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Hour 2: New pipelines are being built. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mr. New York.
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  Speaker 2: It's Mark Simone on WOR.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what's hour number two? That's right. If you just
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  Speaker 3: joined us, you missed the first hour. It's three hours
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  Speaker 3: every day. If somebody still doesn't know that, three hours
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  Speaker 3: every day. We start at 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: It's 9 a.m. till noon every day. A lot to
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  Speaker 3: get to. We'll get to SNL. We'll get to AOC.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to AI. And we'll get to Crazy Mom
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  Speaker 3: Donnie and a whole lot more coming up. So, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned this before. The White House briefing room is
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  Speaker 3: where the press secretary comes out and they got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of seats there. It's like a theater seating. And
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  Speaker 3: every day they have the briefing and this is where
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  Speaker 3: the press gets to ask all these questions. And the president,
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  Speaker 3: now we don't know if this is a real plan
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  Speaker 3: or he's just taunting people. Sometimes he does this just to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like a mischievous kid in the zoo. throw
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  Speaker 3: something at the cage just to rile up the tiger
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  Speaker 3: in there. So we don't know if this is what
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  Speaker 3: this is all about, but he's talking about tearing out
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  Speaker 3: the briefing room. The briefing room is where the White
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  Speaker 3: House pool used to be. They had a big swimming
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  Speaker 3: pool in the White House, and they covered it over
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  Speaker 3: and built the press briefing room. Now, you say, well,
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  Speaker 3: you have to have a briefing room. You have to
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  Speaker 3: have a press briefing every day. Yeah, normally that's the case,
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  Speaker 3: especially with Joe Biden, because nobody ever got to talk
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  Speaker 3: to him or see him. So every day, that's the
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  Speaker 3: only place you could ask questions. You could find out
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  Speaker 3: what was going on with the president. You could go
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  Speaker 3: to the daily briefing. It's usually about one o'clock and
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  Speaker 3: then you could talk to, you could ask any question
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  Speaker 3: to the press secretary. So it's a very vital thing,
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  Speaker 3: these press conferences. But with President Trump, you really don't
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  Speaker 3: need it because he talks to the press himself all
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  Speaker 3: day long. Every five minutes, he's holding his own briefing.
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  Speaker 3: So if you got any questions, Even when he's meeting
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  Speaker 3: with a big world leader in the Oval Office, he
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  Speaker 3: lets all the press come in. Even the cabinet meetings,
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  Speaker 3: he lets all the press come in. So, he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: need the briefing room. But when he leaves, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to get another president who might not like that. They
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  Speaker 3: might go back to the old system where they never
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  Speaker 3: talked to the press, except once in a while, just
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  Speaker 3: once in a while, the press comes. So, he wants to...
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  Speaker 3: Get rid of the briefing room, tear the floor back up,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a pool under there. And he wants to
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  Speaker 3: build the pool. If you go to his Truth Social,
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  Speaker 3: he's put up a picture for what he wants to build.
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  Speaker 3: And you say, that's great. Swimming pool. Oh, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: But look at this pool. The pool looks great, but
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  Speaker 3: the walls have these arches with the gold all over it,
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  Speaker 3: the ceiling. You know, he's got this thing with gold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Normally, he's very stylish when it comes to, I mean, dressing.
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  Speaker 3: It's a conservative businessman dressing. His plane is helicopter conservative,
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  Speaker 3: black with white letters. But when it comes to a room,
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  Speaker 3: he's like Liberace all of a sudden. Look at this
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  Speaker 3: gold everywhere. It's very ornate, but, you know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: swimming pool. You want to just swim. And have you
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  Speaker 3: ever seen the Ritz in Paris? The Ritz, not the
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  Speaker 3: Ritz Carlton, the Ritz Hotel in Paris, they got a
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  Speaker 3: swimming pool that looks like this. The problem is it
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  Speaker 3: looks like you're swimming in the middle of a ballroom.
