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Hour 2: Ed Sheeran has spoken out. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 3: Here's more Mark Simone on 710WOR. Well, hey, we'll get
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  Speaker 3: to that crazy Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to AI. We'll get to the White House
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  Speaker 2: and the press. And we'll get to Mamdani and the
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  Speaker 2: UN and a whole lot more. It's Monday. Final full
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  Speaker 2: day of summer. Autumn begins tomorrow night. 8 p.m it
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  Speaker 2: officially is autumn it's going to be in the 60s
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the week uh president trump coming to
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  Speaker 2: new york he'll be here about four o'clock uh it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a traffic nightmare first stop is gracie
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  Speaker 2: mansion so uh it's a holiday today and it's also
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  Speaker 2: a monday where most people don't come into the office
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  Speaker 2: so it's a lighter traffic day anyway but uh he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be coming in uh from the airport and
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  Speaker 2: he'll come to the Upper East Side, Gracie Mansion in
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  Speaker 2: the 80s on the east side. That will completely close
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  Speaker 2: up streets around there. Then he meets with President Macron
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  Speaker 2: of France. Then he comes down towards Midtown for six
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  Speaker 2: o'clock tonight is a RNC donor meeting reception, 150,000 a
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  Speaker 2: ticket and up. Then from there he goes to the
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  Speaker 2: big MAGA Inc. dinner. Big gala dinner tonight. Spend the
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  Speaker 2: night in New York. And then tomorrow he's going to
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  Speaker 2: try to meet with Zelensky. He's going to try to
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  Speaker 2: meet with other leaders at the U.N. It's the big U.N.
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  Speaker 2: General Assembly all week. Street closures. Absolute nightmare. Hey, this
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  Speaker 2: crazy Ed Sheeran, you know, he's the nicest guy, Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to the music world, nobody nicer than
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  Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran. I don't know. He got himself into this mess.
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  Speaker 2: He picks this crazy anti-Semite Macklemore to be the opening act.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's blaming the promoter, saying it wasn't Ed Sheeran. It
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  Speaker 2: was the promoter. He got stuck with this. Ed Sheeran's
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  Speaker 2: a pretty big guy. He can decide who his opening
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  Speaker 2: act is. But Macklemore, terrible anti-Semite. He's been seen dressed
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  Speaker 2: in Nazi costumes. Remember that time he dressed as an
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  Speaker 2: Orthodox rabbi? Horrible anti-Semitic looking costume. So Macklemore's off the
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  Speaker 2: tour because the stadium owners, Robert Kraft and others, wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: let him appear there. So they had to drop him
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  Speaker 2: from the tour. Ed Sheeran getting all kinds of flack
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  Speaker 2: in Ireland. They stopped playing his music on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Fans returned tickets. He's all upset. So big headline today.
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  Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran says his family abandoned him. He's coming out
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  Speaker 2: on stage talking about how he lost his family, his friends.
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  Speaker 2: He comes out on stage crying. He's got to stop this.
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  Speaker 2: He looks ridiculous. Stop whining and crying. He needs the
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  Speaker 2: Godfather to slap him and say, you can act like
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  Speaker 2: a man. Stop crying. Stop apologizing. Look at Bill Maher.
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  Speaker 2: Let me play this again. I'm going to play this
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  Speaker 2: every hour. This is Bill Maher's Friday night.
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  Speaker 4: I think Macklemore spoke for all clueless celebrities when he said,
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  Speaker 4: I know enough to know this is a genocide.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, you don't know s * * t.
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  Speaker 1: It's not.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a genocide.
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  Speaker 4: It's a counterattack in a war, a war that's been
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  Speaker 4: waged on Israel since 1948 based on the ridiculous premise
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  Speaker 4: that Jews don't belong in the one place on earth
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  Speaker 4: they are indigenous and indisputably their ancestral homeland. Hey, geniuses,
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  Speaker 4: they're the Indians in this scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ed Sheeran, either say nothing or say that. But
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  Speaker 2: he comes out on stage. Now he becomes anti-Semitic. He
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  Speaker 2: starts spewing this anti-Semitic nonsense about Israel. And then he
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  Speaker 2: starts crying. Listen to Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 5: This wasn't the easy option tonight.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know what was going to happen. I heard
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  Speaker 6: all sorts of things were going to happen. I didn't
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  Speaker 6: know whether I'd be safe or you'd be safe or
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  Speaker 6: things would be.
