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Hour 1: This past weekend's nor'easter. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
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  Speaker 1: it all means. It's Mark Simone on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to the show. It's Monday. What a weekend.
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  Speaker 2: What a weekend. We've got a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to AI. What is it exactly? that we
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  Speaker 2: got to be afraid of with AI. I mean, some
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  Speaker 2: of it's great. What's the part we got to be
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  Speaker 2: afraid of? We'll get to that. We'll get to President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to Iran. We'll get to Mamdani. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to SNL. We'll get to AOC. We'll get to baseball,
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  Speaker 2: end of the season. All right. This was some weekend.
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  Speaker 2: This was the first weekend of fall. And this is
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  Speaker 2: what you heard all weekend. What a weekend. Just stay inside.
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  Speaker 2: Every so often you say, well, probably it's a few hours.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go outside. Well, I'll go to sleep. Wake
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  Speaker 2: up in the morning. Let me go outside. This is
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  Speaker 2: all you heard all weekend. This is Friday night. This
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  Speaker 2: is all day Saturday. Saturday night. Sunday night. sunday night
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  Speaker 2: you said let me check out that's all i heard
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  Speaker 2: all i heard now uh the good news is you
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  Speaker 2: had some terrible flooding but that's mostly from rivers overflowing
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  Speaker 2: and stuff we didn't have the street flooding as extensively
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  Speaker 2: as we usually do queen's got a lot of it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't there was some street flooding but usually every parkway
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  Speaker 2: everything but we didn't get that so much this time
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  Speaker 2: because the rain the good news is having it of
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  Speaker 2: having it come over two or three days It came
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  Speaker 2: down slowly. It was like a tenth of an inch
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  Speaker 2: an hour at the most. So it didn't overwhelm the
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  Speaker 2: drains everywhere. Now, I don't want to hear another word
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  Speaker 2: about the reservoirs aren't full anymore. This should have filled
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  Speaker 2: them up. I checked before the storm. They were at
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  Speaker 2: about 76% capacity. So this should be all we need.
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  Speaker 2: But a lot of people without power, got to give
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  Speaker 2: those electric companies credit. They were pretty quick at getting
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people back up, but it's going to
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  Speaker 2: rain today, and then it's supposed to be nice and
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  Speaker 2: dry tomorrow, and then actually mild on Wednesday. It's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to go back to about 75, so Wednesday will be
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  Speaker 2: a nice day. Oh, I forgot to mention, we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to my new iPhone. Got it yesterday. Started using it
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  Speaker 2: last night, and today I'll say one thing for it.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing about this phone, it's supposed to have
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  Speaker 2: the 18 Pro Max. It's supposed to have incredible battery life.
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  Speaker 2: Now I've been, uh, using it all morning for about two,
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  Speaker 2: two hours. I've been watching a lot of video on
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  Speaker 2: it and YouTube and, uh, battery percentage still a hundred
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  Speaker 2: has even dropped to 99. So supposedly the battery can
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  Speaker 2: go about two days in, in this thing. So, uh, president, uh,
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  Speaker 2: busy weekend. He was all over the place doing a
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  Speaker 2: few campaign stops and midterms. Now, all you hear on
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  Speaker 2: the news is that the Republicans, the approval ratings, everything
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  Speaker 2: is so low, it's so low. Nobody has lower approval
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  Speaker 2: ratings than the Republican. Trump is the lowest approval ratings.
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  Speaker 2: He said, yeah, it's true. The part they forget to
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  Speaker 2: mention is the Democrats, it's far worse. Their approval ratings
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  Speaker 2: are really, they're much lower than the Republicans, much lower
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  Speaker 2: than Trump. I don't know why, but CNN has the
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  Speaker 2: most honest pollster Harry Anton, listen to the CNN pollster
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  Speaker 2: on Democrats and their leaders.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats, on their own leaders, they don't like their own leaders.
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  Speaker 3: I dare say they despise their own leaders. And this
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  Speaker 3: is the big difference from what we saw back in 2018,
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  Speaker 3: just before Democrats were trying to take back the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: House of Representatives that fall. Take a look here. Net
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  Speaker 3: approval of congressional Dem leaders among Democrats. Back in 2018,
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  Speaker 3: look at this. Their net approval rating was plus 19 points. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: that's pretty good. Two thumbs up, says Colin Ebert. Now
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about... Two thumbs down.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this.
