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Hour 1: The threat of AI · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: This is 710WOR, where the Mark Simone Show starts now.
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Speaker 1: That's right, it's three hours now, nine to noon, if
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Speaker 1: there's anybody who still doesn't know. Nine to noon every day,
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Speaker 1: three hours every day. A lot to get to. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to Lindsay Clancy and all the latest. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to President Trump in Ireland. We'll get to this big
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Speaker 1: AI scare. Who's really behind this? We'll get to the U.S.
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Speaker 2: Open.
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Speaker 1: Thank God it's over. Yesterday was the last day, right?
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Speaker 1: We don't have to see this again?
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 1: I'm not a big U.S. Open fan. We'll get to
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Speaker 1: Crazy Mom Donnie and AOC laughing at 9-11. We'll get
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Speaker 1: to the governor's race. We'll get to Celine Dion and
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Speaker 1: more vicious, vicious rain yesterday. It came down just so
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Speaker 1: fast and so hard. Fairfield County, Connecticut getting hit probably
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Speaker 1: the hardest. Stanford, Connecticut, seven inches of rain hit. Tremendous
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Speaker 1: flooding in areas in Stanford, Darien, Westport. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: see the video on the news, people in boats going.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was just awful. But luckily it ended
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Speaker 1: about noon and things getting back to normal. They even
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Speaker 1: closed the Bronx River Parkway for a time. yesterday in Westchester.
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Speaker 1: President Trump in Ireland with the Irish Prime Minister, and
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Speaker 1: they're talking about all sorts of stuff. The one thing he, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, whiskey's a big thing over there. Whiskey's a
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Speaker 1: big thing. Everybody's been bugging me. They're saying, would you
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Speaker 1: do me a favor? It's so unfair what's going on.
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Speaker 1: Could you possibly.
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Speaker 3: Take the tariffs off of Irish whiskey?
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Speaker 2: Woo!
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Speaker 1: All right. He's become a real politician, knows how to
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Speaker 1: pander when he needs to. So that'll be that for
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Speaker 1: that text. He talked about unification, which is very controversial
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Speaker 1: over there, but that's just a logical thing to say.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you always want to see unification anywhere where
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Speaker 1: any country is divided in two. It's not a crazy
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Speaker 1: thing to say. You know, last week they had that
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Speaker 1: midterm convention, that Republican midterm convention. It was a good idea,
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Speaker 1: a very good idea, although I don't know who the
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Speaker 1: hell saw it. It was on Fox News, but you'd
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Speaker 1: figure most of those viewers already voting Republican. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know who saw it. And then he threw out
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Speaker 1: this thing about a $ 5, 000 check for everybody in America.
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Speaker 1: If we win a $ 5, 000 check now, Apparently, from what
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Speaker 1: I hear, that was not in the speech, that was
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Speaker 1: not in the script, that was not in the teleprompter.
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Speaker 1: He just threw it out there out of nowhere, just
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Speaker 1: out at the top of his head, totally terrifying his
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Speaker 1: staff and everybody because they knew this was going to
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Speaker 1: be controversial. So, of course, on the Sunday shows, this
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Speaker 1: is all they zero in on. This is all they
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Speaker 1: want to know about. Now, he just threw it out there.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't even planned. He's just shooting his mouth off.
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Speaker 1: But we've heard this before from politicians with Obama phones,
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Speaker 1: with Biden yelling and screaming, I'll forgive your student loans.
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Speaker 1: When had he actually seriously looked into it, he would
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Speaker 1: have found he can't do it. He has no power
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Speaker 1: to do it. So they just throw out these things
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Speaker 1: to appease the crowd. But if you're watching the Sunday shows,
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Speaker 1: they never got to any real topics. They just zeroed
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Speaker 1: in on that $ 5, 000. It's just something. Now, maybe sometimes
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Speaker 1: when Donald Trump shoots his mouth off, you think he's
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Speaker 1: just reckless. But then it turns out there was an
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Speaker 1: incredible strategy to it. So this could be one of
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Speaker 1: those cases. Maybe he wants everybody talking about that $ 5, 000 check.
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Speaker 1: Because as I say, who saw this midterm convention? How
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Speaker 1: many people saw that speech? It was a little too long.
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Speaker 1: It was an hour and 47 minutes. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people tuned out after 45 minutes. You just can't get
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Speaker 1: people to focus that long. Also, it's on against a
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Speaker 1: big NFL opening game. So by throwing that out there
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Speaker 1: and creating all this controversy, everywhere you go, every left-wing
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Speaker 1: fake news network show, they're all talking about it. So maybe,
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Speaker 1: you know, people just half pay attention to the news
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Speaker 1: in many cases. Maybe they want to just keep hearing
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Speaker 1: $ 5, 000 check. You're getting a $ 5, 000 check. But here's Mike Johnson,
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Speaker 1: Speaker of the House. He's on the Sunday show to
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Speaker 1: talk about serious matters. And all she wants to ask about,
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Speaker 1: or this might be Meet the Press, they're all the same.
