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FULL SHOW: Gubernatorial race in NYC; Billy Joel's announcement. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is 710WOR, where the Mark Simone Show starts now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now it's Friday, finally. Now it's going to rain today,
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  Speaker 2: but it's going to be a nice weekend. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to rain today, off and on, and then sunshine all weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Not warm, it's going to be cool, but sunshine all weekend.
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  Speaker 2: A lot to get to. We'll get to Katie Zachariah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to Elon Omar, we'll get to Susie Wiles,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to Mamdani and Blakeman and Hochul and a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot more. 18 days until the election. 18 days
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  Speaker 2: until the election.
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  Speaker 3: Two and a half weeks away.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump goes to Georgia today and then from Georgia
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  Speaker 2: for the first time beginning of the season, he'll after
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  Speaker 2: that go to Palm Beach, Florida. Well, he'll spend the
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  Speaker 2: weekend at Mar-a-Lago. He hasn't been there in a long time.
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  Speaker 2: It closes for the summer. It closes right after Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 2: It usually opens around Halloween, but it's going a little
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  Speaker 2: early because there's a big MAGA something dinner. Then there's
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  Speaker 2: an RNC dinner tonight that he will be at. That's
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  Speaker 2: at Mar-a-Lago. So first weekend back. It's almost, oh, it
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  Speaker 2: is the middle of October. So he'll be back there.
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  Speaker 2: Election looks pretty good. Republicans, pretty good for the Senate election.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like they should win the Senate, despite all the
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  Speaker 2: fake polls you're reading out there. The House is in question, though.
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  Speaker 2: That's too close to call. We'll have a great pollster
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  Speaker 2: with us later on in the program, so we'll get
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  Speaker 2: the latest on that. Now, Katie Zachariah. It was shaky,
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  Speaker 2: that first briefing. She was nervous. It was shaky. Her
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  Speaker 2: main problem is her voice. She's got kind of a
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  Speaker 2: shrill voice. It's not a pleasant voice. It's not an
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  Speaker 2: authoritative voice. That's the problem. But But not all press
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  Speaker 2: secretaries do. Now, usually when you become the press secretary,
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  Speaker 2: you spend a couple of weeks preparing. You go to
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  Speaker 2: the White House. You go over all the stuff. You
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  Speaker 2: do practice rounds. You meet with all the principals in
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  Speaker 2: the White House. You get up to speed, every detail
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  Speaker 2: of every issue. And again, you really spend a couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks prepping. Then you do your first briefing. Well,
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  Speaker 2: she got there on a Sunday. Monday was a holiday,
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  Speaker 2: nobody was in the White House, and then all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden tried to do her first briefing on a
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday with no preparation. That wasn't a good idea. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't smart. She was on Hannity last night, and Sean
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  Speaker 2: gave her a real tough grilling. I mean, a very
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  Speaker 2: polite one, a very nice one, but it was a grilling. Anything,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's nothing you could ask her that he
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  Speaker 2: didn't hit her with. He asked her everything and anything,
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  Speaker 2: and she was pretty good on there. Now you're going
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  Speaker 2: to read in the Fake news, or if you're watching CNN,
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  Speaker 2: they'll tell you it was a train wreck. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a train wreck. Listen for yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Given the fact that I'd been on the job less
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  Speaker 4: than maybe eight hours and had a briefing book in
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  Speaker 4: the morning, I feel like I did my very best, Sean,
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  Speaker 4: to deliver for the American people that day.
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  Speaker 2: What is that? Wait, hang on. That's my phone. Wait,
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  Speaker 2: hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Sorry about that. Now,
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  Speaker 2: her voice is a little shrill. It's kind of childlike-ish.
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  Speaker 2: But again, that'll smooth out. She'll get better at that.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as content, she was fine. And he
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  Speaker 2: asked her about saying she was a lawyer and she's
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  Speaker 2: never passed the bar. And she went through all of that.
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  Speaker 2: She went to Pepperdine, which is a very fine law school,
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  Speaker 2: graduated from Pepperdine, has a law degree, and did take
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  Speaker 2: the bar in California and didn't pass. Now, that's not unusual.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people don't pass the bar the first time.
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  Speaker 2: But she never went back and took it again because
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  Speaker 2: at that time, she's married and her husband has to
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  Speaker 2: go to China for a big job. She's going to China.
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  Speaker 2: So she immediately goes to China. Now, she has worked
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  Speaker 2: as doing legal work for corporations. And while in California,
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  Speaker 2: she worked at the Shenzhen Law Firm. So she's worked
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  Speaker 2: at law firms. She was one of four international associates
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  Speaker 2: who drafted multi-million dollar agreements for cross-border transactions and all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of complicated legal stuff. So she did a lot
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  Speaker 2: of legal work. Now, you can do that without passing
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  Speaker 2: the bar. She's a lawyer who didn't pass the bar.
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  Speaker 2: So you can do the legal work in a firm
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  Speaker 2: as long as a barred attorney, someone who has passed
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  Speaker 2: the bar, is there to sign off on it, you're fine.
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  Speaker 2: And people point to, there have been judges who went
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  Speaker 2: to law school, have a law degree, but never actually
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  Speaker 2: passed the bar. There was Judge Thomas Griffin, U.S. Court
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  Speaker 2: of Appeals, D.C. Circuit was confirmed. He'd served as a
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  Speaker 2: general counsel at Brigham Young University. He never passed the
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  Speaker 2: actual bar exam, but he was a trained lawyer with
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  Speaker 2: a law degree. So it's not a big deal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they're making it sound like it's the greatest scandal. It's nothing.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely nothing. She hasn't been appointed attorney general, press secretary,
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  Speaker 2: a law degree. is absolutely not essential in any way
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  Speaker 2: to be the press secretary. It has no relevance to
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  Speaker 2: this whatsoever. But it's fake news. They've got to have
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  Speaker 2: something to yell and scream about, huff and puff about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you run a fake news channel, if
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  Speaker 2: you run MSNOW or CNN, you've got to get those
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  Speaker 2: people riled up. It's like people with the pitchforks and torches,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got to give them red meat, throw them stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So anything you think is a scandal, they'll throw out. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the Susie Wiles stuff, the New York Times writing an
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  Speaker 2: article about how women, women are all getting thrown out
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  Speaker 2: of the Trump administration. They're trying to make it look
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  Speaker 2: like a female issue. It's not. It's just people that
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  Speaker 2: Trump wasn't happy with and removed them. A New York
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  Speaker 2: Times headline, the disappearing women of the Trump administration. But again,
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  Speaker 2: there are people he wasn't happy with. Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard,
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  Speaker 2: Pam Bondi. They just, you know. Thought they would do well.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't do well on the job, and he removed them,
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  Speaker 2: which is what you're supposed to do. But eight female
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  Speaker 2: cabinet-level officers, Lori Chavez de Ramirez. I don't even remember
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  Speaker 2: who that is. Oh, she was the labor secretary. A
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  Speaker 2: couple others you wouldn't remember. But Susie Wiles is the
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  Speaker 2: one on the chopping block now. We got reported by
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  Speaker 2: somebody that Susie Wiles was close to being dismissed. She's
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  Speaker 2: the White House chief of staff. Apparently it says, now
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  Speaker 2: who knows? Who believes this stuff? This is media ideas,
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  Speaker 2: a very, very biased left-wing website. Political reports that Trump
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  Speaker 2: freaked out that the news was out. Well, he can
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  Speaker 2: freak out, but I know he is considering getting rid
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  Speaker 2: of Susie Wells because he's been asking everybody. He's been
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  Speaker 2: running it by anybody and everybody. So the problem is
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  Speaker 2: he'll ask everybody. He talks to hundreds of people a day,
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  Speaker 2: very smart people. I mean, if you need opinions... He's
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  Speaker 2: talking to the most brilliant executives, smartest people, the most
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  Speaker 2: brilliant politicians all day long. So if you need to
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  Speaker 2: do a survey, that's the group to do it with.
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  Speaker 2: But when you ask hundreds of people, word's going to
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  Speaker 2: get out. So he can freak out. But it is
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  Speaker 2: being talked about there. Now, voter fraud. Well, there are
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  Speaker 2: mail-in ballots being sent out to people that aren't citizens.
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  Speaker 2: There are people that.
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  Speaker 2: Shouldn't even be voting. It's going on like crazy. They've
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  Speaker 2: asked California about 20,000 ballots that went to non-citizens. And
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  Speaker 2: California refused to respond. So there's all kinds of investigations.
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  Speaker 2: Justice Department looking into it.
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  Speaker 6: I can confirm that the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection
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  Speaker 6: Service are investigating a series of suspicious mailings. that have
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  Speaker 6: been sent to various addresses nationwide. Some of those, including
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  Speaker 6: secretary of state offices and the related election offices. We
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  Speaker 6: have intercepted some of these letters and they are in
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  Speaker 6: law enforcement possession.
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  Speaker 2: Now, one of the reasons this happens, you got some
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  Speaker 2: very bad secretaries of state. They're the ones in charge
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  Speaker 2: of the ballots and the voting in their states. And
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  Speaker 2: you remember George Soros a few years ago spent a fortune, many,
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  Speaker 2: many hundreds of millions of dollars getting these secretaries of
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  Speaker 2: state installed, real bad left-wing woke crazies into the secretary
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  Speaker 2: of state jobs in many, many, many states. So that's
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  Speaker 2: why it's hard to control. And whatever the steps the
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  Speaker 2: Justice Department is taking probably won't have any effect on
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  Speaker 2: the midterms because it's only 18 days a week, not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time to do anything. So, hey, last
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  Speaker 2: night was the Al Smith dinner. It's an off-year Al
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  Speaker 2: Smith dinner. It's not a presidential year where the candidates
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  Speaker 2: show up. But the strangest sight of all at the
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  Speaker 2: Al Smith dinner was Zoran Mamdani in a white tie
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  Speaker 2: and tails. But there he was at the Al Smith dinner.
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  Speaker 2: It's black tie in the audience, but up on the dais,
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  Speaker 2: it's white tie and tails. So you would think he
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't do that. You would think he's such a socialist anti-elitist.
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  Speaker 2: But there he was. sitting up on the dais with
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  Speaker 2: the billionaires and the elite in his white tie and tails.
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  Speaker 2: Cardinal Dolan, who's still a big part of New York City.
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  Speaker 2: He was the honoree. He was the keynote speaker.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks for inviting this now-retired, unemployed pensioner on Social Security
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  Speaker 7: and a fixed income as your speaker this evening.
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  Speaker 2: I used to be in Who's Who?
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  Speaker 8: Now I'm Who's He?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's an old joke, but he was very good.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent last night. The emcee, the comedian Jim Gaffigan.
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  Speaker 9: We have a pretty diverse dais. We have with us
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  Speaker 9: the 1%, the. 01 %, and the. 001 %. Sadly,
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  Speaker 9: Mayor Bloomberg couldn't make it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the first one he ever missed.
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  Speaker 2: But it was strange. There was Mom Donnie up there
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  Speaker 2: in a white tie and tails. Now, it's a very,
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  Speaker 2: you look at the pictures, you think this is a
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  Speaker 2: very serious dinner. No, it's actually a lighthearted dinner. It's
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  Speaker 2: a roast. Everybody jokes around. The other honoree was Police
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  Speaker 2: Commissioner Jessica Tish. And she was pretty funny, too.
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  Speaker 10: Things have got a little hot for me this week,
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  Speaker 10: just in case.