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  Speaker 3: Minus 12 points. What a different world that we are
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  Speaker 3: in right now. Democrats do not like, they despise their
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  Speaker 3: own leadership.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a good sign. Uh, now first the midterms, uh, Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: the messaging, it stinks. It's non-existent pretty much. They got
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  Speaker 2: a lot to get out there. You know, the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: The news media always makes it sound like economy in turmoil,
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  Speaker 2: economy in crisis. Well, if you look at the actual numbers,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, nobody reported that thing that came out a
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  Speaker 2: week and a half ago. Median income at an all-time high,
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  Speaker 2: poverty low at an all-time rate. Inflation's a little up,
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  Speaker 2: but it's nowhere, nowhere near what it was. Oil prices
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  Speaker 2: are high, but the Republicans don't counter message enough. It's
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  Speaker 2: getting to be a little too late. You're a little
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  Speaker 2: less than five weeks away. This is not the time
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  Speaker 2: to start. So they've been screwing up badly on all
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  Speaker 2: of this. And, you know, even in the Iran war,
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  Speaker 2: which nobody likes, everybody hates this Iran war, pain in
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  Speaker 2: the neck. I mean, the good thing is you did
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  Speaker 2: stop Iran's nuclear enrichment. They were, they were, I give,
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  Speaker 2: meet the press credit. They had the Iranian foreign minister
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  Speaker 2: on who defended his case. It was, this guy looks
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  Speaker 2: so panicky. It looked like they were going to execute
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  Speaker 2: him in Iran the moment he got home if he
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  Speaker 2: said one wrong word. But she did ask him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the uranium they had, they kept claiming, and this guy
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  Speaker 2: kept claiming it was just for commercial purposes. It was
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  Speaker 2: for energy, electricity. It was just for commercial purposes. And
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  Speaker 2: she kept saying, well, that would mean you would enrich
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  Speaker 2: to 2% or 3%, 20% at the most. You kept enriching.
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  Speaker 2: You had it up to 60%.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And the guy kept double talking an answer. And he
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  Speaker 2: basically said, that's not illegal to make it. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: guess this, I mean, it's not illegal in Iran. It's
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  Speaker 2: illegal for us because if you enrich to 90%, you
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  Speaker 2: got a nuclear bomb and they got it all the
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  Speaker 2: way up to 60%, which would mean they were two
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  Speaker 2: weeks away from 90%, two weeks away from having the bomb. Now,
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  Speaker 2: obviously wouldn't want Iran to have a nuclear bomb. And
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  Speaker 2: the real fear is once they got it, very tough
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  Speaker 2: to go in and stop them. Once they've got nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to go to a war with them. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: she did ask him the tough questions. He did look, uh,
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  Speaker 2: completely frightened as he answered because, uh, they do like
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  Speaker 2: to execute their leaders in, in Iran. So, uh, at present, uh,
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  Speaker 2: there's a big announcement today. Nobody quite knows what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Is it an AI announcement? Is it, uh, it could
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  Speaker 2: be something about the press, uh, The press ban, all
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  Speaker 2: of that stuff. There's a rumor floating around. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they have a beautiful press room. That's where they have
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  Speaker 2: the press conferences. And it used to be the White
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  Speaker 2: House pool for many, many years. I mean, the swimming pool.
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  Speaker 2: The White House had a beautiful swimming pool. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of presidents. It's very good for them. Swimming, good exercise,
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  Speaker 2: good stress reliever. A lot of presidents used it. Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: famously used it with those two hookers. Pixie and Dixie
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  Speaker 2: or Jinks and Hinks, whatever their names were. But was
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  Speaker 2: it Nixon? Yeah, I think it was Nixon that covered.
