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

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Mark Simone. Here's the bonus segment for you
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  Speaker 1: podcast listeners who were very happy to have you listening
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  Speaker 1: to the podcast. We always do a bonus segment on
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  Speaker 1: the weekends. You know, the one thing about Democrats, They
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  Speaker 1: talk about affordability, they talk about climate change, they talk
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  Speaker 1: about green and all this stuff. And who's still the
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  Speaker 1: leading Democrat. It's not Biden. Biden's just gone forever. But
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  Speaker 1: really the Obamas is still big symbols of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: But where are the Obamas right now? They are out
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  Speaker 1: on a yacht, Steven Spielberg's two hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 1: dollars super yacht. The Obamas are aboard this four hundred
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  Speaker 1: foot luxury vessel, these seven seas. Now again, you're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to take the bus to fight climate change. You're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of your car. You're supposed to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of your oven. They're on a four hundred foot
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million dollar yacht. Have you seen
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  Speaker 1: this Spielberg yacht. It's not enough that it's a yacht.
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  Speaker 1: It's got helicopters on it, It's got everything everything on
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  Speaker 1: earth you could pollute with the biggest polluting ship in
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  Speaker 1: the world, and there's the Obama's aboard, Michelle Obama decked
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  Speaker 1: out in a Canadian tuxedo, greeted by Spielberg. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: always a couple of celebrities on there. They were seen dancing, laughing,
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  Speaker 1: enjoying lunch on this big, massive luxury yacht. But again,
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  Speaker 1: you are supposed to take the bus to be green,
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  Speaker 1: but meet them there on every every private jet, yacht,
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  Speaker 1: everything that burns tons of gas. Hey, speaking of Obama,
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  Speaker 1: you know he's building his presidential library. It's radio here
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  Speaker 1: so you can't see it, but google it and take
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  Speaker 1: a look at it. People are stunned. It is the
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  Speaker 1: ugliest structure ever built in the hiss of America. It
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  Speaker 1: is unbelievably ugly. And it's in Chicago. It's in a
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  Speaker 1: certain neighborhood of Chicago, and the people that live in
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  Speaker 1: that neighborhood are complaining like crazy. It's the most awful
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  Speaker 1: iceore ever. And of course the corrupt media never asks anything.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta wonder, why aren't they all over the Obama's
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  Speaker 1: asking what the hell is this? Who approved this design?
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  Speaker 1: It's concrete. It's just a big concrete slab. It's not
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  Speaker 1: even rectangular. It's like a weird shape. It's a big, gray,
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  Speaker 1: ugly concrete slab. If you saw this, you'd think it's
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  Speaker 1: like some dungeon of a prison or something. This is
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  Speaker 1: the Obama Presidential Library. Again, totally corrupt media. They'll never
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  Speaker 1: ask them what the hell is this? Who approved this?
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  Speaker 1: How could you okay this? Locals are all over the project,
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  Speaker 1: calling it the worst iceore ever. But go take a
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  Speaker 1: look at Google Obama Presidential Library. You'll be stunned at
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  Speaker 1: how it is. Well, the war in Ukraine continues now.
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  Speaker 1: Putin has just ordered one hundred and thirty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: men to join the military. It's the largest fall draft
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  Speaker 1: in years in Russia. You know, they've already lost so
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  Speaker 1: many men they want to expand the force. This is
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  Speaker 1: how many soldiers they've got fighting this thing, one point
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  Speaker 1: five million. It's believed they've already suffered a million casualties,
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  Speaker 1: and they keep adding soldiers. Last autumn they added one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand. Now Putin is demanding one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty five thousand. This is between age eighteen and thirty.
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  Speaker 1: It's a draft. It's not like anybody's volunteering their conscripts
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  Speaker 1: forced into this and forced into Ukraine and being on
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  Speaker 1: the front lines. Just awful situation for Russia. Hey, there's
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  Speaker 1: a pizza shop on Long Island. You know, if people
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  Speaker 1: go online, they can attack a business, they can make
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  Speaker 1: fun of a business. They can say the food is awful.
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  Speaker 1: But this is Phil's pizzeria in Sciocid, and good for them.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing the same thing in reverse. If a customer
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  Speaker 1: is really horrible, they're going to go online, they'll do video,
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  Speaker 1: they'll do everything, and they'll talk about the worst customer.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good thing to do. It's a very good
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. More restaurants should do this. If you're
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  Speaker 1: one of those awful customers complaining about everything. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's the famous New York restaurant tour Keith McNally, Baltasar, Minetta, Tavern,
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  Speaker 1: all those places. He does it all the time in
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  Speaker 1: his Instagram, especially with celebrities. If you're a really bad customer,
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  Speaker 1: he'll go public, tell the whole story of what you did.