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  Speaker 11: Anyone hiring?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think Mom Donnie's going to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of her. But she was good last night.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of talk these days that the mayor's
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  Speaker 5: friends don't like me.
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  Speaker 11: That is simply not true. President Trump and I get
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  Speaker 11: along great.
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  Speaker 2: All right. That's not bad. Not bad. You know, I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: she's not a comedian, but you have somebody on your
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  Speaker 2: staff who writes some jokes for you, reach out to
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  Speaker 2: Some comedian, you know.
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  Speaker 3: To give you a few jokes.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of Mom Donnie, in the debate, Blakeman really
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  Speaker 2: went after Mom Donnie, calling him all kinds of names.
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  Speaker 2: And it was odd that Kathy Hochul didn't defend him
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  Speaker 2: when it came to her. She didn't say anything to
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  Speaker 2: defend him. So I thought maybe Mom Donnie might not
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  Speaker 2: like that. You know, she can't win without Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 2: She needs Mom Donnie to get her over the finish
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  Speaker 2: line in New York City. Well, Mamdani is still there.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the fight. Mamdani coming out swinging. He even
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  Speaker 2: made a video. But Mamdani now going after Blakeman.
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  Speaker 5: It is hard for anyone to keep up with all
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  Speaker 5: of the bigotry and racism that Bruce Blakeman exhibits on
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  Speaker 5: a regular basis. So I think that the governor did
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  Speaker 5: a good job and I'll never fault someone for not
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  Speaker 5: being able to catch all of it because that is
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  Speaker 5: a fool's errand when it comes to Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: Right now he's trying to you know crush blakeman but
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  Speaker 2: that is quite a tribute to blakeman because one thing
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  Speaker 2: you'll never see in blakeman is any racism or bigotry
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  Speaker 2: there's never been a hint of that an allegation of
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  Speaker 2: that i can tell you knowing the guy 30 years
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  Speaker 2: there is no bigotry or race nothing that's a preposterous
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  Speaker 2: charge but again it's a tribute to blakeman they can't
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  Speaker 2: find anything to attack him on they can't come up
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  Speaker 2: with an attack so they go to that cheap joe
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  Speaker 2: biden crap you know joe biden used to do that
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  Speaker 2: whoever he was running against is a white supremacist he's
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  Speaker 2: a racist uh he's a q anon he's a whatever
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  Speaker 2: whatever stuff they would have all this crazy stuff that
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  Speaker 2: didn't fit but it's just cheap joe biden crap that
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  Speaker 2: you do in a debate so if blakeman's using that
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  Speaker 2: it means he couldn't find anything to go after blakeman
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  Speaker 2: on but he did put out the first video Mamdani
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  Speaker 2: campaign video.
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  Speaker 12: Governor Kathy Hochul actually fights for working families in New York.
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  Speaker 12: When Bruce was busy, or actually, Bruce wasn't that busy,
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  Speaker 12: Governor Hochul was helping us close a $ 12 billion budget
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  Speaker 12: deficit here in New York City. And when New York
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  Speaker 12: City needed a partner in delivering free universal childcare, Governor
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  Speaker 12: Hochul didn't just help us deliver 2,000 new seats for
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  Speaker 12: two-year-olds this year. She worked with us so we could
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  Speaker 12: deliver 10,000 more seats next January. That's why I'm voting
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  Speaker 12: for Governor Hochul, because she's the real deal for New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman?
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  Speaker 12: He's a bad apple.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Listen, that's a Mamdani video, but it'll help
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  Speaker 2: Hochul with the Mamdani voters. She needs them. She has
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  Speaker 2: to win the real nuts of the left wing, and
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  Speaker 2: that'll help with them. As far as that, Blakeman is
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  Speaker 2: not busy. I mean, again, ridiculous. Blakeman's known for being
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  Speaker 2: a workaholic. Blakeman's known for going from 6 a.m. to
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  Speaker 2: midnight every day, not only in the office, but going
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  Speaker 2: to everything, every event, every meeting, every town hall, everything
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  Speaker 2: you can go to. He's just nonstop all day and night,
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  Speaker 2: always has been. So, again, a kind of a tribute
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  Speaker 2: to him that they couldn't find anything to go after
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  Speaker 2: him on. Hey, the horses. This is an important point.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this whole thing about getting rid of the horses.
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  Speaker 2: They have to get rid of the horses. It's inhumane.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just Mamdani, but it's Julie Menon, the
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  Speaker 2: city council speaker, who's starting to look more and more weird,
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  Speaker 2: this city council speaker. Very strange. She's pushing this. The
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  Speaker 2: reason you have to get rid of the horse is
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  Speaker 2: growing public safety liability. She said it's about public safety. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's look at the facts. One horse died in 100 years.
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  Speaker 2: 100 years of operations. No, excuse me. It's not the horse.
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  Speaker 2: It's one person died. In 100 years of the horse-drawn carriages,
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  Speaker 2: only one person was killed having anything to do with
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  Speaker 2: those horse-drawn carriages in a hundred years only one person
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  Speaker 2: died as a result of the horses with the e-bikes
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  Speaker 2: there have been 113 that have been 130 that have
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  Speaker 2: been killed in seven years so one person died as
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  Speaker 2: a result of the horses in 100 years 130 Actually,
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  Speaker 2: it's 133. 133 died just in seven years. So that's
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  Speaker 2: like 16 deaths a year by e-bikes. One death every
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  Speaker 2: hundred years by horses. So it doesn't look kosher, this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing. Some people think Mamdani just wants to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of anything that he thinks is elite. It's virtue
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  Speaker 2: signaling from Mamdani. Also, the Plaza Hotel closing. And we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that coming up. Apparently... He was asked to
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  Speaker 2: help with that and wouldn't talk to anybody. So it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when you come to, if you're, we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of listeners around the country, when you come
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  Speaker 2: to New York this Christmas and you're around Central Park,
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  Speaker 2: you won't see, the plaza will be all covered up
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  Speaker 2: in scaffolding. You won't see the horses. It'll be different. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we got a lot more to get to coming up.
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  Speaker 13: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 11: Well, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know that Apple, the corporation Apple, yesterday with the closing
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  Speaker 2: price of the stock is now above the $ 5 trillion mark. Remember?
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  Speaker 2: A few years ago, there was the first company ever,
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  Speaker 2: Apple's the first company ever to be worth a trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: First trillion dollar company. Well, it just passed the $ 5
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  Speaker 2: trillion mark. There's only two companies worth more than $ 5 trillion.
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  Speaker 2: Apple and the other? No, it's NVIDIA. NVIDIA. Both became
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  Speaker 2: the only $ 5 trillion companies in the world. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the Plaza Hotel. So I went there yesterday, talked
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  Speaker 2: to the employees. Most of them had no idea the
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  Speaker 2: hotel was closing. They found out when it was in
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  Speaker 2: the newspaper. Nobody warned them ahead of time. The Plaza Hotel,
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  Speaker 2: the landmark Plaza Hotel, is closing, they say, for four
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  Speaker 2: years for complete renovations, including the outside, the facade. That
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  Speaker 2: means it'll be covered up, scaffolding. It'll be covered up
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  Speaker 2: for four, five years. Part of the hotel are condos. Now,
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  Speaker 2: apparently the condo owners were told months ago about this plan.
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  Speaker 2: And obviously, they're not happy about it. It's a mess.
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  Speaker 2: But half the condos aren't occupied. It's not the best
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  Speaker 2: place to live. And a lot of people I know
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  Speaker 2: that live there are not happy there. But sales were
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  Speaker 2: pretty tough anyway. Like right now, there's 29 units on
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  Speaker 2: the market. This is before the closing was announced. 29
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  Speaker 2: units on the market. Now, with the place closed for
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  Speaker 2: four years, nobody's going to buy any place there except
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  Speaker 2: With it closed, and it'll look like a mess when
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  Speaker 2: it's closed, it might drive the price of those apartments down.
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  Speaker 2: So you might see some bottom feeders looking for something there.
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  Speaker 2: The Plaza Hotel has 378 union workers. The hotel says
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  Speaker 2: they'll take them back when they reopen at the same pay. Well,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: what are they supposed to do for four years? The
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: hotel union for that hotel, Hotel and Gaming Trades Council,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: says it'll try to place them elsewhere in the meantime.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And we'll see. Now, they're saying four years, but remember,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: the Waldorf closed, and they said for four years. It
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: ended up being 10 years, so anything can happen. The
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Plaza is actually owned by Qatar, the country of Qatar.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: It's the Qatari Hospitality Group. They own some big hotels
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: around the world, Grosvenor House, the Savoy in London, Carlton
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: in Cannes. They have hotels in all over Europe. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: they also own the Dream Hotel, the great hotel. hotspot
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: downtown meatpacking district, the dream hotel. They own that as well,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: but they own the, uh, Plaza and they had, I,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: it looks like they want to spend some money and
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: totally redo it. I topped the bottom, not only all
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the rooms, the lobby, everybody, everything, the outside, just completely
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: redo it. Now, apparently they tried to call mayor mom,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Donnie to discuss it with him. That's one thing you
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: do as mayor. Uh, you meet with all the top
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: businesses and you help them. And, uh, whatever they need,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: whatever you can do to make things better for New York,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: but he wouldn't return the call. Nobody at City Hall
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: would talk to them. Nobody. That's Mamdani in action. Also,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: the other thing he's doing, he has tried to, well,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: he's asked all the garages in New York City, all
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the private New York City garages to refuse to allow
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: anyone any ICE agents or vehicles in their garages. You know,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: when ICE comes to New York, they come with a
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: lot of vehicles. Obviously, you know, a lot of cars,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of all kinds of vehicles. You got to
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: park them somewhere. So he's asked all parking lot owners
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: to block them. He said, I'm asking you to not rent, lend,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: or otherwise make your property available to ICE as a
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: staging area. Well, this is a wiggle room in there.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, just cause you're parking your vehicles there. It
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean you're staging there. Uh, mom, Donnie wrote this
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: in a letter to everybody. He said, make it known
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that ice is not authorized to use your garages and lots.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I said, I don't know if you can get away
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: with that discrimination. There's a lot of lawsuits possible there.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: The federal government ice, I'm sure we'll be suing the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: city mom, Donnie. Also, uh, Parking garages, they're all owned
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: by these big parking lot companies, and most of them
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: do business all over the place, and they don't want
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: to make enemies of the federal government. ICE is federal
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: law enforcement, so they don't want to have a fight
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: with the federal government. And then a lot of the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: parking lots that are used are like a Costco or
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. And if you're a big national corporation
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: like Costco, you don't need to get in a fight
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: with the Trump administration. So Mamdani Grand standing here, I
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: don't know if he'll be able to pull that off
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: for Anybody will stick to it. Obama is going to
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Michigan over the weekend. He's trying to get black voters
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to vote for Al-Sayed. They're generally not crazy about left-wing
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: kook socialist nutjobs like that. So Obama's there to help.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: It shows you, you know, Al-Sayed, they keep acting like
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: he's just going to coast to victory. Not the case.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Not the case. Rodgers most likely will win. But they're
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: pulling out all the stops. AOC showed up to campaign
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: for him. Hillary showed up, although I don't think anybody
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: asked her. I think she just showed up. Obama, they're
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: begging him to come, and he will come and campaign for... Now,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the last time he did this, he didn't want to
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: look like he was campaigning just for Al-Sayed, so he
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: made all the other candidates show up to make it
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: look like it was a general Democratic rally for Michigan.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: So he may do that again. Now, El-Sayed is raising
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of money. His father-in-law, Jukaku Tayyib, he's a
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: founding member of the Islamic Society of North America. He's
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: donated a quarter of a million dollars. He also got
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: a six-figure donation from current or former Council on American
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Institute Relations officials. That's CAR, you know, that's C-A-I-R. Considered
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: a terrorist group by many, the UAE declared them a
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: terrorist organization. A number of countries have. They're banned as
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a terrorist organization in Egypt, Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia. These
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: are the groups now that are trying to get al-Sayed
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: elected to the U.S. Senate. From what I hear, people
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: in the U.S. Senate don't want to have to work
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: with this guy. They don't want him there. Remember, he
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: was asked about his family's ties to all the Islamic
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: crazy revolutionary groups, and he said, absolutely not. Well, then
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: they found all these texts from his sister, his mother,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: and boy, he said he didn't really know his sister.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: He hardly met his sister. He thinks he met her once.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: He might know her. He doesn't really know her. He
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: said he didn't live with his mother. He had nothing
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: to do with his mother. It's amazing who these Democrats
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: nominate and the spinning around they have to do to
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: try to get around all this stuff. Anyway, we've got
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: a lot more to get to. We'll take some calls
• 23:53
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• 23:56
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• 24:01
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• 24:10
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• 24:14
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• 24:14
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• 24:14
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• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Uh ukraine or russia well remember we had that agreement
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: we agree not to strike each other's uh energy for
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: so well apparently the agreement is totally off uh russia
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: hit a power plant but uh it was really the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: oil facilities we didn't want to hit because that is
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: what's driven up the price of diesel oil but uh
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: ukraine not listening at all they hit an oil refinery
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: in russia and strike on that let me just check
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: the price of oil it's probably up a little because
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: of that strike yeah it's up a little because they
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: did knock out every time you knock out an oil
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: facility a refinery in Russia it's going to drive the
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: price of diesel up President Trump has asked them to
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: stop apparently they're not listening anyway let's take some calls
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: let's go to Margaret in Rockaway Margaret how you doing.