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Speaker 1: The worst is that Kristen Welker, she doesn't even try
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Speaker 1: to sound like a journalist. She just sounds like a
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Speaker 1: prosecutor for the Democrats, trying to tear apart Republicans. So
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Speaker 1: whatever Johnson wants to talk about, she keeps asking about
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Speaker 1: this $ 5, 000. Again, we've got to.
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Speaker 2: Process it like every idea.
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Speaker 4: We'll work that through Congress.
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Speaker 5: But you and I are wasting a lot of time
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Speaker 5: this morning when there's other important things to talk about.
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Speaker 6: Well, you still haven't answered the question.
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Speaker 4: Let me just button it up. We're going to move
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Speaker 4: on to a number of other topics.
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Speaker 1: But do you commit that if Republicans hold on to
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Speaker 1: the House and Senate that Americans will get those $ 5, 000 checks?
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Speaker 5: I commit that Congress will work through it and find
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Speaker 5: consensus on that like I have to do everything else.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a pretty good answer, but it's not what
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Speaker 1: she wants. You see, most of these people, they're not
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Speaker 1: looking for substance. These George Stephanopoulos, Kristen Welker, Martha Raddatz-type interviews,
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Speaker 1: they're not looking for substance in an answer. They're fishing
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Speaker 1: for a soundbite. They want a soundbite that they can
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Speaker 1: play over and over again. That's why, like in the debate,
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Speaker 1: they'll say, it's a yes or no question. I want
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Speaker 1: a yes or no answer. And every politician should say,
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Speaker 1: whenever that happens, I don't answer yes or no questions.
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Speaker 1: I can only give you a detailed answer with substance.
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Speaker 1: I don't do yes or no questions. So But again,
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Speaker 1: it's just an idea he just tossed out. Because everybody
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Speaker 1: said that the great, big, beautiful bill.
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Speaker 4: Will never happen.
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Speaker 1: It happened.
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Speaker 5: They said that the 1776 for the military, $ 1, 776.
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Speaker 3: Would never happen.
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Speaker 5: And it happened.
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Speaker 4: They were paid.
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Speaker 5: And now they say, oh, the $ 5, 000.
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Speaker 6: The $ 5, 000 is going to happen 100%.
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Speaker 1: All right. You never know. You never know. If he
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Speaker 1: gets the Congress, control of the Congress involved, In the midterms,
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Speaker 1: they can pass another big, beautiful bill, which increases revenue
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Speaker 1: into the federal government, which just makes the economy soar.
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Speaker 1: And from that, he could actually give a dividend back, $ 5, 000.
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Speaker 1: It cost about a trillion bucks, but he could do it. Now,
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Speaker 1: people are yelling right now, Democrats, what do you mean
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Speaker 1: revenue is up? Deficit has nothing to do with revenue.
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Speaker 1: Revenue actually increased dramatically. Revenue is up, way up. That dividend,
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Speaker 1: I mean, that deficit, that's government spending. Out of control, crazy,
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Speaker 1: insane government spending. Republicans, just as bad as Democrats when
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Speaker 1: it comes to that. They're horrible at it. They're just
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Speaker 1: handing out contracts, letting everybody overcharge by 10,000% for the
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Speaker 1: work in exchange for donations, votes. So deficit, government spending.
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Speaker 1: It's a measure of government spending. That's all it is. Hey,
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Speaker 1: the Lindsay Clancy trial. This lawyer, he's like a real
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Speaker 1: showboating lawyer. He says everything is for the cameras. You know, even,
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Speaker 1: you remember he asked last week, he asked Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: to pardon Lindsay Clancy. There's no federal charges. It's a
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Speaker 1: local charge. Trump has no power to pardon a local case.
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Speaker 1: It has to be a federal case. He's a lawyer.
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Speaker 1: This guy would know that, wouldn't he? He knows Trump
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Speaker 1: has no power to pardon in a local criminal case.
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Speaker 1: That has to be the governor. It can't be the president.
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Speaker 1: So just playing for the cameras. Apparently, they want a
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Speaker 1: plea deal. Now, the problem is this particular prosecutor, this
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Speaker 1: particular DA's office does not plea deal. They have a
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Speaker 1: history of not making deals. Extremely rare for this office.
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Speaker 1: But he's all over television. He's trying to convince them
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Speaker 1: that they got no hope of conviction, that they'll get
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Speaker 1: embarrassed again with a hung jury. They shouldn't try. So Uh,
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Speaker 1: she just doesn't want to go to jail. She doesn't
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Speaker 1: want prison. She's going to be in a, she's already
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Speaker 1: in a mental facility, but she's going to be there
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Speaker 1: no matter what happens. She'll be there for years. It's
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Speaker 1: a question of a couple of years in the mental
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Speaker 1: institution or life in prison. So he wants a plea deal.
