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Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment — NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Mark Simone. Welcome. This is the bonus segment
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  Speaker 1: for you podcast listeners. You get an extra show every weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Peter Thiel, he's this internet billionaire. He was
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  Speaker 1: one of the founders of Facebook. He created PayPal. Genius,
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  Speaker 1: brilliant guy. And one of the few Silicon Valley guys
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  Speaker 1: that was always a Republican, always a Trump supporter. But now...
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  Speaker 1: Now he's breaking with Donald Trump. Big headlines because he
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  Speaker 1: was such a Trump supporter. Breaking with him over the
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  Speaker 1: Iran war. Peter Thiel said we should not have done it.
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  Speaker 1: We should not have done it. He's breaking with Trump. Now,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, there's a bunch of people, even on
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  Speaker 1: the show this week, Ann Coulter, you know, with her,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people with this. Trump promised no more wars. No,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't. He never promised that. He never said anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. He did say no more unnecessary wars. But
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  Speaker 1: if Iran's two weeks from a nuclear bomb, obviously you've
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  Speaker 1: got to stop that. Not only did he never say
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  Speaker 1: no more wars, he also said in a billion interviews
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  Speaker 1: for 40 years that he would always go after Iran.
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  Speaker 1: You can go back 40 years ago and find him
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  Speaker 1: in interviews saying we've got to go get Iran and
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  Speaker 1: have regime change and get rid of that government. He's
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  Speaker 1: been saying that every year forever, so he has not
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  Speaker 1: gone back on his word. And when you talk about
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  Speaker 1: this war, why he's got to end the war, how
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  Speaker 1: would you end it? There's no fighting. Nobody's fired a
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  Speaker 1: shot between us and Iran. We haven't fired a shot
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  Speaker 1: in like six weeks. Well, we got to get out
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  Speaker 1: of there. Well, we're not in there. We're 100 miles
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  Speaker 1: away on a bunch of ships. Now, the day after
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  Speaker 1: the election, I think you're going to see Iran just
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  Speaker 1: get wiped out, just devastating attack on them with the huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge MOABs, the biggest bomb of all. James Bond, there
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  Speaker 1: is going to be another James Bond movie. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: this coming week, they're doing the screen test. They figured
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  Speaker 1: out the finalists. They're all, you know, obviously very good-looking actors.
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  Speaker 1: They will be doing the screen test for the next
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  Speaker 1: Bond movie. Now, the problem with the Bond movies, they
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  Speaker 1: started in 1962. But back in 62, it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. This guy was unbelievable. And it was Dr. No,
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  Speaker 1: which was, by the way, when it opened, nobody knew
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  Speaker 1: what Bond was. And it was just some B movie
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  Speaker 1: that opened a movie. Oh, my God, it took off.
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  Speaker 1: This James Bond character was amazing. And then the next
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  Speaker 1: one was from Russia with Love. And then Goldfinger was
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  Speaker 1: the biggest one. It was amazing. And the gadgets were,
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  Speaker 1: besides everything else, this guy had a camera in his watch.
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  Speaker 1: He had, remember that thing in Goldfinger when his car,
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  Speaker 1: he could put a little tracking thing on Goldfinger's car.
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  Speaker 1: And then from his car, he could see where Goldfinger was.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, we'd never seen anything like this. So
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  Speaker 1: what are you supposed to do nowadays? These gadgets, I
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  Speaker 1: got more stuff in my, here, my Apple Watch has
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  Speaker 1: more stuff in it, more gadgets than Bond had in
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  Speaker 1: every movie ever made. So I guess you can get
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  Speaker 1: along without the gadgets. I mean, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: go back and read the Bond books, There were no
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  Speaker 1: gadgets in any book, none, zero. That was invented for
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  Speaker 1: the movies. But it's 2026. By the time the movie's out,
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  Speaker 1: it's 2027. I don't know. Today's audiences, younger people, they
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  Speaker 1: want to see a guy in a tuxedo playing Bachrat
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  Speaker 1: in a casino. They don't know what the hell that is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's foreign to them. And, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: way he would talk, you know, he'd go into the
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  Speaker 1: bar or the restaurant and say, Martini, shaken. not stirred.
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  Speaker 1: You know, nowadays, you're lucky if the waiter even comes back.
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  Speaker 1: You think he's going to get that order right? It
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  Speaker 1: makes no sense at all. And he was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be secret agent, secret agent. Meantime, you watch the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Every time he goes into the hotel, Mr. Bond, whenever
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  Speaker 1: he comes into the casino, Mr. Bond, so good to
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  Speaker 1: see you. What kind of secret is it? Everybody seems
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  Speaker 1: to know who he is. And that license to kill.
