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Hour 1: Mamdani's Vision Zero plans. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Live from Midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show
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Speaker 1: on 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Well, hey, a big show today. Everybody always says that
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Speaker 2: when they open. It's always a big show. Jam-packed. Nobody
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Speaker 2: ever opens by saying, eh, not so great today. No, actually,
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Speaker 2: we've got a lot to talk about. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: the AI, whatever the hell this PSYOP operation is to
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Speaker 2: convince you that AI is going to kill you. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to the Fed rate. It could be raised. Everybody's
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Speaker 2: expecting a quarter of a point raise later today. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to Iran and what their real strategy is. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to Mamdani, his latest crazy scheme in the war
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Speaker 2: on cars. And we'll get to the Carnegie Deli. It
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Speaker 2: reopened yesterday. I was there. It was pretty interesting. I'll
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Speaker 2: give you all the details. Hey, check out my Instagram.
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Speaker 2: You can see some pictures. Mark Simone. NYC at Instagram. Well,
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Speaker 2: let's see. The Fed rate will probably go up. Everybody's
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Speaker 2: expecting a quarter point raise. That will happen later today
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Speaker 2: when they make the announcement. As a result, actually, stocks
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Speaker 2: are up. Futures are up. The market's not open yet,
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Speaker 2: but futures are up. And let me just see here. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: oil prices down a little, still way too high. but
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Speaker 2: oil prices, uh, a dollar for a barrel for, uh, WTI,
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Speaker 2: the American oil, uh, the rest of the world using
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Speaker 2: Brent crude. That's at one Oh seven. It's very high,
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Speaker 2: way too high. Now, if, uh, if, uh, we had
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Speaker 2: a great government here in New York or California or somewhere,
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Speaker 2: they would help the public with that. Remove the gas
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Speaker 2: tax and fees in the state right now. Cause here
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Speaker 2: in New York, it's 50 cents a gallon in tax.
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Speaker 2: Just remove it for 30 days. Uh, Price will probably
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Speaker 2: come down in 30 days. Just remove that gas tax
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Speaker 2: for 30 days. California should do the same thing. It's
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Speaker 2: 75 cents a gallon. 75 cents a gallon is the
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Speaker 2: tax in California. Here in New York, it's 50 cents
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Speaker 2: a gallon. Plus, you got almost 20% federal taxes. It
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Speaker 2: should all be removed for 30 days. I know it
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Speaker 2: pays for the roads and all, but we've watched them
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Speaker 2: repair these roads. They're not so good at it. But
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Speaker 2: we'll see. The real Iran strategy is exactly what they've
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Speaker 2: done historically. They did this with Jimmy Carter when they
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Speaker 2: held our hostages. And Carter tried every which way to
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Speaker 2: get them back. We tried a ridiculous rescue operation. We
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Speaker 2: tried to negotiate everything, trying to get those hostages back.
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Speaker 2: When did Iran release them? When did they finally give in?
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Speaker 2: The second after the election. As soon as Reagan got elected,
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Speaker 2: they turned them over immediately. In fact, it was while
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Speaker 2: Reagan was being sworn in, during the swearing-in ceremony of Reagan,
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Speaker 2: during the inauguration, as his hand hid the Bible, Iran
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Speaker 2: put those hostages on a plane and had them flown back.
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Speaker 2: So same strategy here. They're waiting for the midterm elections.
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Speaker 2: They're praying, hoping the Democrats win, thinking the Democrats will
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Speaker 2: stop the war, shut it all down. That's what they're
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Speaker 2: waiting for. If the Republicans win the election, The House,
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Speaker 2: the Senate, you can be sure Iran will be on
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Speaker 2: the phone one second later offering a peace deal. So
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Speaker 2: that's what they're waiting for. They did it with Carter.
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Speaker 2: They're doing it now. They'll wait till just after the
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Speaker 2: election to settle. And again, it's their usual pattern. So
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Speaker 2: the big problem, the reason for the big spike in
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Speaker 2: oil here over the last few days is Iran got
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Speaker 2: the Houthis mobilized again. And got them armed and financed.
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Speaker 2: Iran uses various terrorist groups, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and others.
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Speaker 2: And they got the Houthis to attack a Saudi pipeline.
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Speaker 2: And they took out a pipeline, an important pipeline that
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Speaker 2: the Saudis used to get oil out. Now, the good
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Speaker 2: news is to repair that pipeline takes about two weeks.
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Speaker 2: So a week and a half from now, that pipeline
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Speaker 2: will be operating again. And you've got to protect it.
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Speaker 2: But apparently you can protect the pipeline. You'll need swarms
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Speaker 2: of drones there. to do it. They're going to need
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Speaker 2: more drones. They're actually looking to Zelensky in the Ukraine,
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Speaker 2: who has now become the biggest drone manufacturer in the world.