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  Speaker 1: So good for this good for this place, and we
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  Speaker 1: love Long Island, but you got some bad customers out
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  Speaker 1: there in Long Island complaining like crazy. Seven eleven going
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  Speaker 1: to a big transformation. Now. Seven eleven's been around forever.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to open thirteen hundred new stores. They got
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  Speaker 1: five thousand other stores. They're going to be remodeled. They've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of stories, but what they want to
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  Speaker 1: do is change it. Seven to eleven food wise is
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  Speaker 1: like gas station food. I mean, let's be honest, it's
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  Speaker 1: just awful. So they want to change all that. They
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  Speaker 1: want to make the transformation, start offering fresh food, better food.
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  Speaker 1: They want to be more restaurant style. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: put in counters and they're going to put in cafe
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  Speaker 1: style seating and all that stuff. They're going to have
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  Speaker 1: better prepared meals in store dining. In store dining, now
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna look like one cheap date. Where do you
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  Speaker 1: want to go? I'll take you to go to seven
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  Speaker 1: eleven in the store dining. But they're going to do this.
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  Speaker 1: Five thousand stars means to be totally remodeled, very fresh
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  Speaker 1: food offerings. I can't wait to see them pull this off.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be eleven hundred of them. They'll start with restaurants style,
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  Speaker 1: all right. I want to see them pull this off.
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  Speaker 1: It could work. You never know, it's possible. Hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know AOL has finally announced they're getting rid of dial
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  Speaker 1: up internet service. Yeah, you remember, think back twenty years now,
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  Speaker 1: more than that, twenty five years ago, nineteen ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, turn of the century, AOL was the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was on AOL America online and you had dial
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  Speaker 1: up service, and you had a modem that you put
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  Speaker 1: your landline telephone in to this modem and then when
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  Speaker 1: you want to go online, you'd have to dial it up.
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  Speaker 1: And you'd heard this would go on for twenty seconds
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  Speaker 1: till it connected, and it was very slow, but mostly
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  Speaker 1: it was typing in words. Back then, it wasn't pictures,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't video. None of that was really happening yet.
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  Speaker 1: So you could get away with this dial up. But
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  Speaker 1: then high speed came in and then everything went video,
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  Speaker 1: pictures everything. You know. You think back to the early Internet.
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  Speaker 1: There was no you know, kids today, you wouldn't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: There was no Google. There was What did we have
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  Speaker 1: back then? We had Yahoo was the search engine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to remember. There was Alta Vista Lecos, there were
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  Speaker 1: these crazy search engines. There was nothing back then. There
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  Speaker 1: was the big breakthrough one day was ask jeeves, you
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  Speaker 1: kids today, we didn't have all We didn't have bumble Tinder,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have dating sites. We had what was it
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  Speaker 1: called AOL Love Online or something. But it was actually
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  Speaker 1: our great chairman of iHeart, Bob Pittman, who's a media genius.
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  Speaker 1: AOL was kind of floundering around in the nineties. He
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  Speaker 1: came to AOL and made it the biggest thing in
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  Speaker 1: the world on the Internet. He made it just huge, enormous.
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  Speaker 1: It totally dominated. But it's now twenty five years later
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  Speaker 1: and apparently there was still, believe it or not, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five thousand people still using dial up
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  Speaker 1: and AOL is dropping that one hundred and sixty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand people will have to go high speed now, Chris,
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  Speaker 1: to do dial up, you'd have to have a landline.
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  Speaker 1: Most people don't do that anymore. But boy, things changed.
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  Speaker 1: Microsoft got rid of Skype, you know, Microsoft got rid
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  Speaker 1: of Internet Explorer. That was another one back then. Internet
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  Speaker 1: Explorer that's gone. Remember AOL used to have instant Messenger
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  Speaker 1: that went away in twenty seventeen. That was before texting.
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  Speaker 1: AOL is Actually it was bought in about ten years
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  Speaker 1: ago by Verizon Verizon now owns it. It still exists
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  Speaker 1: and it is a part of Yahoo. It's been merged
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  Speaker 1: into Yahoo. All right, here's bad news. US test scores
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  Speaker 1: for kids, especially in math, all time lows. This is
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  Speaker 1: why they want to close the Department of Education. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a disaster under the Department of Education. Our students
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  Speaker 1: went from first in the world to like thirty eighth.
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  Speaker 1: Math scores are way down. Now, this is the worst
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  Speaker 1: statistic in the world. Latest testing shows only how many
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  Speaker 1: high school seniors. High school seniors were proficient in reading?
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  Speaker 1: How many high school seniors were proficient in reading? This
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  Speaker 1: is frightening. It's only thirty five percent. Two thirds are
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  Speaker 1: not proficient in reading. Unbelievable. Math score even worse, it's
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  Speaker 1: twenty two percent, so eighty percent are not proficient in math.
