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Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment, NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Mark Simone here, Welcome to the podcast bonus segment.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a podcast listener, we give you an extra
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  Speaker 1: show every day and a bonus segment. Now. Hey, On Friday,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking to Miranda Divine and the word was this
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  Speaker 1: week that Hunter Biden has fled. He has left the country.
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  Speaker 1: He's accumulated massive legal bills seventeen thousand dollars. Although it's interesting,
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  Speaker 1: Miranda said, she's not so sure he's out of the country.
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  Speaker 1: He may just be trying to lawyer said that in court,
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  Speaker 1: might just be trying to, you know, avoid those legal bills.
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  Speaker 1: You remember when he got all that legal trouble. He
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  Speaker 1: hired the famous DC attorney Abby Lowell. It's a guy,
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  Speaker 1: Abbi Lowell, who defended him. I was going to say successfully,
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  Speaker 1: but remember he got a pardon. So but Abby Lowell,
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  Speaker 1: it was, you know, the Hunter Biden case. His name
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  Speaker 1: was all over the news. You have figure, you figure
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  Speaker 1: he give him like a decent price on that. But
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  Speaker 1: I apparently when you Abby Lowell, even though it's a
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  Speaker 1: high profile case that'll bring him a lot of business,
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  Speaker 1: he still sends you a full bill. But maybe because
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  Speaker 1: it's Hunter Biden, he's not doing charity work there. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is Hunter Biden trashed President Trump, who
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  Speaker 1: said that before he leaves he might give clemency and
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  Speaker 1: pardons to his family and all. So Hunter Biden said,
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  Speaker 1: that's disgusting, that's awful. Everybody had to point out to him,
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, your father's president gave you a pardon.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the hypocrisy democrats are famous for. But
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  Speaker 1: all Hunter could say was, well, I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: founders ever imagined Donald Trump. I don't think they ever
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  Speaker 1: imagined the Trump family. Actually, the kind of did it
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  Speaker 1: is kind of what they had in mind. If you
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  Speaker 1: go back and read the writings of the founding fathers,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't imagine Joe Biden's They didn't imagine professional career
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  Speaker 1: politicians who stay in Congress for a thousand years and
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  Speaker 1: never leave office. They did not envision a guy twenty
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  Speaker 1: five years old going into government and spending the rest
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  Speaker 1: of his life being an elected office. They actually pictured,
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  Speaker 1: and they write about it, a Donald Trump, a citizen
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  Speaker 1: citizen legislators. They always thought that was what would work.
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  Speaker 1: Private citizen, private sector, goes into government, goes into Congress
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  Speaker 1: for a few years, and then returns to the private saye,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they envisioned. That was the idea. Hey, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like that. I don't know about this. Now Nassau County,
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  Speaker 1: which is run by Bruce Blakeman, the greatest county executive America,
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  Speaker 1: although this is not him. This is the county legislature,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the legislation legislators. They want to put a
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  Speaker 1: ban on hourly motel rates. Now, you know, all over
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  Speaker 1: the suburbs, they got these motels. They got you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you go out to Nassau County, beautiful hotels. You
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  Speaker 1: got the Garden City Hotel, you got the Fox holow In,
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  Speaker 1: you got magnificent hotels. But then you got these hotel motels.
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  Speaker 1: And if you go to connect Get there's a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of them. And if you go to New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: and west Chester and they got a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: hotel motels and you can rent the room for a
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  Speaker 1: couple hours in the middle of the day, well as
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  Speaker 1: you can imagine. So Nasaal County wants to ban that,
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  Speaker 1: no booking under eight hours. They also want to force
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  Speaker 1: all hotels to document not just the people checking in,
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  Speaker 1: but any guests. They want to document their names, addresses,
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  Speaker 1: keep copies of their photo IDs for five years. Businesses
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  Speaker 1: would also be forced to preserve all security footage for
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  Speaker 1: at least ninety days. And the reason they want to
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  Speaker 1: do this is to avoid human trafficking. Okay, that's good now.
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  Speaker 1: The only problem with this. All of these hotel motels
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  Speaker 1: out in the suburbs are used constantly by the suburban
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  Speaker 1: housewives and they're whoever they're with. This goes on all
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  Speaker 1: the time. I don't want to mention any names or hotels,
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  Speaker 1: but there's certain hotels out in the suburbs where a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these women are cheating with the tennis pro,
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  Speaker 1: the trainer from the gym, and a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: husbands are cheating with the nanny. This kind of it's
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  Speaker 1: going on all the time in the suburbs, and there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of these hotels. I've seen it myself,
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  Speaker 1: where you know, the parking lot is full in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the day, then you come back at night,
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  Speaker 1: parking lot not full any We're kind of empty. I
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  Speaker 1: had that happen once with a big hotel in the suburbs.
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  Speaker 1: I called about a room for somebody and they said
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  Speaker 1: were completely booked, and the guy said, call back at
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  Speaker 1: five o'clock. I said, why would I call back if
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  Speaker 1: you're completely booked. He said, just call back at five o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Shut up at five o'clock. There are plenty of rooms.