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Speaker 2: Nobody turns out more drones and he's been able to
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Speaker 2: protect his stuff with these drones. So Saudi's looking to
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Speaker 2: make a deal with him, uh, to get that going. So, uh, uh,
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Speaker 2: Mamdani's got this crazy scheme. Uh, if you hear the speech,
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Speaker 2: it's about, uh, trying to cut down on traffic deaths and, uh, accidents,
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Speaker 2: cars hitting, well, that's great. That's wonderful. That's a good
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Speaker 2: thing to do. But if you look into the fine
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Speaker 2: print of this plan, which has got like a thousand
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Speaker 2: components to it, then most of it, most of it
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Speaker 2: is stuff we're not going to like. Bike lanes everywhere,
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Speaker 2: bike lanes on top of bike lanes, reducing a lot
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Speaker 2: of streets. The number of lanes, Park Avenue would have
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Speaker 2: a huge pedestrian mall in the middle of it. Many
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Speaker 2: streets would be converted to pedestrian only. Of course, this
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Speaker 2: is absolutely crazy. This is insane stuff. It's the war
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Speaker 2: on cars. And it sounds good to people that don't drive,
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Speaker 2: but it isn't. It affects you in a million ways.
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Speaker 2: Just take a look at Times Square. And it was
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Speaker 2: Bloomberg that did that. And you remember, he decided to
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Speaker 2: make a massive pedestrian mall right in the middle of
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Speaker 2: Times Square. It just snarled up traffic, which had already
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Speaker 2: been horrific. Now it's even worse. The Broadway community, furious
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Speaker 2: about this. They've been trying for years to undo that
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Speaker 2: pedestrian mall. Makes it tougher and tougher and tougher to
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Speaker 2: get to a Broadway show, to leave a Broadway show.
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Speaker 2: It's made a traffic situation that was already horrible, even worse.
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Speaker 2: Also remember, we're in New York. Six months of the year,
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Speaker 2: it's cold. You're not going to sit outside in the
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Speaker 2: pedestrian mall. You know, they put these tables and chairs.
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Speaker 2: There's winter. In winter, who's going to sit out there?
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Speaker 2: So Mamdani wants to do that with more and more
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Speaker 2: and more streets. Absolutely ridiculous. So just keep an eye
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Speaker 2: on this plan. Now, the good news with Mamdani is
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Speaker 2: he talks a lot and gets very little done. 99%
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Speaker 2: of the stuff he says never happens. He's not a manager.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't know how to execute, doesn't know how to
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Speaker 2: get it done. So that's the good news. The other
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Speaker 2: part of that cutting down traffic accidents, which is a
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Speaker 2: good thing to do, of is reducing the speed limit everywhere. Everywhere.
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Speaker 2: 15 miles an hour in some places. Did you ever
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Speaker 2: try to drive 15 miles an hour? It's not easy
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Speaker 2: to do. Unless you're 97 and you're driving Miss Daisy
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Speaker 2: or something. But it's really tough to drive 15 miles
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Speaker 2: an hour. It's also a revenue thing because nobody can
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Speaker 2: do it. So as soon as you're 20 miles an hour,
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Speaker 2: you're going to get a ticket. It's just a way
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Speaker 2: to give out more tickets.
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Speaker 3: And.
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Speaker 2: It never stops. Hey, the war on AI, it's not
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Speaker 2: really a war on AI. There's a cartel now that
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Speaker 2: controls all of AI. The big four AI companies control
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Speaker 2: it all. And they'd like to keep it that way. Uh,
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Speaker 2: so that's what this is really all about. Uh, they
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Speaker 2: pretend they're just noble. They're just saints calling for regulation. So, uh,
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Speaker 2: anytime you hear tech CEOs trying to sound noble, be very, very, very, uh, weary. And, uh, Well,
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Speaker 2: anytime you hear people calling for their business to be regulated,
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Speaker 2: be very wary of these people. The real story is
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Speaker 2: they've got the whole thing monopolized. The big four. It's
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Speaker 2: a cartel. They control AI. And they'd like all this regulation,
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Speaker 2: red tape to come in to keep everybody else out
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Speaker 2: because they've seen a lot of young upstart companies on
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Speaker 2: the horizons. All of a sudden there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: players want to move into AI. This regulation would make
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Speaker 2: it very tough for them and discourage most of them. Uh,
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Speaker 2: now there's people jumping in on this fight. Uh, Steve
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Speaker 2: Bannon teamed up with Bernie Sanders. Now you've got the
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Speaker 2: two biggest nuts on both sides of the aisle, Bannon
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Speaker 2: and Sanders, uh, just spewing all kinds of stuff together.
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Speaker 2: Sanders looks like a guy you'd see in the Carnegie deli, uh,
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Speaker 2: And he's just, I mean, he's a lovable guy, but
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Speaker 2: just a lunatic. And Bannon looks like he just robbed
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Speaker 2: an army surplus store with that outfit. He looks like
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Speaker 2: he's dressed for Vietnam in the jungle or something. But
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Speaker 2: two lunatics with this press conference, Bannon.
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Speaker 4: Once you have time, then you can start the hard
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Speaker 4: work of what is actually the regulatory apparatus. What is
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Speaker 4: a regulatory apparatus that does not choke down the creativity
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Speaker 4: of The drive, the urgency.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now Sanders.
