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FULL SHOW: Nor'easter; Is AI scaring you? · 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.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God. Monday night. Hey, welcome to the show. It's Monday.
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  Speaker 2: What a weekend. What a weekend. We've got a lot
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  Speaker 2: to get to. We'll get to AI. What is it exactly?
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  Speaker 2: that we got to be afraid of with AI. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: some of it's great. What's the part we got to
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  Speaker 2: be afraid of? We'll get to that. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. We'll get to Iran. We'll get to Mamdani.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to SNL. We'll get to AOC. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to baseball, end of the season.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: This was some weekend. This was the first weekend of fall.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what you heard all weekend. What a weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Just stay inside. Every so often you say, well, probably
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  Speaker 2: it's a few hours. Let me go outside. Well, I'll
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  Speaker 2: go to sleep. Wake up in the morning. Let me
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  Speaker 2: go outside. This is all you heard all weekend. This
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  Speaker 2: is Friday night. This is all day Saturday. Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night. sunday night you said let me check out
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  Speaker 2: that's all i heard all i heard now uh the
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  Speaker 2: good news is you had some terrible flooding but that's
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  Speaker 2: mostly from rivers overflowing and stuff we didn't have the
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  Speaker 2: street flooding as extensively as we usually do queen's got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it there was some street flooding but
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  Speaker 2: usually every parkway everything but we didn't get that so
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  Speaker 2: much this time because the rain the good news is
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  Speaker 2: having it of having it come over two or three
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  Speaker 2: days It came down slowly. It was like a tenth
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  Speaker 2: of an inch an hour at the most. So it
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  Speaker 2: didn't overwhelm the drains everywhere. Now, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: hear another word about the reservoirs aren't full anymore. This
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  Speaker 2: should have filled them up. I checked before the storm.
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  Speaker 2: They were at about 76% capacity. So this should be
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  Speaker 2: all we need. But a lot of people without power,
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  Speaker 2: got to give those electric companies credit. They were pretty
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  Speaker 2: quick at getting a lot of people Back up. But
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  Speaker 2: it's going to rain today. And then it's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be nice and dry tomorrow. And then actually mild on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to go back to about 75. So Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: will be a nice day. I forgot to mention. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to my new iPhone. Got it yesterday. Started using
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  Speaker 2: it last night. And today. I'll say one thing for it.
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  Speaker 2: The one thing about this phone. It's supposed to have.
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  Speaker 2: This is the 18 Pro Max. It's supposed to have incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Battery life. Now, I've been using it all morning for
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  Speaker 2: about two hours. I've been watching a lot of video
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  Speaker 2: on it on YouTube. And battery percentage still 100. Has
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  Speaker 2: even dropped to 99. So supposedly the battery can go
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  Speaker 2: about two days in this thing. So President, busy weekend.
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  Speaker 2: He was all over the place doing a few campaign stops, midterms. Now,
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  Speaker 2: all you hear on the news is that the Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: the approval ratings, everything is so low. It's so low.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody has lower approval ratings than the Republican. Trump is
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  Speaker 2: the lowest approval ratings. He said, yes, true. The part
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  Speaker 2: they forget to mention is the Democrats. It's far worse.
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  Speaker 2: Their approval ratings are really much lower than the Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: much lower than Trump. I don't know why, but CNN
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  Speaker 2: has the most honest pollster ever. Harry Anton, listen to
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  Speaker 2: the CNN pollster on Democrats and their leaders.
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  Speaker 4: Democrats on their own leaders. They don't like their own leaders.
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  Speaker 4: I dare say they despise their own leaders. And this
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  Speaker 4: is the big difference from what we saw back in 2018,
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  Speaker 4: just before Democrats were trying to take back the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: House of Representatives that fall.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look here. Net approval of congressional Dem leaders.
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  Speaker 4: Among Democrats back in 2018, look at this, their net
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  Speaker 4: approval rating was plus 19 points. Hey, that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Two thumbs up, Cisco and Ebert. Now we're talking about
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  Speaker 4: two thumbs down. Look at this, minus 12 points. What
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  Speaker 4: a different world that we are in right now. Democrats
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  Speaker 4: do not like, they despise their own leadership.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a good sign. Now, as far as the midterms, Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: the messaging, it stinks. It's nonexistent, pretty much. They got
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  Speaker 2: a lot to get out there. You know, the news
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  Speaker 2: media always makes it sound like economy in turmoil, economy
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  Speaker 2: in crisis. Well, if you look at the actual numbers,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, nobody reported that thing that came out a
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  Speaker 2: week and a half ago. Median income at an all-time high,
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  Speaker 2: poverty low at an all-time rate. Inflation's a little up,
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  Speaker 2: but it's nowhere, nowhere near what it was. Oil prices
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  Speaker 2: are high. But the Republicans don't counter message enough. It's
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  Speaker 2: getting to be a little too late. You're a little
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  Speaker 2: less than five weeks away. This is not the time
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  Speaker 2: to start. So they've been screwing up badly on all
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  Speaker 2: of this. And, you know, even in the Iran war,
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  Speaker 2: which nobody likes, everybody hates this Iran war, pain in
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  Speaker 2: the neck. I mean, the good thing is you did
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  Speaker 2: stop Iran's nuclear enrichment. They were, they were, I give,
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  Speaker 2: meet the press credit. They had the Iranian foreign minister
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  Speaker 2: on who defended his case. It was, this guy looks
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  Speaker 2: so panicky. They looked like they were going to execute
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  Speaker 2: him in Iran the moment he got home if he
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  Speaker 2: said one wrong word. But she did, she did ask him,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the uranium they had, they kept claiming, and
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  Speaker 2: this guy kept claiming it was just for commercial purposes.
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  Speaker 2: It was for energy, electricity. It was just for commercial purposes.
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  Speaker 2: And she kept saying, well, that would mean you would
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  Speaker 2: enrich to 2% or 3%, 20% at the most. You
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  Speaker 2: kept enriching. You had it up to 60%. And the
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  Speaker 2: guy kept double-talking an answer. And he basically said, that's
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  Speaker 2: not illegal to make it– well, I guess– I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not illegal in Iran. It's illegal for us because
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  Speaker 2: if you enrich to 90%, you got a nuclear bomb.
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  Speaker 2: And they got it all the way up to 60%,
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  Speaker 2: which would mean they were two weeks away from 90%,
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  Speaker 2: two weeks away from having the bomb. Now, obviously, you
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't want Iran to have a nuclear bomb. And the
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  Speaker 2: real fear is once they got it, very tough to
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  Speaker 2: go in and stop them. Once they've got nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to go to a war with them. So
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  Speaker 2: she did ask him the tough questions. He did look
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  Speaker 2: completely frightened as he answered because they do like to
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  Speaker 2: execute their leaders in Iran. So at present, there's a
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  Speaker 2: big announcement today. Nobody quite knows what it is. Is
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  Speaker 2: it an AI announcement? It could be something about the press,
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  Speaker 2: the press ban, all of that stuff. There's a rumor
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  Speaker 2: floating around. You know, they have a beautiful press room.
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  Speaker 2: That's where they have the press conferences. And it used
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  Speaker 2: to be the White House pool for many, many years.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the swimming pool. The White House had a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful swimming pool. A lot of presidents. It's very good
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  Speaker 2: for them. Swimming, good exercise, good stress reliever. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of presidents used it. Kennedy famously used it with those
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  Speaker 2: two hookers. Pixie and Dixie or Jinx and Hanks, whatever
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  Speaker 2: their names were. But was it Nixon? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was Nixon that covered. Nixon didn't want to swim.
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  Speaker 2: And they needed to put a press room someplace. So
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  Speaker 2: they covered up the pool, built a floor over it.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where they put in the press room. And
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  Speaker 2: it's been redone a couple of times. So he's a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful press room. So a rumor going around is the
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  Speaker 2: president is going to announce he's going to get rid
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  Speaker 2: of the press room, tear up that floor and bring
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  Speaker 2: the pool back and put the swimming pool back. It's
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  Speaker 2: a good idea. Donald Trump does not swim ever. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so it wouldn't be for him, but it's a nice
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  Speaker 2: idea to have that white house swimming pool. Uh, and
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  Speaker 2: as long as you've got a builder in office, let
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  Speaker 2: him do it. Of course, the pool will be all
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  Speaker 2: gold and everything, but, uh, But so, hey, Bar Lago
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  Speaker 2: has a beautiful pool. The guy has 25 resorts. They
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  Speaker 2: all got beautiful swimming pools. Let him do it. Let
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  Speaker 2: him build it. He loves building projects. So that's just
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  Speaker 2: the rumor. We don't know if that's the announcement later today. Now, AI,
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  Speaker 2: what is you got to be afraid of? The president's
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  Speaker 2: saying that he and President Xi didn't really talk about it.
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  Speaker 5: I spoke a little bit about it with President Xi,
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  Speaker 5: not too much.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't a topic of conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, that meeting with President Xi, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of criticism that he was so deferential to Xi. Why
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  Speaker 2: was he being so respectful? And more so than with
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  Speaker 2: other leaders. You know, you watch Trump with a world leader.
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  Speaker 2: He's slapping the guy in the back. When he shakes hands,
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  Speaker 2: he grabs the guy's hands and he pulls them towards him.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a domineering kind of move. He didn't do
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  Speaker 2: that with Xi. He's bowing in a normal handshake. Why
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  Speaker 2: was he being so respectful? Could have been to help Xi.
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  Speaker 2: She's in a lot of trouble back home. Xi wants
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  Speaker 2: to stay in power. There's a big movement to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of him. There's a possibility he won't last. He
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  Speaker 2: wants to look like he's a powerful figure on the
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  Speaker 2: world stage. So Trump and him get along, and that
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  Speaker 2: might have been a way of making Xi look stronger
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  Speaker 2: back at home, help him save his job. So that's
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  Speaker 2: why he's being so respectful. I'm sure they talked about
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  Speaker 2: AI more than he's saying. Big thing about AI, if
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  Speaker 2: you're to believe this, uh how dangerous it is and
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  Speaker 2: uh some people say there's nothing to worry about and
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  Speaker 2: then you got bill gates on the sunday shows and
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  Speaker 2: writing those uh op-ed pieces that it's going to kill
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  Speaker 2: us all it'll kill a billion people we're all going
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  Speaker 2: to be dead somewhere in the middle is probably the
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  Speaker 2: answer you remember gates is always uh sounding the alarm
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  Speaker 2: bell and always getting too hyperbolic and hysterical about everything,
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  Speaker 2: whether it was food shortages or vaccines or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 2: But there is something to worry about. But the point is,
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  Speaker 2: if it's that dangerous, if it's that deadly a weapon,
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  Speaker 2: if it can wipe out everybody, then it's crucial that
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  Speaker 2: we be the leaders of AI, that we be the
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  Speaker 2: ones in control of AI and not let China do that.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be like we had no nuclear weapons and China
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  Speaker 2: had them all. So that's the problem. Right now we
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  Speaker 2: lead in China. China is pushing this movement to stop
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  Speaker 2: AI here. That way they can get ahead of us.
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  Speaker 2: We're ahead of them right now, as President Trump points out.
