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Hour 2: Not so fast, Harry and Meghan Markle. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: New York is on the case. The Mark Simone Show
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  Speaker 2: on 710WOR. I'm on the case? Yeah, what case is that?
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  Speaker 2: I'm just sitting here. I'm the case. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot to get to this hour. We'll get to the ballroom.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to those crazy little Harry and Meghan. And
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot more. Hey, Lindsay Clancy's lawyer. I actually
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  Speaker 2: had intended to get through the whole three hours without
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  Speaker 2: ever mentioning Lindsay Clancy, but there's breaking news. Lindsay Clancy's
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  Speaker 2: lawyer has now asked President Trump to pardon his client.
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  Speaker 2: And he did this in a very prestigious format, a forum.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, America. If he thinks the president's going to
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  Speaker 2: be watching Good Morning America, you're crazy. Uh, I think
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  Speaker 2: he's watching Fox and friends. You should have gone on
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  Speaker 2: there and done it, but he's on a good man.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, America home of little, uh, George, uh, snuffleopolis.
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  Speaker 2: So he's asking the president to pardon, uh, Lindsay Clancy. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he said, Mr. President, I hope you would consider this
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  Speaker 2: young lady, the type of person she is and what
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  Speaker 2: she's been through. Uh, uh, I don't know the woman,
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  Speaker 2: but she just murdered her own children. So that's what
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  Speaker 2: she's been through. And consider a pardon. Now, what is
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  Speaker 2: the argument? I don't follow this case that closely. It's
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  Speaker 2: that because she was suffering from this mental whatever and
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  Speaker 2: the treatment, the drugs, everything has caused her to murder
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  Speaker 2: her own children. I don't know. Don't expect a pardon here.
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  Speaker 2: The lawyer, it seems like a good lawyer. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's 75 years old. He looks like old and distinguished.
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  Speaker 2: This is the kind of lawyer you'll want if you're
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay Clancy because she murdered her children. Murdered her three children.
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  Speaker 2: One is five, one is three. One was a baby,
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  Speaker 2: eight months. She murdered her three children. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 2: the most awful villain in the world. So you can't
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  Speaker 2: come in with a hotshot young lawyer. You can't come
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  Speaker 2: in with a Michael Avenatti or something like that. You
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  Speaker 2: need an old, old, old, distinguished old guy. And she's
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  Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. This guy looks like an old, old
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  Speaker 2: New Hampshire attorney, like an old, distinguished man. You could
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  Speaker 2: picture this guy. Remember the original DA on Law and Order?
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  Speaker 2: What was his name? Adam. Remember the DA? Just look
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  Speaker 2: at this wise old man. So you need a lawyer
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  Speaker 2: that looks like that. This guy is perfect. He's on
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  Speaker 2: Good Morning America asking for a presidential pardon, which, of course,
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  Speaker 2: he will not get. Hey, Trump, uh, the Trump ballroom,
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  Speaker 2: president Trump, uh, has been, he loves to build. Now
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  Speaker 2: you got to remember one reason for all these building projects.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's some ego involved in a lot, but,
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  Speaker 2: but it's good ego. And there's, there's healthy ego and
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  Speaker 2: there's bad ego. You know, if you're sticking your name
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  Speaker 2: on maps or something, that's bad ego. But if you're
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  Speaker 2: one of the great builders in the world and you
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  Speaker 2: happen to be in the white house and you're walking
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  Speaker 2: around looking at, uh, uh, looking at stuff, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've known a lot of these great builders and that's
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  Speaker 2: what they do. Wherever you go, you walk into some building,
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  Speaker 2: they start, you know, look at that, you know, that
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  Speaker 2: could be fixed and that should be changed. Look at that.
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  Speaker 2: And that could be, they just want to correct everything.
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  Speaker 2: And he's one of the great builders in the world.
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  Speaker 2: So when he walked into the white house and looked
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  Speaker 2: around the first term, he, you know, didn't really do much,
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  Speaker 2: but he had four years off to think about it.