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  Speaker 2: Thrown at me, people would boo.
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  Speaker 4: And I walked it.
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  Speaker 6: I felt so much love from you guys.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm so grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, that's good. That part's good. But then, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what happened to this guy. He starts getting
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  Speaker 2: into all this stuff. I'm trying to find, oh, here
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  Speaker 2: it is. Here's more.
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  Speaker 6: My concerts have always been a safe space for everyone,
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  Speaker 6: and that matters hugely to me. Honoring my commitment to
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  Speaker 6: my fans is also.
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  Speaker 2: See, the other thing, he has a British accent. You
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  Speaker 2: always sound like a genius with a British accent. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's Ed Sheeran. I mean, this is not Einstein. But
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  Speaker 2: you sound like a genius with a British accent.
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  Speaker 6: Completely central to who I am. And that is why
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  Speaker 6: I'm here tonight on my own and continuing my current tour.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good. That's very good. But then.
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  Speaker 6: What happened in Israel and at the Nova Music Festival
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  Speaker 6: on October 7th was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain.
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  Speaker 6: What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.
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  Speaker 6: My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation
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  Speaker 6: and loss of civilians' lives, of children's lives.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's where you lose everybody, Ed Sheeran. It's unjustified.
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  Speaker 2: It's a counterattack. It's unjustified. Israel is not running around
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  Speaker 2: raping women and killing babies, as Hamas did. That's where
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  Speaker 2: he loses everybody.
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  Speaker 6: I have tried in my career not to be a
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  Speaker 6: political commentator of any kind.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this might be a good time to continue that policy.
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  Speaker 6: Because I want my music and shows to be about unity,
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  Speaker 6: not division. About humanity, not politics.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to disappoint fans, and I've never wanted
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  Speaker 6: to be an activist musician, but this has put me
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  Speaker 6: in the middle of an important and passionate argument about
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  Speaker 6: freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on
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  Speaker 6: the planet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why you should stay the hell out of it.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, you... He has no idea where Israel is.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't find it on a map. He knows nothing
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  Speaker 2: about Gaza, Hamas. He's just trying to worm his way
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  Speaker 2: out of this and doesn't know how to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran interviewed later. He said, it's been horrific. It's
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  Speaker 2: been awful. I've lost friends. I've lost family. That's everybody.
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  Speaker 2: That's everybody when it comes to Trump, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to Israel. Everybody's lost friends over it. That's why I
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  Speaker 2: always tell you, do not ever talk about politics with anybody. Ever.
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  Speaker 2: There's no reason to. You love politics? Listen to shows
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  Speaker 2: like this. Listen to whatever you listen to. Read whatever.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to discuss it with people in a bar.
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  Speaker 2: Don't discuss it over a dinner table. Don't discuss it
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  Speaker 2: at a party. Don't discuss it. It's just going to
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  Speaker 2: cause you trouble. There's nothing to gain from it. You
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  Speaker 2: don't need every idiot's opinion on everything. Just stay the
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  Speaker 2: hell away from it. But Ed Sheeran, we'll see. I
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  Speaker 2: think he recovers from this. You know what? Just sing.
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  Speaker 2: Put out great records. Put out a new album. Have
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  Speaker 2: it be a big success. And you'll do just fine. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump, you know, he wants to build that big
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  Speaker 2: arch in Washington, D.C. It's actually a pretty good idea.
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  Speaker 2: It would dominate a good chunk of the D.C. skyline.
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  Speaker 2: When they say skyline, they're talking about three, four stories.
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  Speaker 2: But it would look great. I know, he wants to
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  Speaker 2: put his name on it. All right, that's not so great.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your name off it. Just build the arch. But
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  Speaker 2: just because it's him, if it were Obama, if it
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  Speaker 2: were Biden, Democrats would love this arch. They would be donating.
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  Speaker 2: They would be pushing for it. They would be hailing
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  Speaker 2: him as a genius for coming up with the arch.