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  Speaker 5: And we're leading and we're building tremendous, you know, trillions
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  Speaker 5: of dollars worth of places. And why should we give
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  Speaker 5: that up? You don't give up a trillion dollar or more,
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  Speaker 5: two or three or four trillion dollar industry because you
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  Speaker 5: think something like that, we will straighten it out.
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  Speaker 2: If and when a problem occurs. Yeah, he's meeting with
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  Speaker 2: these AI leaders, the head of Anthropic, he's having dinner
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  Speaker 2: with him tonight. Well, we're going to talk about it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm for let's go and let's win.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're about a year, maybe a year and
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  Speaker 2: a half up on China. There is nobody in third place.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just us and China. Yeah, so it's
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  Speaker 2: like a nuclear arms race. Now, AI, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: you use it and say it's just cute. I use
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  Speaker 2: it to... Help me write an essay. I use it
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  Speaker 2: to look up stuff. I use it to work on
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  Speaker 2: my website. I use it to do my resume. What's
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  Speaker 2: the danger? Well, that's what a lot of people are
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  Speaker 2: using it for now. It's like a super Google, a
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  Speaker 2: more advanced version of a search engine. It's help you
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  Speaker 2: write stuff. It's helping you with simple tasks like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's what a lot of people are using it for.
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  Speaker 2: There's a much, much deeper... a part of AI where
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  Speaker 2: it can do all kinds of stuff. Instead of it
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  Speaker 2: just writing your copy for your website, people can use
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  Speaker 2: AI to go build a website, create a website, do
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  Speaker 2: all sorts of stuff. It's not like Google. Some people
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  Speaker 2: think it's just an advanced form of Google. Google is
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  Speaker 2: just a search engine. It's just searching. AI can take action.
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  Speaker 2: It can attack a website. It can create bots and
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  Speaker 2: bombard a website. It can hack into a website and
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  Speaker 2: take over a website. These are things Google obviously can't do.
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  Speaker 2: And the part, there's a lot of stuff to AI.
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  Speaker 2: It's too complicated to get into all of it. But
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  Speaker 2: one of the, the part of AI we're worrying about
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  Speaker 2: is what they call the recursive part, the recursive self-improving AI.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where you program the AI to do something.
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  Speaker 2: But the AI has the capability to go beyond what
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  Speaker 2: you told it to do. It can retrain itself. It
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  Speaker 2: can reinvent itself without you. It can autonomously, on its own,
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  Speaker 2: design new codes or transition into something else. You give
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  Speaker 2: it the task. You give it the code. It can
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  Speaker 2: rewrite that. It can advance itself. And if you tell it,
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  Speaker 2: don't do this, don't do that, well, it can suddenly
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  Speaker 2: rewrite the code so it can. That's what they call
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  Speaker 2: the recursive self-improving AI. So that's the part they got
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  Speaker 2: to try to fix. Somehow you got to fix it
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  Speaker 2: so the system can't improve itself on its own, can't
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  Speaker 2: take those actions without permission. But again, it's AI. It
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  Speaker 2: can learn to jailbreak its way out of whatever thing
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  Speaker 2: you set up. So that's the problem. Now, people say, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll just put a, See, a lot of these politicians,
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  Speaker 2: the problem with Congress or anybody regulating it, the Bernie
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  Speaker 2: Sanders type is that they don't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: They're just too stupid technically. They don't understand anything about AI.
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  Speaker 2: They don't understand the technology. There's one thing Bill Gates
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  Speaker 2: was saying on these Sunday shows, because the Bernie Sanders,
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  Speaker 2: you don't require a kill switch on it. Gates was explaining,
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  Speaker 2: there's no such thing as a kill switch. You have
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  Speaker 2: to be. Really, internet illiterate to think you could have
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  Speaker 2: a kill switch. There's no possibility. There's no such thing
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  Speaker 2: as a kill switch. So this is complicated. This is
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  Speaker 2: going to take a lot of looking at. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the ex-Trump official, Alina Haba, she had been a lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: I think she was Trump's lawyer at one point. She'd
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  Speaker 2: been a prosecutor. She was in the Trump administration. She left,
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  Speaker 2: and she's 42 now. She just got married. She found
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  Speaker 2: a Turkish billionaire. He's only 29, a lot younger than her,
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  Speaker 2: but he's a billionaire. Perfect. So she marries this billionaire.
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  Speaker 2: They had their wedding over the weekend in the Waldorf Ballroom,
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  Speaker 2: the new redesigned Waldorf Ballroom. I don't think it's as
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  Speaker 2: nice as the old one. The old one was a
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  Speaker 2: little classier. It was white and gold. This one is
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  Speaker 2: silver and too shiny. But when they redid it and
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  Speaker 2: reopened the Waldorf, they also really raised up the prices.
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  Speaker 2: They jacked up the prices. That's why a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the big charity galas that used to be in the Waldorf,
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  Speaker 2: they're not rushing back. The prices are really high. So
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  Speaker 2: she threw her wedding there with the Turkish billionaire. The cost,
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  Speaker 2: because they had more flowers than you've ever seen. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was what they did to transform the ballroom. The
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  Speaker 2: cost is said to be $ 10 million for the wedding.
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  Speaker 2: $ 10 million for the wedding. I hope this guy's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be spending that much on all of his weddings.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of money. But he's a billionaire. He
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  Speaker 2: can afford it. Then they said, if you read the headline,
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  Speaker 2: star-studded wedding. Well, I'm looking. Who's the stars? It's Kash Patel.
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  Speaker 2: All right, nice guy, but not a big star. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you walk down the street with Kash Patel, people are going, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's Kash Patel. You know, most people don't. when he
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  Speaker 2: comes to the room, you think it's the it guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, most people don't get excited about cash. Who's
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  Speaker 2: the other big stars. Attorney general, Todd Blanche. Very nice guy.
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  Speaker 2: But again, uh, if he's walking down the street, nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows who he, I know I wouldn't call that a big,
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  Speaker 2: big star. Mike Tyson was there. Okay. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's a good omen for your marriage to have
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tyson. I don't know if that's good luck having
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tyson. And, uh, Margo Martin, she's one of President
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  Speaker 2: Trump's executive assistants. Very nice woman. Hey, we'll get to
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  Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live. It was pretty interesting. They did go
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  Speaker 2: after Trump. They went after Natalie Harp. She's another Trump
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  Speaker 2: executive assistant. The press has decided to go after her,
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  Speaker 2: make her look like she's a crazy stalker because she's
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  Speaker 2: always following him wherever she is. That's what you do
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  Speaker 2: when a presidential executive assistant That's what they do. They're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be there at all times. Every president has
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  Speaker 2: had a Natalie Harp. Every president has had a Natalie Harp. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Natalie Harp's very good looking, young. I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these presidential assistants look like Madeleine Albright. So this
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  Speaker 2: is a little different. But she's a very nice woman,
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  Speaker 2: a very fine woman, very good character. But they made
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  Speaker 2: her look like a crazed stalker. Well, we'll get back.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to Saturday Night Live. Coming up, we've got
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  Speaker 2: a lot to talk about. Don't forget, I'm here three
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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, live from the WOR Life Fact Studios.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess I've accepted the fact that summer is over.
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  Speaker 2: This weekend helped convince you. But also, baseball season is over.
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  Speaker 2: It ended yesterday. Yankees' final game yesterday was rained out.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't play it. And then they said they're not
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: going to reschedule it. So is that normal to just
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: not reschedule, have one less game for the season? I guess.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Playoff games start tomorrow, Yankees and Red Sox. Football all
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: over the place. Hockey is starting preseason. So I guess
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  Speaker 2: I have to just accept the fact that the summer
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: is over. It was a lot of wind this weekend.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: That takes down a lot of the leaves and all
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: that rain and all that stuff. So a lot going
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: on at the White House today. Yesterday, the president had
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: a long day yesterday. Remember Biden? He'd appear at like
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: a ribbon cutting in front of the White House for
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: a second, and then you wouldn't see him for a month.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: President Trump, you got to give the guy credit. I
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: don't care how much you hate him. You got to
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: give him credit for stamina at the age of 80.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: This weekend, he flew all over the place. He's in
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Tennessee and Kentucky and Northgate. He's flying all over the place.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: He even flew to Chicago to the President's Cup golf tournament.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: And then he's running around all over the country all weekend. Sunday,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: he's all over the place flying around. Gets back to
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the White House. And then at 10 o'clock, he's got
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: a dinner. At 10 o'clock at night, you know, when
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you get that old, usually dinner's 4.30. But 10 o'clock
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: at night, he's having a dinner with the anthropic CEO,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: AI executive. 10 o'clock at night, you know, President Trump,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: he's always like a big thick steak and all that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: You're not supposed to eat that at 10 o'clock. 10
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: o'clock at night, but he hardly sleeps, so what's the difference?
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: But a busy day today. And hey, that crazy New
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Jersey governor, Mikey Sherrill, appointed the biggest decision you make
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: when you run for governor, when you start. First major decision,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: you pick a lieutenant governor. Well, she picked a lieutenant
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: governor who was doing all kinds of stuff, and he
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: had to resign. What was he doing exactly? He hired
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: his girlfriend. He was having a relationship with an underling,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: something like that.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: As a former federal prosecutor, I wanted to make sure
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: everyone was treated fairly and justly. This investigation was thorough,
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: and it was impartial.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Okay. Be leery of a politician when they talk slow
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: and they read it. As a former prosecutor, so they
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: investigated this guy, he called Wellesley.
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: An attempt to hire someone he was dating, which was
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: against the ethics rules, but also he did not mention
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: that he was dating this individual. Sexual harassment substantiated in
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: the report, as well as concerns from other members that
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: worked for him about things that he was saying in
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: the office.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: All right. All right, he hires a girlfriend. He's making
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: sexual comments to everybody in the office. Shouldn't you have
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: known this before you hired the guy? It's the one
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: major decision you make as a brand new gubernatorial candidate.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Shouldn't you have checked this out? You're a former prosecutor.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: You said, shouldn't you know how to investigate?