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  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. It's not a good swimming. Yeah, it's all
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  Speaker 3: gold and very formal. A good swimming pool shouldn't look
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  Speaker 3: like that. So I don't know if he wants to
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  Speaker 3: really build this. He's never, I don't think he's ever
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  Speaker 3: gone swimming in his life, Donald Trump. So it's not
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  Speaker 3: for him. It could just be to just taunt the
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  Speaker 3: media with the press ban. You know, even the press ban,
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  Speaker 3: he knows at some point, somehow, you're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to let them back in just to taunt them, just
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  Speaker 3: to rile them all up. The war in Iran, this
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  Speaker 3: will be used as a big midterm issue. You know,
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  Speaker 3: if you were watching all the left-wing commentators, watching that,
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  Speaker 3: ever watch that Robert Moses on Channel 5? Very left-wing biased,
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  Speaker 3: so he said. As the war drags on for seven
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  Speaker 3: months now, he altered the program. Seven months of the war,
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  Speaker 3: the seven-month war. We're now in the seventh month of
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  Speaker 3: the war. He forgets to mention the war was actually
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  Speaker 3: 12 days. It's not a real conventional war. It's a
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  Speaker 3: strange sort of a war. Massive bombing for two days,
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  Speaker 3: and then we take a month off. Then there might
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  Speaker 3: be 20 minutes of bombing, and then we take a
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  Speaker 3: month off. So It's seven months, but the war has
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  Speaker 3: actually only been 12 days. We're not in Iran. We're
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  Speaker 3: not on the ground in Iran. We're not even firing
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  Speaker 3: a shot for weeks on end. You know, Vietnam, every
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  Speaker 3: day they're sloshing through the jungle. Iraq, every day they're
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  Speaker 3: fighting in the desert, in the streets. You know, nobody
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  Speaker 3: would have minded Vietnam if we bombed for a day
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  Speaker 3: or two and then said, yeah, we're taking the month off.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see you in November. It wouldn't have been so bad,
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  Speaker 3: but this is... Big election issue. The president on Iran.
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  Speaker 3: What they want to do is.
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  Speaker 5: Immediately open the Hormuz Strait.
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  Speaker 3: You know why?
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  Speaker 1: Because they're dying.
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  Speaker 3: You know why they're dying? Because they have no money
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  Speaker 3: coming in. Yeah, the only thing that really affects the
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  Speaker 3: Strait of Hormuz being closed. And that happens in every war.
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  Speaker 3: It happened in the tanker wars years ago. It happened
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  Speaker 3: in the Iraq war. They closed the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 3: Although it's not totally closed. It's half open and has
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  Speaker 3: been for most of the time. It's been half open.
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  Speaker 3: First month, it was entirely closed, but it's half open.
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  Speaker 3: The southern route, which goes along Oman, is open. Tankers
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  Speaker 3: are moving through there every day. We've been moving about
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  Speaker 3: 7 million barrels of oil a day through the Strait
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  Speaker 3: of Hormuz. Normal, before the war, would have been 20 million,
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  Speaker 3: but there's still some oil coming through there. Also remember,
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  Speaker 3: it's been a few months now, probably in a year
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  Speaker 3: and about seven, eight months, there will be no more
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  Speaker 3: need for the Strait of Hormuz. All those countries, Gulf countries,
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  Speaker 3: have decided they don't want to ever depend on the
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  Speaker 3: Strait of Hormuz again. So as we speak, they're building
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  Speaker 3: pipelines to take all the oil other ways, to take
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  Speaker 3: it to other ports and won't need the Strait of
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  Speaker 3: Hormuz anymore. Within just, let's say, two years, within two years,
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  Speaker 3: we'll never need the Strait of Hormuz again for anything.
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  Speaker 3: And again, we don't get any oil from the Strait
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  Speaker 3: of Hormuz. We produce all our own oil now here
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  Speaker 3: in America. The president, when he came in, opened up
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  Speaker 3: drilling everywhere. We not only produce all our own oil,
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  Speaker 3: we produce twice as much oil as we could ever need.
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  Speaker 3: And so we export oil all over the world. We're
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  Speaker 3: the biggest exporter in the world right now. Now, one
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  Speaker 3: of the problems, well, why is diesel up? Well, that's
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  Speaker 3: the Ukraine war. Zelensky has been hitting the diesel refineries
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  Speaker 3: in Russia, hurting the diesel supply. That's one reason. The
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  Speaker 3: other reason, we don't have enough refineries. As they opened
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  Speaker 3: up the drilling so that we produce massive amounts of oil.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have the refineries to process all that oil.
