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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's more of Mark the Mark Simon Show on wor
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful sunny day to day. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: great in the seventies, so enjoy it. Over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the big number one box office movie was
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  Speaker 1: the Michael Jackson biopic, but it got beaten badly this
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  Speaker 1: weekend by Devilwaar's Prada two. Michael Jackson movie over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend did fifty four million dollars. Devilware's Proda two seventy
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars. Seventy eight million dollars. It's pretty impressive. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as I've explained, I don't know how. Somehow I never
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  Speaker 1: saw the Devilwaar's product, the original movie. I never saw it.
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  Speaker 1: So before this thing, the new one, it's better go
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  Speaker 1: look at the old one. And I watched it. I
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  Speaker 1: was shocked, you know. I heard it was a movie
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  Speaker 1: about the most awful person you could ever work for,
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  Speaker 1: the most brutal, awful boss you could ever have, the
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  Speaker 1: most cruel, brutal executive. So I'm watching the movie and
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you, after years and years and years
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  Speaker 1: and years in the media business, she was nothing. I've
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  Speaker 1: worked for people much worse than that, not everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the media business. But let's say, I don't know, what
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  Speaker 1: would you say, fifteen percent, twenty worse than that, ten
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  Speaker 1: times worse than that. And when you're you ever go
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  Speaker 1: to a TV network or a big you know, if
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  Speaker 1: it's the biggest stars, and a lot of them are
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  Speaker 1: worse than that to work for. I mean, much worse
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  Speaker 1: than that. She was a pleasure compared to some of
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  Speaker 1: the people I've seen so but I guess if you're
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  Speaker 1: in a normal corporate office and normal business, normal you
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  Speaker 1: never see anything like that. But when you get into
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  Speaker 1: the media world, you see it all the time. But
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  Speaker 1: it was a big, big, big, big success. The original
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  Speaker 1: movie and the new one brings back most of the
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  Speaker 1: cast except what's his name? What's his name? From Entourage?
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  Speaker 1: Adrian Greneer for some reason, he's not back. He was great,
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  Speaker 1: but he's doing very well. Devilware's product, too, is going
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  Speaker 1: to have a probably a weeks and weeks and weeks
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  Speaker 1: of beating everybody at the box office, probably make a
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars before it's all over. Hey, Gavin Newsom, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote a book, he quite his biography. It's an autobiography,
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  Speaker 1: and it just made the bestseller list. Now is that impressive. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we just found out his pack, his organization bought sixty
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  Speaker 1: nine percent of the books. It's legal, you're allowed to
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  Speaker 1: do that. The bestseller list just reports sales. They don't
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  Speaker 1: say who bought them. So it was not the public
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  Speaker 1: that bought the book. It was Gavin Newsom himself bought
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine percent of the books. That took millions and
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  Speaker 1: millions from his pack and purchased hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: copies of the book. So we would get on the
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  Speaker 1: bestseller list. Now what do they do with them, Well,
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  Speaker 1: they'll give them his gifts to donors. They'll pass them
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  Speaker 1: out at fundraising events. It's not illegal. You can do it.
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  Speaker 1: People have done that sometimes. Now you're going to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, Now I see Donald Trump did it very strategically.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to get on the bestseller list. They
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  Speaker 1: you know, they don't like even the New York Times bestsellers.
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  Speaker 1: They don't go call every store in America. They don't
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  Speaker 1: call every bookstore on earth. They have what they call
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  Speaker 1: reporting stores. It's a handful of stores. They use those
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  Speaker 1: as the sample. So one of them is that beautiful
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  Speaker 1: bookstore in Ridge is a Ridgefield Connected. No, it's a
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey Ridgewood, New Jersey book Review in Huntington. For
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  Speaker 1: years that was the reporting store. And that's why at
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  Speaker 1: those stores like this bookstore in Huntington, it's no longer
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  Speaker 1: their book review. You look in the window, they had
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  Speaker 1: these posters for who is going to be speaking? There
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  Speaker 1: be the biggest names in the world, and you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: Why would they all be coming to Huntington Because that
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  Speaker 1: was the reporting store for New York Times. So if
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  Speaker 1: you could sell five hundred books there, you'd zoom up
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  Speaker 1: the chart. It finally closed book Review in Huntington, but
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  Speaker 1: some of the guys that worked there reopened across the
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  Speaker 1: streets called the Next Chapter very good bookstore. Chuck Schumer
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  Speaker 1: set a record over the weekend. People could not believe it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he does these fake Sunday press conferences because
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  Speaker 1: during the week no matter what he does, nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: to put this guy on TV. He's an awkward, klutz, boring,
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  Speaker 1: obnoxious sort of a care Nobody's gonna put him on TV.
