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Mark's 9am Monologue. · 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. Hey, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the show.
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday.
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  Speaker 1: What a weekend. What a weekend. We've got a lot
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  Speaker 1: to get to. We'll get to AI. What is it
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  Speaker 1: exactly that we've got to be afraid of with AI?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some of it's great. What's the part we've
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  Speaker 1: got to be afraid of? We'll get to that. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to President Trump. We'll get to Iran. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to Mamdani. We'll get to SNL. We'll get to AOC.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to baseball. End of the season. All right.
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  Speaker 1: This was some weekend. This was the first weekend of fall.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what you heard all weekend. What a weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Just stay inside. Every so often you say, well, probably
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  Speaker 1: it's a few hours. Let me go outside. Well, I'll
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  Speaker 1: go to sleep. Wake up in the morning. Let me
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  Speaker 1: go outside. This is all you heard all weekend. This
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  Speaker 1: is Friday night. This is all day Saturday. Saturday night. Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night. You say, well, let me check out. That's
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  Speaker 1: all I heard. All I heard. Now, the good news
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  Speaker 1: is you had some terrible flooding, but that's mostly from
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  Speaker 1: rivers overflowing and stuff. We didn't have the street flooding.
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  Speaker 1: As extensively as we usually do, Queens got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it. There was some street flooding, but usually every parkway,
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  Speaker 1: everything flooded. We didn't get that so much this time
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  Speaker 1: because the rain, the good news is having it come
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  Speaker 1: over two or three days. It came down slowly. It
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  Speaker 1: was like a tenth of an inch an hour at
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  Speaker 1: the most. So it didn't overwhelm the drains everywhere. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear another word about the reservoirs
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  Speaker 1: aren't full anymore. This should have filled them up. I
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  Speaker 1: checked before the storm. They were at about 76% capacity.
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  Speaker 1: So this should be all we need. But a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people without power. I've got to give those electric
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  Speaker 1: companies credit. They were pretty quick at getting a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people back up. But it's going to rain today.
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  Speaker 1: And then it's supposed to be nice and dry tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And then actually mild on Wednesday. It's supposed to go
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  Speaker 1: back to about 75%. So Wednesday will be a nice day.
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to mention, we'll get to my new iPhone.
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  Speaker 1: Got it yesterday. Started using it last night. And today,
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  Speaker 1: I'll say one thing for it. The one thing about
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  Speaker 1: this phone, it's supposed to have, this is the 18
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  Speaker 1: Pro Max. It's supposed to have incredible battery life. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've been using it all morning for about two hours.
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  Speaker 1: I've been watching a lot of video on it and YouTube. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: battery percentage still a hundred has even dropped to 99.
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  Speaker 1: So supposedly the battery can go about two days in,
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  Speaker 1: in this thing. So, uh, president, uh, busy weekend. He
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  Speaker 1: was all over the place doing a few campaign stops, uh, midterms. Now, uh,
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  Speaker 1: all you hear on the news is that the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: the approval ratings, everything is so low. It's so low.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody has lower approval ratings. than the Republican. Trump is
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  Speaker 1: the lowest approval ratings. He said, yes, true. The part
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  Speaker 1: they forget to mention is the Democrats, it's far worse.
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  Speaker 1: Their approval ratings are really, they're much lower than the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: much lower than Trump. I don't know why, but CNN
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  Speaker 1: has the most honest pollster Harry Anton, listen to the
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  Speaker 1: CNN pollster on Democrats and their leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats on their own leaders. They don't like their own leaders.
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  Speaker 2: I dare say they despise their own leaders. And this
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  Speaker 2: is the big difference from what we saw back in 2018,
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  Speaker 2: just before Democrats were trying to take back the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: House of Representatives that fall. Take a look here.
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  Speaker 2: Net approval of congressional Dem leaders among Democrats back in 2018.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this. Their net approval rating was.
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  Speaker 2: Plus 19 points. Hey, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Two thumbs up.
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  Speaker 2: Cisco and Ebert.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're talking about Democrats. Two thumbs down.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this. Minus 12 points. What a different world
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  Speaker 2: that we are in right now. Democrats do not like,
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  Speaker 2: they despise.
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  Speaker 1: Their own leadership. That's not a good sign. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: far as the midterms, Republicans, the messaging, it stinks. It's nonexistent,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much. They got a lot to get out there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the... The news media always makes it sound
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  Speaker 1: like economy in turmoil, economy in crisis. Well, if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the actual numbers, in fact, nobody reported that
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  Speaker 1: thing that came out a week and a half ago.