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  Speaker 3: Refinery starting decades ago started to get treated like nuclear plants.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody wanted one. They can't open them. They blocked them all.
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  Speaker 3: So the last time we opened a refinery was the 1970s.
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  Speaker 3: So we got to increase that refinery capacity. Once the
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  Speaker 3: war ends, though, once the war ends, you'll see the
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  Speaker 3: price come tumbling down.
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  Speaker 1: They get.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, actually, and that's the other point. Iran is totally
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  Speaker 3: dependent on the Strait of Hormuz for their economy. That's
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  Speaker 3: all their revenue, Strait of Hormuz. So with it closed
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  Speaker 3: for seven months now, they've had no revenue for seven months.
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  Speaker 1: They get their.
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  Speaker 5: Money from the Hormuz Strait.
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  Speaker 3: So they outsmarted themselves.
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  Speaker 5: They said, let's close it and cause a problem for
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  Speaker 5: the world.
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  Speaker 1: And then I came along and we.
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  Speaker 5: Put up the greatest blockade ever in military history. It's
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  Speaker 5: a wall of steel.
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  Speaker 3: Well, actually it is, and that's why they're able to
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  Speaker 3: use the southern, what they call the southern route, the
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  Speaker 3: half that's along the Oman coast. We've also gotten rid
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  Speaker 3: of all the mines. They're all gone now. So let
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  Speaker 3: me get this name right. Jalen Brunson. I'm not a
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  Speaker 3: basketball fan. I never saw a basketball game in my
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  Speaker 3: life until these Knicks playoffs. Jalen Brunson, guest host of
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  Speaker 3: Saturday Night Live. Now, they say the way to know
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  Speaker 3: if you're getting old, if you're getting old when you
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  Speaker 3: no longer know who these musical guests are on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: Night Live. You know, it used to be, who's the
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  Speaker 3: musical guest? It used to be Elton John. Oh, Paul McCartney.
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  Speaker 3: Now you see musical guests, you don't know who the
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  Speaker 3: hell they are. They say you're getting really old when
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  Speaker 3: you don't know who the hosts are. And be honest,
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  Speaker 3: half the time, whoever the host of Saturday Night Live is,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know who.
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  Speaker 5: The hell it is.
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  Speaker 3: Jason Brunson, and he did a very good job hosting SNL.
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  Speaker 3: This was a big deal. And it was pretty funny.
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  Speaker 3: Great to be here. I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 6: You guys can probably tell by my voice and face.
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  Speaker 6: But tonight, I'm going to approach the host in the
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  Speaker 6: same way I approach the next finals game. So the
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  Speaker 6: first three quarters of the show are going to be god-awful.
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  Speaker 6: The last sketch is going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well, the usual Saturday Night Live format is the
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  Speaker 3: cold opening is the big one. Then they usually have
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  Speaker 3: one good sketch, and the whole rest of the show,
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  Speaker 3: the sketches stink. You don't know what the hell they're
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  Speaker 3: talking about. Although this cold opening was all on Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 3: making fun of Mom Donnie. And they did go after him. Now,
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  Speaker 3: most of it was Mom Donnie and Trump together. 98%
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  Speaker 3: of the jokes were about Trump. But they did take
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  Speaker 3: a couple of shots at Mom Donnie. And they did
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  Speaker 3: make fun of the fact that he didn't do much,
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  Speaker 3: that he was basically just tick-tocking his way through the mayoralty.
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  Speaker 3: and then they made a joke about in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of this nor'easter with flooding with the chaos and terrible
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  Speaker 3: emergency in the city what was he doing tick-tocking about
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  Speaker 3: it just tick-tocking so uh and we've told you that
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  Speaker 3: you know a lot of people are very worried about
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  Speaker 3: mom donnie and what he's going to do to new
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  Speaker 3: york The good news is the guy does nothing. He
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  Speaker 3: does absolutely nothing. He TikToks. He smiles. He makes a speech.
