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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister New York Mark Simone wr wa Hey a lot
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  Speaker 1: to get through this hour. So our crazy mayor, crazy
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  Speaker 1: mayor Mom Donnie targeting billionaires. He targets Ken Griffith. Everybody,
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  Speaker 1: Ken Griffin, everybody just thought it was the creepiest video,
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  Speaker 1: especially Ken Griffin. Where Mom Donnie stands outside of Ken
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  Speaker 1: Griffin's house tells everybody where he lives, makes him a target.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is a couple of blocks from where
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  Speaker 1: the healthcare CEO was shot by Luigi Mangione. Griffin finally
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  Speaker 1: fights back and argues about how creepy it was, how
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  Speaker 1: awful it was for a mayor to take a private
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  Speaker 1: citizen and target him and demonize him. And this is
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  Speaker 1: Ken Griffin who spent about the three billion in taxes
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  Speaker 1: here and in addition to paying three billion in taxes,
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  Speaker 1: gave to charity here in New York, donated to charities
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  Speaker 1: just here in New York about seven hundred million. He's
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  Speaker 1: building a new project fifty second in Park. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a big skyscraper, six thousand construction jobs for
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  Speaker 1: the next five years and then fifteen thousand permanent jobs.
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  Speaker 1: So this kind of guy you want your city. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: if you're the mayor, he should be calling this guy
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  Speaker 1: saying anything we can do to help, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: building this here, What can we do to help? That's
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  Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. So now we're not sure
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  Speaker 1: if this project's going to continue. Ken Griffin saying that
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  Speaker 1: he may scale down New York's stuff and make more
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  Speaker 1: stuff in Miami. They did this to him Chicago. A
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  Speaker 1: crazy left wing mayor demonized him, targeted him, and he
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  Speaker 1: closed down every business, everything he had in Chicago, that's
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  Speaker 1: where he lived. He closed it all up, moved it
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  Speaker 1: to Miami, and he himself moved to Miami. So Mom,
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  Speaker 1: Donnie finally responded to Ken Griffin.
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  Speaker 2: Now I want all New Yorkers to succeed. That includes
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  Speaker 2: business owners and entrepreneurs who create good paying jobs, who
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  Speaker 2: make this city the economic engine not just of our state,
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  Speaker 2: but frankly of our country. And that also includes Ken Griffin,
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  Speaker 2: who is a major employer in our city. That does
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  Speaker 2: not negate the fact, however, that our tax system is
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  Speaker 2: fundamentally broken. It rewards extreme wealth while working people are
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  Speaker 2: pushed to the brink. It is a status quo that
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  Speaker 2: is unsustainable, that is unjust, and if we want the
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  Speaker 2: city to be one that working people can actually afford
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  Speaker 2: to live in, then we need meaningful tax reform that
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  Speaker 2: includes the wealthiest New Yorkers paying their fair share.
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  Speaker 1: Now, everything he's saying is totally erroneous. He's just full
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  Speaker 1: of crap. And it's not that he intends to lie.
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  Speaker 1: He's just like a goofy college kid. He's a college
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  Speaker 1: kid on the college debating team. You know, a kid
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  Speaker 1: who's never worked in the real world, never had a job,
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  Speaker 1: never run anything, never managed anything. And the part about
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  Speaker 1: our tax system rewards the wealthy not at all. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: under our tax system the way it's set up, though
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  Speaker 1: wealthy pay waight beyond their fair share. They pay all
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  Speaker 1: of it. You know, the top one percent pays like
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  Speaker 1: forty percent of our taxes. The top one percent pays
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  Speaker 1: like forty percent of our taxes. You know, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a billionaire in New York, you're paying like fifty six
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  Speaker 1: percent in taxes between federal, state, local. It's actually unethical,
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  Speaker 1: immoral to take fifty six percent of anybody's money for
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  Speaker 1: any reason. Why taxes should be ten percent thirty percent
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  Speaker 1: for everybody, ten percent thirty percent for a billionaire there's
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  Speaker 1: no way on earth you should ever be justified in
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  Speaker 1: taking fifty six percent of somebody's money. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: is Steve Moore reported last hour here that so many
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  Speaker 1: people have left New York and they've moved to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: tax fre estates. They've moved to Florida and Texas. And
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  Speaker 1: as he pointed out, the Blue States have lost two
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  Speaker 1: trillion dollars to the Red States. Two trillion has left
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  Speaker 1: the Blue States and gone to the Red States. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: Democrats don't follow the science. Just look at the science.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what they do in these red states. They
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  Speaker 1: have no state income tax. They make it up with
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  Speaker 1: property tax and other kinds of tax. But they're flourishing,
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  Speaker 1: they have budget surpluses. Their budgets do much better than
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  Speaker 1: our budgets. When you do these crazy tax they're rich things.
