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FULL SHOW: Iran's on the clock; Cornell University controversy. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Live from Midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show
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  Speaker 1: on 710WOR. Well, it's Friday.
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  Speaker 2: That's good news. It's going to be a nice day
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  Speaker 2: today in the 80s. Might be the last day in
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  Speaker 2: the 80s for a while. And it should be a
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  Speaker 2: pretty nice weekend. A lot to get to. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Iran. We'll get to Cornell. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 2: botched execution. We'll get to the midterms. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani and, of course, a whole lot more. The Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: the next game is tomorrow night. They begin the seven-game
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  Speaker 2: playoff series with Tampa tomorrow night. I think it's 6.30, right?
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  Speaker 3: 6.30.
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  Speaker 2: It's an early game. So everybody will be watching that.
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  Speaker 2: Unless you're in Boston, you probably won't want to watch that.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump has sent a third aircraft carrier. To Iran,
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  Speaker 2: it is heading there now, but also he is sending
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  Speaker 2: an amphibious assault ship with about 5,000 Marines on it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this type of ship is used for ground invasion. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the word is that after the midterms, the day after
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  Speaker 2: the midterms, he is going to just pound Iran into
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  Speaker 2: the ground. There may even be, now that landing force,
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  Speaker 2: those Marines, that amphibious force, that would be for Karg Island.
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  Speaker 2: They would take Karg Island. We would take it. That's
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  Speaker 2: the entire oil facility of Iran. We would seize that.
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  Speaker 2: And that aircraft carrier would be used for punishing brutal
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  Speaker 2: attacks on Iran. And the president has said, once they
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  Speaker 2: confirm that Iran was behind the fly Dubai hijacking and
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  Speaker 2: the attack on our air base in the UK, that
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  Speaker 2: would be reason enough to just completely pound them into
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  Speaker 2: the ground, just literally destroy much of that. We're trying
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  Speaker 2: to wipe out the IRGC and all of that. So
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  Speaker 2: the hijacker, by the way, if you're a New York
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  Speaker 2: Times reader or you watch CNN or MSNBC, you may
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  Speaker 2: not know about this. It was an actual hijacking. He
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  Speaker 2: was an actual terrorist, a radicalized extremist, Islamic extremist. His
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  Speaker 2: mission was to kill Jews. That was the idea. It
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  Speaker 2: was a flight filled with Jewish people, Jewish children. He
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  Speaker 2: wanted to kill them all. That's what it was. If
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  Speaker 2: you're reading the New York Times or watching MSNOW, they
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  Speaker 2: keep telling you it was an altercation among employees. There
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  Speaker 2: was an altercation, a workplace altercation. It's not what it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was a terrorist attack. He was a very radicalized hijacker.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Benjamin Netanyahu. It looks like he had been radicalized.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's too early to say whether he had
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  Speaker 4: any connections with Iran or with anyone else. It's too
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  Speaker 4: early to say that, but we'll be able to say
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  Speaker 4: that fairly definitively within a.
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  Speaker 2: Matter of days. Yeah, he knows more than he's saying there.
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  Speaker 2: Now the question is, and the most important question, is
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  Speaker 2: he a lone wolf? Was he inspired by something and
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  Speaker 2: did this? Was he part of an actual cell? Are
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  Speaker 2: there others involved? If so, you've got to find them quickly.
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  Speaker 2: it will turn out most likely that Iran was involved.
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  Speaker 2: He's clearly a lunatic terrorist and just was the most
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  Speaker 2: vicious knife attack. There are two possibilities. The big question is,
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  Speaker 2: how did he get a job as a co-pilot? How
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  Speaker 2: did this airline hire him without a proper background check?
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  Speaker 2: And also, in most airports... The crew of the plane,
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  Speaker 2: even the pilots, are supposed to go through the same
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  Speaker 2: screening the passengers do. That's in most airports. It's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be that way in this country. Now, you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about other countries, other airports. Who knows? Who knows what
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  Speaker 2: they do? And even in this country where they're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to screen passengers, The crew and the pilots, who knows
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  Speaker 2: if they really do. You know, they know these people.
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  Speaker 2: They might let them just walk through Netanyahu. There are
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  Speaker 2: two possibilities.
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  Speaker 4: One, that he didn't go through a metal detector because,
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  Speaker 4: you know, passengers go through a metal detector. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure that pilots always do because, you know, you say, OK,
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  Speaker 4: he's part of the air crew.
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  Speaker 2: Let him go. Number one.
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  Speaker 4: And then he could have carried a knife or an
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  Speaker 4: axe or he might have gotten an axe from the
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  Speaker 4: equipment in the, you know, that might be standard on
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  Speaker 4: this airplane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so clearly his intent was to crash the plane,
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  Speaker 2: kill it. It was a plane filled with Jewish passengers.
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  Speaker 2: It was an anti-Semitic terrorist attack. There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be announcing that very, very soon. Then you had
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  Speaker 2: the attack on our airbase in the UK. It looks
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  Speaker 2: like Iran was behind that as well.
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  Speaker 5: There are strong indications that Iran... played a part in
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  Speaker 5: what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford. But of course,
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  Speaker 5: it remains an ongoing, complex and serious police investigation. And
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  Speaker 5: of course, we are working closely with our colleagues in
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  Speaker 5: the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's why another aircraft carrier, a third one
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  Speaker 2: is heading towards Iran, an amphibious assault ship is heading
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  Speaker 2: towards Iran the day after the midterms. They'll pay for
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  Speaker 2: all of this.
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  Speaker 6: We knew that Iran and the IRGC was going to
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  Speaker 6: try to do an attack, possibly on a United States
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  Speaker 6: asset in the UK. We had been already watching this
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  Speaker 6: with our counterparts in London, giving them a heads up.
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  Speaker 6: They were also feeding information to us. So this was
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  Speaker 6: something we were paying attention to already. We just didn't
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  Speaker 6: know where it was coming from. Iran is the lead
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  Speaker 6: world sponsor of terror.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, well.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, the Cornell situation, it looks so bad for the university. However,
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  Speaker 2: if you really look into it, this gang rape, alleged
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  Speaker 2: gang rape, was a couple of years ago. It was 2024.
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  Speaker 2: It was two years ago that it took place. The
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  Speaker 2: word went around the campus. The students all seemed to
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  Speaker 2: know about it. And as it was happening, these kids
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  Speaker 2: were texting each other. They were in a group chat.
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  Speaker 2: All over the campus, everybody apparently was on this group
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  Speaker 2: chat and they were telling everybody about what was going
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  Speaker 2: on and if you want some free sex, although they
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  Speaker 2: didn't use the word sex, they used something worse. They said,
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  Speaker 2: come on over, and people were coming over. It was
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  Speaker 2: a horrible, horrible situation. And she was, the problem was,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, in the New York law, some
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  Speaker 2: states have this law. If you get yourself so drunk
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  Speaker 2: that you can't even see straight, You can't consent because
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  Speaker 2: you're so drunk. If you do that to yourself, if
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  Speaker 2: you get yourself drunk, it's no longer a crime. In
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  Speaker 2: other words, you can't claim rape if you got yourself
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  Speaker 2: that drunk. It's a stupid law. It's got to be changed.
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  Speaker 2: There was a push to change this law in the
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  Speaker 2: state assembly. Democrats, of all people, kept blocking it. So
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  Speaker 2: that's the reason, most likely, that when it went to
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  Speaker 2: the prosecutor, he didn't file criminal charges. Because it turns
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  Speaker 2: out the young student, she went out to, she was 18.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be 21 to drink, right? Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: have to be 21. So she's underage. She had a
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  Speaker 2: drink before she went out. And then a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: them are going to a bar. This is, Cornell is
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  Speaker 2: in Ithaca, and they went to downtown Ithaca, and they
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  Speaker 2: went to some bar. And at that bar, if you're underage,
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  Speaker 2: if you're 18, they'll let you in, but they'll draw
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  Speaker 2: a big X on your hand. which means you're underage,
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to serve you. But she goes out to
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  Speaker 2: this bar and there's a lot of students there. Some
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  Speaker 2: of them are old enough to get a drink. And
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  Speaker 2: apparently they gave her drinks. And then this is what
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  Speaker 2: they do in college. And they all left and went
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  Speaker 2: to another bar and had more drinks. So by the
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  Speaker 2: time she got to the fraternity, went over this fraternity house,
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  Speaker 2: there was supposed to be a party or something. They
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to see some friends at this fraternity house.
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  Speaker 2: By the time she got there, She had had 10 drinks,
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  Speaker 2: 10 drinks. That's a lot of alcohol in a little woman,
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  Speaker 2: a young 18-year-old woman, 10 drinks. She gets to the
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  Speaker 2: fraternity party, and the first thing they do is give
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  Speaker 2: her a drink. That's drink number 11 she's had. They
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  Speaker 2: also give her some drugs. It's not clear whether it
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  Speaker 2: was cocaine or something else. She took some kind of drugs,
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  Speaker 2: sniffed something, plus the 11 drinks. She didn't know where
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  Speaker 2: she was. She couldn't see straight. She even passed out
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  Speaker 2: a couple of times. She went apparently to a bedroom
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  Speaker 2: in the fraternity house with some student, a male, and
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  Speaker 2: slept with him. He then started texting about it. Other
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  Speaker 2: guys came in and had sex with her. This is
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  Speaker 2: how this all got out of control. She was so
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  Speaker 2: traumatized by all of this that she, I guess she
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  Speaker 2: told her friends, and word got around campus. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: all the guys, these awful guys were bragging about this
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  Speaker 2: So the story got known all over campus. It took
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  Speaker 2: her a while, a couple of weeks, to get up
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  Speaker 2: the nerve and compose herself enough to go to the
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  Speaker 2: campus police and tell them what happened. And she told
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  Speaker 2: them the whole story. It's a 10-page report that they wrote.
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  Speaker 2: Ten pages of her telling her story, exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 2: And they sent it over to the local district attorney
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  Speaker 2: in Ithaca. And he looked at it and decided he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't file criminal charges because she was so drunk that
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  Speaker 2: she can't claim rape. This is this strange New York law.
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  Speaker 2: Cornell did start to investigate, and they put together an
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  Speaker 2: investigating committee, and they did investigate. Now, this has not
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  Speaker 2: been made clear. Cornell did take some action. They expelled
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  Speaker 2: some of the students. Some of the other students, they
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  Speaker 2: suspended them for a year or two. So they did
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  Speaker 2: take some action. They also closed that fraternity down. So
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  Speaker 2: they did take some action. Now, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: the story went public. A lot of press. The district
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  Speaker 2: attorney looked really bad for not filing those charges. And
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  Speaker 2: I guess he's now deciding to actually file the charges.
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  Speaker 2: But it's too late. Kathy Hochul has stepped in.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because she's got a tight election race. Bruce Blakeman is
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  Speaker 2: starting to pull ahead of her. So she's got to
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  Speaker 2: act like she's on top of this. Pretend she's doing something.
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  Speaker 2: So she has put the Attorney General Letitia James in
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  Speaker 2: as a special prosecutor to go after these kids. Now,
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  Speaker 2: A problem with Letitia James, one, she's not that good
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  Speaker 2: as a prosecutor. Her biggest dream fantasy in life was
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  Speaker 2: to get Trump. She came up with a preposterous case
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  Speaker 2: that a left-wing kook judge took her side, but then
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  Speaker 2: it was eventually tossed out, ruled ridiculous. So she's not
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  Speaker 2: that successful as a prosecutor. The other problem is the
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  Speaker 2: district attorneys all over New York State, that's a state job.
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  Speaker 2: District attorney's not a local job. It's a state job.
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  Speaker 2: That's why there's no term limits on it. And the
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  Speaker 2: district attorney that she says fumbled up the case is
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  Speaker 2: her district attorney. So she should remove him and replace
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  Speaker 2: him with what she thinks is a great district attorney.
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  Speaker 2: But she's not going to do that because this is
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  Speaker 2: all for show. She's pretending that she's taking action. She's
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  Speaker 2: doing something. She's on top of it, appointing Letitia James.
