why they don't
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  Speaker 1: say that. They have to call it a pied-a-terre. But
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  Speaker 1: Wilbur Ross, this is brilliant. He's suing based on violation
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  Speaker 1: of the Constitution. First rule of America is no taxation
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  Speaker 1: without representation. That's what the Revolutionary War was about. No
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  Speaker 1: taxation without representation. Well, I don't know why we didn't
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  Speaker 1: think of this before, but that's exactly what's happening in
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  Speaker 1: this case. You're being taxed without representation. You live in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: You can't vote in New York. You have no say
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  Speaker 1: in New York. You can't vote. You can't vote for
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  Speaker 1: any of these laws or any of these politicians. But
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  Speaker 1: you're getting taxed. So you have no representation, but you're
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  Speaker 1: getting taxed. Now, just on that, he's probably going to win.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a great argument. You may have a hard
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  Speaker 1: time with some left-wing judges in New York, but this
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  Speaker 1: will end up going to the Supreme Court, and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to pretty much have to rule that it is
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  Speaker 1: taxation without representation. You can't do it. Now, the other
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  Speaker 1: part of the lawsuit is that it violates the Commerce Clause.
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  Speaker 1: And remember, this is the former Commerce Secretary suing. It
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  Speaker 1: violates the Commerce Clause because states can't tax people who
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  Speaker 1: live in other states. It's a very good point. How
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  Speaker 1: could you tax somebody that lives in another state? If
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  Speaker 1: that were allowed, a lot of states, California is in
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  Speaker 1: desperate trouble financially. They could just tax everybody in Nevada
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  Speaker 1: to collect money. You can't do it. You're saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but they own property. It doesn't matter. Some people come
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  Speaker 1: into this state all the time. Sometimes they drive in
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  Speaker 1: from New Jersey and go to stores and restaurants and
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  Speaker 1: spend a lot of money, and they buy a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff here. You can put a sales tax on it,
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  Speaker 1: but that's it. And, you know, if they buy... an apartment,
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  Speaker 1: you can put a sales tax on it, you can
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  Speaker 1: put a property tax on it, but you can't just
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  Speaker 1: tax them personally with a pied-a-terre tax. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: how Wilbur Ross could lose this lawsuit. He might lose
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  Speaker 1: it with a left-wing judge in New York, but it
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  Speaker 1: will get appealed, it will end up in the Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 1: and it sounds like an absolute no-brainer. So I think
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  Speaker 1: he ends up winning this. Now, that's pretty interesting. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you were talking before about Bruce Blakeman Hochul has seen
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  Speaker 1: the real polls, not the public polls, but the real
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  Speaker 1: polls show them tied. And Hochul is in panic. She
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  Speaker 1: is running millions and millions and millions, and she's spending
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money on attack ads. But as I
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  Speaker 1: pointed out last time, they can't find anything to attack
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  Speaker 1: the guy on. They've done the opposition research over and over.
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  Speaker 1: They can't find anything bad about Blakeman, so they're just
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  Speaker 1: attacking him for being friends with Trump. But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of political consultants are pointing out, they've noticed with her
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  Speaker 1: millions and millions and millions in ad buys, there's no
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  Speaker 1: positive ads. There's no ads where she runs on her record.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty interesting point. She cannot run on her record.
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  Speaker 1: She's got nothing to point to. That's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a problem. Their debate is coming up. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: next week. She's turned down all the major debates, Channel 2, 4, 7, 5.
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  Speaker 1: She will not do any of these debates. She's refused
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  Speaker 1: to debate. She's agreed to one debate on little New
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  Speaker 1: York One, which has 12 viewers. So she's agreed because
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  Speaker 1: very few people see New York One. And the other
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  Speaker 1: reason she's agreed, it's a very biased, very left-wing place.
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  Speaker 1: A very biased left-wing guy, Errol Lewis, will be the
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  Speaker 1: moderator of the debate. So all of this favors Hochul.
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  Speaker 1: That's why she's agreed to that one debate. One debate.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty sad. But, hey, the city council, big hearings coming up.
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  Speaker 1: on AI. Now there's a congressional hearings. There's the AI panel.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's looking into AI. The city council wants in on
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  Speaker 1: this act. They know it's a hot political issue. They
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  Speaker 1: are not going to do anything about it. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have the power to do anything about it. They don't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about it, but it looks good for them
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  Speaker 1: to be having AI hearings. So they will pretend to
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  Speaker 1: be doing something about AI. You see these people on
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  Speaker 1: the city council, none of them can figure out anything
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  Speaker 1: about AI. They don't know. And you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: get anybody of any importance to come testify, but they'll
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  Speaker 1: pretend that they're doing something about AI. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: like to make fun of President Trump. Look at him.
