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Hour 2: Park Avenue landscaping. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show.
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Speaker 1: Nine till noon weekdays.
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Speaker 2: For Mark.
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Speaker 3: 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's the final Friday of summer. Autumn begins on Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: So it should be a great weekend. It's not going
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Speaker 2: to be warm. It's going to be like the high
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Speaker 2: will be 70 tomorrow and on Sunday. But you've got
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Speaker 2: a lot to get to today. Mayor Mamdani. They put
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Speaker 2: out a big announcement. It has his full name on it.
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Speaker 2: Do you know what his middle name is? Did you
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Speaker 2: know this? It says Mayor Zoran Kwame Mamdani. Zoran Kwame Mamdani.
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Speaker 2: I've never heard him use this middle name before, but
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Speaker 2: he's using it in the announcement. And the New York
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Speaker 2: City Department of Transportation, Commissioner Mike Flynn, today unveiled, well,
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Speaker 2: they want to redo Park Avenue.
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Speaker 3: Hey.
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Speaker 2: They want to completely screw up Park Avenue from 46th
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Speaker 2: Street to 57th Street. In other words, from Grand Central
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Speaker 2: Station all the way up to 57th. Picture Park Avenue.
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Speaker 2: It's traffic on both sides. In the middle is a
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Speaker 2: median with grass on it and trees and a little
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Speaker 2: park on it. That's why they call it Park Avenue.
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Speaker 2: It's very nice. I have walked up and down Park
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Speaker 2: Avenue 50 billion times. Never once, ever, ever, ever. Did
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Speaker 2: I ever see anybody on the grass on that median,
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Speaker 2: sitting down, lying down?
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Speaker 1: Never.
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Speaker 2: Why would you sit there? You could go to Central Park,
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Speaker 2: where it's a very nice park. If you were to
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Speaker 2: sit on Park Avenue or lie down there in the sun,
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Speaker 2: all you'd hear is traffic on both sides of you.
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Speaker 2: And Park Avenue, between 46th and 57th, as you know,
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Speaker 2: is just packed. It's bumper to bumper. It's crazy. So
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Speaker 2: the Mamdani plan is they'll take that little park median
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Speaker 2: in the middle and expand it. In other words, they'll
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Speaker 2: take away half the lanes on Park Avenue. It's like,
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Speaker 2: what is it, three lanes on each side? They'll cut
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Speaker 2: that down to two lanes. It's already bumper to bumper
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Speaker 2: on Park Avenue. This is going to make it even worse.
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Speaker 2: It's going to screw up everything. And they'll put in
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Speaker 2: a big, big grass median. in the middle, so big
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Speaker 2: that it'll have a sidewalk in the middle of the grass.
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Speaker 2: There's a sidewalk on either side of Park Avenue. We
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Speaker 2: really don't need this third sidewalk. It's absolutely idiotic, absolutely insane.
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Speaker 2: It's going to cost a fortune. It's a total waste
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Speaker 2: of money. And not only is it a big, big, big,
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Speaker 2: wide grass medium in the middle, but it curves a little.
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Speaker 2: So there'll be choke points where At some points, Park
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Speaker 2: Avenue is down to one lane. Do you know what
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Speaker 2: that's going to do to traffic? It will basically eliminate
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Speaker 2: Park Avenue for traffic because nobody's going to want to
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Speaker 2: use it. They're going to stick to Lexington or Madison
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Speaker 2: or whatever. So it's going to be screwing up all
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Speaker 2: the other streets. This is an absolute disaster. Now, you're saying, well,
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Speaker 2: why would they do it if it's going to completely
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Speaker 2: destroy traffic and make a mess and screw up every
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Speaker 2: car in Manhattan? Well, that's the reason. They don't want
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Speaker 2: you driving anymore. It's the war on cars. It continues
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Speaker 2: with this crazy mayor. Now, the only good news is, luckily,
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Speaker 2: this mayor has no experience. He's never had a job
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Speaker 2: in his life. And he could never seem to actually
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Speaker 2: execute anything. So they put out the plans. They go
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Speaker 2: before Manhattan Community Board 6. But remember, they never, ever, ever, ever,
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Speaker 2: ever actually get anything done. So, Let's hope this never
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Speaker 2: gets done. This will be an absolute disaster. Hey, once again,
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Speaker 2: it's UN week. The UN General Assembly is already on,
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Speaker 2: but the world leaders all come next week. So it's
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Speaker 2: going to be a big traffic nightmare. I don't know
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Speaker 2: which day President Trump comes, but he'll come one day.
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Speaker 2: And that will completely screw everything up. Fake news is
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Speaker 2: all over the place here. Pete Hegseth. They're going after
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Speaker 2: Pete Hegseth. He's doing a big speech, and he's demanding
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Speaker 2: that the troops... next to him at the speech and
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Speaker 2: behind him, be impeccably groomed. He's demanding impeccable grooming. They're
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Speaker 2: going after Pete Hegseth for this. He is seeking fit,
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Speaker 2: well-groomed troops to attend his State of the Forces address.
