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Hour 1: Obama's campaign record. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, 710WOR presents The Mark Simone Show. Hey, it's one
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  Speaker 1: week from Election Day. It's one week from today. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you all the latest polling in a moment. And
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  Speaker 1: Israel elections are today. They're taking place as we speak. It's, well,
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  Speaker 1: the time difference is it's six hours later. in Israel,
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  Speaker 1: normally seven, but they go off daylight saving time a
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  Speaker 1: week before we do. So right now, there's a period
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  Speaker 1: of a week where it's a six-hour time difference. So
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  Speaker 1: it would be afternoon, getting to be late afternoon there.
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  Speaker 1: The voting taking place, we'll go over that election. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump all over the place, crisscrossing the nation. He goes
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  Speaker 1: to Texas today, speaking for hours at rallies. Got a
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  Speaker 1: little raspy. And of course, fake news went immediately to work,
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  Speaker 1: declaring him dying. What's wrong with him? Something's wrong with him. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: this is he's getting he's worse than Joe Biden. He's
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  Speaker 1: flying all over the country. He's been in like 12
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  Speaker 1: states in five days. He is doing three hour rallies
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  Speaker 1: every day. You tend to get a little raspy after that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel great.
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  Speaker 2: I was shouting at people because they were stupid about
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  Speaker 2: something having to do with the trade in a country
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  Speaker 2: and I straighten it out but I blew my stack
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  Speaker 2: at these.
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  Speaker 3: Well it sounds like there's a follow-up there but can
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  Speaker 3: I ask you about Venezuela you suggested what it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like there's a follow-up there can I ask you about
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  Speaker 3: Venezuela you.
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  Speaker 4: Said there was a polyp I don't want.
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  Speaker 1: To hear that well yeah no besides these three-hour speeches
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  Speaker 1: these loud rallies he's good at yelling at people too
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  Speaker 1: All right. Now, this is the big controversy in the
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  Speaker 1: world today. President Obama, former President Obama, attacks Trump. He's
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  Speaker 1: out there stumping for candidates now. He's in Michigan because
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  Speaker 1: Al-Sayed is in real trouble with black voters. They think
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  Speaker 1: Obama can help there. But I don't think people have
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  Speaker 1: looked at Obama's track record as a campaigner for other people,
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  Speaker 1: as an endorser for other people. It's a bad track record.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the people, almost everybody he endorses or campaigns for, loses.
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  Speaker 1: It happens all the time. Remember in 2024, election time,
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  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was in trouble. He went out there to
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  Speaker 1: stump her. And of course, every time he does this,
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  Speaker 1: the person loses. Now, the big controversy, the major controversy,
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  Speaker 1: the way Trump decorates. Now, Obama went after him, making
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  Speaker 1: fun of him. He said, the guy spends all his
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  Speaker 1: time on Home renovation. Okay, there is... No, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: spend all his time on it. Nine to five, he's
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  Speaker 1: President of the United States. Five to seven, he goes
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  Speaker 1: to work with the contractors. He has really fixed up
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  Speaker 1: the White House. It was in terrible shape. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff was really decaying, decrepit, and he fixed it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office, that's a different story. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anybody looks at what he's done with the
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  Speaker 1: Oval Office and takes the picture and gives it to
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  Speaker 1: their decorator and says, I want this. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anybody wants that. It's a little... Let's be honest, it's Liberace-ish.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not as bad as Obama makes it out
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  Speaker 1: to be. And Obama said, looks like Saddam Hussein opened
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  Speaker 1: a cheesecake factory. Well, I don't think he realized he's
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  Speaker 1: an elitist, Martha's Vineyard sort of a guy. He was
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  Speaker 1: putting down Cheesecake Factory, which is a big, wonderful place
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  Speaker 1: to most Americans. And to most Americans, it's an upscale
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  Speaker 1: sort of a place. It's not something to be demeaned.
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  Speaker 1: So And who, oh, it was Besson, Scott Besson, whenever.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Besson, good for him. Yesterday, he went to the
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  Speaker 1: Cheesecake Factory and had lunch. And as he came out,
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  Speaker 1: the reporters, oh, what are you? He goes, I always
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  Speaker 1: order the French dip cheeseburger. Wow, that did sound good.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big Cheesecake Factory person. And he said, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you elitists in the Martha's Vineyard set ought to try
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  Speaker 1: Cheesecake Factory. So that was the problem. Obama seemed a
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  Speaker 1: little out of touch with normal America on that. But
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  Speaker 1: Trump responded yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: He said, this isn't a cheesecake factory, can you believe it?