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  Speaker 2: But it's Trump, so they're all opposed to it. And
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  Speaker 2: President Trump says now it will double as a top-grade
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  Speaker 2: military complex. It will house, store drones, snipers, both on
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  Speaker 2: the roof and plaza areas. It'll hold large quantities of
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  Speaker 2: sniper ammunition in storage. You know, he keeps falling back
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  Speaker 2: on the same excuse. Well, we have military. You can't
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  Speaker 2: keep saying everything's also going to be military. That excuse
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work. If you need to store large amounts of ammunition,
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  Speaker 2: there's like 700,000 other buildings in Washington, D.C. And it's
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  Speaker 2: the home of the U.S. military, the Pentagon, every, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure they got places right now where they can store
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  Speaker 2: all the ammunition. Right now, the ammunition is being stored somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And why would you put it in an arch? It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a big tourist thing. A million tourists
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  Speaker 2: will be around that arch. So the last place you
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  Speaker 2: want to have to go to get your ammunition out.
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  Speaker 2: So that part doesn't make much sense. Ukraine, largest attack
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  Speaker 2: ever on Moscow. A thousand drones hit Moscow. One thousand drones. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you remember Ukraine begging us for drones, begging us for missiles. Well,
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  Speaker 2: over the last two years, they built their own drone factories.
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  Speaker 2: They are now the biggest drone manufacturer in the world.
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  Speaker 2: They're turning out the biggest, most powerful drones in their
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  Speaker 2: own factories worldwide. So they got an endless supply. So
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  Speaker 2: in this attack, this is right in Moscow, right in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of Moscow, 1,000 drones hit Moscow. 1,000 drones. Now,
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  Speaker 2: on the other hand, it killed two people. In the
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  Speaker 2: middle of a major city, 1,000 drones and they only
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  Speaker 2: killed two people. But they went all over the country
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  Speaker 2: and they went all over Moscow. The mayor of Moscow
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  Speaker 2: said 450 of the drones had been destroyed, shot down
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  Speaker 2: en route. Okay, that's possible. He said the unprecedented attack
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  Speaker 2: on the capital was to disrupt their elections. They were
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  Speaker 2: having an election. Of course, there's no opposition there. When
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  Speaker 2: you're Putin or whoever and you run, there's no opposition.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not the most crucial election in the world. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Obama bashing Trump for, uh, uh, not doing enough about AI.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's big on it. He's, he's the one
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  Speaker 2: quietly behind the scenes that orchestrated this whole AI thing.
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  Speaker 2: They think it's going to be a big thing for
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  Speaker 2: the midterms. Climate change isn't working. Uh, they've been polling it,
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  Speaker 2: focus grouping it. Climate change isn't scaring anybody anymore. It's
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  Speaker 2: just not working. So they came up with this whole
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  Speaker 2: AI thing and it was all orchestrated carefully. Obama was
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  Speaker 2: the one running around from one meeting to another. getting
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  Speaker 2: this done. The four big AI companies, they're all very
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  Speaker 2: close to Obama, very close, have been for years. So
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  Speaker 2: they came up with a bunch of incidents of how
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  Speaker 2: the AI was escaping from their control and taking over.
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  Speaker 2: And they brought out these four incidents to scare everybody.
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  Speaker 2: But now there's all sides of insiders and whistleblowers within
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  Speaker 2: these AI companies who are coming forward and saying these
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  Speaker 2: incidents have been ridiculously oversold. The one they talked about
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  Speaker 2: where it broke out of the sandbox, they create a
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  Speaker 2: sandbox around the AI so it can't get out. The
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  Speaker 2: one where it got out, whistleblowers are now saying they
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  Speaker 2: deliberately didn't build the sandbox correctly. They deliberately left holes
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  Speaker 2: in it so the AI could escape it. And they're
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  Speaker 2: doing this for the other incidents. Remember the first whistleblower
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  Speaker 2: that the AI guys had? Turned out he'd only worked
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  Speaker 2: there like four weeks. But these guys have been there forever,
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  Speaker 2: these whistleblowers now. They're coming forward and saying these incidents
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  Speaker 2: they've described were actually set up. They were engineered so
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  Speaker 2: that it would happen. And they could use them. Now,
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  Speaker 2: to say that President Trump's doing nothing about AI. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: about AI.
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  Speaker 5: You just can't come to the White House press briefings anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's another one. Forget that. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 2: in a minute.
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  Speaker 5: But.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump did set up something called AI Force, and
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  Speaker 2: he created an AI czar on Saturday to keep the
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  Speaker 2: industry from engaging in bad practices. AI Force will patrol
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. As I mentioned before, Anthropic and these
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  Speaker 2: other companies have set up super PACs to hand out
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  Speaker 2: tons of money to politicians. They need the Democrats, Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 2: all these guys to play along with this. So 40
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  Speaker 2: million has been doled out to them very quickly over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend and more money is coming. So it'll be interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: There was Obama talking about president Trump banning CNN, MSNBC
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  Speaker 2: and Politico from the white house.
