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

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  Speaker 1: It's the marximone show on seventenor well at this hour,
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  Speaker 1: I also will get to Well, it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful day today. It's gonna be a seventy two should
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  Speaker 1: be the high right in the middle of New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy two will be the high today. That's great. Stock
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  Speaker 1: market up. As soon as the war's over, which could
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  Speaker 1: be in a few days, could be next week, it'll
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  Speaker 1: go way up. And then oil prices, when will they
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  Speaker 1: come down? Well, they got to start moving tankers through
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  Speaker 1: the straits of horn Mouse. It'll take possibly a navy escort.
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  Speaker 1: The United States might have to provide the insurance since
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  Speaker 1: Lloyd's of London is right now not ensuring any tankers.
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  Speaker 1: But as soon as the first tanker or two moves
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  Speaker 1: through the straits, that'll bring the prices way down. And
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  Speaker 1: when will that happen? Probably next week, Probably next week,
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  Speaker 1: the tankers will start moving. By the way, in California,
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  Speaker 1: here's a gas station and on TikTok somebody has put
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  Speaker 1: up video of the gas station showing the gas pump
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  Speaker 1: eight twenty two a gallon eight dollars and twenty two
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  Speaker 1: cents a gallon. Now that's Gavin Newsom. There's absolutely no
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  Speaker 1: reason for that. President Trump takes office, brings gas prices
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  Speaker 1: down to like two forty everywhere, but in New York
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  Speaker 1: it's worth still three eighty. It's still four dollars. That's
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  Speaker 1: all due to state and local taxes. Same thing. In California,
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  Speaker 1: it should be about two dollars and fifty cents. Well,
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  Speaker 1: with the war, it should be about three dollars and
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  Speaker 1: twenty cents, but it's eight dollars and twenty cents thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Gavin Newsom and all these stupid local taxes and
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. Harvey Weinstein is in prison. He's still
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  Speaker 1: in Rikers Island, and he's given a big riker's interview
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  Speaker 1: opening up about prison and saying that it's everybody's out
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  Speaker 1: to get him in prison. Well, that was He is
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  Speaker 1: kind of an obnoxious guy. Even in real life. He
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  Speaker 1: was a horrible guy to be around, just a big, bullyish, obnoxiouska. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he tells one story about he was waiting to use
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  Speaker 1: the phone and the guy was on the phone, and
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  Speaker 1: then he said, are you done with the phone, And
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  Speaker 1: the guy turned around and punched him very hard in
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  Speaker 1: the face, knocking him to the ground, blood all over
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  Speaker 1: the place in the hospital for a day or two.
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  Speaker 1: He said, that's the kind of stuff that could happen
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  Speaker 1: to him. So Harvey says he spends twenty three hours
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  Speaker 1: a day in his cell. He's afraid to go out
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  Speaker 1: in the yard when they have time to go out
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  Speaker 1: there because of what will happen to him with the
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  Speaker 1: other prisoners. Twenty three hours a day in his cell.
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  Speaker 1: He likes to read a lot of books. He orders
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  Speaker 1: books on Amazon and they get delivered. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: you could get Amazon in prison. I assume they open
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  Speaker 1: up your Amazon packages and take a look at what's
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  Speaker 1: in there. Now. When the guy punched him and all that,
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  Speaker 1: of course they want to know who punched you, because
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  Speaker 1: he was badly injured. He said, Deek, you can't rat.
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  Speaker 1: That's the rue law of the jungle. You can't rat.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess he did the interview to get sympathy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, do you have any sympathy for him?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. He was a bad guy, and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a woman, I'm a guy. And whenever I
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  Speaker 1: talked to him, I got ugly, and he yell and
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  Speaker 1: scream at you about because you weren't supporting Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. He was just so imagine if
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  Speaker 1: you're a woman, you had to put up with this guy.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to stay there for a while. They
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  Speaker 1: the interviewer even asked him what about to think about
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  Speaker 1: how you could die in prison, and he said, that's
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  Speaker 1: the one nightmare I have, dying in prison. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a few kids, some of them talk to him, some
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  Speaker 1: of them don't talk to him. But he's still in
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  Speaker 1: Rikers Island, and I don't know does he deserve it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he deserved to be in there for a little while forever.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Hey, Uber, I don't understand this Uber policy. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there have been incidents where an Uber driver
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  Speaker 1: gets a female passenger and something terrible happens. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he tries to attack the female passenger or molesse her
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  Speaker 1: or something that or sexually harasses or so there have
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  Speaker 1: been incidents like this. So Uber announces now and it's
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  Speaker 1: getting all kinds of publicity everywhere that they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have a new thing now where if you're a female
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  Speaker 1: and when you click for an uber, you know you
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  Speaker 1: can push certain things if you want, I want a suv.
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  Speaker 1: I want a regular car, I want a super luxury car.