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  Speaker 2: And when he came back the second term, he was
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  Speaker 2: ready to go. There's an entrance that everybody, they call
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  Speaker 2: it the Palm Court. I don't know why they call
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  Speaker 2: it that. It's an entrance where all the, when the
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  Speaker 2: world leaders come to visit, the distinguished visitors, you see
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  Speaker 2: them walk through that door. Well, there's this little lobby there.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the Palm Court. And it looked like crap.
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  Speaker 2: It was like linoleum floors and the walls were peeling.
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  Speaker 2: So the first thing he decided to redo, he put
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  Speaker 2: in beautiful marble, make it look elegant, really formal, elegant.
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  Speaker 2: And so he really fixed that up. The Oval Office
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  Speaker 2: needed some work now. All right. It's not my taste.
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  Speaker 2: It could use more paintings. Not 600. He's covered every
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  Speaker 2: inch of every wall with paintings.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little too much. And it could use some
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  Speaker 2: gold trim. Not every inch, though. There's way too much gold.
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  Speaker 2: When the next president comes in, he's going to have
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  Speaker 2: to take down those paintings. The gold is very expensive.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just gold paint. I mean, they bring in
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  Speaker 2: a real gold guy to put that gold up. It's
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  Speaker 2: a little too much gold. I mean, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: wear sunglasses when you're in there. So they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to take down some of that. But most of
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  Speaker 2: the improvements. He put in this heliport, which opened this weekend. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the networks ridiculed him and made fun of him.
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  Speaker 2: But it turns out there's good reason to put that
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  Speaker 2: heliport in at the White House. You know, the big,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a regular helicopter. It's an enormous helicopter. military helicopter,
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  Speaker 2: much bigger than a regular helicopter. So when you see
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  Speaker 2: it land on the grass, president walks down the South lawn,
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  Speaker 2: gets in the helicopter, takes off, and then it comes back,
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  Speaker 2: gets out of the helicopter, walks up the South one.
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  Speaker 2: It was just landing on the grass and it was ridiculous. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the president noticed, you probably never noticed this. It doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really just land on the grass. It has four big
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  Speaker 2: sets of tires. And they would put down these four
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  Speaker 2: metal plates, these big metal plates, huge metal plates. You
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  Speaker 2: don't really see them. They're in the grass. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why when it landed, it always landed slow and weird.
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  Speaker 2: It kind of jiggled a little because the pilot had
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  Speaker 2: to aim and hit those metal plates with the tires.
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  Speaker 2: Because if he hit the grass, he'd ruin the grass.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently the exhaust out of that helicopter would just
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  Speaker 2: burn up the grass all the time. It's ridiculous having
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  Speaker 2: to put these metal plates down. The pilot can't just
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  Speaker 2: do a regular landing. He has to come down real slow,
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  Speaker 2: jiggle around a little, and try to land on the
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  Speaker 2: metal plate. So it was crazy. So the president put
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  Speaker 2: in a heliport, state-of-the-art material. They made it a heliport
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  Speaker 2: that could handle like a billion tons or something. So
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  Speaker 2: it's beautiful. It's a brilliant addition. And then when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to grand events at the White House, world leader,
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  Speaker 2: the president of China is there. You're going to have
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  Speaker 2: a state dinner. That East Room of the White House
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  Speaker 2: was quite beautiful, but it only holds like a couple,
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  Speaker 2: 200 people or something. When it's the president of China
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  Speaker 2: or a major event, and you're going to have a
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  Speaker 2: thousand people, they had to go outside and do it
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  Speaker 2: in a tent on the grass. And it might be
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  Speaker 2: raining or in half the year in Washington, it's winter.
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  Speaker 2: So you're out in this tent, like you're at a
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  Speaker 2: bar mitzvah in Long Island in a tent in somebody's backyard.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy to bring a world leader there. And
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  Speaker 2: when he became president, he started traveling to big state
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  Speaker 2: dinners in other countries, in England. Remember, King Charles hosted him.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that room they were in? It was
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  Speaker 2: the most palatial room. It looked like the Palace of Versailles.
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  Speaker 2: It was unbelievable. President of France, they got these incredible
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  Speaker 2: palaces they hold their dinners in. And come here and
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  Speaker 2: you're in a tent on the backyard and the lawn.