• 25:15
  Speaker 16: Morning Mark thank you for taking my call um Regarding El-Said,
• 25:20
  Speaker 16: you know, you forget the Quran says that you're allowed
• 25:23
  Speaker 16: to lie to infidels. So he could just keep going
• 25:26
  Speaker 16: on saying he doesn't know anything and yada, yada, yada.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Well, it's perfectly believable. I don't know my sister. I
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: never met my mother. It sounds like a believable story.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I hardly knew. I think I met my sister once.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: But it's the fake news. They believe everything. They won't
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: question him. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Greg in
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Jersey City. Greg, how you doing?
• 25:52
  Speaker 17: All right. Did you see that CNN interview with the
• 25:56
  Speaker 17: Democratic candidate for Senate in Florida, Angie Nixon, who wants
• 26:01
  Speaker 17: to jail?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Do you think my life is that empty that I
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: would be watching a CNN interview with Angie Nixon? Nobody
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: saw it. It was on CNN. Who would have seen it?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: How did you see it?
• 26:13
  Speaker 17: Well, because I saw Chris Murphy was with her in
• 26:18
  Speaker 17: the interview. I've got to be honest.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: If I'm watching the TV and there's Chris Murphy, I
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: immediately change the channel. If I'm walking down the street
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: and there's Chris Murphy, I turn and go the other way.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: He's the most reprehensible, repulsive character in the world. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: what did she say, Angie Nixon?
• 26:38
  Speaker 14: Oh, no.
• 26:38
  Speaker 17: I mean... you know, the CNN was trying to press
• 26:41
  Speaker 17: her on some of her statements about, you know, you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 17: abolishing prison, you know, abolishing ice. And, you know, she's saying,
• 26:47
  Speaker 17: you know, you know, Ashley, Ashley should, she'd be put
• 26:51
  Speaker 17: in jail for what she said. And there was, I mean,
• 26:54
  Speaker 17: there's no followup obviously, but I can't believe that, um, the, the,
• 26:59
  Speaker 17: the DNC is even giving her any more support.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they got one crazy character after another from
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Al Sayad to, to this nut job in Texas to
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the one in Florida. They always nominate these nuts. And, again,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: it might be CNN, but they ask the question, pretend
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: they've gotten an answer. She doesn't answer. As you say,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: no follow-up, and that's the end of it. Let's go
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: to Ralph in Stanford, Connecticut. Ralph, how are you doing?
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: Doing fine.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 27:31
  Speaker 18: You were talking about the horses in Central Park.
• 27:34
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 27:34
  Speaker 18: And how they're thinking of getting.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Rid of them.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Well, they are getting rid of.
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: Them.
• 27:40
  Speaker 13: Put NYPD mounted police organization as supervisors of the care
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: and feeding of these animals.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: The NYPD mounted police. It's a top part of the NYPD.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: They got better things to do than chase these crazy
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: horse carriage drivers around. It's not that big a problem.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I think you should limit it. Don't allow them outside
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: the park. They have to stay in the park. Don't
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: allow them anywhere else. They should never be out in
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the street where there's traffic. It's that simple. You can
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: gradually reduce the number. But let me just give you
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: those statistics again. As far as the horses in the carriage,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: it's led to one death.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: In 100 years.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: One death in 100 years. The e-bikes, 133 deaths in
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: the last seven years. With the e-bikes, it's almost 20
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: deaths a year every year. The horse and carriage, one
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: death per century. So it's really the e-bikes they should
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: probably get rid of. Let's go to Stan in Brooklyn. Stan,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 28:46
  Speaker 17: Good morning, Mark.
• 28:47
  Speaker 18: I'm doing fine. I Googled the term lawyer and attorney.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Wow, you've got a computer now. Look at you.
• 28:53
  Speaker 19: Oh, my God.
• 28:54
  Speaker 18: It's an old one. It's an IBM Fortune 01.
• 28:57
  Speaker 20: It goes rather slow.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Well, we're not looking for amateur Googling to get our answers.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: A lawyer graduated from law school but cannot practice in court. Yeah,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: we don't go by Google.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Okay, well, I also looked at another place.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, no.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: We would only turn to a professional for this answer.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: And the answer is she probably shouldn't call herself a lawyer.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: You can do it technically, but you should probably.
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: Well, apparently a lawyer cannot.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we understand that. You can't go into court unless
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: you pass the bar. And as I said before, she
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: was in a law firm doing complicated legal work on contracts,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: which you can do with a law degree, but in
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: the end, a barred attorney, someone who's passed the bar,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: has to kind of sign off on the whole thing.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: But the problem is, try to make this look like
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: this is some kind of relevant issue to something. She's
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: not being nominated for attorney general. If you check the record,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: no press secretary has ever passed the bar. I don't
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: think most of 99% of press secretaries have never passed
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the bar. It has nothing to do with the job.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: It's not a requirement. Now she was kind of misleading
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: when she said she was a lawyer, but you could
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: argue not that misleading. She did work in law firms
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: doing legal work and she does have a law degree. So,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and as I pointed out, there are judges on the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: bench who've been confirmed by the Senate who, uh, did
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: go to law school, graduated with a law degree, but
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: have never passed the bar. So it's a silly issue.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: It has nothing to do with anything. And in fact,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: if that's all they got on her, a little puffing
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: up the resume a little, that's absolutely nothing. Again, you
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: don't need a law degree. You don't need to be
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: a pass the bar. You don't need to be an attorney.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: In fact, it is never a requirement for press secretary.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: It's not at all. Hey, um, I'm looking at pictures
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: around the White House. The ballroom is going up. I
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: don't know if you've noticed, but the floor is in
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: and some of the walls are going up. You can see,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: if you look, you can sort of see what the
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: ballroom's looking like, the size, everything. It's well under construction.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: You know, this is President Trump, master builder. If this
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: was the government, this would be a 20-year project to
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: get this built. He said he'll get it done in months.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: It looks like he will. It looks like he will.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: It's only a couple of months and a lot of
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: it has gone up already. They've raised about $ 333 million
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: from private donors. Apple gave $ 25 million. NVIDIA gave $ 25 million.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: The Adelson family, the Las Vegas billionaires, a big donation. Yeah,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: $ 25 million. Charles Egan, co-founder of Chairman of the Dish Network,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: gave $ 25 million. They got $ 77 million from donors who
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: requested anonymously. Anonymity. A vast majority of wealthy individuals and companies. Oh, here, see,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: they're trying to make it look bad. Most of these
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: donors have interests subject to the federal government raising concerns
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: about conflict of interest. This is the way the fake
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: news reports it. Of course, that's every donor to everything.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Every donation ever made to every politician, every president, every Democrat.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You take a look at them. Most of them are
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: people who are regulated by the federal government. I mean,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: it's insane to think that, first of all, it's a
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: good donation. If you're donating to a candidate, a campaign,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: a political pack, that's a little raunchy. But if you're
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: donating money to build a beautiful addition to the White House,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: that's like a national treasure, something that will be there forever.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: That's a good donation. If you're donating to restore the
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Washington Monument, this ballroom would be magnificent. President Trump probably
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: will never use it. Because the full completion decor, everything
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: probably won't take place till he's out of office. But
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: future presidents will love it. It'll be an incredible thing
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: for centuries. So it's a good donation. Hey, we got
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: a lot to get to this morning. And don't forget,
• 33:06
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• 33:09
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• 33:12
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• 33:22
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• 33:25
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• 33:33
  Speaker 2: a rainy day today, but a beautiful weekend. It'll be sunny, cold,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: but it'll be in the 50s, but it'll be sunny
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: all weekend. Just raining today and tonight and then. That
• 33:43
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• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Well, hey, it's Friday.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: That's good news. It's going to rain today off and on,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: but tomorrow, Saturday, Sunday, it'll be very nice. Not warm,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: not warm in the 50s, but it'll be sunny. A
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: lot of things to get to. This is a very
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: sad story, and it's Billy Joel. Billy Joel opening up
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: about his medical problems. Now, first of all, he can't
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: drive anymore. I mean, that's quite a blow to anybody,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: but if you're a car guy and a motorcycle guy,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, he really is into cars and motorcycles, and
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: he can't drive anymore. He's 77 years old because of
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: the brain problems and balance problems. He's been told now
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: he can never drive again. He auctioned off his 70 motorcycles,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and hey, Back in the good old days, remember how
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: many times he was in an accident, hit something, hit
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: a tree, drove off. So even then he wasn't the
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: greatest driver, but can't drive anymore. But the really sad
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: part is he said he's got to take a series
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: of tests to be 100% sure, but he's been told
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: he can't perform anymore. No more concerts. Now, again, he's
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: got to take more tests, and they'll keep treating him.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe it'll get better, but as it stands now, He
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: will not be able to perform again. The problem is
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: with this brain stuff. He had a stent in the brain. Actually,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: they call it a shunt in the brain. And when
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: you're doing a concert, besides bouncing around, I mean, you
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: could sit still at the piano, but you got the
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: most unbelievable volume right in your ear. Those speakers, the noise,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: the sound is going right through your head. And in
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: his condition, they said it would be like getting a concussion.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: So he can't perform anymore. He said, every time you
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: do the show, it's like you're getting a concussion. And
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: it didn't help in the past. And now it looks
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: like it's impossible. You know, that kind of music is very, very,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: very loud. You know, if you've ever been to a
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: concert and you sat in the front row and you
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: can't believe how loud it is, well, go try sitting
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: on the stage and hear how loud it is. It's
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: really bad. He said he's had improvement in his memory.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: balance is a little better overall his ability to function
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: is a little better after the recent surgery but it's
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: touch and go and he most likely will never perform
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: again he's continuing to go to physical therapy listening to
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: his doctors it's very sad though that he could never
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: perform again 77 look at McCartney 84 bouncing around on
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: stage world tour all over the place in good health
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: you never know uh hey and what was this terry
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: terry bradshaw said he's got to retire i you know
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: it looks fine to me sounds fine but obviously there
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: must be something going on if he says he's going
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: to have to step down and retire um hey elon
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: omar looks like they're going to get her on all
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: kinds of stuff now that lying about her age to
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: get her citizenship she had to pretend to be a
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: minor at the time because her father got in and
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: if he has minor children they can become citizens so
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Looks like she altered a birth certificate. This is the allegation.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Lied about her age. And if this is all proven,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: she's not a citizen anymore. She will be deported and