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  Speaker 1: But there's nothing going on on Sunday, there's no news.
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  Speaker 1: So if he holds a press conference, all the TV
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  Speaker 1: stations even the newspapers will go cover it because on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: you're running the assignment desk. You got all these reporters,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing happening. There's no place to send these people,
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  Speaker 1: so you send them to the Schumer press conference. That's why
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  Speaker 1: he does a Sunday press conference. That's the reason you
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  Speaker 1: see him on the new There was nothing going on
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. If he did it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, you'd
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  Speaker 1: never hear you'd never hear about it. Nobody would cover it.
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  Speaker 1: And he comes up with a fake issue. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, in Congress they tell me on Friday everybody
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  Speaker 1: locks their office because the Schumer people come around searching
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  Speaker 1: for an issue. They can use some legislation somebody's proposing,
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  Speaker 1: so they try to steal something from your issues. So
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  Speaker 1: usually it's about seat belts on airplanes. Yes, something stupid.
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  Speaker 1: He makes a whole press conference out of it, and
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  Speaker 1: then as soon as press conference is over, he crumbles
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  Speaker 1: up the script that was written, throws it in the
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  Speaker 1: waste basket, and never thinks about the issue again, never
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  Speaker 1: does anything about it. So yesterday's press conference, people could
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  Speaker 1: not believe this. It's you know, they found out some
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  Speaker 1: people in government are betting on things on the poly market,
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  Speaker 1: like they'll bet on when we're going to hit Iran Iran,
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  Speaker 1: or they'll bet on when the war will be over,
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  Speaker 1: or they'll bet on and you can make money on
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  Speaker 1: that poly market if you're right. So they found out
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  Speaker 1: some government people were doing so he is calling for
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  Speaker 1: a legislation that nobody in Congress is allowed to bet
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  Speaker 1: on the polymarket. Nobody is allowed to bet on anything
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  Speaker 1: and try to make money off it. Because he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they could have inside knowledge and it's not
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  Speaker 1: fair for them to bet and he read it. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a script. He's reading it. He doesn't none of
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  Speaker 1: this is real or sincere. He just reads the script
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  Speaker 1: with the stupid glasses on. Then he crumples it up
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  Speaker 1: and throws it away. But after this one, everybody said, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, why aren't you call him for a
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  Speaker 1: ban on insider stock trading. That's where they're making their
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  Speaker 1: real money. That's how you know Nancy Pelosi goes in
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  Speaker 1: the with a dollar fifty and leaves with eight hundred million.
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  Speaker 1: The polymarket is nothing. In fact, that's kind of fair.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you're letting him do the illegal stock trade.
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  Speaker 1: Schumer has refused to answer this. I know he's Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: biggest typocrits on earth, but but this is like a
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  Speaker 1: new record for unbelow believable hypocrisy. So don't let don't
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  Speaker 1: let Shumer forget about this one, crazy, Mom Donnie, we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about him before. I mean just absolutely. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people say Dinkins was the worst mayor ever.
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  Speaker 1: I think Deblasio kind of stole the title away. He's
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  Speaker 1: kind of thought of as the worst mayor because everything
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  Speaker 1: was great under Rudy, under Bloomberg and then it all
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  Speaker 1: started to go back to where it was under de Blasio.
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  Speaker 1: But before he's done, Mom Donnie, will steal the title
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  Speaker 1: for worst mayor ever. The difference is Deblasio actually try
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  Speaker 1: to do stuff, bad stuff, but he tried to do it.
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  Speaker 1: The only good news is, Mom Donnie, he never actually
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  Speaker 1: doesn't And he's basically a mayor TikTok. He's just a
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  Speaker 1: TikTok influencer. That's really all he does is videos. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when there's an issue, he does a video like this
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  Speaker 1: Pierre terror Tacks. Watch You'll never get this thing passed.
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  Speaker 1: The free grocery store. He's never gonna get that built.
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  Speaker 1: You'll never see a free grocery store. The housing things,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never see it happen. Never see it happen. It's
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  Speaker 1: just Instagram TikTok making videos. You're going to see that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh incredible. The output from this guy on amazing as
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  Speaker 1: far as getting anything done. And forget about it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the assassin, that would be assassin Cole Allen latest on him.
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  Speaker 1: A little more detail that's coming out. They said he
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  Speaker 1: thought of himself as Rambo. He really believed he was Rambo.
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  Speaker 1: He armed himself to the teeth. He had everything on him.
