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FULL SHOW: Latest on Iran; New York's electric bill secrets. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now on The Voice of New York, it's the Mark
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Speaker 1: Simone Show on 710WOR. Hey, it's almost Friday.
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Speaker 2: It's Thursday. It's going to be a nice day today, too.
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Speaker 2: We've got a lot to get to. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: President Trump. We'll get to Ilhan Omar. It looks like
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Speaker 2: she's got some problems. We'll get to Kimberly Guilfoyle, speaking
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Speaker 2: of problems. We'll get to Cornell. We'll get to Iran.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to... The debate, the fallout from the debate,
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Speaker 2: Hochul versus Blakeman. We'll get to Mamdani. Do you know
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Speaker 2: that the Plaza Hotel is closing? For four years. The
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Speaker 2: Plaza Hotel, 59th and 5th, probably the most legendary hotel
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Speaker 2: of all of New York. They're closing it for four
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Speaker 2: years for renovations. I was in there a couple of
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Speaker 2: days ago. It looked fine to me, but... Four years
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Speaker 2: of renovations? Yeah, they're closing the whole thing down. Nobody
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Speaker 2: will be able to stay there. Part of the hotel
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Speaker 2: is very expensive condos. I don't know what happens to
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Speaker 2: those people. It's a separate entrance and everything, so maybe
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Speaker 2: it won't affect them. Although, even if they stay, there's
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Speaker 2: going to be massive construction for four years, driving them crazy.
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Speaker 2: But all the employees are told they can have their
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Speaker 2: jobs back at the same pay in four years. But
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Speaker 2: what the hell are they supposed to do for four years?
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Speaker 2: There's also some stores in there. There's a hair salon.
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Speaker 2: There's some other things in there. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: they're supposed to do. But it's happening at the end
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Speaker 2: of the Christmas season, January. They'll close the plaza for
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Speaker 2: four years. It's a beautiful, even if you're not in there,
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Speaker 2: just walking along that part, 59th and 5th, the Grand
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Speaker 2: Army Plaza, Central Park. You see the plaza there. It's beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Now it's going to be all covered up and scaffolding
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Speaker 2: for four years. The carriages are also leaving Central Park,
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Speaker 2: the horse-drawn carriages. Mom Donnie, he's behind this too.
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Speaker 3: Over the course of this entire conversation, I have always
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Speaker 3: spoken about the importance of taking care of the workers
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Speaker 3: in this industry because they have earned their livelihoods from
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Speaker 3: this work. They should not be ones that are simply
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Speaker 3: left as an afterthought of what comes after this.
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Speaker 2: I will take care of the workers. Meantime, your medallion
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Speaker 2: is no good anymore. Your business is canceled. It's now
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Speaker 2: illegal in New York. It's not going to go into
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Speaker 2: effect for about a year. It'll give them time to
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Speaker 2: transition to something else.
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Speaker 3: Here we are on October 14th of 2026, and we're
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Speaker 3: talking about legislation that will come into full effect in 2028.
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Speaker 3: It is the kind of runway that's required to ensure
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Speaker 3: that we can fulfill all of these different obligations.
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Speaker 2: You see, that's the key to being a Mayor Momdani.
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Speaker 2: Just sound like you're very intelligent. You said the key
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Speaker 2: to the runway to the... It sounds like he knows
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Speaker 2: what he's talking about, but of course he doesn't.
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Speaker 3: We have to both protect the workers... protect the workforce
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Speaker 3: that has found their livelihood from this job. And then
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Speaker 3: when it comes to the horses, I don't think the
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Speaker 3: vision is that the horses would then continue to perform
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Speaker 3: this kind of work elsewhere. There have been a lot
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Speaker 3: of different proposals that have been forward, whether it's sanctuary, um,
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Speaker 3: whether it's then being taken in by farms, things of
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Speaker 3: that nature, that's everything we're going to be investigating.
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Speaker 2: He is, uh, you can be sure this guy will
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Speaker 2: not rest. He will be investigating that day and night. Uh,
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Speaker 2: believe me, he forgot about it as soon as he
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Speaker 2: left the room. Now, uh, It sounds like he's a
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Speaker 2: very caring, concerned mayor. However, he is with the city council.
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Speaker 2: They're voting to eliminate your livelihood, make what you do illegal,
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Speaker 2: and that's it. Goodbye. Now, again, it's a year and
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Speaker 2: a half you got to figure something else out, but okay.
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Speaker 3: We are having a broad conversation about what that can
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Speaker 3: look like so that none of these workers and owners
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Speaker 3: are the ones that are made to pay for the
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Speaker 3: sunsetting of an industry.
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Speaker 2: You see, that's how you sound very smart. We're not
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Speaker 2: having a conversation. We're having a broad conversation. A broad conversation.
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Speaker 2: What the hell is a broad conversation? And we'll give
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Speaker 2: you a couple of months. You don't say that. You say,
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Speaker 2: we'll be sunsetting this. You use all these government terms,
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Speaker 2: and it sounds like you are really, really on top
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Speaker 2: of everything. President Trump back at the White House having
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Speaker 2: a luncheon today, a Rose Garden luncheon. Now, he's got
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Speaker 2: a full workday. You know, just think about this. What's today, Thursday?
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Speaker 2: Just this week. It's only Thursday. I actually got back
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Speaker 2: last night. So from Sunday to Wednesday, he was in Alaska.
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Speaker 2: He was in nevada he was in arizona he was
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Speaker 2: in montana that's two and a half days that's a
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Speaker 2: big big travel schedule so uh latest on the midterm
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Speaker 2: still the same it looks like uh republicans very good
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Speaker 2: chance of taking the senate republicans look very good for
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Speaker 2: taking the senate the house it's too close to call
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Speaker 2: now don't fall for all this fake news if you
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Speaker 2: watch the fake news they'll keep telling you it's it's
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Speaker 2: hopeless for the uh The Republicans, if you read in
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Speaker 2: the New York Times yesterday, there's like nine major stories
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Speaker 2: about the Republicans are giving up. It's hopeless. The Republicans
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Speaker 2: are pulling out of these states. If you watch MS
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Speaker 2: Now or CNN, they keep quoting the Cook Political Report,
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Speaker 2: the widely regarded, highly checked Cook Political Report. They keep
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Speaker 2: telling you about this Cook Political Report. Nobody reads this
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Speaker 2: except these swamp idiots, except the The fake news crowd,
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Speaker 2: they love this Cook Political Report started by Charlie Cook.
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Speaker 2: Even he has nothing to do with it anymore. Even
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Speaker 2: he left, he sold the thing. It's run now by
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Speaker 2: Amy Walter, who is the most left-wing biased person in
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Speaker 2: the world. Former PBS anchor, do you need to know more?
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Speaker 2: Amy Walter, the highly regarded Cook Report. Highly regarded by who?
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Speaker 2: Check the record of the Cook Report. In fact, you
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Speaker 2: can use the Cook Report as a reverse barometer of
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Speaker 2: what's going to happen. They keep quoting it. The Cook
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Speaker 2: Report has now taken 18 races. They've moved it to
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Speaker 2: the Democratic column. Well, they did the same thing with
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Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton in 2016. In fact, the highly regarded Cook
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Speaker 2: Political Report had Hillary Clinton winning in a landslide, an
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Speaker 2: electoral landslide in 2016. Of course, it was totally, completely wrong.
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Speaker 2: So don't take any of this. This is all a
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Speaker 2: PSYOP operation. This is to discourage any Republicans from even
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Speaker 2: thinking of going to the polls. That's why they rig
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Speaker 2: those polls, the public polls. They want to convince you
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Speaker 2: that there's no hope. There's no reason to even go vote.
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Speaker 2: There's absolutely no hope. But the way it stands now, Senate,
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Speaker 2: very likely Republicans hold the Senate. House, too close to call.
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Speaker 2: It's going to depend on turnout. If Republicans turn out,
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Speaker 2: they'll win. If Democrats turn out, they'll win. Right now,
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Speaker 2: that's the way it stands. Bruce Blakeman looks like he's
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Speaker 2: picking up points from the debate. Looks like the momentum
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Speaker 2: will shift now towards Blakeman. He was very good in
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Speaker 2: the debate. It was on New York One. Nobody sees that.
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Speaker 2: But the clips are going all over the place. And
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Speaker 2: Blakeman was very strong out yesterday. Speaking about Cornell.
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Speaker 4: Kathy Hochul has already prejudged this case.
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Speaker 1: But what I have to say to you, Kathy, is
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Speaker 1: as follows.
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Speaker 5: Where were you?
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Speaker 4: What did you do? You are the trustee of Cornell University.
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Speaker 4: You are the governor of the state. You fund Cornell
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Speaker 4: University to the tune of $ 150 million a year. They're
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Speaker 4: a partner of the state of New York. And as
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Speaker 4: a trustee and as governor, you didn't call for an
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Speaker 4: independent investigation when you found out that the district attorney
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Speaker 4: was dropping the case.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Shame on you. Yeah, well, that's from the debate. Actually,
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Speaker 2: it turns out, I don't think anybody knew that she
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Speaker 2: was on the board at Cornell. This whole horrible incident
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Speaker 2: was two years ago. So if somebody dropped the ball,
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Speaker 2: the ball got dropped two years ago and she was
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Speaker 2: on the board at the time and should have known
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Speaker 2: about it. And half of Cornell is a state university,
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Speaker 2: part of the state university system. So she really should
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Speaker 2: have been on top of that. Uh, Elon Omar got big,
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Speaker 2: big problems. You know, they raided her house. They've gotten
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Speaker 2: all these documents. They're looking at immigration fraud. They found, uh, Well,
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Speaker 2: it looks like she lied about her net worth on
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Speaker 2: those financial disclosure forms that you have to file in Congress.
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Speaker 2: One of them, she's worth $ 30 million. Next thing you know,
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Speaker 2: she's worth.
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Speaker 1: $ 300, 000.
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Speaker 2: Makes absolutely no sense. But the one that looks pretty
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Speaker 2: serious for her right now, it looks like at one
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Speaker 2: point she lied about her age. She made her age
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Speaker 2: lower by one year. Now, a lot of people lie
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Speaker 2: about their age. No, no, no. This was for a
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Speaker 2: the purpose of defrauding the immigration people at the time
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Speaker 2: when her father came over here without getting too into
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Speaker 2: the weeds. If the father gets over here and gets
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Speaker 2: a citizenship or a visa or green, whatever, if, if
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Speaker 2: he comes over here and he's got a minor child,
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Speaker 2: the minor child would get citizenship. So she made her
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Speaker 2: age all of a sudden one year lower than, So
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Speaker 2: it looked like she was 17. She was actually 18
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Speaker 2: and not a minor under that system. So she made
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Speaker 2: her age a year lower to appear to be a minor. Now,
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Speaker 2: if this is all true, and it looks like it is,
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Speaker 2: if this is all true, she can be deported. Her
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Speaker 2: citizenship is no longer valid. And if you lie in
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Speaker 2: any way on these immigration forms, you can be deported.
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Speaker 2: And obviously, if you're no longer a citizen, you can't
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Speaker 2: be serving in Congress. So It's under investigation now, Department
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Speaker 2: of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office. Let's see what happens. This
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Speaker 2: is the word right now, but let's see if it
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Speaker 2: actually gets done in a courtroom. You could see her
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Speaker 2: deported at some point. Now, what's going to happen in Iran? Well,
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Speaker 2: it's been very quiet. People are yelling to stop the
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Speaker 2: Iran war. How would you stop it? There's nothing going on.
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Speaker 2: Nobody's fired a shot in about six weeks. It's been
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Speaker 2: a month and a half. There's nothing to stop. But
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Speaker 2: the hint has always been that once the midterms are over,
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Speaker 2: that President Trump will finish the job, will go after Iran.
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Speaker 2: There'll be a massive attack, taking out anything and everything
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Speaker 2: of their leadership. And now we're hearing that what they
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Speaker 2: would do once the midterms are over is use the Moab.
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Speaker 2: That is the mother of all bombs. That is the
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Speaker 2: biggest weapon we have. It's the single biggest non-nuclear weapon
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Speaker 2: bomb that we have. It's a massive bomb. We haven't
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Speaker 2: used them so far. Last time we used, we did
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Speaker 2: use one in 2017 against ISIS in Afghanistan. It is
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Speaker 2: a massive bomb. So the president apparently has asked the
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Speaker 2: military to draw up the targets for the Moab bomb
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Speaker 2: the day after the midterms, if they want to finally
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Speaker 2: finish this off in Iran. It will be a Moab war.
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Speaker 2: It's an incredible weapon. And we got plenty of them.
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Speaker 2: We got plenty of weapons. Don't listen to all this.
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Speaker 2: So we're out of missiles. We're out of weapons. We're fine.
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Speaker 2: And now why is this leaking out? Well, they want
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Speaker 2: Iran to get wind of this because maybe they'll negotiate more.
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Speaker 2: Kimberly Guilfoyle is out. You know, the ambassador in Greece
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Speaker 2: lives in a beautiful mansion in the nicest part of Athens. Magnificent.
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Speaker 2: magnificent mansion. She's got to leave there. She's got a
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Speaker 2: few days to pack up and get out. Word is
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Speaker 2: she'll head to Florida. That's where she was living before.
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Speaker 2: She wants to go back to Florida. Also, the word
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Speaker 2: is she's now searching for a very wealthy husband. So
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Speaker 2: if you are a very rich guy, we've got many
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Speaker 2: of them listening to us, she's on the market. If
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Speaker 2: you've always been a Kimberly Guilfile fan, Get busy if
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Speaker 2: I were you. She's looking for somebody right now. As
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Speaker 2: far as working, I don't know. I don't know. She
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Speaker 2: could go back to– she was on Fox for years.
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Speaker 2: I don't think she can go back there. She may
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Speaker 2: be calling Newsmax as we speak or something like that.
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Speaker 2: Book deal is possible. Although with all these allegations against her.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing is they asked for her resignation
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Speaker 2: from what I'm hearing. Because of all the things you
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Speaker 2: heard about taking the jet rides from this guy, money
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Speaker 2: from that guy, asking this guy for money, offering influence
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Speaker 2: to this guy. From what I'm hearing, there were more
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Speaker 2: allegations coming. And they did not want to have her
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Speaker 2: there for the rest of these allegations. There's more coming.
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Speaker 2: The rumor is. The rumor is. Mamdani. Hey, tonight is
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Speaker 2: the Al Smith dinner. And it's one of those off years.
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Speaker 2: In the presidential year, the presidential candidates come, and it's
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Speaker 2: a huge, major news. It's an off year, so it's
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Speaker 2: not as big a deal. But it'll be interesting to
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Speaker 2: see if Mamdani comes to that. Now, it's a real
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Speaker 2: establishment dinner. It's always the governor and everybody, all the
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Speaker 2: top business guys, all the top political leaders. It'll be
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Speaker 2: interesting to see if Mamdani comes to this. And the
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Speaker 2: other thing is the honoree this year is Jessica Tisch. So,
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Speaker 2: I don't know what Mamdani's doing with Jessica Tisch right now.
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Speaker 2: He's not going to get rid of her, but the DSA,
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Speaker 2: the crazy nutjob democratic socialists, are demanding she be fired.
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Speaker 2: Mamdani is sticking by her. They're demanding she be fired.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, because of something with ICE. The real
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Speaker 2: reason is because she's Jewish. She's pro-Israel. That's why they
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Speaker 2: want her out. But will Mamdani show up? She's being
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Speaker 2: honored this dinner tonight. I don't know. He's got to
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Speaker 2: walk a tightrope now between these crazy left wingers and
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Speaker 2: normal people. Mamdani so far has been good with the NYPD.
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Speaker 3: I have directed a full review of the 24 hour
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Speaker 3: period that starts with the horrific ice shooting that extends
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Speaker 3: to the police department's response to that incident. as well
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Speaker 3: as to the ensuing protests.
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Speaker 2: Now, stop for a minute here. Horrific shooting, any shooting
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Speaker 2: is horrific. If you have to shoot somebody, it's horrific.
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Speaker 2: But the guy got in his car. They told him
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Speaker 2: to stop. He jumped in the car. And then they
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Speaker 2: tried to box him in with their cars. That didn't work.
