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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone. Mr. New York. Now three hours every weekday
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  Speaker 1: from 9 till noon on 710WOR. Yeah, three hours every day,
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  Speaker 1: 9 to noon. If you just joined us, well, you
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  Speaker 1: missed the first hour. It's 9 to noon every day now.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to the Carnegie Deli coming up. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to Crazy Mom Donnie. We'll get to voter fraud. They've
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  Speaker 1: uncovered some more of it. We'll get to President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: the ban on the press, all of that. Not going
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  Speaker 1: so well right now. Hey, Paramount wants to buy Warner
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  Speaker 1: Brothers Discovery. They want to merge it all together. There's
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  Speaker 1: been a lot of opposition. It's a multi-billion dollar deal.
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  Speaker 1: And the last thing holding it up was a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of states all got together to sue to block it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a massive lawsuit by a group of states. Well,
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  Speaker 1: David Ellison, who is the one orchestrating this, he's the
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  Speaker 1: son of Larry Ellison. They have settled with all these states.
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  Speaker 1: They've settled the lawsuit. That was the last real hurdle
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  Speaker 1: blocking Paramount from buying Warner Brothers Discovery. So it's going
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  Speaker 1: to go through. They're going to buy Warner Brothers Discovery.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be this huge, enormous media conglomerate. And if this
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  Speaker 1: were years ago, it'd be quite a monopoly. It's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be that way anymore. because network TV has
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  Speaker 1: very few viewers now. Cable TV doesn't have that many
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  Speaker 1: viewers now. So you can combine these companies, and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really do that much. And as far as the
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  Speaker 1: streaming services, combining those, it doesn't really mean that much
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  Speaker 1: anymore because you can combine HBO and you can combine Paramount.
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  Speaker 1: And there's still 25 other major streaming companies. But they
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  Speaker 1: had to make a lot of concessions to get this
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  Speaker 1: deal done. They've agreed to establish a board to ensure
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  Speaker 1: the editorial independence of CNN and CBS News. All right,
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  Speaker 1: they'll establish a board. That means they'll put some politicians
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  Speaker 1: on it and pay them a big salary to be
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  Speaker 1: on the board. And everybody will be happy. They're also
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  Speaker 1: committing to, and this is interesting, this is part of
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  Speaker 1: the settlement. They have to commit to distribute 30 movies
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  Speaker 1: every year in theaters. You know, worried the movie theaters
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  Speaker 1: are dying and that everybody would rather watch at home streaming.
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  Speaker 1: And so they're committing to 30 movies a year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's almost two or three movies a month they have
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  Speaker 1: to put into theaters. So that's quite a commitment. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why politicians would fight to keep the
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  Speaker 1: movie theaters. Well, I do know there's probably a lot
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  Speaker 1: of big movie theater companies paying these politicians to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that that's in the agreement. The company also agreed
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  Speaker 1: to spend an additional $ 1. 5 billion on film production over
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  Speaker 1: the next five years and, uh, guaranteed to increase the
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  Speaker 1: share of those movies that are made in America. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see a lot more movies made in America.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they make them in Canada. They make them
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  Speaker 1: in other places because it's a lot cheaper to make
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  Speaker 1: them there. And it avoids union costs, all sorts of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to see a lot of that, uh, problem
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  Speaker 1: go away because of AI. Now, while all the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Left-wing Democrats are fighting to stop AI, block AI, get
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  Speaker 1: rid of AI. Hollywood desperately wants AI. Hollywood thinks AI
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  Speaker 1: is the key to their future because it will save
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  Speaker 1: them a fortune. With AI, you don't have to build
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  Speaker 1: sets anymore. You could just AI the set in there.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're doing a movie about the President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, you'd have to build an Oval Office set.
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  Speaker 1: You'd have to build all the, well, not if you
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  Speaker 1: have AI. You just, you do it in front of
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  Speaker 1: a green screen and AI everything in. It saves a fortune,
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  Speaker 1: this AI. Let's say you're doing a war movie. You
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  Speaker 1: need to have a battle scene, 500 soldiers on a battlefield.