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  Speaker 1: Besides the big rifle. He had all kinds of guns, knives, blackjacks,
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  Speaker 1: everything on him. They're definitely going to charge him with
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  Speaker 1: an assassination attempt. He got nowhere near the president and
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  Speaker 1: actually didn't even get that close to the ballroom or
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  Speaker 1: get in. But because he wrote it out in his manifesto,
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  Speaker 1: now some people are saying in the manifesto he never
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  Speaker 1: named the president as a target. He talked about the government,
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  Speaker 1: but no, the part where he said about a cereal,
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  Speaker 1: a rapist, a pedophile, even though those things aren't true. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he was referring to Trump. There are plenty of people
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  Speaker 1: that have convinced themselves that somewhere in the Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: it says he was a pedophile. There's nothing in the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files about Trump, nothing bad, nothing at all in there.
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  Speaker 1: But you still hear a lot of Democrats always talking
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  Speaker 1: about it. Wow Trump yep this is all to cover
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  Speaker 1: up the Epstein files. Iran was to cover up the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files. The last guy that wants to cover up
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  Speaker 1: these files is Trump because it totally exonerates him from
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  Speaker 1: all the ridiculous rumors. He should be the first one
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  Speaker 1: that would want everybody go go read through the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing bad. In fact, the only thing you see
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  Speaker 1: about Trump in there is Epstein hated Trump. Trump knew
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  Speaker 1: him a billion years ago, and then very early in
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  Speaker 1: the relationship found out he was a sleeve and cut
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  Speaker 1: him off. So all through the Epstein files you can
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  Speaker 1: see that Epstein hates Trump so much he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: ruin him. Even in the first term, he's plotting on
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  Speaker 1: how to ruin Trump. That awful sleezeball crazy writer Michael
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  Speaker 1: Wolfe writes all kinds of fake stuff. He's talking to
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  Speaker 1: Michael wolf all day and Night trying to plot with
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  Speaker 1: him what they can do to cause Trump's downfall, and
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  Speaker 1: of course there's nothing there, so they never ever actually
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  Speaker 1: came up with anything. Latest in Iran, first it came
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  Speaker 1: out that we will escort any ships that want to
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  Speaker 1: go through the streets of Hormose. We'll escort ships who
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  Speaker 1: want to bring their oil through. Now it turns out
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  Speaker 1: the US clarifying that we will not escort the ships.
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  Speaker 1: We will be there and guard the streets of Hormoose
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  Speaker 1: as they come through. Well, that's not good enough for
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  Speaker 1: the insurance companies. It's still risky. In fact, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of ships tried to come through Iran fired warning shots.
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  Speaker 1: The real problem is the insurance companies. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: a couple million for the tanker, it's a couple million
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  Speaker 1: for the oil on board, and insurance companies. You can't
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  Speaker 1: move without the insurance. Insurance companies will not ensure you
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  Speaker 1: right now if you want to go through the straits
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  Speaker 1: of horror Moose. So and Iran has issued more threats.
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  Speaker 1: Now there is a ceasefire, but it's pretty good it is.
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  Speaker 1: You could say it's a stalemate, but it's our stalemate.
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  Speaker 1: We could go back in and start wiping out everything
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  Speaker 1: else if we want. It's kind of a productive stalemate
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  Speaker 1: because right now Iran is kind of neutered. They can't
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  Speaker 1: really do anything. In the past, they've been sponsoring hesbalah
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  Speaker 1: Hamas and the hoodies and all kinds of terrorism, and
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  Speaker 1: they can't do that right now. Their money's all gone,
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  Speaker 1: their revenue has stopped. Obviously, there's still some possible nuclear
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  Speaker 1: material buried somewhere, but right now they can't dig it out.
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  Speaker 1: They can't do anything where they'll be seen by satellites
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  Speaker 1: and quickly blown up. So we're in pretty good shape
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  Speaker 1: right now. Iran is not a threat as we speak.
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  Speaker 1: We could keep the stalemate and straight to hor Moose.
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  Speaker 1: We can't open that if we wanted to take a
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  Speaker 1: lot of manpower to go clean out along the shore
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  Speaker 1: all those little what they call mosquito boats. But there's
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  Speaker 1: no Russia on that, so we'll see when that happens. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite restaurants is closing right up at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the block, the Red Eye Grill is
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  Speaker 1: there's a guy named Shelley Fireman. He just passed away
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  Speaker 1: at the age of ninety three, but he's one of
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  Speaker 1: the great restaurant tours in New York, Shelley Fireman, Tratteria
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  Speaker 1: de Larte, the Brooklyn Diner, Fiarellas and Lincoln Center. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of great restaurants. He was ninety two ninety three, still
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  Speaker 1: working all day and night. In fact, he opened the
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  Speaker 1: Paris Bar on fifty seven Street. That's the new place.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of people love the Red Eye Grill.