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Speaker 2: And then he tried to run into the offices, try
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Speaker 2: to run them down with his car. That's how he
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Speaker 2: got shot. blaming the NYPD. Well, you can't blame them
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Speaker 2: because under your orders, under Hochul's orders, they weren't allowed
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Speaker 2: to help ICE. Had they helped ICE, they could have
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Speaker 2: stopped the guy and handed him over peacefully. But you
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Speaker 2: and Hochul won't allow that.
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Speaker 3: It also extends to ICE's use of privately owned parking
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Speaker 3: lots as staging locations, and then to a broader review
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Speaker 3: of what more the city can do to protect immigrant
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Speaker 3: New Yorkers across the five boroughs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this thing about privately owned parking lots, apparently... they
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Speaker 2: waited in a Costco parking lot. See, the problem is
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Speaker 2: if you cooperate with ICE, like Blakeman did in Long Island,
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Speaker 2: he had his local police cooperate with ICE. So if
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Speaker 2: they're going to come in to arrest an illegal that
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Speaker 2: they know about, local police will go with them and
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Speaker 2: help them. And that way, the two ICE officers will
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Speaker 2: come to take the prisoner. Now, if the local police
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Speaker 2: won't be there to assist, no local police, They can't
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Speaker 2: just send two ICE officers. They've got to send 20
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Speaker 2: because they've got to protect themselves. There's no local police
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Speaker 2: to protect them. So it becomes a much bigger operation
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Speaker 2: because of Hochul, because of Mamdani. And obviously you've got
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Speaker 2: to wait somewhere. And they probably had six or seven vehicles.
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Speaker 2: So they picked a, you know, Costco has a big
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Speaker 2: parking lot. So that's what they were waiting in the
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Speaker 2: parking lot. Now Mamdani, I don't know, he's going to
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Speaker 2: try to have some kind of law. They can't wait
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Speaker 2: in any parking lot anywhere. Doesn't make any sense. Just
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Speaker 2: do what Blakeman did. Cooperate with ICE. They are going
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Speaker 2: to arrest illegals who have committed all kinds of crime,
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Speaker 2: who got a rap sheet, who are dangerous criminals. Cooperate
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Speaker 2: with them. And that's what happened in Long Island. The
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Speaker 2: arrests are orderly. Nobody gets shot in the street like that. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get to. It's going to
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Speaker 2: be nice today. It's not going to be warm. It's
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Speaker 2: going to be in the 60s, but bright and sunny.
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Speaker 2: A lot of rain tomorrow. Don't forget, I'm on three
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Speaker 2: hours now, nine to noon every day, three hours, nine
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Speaker 2: to noon on 710WOR. Hey, so getting back to Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so she's leaving.
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Speaker 2: The word is she's looking for a very wealthy guy.
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Speaker 2: So we have a very wealthy audience, believe it or not.
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Speaker 2: And we have a lot of a wide range of
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Speaker 2: people in the audience. But believe it or not, this
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Speaker 2: program has the highest per capita income audience of any show.
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Speaker 2: There's also a thing called the C-suite index. You know,
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Speaker 2: how many C-suite guys? Ours is like 270 or something.
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Speaker 2: Normal is 100. So it's a very wealthy audience. So
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Speaker 2: you very wealthy guys listening now. There's two possibilities here.
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Speaker 2: If you've always had a thing for Kimberly Guilfoyle, she's
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Speaker 2: looking for a very wealthy guy. You just go DM
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Speaker 2: her on Instagram or on X. Now, the other thing
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Speaker 2: is they haven't decided. There's nobody in mind for the
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Speaker 2: next Greek ambassador, next ambassador to Greece. It's open. They're
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Speaker 2: looking for somebody. Now, it's going to be wealthy for
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Speaker 2: that because you've got to make a lot of donations.
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Speaker 2: You're going to make probably a lot of midterm election
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Speaker 2: quick donations or to the Trump super PACs. And then
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Speaker 2: if you want to be the ambassador to Greece and
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Speaker 2: live in that beautiful mansion they have in Athens. So
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Speaker 2: they have nobody in mind yet. What happens is when there's,
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Speaker 2: when an ambassador leaves and they haven't got a new one,
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Speaker 2: a low key sort of a career diplomat comes over
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Speaker 2: and is the acting ambassador. They actually call it the
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Speaker 2: charge d'affaires. But, uh, It's a foreign service guy. A
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Speaker 2: professional foreign service guy comes over and acts as the
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Speaker 2: ambassador until they find somebody. So, wealthy guy, looking to
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Speaker 2: be the ambassador to Greece, looking for Kimberly Guilfoyle. Get
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Speaker 2: on it right now. There's going to be a line
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Speaker 2: for both these things. Cornell University, the faculty is furious.
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Speaker 2: They want the president out. The president of Cornell University,
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Speaker 2: you could try to argue he's done a good job.
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Speaker 2: He did everything well. If it's front page news two
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Speaker 2: years later after the incident, you can't say he's done
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Speaker 2: a great job of handling this. This is not the
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Speaker 2: best crisis management we've ever seen. The faculty now demand
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Speaker 2: all the faculty getting together, demanding he be out.
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Speaker 3: The Title IX process found two of the men to
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Speaker 3: have raped Jane Doe. But under this process, they received
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Speaker 3: temporary suspension.
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Speaker 2: This is the faculty? I mean, I don't know. This
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Speaker 2: guy's on the faculty. Let's try somebody else here.
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Speaker 7: I have to say, Noah, the two people you've said
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Speaker 7: have been found responsible.
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Speaker 2: For rape, that is not... What kind of faculty is this?
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Speaker 2: They're all like mumbling guys. Anyway, 16 people apparently have been...
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Speaker 2: accused of some kind of rape, sexual assault, 16, and
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Speaker 2: apparently only two have been expelled. So that's one of
19:56
Speaker 2: the complaints. Again, this incident was two years ago. It
20:02
Speaker 2: should have been settled. Now, at the time, the president
20:06
Speaker 2: was only the acting president, So I guess you give
20:09
Speaker 2: him a little pass. I don't know. He just got
20:11
Speaker 2: there as acting president. But still, it's been a mess.
20:16
Speaker 2: And again, Blakeman is right. You've got to blame Kathy Hochul.
20:20
Speaker 2: She's on the board of Cornell. Should have been all
20:22
Speaker 2: over this. Now, these sort of incidents, it turns out
20:26
Speaker 2: they happen a lot. 8,000 of them in the last
20:30
Speaker 2: year in colleges all over America.
20:31
Speaker 3: So.
20:33
Speaker 2: these college presidents should have figured this out. A better procedure,
20:36
Speaker 2: a better way of doing this. But let's wait and
20:39
Speaker 2: see what happens. Some Jane Doe, I don't know, there's arguments,
20:44
Speaker 2: things coming out. Let's wait until it gets into a
20:47
Speaker 2: courtroom and we see the actual evidence. But it looks
20:51
Speaker 2: like Jane Doe's story might not hold up in a
20:54
Speaker 2: couple of places. But we'll see. Remember the Duke lacrosse case?
20:59
Speaker 2: Same exact thing with the whole lacrosse team. And it
21:01
Speaker 2: turned out the accuser Was totally making everything up. Turns
21:05
Speaker 2: out the whole thing was false. So I don't think
21:08
Speaker 2: that's the case here. But let's see what happens. Sean
21:12
Speaker 2: Diddy Combs. Remember he was rushed to the hospital from prison.
21:16
Speaker 2: Head injury. Bad head injury. They said he fell and
21:19
Speaker 2: hit his head on the bunk bed. And that caused
21:23
Speaker 2: this big head injury. One in the morning they rushed
21:25
Speaker 2: him to the hospital. He was there for six hours.
21:27
Speaker 2: They brought him back to prison. Well, it turns out
21:32
Speaker 2: it wasn't... He fell and hit his head. I don't
21:35
Speaker 2: think anybody was buying that anyway. Turns out a big
21:39
Speaker 2: drug cartel leader did that to him. A guy named
21:45
Speaker 2: Dudas got into, it says, a physical altercation, which means
21:51
Speaker 2: this guy smashed Diddy's head. Apparently what they were angry about,
21:56
Speaker 2: you remember the story came out that Diddy in prison
21:59
Speaker 2: was getting all sorts of perks. You know, if you
22:01
Speaker 2: spread money around in some prisons, you can get whatever
22:03
Speaker 2: you want. Remember in Goodfellas, when they were in prison,
22:07
Speaker 2: the guards are bringing them lobsters and steaks, and they're
22:10
Speaker 2: having champagne, and they've got their own room with their
22:13
Speaker 2: own beds, and it was like, it was unbelievable what
22:17
Speaker 2: you can buy in prison. So apparently that was going
22:20
Speaker 2: on with Diddy. He had his own television, he had
22:22
Speaker 2: his own phone, he had his own porn, he had
22:25
Speaker 2: whatever he wanted. Well, He got caught. It came out.
22:29
Speaker 2: NBC News did a big expose. And when he got caught,
22:34
Speaker 2: when everything happened, the reason the drug dealer is mad
22:41
Speaker 2: and these other prisoners, apparently after that happened, because we
22:44
Speaker 2: heard they moved Diddy into regular prison and took away
22:47
Speaker 2: all the perks. But apparently what happened is they then
22:50
Speaker 2: did a search of the whole prison. They went through
22:52
Speaker 2: everybody's cell and searched everybody. And a lot of these
22:56
Speaker 2: guys got caught. So the prison took away their cell
22:59
Speaker 2: phones and their stuff they had hidden. So they were
23:02
Speaker 2: furious at P. Diddy for causing that. But I don't know.
23:09
Speaker 2: Is it his fault? Yeah, I guess it is because
23:11
Speaker 2: he was so high profile. That's why the news, NBC
23:17
Speaker 2: and others were keeping an eye on him. Hey, you know,
23:20
Speaker 2: the big debate. issue about electric bills. Your electric bill
23:24
Speaker 2: is out of control in New York. It's like 400%
23:27
Speaker 2: what it used to be. And it's a lot of reasons.
23:30
Speaker 2: One is a Cuomo and Hochul shut down Indian point.
23:33
Speaker 2: That's 25% of our energy. They won't do fracking that
23:37
Speaker 2: could bring everybody's bills way down. There's a lot of
23:40
Speaker 2: other reasons, but it turns out mom Donnie is cashing
23:44
Speaker 2: in on this too. And he's trying very hard to
23:47
Speaker 2: make sure you don't know that your con Edison bill has, uh,
23:52
Speaker 2: you know, it's always huge. It's bigger than it ever was.
23:54
Speaker 2: It's bigger than it should be. So we're going to
23:58
Speaker 2: allow a rule that would break down what you're paying
24:01
Speaker 2: for exactly. And City Hall is blocking it. They don't
24:04
Speaker 2: want this change where you can see the breakdown of
24:07
Speaker 2: the cost. Because one thing you'll find out is one
24:11
Speaker 2: of the costs is the property tax they put on
24:14
Speaker 2: the utilities facilities. They put this huge property tax on.
24:18
Speaker 2: In fact, They raised it like 45%, and that ends
24:24
Speaker 2: up in your electric bill. There are huge property taxes
24:28
Speaker 2: on these electric facilities, and it's in your electric bill.
24:32
Speaker 2: So if they just took that property tax down, they
24:34
Speaker 2: could lower your bill 25% right there. That's Mamdani, but
24:37
Speaker 2: he doesn't want you to know that. Anyway, we'll take
24:41
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24:42
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24:49
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24:51
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24:57
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of the Beatles, there was a little controversy online.
25:06
Speaker 2: John Lennon died, and he had two sons, and the
25:09
Speaker 2: word was one son got all the money. Well, both
25:13
Speaker 2: sons responding online saying, They each got the same share.
25:19
Speaker 2: The estate was split 50-50 between the two of them.
25:22
Speaker 2: Lennon died with a net worth of $ 200 million. Now,
25:27
Speaker 2: you might say, well, he's a Beatle. I mean, that
25:30
Speaker 2: song catalog should be more than $ 200 billion. You got
25:32
Speaker 2: to remember, he died in 1980. Had he lived, still
25:37
Speaker 2: alive today, that $ 200 million estate would probably be $ 2
25:41
Speaker 2: billion by now. You know, if you're Taylor Swift and
25:43
Speaker 2: you're worth a billion, imagine John Lennon, the Beatles catalog.
25:47
Speaker 2: what he'd be worth today. Now, the problem is to
25:49
Speaker 2: make real money in the music world today, you got
25:52
Speaker 2: to tour. It's all in the concerts. Back then, it
25:55
Speaker 2: was all in selling albums, songwriting and selling albums. If
25:59
Speaker 2: you sold millions of albums, you made a fortune. Today,
26:02
Speaker 2: you don't make anything selling records because there's no such
26:05
Speaker 2: thing anymore. It's streaming, downloaded. All the money is in
26:10
Speaker 2: the touring. And Lennon hated to tour. Remember, the Beatles
26:14
Speaker 2: was a pretty brief thing. They exploded on the scene
26:17
Speaker 2: in 63. And by 70, they broke up. It was
26:20
Speaker 2: just seven years. And they stopped touring in 66. It
26:24
Speaker 2: was really only three years they went on tour. Lennon
26:27
Speaker 2: wouldn't do it anymore. He just thought it was too risky,
26:29
Speaker 2: security problems. He didn't want to do it. And Paul
26:33
Speaker 2: McCartney loves concerts. He loves to be on stage every night.
26:39
Speaker 2: He loves it more than anything else. I think that's
26:42
Speaker 2: the real reason the Beatles broke up. It wasn't Yoko.
26:45
Speaker 2: I think McCartney realized he'd never, ever tour again if
26:50
Speaker 2: he stayed in the group. So I asked him that
26:52
Speaker 2: once privately. He gave me a long look. He wouldn't answer,
26:56
Speaker 2: but I could tell from the look. That was it.
27:00
Speaker 2: Let's take some calls. Let's go to Max in Manhattan. Max,
27:04
Speaker 2: how you doing?
27:06
Speaker 6: Hey, Mark.
27:06
Speaker 8: Thank you for taking my call.
27:07
Speaker 7: Yeah.
27:08
Speaker 2: Are you in a hurry? You're talking very fast. What
27:10
Speaker 2: are you, Mom Donnie?
27:11
Speaker 8: I'll slow down.
27:12
Speaker 2: I'll slow down.
27:13
Speaker 8: I don't want to be Mamdani.
27:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't think that fast. A little slower.
27:18
Speaker 8: Kathy Hochul signed into effect.
27:19
Speaker 2: Well, not Joe Biden slow. Normal speed.
27:23
Speaker 8: Okay. Let's see if I can. Is this speed a
27:26
Speaker 8: little better?
27:27
Speaker 2: Perfect.
27:28
Speaker 8: Great. Hochul signed into effect where she can.
27:36
Speaker 8: Doctors and nurses, if you're in the hospital, they can
27:39
Speaker 8: just give you an injection... literally to kill you. And
27:42
Speaker 8: your family doesn't need to know about this. You don't
27:44
Speaker 8: have to know about this. And it's called MAID, M-A-I-D.
27:50
Speaker 2: Well, that's Kathy Hochul. One strange thing after another. She
27:53
Speaker 2: is one wacky governor. The things she backs, the things
27:56
Speaker 2: she blocks, wackiest governor we've ever had. Let's go to
28:00
Speaker 2: Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing?
28:03
Speaker 10: Good morning, Mark.
28:04
Speaker 2: Yes, Mike.
28:06
Speaker 10: It was John Lennon's birthday a week ago, or six
28:08
Speaker 10: days ago, actually. It was 86. It would have been 86.
28:11
Speaker 10: Hard to believe.
28:12
Speaker 8: Wow.
28:13
Speaker 2: He would have been 86? Yeah, well, McCartney's 84.
28:16
Speaker 10: Wow. Yeah. Ringo was the oldest, and I think John
28:21
Speaker 10: was the second oldest.
28:23
Speaker 2: Hard to believe. These guys are going to hit 90.
28:26
Speaker 2: That's unbelievable.