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  Speaker 1: You not only destroy your economy, but you got no
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  Speaker 1: income coming in the revenue. Good drops down. It's just
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  Speaker 1: simple science. We've experimented on it thousands and thousands of times.
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  Speaker 1: All you gotta do is look at it. Then you
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  Speaker 1: got the other problem with Mom Donnie. As we mentioned before,
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  Speaker 1: the Parky synagogue targeted by violent radicals anti Semitic violent radicals.
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  Speaker 1: The police did what they could, but Mom Donnie let
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  Speaker 1: it go on and on. These guys did the same
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  Speaker 1: thing in Nasa County. Bruce Blakeman sent the police to
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  Speaker 1: stock them and the whole thing was over in fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Mam Donnie not only didn't do that, he defended them
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  Speaker 1: as I mean some kind of some kind of rights
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  Speaker 1: under international law, even though there is no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as international law. But when it comes to Jews, Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: he'll try to say that he's not anti Semitic, he's
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  Speaker 1: clearly anti Israel. But well, here he is.
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  Speaker 2: And we have to ensure that Jewish New Yorkers are
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  Speaker 2: safe in this city, and frankly, that the threshold is
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  Speaker 2: not just out of safety, but that they are celebrated
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  Speaker 2: and cherished just as any other New Yorker.
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  Speaker 1: Is that means I'm violent. Thugs show up at the
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  Speaker 1: synagogue to terrorized Jews, and Mom Donnie does not arrest
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  Speaker 1: them and carry them away. So there's another billionaire, Steve Roth.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the great builders in New York. He
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  Speaker 1: built a lot of stuff all over New York, all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. He's got to build huts and yards,
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  Speaker 1: among other things. So he is jumping in to defend
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  Speaker 1: Ken Griffin. Hopefully these guys all band together and do
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  Speaker 1: something about Mom Donnie. But Steve Roth pointing out the
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  Speaker 1: way he targeted Ken Griffin and the way he targets
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  Speaker 1: billionaires and the way he talks about him, with the ugly,
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  Speaker 1: sneering way that he talks about these billionaires is equivalent
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  Speaker 1: to a racial slur. It's bigotry. It's not like these
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  Speaker 1: guys don't pay taxes. They pay more taxes than they should.
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  Speaker 1: They pay more taxes than anybody. Again, the top one
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  Speaker 1: percent pays forty percent of our taxes, thirty eight percent
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  Speaker 1: actually of our taxes. It's insane to go after them
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  Speaker 1: like that. But it's out and out bigotry. And you
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  Speaker 1: know Democrats, when they come up with a narrative, they
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  Speaker 1: just go crazy and they'll give you that, well, we
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  Speaker 1: never said Trump is Hitler. Yeah you did? You call
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Nazi Hitler? A million times they make up
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  Speaker 1: this narrative. It becomes a chance. Here, take a listen,
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  Speaker 1: here's democrats. These are all major famous Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Comparing the tactics of Donald Trump to Mussolini and Hitler.