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Speaker 5: Despite living in a so-called democracy, the public has had
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Speaker 5: virtually no input into the AI revolution that is transforming
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Speaker 5: the world in which they live.
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Speaker 2: There's the problem. The public has had no input into the...
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Speaker 2: I got to be honest. You remember when Steve Jobs
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Speaker 2: was working, coming up with the iPhone? I didn't have
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Speaker 2: any input. He never consulted us. You remember where they
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Speaker 2: were inventing Google, those three guys? They never got any
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Speaker 2: input from us. There's a reason for that. He'll need
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Speaker 2: any input from us. And what the hell do we know?
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Speaker 2: What if Steve Jobs did come to me for advice
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Speaker 2: when he was developing the iPhone? What am I going
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Speaker 2: to do? Say, yeah, I would put this part over here.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you should put this over here. What do we know?
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Speaker 2: Barely know how to use AI. I'm going to have
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Speaker 2: input into creating it. It doesn't make any sense. But again,
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Speaker 2: the cartel, and as a lot of people are pointing out,
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Speaker 2: if the cartel, these four companies, thinks that we should
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Speaker 2: slow down, Well, you guys have a total monopoly and
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Speaker 2: control it. Slow down if you want. You think we
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Speaker 2: should have a slowdown? Start it at 10 o'clock this morning.
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Speaker 2: Just slow down. You could do it yourself. But this
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Speaker 2: is all being carefully orchestrated. The quiet ringmaster behind the scenes,
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Speaker 2: Barack Obama. They had a little meeting for all of
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Speaker 2: this and Obama was there. And the one guy leading
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Speaker 2: the charge, that anthropic CEO, very close to Obama, Now,
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Speaker 2: why would Obama get involved? He thinks, and he's been
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Speaker 2: telling Democrats this for almost two months. They weren't really
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Speaker 2: listening to him, but he was telling them, AI is
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Speaker 2: your issue. Make AI the issue. Make AI the new
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Speaker 2: climate change. The thing everybody has to be terrified for,
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Speaker 2: and only Democrats will protect you from it. So Obama,
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Speaker 2: brilliant political strategist, thought that was the issue. But the
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Speaker 2: thing is, if you want to talk about AI.
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Speaker 2: A 97-year-old guy like Bernie Sanders with fogged up glasses
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Speaker 2: who barely knows how to use his cell phone. This
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Speaker 2: is not your guy.
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Speaker 5: If AI surpasses human intelligence, as many scientists believe could happen,
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Speaker 5: this technology will escape human control with potentially catastrophic consequences.
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Speaker 2: By the way, we like to point out, all the
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Speaker 2: same stuff was said... With even more fear, when they
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Speaker 2: invented electricity, there was an uproar and a lot of
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Speaker 2: this took place. You can go back and read the
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Speaker 2: history of this. When electricity was developed, same thing. They
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Speaker 2: all wanted it stopped. They were afraid of electricity. It
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Speaker 2: was going to kill us all. It was going to
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Speaker 2: create monsters. This was a big, big, big thing in
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Speaker 2: public back then. And that's what led to Mary Shelley
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Speaker 2: writing the book Frankenstein, which became a big novel. It
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Speaker 2: was about electricity. being used to create a monster that
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Speaker 2: kills us all. So this has been going on forever,
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Speaker 2: this kind of talk. The Carnegie Deli reopened yesterday. You know,
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Speaker 2: you got to be a little leery when you try
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Speaker 2: to bring something back, when you try to recreate some magic. Well,
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Speaker 2: it worked. It really worked. It was pretty amazing. Check
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Speaker 2: out my Instagram. You'll see some pictures. Mark Simone, NYC
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Speaker 2: at Instagram. It was packed. There was a line out
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Speaker 2: the door. They had to have a big bouncer at
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Speaker 2: the door, a very friendly guy, but they needed security.
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Speaker 2: There were press everywhere inside. The food, great. The sandwiches. Now,
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Speaker 2: remember how big the sandwiches were? They're like eight feet
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Speaker 2: high to 10 feet high, 10 inches high, the sandwiches.
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Speaker 2: You know, in the age of skimflation and shrinkflation, Are
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Speaker 2: we going to cut the size down? No, they increased it.
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 2: No, they're even bigger. They're even bigger. Now, people look
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Speaker 2: at that sandwich that's like a foot high with that
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Speaker 2: much pastrami and say, how are you supposed to eat that?
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Speaker 2: You can't even get that in your mouth. Who could
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Speaker 2: eat all that? Well, that's true. But that was part
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Speaker 2: of the magic formula because basically it's three sandwiches in one.
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Speaker 2: If you got some more bread, you could make three
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Speaker 2: sandwiches easily out of it. So that's basically the brilliant
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Speaker 2: business model. They're able to sell you three sandwiches when
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Speaker 2: you only wanted one. And you can't complain because you're
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Speaker 2: certainly getting your money's worth. Pop-up bagels, which is the
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Speaker 2: hot new bagel chain, same thing. Although they're more obvious
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Speaker 2: about it. You know, the smallest order you can get
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Speaker 2: at pop-up bagels is three bagels. You have to order
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Speaker 2: a bag of bagels, a bag of 12, a bag
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Speaker 2: of 10. You can get the smallest is a bag
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Speaker 2: of three. So even though you want one bagel, you
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Speaker 2: got to buy three. It's so good, you do it.