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  Speaker 2: Which is a very successful company. This isn't, he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: like successful companies.
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  Speaker 4: I've taken care of the White House. I fixed it
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  Speaker 4: with the finest artisans in the world. We have to
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  Speaker 4: explain that to Obama because he doesn't understand it because
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  Speaker 4: he's not a smart guy, let me tell you. In
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  Speaker 4: my opinion, he's not smart at all because the way
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  Speaker 4: he ran the country, only a stupid person would run
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  Speaker 4: the country like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you want to fix your house and
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  Speaker 1: you bring a contractor in and you see the six
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  Speaker 1: things wrong. When this professional eye comes in, he sees
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  Speaker 1: like eight other things you didn't see. So Trump, a
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  Speaker 1: professional builder, one of the best in America, comes into
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  Speaker 1: the White House. And a lot of it was actually decrepit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when those world leaders come to visit and
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  Speaker 1: Monica Crowley greets them outside and then brings them in. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the first place they come into, this big lobby, it's
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  Speaker 1: called the Palm Court. It was really decrepit. It was
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  Speaker 1: like old linoleum floors and the walls were like peeling wallpaper.
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  Speaker 1: So the first thing Trump did, he put in beautiful
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  Speaker 1: marble floors and beautiful walls and fixed it up. And
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  Speaker 1: then as he walked around the White House, there were
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  Speaker 1: pieces of molding cracked and ornaments on the windows cracked.
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  Speaker 1: And they had to be replaced. So he's got a point.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't Obama or any of these other people, Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 1: he's half blind bumping into walls, he probably cracked the ornaments. But...
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't Obama see this?
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  Speaker 4: We have to explain to Obama that the White House
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  Speaker 4: is a symbol of America and it has to be
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  Speaker 4: maintained properly. It has to be painted and the exterior
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  Speaker 4: plaster can't be falling off the walls and the decorations
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  Speaker 4: and ornaments around the windows that are magnificent can't be
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  Speaker 4: on one side of the window and fallen off on
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  Speaker 4: the other side. It has to be clean. The columns
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  Speaker 4: can't be broken. The bricks can't be falling off from
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  Speaker 4: under the plaster. And for you to say it's a
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  Speaker 4: cheesecake factory, that just shows why you're a lousy president.
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  Speaker 1: So he really went after him. And he has replaced
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. And it's not easy. You know, those
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  Speaker 1: ornaments on the side, those carvings are 100 years old.
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  Speaker 1: He had to have an expert come and make a
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  Speaker 1: molding so they could recreate them for the other side.
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  Speaker 1: Did a lot of work to fix things up. So, hey,
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  Speaker 1: there's a new survey that comes out. They do this
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  Speaker 1: every year of the best governors in America. It's based
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of factors, economics, crime, people's life standards.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of factors. Very careful study. Guess who won?
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  Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul. as the worst governor in America, single worst
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  Speaker 1: governor in America, came in 50th place, 50th place. Throw
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  Speaker 1: her the hell out one week from today. Vote for
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman one week from today. Actually, don't even wait,
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  Speaker 1: go do it today. Now there's some new polling, detailed polling,
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  Speaker 1: on voter enthusiasm and voter likelihood. And here's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: with Democrats, in the new polling, they are much more
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  Speaker 1: enthusiastic than Republicans. They're coming out in huge numbers in
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  Speaker 1: the early voting, far more than Republicans. But in the polling,
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  Speaker 1: it shows that when it comes to election day, Republicans
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  Speaker 1: will turn out in greater numbers. They're more committed. There
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  Speaker 1: could be more voting, but they've got to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all about turnout. If Republicans turn out They
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  Speaker 1: will win this election if Republicans turn out. It's all
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  Speaker 1: about turnout. And I keep telling you, do it now.
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  Speaker 1: Do it this week. Do the early voting. There's no lines.
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  Speaker 1: You can walk right in. And it's much easier. Don't
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  Speaker 1: wait until Election Day because you never know. Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: Election Day, it's pouring rain. You don't want to go.