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  Speaker 3: He waves. He TikToks. He waves. He smiles. That's basically it.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a courageous guy. He's kind of a coward.
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  Speaker 3: And he doesn't say anything and everything. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: actually try to do anything. And he's not a hard worker.
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  Speaker 3: He's not a management guy. So basically, he just talks
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  Speaker 3: and doesn't do much. That's the good news. The biggest
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  Speaker 3: thing is crime. The police commissioner... Jessica Tisch, everybody likes her.
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  Speaker 3: They want her to stay. Crime is doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 3: It's not as well as you think. You keep hearing
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  Speaker 3: the lowest crime numbers in history. Yeah, that's the murder rate.
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  Speaker 3: That's due to the murder rate dropping like crazy. Rape
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  Speaker 3: is up. There's been a spike in rape. There's a
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  Speaker 3: spike in robbery and a spike in subway crime. So
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  Speaker 3: that's still the problem. And not necessarily the fault of
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  Speaker 3: Jessica Tisch. They just shorthanded it. They've not hired new classes.
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  Speaker 3: They've not brought in people. So we're thousands and thousands
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  Speaker 3: of officers short in the NYPD. But it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: There is crime, but it's basically in eight precincts. If
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  Speaker 3: you're walking around here in the middle of Manhattan, it's
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  Speaker 3: just fine. Everything's just fine. The homeless stuff is getting
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  Speaker 3: out of control. Homeless camps are... There are huge ones
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  Speaker 3: in the city, and they're not doing enough to clean
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  Speaker 3: them out. You know, they come in one day and
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  Speaker 3: pick up everything and even the tents, and the next
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  Speaker 3: day they're back. The other thing is the mayor is
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  Speaker 3: very against arresting prostitutes. So they're not busting prostitutes. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I can understand doing that during UN week. They're needed
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  Speaker 3: by these UN idiots, but that's over with. But prostitution
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  Speaker 3: busts are down 60%. Almost 65%, actually. There's a place
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  Speaker 3: in Queens, Roosevelt Avenue, which they call the Market of Sweethearts.
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  Speaker 3: You see these women? They don't exactly look like sweethearts,
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  Speaker 3: but you know what they mean. It's just all prostitutes.
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  Speaker 3: It's a million hookers. Now, you might say, eh, so what?
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  Speaker 3: Why do you have to go after prostitutes? Or you
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  Speaker 3: might say, yeah, some people might like her there. Market
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  Speaker 3: of hookers all over. Yeah, but there are people that
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  Speaker 3: live there. It's a residential area, too. And you can't
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  Speaker 3: have that. So Zoran Mamdani has kind of told the cops,
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  Speaker 3: leave them alone. Don't bother them. So it's just out
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  Speaker 3: of control. The prostitutes all over the place. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 3: neighbors can't stand this. They hate it. But he was
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  Speaker 3: getting attacked a little. Good for him. Good for SNL.
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe the only time in 10 years they've
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  Speaker 3: made a joke about a Democrat, but all right. Good
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  Speaker 3: for them. This is season 52 of Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 3: 52 years of Saturday Night Live. And Lorne Michaels, this
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  Speaker 3: is unheard of, still the producer. He's like 85 now.
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  Speaker 3: Usually when you, especially a show like that where you're
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be young, cutting-edge comedy, usually when you hit 50,
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  Speaker 3: they're pushing you out the door for a younger a
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  Speaker 3: younger voice, a younger guy, but he's still there. Very
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  Speaker 3: powerful guy at NBC. Hey, speaking of anniversaries, it was
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  Speaker 3: 72 years ago last night. Last night was the 72nd
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  Speaker 3: anniversary of The Tonight Show. It was 1954. Steve Allen,
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  Speaker 3: who I used to work with for years, he and
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  Speaker 3: I used to do a daily radio show together for
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  Speaker 3: about three years. Steve Allen, 1954, 72 years ago, created
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  Speaker 3: The Tonight Show. And it was considered weird, different, revolutionary
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  Speaker 3: at the time. Nobody ever seen anything like that. They
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  Speaker 3: had comedy shows with a sketch and writers. They never
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  Speaker 3: saw a guy just ad lib, just walk into the
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  Speaker 3: audience and talk to them, just sit there and ad
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  Speaker 3: lib and do stuff like that. And it was so different,
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  Speaker 3: it caught on quickly and it became huge. The Steve
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  Speaker 3: Allen Tonight Show. It wasn't even called The Tonight Show.