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Speaker 1: That's the mental institution. She also wants money. She's suing
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Speaker 1: the hospitals, the doctors, everything, all the medication they gave her,
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Speaker 1: the times they switched the medication. So she's suing for
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Speaker 1: millions and millions and millions of dollars. And the husband
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Speaker 1: is suing as well. And then they got this GoFundMe
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Speaker 1: where they're going to raise $ 3 million. The lawyer will
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Speaker 1: get a big chunk of that. I don't know who
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Speaker 1: else will get a big chunk of that. Hey, big
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Speaker 1: story starting last night is this AI threat. AI is
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Speaker 1: going to destroy us all. We have to get it
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Speaker 1: under control. AI is already getting out of control. We
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Speaker 1: have to slow down development of AI or it's going
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Speaker 1: to murder us all. Sounds pretty scary. You had the
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Speaker 1: CEO of Anthropic coming out and saying this. He even
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Speaker 1: wrote an editorial saying it. You've got some other AI people,
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Speaker 1: mostly employees, saying it's dangerous, it's out of control, it's
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Speaker 1: going to wipe us all out. Why all of a sudden?
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Speaker 1: Why One day, did this just get unleashed like crazy? Well,
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Speaker 1: this is— now, forget for a second whether there's a threat
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Speaker 1: from AI or not. What we do know is that
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, stirring this all up, orchestrating this, getting
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Speaker 1: this whole thing going, this explosion of controversy— is one
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Speaker 1: Barack Obama. Apparently he's been meeting with Democrats behind the scenes.
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Speaker 1: He's been quietly orchestrating the midterm campaign for Democrats, strategizing.
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Speaker 1: He's been plotting all of this. The first plot was
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Speaker 1: the data center's the AI data centers, they would turn
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Speaker 1: them into like nuclear power plants, something so scary to
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Speaker 1: have in your backyard, to have in your state, in
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Speaker 1: your community. They wanted people terrified of these data centers.
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Speaker 1: The nuclear power plant, maybe you could scare people with that.
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Speaker 1: A data center is just a big, huge building with
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Speaker 1: a lot of computers in it. The worst problem is
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Speaker 1: it makes a lot of noise. You don't want it
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Speaker 1: too close to you. It makes a lot of noise
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Speaker 1: that can Definitely be bad a half mile away and
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Speaker 1: can still be heard a mile away. So if you
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Speaker 1: just put it a mile away from everybody, it's no problem.
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Speaker 1: It's not going to melt down. It's not going to explode.
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Speaker 1: It's just a bunch of computers in a big, huge building.
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Speaker 1: We already have data centers all over the place. You know,
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Speaker 1: we have 19 data centers in New York City. They've
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Speaker 1: been there for quite a while. They're not the big,
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Speaker 1: big ones, but they're data centers. So apparently the data
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Speaker 1: center scare wasn't working. as far as midterm election votes.
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Speaker 1: So they've decided to make AI the big issue. The
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Speaker 1: other thing is they've seen the whole climate change stuff
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Speaker 1: didn't work. It worked for a time, but right now
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Speaker 1: nobody's worried about climate change. It's now 20 years later.
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Speaker 1: When was Al Gore? In 1992. It's more than 20 years.
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Speaker 1: 24 years later and nothing he said came true. We're
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Speaker 1: not underwater anymore. The glaciers didn't melt. In fact, they're
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Speaker 1: bigger now. Everything he predicted, the opposite happened. So nobody's
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Speaker 1: quite buying that climate scare anymore. The climate emergency. You
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Speaker 1: can't use that anymore. So they're trying to get a
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Speaker 1: new version of that, and it's going to be the
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Speaker 1: AI emergency. Just like climate change was going to wipe
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Speaker 1: us all out, this is going to be AI is
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Speaker 1: going to wipe us all out. So apparently Obama has
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Speaker 1: been orchestrating this behind the scenes.
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Speaker 3: But you.
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Speaker 1: You're saying, well, what about the chairman of Anthropic, the CEO?
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Speaker 1: He came out and said it. Yeah, he's very, very
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Speaker 1: close to Obama. He's a very close Obama associate. The
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Speaker 1: fact that he was the one AI CEO that came
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Speaker 1: out makes this even more obvious as part of this
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Speaker 1: Obama scheme. So he wants this to be the big
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Speaker 1: midterm issue that AI is going to kill us all.
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Speaker 1: We have to put government control over it. And they
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Speaker 1: figured the Republicans will oppose it. They'll be the ones
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Speaker 1: fighting for this kind of control. And that will be
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Speaker 1: the winning issue in the midterms. I don't think this
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Speaker 1: will work because, first of all, most people aren't that stupid.