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: We vet people very carefully. We have hired hundreds and
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: hundreds of people to office, and I think you can
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: see from The work we've done just in eight months,
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: how incredibly well we have done in much of our hiring.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: The vetting process was thorough. And unfortunately, some of the
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: behavior from the time he took office raised concerns and
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: led to the chief ethics officer starting an independent investigation.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know. He's a sexual abuser, sexual harasser, crude
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: comment types. It usually doesn't start all of a sudden.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: If he's been doing this in office, you can be
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: sure he was doing it before. Well, let's let Caldwell
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: give his side. Well, that's it. It's official. It's not true.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: He's confirmed it. It's not true. And, uh, You got
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: two excuses you can use when you get fired, when
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: you get thrown out. Biggest excuse. I always say, I
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: like to spend more time with my family. You know,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: they always give you that excuse. Yeah, I want to
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: spend more time with my family. Then you see their family.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Who the hell would want to spend more time with them?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: And then the other excuse is, I don't want to
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: be a distraction. Too late. It's already been. The major
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: news in New Jersey for two weeks. A little too
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: late for this. If you didn't want to be a distraction,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the second she mentioned it, you should have quit and left.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Then she wouldn't have to throw you the hell out
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: and make it all public like that. Well, what are
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: you going to do? It happens. It happens. She's a
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: little wacky anyway. Hey, we'll get to Saturday Night Live
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: coming up. They really went after Mom Donnie. They went
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: after Trump a lot more, but they did hit Mom
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Donnie with a couple of shots. We'll get to that
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: coming up. That was Jason Bronson. Hey, good for this guy.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: How do you say his name? Oh, Jalen. Can you
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: tell I'm not a basketball fan? Can you tell I
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: never saw a basketball game until the Knicks playoffs? What
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: the hell is his name? Jalen. Jalen Bronson. But he's
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: like a superstar now because of the Knicks and all that.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: So he was the guest host on Saturday Night Live.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And because he's such a superstar, you know, half the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: time they have a guest host. You don't know who
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the hell it is. Some young actor. But because he
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: was such a superstar, people were lined up. Hundreds of
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: fans were camping out just hoping to see him come
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: in and out of the building. Hundreds of fans. So
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: you know what this guy did? He went and bought
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: them all cookies. The NBC pages came out with boxes
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: of cookies to hand out to the critics. Remember, they're
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: waiting out in the rain and all that. And they
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: weren't just cookies. You could go get cookies anywhere. You
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: could buy a bag of cookies anywhere. These are from
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Levain Bakery, probably the finest chocolate chip cookies in New York.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is very special cookies. He had somebody
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: go to Levain, buy hundreds of cookies. I'm sure he
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: paid the NBC pages extra to pass these out. Obviously,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: a very nice guy. Or a very shrewd guy who
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: knows how to get just the right publicity. Somehow everybody
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: found out that he gave these cookies. But it's a nice,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: nice gesture. Hey, we've got a lot to get to.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: We'll take some calls, too, coming up. Mark Simone here.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: 9 to noon every day. 710WOR. Much more Mark. Mark Simone.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekdays.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: On 710WOR. Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800- 3-2-1-0-7-10.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: If you have a Boeing stock, you might have noticed
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: it took a drop today. Here's the problem. Oh, this
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: doesn't sound good. Boeing says it found a software glitch
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: on the new 737 MAX. This is the big new plane,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the 737 MAX, but it says they found a software
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: glitch that could affect landing procedures. That sounds pretty serious.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I Landing is a very important part of the flight. Now, hey,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: are our phones working? Because this phone is dark here.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: It's usually lit up with all the things dark. I
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: don't know why. Maybe this one's just off, but the
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: one in there is on, right? So that's all that matters.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: You know, the UN, it's still going on with this
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: UN General Assembly, but it's not going to be a
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: lot of traffic because all the world leaders are gone.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Thank God. they're all out of town, so this will
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: be much better. But the UN continues its work. Nobody
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: knows what the hell that is, except this UN is
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: the most disgusting anti-Semitic organization in the world. Just awful
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: anti-Semitic crap that goes on there. Do you know that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: the UN has a list, a blacklist of 60 companies
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: that they want blacklisted because the companies do business with Israel?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: It's absolutely disgusting. This is the UN office of the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: high commissioner for human rights, which is like the worst
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: anti-Semite of all. So the United nations, uh, if you
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: do any business in parts of Israel, uh, or parts
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: of Gaza, they've got 214 companies that they're blacklisting, uh,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Major companies like Motorola, travel apps like Airbnb, TripAdvisor. It's
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: just awful. The United Nations claims that certain parts of
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the Jewish community beyond the 1949 armistice lines are in
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: occupied Palestinian territory. Well, this is absolutely, again, it could
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: go on and on list all the anti-Semitic things that
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: go on in the U.N., But this is just another one.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I know most people don't know that they run this blacklist.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: It's absolutely disgusting. So let's see if it works. I
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe it's just the light on the phone.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Let's try it. Let's go to Blovelt in Florida. Blovelt,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: are you there?
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: Mark Simone, good morning, sir.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: Good.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: What's going on in Florida?
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: Oh, it's 88 degrees.
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: The humidity's gone. It's getting a little cooler.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: It's the right time of year to be down.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Hey, don't give me that. You know, here it was
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: 80 and sunny all weekend. We had the most beautiful weekend.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: The sun was shining. It was wonderful.
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: I miss September in New York City.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I sure do.
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Actually, it was pouring rain. I don't want anybody to
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: think this is a rerun. It was awful. Hey, Eddie,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: go ahead. Blow a valve.
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: Quick question for you.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: You're always talking about when you're promoting the other radio shows,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Buck and Clay and Hannity, with how many listeners they have.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: How many listeners do you have?
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, we have a couple million listeners. The podcast, you know,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: after the show's over, we podcast it. The podcast did,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I think it was 10.3 million last year. We're going
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: to try to hit 11 million this year. Oh, that's fantastic.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: You know what? Just check every week. It's really interesting.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: iHeart puts out a list of the top 100 podcasts
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: in America. We always make the top 50. That's out
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: of 2 million podcasts in America. Wow.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I'll look into that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: And one more question for you, if I don't mind.
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 29:10
  Speaker 12: That new picture of you when I got you up
• 29:12
  Speaker 12: on the iHeart, it seems like you're sitting.
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: On the roof.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: It's a very picturesque, beautiful window. It's here at iHeart.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It comes to a point, like a V-shape. That's the one.
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: It's a window.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what'd you think it was? You think I'm hanging
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: over the ledge? It's a window. Don't you see the
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: beams behind it? Oh, what happened? Are you there? Oh,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: we lost him. Blow a bell. No, we lost him. Yeah,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: it's a window. I can't tell anybody where it is
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: because it's in a certain spot. I heard here is
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: like 10 floors of this big, huge skyscraper. And everybody goes,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: where's that window? I want to take a picture there.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: But you tell somebody, then everybody's got the same picture.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: So I don't tell anybody where that window is. It's
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: a secret. Nobody has ever found it here at iHeart.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: You know, we got this hallway when you come in
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: The main entrance, the main entranceway, it's all lights all
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the way down the hallway. You've seen that. You'll see
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: that picture. Everybody takes a picture. It's a million lights
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: all the way down the hallway. Looks like you're walking
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: through AI or something. It's quite beautiful. But 800-321-0710 is
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: the number. Let's go to Barbie in Wayne, New Jersey. Barbie,
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: are you there?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Barbie. I like that name. That's a great name.
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah. It's a great name.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: Don't rush.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Anytime you feel like jumping in. Yes, go ahead.
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: Listen, my friend is married to a man who came
• 30:44
  Speaker 13: from China about seven years ago and applied for political asylum.
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: And in the meantime, he got married and married four
• 30:51
  Speaker 13: years to her. And he got a letter a month ago.
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: They refused the political asylum and They're in the process
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: of deportation.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's terrible.
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: Well, it is. I'm a big Trump supporter, and I
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: didn't know that this was part of the plan.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: He's not an illegal.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Is he a citizen? Does he have a green card,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: all that stuff?
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: A visa.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the visa's only temporary. You've got to get
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a green card.
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: I know, but he's married.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: If he marries her, doesn't that help him stay?
• 31:29
  Speaker 13: Well, that's why we don't understand.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Is she a citizen?
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: Yeah, of course.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Well, that should help.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, why.
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: You know, this is the biggest irony, is that he's
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: a Trump supporter.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Well, it's terrible.
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: I mean, he doesn't vote because he can't.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: You think he's really being deported? You think he's really
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: being deported? Because sometimes a guy wants to get away
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: from this marriage. That's a good excuse.
• 31:56
  Speaker 14: No.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm being deported.
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: They got a letter that....
• 31:59
  Speaker 13: He got a letter that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: Well, you can.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Make up a letter on AI. You sure he's really
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: being deported?
• 32:04
  Speaker 13: Listen.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: Mark, if you're not going to take it serious, I'm
• 32:07
  Speaker 13: going to hang up.
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: I mean, he's upsetting.
• 32:09
  Speaker 13: He's a good friend.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: No, I agree with you. That's a terrible situation. So
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: what I would do is wherever he is.
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: Let me just say this.
• 32:17
  Speaker 13: Let me just say this. And she's reading where they're not...
• 32:20
  Speaker 13: All right, well, listen to me.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Listen to me. What he should do immediately is call
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: his congressman or woman. Call them.
• 32:27
  Speaker 9: They did.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: It's most likely a Democrat. Tell them you've got some
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: anti-Trump situation here, and they'll jump on it. Usually a
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: congressperson can do something.
• 32:35
  Speaker 13: No, listen, they did, and they got a letter back
• 32:38
  Speaker 13: saying that they asked to be expedited paperwork.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: All right, well, try the congressman. Try the local TV news,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: News 12, all that. Try writing letters. Well, get some
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: press on it.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: Do you think President Trump listens every day?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It's not about President Trump. It's not up to him.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: You want to get somebody in the local ICE office somewhere. Again,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: keep calling your congressman. Call the governors. They're all Democrats.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: They'll love an anti-Trump story. Call them and get them
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: on this, and then they can bring a lot of
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: attention to it and maybe stop it.
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 13: Thank you, Mark.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks for calling. Well, we've got a lot
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: to get to today. We'll get to SNL. It was
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Pretty good at times and pretty bad at times. Typical
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: for SNL. We'll get to the new iPhone. We'll get
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: to China. We're going to get back to AI. We've
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: got a lot to talk about. Don't forget I'm here
• 33:38
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• 33:41
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• 33:45
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• 33:48
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• 33:52
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• 33:55
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• 34:01
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• 34:04
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• 34:06
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• 34:08
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• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Well, all right. I don't know. I don't feel great.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: You don't feel right today? It's the three days of rain. Psychologically,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: it gets to you after a while. You feel a little...
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know, not depressed, but a little, three days
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: of being rained in, three days of listening to this.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: It's going to continue through the morning, and it's supposed
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to stop raining afternoon. It might be a little rain
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: here and there. Now, it's supposed to be nice tomorrow.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Not great, but nice, dry, nice day. And then Wednesday,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: it's supposed to be very mild, back up about 75,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: so that'll cure everything. Hey, we got two more hours
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: to go and a lot to get to. Coming up
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: here on 710WOR. Mr.
• 34:58
  Speaker 14: New York.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: It's Mark Simone on WOR.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, what's hour number two? That's right. If you just
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: joined us, you missed the first hour. It's three hours
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: every day. If somebody still doesn't know that, three hours
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: every day. We start at 9 a.m.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: It's 9 a.m. till noon every day. A lot to
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: get to. We'll get to SNL. We'll get to AOC.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: We'll get to AI, and we'll get to Crazy Mom Donnie,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: and a whole lot more coming up. So, hey, I
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: mentioned this before. The White House briefing room is where
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: the press secretary comes out, and they got a lot
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: of seats there. It's like a theater seating, and every
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: day they have the briefing, and this is where the
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: press gets to ask all these questions. And the president... Now,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: we don't know if this is a real plan, or
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: he's just taunting people. Sometimes he does this just to,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: you know, like... like a mischievous kid in the zoo
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: throws something at the cage just to rile up the
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: tiger in there. So we don't know if this is
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: what this is all about, but he's talking about tearing
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: out the briefing room. The briefing room is where the
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: White House pool used to be. They had a big
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: swimming pool in the White House, and they covered it
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: over and built the press briefing room. Now, you say, well,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: you have to have a briefing room. You have to
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: have a press briefing every day. Yeah, normally that's the case,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: especially with Joe Biden, because nobody ever got to talk
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to him or see him. So every day, that's the
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: only place you could ask questions. You could find out
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: what was going on with the president. You could go
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: to the daily briefing. It's usually about one o'clock. And
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: then you could talk to, you could ask any question
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: to the press secretary. So it's a very vital thing,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: these press conferences. But with President Trump, you really don't
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: need it because he talks to the press himself all
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: day long. Every five minutes, he's holding his own briefing.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: So if you got any questions, even when he's meeting
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: with a big world leader in the Oval Office, he
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: lets all the press come in. Even the cabinet meetings,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: he lets all the press come in. So he doesn't
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: need the briefing room. But when he leaves, you're going
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: to get another president who might not like that. They
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: might go back to the old system where they never
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: talked to the press, except once in a while, just
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: once in a while, a press conference. So he wants to...