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  Speaker 1: American students are testing at historic lows at every level.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you got to change, got to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of this Department of Education. You've got to do something
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  Speaker 1: about these awful, awful teachers' unions which have screwed up
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  Speaker 1: our schools. You've got to end all that. So now
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  Speaker 1: some will argue, well you don't. One of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: nobody needs to be proficient in math. You got your phone,
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  Speaker 1: your calculator right in there. Even spelling. Our people are
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  Speaker 1: arguing everything has spell check on it. Now, no reason
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  Speaker 1: for kids, but but there's no reason for having two
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  Speaker 1: thirds to not be able to read proficiently. Hey, NBC,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be happy to hear cutting down on its news division.
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  Speaker 1: NBC News in big trouble. They're about to lay off
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  Speaker 1: most of the London you know, NBC News used to
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  Speaker 1: be a big deal. The Moscow bureau, the London bureau. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting rid of this London bureau, laying off employees
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  Speaker 1: left and right, people inside NBC things just the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be deeper cuts. They're gonna get rid
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  Speaker 1: of all these bureaus. They're not going to need them anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they've kicked out MSNBC. It's no longer part
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  Speaker 1: of NBC. They've been told to get the hell out
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  Speaker 1: and they depend on NBC News for their news cover.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to end. NBC News is going to
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  Speaker 1: eliminate dozens of people. They've already started doing it in
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  Speaker 1: New York. At MSNBC. They're getting rid of the graphics
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  Speaker 1: team to this team that team, MSNBC has been told
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  Speaker 1: to get the hell out of the building. We don't
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  Speaker 1: even watch in our building anymore. So they haven't figured
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  Speaker 1: out where to go yet. They're going to move to
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  Speaker 1: a temporary facility. MSNBC will move to a Times Square
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  Speaker 1: facility temporarily. And they've been also told to get the
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  Speaker 1: NBC name out of their name, and I guess it,
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  Speaker 1: later in the year they'll become ms now. They've been
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  Speaker 1: told stop using the peacock logo, so it'll be ms
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  Speaker 1: now from some Times Square studio that'll be kicked out
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  Speaker 1: of NBC and they'll just slowly sink away. Hey, in Manhattan,
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  Speaker 1: the luxury housing market is booming and bucking national trends.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all over the place. The housing went crazy,
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  Speaker 1: especially on the high end all over you know, Dallas, Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's kind of stopped. In fact, it's declining. Everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The luxury housing market and all those hotspots is dropping
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  Speaker 1: and has been dropping for a while. The only exception
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  Speaker 1: is Manhattan. It's been going up like crazy. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the luxury market agents from all over the country,
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  Speaker 1: Dallas to San Francisco. Report buyers are now hesitating. That's
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  Speaker 1: about volatility. They don't want to pay the steep premiums Now.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that was the pandemic boom that made
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  Speaker 1: the housing go crazy. But that's over and it's dropping
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  Speaker 1: and dropping and dropping. And while it's inventory in Manhattan fell,
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  Speaker 1: but sales in Manhattan has risen almost fourteen percent year
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  Speaker 1: over year. That's huge. And luxury housing market grew sixty
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  Speaker 1: four percent faster than the overall market. So the high
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  Speaker 1: end of Manhattan people are moving in and buying like crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So and this is with the concern about Mamdani coming in.
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  Speaker 1: What else, Hey, ozempic, Stay away from that ozempic. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just eat less, exercise more, eat less. The problem with
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  Speaker 1: that ozempic is you never look right and it hurts
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  Speaker 1: your skin. They call it ozempic face. You can see
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  Speaker 1: in the face. And now dentists are warning of another
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  Speaker 1: side effect. It can really screw up your teeth. It
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  Speaker 1: leads to dry mouth or whatever the active ingredient is
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  Speaker 1: affects the salivary glands. You get dry mouth. It can
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  Speaker 1: cause people to drink less water because they're less thirsty.
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  Speaker 1: And all of this leads to many more cavities, gum disease,
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  Speaker 1: all of that's Hey. Also, there's a new study that
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  Speaker 1: shows you know what's better for you. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: think you know you'll go out and your walk and
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  Speaker 1: you do that, but you think I gotta go to
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  Speaker 1: the gym and run on a treadmill and do it well.
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  Speaker 1: New studies shows actually, less stressful exercise can actually be
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  Speaker 1: even better for you. You don't need really rough, tough exercise,
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  Speaker 1: fast walking, a lot of walking, swimming. Easier exercise, much
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  Speaker 1: healthier movement doesn't have to be hard, gentle regular activity
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  Speaker 1: counts and can build much better, long lasting health results.
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  Speaker 1: It's very good to know. Hey, we're out of time.
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  Speaker 1: This has been the bonus segment. Thanks for listening. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be here live ten to noon Monday through Friday, where
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  Speaker 1: you can get the podcast any place you get podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Talk to you soon.