28:27
Speaker 10: It's incredible. It's almost impossible to wrap your head around it.
28:31
Speaker 10: It was 60 years ago, basically, of When they stopped touring,
28:37
Speaker 10: as you mentioned, in 66, it's 60 years ago. That's
28:40
Speaker 10: like two lifetimes for some cases.
28:42
Speaker 2: You've got to give McCartney credit. I never, ever saw
28:45
Speaker 2: a guy look in better shape at 84 than him,
28:48
Speaker 2: touring all over the world.
28:50
Speaker 10: Yeah, he's a spokesman for vegetarianism, that's for sure. He's
28:53
Speaker 10: a hardcore vegetarian, I know.
28:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to spend your life eating beans
29:00
Speaker 2: and drinking beet juice.
29:05
Speaker 10: There's a part of this Kimberly Guilfoyle story that I
29:09
Speaker 10: don't hear reported very often, and that's her connection to
29:12
Speaker 10: Gavin Newsom. I mean, she was married to him. So
29:15
Speaker 10: who's to say that he isn't behind some of this?
29:18
Speaker 10: That she... Get her out of the picture because... come
29:22
Speaker 10: 2028 when he wants to run, who knows what she
29:25
Speaker 10: may have on him.
29:26
Speaker 2: Nah, I don't think so. I don't think so.
29:28
Speaker 10: Well, there is a connection. Who knows?
29:31
Speaker 2: But if you're Gavin Newsom, best scenarios have her over
29:34
Speaker 2: in Greece a million miles away.
29:36
Speaker 10: That's true. That's true. That's very true. But, you know,
29:42
Speaker 10: it doesn't look good for her at this point, that's
29:45
Speaker 10: for sure.
29:46
Speaker 2: Well, she'll bounce back. She's a nice person in real life.
29:49
Speaker 2: A little wacky, but a nice person. Thanks for calling.
29:52
Speaker 2: Let's go to Ralph in Stanford. Ralph, how are you doing?
29:56
Speaker 1: Doing fine.
29:57
Speaker 11: How are you today?
29:58
Speaker 2: Let me check. Not bad, not bad.
30:01
Speaker 11: Good, all systems go. I got a question to ask
30:04
Speaker 11: you about New York's Restaurant Row.
30:06
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
30:07
Speaker 11: I know when things are down, it's not doing too well.
30:10
Speaker 11: The famous home of Joe Allen's, Barbetta.
30:13
Speaker 2: Oh, you're talking about, they call that Restaurant Row. That's
30:17
Speaker 2: the Broadway restaurants, the theater restaurants.
30:20
Speaker 11: Yeah, between 8th and 9th, 46th Street. How are they
30:25
Speaker 11: doing today? And are the restaurants a little farther up
30:28
Speaker 11: on 9th Avenue? Are they giving them a run for
30:30
Speaker 11: their money?
30:31
Speaker 2: No, those restaurants will always do well. Remember, they're right
30:33
Speaker 2: in the theater district. They're right there. Joe Allen's is
30:36
Speaker 2: like a legendary, great, casual restaurant. What's the other one
30:40
Speaker 2: he owns? The Italian place next door. Joe Allen owns it.
30:43
Speaker 2: I'm blanking out. And then, yeah, there's... No, it's not Vinnie.
30:49
Speaker 2: Very fine Italian restaurant. And then there's Angus McAtee, who
30:52
Speaker 2: used to work at Joe Allen's. Yeah, they're all doing
30:55
Speaker 2: very well. A lot of great stuff in the theater.
30:57
Speaker 2: Just try out the Bond 45. That's a great restaurant.
31:00
Speaker 2: That's one of those Shelly Fireman restaurants. There's great restaurants
31:03
Speaker 2: all over New York, and they're all packed every night.
31:07
Speaker 2: Every night. Go anywhere in Manhattan, every restaurant is packed
31:12
Speaker 2: every night. So don't believe all that about that New
31:14
Speaker 2: York is dying. You can always test it. Try to
31:18
Speaker 2: make a reservation in restaurants and then go online and
31:21
Speaker 2: check hotels and see what it costs per room at
31:25
Speaker 2: the top hotels. It's like $ 2, 500, $ 3, 000. New York is
31:29
Speaker 2: not dying. You can always tell when it's dying, the
31:31
Speaker 2: prices will drop. Let's go to Robert in Westchester. Robert,
31:35
Speaker 2: how are you doing?
31:37
Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark.
31:38
Speaker 12: Thank you for taking my call. Mark, for those people
31:41
Speaker 12: that are intending to vote Democratic because they're angry with
31:46
Speaker 12: president trump that the gas prices are four dollars or
31:50
Speaker 12: six dollars i feel your pain because i'm one of
31:53
Speaker 12: you but if you think voting democratic is going to
31:57
Speaker 12: solve your problems you just made gas 10 and possibly.
32:02
Speaker 2: 12 you're trying to use logic on these people it
32:04
Speaker 2: doesn't work it's this is all emotional for them you
32:07
Speaker 2: can't logic doesn't mean anything yeah under democrat democrats always
32:10
Speaker 2: try to get the gas price up to ten dollars
32:12
Speaker 2: because they They want to push you to electric cars.
32:14
Speaker 13: Exactly.
32:15
Speaker 9: Yeah.
32:16
Speaker 12: You're exactly right, Mark. And then they talk about electricity.
32:19
Speaker 12: They're solving the problem. Wind and solar, which isn't going
32:23
Speaker 12: to cut it. And you're going to destroy acres of
32:25
Speaker 12: beautiful natural farmland.
32:28
Speaker 2: Again, you're trying to use logic on them. They don't
32:31
Speaker 2: care about any logic.
32:33
Speaker 12: By the way, Restaurant Row, I was born and raised
32:36
Speaker 12: on it. 365 West 46th. I remember Barbetta Restaurant. I
32:40
Speaker 12: remember John's across the street from where we lived. It
32:42
Speaker 12: was a beautiful block in its day when Rudy was
32:45
Speaker 12: the mayor. I actually met Jimmy Stewart on the block
32:49
Speaker 12: walking to Barbetta. Barbetta, unfortunately, is closed now. Great call, Mark.
32:54
Speaker 2: It's a great street with really fine restaurants there. Coming up,
33:00
Speaker 2: we'll get time for one more. One more real fast.
33:03
Speaker 2: Let's go to Neil in Brooklyn. Neil, how are you doing?
33:06
Speaker 14: Thank you, Mark.
33:07
Speaker 7: Mark, do you remember when MSNBC had Keith Olbermann?
33:11
Speaker 13: Do you remember what organization he used to quote all
33:14
Speaker 13: the time?
33:15
Speaker 2: Cornell?
33:16
Speaker 8: No, the Southern Poverty Law Center.
33:19
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he went to Cornell. Although he
33:21
Speaker 2: went to the agricultural school, but he pretended he was
33:24
Speaker 2: a fancy Cornell graduate. Yeah, he was always, it wasn't
33:27
Speaker 2: just him, the whole left-wing world. They create these fake organizations.
33:31
Speaker 2: One was the Southern Poverty Law Center. supposedly the watchdog.
33:35
Speaker 2: It turned out they were funding the Ku Klux Klan.
33:38
Speaker 2: It was like, aren't the leaders all under indictment right now?
33:43
Speaker 2: Google it. You'll see. You'll see. Lots to get to
33:47
Speaker 2: in the next hour. In fact, MS Now, whatever they're
33:50
Speaker 2: calling it now, caught in more fake news. We'll get
33:52
Speaker 2: to that coming up. Don't forget at noon, it's Buck
33:55
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33:57
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34:04
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34:07
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34:09
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be nice today. Beautiful sunny day.
34:23
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34:25
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34:26
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34:31
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34:42
Speaker 1: Much more Mark. Mark Simone.
34:45
Speaker 2: On 710WOR. Thank you, Shadow Stevens. Well, we got a
34:50
Speaker 2: lot to get to. It's hour number two. In case
34:54
Speaker 2: there's anybody who doesn't know, we start at 9 o'clock now.
34:57
Speaker 2: It's three hours, 9 to noon every day. Now, CNN, MSNBC, boy,
35:04
Speaker 2: especially MSNBC, they are always caught with fake stories, fake news.
35:09
Speaker 2: You know, whenever you say that, people go, give me
35:12
Speaker 2: one example. Almost every week there's a fake story that
35:16
Speaker 2: they put out. It just happened. It happened this week. MSNBC,
35:22
Speaker 2: whatever the hell they call it, broke a big story
35:25
Speaker 2: about Kash Patel's secret trip to Russia. They reported that
35:31
Speaker 2: Kash Patel, FBI director, landed in Moscow for a mysterious
35:37
Speaker 2: trip to Russia. Wow. Now, the NBC reporter, Ken Delaney,
35:46
Speaker 2: excuse me, not NBC, MSNOW reporter, MSNOW reporter. NBC has
35:51
Speaker 2: nothing to do with this network anymore. They threw him
35:53
Speaker 2: out of the company and they threw him out of
35:55
Speaker 2: the building. MSNOW reporter. breathlessly reporting on this secret trip
36:01
Speaker 2: that Kash Patel made to Russia. Why is he in Moscow?
36:06
Speaker 2: The on-air report cited two people familiar with the story.
36:11
Speaker 2: They do this all the time. You know, we have
36:13
Speaker 2: two sources on this. They always do that to make
36:17
Speaker 2: it sound like it's definite. You know, if I told
36:19
Speaker 2: you I got a source that told me that, well,
36:21
Speaker 2: I have three sources. Well, now it sounds... Totally credible.
36:25
Speaker 2: He's got three sources. It must be. They never tell
36:28
Speaker 2: you who these sources are. And this is the other
36:30
Speaker 2: phrase they use. They cited two people familiar with the matter.
36:36
Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean, familiar with the matter?
36:39
Speaker 2: Everybody's familiar with the matter. If I had somebody talking
36:42
Speaker 2: about Cornell who's familiar with the matter. Well, I'm familiar
36:47
Speaker 2: with the matter, but I don't know anything on the inside.
36:49
Speaker 2: Everybody's familiar with it. So here's the real deal. Kash
36:56
Speaker 2: Patel was never in Russia. It never happened. It's a
36:58
Speaker 2: totally fake story. The guy's the FBI director. You don't
37:02
Speaker 2: think there'd be a record of where he is every second.
37:06
Speaker 2: He was never in Russia. He never went to Moscow.
37:09
Speaker 2: It never happened. In fact, on the day that they
37:12
Speaker 2: claim it happened, he was visiting Liberty University in Virginia.
37:16
Speaker 2: It's just a total ridiculous fake story. That's MS Now.
37:22
Speaker 2: They had multiple sources on this, and they had Two
37:25
Speaker 2: people familiar with the matter. It was never there. I
37:29
Speaker 2: can give you a million examples of these. Rachel Maddow's
37:32
Speaker 2: been caught in so many fake stories. They all have.
37:35
Speaker 2: Absolutely ridiculous. Paul McCartney. Hey, we were talking about the
37:40
Speaker 2: Beatles before. You know, there's a new Beatles biopic coming out.
37:45
Speaker 2: A biography picture of the Beatles.
37:47
Speaker 12: I don't know.
37:47
Speaker 2: Do you really want to see that? I'd rather just
37:48
Speaker 2: watch the Beatles. But apparently McCartney's not happy with it. Now,
37:54
Speaker 2: what did they get wrong in the story of the
37:56
Speaker 2: Beatles that bothers me? Well, it turns out the guy
37:59
Speaker 2: playing him in the movie is shorter than John Lennon.
38:06
Speaker 2: You see, if you're the subject of the movie, you're
38:09
Speaker 2: always going to get bothered by something nobody else would
38:11
Speaker 2: even notice or care about. But he noticed the guy
38:14
Speaker 2: playing McCartney is shorter than John Lennon and McCartney not happy.
38:18
Speaker 2: He said, take a look at any picture, any video, anything.
38:21
Speaker 2: We're all the same height. We were all the same height.
38:24
Speaker 2: It's one thing that Beatles were very lucky about. They
38:27
Speaker 2: looked so great when they came on the Ed Sullivan Show.
38:29
Speaker 2: They just went up there and they looked great because
38:31
Speaker 2: they had the little Beatles suits, you know, with the tie.
38:34
Speaker 2: You remember back then it was the rock and roll
38:37
Speaker 2: early 60s, late 50s. Everything was Elvis Presley with the
38:40
Speaker 2: leather jacket. They all looked like Fonzie. And the Beatles
38:44
Speaker 2: come to America. It was very smart on the part
38:46
Speaker 2: of Brian Epstein. You know, with these juvenile delinquent rock
38:49
Speaker 2: and roll. There was the Beatles in suits and ties,
38:52
Speaker 2: Beatles suits and ties. And it helped with the parents
38:55
Speaker 2: and everything. But the other thing is they look good
38:58
Speaker 2: on stage. They were all the same height. They got
39:01
Speaker 2: just lucky that McCartney was left-handed because one mic was
39:06
Speaker 2: John Lennon or George Harrison. And the other, it would
39:10
Speaker 2: be McCartney and the other, whoever it was, standing next
39:12
Speaker 2: to each other. But because McCartney was left-handed, his guitar
39:17
Speaker 2: went that way. And John Lennon's guitar went that way.
39:20
Speaker 2: It looked great. It was just beautiful symmetry. Instead of
39:23
Speaker 2: both guitars going the same direction, and they would have
39:26
Speaker 2: gotten in each other's way that way. Hey, flu season
39:29
Speaker 2: has started early. than expected. Now, some people don't want
39:34
Speaker 2: to get the flu shot. You might want to get
39:36
Speaker 2: it this year. They say it's a much more effective
39:38
Speaker 2: flu shot. It's a different flu shot than usual. Traditionally,
39:42
Speaker 2: the flu shot was a weakened version of the flu.
39:45
Speaker 2: They give you a little flu virus to create some immunity.
39:48
Speaker 2: This one is different. this is a mRNA vaccine. So it,
39:54
Speaker 2: it like somehow tells your immune cells how to kill
39:58
Speaker 2: the flu. So, but they're urging people to get it.
40:01
Speaker 2: It's already underway starting earlier than usual. You know, the
40:04
Speaker 2: problem now is, uh, if Democrats take Congress, if they,
40:09
Speaker 2: if they were to win both houses and take total
40:12
Speaker 2: control of Congress, what would they do? Well, you know,
40:16
Speaker 2: of course they would impeach Trump every second, but, uh,
40:20
Speaker 2: That's not the worst thing. The Democrats' real plan is
40:24
Speaker 2: to totally change the whole infrastructure of our democracy and
40:29
Speaker 2: create a system where no Republican can ever win again. Now,
40:33
Speaker 2: the way they want to do that, and they've talked
40:35
Speaker 2: about it openly, and now in the campaign, here's Kamala
40:38
Speaker 2: Harris saying it this week, actually saying it out loud,
40:42
Speaker 2: that there would be institutional changes. They would eliminate the
40:46
Speaker 2: Electoral College. That would be number one. They would add
40:51
Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court. They would stack the court. Instead
40:54
Speaker 2: of nine justices, it would be 12 or 20 justices,
40:57
Speaker 2: which means they would load it up with a lot
41:00
Speaker 2: of left-wing judges. And the other thing they would do
41:03
Speaker 2: is make Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. states. Those are
41:08
Speaker 2: two very left-wing places. And if you did that, that
41:12
Speaker 2: would add four Democratic senators to Congress, House members too,
41:18
Speaker 2: but four Democratic senators to the Senate, which would almost
41:23
Speaker 2: guarantee the Democrats control the Senate and the House forever.
41:27
Speaker 2: So that's the real Democratic plan. No electoral college, add
41:33
Speaker 2: those two states, stack the Congress with Democrats, stack the
41:37
Speaker 2: Supreme Court with Democrats. So it hasn't been talked about enough.
41:43
Speaker 2: It's something everybody should be aware of. And the left
41:48
Speaker 2: wing now hates 60 Minutes. It used to be their
41:50
Speaker 2: big show because 60 Minutes every week for the last
41:52
Speaker 2: few years would just attack Republicans left and right. It
41:56
Speaker 2: would just tear apart. So Barry Weiss takes over, new
41:59
Speaker 2: president of CBS News, and tries to make it a
42:01
Speaker 2: little more balanced. Now, she's not a Republican. She's a Democrat.
42:06
Speaker 2: She's left wing, Barry Weiss. She's from the New York Times.
42:09
Speaker 2: But she wants a little balance there. And she's tried
42:12
Speaker 2: to create it so the left wing, oh, they hate
42:15
Speaker 2: 60 Minutes now. They check the 60 Minutes ratings every week.
42:20
Speaker 2: They never checked them before, ever. Now they're checking. Well,
42:23
Speaker 2: it turned out it took a nosedive this past week.
42:25
Speaker 2: It was down to 6 million viewers. Lowest rated one
42:29
Speaker 2: so far this season. You'll see this all over the
42:32
Speaker 2: left-wing news. The New York Times, MSNL, 60 Minutes. Why
42:35
Speaker 2: did it take a nosedive? I'm trying to blame it
42:37
Speaker 2: on Barry Weiss. I think if you check the record,
42:40
Speaker 2: there was no NFL game leading into 60 Minutes this week.
42:44
Speaker 2: The whole ratings of 60 Minutes depends on what NFL
42:47
Speaker 2: game is on right before it. If it's the biggest
42:50
Speaker 2: game and the greatest game, 60 Minutes gets 10 million viewers.
42:54
Speaker 2: If it's a bad game, 8 million. If there's no game,
42:57
Speaker 2: 6 million. There was no afternoon game on the network
43:01
Speaker 2: leading into 60 Minutes. So the lead-in was the local
43:05
Speaker 2: news or something. So that's the reason for those lower ratings.
43:09
Speaker 2: Anthropic claims that small AI models... Anthropic, of course, one
43:15
Speaker 2: of the four companies that control AI, this little cartel,
43:20
Speaker 2: big cartel that controls AI. The little models are, this
43:26
Speaker 2: is too technical to get into, but they could reproduce
43:30
Speaker 2: themselves in internet-connected home devices. You know, you can have
43:36
Speaker 2: AI in your oven, in your TV, in all your devices.
43:40
Speaker 2: The point of this, without getting into the weeds of
43:42
Speaker 2: all the technology of AI, it would be able, the
43:47
Speaker 2: little AI cells in there would be able to reproduce
43:50
Speaker 2: themselves and do all kinds of things combining with the
43:53
Speaker 2: other appliances. Well, what this all means is you won't
43:58
Speaker 2: need as much power and data from a data center.
44:02
Speaker 2: So they think this is one of the breakthroughs. You know,
44:04
Speaker 2: these data centers, the reason people hate them is they're
44:07
Speaker 2: so big. They're the size of an airport and they,
44:11
Speaker 2: They use a lot of electricity and a lot of water. Well,
44:14
Speaker 2: they're solving the electricity problem by figuring out how to
44:18
Speaker 2: create their own power using nuclear cells and other things.
44:21
Speaker 2: The water power, they pretty much solved because they can
44:24
Speaker 2: recycle the water. The noise from the turbines, that they
44:29
Speaker 2: haven't solved. The turbine noise can go for a half mile,
44:32
Speaker 2: make it unbearable for anybody living within a half mile.
44:36
Speaker 2: Elon Musk is working now on fixing that. He's got
44:39
Speaker 2: a turbine company. trying to develop quieter turbines. The other
44:45
Speaker 2: problem is the size, the massive size of these data centers. Well,
44:50
Speaker 2: this stuff I was just talking about, this would solve that.
44:53
Speaker 2: You wouldn't need data centers to be as large. That's
44:56
Speaker 2: the other thing you got to remember. You see this
44:58
Speaker 2: data center now, that's now. Five years from now, the
45:01
Speaker 2: data center will be much smaller and quieter. Same thing
45:06
Speaker 2: happened with the computers. Remember, if you're back in the 1960s, 70s,
45:11
Speaker 2: And you saw a computer, like an IBM special computer.
45:15
Speaker 2: It was the size of a basketball court. I mean,
45:18
Speaker 2: this computer was an enormous room with a computer in
45:22
Speaker 2: it with a million blinking lights on it. Well, now,
45:26
Speaker 2: you see this little iPhone I have here? This phone
45:28
Speaker 2: got 10 times the power of that computer. So this
45:31
Speaker 2: is the other thing you got to remember with these
45:32
Speaker 2: data centers. They're going to get smaller and smaller and smaller.
45:37
Speaker 2: And at some point, you could just put them in
45:39
Speaker 2: a little building. All the problems of the data center
45:43
Speaker 2: will go away as the technology develops. Ukraine, Zelensky all
45:50
Speaker 2: upset because, first of all, President Trump made that deal
45:54
Speaker 2: for Russia, the diesel fuel and all of that. The
45:58
Speaker 2: price of diesel is too high. Russia's got a ton
46:01
Speaker 2: of diesel oil. He wants them flooding the market with it.
46:05
Speaker 2: That'll bring the price down for everybody. But Zelensky giving
46:10
Speaker 2: him a hard time, yelling and screaming about what a
46:12
Speaker 2: victory for Putin. Why would the president do that? He's
46:14
Speaker 2: on the wrong side. Well, next thing you know, his
46:18
Speaker 2: Starlink system that he needs, you know, Ukraine has become
46:23
Speaker 2: unbelievably skilled with the drones, massive drones, unbelievable, powerful drones
46:29
Speaker 2: that they're hitting Russia with. These drones can go 100
46:32
Speaker 2: miles an hour. Can you imagine that? However, they need
46:36
Speaker 2: to be coordinated with Starlink Not the regular Starlink that
46:40
Speaker 2: we use in regular everyday life. This is the military
46:44
Speaker 2: version of Starlink. It's called Starshield. It's Elon Musk. He
46:48
Speaker 2: came up with this. This is the greatest technology in warfare.
46:52
Speaker 2: This Starshield can direct the drones, gather intelligence real fast. Well,
46:57
Speaker 2: the system got shut down. So Ukraine attacking Elon Musk
47:01
Speaker 2: like crazy. Musk online explaining he has nothing to do
47:06
Speaker 2: with that it's controlled by the u.s government it's a
47:09
Speaker 2: system he sold to the u.s government they own it
47:12
Speaker 2: they control it any limits on speed or usage were
47:16
Speaker 2: decided by the u.s military and the president so putting
47:20
Speaker 2: the blame on them i guess he i don't know
47:21
Speaker 2: he's he's trying to uh let uh let zalinski know
47:26
Speaker 2: who's really in charge the other thing is uh Apparently,
47:30
Speaker 2: they depend on us. They may have all these weapons
47:32
Speaker 2: they've developed, but they depend on us for all sorts
47:35
Speaker 2: of intelligence, real-time intelligence on Russia and all of that.
47:41
Speaker 2: President reminding Zelensky he shouldn't be so anti-U.S. in his comments. Hey,
47:47
Speaker 2: Broadway's doing pretty well. Broadway's doing very well. Julia Louis-Dreyfus,
47:52
Speaker 2: big new show coming. Other desert cities. This is her
47:58
Speaker 2: new Broadway show. Also, Ed Harris, Allison Janier in it.
48:03
Speaker 2: It opens Sunday. Incredible box office so far. It did
48:07
Speaker 2: over $ 2 million second week of the box office. That's
48:10
Speaker 2: a lot of money. Hamilton, which is doing better than ever,
48:14
Speaker 2: took in $ 3 million. So this is getting close to Hamilton.
48:17
Speaker 2: $ 2 million in one week. Yeah, Hamilton, I don't know why,
48:21
Speaker 2: has had a huge revival. Huge revival. All of a sudden,
48:24
Speaker 2: it's very big. A lot of people going to Hamilton now. Hey,
48:28
Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman running a whole new series of ads. And also,
48:33
Speaker 2: this James Dolan super PAC running some great ads going
48:38
Speaker 2: after Hochul. You know, she spent a fortune last month
48:41
Speaker 2: on ads bashing Blakeman. But what was a real compliment
48:47
Speaker 2: to Blakeman, she did all this opposition research. She couldn't
48:50
Speaker 2: find anything bad about Blakeman. There was nothing bad. So
48:54
Speaker 2: all the ads are, he's friends with Trump. He likes Trump.
48:57
Speaker 2: He endorsed Trump. He's with Trump. So Blakeman's got a
49:00
Speaker 2: new ad that's excellent. It's just Blakeman looking in the camera.
49:04
Speaker 2: He goes, Kathy Hochul, all you hear from her is Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
49:09
Speaker 2: which is a brilliant idea. You keep running those ads.
49:11
Speaker 2: And then when you see her ads yelling Trump, Trump, Trump,
49:15
Speaker 2: they look even more ridiculous. Very good ad from Bruce Blakeman.
49:19
Speaker 2: The debate well it takes a couple of days the
49:22
Speaker 2: debate by Monday you'll know we'll get new polling on
49:27
Speaker 2: Monday we'll see what effect the debate had it should
49:31
Speaker 2: be a huge lift up for Blakeman who's already tied
49:34
Speaker 2: with her in the polls hey we'll take some calls
49:36
Speaker 2: next 800-321- 0710 is the number. Especially new callers. We
49:42
Speaker 2: like new callers. Give me a call.
49:43
Speaker 9: 800-321-0710.
49:44
Speaker 2: Live from the WOR LifeVac Studios, Mark Zimone.
49:48
Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
49:51
Speaker 15: 800-321-0710. 3, 2, 1, 0, 7, 10.
50:05
Speaker 2: Let's go to Ron in Pittsburgh. Ron, how are you doing?
50:10
Speaker 9: I'm doing good, Mark.
50:11
Speaker 8: How are you doing?
50:12
Speaker 2: I know you got a check. No, I'm fine. I'm fine.
50:16
Speaker 13: Hey, I'm glad you got three hours. You're refreshing. Hey,
50:22
Speaker 13: a couple of days ago, I was working. I'm 73,
50:24
Speaker 13: but I still do stuff. And you had that lady
50:27
Speaker 13: who flipped out in that airplane screaming. That was so hilarious.
50:32
Speaker 15: Yeah.
50:33
Speaker 13: Hey, you know, I'm 73. Back in the 80s, I
50:36
Speaker 13: had a James Brown.
50:37
Speaker 2: How many times are you going to tell us this?
50:38
Speaker 2: Stop bragging about it.
50:39
Speaker 13: I'm sorry, Mark.
50:41
Speaker 2: That's okay. That's okay.
50:42
Speaker 16: Go ahead.
50:43
Speaker 13: But anyhow, I had a James Brown car alarm. He
50:47
Speaker 13: touched my car.
50:48
Speaker 9: I go, wow, wow.
50:49
Speaker 17: It sounded just like her.
50:50
Speaker 13: That was like a James Brown thing.
50:54
Speaker 2: Well, you live in Pittsburgh. You probably need three, four
50:57
Speaker 2: car alarms, right?
50:59
Speaker 16: I'm just kidding.
51:00
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. It's a joke.
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Speaker 13: Okay, I don't know about that. What do you think?
51:04
Speaker 12: Think it sounds like James Brown?
51:06
Speaker 2: Try it again.
51:06
Speaker 13: Do you think that sounds like James Brown?
51:09
Speaker 12: Let me hear.
51:10
Speaker 2: You do it again. Let me hear you do it again.
51:12
Speaker 17: Wow, wow.
51:14
Speaker 2: No, no.
51:15
Speaker 13: I wasn't as good as the other guy, but I
51:17
Speaker 13: had an alarm sound just like an honest to.
51:19
Speaker 6: God I did.
51:19
Speaker 2: And what kind of work do you do?
51:22
Speaker 13: I was a postal employee for 41 years.
51:24
Speaker 2: This is like a Cliff Clavin. That's what I thought.
51:27
Speaker 2: What do you do now?
51:29
Speaker 13: Right now, I'm a musician, and I help clean a
51:32
Speaker 13: few banks once in a while.
51:33
Speaker 2: What kind of musician?
51:36
Speaker 10: A bass player, singer.
51:37
Speaker 2: I like all kinds of music. Let me ask you
51:40
Speaker 2: an important question. What makes a guy want to be
51:43
Speaker 2: a bass player? When you can play the guitar, why
51:45
Speaker 2: do you want to play the bass and just go.
51:48
Speaker 13: Because, I'm going to tell you what, ask any bass player,
51:50
Speaker 13: because you have three guitar players in the band, but
51:52
Speaker 13: you have one bass player who locks in with the drummer.
51:57
Speaker 13: Since you brought that up, I just watched... Frank Sinatra special.
52:01
Speaker 13: I never realized how good that dude was.
52:03
Speaker 10: Wow.
52:03
Speaker 2: Which special is that?
52:05
Speaker 13: It's on Netflix.
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Speaker 10: Oh, okay.
52:08
Speaker 13: It's his whole life story. He was really something else.
52:12
Speaker 13: I'll guarantee you one thing. He liked the bass players.
52:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had that Mule Hully, Major Hully, who played
52:19
Speaker 2: bass with him. If you got Fox Nation, that's another
52:24
Speaker 2: streaming service. Fox Nation. They got the best Sinatra documentary
52:29
Speaker 2: on there. It's called Echoes of an Icon. Fox Nation.
52:32
Speaker 2: Go check out that Sinatra documentary because they spent a
52:35
Speaker 2: lot of money. They got all the clips.
52:37
Speaker 9: Oh, I will.
52:37
Speaker 13: Did you know Frank Sinatra?
52:38
Speaker 2: Very well. Very well. In fact, I'm on the Fox
52:42
Speaker 2: documentary there. Yeah, very well.
52:43
Speaker 13: Now, is he as nice as guys project him to be?
52:48
Speaker 2: Well, people try to explain how he could be so
52:50
Speaker 2: nice and then the next minute they're throwing a ketchup
52:52
Speaker 2: bottle at a waiter.
52:53
Speaker 13: Well.
52:55
Speaker 2: the truth is he liked to drink. He was always drinking.
52:59
Speaker 2: And if you were drinking, that's the personality. It could
53:01
Speaker 2: be nice one moment, crazy the next. But overall, a
53:04
Speaker 2: nice guy, very, very, very good to people, very charitable
53:07
Speaker 2: to people. Very talented. But he had a temper. He
53:11
Speaker 2: had a bit of a temper. But thanks for calling, Ron.
53:14
Speaker 2: Take care. Let's go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim,
53:18
Speaker 2: how are you doing?
53:20
Speaker 9: I graduated from Cornell in 1979. I was in the
53:23
Speaker 9: hotel school. Drew Nipperon was class of 77.
53:26
Speaker 10: Mark.
53:26
Speaker 1: Drew.
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Speaker 2: Drew Nipperon. He went to Cornell. You're right. I forgot
53:30
Speaker 2: about that. That's supposed to be one of the best
53:32
Speaker 2: hotel restaurant schools.
53:34
Speaker 9: The one in Switzerland. Mark, that campus up there today
53:37
Speaker 9: is nothing compared to what we did up there from
53:40
Speaker 9: 75 to 79. My 20th birthday, I tried to drive
53:44
Speaker 9: my car up the Cornell slope. I was so drunk.
53:47
Speaker 9: We used to have two student union bars on campus
53:51
Speaker 9: that were open until 2 in the morning. I remember
53:54
Speaker 9: the last example, Mark, my senior year, 1978 Labor Day.
53:58
Speaker 9: I was walking up the class at the hotel school,
54:00
Speaker 9: and my fraternity had a keg of beer at 8
54:02
Speaker 9: o'clock in the morning on the campus store. And we
54:05
Speaker 9: had a big party with the sororities. There's nothing up
54:08
Speaker 9: there today. You'd get locked up in jail if you
54:10
Speaker 9: tried that up there today.
54:12
Speaker 6: I don't know.
54:13
Speaker 2: This fraternity, they're drinking alcohol, they're using ketamine, whatever that is, drugs.
54:18
Speaker 2: It sounds pretty bad.
54:19
Speaker 9: But you're right, Mark. It's a lot of state schools.
54:22
Speaker 9: The Ag School, Oberman School, they have state school. The
54:25
Speaker 9: School of Human Ecology, that's like a home economic school there.
54:28
Speaker 9: That's a state school. The ILR School, that's industrial labor relations.
54:32
Speaker 9: That's a lot of the schools. But it's a great
54:35
Speaker 9: campus with the beautiful veterinarian, 20 acres of their veterinarian school.
54:38
Speaker 9: That's graduate. It was the first architecture school there in
54:43
Speaker 9: the world ever.
54:43
Speaker 2: It's on the main campus. Well, but one problem with Cornell,
54:47
Speaker 2: it's Ithaca, right? Ithaca, you're like out in the middle
54:50
Speaker 2: of nowhere. There's not a lot around there.
54:51
Speaker 9: It was built, it was donated by Ezra Cornell, donated
54:55
Speaker 9: his cattle farm, which is up on the hill above
54:58
Speaker 9: the city. And it's divided by two gorges and they
55:01
Speaker 9: have nets there to prevent the students from jumping into
55:04
Speaker 9: the gorge and killing themselves. They actually have nets there.
55:06
Speaker 9: It's a very unusual campus, beautiful campus.
55:09
Speaker 2: All right. Sounds a little crazy, but good call. Interesting stuff.
55:12
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Jim in Long Island. Jim,
55:15
Speaker 2: how you doing?
55:17
Speaker 8: I'm doing good.
55:18
Speaker 10: Thank you for taking.
55:19
Speaker 17: My call, Mark.
55:20
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for calling.
55:23
Speaker 9: I wanted to ask you a question.
55:24
Speaker 7: If you could comment on maybe if the president loses
55:28
Speaker 7: the House and the Senate, We're going to have impeachment, impeachment,
55:34
Speaker 7: impeachment every day. What if he just stepped down and
55:37
Speaker 7: let Vance.
55:38
Speaker 17: Be the president?
55:39
Speaker 12: Vance pardons Trump for everything.
55:43
Speaker 7: And Vance becomes the president.
55:45
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that's necessary for the problem with,
55:47
Speaker 2: they'll impeach him in the house all the time, but
55:49
Speaker 2: actual conviction removal. See, the problem is these Democrats hate Vance.
55:53
Speaker 2: They think Vance is even more right wing. You always
55:57
Speaker 2: want to have a, A vice president they call impeachment insurance.
56:00
Speaker 2: That's one reason Biden wanted Kamala. So I don't think
56:04
Speaker 2: the Democrats would want Vance as president. So I don't
56:07
Speaker 2: think they'd go full impeachment where they remove him. The
56:09
Speaker 2: other thing you got to remember is the president doesn't
56:12
Speaker 2: really need Congress that much. He's got a great cabinet.
56:15
Speaker 2: He's not intending to look for any more cabinet members,
56:18
Speaker 2: so he doesn't need Senate confirmation. And he tends to
56:21
Speaker 2: not do a lot of legislation. He tends to govern
56:23
Speaker 2: with executive orders. So he wouldn't really be relying on
56:27
Speaker 2: Congress for much of anything. But let's not get ahead
56:29
Speaker 2: of ourselves. Things look pretty good for Republicans keeping the Senate.
56:33
Speaker 2: And the House, it's too close to call right now. Hey,
56:36
Speaker 2: when we come back, the very funny Jimmy Fallon will
56:39
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57:24
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57:26
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57:29
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57:31
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57:31
Speaker 17: I don't know if you heard.
57:32
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of monologues, Saturday Night Live, Shane Gillis does
57:36
Speaker 2: this monologue. I thought it was very funny. And then
57:39
Speaker 2: they're trying to cancel him because he said something about
57:41
Speaker 2: women looking hot in a gym or misogynist. Where did
57:45
Speaker 2: that come from?
57:47
Speaker 17: It's so bananas. I mean, let's start with the obvious. Yes,
57:50
Speaker 17: there are a lot of women at the gym dressed
57:53
Speaker 17: like they get paid in singles. Okay, that's a real thing.
57:57
Speaker 17: That is the reality of gym attire these days. But
58:00
Speaker 17: the jokes were about him, how he was in the
58:03
Speaker 17: background on a lot of these Zoom videos and he
58:05
Speaker 17: looks like a loser. And the reality is everybody trying
58:09
Speaker 17: to cancel him is just trying to gain relevance by
58:12
Speaker 17: inserting themselves into this happening story. That's what this is about.
58:16
Speaker 17: It's not about any justice for women. It's a joke.
58:20
Speaker 17: I mean, that's the whole point is it is a joke.
58:23
Speaker 17: It wasn't a political statement. Okay, like right now, we're
58:26
Speaker 17: living in an America, okay, where we have, you know,
58:29
Speaker 17: biological men and women's locker rooms. If you were looking
58:32
Speaker 17: out for women, maybe you'd fight that battle. Or, oh,
58:34
Speaker 17: I don't know, all of these rapists and dirtbags that
58:37
Speaker 17: ISIS is trying to deport that, you know, Democrats want
58:40
Speaker 17: to keep in the country. Maybe if you're looking out
58:41
Speaker 17: for women, you talk about that. But when you're going
58:42
Speaker 17: after a comedian, you're telling me you're doing okay, okay,
58:46
Speaker 17: because it's comedy. There's no world, okay, in the 80s
58:50
Speaker 17: or 90s where the person who got offended by things
58:53
Speaker 17: was taken seriously. We just kind of ignored them and
58:55
Speaker 17: moved on. That's what we should be doing here.
58:57
Speaker 13: Yeah.
58:58
Speaker 2: Hey, you go back and you watch an old Tonight
58:59
Speaker 2: Show with Don Rickles or Letterman, and Rickles is making
59:02
Speaker 2: fun of the black guy, the Chinese guy, the this guy,
59:04
Speaker 2: the that guy, makes fun of Irish people, Jewish. Why
59:09
Speaker 2: was it It was very funny, but what happened? I mean,
59:13
Speaker 2: nobody got offended back then.
59:14
Speaker 17: There was no social media. for people to go complain on.
59:20
Speaker 17: That's the truth. Comedy never gets in trouble in comedy clubs.
59:24
Speaker 17: It's when it travels to the internet. The people who
59:27
Speaker 17: showed up to the comedy club bought a two-drink minimum
59:30
Speaker 17: and shook hands on the premise that none of this
59:32
Speaker 17: was going to be taken seriously. But when your video
59:35
Speaker 17: makes it out to the internet, people want to go
59:37
Speaker 17: get clout and currency by being like, I'm the hero
59:41
Speaker 17: saving us from the comedians. But again, it's, you know,
59:45
Speaker 17: you're never going to be the party and go, I
59:47
Speaker 17: can't wait till the guy who gets offended by stuff
59:49
Speaker 17: gets here, you know? And if you do enjoy that person,
59:51
Speaker 17: you're out of luck because they don't get invited to parties.
59:54
Speaker 2: Yeah. And why is it these, I don't know where
59:57
Speaker 2: we're going to get in trouble here, but why is this,
59:59
Speaker 2: these angry, crazy liberals, Trump hate these women? They're all
1:00:03
Speaker 2: a hundred years old. They all look like Madeleine Albright.
1:00:06
Speaker 2: Why is that? You never see any hot women protesting Trump.
1:00:10
Speaker 17: No, that's all blue hair, nose ring, you know, driving
1:00:15
Speaker 17: to the car with a COVID mask on. And the
1:00:19
Speaker 17: one thing I love about him is he keeps leaning
1:00:22
Speaker 17: in to the hot woman thing on his side. You know,
1:00:26
Speaker 17: the new press secretary looks great. You know, she's got
1:00:28
Speaker 17: a little growing to do as far as the job
1:00:30
Speaker 17: is concerned, but he likes to see central casting. These women,
1:00:35
Speaker 17: and I'm just telling you this, what the internet in
1:00:38
Speaker 17: the era of cancel culture did, is it created a
1:00:41
Speaker 17: world where a lot of losers could be treated like winners.
1:00:45
Speaker 17: Because you could go out there, say that you were
1:00:47
Speaker 17: offended by something, you were aggrieved, and now everybody liked
1:00:51
Speaker 17: your posts, And everybody elevated you in status because you
1:00:55
Speaker 17: brought it to our attention, this horrific injustice that Saturday
1:00:59
Speaker 17: Night Live told a joke. Guys, Saturday Night Live once
1:01:02
Speaker 17: did a skit called Bad Idea Genes about these scantily
1:01:07
Speaker 17: clad women and the bad decisions they'd make in Bad
1:01:10
Speaker 17: Idea Genes. OK, so the cast itself has gone out
1:01:14
Speaker 17: there and made these types of jokes because they're jokes,
1:01:17
Speaker 17: not hate crimes. And these other losers just trying to
1:01:21
Speaker 17: get attention off it should be treated like that.
1:01:23
Speaker 2: Good point. Hey, Jimmy Fallon does a great radio show.
1:01:27
Speaker 2: It's nine to midnight every weeknight here, nine to midnight.
1:01:31
Speaker 2: And it's one of the it's a very big show,
1:01:33
Speaker 2: does very well. Are you worried about this tough new competition?
1:01:37
Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton has announced she's going to do a podcast now.
1:01:41
Speaker 17: I said yesterday, they have this famous podcast, Wait, Wait,
1:01:44
Speaker 17: Don't Tell Me. It's called Wait, Wait, Don't Kill Me.
1:01:47
Speaker 17: Not good. That's just a list of people who might
1:01:51
Speaker 17: be in trouble this week.
1:01:53
Speaker 1: I don't know.
1:01:53
Speaker 17: I don't know what to do with Hillary. Okay, I'll
1:01:55
Speaker 17: tell you something about her. You know, she is obviously
1:01:59
Speaker 17: dealing with an incurable case of president-itis. Like, she really
1:02:03
Speaker 17: wants to be president, so she's become that stray cat
1:02:06
Speaker 17: that we fed that one time in 2016 who's never
1:02:08
Speaker 17: going to go away. And I know this to be true, Mark.
1:02:11
Speaker 17: I want you to really wrap your head around this,
1:02:12
Speaker 17: everybody listening. Do you remember two years ago when she
1:02:16
Speaker 17: gave the speech that she would have given had she
1:02:19
Speaker 17: won the presidency? She did that event with Chelsea where
1:02:23
Speaker 17: she gave the speech she would have given if she won.
1:02:26
Speaker 17: Imagine you run into your ex-girlfriend from 10 years ago
1:02:28
Speaker 17: and she reads the wedding vows she would have read
1:02:31
Speaker 17: had you married her. You'd probably run out of the
1:02:34
Speaker 17: mall for your own safety, would you not? Crazy.
1:02:37
Speaker 2: As you've probably learned, when you're on stage doing comedy,
1:02:42
Speaker 2: it's a performance. But when you're on the radio, it's intimate.
1:02:45
Speaker 2: The audience really gets the real you. Doesn't she have
1:02:49
Speaker 2: to worry? The real her is a really annoying cold fish,
1:02:53
Speaker 2: isn't it?
1:02:54
Speaker 17: Yeah, the real her is going to hit the audience
1:02:56
Speaker 17: with a speaking face. She's going to come on the
1:03:00
Speaker 17: mic and not say anything until the check clears. She's
1:03:03
Speaker 17: going to be sitting there.
1:03:04
Speaker 12: And you're going to hear, um, um.
1:03:06
Speaker 17: She's just sitting there shaking a cup. But, yeah, the
1:03:10
Speaker 17: warmth is not going to be there. I'm excited to
1:03:13
Speaker 17: watch it. If only because I know it'll be cringy
1:03:16
Speaker 17: in a good way, like in a fun way. And
1:03:18
Speaker 17: I'll get some clips out of it for the monologue,
1:03:20
Speaker 17: which is great. But for the listener, I don't, I
1:03:23
Speaker 17: really don't know what the deliverable is here.
1:03:25
Speaker 2: Hey, did you watch the Bruce Blakeman, Kathy Hochul debate? Yeah,
1:03:31
Speaker 2: it was good, man.
1:03:32
Speaker 17: He, he just as a programming note, he's on Fox
1:03:36
Speaker 17: news Saturday night next weekend.
1:03:38
Speaker 2: Oh, great.
1:03:39
Speaker 17: And, uh, We're going to do a big one-on-one segment
1:03:41
Speaker 17: where I talk about him, about my ideas to save
1:03:44
Speaker 17: the state. We're doing a segment. It's called Pump the Blakes,
1:03:48
Speaker 17: where I'm going to give him my cab driver wisdom,
1:03:51
Speaker 17: and he's going to say if it's a good idea
1:03:53
Speaker 17: or we need to pump the blakes for Blakeman. Very punny,
1:03:56
Speaker 17: but I think it's going to be great, and I
1:03:58
Speaker 17: think the debate was great. Because the line of the night,
1:04:00
Speaker 17: you know, with Hochul is he kept saying, you know,
1:04:03
Speaker 17: whatever she tried to bring, you know, well, he's just
1:04:05
Speaker 17: hanging out with Trump. And he's like, hey, Trump didn't
1:04:07
Speaker 17: raise my utility bill 48 different times.
1:04:10
Speaker 6: You did. And it's true.
1:04:12
Speaker 17: She has no policy defense for anything.
1:04:15
Speaker 2: So that's great. You have Blakeman on now. Hochul might
1:04:17
Speaker 2: demand equal time. She's not exactly someone who would light
1:04:20
Speaker 2: up a comedy show, is she?
1:04:23
Speaker 17: Hochul is only the governor because she was the only
1:04:26
Speaker 17: woman in Albany that was too annoying for Cuomo to
1:04:29
Speaker 17: hit on.
1:04:30
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:04:30
Speaker 17: He didn't want to put up with her on a date.
1:04:33
Speaker 17: Otherwise she would have been in one of those me
1:04:35
Speaker 17: twos or something and got out of there with a
1:04:37
Speaker 17: job and a payday, but she's the worst man. And
1:04:40
Speaker 17: she's such a mom, Donnie enabler. And it's just been
1:04:43
Speaker 17: so disastrous for the state.
1:04:44
Speaker 2: God, I hope he wins, man. Yeah, she's depending on
1:04:48
Speaker 2: Mamdani for a lot of support and help. But did
1:04:50
Speaker 2: you notice in the debate, Blakeman at one point really
1:04:52
Speaker 2: went after Mamdani. He called him everything in the world.
1:04:55
Speaker 2: And then when they went to Hochul, she didn't defend him.
1:04:58
Speaker 2: Don't you think Mamdani must have been watching that and
1:05:00
Speaker 2: getting very annoyed at her?
1:05:02
Speaker 17: Yeah, but he probably also knows that at this point
1:05:05
Speaker 17: in an election cycle, they try to have it both ways.
1:05:09
Speaker 17: It's like, you know, that Hassan Piker loser. is allowing
1:05:12
Speaker 17: Abdul Al-Said to refer to him as a Twitch streamer
1:05:15
Speaker 17: from California. You know, they're obviously more than that. They've
1:05:19
Speaker 17: done about 25 events together. You know, that's like me
1:05:23
Speaker 17: referring to my wife suddenly as a farm girl from Ohio.
1:05:27
Speaker 17: You know, that farm girl from Ohio. She's like, you
1:05:31
Speaker 17: mean wife. That's how they do it.
1:05:36
Speaker 2: Mamdani and the city council want to get rid of
1:05:38
Speaker 2: all the horse carriages in Central Park. Is that good
1:05:40
Speaker 2: or bad? Don't we need to listen, man?
1:05:43
Speaker 17: I go, I go both ways on this. Obviously you
1:05:45
Speaker 17: want to do something safe for the horses. I felt
1:05:48
Speaker 17: like they had made a big improvement on that by
1:05:50
Speaker 17: limiting them to that area. But you know, he's always
1:05:54
Speaker 17: looking for the superficial win. Because that's all you really
1:05:57
Speaker 17: can do. Like we went from free buses to now
1:06:00
Speaker 17: you can't even get around on a horse. You know,
1:06:03
Speaker 17: he's taking us backwards in time. So and one of
1:06:07
Speaker 17: the reasons why is because, as you know, he can't
1:06:10
Speaker 17: really follow through on any of the other dopey things
1:06:13
Speaker 17: he ran on. So he spends a lot of his
1:06:15
Speaker 17: days demonizing things that are aesthetic. You know, that's what
1:06:19
Speaker 17: this is. It's, you know, and it's no different than like,
1:06:22
Speaker 17: remember the 4th of July when he sat on the
1:06:23
Speaker 17: wrong side of George Washington's desk and bashed America? I'm like, dude,
1:06:27
Speaker 17: for a guy who moved to America 10 years ago
1:06:29
Speaker 17: to be mayor of the biggest city we have, it's
1:06:31
Speaker 17: obviously a pretty tolerant place. You know what I'm saying?