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Get rid of the briefing room, tear the floor back up,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: and there's a pool under there. And he wants to
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: build the pool. If you go to his Truth Social,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: he's put up a picture for what he wants to build.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: And you say, that's great. Swimming pool. Oh, it's beautiful.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: But look at this pool. The pool looks great, but
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the walls have these arches with the gold all over it,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: the ceiling. You know, he's got this thing with gold.
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Normally, he's very stylish when it comes to, I mean, dressing.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: It's a conservative businessman dressing. His plane is helicopter conservative,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: black with white letters. But when it comes to a room,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: he's like Liberace all of a sudden. Look at this
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: gold everywhere. It's very ornate, but, you know, it's a
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: swimming pool. You want to just swim. And have you
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: ever seen the Ritz in Paris? The Ritz, not the
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Ritz Carlton, the Ritz Hotel in Paris. They got a
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: swimming pool that looks like this. The problem is it
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: looks like you're swimming in the middle of a ballroom.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. It's not a good swimming. Yeah, it's all
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: gold and very formal. A good swimming pool shouldn't look
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: like that. So I don't know if he wants to
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: really build this. He's never, I don't think he's ever
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: gone swimming in his life, Donald Trump. So it's not
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: for him. It could just be to just taunt the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: media with the press ban. Yeah, even the press ban.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: He knows at some point, somehow, you're going to have
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: to let him back in just to taunt them, just
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: to rile them all up. The war in Iran, this
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: will be used as a big midterm issue. You know,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: if you were watching all the left-wing commentators, if you
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: ever watched Robert Moses on Channel 5, very left-wing biased,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: so he said, As the war drags on for seven
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: months now, all through the program, seven months of the war,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: the seven-month war. We're now in the seventh month of
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: the war. He forgets to mention the war was actually
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: 12 days. It's not a real conventional war. It's a
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: strange sort of a war. Massive bombing for two days,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: and then we take a month off.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: Then there might be.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: 20 minutes of bombing, and then we take a month off.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: So it's seven months, but the war has actually only
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: been 12 days. We're not in Iran. We're not on
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: the ground in Iran. We're not even firing a shot
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: for weeks on end. You know, Vietnam, every day they're
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: sloshing through the jungle. Iraq, every day they're fighting in
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: the desert, in the streets. You know, nobody would have
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: minded Vietnam if we bombed for a, a day or two,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: and then said, yeah, we're taking the month off. We'll
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: see you in November. It wouldn't have been so bad,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: but this is a big election issue. The president on Iran.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: What they want to do is immediately open the Hormuz Strait.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: You know why? Because they're dying. You know why they're dying?
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Because they have no money coming in.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the only thing that really affects the Strait of
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Hormuz being closed. And that happens in every war. It
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: happened in the tanker wars years ago. It happened in
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: the Iraq war. They closed the Strait of Hormuz. although
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: it's not totally closed. It's half open and has been for, uh,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: most of the time it's been half open first month.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: It was entirely closed, but it's half open. The Southern route,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: which goes along Oman is open. Tankers are moving through
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: there every day. We've been moving about 7 million barrels
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: of oil a day through the Strait of Hormuz. Normal
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: before the war would have been 20 million, but there's
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: still some oil coming through there. Also remember, uh, It's
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: been a few months now. Probably in a year, in
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: about seven, eight months, there will be no more need
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: for the Strait of Hormuz. All those countries, Gulf countries,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: have decided they don't want to ever depend on the
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz again. So as we speak, they're building
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: pipelines to take all the oil other ways, to take
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: it to other ports. They won't need the Strait of
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Hormuz anymore. Just let's say two years. Within two years,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: we'll never need the Strait of Hormuz again for anything.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: And again, we don't get any oil from the Strait
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: of Hormuz. We produce all our own oil now here
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: in America. The president, when he came in, opened up
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: drilling everywhere. We not only produce all our own oil,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: we produce twice as much oil as we could ever need.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: And so we export oil all over the world. We're
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: the biggest exporter in the world right now. Now, one
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: of the problems, well, why is diesel up? Well, that's
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: the Ukraine war. Zelensky has been hitting the diesel supply
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: refineries in Russia, hurting the diesel supply. That's one reason.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: The other reason, we don't have enough refineries. As they
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: opened up the drilling so that we produce massive amounts
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: of oil, we don't have the refineries to process all
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: that oil. Refineries starting decades ago started to get treated
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: like nuclear plants. Nobody wanted one. They can't open them.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: They blocked them all. So the last time we opened
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: a refinery was the 1970s. So we got to increase
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: that refinery capacity Once the war ends, though, once the
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: war ends, you'll see the price come tumbling down.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: They get their money from the Hormuz Strait.
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Actually, and that's the other point. Iran is totally dependent
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: on the Strait of Hormuz for their economy. That's all
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: their revenue, Strait of Hormuz. So with it closed. For
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: seven months now, they've had no revenue for seven months.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: They get their money from the Harmon Strait. So they
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: outsmarted themselves.
• 42:38
  Speaker 12: They said, let's close it.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: And cause a problem for the world.
• 42:42
  Speaker 10: And then I came along and we.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Put up the greatest blockade ever in military history.
• 42:48
  Speaker 12: It's a wall of steel.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Well, actually it is. And that's why they're able to
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: use the southern, what they call the southern route, the
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: half that's along the Oman coast. We've also gotten rid
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: of all the mines. They're all gone now. So let
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: me get this name right. Jalen Brunson. I'm not a
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: basketball fan. I never saw a basketball game in my
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: life until these Knicks playoffs. Jalen Brunson, guest host of
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live. Now, they say the way to know
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: if you're getting old, if you're getting old when you
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: no longer know who these musical guests are on Saturday
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Night Live. You know, it used to be, who's the
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: musical guest? Uh, Used to be Elton John. Oh, well,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Paul McCartney. I know that now you see musical guests.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: You don't know who the hell they are. They say
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: you're getting really old when you don't know who the
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: hosts are. And be honest, half the time, whoever the
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: host of Saturday Night Live is, I don't know who the.
• 43:47
  Speaker 9: Hell it is.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Jason Brunson. And he did a very good job hosting SNL.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: This was a big deal. And it was pretty funny.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Great to be here. I'm very excited.
• 44:00
  Speaker 15: You guys can probably tell with my voice and face.
• 44:04
  Speaker 15: But tonight I'm going to approach the post in the
• 44:07
  Speaker 15: same way I approach the next finals game. So the
• 44:10
  Speaker 15: first three quarters of the show are going.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: To be god awful. The last sketch is going to
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: be amazing. Okay. Well, the usual Saturday Night Live format
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: is the cold opening is the big one. Then they
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: usually have one good sketch, and the whole rest of
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: the show, the sketches stink. You don't know what the
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: hell they're talking about. Although this cold opening was all
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: on Mamdani, making fun of Mamdani. And they did go
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: after him. Now, most of it was Mamdani and Trump together. 98%
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: of the jokes were about Trump. But they did take
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: a couple of shots at Mamdani. And they did make
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: fun of the fact that he didn't do much, that
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: he was basically just tick-tocking his way through the mayoral team.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: And then they made a joke about in the middle
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: of this nor'easter with flooding, with the chaos and terrible
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: emergency in the city. What was he doing? Tick-tocking about it.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Just tick-tocking. So, uh, and we've told you that, you know,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of people are very worried about mom Donnie
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: and what he's going to do to New York. The
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: good news is the guy does nothing. He does absolutely nothing.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: He tick-tocks, he smiles, he makes a speech, he waves,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: he tick-tocks, he waves, he smiled. That's basically it. Uh,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: He's not a courageous guy. He's kind of a coward,
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: and he doesn't say anything and everything, but he doesn't
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: actually try to do anything. And he's not a hard worker.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: He's not a management guy. So basically, he just talks
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: and doesn't do much. That's the good news. The biggest
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: thing is crime. The police commissioner, Jessica Tisch, everybody likes her.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: They want her to stay. Crime is doing pretty well.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: It's not as well as you think. You keep hearing
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: the lowest crime numbers in history. Yeah, well, that's the
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: murder rate. That's due to the murder rate dropping like crazy.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Rape is up. There's been a spike in rape. There's
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: a spike in robbery and a spike in subway crime.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: So that's still the problem. And not necessarily the fault
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: of Jessica Tisch. They're just shorthanded. They've not hired new classes.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: They've not brought in people. So we're thousands and thousands
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: of officers short in the NYPD. But it's pretty good money.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: There is crime, but it's basically in eight precincts. If
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: you're walking around here in the middle of Manhattan, it's
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: just fine. Everything's just fine. The homeless stuff is getting
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: out of control. Homeless camps, there are huge ones in
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: the city, and they're not doing enough to clean them out.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: They come in one day and pick up everything and
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: even the tents, and the next day they're back. The
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: other thing is the mayor is very against arresting prostitutes.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: So they're not busting prostitutes. Now, I can understand doing
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: that during UN week. They're needed by these UN idiots,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: but that's over with. But prostitution busts are down 60%,
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: almost 65%, actually. There's a place in Queens, Roosevelt Avenue,
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: which they call the Market of Sweethearts. You see these women?