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  Speaker 2: It was ridiculous. So we need a big ballroom that
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  Speaker 2: can do an event like that. And you're in luck
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  Speaker 2: when you need this ballroom. And a lot of presidents
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  Speaker 2: have talked about it. You're in luck. You've got a
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  Speaker 2: president who's a master builder. Let him build it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the problem is, and, of course, this will be part
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  Speaker 2: of his legacy. He would like to leave some kind
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  Speaker 2: of legacy. That ballroom that will be used forever would
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  Speaker 2: be the legacy. But he knew these Democrats are so angry,
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  Speaker 2: they get so nuts, that if a Democratic president comes in,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to tear down the ballroom. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: literally just tear it down. And put the East Wing
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  Speaker 2: back the way it was. And the Democrats would do that.
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  Speaker 2: So we find out now President Trump is out there
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  Speaker 2: a couple times a day supervising the building. And another
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  Speaker 2: reason he likes to do this, he really enjoys construction. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we all hate this. If you've got to redo your
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  Speaker 2: bathroom or you've got a leak and the wall's going
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  Speaker 2: to get torn up and they've got to redo your wall.
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  Speaker 2: It's a nightmare. But for him, and I've seen this
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  Speaker 2: with other builders, they love construction. It's fun. It's relaxing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some presidents would relax by Obama would play basketball.
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  Speaker 2: He'd go outside and shoot basket and he'd shoot hoops.
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  Speaker 2: And Eisenhower had a putting green put in. He'd go
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  Speaker 2: out and putt. That's relaxing for him. For Trump, it's construction.
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  Speaker 2: That's what relaxes him. So at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: he'd spend an hour with the construction. And he knows
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  Speaker 2: they're going to tear it down. So It turns out
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  Speaker 2: they're not using regular material for the ballroom. It turns out,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even know there was stuff like this. He's
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  Speaker 2: building the ballroom so it can't be torn down. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know there's such a thing as nuclear concrete. Nuclear concrete,
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  Speaker 2: you can't knock it down. It's used mostly in nuclear
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  Speaker 2: power plants. It can withstand a nuclear explosion. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how the hell They're going to tear it down.
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  Speaker 2: There's also a super powerful kind of steel that's welded
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  Speaker 2: together in a certain way. Apparently, it says you could
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  Speaker 2: take a jackhammer and stand there for two days jackhammering
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  Speaker 2: it and you wouldn't even make a mark. So he's
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  Speaker 2: building this with nuclear concrete and that special steel. It'd
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  Speaker 2: be impossible to take it down. It will not be. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the other reason he's doing this, of course, the bomb
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  Speaker 2: shelter for the White House will be under there. and
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  Speaker 2: it's going to have all kinds of special military stuff
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  Speaker 2: under the ballroom. So it's to protect that as well. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so it's about 400 million to build this. Now remember
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  Speaker 2: 400 million is nothing for a government. They'll waste 12
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  Speaker 2: billion without blinking on something. 400 million is pocket change. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: And again, it's going to be used forever. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of donors are paying for this, although a lot of
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  Speaker 2: donors don't want to pay for it because they're worried
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  Speaker 2: that when the Democrats get in, if they take over
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  Speaker 2: the House or the Senate, they'll hold hearings and go
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  Speaker 2: after the donors. So a lot of people are afraid
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  Speaker 2: to be on that list of donors for this. But
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  Speaker 2: the president loves it. Even his son saying he tells
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  Speaker 2: me sometimes like at 930 at night, he's going to
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  Speaker 2: go over and check on the ballroom construction. He really
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  Speaker 2: enjoys it. But it will be there forever. It's not
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  Speaker 2: going to come down. Hey, that awful little Megan and
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  Speaker 2: Prince Harry or whatever the hell he is. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if he's a prince anymore. They're back in England,
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  Speaker 2: and they're hoping to– they could get nothing going here
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  Speaker 2: in the United States. They tried. They got a Netflix deal,
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  Speaker 2: a Spotify deal, and everything bombed. Everything was a disaster.
