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

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  Speaker 1: So Mark Simone show continues, Well, it's St. Patrick's Day,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a lot of fun in New York. It's
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a mess. The parade begins around now
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  Speaker 1: and goes till this afternoon, and then it never ends
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  Speaker 1: because millions of people show up with this parade and
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  Speaker 1: they don't just leave immediately. They linger around, throw up
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  Speaker 1: all over the place, where all sorts of green stuff
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  Speaker 1: invade every pub, bar, tavern, restaurant, everything. So it'll be
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  Speaker 1: going on all day to day. Hey, the Oscars, it
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  Speaker 1: was I don't know. It wasn't a great Oscar ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a horrendous Oscar ceremony. They did tone down
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  Speaker 1: the political nonsense. There was that one idiot yelling about
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  Speaker 1: free Palestine, and then there was Jimmy Kimmel, who is
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  Speaker 1: just an angry, angry, bitter guy. Can you metch if
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  Speaker 1: you had Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel and you had
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  Speaker 1: an angry contest, who could be the angrier guy? And
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  Speaker 1: then he's doing this interview that started to go viral. Afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: there were reporters asking him something and he just said
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  Speaker 1: he's exhausted, exhausted by the state of the world. You're
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  Speaker 1: a comedian. You don't have to be exhausted. Johnny Carson,
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about him yesterday, the whole Vietnam War.
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  Speaker 1: He's on the air having fun every night. He's on
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  Speaker 1: the air through assassinations and Kennedy assassination, Martin Luther King assassination,
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  Speaker 1: riots all over the place in nineteen sixty He's on
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  Speaker 1: the air through all of this. He's not exhausted. He's
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  Speaker 1: making the country laugh every night. But Jimmy Kimmel is
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  Speaker 1: exhausted by the state of the world. Then he went
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  Speaker 1: on to brand the United States a ridiculous country. Kimmel said,
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  Speaker 1: he was over the US. This is on the red carpet,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous country, were ridiculous. It's a ridiculous country. Just an angry, angry,
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  Speaker 1: bitter guy. You know, late night television used to be
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Carson was nothing but fun. Jayleno, big happy guy,
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  Speaker 1: nothing but fun, the greatest monologue. It used to be
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  Speaker 1: Dick Cavit. You know, Cavot was fun, also very highbrow.
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  Speaker 1: He'd be interviewing you know, Katherine Hepburn and Fred Astaire
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  Speaker 1: and all these big guess that don't normally do talk shows.
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  Speaker 1: And then and then Conan O'Brien came along, all right,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't the greatest, but happy fun. And then Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Fallon takes over the Tonight Show and he was happy
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  Speaker 1: and fun. And then Colbert comes along with his ugly, angry,
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  Speaker 1: bitter hate kind of show and it starts to beat
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  Speaker 1: Colbert at Fallon. So Fallen says, well, maybe I'd better
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  Speaker 1: do that. He tries to get vicious and ugly with
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  Speaker 1: the political but it doesn't work with Folan, he's too
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  Speaker 1: nice a guy. But the whole thing went downhill after Colbert.
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  Speaker 1: Then they put on Kimmel, who used to be a comedian.
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  Speaker 1: Now he decides it's angry, bitter Trump bashing hate speech.
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  Speaker 1: Just I mean, the whole idea of the late night
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  Speaker 1: television The Tonight Show was really created by Steve Allen.
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  Speaker 1: The whole idea was entertainment, light, fun, entertainment right before
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  Speaker 1: you go to sleep. The Tonight Show now it's like,
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  Speaker 1: why would you want to if you're a big Trump hater,
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  Speaker 1: why would you want to watch Colbert? This angry bitter
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  Speaker 1: guy riley up about Trump just get you even angrier
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  Speaker 1: about Trump right before you go to sleep. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of sense. These guys killed the whole genre.