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: They don't exactly look like sweethearts, but you know what
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: they mean. It's all prostitutes. It's a million hookers. Now,
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: you might say, so what? Why do you have to
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: go after prostitutes? Or you might say, some people might
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: like a market of hookers. Yeah, but there are people
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: who live there. It's a residential area, too. And you
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: can't have that. So Zoran Mamdani has kind of told
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: the cops, leave them alone. Don't bother them. So, It's
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: just out of control. The prostitutes all over the place. Obviously,
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: the neighbors can't stand this. They hate it. But he
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: was getting attacked a little. Good for SNL. I think
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: maybe the only time in 10 years they've made a
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: joke about a Democrat. But all right. Good for them.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: By the way, this is season 52 of Saturday Night Live.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: 52 years of Saturday Night Live. And Lorne Michaels, this
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: is unheard of, still the producer. He's like 85 now.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Usually when you, especially a show like that where you're
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: supposed to be young, cutting-edge comedy, usually when you hit 50,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: they're pushing you out the door for a younger voice,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: a younger guy. But he's still there. Very powerful guy
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: at NBC. Hey, speaking of anniversaries, it was 72 years
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: ago last night. Last night was the 72nd anniversary of
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: The Tonight Show. It was 1954. Steve Allen.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Who I used to work with for years. He and
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: I used to do a daily radio show together for
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: about three years. Steve Allen, 1954, 72 years ago, created
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: The Tonight Show. And it was considered weird, different, revolutionary
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: at the time. Nobody ever seen anything like that. They
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: had comedy shows with a sketch and writers. They never
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: saw a guy just ad lib, just walk into the
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: audience and talk to them, just sit there and ad
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: lib and do stuff like that. And it was so different.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: It caught on quickly and it became huge. The Steve
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Allen Tonight Show. It wasn't even called the Tonight Show.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: It was just called Tonight with Steve Allen, 1954. And then,
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: of course, it was Jack Parr for five years, Johnny
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Carson for 30. Jay Leno for about 22 years. Conan
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: O'Brien for a couple of weeks. And then Jimmy Fallon.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: He's actually been there a long time now. How long?
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: It's about 12 years. Yeah. Now, of course, the show
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: has about one quarter, about 25% of the viewers it
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: used to have. But Steve Allen started that. He had
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: no idea it would become the most important, greatest institution
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: in television today. But 72-year anniversary, pretty amazing. Hey, we'll
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. We like
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: new callers, too, if you haven't called before.
• 50:17
  Speaker 11: 800-321-0710.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show, now nine till noon weekdays on 710WOR. Well,
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710. Let's
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: go to Pete in Plainview, Long Island. Pete, how are
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 50:47
  Speaker 10: Very good, Mark. Long-time listener.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: I like Plainview. You ever go to that Ivorone Pizza there?
• 50:54
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah. We had such good pizza here that Ivorone's
• 50:59
  Speaker 10: had to move out.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, they're right there. I have our own pizza. Big restaurant.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: What's the other one? La Piazza? That's pretty good there.
• 51:06
  Speaker 10: La Piazza, right? We had an Umberto's. That's what I
• 51:10
  Speaker 10: was talking about. Umberto's was here, but there was too
• 51:13
  Speaker 10: much competition.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: They left.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Plainview's a hot place now. Country Point, beautiful new condos, everything.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: It's a hot place.
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 51:20
  Speaker 10: Well, you can't get in there. So anyway, you were
• 51:24
  Speaker 10: talking about... Steve Allen and ad-libbing.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:29
  Speaker 10: He is, to me, one of Johnny Carson's best ad-libs.
• 51:33
  Speaker 10: He's interviewing a farmer that's 105 years old, still runs
• 51:37
  Speaker 10: his farm. Johnny says to him, what invention most changed
• 51:42
  Speaker 10: your life? And the farmer says, electricity. And Johnny goes,
• 51:46
  Speaker 10: thank God. I thought you were going to say the wheel.
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Everybody's just staring. That's the greatest ad-lib of all? Oh,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: I get it now. In other words, the wheel, he
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: would have been really old.
• 52:01
  Speaker 10: Right, like he's the old guy.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: This guy was on for 30 years. There were 50
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: billion ad-libs better than that one.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, really?
• 52:10
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 52:10
  Speaker 10: This is the one that I like Steve Allen did.
• 52:14
  Speaker 10: He goes... I'd like to report a freak accident. Two
• 52:17
  Speaker 10: freaks crashed into each other.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was very good at that. I used to
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: work with Steve Allen. My favorite. I still use it
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: all the time when somebody says, yeah, I live in Newark.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: And he'd say, if you call that living. But he
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: was the fastest ad-libber I ever saw in my life.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Phil in Queens. Phil, how you doing?
• 52:36
  Speaker 9: Hey, Mark.
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: Just wanted to tell you two things.
• 52:39
  Speaker 16: One is, Trump was a very good swimmer. My father-in-law
• 52:43
  Speaker 16: taught him.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Phil's routine. He always calls and tries
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: to convince you he knew everybody as a kid. He
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: was best friends with everybody.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: You know, I knew a few people over the years.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but it's always from 75 years ago.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: But Trump has never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: ever go swimming. He was a great athlete as a kid.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: He was a great baseball player.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: He was almost recruited for the major. He was a
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: great baseball player, but.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: We need somebody who's known him like in the last
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: 50 years. He does not go swimming. He's not a swimmer.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: It's funny because he builds massive swimming pools in every resort.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Never goes swimming, ever. Has not been swimming in his
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: adult life. But he was quite an athlete. Of course,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: he's still a great golfer. And for his age, he's
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: phenomenal as a golfer. Let's go to Ralph in Stanford. Ralph,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 53:36
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 53:36
  Speaker 8: Simone, this is a real pleasure. I'm constantly impressed by
• 53:40
  Speaker 8: all the big stars you work with.
• 53:43
  Speaker 9: This is a real pleasure?
• 53:44
  Speaker 8: This is a pleasure. Well, my question is, is there
• 53:47
  Speaker 8: any big star, a big talent you ever wanted to
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: work with and you never got the chance to?
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. Well, there are a lot of
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: people I didn't get to work with, but I knew
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: off the air. There were a lot of people that,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: great stars who would not come on the air. They
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: just didn't want to do it. But I was always
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: friends with them. but, uh, another quick question.
• 54:07
  Speaker 8: You ever think of, uh, having a biography or writing
• 54:10
  Speaker 8: an autobiography? Cause if you do, I got the.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: Listen, I got like a 12 book deals going and, uh,
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: they've been chasing me for like 20 years. I don't know.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: I got to figure this out. I got to, uh,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: learn how to just sit down and write, you know,
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: to be a writer, you got to like tie yourself
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: to a chair for like four hours and just write. But, uh, uh,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: I used to write articles for a lot of major magazines,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: and then they'd call me up. If you have an idea,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: I'd give them the idea. They'd go, great, we'll take it.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: 1,200 words. And then they spent six months chasing me
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: to get the article. I don't know. I just can't
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: sit down and write. I don't know. You're right. I
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: got to get on. I got to get on this.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: I was talking to Joe Concha one day. He goes,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: you don't have to write. He goes, just dictate it.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Just take your phone and dictate it, and it'll type
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: it out for you.
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: It's perfect.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: And I did that for a couple of days. And
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: then you forget. I don't know. I always talk to
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: these writers, the greatest writers. Well, how do you do it? Well,
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I have a room just for writing. There's nothing in
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: the room. I go in there and I sit there
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: for four hours and write. Then I go to lunch.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Then I come back for four hours. I don't know.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: I just can't do it. It's too tough. Anyway, let's
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: go to Al in Yonkers. Al, how are you doing?
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: Good, Mark.
• 55:23
  Speaker 16: Hey, Mark, I wanted to say, you know, I've seen
• 55:25
  Speaker 16: the paper and all about how Kathy Hochul has gone
• 55:28
  Speaker 16: negative against Bruce Blakeman.
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 55:30
  Speaker 16: And I hope he wins. But as you know, through
• 55:32
  Speaker 16: the decades, negative advertising targeting the right ethnic groups and all, that.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: Could be very effective.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: Sometimes. She's going to do whatever she can. Sometimes it's effective.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: Many times it's not effective. It depends on the ads.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: She's also putting them in all the wrong places. She's
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: advertising on local TV stations, which very few people watch anymore.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: That's not the way to go. Hey, if you see
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: all these... attacking Blakeman ads and they upset you. Don't
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: get upset. It's a compliment to Blakeman. Blakeman was 20
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: points behind. He's now pretty much tied in the real polls,
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: not the fake public polls, in the real polls, pretty
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: much tied. And she's seen that in her internal polling.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: And that's why she's in panic and spending millions on
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: these attack ads. So when you see those attack ads,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: that's fear on her part. And You'll notice they've been
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: doing opposition research on Blakeman for a year. You'll notice
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: they couldn't come up with anything against him. So all
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: they hit him with in these ads is that he's
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: friends with Trump. They couldn't come up with anything to
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: attack him on. So all the ads are just, he's
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: too friendly with Trump. That's all they got. Let's go
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: to Max in Manhattan. Max, how you doing?
• 56:41
  Speaker 12: Mark, thank you for taking my call. There's a bill
• 56:44
  Speaker 12: that recently passed. Hochul pushed it through and, um, The
• 56:49
  Speaker 12: bottom line is that you can be in the hospital
• 56:51
  Speaker 12: and you can be euthanized without your family's permission, without
• 56:54
  Speaker 12: your permission.
• 56:55
  Speaker 9: It's called MAID.
• 56:56
  Speaker 10: M-A-I-D.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll take a look at it. That's crazy Kathy Hochul.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: High tax Hochul. She loves to tax you. I think
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: that's what you ought to just call it from now on.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: High tax Hochul. Trump was very good at that. Nicknaming somebody.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: Remember Sleepy Joe? Remember, low-energy Jeb, crooked Hillary. If you
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: do it enough, it sticks. High-tax Hochul. High-tax Hochul. High-tax Hochul. Hey,
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: when we come back, the brilliant columnist. No, not Michael Goodwin.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: He had to move until tomorrow. We're going to have
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin tomorrow. Filling in will be the also brilliant columnist,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: one of the greatest in the world, Miranda Devine. We'll
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: talk to her next on 710WOR.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, Mark Zamar.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Hey, with us right now, the brilliant columnist Miranda Devine.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: You've got to read her columns in the New York Post.
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: They're all up on the New York Post website. And
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: if you haven't read her books, go back and get them.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: The Big Guy or Laptop from Hell. They are fascinating books,
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: real important. And Miranda Devine is with us. Miranda Devine,
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: how are you doing? Hi, I'm really well, thanks, Mark. Hey,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: you just wrote a column about Hunter Biden. This guy's
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: like herpes. He keeps coming back. You can't get rid
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: of him.
• 58:12
  Speaker 11: What's... Oh, I've been trying to avoid giving him any
• 58:17
  Speaker 11: more publicity because it's his new addiction. But honestly, it's
• 58:22
  Speaker 11: just so ridiculous the way he's trying to rewrite history.
• 58:26
  Speaker 11: And unfortunately, there are a lot of gullible podcasters out
• 58:31
  Speaker 11: there willing to allow him to spew his lies. It's
• 58:35
  Speaker 11: the only way I can describe it. He is still
• 58:38
  Speaker 11: pretending it's not his laptop. The laptop doesn't exist, you know.
• 58:44
  Speaker 11: But the funny thing is that the more he talks,
• 58:47
  Speaker 11: the more he just confirms our reporting. And, you know,
• 58:51
  Speaker 11: for instance, the other day he was on some addiction
• 58:54
  Speaker 11: podcast called Dopey. I kid you not. And he's saying, oh, yeah,
• 59:00
  Speaker 11: you know, yeah, I got paid a million dollars a
• 59:03
  Speaker 11: year by Burisma for going to four board meetings a year.