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  Speaker 3: That's a very legitimate thing.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 1: There's a direct parallel to a big rally that happened
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  Speaker 1: in the mid nineteen thirties at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 2: We have a Timu Hitler in the White House right
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  Speaker 2: now that thinks that he is going to become the
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  Speaker 2: dictator of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: This goes on for like twenty minutes. I don't need
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  Speaker 1: to play the whole thing for you. You remember that when
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  Speaker 1: they did a rally at Madison Square Garden. If you're
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  Speaker 1: coming to the middle of New York, Manhattan, you want
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  Speaker 1: to do a rally, what more logical place? Where else
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  Speaker 1: would you do it? Well, you could do it at
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  Speaker 1: Radio City. Madison Square Garden makes more sense, but it's
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  Speaker 1: more seats. But they said, well, that's because the Nazis
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  Speaker 1: had a rally there in nineteen thirty eight, that you're
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  Speaker 1: obviously a Nazi. Everybody had a rally at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 1: The Clinton's everybody, you know, the Democrats twice, two different times,
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  Speaker 1: held their convention at Madison Square Garden. Billy Joels at
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. He was there every month. I make
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  Speaker 1: him a Nazi. I mean, it was absolutely ridiculous. This
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  Speaker 1: stuff that concoct drill into people's heads. So when you
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  Speaker 1: can't believe you're democratic, friends, the crazy things they spew,
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  Speaker 1: Remember they're just watching MSNBC, CNN all day, reading the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times. They hear all this crazy stuff and
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  Speaker 1: they start to believe it. Speaking of which, we lost
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  Speaker 1: the founder of CNN, Ted Turner, who was a great guy.
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  Speaker 1: He was when he created CNN. He was a conservative
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  Speaker 1: and he wanted it totally neutral. And when he created CNN,
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  Speaker 1: he kept it totally neutral. When it started, it was
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  Speaker 1: just straight news. But it's interesting before CNN, all of
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  Speaker 1: our news, from the networks, from the New York Times,
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  Speaker 1: all of our news was controlled by the Northeast establishment,
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  Speaker 1: who were pretty much liberals. The Northeast establishment controlled every
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  Speaker 1: bit of our television news and most of our magazine
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  Speaker 1: newspaper news. So people got crazy with Ted Turner because
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  Speaker 1: here's a guy from the South who they thought was
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  Speaker 1: a conservative. He wasn't slightly to the right of center.
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  Speaker 1: He was a conservative, but they went nuts the idea
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  Speaker 1: of somebody outside of the Northeast establishment putting together a
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  Speaker 1: news organization they tried to stop him, they attacked him,
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  Speaker 1: they badmouthed him. And for many years CNN was a
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  Speaker 1: pretty legitimate news organization. It was pretty fair and balanced.
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  Speaker 1: But in the beginning, Ted Turner got all this flack,
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  Speaker 1: so he hired a CBS News legend, Daniel Shore, CBS News.
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  Speaker 1: He had to go hire Daniel Shore, a liberal CBS
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  Speaker 1: News guy, to be one of his top guys, to
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  Speaker 1: reassure people it wasn't going to be a conservative from
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  Speaker 1: the South. Now, you know, a lot of people point
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  Speaker 1: to CNN going bad. For most of the time, it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty down the middle, pretty straightforward. It went so
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  Speaker 1: far to the left. One of the peak things people
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  Speaker 1: point to is CNN came from Atlanta. It was done
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  Speaker 1: from Atlanta. They had a New York operation, new York
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  Speaker 1: studios New York had, but probably the majority of it
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  Speaker 1: came from the Atlanta studios in headquarters. And that made
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  Speaker 1: a difference because the CNN people, the executives, the writers,
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  Speaker 1: the broadcasters, the report they were in Atlanta. They were
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of America. They were in the heartland.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't in left wing DC and left wing Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: So when they closed down that Atlanta Bureau and just
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  Speaker 1: did everything for Manhattan. It definitely took a big, big
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  Speaker 1: turn to the left. But Turner, he's been in bad
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  Speaker 1: shape the last few years. He's said dementia and other things.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think he knew what really happened to
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  Speaker 1: CNN and how bad it got. But I can't imagine
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  Speaker 1: he would have wanted that. He kind of got pushed
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  Speaker 1: out of everything. CNN became part of Time Warner, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Time Warner bought it, and then Time Warner became this
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  Speaker 1: big conglomerate, and then they wanted to buy AOL. I
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  Speaker 1: think Turner didn't like the AOL deal, but by then
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  Speaker 1: he had been pushed out, just shoved him out of
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  Speaker 1: the company. Here, as you know, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of been squeezed out a Time Warner, out of
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  Speaker 3: management roll over the last years.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why they did it.
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  Speaker 3: I think I was still performing pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: We were making our budgets.
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  Speaker 3: We made him billions. They they threw it away with AOL.
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  Speaker 1: But that wasn't completely my fault. It pushed him out.
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  Speaker 1: He was married to Jane Fonda. That was like the
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  Speaker 1: love of his life, Jane Fonda.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it was love at first sight. So we
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  Speaker 3: got married and had a great marriage for ten years.
