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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekday. Smart Simone. Only on 710WOR. Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710. Our
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  Speaker 1: old friend Kimberly Guilfoyle getting herself into some trouble here. She's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I remember she was engaged to Don Jr.
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  Speaker 1: That got ended. They broke it off. And then the
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  Speaker 1: consolation prize was she was named ambassador to Greece. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to break up with somebody and it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of awkward, now you break up with them. If
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  Speaker 1: your father's the president, perfect. Make her an ambassador to Greece.
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  Speaker 1: Get her like 5,000 miles away. But the Wall Street
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  Speaker 1: Journal apparently got a hold of her texts, her signal chats.
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  Speaker 1: And the Wall Street Journal now claiming that she was...
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  Speaker 1: for shaking down donors, trying to get money out of them,
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  Speaker 1: that according to this Wall Street Journal, and they say
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  Speaker 1: they got a hold of these texts and chats, signal chats,
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  Speaker 1: that she had run up a lot of credit card debt,
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands in credit card debt. And there's a donor,
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  Speaker 1: apparently she'd gotten money from this guy before. So this
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  Speaker 1: is in summer of 2025. She kept pressing this Republican
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  Speaker 1: donor to pay her American Express $ 100, 000. She wanted him
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  Speaker 1: to wire the money directly to American express. And that
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  Speaker 1: would mean, uh, it wouldn't, she wouldn't be involved in
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  Speaker 1: the transaction. There'd be no trace to her. And the
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  Speaker 1: guy didn't want to do it. Apparently he's a big
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  Speaker 1: donor and he, you know, paid money for her before.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, if I'm, if I do this, my
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  Speaker 1: wife will leave me. If I'd given you a hundred thousand,
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  Speaker 1: his wife would leave him. So who knows what was
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  Speaker 1: going on there? But, uh, She said, you wire it
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  Speaker 1: directly to American Express. She'll never know. But apparently he
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  Speaker 1: was too worried about the wife. She didn't do it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how did she get all this credit card debt? Remember,
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  Speaker 1: she's engaged to Donald Trump. Maybe she was spending and
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  Speaker 1: spending and spending, thinking she's going to become part of
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  Speaker 1: the Trump family. And it didn't work out. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what happens with this Wall Street Journal piece, how
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  Speaker 1: far this spreads. Let's take some calls. Let's go to Dr. Bob,
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  Speaker 1: the great surgeon in Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Bob, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good, Mark. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Mark, I'm concerned. I'm a big supporter of Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: but I think he's trying to achieve a balance, and
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  Speaker 3: it's making him look a little bit wishy-washy. He used
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  Speaker 3: the term with various people in the past that they
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  Speaker 3: weren't closers, and I hope that he takes more of
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  Speaker 3: the Harry Truman approach and finishes and solves some problems
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  Speaker 3: with Hillary and the other Democrats who have attacked him
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  Speaker 3: during his runs for presidency. He has too much respect
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  Speaker 3: for the office of president, but he should really follow
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  Speaker 3: through with what he's said about those people that were
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  Speaker 3: attacking him during his presidential run.
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  Speaker 1: Give him time. Give him time. Let's get through the
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  Speaker 1: midterms first. You don't do it now. You do it
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  Speaker 1: after the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: The next two years, I'm hoping he cinches down, really
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  Speaker 3: follows through with what he's said.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they should lock up Jack Smith and Merrick Garland
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  Speaker 1: and all of those people.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Dr. Bob, thanks for calling. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Megan in Brooklyn. Megan, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I am furious about what you said the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, calm down, calm down.
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  Speaker 4: I have to.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell you so mad about?
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  Speaker 4: Not using cash, okay? I use cash for everything. You
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  Speaker 4: know who ties up the lines when I'm going to pay?
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  Speaker 4: The people with the SNAP benefits, the food stamp benefits,
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  Speaker 4: the EBT's, because you can see the screens. It's constantly
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  Speaker 4: where they have to check.
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  Speaker 1: This, check that. You got to pay the check out.
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  Speaker 1: They ring it up. You take your credit card. You
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  Speaker 1: touch the thing and you're paid.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: You take your phone.
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  Speaker 2: You hold it up.
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  Speaker 1: One second you're paid. You go, you people with the cash.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always an older woman.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not.
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  Speaker 1: You sit there counting it out. The cashier is 12
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  Speaker 1: years old. She's like 22. She's never even seen cash.
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  Speaker 1: Got to figure out how to give you a change.
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  Speaker 4: Not true. Everything is automatic. Even the receipt, when it
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  Speaker 4: comes out, it tells them how much change to give.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but it's like a 20-year-old kid who's not
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  Speaker 1: used to dealing with cash. Now, don't you have a
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  Speaker 1: credit card?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, but I don't use it unless I'm ordering something big.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think it's for?
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  Speaker 1: It's for the supermarket.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want identity theft, okay? And it's a big thing,
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  Speaker 4: a big thing. So I only use it when I
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  Speaker 4: have a big purchase online or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, if you were a victim of identity theft,
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  Speaker 1: they'd give it back after seeing your identity. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going through that.
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  Speaker 4: I am not going through that, but I want my money.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want my nickels being taken away. It's bad
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  Speaker 4: enough my pennies were taken away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no more pennies, and the government is going
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  Speaker 1: to stop making nickels, so.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So how much cash do you keep? You have to
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  Speaker 1: keep a lot of cash around.
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  Speaker 4: I have enough. I have enough, and I know what
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  Speaker 4: I'm buying. No problem.
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  Speaker 2: No problem.
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  Speaker 1: All right, but cash only. That's like a Carmelo Soprano
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  Speaker 1: kind of a behavior.
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  Speaker 4: Believe it or not, I'm Italian-American. I never watch The Sopranos.
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  Speaker 2: Never.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely never.
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  Speaker 1: But you have a credit card, right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, I have two of them, but I only
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  Speaker 4: use them for certain things.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I want you to do me a favor.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to go to the supermarket just once,
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  Speaker 1: just once, and use the credit card. Just once. Just once.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even use it for buying gasoline for the car.
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  Speaker 1: How do you get gas?
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  Speaker 4: I pay cash, and they pump it for me. With
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  Speaker 4: the one station in Brooklyn that actually pumps the gas
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  Speaker 4: for you. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: I can't stand it. I've got to pump my own gas.
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  Speaker 1: I hate those full-service gas stations.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I love it, because I don't have to get
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  Speaker 4: out of the car. It's full service, and I'm a
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  Speaker 4: happy camper.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to help you. Get out of the car,
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  Speaker 1: walk around, pump your own gas. Okay, just once, just once,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to use the credit card in the supermarket.
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  Speaker 1: Just to feel, see what the experience is like.
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  Speaker 4: No promises made.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, you're a nice woman, Megan. Thanks for calling.
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  Speaker 1: Take care. Remember years ago, the woman wants to pay
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  Speaker 1: with a check in the supermarket. You've got to wait
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  Speaker 1: while she writes out the It's the same thing now
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  Speaker 1: with the cash. You've got to wait while she takes
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  Speaker 1: out the cash. The cashier has never used cash in
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  Speaker 1: her life. She's 23. She's got to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: you give change. Use the credit card. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: Mike in Florida. Mike, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Down here in Florida, they still try to play with checks.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready to blow my brain out. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: AI thing has simmered down for a couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: but I wanted to mention... To people who may not
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  Speaker 2: be old enough, you know, once upon a time, computers
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  Speaker 2: were sort of this way. You know, 2001 Space Odyssey
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  Speaker 2: was basically about a rogue computer, and that was 1968.
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  Speaker 2: And then before that, in the 50s, they made a
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  Speaker 2: movie called Desk Set, which was about a computer in part,
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  Speaker 2: you know, running a company and ruining people's lives. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that was the AI.
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  Speaker 1: In 1999, 2000, everybody was talking about this when we
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  Speaker 1: were going digital and online and email. Everybody thought it
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  Speaker 1: was going to take over and ruin us. And then Y2K,
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  Speaker 1: the year 2000, everybody thought.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mentioned that a couple of calls back. And
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  Speaker 2: then a caller mentioned it again yesterday. Yeah, it's that hysteria.
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  Speaker 2: But it was funny about computers because now computers, everybody
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  Speaker 2: has a computer in their pocket. You know, I mean...
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  Speaker 2: which is everybody has short memories about these alarmists.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike, good call. And as we always point out,
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  Speaker 1: when electricity was first invented, the same thing happened. There
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  Speaker 1: was hysteria that electricity would kill us all, would wipe
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  Speaker 1: us out. And that's what led to Mary Shelley writing
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  Speaker 1: the book Frankenstein about how with electricity you could create
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  Speaker 1: monsters that would kill us. It happens all the time.
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  Speaker 1: There's a new movie coming out called Artificial. to be
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  Speaker 1: released Christmas Day. And this will help propel this AI hysteria.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a good movie. It's a very good movie.
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  Speaker 1: About 75% of it is true. 25% of it is
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  Speaker 1: total fiction. Let's go to Anthony in the Bronx. Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to say?
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  Speaker 2: You can always pay in pennies. And what about the
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn Bridge? They're afraid to go over it, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, people get like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's right. You know, when they built the Brooklyn Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: it was too scary to to go over it. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: nobody remembers Y2K. I mean, they remember it, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't remember how scared everybody was. They actually, at the time,
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  Speaker 1: said planes could drop out of the sky, everything could stop,
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  Speaker 1: the whole power grid could shut down. People look back, they, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Y2K are sort of, they don't remember exactly how bad
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  Speaker 1: it was. Hey, we got a lot coming up in
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  Speaker 1: the next hour. We got Jimmy Fela. will be with us.
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  Speaker 1: Lots to talk to him about. And then, you know,
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