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  Speaker 1: There's different things you can you can out push if
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  Speaker 1: you want a female driver. Now I understand the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of this because there's some women that have If you've
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  Speaker 1: had an incident with an Uber driver, then you probably
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  Speaker 1: want to push for a female driver. But by doing this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking everything can go wrong. Well, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: you're acknowledging that you got a problem by having to
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  Speaker 1: put in this system, So you're acknowledging that there is
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  Speaker 1: a big problem there. Also, if I were Uber and
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  Speaker 1: I've had this problem, I think the answer would be
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  Speaker 1: you got to learn to do better screen of who
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  Speaker 1: you hire to be drivers. You got to be much
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  Speaker 1: more careful who you hire. And it could be that Uber.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how hard it is to find Uber drivers,
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  Speaker 1: but they need so many of them. Maybe they can't
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  Speaker 1: be that fussy. So that's the problem. And now the
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  Speaker 1: other thing is, I think every guy is now going
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  Speaker 1: to push that button. Every guy's gonna want well and
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  Speaker 1: not every guy, but every guy who's looking for trouble
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  Speaker 1: is going to want a female driver. I mean, so
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have that. Remember they created that dating
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  Speaker 1: site Ashley Madison. It was for married people who wanted
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  Speaker 1: to cheat. So if you were married, you'd go on
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Madison you can meet another married person, And that
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  Speaker 1: was the idea. But it turns out every guy on
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Madison is single because they said, well, this is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna get a married woman who can't really go
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  Speaker 1: out much and can only just run over and have
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  Speaker 1: sex with you in the middle of the day and
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  Speaker 1: go home. So every single guy in the world went
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  Speaker 1: on Ashley Madison. So I think this uber thing could backfire.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting them a lot of publicity. I guess. I
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  Speaker 1: guess that's good. So you know that Phil Rosenthal who
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  Speaker 1: does that somebody feed pill or whatever that is. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big Netflix series. You watch Phil Rosenthal run around
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  Speaker 1: the world eating things. It's not the most exciting show,
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  Speaker 1: but it's very popular. It's doing very well. It's on
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  Speaker 1: Netflix now. The point of this is in twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: he's moving to YouTube from Netflix. Now. He's not the
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  Speaker 1: only one to do this. And we'll have Bill O'Reilly
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  Speaker 1: on later this hour. He's starting. He's got a big
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  Speaker 1: now YouTube channel. This is something to keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on because streaming is dominated by Netflix and those sort
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  Speaker 1: of services. Everybody thinks YouTube and I a rat, but
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  Speaker 1: a lot of media people think YouTube could become the
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  Speaker 1: dominant force. It's different from streaming and that it's open
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  Speaker 1: to anybody. But it's like television. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: have a subscription. You just go on YouTube and you
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  Speaker 1: can watch it. Now you'll get commercials. But somebody feed
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  Speaker 1: Pill and others moving their show from Netflix to YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that crazy Piers Morgan. He just raised thirty
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  Speaker 1: dollars to start his own channel. He just hired the
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  Speaker 1: former president of MSNBC to run it, and he's looking
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  Speaker 1: to start a YouTube channel. Now, when you say whoa
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  Speaker 1: MSNBC president, that doesn't it's not for any partisan or
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  Speaker 1: political reasons. He wants her. She's apparently an expert at
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  Speaker 1: management infrastructure setting up an organization. But keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube too. If you went into a coma and
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  Speaker 1: woke up about five years from now, you might find
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  Speaker 1: that everything is on YouTube. Everything and there's a couple
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  Speaker 1: other services there. If you don't have these apps, download them.
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  Speaker 1: Pluto TV. Pluto TV is my faceavorite app now because
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  Speaker 1: it has all your favorite old shows and each show
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  Speaker 1: has its own channel, so it's twenty four hours a day.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's a Blue Bloods channel and you can just
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  Speaker 1: watch Blue Bloods twenty four hours a day. It has
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  Speaker 1: a Perry Mason channel, it has a Breaking Bad channel,
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  Speaker 1: it has a Law and Order channel, twenty four hour channels,
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  Speaker 1: your favorite show, all in the family, and it's free.
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  Speaker 1: It's free. Now there's commercials like regular TV, not as
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  Speaker 1: many as regular TV, but it has commercials. But Pluto TV.
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  Speaker 1: Download it. You'll love it. Hey, late night TV, Now
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  Speaker 1: this is interesting. Conan O'Brien goes on that podcast Hot Ones.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the one where they talk while they're
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  Speaker 1: eating chicken wings and they got all those different sauces
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  Speaker 1: in front of them. But he said he realized it's
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  Speaker 1: really the end of late night TV. It's dead. It's
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  Speaker 1: gone because he went on Hot Ones and his episode
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  Speaker 1: was seen by fifteen million people. Now if he went
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  Speaker 1: on Colbert, he might get seen by one million. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And Colbert revealed that over the last few years he's
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  Speaker 1: been talking to Conan O'Brien, and Conan O'Brien has been
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  Speaker 1: urging him to quit late night TV. Get the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of there. He said, there's so much more to
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  Speaker 1: do out there in the world. Problem is, network TV
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  Speaker 1: is dead, it's dying. It's over. Network TV shows don't
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  Speaker 1: get much audience anymore. The old Tonight Show with Johnny
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  Speaker 1: Carson on a good night, well, an average night you
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  Speaker 1: get eight nine million viewers. On a good night you
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  Speaker 1: get fifteen million. Colbert Today, you're lucky if you get
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  Speaker 1: one million. It's just dying. Jimmy Kimmel nothing, who's that
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  Speaker 1: one after Seth Myers. It's like a couple one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand people. Nobody sees it. Network TV does not get
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  Speaker 1: much viewership anymore. So Conan was just telling Colbert, get out,
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  Speaker 1: go go do something else, do a podcast, other things.