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  Speaker 2: Nixon didn't want to swim. And they needed to put
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  Speaker 2: a press room someplace. So they covered up the pool,
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  Speaker 2: built a floor over it. And that's where they put
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  Speaker 2: in the press room. And it's been redone a couple
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  Speaker 2: of times. It's a beautiful press room. So a rumor
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  Speaker 2: going around is the president is going to announce he's
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  Speaker 2: going to get rid of the press room, tear up
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  Speaker 2: that floor and bring the pool back. And put the
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  Speaker 2: swimming pool back. It's a good idea. Donald Trump does
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  Speaker 2: not swim ever. So it wouldn't be for him. But
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice idea to have that White House swimming pool.
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  Speaker 2: And as long as you've got a builder in office,
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  Speaker 2: let him do it. Of course, the pool will be
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  Speaker 2: all gold and everything. But so what? Hey, Bar Lago
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  Speaker 2: has a beautiful pool. The guy has 25 resorts. They
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  Speaker 2: all got beautiful swimming pools. Let him do it. Let
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  Speaker 2: him build it. He loves building projects. So that's just
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  Speaker 2: a rumor. We don't know if that's the announcement. later
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  Speaker 2: today uh now uh ai what is you got to
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  Speaker 2: be afraid of the president saying they didn't really he
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  Speaker 2: and president she didn't really talk about.
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  Speaker 5: It i spoke a little bit about it with president
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  Speaker 5: she not too much it wasn't a topic of.
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  Speaker 2: Conversation yeah now that the meeting with president she there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of criticism that he was so deferential to
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  Speaker 2: she why was he being so respectful and uh More
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  Speaker 2: so than with other leaders. You know, you watch Trump
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  Speaker 2: with a world leader. He's slapping the guy in the back.
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  Speaker 2: When he shakes hands, he grabs the guy's hands and
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  Speaker 2: he pulls them towards him. It's like a domineering kind
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  Speaker 2: of move. He didn't do that with Xi. This bowing
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  Speaker 2: and normal handshake. Why was he being so respectful? Could
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  Speaker 2: have been to help Xi. Xi's in a lot of
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  Speaker 2: trouble back home. Xi wants to stay in power. There's
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  Speaker 2: a big movement to get rid of him. There's a
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  Speaker 2: possibility he won't last. He wants to look like he's
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  Speaker 2: a powerful figure on the world stage. So Trump and
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  Speaker 2: him get along, and that might have been a way
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  Speaker 2: of making Xi look stronger back at home, help him
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  Speaker 2: save his job. So that's why he's being so respectful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure they talked about AI more than he's saying.
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  Speaker 2: Big thing about AI, if you're to believe this, uh
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  Speaker 2: how dangerous it is and uh some people say there's
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  Speaker 2: nothing to worry about and then you got bill gates
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  Speaker 2: on the sunday shows and writing those uh op-ed pieces
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to kill us all it'll kill a
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  Speaker 2: billion people we're all going to be dead somewhere in
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  Speaker 2: the middle is probably the answer you remember gates is
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  Speaker 2: always uh sounding the alarm bell and always getting too
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  Speaker 2: hyperbolic and hysterical about everything, whether it was food shortages
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  Speaker 2: or vaccines or whatever it was. But there is something
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  Speaker 2: to worry about. But the point is, if it's that dangerous,
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  Speaker 2: if it's that deadly a weapon, if it can wipe
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  Speaker 2: out everybody, then it's crucial that we be the leaders
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  Speaker 2: of AI, that we be the ones in control of
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  Speaker 2: AI and not let China do that. It'd be like
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  Speaker 2: we had no nuclear weapons and China had them all.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the problem. Right now we lead in China.
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  Speaker 2: China is pushing this movement to stop AI here. That
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  Speaker 2: way they can get ahead of us. We're ahead of
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  Speaker 2: them right now, as President Trump points out.
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  Speaker 5: And we're leading and we're building tremendous, you know, trillions
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  Speaker 5: of dollars worth of places. And why should we give
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  Speaker 5: that up? You don't give up a trillion dollar or more,
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  Speaker 5: two or three or four trillion dollar industry because you
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  Speaker 5: think something like that, we will straighten it out if
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  Speaker 5: and when a problem occurs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's meeting with these AI leaders, the head of Anthropic,
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  Speaker 2: he's having dinner with him tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we're going to talk about it. I'm for let's
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  Speaker 5: go and let's win. You know, we're about a year,
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  Speaker 5: maybe a year and a half up on China. There
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  Speaker 5: is nobody in third place. I mean, it's just us
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  Speaker 5: and China.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's like a nuclear arms race. Now, AI,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of you use it and say it's just cute.