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  Speaker 1: Who exactly issues a license to kill? Where do you
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  Speaker 1: get one of those? It does. Again, you didn't question
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  Speaker 1: it in 1964, but 2026, younger audience, they're not going
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  Speaker 1: to buy any of this. So I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the point is. Hey, Mamdani promised free buses when he ran.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, that was absolutely ridiculous. First of all, the
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  Speaker 1: mayor has no power or control of the buses. He
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the buses. He can't make
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  Speaker 1: them free. But he and Hochul have come up with
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  Speaker 1: an $ 800 million plan to To speed up the buses.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they have these studies where the average bus
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  Speaker 1: speed is 11.2 miles an hour. So watch when they
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  Speaker 1: do this plan. It'll become 11.6 miles an hour. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to mean absolutely nothing. But what they're going to do,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to make the buses faster by adding special lanes.
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  Speaker 1: They already got a bus lane. This means they're going
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  Speaker 1: to put another bus lane, which means it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be harder for cars, which means cars will be gridlocked
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  Speaker 1: even more. Absolutely ridiculous. They're going to do Big Brother-style
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  Speaker 1: traffic cameras to squeeze drivers, automated camera enforcement program, 200
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  Speaker 1: new cameras added to 50 more routes by next year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the reason for this, it's contracts to hand out. Hochul
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  Speaker 1: loves to hand out contracts to donors. Also, it means
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  Speaker 1: they'll collect more tickets this way. First of all, why
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  Speaker 1: don't you start giving tickets to buses that go through
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  Speaker 1: red lights or make bad turns? Only about 20 supervisors
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  Speaker 1: are assigned to keep 6,000 city buses running on schedule.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem. There's only 20 supervisors for 6,000 buses.
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  Speaker 1: The plan does nothing to fix that. Absolutely nothing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's Halloween next weekend. What is the number one favorite
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  Speaker 1: Halloween candy? No, it's not candy corn. That's what it
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  Speaker 1: was for years, candy corn. Come on, what's the favorite
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  Speaker 1: Halloween candy, the number one candy? Nope. It's Reese's Peanut
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  Speaker 1: Butter Cups. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: they did that. I mean, they're very, very good, but
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  Speaker 1: they became the nation's favorite Halloween candy. Number two, Hershey's
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  Speaker 1: Milk Chocolate Bars. Well, I mean, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: better stuff than a Hershey, plain Hershey chocolate bar, although
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  Speaker 1: they're very good. M & M' s is number three. Number three. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of Mamdani, boy, he made a speech this week
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  Speaker 1: where he's talking about socialism. I never saw the guy
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  Speaker 1: get so passionate talking about socialism. How wonderful it was.
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  Speaker 1: He was claiming that it ensures the masses whatever you need.
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  Speaker 1: He said, socialism to me, it means you have whatever
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  Speaker 1: you need to have a dignified life. And that is
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  Speaker 1: the government's job to deliver on that. Well, you ever
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  Speaker 1: go to a socialist country? You ever go to Cuba,
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  Speaker 1: the old Soviet Union? Go to a socialist country. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: living in poverty. They got the worst house, the worst life.
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  Speaker 1: They got the worst crap in their grocery stores. Everything stinks.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they go to these colleges where the left-wing
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  Speaker 1: kook professors indoctrinate them into this dreamy, glorified vision of socialism.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know. I mean, if you go visit
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  Speaker 1: any of these countries, you'll see it's just the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: The leaders in the socialism are living in palaces. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: else is living in disgusting places and poverty. But even
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  Speaker 1: if you don't go to those countries, who's going to
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  Speaker 1: go to Cuba? But you'd think these guys could go
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  Speaker 1: online or study the history of it. Socialism always ends
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  Speaker 1: up in mass murder and everything. But he says you
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  Speaker 1: should be able to have that power the rest of
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  Speaker 1: your life. People talk about it as the extension of democracy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, obviously it's totally insane what he's saying,
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  Speaker 1: but This lunatic believes that stuff. So what are you
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  Speaker 1: going to do about it? If you're worried about fighting
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  Speaker 1: income inequality, you should go to Chicago and go to
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  Speaker 1: the Obama Presidential Museum. It seems that's the capital of
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  Speaker 1: income inequality problems. The people running the museum, you know,
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  Speaker 1: these museums are like a charity. It's a foundation. It's
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  Speaker 1: a charity. It's listed as a charity. And normally when
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  Speaker 1: you're a charity, You can't overpay the top executives. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if it's a corporation, you can pay the president, the CEO.
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  Speaker 1: You can pay them whatever you want, $ 2 million, $ 10 million.