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Speaker 2: So same thing with the Carnegie. Most people, they take
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Speaker 2: home what they didn't eat. Sandwiches are phenomenal. The great
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Speaker 2: cheesecake is back. The pickles are back. There are some
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Speaker 2: changes that the purists like me that were there in
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Speaker 2: the heyday of the Carnegie. Remember the big surly waiters?
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Speaker 2: Remember Herb, that big, big waiter who'd yell at you
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Speaker 2: and you could order 500 things and he'd say, what else?
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Speaker 2: What else? Well, I'll have this and this and this. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: what else? And then they'd walk up to that counter
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Speaker 2: where the waiters would order and they would scream the
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Speaker 2: orders at the countermen. And by the way, they had
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Speaker 2: their own code, a pastrami on rye, the most common
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Speaker 2: order at the Carnegie. Pastrami on rye was a pistol.
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Speaker 2: So you'd hear Herb, the waiter, go up the counter,
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Speaker 2: two pistols. And if you wanted the, rye toasted that
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Speaker 2: was whiskey down. So they'd say, two pistols, one whiskey down.
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Speaker 2: They'd always be barking the stuff at the counter. So
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Speaker 2: I'm standing by the counter. And first of all, the
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Speaker 2: problem is they don't have those old nasty waiters anymore.
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Speaker 2: They're all young. They're nice looking. They're friendly. They're nice,
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Speaker 2: friendly waiters. Not the same thing. And I didn't hear
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Speaker 2: anybody yelling the order at the counter guy. Nobody's yelling.
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Speaker 2: I said, why aren't they? How come I don't hear it? Well,
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Speaker 2: it's all done with a little pad. They just type
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Speaker 2: it in The waiter just types in the order. It's
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Speaker 2: all digital. It comes up as a ticket on the
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Speaker 2: other side. No yelling, no noise. It really cut down
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Speaker 2: on the noise. And again, the big, fat, grumpy waiters,
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Speaker 2: I didn't see one of them. They're all young. They're
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Speaker 2: good looking. But they're doing very well. Now, it's in
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Speaker 2: a different location. You remember where the old Carnegie was?
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Speaker 2: This was a block south. It's ironically in the location
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Speaker 2: where the stage deli was Stage Deli, their arch rival
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Speaker 2: for many years. So it's in the old Stage Deli.
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Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's roomier. It's wider. It's nicer than the
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Speaker 2: old place. Remember they had the pictures all over every wall? Well,
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Speaker 2: in the new one, they've got the pictures all on
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Speaker 2: one or two big walls, much more orderly. My picture's
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Speaker 2: in there somewhere. Look for it. But I asked the owner.
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Speaker 2: The owner is Marion Harper, Sari Harper, granddaughter of the
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Speaker 2: original owner, They're running it. Again, check out my Instagram.
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Speaker 2: You'll see pictures of them. But did you try to
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Speaker 2: get back the old location? The old location is now
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Speaker 2: a cannabis store. A cannabis store is where the Carnegie was. So, no,
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Speaker 2: they didn't. They said there are problems with that building.
16:54
Speaker 2: And also, they think a developer is going to come
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Speaker 2: in and take those three or four buildings down and
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Speaker 2: put up a skyscraper. They didn't need to get in
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Speaker 2: that fight. So they got a new location. Also, they're
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Speaker 2: looking to maybe do a Florida one. We've got a
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Speaker 2: lot of Florida listeners. They're looking for a Florida Carnegie Deli.
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Speaker 2: Most likely, Boca Raton would be the place. Not only
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Speaker 2: is the great cheesecake back, but by the way, they
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Speaker 2: have a great black and white cookie now. That's the
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Speaker 2: new thing, the black and white cookie. And it's crowded.
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Speaker 2: There's a line. It's not bad. It's not that bad.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to wait that long. Anyway, we've got
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Speaker 2: a lot more to get to, so stay with us.
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Speaker 2: It's Mark Simone here. 9 to noon, three hours every day,
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Speaker 2: 9 to noon, here on 710WOR. Weekdays on 710WOR. Oh, hey,
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Speaker 2: it's only Tuesday. No, what's today? It's Wednesday. Wednesday. All right,
17:48
Speaker 2: that's better. It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. A week from today,
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Speaker 2: it'll be autumn. That's right. Next Tuesday, like 10 o'clock
17:56
Speaker 2: at night, is the actual end of summer. Hey, that
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Speaker 2: crazy Kathy Hochul has got a scheme for the election.
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Speaker 2: You know, electric bills are really high. You remember your
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Speaker 2: electric bill was like $ 120 a month. Now it's $ 400
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Speaker 2: a month. What the hell happened? Well, blame Andrew Cuomo
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Speaker 2: for that. He shut down Indian Point for no reason
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Speaker 2: at all. Part of his green scheme, whatever it was.