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  Speaker 2: It's enough to make it look like she's doing something
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  Speaker 2: and to stall her. Until the election, which is only
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  Speaker 2: 32 days away. Students say, and apparently record show, this
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  Speaker 2: is not the first rape problem on campus. It's happened
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  Speaker 2: before a number of times. And there's about 16,000 students
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  Speaker 2: at Cornell. If you've got 16,000 students and if you,
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  Speaker 2: as we just showed you, the kind of drinking they
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  Speaker 2: do and the drugs and who knows what could happen
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  Speaker 2: on campus. Students are all frustrated.
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  Speaker 8: It's been incredibly somber on campus this week. I think
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  Speaker 8: students are disgusted that something like this could have taken
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  Speaker 8: place on our campus, but I think there's also a
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  Speaker 8: lot of frustration across many parts of the process.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Cornell is an awful place. Earlier this week, we
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  Speaker 2: told you about the horrible anti-Semitic rallies that were going
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  Speaker 2: on at Cornell. There were students chanting from the river
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  Speaker 2: to the sea. I mean, real anti-Semitic, awful stuff at Cornell.
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  Speaker 2: The only good news for them is this rape story.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a It got everybody to forget about that part
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  Speaker 2: of it. Hopefully they get that problem solved, too. But
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  Speaker 2: the student's not happy.
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  Speaker 9: Mostly sorrow and just kind of a lot of sadness
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  Speaker 9: surrounding the case. People don't really know what to do
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  Speaker 9: with how they're feeling. That's why I am really excited
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  Speaker 9: about this hearing and creating more policies that are going
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  Speaker 9: to give students the voice they feel like they need
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  Speaker 9: right now. I feel like people just want to take action.
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  Speaker 9: They don't know like where to though. So I'm hoping
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  Speaker 9: like the assembly and admin and different clubs can be
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  Speaker 9: here as resources for us and a time that we really, really.
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  Speaker 1: Do need it.
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  Speaker 2: That's a Cornell student.
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  Speaker 10: You hear that?
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  Speaker 2: Like, like I, like, like that's a Cornell student. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: this botched execution. It's Krista Pike. It sounds horrible. They
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  Speaker 2: gave her a lethal injection. She survives. In fact, The
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  Speaker 2: reporters could hear her. They sometimes put a curtain down,
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  Speaker 2: but they could hear her say, hey, how come I'm
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  Speaker 2: in so much pain? She survived the injection. They gave
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  Speaker 2: her another lethal injection. She survived that. In fact, they
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  Speaker 2: could hear her snoring. This sounds horrible. This sounds like,
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  Speaker 2: how the hell could this happen?
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 2: This is unbelievable. How could such a thing? Well, if
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  Speaker 2: you look into it, it does happen on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, 3% of all executions, end up like this,
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  Speaker 2: where they can't kill the person. And you might say, well,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what you try, for instance, take hanging, hanging
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  Speaker 2: a prisoner. That's the highest number of bungled executions. When
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  Speaker 2: it comes to hanging, 85 were botched. 1901, they hung
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  Speaker 2: the outlaw, Tom Blackjack Ketchum. His head popped clean off
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  Speaker 2: when he dropped because They didn't take into account how
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  Speaker 2: fat he was. Things go wrong. Well, what about electrocute? Well,
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  Speaker 2: electrocutions have had problems. In fact, second most botched executions.
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  Speaker 2: There are many incidents where the inmate's head bursts into flames.
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  Speaker 2: That sort of stuff. Now, the lethal injection. Lethal injections
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  Speaker 2: have had 75 botched attempts. 75. So she survived. They
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  Speaker 2: took her to the hospital. It's believed she has a
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  Speaker 2: terrible brain injury. As a result, but apparently her lawyers
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  Speaker 2: kept telling everybody because of the condition she was in,
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  Speaker 2: she had the most awful veins. She had these tiny
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  Speaker 2: little veins and they kept telling them there was no
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  Speaker 2: way the injection would get through her veins, that it
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to kill her. I mean, listen to
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  Speaker 2: this lawyer.
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  Speaker 11: It was also predictable.
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  Speaker 12: Chris's legal team told the state of Tennessee and the
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  Speaker 12: courts that her medical conditions would cause her to suffer
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  Speaker 12: an agonizing death. The state and the court dismiss Krista's concerns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't take that into consideration.
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  Speaker 12: Krista is alive right now.
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  Speaker 13: We don't have a sense of her prognosis or much
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  Speaker 13: update on her health at the moment. But we do
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  Speaker 13: know that she is alive right now and receiving life-saving
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  Speaker 13: medical care.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now they're going to argue. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: try to execute again. They're going to try to argue
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  Speaker 2: she suffered enough. She survived two executions. She can't try
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  Speaker 2: to do it again. But who knows?
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  Speaker 14: She was heard to remark that it was burning.
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  Speaker 2: This is actually the witness that was there.
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  Speaker 14: She was heard to remark that it was burning and
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  Speaker 14: painful in her arm, that her arm would explode. And
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  Speaker 14: that all sounded to me like the intravenous was no
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  Speaker 14: longer in the vein, if it ever really was. And instead,
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  Speaker 14: the chemical was then being infiltrated into the skin and
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  Speaker 14: tissues of her arm.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Some people, I remember we had a caller yesterday, said,
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  Speaker 2: why not just use a 25-cent bullet, just a firing squad.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there are, I think, seven states that still
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  Speaker 2: have firing squads. It's kind of ugly and not very
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  Speaker 2: 2026-like to have a firing squad, but there are states
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  Speaker 2: that do it. And there is an argument for it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get to this morning. Don't forget,
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, a lot going on. Now, the amazing story
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  Speaker 2: of Fly Dubai, the hijacking, the heroes on that plane,
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  Speaker 2: the pilot, unbelievably brave. This guy was stabbed so badly,
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  Speaker 2: stabbed in the head. His arm stabbed so badly, it
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  Speaker 2: was basically, they say, split in two. He's in a
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  Speaker 2: hospital in the UAE right now, recovering. They're optimistic about
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  Speaker 2: his full recovery. But it was just unbelievable how with
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  Speaker 2: all these stab wounds just bleeding everywhere, somehow this pilot
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  Speaker 2: was still able to type in the emergency codes to
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  Speaker 2: the tower, let them know what was happening. And they
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  Speaker 2: hardened those cabins, you know, after 9-11, so you can't
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  Speaker 2: get in there. Passengers, there's no way into the cabin.
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  Speaker 2: You can't even break the door. It's so hardened. Somehow,
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  Speaker 2: as wounded as he was, he got to the door
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  Speaker 2: and opened the lock. And just heroic passengers came in there. One,
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  Speaker 2: a plumber. who tackled the hijacker, put him in a chokehold,
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  Speaker 2: and Benjamin Netanyahu praising this hero, even online, plugging the
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  Speaker 2: plumber's business. He's such a hero, this plumber. But look
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  Speaker 2: at this part. The heroic plumber asked Netanyahu to tell
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  Speaker 2: Trump that I love him. That's not going to help
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  Speaker 2: him with the CNN MSNOW crowd, but... It's interesting. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to realize, if you're an Israeli, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to be so grateful to Donald Trump. The country might
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  Speaker 2: not be there right now if not for Trump. So
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: an amazing, amazing story. The most amazing part of this,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: you've got a hero like this plumber who stops the hijacker,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: but you've got a pilot so wounded, can barely use
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: his arms or anything. The miracle of all this, on
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the planes, There happened to be two off-duty pilots, just
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: happened to be among the passengers. So they screamed into
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: the cabin, does anybody here know how to fly a plane?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Two off-duty pilots are sitting there, they were able to
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: land the plane without any problems. It was an amazing story.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: So we'll keep following this. Obviously, we'll find out, as
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Netanyahu says, he'll be able to confirm very soon that
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: this was indeed a radicalized terrorist attack. It's believed it's
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: going to link to Iran. And then the retaliation for
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: this will be brutal. You know, this crazy Gavin Newsom
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: is trying to get back into the 2028 race. He
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: was the front for a while, only because there was
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: nobody else really there. And this always happens in the
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: democratic world. Two, three years out, way, way, way, way
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: too early. Some pretty boy comes along. It was Gary
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Hart at one time. It was John Edwards at another time.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And they become you know, the front runner for two seconds,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and then they always fade away. And that's what happened
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: to Gavin Newsom. He was the front runner for a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: few months, got a lot of attention, looked good, went
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: on TV, you know, wasn't afraid to go out and
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: get confronted. He went on with Sean Hannity and others,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk, remember that? But that sort of candidate always
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: fades away after a while. So Gavin Newsom trying to
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: come back. He's now doing a new round of podcasts.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: The problem is, He's selling his house in California for
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: about $ 8 million. Now, the details of the house are
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: coming out. You know, you're supposed to be a public servant.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to be a hardworking governor. But look at this.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: This house has a personal wellness oasis. It has a
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: resort-style pool, tennis court, a private casita. That means a
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: smaller house. That's a big word in L.A. They all
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: call them casitas because they're just living among Mexicans. They're
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: using all these Mexican terms now. But the other thing
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: is the house has a 5,000-bottle wine cellar. 5,000 bottles? Now,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I'm not a wine drinker, but I've seen people have
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: a wine cellar, but it's got 50 bottles. I've seen
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: people with a big wine. Maybe they got 500 bottles.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Some people have those little wine cooler refrigerators. What does
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: that hold?
• 21:30
  Speaker 15: 25 bottles?
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: Five?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Thousand bottles of wine? Who the hell would have 5,000
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: bottles of wine? That Stu Leonard's liquor store doesn't have
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: 5,000 bottles of wine. How long would it take you
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: to drink five? Let's say you drank two bottles a day.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: It would still be years. It'd still be five years
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to drink all that. I mean, that's a lot of
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: wine to keep on hand. It doesn't look good if
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: you're trying to be a public servant that you live
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: like this. You know, Some people think, oh, is Andrew
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Cuomo going to try and run in 2028? No, I
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: can guarantee you not. He got humiliated and wiped out
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: in that awful mayoral race. And he just bought a
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: $ 9 million house in Southampton, a Southampton compound for $ 9 million.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: You don't do that if you want to run for president.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: As a Democrat, you know, he's trying to look like
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: man of the people. The fact that he did this
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: and it's so public means he knows he's got no shot.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: So I don't think you'll see him in 2028, at
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: least not doing that. Hey, Lindsey Clancy's lawyer, he lost
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: his fourth attempt to get the murder charges dropped. This
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: old codger, you got to give him credit. He just
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: keeps trying and trying and trying. Now, remember, in the
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: first trial, his case was that he presented was that,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: of course, she did it. We know she did it,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: but she did it because she was all messed up
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: on these drugs they gave her and she was traumatized
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: by the psychosis. He admitted the whole theory of the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: first case. He is admitting she did it. It's obvious
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: she did it. So now he's arguing that there's no
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: evidence she did it. And this is what he's planning
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: to go into court with. His quote, where is the
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: evidence she did this? Where is the proof? Where is
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: the DNA? This case is all speculation. Well, I'm sure
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: they can bring up the transcript of the first trial
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: where he admitted she did it. So I don't know
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: what he's thinking there. But he went before a judge.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: He keeps trying to get this dismissed. No retrial. Judge
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: William Sullivan denied the motion. It's the fourth time he's
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: had this denied. He argued that the motion was silly.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: And I don't think he's going to keep trying to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: get this thing dismissed. So there's going to be another trial,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: which is good for us. It'll give us something to cover.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: But there will be another trial. So they had the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: debate last night for New York State Comptroller was Tom DiNapoli.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Very fine guy. He's the Democrat, but he's a good guy.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: You should vote for DiNapoli. Very good Comptroller. And he's
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: running against the other guy. That's how good the guy's
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: campaign is.