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  Speaker 3: It was just called Tonight with Steve Allen, 1954. And then,
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  Speaker 3: of course, it was Jack Parr for five years. Johnny
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  Speaker 3: Carson for 30. Jay Leno for about 22 years. Conan
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  Speaker 3: O'Brien for a couple of weeks. And then Jimmy Fallon.
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  Speaker 3: He's actually been there a long time now. How long?
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  Speaker 3: It's about 12 years. Yeah. Now, of course, the show
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  Speaker 3: has About one quarter, about 25% of the viewers it
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  Speaker 3: used to have. But Steve Allen started that. He had
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  Speaker 3: no idea it would become the most important, greatest institution
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  Speaker 3: in television. But 72-year anniversary, pretty amazing. Hey, we'll take
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  Speaker 3: some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. We like new callers, too,
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  Speaker 3: if you haven't called before.
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  Speaker 6: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 3: The Mark Simone Show, now 9 till noon weekdays on 710WOR. Well,
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  Speaker 3: let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Pete in Plainview, Long Island. Pete, how
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  Speaker 3: are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Very good, Mark. Long-time listener.
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  Speaker 2: I like Plainview.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: You ever go to that Ivorone Pizza there?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. We had such good pizza here that Ivorone's
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  Speaker 1: had to move out.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they're right there. Ivorone Pizza, big restaurant. What's the
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  Speaker 3: other one? La Piazza? That's pretty good there.
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  Speaker 1: La Piazza, right? We had an Umberto's. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about. Umberto's was here, but there was too
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  Speaker 1: much competition. They left.
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  Speaker 3: Plainview's a hot place now. Country Point, beautiful new condos, everything.
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  Speaker 3: It's a hot place.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, you can't get in there, you know. So, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you were talking about Steve Allen and ad-libbing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, he is, to me, one of Johnny Carson's best ad-libs.
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  Speaker 1: He's interviewing a farmer that's 105 years old, still runs
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  Speaker 1: his farm. Johnny says to him, what invention most changed
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  Speaker 1: your life? And the farmer says, electricity. And Johnny goes,
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  Speaker 1: thank God. I thought you were going to say the wheel.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's just staring. That's the greatest ad-lib of all? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I get it now. In other words, the wheel, he
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  Speaker 3: would have been really old.
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  Speaker 1: Right, like he's the old guy.
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  Speaker 3: This guy was on for 30 years. There were 50
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  Speaker 3: billion ad-libs better than that one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really? This is the one that I like Steve
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  Speaker 1: Allen did.
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  Speaker 3: He goes.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to report a freak accident. Two freaks crashed
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  Speaker 1: into each other.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was very good at that. I used to
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  Speaker 3: work with Steve Allen. My favorite. I still use it
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  Speaker 3: all the time when somebody says, yeah, I live in Newark.
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  Speaker 3: And he'd say, if you call that living. But he
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  Speaker 3: was the fastest ad libber I ever saw in my life.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Phil in Queens. Phil, how you doing?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Hey, Mark.
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: Just wanted to tell you two things.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: One is.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Trump was a very good swimmer. My father-in-law taught him.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Phil's routine. He always calls and tries
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: to convince you he knew everybody as a kid. He
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: was best friends with everybody.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: You know, I knew a few people over the years.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, but it's always from 75 years ago.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: But Trump has never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: ever go swimming. He was a great athlete as a kid.