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  Speaker 1: It's about to go. Colbert has been fired. When he
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  Speaker 1: goes off the air and may watch, they'm going to
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  Speaker 1: replace him with a game show or something else and
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  Speaker 1: it'll get triple the ratings. Kimmel is next. He's doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really have a new contract. They gave him an extension
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  Speaker 1: of his old contract for a year, which is a
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  Speaker 1: very insulting thing to do. New contract. Well'll just extend
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  Speaker 1: this one one year, so that'll be up in six months,
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  Speaker 1: and then that'll be the end of that, and then
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  Speaker 1: it'll be Fallin all alone, and if he's smart, he'll
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  Speaker 1: go back to what the Tonight's just supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: fun entertainment, lighthearted. It should be pretty good. Kim Will
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  Speaker 1: also after Milania Trump for that documentary. He attacked her documentary.
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  Speaker 1: It's just pathetic, awful. It didn't win anything and didn't
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  Speaker 1: get nominated, and he went on and on, and of
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  Speaker 1: course the critics pointing out it's not eligible because it
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  Speaker 1: didn't come out in twenty twenty five. It came out
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. It's not eligible to be nominated.
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  Speaker 1: But the question is how did the oscars do ratings wise? Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me just put it in perspective. What was the
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  Speaker 1: biggest Oscars? I think ninety eight, nineteen ninety eight the
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  Speaker 1: Oscars got fifty eight million viewers. Nineteen ninety eight, fifty
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  Speaker 1: eight eight million. Now what was the worst one? I
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  Speaker 1: think it was twenty twenty one. It's kind of a
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  Speaker 1: pandemic that it was towards the end of the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one Oscars got ten million, ten million. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last year, the Oscars made a bit of a recovery.
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  Speaker 1: Last year the Oscars got twenty million viewers, twenty million.
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  Speaker 1: This year, this past Sunday night, the Oscars got fifteen million.
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  Speaker 1: So it's down from last year, down a lot from
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  Speaker 1: last year fifteen million. And it should have been a
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  Speaker 1: good year because it was on ABC TV, it was
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  Speaker 1: also streaming, and it was also on YouTube. There were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ways to watch it. But I got
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  Speaker 1: fifteen million. Fifty four percent of that ABC television, the
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  Speaker 1: ABC network that was only really about half watched it
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  Speaker 1: on the network, thirty percent watched it on streaming, sixteen
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  Speaker 1: percent watched it on YouTube. So and I think this
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  Speaker 1: isn't this the last year on ABC. I think it
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  Speaker 1: goes to YouTube after that. So it's really kind of
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  Speaker 1: the last I mean, network TV really is just shrinking
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  Speaker 1: and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. Things like the Oscars
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  Speaker 1: don't get what the audience it used to get. The
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  Speaker 1: only thing left they really have is sports football baseball,
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  Speaker 1: but they're starting to lose that. For instance, the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: opening day to day, it's going to be on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: It won't be on television, Netflix, Amazon. All in talks
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  Speaker 1: with the NFL as we speak about taking it taking
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  Speaker 1: away from the networks. They speaking of the Oscars Barbara
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  Speaker 1: streisand they finally got her. They were trying to get
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  Speaker 1: her there. She has a manager. He's a wonderful guy,
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  Speaker 1: Marty Erlickman. He just retired her manager. He retired at
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  Speaker 1: the age of ninety six. Now he was their manager
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  Speaker 1: from the day she started in show business, which is
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  Speaker 1: like nineteen sixty two she first became famous. Was it
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  Speaker 1: sixty two or sixty three. She was this unknown singer
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  Speaker 1: from Brooklyn. She was a little place downtown I think
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  Speaker 1: it was called the Bone sois that's where she first
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  Speaker 1: got noticed and got famous. He was the manager then,
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  Speaker 1: so for her entire career. He was the manager. He's
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  Speaker 1: ninety six years old. Just decided to retire this past week.
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  Speaker 1: People were stunned that he announced his retirement. He had
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  Speaker 1: his office phone disconnected. That's when they knew he was serious.
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  Speaker 1: But he's actually retired. You know. Stephanie ruled at MSNBC
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  Speaker 1: nut so she's yelling about Trump, she said. The real scandal,
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  Speaker 1: what's really disgusting is everybody has his phone number, his
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  Speaker 1: cell phone number, you know, in the first term, like
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  Speaker 1: every other press. When he took office, they took his
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  Speaker 1: cell phone away. And that's what happens. When you're present,
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  Speaker 1: they take your cell phone and they hand you a
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  Speaker 1: cell phone. It's a special presidential cell phone. This is
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  Speaker 1: the cell phone you will use from now on. It's
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  Speaker 1: a special presidential cell phone, and it has nothing in it.