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  Speaker 1: Election Day, you get busy. You can't go. Do it
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  Speaker 1: this week. You can do the early voting. Get to
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  Speaker 1: the polls and vote. Michigan, El-Sayed, it's interesting. He's going...
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  Speaker 1: He must be having trouble with his base because he's
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  Speaker 1: going full anti-Semite. He's an anti-Semitic guy. He hates Jews,
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  Speaker 1: just like Mom Donnie, just like a lot of Democrat candidates.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know where this came from, this anti-Semitism. It
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  Speaker 1: just sprung up over the last decade. Now it's out
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  Speaker 1: of control. In the El-Sayed campaign, there's now an ad
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  Speaker 1: running that Hitler could have made this ad. Literally, it's
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  Speaker 1: the most anti-Semitic, disgusting ad. Now, it's made by an
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  Speaker 1: outside PAC, and you are supposed to believe that El-Sayed
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with it and no knowledge of it. But,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, you do the math. It's anti-Semitic. It's
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  Speaker 1: a couple in a grocery store. The prices are so high,
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  Speaker 1: and they blame the Jews. This is what Hitler did.
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  Speaker 1: He would run these kind of ads all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: about how the Jews are the reason you're paying more money,
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  Speaker 1: the Jews are the problem, everything is caused by the Jews.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this ad.
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  Speaker 5: Honey.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: You're going to have to put those eggs back.
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  Speaker 1: They don't like eggs anymore?
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  Speaker 5: No, they like eggs, but we have to set that
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  Speaker 5: $ 7 aside for killing Palestinians.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, don't we give Israel $ 4 billion a year anyways?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and now we're giving them another $ 26 billion. Do
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  Speaker 5: you know how much that is per American taxpayer? It's
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  Speaker 5: like $ 161 per person. Apparently it's costing us a lot
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  Speaker 5: of money to drop bomb.
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  Speaker 1: On gaza all right this is out and out hitler
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  Speaker 1: you know they love to throw that hitler one this
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  Speaker 1: is hitler hitler used to do this in speeches and
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  Speaker 1: his propaganda this is what led up to the holocaust
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  Speaker 1: he blamed the jews for everything every problem you have
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  Speaker 1: is the jews the high prices of the jews i
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  Speaker 1: mean this is Out-and-out Hitler Nazi crap coming from El
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  Speaker 1: Sayad's side.
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  Speaker 5: Might as well put the bananas back.
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  Speaker 1: Why the f * * * do we have to
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  Speaker 1: pay for all this?
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  Speaker 5: Don't cuss at me.
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  Speaker 1: Why does Mike Rogers care so much about what Israelis
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  Speaker 1: want and so little about what you want? Mike Rogers
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  Speaker 1: is for... They-them. All right, it's out-and-out Hitler. It's Joe Garibalds.
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  Speaker 1: It's Joseph Garibalds. It's... This is... This is where Al-Sayed
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  Speaker 1: is headed in a desperate finish in this race. It's
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  Speaker 1: the most disgusting thing we've seen in American politics in
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  Speaker 1: decades and decades and decades. Absolutely disgusting. Now, you know
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  Speaker 1: that ad with the Ohio candidate's mother? This is all
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  Speaker 1: the networks talk about. This is all the New York Times.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to focus on this ad. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: make this ad an issue. This ad right here, this
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  Speaker 1: Hitler ad, they'll never mention it. They'll never mention it.
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  Speaker 1: They'll cover it up. NBC, ABC, CBS, The New York Times,
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  Speaker 1: they'll all cover up this ad. CNN, they won't cover it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most disgusting thing ever. Speaking of CNN, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's been bought by Skydance, the big company, Paramount, CBS, Skydance.
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  Speaker 1: They bought Warner Brothers Discovery. So they now own CNN, HBO,
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  Speaker 1: and all this stuff. But they've got to cut costs.
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  Speaker 1: So they've announced an employee buyout program. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of a lot of people. A lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: They're looking at anybody with over 15 years of experience.
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  Speaker 1: They have been sent a buyout package. They're also demanding
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  Speaker 1: everybody return to work. You've got to be in the
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  Speaker 1: office five days a week. Yeah, one reason companies do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good way to get rid of people. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people will quit over it. So it's five
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  Speaker 1: days a week in the office. The new owner, David Ellison,
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  Speaker 1: says he's got to save. He's got to cut $ 6
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  Speaker 1: billion in costs. So they're going to fire a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people. They'll buy them out, pay them off. But
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are going. $ 6 billion. You know
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  Speaker 1: they owe $ 82 billion. That's the debt on this purchase.