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  Speaker 1: He fell asleep. He's falling asleep. First of all, the
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  Speaker 1: guy works like 19 hours a day, like most billionaires,
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  Speaker 1: never sleeps at night. He's working all night. And I've
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  Speaker 1: seen it in a lot of billionaires. You're having dinner
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  Speaker 1: and they'll doze off for two minutes. They'll close their eyes.
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  Speaker 1: They all do that. It's just because they don't sleep
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  Speaker 1: at night. They work around the clock. But President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: working harder than any president ever worked, traveling more than
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  Speaker 1: any other president. You know, every day for the last
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  Speaker 1: few days, middle of the day, he flies to some state,
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  Speaker 1: does a big, massive rally, and flies home. Today, it's Nebraska.
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  Speaker 1: Every day, he's going to a different state. But you
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  Speaker 1: know what's amazing is President Xi of China, who's only 73...
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  Speaker 1: He came in for the big summit with President Trump. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: President Xi's got a real problem. He really has to rest.
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  Speaker 1: And it's come out now that for the visit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they schedule a whole series of events. This is a
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  Speaker 1: big two days, these two leaders together. It's a big summit.
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  Speaker 1: So all day long, they schedule all these things they're
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  Speaker 1: going to do. They're going to have a meeting with this.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to go to this luncheon. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: have another meeting. They're going to go to this. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: Xi's people told the White House that he has to
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  Speaker 1: have breaks during the day. He not only has to
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  Speaker 1: have breaks for an hour, two hours. At one point,
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  Speaker 1: he needed a five-hour break, but they also have to
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  Speaker 1: set up a private room somewhere for this break where
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  Speaker 1: he can go into this private room and be alone,
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  Speaker 1: just him and his wife, and rest. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: need a private room, a special private room for you
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  Speaker 1: and your wife? Have you seen her? I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they're fooling around or anything. I think this is This
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  Speaker 1: is a nap. I don't think anything's going on with
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  Speaker 1: these two. But apparently he needs to take lots of naps.
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  Speaker 1: And can you imagine if he had a meeting with Biden? Boy,
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  Speaker 1: the whole day would be snoring. It'd be all naps
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  Speaker 1: with like a five-minute period to work, but that'd be
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  Speaker 1: about it. Justice Alito, Samuel Alito, probably the most conservative justice,
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  Speaker 1: confirms he is considering retirement. He's only 76. That's very
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  Speaker 1: young for a Supreme Court justice. He's talking about next year,
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  Speaker 1: but he said he is thinking about retirement. Now, that
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  Speaker 1: would mean President Trump gets a fourth Supreme Court pick.
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  Speaker 1: A fourth pick. Now, things will be different because the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats will go absolutely nuts. They don't like anybody he's picked,
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  Speaker 1: although many of his picks have turned out to be
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  Speaker 1: a lot less conservative than anybody thought. And that's often
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  Speaker 1: the case with these Supreme Court justices. But he'll get
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  Speaker 1: a fourth pick. Democrats will go nuts trying to stop it,
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  Speaker 1: block it, all that stuff. They put out that list
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  Speaker 1: of the most powerful women in Washington. Melania's on it.
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  Speaker 1: Usha Vance is on it. Susie Wiles, White House Chief
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  Speaker 1: of Staff. But you know who's on it? Natalie Harp
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  Speaker 1: who's an executive assistant to the president. Because they say
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  Speaker 1: she's always by his side. Well, that's what an executive
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  Speaker 1: assistant is. It's like your secretary. They're always there if
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  Speaker 1: you're the president. And she's not the only one. There's
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  Speaker 1: Margo Martin. There's three of them. There's Chamberlain, Harris. There's
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  Speaker 1: three of them. But for some reason, they just want
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  Speaker 1: to go. They pick a target, and then they go
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  Speaker 1: crazy trying to smear them. Here's a big article. Where
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  Speaker 1: to go pumpkin picking on Long Island? Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Stop with the pumpkin picking. You know, just stop it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you go to Long Island, go to any great supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: Right in front, there's a whole rack of pumpkins. They
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  Speaker 1: got a million pumpkins in front. Any suburb, Connecticut, go
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  Speaker 1: to Balducci's. Right in front, there's 500 pumpkins there. That's
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  Speaker 1: where you pick a pumpkin. You don't have to drive.