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  Speaker 1: It can make a call, it can receive a call,
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  Speaker 1: but everything else. It's an iPhone, but it's been gutted.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing else in it. It's got all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: security technology so you can't hack it. And that was
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  Speaker 1: all he could use is that special cell phone. And
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  Speaker 1: they were very careful about who had the number and
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  Speaker 1: if he called you from it on your caller ID.
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  Speaker 1: It would be such weird. The caller ID would say
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  Speaker 1: one minus zero x three squared. It would have like
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  Speaker 1: this weird. So I funnily ask somebody what that was.
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  Speaker 1: It's they're calling you through a scrambler. So that's a scrambler.
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  Speaker 1: So you get no caller ID. Well, when he got
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  Speaker 1: back for the second term, they got that presidential cell phone,
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  Speaker 1: but he decided he would keep his own cell phone,
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  Speaker 1: his own private iPhone, his regular iPhone, and he gave
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  Speaker 1: the number. Everybody has the number. Everybody he knows. You
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  Speaker 1: can text him whenever you want, you can call him
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  Speaker 1: whenever you want, and whenever you'd see a big ceo,
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  Speaker 1: Tim Cook or Zuckerberg or any of those guys, say
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  Speaker 1: you have my cell number. Here, take my cell number.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any problems, call me. Now. This drove
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  Speaker 1: Washington crazy. You're not supposed to be able to just
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  Speaker 1: call the president. Now. You know who really got crazy
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  Speaker 1: about this, Congress. This really bugged them because if you
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  Speaker 1: and he would say right in the meeting, you have
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  Speaker 1: all the Silicon Valley tech CEOs, if you need anything,
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  Speaker 1: just call me. This is the last thing politicians want.
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  Speaker 1: If you can you say you have a problem, you
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  Speaker 1: can call the president. Piece there's a new law, regulation,
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  Speaker 1: or something you need looked at, you could call him
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  Speaker 1: and he'll look at it. They don't like this is
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  Speaker 1: the worst thing you can do to Washington. What they
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  Speaker 1: want is the old system where if you had a
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  Speaker 1: law or regulation or something you wanted to do something,
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  Speaker 1: you went out and you hired a lobbyist, You hired
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  Speaker 1: a lobbying for him. You gave them twenty million bucks
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  Speaker 1: to the lobby for you, and they would give it
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  Speaker 1: to the politicians. That's what Schumer and those people do
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  Speaker 1: for a living. They collect money from these lobbyists. Not
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  Speaker 1: that they put it in their pocket, well who knows.
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  Speaker 1: But what they do is when they were going to
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  Speaker 1: run for office, Hey can you donate a million? Can
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  Speaker 1: you donate fifty thousand? Can you donate three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty thousand? Yeah, of course, and they put it in
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  Speaker 1: your pack, your political pack, your super pack. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what you do. If you're Schumer and you're going to
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  Speaker 1: run for reelection, you need twenty five million, you call
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  Speaker 1: these lobbyists. They'll raise it for you in two seconds
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  Speaker 1: and donate it. Now you got twenty five million to run. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you can just call the president, he'll take care
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  Speaker 1: of it faster than Schumer will, and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to hire the lobbyists. So all the politicians are fuming.
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  Speaker 1: All the lobbyists are all upset. This is the worst
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  Speaker 1: thing that ever happened to them. Stephanie Rule here she
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  Speaker 1: is yelling and screaming. This is disgusting. All they have
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  Speaker 1: to do is pick up the phone and call the president.
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  Speaker 1: That's access that they shouldn't have. It creates political influence. Well,
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  Speaker 1: either way, they got the political influence. This way, you
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  Speaker 1: call the president, you tell them the problem, and he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't bend over backwards for these guys. He's the first
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  Speaker 1: guy to stand up to these guys if he doesn't agree.