• 24:10
  Speaker 16: I don't know.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I can't remember his name. I met the guy. I
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: don't remember his name. But people like DiNapoli. He's pretty good.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: So they had the debate. I think it was on
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: New York One, which is why nobody ever saw it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Nobody will ever see it. Nobody knows about it. There's
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: going to be a debate next week for the Attorney General. Now,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: that is important. You want to get rid of Letitia James,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: who's just awful, just like a dirty political operative. Vote
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: for the Republican. Oh, my God. I can't. It's hard
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to say. It's a Camarita. It's a long name, but
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: she's very good. Vote for her. And then about 10
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: days from now, they'll have the gubernatorial debate, Blakeman against Hochul.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Should be great, but again, it's on New York One,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: which only has like 12 viewers and is also the
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: most left-wing, biased, crazy place, so they'll do everything to
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: protect Hochul. Hey, we'll take some calls. We've got a
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: lot more to get to on 710WOR.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekdays. Mark Simone. Only on 710WOR.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Well, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Frank in Phoenix. Frank, how are you doing?
• 25:28
  Speaker 17: Good morning, Mark.
• 25:29
  Speaker 16: Mark, my wife and I were listening to you yesterday
• 25:31
  Speaker 16: talking about the jet hijacking. And she said, why can't
• 25:34
  Speaker 16: they come up with some kind of way they can
• 25:36
  Speaker 16: get into the cockpit, they can unlock the door from outside?
• 25:40
  Speaker 16: You know, after 9-11, you would think they would have
• 25:42
  Speaker 16: come up with some kind of a plan, right?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Well, the problem is with 9-11 was these hijackers breaking
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: into the cabin and taking over the plane, so they
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: hardened the cabin so there was absolutely no way to
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: get in.
• 25:53
  Speaker 15: Hey, Mark, you know what?
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: I'm sorry.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Go ahead. If that pilot hadn't unlocked the door, this
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: plane wouldn't have been saved, and the experts say they only—
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: You're really in a hurry, aren't you? Calm down.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: You might want to try a decaf coffee. Now, experts
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: say another 40 seconds and the plane would have crashed.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: There would be no saving it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 16: And, you know, Mark, the other thing is the girl,
• 26:21
  Speaker 16: they botched her execution.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 16: People shouldn't feel sorry for her. Her and her friends
• 26:27
  Speaker 16: kidnapped the girl.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Who said anybody feels sorry for her? Nobody feels sorry
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: for her.
• 26:31
  Speaker 16: Well, they're all crying on the Fox News about this woman.
• 26:34
  Speaker 16: She suffered and suffered. They decapitated the girl.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, what's the temperature in Phoenix right now?
• 26:41
  Speaker 16: Mark, if you came out here now, you would say, wow,
• 26:44
  Speaker 16: it's beautiful. It's only 68 degrees. But during the last
• 26:49
  Speaker 16: three weeks of August. Every day it was between 108
• 26:53
  Speaker 16: and 119, and one day it hit 121. It's brutal, brutal.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: When it's 121, what happens? You can't go out at all?
• 27:03
  Speaker 16: After 100, you can't go out, you know?
• 27:05
  Speaker 15: It's just so hot.
• 27:06
  Speaker 16: You've got to stay in the air conditioning.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: You know, in New York, when the summer's over, we're
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: so sad. They don't realize in Phoenix you're thrilled when
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: the summer's over.
• 27:13
  Speaker 16: Yes, absolutely, yes.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: You're celebrating it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: You got it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks for calling. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 27:22
  Speaker 17: Good morning, Mark.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mike.
• 27:24
  Speaker 16: But it's a dry heat.
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: Don't forget.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: It's a dry heat in my oven, too. It's still
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: pretty damn hot. I wouldn't want to go in there either.
• 27:34
  Speaker 17: You know, I had a question. It's well known that
• 27:36
  Speaker 17: you're Sinatra's, you're probably, I guess, easy to say your
• 27:40
  Speaker 17: favorite male singer. But who's your favorite female singer of
• 27:43
  Speaker 17: that year?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Ella Fitzgerald, without question. Ella Fitzgerald, greatest female singer ever.
• 27:49
  Speaker 17: And where do you stand on Peggy Lee's and Margaret
• 27:52
  Speaker 17: Whiting's and people like that?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Peggy Lee was a phenomenal singer, although a very limited
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: sort of a style. Ella Fitzgerald could do anything. Peggy
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Lee was quite an incredible singer. If you're a younger person,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: you should go online and find these people. Peggy Lee,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Ella Fitzgerald.
• 28:10
  Speaker 17: I grew up, my mother controlled the radio in the house.
• 28:13
  Speaker 17: It was any WAM and it was Ella Fitzgerald and
• 28:17
  Speaker 17: Sarah Vaughan and Edie Gourmet and those types that she.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Edie Gourmet, a little schmaltzy, very talented.
• 28:23
  Speaker 17: Yeah, a little schmaltzy.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Catskill schmaltzy kind of singing. But Peggy Lee, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: she did that great classic Fever, Madonna covered it. Madonna
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: was very... A lot of these singers were very inspired
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: by Peggy Lee.
• 28:37
  Speaker 17: Yeah, because she was a real kind of... She had
• 28:41
  Speaker 17: that certain style, kind of like, you know, in the
• 28:43
  Speaker 17: Julie London sort of... you know, she, I think they
• 28:48
  Speaker 17: look better than they sang in some cases.
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Although Peggy Lee, Julie London, very beautiful voice, but Peggy Lee, much,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: much more skilled singer, jazz singer, that sort of stuff. So, uh,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: did you know them?
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: Did you interact with them?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Very well. Ella Fitzgerald used to be a regular on
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: my show. Peggy Lee was a regular guest.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, really?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 29:06
  Speaker 17: Uh did you hey did you know robin coulet i
• 29:09
  Speaker 17: happened to i'm.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Very well very well very well i.
• 29:12
  Speaker 17: Saw him recently you know he always plays i saw
• 29:14
  Speaker 17: him recently in murder she wrote episode they always play
• 29:16
  Speaker 17: suaves with sophisticated.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Guys yeah but in real life like that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 17: Or was he like a hey listen to this.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: No he was very suave but he was very uh
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: like a lot of those guys steve lawrence all this
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: in real life very very funny guys great senses of
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: humor They spent their lives working with comedians that rubbed
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: off on them. They were very, very.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you watch those old Carol Burnett shows. You'll see
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Robert Goulet or Steve Lawrence in sketches.
• 29:39
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: You can see how funny they could be.
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: He had great comic chops.
• 29:43
  Speaker 17: There's no doubt about it.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: It's 2026.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: We're not supposed to talk about Robert Goulet more than
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: one minute.
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 29:49
  Speaker 17: Or Ella Fitzgerald in the same.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: No, Ella Fitzgerald, that's different. That's a timeless legend. I'll
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: agree to that. Whenever you talk to like a Taylor
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Swift or any contemporary singer and you get into that,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: you find out they worship Ella Fitzgerald in those kind
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: of scenes, that they secretly study them and learn from them.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: And are inspired by.
• 30:09
  Speaker 17: And she had a massive output. I mean, you know.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Actually, the most albums.
• 30:14
  Speaker 11: The songwriter series that she did.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: The singer that holds the record for the most albums,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Bing Crosby, 200 albums. Number two is Ella Fitzgerald, 166
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: albums that she put out.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: That's incredible.
• 30:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: All right, great.
• 30:26
  Speaker 10: It's unbelievable.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Great call, Mike. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Ralph
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: in Stanford. Ralph, how you doing? Good morning, Mr.
• 30:34
  Speaker 19: Shimon.
• 30:34
  Speaker 15: Oh, yes, Mr. Ralph.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 30:38
  Speaker 20: I understand as a young man, you came from the
• 30:41
  Speaker 20: distant provinces of the Midwest to break into New York
• 30:44
  Speaker 20: City Broadcasting. How hard was that to do, and what
• 30:48
  Speaker 20: was your first job?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I was from the Midwest, but I went
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: to school in Boston, and while I was in college,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I worked at, first year I was at a little
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: station in New Hampshire, WFTN. By my final year, I
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: was on the best station in New England, WPRO, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: then I came to New York. But you got to
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: practice a lot. What, you want to be in the radio?
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: Oh, no, no.
• 31:08
  Speaker 20: I'm just very curious about your career because you've been
• 31:11
  Speaker 20: so successful.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Every great radio host, I think Scott Shannon, did he
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: tell us this the other day? Everybody, when they were
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: a little kid, like in their bedroom at home, they
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: would practice doing radio shows. They would even build themselves
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a little fake radio station, and you'd practice over and
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: over and over again. And as the great consultant Mike
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: McVeigh said, it was like you had to throw the
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: football through the tire a million times to practice and
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: get yourself ready. But good question, Ralph. Let's go to
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: John and Paramus. John, how are you doing?
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: Good, Mark.
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: How are you doing?
• 31:45
  Speaker 19: Perfect call.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: You've got 12 people talking. I hear squeaking, engine noise.
• 31:52
  Speaker 7: So anyway, you had the author on.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Now you're in a tornado. What the hell's going on?
• 31:58
  Speaker 19: What are you talking about?
• 31:59
  Speaker 15: So anyway, I read that really good.
• 32:02
  Speaker 21: Huh?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: You read what? No, I left.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: All right, good.
• 32:08
  Speaker 19: So anyway, I just finished a book about Roy Cohn.
• 32:12
  Speaker 16: American, it was really good.
• 32:13
  Speaker 19: Really good.
• 32:14
  Speaker 15: Did you have any dealings with him?
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: Did you know him?
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew Roy Cohn. He was the world's greatest lawyer.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: He was a genius of a lawyer. He was unbelievably brilliant.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: He was a very, very nasty guy. Could be really
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: rough and tough and nasty. One reason that made him
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: the greatest lawyer is besides being an incredible lawyer in court,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: he would do whatever he had to do. He'd put
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: a body in your trunk if he had to, whatever
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: he had to do to win a case.
• 32:39
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I can imagine.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: That book was really, and the book is really good.
• 32:43
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 18: And it's American Scoundrel.
• 32:45
  Speaker 15: It's really good.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: There are a lot of good books about Roy Cohn. Sid,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: what's his name? Sid Zion, the great writer, wrote one too.
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Just check all those books. Hey, by the way, there's
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: a huge myth out that Donald Trump was mentored by
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn trained him. None of this is true.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: They knew each other, and he did use Roy Cohn
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: as his lawyer in a certain period. Wasn't his mentor
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: or anything like that. But they forget to point out,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: at that time, the reason Trump was using him, Roy
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Cohn was the biggest lawyer around. Everybody used him. The
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Catholic Church used him. Roy Cohn was the lawyer for
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the Catholic Church. He was the Cardinal's lawyer. He was
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Aristotle Onassis' lawyer. He was George Steinbrenner's lawyer. Everybody used
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Roy Cohn, and that's when Trump used him. Hey, we
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: got a lot coming up. We got three hours every
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: day now, nine to noon every day, three hours. Then
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: at noon, you got Buck Saxton and Clay Travis. And
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: then three o'clock, you got the most listened to radio
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: show in America, Sean Hannity. You got Jesse Kelly at six.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: You got the very funny Jimmy Fallon. You got to
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: listen to that show. You're going to be amazed by
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: it every night. 9 to midnight. It's all here on 710WOR.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Mark Simone Show.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: We're going to just have to face it. It's Halloween season.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Summer's over. It's Halloween season. Then you're going to see
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving stuff everywhere. The Rockefeller Center tree is coming November 7th.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: That's like 35 days from now. The Rockefeller Center tree
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: is going to come into New York. Hey, looks like
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a slight chance of rain. It's going to be a
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: nice day today. It's going to be like 84, 85 degrees.
• 34:25
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  Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to hour number two. That's right. If you
• 35:08
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• 35:10
  Speaker 2: nine to noon every day. Three hours every day. Nine
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to noon. So a lot to get to this morning.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Just minutes ago it concluded, but it was a big
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: press conference. Kathy Hochul and Letitia James, Governor Kathy Hochul
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: on the Cornell alleged rape case. About two years too late,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: but she's on it now.
