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

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost Friday. It's Thursday, a nice day today. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot to get to this hour. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Fort Hood terrorist, Nadal Hassan, this is the army
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  Speaker 1: major who went nuts, became a terrorist, and then picked
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  Speaker 1: up a gun. He was stationed at Fort Hood, and
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  Speaker 1: he just started shooting people. He killed a lot of
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  Speaker 1: our military personnel, wounded others, horrible, horrible terrorist, to be
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  Speaker 1: executed by a firing squad. It's going to be live streamed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's been canceled. He'll be executed by a firing squad,
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  Speaker 1: but the live stream has been canceled. There was too
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  Speaker 1: much opposition to live streaming it. Too much flack about it.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump making the decision. No live stream. You won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to watch it, but... I don't know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's got a phone. Everybody's doing videos. I'm sure somebody
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  Speaker 1: will make a video of it. I'm sure it'll leak
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  Speaker 1: out at some point. Now, who's in trouble at the
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  Speaker 1: White House? Believe it or not, it's Susie Wiles, chief
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  Speaker 1: of staff. Now, she's been quite a good chief of staff.
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  Speaker 1: She's been excellent for President Trump. In the four years
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  Speaker 1: that he was not president, she went to work for him.
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  Speaker 1: Susie Wiles is an old Washington hand, been around, knows everything.
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  Speaker 1: You know, her father was Pat Summerall. Yeah, the great
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  Speaker 1: football guy. Pat Summerall was her father. That was her name,
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  Speaker 1: Susie Summerall. But Susie Wiles really was a huge help
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  Speaker 1: to getting Donald Trump elected in 2024. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people credit her for straightening out the Trump campaign, making
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  Speaker 1: it more efficient, making it work better. putting a little
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  Speaker 1: discipline into him during the campaign. Susie Wiles then became
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  Speaker 1: White House Chief of Staff. I think she's out. I think,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what went wrong. Something went wrong there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing a few different things. Part of the problem is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, her daughter's involved in all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: lobbying and things going on, but he's not happy with
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  Speaker 1: Susie Wiles, and he's been asking everybody privately, asking everybody
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  Speaker 1: whether it should replace her. He's been making it clear
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  Speaker 1: to everybody that she's probably going to go, and he's
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  Speaker 1: looking for a possible successor. Now, what he does with this,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of decisions, he just runs it by everybody,
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  Speaker 1: which is not a bad idea for him because all
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  Speaker 1: day long, he's talking to the most brilliant, knowledgeable people
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  Speaker 1: in the world, from the business world, from the political world,
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  Speaker 1: people are calling him every day, texting him every day,
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  Speaker 1: People come in to see him every day. It's all
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  Speaker 1: literally the smartest people in America. And when you're with him,
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  Speaker 1: he'll just ask you a million questions. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think about this? What should I do about this? What
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  Speaker 1: do you think about this? Not that he's going to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever you say, but it's his way of doing
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  Speaker 1: like market research. He'll do a survey of 50 really
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  Speaker 1: smart people a day on something. And lately, lately, he's
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  Speaker 1: been asking everybody about getting rid of Susie Wiles. So
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  Speaker 1: That's when you know she's in real trouble and will
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  Speaker 1: probably go. Who would take over as chief of staff? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Miller. He's deputy chief of staff. They could make
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  Speaker 1: him chief of staff. In fact, if he got rid
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  Speaker 1: of her, he would be acting chief of staff. But
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  Speaker 1: he's looking at Randy Levine, Yankee president Randy Levine, who's
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant guy. And you'll notice he's always been a
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  Speaker 1: close friend of Randy Levine's, but you'll notice Randy Levine's
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  Speaker 1: been around a lot lately. He's been at the White
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  Speaker 1: House a lot. He's been the Yankee president for a long,
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  Speaker 1: long time. But remember, before that, Randy Levine was the
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  Speaker 1: deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration. Before that, he was
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  Speaker 1: in the Justice Department in Washington for years. And there's
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  Speaker 1: nobody smarter. He's a great negotiator. He's great at keeping
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  Speaker 1: everybody happy. He had to do that. When he left...