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  Speaker 1: The way it was, you'd have to get 500 extras,
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  Speaker 1: manufacture 500 uniforms. You'd have to rent millions of trucks
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  Speaker 1: and all sorts of, trailers and go out somewhere and
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  Speaker 1: find a battlefield and cost a fortune to film that.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can do it through AI. You can have
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  Speaker 1: your three actors right in the studio in front of
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  Speaker 1: a green screen and you AI in all the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: in the battlefield saves a fortune. So Hollywood desperately wants
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  Speaker 1: AI everywhere. Very important for them. You know, um, uh,
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago, it was 15, 20 years ago. They,
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  Speaker 1: they had these big video screens. So on a TV set,
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  Speaker 1: When you're on television, there's a big video wall behind you.
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  Speaker 1: It's an enormous screen. The whole wall behind you is
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  Speaker 1: a video screen. And they project whatever they want on there.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're doing Morning Joe on MS Now, all
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  Speaker 1: behind him, it's got Morning Joe logos, Morning Joe this,
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  Speaker 1: Morning Joe that. And then he goes off the air.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next show comes on. Stephanie Rule comes on.
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  Speaker 1: And it looks like they're in a different studio with
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  Speaker 1: a whole different set. It's not. They just changed the
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  Speaker 1: video on the screen behind them. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it's got Stephanie Rule stuff all over it. Saves a fortune.
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  Speaker 1: In the old days, you used to have different studios
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  Speaker 1: or the crew would have to have a big crew
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  Speaker 1: come in and move the set out, move the new set.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to do that anymore. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Grammy Awards used to be a nightmare because the Grammy
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  Speaker 1: Awards was like 30 musical groups in a row. Each
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  Speaker 1: had their own set. And yeah, as soon as the
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  Speaker 1: band finished, they had to move all the scenery around
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  Speaker 1: and move another scenery in and move. They don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's all video screens. Much, much, much easier nowadays. So
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  Speaker 1: it looks like the merger will go through. How will
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  Speaker 1: this affect CNN, CBS? Well, they'll probably try to clean
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  Speaker 1: CNN up a little. It's very left-wing biased, slanted. But
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  Speaker 1: the real problem is it has a tiny audience. Nobody's
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  Speaker 1: watching it. It's the bottom cable channel, lowest rated. has
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  Speaker 1: just a few hundred thousand viewers. So if you're Paramount
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  Speaker 1: buying Warner Brothers Discovery, you're going to want to fix
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  Speaker 1: that up. You're going to want to tune it into something.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of useless to have it be a third-place,
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  Speaker 1: broken-down news channel with very few viewers. So imagine they'll
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  Speaker 1: try to tune that up and make it into something.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. Kathy Hochul, we mentioned that she's going to
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  Speaker 1: have AI controls. She's doing the same thing Gavin Newsom's
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  Speaker 1: doing in California. They're talking about very important to have
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  Speaker 1: states regulate AI as if they know how to regulate AI,
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  Speaker 1: as if they even know what it is. And she's
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  Speaker 1: talking about they may, if they're, they might, they just
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  Speaker 1: might have to have a kill switch. Newsom said the
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  Speaker 1: same thing too. We might have to put in a
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  Speaker 1: kill switch. What the hell is a kill switch? They
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  Speaker 1: actually think there's a button somewhere. I'll push the button.
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  Speaker 1: It'll turn off all the AI. It doesn't work that way.
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  Speaker 1: You can't, there's no such thing. Even if there was
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  Speaker 1: such a thing, the AI itself is not bad. It's
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  Speaker 1: whoever's programming the AI. It's the evil, somebody in Russia,
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  Speaker 1: somebody in China, somebody somewhere programming it to do something evil.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is, as people have pointed out with
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  Speaker 1: the kill switch, the AI, if some evil programmer programmed it,
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  Speaker 1: could program it to if it is hit with the
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  Speaker 1: kill switch to do something awful before it shuts off.
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  Speaker 1: You could program it to do that. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: if it hits the kills, the kill switch is hit,
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  Speaker 1: the default will be to wipe out every, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So the problem is Hochul and these Albany legislators, they
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  Speaker 1: don't know the first thing about any of this. They
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  Speaker 1: have no idea how it works. Hey, the president banned
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  Speaker 1: MS Now, CNN, who else? Politico. from the white house.