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  Speaker 1: So it's going to screw up that stuff. For all
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  Speaker 1: these board housewives out there in the suburbs. You know
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  Speaker 1: they have that big MET Gala every year. That's quite
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  Speaker 1: an event. Used to be quite a classy event. You
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  Speaker 1: go back to the nineties, the Met Gala was the
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  Speaker 1: major figures of New York society. But that all kind
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  Speaker 1: of ended. In fact, most of them in the last
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  Speaker 1: ten fifteen years, it's a whole different Met Gala. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know, a hip hop, rap Kardashian kind of Instagram
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  Speaker 1: kind of crowd. But they were able to up the prices.
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  Speaker 1: You can really exploit those people for a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: But it became still a big deal, and for politicians
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  Speaker 1: like AOC and all, that was a place to be
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  Speaker 1: build a Blasio. Although it looks like mom Donnie will
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  Speaker 1: skip the met Gala, that's unusual for a mayor. That's
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  Speaker 1: breaking a big New York traditional mayor has always been there.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming up soon. It's Monday, may fourth. He's kind
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  Speaker 1: of made a clear he's not coming, and people around
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  Speaker 1: him say it would be foolish if he did. It
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  Speaker 1: goes against everything he believes in. You know, they went
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  Speaker 1: crazy with the prices. It's like one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: a ticket, five hundred thousand for a table. It's all billionaires.
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  Speaker 1: You know, guess who the sponsor is of the met
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  Speaker 1: Gala this year. Jeff Bezos, you know, the third richest
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  Speaker 1: man in the world. So that's Mom Donnie going to
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're the mayor, you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: say a lot of it's not gonna work. If you're
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  Speaker 1: a good mayor, you'd want to know all these billionaires.
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  Speaker 1: Bezos would be a very important guy for a mayor
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  Speaker 1: to get chummy with because he could bring in a
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  Speaker 1: ton of business between Amazon and Whole Foods, and you'd
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  Speaker 1: want this guy opening up stuff all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: The theme this year is costume Art. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the hell that means. Host Committee, Beyance, Nicole Kidman,
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  Speaker 1: Venus Williams, Anna Wintower. Yeah, all right, we'll see. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of Amazon, you know, Amazon MGM combined to do the
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  Speaker 1: Milania documentary Senator Elizabeth Warren now accusing Amazon and MGM
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  Speaker 1: Studios of bribery in plain sight for investing in the
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  Speaker 1: Milania documentary. She got a few million for it, and
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  Speaker 1: she wants Congress to investigate. She wants Amazon to come
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  Speaker 1: before Congress and explain what the hell this money was
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  Speaker 1: for and why it wasn't a bribe. She was joined
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  Speaker 1: in her demands by a Democrat from Georgia, Representative Hank Johnson, who,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is one of the dumbest guys in
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  Speaker 1: the world, an incredibly stupid guy. Remember, and there was
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  Speaker 1: a Senate hearing about putting a military base on Guam.
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  Speaker 1: He's the guy that actually asks, seriously asked these experts,
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  Speaker 1: if you put too many people on Gwam, wouldn't it
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  Speaker 1: tip over? He actually said that. So they want to
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  Speaker 1: investigate this. Now. The only problem with investigating all of
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  Speaker 1: this is the Michelle Obama documentary might come out. I
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  Speaker 1: think Mlani got like a couple of million, whereas Michelle
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  Speaker 1: Obama got like fifty million from Netflix. You talk about
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  Speaker 1: a bribe, and yeah, it's a lot better sometimes to
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  Speaker 1: bribe the ex president x first lady. They can make
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  Speaker 1: a lot of phone calls on your Behalf, and there's
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  Speaker 1: this big documentary on SNL Saturday Night Live Lauren Michaels.
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  Speaker 1: He's been the producer now the full time fifty two years.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got to be the longest running producer
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  Speaker 1: in history. The longest running television show in history is
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  Speaker 1: Meet the Press, which is it's something like seventy eight years.
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  Speaker 1: But that's of course, I had a million hosts and
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  Speaker 1: a million different producers. But Lauren Michael's fifty two years
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  Speaker 1: producing the same show got to be a record. He's
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  Speaker 1: almost eighty. In the documentary, he said he's not stepping down,
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  Speaker 1: no thought of leaving NBC. If he stepped down, who
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  Speaker 1: would they get. Well, they said maybe Tina Fey could
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  Speaker 1: be the producer. Pretty good at that, even Seth Myers,
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  Speaker 1: he's terrible at it. But the truth is most network
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  Speaker 1: TV experts said if he ever did step down, it'd
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  Speaker 1: be the end of Saturday Night Live because it's just
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  Speaker 1: too expensive. It doesn't get a lot of viewers. Same
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  Speaker 1: thing with Colbert, it was too expensive. Colbert's got low ratings.
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  Speaker 1: The Tonight show used to be eighteen million, Colbert's getting
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  Speaker 1: one million. Not worth the expense. Same thing with SNL.
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  Speaker 1: You taught him about a live show. It costs a
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  Speaker 1: fortune to do a live show. It's the biggest TV
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  Speaker 1: studio at NBC. There's like twenty five different sets. It
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  Speaker 1: requires an enormous crew, live studio audience. It means a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ushers and you got to bring you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred people in and out. It's very expensive.
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  Speaker 1: So once he leaves, you won't see anymore SNL. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be the end of it. You know, they're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the longest flight ever. Now, how do you do that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have a much bigger plane, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a new fleet of air buses come out with these
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  Speaker 1: A three fifties. It's the biggest jet. It's so big
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  Speaker 1: that they can put into it an enormous fuel tank.
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  Speaker 1: One reason you can only fly like nineteen hours. There's
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  Speaker 1: fourteen hours you just run out of fuel. This plane
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  Speaker 1: is so big it can fly for twenty two hours
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  Speaker 1: on one tank of gas. Now, this has never happened before.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll be able to fly from Australia to London
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  Speaker 1: non stop twenty two hour flights. Now, does anybody really
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  Speaker 1: want this? You kind of want after twelve hours to
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  Speaker 1: land somewhere, get out and walk around, get some air,
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  Speaker 1: but twenty two hours on a plane. So this is
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  Speaker 1: made possible by this big, big, huge plane can have
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  Speaker 1: an extra six thousand callons of gas and unbelievable, it'll
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  Speaker 1: have two hundred and thirty eight passengers, It'll have six
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  Speaker 1: sumptuous first class suites, fifty two business class suites, forty
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  Speaker 1: premium economy seats. Again, twenty two hours on one plane.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Hey, seven eleven they're going to change
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  Speaker 1: the whole concept. Seven eleven was a place where you
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  Speaker 1: ran into to get a pack of cigarettes, a slurpy
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  Speaker 1: slim gym. It was just a quick convenience store. They
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  Speaker 1: want to change the whole concept. They're going to close
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  Speaker 1: six hundred stores this year. Apparently that business that they
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  Speaker 1: have is kind of slipping, so they want to redo
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  Speaker 1: it as a serious, more not fancy, but real food
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  Speaker 1: place where you can really sit down at the table
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  Speaker 1: and order and eat, kind of like ah wah or
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  Speaker 1: those kind of places. So they confirmed it will close
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  Speaker 1: almost six hundred and fifty locations and overhaul what's remaining.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess they'll save the ones that are nice
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  Speaker 1: and big and they're going to go more food forward,
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  Speaker 1: leaning heavily into prepared meals. And this is the other
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  Speaker 1: reason is people running into a convenience store business is slipping.
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  Speaker 1: Is that people don't smoke as much. Cigarette sales are
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  Speaker 1: way down. Younger generations aren't drinking as much, so they
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  Speaker 1: don't run in to grab a six pack of beer.
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  Speaker 1: But they say the cigarettes and the beer and all
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  Speaker 1: that that was the backbone of their business. It's plunged
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  Speaker 1: twenty six percent. So they're now thinking they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to go seriously into food. It'll be interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see if they can, if they can pull it off. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what's the biggest new sport? What's the biggest new sport
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  Speaker 1: for people to play? Yeah, see you said pickleball, Well
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  Speaker 1: that has been the biggest new sport. Pickleball's very big,
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  Speaker 1: But there's something brand new. Pickleball's huge. But the next
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  Speaker 1: one coming Padel Paddle Padel. I don't know how you
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  Speaker 1: say it. It's a racquet based game. It combines squash
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  Speaker 1: and tennis. The first Padel club has opened in Siosid.
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  Speaker 1: It opened this past week. It's called Padel and you
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  Speaker 1: know the and symbol. It's played two on two on
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  Speaker 1: a turf based court. It's about one third the size
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  Speaker 1: of a tennis court and closed by glass walls. Apparently
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  Speaker 1: the sport was invented in Mexico became very popular in Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: They think this will be the next thing to take off.
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  Speaker 1: The reason they have the and sign padel and is
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  Speaker 1: they want to make the club more than just the game.
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  Speaker 1: They want to make it kind of a community. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is actually smart because you have the courts and
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  Speaker 1: the game, but then you have a cafe, you have
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant, you have this and I have that. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to have community nights because most of this pickleball,
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of older people, so you make it
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  Speaker 1: into kind of a senior center at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: So look for this Pa d e l how do
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  Speaker 1: you say Padel Paddell something like that. Look for that
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  Speaker 1: to be the new big sport starting in siast. So
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  Speaker 1: the next thing, you know, this is what all the
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  Speaker 1: old ladies will be going crazy to play. Hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: you get the podcast as you know, you can listen
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  Speaker 1: anytime you want. Have a great weekend. Mark Simone here.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.