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  Speaker 1: You drive to a pumpkin patch, you have to pick
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  Speaker 1: it off the What are they growing? A tree? Out
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  Speaker 1: of the ground? I have no idea. Pumpkin patch. Pumpkin picking.
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  Speaker 1: You really have to re-examine your life if this is
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  Speaker 1: your weekend high point. We're going pumpkin picking. Just go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Go any place. Walk into anything. They got pumpkin latte.
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  Speaker 1: Go over there. There's pumpkin frozen yogurt. Go over here.
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  Speaker 1: There's pumpkin this. Everything is pumpkin. The other thing is
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  Speaker 1: this apple picking. that people actually drive two hours out
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  Speaker 1: to some orchard to pick at, go to any supermarket,
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  Speaker 1: go to Whole Foods, go to Wegmans, go to any place.
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  Speaker 1: Right in the front, there's an apple section where they
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  Speaker 1: have 42 different kinds of apples. You can pick your
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  Speaker 1: apples there. That's apple picking. Because when you get to,
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  Speaker 1: used to be just going to buy an apple. They
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  Speaker 1: had red apples, they got green apples. Now you go,
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  Speaker 1: you can't figure out what you want. They got the gala,
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  Speaker 1: gala pink apples. They got Fuji apples. They have, uh,
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  Speaker 1: crisp this apples honey crisp it's impossible and when did
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  Speaker 1: this happen with this 47 kinds of apples so forget
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  Speaker 1: all this forget all this Michael Douglas confirms that when
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  Speaker 1: he was making the movie romancing the stone he did
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  Speaker 1: have an affair with Kathleen Turner he said she was
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  Speaker 1: smart funny sexy the deep sultry voice they did have
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  Speaker 1: an affair Now, why is he confessing this in his
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  Speaker 1: new memoir? I have no idea. They went to Kathleen
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  Speaker 1: Turner and asked her about this, and she said, good heavens,
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  Speaker 1: what a fuss about something 40 years ago. I love Michael.
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing the book. That's a yes. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what he doesn't mention is, Just about every
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  Speaker 1: movie ever made, the leading man was sleeping with the
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  Speaker 1: co-star or somebody in the cast. I could name names.
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  Speaker 1: I could go down the list. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: All the time. And very often, they're making the movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's at a studio in Hollywood. But then there's the
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  Speaker 1: month where they go on location somewhere and you got
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  Speaker 1: nothing else to do. It happens all the time. This
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  Speaker 1: goes on in every movie set. Not to mention that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the big stars all have a big trailer,
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  Speaker 1: a trailer that They decorate it like a beautiful living room.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're making a movie, you got to shoot
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  Speaker 1: scenes for an hour. Then you got like a two
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  Speaker 1: hour wait while they set up for another scene and
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  Speaker 1: do all this stuff. So you got to go sit
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  Speaker 1: in your trailer for two hours. It's very common on
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  Speaker 1: most movie sets that if you're the big star, they'll say,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want? You want a massage? You want a,
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  Speaker 1: I can't say the words. It's a certain sexual act
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  Speaker 1: you want. And if you want it, they'll send somebody
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  Speaker 1: in to do it. Uh, this goes on all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You're not supposed to know this, but it goes on
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  Speaker 1: all the time on every movie step. You could go
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  Speaker 1: back to those movies from the forties, you know, like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: any movie Humphrey Bogart, Clark, any, whoever it was, they
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  Speaker 1: were sleeping with the co-star. We could go into great
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  Speaker 1: detail here, but we won't. It happened all the time. Constantly.
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  Speaker 1: Classic example, Spencer Tracy ends up sleeping with Catherine Hepburn.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes like the love of his life, but, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Douglas, I guess the reason he did this is
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  Speaker 1: to sell the memoir because he's a great actor, great guy,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Douglas. But right now, if somebody said, ooh, there's
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  Speaker 1: a book about Michael Douglas, who the hell's going to
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  Speaker 1: read it? But you got to put stuff like this
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  Speaker 1: in and leak it out to get people to buy
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  Speaker 1: the book. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is
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  Speaker 1: the number. Give me a call. 800-321-0710.