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

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  Speaker 1: Mr. New York, Mark Simone, is on 710WOR. Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees, tomorrow night, game one. Yankees-Tampa, seven-game series begins
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night, 6.30. It's going to be a beautiful fall weekend.
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  Speaker 1: That's good. The merger has taken place. Paramount, Warner Discovery,
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  Speaker 1: they come up with a new name, Skydance. Nobody likes
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  Speaker 1: the name except these two Ellisons. They've decided with CNN. Now, remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is a massive conglomerate of huge media stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: CNN is really kind of a tiny little thing. It's
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  Speaker 1: just about 400,000 viewers. It's a last place, bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the barrel cable network. So it's a little, little part
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  Speaker 1: of this company. The guy that's been running it for
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  Speaker 1: years is Mark Thompson. So apparently the CEO, David Ellison,
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  Speaker 1: has met with Thompson and has said he'll keep him on.
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  Speaker 1: He can stay. He'll run it. Not going to be
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  Speaker 1: Barry Weiss from CBS. First of all, the problem with
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  Speaker 1: Barry Weiss, she hasn't really distinguished herself at CBS. She
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  Speaker 1: redid the 630 News, the nightly news, with a new anchor.
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  Speaker 1: Looks good, but the ratings are terrible. CBS was always
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  Speaker 1: in last place on the evening news. but they sunk
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  Speaker 1: even lower. The ratings are really bad. So that's not good.
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  Speaker 1: Then she tried to fix up 60 minutes and it
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  Speaker 1: looked like she did the right stuff. She tried to
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  Speaker 1: take it back to the old 60 minutes where they
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  Speaker 1: do really good investigative pieces and, you know, profiles of
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  Speaker 1: sports stars or movies. So it seemed good, but the
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  Speaker 1: ratings are, they're okay. Just not a lot of big improvements.
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  Speaker 1: So she hasn't really distinguished herself. So, They're going to
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  Speaker 1: keep this CNN boss, CEO of CNN, Mark Thompson, on.
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  Speaker 1: But if you look at the fine print, apparently he's
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  Speaker 1: got a year left on his contract. So I think
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  Speaker 1: they just don't want to pay off the contract. So
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  Speaker 1: they're letting him work out the final year of the contract.
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  Speaker 1: It just means they haven't found who they want to
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  Speaker 1: run it. Or they haven't decided what to do with CNN.
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  Speaker 1: You could keep it as a news network, or you
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  Speaker 1: could turn it into something else. There's a lot more
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  Speaker 1: money in other things. On cable, you know, you could
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  Speaker 1: do a million other things with a cable network. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just leave him there. Let him finish
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  Speaker 1: out his one year left on his contract. And then
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  Speaker 1: they'll figure out who they want to put in there.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting. Jimmy Kimmel has been in New York all week,
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  Speaker 1: actually Brooklyn, doing a show there all week. And he's
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  Speaker 1: having every left wing. You know, last night it was
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  Speaker 1: John Oliver. And who's that other dopey guy? So Seth Meyers.
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  Speaker 1: Between the two of them, they have like 37 viewers.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it's kind of insulting to them. They had
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  Speaker 1: to have them on together. John Oliver, Seth Meyers. Neither
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  Speaker 1: one of them is big enough to have on alone
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  Speaker 1: as a guest. So they brought them together because they're
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  Speaker 1: two very little tiny TV shows with very small audiences.
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  Speaker 1: They combined them. Although Howard Stern, look at Howard Stern.
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  Speaker 1: He got to come on all by himself. Not only
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  Speaker 1: did they have Howard Stern alone, But they gave him
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  Speaker 1: 18 minutes. That's a nice long segment. Stern and Kimmel
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  Speaker 1: are very, very close friends. They go on vacations. The
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  Speaker 1: wives get along. They travel together. They went to Europe together.
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  Speaker 1: They go on cruises together. They do everything together. Very close.