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  Speaker 1: City Hall and the Giuliani administration actually became a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: He went to work with Arnie Burns, who was a
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  Speaker 1: top deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani. Both of them had
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  Speaker 1: been in the Justice Department together, and Randy was like
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  Speaker 1: Arnie Burns' number two. They went back into private practice,
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  Speaker 1: and they became the Yankees' attorneys, and George Steinberg loved
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  Speaker 1: Randy Levine, saw how sharp he was, and made him
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  Speaker 1: the president of the Yankees. And he's remained there ever
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  Speaker 1: since and done a great job. Also one of the
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  Speaker 1: guys running a major league baseball. So very possible. He
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  Speaker 1: could be the next white house chief of staff. It's
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  Speaker 1: also thought about Steve Witkoff. Witkoff is a very, you know,
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  Speaker 1: longtime successful real estate guy in New York. He's also
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  Speaker 1: one of Trump's, maybe two closest friends on earth. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: now his closest friend on earth. Um, There's talk of
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  Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy, former House Speaker. He's a nice guy, but
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  Speaker 1: a little too swampy. My money would be on Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Miller or Randy Levine for that. So keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on that. That could happen. In case you didn't hear before,
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  Speaker 1: Plaza Hotel, the beautiful landmark, Plaza Hotel, 59th and 5th,
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  Speaker 1: closing for renovations. They announced this, but it's going to
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  Speaker 1: close for four years sounds like massive renovations four years
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  Speaker 1: means you sometimes you're gutting the place rebuilding everything uh
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  Speaker 1: i've been in there i was in there a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago looks fine to me everything seems fine uh
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  Speaker 1: ever since um i don't know who the current owners
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  Speaker 1: have been a couple but the last uh bunch of
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  Speaker 1: years the plaza hotel's been kind of a mess anyway
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  Speaker 1: the uh The great restaurant, the Edwardian Room and the
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  Speaker 1: Oak Room and the legendary Oak Bar. Remember Cary Grant
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  Speaker 1: in North by Northwest in there? They've all been closed
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  Speaker 1: and they never reopened. They've been empty the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: The Palm Court is open. It's kind of been a
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  Speaker 1: mess for the last few years. But they're going to
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  Speaker 1: close the entire hotel for four years. The employees will
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  Speaker 1: all be out. The hotel said they'll all be offered
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  Speaker 1: their jobs back when they reopened. But what the hell
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  Speaker 1: are they supposed to do for four years? And you've
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of stores in there. You've got a
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  Speaker 1: hair salon in there. What are they going to do?
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  Speaker 1: They'll all have to relocate. So this is quite a mess.
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  Speaker 1: A big part of the hotel is apartments and condos,
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  Speaker 1: which they have their own entrance. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they have to get out. But even if they stay,
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  Speaker 1: massive construction for four years? This is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a mess. So if you haven't been to the Plaza
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  Speaker 1: Hotel in a while, pay a visit because you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to see it for four years. And who knows
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  Speaker 1: what will happen. Remember the Waldorf was closing for four
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  Speaker 1: years for renovations. Well, it turned out that was more
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  Speaker 1: like 12 years. So pay a visit to the plaza.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to close until after the Christmas season.
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  Speaker 1: So it will be in January. So make sure you
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  Speaker 1: take a final visit to the Plaza Hotel as we
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  Speaker 1: know it. Tonight is the, speaking of the Waldorf, the
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  Speaker 1: Al Smith dinner is tonight. It's an off-year dinner. So
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  Speaker 1: it won't be as big as the ones where it's
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  Speaker 1: an election year and the president comes in. But the
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  Speaker 1: honoree is Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner. Mamdani is now
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  Speaker 1: expected to attend the dinner. So if he comes, I
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  Speaker 1: would assume he's on the dais. The Al Smith dinner
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  Speaker 1: has a huge dais. It's like four rows back. It's
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  Speaker 1: like 100 people on the dais. And the dinner is
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  Speaker 1: black tie. But if you're on the dais, it's white
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  Speaker 1: tie and tails. And the dais is all the top
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  Speaker 1: business leaders, all the top government people, you know, the governor,
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  Speaker 1: this and that. So if he's going to dress appropriately
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  Speaker 1: and be on the dais, he'll have to wear a
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  Speaker 1: white tie and tails. I don't know. Mamdani's already getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of flack. The real left-wing democratic socialists are
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  Speaker 1: all mad at him. If they see him in the
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  Speaker 1: Waldorf ballroom in a white tie and tails, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to go nuts. They're going to go crazy. And there'll
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  Speaker 1: be pictures everywhere, uh, It's not, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be interesting. Keep an eye on
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  Speaker 1: this tonight. Mamdani in a white tie and tails up
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  Speaker 1: on the dais, mingling with all the top business people,
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  Speaker 1: all the notables. Not a good look for a socialist.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how this goes tonight. Generation Z, younger people. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out they're all miserable. In fact, 37% of
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  Speaker 1: them say they're being treated for depression today. Now, why
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  Speaker 1: would Generation Z be having all these problems with depression?
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  Speaker 1: They say they're suffering from loneliness. Well, this is the
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  Speaker 1: generation that grew up with phones. This is the online generation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you were a kid or a teenager
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  Speaker 1: or in your 20s, you were out going to clubs,
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  Speaker 1: going to bars, doing all sorts of stuff, hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with your friends, going out. Well, this generation, they got
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  Speaker 1: friends and all that, but they're online friends. They're their
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  Speaker 1: Facebook friends, their Instagram, their TikTok friends. Their life is
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  Speaker 1: not going out and partying. It's partying on TikTok, which
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  Speaker 1: can be fun, but the result is you don't have
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  Speaker 1: any actual friends suffering from loneliness. You're isolated. Also, many
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  Speaker 1: of them living at home with their parents, so depression
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  Speaker 1: is a big thing. Now, among Generation Z, the amount
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  Speaker 1: of them that are having what they call a thriving
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  Speaker 1: life where everything is great used to be about 75%.