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  Speaker 2: I use it to... Help me write an essay. I
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  Speaker 2: use it to look up stuff. I use it to
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  Speaker 2: work on my website. I use it to do my resume.
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  Speaker 2: What's the danger? Well, that's what a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are using it for now. It's like a super Google,
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  Speaker 2: a more advanced version of a search engine. It's help
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  Speaker 2: you write stuff. It's helping you with simple tasks like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's what a lot of people are using it for.
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  Speaker 2: There's a much, much deeper... a part of AI where
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  Speaker 2: it can do all kinds of stuff. Instead of it
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  Speaker 2: just writing your copy for your website, people can use
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  Speaker 2: AI to go build a website, create a website, do
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff. It's not like Google. Some people
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  Speaker 2: think it's just an advanced form of Google. Google is
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  Speaker 2: just a search engine. It's just searching. AI can take action.
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  Speaker 2: It can attack a website. It can create bots and
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  Speaker 2: bombard a website. It can hack into a website and
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  Speaker 2: take over a website. These are things Google obviously can't do.
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  Speaker 2: And the part, there's a lot of stuff to AI.
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  Speaker 2: It's too complicated to get into all of it. But
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  Speaker 2: one of the, the part of AI we're worrying about
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  Speaker 2: is what they call the recursive part, the recursive self-improving AI.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where you program the AI to do something.
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  Speaker 2: But the AI has the capability to go beyond what
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  Speaker 2: you told it to do. It can retrain itself. It
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  Speaker 2: can reinvent itself. Without you, it can autonomously, on its own,
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  Speaker 2: design new codes or transition into something else. You give
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  Speaker 2: it the task. You give it the code. It can
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  Speaker 2: rewrite that. It can advance itself. And if you tell it,
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  Speaker 2: don't do this, don't do that, well, it can suddenly
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  Speaker 2: rewrite the code so it can. That's what they call
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  Speaker 2: the recursive self-improving AI. So that's the part they got
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  Speaker 2: to try to fix. Somehow you got to fix it
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  Speaker 2: so the system can't improve itself on its own, can't
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  Speaker 2: take those actions without permission. But again, it's AI. It
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  Speaker 2: can learn to jailbreak its way out of whatever thing
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  Speaker 2: you set up. So that's the problem. Now, people say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just put a, See, a lot of these politicians,
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  Speaker 2: the problem with Congress or anybody regulating it, the Bernie
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  Speaker 2: Sanders type is that they don't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: They're just too stupid technically. They don't understand anything about AI.
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  Speaker 2: They don't understand the technology. There's one thing Bill Gates
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  Speaker 2: was saying on these Sunday shows, because the Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to put a kill switch, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to require a kill switch on it. Gates was explaining,
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  Speaker 2: there's no such thing as a kill switch. You have
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  Speaker 2: to be Really, internet illiterate to think you could have
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  Speaker 2: a kill switch. There's no possibility. There's no such thing
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  Speaker 2: as a kill switch. So this is complicated. This is
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  Speaker 2: going to take a lot of looking at. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the ex-Trump official, Alina Haba, she had been a lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: I think she was Trump's lawyer at one point. She'd
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  Speaker 2: been a prosecutor. She was in the Trump administration. She left,
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  Speaker 2: and she's 42 now. She just got married. She found
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  Speaker 2: a Turkish billionaire. He's only 29, a lot younger than her,
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  Speaker 2: but he's a billionaire. Perfect. So she marries this billionaire.
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  Speaker 2: They had their wedding over the weekend in the Waldorf Ballroom,
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  Speaker 2: the new redesigned Waldorf Ballroom. I don't think it's as
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  Speaker 2: nice as the old one. The old one was a
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  Speaker 2: little classier. It was white and gold. This one is
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  Speaker 2: silver and too shiny. But when they redid it and
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  Speaker 2: reopened the Waldorf, they also really raised up the prices.