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  Speaker 1: You can reach many, many, many more. People urge him
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  Speaker 1: to quit. Now Colbert has done, he's been fired. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be off the air in May. And CBS always says
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  Speaker 1: it's not political, it's financial, which means they're admitting the
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  Speaker 1: show's a ratings disaster. It's a total disaster. And the difference,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Colbert TV show is about one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten employees. This Hot Ones podcast probably has two employees,
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  Speaker 1: and it is seen by ten times as many people,
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to see the end of late night TV.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to believe. I mean, luckily Johnny Carson didn't
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  Speaker 1: live to see the death of late night or Steve Allen,
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  Speaker 1: who created it, created the Tonight Show. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: began it on radio. The Tonight Show started on radio
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty nine in Los Angeles. Steve Allen, who had
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  Speaker 1: been bouncing around Los Angeles radio CBS, the local station,
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  Speaker 1: gave him a late night show in Los Angeles in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty nine, late night radio show, and nobody had
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  Speaker 1: ever done this before. He came out and kind of
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  Speaker 1: did a monologue, and then he would go out into
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  Speaker 1: the audience and talk to people and get laughs, and
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  Speaker 1: then he would have celebrities on an interview. It was
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  Speaker 1: the Tonight Show, and that's what he did. Became very big.
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  Speaker 1: It was a huge show in Los Angeles and the
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  Speaker 1: biggest stars started to listen to it, and they all
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  Speaker 1: wanted to come on it. It was so big that
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  Speaker 1: CBS brought him to New York to do a television show.
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  Speaker 1: It was the beginning of television, early fifties, and they
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  Speaker 1: tried a whole bunch of different things. They didn't let
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  Speaker 1: him do that show, but they tried other things, game shows.
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  Speaker 1: This stuff was not as successful, so the CBS contract ended.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't renew it, and the local station here in
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  Speaker 1: New York, channel four WNBCTV gave him a late night
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  Speaker 1: show eleven thirty at night, and they said, well, what
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  Speaker 1: do you want to do. He said, I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: do what I did on that radio show in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: and he did it. It was the beginning of the
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  Speaker 1: Tonight Show. It was a local show for a year,
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  Speaker 1: did so well they put it on the network, and
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  Speaker 1: because they had a show called Today, the Today's Show,
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  Speaker 1: they called this thing the Tonight Show, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: it started. Steve Allen created Jack Parr was huge, Johnny
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  Speaker 1: Carson was huge. Jay Leno that was like the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the end Jay Leno. He was great with the monologue,
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  Speaker 1: but after that it wasn't working and he got rid
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of things. No more announcer sidekick that
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  Speaker 1: was Leno that first got rid of that, and then
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  Speaker 1: no more new comedians being introduced all the time, big mistake.
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  Speaker 1: And then but Leno was still funny and the monologue
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  Speaker 1: was balanced, make fun of Democrats, make fun of Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: It was perfect. Then you got that next generation. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it actually was Letterman when he went to CBS. About
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  Speaker 1: six years into the CBS show, he started to go
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  Speaker 1: very partisan. And you remember the last five years of Letterman,
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  Speaker 1: the monologue was ridiculously partisan and tough to watch. He
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  Speaker 1: got lost half his audience that way. And then Colbert
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  Speaker 1: came along and completely destroyed Late night TV, and Kimmel
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  Speaker 1: got even worse, so partisan, so nasty, ugly. That had
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  Speaker 1: just destroyed Late Night and it's pretty much gone. Watch
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  Speaker 1: when Colbert goes off the here in May, there won't
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  Speaker 1: be another talk show. There'll be a game show, something
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  Speaker 1: much cheaper. And remember when they took Kimmel off for
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  Speaker 1: a week, they put on reruns of Password and it
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  Speaker 1: got triple the ratings, triple the ratings of Kimmel. So
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  Speaker 1: you'll see that happen with Colbert and then with Kimmel.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the Tonight Show will stay a little longer. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three
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  Speaker 1: big networking event March nineteenth. A lot of Business Leaders
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  Speaker 1: CEOs March nineteenth, six to eight pm. This is beautiful
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  Speaker 1: looking to do a corporate event. Nice venue on the
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  Speaker 1: top with beautiful views of New York in the skyline.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a great outdoor terrace. So we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do a big part already there networking event if you
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  Speaker 1: want to meet some business leaders decision makers, March nineteenth
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  Speaker 1: from six to eight pm. I'll be there, Larry Minti'll
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  Speaker 1: be there. Curtis Lee, we will be there. He'll make
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  Speaker 1: a little speech. He's a great speaker. And you can
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