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: she can't obviously serve in Congress if she's not a citizen.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: But they're captured a lot of documents there in her house.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: They're looking for any ties to any of that Somalian fraud.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: You know, her financial situation is quite questionable. In Congress,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: you've got to fill out those financial disclosure forms. So
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: one year she was worth $ 30 million, she and her husband.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: $ 30 million, the next year $ 300, 000 because she got a
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: lot of flack over the $ 30 million. But they got
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: all those documents. Let's see if they can find something there. Hey,
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: it turns out that in the Biden administration, Homeland Security
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: got tipped off that she had fudged her birth date
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: on documents and on a birth certificate. The Biden administration
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: apparently was tipped off to this. And, of course, immediately
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: did nothing. Absolutely nothing about it. All right. Kimberly Guilfoyle,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: as you know, leaving as ambassador of Greece. There were
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: reports that she was very rough on the staff. The
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Trump administration didn't like that. And then there was taking
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: free plane rides from billionaires and private jets. Well, you know,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: that's every politician. That happens all the time. But it
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: looks like she was– the allegation is that she was
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: selling influence, telling people, you know, I'll get you– I
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: can add a lot of influence. I'll get you what
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: you need from the Trump administration. You're not supposed to
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: do that. And then, of course, the final straw was
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: this donor who says she asked him to pay her
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: $ 100, 000 American Express bill and pushed him to do it. Now,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: here's the other part. Now, listen to this. You know,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: she used to be at Fox News. She was a
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: big deal at Fox News for a while. She was
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: one of the five, and that's the most watched show
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: in cable television. And then all of a sudden she
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: was gone. There were always stories there. about her being
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: a little rough on the staff. But Kennedy, who's still
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: at Fox News, you know Kennedy, writes in the Daily Mail,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know why she would write all this, but
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Kennedy writes that while Guilfoyle was at Fox News, she
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: showed her, Kennedy, and some other friends, pictures that she
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: had of men of their, shall we just say penis,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: penis pictures, or as they're known out there in the world,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: dick pics. She would show them off to people. Now,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: there are guys that send these out. And if you're
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: a guy and you're listening to me, listen to me carefully.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Don't ever send a woman one of those pictures. Women
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: find them disgusting. If you're a man and a woman
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: sent you naked pictures, body parts, you get all excited. Women,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: it's the opposite. They get all turned off by that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: It doesn't do anything. Do not send one of those
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: pictures ever to anybody. You want to get a woman
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: really turned on? Send her a picture of you with
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: a dog, something like that. That will do the trick.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Do not send those dick pics. And how would you
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: even take one of those? You know, if I got
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: to take a selfie of my face, I get all self-conscious.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: How the hell would you take one of those? But
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: now listen to this. Here's the interesting part. According to Kennedy,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: now I know women that have showed those pictures often.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: According to Kennedy, she not only showed the dick pic,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: but she had pictures of the man's credit card front
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: and back. Now, if it was a black American Express card,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: you know, that's a real high roller. But apparently she had,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: for a couple of different men, she had pictures of
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: their credit card matched with the dick pic. Now, that
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: I've never heard of. And how do you get a
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: picture of the man's credit card? Does he send it
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: to you? I can't imagine that. Do you like alone
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: in his house and you take the credit card out
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: and photograph the front and back? I don't know. But
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: this is pretty sick stuff. This is real sick stuff. Now,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know why she would print all this, but
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: this is Kennedy writing this in the Daily Mail. So far,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: no response from Kimberly Guilfoyle. Kennedy goes on to say,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Kimberly talked about sex so cavalierly that she made Samantha
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: from Sex and the City seem like Greta Thunberg. All right.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Again, no response yet. Kamala Harris speaking out. Now criticizing
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: the Biden administration for not acting more forcefully against Israel.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine this? Kamala Harris saying they weren't tough
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: enough on Israel. Now she's going the anti-Semite route. She
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: said they failed to use U.S. leverage to curb Israel's
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: military campaign in Gaza. They should have done more. They
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: should have acted more forcefully. They should have used leverage
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: to stop Israel. So apparently Kamala thinks that's the road
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: to the White House. Go anti-Semite. Go anti-Israel. Hey, as
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: far as Iran... There's two things. Now, there's nothing going
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: on in Iran. There's no war at the moment. It's
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: been on hold for about six weeks. Nothing's happened in
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: a month. But remember, we have the midterms in 18 days.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Midterm elections 18 days away. The other thing you got
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: to remember is Bibi Netanyahu is up for re-election around
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: the same time. So you got these two elections happening,
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: the midterms here in America and Netanyahu's election in Israel.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: It's not certain. that Netanyahu will get elected. There's a
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: lot of opposition to him. And, you know, there are
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: a lot of Israeli citizens that are living in the
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: United States. Israel is calling on them all to fly
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: back and vote, especially the ones Netanyahu wants the Israeli
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: citizens here in the U.S. that support him to run
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: back and vote. A lot of people have dual citizenship,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: but they want the Israeli citizens to go back to
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Israel just to vote for Netanyahu. I don't know if
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: they're doing it, but there are a lot of anti-Netanyahu
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Israeli citizens who are flying back just to vote against him.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: So we'll see. But once these two elections are over,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: no matter which way they go, once the midterms are over,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: once Netanyahu's election is over, even if they both lose,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: then they're free to do whatever the hell they want.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: And it's expected that after both elections are over, the
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: war in Iran will not just resume but we'll go crazy.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, we will apparently just annihilate the entire government
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: of Iran. We're even talking about using those MOABs, the
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: mother of all bombs. It's the biggest bomb, just short
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: of a nuclear weapon. Netanyahu would probably be turned loose
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: to take out everything bad in Iran. And the president
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: here in the United States has apparently asked for the
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: war planners to draw up what they call target packages
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: that will be hit with those Moab bombs, so that
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: could be coming. Now, here's the scariest thing. This is
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: much scarier than that. Hillary Clinton is now doing a podcast.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Everybody in the world has a podcast. Your dentist has
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: a podcast. Everybody has a podcast, but the problem with
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: a podcast, if you're not a professional, is you've got
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: to fill an hour. Now, most people get a guest
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: because most people can't do a show by themselves. They
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: have to have a guest. There's some shows that got
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: to have 27 guests because they can't do the show.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: If you just said, Hey, it's you for an hour,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: do the show. They couldn't do 10 minutes. They got
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: to have a guest every, every second of their podcast. So, um,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: the problem is Hillary has got to keep talking about
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: stuff and she's like an episode two and already running
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: out of stuff. So she started talking about, do you
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: remember in 2016, 10 years ago, There was the big
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: ceremony for 9-11 at the memorial, the 9-11 ceremony, where
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: all the presidents came. Everybody was there. And do you
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: remember that Hillary passed out right there at the ceremony? Now,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: you got all the presidents there. You got all the
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: security in the world. They have an ambulance there. They
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: have doctors there. They have military. They have everything there.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: So she just passed out. And she's trying to explain that.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: She said, well, I had pneumonia and I was supposed
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: to be, it was during the campaign. They told me
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: to rest because of my pneumonia, but I didn't rest.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I went to the ceremony and that's why I passed out.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: It was absolutely nothing. Here's the only problem with that story.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: I remember talking to top, top, top, top police officials
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: who were there and saw this whole thing. And when
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: she passed out, Her guys just picked her up, threw
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: her in the car, and drove away. Now, you got
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: an ambulance there. You got doctors there. You got EMTs there.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: And they all offered, but they weren't interested. If that
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: were the case, if it was so unexpected that she
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: passed out, wouldn't you have let the doctors take a
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: look at her? The fact that they just picked her
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: up and threw her in the car, police officials thought
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: this was not unusual for them. They'd seen this before.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: They weren't worried about it. Like she's been having episodes before.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: So who knows? But avoid this podcast. It's deadly, deadly,
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: painfully boring. You remember the Michelle Obama podcast? Oh, that
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: was really painful trying to get through that. Hey, now
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: a lot of people looking at Jack Smith, that creepy, weirdo,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: bug-eyed hitman, Jack Smith. Apparently, forget the stuff he did
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: to the president or the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Apparently, they
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: want a real serious investigation and possible prosecution of him
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: for collecting an obscene amount of data on private citizens.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Aside from Trump, he went after anything Republican, conservative. He
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: went after every group. He went after donors, almost 5,000 donors.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: He collected their checks. He went after all their personal data.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: That's unbelievable. 5,000 donors. For what reason? How could you
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: justify that? The fact that somebody made a political donation
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: means you're going to investigate them, collect all their private data.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: So they're not done with Jack Smith. Jack Smith could
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: end up in real trouble as a result. Hey, we'll
• 48:23
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• 48:26
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• 48:28
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• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Let's go to Steve in Lindhurst. Steve,
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
• 49:05
  Speaker 13: Hey, Mike. How you doing?
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Good to talk to you.
• 49:08
  Speaker 13: So remember when they fired all those people for COVID,
• 49:12
  Speaker 13: that black lady on TV, she was a teacher and
• 49:15
  Speaker 13: Kathy Hochul fired her. Bruce Blakeman should put her on TV,
• 49:19
  Speaker 13: and everybody else who was fired didn't get their jobs back.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: All right. Yeah, that's a good point. She did the
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: handling of that whole pandemic, although, really, it was Cuomo
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: at the time that was the governor. Well, it was
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: the Democrats, so, you know. Yeah, so it wasn't Hochul, but...
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: But thanks for calling. No matter what you do, you
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: could run a million commercials. Everybody always, you know what
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: you should have done? Why don't you do this? You
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: should have done this. You can't do everything. You can't
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: do everything. Hey, by the way, Blakeman fundraising apparently is
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: through the roof since the debate. We'll get to that
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: coming up. Let's go to David in Queens. David, how
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 49:58
  Speaker 14: Hey, Mark.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 49:59
  Speaker 21: Mark, have you noticed these local politicians have altered their
• 50:03
  Speaker 21: method of dress? in order to appeal to the communists.
• 50:06
  Speaker 21: For instance, State Senator John Liu goes walking around with
• 50:10
  Speaker 21: these Havana shirts on to different events that Cuomo used
• 50:14
  Speaker 21: to wear. And this Jumaane Williams wears these beads that
• 50:17
  Speaker 21: my grandmother used to wear when she came over for
• 50:20
  Speaker 21: Sunday dinner.