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  Speaker 1: It's been there thirty years. Problem was that with the
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  Speaker 1: landlord they were trying to negotiate a new lease. I
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  Speaker 1: guess the price was crazy. So even a big article
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  Speaker 1: in the post today the Red Eye Grill will close
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  Speaker 1: after thirty years. Good news. It will not close until July,
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  Speaker 1: so you might want to go there and visit one
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  Speaker 1: more time. This guy named Richard is the great manager.
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  Speaker 1: They are one of the best restaurants around this neighborhood. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld, good for him. You know, Jerry Seinfeld is
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  Speaker 1: a big car guy, Porsche collector, big car guy. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't usually get too political or you know, doesn't usually
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  Speaker 1: get involved in any issues. But he has come out
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  Speaker 1: in this interview and said, forget about electric cars. It's
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  Speaker 1: a stupid virtue signal, said he has zero interest in
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  Speaker 1: electric cars. Seinfeldt said he thinks evs are bs and
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  Speaker 1: questioned how environmentally friendly they actually are. Now, you remember,
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  Speaker 1: a gas car runs on gas, an electric car runs
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  Speaker 1: on cole. That's where you get electricity from from coal,
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  Speaker 1: and cole is polluting a lot more than gas. And
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  Speaker 1: he also points out, what about the these lithium batteries.
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  Speaker 1: It's like the biggest environmental hazard in the world. A
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  Speaker 1: lithium battery is impossible to dispose of. It's an environmental hazard.
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  Speaker 1: It's worse than nuclear waste. The electric car fanatics will argue, well,
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  Speaker 1: but they last so long you won't have to dispose
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  Speaker 1: of it too often. Well, there would still be millions
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  Speaker 1: of these that we wouldn't know what to do with.
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  Speaker 1: So even seinfeld saying electric cars are bs, and he said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a big stupid virtue signal. It's look
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  Speaker 1: at me, I'm saving the planet. And what about the
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  Speaker 1: lithium it's all bs. That's the quote from seinfeld Well,
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  Speaker 1: good for him for speaking out. Hey, Starbucks has a
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  Speaker 1: new CEO. He's getting the ridiculed a little for being
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  Speaker 1: a little out of touch. He was trying to defend
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  Speaker 1: the company's coffee prices and the nine dollars cup of coffee,
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  Speaker 1: and he said the steep price reflects a premium experience
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  Speaker 1: that they're offering to customers. He said, the customers across
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  Speaker 1: all income levels are happy to shell out nine bucks
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  Speaker 1: for coffee because they want a chance to interact with
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  Speaker 1: the barista or score a great seat inside the chain.
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  Speaker 1: Who the hell wants to interact with the baristas is
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  Speaker 1: a totally unpleasant thing. I mean, they're nice people, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, you go in there, there's four of them
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  Speaker 1: work in there, and you want to order. One of
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  Speaker 1: them's on the phone, two of them are talking, one
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  Speaker 1: of them's a stock on the shelf. You can't even
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  Speaker 1: get them to wait on you. Then when they finally
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  Speaker 1: wait on you, it's like the motor vehicle department. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: now you're done here. Now you gotta go wait and
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  Speaker 1: line over there to get your coffee. Nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: interact with these baristas. And a great seat inside the
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  Speaker 1: what the hell would be a great seat inside Starbucks?
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  Speaker 1: A great seat would be get the hell out of
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  Speaker 1: that dump and go sit in park or something. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, this is really an affordable premium experience because
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  Speaker 1: they're saying, well, it's it's less than ten dollars and
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  Speaker 1: it's a real premium experience. What is wrong with this guy?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think anybody walks by a Starbucks and go, wow,
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  Speaker 1: look at that. I'd love to be sitting in there
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  Speaker 1: with their cheap little chairs and their crummy little tape.
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  Speaker 1: Premium experience, he said. And it could start with as
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  Speaker 1: little as three dollars for a traditional cup of coffee,
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  Speaker 1: and then you build your way up to customized drinks
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  Speaker 1: that people love that move the ticket up. But it's
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  Speaker 1: that premium experience this guy is. He makes the McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: seal look really in touch. Anyway, we'll take some calls. Next.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
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  Speaker 1: the number, eight hundred three to two, one zero seven ten.