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Because it's election time and she needs to look like
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: she's busy, like she's doing something, like she's taking action.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: This rape took place about two years ago. This all
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: went to her district attorney. These district attorneys, that's a
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: state job. The district attorneys work for her. So it
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: was her district attorney that decided not to prosecute a
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: year ago. This is all her on her watch. Now
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: she's snapping into action, acting like she is going to
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: take action. She is going to get to the bottom
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: of this. Two years too late, but she's going to
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: get to the bottom of this. Remember, she's up for reelection.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: And Letitia James is up for re-election. In fact, in
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: 32 days, you can vote Letitia James out of office.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: You can also get rid of Kathy Hochul. There's a
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: very fine Republican candidate for Attorney General who you should
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: vote for. And of course, you should vote for Bruce Blakeman.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: And you can get rid of Hochul and Letitia James
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: in 32 days. So that's why they're pretending that they're
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: on top of this, that they're being decisive. They'll get
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: to the bottom of this. It's a little silly, but...
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: They're playing to the cameras. So yeah, Bruce Blakeman got
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: a great tax plan that would dramatically reduce taxes on
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: everybody in New York, especially the middle and lower incomes.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: They'll get the biggest benefit. of his tax plan, everybody
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: applauding it.
• 36:59
  Speaker 21: Our budget in New York State is twice the size,
• 37:02
  Speaker 21: twice the size of the state of Florida. So there's
• 37:05
  Speaker 21: a tremendous amount of fraud, waste, and abuse. Kathy Hochul
• 37:08
  Speaker 21: has given our taxpayer money to illegal migrants.
• 37:11
  Speaker 15: All they have to do is claim asylum.
• 37:12
  Speaker 21: They get free food, free housing, free transportation, and a
• 37:15
  Speaker 21: free cell phone.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just wasting money. Our budget, you could cut
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: it 50% without any loss of services. Just stop wasting
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: all the money. Stop overpaying for everything. And then on
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: top of all that, they're charging double, triple the amount
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: of tax they should be charging. Then they nickel and
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: dime you to death with this congestion. Pricing taxes, pied-à-terre tax.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Blakeman will get rid of all of that ridiculous stuff.
• 37:39
  Speaker 21: Every other state is trying to get high net worth
• 37:41
  Speaker 21: individuals to move there. And we're chasing them out. It
• 37:44
  Speaker 21: doesn't make any sense. It's going to hurt the middle class.
• 37:46
  Speaker 21: We're going to sit down, negotiate, bargain with the legislature.
• 37:49
  Speaker 21: And as I said, I want tax relief.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So vote for Bruce Blakeman 32 days from now.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Get the state back in shape. You know, Florida has
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: a much bigger population, much bigger population than New York.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: It has more major cities than New York. And the taxes,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: the budget is half of what ours is. It's half
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: of our budget. They just spend it carefully and wisely.
• 38:16
  Speaker 21: Immigration policy. I'm for guest worker permits, not amnesty, not citizenship.
• 38:22
  Speaker 21: But if you've been here for seven, eight, nine, ten
• 38:24
  Speaker 21: years and you're gainfully employed, you're not on welfare and
• 38:29
  Speaker 21: you never got in trouble, I think we should give
• 38:32
  Speaker 21: these people a guest worker permit. Let them stay here.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: So Blakeman for governor. If you want to donate, go
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: to Blakeman for New York dot com. Blakeman for New York.com. Hey,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: by the way, he's been, for the last few months,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: working his tail off, campaigning all over the place, constantly
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: campaigning here, there, upstate, everywhere. Now, the word is that
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: President Trump will campaign with Bruce Blakeman in upstate New York.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: You know, Trump might not be that popular right here
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: in New York City, but upstate Syracuse, A few other places.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: In fact, there's an event in Syracuse October 9th. It's
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: expected that President Trump might campaign with him. Another source
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: said President Trump considering making additional upstate campaign stops later
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: this month. Now, you've got these fake polls all over
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: the place. A Siena College poll has Blakeman trailing by 9%.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: These are these stupid media polls, college polls. Very, very rigged.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: The metrics are all rigged. Republicans at 23% of the sample.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: They should be 38%. Wrong demos. They're not using likely voters.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: They're using adults, which means whoever they want. But in
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: the real polls that the candidates use, those are much different.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Those are very expensive polls, deadly accurate. In the real polls,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Blakeman has tied her. That's why she is now in panic,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: spending a fortune on attack ads all over the place
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: on Bruce Blakeman. If you're watching television, you'll see these
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: attack ads nonstop against Blakeman. That is panic on the
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: part of Kathy Hochul. That's a lot of money for
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: all those ads. Just saturating the airwaves with them. You
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: only do that when you're in trouble. So she's seen
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: the real polls. 32 days away, you got the midterms.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Same thing with the midterms. You'll see all these polls
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: trying to convince you that Republicans are so far behind.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: The president's approval rating is so low. That's not the case.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: That's not the case. You can't really predict what will happen,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: but it's pretty much even right now. Don't take it
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: from me. Here's the CNN pollster.
• 40:44
  Speaker 22: In Iowa, where the Democrats have been getting really good polls,
• 40:47
  Speaker 22: Republicans outperformed their September polls by nine points back in 2024.
• 40:50
  Speaker 22: How about Ohio?
• 40:52
  Speaker 15: Six points.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: How about Michigan?
• 40:53
  Speaker 15: Five points.
• 40:54
  Speaker 22: And I will note that the leads that the Democrats
• 40:57
  Speaker 22: have in all of these races right now are under
• 41:00
  Speaker 22: how much the GOP outperformed back in 2024.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: So you look at this and you go.
• 41:04
  Speaker 15: You know what?
• 41:05
  Speaker 22: Maybe we should just hold on a second here because
• 41:08
  Speaker 22: we've seen this dance before and it was not a
• 41:11
  Speaker 22: dance that Democrats like when the votes are actually cast
• 41:13
  Speaker 22: and counted.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the big news yesterday was Chuck Schumer suddenly saying
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: the GOP might steal this election. Warning everybody, the GOP
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: was going to steal the election. Well, if Schumer is
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: already making excuses for a Democratic loss, he's looked at
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: some private numbers too. So that tells you a lot. Hey,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: good for Secretary of State Marco Rubio. who yesterday threw
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Iran's foreign minister and his delegation out of the country.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Iran's foreign minister. He came to be a part of
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: the UN General Assembly. And we actually did give him,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: we granted him a visa with severe restrictions, but he
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: was granted a visa and allowed to come speak at
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the UN General Assembly. Well, he's still here. So Rubio
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: ordered them to get the hell out. Just get out
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: of New York and leave. By the way, Iran has
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: got about two weeks left and then they have absolutely
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: no money. Nothing. They're totally broke. As we mentioned yesterday,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: every year, UN General Assembly, the Iranian delegation, the president,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: the foreign minister, they come to New York. They take
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of suites at the Millennium Hotel right
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: across the street from the UN. That's where they always stay.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: This year, they could not afford a hotel room. So
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: they all slept. at the Iranian embassy, and apparently a
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: lot of them are still there, but have been told
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: to get the hell out of the country by this weekend.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: You remember that reflecting pool? The guy, a Trump hater,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Olympic canoeist, vandalized the pool. He got in the pool,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: whatever he did, and they brought a case against him. Well,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: it was thrown out yesterday. This is Jeanine Pirro, the
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: DA in Washington, D.C. But it's Washington, D.C. You get
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: these Trump-hating left-wing judges. They're always going to rule against Trump.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: So the case was tossed out with prejudice. Now, what
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: that means is you can't bring the case again. The
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: judge claimed Pirro's office had shot first, asked questions later.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: It was a lightning-fast indictment process. The prosecutors assigned to
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: the case, this is the judge talking, The prosecutors assigned
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: to the case thought it was meritless, but the president
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: repeatedly disparaged them, pressured them to change course. Well, that
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: could be, but you're not supposed to get into that
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: if you're the judge. You're not supposed to even consider that.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: But again, he not only dismissed the case, but with prejudice.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: That's a big thing. That means that the U.S. Attorney's
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Office there, Jeanine Pirro, cannot refile the case. They cannot
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: bring the case. So We'll see. Trump can get pretty
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: mad sometimes when this stuff happens. We'll see what happens.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: As Jimmy Fallon pointed out, this reflecting pool stuff, if
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: you watch MSNBC or CNN or you watch The Daily
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Show or John Oliver, this is all they're talking about,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: the ballroom, the reflecting pool, the arches. Jimmy Fallon points
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: out this crowd that watches this stuff, they're all like
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: elitist people. Trump-hating old white liberals. They're older, angry white
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: liberals that watch The Daily Show and this sort of
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: stuff and don't realize that actual Americans, normal, everyday Americans
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: are working their tail off, going to work every day,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: raising kids. They don't even know about the reflecting pool.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: They don't care about the ballroom. They're not interested in
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: the arts. This is not an issue they pay any
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: attention to. This is just for the MSNOW crowd to
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: worry about. President Trump did that Time Magazine interview yesterday.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Did you know that there's still a Time Magazine? Did
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: you know that Steven still exists? Time Magazine. Remember the
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: old Time Magazine? A million years ago, it was a big,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: big deal. Time Magazine was the most important news magazine
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: in the world. If you were on the cover of
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Time Magazine, that was considered the most amazing accomplishment ever. Now,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: in today's world, nobody knows what the hell Time Magazine
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: is except a few seniors. If you're under 60, you
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: never heard of Time Magazine, you don't know what it is.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: And if you said to somebody, hey, I was on
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: the cover of Time Magazine, they don't know what a
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: cover is. What do you mean a cover? A cover
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: of what? A cover. Because it's a website. Everybody gets
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: everything online. A website. There's no such thing as a
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: cover anymore. But in the interview, they asked him if
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: he would pardon any officials from his administration. He says, sure,
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I'd do that. Well, of course, the now left-wing Time
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Magazine went crazy They went crazy and they were giving
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: him a hard time. They're arguing with him. He said, hey,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: you didn't mind pardoning Fauci. You didn't mind Biden pardoning
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: all these people. Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everyone. He
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: pardoned his son. You didn't say a word about that.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: But these left-wing Time magazines where the Democrats take total
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: control of the House, the Senate, all of that, and
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: investigate Trump day and night, they're going to subpoena his phones.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: He's got a cell phone. The first term, he used
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: what is the official presidential White House cell phone. First term.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: And that's like a special military phone that has, you
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: can make a call, receive a call. That's it. It
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: can't do anything else. It can't text. It can't receive text.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: There's nothing else on the phone for security reasons. Second term,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: he's got that thing, but he's decided he'll use his
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: own cell phone. And he's been doing that for the
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: last year and a half in his second term. He
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: has an actual Apple iPhone that he uses. And on
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: that phone, he gets texts, he sends emails, that sort
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: of stuff. But he doesn't email, but he texts all
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: the time. And he's given that cell phone number to
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: everybody in the media. Everybody has that cell number. And
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: they call him. And a lot of times they text him.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: In fact, most people text, you know, he's the president
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: of the United States. Let's say you want to ask
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: him something. You text him first. You don't just call.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: So he'll text back and they all, everybody texts back
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: and forth with him. All of you in the media, everybody,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: you know who you are. A lot of you in
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: the business world, a lot of people that know everybody's
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: been texting with him for a year and a half.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: If the Democrats win, they're going to subpoena those texts.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: He's going to fight it. You know, presidential executive privilege,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: all that, you know, private classified presidential communications, that sort
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: of stuff. But they won't give up, and they'll get
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: it before a left-wing kook of a judge, a Trump-hating
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: judge in D.C. And at some point, they may have
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: to turn over those. So if anybody's been texting with
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: President Trump, if the Democrats take over, you're going to
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: see those texts subpoenaed, received by Congress, and all those
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna and Adam Schiff,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: they will be releasing your text. They'll all be printed online.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: They'll all be public. Just beware of that. If you've
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: had some private conversations, stuff you don't want public, just
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: beware of that. We'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is
• 48:27
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• 48:29
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• 48:34
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• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Peter in North Carolina. Peter, how you doing?