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: He was a great baseball player.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: He was almost recruited for the major. He was a
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: great baseball player, but.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: We need somebody who's known him like in the last
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: 50 years. He does not go swimming. He's not a swimmer.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: It's funny because he builds massive swimming pools in every resort.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Never goes swimming, ever. Has not been swimming in his
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: adult life. But he was quite an athlete. Of course,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: he's still a great golfer. And for his age, he's
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: phenomenal as a golfer. Let's go to Ralph in Stanford. Ralph,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: how are you doing?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Simone, this is a real pleasure. I'm constantly impressed by
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: all the big stars you work with.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: This is a real pleasure?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: This is a pleasure. Well, my question is, is there
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: any big star, a big talent you ever wanted to
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: work with and you never got the chance to?
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I don't think so. Well, there were a lot of
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: people I didn't get to work with, but I knew
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: off the air. There were a lot of people that,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: great stars, who would not come on the air. They
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: just didn't want to do it. But I was always
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: friends with them. but, uh, another quick question.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: You ever think of, uh, having a biography or writing
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: an autobiography?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Cause if you do, I got the, listen, I got
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: like a 12 book deals going and, uh, they've been
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: chasing me for like 20 years. I don't know. I
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: got to figure this out. I got to, uh, learn
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: how to just sit down and write, you know, to
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: be a writer, you got to like tie yourself to
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: a chair for like four hours and just write. But, uh, uh,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I used to write articles for a lot of major
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: magazines and then they'd call me up. If you have
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: an idea, I'd give them the idea. They go, great,
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: we'll take it. 1200 words. And then they spent six
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: months chasing me to get the article. I don't know.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I just can't sit down and write. Uh, don't know.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: You're right. I got to get on. I got to
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: get on this. I was talking to Joe Concha one day.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: He goes, you don't have to write. He goes, just
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: dictate it. Just take your phone and dictate it, and
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: it'll type it out for you. It's perfect. And I
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: did that for a couple of days. And then you forget.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I always talk to these writers, the
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: greatest writers. Well, how do you do it? Well, I
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: have a room just for writing. There's nothing in the room.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: I go in there and I sit there for four
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: hours and write. Then I go to lunch. Then I
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: come back for four hours. I don't know. I just
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: can't do it. It's too tough. Anyway, let's go to
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Al in Yonkers. Al, how are you doing? Good, Mark.
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: Hey, Mark, I wanted to say, you know, I've seen
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: the paper and all about how Kathy Hochul has gone
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: negative against Bruce Blakeman.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: And I hope he wins. But as you know, through
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: the decades, negative advertising targeting the right ethnic groups and all,
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: that could be very effective.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Sometimes.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: She's going to do whatever she can. Sometimes it's effective.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Many times it's not effective. It depends on the ads.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: She's also putting them in all the wrong places. She's
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: advertising on local TV stations, which very few people watch anymore.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: That's not the way to go. Hey, if you see
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: all these... attacking Blakeman ads and they upset you. Don't
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: get upset. It's a compliment to Blakeman. Blakeman was 20
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: points behind. He's now pretty much tied in the real polls,
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: not the fake public polls, in the real polls, pretty
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: much tied. And she's seen that in her internal polling.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: And that's why she's in panic and spending millions on
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: these attack ads. So when you see those attack ads,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: that's fear on her part. And You'll notice they've been
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: doing opposition research on Blakeman for a year. You'll notice
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: they couldn't come up with anything against him. So all
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: they hit him with in these ads is that he's
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: friends with Trump. They couldn't come up with anything to
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: attack him on. So all the ads are just, he's
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: too friendly with Trump. That's all they got. Let's go
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: to Max in Manhattan. Max, how you doing?
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Mark, thank you for taking my call. There's a bill
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: that recently passed. Hochul pushed it through and, um, The
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: bottom line is that you can be in the hospital
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: and you can be euthanized without your family's permission, without
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: your permission.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It's called MAID, M-A-I-D.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, we'll take a look at it. That's crazy
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul, high-tax Hochul. She loves to tax you. I
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: think that's what you ought to just call it from
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: now on, high-tax Hochul. Trump was very good at that,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: nicknaming somebody. Remember Sleepy Joe? Remember Low Energy Jeb? Crooked Hillary.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: If you do it enough, it sticks. High-tax Hochul. High-tax Hochul.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: High-tax Hochul. Hey, when we come back, the brilliant columnist. No,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: not Michael Goodwin. He had to move till tomorrow. We're
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: going to have Michael Goodwin tomorrow. Filling in will be
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: the also brilliant columnist, one of the greatest in the world,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Miranda Devine. We'll talk to her next on 710WOR.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, Mark Simard.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Hey, with us right now, the brilliant columnist Miranda Devine.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: You've got to read her columns in the New York Post.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: They're all up on the New York Post website. And
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: if you haven't read her books, go back and get them.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: The Big Guy or Laptop from Hell. They are fascinating books,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: real important. And Miranda Devine is with us. Miranda Devine,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: how are you doing?