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Speaker 1: I mean, AI has tremendous benefits. They think within five
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Speaker 1: years it could cure all diseases, that kind of stuff. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's something to be worried about, but it has so
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Speaker 1: much benefit to it. And government control, how's that going
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Speaker 1: to happen? Chuck Schumer controlling AI? Do you think Chuck
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Speaker 1: Schumer even knows how to use his computer? He's one
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Speaker 1: of those old guys that has to call his kids
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Speaker 1: to come over and show them how to start his
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Speaker 1: computer again. He doesn't know anything about AI. President Trump
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Speaker 1: is all for keeping going. He thinks it's very important
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Speaker 1: that we lead the world in AI. Whoever wins this
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Speaker 1: battle wins everything, as President Trump.
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Speaker 5: Let's talk about Anthropic. They did something that was very bad.
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Speaker 5: three months ago, and we shut them down. We shut
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Speaker 5: them down fast. We have guardrails. The biggest guardrails are
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Speaker 5: having people that are just as smart because nobody understands it.
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Speaker 5: We're making strides in every business right now that would take,
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Speaker 5: in many cases, 100 years to get to. The kind
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Speaker 5: of things that are coming out are incredible. Now, we
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Speaker 5: want guardrails, but at the same time, it's a very
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Speaker 5: fine line. You know, China doesn't have guardrails, by the way.
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Speaker 5: You know, the guardrail is President Xi. That's the guardrail.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the other thing to remember. If we slow
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Speaker 1: down AI, China will just increase it. Remember the same
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Speaker 1: thing with the climate and that stuff. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: get rid of all our coal plants. But then China
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Speaker 1: made 500 times as many coal plants as they had.
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Speaker 1: So you had more coal being produced than ever before.
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Speaker 1: The same thing with AI. Now, when these guys try
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Speaker 1: to scare you that AI could kill us all, how
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Speaker 1: exactly would it kill us? And no matter what it
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Speaker 1: was doing, I mean, it's digital it's online I mean
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Speaker 1: the worst would happen you have to pull the plug
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Speaker 1: and turn it off but I mean the one thing
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Speaker 1: it could do if it got totally out of control
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Speaker 1: and tried to take over it could just jam up
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Speaker 1: the internet it can I mean right now AI can
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Speaker 1: create bots so fast if you have a website and
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Speaker 1: it's getting attacked by a bot which is like a
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Speaker 1: fake account you know most websites know how to fight
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Speaker 1: off those bots and as they come in, they have
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Speaker 1: software that'll recognize it, block it, and stop it. But
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Speaker 1: if you used AI, it could send 5 million blots
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Speaker 1: in a microsecond more than your software could handle. So
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Speaker 1: that's the kind of stuff that could happen. Outside of that,
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Speaker 1: it's not going to kill you. There's certain proposals like, well,
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Speaker 1: we're going to have robots all over the place. Don't
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Speaker 1: put the AI in the robots because the robot's a
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Speaker 1: physical thing that actually could kill you, could get nuts.
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Speaker 1: So But again, it's Obama behind this. They're using it
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Speaker 1: as a midterm election issue. And if, let's say, let's
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Speaker 1: say they lose the midterms, the Democrats, you won't even
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Speaker 1: hear about it the next day. Anyway, we've got a
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Speaker 1: lot more to get to. We'll get to Celine Dion
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Speaker 1: makes her return. We'll get to Mamdani and more. Coming up,
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Speaker 1: it's Mark Simone here every day. Now, three hours, nine
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Speaker 1: to noon. here on 710WOR. Well, hey, it's Monday. There
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Speaker 1: are eight days left in summer. Eight days left till
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Speaker 1: fall begins. Autumn begins on the 23rd. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be a beautiful day today. It's going to be a
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Speaker 1: little cooler this week in the, like, 70s, but really
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Speaker 1: nice all week, the final stretch of summer. So 9-11,
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Speaker 1: that's just such a hard day to get through. Friday
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Speaker 1: was a tough, tough day, reliving all that. So the
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Speaker 1: ceremony at Ground Zero had all the living ex-presidents. I
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Speaker 1: guess you can include Joe Biden as living in that category.
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Speaker 1: And then Mamdani was there, which was creating all the controversy,
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Speaker 1: but no incidents except we see this video and these pictures.
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Speaker 1: Mamdani is standing with AOC and they're laughing in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the ceremony. laughing in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: 9-11 ceremony. Remember that Seinfeld episode where he was caught
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Speaker 1: laughing during Schindler's List? He was making out with his
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Speaker 1: girlfriend during Schindler's List. But it just looked awful. Mamdani, AOC, joking, laughing.
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Speaker 1: This is while the names are being read of those
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Speaker 1: lost on 9-11. A horrible moment. But I'm still telling
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Speaker 1: you this is deliberate. He does these things deliberately. whenever
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Speaker 1: he has to do something noble, whenever he has to
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Speaker 1: do the right thing. I remember he signed that legislation
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Speaker 1: to fight terrorism. Looked like he was doing something good.
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Speaker 1: But then he hands the pen to the lawyer for
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Speaker 1: the terrorists. So he always does this. If he has
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Speaker 1: to do something good, he does it. But he quietly,
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Speaker 1: or not so quietly, sends a signal to his base
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Speaker 1: that he's not really in this. Don't worry, I'm still me.