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  Speaker 2: So for the last couple of years, they were two
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  Speaker 2: out-of-work idiots. They couldn't do their taxes this year because–
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't get through the first question where it said occupation.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't know what to put. They're back in England,
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  Speaker 2: figuring they'll get something going. They'll team up again with
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  Speaker 2: the royal family. They'll become a part of the royal family.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be royals. Well, it's not going to work. It
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  Speaker 2: turns out King Charles, now he could just ignore them
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  Speaker 2: and pay no attention to them, but he's really gone
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  Speaker 2: after them. King Charles issued a letter. A letter was
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  Speaker 2: sent out to everybody in the British government And, of course,
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  Speaker 2: leaked out to the press and sent out to everybody
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  Speaker 2: important from King Charles saying that they are not part
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  Speaker 2: of the royal family. They will not be working royals.
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  Speaker 2: They will do no official engagements. It says they cannot
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  Speaker 2: use their titles of his and her royal highness. And
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  Speaker 2: he says right in the letter, he really went out
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  Speaker 2: of his way to make this clear. He said they
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  Speaker 2: are private citizens with commercial and charitable interests. The message confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: They have an agreement still in effect that they are
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  Speaker 2: not working royals. Additionally, the letter ruled out the Sussexes
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  Speaker 2: taking a half-in, half-out status. In other words, the king
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  Speaker 2: making it clear they're not half-in, they're not half-out. They
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  Speaker 2: are nothing to do with the royal family. No connection.
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  Speaker 2: The letter added any charitable work they do is a
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  Speaker 2: personal matter. and to be undertaken in their private capacity.
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  Speaker 2: The letter apparently was also sent to Harry himself and
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  Speaker 2: to Meghan, to everybody in the UK government, military, and
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  Speaker 2: all the Lord Lieutenants. Now that's a real attempt to
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  Speaker 2: embarrass them, humiliate them, and shut them down. That's from
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  Speaker 2: King Charles himself. So expect them to hang around England
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  Speaker 2: for six months, maybe the whole school year, And then
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  Speaker 2: they'll try another country. They tried the U.S., nothing happening
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  Speaker 2: for them. They're back in England, nothing will happen there
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  Speaker 2: because the other thing with this letter, since it was
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  Speaker 2: made so public, it'll keep every business and broadcaster and
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  Speaker 2: every media person. It's like a notice, stay the hell
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  Speaker 2: away from these people. So they're going to get nothing
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  Speaker 2: going there and expect them to leave England at some point.
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  Speaker 2: So a total disaster for these two. Hey, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in New York, they got these right over there. They
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  Speaker 2: call that Billionaire's Row. These apartment buildings, there are 100 stories,
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  Speaker 2: 105 stories. I mean, there's a whole street of them.
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  Speaker 2: And the apartments go for like 100 million, 200 million.
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  Speaker 2: And over there, there's that one building where Ken Griffin
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  Speaker 2: bought an apartment, 230 million. They got apartments for 250 million.
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  Speaker 2: And people say, oh, my God, who would spend 200
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  Speaker 2: million for an apartment? That's insane. Well, that's a bargain, actually.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this. In Monaco, in Monte Carlo, apartments are
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  Speaker 2: even more, and they just opened, there's a new building
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  Speaker 2: in Monte Carlo, right on the water, right in the harbor, Meriterra,
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  Speaker 2: that's the hottest neighborhood in Monte Carlo, in Monaco. And
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  Speaker 2: it's only just going up now, but the apartments in
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  Speaker 2: this building are going for up to, 550 million 550
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  Speaker 2: million for an apartment they're going to be 130 apartments
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  Speaker 2: and you're saying this is insane who would i'll never
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  Speaker 2: get a solid apartment 550 million almost every apartment in
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  Speaker 2: a building is already taken it's not even built yet
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  Speaker 2: uh you have to put down a deposit of uh
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  Speaker 2: i think it's uh 500 000 euros well it's not
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  Speaker 2: a bad deposit 600 000 uh Oh, wait, wait, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not for the apartment. But there's a billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: worth of yachts right in the harbor in front of
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  Speaker 2: the building. So 550 million, that works out to 13,000
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  Speaker 2: a square foot. I think that's the all-time world record. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that's for an apartment there. Now, one reason a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people go to Monaco is to become a citizen.