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  Speaker 1: They got $ 7. 9 billion in cash, but they owe $ 82 billion. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, election day today in Israel, it's not
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  Speaker 1: certain that Netanyahu will win. There's a lot of opposition
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  Speaker 1: to him. The challenger, the second place, is Gadi Eisenkot.
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  Speaker 1: And they got different views on the Iran war. Eisenkot
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  Speaker 1: believes you can't get regime change. It's never going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: He believes you got to put tremendous economic pressure on Iran.
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  Speaker 1: And he will back strikes on the nuclear program, but
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  Speaker 1: not an all-out return to war. He's a former head
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  Speaker 1: of the Israeli Defense Forces. He just thinks regime change,
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  Speaker 1: he says, is not an achievable goal. He's called for
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  Speaker 1: a balance of military strikes and diplomacy to end the war.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go with the Netanyahu approach, wipe them out. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is important news. These green scheme climate change people
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  Speaker 1: have proven to be wrong every time about everything. They
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  Speaker 1: are always wrong on everything. The windmills were a total failure,
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  Speaker 1: did more environmental harm than just about anything. The solar
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  Speaker 1: panels are useless, don't produce enough energy. You know, in Europe,
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  Speaker 1: parts of Europe, Germany, other countries went totally windmill solar
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  Speaker 1: power for about two years, almost two. They had to
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  Speaker 1: take it all down. It totally fails. It's None of
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  Speaker 1: this stuff works. Remember the paper straws? You can't have
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  Speaker 1: a plastic straw. You've got to have a paper straw,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. Well, the latest detailed study shows that
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  Speaker 1: paper straws are worse for the environment than the plastic
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  Speaker 1: ones in a lot of ways. Traditional plastic straws had
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  Speaker 1: a much lower environmental footprint in 10 different categories. Paper
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  Speaker 1: straws were found to generate over six times more carcinogens
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  Speaker 1: than plastic straws, with double the impact on environmental acidification.
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  Speaker 1: The paper straws, even the ones from the renewable sources,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like sugar cane, produced 15 times more carcinogenic
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  Speaker 1: factors than the regular plastic straws, six times the acidification.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what the metric that scientists use to measure
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  Speaker 1: changes in the ocean and all of that. Study found
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  Speaker 1: the paper straws are so small when they go into
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  Speaker 1: that recycling stuff, they actually don't get recycled. Almost none
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  Speaker 1: of them get recycled. They evade the recycling stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: also their water-resistant coatings and industrial glues prevent them from
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  Speaker 1: breaking down easily, demands more energy during the processing process.
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  Speaker 1: And leaves open the possibility that microplastics could end up
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  Speaker 1: in the recycled pulp. So they are a disaster, the
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  Speaker 1: paper struts. They are worse for the environment than the
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  Speaker 1: plastic struts. This happens every time the Green Scheme climate
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  Speaker 1: change Dems try something. Hey, we got a lot to
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  Speaker 1: get to this morning. A lot to talk about. I'm
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  Speaker 1: here three hours now. 9 to noon every day, 9
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  Speaker 1: to noon, here on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 4: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, the Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, it's a beautiful day. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: beautiful all week. Bright sunshine. It's cooler today. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be autumn weather, but beautiful, bright sunshine. There's no
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  Speaker 1: rain in the forecast for the next six days. A
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  Speaker 1: lot going on all over the place. Now... the U.S., Canada,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the tariffs, the trade war, the tariff war,
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  Speaker 1: the this, that. Apparently, they're very close to settling this.
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  Speaker 1: Negotiations have picked up, gathering steam, according to Kevin Hassett,
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  Speaker 1: director of National Economic Council, very good guy. Trump, talking
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  Speaker 1: about the timeline, said it could be before the election,
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  Speaker 1: so expect it later this week. Expect a total settlement
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  Speaker 1: of all our Battles with Canada. They've been, he points out,
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  Speaker 1: they've been making $ 90 billion a year off us for
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  Speaker 1: years and years and years, taking advantage of a trade imbalance.
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  Speaker 1: So the tariffs have kind of leveled the playing field.