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  Speaker 3: At least I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he did a lot of us at movies,
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood all that stuff. This is a hoot for me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't get it get here for by
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  Speaker 3: acting ability, even though I had a cameo appearance in
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  Speaker 3: both Gettysburg and and Gods in Generals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Ted Turner, who was also let's not forget the
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  Speaker 1: sports side of Ted Turner. You know it was a
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  Speaker 1: great sportsman. He was a big sailor. He was always
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  Speaker 1: I think he won too, the America's Cup Race, the
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  Speaker 1: sailing race, big part of his life. And then when
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  Speaker 1: he made a fortune with everything, he bought the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Braves and he bought another team, but didn't the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Braves win the World Series I think under Ted Turner. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so got to give him credit. How many guys buy
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  Speaker 1: a team, a baseball team and then win the World Series?
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  Speaker 1: Steve Cohen, how many guys do that? It's not easy
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  Speaker 1: to do. But he was just an amazing guy. Dead
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  Speaker 1: yesterday at the age of eighty seven. Also, it should
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  Speaker 1: be pointed out phenomenal philanthropist gave away I think like
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  Speaker 1: one point four billion in his lifetime. The only one
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  Speaker 1: I didn't like re membery gave that ridiculous amount of money,
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  Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions to the UN.
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  Speaker 1: But outside of that, there were pretty good donations. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: they're always looking for revenue everywhere in New York and
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  Speaker 1: they want to tax people. You know what you got
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  Speaker 1: to do. Just tax every bicycle, every electric scooter. Just
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  Speaker 1: tax them. You know they just drive around with no
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  Speaker 1: license nothing. Make them get licenses. You can charge money
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  Speaker 1: a yearly renewal for the license. Start ticketing them. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I mean by tax them. Just ticket them. They're
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  Speaker 1: always up on the sidewalk, they're always going through lights,
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  Speaker 1: they're always in the wrong lane. Just start ticketing them.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is those stupid petty cabs. Actually just
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  Speaker 1: get rid of those things or restrict them to Central Park.
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  Speaker 1: But these New York City petty caps are a traffic nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: They're always blaring that loud music. New York state of
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  Speaker 1: mind is always blaring out there driving by their mostly
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  Speaker 1: illegals running those things. But the city is now talking
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  Speaker 1: about actually the city Council is looking at cracking down
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  Speaker 1: on those petty cabs because they're also robbing people left
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  Speaker 1: and right. They're just outing out. I can't say all
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  Speaker 1: of them, but many of them are out and out crooks.
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  Speaker 1: City Council's trying to put together legislation to beef up
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  Speaker 1: the oversight require meters. Do you know sometimes they charge tourists.
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  Speaker 1: A tourist gets in, you know, another country that barely
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  Speaker 1: knows the language, and they end up charging them a
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. They menace them and demand one thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's been going on all the time, and there's about
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  Speaker 1: they say there's about eight hundred and fifty of them licensed.
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  Speaker 1: There's eight hundred and fifty licensed petticaps, but they believe
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  Speaker 1: there's another fifteen hundred unlicensed operating all over Manhattan. That's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: So you want some revenue, go after these guys. If
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  Speaker 1: they're charging people one thousand dollars, go after them. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a pizza lover or bagel lover. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people got very upset at this story that came
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday. The is it also the city council? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the City of New York wants to ban and a
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  Speaker 1: couple ingredients that are used in all bagels and all pizza.
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  Speaker 1: They feel it can cause cancer. New York state lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: want to ban this ingredient. It's in every pizza and
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  Speaker 1: in every bagel. It's potassium bromate. Now, I've asked pizza makers,
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  Speaker 1: bagel makers. They all say it shouldn't affect anything. They
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  Speaker 1: don't believe it'll change the taste of anything. It's used
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  Speaker 1: to help the flower rise, so unless they find a
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  Speaker 1: suitable replacement, it could affect the texture. But these guys
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's going to affect the taste. And let's
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  Speaker 1: be honest, did you ever order a pizza and ask
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  Speaker 1: for give me extra potassium bromate? Nobody even knew it
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  Speaker 1: was there, So don't be so panicky. They say it
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  Speaker 1: won't affect anything. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next. Eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred three to two one zero seven ten is the
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  Speaker 1: number eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten