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Hour 2: NYC's skyscrapers. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Mister New York Mark Simone.
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Speaker 2: He's on seven tenon Hey. A lot going on now,
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Speaker 2: there's a it's a pretty bad situation there. Forty second
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Speaker 2: Street between second and third. Stay away from that area.
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Speaker 2: Forty second three between second and third. There's remember the
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Speaker 2: Peiser building, Pfiser headquarters was on that block, and it's
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Speaker 2: a big skyscraper. Well, Pfizer's I guess, moved out and
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Speaker 2: they've been doing massive construction in that building and the
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Speaker 2: building became unstable and started to buckle. I mean the
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Speaker 2: support beams were actually buckling as the construction was going on,
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Speaker 2: and floors started to cave in in this building and
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Speaker 2: bricks flying off the building. Now, luckily all the construction
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Speaker 2: workers managed to get out of the building safely, but
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Speaker 2: the whole block is closed. The area around there is
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Speaker 2: massive chaos. It's fire trucks and emergency vehicles. Forty second
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Speaker 2: between second and third, So you don't want to go
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Speaker 2: anywhere near there. And that's a busy area with the
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Speaker 2: un and everything. I used to work on that block
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Speaker 2: forty second between second and third when I first came
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Speaker 2: to New York, I was on WPIX FM. You remember
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Speaker 2: that station, Well, it was in the Daily News building
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Speaker 2: because it was owned by the Daily News, then the
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Speaker 2: largest newspaper in America. And that was forty second between
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Speaker 2: second and third, right across from the Speiser building. And
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Speaker 2: then next door is the hotel. It was the Helmsley Hotel.
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Speaker 2: It's called something else. Now what else on that block?
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Speaker 2: That's the two biggest landmarks on that block. And then
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Speaker 2: actually forty second and third, Yeah, I worked on that
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Speaker 2: corner too. That's where WNW was. Forty second and third,
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Speaker 2: that's the building where the Autumn at was, So I
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Speaker 2: know that block. Well, it'll be a close. This is
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Speaker 2: a bad, bad situation. It's a big skyscraper, support beams, buckling,
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Speaker 2: floor's caving in just to stabilize. This could take a
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Speaker 2: long long time. This block could be closed for quite
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Speaker 2: a while, and you got to worry about the building collapse.
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Speaker 2: You got to worry about all kinds of things. So
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Speaker 2: I don't see this block getting open for a long time. Hey, Iran,
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Speaker 2: as we mentioned last hour, been cheating like crazy. All
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, work taking place at some of their
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Speaker 2: nuclear sites by them, So who knows what they're up to.
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Speaker 2: Now you've got to remember the president has had this
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Speaker 2: peace agreement, and this has been going on for a
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Speaker 2: couple of months. He's waited a long time, so we
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Speaker 2: may have to go in and finish the job. But
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Speaker 2: the good part of all this is because of the
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Speaker 2: two to three months of peace agreements giving them a chance.
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Speaker 2: Months a couple of months have given them a chance.
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Speaker 2: That kind of gives them the okay to now go
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Speaker 2: in on a much higher level than last time. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know, last time we were taken out military stuff,
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Speaker 2: we were taken out nuclear stuff. But you can't go
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Speaker 2: in and just wipe out a whole country. You can't
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Speaker 2: just go wipe out everything. But you kind of can
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Speaker 2: do it now. Because he was at least optics wise,
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Speaker 2: it looked like he was being pretty fair. Gave them
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Speaker 2: plenty of time, gave them a presagreement, gave them plenty
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Speaker 2: of chances, months and months and months of chances. So
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Speaker 2: it gives them license now to go in if we
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Speaker 2: have to really wipe out stuff, to do it now,
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Speaker 2: so that could I know they're planning all of that
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Speaker 2: right now. President Trump is in Turkey today for the
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Speaker 2: NATO summit, and I imagine in the most secret private meetings,
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Speaker 2: that's what they're discussing finishing off Iran. Turkey is of
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Speaker 2: course not a friend of ours. President Trump meeting with
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Speaker 2: air Towan and Turkey. Aired One wants to buy aircraft,
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Speaker 2: all his fighter jets, that kind of stuff. Israel publicly
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Speaker 2: saying don't sell them anything because there the worst people
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Speaker 2: in the world there, and who knows who they'll help
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Speaker 2: or support. So we'll see what happens at the end.
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Speaker 2: He's there today, then tomorrow, then comes back Platner. Well,
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Speaker 2: he's out. He said he's suspending, he's reflecting. What did
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Speaker 2: he say? What do you say reflecting that he's reflecting,
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Speaker 2: which he also said, let me see he says suspending here,
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Speaker 2: so regardless of the inaccuracy of the reporting, but mindful
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Speaker 2: of political reality, it will inflect. We are taking the
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Speaker 2: time to reflect on the best path forward. Yeah, reflecting.
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Speaker 2: I guess he didn't want to use the word suspending.
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Speaker 2: But whenever you reflect or suspend, nobody's ever. I can't
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Speaker 2: think of any campaign that ever came back after suspending.
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Speaker 2: Now you can always count on Fetterman to be the
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Speaker 2: one still saying still rational democrat, never back to platinir
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Speaker 2: And now Fetterman is demanding that Bernie Sanders apologize for
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Speaker 2: backing this predator. He should include Elizabeth Warren in that. Actually, Warren.
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Speaker 2: I mean, listen to Warren. Everybody's playing this clip over
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Speaker 2: and over again. This is Warren. A few weeks ago.
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Speaker 3: I said to myself, that's my kind of man, because
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Speaker 3: that is a man who not only has the values,
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Speaker 3: but a man who believes in accountability.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a history of rape, lying, he's got a huge
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Speaker 2: Nazi death camp tattoo all over his chest. That's what
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Speaker 2: did she say.
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Speaker 3: I said to myself, that's my kind of man.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so a fetterman. As this morning demanded an apology
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Speaker 2: from Bernie Sanders. I really call on Bernie Sanders to
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Speaker 2: apologize for pushing this kind of predator more than anyone.
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Speaker 2: And we'll see. I don't think Bernie Sanders going to
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Speaker 2: say anything. Elizabeth Warren wouldn't say anything. Her office put
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Speaker 2: out a statement she didn't want to actually sayings. Sanders
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Speaker 2: has remained silent. Fox News says they tried to contact
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Speaker 2: his office for some kind of statement. Silent, He would
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Speaker 2: not give a statement about this. Yesterday was the beginning
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Speaker 2: of the court hearings for the assassin that killed Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 2: It's tough to watch, very tough to watch the assassin.
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Speaker 2: It's a nice looking guy, and he's sort of if
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Speaker 2: he didn't know, he's like a normal looking guy like that.
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Speaker 2: Luigi Mangione looks a little nuts. This guy, although it's
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Speaker 2: just a shot from the side, he didn't look that nuts,
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Speaker 2: but obviously he is. Erica Kirk, the widow, was there
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Speaker 2: with Charlie's parents and other family members that had to
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Speaker 2: sit there in the courtroom and look at this assassin.
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Speaker 2: Officer Charles Begley, he's the witness heard the rifle shot,
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Speaker 2: watched Charlie Kirk get shot. He was testifying yesterday. The
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Speaker 2: accused assassen, Tyler Robinson, who does face the death penalty
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Speaker 2: they have it in that state, was actually seen smiling
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Speaker 2: while talking to his attorney. At various points. Robinson appeared
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Speaker 2: in a gray suit, shackled at the wrists. Seems stoic
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Speaker 2: as prosecutors displayed photos of the campus and rooftop from
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Speaker 2: which he allegedly shot the Turning Point USA founder, So
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Speaker 2: it was rough. Donald Trump Junior was there in the courtroom,
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Speaker 2: very close to Charlie Kirk. He flew in for that
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Speaker 2: and it was very, very tough. Now they played video.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever seen the actual video
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Speaker 2: of when Charlie Kirk is hit by the bullet. I
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Speaker 2: do not recommend you watch it. You'll never forget it.
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Speaker 2: It's so hideous and graphic and it's awful. They had
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Speaker 2: to show it in the courtroom and they say even
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Speaker 2: the judge winced. Even the judge been through a million
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Speaker 2: of these cases, winced. You can see his head go back.
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Speaker 2: It was tough for even the judge to see it.
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Speaker 2: So well. I think we're done with the fireworks Fourth
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Speaker 2: of July. Those fireworks it's getting out of control. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's great to see Macy's fireworks. The ones in DC
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Speaker 2: were the biggest and best ever in America. The small towns,
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Speaker 2: the suburbs, they all do you know, three or four fireworks.
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Speaker 2: But the worst thing is these amateur fireworks. A lot
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Speaker 2: of just regular amateur civilians getting a hold of fireworks
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Speaker 2: and just firing them off on Fourth of July, causing
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Speaker 2: all kinds of problems. It's caused fires, it's caused injuries.
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Speaker 2: And look at this Brooklyn high rise, it was hit
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Speaker 2: with fireworks. Tenants the Brooklyn high Rise has balconies, so
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Speaker 2: a lot of people going out to watch the Macy's
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Speaker 2: fireworks and then getting hit. One woman says, I got
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Speaker 2: hit in the chest with the fireworks, and the fireworks
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Speaker 2: are hitting this building, damaging windows. This is just from
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Speaker 2: idiots in the neighborhood sending them off onlookers getting showered
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Speaker 2: with sparks, rooftop party goers fleeing. Actually, although the good
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Speaker 2: news is nine to one to one, they get complaints
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Speaker 2: from people illegally setting off fireworks. They said they got
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Speaker 2: less less calls this year, twenty two hundred. Last year
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Speaker 2: it was thirty one hundred. So I guess it's improving
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Speaker 2: a little. Hey that crazy mom, Donnie, our crazy amateur mayor,
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Speaker 2: Now this is not good. He in the new budget.
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Speaker 2: He's got this crazy new budget that's absolutely insane. Remember,
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Speaker 2: so total amateur doesn't know anything about management or running
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Speaker 2: a city and certainly knows nothing about budgets. Allowed this
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Speaker 2: budget to go through. That is absolutely ludicrous. It's one
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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty six billion for New York City. It
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Speaker 2: probably should be like one third of that. This is
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Speaker 2: like double the budget of Florida, and Florida has more
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Speaker 2: people than New York A lot more people in New
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Speaker 2: York City, so it's in now. The Department of Education
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Speaker 2: is a total disaster. The New York City Department of
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Speaker 2: Education is absolute disaster. Kids are not being taught anything.
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Speaker 2: The scores that get coming out of the New York
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Speaker 2: City schools are disastrous. Half of them can't read. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's just a disaster in these schools, and the budget
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Speaker 2: on them is way way too high. They should cut
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Speaker 2: the budget dramatically, which would mean getting rid of layers
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Speaker 2: and layers and layers of bureaucracy. That's the problem with
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Speaker 2: our Board of Education. Every time you throw a dollar in,
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Speaker 2: maybe four cents gets to the classroom. The rest of
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Speaker 2: it eaten up by layers and layers and layers and
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Speaker 2: layers of bureaucracy that serve no purpose. So as bad
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Speaker 2: as this is, as much as you need to cut
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Speaker 2: that out, all that waste and fat in the Department
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Speaker 2: of Education. In the new budget, it turns out, mom,
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Speaker 2: Donnie quietly added eight hundred million to this eight hundred million,
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Speaker 2: that's what he added to the school's budget. Our Department
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Speaker 2: of Education currently is getting the hold on to something.
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Speaker 2: Our Department of education is currently getting thirty eight billion.
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Speaker 2: Thirty eight billion, that's that's preposterous. It should be five billion,
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Speaker 2: maybe maybe at the most. And again this is more.
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Speaker 2: Thirty eight billion is more than the budget of most cities.
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Speaker 2: And our Department of Education is a total disaster. Nobody's
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Speaker 2: learning anything. So this is a Mamdani continuing this, actually
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Speaker 2: expanding this disaster. The other thing is in the budget.
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Speaker 2: You know, we're supposed to put in more policemen because
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Speaker 2: we're losing cops by the thousands. They're retiring. So Mam
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Speaker 2: Donnie did not put in any money for the police
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Speaker 2: out of this new budget. Nothing, nothing, So you're not
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Speaker 2: replacing anybody. And it's basically he's defunding the police. He's
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Speaker 2: found a way to do it, a way to shrink
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Speaker 2: the police force because as they retire by the thousands,
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Speaker 2: he could bring down the amount of officers down by
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Speaker 2: five thousand in the next couple of years, which is
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Speaker 2: absolutely disastrous. We're already way below the number we should have,
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Speaker 2: way below the number we usually have. You know, this
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Speaker 2: department was up to forty thousand, I think forty two
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Speaker 2: thousand at one point. It's down around thirty thousand. There's
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Speaker 2: not enough cops, and he's causing this defunding by just
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Speaker 2: not replacing the cops that are retiring, and obviously they're
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Speaker 2: retiring at a much bigger pace. Now, Hey, good news,
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Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman. In the real pulse. Forget these public poles.
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Speaker 2: Those are just cheap, flimsy, stupid public pols. The real polls,
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Speaker 2: the behind the scenes, super expensive, scientific, deadly accurate polls
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Speaker 2: have Blakeman almost He's catching up. He was said twenty
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Speaker 2: points behind a couple of weeks ago, he was eight
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Speaker 2: points behind. Looks like he's about six points behind right
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Speaker 2: now in the real poles. That's important. Blakeman wants to
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Speaker 2: debate Kathy Hochel. She is ducking him. She will not
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Speaker 2: debate him because if it's a debate and everybody's watching,
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Speaker 2: he's going to just rattle off some stuff in front
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Speaker 2: of her. You know, our electric bills went crazy. Then
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Speaker 2: it used to be one hundred a month. That's four
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Speaker 2: hundred a month. The electric bills are going crazy. First
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Speaker 2: Cuomo shuts down Indian Point, and then after Hokeel got in,
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Speaker 2: she started putting all kinds of fees and taxes on
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Speaker 2: your electric bill to pay for these stupid green scheme things.
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Speaker 2: So she has increased your electric bill deliberately with all
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Speaker 2: these taxes she's putting on electricity, and he's going to
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Speaker 2: bring that up. Also, she refuses to take the net.
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Speaker 2: We're sitting on a ton of natural gas underneath us
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Speaker 2: here in New York State. She refuses to drill it,
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Speaker 2: refuses while at the same time buying natural gas from Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 2: We got our own natural gas here. She could bring
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Speaker 2: your electric build down by about two hundred percent easily,
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Speaker 2: just do this. So he's gonna bring all that up
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Speaker 2: in a debate. She does not want that said publicly
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Speaker 2: with her standing there, so he's trying to debate her.
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Speaker 2: She keeps stuck in him. But Bruce Blakeman, he'd be
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Speaker 2: or whatever you can do. Hey, we'll take some calls.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we'll take some calls. If you haven't called this before,
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Speaker 2: Let's get some new callers. If you haven't called this before.
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred three two one zer zero seven to ten.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Let's go to Catherine, Waterford, Connecticut. That's
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Speaker 2: way out there, Catherine. How are you doing?
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Speaker 5: Yes, Hey, good morning, Mark. It caught my attention. I
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Speaker 5: noticed in the town that I grew up in, Connecticut
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Speaker 5: of Blueskate, that despite the fact that the student enrollment
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Speaker 5: from K to twelve has remained pretty much stagnant at
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Speaker 5: her static I guess that's the word, at around four
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Speaker 5: thousand take twenty five on the given year, and yet
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Speaker 5: the board of that is almost quadrupled in the last
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Speaker 5: thirty years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just become a bull, you know, inefficient bureaucracy.
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Speaker 2: You're absolutely right.
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Speaker 5: Oh, and now they want you digs, you know, they
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Speaker 5: want a new building, they want everything. And I'm like,
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Speaker 5: oh my god.
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Speaker 2: And where are you driving to You sound like you're
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Speaker 2: in your car.
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Speaker 5: I'm in Waterford. Now, oh sorry, I'm much here where
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Speaker 5: my son and daughter live. He just finished up twenty
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Speaker 5: three years in submarine duties.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Waterford is near New London, a big naval
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Speaker 2: base there.
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Speaker 5: Uh huh yeah, that you co star the submarine base,
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Speaker 5: the other things.
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Speaker 2: Very good. All right, well thanks for calling. Let's go
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Speaker 2: to Kevin and Long Island. Kevin, how you doing, hey.
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Speaker 6: Mark, big fan of the show. Listen all the time
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Speaker 6: I wanted to touch base with you on late night TV.
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Speaker 6: I go back to Carson. You know, I wasn't around
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Speaker 6: for before Carson, but then after Carson, when you had
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Speaker 6: Leno and all those other guys. My favorite was actually
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Speaker 6: Craig Ferguson. And you never mentioned Craig Ferguson. I want
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Speaker 6: to know what you think about him.
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Speaker 2: He was very very good, very very good. But he
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Speaker 2: was kind of the not the late night show. He
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Speaker 2: was the late late night show. Out of all the
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Speaker 2: late late shows. The Letterman, Tom Snyder, Seth Myers is
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Speaker 2: just awful, the worst. But you're right, Craig Ferguson very good.
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Speaker 2: A lot of YouTube videos watch you, Don Rickolson. Craig
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Speaker 2: Ferguson excellent stuff. A good point Hey, if you haven't
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Speaker 2: read the new Carson book by Mark Malcoff, get the book.
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Speaker 2: It's called Love Johnny Carson. It is the greatest book
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Speaker 2: Johnny Carson. It's on Amazon, Mark Malcoff. Get it. You'll
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Speaker 2: love it. Actually, we'll get them back on the show soon.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Christine in Manhattan. Christine, how you doing?
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Speaker 7: Hi?
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Speaker 8: Mark, thank you for your great show. I have a question.
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Speaker 8: I live in Manhattan. I have not seen hide nor
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Speaker 8: hair of ice anywhere, and there's what I view as
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Speaker 8: a growing problem, more and more hostility from illegal aliens
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Speaker 8: that work in different businesses like a coffee shop or
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Speaker 8: a pizza parlor, and they're becoming very hostile and nasty.
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Speaker 8: You're white.
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Speaker 2: I think that's just you, and they're nice to all
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Speaker 2: of us. I think it's you. I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
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Speaker 2: What I'm kidding?
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Speaker 7: Well?
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Speaker 8: Where is ice? Why aren't these people being cleared out
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Speaker 8: of here?
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Speaker 2: What part of Manhattan? Are you in?
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Speaker 8: Lower east Side?
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Speaker 2: So how long you been there?
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Speaker 8: Many years?
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Speaker 2: So you saw the transformation. It used to be like
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Speaker 2: the Lower east Side really old world stuff. Now it's
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Speaker 2: clubs and nightclubs and trendy restaurants.
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Speaker 8: It's probably driving well, the clubs and disappearing. We're sort
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Speaker 8: of dead now because of the congestion pricing. Oh so
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Speaker 8: there's nothing left uh here and people are really suffering
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Speaker 8: businesses things like that.
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Speaker 2: All right, well, all of you illegals, do you ever leave?
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Speaker 2: Do you ever leave a tip?
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Speaker 8: I don't want to talk about tips.
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Speaker 6: I want to know where is Ice.
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Speaker 2: I think she's not tipping. I think that's why they're
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Speaker 2: always nasty to you, the son.
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Speaker 8: Of your business.
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Speaker 2: Nasty to your little cold there, Christine, a little hostile.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Nancy in New Jersey, Nan, see how
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Speaker 2: you're doing.
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Speaker 9: Okay, Mark, I just wanted you to know that the
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Speaker 9: nickname for Elizabeth Warren originally was faux Cahantas, as in
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Speaker 9: fake Pocahontas Pocahontas, and nobody's using that anymore. Did Pocahontas.
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Speaker 2: Well, Pocahontas is better Pokemon, But it was because it's
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Speaker 2: a fake, right, No Pocahontas. She's a fake Indian, so
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Speaker 2: you call her Pocahontas. But it was how he car
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Speaker 2: that started that. President Trump's a big Howie car fan.
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Speaker 2: He picked it up and started using it and it
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Speaker 2: really caught on.
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Speaker 9: I know, but originally was Pocahontas.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, not as good as Pocahonas. I like Pocahontas. Okay,
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Speaker 2: all right, thanks for calling. Let's go to uh Bill
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Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Bill, how you doing good?
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Speaker 4: Thank you Mark?
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Speaker 10: Mark?
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Speaker 4: How many more Americans have to be killed and injured?
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Speaker 4: And because the Democrats insist on giving large truck licenses
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Speaker 4: to illegals who cannot read road signs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big problem. A lot of illegal aliens
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Speaker 2: thanks to Democrats, are getting driver sizes they can't read English,
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Speaker 2: and it's caused major accidents. And he's right, it's caused
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Speaker 2: a lot of deaths around the country. Hey, now there's
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Speaker 2: another caller named Bill in New Jersey. Maybe we'll make
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Speaker 2: that a feature. We'll just take calls from people named
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Speaker 2: Bill in New Jersey. Let's go to the other Bill
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Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Bill, how you doing.
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Speaker 10: Good?
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Speaker 1: Good? Good? And that is William J. My full name.
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Speaker 1: Great calls from the previous callers the Johnny Carson Show,
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Speaker 1: and Greg Ferguson is good. I wish he would come
20:28
Speaker 1: back on a mainstream station to make people laugh. But
20:35
Speaker 1: my buddy, my old high school buddy, held the cute
20:38
Speaker 1: cards for the Johnny Carson monologue show. And I was
20:42
Speaker 1: on the show a lot because I was working on
20:44
Speaker 1: the thirty nine flour at thirty Rocks. But Johnny Carson
20:48
Speaker 1: would never go to Sarties with the gang. He would
20:51
Speaker 1: go home to Park Avenue and he would drink a
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Speaker 1: lot of vodka.
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Speaker 2: Well, yes, that was entirely accurate. When Johnny Carson before
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Speaker 2: the Tonight Show, he did a game show called Who
21:02
Speaker 2: Do You Trust? It was next door to Sartis, and
21:04
Speaker 2: he spent a lot of time in Sardis. And then
21:06
Speaker 2: in later years when he was doing the Tonight Show
21:08
Speaker 2: in New York, he was out a lot of nights.
21:10
Speaker 2: He was in Jilly's, he was in Danny's Hideaway, he
21:13
Speaker 2: was in Michael's Pub, he was in Basin Street East.
21:16
Speaker 2: He was quite the party guy all over New York.
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Speaker 7: Out a lot, okay, And he used to say once
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Speaker 7: he admitted he was an alcoholic, somebody said, well, why
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Speaker 7: don't you drink anymore?
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Speaker 1: And he said, I'm not a happy drunk, I'm a
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Speaker 1: bad drunk.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he got in a lot of fights with He
21:36
Speaker 2: had an incredible talent for. Dangerfields was another place he went.
21:40
Speaker 2: He had an incredible talent for when he got drunk
21:42
Speaker 2: and he'd go out, he'd hit on some woman, like inappropriately,
21:47
Speaker 2: like drunkenly. He had an incredible talent for the woman
21:50
Speaker 2: he would hit on for always picking the girlfriend of
21:53
Speaker 2: a mobster who had just gone to the men's room.
21:55
Speaker 2: So a couple of times he almost got killed. The
22:00
Speaker 2: most famous one was in Gilly's where he hit on
22:02
Speaker 2: this woman and started groping her. He was drunk, very drunk,
22:06
Speaker 2: and she was the girlfriend of Joey Gallo and he
22:10
Speaker 2: was going to kill him. An official contract was out
22:14
Speaker 2: on Carson. He had to leave. He couldn't do the
22:16
Speaker 2: Tonight Show for a few nights. They had to hide
22:18
Speaker 2: him away and lock him up. It finally got settled.
22:21
Speaker 2: Somebody at NBC had enough mob connections to try to
22:25
Speaker 2: get it settled, and it was Frank Sinatra who stepped
22:27
Speaker 2: in and convinced Joey Gallo to drop the hit on Carson.
22:32
Speaker 2: It took him like a week before he could come
22:34
Speaker 2: back to work. Hey, when we come back, Bill O'Reilly
22:37
Speaker 2: will be with us. He's got a great new book out.
22:39
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Bill O'Reilly next about Graham Plattner, about
22:42
Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff coming up on seven to ten WR.
22:46
Speaker 2: He's always a headline. I had Mark Simmo seven to
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Speaker 2: ten wo R. Well, Bill O'Reilly, the number one TV
22:54
Speaker 2: anchor for decades, number one best selling nonfiction author on
22:57
Speaker 2: Earth up and reading his new book. It's coming out.
22:59
Speaker 2: It's great. He's got a new podcast called Will Do
23:02
Speaker 2: It Live. It's excellent, one great guest after another Will
23:07
Speaker 2: Do It Live. And you can go to YouTube. You
23:09
Speaker 2: can go to his YouTube channel, Bill O'Reilly on YouTube.
23:12
Speaker 2: But the best thing is you go to Bill O'Reilly
23:14
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23:17
Speaker 2: the YouTube channel, the TV show, the column billoreilly dot com.
23:21
Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly, congratulations, I love the new book.
23:25
Speaker 10: Thank you for reading. And you know, I said it
23:26
Speaker 10: to five people, this is absolutely true, and I said,
23:32
Speaker 10: who knows me the best? Because it's a little bit
23:35
Speaker 10: different confronting America? What has to change a little bit
23:40
Speaker 10: different than killing the witches or confronting evil? Because it's
23:45
Speaker 10: based on my face to face encounters throughout my career.
23:50
Speaker 10: I said, who knows me? Who could give me an
23:53
Speaker 10: honest assessment, So simooning your name popped up and then
23:56
Speaker 10: you got the first of five copies that went out.
23:59
Speaker 2: Well, tell us who are the other for? Can you
24:01
Speaker 2: reveal it?
24:03
Speaker 10: No, I can't really reveal it because they'd have to
24:06
Speaker 10: leave the country. They'd be deported.
24:09
Speaker 2: It's quite a riveting book because it's more it really
24:11
Speaker 2: and it takes it through your journey through war zones,
24:15
Speaker 2: through everywhere, through Harvard through it's a fascinating look at
24:19
Speaker 2: the news business and all of that. I that must
24:22
Speaker 2: have taken longer than your usual books. It's a question.
24:25
Speaker 8: Yeah.
24:25
Speaker 10: It was a killer for me because I couldn't use
24:28
Speaker 10: researcher on it. It was all, as you point out,
24:33
Speaker 10: a personal journey. But I don't think that I was
24:38
Speaker 10: unfair to anyone. I had to keep that in mind
24:41
Speaker 10: because we're talking about Dan rather, we're talking about Mike Wallace.
24:45
Speaker 10: We're talking about the biggest names in the media and
24:49
Speaker 10: in show business, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, and the encounters
24:54
Speaker 10: that I had with them, some good, some bad. And
24:58
Speaker 10: so I think that people when they read it will
25:00
Speaker 10: get a good perspective of where this country is. As
25:05
Speaker 10: far as how it's changed, and it has, you know,
25:09
Speaker 10: over the Voyd of July, I was cruising around just
25:13
Speaker 10: and I was happy with the response of the American people,
25:17
Speaker 10: most of whom were very respectful to our nation and
25:21
Speaker 10: our founders, but there were some who weren't. I mean,
25:25
Speaker 10: this Newport, California thing where the Antifa all got together
25:30
Speaker 10: to loot the town. I mean, you know, that's the
25:32
Speaker 10: kind of thing that's going to have to be confronted.
25:35
Speaker 10: But what struck me locally was ma'm Donnie, he really
25:40
Speaker 10: hates America. I mean he really does. And you know,
25:45
Speaker 10: you got the guy with the smile and he's up there,
25:48
Speaker 10: he's jumping into fountains or whatever he's doing, but he
25:53
Speaker 10: really despises this country. And when you listen to what
25:58
Speaker 10: he said, I'm going to use it on the nose
25:59
Speaker 10: spind tonight. When you really listen, it is so close
26:05
Speaker 10: to mao Ze Tongue and what Mal believed. It's frightening.
26:12
Speaker 10: And I know that ma'am Donnie studied Mao and Stalin
26:18
Speaker 10: and all of these people, and along with his godfather
26:22
Speaker 10: Bernie Sanders. I mean, these people are out for vengeance, Simone,
26:28
Speaker 10: and I don't think they're gonna win, but boy, they're
26:32
Speaker 10: going to try, and to be elected mayor of the
26:35
Speaker 10: nation's largest city is a frightening occurrence when you really
26:39
Speaker 10: understand the guy's psychology.
26:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, he I heard him a couple of times. He
26:44
Speaker 2: used the word decommodify housing. Decommodify. That's an actual Karl
26:48
Speaker 2: Marx word.
26:50
Speaker 10: Yes, he is very steeped in that. And it's because
26:55
Speaker 10: of his father. So if you trace them back as
26:58
Speaker 10: we have, because I always want to know why people
27:02
Speaker 10: do what they do. It's not enough for me to
27:04
Speaker 10: know what they do. I want to know why they
27:07
Speaker 10: do it. And if you look back at his father
27:11
Speaker 10: as an academic, his father is the same way. Now,
27:17
Speaker 10: why you would stay here in this country when Donnie
27:23
Speaker 10: was born in Kenya? Okay, if it's so bad, you
27:28
Speaker 10: can go a lot of places.
27:30
Speaker 6: You go back to.
27:30
Speaker 10: Nairobi, okay. But no, they have to come here and
27:36
Speaker 10: try to under underpin our entire system because there are
27:45
Speaker 10: poor people and there'll always be poor people always if
27:50
Speaker 10: you read the Bible, and the poor will always be
27:52
Speaker 10: with us for one reason or another. But what Mandanni
27:57
Speaker 10: and his father are selling is it's the regular folks,
28:02
Speaker 10: the cops, the teachers, all the people. I grew up
28:06
Speaker 10: in Levittown where the problem where the problem because we're
28:12
Speaker 10: not compassionate enough, or we don't give enough to the
28:17
Speaker 10: folks who don't make it. And that's communism.
28:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, nobody has more poor people. In fact, everybody's poor.
28:25
Speaker 2: And Uganda, it's the worst place in the world. That's
28:28
Speaker 2: where he's from. Why doesn't he ever complain about you Ganda?
28:30
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard him say a bad word about that?
28:32
Speaker 10: I think he has, you know, Thanks for correcting me.
28:34
Speaker 10: I thought it was Kenyananda. They're adjacent countries, but they're
28:39
Speaker 10: the same, the poverty, tribalism, on and on and on
28:43
Speaker 10: and on. I just don't get Look, I understand power,
28:49
Speaker 10: and part of confronting America is the absolute corruption that
28:54
Speaker 10: occurs when a human being gets power and you use
28:59
Speaker 10: it in a way that harms other people. Nancy Pelosi
29:04
Speaker 10: is a great example of that, tremendous. Now, you can
29:08
Speaker 10: make an argument that Trump might be in that category.
29:11
Speaker 10: But Trump has always had power since he's eight years old. Okay,
29:17
Speaker 10: so there's nothing new to him. But once Belosi and
29:22
Speaker 10: Bernie Sanders, and Bernie Sanders is the worst. Okay, Once
29:27
Speaker 10: they tasted that power. Ain't no stopping him.
29:31
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, you're America's best selling historian. Is this happened
29:39
Speaker 2: in the past, in America's history where there was a
29:41
Speaker 2: rise in communism on the left. Is this something?
29:44
Speaker 10: Yeah, it happened in the Great Depression in the late
29:49
Speaker 10: nineteen twenties early nineteen thirties, when people just didn't have
29:53
Speaker 10: enough to eat, and so they were lined up to
29:56
Speaker 10: get food and the Hooverville's they didn't anywhere too, They
30:03
Speaker 10: couldn't rent an apartment, they couldn't do anything. So there
30:06
Speaker 10: was a rising socialism communism movement there, led by a
30:10
Speaker 10: man named Eugene Debs CBS, and it didn't go anywhere
30:16
Speaker 10: because Roosevelt. President Roosevelt saw it coming and then instituted
30:24
Speaker 10: all the entunnement programs. So the all of the social
30:30
Speaker 10: security and the safety nets came in under Roosevelt because
30:33
Speaker 10: Roosevelt said, oh, you know, Hoover screwed it up so bad,
30:38
Speaker 10: and we have so many people walking around and they
30:41
Speaker 10: can't make a living and they can't even feed their families.
30:44
Speaker 10: We have to do it. And that's what happened. That's
30:47
Speaker 10: that's what aborted that original communist movement. But now it's back,
30:53
Speaker 10: and it's back because of high tech. See all these gazillionaires,
30:58
Speaker 10: they made their money inventing things, and it's just beginning.
31:03
Speaker 10: Because AI, you're gonna have another set of billionaires off
31:06
Speaker 10: that and the regular folks aren't going to be inventing
31:12
Speaker 10: what Elon Musk is inventing. Okay, but that's capitalism. If
31:16
Speaker 10: you have a talent, if you have something an ability
31:20
Speaker 10: that you can market a product that three hundred and
31:23
Speaker 10: fifty people want, you're going to be a billionaire. But
31:27
Speaker 10: under communism you get have that same talent and the
31:31
Speaker 10: government will take away all of the profits that you make.