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Hi, I'm really well, thanks, Mark.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Hey, you just wrote a column about Hunter Biden. This
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: guy's like herpes. He keeps coming back. You can't get
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: rid of him.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, I've been trying to avoid giving him any more
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: publicity because it's his new addiction. But honestly, it's just
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: so ridiculous the way he's trying to rewrite history. And unfortunately,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: there are a lot of gullible podcasters out there willing
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: to allow him to spew his lies. It's the only
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: way I can describe it. He is still pretending it's
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: not his laptop, the laptop doesn't exist, you know. But
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: the funny thing is that the more he talks, the
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: more he just confirms our reporting. And, you know, for instance,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: the other day he was on some addiction podcast called Dopey,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I kid you not. And he's saying, oh, yeah, you know, yeah,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I got paid a million dollars a year by Burisma.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: for going to four board meetings a year, and I
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: was high on crack. So all expenses paid in, you know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Monaco or Paris or Dubai, these glamorous locales in very
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: expensive hotels. He, you know, for all this time, he said, oh,
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: I was on the Burisma board, had nothing to do
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: with my father. It was because of my great expertise
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: as a very important and respected lawyer and a and
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: a seasoned board member. But no, now he admits that
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: all he had to do was go to four meetings
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: a year for a million dollars a year, which is
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: pretty incredible money if you can get it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Do we know how much he made off those paintings?
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: I would think it was millions.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think that that was pretty well documented.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I can't remember offhand, but it was, it was not,
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: it was in the realm of the high hundreds of thousands.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: And Most of those paintings were bought by his sugar brother,
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Kevin Morris, the Hollywood attorney, who was for some reason
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: funding his lifestyle, paying for his expensive rental in Malibu
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: or the Hollywood Hills or wherever he ended up. And
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: at the Palisades, I think was his last one. And,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: you know, these are $ 20, 000, $ 30, 000 a month rentals and
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: paying for his for instance, his Porsche repayments and everything else.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: So Hunter really hasn't had a proper job for as
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: long as we can remember. And he just seems to
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: get by with the help of friends. And now his
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: lawyer is suing him for unpaid legal bills because Kevin
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Morris finally shut his wallet and And then he's got
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: this other lawyer now called Dick Harpootlian, who's an old
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: crony of Joe Biden's, who presumably is doing everything pro
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: bono for him.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Miranda Devine, this Hunter Biden, he's a good looking guy.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: He's quite a talker, very articulate. Why didn't he ever
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: get a job? Why didn't he ever start some kind
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: of career?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Well, because why should he when he could get millions
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: of dollars just from leveraging daddy's contacts and daddy's power
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: and influence and you know we're talking about tens of
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: millions of dollars that just poured in from china and
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: russia and ukraine and so on you know it's all
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: it's all so well documented and it's way beyond the
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: laptop now it was corroborated by witness after witness and
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: uh the only reason that hunter is not in jail
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: he was convicted in delaware He pleaded guilty on the
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: first day of his California trial, tax fraud trial. The
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: only reason he's not in jail is because his father
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: was president and pardoned him, and not just a regular
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: old pardon that presidents normally give, but one that went
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: back 14 years, sorry, 11 years to 2014, and that
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: covered all of the Ukraine grift and the beginning of
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: the rest of it. So, The only other person that
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: Joe Biden was kind enough to do this sort of
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: retrospective 11-year pardon was Anthony Fauci.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Another fine, upstanding citizen. Miranda Devine. Hey, what did you
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: think of the meeting with President Xi of China? It
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: was very cordial. Was it too cordial?