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  Speaker 2: It's not easy. It's like a very exclusive private club.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be, like, voted in. It's like getting
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  Speaker 2: into a co-op. They have to let you become a citizen.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you're a citizen, there's no taxes. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people love this. If you're an actual resident, you
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  Speaker 2: don't pay any taxes. You have to put down a
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  Speaker 2: $ 600, 000 deposit just to become a citizen. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: the safest places on earth in Monaco. There's one police
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  Speaker 2: officer for every 70 residents. And they were the first
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  Speaker 2: place to have cameras everywhere. There's not an inch of
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  Speaker 2: Monaco that's not on camera. So it cuts down on
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  Speaker 2: the crime. But this new apartment building, it was the
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  Speaker 2: idea came from Prince Albert. He wanted to do it.
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  Speaker 2: He got some realtors to do it. Things tend to
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  Speaker 2: die in Monte Carlo. Every few years, it starts to
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  Speaker 2: die out. At one time, it was dying completely. Onassis
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  Speaker 2: was in charge then. So he said to Prince Rainier,
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  Speaker 2: you got to marry a movie star. And that's when
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  Speaker 2: they got Princess Grace over there. And he married her.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the latest scheme. Most expensive apartments in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is
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  Speaker 2: let's take some calls. Let's go to Frank in Phoenix. Frank,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing? Frank?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Can you back in, please?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Frank, what's the temperature in Phoenix right now? I
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  Speaker 2: I actually know it was like 100 yesterday. 100 in Phoenix.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Hal in Freeport. Hal, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, these big, noisy computers, what do they call those factories?
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  Speaker 2: You mean the data centers? Yeah, put them on the
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  Speaker 2: old ferry, the Staten Island ferries.
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  Speaker 1: Put them on there, bring them out 10 miles, anchor
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  Speaker 1: them off.
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  Speaker 2: You don't really have to do that. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: can just put them in remote areas. They don't make
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  Speaker 2: as much noise as an airport does. An airport makes
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  Speaker 2: even more noise. And an airport, you've got LaGuardia right
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of a residential area. You've got Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of a residential area. You just put
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  Speaker 2: them out somewhere. The noise is from the turbines, the
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  Speaker 2: cooling systems. And the noise can travel pretty much half
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  Speaker 2: a mile. And it can faintly be heard a mile away.
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  Speaker 2: The problem with those turbines, it's not just noise. It's
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  Speaker 2: like a hum, like a vibrating kind of noise, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like a train rattling going by. But they're basically just
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  Speaker 2: enormous buildings with computers in them. They create lots of jobs.
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  Speaker 2: They power all your AI phones, data, everything. But they're
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: just noisy. Who's going to put them in remote areas?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Frank is back. Frank in Phoenix, how are you doing?
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, can you hear me, Mark?
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Now you sound good.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Okay, Mark, back in July, the steel beam came through Scottsdale,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: and I went down there. About 2.30, they were supposed
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: to start the proceeding, but it was 110.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: You're talking about, you mean the 9-11 steel beam?
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And I was getting
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: ready to leave, and the guy says, go in the museum.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: So I wore one of these two massive trailers, and
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: it was beautiful. There were six guys in there. Five
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: of them were retired firemen from New York. I got
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: to talk to all of them. The one guy told
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: me that he was supposed to work that day, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: one of his guys called in and asked him if
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: he would switch days. He goes, he saved my life. Now, Mark,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: here's another thing.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: A lot of those stories. Go ahead.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Mark, I have been saying for years, why hasn't Christy
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Todd Whitman been called out? Now they find these documents
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: saying that they knew the air was poisoned. And I
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: was wondering if Congress was going to call her up
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: and say, listen, you knew it. What did you do?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know what she knows. I'd rather have him
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: go after Fauci. You know, one thing about her.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I agree.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: She's just a politician. She was just a politician towing
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: the line there, whatever the party line was. In the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: case of Fauci, he claimed he was a doctor. He
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: claimed he was a scientist. For him to lie about
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: all that stuff was just really, really, really awful. Let's
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing? Vincent,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: are you there? Hello?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Nope.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Call us back. Not your fault. We got these phones there.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: They're not regular phones. They're digital. That's why sometimes it
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: speeds up the voice. Call us back. Let's go to Steve,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Port Morris. Where's that, in the Bronx? Port Morris?