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  Speaker 2: They jacked up the prices. That's why a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the big charity galas that used to be in the Waldorf,
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  Speaker 2: they're not rushing back. The prices are really high. So
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  Speaker 2: she threw her wedding there with the Turkish billionaire. The cost,
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  Speaker 2: because they had more flowers than you've ever seen. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was what they did to transform the ballroom. The
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  Speaker 2: cost is said to be $ 10 million for the wedding.
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  Speaker 2: $ 10 million for the wedding. I hope this guy's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be spending that much on all of his weddings.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of money. But he's a billionaire. He
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  Speaker 2: can afford it. Then they said, if you read the headline,
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  Speaker 2: star-studded wedding. Well, I'm looking. Who's the stars? It's Kash Patel.
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  Speaker 2: All right, nice guy, but not a big star. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you walk down the street with Kash Patel, people are going, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's Kash Patel. You know, most people don't. when he
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  Speaker 2: comes to the room, you think it's the it guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, most people don't get excited about cash. Who's
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  Speaker 2: the other big stars. Attorney general, Todd Blanche. Very nice guy.
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  Speaker 2: But again, uh, if he's walking down the street, nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows who he, I don't, I wouldn't call that a big,
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  Speaker 2: big star. Mike Tyson was there. Okay. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's a good omen for your marriage to have
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tyson. I don't know if that's good luck having
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tyson. And, uh, Margo Martin, she's one of President
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  Speaker 2: Trump's executive assistants. Very nice woman. Hey, we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live. It was pretty interesting. They did go
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  Speaker 2: after Trump. They went after Natalie Harp. She's another Trump
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  Speaker 2: executive assistant. The press has decided to go after her,
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  Speaker 2: make her look like she's a crazy stalker because she's
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  Speaker 2: always following him wherever she is. That's what you do
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  Speaker 2: when a presidential executive assistant That's what they do. They're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be there at all times. Every president has
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  Speaker 2: had a Natalie Harp. Every president has had a Natalie Harp. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Harp's very good looking, young. I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these presidential assistants look like Madeleine Albright. So this
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  Speaker 2: is a little different. But she's a very nice woman,
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  Speaker 2: very fine woman, very good character. But they made her
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  Speaker 2: look like a crazed stalker. Well, we'll get back. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to Saturday Night Live. Coming up, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, live from the WOR Life Fact Studios.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Well, I guess I've accepted the fact that summer is over.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: This weekend helped convince you. But also, baseball season is over.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: It ended yesterday. Yankees' final game yesterday was rained out.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: They didn't play it. And then they said they're not
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: going to reschedule it. So is that normal to just
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: not reschedule, have one less game for the season? I guess.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Playoff games start tomorrow, Yankees and Red Sox. Football all
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: over the place. Hockey is starting preseason. So I guess
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I have to just accept the fact that the summer
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: is over. It was a lot of wind this weekend.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: That takes down a lot of the leaves and all
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: that rain and all that stuff. So a lot going
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: on at the White House today. Yesterday, the president had
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: a long day yesterday. Remember Biden? He'd appear at like
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: a ribbon cutting in front of the White House for
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a second, and then you wouldn't see him for a month.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: President Trump, you got to give the guy credit. I
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: don't care how much you hate him. You got to
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: give him credit for stamina at the age of 80.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: This weekend, he flew all over the place. He's in
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Tennessee and Kentucky and Northgate, flying all over the place.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: He even flew to Chicago to the President's Cup golf tournament.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: And then he's running around all over the country all weekend. Sunday,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: he's all over the place flying around, gets back to
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the White House. And then at 10 o'clock, he's got
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a dinner. At 10 o'clock at night, you know, when
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you get that old, usually dinner's 4.30. But 10 o'clock
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: at night, he's having a dinner with the anthropic CEO,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: AI executive. 10 o'clock at night, you know, President Trump,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: he's always like a big thick steak and all that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: You're not supposed to eat that at 10. o'clock at night,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: but he hardly sleeps. So what's the difference? But a
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: busy day today. And hey, that crazy New Jersey governor,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Mikey Sherrill, appointed the biggest decision you make when you
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: run for governor, when you start. First major decision, you
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: pick a lieutenant governor. Well, she picked a lieutenant governor
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: who was doing all kinds of stuff, and he had
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to resign. What was he doing exactly? He hired his girlfriend.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: He was having a relationship with an underling, something like that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: As a former federal prosecutor, I wanted to make sure
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: everyone was treated fairly and justly. This investigation was thorough,
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: and it was impartial.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Be leery of a politician when they talk slow and
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: they read it. As a former prosecutor, so they investigated
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: this guy, he called Wellesley.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: An attempt to hire someone he was dating, which was
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: against the ethics rules, but also he did not mention
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: that he was dating this individual. Sexual harassment substantiated in
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: the report, as well as concerns from other members that
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: worked for him about things that he was saying in
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: the office.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: All right. All right. He hires a girlfriend. He's making
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: sexual comments to everybody in the office. Shouldn't you have
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: known this before you hired the guy? It's the one
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: major decision you make as a brand new gubernatorial candidate.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Shouldn't you have checked this out? You're a former prosecutor.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: You said, shouldn't you know how to investigate?