• 59:08
  Speaker 11: And I was high on crack. So all expenses paid in,
• 59:14
  Speaker 11: you know, Monaco or Paris or Dubai, these glamorous locales
• 59:19
  Speaker 11: in very expensive hotels. He, you know, for all this time,
• 59:24
  Speaker 11: he said, oh, I was on the Burisma board, had
• 59:26
  Speaker 11: nothing to do with my father. It was because of
• 59:29
  Speaker 11: my great expertise as a very important and respected lawyer
• 59:33
  Speaker 11: and a seasoned board member. But no, now he admits
• 59:38
  Speaker 11: that all he had to do was go to four
• 59:39
  Speaker 11: meetings a year for a million dollars a year, which
• 59:43
  Speaker 11: is pretty incredible money if you can get it.
• 59:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Do we know how much he made off those paintings?
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: I would think it was millions.
• 59:51
  Speaker 11: No, I don't think– that was pretty well documented. I
• 59:55
  Speaker 11: can't remember offhand, but it was not. It was in
• 59:58
  Speaker 11: the realm of the high hundreds of thousands, and most
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 11: of those paintings were bought by his sugar brother, Kevin Morris,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 11: the Hollywood attorney, who was, for some reason, funding his lifestyle,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 11: paying for his expensive rental in– Malibu or the Hollywood
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 11: Hills or wherever he ended up. And at the Palisades,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 11: I think was his last one. And, you know, these
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 11: are $ 20, 000, $ 30, 000 a month rentals and paying for his,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 11: for instance, his Porsche repayments and everything else. So, Hunter
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 11: really hasn't had a proper job for as long as
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: we can remember. And he just seems to get by
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 11: with the.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Help of friends.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: And Now his lawyer is suing him for unpaid legal
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 11: bills because Kevin Morris finally shut his wallet. And then
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: he's got this other lawyer now called Dick Harpootlian, who's
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 11: an old crony of Joe Biden's, who presumably is doing
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 11: everything pro bono for him.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Miranda Devine, this Hunter Biden, he's a good looking guy.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: He's quite a talker, very articulate. Why didn't he ever
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: get a job? Why didn't he ever start some kind
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: of career?
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 11: Well, because why should he when he could get millions
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 11: of dollars just from leveraging daddy's contacts and daddy's power
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 11: and influence? And, you know, we're talking about tens of
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 11: millions of dollars that just poured in from China and
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 11: Russia and Ukraine and so on. You know, it's all
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 11: so well documented and it's way beyond the laptop now.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 11: corroborated by witness after witness. And the only reason that
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 11: Hunter is not in jail, he was convicted in Delaware.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 11: He pleaded guilty on the first day of his California trial,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 11: tax fraud trial. The only reason he's not in jail
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 11: is because his father was president and pardoned him. And
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 11: not just a regular old pardon that presidents normally give,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 11: but one that went back 14 years, sorry, 11 years
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 11: to 2014, and that covered all of the Ukraine grift
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 11: and the beginning of the rest of it. So the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 11: only other person that Joe Biden was kind enough to
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 11: do this sort of retrospective 11-year pardon was Anthony Fauci.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: Another fine, upstanding citizen. Well, Miranda Devine. Hey, what did
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: you think of the meeting with President Xi of China?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: It was... Very cordial. Was it too cordial?
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 11: I don't think so. I mean, that's sort of the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 11: way that Donald Trump does things. He tries to schmooze,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 11: and at the same time, he has his arm around
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 11: their back twisting it. And afterwards, the Chinese put some
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 11: sort of deliverables on the table, and, you know, they
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 11: seemed quite fine. I mean, the main thing is, I think,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 11: At the moment, Donald Trump is trying to get China
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 11: and Russia to stop helping Iran. And while President Xi
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 11: was in Washington or maybe he was jetting his way
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 11: to Washington, we now find out that Donald Trump gave
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 11: the green light to blowing up a Chinese spy satellite
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 11: in space. So Star Wars has arrived and that spy satellite, apparently,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 11: was giving coordinates to Iran of various ships and things
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 11: that they could blow up of America.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: You know, for all the flack he gets, Pete Hegseth,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: yelling and screaming, he's not confident. This guy has pulled
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: off a dozen of the greatest military operations in history,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: from Venezuela to shooting out that spy satellite, hasn't he?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah, to me, he seems to be doing a great
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 11: job and rebuilding morale and recruitment in the military, which
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 11: had sagged terribly because of all the woke ridiculousness that
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 11: had crept in under Obama and exploded under Joe Biden. So,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 11: you know, and he gets bad press because he's firing
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 11: or demoting or you know, not promoting certain generals who
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 11: were part of that really malign reign of terror in
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 11: the military where they were, you know, trying to put
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 11: women and transgender individuals who were like taking chemicals that
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 11: would destroy their readiness, pregnant women in, you know, combat.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 11: It just didn't work. And there are just certain jobs
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 11: in the military that, that you can't have DEI in.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 11: And so I think he's doing the right thing. He's
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 11: doing what's supposed to be done. For all the huge
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 11: amount of money that American taxpayers pour into the military,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 11: you want a military that is going to be effective
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 11: and not incompetent. And, you know, I just remember during
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 11: Joe Biden's reign, you had the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 11: total incompetence. of the military on display there. And, I mean,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 11: obviously it came from the top, from Joe Biden and
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 11: General Milley. And then we had that other story that
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 11: sort of didn't get much attention because everyone was trying
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 11: to cover up for Joe Biden. But remember they had
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 11: that pier in Gaza that the military was supposed to build?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: And it fell.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 11: Apart within days. It cost a fortune. And I think
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 11: a soldier either died or was severely injured.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: On that thing.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 11: And it just got washed away. And that is just
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 11: such incompetence and such an indictment of what used to
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 11: be a supremely competent body.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: So I.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 11: Think it was necessary for Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 11: to get in there and really clean house.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Well, Miranda Devine, we're out of time, but everybody should
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: get her book. She's written two really great bestsellers, Laptop
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: from Hell, the big guy. You read them today. They're
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: still fascinating to read. Are you working on a new book?
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 11: I am, actually, but I can't quite divulge what it
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 11: is until I sign the contract.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to be a good one. I can't wait.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: You've written some great books. And, of course, read her
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: column in the New York Post. They're all up on
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: the website. And I love your podcast. Those episodes are
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: still up there. You've got some great interviews with the
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: president and everybody else. It's called Pod Force.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 16: One, right?
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 6: Yes, it is.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 11: And we have John Solomon this week on Wednesday, who is,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 11: of course, that great investigative reporter from Just the News,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 11: but he also is now a special government employee and
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 11: he has been given the keys to the kingdom.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: He is looking at all sorts.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 11: Of secret government files and unravelling the serious coup attempts
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 11: against Donald Trump by the deep state. And the evidence
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 11: is just mind-blowing. He'll have to write a book or
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 11: several books to explain it all. But he explains a
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 11: lot of it on Wednesday.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: Well, check it out. It's Miranda Devine's Pod Force One.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: It's a great podcast. Wherever you get your podcasts, you'll
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: find it. Great stuff. Miranda Devine, thanks for being with us.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Mark.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:07:44
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• 1:07:47
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• 1:07:50
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• 1:07:54
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• 1:07:58
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• 1:08:01
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• 1:08:03
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• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, it's supposed to, the rain's supposed to ease up.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: Let's see, like by 530, six o'clock, that should be
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: the end of the rain. And then it'll be nice
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the week. Hey, we've got a
• 1:08:18
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• 1:08:20
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• 1:08:22
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• 1:08:27
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• 1:08:31
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• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, AOC is on tour today. Upstate New York, Buffalo,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: all these places. A lot of people think that's her
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: running for the Senate. Some think that's her campaigning for 2028.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: She's a congresswoman, so her district is in Queens. That's it.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: No reason to be campaigning upstate unless you're thinking about
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: a state. or national race so she's clearly running for
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: something now her side is saying it's a book tour
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: she's simply promoting her book that could be because uh
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: that's one way you make a lot of cash you
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: know you don't get paid a lot as a congressman
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: But with the insider trading, you can make a fortune,
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: but also making some book money is very important when
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: you're in Congress. Now, this Cornell University was prestigious. It's
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: a disgusting place now. I mean, just disgusting. AOC goes
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: to Cornell to speak, and the Cornell crowd, as she's,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: during her speech or before her speech, is chanting, from
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: the river to the sea, which is a, phrase that
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: has to do with wiping out and eliminating Israel. This
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: is a college campus where this kind of stuff is
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: going on. All of these Ivy League schools, Harvard, Columbia,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: disgusting anti-Semitism going on on these campuses. And apparently it's
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: still going on at Cornell where the students are chanting
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: from the river to the sea. There's a guy, he's
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: a former South Park writer. He's created a website about Cornell.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: He says he's going to expose gang rapes And he
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: issues a warning to Cornell. Accountability is coming. So we'll
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: see what that turns into. Hey, Dolly Parton's estate is
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: being decided right now. Dolly Parton left $ 450 million. Pretty good.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: $ 450 million. You know, she wrote 3,000 songs. She had
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: a lot of hit songs. That music catalog said to
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: be worth about $ 120 million. And then she's a very
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: good businesswoman in those Dollywood, the Dollywood theme park. It
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: makes a lot of money. And she has a 50%
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: stake in that. Forbes says she's among the top 100
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: richest self-made women in America. The problem is she had
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: no children. Her husband is dead and she had no children.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: So you got all the relatives, cousins, uncles, nieces, you know,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. And whenever that happens, nieces and nephews,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: they fight like crazy over the money. So there's going
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: to be quite a battle. And you know who loves this?
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: The attorneys, the estate, you know, the people that run
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: the estate, they make a fortune in fees. So they'll
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: enjoy fighting this. This is going to be quite a
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: battle for a while. So remember this crazed attacker, this
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: lunatic on the street? He attacked a New York City rabbi,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: just pummeled the guy. And then he attacked another person
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: on the street, started punching them, but just a horrible guy.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: So a judge let him loose. Yeah, this is a
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: guy who should definitely be locked up. This is the
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: absolute first choice type of guy to keep off the street.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Prosecutors only requested $ 10, 000 bail. This is Alvin Bragg, this awful,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: awful district attorney who doesn't believe in putting anybody in jail.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: You got a combination of that. And Cuomo, with his
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: no bail, no jail, let everybody loose legislation that he pushed.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: And Hochul backs that up because right now she's trying
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: to get herself reelected with the Mamdani crowd. So she's
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: into this no bail, no jail. But this guy is
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: running around loose right now. Hey, President Trump had quite
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: a schedule this weekend. He was all over the place.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: The President's Cup golf tournament in Chicago. Then he was
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: in Tennessee. for the big football game, the Texas-Tennessee game.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: He got there right before the game. But right before
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: the game, the crowd's already in the stadium. They got
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: them in early. People thought maybe that's for security, that
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: they got the crowd in very early. It was probably this, too.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: The president wanted to do a flyover. Air Force One
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: did a flyover right over the stadium. It was quite impressive. Now,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: Trump's been a major fixture at sporting events all over
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: the place. NBA finals, golf tournaments, NASCAR, Formula One, all
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: kinds of races, World Cup, Met Stadium. Big sports fan,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: big sports guy, and he's been attending everything, which is good.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: It's good for, you know, helps promote all this stuff.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: My favorite story in the news. Okay, when you were
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: in school, grade school, maybe even high school, but grade school,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: did you have a really mean teacher? Did you have
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: a really mean principal? Or a teacher that was too
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: tough or whatever, or too serious? And like me, when
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: you got out of school, did you try to torture them?