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Good for you. Southern part of the Bronx, facing LaGuardia Airport.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Ah, there you go. More noise than a data center.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Old manufacturing area, nice working class area.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Now, we used to have a factory here. Yeah, very nice.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: And also, you got a lot of lofts and stuff there.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of artists who work out of there now.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, increasingly.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: The developers are trying to make it into Williamsburg. I
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: don't think it's going to work because... I'm sorry. It's
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: going to work. You're going to be overrun with those,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: what you used to call the yuppies. They're going to
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: be all over the place. Sorry, you're going to have
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: a Starbucks everywhere. Oh, he cut out. He said, look
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: at that. He cut out, too. Something's wrong with our
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: phones today. We'll see if we can... Get it fixed
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: by next hour. Hey, when we come back, Michael Goodwin
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: will be with us, the greatest columnist in America. We'll
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: talk to Michael Goodwin coming up next on 710WOR. Live
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: from the WOR LifeVac studios. Well, Michael Goodwin, the finest
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: columnist in America. You can read him every Sunday, every
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Wednesday in the New York Post. If you go to
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: the New York Post website, all of his columns are
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: up there. Michael Goodwin, how are you doing?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, Mamdani wants to go to the 9-11 ceremony. He
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: hands the pen that he signed the thing with to
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the terrorist lawyer. What is he up to? Is this
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: guy plotting something?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I think he's up to what exactly we think
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: he's up to, which is changing everything about New York.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: And 9-11, of course, is kind of a sanctified event
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and has been. And, of course, his presence is potentially disrupted,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: but it's very hurtful for many of those people who
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: did lose relatives and friends on 9-11. Because Mamdani, his
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: positions on terrorism and these things are not entirely clear.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: He has left lots of room for doubt and suspicions
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: about his true feelings and about his deepest allegiance.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: So, but the thing with the pen, he was signing
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: a bill to fight terrorism. By handing the pen to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: the terrorist lawyer, who was like 26 people down, was
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that a signal to his base, don't worry, I'm not
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: really into this fight against terrorism?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: You know, Mark, that's a very good way to look
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: at it. It does, I think, legitimately raise a question
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: about his motive in doing that. I mean, it was
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a very awkward gesture that he did. People, I should say,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: had to be passed along a line So why that lawyer?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: He never explained that. And that's the sort of thing
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: about him that undercuts any desire he might or might
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: not have to sort of reconcile with all those people
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: who don't trust him. Virtually everything he does simply adds
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to the distrust. He doesn't seem, when he talks, my feeling, Mark,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: When he talks, he's always talking to his committed base.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: He's never talking to anybody who isn't with him. He's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: never reaching out to talk to people who don't already
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: agree with him on virtually everything. That is not how
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you build a city, an administration.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: And here we are.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Well into his term, and yet he's still is campaigning
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: virtually every day.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this anti-Semitism in the democratic world, was it always
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: there and we didn't notice? Or why is it all
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: of a sudden going crazy?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I think there was clearly a latent seed of it,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: but it goes back many years, I think, because when
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I was sort of coming of age in New York
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and And with the world news, the Democrats were the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: party that favored Israel. They were always the most supportive,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and there were always many more Jewish Americans in the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party than the Republican Party. But the Democrats have been,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: let's say, taken over, hijacked by the Mandani wing, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and that many of it is foreign-born, that many of
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: it sort of come to America but don't appreciate America.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you think about Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: what did she say? Some people did something on 9-11, right?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Some people did something. That, I think, is an un-American
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: statement because those of us who were here It wasn't
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: some people did something. It was something evil that was
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: done to New York.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: We're talking about Michael Goodwin. But this anti-Semitism, and then
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: you wrote about the Met Gala where this awful Anna
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Wintour picks as the honoree the most vile anti-Semite who's
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: been convicted of hate crimes against Jews. What was she
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: thinking picking this guy? Or does it just tell us
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: who she really is?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a good question, Mark. It seems to me
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: that there were ample warnings to her. Some unhappy parts
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: of the inner circle of the Met Museum, some of
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the board members. So how she ran through all the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: red lights is kind of amazing. And how the Met
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: itself didn't say, no, no, no, no, no, this is
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: not going to work. So, look, you can be so
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: cosseted by wealth, by sort of layers of people between
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: you and ordinary people that you become immune to what
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: is obvious to most people. I think that's what happened here.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I don't describe it to any kind of villainy, just
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: out of touch, totally out of touch by choice.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: But this guy, this designer she picked, it's not like
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: he was caught hanging out with Hasan Piker. He was
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: caught on video screaming at Jews, Hitler was right, you
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: should be gassed. He was convicted of a hate crime.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: How did the board of the Met, how did they
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: even allow this to go ahead?