• 48:59
  Speaker 19: Hey, good morning, Mark. First time call. I've been listening
• 49:02
  Speaker 19: to you for many, many years, but I finally got
• 49:04
  Speaker 19: brave enough to give you a call this morning.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you did.
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 49:09
  Speaker 19: i'd like to uh.
• 49:10
  Speaker 13: uh.
• 49:11
  Speaker 19: i'd like to be my day was first uh... you
• 49:14
  Speaker 19: in the morning and then rush limbaugh and with the
• 49:16
  Speaker 19: losing of now rush i'd just give my information.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Well, Buck and Clay show's pretty good.
• 49:25
  Speaker 14: I know.
• 49:25
  Speaker 19: They do, but they ramble a lot. I'll be honest
• 49:28
  Speaker 19: with you.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: It's a talk show. You've got to ramble. No, but they...
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: That's the whole Rush team that's doing that show from.
• 49:36
  Speaker 19: The Rush studio.
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I do.
• 49:38
  Speaker 19: I do listen to them on occasion. But listen, I
• 49:40
  Speaker 19: was wondering, you know, what happened to Maria Bartiromo? I mean,
• 49:43
  Speaker 19: she was such a big gun on Fox News. And then,
• 49:45
  Speaker 19: of course, we heard that guy fired or she quit.
• 49:47
  Speaker 19: We don't know why. And now she's like.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Well, actually, we do know the whole story. First of all,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: she's always fighting with the management. I love her, and
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: she's a good person, but always fighting with the management.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: That doesn't help. Then there was a problem with Kevin
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: O'Leary was saying some crazy things. She didn't correct them,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: and Fox had to issue all kinds of apologies. And
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: then there was the final, what was it? I can't
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: even remember now. But there was a lot of fighting.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: The contract was coming to an end anyway. They've announced
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: the replacement. It's going to be a lot of familiar...
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Fox Business faces Dagan McDowell and all that.
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 50:25
  Speaker 19: And they put, what's his name, Kudlow on and plays
• 50:27
  Speaker 19: for him and so forth for a while.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Well, Kudlow, you should watch Kudlow every day, 4 o'clock.
• 50:32
  Speaker 11: I do.
• 50:32
  Speaker 19: I see you there, too. I do watch you on there, too.
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: I enjoy you.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that is the single smartest show on television.
• 50:39
  Speaker 19: I agree with you.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Kudlow, every day, 4 o'clock.
• 50:42
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I definitely agree with that. So, yeah, you don't
• 50:45
  Speaker 19: know what she's going to do next. To me, I
• 50:47
  Speaker 19: always got a lot out of her. She's very smart, obviously.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Very smart. She's a very nice person. She'll announce something soon.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: She'll do something next. But thanks for calling, Peter. Let's
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: go to Sam in Connecticut. Sam, how are you doing?
• 51:03
  Speaker 22: Good.
• 51:03
  Speaker 23: I got some good news for Bruce Blakeman. I was
• 51:07
  Speaker 23: with my barber on Sunday getting a haircut. a Russian
• 51:12
  Speaker 23: Jew who lives in Queens. He told me that the
• 51:15
  Speaker 23: rabbis are coming out and are all telling the congregation,
• 51:19
  Speaker 23: change their registration, vote Republican. They've had it with Mondami,
• 51:24
  Speaker 23: and they're out there in droves. Blakeman's going to be
• 51:28
  Speaker 23: pulling off a lot of the Jewish vote in Queens now.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Well, that's great. And the Jewish vote, it's still a
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: small percentage of votes, but it's a turnout election. If
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Republicans turn out, If Republicans turn out, Blakeman wins. He's
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: got to win 35% of New York to win the governorship, 35%
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: of New York.
• 51:48
  Speaker 23: And I think it's doable, and I just sent him
• 51:50
  Speaker 23: another donation.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Very good.
• 51:52
  Speaker 11: Excellent.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to donate, go to BlakemanForNewYork.com, and you
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: can donate or volunteer, whatever you want to do, BlakemanForNewYork.com.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Michael in Danbury, Connecticut. Michael, how are
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 18: I wanted to talk about this Krista Pike situation.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 52:10
  Speaker 18: There was an anesthesiologist on the Buck and Clay show
• 52:14
  Speaker 18: yesterday who said that it wasn't that the lethal injection
• 52:19
  Speaker 18: didn't work. They didn't get the administration of the penobarbital
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  Speaker 18: into her veins.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: They missed twice.
• 52:30
  Speaker 18: Wouldn't you think that they would have had a phlebotomist,
• 52:34
  Speaker 18: somebody who knew what they were doing?
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Well, more than that, though, lawyers warned them that because
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: of her terrible medical condition and whatever she was screwed
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: up on, that her veins were so tiny there was
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: no way to even get into them. And even if
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: you got it into her veins, her veins were so narrow,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't have killed her. It was also predictable.
• 52:55
  Speaker 12: Krista's legal team told the state of Tennessee and the
• 52:58
  Speaker 12: courts that her medical conditions would cause her to suffer
• 53:01
  Speaker 12: an agonizing death. The state and the court dismiss Christa's concerns.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so apparently her veins were so shrunken down and
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: clogged up. It would never have gone through there correctly.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Let's go to.
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  Speaker 15: Not there.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: What happened? Oh, something happened. All the calls dropped at once.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: It's our phones again acting up, but I think it's
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: all right. I think it's all right. So, hey, we
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: got a lot coming up. We'll get to Roger Friedman
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: in a few moments. There's new Beatles stuff coming out.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: If you're a big Beatles fan, you'll want to know
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: about that. We'll take a look at Broadway, see how
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: everything is doing. We'll get to Sylvester Stallone. A lot
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: of people love this new book. We'll get to that
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: and a whole lot more coming up next on 710WOR.
• 53:50
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  Speaker 2: Well, with us now, the great entertainment reporter, Roger Friedman.
• 54:05
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• 54:11
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• 54:17
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• 54:19
  Speaker 15: So much going on this morning. I don't know where
• 54:20
  Speaker 15: to begin. Hey, Sting turned 75. Lots of great music.
• 54:25
  Speaker 15: Sting turned 75 today.
• 54:27
  Speaker 18: What?
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: How could that be?
• 54:29
  Speaker 15: I know. He looks like he's 55 or 50 or something.
• 54:33
  Speaker 15: There's never been anyone in better shape. He's on the
• 54:38
  Speaker 15: stage right this evening. He's been doing his Broadway show
• 54:43
  Speaker 15: on tour for the last, I don't know, since February.
• 54:47
  Speaker 15: And tomorrow night is the last night in London of
• 54:49
  Speaker 15: The Last Ship.
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: And it's been selling out all over the world.
• 54:53
  Speaker 15: Amsterdam, Paris, London, New York.
• 54:57
  Speaker 19: And then.
• 54:59
  Speaker 15: After he finishes tomorrow night, in another week or so,
• 55:03
  Speaker 15: he picks up his rock tour, Sting 3.0, which comes
• 55:06
  Speaker 15: to the Brooklyn Paramount Theater. You love the Brooklyn Paramount Theater,
• 55:10
  Speaker 15: don't you?
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, my favorite. The what?
• 55:13
  Speaker 15: I went there once with Cousin Brucie.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 55:17
  Speaker 15: It's a great theater. It was the famous rock and
• 55:21
  Speaker 15: roll theater of Alan Freed. And they completely, it's been restored.
• 55:25
  Speaker 15: It's right in Fort green.
• 55:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: And isn't that where the four juniors, the four seasons
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: made their debut and became famous there.
• 55:31
  Speaker 7: And yes.
• 55:32
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 55:33
  Speaker 15: All the rock star. I went there. I went there
• 55:35
  Speaker 15: with cousin Brucie and little Anthony. It was, we had
• 55:38
  Speaker 15: a fabulous time. Um, anyway, uh, love little Anthony anyway. Um, uh,
• 55:46
  Speaker 15: I think still has like 10, they just added two
• 55:48
  Speaker 15: more shows. He has 10 sold out shows at the
• 55:50
  Speaker 15: Brooklyn Paramount in November, uh, Uh, so 75, you know,
• 55:55
  Speaker 15: God bless.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at a picture of him. What does this
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: guy spend like 12 hours a day in the gym?
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: How do you get to look like that?
• 56:03
  Speaker 15: He does a lot of yoga.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, it looks pretty.
• 56:05
  Speaker 15: I eat a lot of yogurt and he has a
• 56:07
  Speaker 15: lot of yoga.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: How come we don't look like him? Look at those muscles.
• 56:12
  Speaker 15: Cause we don't, we don't do anything. I like to
• 56:15
  Speaker 15: sit in a comfortable chair.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. Um, so he doesn't need a Carnegie deli
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: in other words.
• 56:22
  Speaker 15: No, he does not eat the carnity deli. He does
• 56:25
  Speaker 15: have meat, though. I've been with him when he's had
• 56:27
  Speaker 15: steak for dinner.
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what does he have, two bites?
• 56:30
  Speaker 15: Yeah, probably. But, no, he eats on the road when
• 56:34
  Speaker 15: he's working. They make, like, everything is, you know, fake.
• 56:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 56:38
  Speaker 15: It's all made by a chef. It's great. Big music
• 56:42
  Speaker 15: drops today. Beatles, Rubber Soul, Super Deluxe package. It's this,
• 56:49
  Speaker 15: I don't know, 60th anniversary of Rubber Soul. Great stuff
• 56:52
  Speaker 15: on it, including a John Lennon, undiscovered John Lennon demo
• 56:56
  Speaker 15: from that time. All the tracks that they picked, they remastered, remixed.
• 57:03
  Speaker 15: There's demos, there's outtakes. It's a beautiful package.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: It's great for a Beatles collector, but I'm not a
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: big fan of this remixed, redid. You know, the first
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: time it was George Martin. I guarantee you mixed it
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: perfect the first time.
• 57:19
  Speaker 15: His son does it, Giles Martin. He does a great job.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:22
  Speaker 15: I think he does a great job. There are people
• 57:25
  Speaker 15: who prefer... In 2009, there was a box set of
• 57:29
  Speaker 15: all the Beatles albums. And people... George Martin had done
• 57:34
  Speaker 15: that one. And people loved that box set. But I
• 57:38
  Speaker 15: really kind of like this. And I've been enjoying it.
• 57:42
  Speaker 21: And.
• 57:43
  Speaker 15: And you'll hear some outtakes and things that we've never
• 57:45
  Speaker 15: heard before of songs from Rubber Soul. And this is
• 57:49
  Speaker 15: really the album where the Beatles switched over from Help
• 57:52
  Speaker 15: and Hard Day's Night and Ticket to Ride to their
• 57:56
  Speaker 15: really fabulous second part of their career, where it was
• 58:00
  Speaker 15: Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, the White Album, Let It Be,
• 58:04
  Speaker 15: and Abbey Road.
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 58:06
  Speaker 15: It's it's you can't even describe their career in seven
• 58:10
  Speaker 15: or eight years they did all of us we think
• 58:12
  Speaker 15: of it now it's like a long thing that went
• 58:14
  Speaker 15: on but it was a very short period.
• 58:16
  Speaker 11: Um and and uh robert.
• 58:19
  Speaker 15: Stahl is considered sort of the template for all the
• 58:22
  Speaker 15: stuff that came after.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Well back then it was the beatles beatles versus the
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: beach boys and they would do just hit singles and
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden they got into this much
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: more sophisticated studio work and it was The Beach Boys
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: did Pet Sounds, and the Beatles would respond with Rubber Soul.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: They'd go back and forth, and it really elevated everything.
• 58:43
  Speaker 15: The Beach Boys had a great record called Surf's Up.
• 58:46
  Speaker 15: I love that record, and it was very sophisticated. It's
• 58:49
  Speaker 15: Brian Wilson's, I think it's his best song. Anyway, the
• 58:52
  Speaker 15: other big music drop today is Elvis Costello's which turns
• 58:57
  Speaker 15: out to be just a fantastic box set of My
• 59:00
  Speaker 15: Aim Is True.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: It's the 49th anniversary.