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  Speaker 1: But they're working out something. Talks have been taking place
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  Speaker 1: around the clock. Our Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, his Canadian counterpart,
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  Speaker 1: Dominic LeBlanc, have been negotiating. So it looks like that'll
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  Speaker 1: be settled very soon. which will not make Democrats happy.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be very upset. You know, look how they're yelling
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  Speaker 1: and screaming about these tariffs with Canada. They've made it
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  Speaker 1: a big issue in Michigan. This is all they do
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  Speaker 1: and yell and scream about the tariffs with Canada. The tariffs, they're,
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  Speaker 1: they're going crazy over it. Now watch when it's settled.
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  Speaker 1: They'll never mention it. They won't report it got settled.
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  Speaker 1: They'll never mention it ever again. Uh, they'll go back
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  Speaker 1: to calling them a racist or something like that. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in Europe, uh, The cities are burning, rioters, protesters.
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  Speaker 1: And these are not students. I mean, started with students,
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  Speaker 1: but these are Antifa. These are Middle Eastern crazy Islamic
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  Speaker 1: terrorist group. I mean, these are all kinds of professional
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  Speaker 1: agitators and terrorist groups behind all this stuff. Well, in
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  Speaker 1: the UK, in the United Kingdom, they just told families
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  Speaker 1: to stock up on emergency supplies. They said, Be ready.
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  Speaker 1: They're talking about be ready for war in the country,
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  Speaker 1: in the streets. This is actually a campaign they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They're telling everybody in the public, stock up on all
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  Speaker 1: emergency supplies, food, medicine. Let's see. They're talking canned food,
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  Speaker 1: stock up canned food, diapers, batteries, backup cell phone charging packs,
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  Speaker 1: have enough cash indoors. They're worried that systems there could
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  Speaker 1: be hacked, the local banking systems could be shut down.
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  Speaker 1: They're worried about terrorism, wildfires, floods, cyber attacks. This is
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  Speaker 1: what it's come to in Europe. This is the UK
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  Speaker 1: officially making this announcement. So, hey, the other thing, I
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  Speaker 1: told you about this new polling. The other thing showing
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  Speaker 1: in the polling is more and more swing voters, the independents,
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  Speaker 1: the swing voters, very troubled by socialism. by this democratic
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  Speaker 1: socialist crap. Starting to sour on it, when asked about
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  Speaker 1: their views, 56% had an unfavorable view. That's up from 50%. 60%
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  Speaker 1: feel the Democratic Party is controlled by far-left nuts. That's
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  Speaker 1: up from 50% in September. 82% say they favor personal
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  Speaker 1: freedom and free markets over government control. People in the survey,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: normal common sense people said nothing is free. There's an
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: agenda behind all these protests. of free benefits. Remember, check
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: out my Twitter. If you go to my Twitter, there's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: a great video up there of the lies that Obama
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: pushed selling Obamacare. Of course, the big one was if
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. But
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: it was more than that. It was him promising over
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: and over again as soon as you put in this
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: obamacare health care costs would drop dramatically of course just
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the opposite happened they went crazy and uh the other
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: pointing out if you like your insurance you can keep
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you well that didn't work you know a lot of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: people have great insurance in this race in michigan you
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: got a lot of auto workers in michigan and their
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: union has a health care plan is one of those
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: cadillac plans you don't pay anything nothing you don't pay
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: anything And you get incredible coverage. So to lose that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: to government health care, this is not something they want
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to see there. Bruce Blakeman doing better and better and better.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: But you got to get out there and vote. Do
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: it early. Do the early voting. And you can get
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Blakeman easily across the finish line. He's out campaigning all
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: over the place. Kathy Hochul is the most pro-criminal governor
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: in the United States of America.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: The Ten Commandments say thou shall not steal. She changed
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: it to thou shall not steal, except in New York.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: He's not exaggerating when he says the most pro-criminal. In
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: other words, and blame Cuomo, too. Cuomo and Hochul have
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: this no bail, no jail thing. which is absolutely ridiculous.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You can get caught robbing somebody, a holdup, and then
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: they take you to court and they see that this
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: is your 27th time in the last six months. And
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: there's no bail, no jail. You let go right back
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: out in the street to do it again. And they
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: all know this. The criminals all know this. That's why
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: they just do it over and over again. So worst
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that could happen, they'll be dragged into a police station
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in a courtroom and lose an hour of the day.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And then they're back out on the street. That's why
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: they come right into stores and steal everything. Just legalize shoplifting.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: They know there's no penalty for it. As long as
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you're under a thousand dollars. These are professional rings of
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: shoplifters who've trained all these kids how to steal $ 999
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: and never hit the thousand dollar mark. And they just
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: do it all the time. That's why everything's locked up
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: in the drugstore. You know, You want razor blade. It's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: locked up. You want some aspirin. It's locked up. You
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: got to push the button for the manager. You got
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to wait five minutes. Then the manager comes over with
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the key looking at you like, why are you bothering me?