31:35
Speaker 10: They'll just take it. So you decide what kind of
31:39
Speaker 10: system you want to live under.
31:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, before we runt of time, Graham Platiner, he's finished. Right,
31:47
Speaker 2: We're not going to see him again, are we.
31:49
Speaker 4: Now?
31:49
Speaker 10: He's done and should be. And I don't know about
31:54
Speaker 10: this case. I'm looking at I'm having my staff look
31:57
Speaker 10: at it now because remember this is a plague upon
32:02
Speaker 10: the land. Now, the accusation is conviction or no due process,
32:07
Speaker 10: and that's another communist tenant. So if she in China
32:13
Speaker 10: says you're guilty, you're guilty. There's no feal process. That's it.
32:18
Speaker 10: You're guilty. It doesn't like you. You're going now. Platinum
32:23
Speaker 10: is such a bad guy, such a horrendous individual, that
32:28
Speaker 10: I'm not even cutting him any slack, all right for
32:31
Speaker 10: due process, I'm not, but I'd like to know a
32:35
Speaker 10: little bit more about the incident that's going to ruin him,
32:39
Speaker 10: because it will.
32:41
Speaker 2: No, we're glad to be rid of him, hey, right,
32:44
Speaker 2: but just by out of time. I love the new book.
32:46
Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly's new book is Confronting America. Can people pre
32:49
Speaker 2: order it now?
32:50
Speaker 10: Yeah, you go to Bill O'Reilly dot com and you
32:53
Speaker 10: can pre order. It'll be out September fifteenth, and you
32:56
Speaker 10: know it's coming up fast, and I think people will
32:59
Speaker 10: enjoy and at least give you a conversational structure about
33:05
Speaker 10: what I've seen and all of this that I put
33:09
Speaker 10: in the book is absolutely one hundred percent rock solid true.
33:14
Speaker 10: I didn't have to analyze, I didn't have to investigate.
33:17
Speaker 10: I didn't have to do any of that because I
33:19
Speaker 10: was standing there as the guy pointing to sixteen at
33:24
Speaker 10: my head. I mean, I don't need any research on that.
33:28
Speaker 10: If you pull a drigger I'm dead, and I said
33:32
Speaker 10: to the guy, I said, period decent noticebarre journalists, don't
33:37
Speaker 10: shoot it. Kid was maybe seventeen maybe, and this was
33:42
Speaker 10: in the Argentine rebellion against the Falkland defeat. So I'm
33:48
Speaker 10: proud of the book. It's a good way. I don't
33:50
Speaker 10: know if I'm going to do any more books or not,
33:52
Speaker 10: but if I don't, it's a good way to go out.
33:55
Speaker 2: You got plenty of books, but this is quite a book.
33:57
Speaker 2: You should get it that. There's a lot of riveting
33:59
Speaker 2: stuff in there. It's confronting America. Bill O'Reilly's latest book
34:03
Speaker 2: and the podcast will do it live. If you didn't
34:05
Speaker 2: see the latest with Glenn Beck. It's quite a conversation
34:08
Speaker 2: and you can get everything at Bill O'Reilly dot com.
34:11
Speaker 2: Just go to Bill O'Reilly dot com, the YouTube channel
34:15
Speaker 2: and Bill O'Reilly dot com. Bill O'Reilly, congratulations on the book.
34:19
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us guys.
34:21
Speaker 10: Me Mark really appreciate it.
34:23
Speaker 2: I take care. Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay Noon Today,
34:27
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34:31
Speaker 2: He's here every weekday morning. It's Curtis Leewa, Larrymnty six
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Speaker 10: Mister New York Mark Simon seven ten wor.
34:45
Speaker 2: Hey, just bear in mind. You got a scary situation
34:47
Speaker 2: going on forty second Street between second and third used
34:52
Speaker 2: to be the Pfiser building. It's an empty skyscraper. They
34:55
Speaker 2: were doing construction work rebuilding the building, and support beams
34:59
Speaker 2: started to the buckle floors caved in. The building's unstable.
35:03
Speaker 2: This is a big skyscraper. Forty seconds between second and third,
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Speaker 2: the whole building is unstable. I don't know what that means.
35:09
Speaker 2: This could take a long time and it's not going
35:12
Speaker 2: to be easy to fix. So forty second between second
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Speaker 2: and third is closed. I imagine we'll remain closed for
35:19
Speaker 2: quite a while, so avoid that area if you're driving.
35:24
Speaker 2: It's going to be not bad. Not bad. Today it's cloudy,
35:27
Speaker 2: but maybe one more shower then that's it should be
35:30
Speaker 2: a beautiful day tomorrow. If you want to play hooky,
35:32
Speaker 2: tomorrow's the day. Hey, we're out of time. I'll be
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Speaker 2: back tomorrow ten to noon. I hope you will be too.
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