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Speaker 2: But he shut down Indian Point, and that was 25%
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Speaker 2: of our electricity. And it drove the cost way up
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Speaker 2: for everybody of electricity. And then Cuomo and now Hochul
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Speaker 2: refused to allow fracking in New York. Right under us
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Speaker 2: in New York State, we got tons and tons and
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Speaker 2: tons of natural gas. So they both refused to do
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Speaker 2: any fracking. That has doubled the cost of your electricity.
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Speaker 2: Pennsylvania does fracking, and that's why their economy is booming.
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Speaker 2: They've been doing it for years. And believe it or not,
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Speaker 2: even though Hochul, Cuomo, no fracking allowed in New York,
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Speaker 2: we buy our natural gas from Pennsylvania at like triple
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Speaker 2: the price. So all this nonsense has caused your electric
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Speaker 2: bill to go from 100 to 400 a month to
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Speaker 2: go crazy. And then people are upset about these electric bills.
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Speaker 2: So Hochul has come up with this scheme. She's promising
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Speaker 2: everybody a check for $ 500.
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Speaker 5: $ 500.
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Speaker 2: You're going to get a check for your electric bill. Now,
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Speaker 2: it's all a scheme, and it's a good scheme because
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Speaker 2: it sounds great. Wow, she's going to give us $ 500. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but you've paid like an extra $ 4, 000 for electric bills
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Speaker 2: because of her as governor. Bruce Blakeman, of course, responding
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Speaker 2: to all this.
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Speaker 4: As governor, I will cut your utility bills in half.
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Speaker 2: We will get rid of the green energy scale. and
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Speaker 2: we will open up our own natural gas resource. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and if you do that, you're going to drop the
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Speaker 2: cost of electricity dramatically, not to mention create a lot
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Speaker 2: of jobs for everybody.
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Speaker 5: Our utility rates are 70% higher, 70%, 70% higher than
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Speaker 5: the national average.
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump said....
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Speaker 1: When he's running for office, utility bills will go down,
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Speaker 1: energy costs will go down by half when I'm elected.
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Speaker 1: It's really funny that Bruce Blakeman is using the exact
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Speaker 1: same words.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, actually, it did go down everywhere except New
20:23
Speaker 2: York and California and a couple other crazy states that
20:26
Speaker 2: regulate and tax to death. As Kash Patel, he doesn't
20:34
Speaker 2: look like much. He doesn't look like an FBI director,
20:37
Speaker 2: Kash Patel. He's a nice guy. He's a very nice guy.
20:40
Speaker 2: But you look at him, you know, he just looks
20:42
Speaker 2: like the IT guy, like he's here to fix something.
20:45
Speaker 2: He doesn't look like the FBI director. As Trump would say,
20:48
Speaker 2: he's not from central casting exactly. But he's done a
20:52
Speaker 2: pretty good job at the FBI. But they brought him in.
20:57
Speaker 2: They called him in for hearings. Very big hearings. Nobody
21:01
Speaker 2: knows about what, but it sounded important. And when they
21:04
Speaker 2: subpoenaed him, you have to come. He was Summoned to
21:07
Speaker 2: appear before the Judiciary Committee. Sounds very important. What was
21:13
Speaker 2: the important matter they summoned him for? Well, the Senate
21:17
Speaker 2: Judiciary Committee wanted to yell and scream at him and
21:21
Speaker 2: call him names for the cameras. You've got to admit,
21:24
Speaker 2: Democrats are great at hearings. Republicans stink at hearings. You know,
21:30
Speaker 2: they just ask questions. These Democrats, they come up with
21:32
Speaker 2: all these names they're going to call you. They're going
21:34
Speaker 2: to accuse you of everything. They're going to just tear
21:37
Speaker 2: you apart. This Mazie Hirono, a senator from Hawaii, starts
21:43
Speaker 2: going after him. She starts screaming, you've been so drunk
21:47
Speaker 2: that briefings had to be rescheduled so you could sleep
21:49
Speaker 2: it off. I don't think the guy even drinks, but
21:52
Speaker 2: it sounded good. She demanded he take an alcohol test
21:57
Speaker 2: right now. Now, where would she even get this from? Well,
22:01
Speaker 2: the Atlantic, which used to be quite a prestigious magazine,
22:05
Speaker 2: Steve Jobs' wife, ex-wife, bought it. And it's now the
22:10
Speaker 2: most ridiculous, biased, crazy left-wing extremist. So they wrote an
22:16
Speaker 2: article alleging that Patel has drinking habits. There's absolutely no
22:20
Speaker 2: evidence anywhere of this. If anybody had ever seen it,
22:23
Speaker 2: they would come forward and tell you. But she used that.
22:27
Speaker 2: And then even the Democratic foes were doing a double take.
22:31
Speaker 2: They couldn't believe she was spewing this stuff. But again,
22:35
Speaker 2: Democrats are great at these hearings. They call the guy
22:37
Speaker 2: all kinds of names. And the guy goes, Hamana, Hamana, Hamana.
22:41
Speaker 2: And then they use the clips everywhere. You know, MSNBC, CNN,
22:45
Speaker 2: even the network news, they use these clips. And then
22:48
Speaker 2: Cory Booker yelling and screaming and huffing and puffing. You know,
22:51
Speaker 2: he'd like to be the candidate in 2028 playing for
22:55
Speaker 2: the cameras. But even the chairman of the committee, you'll
22:58
Speaker 2: hear him jump in and try to stop Booker. You know,
23:00
Speaker 2: you're going too far. He's just yelling, here's Booker going
23:04
Speaker 2: after Kash Patel.
23:05
Speaker 6: He can't throw me out. I'm going to hold this
23:07
Speaker 6: man accountable for as long as he's in this job
23:09
Speaker 6: until he gets fired, which he probably will because he's
23:12
Speaker 6: incompetent at his job and continues to do things that
23:15
Speaker 6: merit his removal.
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Speaker 2: Yes, shame on you, sir. Director Patel, were you done?
23:20
Speaker 2: By the way, violent crime arrests by the FBI in
23:21
Speaker 2: New Jersey are up 75% on top of the historic
23:24
Speaker 2: results we've already delivered for the American people. Yeah, thanks
23:27
Speaker 2: to the state police and local police officers.
23:28
Speaker 1: Irrespective of the lies that he continues to tell.
23:31
Speaker 2: Nothing I have said here is a lie. You said
23:32
Speaker 2: your time's up. Are you done or not? Yeah, they
23:35
Speaker 2: did bring down crime a lot. And we love the
23:37
Speaker 2: state troopers, but they did not play a big role
23:39
Speaker 2: in that. But Booker looks good on camera. Got an
23:44
Speaker 2: IQ of like 90 maybe, but... Looks good. Yells and
23:47
Speaker 2: screams a lot. Here's more Patel. This is ridiculous. What
23:50
Speaker 2: a mockery you are.
23:51
Speaker 1: You are the biggest mockery in the United States Senate,
23:53
Speaker 1: and you're sitting next to Schiff.
23:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, 8 million people in New Jersey don't think so.
23:57
Speaker 6: At least I didn't get my job the way you
23:58
Speaker 6: got your job.
23:59
Speaker 5: Are you going to interfere with Senator Graham asking her
24:02
Speaker 5: questions too?
24:02
Speaker 2: I certainly will not. Too as well? I certainly will not.
24:06
Speaker 2: Are you done now? I am done. Are you ready
24:07
Speaker 2: to shut up? It did get a little out of control.
24:13
Speaker 3: Yep.
24:14
Speaker 2: At least Booker looks good. He's sharp. But you get
24:16
Speaker 2: these old guys there. He's like the chairman there. You
24:22
Speaker 2: got to get these guys out of there. You know,
24:26
Speaker 2: you wonder, how does Apple make $ 52 trillion a day?
24:29
Speaker 2: Because you go in there, the young, sharp guys are
24:32
Speaker 2: all dynamic guys. There's nobody working at Apple. You got
24:38
Speaker 2: to get these guys out of the Congress. Hey, a
24:40
Speaker 2: big piece of legislation was passed in the House. We'll
24:43
Speaker 2: get to that coming up. We'll take some calls and
24:45
Speaker 2: more just ahead. Mark Simone here, 9 to noon. It's
24:49
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24:54
Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
25:02
Speaker 2: Well, hey, there was a big bill before Congress. You know,
25:06
Speaker 2: some new cars don't have AM radio in them. which
25:11
Speaker 2: is frustrating for a lot of people, annoying for a
25:13
Speaker 2: lot of people, and some people think dangerous because in
25:15
Speaker 2: a big emergency, when they activate that national broadcasting system,
25:20
Speaker 2: you need AM radio for that. So some manufacturers eliminating
25:27
Speaker 2: AM radio, and it doesn't make any sense because despite
25:30
Speaker 2: what you might think, AM radio is bigger than ever.
25:33
Speaker 2: Right now, 63 million people listen to AM radio.
25:37
Speaker 3: 63 million.
25:40
Speaker 2: Now, AM, FM combined, 159 million listen to the radio
25:44
Speaker 2: every day. Biggest medium there is. Network TV, 25 million.
25:50
Speaker 2: Cable news, 15 million. Again, AM radio, 63 million. So
25:59
Speaker 2: it's pretty weird to eliminate it from cars. What the
26:02
Speaker 2: auto companies are really up to, they eventually want to
26:06
Speaker 2: eliminate AM and FM radio from cars. And they want
26:10
Speaker 2: to make it just like a Wi-Fi in the car,
26:14
Speaker 2: internet in the car. And that way, you can still
26:17
Speaker 2: get the iHeart app, and that way you can listen
26:20
Speaker 2: to all of your favorite AM stations. You can just
26:23
Speaker 2: use the internet in the car. And the reason they
26:25
Speaker 2: want to do that, they will then charge you for
26:28
Speaker 2: the internet every month. It'll be like $ 12 a month
26:31
Speaker 2: for your internet use. You see, the car companies got
26:34
Speaker 2: a little jealous when they put Sirius satellite radio in
26:37
Speaker 2: the cars a few years ago. Because they put it
26:40
Speaker 2: in the car for you. You drove the car away.