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Speaker 2: Everything I've ever seen of the military... You're supposed to
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Speaker 2: be well-groomed. Doesn't the sergeant walk along and fix that collar?
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Speaker 2: Comb your hair. I think that's part of the military.
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Speaker 2: You've got to be well-groomed. And fit? I would assume
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Speaker 2: every one of our troops are fit. I think that's
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Speaker 2: the idea of the military, fit and well-groomed. I think
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Speaker 2: you're supposed to be that way. But what are they
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Speaker 2: trying to claim? That he's deliberately staging who's behind him?
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Speaker 2: I hate to break it to you. That's every politician.
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Speaker 2: That's every political rally. They do that all the time.
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Speaker 2: That's always done. If you're, you know, they all do it.
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Speaker 2: Donald Trump, everybody, they all do it. You know, Trump rallies,
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Speaker 2: they were always careful to put minorities behind him, lots
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Speaker 2: of minority faces behind him because they thought that might help.
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Speaker 2: If a guy wasn't great with the female vote, when
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Speaker 2: he did a rally, they put all women behind him.
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Speaker 2: Whatever you need, you put it. It's always done that way.
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Speaker 2: Perfectly normal. Hey, this Kennedy Center controversy, President Trump, now
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Speaker 2: he sounds childish when he says, well, if I can't
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Speaker 2: have my name on the building, we might tear it down.
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Speaker 2: It sounds very childish, but I've heard him explain this
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Speaker 2: at length. He has sort of a point. Whenever a
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Speaker 2: place is in disrepair, whenever a great cultural institution needs
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Speaker 2: to be repaired, fixed, it's usually the private sector, Carnegie
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Speaker 2: Hall or wherever. Usually a billionaire donates the money to
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Speaker 2: fix it, and then they name the thing for him.
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Speaker 2: If you go to Carnegie Hall, they have the Stern Auditorium.
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Speaker 2: That's Leonard Stern. They have the main hall is the
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Speaker 2: Perlman Stage. That's Ron Perlman. Wherever you go, you go
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Speaker 2: to cultural institutions, you go to the museum, the Tisch
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Speaker 2: Wing of the museum, because they spent the money to
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Speaker 2: pay for the whole thing and fix it up. So
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Speaker 2: Trump has a point there. If he's going to be
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Speaker 2: the one, he's going to put in the money, and
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Speaker 2: he's the one that fixes it. It's tradition that you
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Speaker 2: get your name somewhere on the building. You don't change
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Speaker 2: the name of Carnegie Hall, but you name the stage
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Speaker 2: after the guy, something. So he's not saying take the
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Speaker 2: name Kennedy Center off. He's just saying put his name
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Speaker 2: somewhere in the building.
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Speaker 1: So he's right.
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Speaker 2: That's typically done. But this is different. It's a public building.
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Speaker 2: It's a government-run building. So I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Reporters asked him about it.
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Speaker 3: For the Trump administration, for me to get involved and
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Speaker 3: to take that on long term and to carry it
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Speaker 3: or to raise money to carry it. I think that
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Speaker 3: the Trump administration should certainly have recognition, because frankly, if
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Speaker 3: we don't do that, it's going to close.
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Speaker 1: It'll end up being ripped down. It's in very, very
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Speaker 1: bad shape.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, maybe he's been a
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Speaker 2: little childish, but he's got a point there. So if
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Speaker 2: he does nothing, the building will collapse at some point. Apparently,
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Speaker 2: it's in total disrepair, been neglected for years. And it's
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Speaker 2: government that's been running it and doing the construction. Apparently,
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Speaker 2: they've done it all wrong through the years. Pipes are
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Speaker 2: all mismatched, and they've had tremendous water intrusion, which is
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Speaker 2: making the building crumble. That's why two weeks ago, big
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Speaker 2: chunk of the ceiling just caved in, just fell down.
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Speaker 2: Right over the lobby, that's usually where everybody's waiting. Luckily,
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Speaker 2: it was, you know, the weekend, the place was closed,
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Speaker 2: but had that fallen when the place was open, a
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Speaker 2: lot of people would have been injured or killed with
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Speaker 2: all that ceiling falling on them. So, pretty, pretty, pretty
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Speaker 2: bad stuff. Hey, that Macklemore, who was Ed Sheeran's opening act,
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Speaker 2: making all kinds of stink and noise and everything, but
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Speaker 2: Robert Kraft and all the, it wasn't just Kraft. It
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Speaker 2: was a bunch of owners of stadiums that didn't want
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Speaker 2: this anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, awful McLemore appearing in their place. Hey,
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Speaker 2: and if you own the venue, of course you can
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Speaker 2: decide who appears there. You know, if Nazis wanted to
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Speaker 2: rent your venue, of course you can say no to them.
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Speaker 2: And if Ed Sheeran wants to rent it, great. But
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Speaker 2: if he's going to have McLemore, you can say no,
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Speaker 2: perfectly fine. Macklemore huffing and puffing and yelling and screaming.
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Speaker 2: But listen to John Fetterman, who's usually the voice of reason.
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Speaker 2: Listen to Fetterman on Macklemore.
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Speaker 4: Doesn't that guy get the irony of saying and doing
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Speaker 4: that at a musical festival when 10-7 started, when Hamas
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Speaker 4: showed up to kill people during a concert at Nova?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, good point. The Hamas holocaust. The genocide that Hamas committed,
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Speaker 2: the rape, murder, mutilation, robbery, killing babies, was during a
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Speaker 2: music festival. So it is pretty ironic. Hey, here's a story.
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Speaker 2: You will not hear this reported anywhere. Nobody will. You'll
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Speaker 2: never see this in the New York Times. You will
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Speaker 2: never see this on the network news. But numbers revealed.
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Speaker 2: Americans are now richer than ever. Household income has hit
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Speaker 2: a record high. Absolute record high, and over the last
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Speaker 2: year and a half, the poverty rate fell to its
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Speaker 2: lowest level ever. This is according to U.S. Census data.
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Speaker 2: Real median income is up 3% year to year, highest ever.
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Speaker 2: This is inflation adjusted, by the way. The highest ever.
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Speaker 2: Americans are richer than ever. Household income higher than ever.
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Speaker 2: And the poverty rate fell to the lowest percentage ever.
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Speaker 2: It's 10.2%. Lowest ever. Highest income ever in America. Lowest
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Speaker 2: poverty rate ever in America. Pretty good news. So Michigan
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Speaker 2: has got this crazy Abdul El-Sayed running. Democratic socialist friends
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Speaker 2: with the lowest, most vile anti-Semite, Hassan Piker. Morning Joe
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Speaker 2: having El-Sayed on for a whole half hour trying to
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Speaker 2: push him over the finish line. It's a big thing
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Speaker 2: for Elsa. I had to go do that morning, Joe,
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Speaker 2: why that could be two, 300,000 viewers, uh, in Michigan,
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Speaker 2: probably a 3000 viewers that morning, Joe mostly watched in
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Speaker 2: New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC middle of America,
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Speaker 2: almost no viewership, but, uh, Chuck Schumer and his, uh,
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Speaker 2: super PAC. He runs that Senate super PAC. Uh, Chuck
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Speaker 2: Schumer is doubling down on, uh, Hassan, uh, no, not
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Speaker 2: Hassan Piker, Abdul El-Sayed, also a little anti-Semitic, but Schumer
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Speaker 2: is going to go in there and spend an additional
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Speaker 2: 10 million in the Michigan Senate race. You see the
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Speaker 2: key to this, it's an open seat. It's an open seat. Uh,
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Speaker 2: it had been held by the Democrats, but the guy retired.
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Speaker 2: So if the Republicans take Michigan, which they most likely will, uh,
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Speaker 2: then that's the key to the Senate. Republicans take Michigan,
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Speaker 2: they win the Senate. So Democrats going crazy here. They're
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Speaker 2: going to go spend $ 10 million there. Now remember, the
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Speaker 2: Democrats don't have much money. The DNC has very little money.
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Speaker 2: The RNC has been fundraising like crazy, has a $ 200
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Speaker 2: million war chest. So they can go in there and
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Speaker 2: they can do all sorts of stuff. So figure Mike
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Speaker 2: Rogers eventually wins a new poll. 71% think Trump administration
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Speaker 2: lacks plan to end the Iran war. There's a bad
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Speaker 2: part to this poll. Also in the poll, support to
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Speaker 2: Israel drops to record low.
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Speaker 1: That's terrible.
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Speaker 2: Well, does he have a plan to end the, you
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Speaker 2: don't really need a plan to end the Iran war.
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Speaker 2: You can end it whenever you want. Just go in
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Speaker 2: and wipe them out. He just, I don't know. It
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Speaker 2: could be he doesn't have the nerve to do it.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't want to do it. Doesn't, want to see all
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Speaker 2: that death. I don't know. Could be he's waiting until
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Speaker 2: after the election to do something. Americans don't understand why
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Speaker 2: we went in. Well, the reason, it's pretty simple, and
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Speaker 2: he's explained that dozens of times, as has everybody else,
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Speaker 2: explained this over and over again. They don't want Iran
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Speaker 2: to have a nuclear weapon. The thinking is that once
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Speaker 2: they have a nuclear weapon, it would be impossible to
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Speaker 2: go to war with them. There's no way you could
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Speaker 2: go in there and ever go to war with Iran
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Speaker 2: if they have a nuclear weapon because they are lunatics
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Speaker 2: and they would use it. So you got to make
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Speaker 2: sure you do it before they have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 2: So the reason we went in there, they had some uranium.