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Speaker 1: And normally when you sign a piece of legislation, You
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Speaker 1: use five or six or ten pens. You use a
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of pens and you pass them out to
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Speaker 1: everybody that's there. The police commissioner, the deputy, you give
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Speaker 1: them out to everybody. But this time there was only
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Speaker 1: one pen and he gave it to the terrorist lawyer.
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Speaker 1: So that was a signal to his base. Don't worry.
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Speaker 1: Don't really believe in this and I'm still with you.
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Speaker 1: So the same thing with laughing at 9-11. Same thing there.
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Speaker 1: Letting his base know he's not really into this. And
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Speaker 1: the other thing is what kind of ego does this
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Speaker 1: guy have? You know, the president of the United States,
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Speaker 1: when he signs the biggest bill in the world, uses
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Speaker 1: a bunch of pens and he hands these pens out
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Speaker 1: to people and they cherish them and display them forever.
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Speaker 1: Here's a pen from the president of the United States
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Speaker 1: when he signed the great, why would Mamdani think anybody
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Speaker 1: wants a pen from him? Why would anybody think in
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Speaker 1: 10 years, anybody will remember this guy? Uh, Can you
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Speaker 1: imagine going to somebody's house? I have a pen from
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Speaker 1: Mom Donnie. Look at this. This is the pen Mom
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Speaker 1: Donnie used to sign a bill. What bill? I don't
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Speaker 1: remember what bill it was, but this is Mom Donnie's pen.
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Speaker 1: Put it up on eBay. Say you got Mom Donnie's pen.
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Speaker 1: See how much you get for it. I don't think
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Speaker 1: you'll do that well. President Trump was asked about them
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Speaker 1: laughing at the ceremony. All right, I'm sorry. We can't
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Speaker 1: seem to explain to these reporters. Don't ask questions when
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Speaker 1: he's on the plane in the back right next to
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Speaker 1: the engine, and we can't hear a damn thing. And
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Speaker 1: by the way, that's the, not the regular Air Force one,
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Speaker 1: that's the big flying palace, the one that Cutter gave
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Speaker 1: to him, which means even bigger engines, and you can't
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Speaker 1: hear anything he's saying. So, you know, the big question
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Speaker 1: with these shopping malls, retail is dying. You see it
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Speaker 1: all the time. You walk up Madison Avenue, Fifth Avenue,
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Speaker 1: you see stores are closing, and people are still buying stuff.
20:07
Speaker 1: They just buy it online, obviously, yeah. People buy everything
20:11
Speaker 1: in the world on Amazon. But even if it's a
20:13
Speaker 1: top department store, even if it's Saks or Bloomingdale's, people
20:20
Speaker 1: buy most of the stuff from there online now. You know,
20:23
Speaker 1: they're going to look. You've got to try something on.
20:24
Speaker 1: But they buy a lot of it online. So you
20:27
Speaker 1: don't need as much retail. And then affected the most
20:30
Speaker 1: by this are the shopping malls, the big malls, especially
20:33
Speaker 1: the indoor malls. They're just not busy like they used
20:37
Speaker 1: to be. You know, you remember you used to have
20:38
Speaker 1: to drive around for an hour to find a parking place. Now,
20:41
Speaker 1: you can park anywhere. A lot of these malls are
20:44
Speaker 1: just quiet. They just don't have the business, the traffic anymore.
20:48
Speaker 1: You still get the senior citizens who come to exercise.
20:51
Speaker 1: You know, they got those big, huge, white, New Balance sneakers,
20:54
Speaker 1: and they just walk inside the mall. So this $ 100
20:58
Speaker 1: million shopping mall is basically just a treadmill for some
21:02
Speaker 1: senior citizens. But What are you going to do with
21:04
Speaker 1: these malls? So the plan was from a lot of
21:06
Speaker 1: the top mall companies that they would convert them because
21:11
Speaker 1: they see senior citizens in there all the time to
21:14
Speaker 1: like places for senior citizens. You know, you put in
21:17
Speaker 1: doctor's offices, you put in a movie theater, you put
21:20
Speaker 1: in a bunch of restaurants. It's not about shopping. It's
21:23
Speaker 1: about like an amusement park for seniors. And again, second floor,
21:28
Speaker 1: a lot of doctor's offices, first floor, movie theaters, you know,
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Speaker 1: things to do. But there's one mall at Manchester, Connecticut,
21:36
Speaker 1: Buckland Hills Mall. It's a big mall. So they're doing
21:40
Speaker 1: kind of the same thing, but for younger people. It's
21:43
Speaker 1: a huge mall, 80,000 square feet. So they're putting in
21:46
Speaker 1: an entertainment complex, but it's more for younger people, kids
21:50
Speaker 1: and younger people. It's going to be the ALI Dreamland
21:54
Speaker 1: Apex Adventure Park. It'll be half the mall, 40,000 square feet.