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: We vet people very carefully. We have hired hundreds and
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: hundreds of people to office. And I think you can
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: see from The work we've done just in eight months,
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: how incredibly well we have done in much of our hiring.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: The vetting process was thorough. And unfortunately, some of the
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: behavior from the time he took office raised concerns and
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: led to the chief ethics officer starting an independent investigation.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know. These sexual abusers, sexual harasser, crude comment types.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: It usually doesn't start all of a sudden. If he's
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: been doing this in office, you can be sure he
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: was doing it before. Well, let's let Caldwell give his side.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: The report, I think, is suspicious. There are all sorts
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: of wrong things in the text. I'm not resigning because
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: of that ridiculous report. I'm resigning because I don't want
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: to be a distraction to the Mikey Sherrill administration. You know,
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: I think that there's a lot of great things they've started.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: I started some great things at the Department of State
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: that will be continued.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Well, that's it. It's official. It's not true. He's confirmed it.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It's not true. And... You got two excuses you can
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: use when you get fired, when you get thrown out.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Biggest excuse, they always say, I like to spend more
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: time with my family. You know, they always give you
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that excuse. Yeah, I want to spend more time with
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: my family. Then you see their family. Who the hell
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: would want to spend more time with them? And then
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: the other excuse is, I don't want to be a distraction.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Too late. It's already been. The major news in New
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Jersey for two weeks. A little too late for this.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: If you didn't want to be a distraction, the second
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: she mentioned it, you should have quit and left. Then
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: she wouldn't have to throw you the hell out and
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: make it all public like that. Well, what are you
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: going to do? It happens. It happens. She's a little
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: wacky anyway. Hey, we'll get to Saturday Night Live coming up.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: They really went after Mom Donnie. They went after Trump
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: a lot more, but they did hit Mom Donnie with
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: a couple of shots. We'll get to that coming up.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: That was Jason Bronson. Hey, good for this guy. How
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: do you say his name? Jalen. Can you tell I'm
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: not a basketball fan? Can you tell I never saw
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: a basketball game until the Knicks playoffs? What the hell
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: is his name? Jalen. Jalen Bronson. But he's like a
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: superstar now because of the Knicks and all that. So
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: he was the guest host on Saturday Night Live. And
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: because he's such a superstar, you know, half the time
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: they have a guest host, you don't know who the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: hell it is, some young actor. But because he was
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: such a superstar, people were lined up. Hundreds of fans
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: were camping out just hoping to see him come in
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: and out of the building. Hundreds of fans. So you
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: know what this guy did? He went and bought them
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: all cookies. The NBC pages came out with boxes of
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: cookies to hand out to the critics. Remember, they're waiting
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: out in the rain and all that. And they weren't
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: just cookies. You could go get cookies anywhere. You could
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: buy a bag of cookies anywhere. These are from Levain Bakery,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: probably the finest chocolate chip cookies in New York. I mean,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: this is very special cookies. He had somebody go to Levain,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: buy hundreds of cookies, had, I'm sure he paid the
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: NBC pages extra to pass these out to the, obviously
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: a very nice guy or a very shrewd guy who
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: knows how to get just the right publicity. Somehow everybody
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: found out that he gave these cookies, but it's a nice,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: nice gesture. Hey, we've got a lot to get to.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: We'll take some calls, too, coming up. Mark Simone here,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: 9 to noon every day, 710WOR. Much more Mark.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone. Now 9 till noon weekdays. On 710WOR.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: If you have a Boeing stock, you might have noticed
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: it took a drop today. Uh, here's the problem. Oh,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: this doesn't sound good. Boeing says it found a software
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: glitch on the new 737 max. This is a big
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: new plane, the 737 max, but that says they found
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: a software glitch that could affect landing procedures. That sounds
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: pretty serious. So landing is a very important part of
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the flight. So, uh, now here are phones working. because
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: it's this phone is dark here it's usually lit up