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  Speaker 1: Median income at an all-time high, poverty low at an
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  Speaker 1: all-time rate. Inflation's a little up, but it's nowhere, nowhere
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  Speaker 1: near what it was. Oil prices are high, but the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans don't counter message enough. It's getting to be a
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  Speaker 1: little too late. You're a little less than five weeks away.
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  Speaker 1: This is not the time to start. So they've been
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  Speaker 1: screwing up badly on all of this. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: even in the Iran war, which nobody likes, everybody hates
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  Speaker 1: this Iran war, pain in the neck. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: good thing is you did stop Iran's nuclear enrichment. They were,
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  Speaker 1: they were, I give, meet the press credit. They had
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian foreign minister on who defended his case. It was,
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  Speaker 1: it was, This guy looked so panicky. It looked like
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  Speaker 1: they were going to execute him in Iran the moment
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  Speaker 1: he got home if he said one wrong word. But
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  Speaker 1: she did ask him. The uranium they had, they kept claiming,
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  Speaker 1: and this guy kept claiming it was just for commercial purposes.
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  Speaker 1: It was for energy, electricity. It was just for commercial purposes.
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  Speaker 1: And she kept saying, well, that would mean you would
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  Speaker 1: enrich to 2% or 3%, 20% at the most. You
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  Speaker 1: kept enriching. You had it up to 60%. And the
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  Speaker 1: guy kept double-talking an answer. And he basically said, that's
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  Speaker 1: not illegal to make it– well, I guess– I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not illegal in Iran. It's illegal for us because
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  Speaker 1: if you enrich to 90%, you got a nuclear bomb.
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  Speaker 1: And they got it all the way up to 60%,
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  Speaker 1: which would mean they were two weeks away from 90%,
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  Speaker 1: two weeks away from having the bomb. Now, obviously, you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't want Iran to have a nuclear bomb. And the
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  Speaker 1: real fear is once they got it, very tough to
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  Speaker 1: go in and stop them. Once they've got nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to go to a war with them. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: she did ask him the tough questions. He did look, uh,
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  Speaker 1: completely frightened as he answered because, uh, they do like
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  Speaker 1: to execute their leaders in, in Iran. So, uh, at present, uh,
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  Speaker 1: there's a big announcement today. Nobody quite knows what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Is it an AI announcement? Is it, uh, it could
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  Speaker 1: be something about the press, uh, The press ban, all
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff. There's a rumor floating around. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they have a beautiful press room. That's where they have
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  Speaker 1: the press conferences. And it used to be the White
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  Speaker 1: House pool for many, many years. I mean, the swimming pool.
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  Speaker 1: The White House had a beautiful swimming pool. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of presidents. It's very good for them. Swimming, good exercise,
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  Speaker 1: good stress reliever. A lot of presidents used it. Kennedy
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  Speaker 1: famously used it with those two hookers. Pixie and Dixie
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  Speaker 1: or Jinks and Hanks, whatever their names were. But was
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  Speaker 1: it Nixon? Yeah, I think it was Nixon that covered.
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  Speaker 1: Nixon didn't want to swim. And they needed to put
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  Speaker 1: a press room someplace. So they covered up the pool,
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  Speaker 1: built a floor over it. And that's where they put
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  Speaker 1: in the press room. And it's been redone a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times. It's a beautiful press room. So a rumor
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  Speaker 1: going around is the president is going to announce he's
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  Speaker 1: going to get rid of the press room, tear up
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  Speaker 1: that floor and bring the pool back. And put the
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  Speaker 1: swimming pool back. It's a good idea. Donald Trump does
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  Speaker 1: not swim ever, so it wouldn't be for him. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a nice idea to have that White House swimming pool.
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  Speaker 1: And as long as you've got a builder in office,
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  Speaker 1: let him do it. Of course, the pool will be
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  Speaker 1: all gold and everything. But so, hey, Bar Lago has
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful pool. The guy has 25 resorts. They all
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  Speaker 1: got beautiful swimming pools. Let him do it. Let him
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  Speaker 1: build it. He loves building projects. So that's just a rumor.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know if that's the announcement. later today uh
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  Speaker 1: now uh ai what is you got to be afraid
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  Speaker 1: of the president saying they didn't really he and president
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  Speaker 1: she didn't really talk about.
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  Speaker 3: It i spoke a little bit about it with president
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  Speaker 3: she not too much it wasn't a topic of conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah now that the meeting with president she there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of criticism that he was so deferential to she
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  Speaker 1: why was he being so respectful and uh More so
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  Speaker 1: than with other leaders. You know, you watch Trump with
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  Speaker 1: a world leader. He's slapping the guy in the back.