22:00
Speaker 1: It's mostly a younger crowd. They're going to have party facilities,
22:02
Speaker 1: soft play areas, climbing apparatus, slides, bumper cars, a cart track.
22:09
Speaker 1: So 40,000 square feet, that'd be half the mall. And,
22:13
Speaker 1: you know, these people are there all day. And then
22:15
Speaker 1: the other half, you put in restaurants, cafes, you put
22:17
Speaker 1: in food courts, all of that stuff. So that's basically
22:21
Speaker 1: the plan. You either do it for seniors, you do
22:23
Speaker 1: it for young people, but you got these enormous malls,
22:26
Speaker 1: a lot of acres. With a huge parking lot. So
22:32
Speaker 1: that's basically what's going to happen to all of them eventually.
22:35
Speaker 1: Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, these two out-of-work idiots who don't
22:39
Speaker 1: know what the hell to do with themselves. Can't get
22:41
Speaker 1: anybody to pay attention here. So they give up after
22:44
Speaker 1: a few years. They go to England. As soon as
22:46
Speaker 1: they get there, the king puts out a letter saying
22:49
Speaker 1: they have nothing to do with the royal family. They're
22:51
Speaker 1: not royals. They are private citizens. Basically a letter saying
22:55
Speaker 1: to everybody, don't do anything for them. Stay the hell
22:57
Speaker 1: away from them. So what do they do? I don't know.
23:01
Speaker 1: So over the weekend, Megan, all over social media, posting
23:05
Speaker 1: video pictures of what they're doing. Here's one of them
23:10
Speaker 1: taking a walk in the woods. Here's one of their
23:13
Speaker 1: daughter riding a bike down a bike path. Here's one
23:17
Speaker 1: of Harry and the kids fishing. I don't know why
23:21
Speaker 1: we're supposed to look at this. It doesn't look that exciting.
23:25
Speaker 1: Go to Connecticut and see people doing this stuff. I
23:27
Speaker 1: don't need to see them doing it. but they don't
23:31
Speaker 1: know what to do with themselves. They have no idea
23:33
Speaker 1: what to do with themselves. The kids are in school now.
23:36
Speaker 1: End of the school year, expect them to move somewhere else,
23:39
Speaker 1: looking for someplace where somebody will give them a job
23:42
Speaker 1: or at least pay attention to them. Hey, we've got
23:44
Speaker 1: a lot to get to. Don't go away. We'll take
23:46
Speaker 1: some calls a little later. Hey, we'll take some calls
23:50
Speaker 1: in a minute. 800-321-0710 is the number. Hey, they are
23:52
Speaker 1: going to name the airport in Nashville, Tennessee today. After
23:58
Speaker 1: Dolly Parton, the vote was unanimous. So it will become
24:03
Speaker 1: the Dolly Parton International Airport. Very unusual. No matter how
24:09
Speaker 1: big a star you are, it's very unusual to have
24:10
Speaker 1: an airport named after you. There's a Bob Hope Airport
24:15
Speaker 1: in California. Liverpool has a John Lennon Airport. But a
24:23
Speaker 1: lot of politicians, of course, there's a George Bush Airport
24:25
Speaker 1: in Houston. Gerald Ford Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Little Rock,
24:31
Speaker 1: it's the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport. Now, I
24:35
Speaker 1: can understand the Bill Clinton National Airport. How does Hillary
24:38
Speaker 1: get her name in there? I guess they're a little
24:40
Speaker 1: afraid of her down there. So, of course, there's Kennedy Airport.
24:43
Speaker 1: There's Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield. There's Reagan Airport. Now,
24:50
Speaker 1: there's a Donald J. Trump International Airport in Palm Beach,
24:54
Speaker 1: the Palm Beach Airport, wonderful airport. easiest one to get
24:58
Speaker 1: in and out of is now the President Donald J.
25:02
Speaker 1: Trump International Airport, forcing, I'm not kidding about this, forcing
25:05
Speaker 1: a lot of left-wingers to not fly there, even if
25:09
Speaker 1: they live there, instead going to the Fort Lauderdale Airport,
25:13
Speaker 1: even the Miami Airport, just because they don't want to
25:16
Speaker 1: go through the Donald Trump Airport. I'm trying to look
25:20
Speaker 1: at the list here.
25:21
Speaker 4: There's a lot of.
25:22
Speaker 1: Airports that shouldn't be named after them. In Vermont, there's
25:24
Speaker 1: a Patrick Leahy International Airport. He was the dirtiest, sleaziest senator.
25:29
Speaker 1: Same thing in Las Vegas. You got the Harry Reid
25:31
Speaker 1: International Airport. Such a dirty, sleazy guy. I'm looking at
25:37
Speaker 1: all these names. Now, there's not a lot of celebrity names.
25:40
Speaker 1: So highly unusual. As I said, there's a Bob Hope
25:42
Speaker 1: Airport in Burbank, California. That's very unusual. John Glenn Airport.