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  Speaker 5: You just can't come to the white house press briefings
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  Speaker 5: anymore because you're giving the current president unfavorable coverage. I'm
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  Speaker 5: trying to think what would have happened if I had said,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, Fox News, you're out of here. It's unimaginable.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he forgot to mention that he did that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they tried to ban Fox News. Now, the difference is
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  Speaker 2: Obama backed down. There was tremendous flack. But it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: If you go to my Twitter, you can see the
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  Speaker 2: video of all this. CNN was pushing for Fox to
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  Speaker 2: be banned. MSNBC was pushing for Fox to be banned
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  Speaker 2: from the White House. And Obama tried to do it,
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  Speaker 2: but he backed down. This is the difference. You know,
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  Speaker 2: Trump is like, Trump's like a maniac. He never backs down.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what kind of opposition he'll keep going.
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  Speaker 2: And remember Joe Biden blocked 440 reporters. He took their
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  Speaker 2: credentials away. 440 reporters he didn't like. Biden took the
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  Speaker 2: credentials away. And you're going to hear if you watch
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  Speaker 2: CNN or MSNBC, this story is false. They simply did
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  Speaker 2: not reapply for their, yeah, well, they didn't think they
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  Speaker 2: had a chance, so they didn't reapply. Trump administration did
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  Speaker 2: block a couple of news organizations in the first term.
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  Speaker 2: First term, they blocked the BBC, Politico, New York Times
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  Speaker 2: from attending certain briefings. Pentagon has blocked reporters from certain areas.
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration restricted and blocked Associated Press a while back.
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  Speaker 2: They're still in court fighting that. They're not getting anywhere
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  Speaker 2: on that. During Trump's first term, he took away the
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  Speaker 2: press credentials of Jim Acosta. Remember that ugly, rude, nasty
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  Speaker 2: CNN guy? He went to court, later got it back.
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  Speaker 2: He got his press pass back. The president said at
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  Speaker 2: the time he wanted to make a point, regardless of
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  Speaker 2: whether the ban held up in court. And that may
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  Speaker 2: be the same thing here that he's doing. So the
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  Speaker 2: AP lawsuit is still stuck in court. They're still banned.
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  Speaker 2: They're not getting anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. Now, the other thing is just don't let
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  Speaker 2: them in the Oval Office. You could do what they
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  Speaker 2: do at the Pentagon. Just restrict them to certain areas
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  Speaker 2: and nowhere else. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710
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  Speaker 2: is the number.
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  Speaker 1: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show. Now nine till noon weekdays.
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  Speaker 1: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. If
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: you're a Democrat, cover your ears. Oil is down again.
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  Speaker 2: Down $ 5 a barrel right now. Down to $ 95. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: let's take some calls. Let's go to John in, is
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  Speaker 2: it Greenridge, New Jersey?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Greenridge, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you people come up with these names in
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey?
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  Speaker 1: I know. Well. It's a beautiful area. Yeah, the reason
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  Speaker 1: I'm calling is that I was concerned that during the
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  Speaker 1: collapse of the United States, USSR, they lost track of
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  Speaker 1: 88 nuclear suitcase weapons.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have nothing to worry about. Nothing to
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  Speaker 2: worry about. The material in those nuclear suitcases is totally
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  Speaker 2: expired and doesn't work anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Positive. Every scientific scientist, nuclear expert said there's a
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  Speaker 2: shelf life on that material in there. It doesn't work anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. I'm glad to hear.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Yeah. They used to scare everybody with that
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  Speaker 2: when they lost the suitcase. It's called a suitcase nuke.
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  Speaker 2: You can carry it on your back and it's a
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  Speaker 2: small nuclear weapon. The material in them is degraded though.
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  Speaker 2: And it was also believed at the time that anybody
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  Speaker 2: trying to use one would end up blowing themselves up
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  Speaker 2: or radiating themselves to death. You've got to know how.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to be really trained to handle one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Mara in Nevada. Mara, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: So good. Thank you, God. Mark, I'm talking about First Amendment.
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  Speaker 7: You can say what you want. No fire in a theater. However,
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  Speaker 7: Ed Sheeran even said he wanted to keep a safe
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  Speaker 7: space in his concerts, and then Macklemore can shout, Free Palestine?