• 59:02
  Speaker 15: Of course, Elvis Gonzalo would never do a 50th anniversary.
• 59:05
  Speaker 15: So he's doing the 49th anniversary of his first album.
• 59:09
  Speaker 15: And I didn't know what to expect, really, except it
• 59:11
  Speaker 15: turns out the box set is fabulous and has all
• 59:15
  Speaker 15: kinds of stuff that wasn't released as part of the
• 59:18
  Speaker 15: original album. Wonderful songs.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, but again, you know why it wasn't released? It
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: wasn't as good as the rest of the album.
• 59:28
  Speaker 15: I'll tell you why. No, no, no. It was as good,
• 59:31
  Speaker 15: but I'll tell you why. In 1977, when they put
• 59:34
  Speaker 15: out My Name is True, they picked 12 songs that
• 59:37
  Speaker 15: made him seem like an angry young guy. So the
• 59:40
  Speaker 15: songs that weren't angry and that were very melodic, that
• 59:44
  Speaker 15: broke background sound to them, really beautiful songs, they just
• 59:48
  Speaker 15: left off the album. So now all those songs are back,
• 59:53
  Speaker 15: and for the first time we're hearing them. And I
• 59:55
  Speaker 15: tell you, I was blown away by this box set.
• 59:57
  Speaker 15: Just incredible. But, you know, all this older music, legacy music,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 15: you know, we love. I went to see Neil Young
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 15: last week, and I've listened to his new album.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Neil Young?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 15: Fabulous album.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: What happened? You lose it, Pat?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 15: Fabulous album.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: Neil Young.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 15: No, he's such a great songwriter and very moving.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: If you say so.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 15: So there's a lot going on. The other thing that's happening,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 15: of course, is that the Tom Cruise movie, Digger, opened
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 15: last night in previews, and it's not very good. The
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 15: reviews are terrible, and we're waiting this morning to see
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 15: what the box office is from last night, which is
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 15: probably not going to be great. It's one of the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 15: last movies for Warner Brothers as a freestanding studio. Warner
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 15: Brothers has now merged with Paramount, and this morning they
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 15: announced that the parent company is going to be called Skydance.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: I don't like that name. Skydance?
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 15: No, Skydance. But they're still going to have Warner Brothers
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 15: and Paramount. It's just going to say a Skydance company.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: Everybody seems to love this new Sylvester Stallone book.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 15: You know, I tell you what, I read it. It's
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 15: really good. And it's all about everything that led up
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 15: to him writing Rocky. It stops at Rocky. So you
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 15: learn all about his childhood... Yeah, it's not after Rocky.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 15: It's everything before. And the other night, they gave him
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 15: a fantastic book party. I was not invited, but that's
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 15: all right. They gave him on the 37th floor of
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 15: what we used to call the GM building. Oh, that
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 15: stupid Colette Club?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 15: I don't know anything about it.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 18: Do you?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really stupid club. They act like it's
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: the most exclusive club in the world. Then when you
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: go in there, Everybody that's a member says to you,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: how are you? It's, it's all those people.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 15: Well, I don't know, but they had, I once had,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 15: I once had a boss whose mother came in from
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 15: Jericho and she said to all of us, you people
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 15: are delicious. Uh, anyway, she was like Tony Fields.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 15: Um, anyway, um, uh, they had this ritzy book party
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 15: with all these billionaires from Palm beach. And I thought
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 15: this is really, uh, tribute to Sylvester Stallone that he was,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 15: as a child, he was in a cold water flat
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 15: in Hill's Kitchen with his parents. They had no heat,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 15: no hot water. They had no money.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 24: He asked, in the book, he says to his father,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 24: I'd like to get a pet cat. And the father says,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 24: no cat, just play with the mice that are in
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 24: the apartment.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 15: I mean, that's how bad things were. And then you
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 15: see what he's done with his life. It's amazing. And,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 15: of course, this movie, I Play Rocky, is coming out
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 15: very soon this fall. And that's the story of how
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 15: he made Rocky into an Oscar-winning movie. People love this
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 15: I Play Rocky. This guy, Anthony Ippolito, plays Stallone. And
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 15: so they reenact Rocky, but it's also the struggle he
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 15: had to get it made. And people are cheering. You
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 15: remember how Rocky was? I don't know if you remember this.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 15: Were you born in 1975?
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 15: I remember going to the theater and people were so
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 15: excited about Rocky. They were standing and cheering at the
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 15: end of it.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 15: And now apparently they're doing the same thing with this
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 15: I Play Rocky. So Sylvester Stallone is having his big moment.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 15: And good for him.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 10: Oh, great.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, if you want to hear more of these stories,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: go to showbiz411. com. That's Roger's website. showbiz411. com. Roger Friedman, great
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: as always. Thanks for being with us.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 15: Thank you.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:04:01
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• 1:04:03
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• 1:04:05
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• 1:04:09
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• 1:04:12
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• 1:04:16
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• 1:04:21
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• 1:04:24
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• 1:04:38
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• 1:04:40
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• 1:04:43
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• 1:04:48
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• 1:04:54
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, the Yankees tomorrow night, game one. Yankees-Tampa seven-game
• 1:05:30
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• 1:05:31
  Speaker 11: 6.30.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a beautiful fall weekend. That's good.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: The merger has taken place. Paramount, Warner Discovery, they come
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: up with a new name, Skydance. Nobody likes the name
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: except these two Ellisons. They've decided with CNN. Now, remember,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: this is a massive conglomerate of huge media stuff. And
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: CNN is really kind of a tiny little thing. It's
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: just about 400,000 viewers. It's a last place, bottom of
• 1:06:04
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• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: this company. The guy that's been running it for years
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: is Mark Thompson. So apparently the CEO, David Ellison, has
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: met with Thompson and has said he'll keep him on.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: He can stay. He'll run it. Not going to be
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: Barry Weiss from CBS. First of all, the problem with
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: Barry White, she hasn't really distinguished herself at CBS. She
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: redid the 6.30 news, the nightly news, with a new anchor.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: Looks good, but the ratings are terrible. CBS was always
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: in last place on the evening news, but they sunk
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: even lower. The ratings are really bad, so that's not good.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: Then she tried to fix up 60 Minutes, and it
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: looked like she did the right stuff. She tried to
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: take it back to the old 60 Minutes where they
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: do really good investigative pieces and profiles of sports stars
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: or movie stars. So it seemed good, but the ratings,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: they're okay. Just not a lot of big improvements. So
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: she hasn't really distinguished herself. So they're going to keep
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: this CNN boss, CEO of CNN, Mark Thompson, on. But
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: if you look at the fine print, apparently he's got
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: a year left on his contract. So I think they
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: just don't... They don't want to pay off the contract,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: so they're letting them work out the final year of
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: the contract. It just means they haven't found who they
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: want to run it, or they haven't decided what to
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: do with CNN. You could keep it as a news network,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: or you could turn it into something else. There's a
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: lot more money in other things on cable. You could
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: do a million other things with a cable network. So
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: I think it's just leave him there, let him finish
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: out his one year left on his contract, and then
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: they'll figure out. who they want to put in there. Hey,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: it's interesting. Jimmy Kimmel has been in New York all week,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: actually Brooklyn, doing a show there all week. And he's
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: having every left wing, you know, last night it was
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: John Oliver. And who's that other dopey guy? So Seth Meyers,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: between the two of them, they have like 37 viewers.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: In fact, it's kind of insulting to them. They had
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: to have them on together. John Oliver, Seth Meyers. Neither
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: one of them is big enough to have on alone
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: as a guest. So they brought them together because they're
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: two very little tiny TV shows with very small audiences.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: They combined them. Although Howard Stern, look at Howard Stern.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: He got to come on all by himself. Not only
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: did they have Howard Stern alone, but they gave him
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: 18 minutes. That's a nice long segment. Stern and Kimmel
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: are very, very close friends. They go on vacations. The
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: wives get along. They travel together. They went to Europe together.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: They go on cruises together. They do everything together. Very close.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: They go to dinner together. Howard Stern goes to dinner
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  Speaker 2: with very few people and very rarely, but he does
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  Speaker 2: it with Kimmel and his wife. Very close. So he's
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: on the show and he looked into the camera and
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: he said, listen, ABC, nobody is a better team player.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Nobody has done more for ABC than Then Jimmy Kimmel. Well,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: of course, that's not true. But he is a guy
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: who does things. And then Stern said, you know, when
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  Speaker 2: they do those events, those corporate events for the sponsors,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: they call them the upfronts where they invite all the advertisers.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: It's like a convention for all your sponsors. And he says,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: Kimmel goes to those. Kimmel shows up at those. That
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: is really something. First of all, everybody does. It's part
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: of your deal. It's part of your contract. You got
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: to do that stuff. Every star of every network goes
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: to those things they call the up-fronts where you appear
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: on stage, you speak to all the advertisers, then they
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: have a cocktail party afterwards where you mingle with everybody
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: does that. Nothing unusual about that. Stern says, I don't
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: do that. Well, he doesn't have any sponsors. It's on
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: satellite radio. Do you ever hear the sponsors? They got
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: like two sponsors you never heard of. But hey, and
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: by the way, behind the scenes, in all of his
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: years in radio, Howard Stern was very big with the sponsors.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: He'd call them up personally. He would always talk to them.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: He'd pay a lot of attention to them. So when
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: he says, I wouldn't do it, he's been doing that
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: all his life. Now, here's the interesting part. Well, Stern
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: went on to threaten ABC almost. And he said, if
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: you cancel Kimmel, if you take this show off the air,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: there will be hell to pay. I don't know what
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: that means. Stern could mobilize his audience, which is now
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: about 26 people. He's only on one day a week,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: like 20 weeks a year or something like that. But
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: it's very interesting. ABC is owned by Disney. And the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: chairman of Disney gives an interview, long interview, in a
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: trade magazine and was asked about Kimmel and said all
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: kinds of great things about Kimmel. But at the end
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: of all of this great things about Kimmel, she points
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: out that we love him, but it's not a good
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: business model. You remember the Colbert show was losing $ 40
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: million a year. Losing $ 40 million a year. And it
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: was doing a lot better than Kimmel. So Kimmel's losing
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: a lot more money. But what they've done with Kimmel,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: they've cut his budget. The most recent cut was like 25%.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: They cut the budget 25%. And the problem is these
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: late night shows are just disasters. They're small audiences. They
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: don't make a lot of money. So most of them,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: even the Tonight Show, they can't afford to do five
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: days a week. They actually only do three, four days
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: a week. And the rest is reruns. But this Disney
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: chairman in the interview said, it's a money loser. There's no,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't work as a business model, the
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Kimmel show. You're just going to take a big
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: loss all the time. So the interviewer who's trying to
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: defend Kimmel says, well, yeah, but on YouTube, he gets
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: like a million views on YouTube. And the Disney chairman says,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: that's great. We don't make any money off that. It
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: doesn't help us in any way. There's no profit in that. So,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: you know, and here's a great media critic who's writing,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: you know, the old Howard Stern would have understood all this.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: If you got a show and it's got a tiny
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: audience and it's losing money, it's ridiculous to keep promoting
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: this thing. You know, and the critic says, Stern is
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: now like an ultra-rich liberal supporting a fellow ultra-rich liberal
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: misleading on the public on what the actual business issues
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: are and why ABC would consider dumping it. Hey, Anthropic,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: that's a big AI company. They're known for Claude, their
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: AI product. Anthropic, a big, big AI company, talking about
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: an IPO, and they're looking at November 7th. They want
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: to wait until after the midterms. But the Anthropic IPO,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: who knows? That could be very big. Who knows? It
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: might not be very big. A lot of people leery
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: about AI companies that could be facing a lot of regulation,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: but it's a California firm. They said they'll have to
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: spend $ 500 billion in the coming years on cloud computing
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: and infrastructure, $ 500 billion. Their revenue last year was $ 4. 6 billion,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: but that's like 10 times what they made the year before.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: So it is, I mean, the good news, it is
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: on the upswing. Hey, crazy little Mom Donnie, our goofy mayor. Now,
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: the good news is, and we've been telling you this
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: all along, as crazy, as horrible as his anti-Semitism is,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: as just horrifying as his ideas are, his socialism, all
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: this crap, the good news is he is a guy