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I don't think so. I mean, that's sort of the
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: way that Donald Trump does things. He tries to schmooze
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: And at the same time, he has his arm around
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: their back twisting it. And afterwards, the Chinese put some
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: sort of deliverables on the table and, you know, they
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: seemed quite fine. I mean, the main thing is, I think,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: at the moment, Donald Trump is trying to get China
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: and Russia to stop helping Iran. And while President Xi
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: was in Washington or maybe he was jetting his way
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: to Washington... We now find out that Donald Trump gave
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: the green light to blowing up a Chinese spy satellite
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: in space. So Star Wars has arrived. And that spy
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: satellite apparently was giving coordinates to Iran of various ships
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: and things that they could blow up of America.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: You know, for all the flack he gets, Pete Hagseth,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: yelling and screaming, he's not confident. This guy has pulled
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: off a dozen of the greatest military operations in history,
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: from Venezuela to shooting out that spy satellite, hasn't he?
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah. To me, he seems to be doing a great
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: job and rebuilding morale and recruitment in the military, which
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: had sagged terribly because of all the woke ridiculousness that
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: had crept in under Obama and exploded under Joe Biden. So,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: And he gets bad press because he's firing or demoting
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: or not promoting certain generals who were part of that
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: really malign reign of, terror in the military where they were,
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: you know, trying to put women and transgender individuals who
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: were like taking chemicals that would destroy their readiness, pregnant
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: women in, you know, combat. It just didn't work. And
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: there are just certain jobs in the military that you
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: can't have DEI in. And so I think he's doing
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: the right thing. He's doing what's supposed to be done.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: For all the huge amount of money that American taxpayers
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: pour into the military, you want a military that is
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: going to be effective and not incompetent. And, you know,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: I just remember during Joe Biden's reign, you had the
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. total incompetence of the military on
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: display there. And, I mean, obviously it came from the top,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: from Joe Biden and General Milley. And then we had
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: that other story that sort of didn't get much attention
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: because everyone was trying to cover up for Joe Biden.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: But remember they had that pier in Gaza that the
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: military was supposed to build?
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: And it fell apart within days. Cost of fortunes. And
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I think a soldier either died or was severely injured
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: on that thing. And it just, you know, it just
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: got washed away. And that is just such incompetence and
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: such an indictment of what used to be a supremely
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: competent body.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: So I.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Think it was necessary for Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: to get in there and really clean house.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Well, Miranda Devine, we're out of time, but everybody should
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: get her book. She's written two really great bestsellers, Laptop
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: from Hell, The Big Guy. You read them today. They're
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: still fascinating to read. Are you working on a new book?
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: I am, actually, but I can't quite divulge what it
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: is until I sign the contract.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's going to be a good one. I can't wait.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: You've written some great books. And of course, read her
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: column in the New York Post. They're all up on
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: the website. And I love your podcast. Those episodes are
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: still up there. You've got some great interviews with the
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: president and everybody else. It's called Pod Force One, right? Yes,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: it is.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Thank you. And we have John Solomon this week on Wednesday,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: who is, of course, that great investigative reporter from Just
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: the News, but he also is now a special government employee,
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: and he has been given the keys to the kingdom.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: He is looking at all sorts of secret government files
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: and unraveling the serious coup attempts against Donald Trump by
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: the deep state. And the evidence is just mind-blowing. He'll
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: have to write a book or several books to explain
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: it all, but he explains a lot of it on Wednesday.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Well, check it out. It's Miranda Devine's Pod Force One.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: It's a great podcast. Wherever you get your podcasts, you'll
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: find it. Great stuff. Miranda Devine, thanks for being with us.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Mark.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: All right, take care. Hey, don't forget, I'm here 9
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: to noon every day. It's three hours every day, 9
• 32:53
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• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Clay Travis, great show every day at noon here on 710WOR.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Now 9 till noon weekdays. Mark Simone. Only on 710WOR. Well, hey,
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: it's supposed to, the rain's supposed to ease up. Let's see,
• 33:16
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• 33:18
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• 33:20
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• 33:21
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• 33:26
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• 33:31
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