25:51
Speaker 1: But just show business celebrities, that's the tiniest list in
25:55
Speaker 1: the world. Anyway, let's take some calls. Let's go to
25:58
Speaker 1: Charles in Miller Place. Charles, how are you doing?
26:02
Speaker 3: Hi, Mark.
26:02
Speaker 4: How are you?
26:03
Speaker 1: Good.
26:04
Speaker 4: Good. I was at the St.
26:06
Speaker 6: James Theater yesterday and I saw a Titanic. And they
26:11
Speaker 6: put in a derogatory line about the $ 5, 000 check from
26:14
Speaker 6: Donald Trump in the play.
26:16
Speaker 4: Really?
26:18
Speaker 1: Now, you're talking about the show. It's Titanic. But what
26:20
Speaker 1: do they call it?
26:21
Speaker 4: Titanic?
26:21
Speaker 3: Titanic.
26:23
Speaker 4: Titanic.
26:23
Speaker 1: It's funny.
26:25
Speaker 6: It's very funny. Jim Parsons is in it. He's hard
26:27
Speaker 6: to watch. He's like watching someone on the spectrum dance
26:30
Speaker 6: around the stage, but he was very funny.
26:33
Speaker 1: All right. Well, that's okay. They do that in Broadway.
26:36
Speaker 1: They're all left-wing. The Broadway crowd from the people on
26:39
Speaker 1: stage to the producers, they're very, very, very left-wing. They
26:43
Speaker 1: all have Trump derangement syndrome. They don't realize when they
26:46
Speaker 1: put this stuff in the show, 96% of the Broadway
26:49
Speaker 1: crowd are from out of town, You know, they're from
26:51
Speaker 1: the heartland. They're from the Midwest. They're not into this
26:54
Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome. So it kind of annoys the crowd.
26:58
Speaker 1: But they don't care. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
27:01
Speaker 1: how are you doing?
27:03
Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.
27:04
Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
27:06
Speaker 2: Another point about the president's promise of a $ 5, 000 dividend,
27:09
Speaker 2: as he puts it. is I know the Kristen Welkers
27:13
Speaker 2: and that ilk never call out any of the people
27:16
Speaker 2: advocating for reparations. They never have Kathy Hochul or Gavin
27:20
Speaker 2: Newsom on, you know, questioning them. How are you going
27:24
Speaker 2: to pay for it? Not to mention that trillions have
27:26
Speaker 2: been spent basically since the LBJ Great Society on, you know,
27:31
Speaker 2: what anybody else would call reparations.
27:33
Speaker 1: Kristen Welker, totally corrupt. Sunday shows, totally corrupt. Yeah, it's
27:38
Speaker 1: like with Obama with his... Not the phones, but Biden
27:41
Speaker 1: with the student loans. But not one of these hosts
27:46
Speaker 1: ever said to Biden, how do you have any authority
27:49
Speaker 1: to forgive a student loan? How on earth can you?
27:51
Speaker 1: Nobody questioned him on it.
27:52
Speaker 2: Or free health care. Obamacare is free health care for everybody,
27:56
Speaker 2: even though people still are uninsured, nevertheless. By the way,
28:01
Speaker 2: did he notice that Art Garfunkel said he's going to
28:03
Speaker 2: leave the country? I didn't know.
28:05
Speaker 1: He was still in the country. That's the problem, isn't it?
28:08
Speaker 1: I didn't know the guy was still alive, but okay. Yeah,
28:11
Speaker 1: we'll get to that coming up. Art Garfunkel. Don't get upset, everybody.
28:15
Speaker 1: Art Garfunkel is leaving the country.
28:18
Speaker 2: The more forgotten they are, the more strident they are
28:21
Speaker 2: about leaving.
28:22
Speaker 4: It's incredible.
28:23
Speaker 1: It's a pretty funny story. We'll get to that coming up.
28:25
Speaker 1: But thanks for calling, Mike. Let's go to Mike in Brooklyn. Mike,
28:30
Speaker 1: how are you doing?
28:31
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Mark. How are you?
28:33
Speaker 5: Good.
28:34
Speaker 3: Good, Mark. Did you see on Friday at the Yankees-Mets
28:37
Speaker 3: game some lunatic ran out with a free Palestine flag
28:40
Speaker 3: at exactly 9-11? How do you stop these people, Mark?
28:44
Speaker 1: Well, listen, you've always had that. There's always people running
28:48
Speaker 1: out in the field in the game with some banner,
28:49
Speaker 1: some crazy thing, some whatever. It always happens. It's nothing new.