26:44
Speaker 2: But then Sirius was collecting $ 12 every month for you
26:49
Speaker 2: or $ 18 every month from you. That's a lot of
26:51
Speaker 2: revenue every year. And the car companies want to get
26:53
Speaker 2: in on that. So that's why they're hoping to eliminate
26:55
Speaker 2: all radio. But there's a bill to make it law
26:58
Speaker 2: that you have to have an AM radio in a car.
27:02
Speaker 2: And in the bill, they argue all kinds of things.
27:04
Speaker 2: First of all, there's a demand for it. If 63
27:06
Speaker 2: million people are still listening to AM radio, And that's
27:10
Speaker 2: where the emergency broadcasting system takes place, case of a flood.
27:14
Speaker 2: There's many examples that were brought up in the debate
27:18
Speaker 2: over this, where lives were saved because of AM radio,
27:21
Speaker 2: because of the emergency broadcasting system. So it passed the
27:25
Speaker 2: House by a huge vote. It passed the House yesterday.
27:29
Speaker 2: Now it goes to the Senate, where most likely it'll
27:31
Speaker 2: be passed. Now, if you got one of those cars
27:34
Speaker 2: that you bought that doesn't have an AM radio in it, well...
27:41
Speaker 2: In most cases, they'll be able to put it in
27:43
Speaker 2: through a software update. I'm sure they've kind of built
27:46
Speaker 2: that into the car. Hey, by the way, if you
27:47
Speaker 2: got one of those cars with no AM radio, you
27:51
Speaker 2: can listen to WOR without an AM radio in your car.
27:55
Speaker 2: You either put the iHeart app in, or you can
27:58
Speaker 2: use it through your phone, and it'll play through the car.
28:00
Speaker 2: Or we have an HD channel. It's WKTUHD1. com. If you
28:08
Speaker 2: have no AM radio, you've got HD channels in there.
28:10
Speaker 2: WKTU HD1, you can get WOR. But it'll most likely
28:15
Speaker 2: pass the Senate, and car companies will have to scramble
28:18
Speaker 2: real fast to get you an AM radio. Hey, we'll
28:21
Speaker 2: take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
28:23
Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
28:23
Speaker 2: Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how are you doing?
28:26
Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.
28:26
Speaker 3: Yes, Mike. I remember when you could only get an
28:38
Speaker 3: AM radio and I, you'd have to get a FM
28:41
Speaker 3: converter and keep it in your glove compartment and wire
28:44
Speaker 3: it up and get FM. I mean, uh, that was
28:46
Speaker 3: like my, my 65 Volkswagen, my 65 Tempest. I had
28:51
Speaker 3: a bunch of my 65 Corvair had that same, uh,
28:54
Speaker 3: FM adapter. It was great.
28:56
Speaker 2: Yeah. But I'm trying to remember back in the nineties
28:59
Speaker 2: when there were no, uh, Some people had cell phones.
29:02
Speaker 2: Let's say the late 80s, you had no cell phones.
29:04
Speaker 2: When you were driving, what the hell did you do?
29:07
Speaker 2: Who did you talk to? You couldn't talk to anybody.
29:09
Speaker 7: That's true.
29:11
Speaker 3: I can't imagine driving without any kind of radio at all.
29:15
Speaker 2: It's impossible.
29:16
Speaker 7: My whole life has been spent listening to the radio
29:18
Speaker 7: as I drive.
29:19
Speaker 2: You always had a radio, but when you didn't have
29:20
Speaker 2: a phone and you couldn't call anybody on a long drive,
29:23
Speaker 2: what the hell? You just listened to the radio. It's
29:25
Speaker 2: so monotonous. Can you imagine?
29:27
Speaker 7: You've got to actually pay attention to the road. But
29:32
Speaker 7: I wanted to point something out about answering the subpoena.
29:35
Speaker 7: Only Republicans seem to answer the subpoenas. If you're Eric Holder,
29:38
Speaker 7: you just ignore it.
29:39
Speaker 2: You know yeah so uh yeah a lot of democrats
29:42
Speaker 2: have defied those congressional subpoenas eric holder was the attorney
29:45
Speaker 2: general plenty of them uh and nothing and.
29:50
Speaker 7: The other thing is have you ever noticed how regressive
29:54
Speaker 7: progressives are, you know, how they're all against progress. This
29:58
Speaker 7: data center AI thing is the most recent one of
30:03
Speaker 7: their shenanigans, you know, about denying progress. It's a pretty
30:07
Speaker 7: impressive way to exist.
30:09
Speaker 2: Well, in this case, it's not they're not really denying progress.
30:12
Speaker 2: They just need to replace things. You know, they had
30:14
Speaker 2: the nuclear plants. That was the thing they would scare
30:16
Speaker 2: you with. Nuclear plants were now the data centers. These
30:19
Speaker 2: are the new nuclear plants.