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Speaker 2: They were enriching it. They claimed for commercial use, electricity, energy,
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Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. But commercial use, you enrich it
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Speaker 2: to 20%. Well, next thing you know, they enriched it
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Speaker 2: to 40%. If you get to 90%, you got a
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Speaker 2: nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 1: 90% is.
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Speaker 1: Nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 2: Well, then they kept enriching, enriching, and they got it
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Speaker 2: to 60%. 60% was two weeks away from 90%. So
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Speaker 2: that's why we went in when we did and took
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Speaker 2: out the reactors and all that. There were two weeks
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Speaker 2: away from having 90%, which would have been the weapon. Hey,
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Speaker 2: remember that passenger that was duct taped on the airplane?
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Speaker 2: He was yelling and screaming, caused a tirade, yelling all
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Speaker 2: the most disgusting stuff. And there were a bunch of
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Speaker 2: guys on the plane that had to restrain him. And
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Speaker 2: they got duct tape and they tied them all up,
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Speaker 2: duct taped him up, duct taped him up. Plane made
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Speaker 2: an emergency landing. They had to arrest the guy. He's
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Speaker 2: finally spoken out. And he claims he was drunk. But
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Speaker 2: they chatted. All he had was two orange juice and
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Speaker 2: vodka cocktails. Orange juice and vodka. Two of them. Could
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Speaker 2: two make you that crazy? I don't think so. The
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Speaker 2: guy in the next seat said he was talking to him.
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Speaker 2: They were casually chatting when suddenly he snapped. It was
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Speaker 2: over religion. The topic turned to religion. You're sitting on
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Speaker 2: a plane next to a guy. Who the hell talks
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Speaker 2: about religion? First of all, who even talks to the
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Speaker 2: person next to you? Even if you talk to the
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Speaker 2: guy next to you, where are you going? What are
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Speaker 2: you going to Chicago for?
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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm going.
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Speaker 2: Why would you even be talking about religion? But he said,
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Speaker 2: the guy just snapped. He said, I've never seen someone
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Speaker 2: change in a split second like that. Well, So it
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Speaker 2: can't be the alcohol. It's got to be that he
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Speaker 2: was just, the guy's just a lunatic.
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Speaker 1: He was a.
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Speaker 2: Real estate agent. Oh, there you go.
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Speaker 1: Case closed. Lunatic.
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Speaker 2: No, I know a lot of good real estate agents. No,
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Speaker 2: apparently he's been fired. He lost his job over this.
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Speaker 2: I would hope so. He was hollering profanities, racial slurs,
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Speaker 2: terrible stuff about Jesus and God. Arizona real, you know, see, Arizona.
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Speaker 2: The heat, it gets to you after a while. Hey,
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Speaker 2: we'll take some calls next, 800-321-0710 is the number. Call
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Speaker 2: me right now, especially if you're a new caller. We
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Speaker 2: like lots of new callers.
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Speaker 1: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Mark Simone here, 710WOR. Let's take some calls.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Jennifer in Paramus. Jennifer, how are you doing?
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Speaker 6: Hey, Mark, first time caller. I just wanted to add
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Speaker 6: to your story about the guy in the plane. I
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Speaker 6: heard the guy who was sitting next to him is
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Speaker 6: an author of a religious book. He had the book out.
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Speaker 6: It just came out. He did a whole interview and
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Speaker 6: the guy did flip out over the religion conversation and
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Speaker 6: the fact that he just wrote a book. He has
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Speaker 6: many books, this guy. I heard about an interview.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 2: So when you're sitting on a plane, you don't talk
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Speaker 2: to the person next to you, do you?
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Speaker 6: God, no.
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Speaker 2: No, that's what they make headphones for. They pretend you're
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Speaker 2: listening to something.
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Speaker 6: I'd rather sit next to a golden retriever.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. And where are you in New Jersey? Oh, Paramus.
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Speaker 6: Paramus.
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Speaker 2: All right. Very good, Jennifer. Thanks for calling. Take care.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Cynthia in Canada. Cynthia, how are you doing?
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Speaker 7: Hi, Mark.
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Speaker 8: I'm laughing now. I'm in Canada now. I'm a New Yorker.
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Speaker 2: Oh, good. You're not one of those Canadians, are you?
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Speaker 8: Well, I was born here, but I am now an
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Speaker 8: American citizen for quite a long time. But I have
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Speaker 8: to take care of my mom in Canada. Okay, something
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Speaker 8: really funny. I just received an email from my mom's
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Speaker 8: bank manager. He ended it with, sincerely, William Chang.
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Speaker 8: He, him.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you got to put your pronouns in there, he, him.
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Speaker 2: I assume you're a she, her, right?
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Speaker 8: Well, it was a he, him. William Chang, he, him.
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Speaker 10: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, whenever the banker says sincerely, you're a... Sincerely and banker,
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Speaker 2: doesn't go together. All right, thanks for calling. Yeah, these
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Speaker 2: stupid pronouns everywhere. Let's go to Howard in Long Island. Howard,
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Speaker 2: how are you doing?