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: who never had a job. He's a kid who never worked,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: never had a job, knows nothing about running a business
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: or managing or anything like that. The good news is,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: He doesn't actually do anything. President Trump has met with
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: him a couple of times. President Trump talks to him
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: on the phone a lot. One thing about Donald Trump,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: he can read people. He's very good at reading people.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: He's got like radar, sonar, and he's been telling people
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: privately about Mom Down. He's been telling people privately, the
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: guy's a coward. He's not brave. He's also very lazy.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: He's not going to do anything. He'll get nothing done.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, the one thing he does get done, he
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: makes these TikTok videos. He does podcasts. He does interviews.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: He smiles. Goes on any kind of podcast. Makes another
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: TikTok video. This is his day. This is what he does.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: So he's on this Theo Vaughn podcast. Here he is
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: again going after Netanyahu. This is a good example. You
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: remember he's screaming through the campaign. And while he's in office,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: he's screaming that we're going to arrest Netanyahu. We're going
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: to arrest Netanyahu. If he comes to New York, we're
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: arresting him. It's just talk. He just talks. Netanyahu comes
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: to New York. Mamdani does absolutely nothing. Netanyahu is here
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: for a few days. He leaves New York. And here's
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Mamdani back on this podcast saying he's calling for the
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: arrest of Netanyahu. The guy was just here. You didn't
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: do a thing. But this is the Mamdani playbook. So
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: you can be a little reassured by that. Every crazy
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: thing he says, it's just talk. He never actually does anything.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: But here he is on this podcast again. They must
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: arrest Netanyahu, and he calls for the U.S. to join
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: the ICC. That's the International Criminal Court. This is a
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: fake court that was— three guys in the Netherlands came up
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: with this fake thing, the International Criminal Court. They got
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: a couple of crazy little third-world dictatorship countries to join them,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: but nobody recognizes this court. It's not recognized by the
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: United States. Even the big Democratic leader, Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: have said, This is not a real court. Nobody should
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: recognize it. So, uh, they put out an arrest warrant
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: for Netanyahu, but again, it's not a real court. This
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: is a real court. Like a judge Judy has a
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: real court. This is like the people's court. It's just
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: something somebody made up. So, uh, but, uh, in the podcast,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: mom Donnie's talking about Netanyahu. He says the architect of
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: a horrific genocide, but this is the way this guy is. Uh,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: Anything Netanyahu did was merely a response to the Holocaust
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: that took place on October 7th. Now, that's war crimes,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: just slaughtering babies, just literally cutting the throats of babies,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: raping women. That's Hamas. You never hear a peep about
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: it from Mamdani. He doesn't even mention it. But Netanyahu
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: responds the way anybody should respond, and Mamdani yelling and screaming,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: But this is all he does. He's also on this
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: podcast talking about how wonderful socialism is. Now, you could
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: look at history, and socialism has been tried 10,000 times,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: a total failure all 10,000 times. One thing about these
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: crazy left-wing Democrats, they don't believe in science. They never
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: follow the science.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 15: For instance, an economy.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: There's a science to an economy. We know what works.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: We know what doesn't work. Because it's been tested a
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: million times. This is an actual science. Like socialism. It's
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: been tried 10,000 times. It's failed 10,000 times. Not only
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: has it failed, it's made everybody much worse. So that's
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: the science. 10,000 experiments, 100% failure rate. But again, Democrats
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: and socialists don't follow the science. They just ignore the numbers.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: They ignore the science and just keep going. But that's
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: the good news of Mom Donnie. He just does these
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: silly podcasts. Now this is a This one's a little
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: over the line here. The other thing he does all
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: day is TikTok and social media. And he's got this
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: social media team, about 200 influencers. They call it his
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: troll farm. And his new plot now is to go
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: after the big CEOs in New York, the big CEOs,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: and smear them. He's going to have these 200 influencers
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: go after them. Now, apparently there's some grown-ups... Actual adults
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: in the Mamdani administration, they are very alarmed about this.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: In fact, that's the reason we know about this. They
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: have been warning everybody, telling reporters, leaking out this project.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: They think it's disgusting. A smear campaign against New York
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: City's top CEOs. Now, hopefully, this will wake up these CEOs.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're all trying to get along with Mamdani.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: but it might wake them up to the fact that
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: they've got to actually do something. They can put together
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: massive amounts of money, massive amounts of money, and go
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: after him, social media, or just bombard the airwaves with commerce, something.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: But they're going to have to respond to this guy
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: And once and for all, stand up to him and
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: put him in his place. But this could get ugly
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: in the meantime. Red Sox out of it. Dave Portnoy,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: you know, he's a Boston guy, a Massachusetts guy, really
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: going after the Red Sox. Portnoy really going after the owner,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: John Henry, saying it was absolutely humiliating. The Red Sox
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: can't score. They're a lineup and they were just awful
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: in September. But this is what John Henry wants. I
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: don't know what that means. John Henry's the owner. Red
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: Sox owns Liverpool Football Club, owns RFK Racing. He owns
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: the Boston Globe. But Portnoy says they're just built to
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: be a fringe playoff team, to not compete for the division.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: Just a fringe playoff team that gets bounced quickly. Yeah,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: I guess it is. I've been a bunch of those
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: through the years. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: is the number.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 13: 800-321-0710.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 10: 321-0710.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Get Mark on demand by setting a preset for his
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Now back to Mark Simone.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: On WOR. Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Sandy in Rhode Island. Sandy, how you doing?
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 25: Hi, Mark.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 11: How are you?
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 25: I'm doing fine. How are you doing?
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: Let me check. Not bad. Not bad.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 25: I don't usually call in on radio stations.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we can tell.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 7: I like you.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 25: Oh, I like you, too.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 11: I want to read you something.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: Where are you in Rhode Island?
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 25: Well, I've told you before, Wesley, Rhode Island.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: What, am I supposed to remember this? We've got millions
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: of people here.
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 25: Well, you're so smart.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 25: I think you could.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: All right. What did you want to say?
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 25: It'll only take 30 seconds. I want to read you this.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 25: I think it's funny.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 25: I've given up social media for the new year. and
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 25: I'm trying to make friends outside Facebook while applying the
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 25: same principles. Every day I walk down the street and
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 25: tell a passerby what I've eaten, how I feel, what
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 25: I did the night before, and what I will do today,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 25: I will do tomorrow. Then I give them pictures of
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 25: my family, my dog, and me gardening. I also listen
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 25: to their conversations and tell them I love them. And
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 25: it works. I already have three people following me. two
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 25: police officers, and a psychiatrist.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: But, you know, here's the flaw in this. If you're
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: doing this on Facebook, you've connected and you're friends with
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: friends of yours. So you're putting this to people that
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: you know or they're people that are following you so
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: they know you.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 25: Well, I got this from the Reader's Digest. It was
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 25: submitted by a lady from Virginia.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. They still have that thing? The Reader's Digest.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 25: Oh, I thought it was funny.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: The Reader's Digest? It still exists?
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 25: I know, but could you do this? Could you walk
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 25: down the street and just talk to a nobody and
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 25: just tell them?
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: I do it all the time.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 13: That's great.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: The Reader's Digest, you mean it's like a physical little
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: magazine you get?
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 7: Well, yes.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 25: I mean, you're that young that you don't remember the
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 25: Reader's Digest.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: I didn't know it was still around. I mean, do
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: you go online and read it, or do they actually
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: send it to you?
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 25: No, no, I've had this for a while. I read
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 25: it to people once in a while.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 26: I think it's funny.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: Well, there's two people that look at the Reader's Digest,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: you and Frank Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond. You remember
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: that episode? All right, thanks for calling, Sandy. Let's go
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: to Greg in Jersey City. Greg, how are you doing? Good, Mark.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: When Disney bought ESPN, they shut down ABC Sports. Could
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: you envision Ellison shutting down one of those two units,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 3: say like have CNN on CBS or just have like
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: a CBS news channel?
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually not a bad idea. CBS is one
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: of the networks that does not have a cable outlet,
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: although NBC had MSNBC, and they realized it's a terrible
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: thing to have, so about a year ago they threw
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: it out and got rid of it. Fox is a
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: broadcast network and also has cable. Yeah, they could make
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: it a CBS cable network. Yeah, that would be a
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: good idea. Not a bad idea, actually. Let's go to
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: Ralph in Manhattan. Ralph, how you doing?
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 10: Mark, wasn't it something how Mamdani did not respond to Netanyahu?
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 10: Netanyahu tore him apart, tore him to shreds. He had
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 10: nothing to say whatsoever. I found that to reveal the
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 10: true character of the guy, didn't you?
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: Well, we know what the true character is. He's never
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: had a job. He doesn't work. He just does smiles
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: and does videos, makes TikTok videos, and Does podcasts. That's
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: his true character. Doesn't actually do anything.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 10: All that free stuff that he promised is not actually
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 10: coming true, as people can see. But I'll tell you something.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 10: There are some people that still maintain their allegiance to
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 10: this guy. They love this guy. I'm talking about the
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 10: mayor right now. You'd be surprised how many people walking
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 10: around New York City still feel a kinship toward this guy.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: You've got to remember, it's a younger crowd, and their
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 2: whole life is fantasy. It's video games. Nothing's real. So
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: it's the same thing with him. You do it on TikTok.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: You smile. You make a TikTok video. You proclaim things.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: You never actually do them. You just talk about them.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: And that appeals to a lot of younger people. Let's
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing?
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark. Mark, I'm okay. Mark, I don't know
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 7: why President Trump keeps giving credence and credibility to Mayor
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 7: Mondami by visiting him and then afterwards saying things like, oh,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 7: he could do great things. The guy is... Mondami is
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 7: a dirtbag, period. That would be like the godfather going
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 7: to meet, going to the turf of some low-life bookie
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 7: who has maybe a book enabled of four square blocks
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 7: that he takes the numbers for.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? The flaw in your argument is
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: that this is not some low-life bookie. This is the
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: mayor of New York.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but this is the mayor who constantly.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: Says— No, he's terrible, and Trump can't stand him, but
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  Speaker 2: he is the mayor of New York, so he's got
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  Speaker 2: to try to straighten the guy out as best he can.
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  Speaker 7: What's straightening him out, Mark? Stop with that crock of baloney.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 7: He hasn't been able to do anything— I understand.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: But he's got to try. He's got to at least
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: have some relationship with the guy. Also, remember, he owns
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: a massive business in New York. He's trying to— And.
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  Speaker 7: Still, Mayor Mondami, once Trump leaves, he trashes Trump. He
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 7: trashes the Republicans. He trashes Netanyahu. And please, everybody, stop
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 7: with the five-step chess game that Trump is playing. He
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 7: is not.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you've got to remember, it's not just Trump. Every
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: major figure in New York, every major CEO, business does
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: the same thing. They're all meeting with Mondami. They're talking
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: to Mondami.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and Mondami's making fools out of everything. Yesterday, I
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 7: had a comeback at rush hour from 68th Street on
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 7: the FDR Drive. The traffic was moving about five miles
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 7: an hour. The city is a mess. The highway looked
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 7: like it was falling apart. The pilings are rusting. The
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 7: steel girders, the guards on the side of the highway,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 7: it's a mess.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: That's all true, but that was true every year in
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: New York. It was 20 years ago when Bloomberg was
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: the mayor. You'd be stuck in traffic in rush hour
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: on FDR Drive. Not like now. Yes, you would.
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  Speaker 15: Of course you would.
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  Speaker 7: Not like now. Now, if it was going five miles
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  Speaker 7: an hour, it was going very fast.