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  Speaker 1: Now total combined, that's like 12 viewers, these three things.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is, uh, first of all, everybody says
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  Speaker 1: it could backfire because if you do this, well, then
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats come in and they ban, uh, the conservative news. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's very possible. But, uh, it's already been tried. Remember, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Biden took away the press credentials from 440 reporters, just
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  Speaker 1: took them away. Uh, Obama tried to ban Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there's a funny video going all over the internet. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: apparently Obama does not understand how the internet works because
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  Speaker 1: he's speaking this week and he's joking. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: if I tried to, can you imagine what would have
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  Speaker 1: happened if I tried to ban Fox News? Could you imagine? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he did. So this video of him saying this is online,
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  Speaker 1: cut together with the video from during his administration, when
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  Speaker 1: he talked about doing it. And it's interesting, George Stephanopoulos
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  Speaker 1: and David Axelrod, all these people pushing for the ban
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  Speaker 1: of Fox News. So they did try to do it.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't last long. It didn't work. And again, this
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  Speaker 1: Trump media ban, it's kind of silly. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: this is going to work. Now, he's got a point.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not really... Now, these networks are going to
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  Speaker 1: go to court. He could go into court and prove...
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  Speaker 1: his case, it would not be hard. You could bring
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  Speaker 1: in hundreds of examples of totally fake stories they've broadcast
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  Speaker 1: and put them, you know, under oath on the court record.
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  Speaker 1: You could also bring in dozens of major stories they
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  Speaker 1: refused to report because they were too positive. So you
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  Speaker 1: could do that kind of stuff. It's not really a
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment issue because these networks are free to speak
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  Speaker 1: as much as they want whenever, wherever they want. Just
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  Speaker 1: because you have your First Amendment rights doesn't mean he
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  Speaker 1: has to let them into his office. They can speak
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  Speaker 1: all they want. He didn't try to take away their
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  Speaker 1: ability to speak. Which, by the way, they did to him.
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  Speaker 1: Remember they canceled him. They took him off Twitter and
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  Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram. At the time, he was a private citizen.
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  Speaker 1: They completely cut him off from social media, took his
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  Speaker 1: platforms away. So president not shutting down CNN or MSNOW
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  Speaker 1: or Politico. He's just not letting them in his building.
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  Speaker 1: They can still do whatever they want. But it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: Their response, pretty good. They all banded together. And even
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  Speaker 1: Fox and everybody else joined in and said, as long
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  Speaker 1: as this ban's in effect, we're not going to cover
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  Speaker 1: the White House. We're not going to cover you. And
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  Speaker 1: the band lasted about 12 seconds. The president had the
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  Speaker 1: unveiling of his new helipad. And because the press pool
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there, you couldn't hear what he was saying. There
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  Speaker 1: were no microphones there to hear him. You could see him,
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  Speaker 1: but you couldn't hear him. But then he goes to
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  Speaker 1: meet Mamdani. And they're all there. All the media is
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  Speaker 1: there to cover him. And he thought it was kind
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  Speaker 1: of funny. They claimed they were banning him, but there
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  Speaker 1: they were.
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  Speaker 2: They said they were going to boycott me, but they
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  Speaker 2: never boycott me.
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  Speaker 1: So I wasn't very worried about that. Look at all
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  Speaker 1: that press.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I'm only doing it because I think the
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  Speaker 2: press also has an obligation. And, you know, I won
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  Speaker 2: in a landslide. I won the election in a landslide.
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  Speaker 2: I've done great things. I've done a lot of great things.
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  Speaker 2: I've settled eight wars. We have the best economic numbers
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  Speaker 2: for the country in the history of our country. We
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  Speaker 2: have $ 21 trillion pouring in. The biggest number ever, any country,
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  Speaker 2: was three. Nobody's ever done what we've done. I never
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  Speaker 2: get anything positive. It's always negative.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, on some networks. That report came out last week.
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  Speaker 1: Highest income, average income in America ever in history now.