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Speaker 9: Hi, how are you? Good. First-time caller.
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Speaker 2: I can tell.
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Speaker 9: I'll tell you why I'm calling. Yes. You know, you
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Speaker 9: talk about the Abdul El-Sayed and everything like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: There is information about his mother, that his mother worked
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Speaker 9: for fundraising and everything for Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah. No one
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Speaker 9: ever brings that out to the newsrooms, and I don't
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Speaker 9: know why. I think that's kind of important for someone
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Speaker 9: that could hold a seat in the Washington, D.C.
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Speaker 10: Senate.
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Speaker 2: Very good point. We'll look into it. All right, I'll
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Speaker 2: look into that. I'll check it out. Let's go to
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Speaker 2: Teddy and Nutley. Teddy, how are you doing?
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Speaker 10: I'm doing great. I have a scoop for you on
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Speaker 10: the guy in the airplane who attacked, okay?
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Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 10: The man he attacked was a pastor. A friend of
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Speaker 10: mine used to attend his services down in the Florida area.
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Speaker 10: He was on his laptop looking at doing his work.
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Speaker 10: The man engaged him in a conversation. It was very pleasant.
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Speaker 10: This is right from the pastor himself. This is from him.
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Speaker 2: As we just heard, a pastor who's written books on
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Speaker 2: religion and all that. Listen, this is what they make
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Speaker 2: headphones for. You ever see, see I have these little
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Speaker 2: Apple earbuds, but you ever see some people buy the
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Speaker 2: big Apple ones, those big, big, big, big headphones and
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Speaker 2: And you say, well, why would you want to have
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Speaker 2: those big, heavy headphones? This is what it's for, for
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Speaker 2: air travel. Put the big ones over your ears so
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Speaker 2: when anybody looks at you, they know you can't hear them.
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Speaker 2: They don't even try to talk to you.
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Speaker 9: Perfect.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Brad in White Plains. Brad, how you doing?
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Speaker 11: Morning, Mark.
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Speaker 8: Love the program.
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Speaker 11: I know it's not good for you, but I'm so
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Speaker 11: happy you come.
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Speaker 2: On at night.
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Speaker 11: Real quickly, Miranda Vines called the other day about the
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Speaker 11: assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: You give me your thoughts on how or what kind
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Speaker 11: of cover up we got going here? Because they mentioned
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Speaker 11: that a shooter's body was cremated by somebody anonymously paying
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Speaker 11: for it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the whole thing is very suspicious. Good point, Brad.
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Speaker 2: You know, whenever there's an assassination, whether it's Lee Harvey Oswald,
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Speaker 2: from that moment on, all you do is read profiles, articles.
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Speaker 2: They dig into the background. Here's the history of Lee
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Speaker 2: Harvey Oswald. Here's his wife, Marina Oswald. Here's an interview
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Speaker 2: with his mother. There's a 60 Minutes piece. Who is
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Speaker 2: this guy? They go through the whole. This was the
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Speaker 2: first assassination where, shh, no, nothing, nothing. Nobody wants to
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Speaker 2: look at him. Nobody wants to know who put him there,
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Speaker 2: where he came from. Trump administration now going through the
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Speaker 2: FBI hidden files to see what they can find. There
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Speaker 2: are some FBI files showing the kid was obviously crazy
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Speaker 2: from birth, totally emotionless, became fascinated with rifles and guns,
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Speaker 2: trained himself to be a sharpshooter. But the fact that
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Speaker 2: there was no news organization ever that wanted to look
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Speaker 2: at who the assassin was, wanted to do anything, investigate anything, Fascinating.
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Speaker 2: Go check Miranda Devine's column. You'll see. Let's go to
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Speaker 2: Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing?
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark.
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Speaker 7: Mark, you said the magical words that the other day
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Speaker 7: it was reported that the kid was emotionalistic and cried.
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Speaker 7: He made, whoever got to this kid, he made the
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Speaker 7: perfect Manchurian candidate. Everybody should look at that movie with Sinatra,
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Speaker 7: if I'm not mistaken.
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Speaker 1: Right, Mark?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about recruiting some lunatic to be your assassin.
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Speaker 10: Exactly.
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Speaker 7: Mark, I heard you speak about the city's latest bonehead
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Speaker 7: idea of destroying beautiful Park Avenue. Well, given the fact
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Speaker 7: that so many wealthy people live on Park Avenue, I
21:44
Speaker 7: hope they pool all their money and get the best
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Speaker 7: lawyer and sue the city to stop that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but here's the problem. They're doing the section
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Speaker 2: of Park Avenue where nobody lives. It's all office buildings.
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Speaker 2: It's all corporations.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you have all the homeless people sleeping in the
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Speaker 7: middle of the median over there. You have every bum
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Speaker 7: in the city setting up a homeless camp.
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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 2: It'll be a homeless camp.