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: In other words, make prank phone calls to their house,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: call every pizza place around them and send pizzas to
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: them that they didn't order. I'm not saying I did that.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: I've heard of people doing such a thing. But it
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: can go too far. It can go too far. Southbury, Connecticut.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: Very nice town, by the way. I love Southbury. It's
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: a very nice place in Connecticut. There's a high school teacher.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: She teaches at Pomperog High School. I love Southbury, but
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: this is the worst name I ever heard for a
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: high school. Pomperog High School. But anyway, she was targeted
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: and all sorts of vandalism at her house dating back
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: a couple of years. There were a number of repeated eggings,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: eggs thrown at her house. Well, that's not nice. Her
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: mailbox was blown up with an M-80 firecracker. Okay, this
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: is not good. But police finally made an arrest. They
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: got an 18-year-old Middlebury resident. That's not far from Southbury.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: They arrested the 18-year-old kid. In connection with an incident,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: they think there were other individuals involved. They say they'll
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: be arrested soon. The student gave police a written confession.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: He says he and five friends threw eggs at the residents,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: did all this stuff because they said to investigators they
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: hated this teacher because she was tough and they expected
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: her class to be easy. You kids today. Well, hey,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: there are some teachers who are too tough. I don't
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: know about this teacher, but you should never do anything
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: like that. The prank phone calls, that's different. But you
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: should not go near their house. Hey, remember I told
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: you that story about Starbucks, they're closing down 250 locations?
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: Doesn't sound good for Starbucks. Now listen, they got 18,000 locations.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: But that's a lot to all of a sudden close 250.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: So they made it sound like it's nothing, like, well,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: every so often, you know, we close down our underperforming stores.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: But I'm looking at the closures. Here's three on Long
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: Island that closed.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: There's one in Wheatley Plaza in Greenville. Wheatley Plaza. They've
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: got the Americana, most beautiful shopping center in the world.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: That's in Long Island. The Castagna family, great people. They
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: also own Wheatley Plaza, which is a beautiful, big, beautiful,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: packed shopping center. The Starbucks in there is one of
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: the ones closing. Huh? That's a big, busy shopping center.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: That parking lot is always full. If you can't make
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: it in that shopping center, Something is wrong with you.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: And again, it's the Castagna family. They're the nicest landlords.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: Can't be a problem with that. There's something suspicious about
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: these closings. There's another Starbucks closing at the corner of
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Northern Boulevard and Glen Cove. If you live in Long Island,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: you know that is two major streets that come together.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: This Starbucks is in a big shopping center where there's
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: an equinox, there's a gym, there's everything in the world
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: in that shopping center. It's the busiest intersection you've ever seen.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: If you can't make a living there, if you've got
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: to close a story there, something is wrong with this
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: whole story about, I don't know. I mean, if you're
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: getting wiped out there, something is really, really, really wrong.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: You know, James Woods, very good actor. Of course, Casino
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: and a million movies. He's a brilliant guy, actually, in
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: real life. I know the guy. Brilliant. He's got an
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: IQ like 200. And he's got one of the best
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: Twitter accounts. He's really good on Twitter. Got millions of
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: Twitter followers. So apparently he gets into a war with
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: De Niro on Twitter. Now, James Woods, again, like an
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: IQ of like 190. He's battling De Niro, who has
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: an IQ of like 85. He's a great actor, De Niro,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: brilliant actor. But as most of the great actors were,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: Brando and all, they're all dumb in real life. There's
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: something about that. Truman Capote said, you have to be
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: dumb to be a great actor. He couldn't figure out
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: exactly why, but it was just always the case. So
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: De Niro starts battling James Woods on Twitter. Now, De Niro,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: of course, very left wing. James Woods, right wing. I
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: forget what the fight was about, but they really got
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: into it. And De Niro, he picked the wrong guy
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: to go after. And he said, you know, you're irrelevant
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: in Hollywood. You mean nothing in Hollywood. He went after,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: he called Woods ignorant, uneducated. claiming Hollywood never respected you anyway.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: But then Woods fired back at De Niro. He said,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: I pretty much pulled back from Hollywood while everyone was
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: bowing to Harvey Weinstein. And that would include De Niro.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: He said, Bobby, forget it. Bobby forgot it was wokeness
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: that made Hollywood unappealing and pedophiles sealed the deal. He
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: then reminded De Niro that, uh, my awards speak for themselves.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: I never had to sell my soul for slop like
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: little flockers. Yeah, that's true. De Niro had some money
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: trouble at some point. Uh, I don't know if it
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: was divorces or what it was, but he needed cash
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden. And I know from the agents involved,
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: they had to quickly get him anything, any movie, no
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: matter how stupid or silly or dopey it was. He
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: needed to make a lot of cash real fast. So
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: that's why he did those horrible movies. Otherwise, he's done
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: some of the greatest films ever in history. Let me
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: check my new iPhone here. Oh, battery. See, the big
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: feature of this phone, the longest battery life ever in
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: a phone. It can go two days. So it's been...
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: I've been using it now for like three hours, three
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: and a half, four hours. Battery's only down to 97%.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Pretty amazing battery life. Elon Musk is
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: launching a rocket ship today. You know, a lot of
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: people hate Elon Musk because he got friendly with Trump
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: or he was trying to cut the government down or
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: they think he's a conservative or whatever. But, you know,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: we're pretty lucky to have this guy. in the world.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's pretty amazing to live in the same
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: world as this guy. It'd be like knowing Thomas Edison.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: You know, you study Thomas Edison or Ben Franklin, but
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: can you imagine having them alive and watching them create
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: all this stuff in their lifetime? Imagine if you were
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: alive back then watching Edison create the motion picture, creating
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: the phonograph record, creating the light bulb. I mean, can
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: you imagine what this did to the world? So Benjamin Franklin,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: Thomas Edison, Elon Musk, he's on that level. He perfected
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: the electric car. He created the Starlink, which will be
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: the future of all communication. He's going to go to
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: the moon. He's launching rockets all over the place. You
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: can attack them all you want. But do you know
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: anybody else launching rockets into space, putting satellites up there,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: going to the moon? The United States hasn't been to
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: the moon in decades. decades. We're trying to get back there,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: and it's a long, slow process. Watch. Elon Musk will
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: get there long before us. Our space program was so
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: screwed up. Remember in the space station, we had astronauts
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: stranded there, and we couldn't rescue them from the space station?
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: It was Elon Musk who had to go up there
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: with one of his rockets and get them down. How
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: many private citizens do you know that could do that
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: for the government? Hey, President Xi was quite a visit. Now,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of people were wondering, because they They're looking
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: at the photographs of the state dinner in the East
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: Room of the White House. It was quite ornate and
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: quite magnificent looking. They had the most beautiful china. That
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: was the Reagan china. It was bought during the Reagan era.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: Most beautiful silverware. The most beautiful china. The table just
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: magnificently decorated. And in the middle of all this, President
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: Xi and Madam Peng... had these big black thermoses, these
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: big plastic or whatever they are, black thermoses on the table.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: And everybody was wondering, what the hell is that all about?
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 2: It's Chinese culture. They have to drink boiling hot stuff.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: The Chinese prefer drinking extremely hot beverages. And the only
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: way to keep it that hot is in a thermos.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: So they brought their thermoses with them. I don't know
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: what this is in China, but they like stuff really hot.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 2: You know, if you're in Las Vegas, playing Baccarat in
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: the high roller, uh, room, which is a private separate
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: room for the extreme high rollers. They're all Asians in there.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: Asian zillionaire high rollers. And the casino boss will tell
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: you if you're going to play in there, don't eat
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: anything off the buffet. What do you mean? Don't eat
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: off that buffet. It's boiling hot. You'll burn your mouth.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: This other day, like extremely hot food and extremely hot drinks.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 2: You know, uh, if you're in China, uh, Even the
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: public water fountains in the country have a boiling water
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: option so people can keep their thermos filled. It's the
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: opposite of America. Like, nobody will even drink hot coffee anymore. Like,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: anybody under 40, it's got to be iced coffee. But
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: that's a thing in China, boiling hot everything. What is
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: that all about? I have no idea. Don't know. Don
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: Lemon is doing a show, and he claims he's not
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: against Trump. And he's not a liberal. You imagine if
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: there was a lie detector hooked up, that could have
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: caused a blackout in like 12 states. Uh, he said
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: this in the latest episode of the Don Lemon show.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: Now you might be saying to yourself, where the hell
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: is the Don Lemon show on? Who knows? It's his
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: own website. It's done from, uh, from his bedroom in
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: his pajamas. But, uh, he's got a green screen in
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: the background and he calls it the Don Lemon show. Uh,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: This is what happens when you're tossed out. Tucker Carlson,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: Megyn Kelly, Don Lemon. You're doing a show from home
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: in your pajamas and pretending you're on television. Hey, we'll
• 1:24:19
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• 1:24:22
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• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: What's better than two hours of Mark Simone?
• 1:24:33
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• 1:24:34
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• 1:24:38
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Joe in Chatham. Joe,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 9: Hi, Mark.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 14: You were talking about the start of the Tonight Show.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: Last hour. 72 years ago, the Tonight Show began.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 14: What I remember was before Steve Allen, Jerry Lester had
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 14: that time with Dagmar.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 2: Well, that had been much earlier. That had been 1951, 1952.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: Tonight Show came along. I thought it was right before
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: Steve Allen. No, no. There was a gap of a
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: few years there. And Jerry Lester, it was not a
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: Tonight Show at all. It was just a regular straight
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: variety show.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 14: I was only 10 years old at the time, so
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 14: I just remember watching it and My parents would be, oh,
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 14: you shouldn't stay up so late.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: 10 years older? What would that do? So you'd be like,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: how old would you be?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: 85?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 14: I'm 85.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. See how sharp the guy says? Compare
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: that to Joe Biden. What a difference.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 14: Don't compare me to, don't say my name and Joe Biden.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 14: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Bill in Idaho. Bill,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Mark.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 14: How are you?
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 10: Did you hear that a goat charged into a Palestinian
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 10: strip club and cost almost $ 3, 000 worth of damage?
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute. All right. He's being funny.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 8: The good news is he got up on stage.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: And earned it all.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: The goat left lots of ones, lots of $ 1 bills.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We see where you're going with this. All right.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Let's go to... Is this the name?
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: Scrapper in Connecticut? Is that your name, Scrapper?
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's me.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: What kind of name is that, Scrapper?
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 9: Well, it's a name that has a short story.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: Does that mean you were a fighter? You're in the
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: junk business? What does it mean?
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 9: Well, junk and a fighter.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: Anyways, let me get to the point.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: He doesn't want to say.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 9: I want to say that I... I think they should
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 9: stop calling the swamp the swamp and call it the cesspool.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 9: They're insulting the swamps all over the world. D.C., Albany,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 9: it's a cesspool of those politics up there.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: I know, but swamp sounds better. Swamp sounds better. Why
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: are you scrapping? Tell us why you call it scrapping.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: You're insulting the.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 9: Swamps all over the planet.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're a swamp guy. You like swamps. Is that it?