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: with all the things dark i don't know why maybe
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: this one's just off but the one in there is
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: on right so that's that's all that matters uh you
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: know the un is still going on with this un
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: general assembly but it's uh not going to be a
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: lot of traffic because all the world leaders are gone
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: thank god uh they're all out of town so this
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: will be much better but the un continues its work
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: nobody knows what the hell that is except uh This
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: UN is the most disgusting anti-Semitic organization in the world.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Just awful anti-Semitic crap that goes on there. Do you
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: know that the UN has a list, a blacklist of
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: 60 companies that they want blacklisted because the companies do
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: business with Israel? It's absolutely disgusting. This is the UN
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: office of the High Commissioner for for human rights, which
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: is like the worst anti-Semite of all. So the United Nations, uh,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: if you do any business in parts of Israel, uh,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: or parts of Gaza, they've got 214 companies that they're blacklisting, uh,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: major companies like Motorola, uh, travel apps like Airbnb, uh, TripAdvisor. Uh, it's,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: it's just awful. The United Nations claims, uh, that certain
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: parts of the Jewish community beyond the 1949 armistice lines
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: are in occupied Palestinian territory. Well, this is absolutely, again,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: it could go on and on list all the anti-Semitic
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: things that go on in the UN. But this is
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: just another one. I know most people don't know that
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: they run this blacklist. It's absolutely disgusting. So let's see
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: if it works. I don't know. Maybe it's just the
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: light on the phone. Let's try it. Let's go to,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Blovelt in Florida. Blovelt, are you there?
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Mark Simone, good morning, sir.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: How are you?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: What's going on in Florida?
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: It's 88 degrees. The humidity's gone. It's getting a little cooler.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: It's the right time of year to be down here.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, don't give me that. You know, here it was
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: 80 and sunny all weekend. We had the most beautiful weekend.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: The sun was shining. It was wonderful.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: I miss September in New York City.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I sure do.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Actually, it was pouring rain. I don't want anybody to
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: think this is a rerun. It was awful. Hey, go ahead, Blovelt.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Quick question for you. You're always talking about when you're
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: promoting the other radio shows, Buck and Clay and Hannity,
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: with how many listeners they have. How many listeners do
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: you have?
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, we have a couple million listeners. The podcast, you know,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: after the show's over, we podcast it. The podcast did,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I think it was 10.3 million last year. We're going
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: to try to hit 11 million this year. Oh, that's fantastic.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: You know what? Just check every week. It's really interesting.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: iHeart puts out a list of the top 100 podcasts
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: in America. We always make the top 50. That's out
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: of 2 million podcasts in America.
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I'll look into that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: And one more question for you, if I don't mind.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: That new picture of you when I got you up
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: on iHeart, it seems like you're sitting on the roof.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: It's a very picturesque, beautiful window. It's here at iHeart.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It comes to a point like a V-shape. That's the one.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: It's a window.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what'd you think it was? You think I'm hanging
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: over the ledge? It's a window. Don't you see the
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: beams behind it? Oh, what happened? Are you there? Oh,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: we lost him. Blow belt. No, we lost him. Yeah,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: it's a window. I can't tell you. anybody where it
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: is because it's in a certain spot. I heard here
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: is like 10 floors of this big, huge skyscraper. And
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: everybody goes, where's that window? I want to take a
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: picture there. But you tell somebody, then everybody's got the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: same picture. So I don't tell anybody where that window is.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: It's a secret. Nobody has ever found it here at iHeart.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: You know, we got this hallway when you come in.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: The main entrance, the main entranceway, it's all lights all
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the way down the hallway. You've seen that. You'll see
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: that picture. Everybody takes a picture. It's a million lights
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: all the way down the hallway. Looks like you're walking
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: through AI or something. It's quite beautiful. But 800-321-0710 is
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: the number. Let's go to Barbie in Wayne, New Jersey. Barbie,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: are you there?