1:06:34
Speaker 17: But he's such a joke.
1:06:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, a horse carriage. That's pretty green energy, isn't it?
1:06:39
Speaker 2: You think he'd be for that. That's as green as.
1:06:41
Speaker 9: You can get.
1:06:43
Speaker 12: That's another good point.
1:06:45
Speaker 17: You know, you're right about that. The emission's got to
1:06:47
Speaker 17: be better than all of those buses he's hitting us with, right?
1:06:50
Speaker 2: Well, on the other hand, the horse emission is, well,
1:06:53
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Jimmy Fail is on 9
1:06:57
Speaker 2: to midnight every weeknight here on WOR. What do you
1:07:01
Speaker 2: got for tonight's show?
1:07:03
Speaker 17: Ooh, Dean Cain, who used to play Superman. Uh, he's
1:07:07
Speaker 17: going to be in the studio, uh, yucking it up. And, uh,
1:07:10
Speaker 17: you know, he's as a conservative in Hollywood, obviously like
1:07:13
Speaker 17: a unicorn. He's like a, you know, a straight guy
1:07:16
Speaker 17: at an Ed Sheeran concert. And, uh, we're going to
1:07:19
Speaker 17: have some fun with him and talk about the state
1:07:22
Speaker 17: of politics and obviously Metallica telling everybody to shut up
1:07:25
Speaker 17: and sing their songs instead of giving us political lectures.
1:07:28
Speaker 2: Oh, it'll be good. So nine to midnight tonight, listen
1:07:30
Speaker 2: to Jimmy Fallon and then make sure you watch him
1:07:32
Speaker 2: Saturday nights, 10 o'clock Fox news channel. And he, You
1:07:35
Speaker 2: could actually be in the studio audience. Where do they
1:07:39
Speaker 2: go to get the tickets?
1:07:40
Speaker 17: Okay, the tickets are free at foxacrossamerica.com. Come hang out.
1:07:46
Speaker 17: You'll meet all the Fox people. It's a good hang.
1:07:49
Speaker 17: Last week, we had Chris Hansen on from 8-Line, the
1:07:52
Speaker 17: Catcher in Predator. Yeah, it was fun, man. We got
1:07:55
Speaker 17: a lot of great guests coming up. So if you
1:07:56
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1:07:59
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1:08:02
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1:08:03
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1:08:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, so go to foxacrossamerica.com. Listen to Jimmy Fela tonight,
1:08:10
Speaker 2: 9 to midnight. Excellent, as always, Jimmy Fela. Thanks for
1:08:13
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1:08:22
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1:09:20
Speaker 2: Hey, it's almost Friday. It's Thursday. A nice day today.
1:09:24
Speaker 2: We've got a lot to get to this hour. You know,
1:09:27
Speaker 2: the Fort Hood terrorist, Nadal Hassan, this is the army
1:09:31
Speaker 2: major who went nuts, became a terrorist, and then picked
1:09:35
Speaker 2: up a gun. He was stationed at Fort Hood, and
1:09:37
Speaker 2: he just started shooting people. He killed a lot of
1:09:39
Speaker 2: our military personnel, wounded others, horrible, horrible terrorist, to be
1:09:45
Speaker 2: executed by a firing squad. It's going to be live-streamed.
1:09:49
Speaker 6: Well.
1:09:50
Speaker 2: That's been canceled. He'll be executed by a firing squad,
1:09:53
Speaker 2: but the live stream has been canceled. There was too
1:09:56
Speaker 2: much opposition to live streaming it. Too much flack about it.
1:09:59
Speaker 2: President Trump making the decision. No live stream. You won't
1:10:03
Speaker 2: be able to watch it, but I don't know. You know,
1:10:07
Speaker 2: everybody's got a phone. Everybody's doing videos. I'm sure somebody
1:10:11
Speaker 2: will make a video of it. I'm sure it'll leak
1:10:14
Speaker 2: out at some point. Now, who's in trouble at the
1:10:18
Speaker 2: White House? Believe it or not, it's Susie Wiles, chief
1:10:23
Speaker 2: of staff. Now, she's been quite a good chief of staff.
1:10:29
Speaker 2: She's been excellent for President Trump in the four years
1:10:32
Speaker 2: that he was not president. She went to work for him.
1:10:35
Speaker 2: Susie Wiles is an old Washington hand, been around, knows
1:10:40
Speaker 2: everything about You know, her father was Pat Summerall. Yeah,
1:10:44
Speaker 2: the great football guy. Pat Summerall was her father. It
1:10:48
Speaker 2: was her name, Susie Summerall. But Susie Wiles really was
1:10:52
Speaker 2: a huge help to getting Donald Trump elected in 2024.
1:10:56
Speaker 2: A lot of people credit her for straightening out the
1:10:59
Speaker 2: Trump campaign, making it more efficient, making it work better,
1:11:04
Speaker 2: putting a little discipline into him during the campaign. Susie
1:11:08
Speaker 2: Wiles then became president. White House chief of staff, I
1:11:11
Speaker 2: think she's out. I don't know exactly what went wrong.
1:11:15
Speaker 2: Something went wrong there. I'm hearing a few different things.
1:11:19
Speaker 2: Part of the problem is, I don't know, her daughter's
1:11:24
Speaker 2: involved in all kinds of lobbying and things going on.
1:11:27
Speaker 2: But he's not happy with Susie Wiles. And he's been
1:11:31
Speaker 2: asking everybody privately, asking everybody whether it should replace her.
1:11:36
Speaker 2: He's been making it clear to everybody. That she's probably
1:11:42
Speaker 2: going to go and he's looking for a possible successor. Now,
1:11:46
Speaker 2: what he does with this, a lot of decisions, he
1:11:49
Speaker 2: just runs it by everybody, which is not a bad
1:11:52
Speaker 2: idea for him because all day long, he's talking to
1:11:55
Speaker 2: the most brilliant, knowledgeable people in the world, from the
1:11:59
Speaker 2: business world, from the political world. People are calling him
1:12:01
Speaker 2: every day, texting him every day. People come in to
1:12:04
Speaker 2: see him every day. It's all literally the smartest people
1:12:07
Speaker 2: in America. And when you're with him, he'll just ask
1:12:11
Speaker 2: you a million questions. What do you think about this?
1:12:13
Speaker 2: What should I do about this? What do you think
1:12:15
Speaker 2: about this? Not that he's going to do whatever you say,
1:12:17
Speaker 2: but it's his way of doing like market research. He'll
1:12:21
Speaker 2: do a survey of 50 really smart people a day
1:12:25
Speaker 2: on something. And lately, lately, he's been asking everybody about
1:12:29
Speaker 2: getting rid of Susie Wiles. So that's when you know
1:12:32
Speaker 2: she's in real trouble and will probably go. Who would
1:12:35
Speaker 2: take over as chief of staff? Well, Stephen Miller, he's
1:12:40
Speaker 2: deputy chief of staff. They could make him chief of staff.
1:12:43
Speaker 2: In fact, if he got rid of her, he would
1:12:44
Speaker 2: be acting chief of staff. But he's looking at Randy Levine,
1:12:50
Speaker 2: Yankee president Randy Levine, who's a brilliant guy. And you'll
1:12:54
Speaker 2: notice he's always been a close friend of Randy Levine's,
1:12:57
Speaker 2: but you'll notice Randy Levine's been around a lot lately.
1:13:00
Speaker 2: He's been at the White House a lot. He's been
1:13:03
Speaker 2: the Yankee president for a long, long time. But remember,
1:13:06
Speaker 2: before that, Randy Levine was the deputy mayor in the
1:13:10
Speaker 2: Giuliani administration. Before that, he was in the Justice Department
1:13:17
Speaker 2: in Washington for years. And there's nobody smarter. He's a
1:13:21
Speaker 2: great negotiator. He's great at keeping everybody happy. He had
1:13:26
Speaker 2: to do that. When he left City Hall and the
1:13:30
Speaker 2: Giuliani administration, actually became a lawyer. He went to work
1:13:33
Speaker 2: with Arne Burns. who was a top deputy mayor, to
1:13:39
Speaker 2: Rudy Giuliani. Both of them had been in the Justice
1:13:41
Speaker 2: Department together, and Randy was like Arnie Burns' number two.
1:13:45
Speaker 2: They went back into private practice, and they became the Yankees' attorneys,
1:13:53
Speaker 2: and George Steinberg loved Randy Levine, saw how sharp he was,
1:13:56
Speaker 2: and made him the president of the Yankees, and he's
1:13:58
Speaker 2: remained there ever since, and done a great job. Also,
1:14:02
Speaker 2: one of the guys running Major League Baseball. So, Very
1:14:06
Speaker 2: possible he could be the next White House chief of staff.
1:14:10
Speaker 2: It's also thought about Steve Witkoff. Witkoff is a very
1:14:16
Speaker 2: long-time successful real estate guy in New York. He's also
1:14:20
Speaker 2: one of Trump's maybe two closest friends on Earth. Maybe
1:14:24
Speaker 2: now his closest friend on Earth. There's talk of Kevin McCarthy,
1:14:30
Speaker 2: former House Speaker. He's a nice guy, but a little
1:14:33
Speaker 2: too swampy. My money would be on Stephen Miller or
1:14:37
Speaker 2: Randy Levine for that. So keep an eye on that.
1:14:41
Speaker 2: That could happen. In case you didn't hear before, Plaza Hotel,
1:14:46
Speaker 2: the beautiful landmark, Plaza Hotel, 59th and 5th, closing for renovations.
1:14:54
Speaker 2: They announced this, but it's going to close for four years.
1:15:00
Speaker 2: Sounds like massive renovations. Four years means.
1:15:04
Speaker 2: Sometimes you're gutting the place, rebuilding everything. I've been in there.
1:15:10
Speaker 2: I was in there a few days ago. It looks
1:15:11
Speaker 2: fine to me. Everything seems fine. Ever since, I don't
1:15:16
Speaker 2: know who the current owners are. There's been a couple.
1:15:17
Speaker 2: But the last bunch of years, the Plaza Hotel has
1:15:21
Speaker 2: been kind of a mess anyway. The great restaurant, the
1:15:26
Speaker 2: Edwardian Room and the Oak Room and the legendary Oak Bar.
1:15:30
Speaker 2: Remember Cary Grant in North by Northwest in there? they've
1:15:35
Speaker 2: all been closed and they never reopened. They've been empty
1:15:38
Speaker 2: the whole time. The popcorn is open. It's kind of
1:15:41
Speaker 2: been a mess for the last few years. But they're
1:15:43
Speaker 2: going to close the entire hotel for four years. The
1:15:46
Speaker 2: employees will all be out. The hotel said they'll all
1:15:50
Speaker 2: be offered their jobs back when they reopen. But what
1:15:53
Speaker 2: the hell are they supposed to do for four years?
1:15:55
Speaker 2: And you got a couple of stores in there. You
1:15:58
Speaker 2: got a hair salon in there. What are they going
1:16:00
Speaker 2: to do? They'll all have to relocate. So this is
1:16:02
Speaker 2: quite a mess. they're a big part of the hotel
1:16:06
Speaker 2: is apartments and condos which they have their own entrance
1:16:08
Speaker 2: so i don't know if they have to get out
1:16:10
Speaker 2: but even if they stay massive construction for four years
1:16:15
Speaker 2: this is going to be a mess so if you
1:16:17
Speaker 2: haven't been to the plaza hotel in a while pay
1:16:20
Speaker 2: a visit because you're not going to see it for
1:16:21
Speaker 2: four years and who knows what will happen remember the
1:16:24
Speaker 2: waldorf was closing for four years for renovations well it
1:16:28
Speaker 2: turned out that was more like 12 years so Pay
1:16:31
Speaker 2: a visit to the Plaza. They're not going to close
1:16:33
Speaker 2: until after the Christmas season, so it'll be in January.
1:16:36
Speaker 2: So make sure you take a final visit to the
1:16:39
Speaker 2: Plaza Hotel as we know it. Tonight is the, speaking
1:16:43
Speaker 2: of the Waldorf, the Al Smith dinner is tonight. It's
1:16:46
Speaker 2: an off-year dinner, so it won't be as big as
1:16:49
Speaker 2: the ones where it's an election year and the president comes.
1:16:52
Speaker 2: But the honoree is Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner. So
1:16:58
Speaker 2: Mamdani is now expected to attend the dinner. So if
1:17:02
Speaker 2: he comes, I would assume he's on the dais. The
1:17:05
Speaker 2: Al Smith dinner has a huge dais. It's like four
1:17:08
Speaker 2: rows back. It's like 100 people on the dais. And
1:17:13
Speaker 2: the dinner is black tie. But if you're on the dais,
1:17:15
Speaker 2: it's white tie and tails. And the dais is all
1:17:20
Speaker 2: the top business leaders, all the top government people, you know,
1:17:24
Speaker 2: the governor, this and that.
1:17:25
Speaker 10: So.
1:17:28
Speaker 2: If he's going to dress appropriately and be on the dais,
1:17:30
Speaker 2: he'll have to wear a white tie and tails. I
1:17:32
Speaker 2: don't know. Mamdani's already getting a lot of flack. The
1:17:35
Speaker 2: real left-wing democratic socialists are all mad at him. If
1:17:39
Speaker 2: they see him in the Waldorf ballroom in a white
1:17:41
Speaker 2: tie and tails, they're going to go nuts. They're going
1:17:44
Speaker 2: to go crazy, and there'll be pictures everywhere. I don't know.
1:17:50
Speaker 2: This is going to be interesting. Keep an eye on
1:17:52
Speaker 2: this tonight. Mamdani in a white tie and tails. up
1:17:55
Speaker 2: on the dais mingling with all the top business people,
1:17:59
Speaker 2: all the notables. Not a good look for a socialist.
1:18:03
Speaker 2: We'll see how this goes tonight. Generation Z, younger people. Now,
1:18:07
Speaker 2: it turns out they're all miserable. In fact, 37% of
1:18:13
Speaker 2: them say they're being treated for depression. Now, why would
1:18:16
Speaker 2: Generation Z be having all these problems with depression? They
1:18:21
Speaker 2: say they're suffering from loneliness. Well, This is the generation
1:18:25
Speaker 2: that grew up with phones. This is the online generation.
1:18:28
Speaker 2: You know, when you were a kid or a teenager
1:18:31
Speaker 2: or in your 20s, you were out going to clubs,
1:18:33
Speaker 2: going to bars, doing all sorts of stuff, hanging out
1:18:37
Speaker 2: with your friends, going out. Well, this generation, they got
1:18:42
Speaker 2: friends and all that, but they're online friends. They're Facebook friends,
1:18:46
Speaker 2: they're Instagram, they're TikTok friends. Their life is not going
1:18:49
Speaker 2: out and partying. It's partying on TikTok, which can be fun,
1:18:54
Speaker 2: but the result is you don't have any actual friends.
1:18:58
Speaker 2: Suffering from loneliness. You're isolated. Also, many of them living
1:19:03
Speaker 2: at home with their parents. So depression is a big thing. Now,
1:19:09
Speaker 2: among Generation Z, the amount of them that are having
1:19:14
Speaker 2: what they call a thriving life where everything is great
1:19:17
Speaker 2: used to be about 75%. They say it's now more
1:19:21
Speaker 2: like 30%. The rest of them are miserable. Not great.
1:19:27
Speaker 2: And this is only going to get worse as people
1:19:30
Speaker 2: live more and more online and not in real life. Hey,
1:19:34
Speaker 2: speaking of that Al Smith dinner tonight, Hochul will be there.