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the inner workings of the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Met are something of a mystery to most of us, right?
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's an elite establishment institution. And that system
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: failed the Met. It did not produce the right result.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: That this was even announced is the greatest example of failure.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: You know, if she were up, if Anna Wintour or
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the Met were a politician, the campaign would.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Be over now. Well, unless she ran as a Democrat.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: That's a good one, yeah.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin's every Sunday and every Wednesday, the New York Post.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: What are you thinking about for tomorrow?
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Well, 9-11, of course, coming up, the 25th anniversary. You know, Mark,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: September 11th is my birthday. And I've often said, you know,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: since I don't celebrate them, I don't count them. So
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I may need to listen now. Wow.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: And obviously, Mamdani says he's going. Obviously, the family will
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: turn their back on him. And you think that's going
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: to be all? Or is he going to pull something there?
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Is he going to try something there, say something? What
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: do you think?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I think the release of his order today on
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the records, the health records, is something that I think
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: sets him apart. from the previous mayors. And it may
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: be a thing. We'll see how it plays out. But
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: it may be something that gives him a place of
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: support among some family members because this health issue, you know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the events of Ground Zero, the neighborhood people got sick,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: and there has been a long clamoring For all of
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the documents, what did the city know and when did
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: it know it? What does the state know? What did
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: the feds know? And so we will see if there
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: is some uh, movement of public opinion, uh, as a
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: result of his order to set up this portal so
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: that the public can see the documents for themselves. Now
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: are the smoking gun documents. I have no way of
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: knowing people. Some people believe there are such things, but, uh,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I wonder because the core event of 9-11 is a
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: terrorist attack on New York City and America. To say
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: what happened afterwards is somehow the core, I think, is
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: wishful thinking on the Mondani team's part.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll be reading the column tomorrow. You can read
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin's column every Sunday. Every Wednesday in the New
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: York Post. And if you missed any, all his columns
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: are up on the New York Post website. Michael Goodwin,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: great as always. Thanks for being with us.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: My pleasure, Mark. Thank you.
• 30:39
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• 30:43
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• 30:49
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• 31:03
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• 31:29
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• 31:34
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• 31:39
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• 32:00
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• 32:07
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• 32:10
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• 32:13
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• 32:17
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• 32:21
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• 32:23
  Speaker 2: into certain supermarkets or wherever. I did it yesterday, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: there's a big display in the front of pumpkins. Every
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: coffee place, pumpkin spice, pumpkin, enough with this pumpkin stuff.
• 32:37
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• 32:40
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• 32:44
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• 32:50
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• 32:54
  Speaker 2: We have a lot of listeners in Florida. Once it
• 32:58
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• 33:01
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• 33:04
  Speaker 2: If you go to Palm Beach or anywhere in Florida
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: right now, it's very nice. You can drive around, go
• 33:10
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• 33:14
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• 33:16
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• 33:22
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• 33:25
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• 33:28
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• 33:32
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