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Barbie. I like that name. That's a great name.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: It's a great name. Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: Don't rush.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Anytime you feel like jumping in. Yes, go ahead.
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm sorry. Listen, my friend is married to a
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: man who came from China about seven years ago and
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: applied for political asylum. And in the meantime, he got
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: married and married four years to her. And he got
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: a letter a month ago. They refused the political asylum
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: and They're in the process of deportation.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's terrible.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: And, you know, I'm a big, well, it is, I'm
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: a big Trump supporter and I didn't know that this
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: was part of the plan.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Well, he's not an illegal citizen. Does he have a
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: green card, all that stuff? Yeah. Well, the visa is
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: only temporary. You got to get a green card. If
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: he marries her, doesn't that help him stay?
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: Well, that's why we don't understand.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Is she a citizen?
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, of course.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Well, that should help.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, why?
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: You know, this is the biggest irony is that he's
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: a Trump supporter.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Well, it's terrible.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: I mean, he doesn't vote because he can't.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: You think he's really being deported? You think he's really
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: being deported? Because sometimes a guy wants to get away
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: from this marriage. That's a good excuse.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: No.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm being deported. I've got to wonder that.
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: He got a letter that... Well, you can make.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Up a letter on AI. You sure he's really being deported?
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: Listen.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: Mark, if you're not going to take it serious, I'm
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: going to hang up.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's upsetting.
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: He's a good friend.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: No, I agree with you. That's a terrible situation. So
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: what I would do is wherever he is.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: Let me just say this. Let me just say this.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: And she's reading where they're not... All right, well, listen
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: to me.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Listen to me. What he should do immediately is call
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: his congressman or woman. Call them. They did. It's most
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: likely a Democrat. Tell them you've got some anti-Trump situation here,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and they'll jump on it. Usually a congressperson can do something.
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: No, listen, they did, and they got a letter back
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: saying that they asked to be expedited paperwork.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: All right, well, try the congressman. Try the local TV news,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: News 12, all that. Try writing letters. Well, get some
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: press on it. Yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: Do you think President Trump listens every day?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It's not about President Trump. It's not up to him.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: You want to get somebody in the local ICE office somewhere. Again,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: keep calling your congressman. Call the governors. They're all Democrats.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: They'll love an anti-Trump story. Call them and get them
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: on this, and then they can bring a lot of
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: attention to it and maybe stop it.
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: Thank you, Mark.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Well, we've got a lot to get
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: to today. We'll get to SNL. It was great. pretty
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: good at times and pretty bad at times typical for
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: snl we'll get to the new iphone we'll get to
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: uh we'll get to china and a whole lot we're
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: going to get back to ai we got a lot
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to talk about don't forget i'm here three hours every
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: day nine to noon every day nine to noon then
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: at noon you got buck sexton clay travis a great
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: show every day very very popular then you got the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: most listened to radio show in america sean hannity three
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: o'clock you got jesse kelly at six you got The
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: very funny Jimmy Fela at 9 o'clock every night. It's
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: all here on 710WOR.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekdays.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Mark Simone. More Mark.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: On 710WOR.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: Well, all right.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I don't feel great. You don't feel right today? It's
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the three days of rain. Psychologically, it gets to you
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: after a while. You feel a little... I don't know,
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: not depressed, but a little, three days of being rained in,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: three days of listening to this. It's going to continue
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: through the morning. It's supposed to stop raining afternoon. It
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: might be a little rain here and there. Now, it's
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: supposed to be nice tomorrow. Not great, but nice, dry,
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: nice day. And then Wednesday is supposed to be very mild,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: back up about 75. So that'll cure everything. Hey, we
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: got two more hours to go and a lot to
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: get to coming up here on 710WOR.