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  Speaker 1: They go to dinner together. Howard Stern goes to dinner
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  Speaker 1: with very few people and very rarely. But he does
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  Speaker 1: it with Kimmel and his wife. Very close. So he's
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  Speaker 1: on the show and he looked into the camera and
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  Speaker 1: he said, listen, ABC, nobody is a better team player.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody has done more for ABC than Jimmy Kimmel. Well,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that's not true. But he is a guy
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  Speaker 1: who does things. And then Stern said, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: they do those events, those corporate events for the sponsors,
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  Speaker 1: they call them the upfronts where they invite all the advertisers.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a convention for all your sponsors. And he says,
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  Speaker 1: Kimmel goes to those. Kimmel shows up at those. That
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  Speaker 1: is really something. First of all, everybody does. It's part
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  Speaker 1: of your deal. It's part of your contract. You got
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  Speaker 1: to do that stuff. Every star of every network goes
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  Speaker 1: to those things they call the upfronts where you appear
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  Speaker 1: on stage, you speak to all the advertisers, then they
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  Speaker 1: have a cocktail party afterwards where you mingle with everybody
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  Speaker 1: does that. Nothing, nothing unusual about that. Stern says, I
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  Speaker 1: don't do that. Well, he doesn't have any sponsors. It's
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  Speaker 1: on satellite radio. Do you ever hear the sponsors? They
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  Speaker 1: got like, Two sponsors you never heard of. But, hey,
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, behind the scenes, in all of
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  Speaker 1: his years in radio, Howard Stern was very big with
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  Speaker 1: the sponsors. He'd call them up personally. He would always
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  Speaker 1: talk to them. He'd pay a lot of attention to them.
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  Speaker 1: So when he says, I wouldn't do it, he's been
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  Speaker 1: doing that all his life. Now, here's the interesting part. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Stern went on to threaten ABC almost. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: if you cancel Kimmel, if you take this show off
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  Speaker 1: the air, there will be hell to pay. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what that means. Stern could mobilize his audience, which
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  Speaker 1: is now about 26 people. He's only on one day
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  Speaker 1: a week, like 20 weeks a year or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's very interesting. ABC is owned by Disney. And
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  Speaker 1: the chairman of Disney gives an interview, long interview, in
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  Speaker 1: a trade magazine and was asked about Kimmel and said
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of great things about Kimmel. But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of all of this, great things about Kimmel. She
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  Speaker 1: points out that we love him, but it's not a
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  Speaker 1: good business model. You remember the Colbert show was losing
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  Speaker 1: $ 40 million a year. Losing $ 40 million a year. And
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  Speaker 1: it was doing a lot better than Kimmel. So Kimmel's
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  Speaker 1: losing a lot more money. But what they've done with Kimmel,
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  Speaker 1: they've cut his budget. The most recent cut was like 25%.
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  Speaker 1: They cut the budget 25%. And the problem is these
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  Speaker 1: late night shows are just disasters. They're small audiences. They
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  Speaker 1: don't make a lot of money. So most of them,
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  Speaker 1: even the Tonight Show, they can't afford to do five
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  Speaker 1: days a week. They actually only do three, four days
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  Speaker 1: a week. And the rest is reruns. But this Disney
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  Speaker 1: chairman in the interview said, it's a money loser. There's no,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't work as a business model, the
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel show. You're just going to take a big
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  Speaker 1: loss all the time. So the interviewer, who's trying to defend, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Kimball says, well, yeah, but on YouTube, he gets like
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  Speaker 1: a million views on YouTube. And the, uh, Disney chairman says,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. We don't make any money off that. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't help us in any way. There's no profit in that. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and there's a, here's a great media critic
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  Speaker 1: who's writing, you know, the old Howard Stern would have
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  Speaker 1: understood all this. If you got a show and it's
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  Speaker 1: got a tiny audience and it's losing money, it's ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: to keep promoting this thing. Uh, And the critic says
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  Speaker 1: Stern is now like an ultra-rich liberal supporting a fellow
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  Speaker 1: ultra-rich liberal misleading the public on what the actual business
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  Speaker 1: issues are and why ABC would consider dumping it. Hey, Anthropic,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big AI company. They're known for Claude, their
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  Speaker 1: AI product. Anthropic, a big, big AI company, talking about
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  Speaker 1: an IPO. And they're looking at November 7th. They want
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  Speaker 1: to wait until after the midterms. But the anthropic IPO,
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  Speaker 1: who knows? That could be very big. Who knows? It
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  Speaker 1: might not be very big. A lot of people leery
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  Speaker 1: about AI companies that could be facing a lot of regulation.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a California firm. They said they'll have to
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  Speaker 1: spend $ 500 billion in the coming years on cloud computing
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  Speaker 1: and infrastructure. $ 500 billion. Their revenue last year was $ 4. 6 billion.