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Speaker 7: Mark, you probably heard another boneheaded idea that the transit
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Speaker 7: authority wants to do. They want to put green spaces
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Speaker 7: on top of the bus kiosks. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, that's got
22:22
Speaker 7: to be the dumbest thing in the world because that's
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Speaker 7: a lawsuit waiting to happen. What happens when a flower
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Speaker 7: pot or a window box on top of these stupid
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Speaker 7: kiosks falls down, hits a pedestrian, hits somebody going on
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Speaker 7: the bus? Gee, or maybe somebody will even go over there, hint, hint, hint,
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Speaker 7: and feign.
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Speaker 2: Good point, Vincent.
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Speaker 1: Excellent call. Yeah, excellent.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, that part of Park Avenue they want to
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Speaker 2: screw up. It's all office buildings, all big corporations. Problem
22:54
Speaker 2: is it's tough for them to sue the city because
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Speaker 2: they need to do business with the city all the time. Hey,
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Speaker 2: when we come back, the great entertainment reporter, Roger Friedman,
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Speaker 2: lots to talk to him about next. On 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Marks them all. Mr.
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Speaker 7: New York.
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Speaker 3: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon.
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Speaker 9: On 710WOR.
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Speaker 2: Well, Roger Friedman, the great entertainment reporter. You can check
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Speaker 2: out his website. A lot of great stories there. Showbiz411. com. Showbiz411. com.
23:29
Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, how you doing?
23:31
Speaker 1: I'm great. Good morning. How are you? Good.
23:34
Speaker 2: Hey, Ed Sheeran, gotta be the nicest guy in the
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Speaker 2: music business. What the hell is he doing with Macklemore
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Speaker 2: as an opening act?
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Speaker 1: Well, he didn't pick Macklemore.
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Speaker 5: The promoter of the tour picked Macklemore and picked a
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Speaker 5: few other people to go on the bill. And I
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Speaker 5: don't think that Ed Sheeran really understood what was going on.
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Speaker 5: Macklemore really had his only hits about in 2011 and 2012.
24:05
Speaker 5: It's a long, long time ago. And more recently, I mean,
24:09
Speaker 5: he had no career at all. And more recently, he
24:13
Speaker 5: kind of revived himself by turning into this free Palestine guy.
24:18
Speaker 5: And he became very vehemently anti-Israel. And we didn't really
24:26
Speaker 5: hear about it because it really sort of reached New York.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a big deal. He lives in Seattle.
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Speaker 5: And, you know, nobody really cared about him. But then
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Speaker 5: he played two shows with Ed Sheeran at MetLife Stadium,
24:39
Speaker 5: and suddenly everyone knew about it, because when you come
24:43
Speaker 5: to New York, you know, that's the stage for everything.
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Speaker 5: And Ed Sheeran was smart. He said, the promoter said,
24:52
Speaker 5: this is not going to work out. He cannot go
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Speaker 5: on to do eight more shows at stadiums. These stadiums
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Speaker 5: are 60,000, 70,000 people. It's not like, you know, just
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Speaker 5: even Madison Square Garden.
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Speaker 1: They're huge. They're huge.
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Speaker 5: And you're going to have such a big part of
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Speaker 5: the audience offended by walking into a political rally that
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Speaker 5: they didn't expect. Now, it's not like Macklemore can't have
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Speaker 5: his point of view. He can, but he has to
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Speaker 5: do it. He has to tell people that's what it's
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Speaker 5: going to be when.
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Speaker 1: They come to the show.
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Speaker 5: And his host was Ed Sheeran, and he wasn't really
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Speaker 5: respecting his host. So now it's very interesting what's happened,
25:34
Speaker 5: isn't it? Robert Kraft, who owns Gillette Stadium, where the
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Speaker 5: Patriots play, said, well, you can't come to my stadium
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Speaker 5: that way. And he got the other NFL owners to
25:47
Speaker 5: say the same thing about their stadiums. So, of course,
25:51
Speaker 5: McLemore was dropped from the tour. Now everyone's shouting, oh,
25:55
Speaker 5: freedom of speech, all this. This is ridiculous. If Macklemore
25:58
Speaker 5: wants to have his own concerts, I'm sure he has
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Speaker 5: plenty of places where he can have them. And people
26:04
Speaker 5: will come, and if they agree with him, that's great.
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Speaker 5: But this was a wrong look for Ed Sheeran. And
26:10
Speaker 5: I feel bad for Ed Sheeran that he's getting blamed
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Speaker 5: for this now.
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Speaker 1: He shouldn't be.
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Speaker 5: It's a big mistake because he's a nice guy, and
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Speaker 5: I don't think he doesn't agree with any of this. Um,
26:24
Speaker 5: of course now he and Robert Kraft are each giving
26:27
Speaker 5: $ 2 million to, uh, Gaza relief, which is a good thing.
26:32
Speaker 5: Gaza relief is a good thing. Nobody disagreed with that. And, uh,
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Speaker 5: and Macklemore is giving a million dollars to Gaza relief.
26:39
Speaker 5: So $ 5 million, although no one really knows what Gaza relief,
26:43
Speaker 5: where it's going to go. It's going to go to
26:45
Speaker 5: the red cross or I don't know who's working on there,
26:47
Speaker 5: but you know, but obviously Gaza needs the relief. But, um,
26:52
Speaker 5: Macklemore is not really apologizing for anything he says. And
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Speaker 5: it's unfortunate for Ed Sheeran.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but all these guys, even Bruce Springsteen, it's a concert.
27:06
Speaker 2: You're supposed to sing, play music. That's it.
27:13
Speaker 5: But you know going into a Bruce Springsteen show how
27:16
Speaker 5: he feels about Trump.
27:17
Speaker 2: Well, forget Trump. Forget Trump. If you're doing a concert
27:20
Speaker 2: and in between two songs, You said to the audience,
27:23
Speaker 2: you know, I want to talk about the Fed increasing
27:24
Speaker 2: the interest rate a quarter. Nobody wants to hear this.
27:27
Speaker 2: No politics. It doesn't matter whether it's Trump or whether
27:30
Speaker 2: it's economic.
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Speaker 1: You're there to sing.
27:32
Speaker 2: Just sing.
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Speaker 5: But with artists, you know going in, that's who you're
27:39
Speaker 5: coming to. Bruce Springsteen doesn't have opening acts. With Ed Sheeran,
27:44
Speaker 5: you go expecting a fun time, right? You just expect
27:48
Speaker 5: a nonpolitical good time. Uh, he's playing his guitar and
27:52
Speaker 5: telling jokes and he's, you know, very red and, uh,
27:57
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, red hair and, uh, and.
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Speaker 1: And that's it.
28:02
Speaker 5: So you don't expect to someone, you don't expect to
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Speaker 5: suddenly be in a free Palestine rally.
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Speaker 2: Uh, wait, go back to that for a minute. Bruce
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Speaker 2: Springsteen doesn't have an opening act.
28:10
Speaker 1: No, Bruce Springsteen has no opening. Really? I thought you
28:13
Speaker 1: had to have one.
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Speaker 2: Don't you need it to warm up the audience?
28:17
Speaker 1: No, he plays for three or four hours by himself. Right.
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Speaker 1: E Street Band, enough for anybody, Mark.
28:23
Speaker 2: And what is that play, Three Hours? That's a little,
28:26
Speaker 2: you think Trump has an ego? A guy that plays
28:28
Speaker 2: a three-hour concert, that's an ego.
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Speaker 5: I think he, well, he plays it because the audience
28:33
Speaker 5: wants it. We love Bruce Springsteen, and I could take
28:36
Speaker 5: a five-hour concert. Oh, my God. They're getting shorter now
28:41
Speaker 5: as he gets older. Oh, I just read this is
28:44
Speaker 5: terrible news. Oh, I just saw some terrible news on
28:46
Speaker 5: the wire.
28:49
Speaker 1: Duncan Sheik.
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Speaker 5: Who was the great singer-songwriter who wrote Spring Awakening on Broadway.
28:56
Speaker 5: And he also had a great single called Barely Breathing
29:01
Speaker 5: Has Passed Away.
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Speaker 1: That's very sad.
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Speaker 2: How old is he?
29:05
Speaker 1: Wasn't that old? I would say he's in his 50s.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
29:09
Speaker 2: All right. That's terrible. Hey, your buddy Woody Allen, is
29:15
Speaker 2: this true? He's making a new movie at 91?
29:16
Speaker 1: He's 56, Duncan Sheep. Yes.
29:22
Speaker 5: Woody Allen is going to be 91 on November 30th.
29:27
Speaker 5: And in the meantime, he's about to start shooting a
29:31
Speaker 5: movie October 5th in Madrid.
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Speaker 1: It's his 51st movie.
29:36
Speaker 5: And right now the working title is Madrid and. it's
29:40
Speaker 5: set in Spain, where he's had a couple of really
29:43
Speaker 5: cool movies. You know, he had Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which
29:46
Speaker 5: won a lot of Oscars.
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Speaker 1: It was a big hit.
29:50
Speaker 5: And we don't know what this one's about, but his
29:53
Speaker 5: last film, Coupe de Champs, was shot in France and was.
29:59
Speaker 1: It was all in French, in fact.
30:02
Speaker 5: And actually, I don't know if you've seen it, but
30:04
Speaker 5: you should rent it. It has a great twist. It's
30:07
Speaker 5: a wonderful film. So Woody's still got it. He had
30:13
Speaker 5: a novel that came out last year, and he has
30:16
Speaker 5: a second novel that's coming out next year that he's finished.
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Speaker 1: And he's also got a play that he's finished.
30:23
Speaker 7: Huh.
30:24
Speaker 1: So he's getting a lot.
30:25
Speaker 5: Done while we're sitting around talking on the radio. Woody
30:29
Speaker 5: Allen is busy at his manual typewriter writing all these things.
30:33
Speaker 2: And his greatest accomplishment ever is you could get a
30:36
Speaker 2: picture of him in 1963 on the Jack Parr show
30:39
Speaker 2: and today at 91, and he looks exactly the same.
30:42
Speaker 2: This guy looks exactly the same. No difference. How is
30:46
Speaker 2: that possible? Clean living?
30:48
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, really clean living. But, you know, it's funny
30:53
Speaker 5: because it's ironic, right? Because now the Carnegie Deli, which
30:56
Speaker 5: you hosted the other day, you were there, has reopened
31:01
Speaker 5: and have a Broadway Danny Rose sandwich, which is named
31:03
Speaker 5: for the famous movie.
31:05
Speaker 1: Right.
31:06
Speaker 5: And the movie Broadway Danny Rose from 1985 took place
31:10
Speaker 5: at the original Carnegie Deli.
31:12
Speaker 1: You know, great.
31:13
Speaker 5: All the great comics sitting around telling their stories about
31:16
Speaker 5: Broadway Danny Rose. And it's all pastrami, you know, and
31:20
Speaker 5: corned beef, which we love. But Woody doesn't eat any
31:22
Speaker 5: of that.
31:23
Speaker 2: You know, I was talking the other day. This Carnegie,
31:26
Speaker 2: the new Carnegie, is wonderful. But it's nothing like the
31:28
Speaker 2: old Carnegie with the big, fat, surly waiters and the
31:32
Speaker 2: comedian's table in front. Yeah, you're right. Go watch Broadway
31:35
Speaker 2: Danny Rose, the movie. You'll see the old Carnegie in
31:37
Speaker 2: its prime. Broadway Danny Rose, great.
31:40
Speaker 1: But isn't it nice?
31:41
Speaker 5: It's so nice to have the sign back on 7th
31:44
Speaker 5: Avenue that says Carnegie Deli.
31:46
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, I love that.
31:48
Speaker 2: The food's great. The sandwiches, the knish, the cheesecake, everything
31:52
Speaker 2: is back. It's great.
31:53
Speaker 1: Everything's great.
31:54
Speaker 2: Have you been there yet? It's phenomenal.
31:57
Speaker 5: I haven't been there yet, but I'll be there this weekend.
31:59
Speaker 5: I'm definitely going. I'm sure there are going to be
32:01
Speaker 5: long lines.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: But I actually wrote about it coming back. I was
32:05
Speaker 5: actually almost the first person to write.
32:08
Speaker 1: About it on Showbiz 411.
32:10
Speaker 5: Because they dropped a little hint, and I immediately wrote
32:14
Speaker 5: the story.
32:15
Speaker 1: I was so excited.
32:16
Speaker 5: And I said to the publicist, are you going to
32:19
Speaker 5: have a Broadway Danny Rose sandwich? She goes, I don't know.
32:22
Speaker 5: She's so young, she doesn't know. I said, you better
32:25
Speaker 5: ask them. So they've got it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
32:27
Speaker 2: Now, just for everybody listening, it's not where the old
32:29
Speaker 2: Carnegie was. It's a block south of there. It's where
32:32
Speaker 2: the stage deli was.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
32:35
Speaker 2: Apparently, they didn't want to go.
32:36
Speaker 5: Which is actually a nicer, it's nicer. It has a,
32:39
Speaker 5: you know, they have, you know, enclosed glass front. It's
32:44
Speaker 5: a lot nicer than the Carnegie Valley was.
32:46
Speaker 2: That's a good point. Yeah, it's all windows, so it's
32:48
Speaker 2: a lot of light. The old Carnegie had no windows
32:50
Speaker 2: in the dining room.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point.
32:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, the old Carnegie, you walked all the way
32:55
Speaker 5: into the back, you know, into like a mysterious place
32:58
Speaker 5: where you got a sandwich as tall as you were.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you still get that sandwich, but it's great.
33:03
Speaker 2: Everybody read Roger Friedman's website, showbiz411. com.
33:08
Speaker 1: I saw a great movie last night. Do you want
33:10
Speaker 1: to hear one last thing?
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Speaker 2: All right, real fast.
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Speaker 5: There's a Brad Pitt movie called Heart of the Beast.
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Speaker 5: It's opening next week on the 25th. Go see this movie.
33:20
Speaker 5: I saw it last night. The critics loved it. I mean,
33:23
Speaker 5: I've never seen a room. Everyone was so surprised about
33:26
Speaker 5: how terrific it is. It's a survivalist movie. It's Brad
33:29
Speaker 5: Pitt and a dog. And the dog is going to
33:31
Speaker 5: get nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
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Speaker 1: All right.
33:34
Speaker 2: Say the name again. Heart of the Beast?
33:36
Speaker 1: Heart of the Beast. Heart of the Beast. Everybody go
33:38
Speaker 1: see it.
33:38
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33:46
Speaker 2: Roger Friedman, thanks for being with us.
33:49
Speaker 1: Thank you.
33:49
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33:49
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