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  Speaker 1: When he shakes hands, he grabs the guy's hands and
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  Speaker 1: he pulls them towards him. It's like a domineering kind
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  Speaker 1: of move. He didn't do that with Xi. He's bowing
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  Speaker 1: in a normal handshake. Why was he being so respectful?
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  Speaker 1: Could have been to help Xi. Xi's in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of trouble back home. Xi wants to stay in power.
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  Speaker 1: There's a big movement to get rid of him. There's
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  Speaker 1: a possibility he won't last. He wants to look like
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  Speaker 1: he's a powerful figure on the world stage. So Trump
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  Speaker 1: and him get along, and that might have been a
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  Speaker 1: way of making Xi look stronger back at home, help
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  Speaker 1: him save his job. So that's why he's being so respectful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they talked about AI more than he's saying.
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  Speaker 1: Big thing about AI, if you're to believe this, uh
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  Speaker 1: how dangerous it is and uh some people say there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing to worry about and then you got bill gates
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  Speaker 1: on the sunday shows and writing those uh op-ed pieces
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  Speaker 1: that it's going to kill us all it'll kill a
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  Speaker 1: billion people we're all going to be dead somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: the middle is probably the answer you remember gates is
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  Speaker 1: always uh sounding the alarm bell and always getting too
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  Speaker 1: hyperbolic and hysterical about everything, whether it was food shortages
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  Speaker 1: or vaccines or whatever it was. But there is something
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  Speaker 1: to worry about. But the point is, if it's that dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: if it's that deadly a weapon, if it can wipe
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  Speaker 1: out everybody, then it's crucial that we be the leaders
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  Speaker 1: of AI, that we be the ones in control of
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  Speaker 1: AI and not let China do that. It'd be like
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  Speaker 1: we had no nuclear weapons and China had them all.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the problem. Right now we lead in China.
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  Speaker 1: China is pushing this movement to stop AI here. That
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  Speaker 1: way they can get ahead of us. We're ahead of
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  Speaker 1: them right now, as President Trump points out.
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  Speaker 3: And we're leading and we're building tremendous, you know, trillions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars worth of places. And why should we give
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  Speaker 3: that up? You don't give up a trillion dollar or more,
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  Speaker 3: two or three or four trillion dollar industry because you
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  Speaker 3: think something like that, we will straighten it out if
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  Speaker 3: and when a problem occurs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's meeting with these AI leaders, the head of Anthropic,
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  Speaker 1: he's having dinner with him tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're going to talk about it. I'm for let's
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  Speaker 3: go and let's win. You know, we're about a year,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a year and a half up on China. There
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  Speaker 3: is nobody in third place. I mean, it's just us
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  Speaker 3: and China.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like a nuclear arms race. Now, AI,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you use it and say it's just cute.
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  Speaker 1: I use it to... Help me write an essay. I
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  Speaker 1: use it to look up stuff. I use it to
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  Speaker 1: work on my website. I use it to do my resume.
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  Speaker 1: What's the danger? Well, that's what a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are using it for now. It's like a super Google,
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  Speaker 1: a more advanced version of a search engine. It's help
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  Speaker 1: you write stuff. It's helping you with simple tasks like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people are using it for.
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  Speaker 1: There's a much, much deeper... a part of AI where
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  Speaker 1: it can do all kinds of stuff. Instead of it
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  Speaker 1: just writing your copy for your website, people can use
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  Speaker 1: AI to go build a website, create a website, do
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff. It's not like Google. Some people
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  Speaker 1: think it's just an advanced form of Google. Google is
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  Speaker 1: just a search engine. It's just searching. AI can take action.
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  Speaker 1: It can attack a website. It can create bots and
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  Speaker 1: bombard a website. It can hack into a website and
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  Speaker 1: take over a website. These are things Google obviously can't do.
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  Speaker 1: And the part, there's a lot of stuff to AI.
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  Speaker 1: It's too complicated to get into all of it. But
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  Speaker 1: one of the, the part of AI we're worrying about
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  Speaker 1: is what they call the recursive part, the recursive self-improving AI.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where you program the AI to do something.