1:19:38
Speaker 2: And all the big business leaders, every business leader in
1:19:42
Speaker 2: New York is praying that Bruce Blakeman wins. They want Blakeman.
1:19:48
Speaker 2: He'll turn the economy around. He'll make everything better, safer.
1:19:52
Speaker 2: Everything will be better in New York. But they're afraid
1:19:56
Speaker 2: to donate to him. That's why he's had trouble fundraising
1:19:58
Speaker 2: because they all do business here and they can't offend Hochul.
1:20:01
Speaker 2: So they're afraid to give any money. The exception would
1:20:04
Speaker 2: be James Dolan, the Madison Square Garden owner. Nixon Rangers owner.
1:20:10
Speaker 2: He is holding massive fundraisers for Blakeman, and he's got
1:20:15
Speaker 2: super paxes for him, spending millions and millions in attack
1:20:19
Speaker 2: ads against Hochul, pro-Blakeman ads. So he has really stepped up.
1:20:24
Speaker 2: Dolan now challenging New York City business owners. He says
1:20:28
Speaker 2: he wants them to grow some backbone and step into
1:20:32
Speaker 2: the race before it's too late. Dolan said everybody in
1:20:36
Speaker 2: the business world hates Hochul, wants her out. They hate Mamdani.
1:20:39
Speaker 2: They want Blakeman desperately. But he said, you better grow
1:20:43
Speaker 2: a black backbone. You better jump in. You better start
1:20:46
Speaker 2: donating and fighting because Blakeman will turn things around. You'll
1:20:50
Speaker 2: have a lower tax rate. You'll have a pro-growth agenda.
1:20:54
Speaker 2: It'll be better for business, better for everybody. He went
1:20:58
Speaker 2: after that partnership for New York. That's a silly thing
1:21:01
Speaker 2: with all the CEO's. that gets absolutely nothing done. They've
1:21:05
Speaker 2: been kowtowing to Mamdani. They don't stand up. He's been
1:21:08
Speaker 2: going after them as well. Strait of Hormuz, well, it
1:21:13
Speaker 2: got a little worse this week. A little worse this week.
1:21:15
Speaker 2: Iran attacking ships. 24 ships got struck in the past
1:21:19
Speaker 2: two weeks. Slowing down oil exports. We had a lot
1:21:23
Speaker 2: of oil flowing through there. It slowed down a little.
1:21:25
Speaker 2: That's why the price of oil going back up into
1:21:27
Speaker 2: the 90s. But they'll get that under control. You know,
1:21:33
Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg, a Facebook founder, owner, creator, Mark Zuckerberg getting
1:21:39
Speaker 2: attacked left and right for being one of the worst
1:21:43
Speaker 2: posters in the world. Yeah, when it comes to having–
1:21:45
Speaker 2: the guy creates Facebook. He runs this trillion-dollar empire. He
1:21:50
Speaker 2: takes over Instagram, creates Meta AI. But when it comes
1:21:57
Speaker 2: to actually posting stuff and using Facebook, he stinks a
1:22:02
Speaker 2: His latest video was about something about drinking Guinness to
1:22:05
Speaker 2: see how he can drink Guinness. Everybody's saying it's the
1:22:09
Speaker 2: most cringeworthy, ridiculous thing. The billionaire goes on these podcasts.
1:22:14
Speaker 2: This one was a fresh keg of Guinness from Dublin
1:22:18
Speaker 2: trying to show how to drink. It was just awful.
1:22:22
Speaker 2: It's fascinating. The guy who created Facebook doesn't know how
1:22:26
Speaker 2: to use it. He stinks at it. Anytime he puts
1:22:29
Speaker 2: up a video, even if it's just him talking about something,
1:22:32
Speaker 2: It puts you right to sleep. Like in 20 seconds,
1:22:34
Speaker 2: he really stinks at this. Hey, Don Lemon. Don Lemon
1:22:40
Speaker 2: is contemplating whether he should run for president. He said
1:22:44
Speaker 2: he's thinking now very seriously. He may run for president.
1:22:48
Speaker 2: This guy doesn't even have a job. This guy's been
1:22:50
Speaker 2: out of work for a couple of years. CNN threw
1:22:53
Speaker 2: him the hell out of there. It had no use
1:22:54
Speaker 2: for him. He said there's a 65% to 70% chance
1:22:58
Speaker 2: he'll launch a White House bid.
1:23:00
Speaker 3: Pfft, pfft.
1:23:02
Speaker 2: Now, the real reason he's doing this, he hasn't been
1:23:04
Speaker 2: able to get a job. He's out of work for
1:23:06
Speaker 2: a couple of years. Nobody wants to hire him. He's
1:23:09
Speaker 2: the most irrelevant, laughable guy in the world. But if
1:23:12
Speaker 2: you pretend you're a presidential candidate, why, all of a
1:23:14
Speaker 2: sudden it elevates you. Suddenly you have some status. Now,
1:23:18
Speaker 2: he's going to get laughed out of the race and
1:23:20
Speaker 2: go absolutely no place. But he doesn't know that yet.
1:23:25
Speaker 2: He has no political experience. He said he would make
1:23:28
Speaker 2: a better president than Trump. Well, first of all, the
1:23:32
Speaker 2: guy has no experience at anything. He has experience at
1:23:36
Speaker 2: getting low ratings and doing a TV show that bombs
1:23:38
Speaker 2: and he gets fired. But you remember when Trump first ran,
1:23:42
Speaker 2: he was a guy running a multi-billion dollar massive business
1:23:46
Speaker 2: all over the world. He has had like 100,000 employees
1:23:49
Speaker 2: for 40 years. He had a lot of management experience.
1:23:53
Speaker 2: Don Lemon, absolutely none. Last couple of years, can't even
1:23:57
Speaker 2: get a job. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800.
1:24:02
Speaker 2: 321-0710 is the number. Give me a call. Especially new callers.
1:24:06
Speaker 2: We always like new callers.
1:24:07
Speaker 10: 800-321-0710.
1:24:07
Speaker 2: More Mark. Mark Simone. Mr.
1:24:14
Speaker 1: New York.
1:24:15
Speaker 15: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
1:24:19
Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls.
1:24:21
Speaker 15: 800-321-0710 is the number.
1:24:22
Speaker 2: 800-321- zero seven 10 let's go to uh jack in
1:24:34
Speaker 2: west virginia jack how you.
1:24:36
Speaker 16: Doing hey mark thanks for taking my call um hey
1:24:41
Speaker 16: i just want to make a comment about donating for
1:24:45
Speaker 16: uh the elections candidates and so forth yeah i have
1:24:49
Speaker 16: donated in the past to trump and to some of
1:24:52
Speaker 16: the other candidates and um It just seems that whenever
1:24:56
Speaker 16: you make a donation, you get inundated with emails and
1:25:04
Speaker 16: text messages. And if there's a way to turn that
1:25:08
Speaker 16: off so you can make, I have not made any
1:25:12
Speaker 16: donations this election just for that reason.
1:25:16
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can, when you get these emails, just block
1:25:21
Speaker 2: that email account. When you get the text, block the
1:25:23
Speaker 2: text number. And that'll stop it.
1:25:26
Speaker 10: I know.
1:25:27
Speaker 2: But you're right. It's a big problem. That's a good point. Thanks, Jack. Although,
1:25:33
Speaker 2: on the other hand, if you donate to President Trump,
1:25:35
Speaker 2: you'll get these texts. It'll be a number you don't recognize.
1:25:38
Speaker 2: And you open up the text and say, hi, this
1:25:40
Speaker 2: is President Trump. I need to talk to you about something.
1:25:43
Speaker 2: So the good thing is you can say to your friends,
1:25:47
Speaker 2: this President Trump is texting me all day. And you're
1:25:51
Speaker 2: not lying. He actually is. Now, I understand what you're saying.
1:25:55
Speaker 2: I don't want to donate because I don't want to
1:25:56
Speaker 2: get bombarded with all these texts. But if you make
1:26:01
Speaker 2: a doctor's appointment now, you know, I had a doctor's
1:26:03
Speaker 2: appointment yesterday, just an eye doctor checkup. I got 4,000
1:26:08
Speaker 2: emails and 3,000 texts. Confirm. Press 1 to confirm. Then
1:26:13
Speaker 2: you get.
1:26:15
Speaker 2: I never got so many texts in my life about
1:26:17
Speaker 2: this little... That morning you get a text. An hour
1:26:20
Speaker 2: before you get a text, you go see the doctor.
1:26:23
Speaker 2: You're leaving... Don't even get to the elevator yet to
1:26:26
Speaker 2: get this text. Take the survey on how it was.
1:26:28
Speaker 2: It just, it never stops. So you got two doctor's
1:26:32
Speaker 2: appointments in one week and you get 4,000 texts and emails.
1:26:35
Speaker 2: It never stops. Let's go to Barbie in New Jersey. Barbie,
1:26:39
Speaker 2: how you doing?
1:26:41
Speaker 9: Good.
1:26:41
Speaker 19: So a few years ago, you said they wanted the
1:26:46
Speaker 19: horse and buggy ended because the real estate.
1:26:52
Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no. That's something else. They wanted
1:26:54
Speaker 2: the stable closed. There's a stable where they were keeping them.
1:26:58
Speaker 2: They were trying to close that stable because it was
1:27:00
Speaker 2: like on the Upper West Side in some pretty good
1:27:03
Speaker 2: land for a condo or something.
1:27:05
Speaker 19: I just want to say you made a comment about
1:27:07
Speaker 19: the racehorses. That'll be next, Mark.
1:27:11
Speaker 12: That'll be next.
1:27:12
Speaker 2: You know, they're talking about it's rough on the horses.
1:27:14
Speaker 2: It's cruel to the horse having to pull a carriage
1:27:16
Speaker 2: around Central. It doesn't seem that cruel. But to have
1:27:18
Speaker 2: a guy jump on your back and whip you to
1:27:20
Speaker 2: make sure you go as fast as you can go.
1:27:22
Speaker 2: That seems a little cruel, this horse racing.
1:27:24
Speaker 19: Well, yeah, but it's been around forever.
1:27:27
Speaker 9: Well, I know.
1:27:29
Speaker 2: You know, it's nice.
1:27:30
Speaker 19: Our traditions are nice.
1:27:31
Speaker 2: I'm not against it. I like horse racing, but it's different.
1:27:36
Speaker 12: I don't understand what you're saying.
1:27:38
Speaker 2: I don't understand.
1:27:40
Speaker 19: Why they're whipping them constantly either.
1:27:41
Speaker 2: Well, they want them to go faster. Yeah. All right. Well,
1:27:46
Speaker 2: thanks for calling. You know, you see the guy in
1:27:48
Speaker 2: Central Park, and he's got the horse car. You know,
1:27:51
Speaker 2: basically he has some reins and he kind of flicks it.
1:27:54
Speaker 2: That's it. Imagine we jumped on the back of the
1:27:56
Speaker 2: horse and started whipping him. I mean, that's more cruel
1:27:58
Speaker 2: and that's what horse racing is. Let's go to Bill
1:28:02
Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Bill, how you doing?
1:28:05
Speaker 8: Okay, Mark.
1:28:05
Speaker 2: Thank you.
1:28:06
Speaker 14: And, you know, horses belong in Montana in an open
1:28:09
Speaker 14: field by a stream, not in New York City. The
1:28:13
Speaker 14: other guy that called said, you know, emails. How many
1:28:17
Speaker 14: times you call up a business and the first thing
1:28:19
Speaker 14: you hear is, Please listen carefully as our menu has changed.
1:28:23
Speaker 12: Come on.
1:28:24
Speaker 14: But what I called about is, you know, I'm an
1:28:26
Speaker 14: usher at a church, and even the little old ladies
1:28:30
Speaker 14: with the rosary beads are saying, why does Iran still exist?
1:28:36
Speaker 14: It's like they're in the Stone Age, and we have
1:28:38
Speaker 14: the most modern weaponry in the world. We could take
1:28:41
Speaker 14: them out in an afternoon and the Straits of Hormuz
1:28:44
Speaker 14: are still closed. This is garbage.
1:28:47
Speaker 2: Well, you don't want to kill all the civilians. I mean,
1:28:49
Speaker 2: it'd be easy to wipe out Iran, but you can't
1:28:52
Speaker 2: kill like 60 million civilians in the process. It's what
1:28:56
Speaker 2: they call asymmetrical warfare. It's the toughest thing to fight
1:29:00
Speaker 2: an asymmetrical war where they're like in a jungle with
1:29:03
Speaker 2: rocks and you're trying to catch it's the same thing
1:29:05
Speaker 2: happened in Iraq it was tough you know they're in
1:29:08
Speaker 2: caves they're underground it's tough but uh and it's well
1:29:12
Speaker 2: you could do it with ground forces you just don't
1:29:14
Speaker 2: want to use ground forces Yeah.
1:29:16
Speaker 14: But like you mentioned earlier, you know, the Strait of
1:29:19
Speaker 14: Hermes is open.
1:29:20
Speaker 12: It's closed.
1:29:20
Speaker 2: It's open. It's closed.
1:29:22
Speaker 14: I mean, where's the gunfire coming from?
1:29:24
Speaker 12: Mail them and take them out.
1:29:26
Speaker 2: Well, they got a few rockets left, a missile here,
1:29:28
Speaker 2: a drone there. It's more like they call them mosquitoes.
1:29:31
Speaker 2: They're just like little mosquitoes biting them. But thanks for calling.
1:29:34
Speaker 2: Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing?
1:29:38
Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark. Okay. Okay. I would like everybody to
1:29:43
Speaker 6: look at their utility bill, whether it's your gas bill,
1:29:46
Speaker 6: your electric bill, or your phone bill. As Bruce Blakeman
1:29:51
Speaker 6: pointed out the other night, Because Kathy Hochul is getting
1:29:55
Speaker 6: our electricity now from Canada, the delivery charge for the
1:29:59
Speaker 6: electricity is actually more than the usage. I got my
1:30:04
Speaker 6: electricity bill yesterday. I don't do anything online. I got
1:30:08
Speaker 6: my electricity bill, my paper bill yesterday. And during your
1:30:12
Speaker 6: first hour, I opened it up. And the bill was
1:30:16
Speaker 6: for $ 133.
1:30:16
Speaker 9: And most of.
1:30:16
Speaker 6: $ 32 was for the actual usage. All the rest was
1:30:24
Speaker 6: either taxes and fees and delivery charges and green this
1:30:29
Speaker 6: and green that. Also, look at your gas bill and
1:30:34
Speaker 6: look at your phone bill. Embedded in all those... abbreviations.
1:30:39
Speaker 6: You'll see all these nonsensical charges that the Democrats are
1:30:45
Speaker 6: using to nickel and dime you the debt, and that's
1:30:48
Speaker 6: why it's creating a lot of this unaffordability. Most people
1:30:54
Speaker 6: don't look at it. They just take out the check
1:30:57
Speaker 6: or whatever, or they pay it online, and that's it. Oh,
1:31:01
Speaker 6: and to the fellow who called and said... He was
1:31:04
Speaker 6: being bombarded by all these text messages and this, that,
1:31:08
Speaker 6: and the other. I caught a check to Blakeman the
1:31:11
Speaker 6: other night, and on the form it said, I used
1:31:14
Speaker 6: the paper form, it said, what's your email address? I
1:31:18
Speaker 6: don't put in anything like that. And you won't be bombarded.
1:31:23
Speaker 6: Cut a check. Don't do it by credit card. Don't
1:31:26
Speaker 6: do it online. Do it the old-fashioned way, the Vincent way.
1:31:30
Speaker 6: Cut a check. But everybody, look at your bills tonight.
1:31:34
Speaker 6: How they're nickel and diming us to death in this city.
1:31:37
Speaker 2: Good point. Excellent call. Thanks for calling. Hey, when we
1:31:41
Speaker 2: come back, we'll talk to the brilliant Liz Peek, the
1:31:44
Speaker 2: great columnist Liz Peek. We'll talk to her next on 710WOR.
1:31:47
Speaker 2: He's Mr.
1:31:50
Speaker 1: New York, Mark Simone on 710WOR.
1:31:55
Speaker 2: Well, Liz Peek, the brilliant columnist. You can read her columns, foxnews.com, thehill.com.