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  Speaker 1: But that's like 10 times what they made the year before.
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  Speaker 1: So it is, I mean, the good news, it is
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  Speaker 1: on the upswing. Hey, crazy little Mom Donnie, our goofy mayor. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the good news is, and we've been telling you this
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  Speaker 1: all along, as crazy, as horrible as his anti-Semitism is,
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  Speaker 1: as just horrifying as his ideas are, his socialism, all
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  Speaker 1: this crap, the good news is he is a guy
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  Speaker 1: who never had a job. He's a kid who never worked.
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  Speaker 1: never had a job, knows nothing about running a business
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  Speaker 1: or managing or anything like that. The good news is
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't actually do anything. President Trump has met with
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  Speaker 1: him a couple of times. President Trump talks to him
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  Speaker 1: on the phone a lot. One thing about Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: he can read people. He's very good at reading people.
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  Speaker 1: He's got like radar, sonar, and he's been telling people
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  Speaker 1: privately about Mom Down. He's been telling people privately, the
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  Speaker 1: guy's a coward. He's not brave. He's also very lazy.
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  Speaker 1: He's not going to do anything. He'll get nothing done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing he does get done, he
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  Speaker 1: makes these TikTok videos. He does podcasts. He does interviews.
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  Speaker 1: He smiles. Goes on any kind of podcast. Makes another
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  Speaker 1: TikTok video. This is his day. This is what he does.
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  Speaker 1: So he's on this Theo Vaughn podcast. Here he is
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  Speaker 1: again going after Netanyahu. This is a good example. You
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  Speaker 1: remember he's screaming through the campaign. And while he's in office,
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  Speaker 1: he's screaming that we're going to arrest Netanyahu. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to arrest Netanyahu. If he comes to New York, we're
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  Speaker 1: arresting him. It's just talk. He just talks. Netanyahu comes
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  Speaker 1: to New York. Mamdani does absolutely nothing. Netanyahu is here
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  Speaker 1: for a few days. He leaves New York. And here's
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani back on this podcast saying we're he's calling for
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  Speaker 1: the arrest of Netanyahu. The guy was just here. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't do a thing. But this is the Mamdani playbook.
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  Speaker 1: So you can be a little reassured by that. Every
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  Speaker 1: crazy thing he says, it's just talk. He never actually
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  Speaker 1: does anything. But here he is on this podcast again.
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  Speaker 1: They must arrest Netanyahu, and he calls for the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: to join the ICC. That's the International Criminal Court. This
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  Speaker 1: is a fake court that was— three guys in the Netherlands
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  Speaker 1: came up with this fake thing, the International Criminal Court.
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  Speaker 1: They got a couple of crazy little third-world dictatorship countries
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  Speaker 1: to join them, but nobody recognizes this court. It's not
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  Speaker 1: recognized by the United States. Even the big Democratic leader, Schumer,
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  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries, have said, This is not a real court.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody should recognize it. So, uh, they put out an
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  Speaker 1: arrest warrant for Netanyahu, but again, it's not a real court.