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  Speaker 1: and the lowest poverty rate ever right now under Trump story.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't get reported. You know, that, uh, Greenland deal was
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  Speaker 1: pretty amazing. That, uh, deal was signed. Was it Friday?
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  Speaker 1: The Greenland deal was, was, uh, secured. We have total control.
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  Speaker 1: It was a big thing. ABC evening news, David Muir
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  Speaker 1: didn't report the story. Didn't even mention it. So he
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  Speaker 1: got a lot that goes, he's got a point there,
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  Speaker 1: but on the other hand, now he does have quite
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  Speaker 1: an ego. Uh, And he likes having the press around
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  Speaker 1: if they don't show up. If they're not there in
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  Speaker 1: the hall, if they're not there in the white, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to get to him after a while. But he
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  Speaker 1: decided that in the meantime, Trump TV will cover everything.
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  Speaker 1: He's got his own TV channel. It's online. It's on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: It's streaming everywhere. Didn't get a lot of viewers yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was like 30,000 or something, 10,000. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a lot. But then. Most people don't watch CNN
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  Speaker 1: or MSNOW either. Very few people watch it. Very, very
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  Speaker 1: low ratings. Hey, let's get to the Carnegie Deli. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about it a lot in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, and I went to the big opening a
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  Speaker 1: week ago. Was it a week ago or two weeks ago?
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  Speaker 1: Big opening. And if you look at my Instagram, there's
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  Speaker 1: pictures of the new Carnegie, and I've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: it all the time. Believe it or not, in all
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  Speaker 1: of this going there, I went to meet with the
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  Speaker 1: new owners, and I it's the daughter and granddaughter of
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  Speaker 1: the original owner. But in all of this, I never
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  Speaker 1: ate there. I never ate anything. One time they gave
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  Speaker 1: me a bunch of food, but I brought it back
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  Speaker 1: here and everybody else, I didn't. So yesterday I finally
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  Speaker 1: ate there. It's because Sunday night I was with two people,
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  Speaker 1: two friends of mine who had eaten there that day.
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  Speaker 1: They said it was unbelievable. The food was so good.
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  Speaker 1: The pastrami, everything was so great. But this was Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night and they said, His stomach is like lead. They
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  Speaker 1: couldn't eat. So yesterday, so I ate the pastrami on rye,
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  Speaker 1: the classic Carnegie order pastrami rye mustard, what they would
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  Speaker 1: secretly call the pistol. That's how they would, that was
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  Speaker 1: the code name for it. It was delicious. The corned
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  Speaker 1: beef is great as ever, as flavorful as ever. The
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  Speaker 1: corned beef is great as ever. Oh, excuse me, pastrami,
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  Speaker 1: not corned beef, pastrami. The pastrami is great as ever.
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  Speaker 1: Phenomenal pastrami on rye. And the cheesecake. They feel the
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  Speaker 1: strawberry cheesecake is the best one. The cheesecake was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the best cheesecake I've ever eaten. Phenomenal. However, now
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  Speaker 1: about three, four hours later, it started hitting me too.
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  Speaker 1: My stomach, it's still like lead. I think I ate
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  Speaker 1: this about 3.30, 4 o'clock. I think it's the last
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  Speaker 1: time I ate. I didn't eat after that. Stomach is
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  Speaker 1: just like lead, so. Pace yourself. And I, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't eat the whole sandwich. You know, when they
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  Speaker 1: give you the sandwich, it's like a foot high. I
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  Speaker 1: took out 99% of that pastrami and whittled it down
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  Speaker 1: to a normal size sandwich. But even with that, I
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  Speaker 1: can still feel it. Still like my whole stomach just
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  Speaker 1: feels like a lead right now. So the food is great.
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  Speaker 1: It's better than ever. Just be careful. Pace yourself. Go slow.
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  Speaker 1: And next time, of course, the pastrami they're famous for.
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  Speaker 1: The corned beef. They do have a turkey sandwich. They
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  Speaker 1: do have a roast beef sandwich. They do have a Reuben,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably a little easier to take. The cheesecake, phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: The new Carnegie Deli. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
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  Speaker 1: 800-321-0710 is the number. Give me a call. Especially new callers.
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  Speaker 1: We always like new callers. 800-321-0710.