• 50:21
  Speaker 22: I wonder if you noticed this, Mark.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some of them do do that. Yeah, you're right.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Cuomo did that. He wore, it was the shirt Fredo
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: wore in the Havana scene in The Godfather. It was
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: the shirt Lalo Salamanca wore in Breaking Bad, that weird
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: summer shirt. Let's go to John in Hell's Kitchen. John,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: how are you doing? Hello, Mark.
• 50:43
  Speaker 22: How are you?
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 50:46
  Speaker 19: I was wondering, since you're a guy that knows really
• 50:49
  Speaker 19: good restaurants, what would be the top five restaurants in
• 50:55
  Speaker 19: New York?
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, you can't do that. It's a hundred-way tie. There
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: are no top five. I mean, technically. Technically, the number
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: one would be per se, LaBernadine. Mazza, but you don't
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: want to eat there.
• 51:07
  Speaker 19: What about one that would be reasonable? You don't have
• 51:11
  Speaker 19: to mortgage your left leg or something.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: There's a million great restaurants. Let's just look around. Let's
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: look around this block where we are. Oh, up there,
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: 7th Avenue, Trattoria dell'Arte. Very fine restaurant.
• 51:25
  Speaker 19: Okay, okay, okay. See, that's the one near Carnegie Hall.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Right across from Carnegie Hall. That's a great restaurant, Italian restaurant.
• 51:33
  Speaker 19: Okay, because I know you're always talking about restaurants and stuff,
• 51:37
  Speaker 19: and I don't know, now that I'm getting older, I
• 51:41
  Speaker 19: remember restaurants from, you know, Gino's. Remember Gino's?
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Gino's was okay. It was okay.
• 51:49
  Speaker 19: You didn't like Gino's?
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: It was like a really old, old, old school Italian.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: You had to pay cash, right?
• 51:56
  Speaker 19: Yeah, the food was good, though.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: It was good. It was good. Trattoria Del Arte, right
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: up the block. It's much better.
• 52:01
  Speaker 19: All right.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Much better. Much better. Let's go to Greg in Florida. Greg,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 52:07
  Speaker 8: Good morning, Mark.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 52:09
  Speaker 8: All right, good.
• 52:11
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: Yesterday you said something about the kids being involved with
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: their phones and everything else and whatnot. Recently I saw
• 52:19
  Speaker 8: a child psychologist on that. on TV, and she was
• 52:24
  Speaker 8: all worried about scaring the children at Halloween and all
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: of this stuff. And then I thought about it, and
• 52:29
  Speaker 8: I said, you know, this all started with Dr. Spock
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: years ago. These kids are way, way, way too soft.
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: We grew up, you know, drinking water out of hoses,
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: riding bikes without helmets. You know what I'm saying? This
• 52:43
  Speaker 8: is just, you know, coddling these kids.
• 52:46
  Speaker 13: What do you think?
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Well, that's true. But remember, when you were a kid...
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: No helmet, drinking out of hoses. Your parents told you
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: you were soft. You hadn't been through the depression. You
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: didn't know what it was like. They were always doing that.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: So every generation, this generation when they get old will
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: think their kids are soft. Hey, by the way, you know,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: I have dry eye. So I go to the eye doctor.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: Everybody has dry eye, you know, which means you got
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: to put eye drops in all the time. You probably
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: had this. So I've been talking to all these eye doctors.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Apparently it's caused by the phone, by your iPhone. Because
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: you're looking at your phone for many hours a day.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: And apparently when you don't look at the phone, you
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: don't blink. You just stare at it and don't blink.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: And not blinking causes the dry eye. So I've been
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: teaching myself when I look at the phone to keep
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: blinking all the time. Just blink a lot. You're always
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: looking at your phone or computer screen. Blink every few seconds.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Just blink a lot. It gets rid of the dry eye.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: You'll save yourself a fortune on all those eye drops.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Sandy in New Jersey. Sandy, how are
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 53:51
  Speaker 14: Fine.
• 53:51
  Speaker 10: How are you doing, Mark?
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm good.
• 53:52
  Speaker 10: I'm good.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: You've got to slow down a little. I'm still half asleep.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: I'm not used to being up this early, but go ahead.
• 53:58
  Speaker 14: I know.
• 53:58
  Speaker 10: I know that you're kind of like, oh, go another hour. Anyway,
• 54:02
  Speaker 10: the reason I called is I'm just reading in the
• 54:04
  Speaker 10: New York Times.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: You always talk this fast. It's very fast. How does
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: anybody keep up with you?
• 54:08
  Speaker 10: Okay, I'll slow down. I said I was just reading.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you were just reading.
• 54:13
  Speaker 10: I'm talking fast again?
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: You're a little fast. Slow down a little.
• 54:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I know. I always talk fast.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: How many cups of coffee did you have today?
• 54:20
  Speaker 10: I've only started my first cup.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 54:23
  Speaker 14: Okay.
• 54:24
  Speaker 10: Anyway, I said I was just reading in the New
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: York Post that I'm a registered voter in the 17th
• 54:31
  Speaker 10: District in New York State, Mike Lawler's district. And apparently
• 54:35
  Speaker 10: there was a meeting, like all the candidates did, And
• 54:37
  Speaker 10: Kay Conley was there, and she said, agreed that Kathy
• 54:42
  Speaker 10: Hochul needs to go. Kay Conley is the Democratic candidate.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but you've got to remember, a lot of
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: these Democratic socialists, the real left-wingers, hate Hochul.
• 54:51
  Speaker 15: They don't trust her.
• 54:51
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, but I don't think Kay Conley is
• 54:53
  Speaker 10: a socialist. She's kind of like is keeping a low profile.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but the left-wing, the real Democrats hate
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Kathy Hochul. They just think she's a bird brain.
• 55:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah, so what do you think? You think Bruce Blakeman's.
• 55:02
  Speaker 20: Got a shot at it?
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: No, I think he's got a big shot at it.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to win. You see how much
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: better you sound slow?
• 55:10
  Speaker 10: Well, I think I'm also a little nervous.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't be nervous.
• 55:14
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 55:14
  Speaker 10: But this is, like I said, I listen to you
• 55:16
  Speaker 10: every morning. And I just really like listening to your show.
• 55:20
  Speaker 10: You're really great. And, you know, catch you on TV
• 55:22
  Speaker 10: when you do.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: You got TV now. Look at this.
• 55:25
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 55:26
  Speaker 22: All right.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for calling. Call us again. Let's go to
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Chris in Bethpage. Chris, how you doing? Hey, Mark, love
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: your show.
• 55:35
  Speaker 14: Listen, all kidding aside, say the Dems win the House, okay,
• 55:41
  Speaker 14: and the Republicans retain the Senate, okay? And everyone's predicting
• 55:46
  Speaker 14: all they're going to do is just put Trump through impeachment.
• 55:49
  Speaker 14: There's going to be all these hearings. But seriously, what
• 55:53
  Speaker 14: is their plan? Does anyone know? To bring down gas prices.
• 55:57
  Speaker 14: And what are they going to do?
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Well, they don't want to bring it. No, no. Democrats
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: always bring them up. They like to bring them up.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: In fact, if it were up to the Democrats, it
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: would be $ 10 a gallon because they want to push
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: everybody to electric cars. They always get the gas prices
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: as high as they can get them.
• 56:10
  Speaker 14: Always. But they're running on affordability. They're running on affordability.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 56:14
  Speaker 14: How are they going to make things more affordable?
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: They're not. They're not. It's the last thing they want
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: to do. No, they never do that. I know. They'll
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: run on whatever sounds good. They run on whatever you
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: want to hear. And then when they get in office,
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: they go right back to the regular Democratic plan, which
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: is green energy, gets you to stop driving gas cars,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: get you to stop using gas. And again, with Democrats,
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: it's always $ 10 a gallon. That's always their goal. Hey,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: coming up next, we have a great guest. Anybody have
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: any idea who it is? Do we have a guest? Oh,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: you're kidding. Oh, okay. See, it really is a great guest.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: It's Howie Carr. Somebody canceled that we were like scrambling
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: for another guest. The great Howie Carr will be with
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: us next on 710WOR.
• 56:59
  Speaker 11: The Mark Simone Show. Nine till noon weekdays.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: 710WOR. Well, one of the great talk show hosts in America,
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Howie Carr. You should listen to him. He's on iHeart.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: You can get his show there, his podcast. You get
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: his books. His latest book is Mass Corruption, Volume 2.
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: You can get everything at his website. Just go to HowieCarrShow.com. HowieCarrShow.com.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: Howie Carr, how are you doing?
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: Very good, Mark. We just had our final debate in
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Massachusetts for Governor Mara Healy versus Mike Minogue. And, you know,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: she bragged four years ago about how she stopped two
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: natural gas pipelines. And last night she did everything but
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: put on a 10-gallon cowboy hat and speak in a,
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: you know, like T. Boone Pickens accent. She said about
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: eight times how much she loved natural gas and wants
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: to bring it into the state. I don't know when
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: she was lying. Last night or in 2022 when she
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: was bragging about stopping the natural gas pipelines. But, you know,
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: there's been a lot of that going around nationwide, hasn't there? People,
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: Democrats kind of backing away from their previous positions.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, like somebody was just saying, they're running
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: on affordability, these Democrats. You know when they get in,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: they're going to drive the price of gas up and
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: nothing's going to be affordable. So they'll just say anything
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: to get elected.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: I thought they were happy that they were saying it's
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: not a big deal. When, when Biden had the price
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: of a gallon of gasoline up higher than it is now,
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: four years ago, over $ 5 a gallon, that was a,
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: it was a good thing because it was going to
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: get all the MAGA people in the deplorables out of
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: their nasty fossil fuel, internal combustion motor vehicles. Right. I mean,
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: it was a good thing. Now it's, now it's the
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: end of the world. Yeah.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: But the, the, They'll say whatever they got to say.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: But when they get in office, they'll close down refineries,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: shut down pipelines, stop drilling. They'll do everything to drive
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: the price of gas up. But, hey, this great candidate
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: we have for governor, Bruce Blakeman, he had a great
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: debate against Hochul. If he wins New York, what does
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: that mean for the Democrats to lose the Democrats? state
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: house of New York state?
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: Well, for one thing, I mean, it would mean that
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: they couldn't get any more of these nutty bills through.
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, he could veto them, right? I mean, theoretically,
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, they could override the veto. But I mean,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: Things didn't really get out of control in New York
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: State until they lost control of the Senate. Americans, taxpayers,
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: needed to have one control, a lever, whether it was
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: the Assembly or the Senate or the governorship. And then
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: when they lost all of them, that's when everything went insane.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: They got to get one of them back. Don't you
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: think if it were like 2004, 2008, whatever– you know,
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: whatever Pataki was elected. If you had that same electorate today,
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: Blakeman would be running away with it, wouldn't he?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: So, but what happened to the electorate? Same thing in Massachusetts.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. See, I asked everywhere in the Northeast. It's,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: it's just, it's totally gone. You know, I, I, I
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: had Susan Collins on for Maine, you know, cause I'm
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: up in, I'm up at Maine, all those stations. And
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: I had her on, I think, uh, you know, three,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: four weeks ago in, in Maine. And, And she said
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: until McCormick was elected in Pennsylvania in 2024, it wasn't
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: just New England. There was no Republican senators other than
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: her in the whole Northeast. You had to go down
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: to like North Carolina or West Virginia to find somebody.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: So explain this to me again. What happened to New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine?