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  Speaker 7: Creating problems and threats in the theater? No, you can't
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  Speaker 7: just say no fire, no free Palestine, no Kilmandani, none
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  Speaker 7: of that stuff in the crowded theater. What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: I agree. I agree. In fact, first of all, your insurance,
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  Speaker 2: shut the hell up. Nobody cares what you think about
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  Speaker 2: any of this. But thanks for calling. Hey, where are
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  Speaker 2: all the calls? Nobody's calling today. Is it the holiday?
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  Speaker 2: Is it UN week? I don't know. There's open lines. 800-321-
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  Speaker 2: 0-7-10 is the number.
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  Speaker 1: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, speaking of movie theaters yelling fire, it's aggravating in
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  Speaker 2: a movie theater when somebody's on their phone. But this
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  Speaker 2: guy's in the movie theater, and the guy in the
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  Speaker 2: next row in front of him is on the phone,
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  Speaker 2: but he's not talking. He's just looking at his phone,
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  Speaker 2: and apparently he had the screen brightness turned down a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. but he was looking at his phone and
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  Speaker 2: this other guy kept telling him to turn it off,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: kept yelling at him to turn it off. And the
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  Speaker 2: guy wouldn't turn it off. So this guy finally took
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  Speaker 2: out pepper spray and sprayed the guy pepper spray in
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  Speaker 2: a middle of a movie theater while, while the movie
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  Speaker 2: is on. So, you know, this pepper spray is pretty
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  Speaker 2: ugly stuff. So everybody got up and it couldn't take
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  Speaker 2: the smell and it was, it's bad for people. And
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  Speaker 2: they kept running out of the movie theater, uh, They
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  Speaker 2: all saw the guy that did it. They saw him
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: spray the guy. And the guy was smart enough to
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: run away. But police eventually, witnesses came forward. Police caught him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: He's now in custody, arrested and booked. This is in Burbank, California.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Misdemeanor battery. The theater offered to refund everybody's money. Let's
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: take some calls. Let's go to line one. How you doing?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Who is this? Hey, Mark, it's Steve Manhattan, baby. Oh,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: it's the same guy.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: What do we want to.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Find that got arrested on 9-11?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Who supported that?
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I know. Go Buchanan or whatever it is. Let's go
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: to line four. How you doing? Yes, hi.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: This is Mike from Queens.
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  Speaker 8: I am not horrified by the gasoline prices in New
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: York City, and I'm a yellow cab.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Driver, and I think it's a huge hype job.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of real in it, but I think
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: it's grossly overrated.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, gas prices are high right now, but they're
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: not as high as the Joe Biden days. They're nowhere near. that.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: But it's a big, big thing to get Trump with
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: and try to hurt Republicans in the midterms. So it's
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: all you read about the gas prices, the gas prices,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: the gas prices. You notice that story came out today.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Americans are making more money now. Average American income is
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: at the highest level ever. They don't report that. poverty level,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: lowest rate ever. They don't report that. They just keep
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: yelling about gas prices just to affect the midterms. Let's
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: go to Dave, Mahwah, New Jersey. Dave, how you doing?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Good, Mark.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: Thank you. I just wanted to let you know, because
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: I haven't really heard this one out there, but I
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: saw Mellencamp about a month ago, and he had a
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: lot of political rants during the show. As a matter
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: of fact, the first song he sang was, was a
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: new song about the Trump administration, you know, against the
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: Trump administration. So I just want it to be known
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: that Mellencamp is also one of these.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bunch of these idiots, Bruce Springsteen and
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: the other ones. First of all, nobody... Who would want
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: their opinion on any political issue? You know, Mellencamp, if
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: you needed advice on who makes the best guitar pick,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I would ask Mellencamp. If I wanted to know about
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: which guitar to get, I'd ask Bruce Springsteen. If I
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: wanted to know about... Foreign policy, I don't think I'd
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: turn to Bruce Springsteen for that. Let's go to Joe, Colonia,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. Joe, how are you doing?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, Mark, I'm doing great. First, I just want to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: let you know that thanks to you, I no longer
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: squeeze my teabags.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's very important. Everybody dunks the teabag for
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a couple minutes. Then at the end, they take the
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: spoon and they press the teabag and squeeze out what
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the experts say that's the worst thing you can do.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: It brings out the bitter stuff. There's stuff in the
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: teabag that tastes great. That's what you want in the tea.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: There's also stuff in there that tastes awful. It's bitter.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: You don't want that. If you squeeze it, that stuff
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: starts coming out. And you've noticed a difference?