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  Speaker 1: This is a real court. Like a judge Judy has
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  Speaker 1: a real court. This is like the people's court. It's
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  Speaker 1: just something somebody made up. So, uh, but, uh, in
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, mom Donnie's talking about Netanyahu. He says the
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  Speaker 1: architect of a horrific genocide, but this is the way
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  Speaker 1: this guy is. Uh, Anything Netanyahu did was merely a
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  Speaker 1: response to the Holocaust that took place on October 7th. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that's war crimes, just slaughtering babies, just literally cutting the
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  Speaker 1: throats of babies, raping women. That's Hamas. You never hear
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  Speaker 1: a peep about it from Mamdani. He doesn't even mention it.
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  Speaker 1: But Netanyahu responds the way anybody should respond, and Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: yelling and screaming, But this is all he does. He's
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  Speaker 1: also on this podcast talking about how wonderful socialism is. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you could look at history, and socialism has been tried
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  Speaker 1: 10,000 times, a total failure all 10,000 times. One thing
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  Speaker 1: about these crazy left-wing Democrats, they don't believe in science.
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  Speaker 1: They never follow the science. For instance, an economy. There's
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  Speaker 1: a science to an economy. We know what works. We
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  Speaker 1: know what doesn't work. because it's been tested a million times.
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  Speaker 1: This is an actual science. Like socialism, it's been tried
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  Speaker 1: 10,000 times. It's failed 10,000 times. Not only has it failed,
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  Speaker 1: it's made everybody much worse. So that's the science. 10,000 experiments, 100%
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  Speaker 1: failure rate. But again, Democrats and socialists don't follow the science.
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  Speaker 1: They just ignore the numbers. They ignore the science and
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  Speaker 1: just keep going. But that's the good news of Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: He just does these silly podcasts. Now, this is a
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  Speaker 1: This one's a little over the line here. The other
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  Speaker 1: thing he does all day is TikTok and social media.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got this social media team, about 200 influencers.
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  Speaker 1: They call it his troll farm. And his new plot
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  Speaker 1: now is to go after the big CEOs in New York,
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  Speaker 1: the big CEOs, and smear them. He's going to have
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  Speaker 1: these 200 influencers go after them. Now, apparently there's some grown-ups...
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  Speaker 1: Actual adults in the Mamdani administration, they are very alarmed
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  Speaker 1: about this. In fact, that's the reason we know about this.
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  Speaker 1: They have been warning everybody, telling reporters, leaking out this project.
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  Speaker 1: They think it's disgusting. A smear campaign against New York
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  Speaker 1: City's top CEOs. Now, hopefully, this will wake up these CEOs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're all trying to get along with Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: but it might wake them up to the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they've got to actually do something. They can put together
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  Speaker 1: massive amounts of money, massive amounts of money, and go
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  Speaker 1: after him, social media, or just bombard the airwaves with commerce, something.
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  Speaker 1: But they're going to have to respond to this guy
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  Speaker 1: and once and for all stand up to him and
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  Speaker 1: put him in his place. But this could get ugly
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime. Red Sox out of it. Dave Portnoy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a Boston guy, a Massachusetts guy, really
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  Speaker 1: going after the Red Sox. Portnoy really going after the owner,
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  Speaker 1: John Henry, saying it was absolutely humiliating. The Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: can't score their lineup, and they were just awful in September.
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  Speaker 1: But this is what John Henry wants. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that means. John Henry's the owner. Red Sox owns
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  Speaker 1: Liverpool Football Club, owns RFK Racing. He owns the Boston Globe.
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  Speaker 1: But Portnoy says they're just built to be a fringe
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  Speaker 1: playoff team, to not compete for the division. Just a
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  Speaker 1: fringe playoff team. that gets bounced quickly. Yeah, I guess
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  Speaker 1: it is. I've been a bunch of those through the years. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710.