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: They all became left wing. Where did all these Democrats
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: come from up there?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: Well, I think they.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: I think they came from New York is mostly what happened.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: Come on, let's be honest. They may knock off the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Rhino governor of Vermont this year. They got some blow-in
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: from parts unknown, these women. And she's going to knock
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: off Phil Scott. I mean, it's not a terrible tragedy
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: for the Republican Party. He was a COVID autocrat or totalitarian. But,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: you know, still, I mean, I'm sure, you know, as
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: bad as he is, he's better than whatever she will be.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I think people have just
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: fled the states. You know, it is about affordability. That
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: was a big thing in the governor's race, governor's debate
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: last night in Massachusetts. In the first debate, Mara Healy had,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: you know, had a, you know, she'd committed a gaffe,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: you know, random, inadvertently telling the truth. She said, Massachusetts
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: is a great state to live in if you can
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: afford it.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: So, hey, Howie Carr, your protege, Caroline Leavitt, became the
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: press secretary. She's very young. I mean, just a kid
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: and was fine. What a great job she did. Now
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: you've got a 41-year-old woman, Katie Zakaria, who looks so shaky.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: What do you think her future is? I don't know.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I remember Stephanie Grisham, that woman
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: that never had a press conference. I met her one
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: time over here in West Palm Beach, and she was terrible.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: You know, this woman is going to be better than
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Stephanie Grisham for sure. But, you know, I noticed, though, again,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: the double standard here is amazing that, you know, she's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: getting all this crap. She went to law school, but
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: she never could pass the bar exam. And, you know,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: and I'm not defending her for saying that she was, she,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: you know, claiming to be a lawyer, but, but how
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: is this any different than the Egyptian in El Said in, in,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: in Michigan, you know, saying over and over again that
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: he was a physician. He's, he's not a physician. He
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: went to medical school, but he never passed the, the,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: the medical exam. And he's, and he, You know, as
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: Roger said, if he tried to prescribe you medication, he'd
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: be arrested. But, you know, they just look the other way. Oh, well,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: he did go to medical school. You know what, Zachary,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: she did go to law school. You know, and plenty
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: of these Democrats, didn't Hillary Clinton flunk the bar exam once?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: I know our former governor, Deval Patrick, our former lieutenant governor,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: Tim Burke, a lot. I think Democrats have a much
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: higher rate of failure of the bar exam than Republicans.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: Zachariah is just trying to catch up the Republicans. That's all.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, but she was a little shaky, but it was
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: too quick. She was only there like one day and
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: did a briefing. You should have given her a week
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: or two to prepare.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, she, she also, you know, despite being
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: older than, than Caroline, I mean, you know, Caroline did
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: go through a baptism of fire. I mean, they, they spent,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: $ 20 million when she was running for Congress. First, uh,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: first the Republicans, you know, uh, with a speaker McCarthy
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: and his guys tried to knock her out of the primary.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: And then Chris Pappas spent another 10 million knocking her around. And, uh,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: you know, she, she, you know, you, you, uh, you know,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: she had a lot of scars. She, she was a
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: veteran of political combat despite her tender age.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: Well, that's, that's a good point. She got through a campaign,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: a debate. Oh yeah. That's a good point. That's good training.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: So you're down in Palm Beach. The president is coming
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: there tonight. It'll be his first weekend in Palm Beach
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: for the season. What do you think?
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's great. I didn't even know that. That means
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: the planes will be flying directly over my pool starting
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: tomorrow morning. They direct them. I mean, Mar-a-Lago is still
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: not open until Halloween, so he's going to. to be
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: there by himself. I mean, I'm sure the kitchen will
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: be open for him and all that, but the big
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: dining room is not open until the end of the month.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, but tomorrow night, apparently, or actually, I think it's tonight,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: or tomorrow night, they're having this big dinner, big RNC
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: dinner there, so it'll be open for that. But Mar-a-Lago,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: it's the best when it's not open, because then you
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: don't have all those old ladies chasing them around the room.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: You know, that, how are you, that crowd chasing them around.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's pretty nice down here. It's easier to
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: get a reservation. You don't have to worry about being
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: run over as you're crossing the street by some 90-year-old
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: who came down on a private jet and then an
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: ambulance from the airport over the Donald J. Trump airport
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: to the island.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, apparently there are a lot of left-wingers who actually,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: they have to go to Palm Beach, but they'll fly
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: to another airport. They'll go to Fort Lauderdale in Miami.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: They will not land at anything called Donald J. Trump Airport.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: I've heard those rumors, Mark. I hope it's true because,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: you know, I always like less congestion at the airport,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: you know, especially those kind of people that are going
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: to be angry about that. Those are not the kind
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: of people you want to deal with under any circumstances.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: Well, Howie Carr, always great. He's got a new book out,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: Mass Corruption 2. Tell everybody about the book because there's
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: a lot of great stuff in there.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: Right. It's about corruption in Massachusetts, and there's a lot
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: of it, and it continues to go on. It was, again,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: the subject of the debate. One of the governor's top
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: aides was arrested shipping 18 pounds of cocaine to her
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: office in Springfield. I've got all that stuff. Right now,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: I'm off Amazon. It's a long, complicated story.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 14: No.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: But you can order the book at HowieCarrShow.com. And you
• 1:06:49
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• 1:06:54
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• 1:06:57
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• 1:06:59
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• 1:07:05
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• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Kennedy books are excellent. And if you're looking
• 1:07:11
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• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: And you can also, besides the books, you can get
• 1:07:18
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• 1:07:21
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• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: The iHeart app. I'm on the iHeart app starting 2
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: to 6 every afternoon.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And you can listen anytime, too. You can get
• 1:07:28
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• 1:07:31
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• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Howie Carr, thanks for being with us.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Mark. Have a good weekend. Bye-bye. Take care.
• 1:07:40
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• 1:07:43
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• 1:07:46
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• 1:07:48
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• 1:07:54
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• 1:07:58
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• 1:08:01
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• 1:08:06
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• 1:08:32
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• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: So Bruce Blakeman had the debate Tuesday night versus Kathy Hochul.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: He was phenomenal in the debate. He just crushed her
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: in the debate. Now, if you're a crazy Democrat, you'll
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: think Hochul won, but normal people don't think she won.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: It was bad. In fact, a fundraising has been up
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: dramatically since the debate. Money is pouring in. People were
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: very impressed. Now, Kathy Hochul started with a huge war chest,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: about $ 35 million, and she did not take matching funds,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: public matching funds, So she's not obligated to debate. She
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: turned down all the major debates, Channel 2, Channel 4,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: Channel 5, Channel 7, Channel 9. She refused all these debates.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: She agreed to one. This is what Democrats do when
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: they're really scared. They'll agree only to New York one
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: because it's tiny. Nobody sees New York one. And it's
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: very biased, very left wing. You'll notice their moderators kept
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: cutting Blakeman off every time he was getting a good point.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: We have to move on.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: We have to move on. We have to move on.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Why do you have to move on? You can take
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: all the time you want. It's New York One. You
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: don't really have much of a schedule. You could do
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: whatever you want. And then they do those yes or
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: no gotcha questions. So when you try to answer the question,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: try to really give some substance, they'll jump in. It's
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: a yes or no question. Just one word, yes or no.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: We can't let you talk. One of those kind of debates.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: But Blakeman fundraising, very, very big. Mamdani has jumped into
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: the race actively now. Mamdani now has a commercial, a video.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: TV commercials don't mean much of anything anymore. You want
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: to reach people, you do it online, social media videos.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: Mamdani has put out his attack video on Blakeman.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 12: Governor Kathy Hochul actually fights for working families in New York.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 12: When Bruce was busy, or actually, Bruce wasn't that busy,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 12: Governor Hochul was helping us close a $ 12 billion budget
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 12: deficit here in New York City. And when New York
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 12: City needed a partner in delivering free universal childcare, Governor
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 12: Hochul didn't just help us deliver 2,000 new seats for
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 12: two-year-olds this year. She worked with us so we could
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 12: deliver 10,000 more seats next January. That's why I'm voting
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 12: for Governor Hochul, because she's the real deal for New Yorkers.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman? He's a bad apple. Okay, now, analyze that.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: What do they accuse Blakeman of? They did a hell
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: of a lot of opposition research. What do they accuse
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: him of? He's not there? Well, that's ridiculous. The guy
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: works day and night. I mean, I know this for
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: a fact. He's got a schedule that's like 6 a.m.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: to midnight. He just works and works and works, not
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: to mention crisscrossing the state, not to mention going to
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: every event of importance that he needs to be at.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: So it's a false accusation. If they have to lie,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: that's quite a compliment to Blakeman. And this childcare, daycare,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: I think there's something they're not telling you about with
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: this daycare. The same thing with Mamdani and his daycare
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: here in the city. When it comes to this daycare,
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: you know it's only until about 2 p.m. The idea
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: of the daycare is you can put your kid there
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: if you're a, single parent, or you don't have anybody
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: to stay home, or both parents are working, you have
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: daycare to put the child in. Well, it's only till
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: 2 p.m. Do you know anybody who has a job
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: that ends at 2 p.m.? Not you guys. I'm talking
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: about normal office work. Yeah, most people work 9 to
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: 5 or more. So what is the point of the
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: daycare if it's only till 2 p.m.? And by the way,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: It's not there in the summer. It's only in the
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: school year. So if you're working, there's no daycare for you.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: So Mamdani never quite pointing that out to people. Blakeman
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: looks real good now. He's got money pouring in left
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: and right. Last night, there was a huge fundraiser for
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: Blakeman at Madison Square Garden. James Dolan, a garden owner,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: hosted this big fundraiser. So there'll be a ton of money.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: for Blakeman to spend 18 days until the election, just
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: 18 days, two and a half weeks. And that's where
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: it really counts, you know, all the money and everything.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: That's where you want to blitz in the last couple
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: of weeks. So it'll be quite a finish. Now, remember,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Blakeman has this pattern. You saw it in Long Island
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: in his two elections. He starts off way behind. He's 15,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: 20 points behind. And then he's 10 points behind. Then
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: he's five points behind. Then he's caught up. And then
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: he always wins. So you'll see him most likely win
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: in 18 days. President Trump, he's got an AI director now.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: Do you remember our U.S. attorney here, Jay Clayton? He
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: was a fine U.S.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: Attorney.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: He was a really good guy, very smart guy. Everybody
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: likes Jay Clayton. So President Trump made him the director
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: of national intelligence. That's a huge job in Washington. And
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: before he was the U.S. attorney here, he had quite
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: a resume. He was the head of the SEC. He's
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: done a lot of stuff. So he's the national intelligence director. Now,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: President Trump also just appointed him AI czar. He's the
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: AI czar. And the president has asked him, he's given
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: him 120 days to come back and report on the
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: pros and cons of AI. And Clayton will oversee a
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: super intelligence task force. which is being formed to put
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: all the smartest people on it, make sure the leaders
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: in AI, they're calling it superintelligence, and that the interest
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: of the American people are put first. Clayton predicted that
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: over time there will be stronger mechanisms to mitigate risks