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I've got to be honest.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I don't notice a difference, but I just don't.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I don't really either. I don't really either.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I put all that extra stuff in there,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: like you said.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: It does something to help the flow of it, to
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: help the other stuff flow out. but it's made to
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: stay in the teabag while the other stuff flows out.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: If you squeeze the teabag, the bad stuff starts to
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: flow out. One more call. Let's go to Neil in Brooklyn. Neil,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah, what irked me about the press is, like, during
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Trump's first term, like, there would be, early in the day,
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: it would be reported that Hispanic businessmen from all over
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: the world.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Neil, there's a lot of preamble here. What's the point
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: you want to make?
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: Okay, the point I want to make is sometimes I'll
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: see a story earlier in the day, and you figure
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: it's going to be on the 630 news.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Is there any point? We don't have much time here.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Is there a point you want to make?
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Yes, the point is they ignore stories, that's all.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's as we say. Again, story comes out
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: this week, lowest poverty rate ever, highest income ever for
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the average American. They don't report it. There's a lot
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: of stuff they just don't report. Oh, when we come back,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: the best columnist in America, Michael Goodwin. He'll be with
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: us next on 710WOR.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Well, Michael Goodwin, the best columnist in America.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: You can read him every Sunday and every Wednesday in
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: the New York Post. All of his columns are up
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: on the New York Post website if you missed anything.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: And we got two columns for the price of one
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: this week. And it's great to have him with us.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin, how you doing?
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark. Thank you.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, first of all, the UN, General Assembly, all these
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: world leaders here, Iran will be here. What should the
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: president do with all this?
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Well, sort of a feast of unappetizing food, right? But look,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I do think the president... is eager to get the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Iran situation off the front pages and out of the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: polls for the midterms. And so he's going to be
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: in New York, and the Iranian leaders are both here
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: on State Department visas for the UN. And the president
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: has never met either of those two Iranians. And I
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: would be shocked if there isn't some way that they
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: do manage to get together. He's also meeting with our
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Gulf allies, the Gulf of Arabia allies. And so I
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: think that this is a moment that could turn out
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: to be very significant. Now, there's no guarantee of that,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: of course. Iran has shown no inclination to end the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: war in anything close to America's terms. which of course
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: have to do with nuclear proliferation primarily, along with funding
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of Hezbollah and Hamas and groups like that, and getting
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: rid of its long-range missiles. So we've seen no signs
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: that the Iranians are ready for that. But the two
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: people coming to the UN, they are not of the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: ruling mullah class. These are basically professional westernized leaders. But
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: we will see if they have any power to actually
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: make a deal. That's one of the mysteries about who
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: is really running the Iranian government, such as it is.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: And it seems to be the hardliners, the mullahs, the killers,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the corrupt ones. So if there's a deal to be made,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the UN meeting would be a great place for it. Yeah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: But what's the point? They never, ever, ever, ever stick
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: to an agreement. As people say, Iran has never won
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: a war and never lost an agreement because they just
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: don't follow it. So what's the point? Why even bother?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: They've gotten away with it, right? I mean, 50 years almost,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: this is how they've conducted themselves. And part of it
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: is everybody's afraid of their militaries and how they activate,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: like pushing a button and and Hezbollah or Hamas or
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the Houthis come out of the ground and kill you.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: That's how the Iranians have gotten away with it on
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the foreign policy stage, and there's been no real credible
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: threat against them domestically for those five decades. So that
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: has been the conundrum for everybody dealing with Iran. You
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: can't trust them, you can't trust their motives, and they
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: never live up to any agreement. This is a real problem,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and it's how we ended up in the war in
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the first place.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, Michael Goodwin, you also wrote a great column
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: about the New York Times, which you used to work
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: there back when it was really the New York Times.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, the real New York Times. Yeah. Do you
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: even recognize the place today when you see it?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: No, it's really something entirely different. It's like a different species.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: From what it was.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: It should have had a transgender operation or something. But look,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the piece I focused on this time, Mark, had to
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: do with the national poverty rate. And it held steady
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: last year. And this very much upset the New York
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Times because they thought and predicted it would soar because
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's cuts to what it calls a social
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: safety net. And not only that, the median family income rose,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and it's the highest ever. So these two things together
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: were bad news for the New York Times. They want suffering,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: human suffering, to prove that they're right and Donald Trump
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: is wrong. Here you get the news doesn't comport to
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: their politics. And so there's this kind of mournful tone
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: about the poverty rate not getting higher and the fact
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: that median family incomes have set a new record. This
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: was the New York Times. This is all bad news.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: In reality, of course, of the Americans involved and the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: country as a whole, it's very good news. But the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: New York Times hates good news if it makes Trump
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: look good. They can't have that.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: So, Michael Goodwin, when you used to work there, that's
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: when they had the great leadership. Was it Abe Rosenthal
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: and Arthur Gelb and those kind of people?