28:54
Speaker 1: This time it was a Palestinian flag, but it would
28:57
Speaker 1: have been a Black Lives Matter flag. They're always running
29:00
Speaker 1: on the field. They always get tackled. carried away. They're
29:03
Speaker 1: very careful not to show it on TV, not to
29:06
Speaker 1: give any publicity to the person. However, the next day,
29:09
Speaker 1: the picture's everywhere, so what's the difference? The greatest one,
29:13
Speaker 1: remember years ago, a protester jumped on the field, grabbed
29:19
Speaker 1: the American flag. He was going to do something with
29:21
Speaker 1: the American flag. And remember, who was the great Los
29:23
Speaker 1: Angeles Dodger who tackled him as he was running? Rick Monday.
29:28
Speaker 4: Yeah.
29:29
Speaker 1: He was running around the field. The security was Trying
29:32
Speaker 1: to get there, but Rick Mundy just threw the guy
29:34
Speaker 1: to the ground. It always happens. Let's go to Rich
29:38
Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing?
29:39
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks, Mark. Hot down here.
29:42
Speaker 2: 100 degrees already.
29:43
Speaker 1: What the hell are you leaving New York for going
29:46
Speaker 1: to Myrtle Beach?
29:48
Speaker 4: Well, because of the lunatics. The lunatics are running the asylum.
29:51
Speaker 4: Chuck Schumer, AOC. I mean, you know, Cuomo. I got
29:56
Speaker 4: out of there in 2014.
29:56
Speaker 3: It was already....
29:59
Speaker 4: If Blakeman doesn't win this year, and I'm getting off
30:01
Speaker 4: my point, but if Blakeman doesn't win this year, you
30:03
Speaker 4: will never see a Republican governor in that state again.
30:06
Speaker 4: It'll be California. It is lost. But you're speaking about
30:09
Speaker 4: annoying crowds. I hope everybody's going to tune in for
30:12
Speaker 4: the Emmys tonight. You talk about an annoying crowd, you
30:15
Speaker 4: got the Emmys on tonight, you know?
30:17
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody has seen the Emmy Awards in
30:19
Speaker 1: 10 years. Nobody even knows it's on. Nobody.
30:24
Speaker 4: And by the way, Mark, gas has hit $ 4 in
30:28
Speaker 4: Myrtle Beach, which is killing this tourist town here. It's
30:30
Speaker 4: got to start going down or we're going to lose
30:32
Speaker 4: the midterms.
30:33
Speaker 1: No, it may not affect the midterms. But if that
30:36
Speaker 1: were the case, you wouldn't see Democrats trying to gin
30:39
Speaker 1: up the AI issue for the midterms. But yeah, the
30:43
Speaker 1: Emmy Awards, you see, years ago, we all watched the
30:46
Speaker 1: same show. So you Look at the Emmy Awards and
30:49
Speaker 1: nominated are Seinfeld, Cheers, Roseanne. We all knew these shows. Now,
30:56
Speaker 1: nobody knows what these shows are because everybody watches a
30:59
Speaker 1: different show. Some people, they all tell you, have you
31:02
Speaker 1: seen Tuesday Vacation?
31:06
Speaker 4: No.
31:07
Speaker 1: What's that? Oh, you know what? You've got to watch it.
31:09
Speaker 1: It's on Paramount. Or they tell you about another show.
31:11
Speaker 1: And this is on Netflix. This is on that. Nobody's
31:14
Speaker 1: watching the same show. Well, watch the Emmys tonight. You
31:17
Speaker 1: won't know 90% of the shows. Let's go to Vince,
31:20
Speaker 1: Fort Pierce, Florida. Vince, how you doing?
31:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning, Mark. Last night was the Giants season opener.
31:26
Speaker 1: Pretty good, wasn't it? I'm sure you remember.
31:28
Speaker 3: Excellent. But the Giants quarterback, Jackson Dart, was a rookie,
31:32
Speaker 3: and last spring he introduced Donald Trump. Yeah. And the
31:35
Speaker 3: world had an explosion. His teammate, Abdul Carter, went public
31:40
Speaker 3: and made some nasty comments, and it's It caused a
31:43
Speaker 3: lot of controversy, and they were all saying, oh, this
31:46
Speaker 3: kid's not going to do well. He's hurting his game. Well,
31:49
Speaker 3: he had an excellent game. He threw three touchdown passes,
31:52
Speaker 3: ran for 50 yards. On the other hand, Abdul Carter had,
31:55
Speaker 3: I think, maybe one or two tackles, didn't do anything.
31:58
Speaker 3: So I'm recommending Abdul Carter go to the next Trump
32:02
Speaker 3: rally to help improve his game because it worked for
32:04
Speaker 3: Jackson Dart.
32:06
Speaker 1: All right, and don't hold your breath on that. But, yeah,
32:09
Speaker 1: I don't know. Football players, just play football. We don't
32:14
Speaker 1: need your opinion on anything political. Same thing for Art Garfunkel.
32:17
Speaker 1: We'll get to him coming up. He's just the silliest
32:20
Speaker 1: guy in the world. So a lot to get to.
32:23
Speaker 1: Don't forget the show is three hours every day now,
32:25
Speaker 1: nine to noon.