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: and identify opportunities with AI. Task force not fully formed.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: On it will definitely be J.D. Vance, Scott Besson, Pete Hegsiff,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Waters, former AI czar David Sachs. So,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: you know, you've got to remember the important part of
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: this is if it's true that AI is so powerful
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: it could take over the whole world, well, then it's
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: absolutely essential that we be in the lead, not China,
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: that we not let China get control of it. If
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: it's that deadly, if it's that powerful, We can't let
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: China have control of it. We got to stay way
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: ahead of them. So that's the reason to keep going. Now,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: remember with the data centers, all the problems are slowly
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: but surely going away. The electricity problem is being solved.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: They can use different things to solve that. The water problem,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: they've learned how to recycle the water. The only problem,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: the noise, the awful noise from those turbines that make
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: it impossible to live within a half mile, even a
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: mile of a data center. Well, Elon Musk is working
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: on a new type of turbine that will cut down
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: the noise and the vibration. The size, the massive size
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: of the data centers, well, they're going to start to
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: get smaller. You've got to remember it's the same thing
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: with the computer. If you go back to the 70s,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: a computer was enormous. It was the size of a
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: football field, an IBM computer. Now, this little iPhone in
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: my hand is more powerful than that thing. So they'll
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: get the data centers smaller and smaller and smaller. And
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: speaking of Jay Clayton, remember we mentioned yesterday, Susie Wiles,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: the chief of staff, White House chief of staff, is
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: most likely on her way out. The president looking at
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: removing her as chief of staff. Now, she's been quite
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: a part of his campaign. And in the four years
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: he was out of office, she came in, organized things,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: ran things, helped keep that campaign right on track. Who
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: knows what would have happened without her? And she's been great.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: But there's friction there.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: There's problems.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: Her daughter is apparently running around making money off the
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: Trump administration overseas. And they don't like some of that.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: There's things they don't like. But I know he's been
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: asking everybody about removing her, getting opinions from everybody. And
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: there's talk of who would replace her. Stephen Miller is
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: on the list. Randy Levine, New York Yankee president. President
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: Trump loves him. Very smart guy. Steve Witkoff. But you
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: know who's now on the list? Jay Clayton. He's come
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: to really love and respect and trust Jay Clayton. So
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: he's the director of national security. He's the AI czar,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: but now being looked at as possibly the next chief
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: of staff for the White House. Hey, Tiger Woods is
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: working on, this is a new thing now. He's going
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: to build golf courses with gated communities around them. This
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: is what you do when you get old in golf.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: First thing is you go on the senior tour. Instead
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: of the regular PGA Tour, you're on the senior tour.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: And then when you're getting really old, you can't even
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: play on the senior tour. You become a, well, it's
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: actually a bunch of real estate developers and builders. They
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: do all the stuff. They hire you to pretend you're
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: the guy. And they build golf courses. There's a Jack
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: Nicklaus golf course everywhere. The Jack Nicklaus Golf Course with
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: resorts and houses all around the golf course. Real estate
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: developers do this. So apparently Tiger Woods is getting into
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: this business. Blue Jack Ranch is the follow-up to Blue
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: Jack National. This is the name I guess they're using.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: And their golf course is designed by Tiger Woods. They're
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: private clubs, gated communities with homes starting at a million
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: dollars around them. And really nice homes. Here's a Actually,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: they're spending about $ 3 billion on this whole deal. So
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: Tiger Woods will get a huge chunk of that, but
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: some of the homes on there, but 20,000 square foot mansion,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: pretty good looking stuff. But that's what Tiger's up to now. Now,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of people be coming to New York now. It's,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: what's the date today? October 16th. All right, it's going
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: to start right after Halloween, the tourist season. We get
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of them in the summer. But it really
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: gets bad in November and December. They come here for Thanksgiving.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: They come here for the parade. They come here for
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: the tree. We have a lot of listeners around the country.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: You know, when you talk to somebody around the country
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: and they'll talk about the New York, oh, I'd love
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: to come see the tree. This is a big deal.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: They'll actually come here, spend thousands of dollars staying here
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: to go look at this tree. The tree's right over there.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: It's like six blocks away. We walk by this thing
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: every day. It's nice, but it's just a tree. It's
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: a big Christmas. You know, actually, if you go around
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: New York, there's a lot of better Christmas trees with
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: better decorations on them than the Rockefeller Center one. Now,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: the other things that go to Radio City, the Rockettes,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: the Radio City Rockettes say it'll be a different type
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: of show this year. It'll be more high-tech. AI's taking
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: over there. It's the 101st birthday of the Rockettes. The
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: technology gets better and better every year. You know now,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: They have microphones in their shoes. Their tap shoes also
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: have microphones in them. So you can hear the taps.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: They're actually all mic'd up. There's new overhead cameras. It'll
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: show you the precision. There's all sorts of new technology
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: innovation coming in. But they say it'll be a darker
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: show this year. Darker, moodier. Who the hell wants that?
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: Why would you want the Rockettes to get darker and moodier?
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be a fun type show. New data.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: New study coming out. Marriage, less and less and less
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: and less. Fewer than 25% of households with children have
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: married couples in them. You know, it used to be
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: a long time ago, if your parents were divorced and
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: you were a kid that you went to school, you know,
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: they would tease you about your parents being divorced. That
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: was a problem. Now, if you go to school and
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: your parents aren't divorced, you get teased about that. Everybody's divorced.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: It's highly unusual for a kid to go to school
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: and have both parents living with them. In fact, it
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: looks like, here's one city, only 13% of kids have
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: married parents. Only 13%. But overall, the whole country, it's 25%.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: Only 25% of kids have married parents. Now, it's different
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: in the suburbs. It's a higher rate out in the suburbs.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: A lot less in the cities. But one major city,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: it's only 13%. Hey, remember, it was a week ago,
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live, Shane Gillis did the monologue where he
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: did those jokes about women dressing really trashy in the gym,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: how they look like whores or whatever. So everybody's been
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: trying to cancel him. The crazy left-wingers have been trying
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: to bring back cancel culture and cancel him for being misogynist.
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: It's not working, though. Nothing's happened so far. People are
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: defending him. Even Travis Kelsey came out to defend him.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: Other comedians coming out to defend him. So it was
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: an attempt to bring back cancel culture. And it looks
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: like a week later it is failing and will fail.
• 1:22:17
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• 1:22:21
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• 1:22:25
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• 1:22:27
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• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. Let's
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 2: go to Jamie in New Jersey. Jamie, how you doing?
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 13: Hey, Mark.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 20: Great show as always. I was going to tell you
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 20: two things. The first thing is, you know, the Libs
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 20: keep forgetting that it took JFK Jr. like three or
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 20: four times to pass the flag.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Well, it was three times, and the third time his
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: mother had to make some special arrangements for him to pass.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 20: Oh, was that the West?
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Listen, he was a friend of mine. He was
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: a nice guy. He was not the brightest guy in
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: the world.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 20: And the second thing is, did you ever really think about, like,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 20: penning a biography or something? Because between, you know, knowing, like,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 20: Sinatra and, you know, all the … Well.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: I actually have about 12 book deals I've had through
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: the years, but I can never force myself to sit
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: down and start writing. I know, I got to do it.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: I got to do it.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 20: I mean, it would just be incredible. I mean, the
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 20: people that you've known.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: All right, let's calm down. It won't be war and peace,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: but you're right. I should do it. I should do it.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: I got to force myself.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 20: You know, it definitely would be some great reading. And again,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 20: you know, it's just, it would be something to look
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 20: forward to.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks. I'll start working on it. I'll start
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: sitting down and actually writing. Let's go to John in Bayville. John,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 10: Okay, Mark.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 20: How are you?
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: Good. What are you, in the trunk of a car?
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 18: I'm in my car.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 22: I'm driving.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 18: My question to you, has anybody in all our presidents
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 18: in Congress ever decided to come out with an amendment
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 18: against having non-born or people born abroad running for office,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 18: any office in our country?
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: Well, people People have talked about it. Nobody's proposed it. Yeah,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: the problem is there's a lot of people in Congress
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: that weren't born in the United States. You've got to
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: be born in the United States to be president. We
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: can understand that because you're leading. You might be leading
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: us in a war or something. But banning people that
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: weren't born in the country from even running for Congress,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: That's stretching it a bit. Let's go to, uh, Nick
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: in Mount Vernon. Nick, how you doing?
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 13: Good, Mark.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 3: Good. Love your show.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 22: What's the story with daylight saving time? Is he going
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 22: to eliminate it?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, probably. It's not going to happen this time. Cause
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: like in two weeks, you got to set your clock, uh,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: back an hour, but, uh, it got knocked out. Um,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: the almost got it done, but there were a couple
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: of States opposing it. One was, it was at Arkansas where, uh,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: So the problem is a time zone is big. Like
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: if you're in New York and it's getting dark at
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: six o'clock, if you're all the way at the end
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: of the time zone, like in Michigan, it's not getting
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: dark till seven o'clock. There's a one hour difference from
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the time zone to the end as
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: far as the darkness and the daylight. So the problem is,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: I think the state was Arkansas. They're at the end
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: of a time zone. They're on the cusp of a
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: time zone. So it would stay dark here till about 730. Well,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 2: in that state in the winter, it'll stay dark till 830.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: So they pretty much blocked it. Well, we'll get this
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: permanent daylight saving time. Not in time for this year,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: but we'll get it eventually. Let's go to Pam in
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. Pam, how you doing?
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 10: Hi.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 23: You asked how did New England become so liberal? It's
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 23: Started a lot of the time, not totally, but during
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 23: the Vietnam War when liberal artists went up there on
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 23: their way to Canada. But some of them stopped short
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 23: and went out in the woods and did their art
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 23: thing and formed enclaves of liberalism. There's still enclaves in Canada, too,
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 23: of these groups.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the beginning, the liberals moving up there.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: But then it really sped up in the 70s, 80s,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: like a lot of.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: New Yorkers, Brooklynites, Bernie Sanders, all those people, they went
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: up to Vermont and they took over the whole state.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 2: The old Vermont guard didn't know what the hell hit
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: him when these tough guys from Brooklyn came and took over.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: But it's been happening everywhere. Maine, especially during the pandemic,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of the left-wingers, real left-wingers out of Massachusetts,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: all during that pandemic were moving up to Maine. Doesn't
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: take a lot of people to change the demographic makeup.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: Maine's got a small population and they did change it.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Bob in Florida. Bob, how are you doing?
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: I'm hanging in there.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm day-to-day mostly, but I'm calling about the
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: horse carriage caper.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: But how it relates to the fake news being.
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  Speaker 15: Like, off the charts.
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  Speaker 17: With every story that would appeal to some, you know,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 17: left-wing group.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's just cheap virtue signaling.