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Correct, yeah. Yeah. Well, you've got Drake. The thing is, Mark,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that the leader sets the tone and the rules. And
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: so everybody... had to follow the basic rules, which is,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: if you're a reporter or an editor, we don't care
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: about your opinions. Keep them to yourself. What we put
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: in the paper are the facts, the news, and we're
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: not taking sides with every story. We're not here pushing
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: an agenda. We're here to deliver facts and news and
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: opinion on in a kind of secularized area where it's
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: roped off from the news. But that roping off has
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: has bled now to where every article is an opinion,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: such as the one we're just discussing. It's the opinion
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: that always comes clear. You read the New York Times.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: It's not the facts. It's how the Times interpret and interpret.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: those facts and what it wants the facts to be.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: That's a corruption that I think that we double the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: times and we'll continue to until somebody blows the whistle there,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the owner, presumably, and says, look, we're going back to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the good old days. We're going back to standards of
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: fairness and we're not going to run every story with
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: an opinion.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the other argument is they were going broke.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: The Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim had to come bail him out,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: keep him afloat. And then Trump comes along, and there's
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: an incredible business model here. You just bash Trump all
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: day and night, and there's an audience for that. And
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: you suddenly make a fortune. So with that going on,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: who's ever going to go back to the old model?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: That's a very good point, Mark, and I've considered that.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: And I don't have the answer, as you say. One
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of the shames is that this business model has been
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: successful in a time of changing media landscapes and all that.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: If you ever go and read the readers' responses to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: an article, which you can see online a lot, many
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: of the readers are crazier than the reporters.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: They want the Times to kill Trump. The Times is
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: too soft on Trump. They're too soft on the Republic.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know where you'll find these people, but what's
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: been nourishing their hatred so long? But the Times is
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: now kind of trapped by feeding the beast a little bit.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: The beast is demanding more and more. So the Times
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: is kind of trapped in this cycle on which its
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: finances are now dependent.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow. Well, everybody go read his. It's two Michael
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Goodwin columns you want to read. The one about the
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: New York Times and the one about Iran and the
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: UN and Trump. And it's all up on the New
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: York Post website. Great stuff. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: with us.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: My pleasure, Mark. Thank you.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Take care. Yeah, and don't forget, it's UN week all
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: this week. It's gridlock all week. Street closures all over
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: the place. Don't drive into Manhattan this week. It's going
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: to be an absolute nightmare. Today's a Of course, Yom Kippur,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: it's a holiday. And it's Monday, which is the day
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: most people don't come into the office. So you won't
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: really feel it as much today. But, oh, tomorrow you'll
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: really feel it. Remember, the president comes into Manhattan tonight. Actually,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: this afternoon, 4 o'clock, Gracie Mansion. And then he comes
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: into Midtown. It's going to be a lot of gridlock
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: everywhere tonight. It's going to be a mess tonight. So
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: stay out of Manhattan if you're driving. A lot to
• 32:46
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• 32:49
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• 32:52
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• 32:56
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• 33:05
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• 33:08
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• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, it's the final day of summer. Autumn begins
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: officially tomorrow night, 8 o'clock. So it'll be 71 today.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: That's the high. Rest of the week in the 60s, mid-60s.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: That's the high for the rest of the week. So
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: summer is over. Tomorrow at 8 o'clock, it's officially over.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: But then you got Halloween, and you got Thanksgiving, and
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: you got Christmas, and you got... What do they do
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: in the fall? You got the beautiful leaves everywhere. All right.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: That lasts for about two weeks. But don't worry. Then
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: it'll be winter. That's bad. But then it'll be spring again.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: It just keeps moving along. A lot to get to
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: in the next hour. What do the polls really say?
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: We'll get to that and more coming up on 710WOR.