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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 here. Welcome to the bonus segment.
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  Speaker 1: For all you podcast listeners, you get an extra show
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  Speaker 1: because we really appreciate you listening to the podcast. Midterms
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  Speaker 1: coming up. What is it? I don't know. It's like
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  Speaker 1: 40 days away. 40 days away. The midterms and the
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  Speaker 1: big— the Republicans need messaging. Where's the messaging? It's a tough
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  Speaker 1: situation because all the mainstream fake news, they keep broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: all day and night, the economy's in trouble, affordability, economy, affordability, affordability.
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  Speaker 1: The economy is actually in very good shape. They don't
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  Speaker 1: report that. I know gas prices are high, but otherwise
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  Speaker 1: the economy is in great shape. In fact, that most
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  Speaker 1: recent report, median income is at an all-time high. Poverty
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  Speaker 1: rate is the lowest level ever in history. So they've
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  Speaker 1: got to get this message out. The one thing that's
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  Speaker 1: up is gas. That's the only thing that's up. They'll
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  Speaker 1: focus on oil prices all the time. So they got
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  Speaker 1: to get that message across. First of all, affordability crisis,
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  Speaker 1: number one expense is taxes for most people. A recent
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  Speaker 1: study shows the biggest expense they got in their budget
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  Speaker 1: is their taxes. So you're worried about affordability? Get the
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  Speaker 1: taxes down. And the funniest thing is these Democrats pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be so upset about the price of gas. They're Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: They want it to be $ 10 a gallon. Remember when
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats were in power? They said they'd They shut
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  Speaker 1: down oil production everywhere. They drove the price up as
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  Speaker 1: high as they could get it. You know, in California,
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  Speaker 1: they charge $ 6 a gallon. Democrats would love to get
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  Speaker 1: the gas. Their goal was always to get it to
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  Speaker 1: $ 10 a gallon. The reason they do that is they
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  Speaker 1: don't want you to drive gas cars. They want you
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  Speaker 1: to ride a bike, a scooter, switch to electric. So
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  Speaker 1: it's such hypocrisy. Democrats yelling about gas prices. Remember Pat Boone,
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  Speaker 1: the great singer Pat Boone? conservative. He was a big
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  Speaker 1: Reagan supporter, good friend of Reagan's. Remember, he was on
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  Speaker 1: this show a while back. He's also told a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stories about what a WOR fan he was through
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  Speaker 1: the years. So Pat Boone's got some advice for President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: who he likes. He said, I've known and supported President
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  Speaker 1: Trump for many years, and I offer these thoughts in
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of friendship and concern. He says, for a
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  Speaker 1: little while, try being quiet. Sometimes the strongest thing a
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  Speaker 1: leader can do, he says, is say less, listen more,
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  Speaker 1: let his actions speak. I'm praying for our president. I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking him to remember the example of Ronald Reagan, humor, courtesy, respect,
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  Speaker 1: and a presidential manner. Well, we love Pat Boone, but
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  Speaker 1: this is not going to work. I think Pat Boone,
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  Speaker 1: he was great in 1958, but I don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: got what it takes for 2026. You know, he was
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  Speaker 1: a big star, Pat Boone, in the 50s and 60s
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  Speaker 1: because he was a sweet, wonderful, nice, well-mannered young man.
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  Speaker 1: But if he came along in the music business in 2026,
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  Speaker 1: you'd think he'd get anywhere. You've got to be edgy
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  Speaker 1: and all sorts of stuff. And listen, everybody points to
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan, who was unbelievable. Reagan was so great. But
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you. If Reagan came
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  Speaker 1: along today, If Reagan was a young guy running for president,
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  Speaker 1: he'd get no place with his manners and his courtesy.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine Reagan in the middle of the 2020s
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  Speaker 1: trying to deal with the fake news, trying to deal
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  Speaker 1: with Caitlin Collins? You know, Reagan was great in his time,
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  Speaker 1: but in today's vicious media world, you can't do Reagan.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just go, well, you've got to be like Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Trump was raised on Imus and Howard Stern. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to be so vicious and It's the only way to
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  Speaker 1: deal with these people. I know Trump's behavior is crazy
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  Speaker 1: at times. But to fight this, to fight your way
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  Speaker 1: through this nowadays, the fake news world and the vicious,
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  Speaker 1: crazy Democrats, you've got to be the dirtiest street fighter
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  Speaker 1: to cut through that. And that's why Trump does that. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: American colleges are facing an enrollment crisis. Well, it couldn't
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  Speaker 1: happen to a nicer bunch. These left-wing, anti-Semitic, disgusting colleges
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  Speaker 1: are Facing an enrollment crisis. First of all, they rob
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  Speaker 1: everybody $ 80, 000 for tuition. It's ridiculous. You know, Harvard has
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  Speaker 1: an endowment of like $ 60 billion. Just the interest of
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  Speaker 1: their endowment would pay for the whole school 10 times
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  Speaker 1: over every year. They don't even need to charge admission.