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  Speaker 2: I could have counted. That was always the case in
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: rush hour in New York. Remember Giuliani had to fire
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: that traffic commissioner he had because the traffic got so bad.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: It always happens.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that doesn't matter. bode well for this city coming back.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 7: All these fools who buy in these million dollar apartments
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 7: wait in 10 years when they realize, oh my God,
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 7: what did I buy here? What did I buy?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody was saying this 10 years ago when de Blasio
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: came in.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and what about the fact that now we're paying
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 7: more for taxes, for water, for goods and services?
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: I understand. We'll get Blakeman in there and we'll get
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: that taxes reduced.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 7: And how's he going to get it down when we
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 7: have all these nuts on the city council, the principal?
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: Well, he'd be working with the state legislature. He's pretty
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: good at that. He's done that all his life, negotiate
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 2: with Democrats. But Vincent, great call as always. Thanks for calling. Hey,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: when we come back, the great actor, writer, producer, director,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: William DeMeo. Have you seen the series Grave's End? It's
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: like the new Sopranos. It's a new season coming up, too.
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to him next. It's a good show, Grave's End.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 2: We'll get to that coming up on 710WOR.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, live from the WOR Life Fact Studios.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's this great series called Grave's End.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: It's on Amazon Prime, season three, just released. Gravesend, if
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: you love gangster films and mob stuff, and it's a
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: wonderful series. A lot of you already know it, but
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: many of you might not. Gravesend, it's on Amazon Prime.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: It's produced, directed, written, stars the great writer, director, actor,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: William DeMeo. Of course, you remember him from The Sopranos
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: and Bronx Tale and a million other things. william de
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: mayo how you doing.
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  Speaker 26: I'm great mark it's always a pleasure to come back
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 26: to you you're a legend yourself and you know new
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 26: york radio buddy you know my i just was on
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 26: with sid and he told me to tell you he
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 26: says hello to you sid rosenberg's fan of you as
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 26: well and i know you're a fan of him but
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 26: um you know Appreciate being on with you again, my pal.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: Boy, you're like Henry Kissinger, a shuttle diplomacy going from
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: one side to the other, from Sid to here. I
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: like that. That's pretty impressive. So, hey, Sid's in the series, too, right?
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Sid's in the series.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 26: But I told him I was going to be speaking
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 26: with you today, and he's a fan of you, and
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 26: I know you listen to him as well.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 11: You guys, you know, it's great.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 16: New York.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 11: It's just, you know, New York radio, buddy.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't be in the series, though, right? I
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: don't look like a gangster, do I?
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 11: Hey, we can find a place for you, buddy.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: No, but I don't.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 10: Come on, buddy.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: I don't look like Pauly Walnuts or anything like that.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Pauly Walnuts, a Brooklyn guy. Tony Sirico.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: Graves End. It's a great series. And this is season three,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: but part one, right? There's more coming?
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 17: Yes, yes, yes.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 26: So season three, part one is available now for purchase
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 26: on Amazon Prime and We're proud to say that we
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 26: were in the number one spot since it came out.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 26: It's been really, the fans have came out and were
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 26: waiting for it. And they all stepped up. And I'm
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 26: so proud of our fan base and the people.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: Did we lose them?
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 11: A lot on Amazon Prime. So we have a great
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 11: fan base. All right.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: The new season is out. A lot of big names
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: like to appear on Gravesend. Who do you got this season?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 26: Yes, yeah, no, we got a lot of new people, Mark,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 26: we have, you know, we got Shaquille O'Neal, you know, Shaq,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 26: and his group, which includes.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 11: Maino, great rapper, and Peter Gunz, another great rapper, and.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 26: James Harrison, you know, the linebacker from the Steelers, I'm
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 26: a big Steeler fan, so we have him in the show,
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 26: we have the legendary Talia Shia from The Godfather, and
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 26: of course Rocky, yeah, she's added Vince Cortola, you know,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 26: Johnny Sack from the Sopranos, and then Dominic Cheney, see
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 26: uncle junior from the Sopranos and, you.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 11: Know, Johnny, all of the Godfather.
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  Speaker 26: We had, we ended up, we added a nice new
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 26: group of people to, to this, to the third season,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 26: Anthony Rodia, the great comedian. We were very happy with, um,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 26: the new additions to season three.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Graves end. It's on Amazon prime and go ahead.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 26: And I forgot Tony Danza. I can't forget him. Tony
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 26: Danza's in part two.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 26: Tony Danza's in part two. Part two is coming out
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 26: around Christmas time, seven episodes. But right now, you know,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 26: we want to keep the trending going and everybody get
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 26: out there and watch Grey's End season three, part one
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 26: on Amazon Prime. Wow.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 2: Hey, so we've all watched Goodfellas a billion times and
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: The Godfather a billion times. Today's gangster, 2026 gangster. They're
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: a lot different, right? They don't wear the velour sweatsuits
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: anymore and they don't have the flip phones anymore. What's
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: today's gangster like?
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 26: Well, they're not as stereotypical as in the past. I
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 26: would say that today's, you know, they're just obviously more
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 26: low key, but it's hard to be low key when
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 26: there's a camera on every corner and you got people
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 26: on podcasts and stuff like that, bringing their names up
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 26: every five minutes. But, but they try to, they try to,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 26: you know, it's definitely a more low key. I don't
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 26: think you'd see as many guys like in front of
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 26: a social club as You would in Gravesend 1987, our show.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so the show takes place in the 80s. That's
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: the reason I ask. It's a great time period. You know,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: the worst thing is when they try to do it
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: in Boston, like this Whitey Bulger. Remember the movie Departed?
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: Boston gangsters. It doesn't work. You know, gangsters have to
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: be at the Copa or hanging out with Frankie Valli.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 2: They can't be in Boston, right?
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 26: Speaking of Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli is... we have a
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 26: lot of his music in, in season two. And we, we,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 26: you know, he's a great guy, Frankie.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 26: But getting back to what you were saying, I mean,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 26: you know, the Coldplay is, you know, good fellas, uh,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 26: you know, just, just something special about shooting. Like we shoot,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 26: a lot of people do these movies and these TV
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 26: shows about New York and they shoot it in Atlanta.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 26: They shoot it in, you know, different parts of this,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 26: of this, of America, instead of shooting it in New York, we,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 26: we shoot everything right in Brooklyn on the streets, uh,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 26: you know, all in the, in the boroughs, you know, and, and,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 26: and restaurants and very well-known places. We shoot all over,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 26: you know, the places in Brooklyn. So it's as, it's,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 26: it's as authentic as it could be.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah. William DeMeo is the star. He's also the writer
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: and the director. It's a great series. Gravesend season three
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: just released. Hey, I don't know if you can explain this,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: but what is it about gangsters? You could watch the
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: Godfather a zillion times. You could watch Goodfellas a trillion times.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: What is it about gangsters that so fascinates us?
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 11: Well, a perfect example of that is like The Sopranos, right?
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 26: Because The Sopranos was, no one thought it was going
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 26: to be like the number one show probably in history.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 11: It came out, and when it came out, I mean,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 11: it just took the world by storm.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 26: And we're kind of seeing that with Gravesend, you know,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 26: following The Sopranos, which, you know, years later... I just
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 26: think that, you know, it's an escape for people. And
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 26: I think they kind of like root for the bad
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 26: guys who actually kind of have the good things with
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 26: them as well. You know, you could identify with characters
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 26: like a Tony Soprano who one minute will choke you
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 26: and knock you out.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 11: And then the next minute he's in his backyard with
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 11: the ducks.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 26: So, you know, if you kind of look at the
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 26: way these guys are, they joke around with each other,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 26: they hang out with their friends, they crack jokes.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 11: And stuff like that.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 26: And I think people kind of, it's an escape for
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 26: people in a way where, you know, these movies look,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 26: if you look at, you know, some of the greatest actors,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 26: Robert De Niro and, and, uh, Al Pacino. And these
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 26: guys will Joe Pesci or been in so many movies,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 26: but what are they known for?
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 26: For Goodfellas. They're known for Scarface. They're known for Kalito's way.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 26: They're known for Donnie Brasco. It just seems like those movies, uh,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 26: really resonate with people, like you said.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the most popular genre of anything in the film.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: But the latest, greatest is Grave's End. It's season three.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: It just dropped, season three. It's on Amazon Prime. And
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: William DeMeo, you want to give us a little hint
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: as to what's coming up towards the end of the season?
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah, sure.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 26: Well, you know, everyone that was watching season one and
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 26: two know that Charlie came out of prison. you know,
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 26: welcome home cause played by a wonderful actor, Chris Tardio.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 26: And he, you know, that's Benny's cousin and he's out now. And,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 26: and Chaz Palminteri is, is Cesar Tramaldo. And it's the
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 26: power struggle between the two sides of the Calezzo family.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 26: And then you got Shaquille O'Neal who steps in playing
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 26: a character named Mustafa, who kind of like runs the
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 26: bed style section of Brooklyn and they, you know, him
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 26: and Benny become friends and he gets in the middle
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 26: of this whole thing. And it's a, it's a fun
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 26: ride and it's, uh, we got all the same, you know,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 26: great music and great Cadillacs and Lincolns and Dracar Cologne. And, and, uh,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 26: you know, the woman with the hairdos and, you know,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 26: the great, the, the, the Velour sweatsuits from the Brooklyn brand.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 11: And, uh, yeah, that you, you would want to see
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 11: in there.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 26: Um, and, uh, it's, it's the struggle that happens between
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 26: the two parts of the family that, I think people
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 26: are really identifying with right now and coming out to watch.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 26: So we appreciate our fans and we appreciate them spreading
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 26: the word because coming on with shows like you, like
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 26: last season and, and Sid and all these different, you know,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 26: shows and Rosanna Scotto and all of these great interviews
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 26: I do, you know, as, as built up our fan base.
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 26: So I always appreciate going on with you, Mark, you're
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 26: a legend yourself.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 11: You know, you've been on.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 26: The radio for so many years and, I always love
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 26: listening to you and you're, you're a great guy.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 11: Thank you for having me.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: Anytime. We love, I love the show. It's graves end.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: Everybody go watch it. If you haven't seen it from
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: the beginning, start with season one. But, uh, if you're
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: a big fan of graves and a lot of people
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: are season three, just released. It's on Amazon prime video,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: Amazon prime. It's called graves. And so William DeMayo, congratulations.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: Great show. And we'll talk again soon.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 11: Thank you.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 26: I can't wait to come back to you, Mark. Have
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 26: a great day. God bless you. And, you know, always
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 26: keep up the great work yourself.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: All right. Take care. Talk to you soon. Take care.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful show. Graves End. You'll love it. Amazon Prime. Hey,
• 1:37:43
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• 1:37:46
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• 1:37:51
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• 1:37:58
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• 1:38:01
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• 1:38:03
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• 1:38:07
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• 1:38:18
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• 1:38:21
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  Speaker 4: He's always a headline ahead mark simone 710 wor.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: Well hey the uh terrible cornell uh gang rape uh
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: allegations horrible story uh kathy hokal holding a big press
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 2: conference this morning yelling and screaming about uh This poor girl,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: Cornell failed her at every turn. You know, if you
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: look at the actual track record of all this and
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: the timeline, Cornell did take action. They expelled those kids.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: They closed the fraternity. They turned the whole thing over
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: to the local DA, the district attorney, who works for
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul, by the way. District attorneys, that's a state job.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: It was Kathy Hochul's district attorney. He's the guy that
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: didn't prosecute. He's the guy that decided not to. So
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: now she's removing him from the case, appointing Letitia James,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: but this is two years after the rape took place.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: So Hochul, because it's an election year, because she's probably
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: going to get beaten, trying to look like she's on
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: top of this and she's taking action. Well, where was
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: she for the last year? When the guy turned down
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: the case originally, where was she? Well, we're out of time.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: I'll be back Monday. Don't forget, it's three hours every day,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 2: nine to noon, nine to noon every weekday. I'll see
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: you Monday at 9 a.m. Have a great weekend. Mark
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: Simone here on 710WOR.