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  Speaker 1: You can pay them anything. It's a business. But when
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  Speaker 1: it's a charity, you're not supposed to really go above $ 400, 000,
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  Speaker 1: $ 500, 000 at the most. It's a charity. Well, in the
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  Speaker 1: Obama Foundation, he put his buddies in there, Valerie Jarrett.
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  Speaker 1: She's getting $ 800, 000 a year. That's a little high for
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  Speaker 1: a foundation. The executive vice president's getting $ 700, 000. It's very
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  Speaker 1: high for a foundation. But while they're overpaying the executives,
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  Speaker 1: apparently the workers are getting stiffed really badly. They're underpaid, overworked.
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  Speaker 1: The staffers now are pushing to unionize. They're demanding relief.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the new home of income inequality, the
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  Speaker 1: Obama Presidential Museum. Hey, Steve Wozniak, he's one of the
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  Speaker 1: founders of Apple. He created, he was there, actually at
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  Speaker 1: the time, I don't think Jobs was there. It was
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  Speaker 1: Wozniak who created the very first Apple computer. It was
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  Speaker 1: the Apple One, the first computer they made. It's like
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  Speaker 1: that big clunky white thing that's on Jerry Seinfeld's desk
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  Speaker 1: in the TV show, that kind of a computer. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they got the very first one, the one that Wozniak had,
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  Speaker 1: the first one he made. And apparently he even signed
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  Speaker 1: it at some point, the motherboard, he signed it. So
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  Speaker 1: it's up for auction. They expect it to go for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. The bidding is going to start
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  Speaker 1: at $ 1. 2 million, and they think there'll be a massive
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  Speaker 1: bidding war, and it should sell for a lot of money. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: he created it in 1976. Yeah, this is pretty amazing. 1976. Now,
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  Speaker 1: think back to 1976. We were all watching Happy Days,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody had a computer back then.
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  Speaker 1: It was unheard of at the time. Uh, speaking of television,
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  Speaker 1: John Goodman, of course, was the husband in, uh, Roseanne Goodman,
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  Speaker 1: a great actor, great guy, but he's now doing interviews.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen him lately? He's like a toothpick. You
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  Speaker 1: remember he's a big, fat, heavy guy. Now he's unbelievably thin.
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  Speaker 1: He's on that, uh, Ozempic type stuff. Got really, really thin.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he did it for medical reasons, but it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look, it looked better the other way. But, uh,
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  Speaker 1: been talking about how when he was on, when he
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  Speaker 1: was on Roseanne, uh, it's not something he really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do. He was thinking of more serious kind of acting, but, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he needed the money, went on Roseanne and he made
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  Speaker 1: a fortune, but he said it was frightening. The level
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  Speaker 1: of fame. Remember at the time that took off, it
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  Speaker 1: became the biggest sitcom just like that. It became a huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge sitcom. And he was suddenly one of the most
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  Speaker 1: famous people in America. He I wish I could have
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  Speaker 1: taken to it better, but I was frightened. It terrified me. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it can be frightening because the phone never stops ringing.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. All of a sudden, you can't go
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  Speaker 1: out in public. It's really brutal. Your whole life changes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you'd think it'd be the ideal life. It
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  Speaker 1: is in some ways, but it's overwhelming, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Our friend Tony Danza once said, there's only two times
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  Speaker 1: you want to be famous, in a hospital or in
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  Speaker 1: a restaurant. Outside of that, it can be... Quite annoying. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: potato chips, pretzels, good snack, potato chips, pretzels, forget it.
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  Speaker 1: Not good for you. Today's pretzels, potato chips, the ones
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  Speaker 1: you get in the store. There's too many chemicals and
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  Speaker 1: junk in them. All kinds of studies. You want a
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  Speaker 1: good snack, nuts. Pistachio nuts, almonds, or walnuts. Healthy as
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  Speaker 1: can be. They do all kinds of things for you.
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  Speaker 1: They'll help with your blood pressure. They help you sleep better.
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  Speaker 1: Pistachio nuts, you know, gives you natural melatonin. very good
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  Speaker 1: for you so instead of potato chips pretzels or those
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  Speaker 1: kind of snacks pistachio nuts almonds walnuts supposed to have
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  Speaker 1: just a handful you can have more than that but
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  Speaker 1: the healthiest snacks switch to that it's the best thing
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  Speaker 1: you can do hey we're out of time this has
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  Speaker 1: been the bonus segment and we do it every weekend
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  Speaker 1: you get an extra show just for you podcast listeners
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  Speaker 1: we really appreciate you listening to the podcast So I'll
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  Speaker 1: be back. I'm on the air live Monday through Friday,
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  Speaker 1: 9 to noon. Otherwise, the podcast. Mark Simone here. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for listening. Have a great weekend.