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  Speaker 1: But the AI has the capability to go beyond what
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  Speaker 1: you told it to do. It can retrain itself. It
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  Speaker 1: can reinvent itself without you. It can autonomously, on its own,
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  Speaker 1: design new codes or transition into something else. You give
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  Speaker 1: it the task. You give it the code. It can
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  Speaker 1: rewrite that. It can advance itself. And if you tell it,
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  Speaker 1: don't do this, don't do that, well, it can suddenly
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  Speaker 1: rewrite the code so it can. That's what they call
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  Speaker 1: the recursive self-improving AI. So that's the part they got
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  Speaker 1: to try to fix. Somehow you got to fix it
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  Speaker 1: so the system can't improve itself on its own, can't
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  Speaker 1: take those actions without permission. But again, it's AI. It
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  Speaker 1: can learn to jailbreak its way out of whatever thing
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  Speaker 1: you set up. So that's the problem. Now people say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just put a, See, a lot of these politicians,
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  Speaker 1: the problem with Congress or anybody regulating it, the Bernie
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  Speaker 1: Sanders type is that they don't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 1: They're just too stupid technically. They don't understand anything about AI.
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  Speaker 1: They don't understand the technology. There's one thing Bill Gates
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  Speaker 1: was saying on these Sunday shows. Because the Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: you don't require a kill switch on it. Gates was explaining,
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  Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a kill switch. You have
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  Speaker 1: to be. Really, internet illiterate to think you could have
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  Speaker 1: a kill switch. There's no possibility. There's no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as a kill switch. So this is complicated. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to take a lot of looking at. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the ex-Trump official, Alina Haba, she'd been a lawyer. I
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  Speaker 1: think she was Trump's lawyer at one point. She'd been
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  Speaker 1: a prosecutor. She was in the Trump administration. She left,
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  Speaker 1: and she's 42 now. She just got married. She found
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  Speaker 1: a Turkish billionaire. He's only 29, a lot younger than her,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a billionaire. Perfect. So she marries this billionaire.
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  Speaker 1: They had their wedding over the weekend in the Waldorf Ballroom,
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  Speaker 1: the new redesigned Waldorf Ballroom. I don't think it's as
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  Speaker 1: nice as the old one. The old one was a
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  Speaker 1: little classier. It was white and gold. This one is
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  Speaker 1: silver and too shiny. But when they redid it and
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  Speaker 1: reopened the Waldorf, they also really raised up the prices.
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  Speaker 1: They jacked up the prices. That's why a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the big charity galas that used to be in the Waldorf,
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  Speaker 1: they're not rushing back. The prices are really high. So
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  Speaker 1: she threw a wedding there with the Turkish billionaire. The cost,
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  Speaker 1: because they had more flowers than you've ever seen. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was what they did to transform the ballroom. The
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  Speaker 1: cost is said to be $ 10 million for the wedding.
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  Speaker 1: $ 10 million for the wedding. I hope this guy's not
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  Speaker 1: going to be spending that much on all of his weddings.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. But he's a billionaire. He
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  Speaker 1: can afford it. Then they said, if you read the headline,
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  Speaker 1: star-studded wedding. Well, I'm looking. Who's the stars? It's Kash Patel.
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  Speaker 1: All right, nice guy, but not a big star. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you walk down the street with Kash Patel, people are going, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's Kash Patel. You know, most people don't... when he
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  Speaker 1: comes to the room, you think it's the it guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, most people don't get excited about cash. Who's
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  Speaker 1: the other big stars. Attorney general, Todd Blanche. Very nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: But again, uh, if he's walking down the street, nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows who he, I don't, I wouldn't call that a big,
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  Speaker 1: big star. Mike Tyson was there. Okay. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's a good omen for your marriage to have
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tyson. I don't know if that's good luck having
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tyson. And, uh, Margo Martin, she's one of President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's executive assistants. Very nice woman. Hey, we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live. It was pretty interesting. They did go
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  Speaker 1: after Trump. They went after Natalie Harp. She's another Trump
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  Speaker 1: executive assistant. The press has decided to go after her,
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  Speaker 1: make her look like she's a crazy stalker because she's
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  Speaker 1: always following him wherever she is. That's what you do
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  Speaker 1: when a presidential executive assistant That's what they do. They're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be there at all times. Every president has
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  Speaker 1: had a Natalie Harp. Every president has had a Natalie Harp. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Natalie Harp's very good looking, young. I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these presidential assistants look like Madeleine Albright. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a little different. But she's a very nice woman,
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  Speaker 1: a very fine woman, very good character. But they made
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  Speaker 1: her look like a crazed stalker. Well, we'll get back.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Saturday Night Live. Coming up, we've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about. Don't forget, I'm here three
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  Speaker 1: till noon every day on 710WOR.