30:21
Speaker 7: And Y2K, 25 years ago, it was Y2K. The world
30:25
Speaker 7: was going to come to an end.
30:27
Speaker 2: That wasn't just Democrats. There were a lot of people.
30:29
Speaker 2: That's a good example of people thinking AI is going
30:31
Speaker 2: to kill us all. It was believed Y2K would kill
30:34
Speaker 2: us all. Right. That's a good point, Mike.
30:36
Speaker 7: Planes were going to drop out of the sky.
30:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, good point, Mike. Thanks for calling. Yeah, just for
30:41
Speaker 2: you people wondering about this AI stuff. In the year
30:45
Speaker 2: 1998 and then 1999, We had gone online. We were digital.
30:51
Speaker 2: We were Google. No, there wasn't a Google yet, but
30:55
Speaker 2: we're all online in AOL chat rooms and that sort
30:59
Speaker 2: of stuff. But when the year 2000 happened, I don't
31:03
Speaker 2: remember exactly how they came up with this, but they
31:05
Speaker 2: thought it was called Y2K, that everything would collapse, all
31:10
Speaker 2: of society, the whole Internet would collapse. Something about switching
31:15
Speaker 2: to the next century happened. that the computers, the digital,
31:18
Speaker 2: nothing would be able to keep up with it, and
31:20
Speaker 2: that airplanes would literally fall out of the sky because
31:22
Speaker 2: the computer would lose control. It was a big thing.
31:25
Speaker 2: Go look it up. Y2K, 26 years ago. Y2K. Everybody
31:29
Speaker 2: was terrified. They were terrified to leave their house the
31:31
Speaker 2: next day. Y2K is going to kill us all. So
31:35
Speaker 2: same thing going on today. Yeah, you know, if you
31:39
Speaker 2: got in the time capsule and you went back to 1993,
31:41
Speaker 2: they had cell phones, but you couldn't really use it
31:46
Speaker 2: in the car. And it was a big bulky thing.
31:49
Speaker 2: And you could only make a call on it. You
31:52
Speaker 2: didn't really use it that much. You could barely hear
31:53
Speaker 2: anything on him. So it was a different world. You know,
31:56
Speaker 2: if you go to the doctor and even they got
31:59
Speaker 2: an appointment, they make you wait. Sometimes you sit in
32:01
Speaker 2: that waiting room for 30 minutes. You know, you get
32:03
Speaker 2: so mad. You keep going up the desk. Now you
32:07
Speaker 2: don't care if they make you wait. I got my phone.
32:09
Speaker 2: I'm watching movies. I'm on YouTube. I'm reading something. I'm
32:12
Speaker 2: on Instagram. I, In fact, when they call you, it's
32:16
Speaker 2: finally your turn. Now you get mad. Wait, I was
32:18
Speaker 2: just watching something. I got to turn it off. So
32:21
Speaker 2: it's the same thing at the airport. That's where they
32:22
Speaker 2: can keep you waiting forever. You got your phone. You
32:25
Speaker 2: don't mind waiting. You got a million things to look at, read, watch. So, hey,
32:30
Speaker 2: Nick Reiner, son of Rob Reiner. We haven't heard about
32:33
Speaker 2: him in a while. He was in court yesterday. Do
32:36
Speaker 2: you know it's one year? Almost one year. December will
32:38
Speaker 2: be one year. So it's like 10 months. It's a
32:41
Speaker 2: long time ago. Nick Reiner. who murdered his parents, Rob Reiner,
32:45
Speaker 2: Michelle Reiner, appeared in court, looked a little different. He
32:49
Speaker 2: had a little bit of a facial stubble, a little
32:52
Speaker 2: bit of a beard, his short hair growing long. This
32:58
Speaker 2: is not a good look for a crazed killer, the
33:00
Speaker 2: beard and the long hair. You might want to tone
33:02
Speaker 2: that down if you're going into court. But he was
33:05
Speaker 2: strangely calm, totally emotionless, clearly he's just completely nuts. I mean,
33:13
Speaker 2: total mental disorder in this kid for most of his life.
33:18
Speaker 2: But all this time, I think he's in solitary confinement.
33:21
Speaker 2: It's just made him just like numb. And they said
33:23
Speaker 2: he was eerily calm, wore a brown jail uniform, sat
33:28
Speaker 2: there totally emotionless, did speak to the judge. He'll remain
33:34
Speaker 2: in prison forever. The family, believe it or not, the brothers,
33:36
Speaker 2: the sisters have gone in and argued on his behalf
33:41
Speaker 2: And it's believed that they may have gotten the death
33:43
Speaker 2: penalty off the table, that it would just be life
33:46
Speaker 2: in prison. So despite everything that's happened, the brothers and
33:49
Speaker 2: sisters fighting to get rid of the death penalty. But
33:54
Speaker 2: one of the strangest stories ever in Hollywood. Hey, we
33:57
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34:23
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34:42
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34:45
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34:56
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34:58
Speaker 2: forecast this morning for the first time. I've never heard
35:00
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35:06
Speaker 2: It's going to be like near 80 for the next
35:09
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35:12
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