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Like you really disrupted her day. She's like, Matt, you
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: want to buy something? Now you point. Well, what do
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: you want? That. Then she opens it. Still doesn't know
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: what to hand you. It's the worst pain in the neck.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: They're starting to do it now in California. Their crime
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is so out of control. They're starting to do this,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: believe it or not, in supermarkets. The best cuts of beef,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the most expensive steaks, locked up. You got to push
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the button, wait for the manager to come over and
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: give it to you. But this is HOKL. Cuomo started
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: this with the no bail, no jail. Police will tell
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you that most of the crime on the streets, it's
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the same 2,500 criminals over and over and over again.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: They know who they are. If you let them turn
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the police loose, they could go round them all up
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: in two weeks and that'd be the end of all
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of this stuff. And we could go back to normal.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: But Alvin Bragg and Kathy Hochul, Alvin Bragg is this horrible,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: horrible district attorney. He doesn't put anybody in jail. Let's
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: all the criminals back out. And Hochul has the power
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to remove him. That's another reason you want Blakeman. He'll
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: get something done. He'll put a stop to this. No bail,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: no jail. And if he has to, he'll remove Alvin
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Bragg as the district attorney. The governor has the power
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: to do that. The district attorneys work for the state,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: for the governor. DeSantis had to do that in Florida.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: He had one of these Alvin Bragg crazies letting everybody loose.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: DeSantis removed the DA from office and put in a
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: real DA who started locking criminals up and everything changed.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Everything got a lot better. Hey, we got a lot
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: more to get to. We'll take some calls coming up.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: All sorts of stuff this morning. It's Mark Simone here.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Three hours now, nine to noon, nine to noon. on 710WOR.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone is back on 710WOR. Well, hey, we'll take
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: some calls coming up. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: World Series could be over tonight.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: It's 3-0.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: I got home later last night.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I said, oh, I'm going to watch this game. It's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: going to be an exciting game, World Series. I turned
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it on. 10-0 in the seventh. All right, it's not
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: going to be such an exciting game. It turns out
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it was the mismatch of the century. But, hey, gas prices.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at that. I'm watching CNN. Look at this, CNN.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: This is all talking about gas prices, gas prices, gas prices.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Number one issue, gas prices. Nobody has a lower approval
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: rating with gas prices than President Trump. I hate to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: break it to CNN. There has never been an election
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: in the history of the world where the number one
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: issue was gas prices. Oh, it's an issue. It annoys people.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: especially if you're in a business where you need gasoline
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to do your business. But it's not the number one issue.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: It never has been. It never will be. It's, again, annoying,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: but you don't see everybody running around yelling about gas prices.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: It's not the number one issue. Take it as a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: tribute to Trump. When they're trying to really get him
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: on something, all they can come up with is gas prices.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: They don't have anything else to hit him with. Otherwise,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: economic statistics are phenomenal right now. James Carville, you remember
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the old James Carville, that lizard-looking old fossil? He was
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: like the big Clinton Democratic analyst, but he's now yelling
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and screaming. He puts out these videos where he's yelling
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and he's screaming at progressives and Democratic socialists. He goes,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: you did irreparable damage. You've destroyed the party. You've done
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: real damage. All right, good. First guy to stand up
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to him, but where's Schumer? Where's Hakeem Jeffries on all
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of this? Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Let's go to David in California. David, how you doing?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Hi, Mark. You were talking about the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gotten pretty bad.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Just wanted to mention really quickly, it's always been two newspapers.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: The editorial side's been conservative and the news side has
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: been very liberal. But here's what's going on.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Well, it's gotten extremely liberal and too much fake news
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: in there lately. Too many fake stories lately.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Well, but Trump derangement syndrome has taken over the editorial side.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: But here's the key to it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the news side. News side. I'm talking
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: about the news side. Too many fake stories in there lately.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Right, but the way the journalists they're hiring are these
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: students that are so far left. And that's why, well,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: you see it in TV news, you see it everywhere.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Well, they don't hire students at the Wall Street Journal.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: They hire pretty experienced guys, but it's gone very left,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and they've been caught with too much fake news lately.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: You know, if you read some of these things, like the,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: believe it or not, they still have a Daily News
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: in New York. Remember the Daily News? They still print it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: but it's like two interns writing it, you know, so
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: they just put out a list, top 50 restaurants in
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: New York. It's the stupidest list you've ever seen because
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: they got some 22-year-old who's getting $ 75 a week to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: put together this list. It's not like the old days
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of the Daily News where the top people in their
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: field are writing. It's just a bunch of, couple of
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: kids writing the whole thing. Let's go to Chucky in
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Stony Brook. Chucky, how you doing?
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Hey, Mark. Mark, how are you?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. Mark, what is on God's green.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Earth What is with Nancy Sinatra?
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: What do you mean?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: And her bashing of Trump.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: She is, but her father would have loved Donald Trump.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: No, he hated Trump. He hated, well, I'll tell you what. Trump,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of the Trump personality is taken from Frank Sinatra.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: It's the way Frank Sinatra was in real life. When
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you hear the way Trump talks to the reporters and
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: yells and screams at people, calls people, that was Sinatra
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: in real life. So, he copied a lot of Sinatra's personality,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of it. And then, And that rubbed Mr. Sinatra. No,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: what happened was when he got the casinos, he then
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: decided to hire Frank Sinatra to play the Taj Mahal.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: That was the biggest thing he could do in the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: casino world. And when he got Sinatra there, he started
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: doing all this stuff to Sinatra, nickel and diming him and,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: you know, trying to screw around with the money. So
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Sinatra wouldn't put up with this. So he ended up
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: hating Trump, hating him.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Wow. Okay.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I thought they were likely. those kids nancy and tina
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: sinatra very nice but they grew up in beverly hills
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: high school it was kind of in hollywood you become
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: very left wing so uh their father hated them and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: they're very left which is on that's normal if you
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: grow up in la but thanks for calling let's go
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to uh jerry greenwich connecticut jerry how you doing.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I'm doing well thank you mark I was wondering if
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I give a little plug to my good friend Ryan Fazio,
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: my friend, to vote for him.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're in Connecticut, the governor, Ned Lamont, is
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: running for his third term. He was pretty good the
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: first term, not so hot the last term. He went
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: totally woke and left-wing. Throw him the hell out.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: I would like my friend to vote for him. I
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: like him.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to plug him, and you keep cutting me off.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to promote him. I'm trying to help you here.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And I know Ryan Fazio. He's a great guy. He'll
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: be a terrific governor. He's a wonderful, honest, decent, common
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: sense guy. So in Connecticut, vote for Ryan Fazio for governor.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I have a sign somewhere alone. It's on North Street,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: and I hope that my friends vote for him.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. You live on North Street.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: It's one of the most beautiful palatial streets in America.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: These people that put up the lawn signs, if you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: drive around Connecticut, you see these lawns. What do you think,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that a guy driving by will see a sign and go, oh,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: my God, I guess I got to switch my vote.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I got to vote for it. Do you think the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: lawn sign actually does anything?
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I stood for President Trump. I'm 87 now, and
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: I was 85, and I stood for 11 days for
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: President Trump on North Street, cold, rain.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: All right, but I just want to say, for all
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of you with your lawn signs, throw the lawn sign away.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: It's not helping anybody. Get out there. Call the campaign. Volunteer.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Work a phone bank. Go knock on doors. That's going
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: to help.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: At my age, I don't have the strength to do it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: All right. But then you live on North Street. You're
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a wealthy guy. Donate. Donate to Ryan Fazio.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Okay. That's what I'll do. Thank you.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Mark.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: That's a very important thing. You know, one thing about Democrats,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: they're like an army. They're out there like commandos. Republicans,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: they hold cocktail parties. They put up lawns. It doesn't help.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: It's not doing anything. Get out there. Volunteer on a campaign.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Go to work. Do something. Let's go to Mike in Brooklyn. Mike,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: how you doing? Good morning, Mark.