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  Speaker 1: But they charge a ridiculous amount. So the one reason
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  Speaker 1: is a lot of parents are so turned off by
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  Speaker 1: these colleges and the anti-Semitism. And also... the left-wing indoctrination.
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  Speaker 1: They're afraid to send their kids there. Now, also, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of people who now
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  Speaker 1: realize what a racket it is, these colleges, and they'd
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  Speaker 1: rather go to trade schools, vocational schools, and learn a skill.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the number of high school grads enrolling in
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  Speaker 1: traditional colleges is down 13%, and more and more going
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  Speaker 1: to trade schools. You know, like Lincoln Tech, it's one
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  Speaker 1: of our sponsors. Great trade schools. You go to a
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  Speaker 1: trade school You learn something. Be an electrician, be a plumber,
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  Speaker 1: be an HVAC, be an IT guy, whatever. You come
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  Speaker 1: out of there with a skill. You go right to work.
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  Speaker 1: Your first job, you're getting $ 100, 000 a year, and you
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  Speaker 1: make a whole lot more money. You do very well.
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  Speaker 1: You go to college. You get your fancy degree, your
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  Speaker 1: liberal arts degree, your political history degree, and then you
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  Speaker 1: go live in your parents' house for the next 20 years,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't get a job. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: are a highly trained electrician, There's a million people that
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  Speaker 1: want to hire you. When you come around with your
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  Speaker 1: liberal arts degree, nobody knows what the hell to do
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  Speaker 1: with you. So trade schools way up, college enrollment dropping.
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  Speaker 1: Not to mention, you know, your college is stuck there
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  Speaker 1: for four years. These trade schools, you're there two years,
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  Speaker 1: you're out and you're making money instantly. Nobody leaves the
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  Speaker 1: trade school and goes and lives in their parents' basement.
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  Speaker 1: It's not happening. So it's a good thing to think.
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  Speaker 1: And some of the top college professors, have actually told me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they look at the class and they see
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  Speaker 1: like 30% of this class shouldn't even be here. They
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  Speaker 1: should be in a trade school. There's nothing here for them.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing here that's going to help them. So the
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  Speaker 1: president's ballroom continuing. Now it's up to 90,000 square feet.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how big that is? You know how
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  Speaker 1: big a ballroom that is? 90,000 square feet. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to take a while to build. Now by the time
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  Speaker 1: it's finished, Trump will be leaving office. So he's not
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  Speaker 1: building it for himself. He's building it for future presidents,
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  Speaker 1: although if a Democrat wins, they all claim they'll tear
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  Speaker 1: it down. The first thing they'll do is tear it down,
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  Speaker 1: which would be the most ridiculous, childish, most selfish act imaginable. However,
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  Speaker 1: Trump says they won't be able to tear it down.
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  Speaker 1: He's using a type of steel you can't tear down.
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  Speaker 1: He's using what they call nuclear concrete that you really,
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  Speaker 1: it's impossible to tear it down. You can hit it
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  Speaker 1: with 10 planes and you can't tear it down. So
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  Speaker 1: let's see. This is going to be an interesting battle
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  Speaker 1: In the future. So, hey, some restaurants are infuriating customers.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of chains. One is Wingstop because they
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  Speaker 1: decided they will not take cash anymore. You know, everybody's
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  Speaker 1: paying cashless, obviously credit cards, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people now using Google Pay, using Apple Pay. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you see it in the supermarket all the time. They
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  Speaker 1: just hold their phone up to the thing and pay
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  Speaker 1: on Apple Pay. They pay with their phone. Some chains
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  Speaker 1: will not take cash anymore. which makes sense because a lot,
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  Speaker 1: most people don't use, very few people use cash anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't have to have cash here, boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot easier in operation, taking cash to the bank,
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  Speaker 1: getting cash, trusting employees with cash. It's a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: So now the only problem, some people are complaining like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: There's some, I guess, very old people that still use cash.
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  Speaker 1: And I would think, I would think a lot of gangsters,
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  Speaker 1: they don't like to use credit or that they like cash.
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  Speaker 1: They carry cash. That way there's no record of where
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  Speaker 1: they've been, no record of any transaction. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Tony Sopranos, they got a big roll of cash with the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: one of those big thick broccoli rubber bands around it. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: also drug dealers, cartels, I would imagine they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to use any, uh, any digital credit card because it
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  Speaker 1: leaves a paper trail of where you are. So, uh, they're,
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  Speaker 1: they're a little upset about this no cash thing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're in a Drugstore, Duane Reade, you're in the supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: You see somebody take out cash. You look at it
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  Speaker 1: like you can't believe they're using cash. And it slows
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  Speaker 1: everything down. They have to actually make change and give
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  Speaker 1: them the right change. It's ridiculous. Hey, speaking of college,
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  Speaker 1: all those kids that get out of these four-year colleges
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  Speaker 1: with their big fancy degrees and can't get a job
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  Speaker 1: and there's nothing for them to do in life and
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  Speaker 1: they move back in with their parents. Now, here's a
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  Speaker 1: study that shows they're calling them the highly educated downwardly mobile.