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  Speaker 2: It's cheap virtue signaling. The problem, a death caused by
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: the horse and carriage is one. in 100 years, death
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: by e-bikes, 133 in seven years. Just seven years.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, with Oscar Belgal and Mayor Mondami demanding that ICE
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 13: be removed from the city.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, come on. All he's trying to do is.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's another good point. Listen, these shootings are awful
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: when they happen. ICE has had three of these shootings,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: but that's out of 600,000 arrests. That's a pretty good
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: track record, 600,000 arrests. And only three had problems like that.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 22: Good morning, Mark. Mark, I'm okay. Mayor Mondami's always grousing
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 22: and complaining about the cost of daycare. Well, hello, Mondami.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 22: Years ago, it wasn't necessary for two people in a family,
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 22: the husband and the wife, to go out and work.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 22: It's only because your ilk, Mondami, Kathy Hochul, and all
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 22: of the Democrats in the city legislature and the state legislature,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 22: because when I was a kid... My mother only worked
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 22: four hours a day. My mother was a cook in
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 22: an Italian restaurant that had largely a lunch trade. So
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 22: after we went off to school, my mother went to
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 22: work in the kitchen and everything. And before school let
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 22: out at 2.30, a quarter to 3.00, my mother was
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 22: pretty much finished. It was only because of, over the years,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 22: the cost of living, mainly the taxes, the fees, and
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 22: the regulations going up, that where it made it necessary
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 22: for two people in a family to have to work.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 22: That's on you, Democrats. That's on you, Mondami. But on
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 22: a lighter note, Mark, you were speaking about great Christmas trees.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 22: Everybody listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we only got a few seconds. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 22: At the end of Montague Street on Brooklyn Heights, right
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 22: where the promenade begins, right before Thanksgiving, they set up
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 22: a massive, beautiful Christmas tree. And on one side is
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 22: the house where Linda Blair did the exorcist. But right
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 22: beyond it, still in view, is the lower harbor all
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 22: lit up. It's beautiful.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen it. Really nice. Well, Vincent, great call.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Hey, when we come back, one of
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: the best pollsters around, Matt Towery, he's got a great
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: new book out. So we'll get some insight into the
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: upcoming election. And also, this is a fascinating book about
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: the mirages created by liberal media, liberal colleges. It's fascinating stuff.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: We'll get to that next on 710WOR. Welcome back to
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 11: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Matt Towery is one of the great pollsters in America.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, a real pollster, not those fake polls you
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: see publicly. But Matt Towery, great pollster. But he's got
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: a book out that's very important we want you to read.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: The new book is called The Mirage Machine. And it's
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: all about how this whole fake media academic government complex
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: got started and what it's doing. And we'll get to
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: that with the great Matt Towery. Matt, how you doing?
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  Speaker 15: Mark, so happy to be with you. And let everybody
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 15: know the first part of that title is the honoring
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 15: of ignorance, the honoring of ignorance. And let me tell you,
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 15: we've got more honoring of ignorance going on in this
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 15: election season than I can count. And I'm so happy
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 15: to have a chance to sort of share my thoughts
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 15: with your with your listeners today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get to the book in a second. Let
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: me just ask you, it's 18 days till the midterms.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: What's going to happen? How does it look right now?
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  Speaker 15: You know, we get this every time, Mark. You're so
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 15: used to it. We get these polls that come out
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 15: and show the Democrats are always way ahead and the
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 15: Republicans are way down. And then somebody like a Nate
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 15: Silver or 538 before they shuttered that bunch comes out
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 15: and says, oh, it's over. You know, give up. And
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 15: then all of a sudden, the Republicans, you know it.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 15: And so all of a sudden, the Republicans start to
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 15: inch their way back in. And now all of a sudden,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 15: people are nervous. And I'll tell you a reason they are.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 15: they're nervous because there is a massive turnout of older voters.
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 15: Like I've never seen before. I've been polling for 26 years.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 15: I've been in politics forever and I have never seen
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 15: seniors voting at the level they are now. In fact,
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 15: in Georgia, which is my bellwether state, because it could
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 15: go 50, 50, either way in Georgia, 80% of the
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 15: votes in early votes as of yesterday, we're 55 and
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 15: over and they vote Republican.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 15: And isn't that something?
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Um, So the fake polls that are supposed to
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: discourage people, the fake news trying to convince Republicans to
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: stay home, it's not working? Is that what we're saying?
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it never has worked. You know, I predicted Trump
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 15: would win in 2016. Everybody thought it was crazy. In 2020,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 15: you know, we knew that Trump was, you know, with
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 15: the pandemic.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: It really hurt him.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 15: But he did very well. He didn't win, at least
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 15: by the count. but he was much closer than the
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 15: pollsters had it. In 2024, they all said he was
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 15: going to lose that also, and he beat Harris handily.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 15: So I think we're looking at another one of these
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 15: mirage machines where what they do is the media harps
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 15: on a certain issue. This time it's gas prices. They
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 15: don't tell anybody that gas prices were just as high
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 15: under Joe Biden and that inflation was 8.5% versus 3.7% now.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 15: You don't hear that, do you?
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 15: They keep that from us, and instead- They want to
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 15: focus on the one thing that makes everybody feel like
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 15: they're so miserable and they're not doing well. And I
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 15: don't think the public's buying it.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: So a lot of criticism of the Republicans didn't do
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: the right messaging. They didn't get their message out. What
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: did they do wrong, if anything?
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 15: Well, I think the only thing they could have done,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 15: which I wish they had, is to leapfrog over this
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 15: biased mirage machine media. and put out ads earlier letting
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 15: people know that we have the lowest unemployment since the
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 15: 1960s the economy is expanding the GDP is up that
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 15: we have more disposable income because of the tax cuts
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 15: and that more people were traveling during labor day this
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 15: last holiday we had more people flew and drove than
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 15: any other time in the history of our country does
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 15: that sound like a country that's in recession no and
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 15: I think that message could have gotten out there sooner
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 15: but boy, Donald Trump, he is working his rear end off,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 15: going everywhere he can, because turnout is what midterms are about,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 15: and he is turning people out to the polls.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Matt Towery, but here's the problem, which brings
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: us to your book, The Honoring of Ignorance, this mirage machine.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: What you're talking about is the media, the pollsters, academia, everything,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: creating these mirages. Explain how the book came about.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 15: Oh, it's funny, Mark. I was at the University of
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 15: Georgia I dropped out to work for a guy named
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 15: Newt Gingrich and another guy named Mack Mattingly. Gingrich was
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 15: in his first term in Congress and Mattingly was running
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 15: for the U.S. Senate. He got elected. I went to D.C.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 15: So I left Georgia and ended up at Cambridge University
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 15: in England, which is where I took my degree. When
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 15: I was there, I started working on a book called
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 15: The Honoring of Ignorance. I got a literary agent, Ann Elmo,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 15: who's well known. She's passed away since then. And they
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 15: pitched the book to all these publishers. They all said,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 15: we love it, but he's too young to say this.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 15: And now I'm 67 years old, and I'm afraid people
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 15: are going to say he's too old.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 22: To say this.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 15: But it's still the same thesis. It's just changed a
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 15: lot with the Internet and with cable television and all
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 15: the things that have happened since 40 years ago. And
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 15: we have one big mirage machine. Basically, we have a
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 15: media that they exclude. things. They make sure you don't
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 15: see things that are possible about President Trump. They make
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 15: sure they harp on the things that are negative. They
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 15: then get the pollsters go out there and tell you, boy,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 15: he is so unpopular. And then they get the fact
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 15: checkers who come and fact check them and say, oh,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 15: everything they're saying is right. Why did a fact check
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 15: our polling company? And it was Snopes. And the woman
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 15: who wrote it, she said, we don't know anything about
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 15: this polling firm, and we can't vouch for whether they're credible.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 15: You know that we polled for the Fox affiliates around
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 15: the country, owned and operated for like eight, ten years
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 15: for Politico, for Newsmax, anybody you can think of. Yet
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 15: somehow she couldn't find out anything about us. So she
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 15: wrote this terrible review. Great fact checker, huh?
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: So here's the problem. Obviously, you got, you know, the
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: universities are all left wing indoctrination camps. But then the
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: news media goes total fake news. The fact-checkers got totally corrupted.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: They're all left-wing, slanted people running these fact-checking sites, which
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: is what you call the mirage machine. But what on
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 2: earth can you do about it? Is it too late?
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 15: Well, there are two things. I say at the conclusion
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 15: of the book that we're going to go one of
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 15: two directions. We're either going to end up with a
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 15: country where the blue states have compacts with one another
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 15: and they have their own laws they follow and the
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 15: red states do the same with their own states. Or
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 15: we're going to learn as conservatives or Republicans, people just
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 15: want to get the truth out, to start every week
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 15: putting ads out to say in case you've missed it.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 15: And don't quote the conservative stuff by itself. Quote NBC
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 15: News and CNN because they actually have to put up
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 15: this good news of what Trump is doing, but they
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 15: try to hide it. So instead of hiding it, get
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 15: it out there so the public is not so ill-informed.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 15: going into an election. That's the most critical thing, I think,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 15: advice I would give the Republicans and conservatives going into
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 15: the future.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 2: It's a great book. You should get this new book.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: It's called The Honoring of Ignorance. It's all about the
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: mirage machine. It's Matt Towery, The Honoring of Ignorance. So
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: if you're a young guy and you just got out
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: of college, you've been totally indoctrinated into the left, you're
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: watching left-wing crazy media, reading left-wing fact-checkers, is that how
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: it's now possible for Really nutty candidates, Mamdani or El-Sayed
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: to be elected. Is that how that happened?
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 15: That's exactly what has happened. We've had a whole generation
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 15: of people who went to school where, for example, with socialism,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 15: one of the reasons that the seniors are turning out
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 15: like they are is because they remember the old Soviet Union.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 15: They know what Cuba was about. They saw the fall
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 15: of communism in Eastern Europe. They're not taught about this
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 15: stuff now, both in secondary schools and at universities. They're
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 15: told a completely different story. So they have no idea
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 15: about the truth. Now, that doesn't make these people stupid.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 15: It makes them ignorant.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 17: That's different.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 15: Ignorance means you just don't know. Doesn't mean you can't learn.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 15: So we've got to make sure that we teach people
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 15: the truth and get the truth out there. In fact,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 15: get this book and go to Thanksgiving dinner where I
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 15: know half the room is liberal and half conservative. Nobody's
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 15: talking to each other. Give them the book. Tell them
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 15: to read it and see if they can come back
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 15: and debate you the next week. I guarantee you they
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 15: won't be able to beat you. You'll beat them.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So what do you do? How would you ever
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: take back the universities? You'd have to get rid of
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: the faculty, the board of trustees. Even if you did that,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: wouldn't it be generations before it helped?
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 15: And Mark, what has to happen is the late Charlie
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 15: Kirk was a great example. You've got to go to
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 15: these places and you've got to tell them the truth.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 15: And Charlie lost his life for doing that.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 3: But it was.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 15: A great life that he had. I had the pleasure
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 15: of knowing him a bit, being on TV with him
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 15: on Fox News. But we need more people like him
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 15: out there. And we also need to get, like I said,
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 15: into the mainstream media. Conservative media is only 25% of
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 15: what people watch. Most of the news they get is
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 15: from Google and Apple and on social media. The conservatives
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 15: had to get their story out on those platforms. And
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 15: by the way, it would be a good idea if
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 15: they created one or two fact-checkers that would check things
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 15: right instead of the ones that pick on us all
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 15: the time. I'm sure you get picked on. I know
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 15: I do. And by the way, I'm retiring as a
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 15: pollster mark. So I don't have, I have nothing to lose.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 15: This is my last year. All right.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: Well, good luck with this. I don't know. It's going
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 2: to take a million years to turn things around, but
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: if you want to, you know, it's, it's doable.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 15: I live in the free state of Florida and this state,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 15: when I went to law school here was as democratic
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 15: as it could be. I went back to Atlanta and
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 15: had a career there. I came back home to Florida.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 15: And it's as Republican as can be. And they're changing
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 15: the universities. They don't let them teach all this nonsense.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 15: It will happen. At some point, the truth and freedom
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 15: end up winning.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: Hey, everybody get this book. You're going to love this book.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: It's called The Honoring of Ignorance about the Mirage Machine.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: It's Matt Towery's new book, The Honoring of Ignorance. Go
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: to Amazon or wherever you get your books and get
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: the book. Matt Towery, great stuff. Thanks for being with us.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 15: Mark, thank you so much for having me on.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. All right.
• 1:41:11
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, President Trump today travels to Georgia this afternoon.
• 1:42:01
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• 1:42:05
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• 1:42:32
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