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 9: Well, no. It's an insult. We have to have swamps
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 9: on the planet.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: Well, you've got to have cesspools, too.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 9: Well, that's what you've got in D.C. and Albany.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks for calling. Let's go to Neil in Brooklyn. Neil,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Mark.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 10: You know, you talk about the Iranian president ducking questions
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 10: because he's in fear for his life.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 10: Did you ever see Democrat senators duck questions about Piker
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 10: and Abdul?
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: Well, that's just to avoid political controversy. But this Iranian
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: foreign minister, when he's on television, you can see this
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: guy's terrified that, I mean, they'll just shoot him and
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: execute him in one second if he says the wrong word.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: Even that U.N. speech, remember that speaking at the U.N.,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: the U.N., The Iranian president, you could see him shaking.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: He was like so terrified. One wrong word and they'll
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: execute you in Iran. Oh, let's go to Tom in Queens. Tom,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 9: Hey, Mark.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: Good morning. Yeah.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 3: So when it comes to Trump barring the reporters from
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: the White House, why don't he just use the argument
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: that they're a national security threat?
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: He has. Bring them into court.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 9: He has.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: When they go into discovery.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, listen.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 9: To me.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: They've used it. They've used it. They've used it. And
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: what they're referring to is a couple of reporters leaked
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  Speaker 2: out stuff, classified stuff. So they're going to use all
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  Speaker 2: the arguments in court. But we'll see what happens. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark. Mark, I had a call screener, Izzy,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 6: cracking up when I said this. This is what I do.
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  Speaker 6: Want to know what I did to a teacher when
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 6: I was young in grammar school?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I hate to ask.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 6: It was Teacher Appreciation Day, and I brought the teacher
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: a bouquet of flowers. Each flower was laced with black pepper.
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  Speaker 6: And I told the teacher, I said, go ahead, sniff
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  Speaker 6: the flowers, smell the bouquet. Well, she did. It went
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: up her nose, in her eyes. They called me down
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  Speaker 6: to the principal's office. My mother had to come up
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  Speaker 6: to school and get me. And when they got me home,
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  Speaker 6: it didn't end pretty well for me. Mark, yesterday I
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  Speaker 6: heard on WOR News that what the Democrats wanted to
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  Speaker 6: do on a national level with the AI, control it.
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  Speaker 6: The city council already, there's two bills on Julia Menon's desk.
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  Speaker 6: that you have to use city-approved AI software, and there's
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  Speaker 6: a rat law. Any employee working in a business where
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  Speaker 6: they're not using city-approved AI software They're going to fine
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  Speaker 6: the business, and the rat will get half of the
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  Speaker 6: money of the fine. Now, I wonder if this is
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  Speaker 6: who promulgated this law, and if this common-sense Democrat, so-called
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  Speaker 6: Julia Menon, Julia Menon is going to sign it.
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  Speaker 2: No, it makes perfect sense. It makes perfect sense, because
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  Speaker 2: obviously they're handing out a contract for the software. in
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  Speaker 2: exchange for massive donations.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: That's all it's about. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Government 101. Once again.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Great call, Vincent. Thanks for calling. Yeah. When you hand
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  Speaker 2: out these massive contracts in exchange for huge donation to
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  Speaker 2: your packs and your campaigns, you got to make sure
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  Speaker 2: everybody uses the software. So that's why those restrictions. Oh,
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: when we come back, Bill O'Reilly normally on Tuesdays, but
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: he had to move to Monday this week. So we'll
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 2: talk to Bill O'Reilly. He'll be with us next. on 710WOR.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: It's the Mark Simone Show.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, with us right now, Bill O'Reilly, of course, the
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: number one TV anchor for decades. He's the number one
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: best-selling non-fiction author on earth, and his latest book is
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: already a huge bestseller. If you haven't ordered it yet,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: go get it. It's out. It's Confronting America He takes
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: you through some of the biggest moments in American history
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: over the last couple of decades. He was there on
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: the front lines. It's quite a book, Confronting America. Order
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: it now. And, of course, go to BillOReilly.com. You can
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: get his column, the TV show. Watch his podcast. We'll
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: do it live, the Bill O'Reilly YouTube channel. You can
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: get everything at BillOReilly.com. Bill O'Reilly, how are you doing?
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: I'm already busy. It's just Monday, right? Is it just Monday?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: After a miserable weekend, it's Monday.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: Right. I don't even know what day it is anymore.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: But I'm doing okay. How about you?
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good. Hey, you spent some time in
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: China recently. The visit with President Xi, President Trump, very respectful,
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: very cordial. Was he too cordial to him?
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, look, China is a very.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: Let's see what word I want to use. Unpredictable place.
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  Speaker 3: And you're not going to get anywhere browbeating them or
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  Speaker 3: insulting them.
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  Speaker 9: You're not.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a waste of time. So the only other
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  Speaker 3: avenue is to flatter them. Trump is good at that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what that was all about, to try to
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  Speaker 3: get Xi, who's a dictator. I mean, he doesn't have
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: to consult with anybody. to like Trump so that she
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  Speaker 3: doesn't go out of his way to hurt the USA,
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  Speaker 3: which he could.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But is it that simple? A guy like she and China,
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: he's like, I like the guy. Well, I mean, it's
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: like a gangster. They can't help themselves. They, they, they
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: gotta do something bad to people.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. He's a bad guy.
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  Speaker 3: Um, he wears a little mouse suit. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: I saw that, I went, um, um, But we have
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 3: to deal with bad guys, and that's that. And people
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  Speaker 3: who live in a bubble or live in a world
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: that doesn't exist, well, we'll confront them. No, you won't.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 3: Because then you think Iran's tough?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You get involved with China?
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 9: Come on.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 3: And then the AI stuff is just coming to a
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 3: point where most Americans don't even know what's on the horizon.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 3: I wrote a column. And it was posted on BillOReilly.com.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 3: Wrote it yesterday in my Sunday column. And I looked
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 3: at how many reads there were in a column. Hundreds
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 3: of thousands. But not what it is for a celebrity.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: So if I interview a celebrity, we got a lot
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: more views than we did this AI stuff. That tells
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  Speaker 3: me that most Americans, they're not locked into this yet.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 3: And you better get locked in because these hackers, which
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: are going to work in conjunction with the AI, they
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: have the potential to really cause massive trouble, not only
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: to the world, but to you. And they're hacking medical
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 3: records and financial records, and Congress has got to step
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 3: in and get involved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously it's a huge hacking problem. But Bill Gates
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: on the Sunday show, you know, he said it's going
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: to kill billions of people. We'll all be dead by Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as bad as he makes it out to be,
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  Speaker 2: is it?
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 3: Not yet.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: Not yet. But if they don't control the miscreants who
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: are desperately trying to get advantage in AI, like China,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just think about where did COVID come from?
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  Speaker 16: I think that was China.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This is a million times worse. And when you read
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 3: the column, and we'll do it live. If you don't
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: want to read, you can just watch what we did
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  Speaker 3: with this MIT professor. They call them rogue agents, but
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: they're not really human. They're machines. And they just go
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: out of control and don't obey orders. what their masters
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 3: tell them to do. I mean, a five-year-old, no, that's
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 3: not good. Yet most Americans are concerned, right, still, still,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 3: the gasoline, the food prices, I understand, but boy, oh boy,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 3: this is coming fast, this AI stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and what you're talking about is the part of
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  Speaker 2: the AI you've got to worry about is what they
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: call the recursive AI, where it can break out of
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: whatever limits it has. It can reinvent itself. It can
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: go totally rogue. But as Bill Gates and these other
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: guys point out, there's actually no such thing as a
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: kill switch. That's a myth, a total myth.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 9: And it gets stronger.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 3: See, right now, most of these AI companies can rein
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 3: in something that's going wrong. But in a year from now,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 3: they're not going to be able to do that. So
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 3: whatever is going wrong is going to continue to go
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 3: wrong because there's no way to.
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  Speaker 9: Stop it at this point.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 3: Now, I assume the CIA and the American government is
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 3: trying to get enough power in cyberspace to head this
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: stuff off. But China's not. Just China wants unrestrained use
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 3: of A.I., And that's what Trump's worried about. Trump doesn't
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 3: buy into the Armageddon situation. He goes, if we clamp
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 3: limits on AI, China will dominate all over the world.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 3: And you have to take that seriously as well. But
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: my opinion is that Congress has to pass a series
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 3: of new laws that if you are involved with AI...
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  Speaker 3: And doing something badly, you go to prison for a
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 3: long period of time. That's the only inhibitor I can see.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But we already have those laws, don't we? Liability, product?
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 3: Not really. You got civil laws.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 3: But you don't have federal laws. Some states have them,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 3: but they're soft. And there's no investigative agency.
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  Speaker 2: We need.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 3: An AI FBI. That's a lot of initials, but we're
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 3: going to have to have a federal agency with the
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 3: power to surveil what the deuce is happening here. And
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 3: most Americans, it gives them a headache. They'd rather watch
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 3: the game or the movie or whatever. They don't want
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 3: to get involved with this. But I'm telling you, we've
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: been warned.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: Hey, Bill O'Reilly's new book. You've got to get this book.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: You'll love this book, Confronting America. It takes you through
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of American history. And he was there for it.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: We've never had a time where half the country wanted
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: to wipe out the other half politically. I mean, go
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: back to the late 60s. A bunch of young college
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: types hated the old people. But this is all ages,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: this political war, civil war. We've never had anything like this,
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: have we?
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  Speaker 3: No, but it's temporary. And I say that because if
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: President Trump did not confront Iran, the Republicans would coast
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 3: in the midterms. That changed everything, not one action. And
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 3: you remember I was on your program. And I said
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 3: it was the biggest scandal of President Trump's life, the
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: whole life, confronting these guys because they don't care if
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 3: they live or die or if their people live or die.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: That's a tough enemy to fight.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 9: And it's gone south.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 3: And because it's gone south here, there may be a
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: political change in Congress, which is scary because these progressives, socialists, communists,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: whatever they may be, They're dangerous. But I don't think
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 3: it's going to be that overwhelming. Democrats think it will be.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 3: I think the Republicans at this point will hang on
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: to the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. All right. Well, that's good news. Bill O'Reilly's
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 2: new book. You want to get the book. It's really,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: really good. Confronting America. It's already a huge bestseller. But
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: order Bill O'Reilly's new book, Confronting America. The podcast, we'll
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: do it live. You've got a new episode coming this week, right? Yeah,
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: we have.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 3: I'm going to the White House on Wednesday. We've got
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: Peter Navarro.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: Very good.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, boy, that's going to be something.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 8: Because he hates China.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: And he knows a lot about it.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: And his office, yeah, his office is right across the
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: hall from Trump's.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 9: So.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 3: That'll be an interesting discussion. So we'll drop that on Thursday.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 3: We have the AI stuff up now.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: Great stuff. Take a listen to the podcast. We'll do
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: it live. Watch Bill O'Reilly's YouTube channel. Get the book.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: I'm highly recommending this book, Confronting America. And, of course,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: go to BillOReilly.com. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it, Mark.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks for having me.
• 1:41:12
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