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  Speaker 1: The more highly educated, the less chance they have to
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  Speaker 1: ever work and they're living in their parents' house. It's
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  Speaker 1: these voters that they say are fueling the rise on
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  Speaker 1: the far left, the very far left, the democratic socialists.
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  Speaker 1: This is their sweet spot. According to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: studies here, highly educated, downwardly mobile. They can't get a job.
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  Speaker 1: They got all kinds of fancy degrees that are useless.
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  Speaker 1: They become angry, spoiled brats, brats. spoiled brats. And the
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  Speaker 1: study says this is the biggest generational temper tantrum we've seen.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they're so angry about. That's why they hate
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  Speaker 1: the system. And that's why they like the socialism. The
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  Speaker 1: problem with capitalism is they can't compete. They can't even
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  Speaker 1: get a job doing anything. Speaking of that, the mayor's wife,
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  Speaker 1: Zoran Mamdami's wife, is Rama Diwaji. You notice she's always
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  Speaker 1: on vacations. She's always taking these, and not just a
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  Speaker 1: regular vacation, these crazy vacations. Once again, she's jetting off
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  Speaker 1: to Europe for a posh Islamic-centered women's retreat. First Lady
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  Speaker 1: will resume her role as the artist in residence with
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  Speaker 1: the Women's Sanctuary for something. It's a journey through Islamic
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  Speaker 1: calligraphy in Porto, Portugal. You know, they have these vacations.
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  Speaker 1: You ever hear of some? We have these commercials sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: You can take the oldies cruise where they got all
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  Speaker 1: the oldies artists on them. You can take the disco
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  Speaker 1: cruise where they got disco stuff going on. This has
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  Speaker 1: got to be the worst one I've ever heard. The
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  Speaker 1: Islamic calligraphy vacation. Hey, don't laugh. It's 4,300 a room. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: a shared room. Private room, 5,200. It will take place
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  Speaker 1: in the tranquil countryside of Arcos de Valdevis or whatever
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  Speaker 1: the hell it is. But some people are critical. It's
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  Speaker 1: an expensive vacation. It's some left-wing kook stuff. And they
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  Speaker 1: point out, you know, these people, these socialists talking about affordability,
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  Speaker 1: the poor... Here they are jet-setting around the world on
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  Speaker 1: this elitist, crazy nonsense. But that's what socialism's always been.
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  Speaker 1: That's always been the case with socialism. It's about everybody's
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  Speaker 1: broken down and living on welfare, and the leaders have
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  Speaker 1: got mansions and private jets, and the leaders live like kings.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way it works. Bernie Sanders, you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the poor, the people who can't afford. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: he's got three mansions. He's flying around on private jets.
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  Speaker 1: That's socialism. Hey, this place in Miami, the Golden Goat,
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  Speaker 1: people are coming from all over the place for their
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  Speaker 1: Australian Wagyu hot dog. It's a $ 100 hot dog. $ 100
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  Speaker 1: for the hot dog. It's Wagyu beef. It's got 24-carat
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  Speaker 1: gold on it. It's topped with creme fraiche, mascarpone cheese,
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  Speaker 1: 30 grams of Golden Goat, classic Acetra chives. It's got
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  Speaker 1: actual gold flakes. It's $ 100, and people are lining up
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  Speaker 1: around the block for it. This is one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that catches on on Instagram, the $ 100 hot dog. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you've got a Costco card, go into Costco. It's $ 1. 50.
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  Speaker 1: It's the finest hot dog you will ever eat. There's
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  Speaker 1: no more delicious hot dog. And the bun is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: They make that special bun. $ 1. 50. It's 100 times better
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  Speaker 1: if you did a blind taste test. with that Costco
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  Speaker 1: hot dog and this $ 100 hot dog, the $ 100 hot
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  Speaker 1: dog would not have a chance. Oh, there's other great
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  Speaker 1: hot dogs. There's Walter's in Westchester. That's like the Peter
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  Speaker 1: Luger of hot dogs. There's Hiram's in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: There's Super Weenie in Connecticut, Bridgeport, but still the best, Costco.
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  Speaker 1: There's no better hot dog than that one. Hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: out of time. Thanks for listening. You know, if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to listen on the air, it's three hours every day,
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  Speaker 1: nine to noon every day. So thanks for listening to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. I'll be back on Monday. Have a great weekend.