1:32:01
Speaker 2: Even better, go to her website. She's got her columns
1:32:04
Speaker 2: and all kinds of great stories up there, lizpeek.com, lizpeek.com.
1:32:09
Speaker 2: Liz Peek, how are you doing?
1:32:12
Speaker 5: I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on, Mark.
1:32:14
Speaker 2: Well, I know how you're doing. I just saw you
1:32:16
Speaker 2: last night. The Kudlow show was great.
1:32:18
Speaker 5: That's right.
1:32:20
Speaker 2: We were talking about the debate on there. So tell
1:32:22
Speaker 2: everybody what you thought about the gubernatorial debate.
1:32:27
Speaker 18: Look, I think the more Kathy Hochul has to actually
1:32:30
Speaker 18: face the voting public, the better it is for everybody,
1:32:35
Speaker 18: including Bruce Blakeman, because she has absolutely nothing to run on. Supposedly,
1:32:41
Speaker 18: Democrats care less a lot about affordability. New York is
1:32:45
Speaker 18: one of the most unaffordable places on the face of
1:32:48
Speaker 18: the planet, actually, with building costs, as an example, the
1:32:52
Speaker 18: highest anywhere in the world, which is pretty staggering, right?
1:32:56
Speaker 5: And why is that?
1:32:57
Speaker 18: Because Democrats have ladled all kinds of regulations on small businesses,
1:33:02
Speaker 18: on contractors, on getting building permits, you name it.
1:33:06
Speaker 5: There's a red tape attached to it. And also high taxes.
1:33:11
Speaker 18: People kind of, you know, or just blanking mentally on
1:33:15
Speaker 18: the idea that every time Kathy Hochul or Zoran Mamdani
1:33:19
Speaker 18: raises taxes on the voting public, they pay more for
1:33:24
Speaker 18: everything because whoever is paying that higher taxes, your grocery store,
1:33:29
Speaker 18: your delivery guy, whatever, they pass it right along to
1:33:32
Speaker 18: the consumer. And so, you know, the idea that Kathy
1:33:37
Speaker 18: Hochul is going to do a better job of bringing
1:33:39
Speaker 18: prices down or under control than Bruce Blakeman, Forget it.
1:33:42
Speaker 18: I mean, he has much better instincts on all kinds
1:33:46
Speaker 18: of issues, including, by the way, how to manage ICE,
1:33:51
Speaker 18: illegal immigrants being in our country committing.
1:33:53
Speaker 5: Crimes, etc.
1:33:55
Speaker 18: Kathy Hochul is basically going to lie down in front
1:33:59
Speaker 18: of Mamdani and the far left and do whatever they want,
1:34:02
Speaker 18: including raising taxes more on struggling New Yorkers.
1:34:08
Speaker 5: In the coming years.
1:34:09
Speaker 18: And you can just absolutely bank that.
1:34:11
Speaker 5: It's going to happen.
1:34:12
Speaker 18: So I want Bruce Blakeman out there more. I want
1:34:15
Speaker 18: him making the case against Kathy Hochul. And I think
1:34:21
Speaker 18: he made a good start on that in the debate.
1:34:23
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:34:24
Speaker 2: You know how the government stepped in and they made
1:34:26
Speaker 2: everybody list their ingredients? You know, what's in the Starbucks
1:34:29
Speaker 2: drink or what's the, oh, you have to list the ingredients.
1:34:32
Speaker 2: If they would do this, they'll never pass this, but
1:34:34
Speaker 2: if they would do this for gas prices, electric bills,
1:34:37
Speaker 2: if people saw where the money is going for that
1:34:40
Speaker 2: $ 4. 50 a gallon, I don't think they realize that 75
1:34:43
Speaker 2: cents goes to the state in taxes. Even your electric bill,
1:34:47
Speaker 2: like 50% of it is government taxes and fees. People
1:34:50
Speaker 2: don't know that.
1:34:52
Speaker 5: They don't know it.
1:34:53
Speaker 18: They don't understand that Democrats are basically waging, even today,
1:34:57
Speaker 18: an ongoing war against fossil fuels. But what's so stupid, Mark,
1:35:02
Speaker 18: is Yes, you're right. State and local taxes on gasoline,
1:35:08
Speaker 18: for example, are enormous. In California, I think it's 70
1:35:11
Speaker 18: cents a gallon, something like that. But what they've tried
1:35:15
Speaker 18: to do is push everyone to electricity. But of course,
1:35:18
Speaker 18: they've also made electricity incredibly expensive. And a lot of
1:35:22
Speaker 18: that is, as you say, taxes and other fees that apply.
1:35:25
Speaker 18: So if you really want to tilt the balance in
1:35:28
Speaker 18: favor of electricity, number one, Make sure you have the
1:35:31
Speaker 18: feedstock to create electricity.
1:35:34
Speaker 5: It doesn't come from lightning.
1:35:36
Speaker 18: It actually has to be produced in a power plant somewhere.
1:35:40
Speaker 18: Don't shut down Indian Point nuclear power plant, which was
1:35:44
Speaker 18: one of the dumbest things that Andrew Cuomo did. Don't
1:35:49
Speaker 18: make it impossible to frack for natural gas. Natural gas
1:35:52
Speaker 18: is a fantastically clean and abundant and cheap.
1:35:56
Speaker 5: Feedstock for electricity production. And yet, basically.
1:36:01
Speaker 18: Kathy Hochul and her predecessor has made it wildly unaffordable
1:36:05
Speaker 18: and unattainable in New York. So look, I think literally
1:36:10
Speaker 18: she has done everything wrong and it's only going to
1:36:13
Speaker 18: get worse. And at the end of the day, as
1:36:14
Speaker 18: we discussed yesterday on Kudlow's show, end of day, why
1:36:19
Speaker 18: are people leaving New York?
1:36:21
Speaker 5: End of discussion, right?
1:36:23
Speaker 18: Businesses, people flocking to Florida and to Texas and because
1:36:28
Speaker 18: life in New York is unaffordable. And so, you know,
1:36:32
Speaker 18: let her explain that. That has nothing to do, by
1:36:35
Speaker 18: the way, with Donald Trump waging war in Iran, which
1:36:39
Speaker 18: has driven.
1:36:39
Speaker 5: Oil prices higher.
1:36:41
Speaker 18: Electricity and energy costs in New York have been higher
1:36:45
Speaker 18: than the nation's average right now, about 60% higher for decades,
1:36:51
Speaker 18: or at least a decade.
1:36:52
Speaker 13: And a half.
1:36:53
Speaker 18: It is not new. So, It has nothing to do
1:36:56
Speaker 18: with Donald Trump. It has everything to do with the
1:36:58
Speaker 18: Democrats in charge of this state.
1:37:00
Speaker 2: Now, Liz Peek, you should check out her website, LizPeek.com.
1:37:03
Speaker 2: You've written about this. If you watch CNN or MSNOW,
1:37:06
Speaker 2: all they're talking about is this blue wave that's going
1:37:09
Speaker 2: to take over. How much of that is a fantasy
1:37:12
Speaker 2: with the Democrats?
1:37:14
Speaker 18: Well, look, the more they talk about it, just remind yourself,
1:37:16
Speaker 18: the more they talk about it, the more voters get
1:37:19
Speaker 18: discouraged and say, ah, you know, Bruce Blakeman doesn't have
1:37:22
Speaker 18: a shot. Kathy Hochul's going to win. Why do I
1:37:25
Speaker 18: even bother to vote? That's what they're hoping on. That's
1:37:27
Speaker 18: what they're hoping for. So this negativity about Republican chances
1:37:32
Speaker 18: in the midterms and the blue wave drowning all the
1:37:36
Speaker 18: Republican candidates, take it with a grain of salt because
1:37:39
Speaker 18: the polls, the media headlines, everything is primed to keep
1:37:44
Speaker 18: you at home, keep you from voting, keep you from
1:37:47
Speaker 18: giving money to a candidate.
1:37:50
Speaker 5: Don't listen to it. Just drown it out.
1:37:52
Speaker 18: You got to go vote because otherwise you have absolutely
1:37:54
Speaker 18: no right to complain about what goes on in your
1:37:57
Speaker 18: city and state.
1:37:58
Speaker 2: Yeah. But being honest, the Republicans, as far as messaging,
1:38:05
Speaker 2: as far as marketing, what should they have done differently
1:38:08
Speaker 2: from the beginning of the year to now?
1:38:11
Speaker 5: I tell you what, Mark, I... How much time do
1:38:14
Speaker 5: we have?
1:38:14
Speaker 18: It's the the lack of a message is appalling.
1:38:20
Speaker 10: Why?
1:38:21
Speaker 18: Because, you know, look at an op ed that Jerry
1:38:24
Speaker 18: Baker wrote recently in The Wall Street Journal. Jerry Baker
1:38:26
Speaker 18: is no fan of Republican, certainly a Donald Trump. not
1:38:30
Speaker 18: a big partisan guy, I don't think. But he listed
1:38:33
Speaker 18: all the things that are going right in the economy.
1:38:35
Speaker 18: Where have you heard that?
1:38:37
Speaker 1: Nowhere.
1:38:37
Speaker 18: No one's talking about the fact that unemployment claims are
1:38:41
Speaker 18: extremely low, that real incomes are still up, even with inflation, $ 2, 000.
1:38:47
Speaker 18: during Trump's presidency while they went down under Joe Biden.
1:38:51
Speaker 18: I could list 10 things that Republicans should be out
1:38:54
Speaker 18: there talking about on the stump, including no taxes on tips,
1:38:59
Speaker 18: no taxes on overtime, things.
1:39:00
Speaker 5: That are very popular.
1:39:02
Speaker 18: But they are so scared of their shadows, these Republican candidates.
1:39:07
Speaker 18: They're so scared someone's going to say, well, you just
1:39:10
Speaker 18: care about tax cuts for the wealthy.
1:39:12
Speaker 5: Holy crow.
1:39:13
Speaker 18: These tax cuts in 2017, and again, in the big,
1:39:17
Speaker 18: beautiful bill, they were primed to middle income Americans. And
1:39:21
Speaker 18: middle income Americans, I think, know that. But unless you
1:39:24
Speaker 18: have a politician saying, hey, we delivered that. And by
1:39:28
Speaker 18: the way, my opponent wants to reverse that. Remember, Kamala
1:39:32
Speaker 18: Harris actually campaigned on reversing the 2017 tax cuts, which
1:39:39
Speaker 18: I always thought was one of the most unbelievably dumb
1:39:41
Speaker 18: things she did.
1:39:43
Speaker 5: And that's a very high bar. You know, it's just
1:39:47
Speaker 5: kind of amazing. They can't prosecute the case. You and
1:39:51
Speaker 5: I can. What's wrong with that?
1:39:52
Speaker 10: Yeah.
1:39:53
Speaker 2: On the other hand, though, if they had the case
1:39:55
Speaker 2: and the right message, where are they going to get
1:39:57
Speaker 2: it out? 90% of the media will never ever broadcast it.
1:40:02
Speaker 5: Well, look, social media is huge.
1:40:04
Speaker 18: We've seen with Mamdani that, guess what?
1:40:08
Speaker 5: You actually have to you have to kind of use
1:40:11
Speaker 5: the tools of today.
1:40:13
Speaker 18: An extraordinary number of people are getting their news from
1:40:16
Speaker 18: social media, not from the newspapers, not from television news programs.
1:40:21
Speaker 18: They go on to X or they go on to
1:40:24
Speaker 18: TikTok and they believe what they read, which is really
1:40:28
Speaker 18: frightening because you and I both know there's a whole
1:40:30
Speaker 18: lot of stuff on all those platforms that's just simply
1:40:34
Speaker 18: made up. But the reality is you can wage this
1:40:38
Speaker 18: war not only in person, and the candidates who do
1:40:42
Speaker 18: best are going out there every day making their case
1:40:44
Speaker 18: to voters, but also on social media and, look, on
1:40:49
Speaker 18: radio programs like yours.
1:40:51
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah, Radio Hacks, believe it
1:40:55
Speaker 2: or not, has a lot more listeners than TV has
1:40:58
Speaker 2: viewers right now.
1:40:59
Speaker 13: That's right.
1:41:00
Speaker 2: In today's world. Well, Liz Peek, great stuff. Everybody check
1:41:03
Speaker 2: out her website, LizPeek.com. There's not only her columns, but
1:41:08
Speaker 2: great stories up there every day. LizPeak.com. And you can
1:41:12
Speaker 2: read her columns, FoxNews.com, TheHill.com. Liz Peak, thanks for being
1:41:18
Speaker 2: with us.
1:41:19
Speaker 18: Thank you for having me. Don't get discouraged, Mark. You
1:41:22
Speaker 18: sound discouraged. Look, there's still three weeks. Got to prosecute
1:41:26
Speaker 18: the case.
1:41:26
Speaker 2: All right. You're right. Right attitude.
1:41:29
Speaker 13: All right. All right.
1:41:30
Speaker 2: Thanks for being with us.
1:41:31
Speaker 15: Take care.
1:41:31
Speaker 13: Thanks.
1:41:32
Speaker 2: Take care. I'm not discouraged. It's just that it's a
1:41:36
Speaker 2: three-hour show now. Three hours every day. I'm not used
1:41:39
Speaker 2: to this. The third hour, I'm like, drag it a little. No,
1:41:42
Speaker 2: I'm not discouraged. Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay. You
1:41:45
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1:41:49
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1:41:51
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1:41:55
Speaker 2: You got Jesse Kelly. Big show at six o'clock.
1:41:59
Speaker 10: Then.
1:41:59
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1:42:03
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1:42:06
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1:42:10
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1:42:15
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1:42:20
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1:42:29
Speaker 2: Well, hey, Liz Peek is right about one thing. There's
1:42:35
Speaker 2: this narrative being pushed on you by media, Democrats. This
1:42:41
Speaker 2: is a blue wave coming. It's unstoppable. The blue wave
1:42:44
Speaker 2: is going to touch. It's just a narrative they keep pushing.
1:42:46
Speaker 2: It's a psyops operation trying to suppress vote and trying
1:42:51
Speaker 2: to discourage any Republicans from donating or voting. There's no
1:42:56
Speaker 2: big blue wave coming. The way it actually stands right
1:42:58
Speaker 2: now for real In hard numbers, Republicans look very good
1:43:03
Speaker 2: for keeping the Senate. The House is just too close
1:43:06
Speaker 2: to call. This could go either way. It's going to
1:43:08
Speaker 2: depend on turnout. You get a lot of Republican turnout,
1:43:11
Speaker 2: the Republicans will win the House. So that's why these
1:43:16
Speaker 2: fake polls are coming out trying to discourage Republican voters.
1:43:20
Speaker 2: And that's why they keep pushing this blue wave to
1:43:24
Speaker 2: suppress Republican turnout. Same thing in New York. If Republicans
1:43:29
Speaker 2: turn out in big numbers, Blakeman wins. It's that simple.
1:43:33
Speaker 2: And he had a great debate performance Tuesday night, really solid, great.
1:43:39
Speaker 2: It's New York won, which nobody sees. It's a tiny
1:43:41
Speaker 2: little cable thing. But the clips are going all over
1:43:45
Speaker 2: the place, viral. So we'll see. It'll take another day
1:43:49
Speaker 2: or two. By Monday, you'll see in the polling what
1:43:51
Speaker 2: effect the debate had. It should put Blakeman a few
1:43:55
Speaker 2: points ahead should be should be pretty big so the
1:43:59
Speaker 2: president uh has got a luncheon today this is after
1:44:02
Speaker 2: three incredible days of travel he was in alaska then
1:44:05
Speaker 2: he went to nevada then he went to arizona then
1:44:09
Speaker 2: he went to montana this is all in like two
1:44:12
Speaker 2: days and he's back in the white house hey we're
1:44:15
Speaker 2: out of time supposed to be a very nice day
1:44:16
Speaker 2: today low 60s it's autumn but a nice sunny day
1:44:22
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1:44:24
Speaker 2: tomorrow tomorrow night Then the weekend, nice and dry, bright
1:44:27
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1:44:32
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1:44:35
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