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: Yesterday during the football game, they were airing an anti-Blakeman commercial,
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: and all these liberals could come up with is that
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: he's a Trump supporter. Nothing against policy, nothing like that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: They just don't want you to vote for him because
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: he's a fan of Trump.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's a good point. You know, the other
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: thing is they did a hell of a lot of
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: opposition research on Blakeman. These dirty Democrats, the Hochul, you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Dirty tactics. Boy, they did some opposition research on Blakeman.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: And you know what they came up with? Nothing. There's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: nothing bad about the guy. Nothing in his past. Absolutely nothing.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: So the attack ads are all that he's friends with
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. You know, Blakeman has been in politics. He's
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: been in business for 30-something years. Of course he knows
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Blakeman was quite the well-prominent New York figure.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Everybody knows Donald Trump. So He agrees with Trump on
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: some things, and he disagrees with Trump on some big issues, too.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: But that's all they got on him. If they put
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: an ad on in Monday Night Football, that's an expensive ad.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: So if Hochul spent the money to run an attack
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: ad in Monday Night Football, that means she's panicking. It
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: means she's seeing the real polls, not the fake college polls,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: but the real ones. And that's panic when you spend
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that kind of money primetime Monday night football. That's like
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the most watched thing of the week. So she's really,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: really worried about Blakeman then. She's even got Mom Donnie
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: out there campaigning for her.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: When they're looking at this gubernatorial election, what they're seeing
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: is that the governor has a clear record and a
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: clear vision of making life more affordable in the nation's
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: most expensive city. And Bruce Blakeman's vision is to work
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: closer with ICE and to create a private militia in
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: Nassau County.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: The private militia, he did set up like in the
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: case of the highest emergency terrorist attack, he did put
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: together where ex-cops, ex-military that could be called in as volunteers.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: It's like they do in the, you know, a lot
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: of towns have a volunteer fire department. It's not a militia.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: And this part here.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: When they're looking at this gubernatorial election, what they're seeing
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: is that the governor has a clear record and a
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: clear vision.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true. He's absolutely right. Kathy Hochul has
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: a clear record. It's not a good one, but it's clear.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: It's pretty clear when you look at it. It's a
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: terrible record. It's awful, but it's clear. It's so clear.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I've seen clear, but this is really clear. It's clear.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: She's no bail, no jail. Let the criminals out. If
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you're here illegally and committing crimes, ICE is not allowed
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: to touch you. She's anti-law enforcement at every level. She
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: wants to tax you to death. She's the one with
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the congestion pricing in every tax rate. She's had 48
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: increases on your electric bill. She's set down fracking. She's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: driven your electric. It's a very, very clear record. It's
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: as clear as can be. It's horrible, but boy, is
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: it clear. Hey, we've got a lot coming up. And
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: don't forget, at noon, Buck and Clay do an excellent
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: show every day at 12 noon. Then, at 3 o'clock,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity is back. He's been away. Honeymoon. He'll be back.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: He'll be talking about all of that today, 3 o'clock.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: And then you got Jesse Kelly at 6. You got
• 34:30
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• 34:34
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• 34:39
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• 34:41
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• 34:41
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• 34:46
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• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, remember we were talking about the Super Bowl
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: halftime show. They have a little committee that picks the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: halftime entertainment. Jay-Z runs the committee. A lot of people
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: not too happy with the last few choices. Bad Bunny
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: was a little controversial. It was a pretty good show,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: but they've come up with this year's halftime entertainment. They've
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: selected Jay-Z. Now, You say, well, wait a minute, was
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: he the head of the selection committee? Yes, and he's
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: selected himself. He has said to himself, nobody in the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: world is as good as me, so it'll be me.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Kind of how Dick Cheney became vice president. But remember,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: he was in charge of selecting a vice president. Picked himself.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: But listen, Jay-Z's as big and as good as anybody
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you're going to get, so why not? It's the Apple
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Music Super Bowl halftime show. LXI. What the hell is LXI?
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: That would be 61. 61st Super Bowl this year. Hey,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a beautiful sunny day. A little
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: kind of cold, but a beautiful sunny autumn day. We
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: got two more hours to go and a lot of
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: stuff to get to. And we'll do that right after
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the news. Mark Simone here on 710WOR.