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  Speaker 1: They say it's now more like 30%. The rest of
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  Speaker 1: them are miserable. Not great. And this is only going
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  Speaker 1: to get worse as people live more and more online
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  Speaker 1: and not In real life. Hey, speaking of that, Al
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  Speaker 1: Smith dinner tonight. Hochul will be there. And all the
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  Speaker 1: big business leaders, every business leader in New York is
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  Speaker 1: praying that Bruce Blakeman wins. They want Blakeman. He'll turn
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  Speaker 1: the economy around. He'll make everything better, safer. Everything will
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  Speaker 1: be better in New York. But they're afraid to donate
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  Speaker 1: to him. That's why he's had trouble fundraising, because they
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  Speaker 1: all do business here, and they can't offend Hochul, so
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  Speaker 1: they're afraid to give any money. The exception would be
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  Speaker 1: James Dolan, the Madison Square Garden owner, Nixon Rangers owner.
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  Speaker 1: He is holding massive fundraisers for Blakeman, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: super paxes for him, spending millions and millions in attack
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  Speaker 1: ads against Hochul, pro-Blakeman ads, so he has really stepped up.
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  Speaker 1: Dolan now challenging New York City business owners. He says
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  Speaker 1: he wants them to grow some backbone and step into
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  Speaker 1: the race before it's too late. Dolan said everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the business world hates Hochul, wants her out. They hate Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: They want Blakeman desperately. But he said you better grow
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  Speaker 1: a backbone. You better jump in. You better start donating
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  Speaker 1: and fighting because Blakeman will turn things around. You'll have
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  Speaker 1: a lower tax rate. You'll have a pro-growth agenda. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be better for business, better for everybody. He went after
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  Speaker 1: that partnership for New York. That's a silly thing with
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  Speaker 1: all the CEOs that gets absolutely nothing done. They've been
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  Speaker 1: kowtowing to Mamdani. They don't stand up. He's been going
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  Speaker 1: after them as well. Strait of Hormuz, well, it got
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  Speaker 1: a little worse this week. A little worse this week.
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  Speaker 1: Iran attacking ships. 24 ships got struck in the past
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. Slowing down oil exports. We had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of oil flowing through there. It slowed down a little.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the price of oil is going back up
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  Speaker 1: into the 90s. But they'll get that under control. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, a Facebook founder, owner, creator. Mark Zuckerberg getting
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  Speaker 1: attacked left and right for being one of the worst
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  Speaker 1: posters in the world. Yeah, when it comes to having–
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  Speaker 1: the guy creates Facebook. He runs this trillion-dollar empire. He
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  Speaker 1: takes over Instagram, creates Meta, AI. But when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to actually posting stuff and using Facebook, he stinks. His
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  Speaker 1: latest video was about something about drinking Guinness to see
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  Speaker 1: how he can drink Guinness. Everybody's saying it's the most cringeworthy,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous thing. The billionaire goes on these podcasts. This one
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  Speaker 1: was a fresh keg of Guinness from Dublin trying to
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  Speaker 1: show how to drink. It was just awful. It's fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who created Facebook, Doesn't know how to use it.
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  Speaker 1: He stinks at it. Anytime he puts up a video,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's just him talking about something, it puts
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  Speaker 1: you right to sleep. Like in 20 seconds, he really
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  Speaker 1: stinks at this. Hey, Don Lemon. Don Lemon is contemplating
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  Speaker 1: whether he should run for president. He said he's thinking
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  Speaker 1: now very seriously. He may run for president. This guy
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even have a job. This guy's been out of
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  Speaker 1: work for a couple of years. CNN threw him the
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  Speaker 1: hell out of there. Had no use for him. He
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  Speaker 1: said there's a 65% to 70% chance he'll launch a
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  Speaker 1: White House bid. Now, the real reason he's doing this,
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to get a job. He's out
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  Speaker 1: of work for a couple of years. Nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: hire him. He's the most irrelevant, laughable guy in the world.
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  Speaker 1: But if you pretend you're a presidential candidate, why, all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden it elevates you. Suddenly you have some status. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get laughed out of the race and
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  Speaker 1: go absolutely no place. But he doesn't know that yet.
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  Speaker 1: He has no political experience. He said he would make
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  Speaker 1: a better president than Trump. Well, first of all, the
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  Speaker 1: guy has no experience at anything. He has experience at
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  Speaker 1: getting low ratings and doing a TV show that bombs
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  Speaker 1: and he gets fired. But you remember when Trump first ran,
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  Speaker 1: he was a guy running a multi-billion dollar massive business
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  Speaker 1: all over the world. He has had like 100,000 employees
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  Speaker 1: for 40 years. He had a lot of management experience.
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  Speaker 1: Don Lemon, absolutely none. Last couple of years, can't even
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  Speaker 1: get a job. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710
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  Speaker 1: is the number. Give me a call. Especially new callers.
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  Speaker 1: We always like new callers. 800-321-0710.