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  Speaker 1: But otherwise you had the same political influence. You just
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  Speaker 1: had to pay for it. So Trump is taking their
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  Speaker 1: business model and just shattered it. He speaking of Congress,
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  Speaker 1: they always talk about the president's approval ratings. They keep
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  Speaker 1: this very quiet, and the polling companies keep it very quiet.
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  Speaker 1: But right now Congress Democrats in Congress have the lowest
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  Speaker 1: approval rating in the history of polling. Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries
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  Speaker 1: A give CNN credit. They had their poll guy with
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  Speaker 1: the map showing the pulse and he actually put this
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  Speaker 1: on the air on CNN. Democrats in Congress have the
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  Speaker 1: lowest approval rating of anything, anything anywhere in history right now. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: people are always asking about these Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly,
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  Speaker 1: who else, Candace Owens? Why are they making these crazy
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  Speaker 1: comments all the time? And now here's Piers Morgan. Pierre's
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  Speaker 1: Morgan going on and on about how bad the president is.
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  Speaker 1: The President doesn't have a clue. President Trump is clueless.
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  Speaker 1: His mission statements have changed by the hour. People are surprised.
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  Speaker 1: We'll wait a minute. Piers Morgan was so such good
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  Speaker 1: friends with President Trump. He was on the Apprentice with him.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Well, he's starting a new network. He's
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  Speaker 1: raised thirty million dollars and he wants to start a
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  Speaker 1: new network. And what do you do when you want
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  Speaker 1: to start You try to get yourself headlines. You try
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  Speaker 1: to be a big part of the news cycle. You
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  Speaker 1: try to go viral. That's why Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly,
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  Speaker 1: they're the two wackiest. They're like the they're the new
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  Speaker 1: Alex Jones. They just want to go viral. And now
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  Speaker 1: the problem is if you say something wacky, something outrageous,
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  Speaker 1: and it's everywhere, it's on every website, it goes viral.
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  Speaker 1: It's all over Twitter, it's all over the place. They're
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  Speaker 1: talking about it on msnbc C. You totally dominate the
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  Speaker 1: news cycle for a day. It's addictive. You really get addicted.
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  Speaker 1: Now next week you got to come up with another
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  Speaker 1: crazy thing to say. So that's what these these types do.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson started claiming earlier this week the CIA was
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  Speaker 1: out to get him. The CIA has been doing surveillance.
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  Speaker 1: The CIA is about to indict him. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: accuse him of war crimes. He was talking to somebody
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  Speaker 1: in Iran. Guarantee you the CI couldn't care less about
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson. But it's outrageous. They're going to charge him
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  Speaker 1: onder the Foreign Agent Act. And it works. It got
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  Speaker 1: him all over the news. If you were watching Saturday
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  Speaker 1: Night Live, some guy came out and did Tucker Carlson.
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  Speaker 1: He was parodied on Saturday Night Live. So he's going
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  Speaker 1: to keep doing this. Megan Kelly starts picking on our
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  Speaker 1: friend Mark Levin, starts a war with him. Then she
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  Speaker 1: calls him micro penis, so goes the reason for this
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  Speaker 1: is he has a micro penis and he calls a Levin,
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  Speaker 1: mister micro penis. What the hell does that mean? And
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  Speaker 1: why would you even go in that direction? President Trump
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  Speaker 1: so offended by this, disgusting, awful Megan Kelly puts out
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  Speaker 1: a massive tweet defending Mark Levin, talking about how irrelevant
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  Speaker 1: and useless and washed up and fired Megan Kelly is.
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  Speaker 1: But it gets her in the news every day. She's
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  Speaker 1: got publicist, she's got all sorts of people trying to
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  Speaker 1: get this stuff out there. So when you're fired and
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  Speaker 1: you're out of work, you know, if you're on Fox News,
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  Speaker 1: everybody will see you. If you're on MSNBC, not everybody,
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  Speaker 1: but some people will see. If you're fired and doing
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  Speaker 1: the show from your bedroom, you got to say crazy
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  Speaker 1: things to get attention. Otherwise who's going to know you
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  Speaker 1: even exist? So they get addicted. That's why they do it.
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  Speaker 1: They can't stop. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next. Eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten