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FULL SHOW: News outlets are banned; Oil is dropping. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now on The Voice of New York, it's the Mark
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  Speaker 1: Simone Show on.
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  Speaker 2: 710WOR. Well, it's not just any Monday. It's the final
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  Speaker 2: day of summer, final full day of summer. Autumn begins
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow night, 8 o'clock. Now, also, this is the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of the week of traffic hell. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: gridlock everywhere. Manhattan is going to be a mess because
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  Speaker 2: of the UN General Assembly. This is the week where
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  Speaker 2: all the world leaders come. This UN General Assembly is
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  Speaker 2: actually about three weeks, but this is the week with
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  Speaker 2: all the world leaders. President Trump will be coming to
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  Speaker 2: New York about four o'clock today. And again, traffic nightmare everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: It's a holiday. It's Yom Kippur, so that would mean
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  Speaker 2: less traffic anyway. It's a Monday. which is the day
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  Speaker 2: most people don't go into the office. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: slow traffic day anyway, but it's going to be bad today.
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  Speaker 2: And then tomorrow, the rest of the week could be brutal.
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  Speaker 2: So work from home. Stay out of Manhattan if you're driving.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a mess everywhere. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: street closures. It's not just around the UN. It's all
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  Speaker 2: over town because these world leaders stay at all the
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  Speaker 2: different hotels all over town. President Trump has a meeting
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  Speaker 2: with Zoran Mamdani at Gracie Mansion. The president's scheduled to
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  Speaker 2: be there. at 4.10. I don't know why 4.10, but
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  Speaker 2: that's the schedule. And the meeting will be about an hour.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to talk about all sorts of New York stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's strictly about New York and New York City and
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  Speaker 2: all of that. Mamdani wants $ 16 billion for housing, wants
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  Speaker 2: to build housing. Can you imagine the government? Mamdani. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine New York building housing? That's why it's $ 16 billion. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Trump's a little busy right now, but He should say
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  Speaker 2: to him, let me build the housing. It'll be $ 1 billion,
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  Speaker 2: not $ 16 billion. $ 1 billion would be the real cost.
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  Speaker 2: And remember, the Trump family built more low-income housing than
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  Speaker 2: just about anybody in the world. That's what they did
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  Speaker 2: for many, many decades. That's what Fred Trump did. Low-income housing, Brooklyn, Queens.
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  Speaker 2: Let the president do it. Let his company do it. Again,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be $ 1 billion, not $ 16 billion. It's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money to waste, especially when it's coming out of
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  Speaker 2: people's paychecks, taxpayers' paychecks. So he meets with Mamdani at 4.10.
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  Speaker 2: He is then scheduled to meet with French President Macron
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  Speaker 2: at 5.30. That'll be a quick meeting because then 6 o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: there's an RNC donor reception. This is for big donors.
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  Speaker 2: Tickets for this start at $ 150, 000 and up. So small
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  Speaker 2: little meet and greet with the president. Then he goes
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  Speaker 2: to the, uh, there's a pack called MAGA Inc. Then
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  Speaker 2: he goes to their big, uh, big gala dinner. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's tonight about seven, seven 30. So tight schedule for
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  Speaker 2: the president is expected to stay in New York city tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Trump tower, which means a lot of, uh, traffic congestion
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  Speaker 2: around there. A lot of streets will be closed up.
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  Speaker 2: And then, uh, tomorrow he's got a couple of meetings, uh,
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  Speaker 2: He's expected to meet with Zelensky at some point, probably tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: He'll meet with Zelensky. He wants to talk to him
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  Speaker 2: about a couple of things. One is ending what he
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  Speaker 2: now calls this stupid war. As you know, oil prices
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  Speaker 2: were going crazy, although not today. Oil is dropping. If
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  Speaker 2: you're a Democrat, cover your ears. Oil is down now,
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  Speaker 2: way below 100. It's down to 97. It's dropped a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It's dropped about 10 points in the last week. Okay, Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: you can uncover your ears. So one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: that the oil has been going crazy, it's not just Iran.
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  Speaker 2: The diesel prices are what's killing a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Diesel fuel prices, that is caused strictly by Ukraine and Russia.
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  Speaker 2: The Ukraine-Russia war. Ukraine started bombing Russia's diesel factories, diesel facilities,
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  Speaker 2: knocking out a lot of their diesel production. So that's
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  Speaker 2: what drove the price of that up. So he's going
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  Speaker 2: to talk to Zelensky. They've already talked on the phone
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  Speaker 2: about it, but they're going to talk in person about it.
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  Speaker 2: Stop hitting Russian oil infrastructure. It's causing the price to spike.
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  Speaker 2: He's also said he's calling for an end to this
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous war. So who knows? Who knows? Maybe they'll get
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  Speaker 2: something settled here. You know, he also made this agreement
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  Speaker 2: to get total control of Greenland. Denmark will still be
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  Speaker 2: the owner of Greenland, but we'll control it. We'll do
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  Speaker 2: the security. It's a pretty good agreement, although it's very
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  Speaker 2: similar to the agreement we already had. But this will
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  Speaker 2: make it permanent. And this is going to be signed
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  Speaker 2: this week here in New York. All the leaders, Denmark, Trump,
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  Speaker 2: everybody will be here. So they'll get this signed and
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  Speaker 2: done this week. Now, the story that broke Friday afternoon is,
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  Speaker 2: Shook up a lot of people. The president wants to
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  Speaker 2: ban MSNBC, CNN, and Politico from the White House. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds crazy. It's not as crazy as it sounds, though.
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  Speaker 2: Other presidents have tried this. Obama tried it. Biden tried it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that unusual. It happens a lot. A reporter
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  Speaker 2: showed up. He said Friday he was going to ban them. Well,
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  Speaker 2: one of them showed up. Saturday, they got a badge.
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  Speaker 2: You used to get in, you put your badge up
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  Speaker 2: to the card reader and it lets you in.
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  Speaker 3: And then once I got inside to an area where
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  Speaker 3: we place our bags and we ourselves go through magnetometers,
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  Speaker 3: I went to scan my badge and enter my pin
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  Speaker 3: number and the lights around the reader blinked red. I
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  Speaker 3: tried it again and then the officer asked me to
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  Speaker 3: hand over my badge and he said that it's been disabled.
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  Speaker 3: And I asked, can you tell me why? And he
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  Speaker 3: simply said it's above his head.
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  Speaker 2: She's banned. Now, they've all gone to court. The trials
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  Speaker 2: will begin today. The court hearings will begin today. It's MSNOW, CNN,
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  Speaker 2: Politico will go to court. They'll sue the president. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you could hear all these constitutional experts argue that he
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  Speaker 2: can't ban the media. He can't ban news media. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's very debatable. He did ban AP a long time ago,
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  Speaker 2: and they've been in court. And that's been in court
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of years. AP can't seem to win
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  Speaker 2: that case. The problem if they go to court is,
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  Speaker 2: let's say it's MSNBC. If they go to court, the
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  Speaker 2: president could prove in court that they've been broadcasting all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of fake news. You can list it all. Here's
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  Speaker 2: a list of like 40,000 examples of fake news that
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  Speaker 2: they have broadcast. You could also argue, and they can
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  Speaker 2: bring these all up and put them on the court record,
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  Speaker 2: all these things. Some of them they've had to pay
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  Speaker 2: massive fines for broadcasting, just total false fake information. And
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  Speaker 2: it goes back for years. The Russia hoax was a
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  Speaker 2: great example. Uh, denying the laptop was Hunter Biden's kids
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  Speaker 2: in cages. That was all made up. That was actually
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  Speaker 2: Obama and Biden to put them in cages. Uh, Charlottesville
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  Speaker 2: is one of the great hoaxes of all time. He
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  Speaker 2: told people to drink bleach. It never happened. It never happened. Um,
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  Speaker 2: it's a long, long list. Uh, posed for pictures at
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  Speaker 2: Arlington Cemetery. No president has ever done that. Well, it
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  Speaker 2: took about a minute and a half to find pictures
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  Speaker 2: of every president posing for pictures in Arlington Cemetery. January 6th, why,
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  Speaker 2: he just sat there watching TV all day. Absolutely false.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, 24 minutes into the January 6th incident, the
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  Speaker 2: president was already tweeting to protesters to go home. 24 minutes,
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  Speaker 2: he responded. Nick Sandman, remember Nick Sandman? That was the
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  Speaker 2: kid with the Native American rightness. Remember that told, they
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  Speaker 2: made up a whole fake story, doctored up the pictures.
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  Speaker 2: CNN had to pay an $ 80 million settlement to Nick Sandman.
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  Speaker 2: So you could go through all these examples, all these
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  Speaker 2: examples of, here's another one. Rachel, there's a great video
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  Speaker 2: of Rachel Maddow saying, President Trump never encouraged Americans to
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  Speaker 2: get vaccinated. The video is cut together with thousands and
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  Speaker 2: thousands of times he urged people to get vaccinated. Also
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  Speaker 2: with the video of him getting vaccinated on camera, telling
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  Speaker 2: people to do so. They just make up stuff. Here's
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  Speaker 2: another one. Rachel Maddow. President Bush never did one interview
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  Speaker 2: with the New York Times. He did many with the
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  Speaker 2: New York Times. Just a great example. Mitt Romney was running.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when Andrea Mitchell doctored a video to make it
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  Speaker 2: look like Romney had never seen an iPad and didn't
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  Speaker 2: know what it was? It was totally false. It was
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  Speaker 2: actually a video. Luckily Romney's people video did video of
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  Speaker 2: the same speech. And then you could see the real one.
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  Speaker 2: He's holding it up and showing it to kids and
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  Speaker 2: explaining how the iPad works, but she doctored it up
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  Speaker 2: and make it sound like he'd never seen one before.
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  Speaker 2: So you could make this case in court that they
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  Speaker 2: are fake news. You could also make the case that
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  Speaker 2: they don't report deliberately. Don't report half the news, the
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  Speaker 2: positive stories they leave out. If you listen to this program,
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  Speaker 2: you heard the story last week that, uh, The numbers
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  Speaker 2: came out. Income for Americans is at an all-time high.
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  Speaker 2: Poverty level, the poverty rate is at the lowest ever
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  Speaker 2: in history right now. It was a good example of
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  Speaker 2: a story they'll never, ever, ever report. So in a courtroom,
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  Speaker 2: they could have a problem. So Trump could win this case.
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  Speaker 2: It'll end up going to the Supreme Court when it's
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  Speaker 2: brought in D.C. in front of these crazy left-wing Democrat judges,
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  Speaker 2: the president has a problem. But when it gets to
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  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court, it could get interesting. Now, the problem
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  Speaker 2: with banning the media, if you do that, then the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have every right to do that when they get in.
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  Speaker 2: They've tried it before. Obama... He glosses over this. Obama's
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  Speaker 2: been speaking out on this for the last couple of days,
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  Speaker 2: ignoring the fact that he tried to ban Fox News.
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  Speaker 2: If you go to my Twitter, you can see all
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  Speaker 2: the video of this, of the Democrats calling for the
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  Speaker 2: ban of Fox News from the White House. This one
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  Speaker 2: great video of George Stephanopoulos and David Axelrod, two Democratic operatives,
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  Speaker 2: arguing the case to ban Fox News. Obama did ban
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  Speaker 2: some reporters. And also, hey, Obama did something worse. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: he had surveillance done on the reporters, went into their
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  Speaker 2: phones and their Internet accounts and took everything. His Justice Department,
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  Speaker 2: Eric Holder, did that. So there is another way to
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  Speaker 2: ban the reporters. Just don't talk to them ever again.
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  Speaker 2: That was the Biden ban. He just didn't. Biden wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: talk to the press ever.
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  Speaker 4: He went a year and a half without having a
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  Speaker 4: press conference, a year and a half. And what was
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  Speaker 4: the question you asked him most? What is your favorite
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  Speaker 4: flavored ice cream? Okay. I think you asked him that
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  Speaker 4: question once. What ice cream do you like the best?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I heard that question so many times. And
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  Speaker 4: he always say vanilla.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the president may be wrong there. I think he
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  Speaker 2: said chocolate chip a couple of times. I think he
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  Speaker 2: said mint chip once. It was always a typical Biden.
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  Speaker 2: It was a different answer every time. But you can
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  Speaker 2: ban the press. It's in effect. We'll see how long
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  Speaker 2: this lasts.
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  Speaker 4: ABC Fake News gave me $ 16 million that was agreed to.
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  Speaker 4: $ 16 million that I won from ABC News because George
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  Speaker 4: Slapadopoulos wrote incorrect stuff. CBS gave me $ 38 million because
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  Speaker 4: they broadcast Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes and the question
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  Speaker 4: borrowed no relationship to what she said. You saw that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they doctored up that interview. They asked her about Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and she couldn't answer. She gave some fumbling, bumbling answers.
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  Speaker 2: So they cut a good answer from another part of
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  Speaker 2: the interview into that, made it look like that was
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  Speaker 2: her answer. And Trump has won a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: He's up to about $ 100 million that he's gotten from
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  Speaker 2: these fake news organizations that they were forced to pay
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  Speaker 2: him because they couldn't go to court. They couldn't let
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  Speaker 2: all this come out in a courtroom on the record.
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  Speaker 2: But it'll be interesting to see how long this lasts.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want him in my office.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want him here.
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  Speaker 4: I would say the ban would go as far as
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  Speaker 4: you can. And if they could straighten themselves out, you know,
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  Speaker 4: if they could straighten themselves out, I'd love it. Look,
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  Speaker 4: they're very dishonest people. They write in a very dishonest way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, Biden banned, I think, 44 reporters from the
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  Speaker 2: White House. They'll argue, if you're watching fake news, they'll argue, oh,
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  Speaker 2: they weren't banned. They just simply didn't reapply for their credentials. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they were taken away and reapplied. They didn't think it
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  Speaker 2: was going to succeed. So, hey, the big news last night,
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Clancy, husband of Lindsay Clancy, on 60 Minutes, it
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  Speaker 2: was quite dramatic. It was quite moving. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I believe a word this guy says. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe anything he says? He was pretty dramatic.
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  Speaker 6: And I think when it comes to forgiveness, I also
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  Speaker 6: felt that if I didn't get there, I would be
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  Speaker 6: eaten up inside.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, if your wife kills your three children,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot to forgive.
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  Speaker 6: I asked her if she remembered it.
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  Speaker 8: And what did she say?
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  Speaker 6: She said it was like a dream. And she remembered
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  Speaker 6: it much in the way you would remember a dream
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  Speaker 6: after waking up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm not buying any of this. I'm
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  Speaker 2: with that lone juror.
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  Speaker 6: I think I did the best I could with what
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  Speaker 6: I had at the time. And I live with the outcome.
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  Speaker 6: I live with it every day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He said, I think I was as
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  Speaker 2: good a father as I could be. If your three
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  Speaker 2: kids are murdered by your wife, I don't think you're
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  Speaker 2: the best father in the world. It's a little hard
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  Speaker 2: to claim that now.
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  Speaker 6: I remember that night, I really thought there was a
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  Speaker 6: chance that Callan would live. And I remember just thinking.
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  Speaker 2: Just give me one. One child did go four days
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  Speaker 2: before he died. So that's what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 6: Give me one kid and I would raise him as
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  Speaker 6: best I could. And I would give him the best
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  Speaker 6: life I possibly could. And I tell him about his
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  Speaker 6: brother and sister. And I was holding out hope for that.
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  Speaker 6: And then when I got to the hospital, I saw
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  Speaker 6: the doctor. I saw the look on her face. And
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  Speaker 6: I knew that it wasn't going to be a good prognosis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was quite powerful, this interview. But I'm not
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  Speaker 2: buying any of it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm so grateful for those four days that I had
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  Speaker 6: with him. And I'm so grateful he hung on. Did
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  Speaker 6: you talk to him in those four days?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Can you tell me anything you said? I said, I'm
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  Speaker 6: so sorry. And I got to hold him. I got
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  Speaker 6: to lay down next to him. And he died in
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  Speaker 6: my arms.
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  Speaker 2: Well, obviously, it's very moving. It's very powerful. Very, very dramatic.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm not buying any of it from this guy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't trust this guy at all.
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  Speaker 2: He was there at the time of the... I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, we've got a lot to get to this morning. It's, again,
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  Speaker 2: UN General Assembly Nightmare Traffic Week, so just beware of that.
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  Speaker 2: The president will get back to his visit with Mamdani later.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they talk a lot. They talk on the
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  Speaker 2: phone regularly. This will be his third in-person meeting. He
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  Speaker 2: met with him once when he was the mayor-elect, and
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  Speaker 2: then as mayor, remember, Mamdani went to the White House.
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  Speaker 2: But they both have admitted they do regularly call each other.
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  Speaker 2: They talk on the phone now and then. President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: that's his thing. He talks to anybody. He could be
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the leader of Iran, the most evil enemy. He'll talk
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  Speaker 2: to you. In fact, there's a slight chance he might
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  Speaker 2: meet with the Iranian leaders this week. Anyway, we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to all of that coming up. It's Mark Simone. Three
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  Speaker 6: I'm so grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, it's Monday. Final full day of summer. Autumn
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  Speaker 2: officially begins tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. That was some summer.
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  Speaker 2: between wildfire smoke and ridiculous heat waves. But it's over.
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  Speaker 2: It's finally over. It was pretty good the last few weeks. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: that crazy, awful, evil Macklemore, now donating a million dollars
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  Speaker 2: to groups with Hamas ties. I don't know. This whole
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  Speaker 2: thing is great. It's one of those moments where you
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  Speaker 2: need to, a real Democrat like Bill Maher to speak
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  Speaker 2: out about Macklemore.
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  Speaker 9: I think Macklemore spoke for all clueless celebrities when he said,
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  Speaker 9: I know enough to know this is a genocide.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, you don't know.
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  Speaker 10: S * * t.
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  Speaker 11: It's not.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a genocide.
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  Speaker 9: It's a counterattack in a war, a war that's been
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  Speaker 9: waged on Israel since 1948, based on the ridiculous premise
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  Speaker 9: that Jews don't belong in the one place on earth.
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  Speaker 9: They are indigenous and indisputably their ancestral homeland. Hey, geniuses,
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  Speaker 9: they're the Indians in this scenario.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very good point.
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  Speaker 11: Excellent.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, let's start calling them the indigenous people. The Israelis,
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  Speaker 2: the indigenous people. You're not allowed to attack indigenous people.
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  Speaker 2: But Ed Sheeran, well, we'll get to him later. He's
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  Speaker 2: just like a, I don't know, he's just making a
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  Speaker 2: fool out of himself. You know, he's a nice guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a really nice guy, Ed Sheeran, who doesn't know
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  Speaker 2: a damn thing about Israel, Hamas. He doesn't know anything
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  Speaker 2: about any of this. He's trying to play along with this,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: trying to make the best of it, trying to appease everybody.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: And in the process, offending everybody in sight. You should
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: hear how he opened it. Well, we'll get to that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: We'll play it coming up. How he actually opened his show. Hey,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: speaking of fake news, you watch these Sunday shows? They
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: just fake everything. Just the choice of guests is absolutely ridiculous.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: They pick every crazy left wing. You know, Adam Schiff
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: and Ro Khanna have no business being interviewed anywhere by anybody.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: They've been caught lying 500 times. That alone should disqualify
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: them from being guests on Sunday shows. But they were
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: talking about AI. And who did they get?
• 19:06
  Speaker 12: J.B.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Pritzker. He's that big, fat Ralph Cramden slob from Chicago, Illinois,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the governor of Illinois. There's nobody on Earth, nobody on
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Earth knows less about AI than this guy. He's going
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to bash Trump. He's going to call Trump names. So
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: they bring him in to be the guest.
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: They are okay with just letting it run rampant and
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: let the leaders.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Of it self-govern and self-regulate.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: And I think that's a mistake.
• 19:37
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Trump is not talking about having it run rampant. In fact,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: he set up an AI commission. He set up and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: he's even appointed an AI czar. uh it's pretty good
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: jobs to have because uh the ai industry has trillions
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: literally trillions are thrown around uh that's why all these
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: congress people are playing along with this scheme about they
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: have to be regulated uh the ai industry just formed
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: two super packs with 40 million in them And these
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: super PACs have been handing out money to people in Washington,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to people in Congress. That's why they're all going along
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: with this. They've just received $ 40 million from these two PACs,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: and there's more coming. It'll total $ 400 million at some point.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: You can buy a lot of politicians in Washington, D.C.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: You know, not only does autumn begin tomorrow night, but
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: it's practically Columbus Day. I know it's hard to believe,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: but it's practically Columbus Day. The Columbus Day parade is
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: coming up. It's put on by the Columbus Club, the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: beautiful private club on 69th between 5th and Madison. It's
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: a beautiful club. The best pizza in New York. They
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: won't let Dave Portnoy in to test it, but it is.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: And the current president of the Columbus Club, Christopher Loicano,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: has invited... Mayor Mamdani to march in the parade. This
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: is enraging a lot of people. A lot of people
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: upset about this. They don't want Mamdani in their parade,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: especially since he's the guy that kept pushing to tear
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: down the statue of Christopher Columbus. That's why it's the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Columbus Club. Now, while everybody's outraged that he was invited
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: to be in the parade, most people think he will
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: not show up. He will not be in the parade because,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: first of all, It's the Columbus Day Parade. It's all
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Italians lining the streets. They're going to boo him like crazy.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: And he knows that. He knows that. He knows he's
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: going to get booed. The president of the Columbus Club
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: arguing it's the right thing to do. Yeah, he's probably right.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, he is the mayor of New York. It
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: is the right thing to do. You know, when you're
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: doing a big parade, you need all kinds of permits
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: to do your big parade. And you need all kinds
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: of government cooperation. You need police protection. You need the permits.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: It's the mayor in charge of all that. He's really
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the boss. So it makes sense to invite him. But again,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: look for him not to show up. He knows he'll
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: get booed the entire route. The video will be everywhere.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: And does he really need that? I don't think so. Hey,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: there's a caddy who got himself into trouble. He was
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: a PGA caddy. You know, these caddies make a lot
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: of money. You know, when a guy wins his million dollars,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: the caddy gets, I think it's a 7% commission for
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: the caddy. So the guy he plays for, he won
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: the British Open 2025, 1.8 million. The caddy commission on
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: that is 126,000. That's for one weekend. A couple of
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: those a year. Caddies can make a lot of money.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: But this guy got himself into trouble for dealing cocaine.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: And he went to prison, this caddy. And he was
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: barred from working in the UK, so he couldn't be
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: in the British Open. It's a 30-year-old conviction. It's a
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: long time ago. He was a crazy kid, but he
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: straightened himself out. He is one of the great caddies
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: in the tour, but he can't go to certain countries
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: because of this conviction. So President Trump pardoned him. I mean,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: it's 30 years later. And that's where you're supposed to
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: use a presidential pardon, where a guy did his time,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: went to jail, paid his penalty. And then for the
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: next few decades, straightened himself out, turned his life around.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: That's where you're supposed to use a presidential pardon. So
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: he got the pardon. He can go back to work
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: now in any tournament anywhere. It's a nice thing to do.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: It's just a kind thing to do. That's where you're
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: supposed to use a pardon. And obviously, Trump loves the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: golf world. They love him. And I'm sure they pushed
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: him hard for the pardon. Hey, we got a lot
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: to get to. And we'll take some calls coming up.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: But first, on 710WOR. Now, much more Mark.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone. Now, 9 till noon weekdays.
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: On 710WOR.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 24:08
  Speaker 13: 800-321-0710.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Cuba, you know, is an absolute mess. It's a socialist country.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Whenever you have socialism, you have disaster everywhere. You have poverty.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: You have a complete mess. Cuba, another blackout over the weekend.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Millions and millions across the island without electricity. Cuba's power
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: grid collapsed once again Friday. Still out in many places.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: People just, one resident there, off the records, says nobody
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: can stand these constant blackouts. There's not enough food. Not
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: enough water, no electricity. You have no idea how bad
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: it is. The country's in such a sad state. He
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: said there's no words for what we're going through. Power
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: grid collapses have been very, very common in Cuba over
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: the last couple of years. Severe economic crisis gripping Cuba. Also,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: they've been cut off from oil, from us, from everybody.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: So it's a big, big problem. But that's what happens
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: when you try socialism. It always ends that way. Hey, Newsday,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: you know, Long Island's newspaper. It used to be a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: big newspaper. Newsday, not so big anymore. It's a little
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: thing now. But Newsday, possibly the worst newspaper in America.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Certainly on the top five of worst newspapers in America.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Even doing what they're supposed to still be able to
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: do well, and that's cover Long Island. They really stink
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: at it. They just put out their list of the
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: 50 best restaurants on Long Island. Now, Long Island has
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: some of the greatest restaurants anywhere in the tri-state area.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: 50 best restaurants on Long Island. Go read the list.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: There's like three you'd recognize. And 47 nobody ever heard of.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: All the great restaurants on Long Island are not included
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: on here. There's no Cipollini. There's no Prime. There's no
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Posto Pozzo. There's no Rothmans. There's no all the great
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: restaurants on Long Island. left off the list, but that's Newsday.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: You can always count on them to be totally unreliable
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: about everything. Hey, that crazy Hassan Piker, that awful anti-Semite,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: that ugly, disgusting, vicious anti-Semite, he's going to speak at Cornell.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: He's been invited to speak at Cornell. That's why you've
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: got to stay the hell away from these Ivy League schools.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Don't send your kids there, any of these Ivy League schools.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Experts now say the whole Ivy League just a hotbed
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: of anti-Semitism. The event at Cornell already sold out. Who
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the hell would even let this guy on the campus,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: let alone be the big guest star speaker? Sold out event.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Absolutely ridiculous. Hey, if you want to call, hey, there's
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: open lines. So don't tell me you can't get through.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: There's open lines. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 27:06
  Speaker 11: 800-321-0710.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Zero seven ten. Let's go to Bill in Hamburg, New Jersey. Bill,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: OK, thank you, Mark.
• 27:20
  Speaker 14: You know, the situation with Trump banning CNN and MSS,
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: whatever the other one is, all they do is propagandize.
• 27:32
  Speaker 14: They they lie. They're dishonest, as President Trump said yesterday.
• 27:37
  Speaker 14: They poison minds with their information. And I understand the
• 27:41
  Speaker 14: constitutionality of freedom of speech. But when it begins to
• 27:45
  Speaker 14: poison people's minds, then they don't know what the hell
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: is right from wrong anymore.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: You can't say they're poisoning people's minds because they're speaking
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: to the choir. They're preaching to the choir. So it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: minds that are already long ago poisoned. But you're right.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: And the problem is they're going to court. They're going
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: to sue the president. Now, he could... very possibly make
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the case in court that they're not news organizations. He
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: could present 50, 60, 100 examples of fake news that
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: they broadcast. He could present 50 big news stories that
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: they refused to broadcast because they were too positive about
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the administration. So he could make the case in court.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: It would be interesting to see that they're really not
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: a news organization. that they're just political activists pushing a
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: political agenda. The Obama administration tried doing that with Fox News.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: They kept arguing it's not a news organization. They're just
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: a political activist. So in this case, you know, the
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Obama administration tried it, gave up. But this is President Trump.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: He always fights harder. He may pull it off. He
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: may actually get it done. Let's go to Art Lakewood,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. Art, how are you doing?
• 28:57
  Speaker 13: I'm doing fine. Hope you are too. I've got a question.
• 29:01
  Speaker 13: I don't know if you can answer this or not,
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: but the Clancy person who murdered her three children, she
• 29:09
  Speaker 13: was supposed to murder herself by committing suicide.
• 29:12
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: I'm wondering why she only jumped off a 10-foot high second.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people, she did make a suicide attempt.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of people thought it wasn't real. It was
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: just an attempt to gain sympathy. She didn't cut the
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: right vein or something. She's a nurse. She worked as
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: a nurse. She would know exactly how to kill herself,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: what vein to cut, all of that, if she really, really,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: really wanted to. So a lot of people don't think
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: it was a sincere attempt. Let's go to Diane in Illinois. Diane,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 29:41
  Speaker 15: Good morning, Mark. You know, you have to fill me in.
• 29:45
  Speaker 15: With Pritzker, four data centers in AI, I understand whenever
• 29:49
  Speaker 15: he's on TV, whenever I see him on, I just
• 29:51
  Speaker 15: can't listen to him. But he has to be forward
• 29:54
  Speaker 15: because construction is being planned for for a 500-acre data
• 29:59
  Speaker 15: center in a town called Essex, which is about 60
• 30:03
  Speaker 15: or 70 miles southwest of Chicago.
• 30:05
  Speaker 16: So, what's he talking about?
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: He's just anything anti-Trump. Pritzker is just anti-Trump. Whatever he
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: has to say to be anti-Trump, he'll do it. He's
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: a big fat slob.
• 30:18
  Speaker 15: The only thing you see now on TV are commercials
• 30:20
  Speaker 15: about how he's improved the bonds in Illinois. I don't
• 30:25
  Speaker 15: know how, but Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're in Illinois. He's running for governor. Re-election, right?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: So you're seeing his commercials all the time. Do they
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: show him or they use something?
• 30:34
  Speaker 15: Yeah, they showed him at a table signing things looking
• 30:38
  Speaker 15: really important. But he's got to be looking at president
• 30:41
  Speaker 15: because he's lost a lot of weight.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Well, he hasn't lost a lot of weight. You're right.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: He's lost some, but he's got a ways to go. Boy,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: don't ever get in a buffet line behind that guy.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: You're going to really get stuck there. Let's go to
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Mike in Florida. Mike, how are you doing?
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: Good morning, Mark.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mike.
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: You mentioned that it's UN week. The only good thing
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: that comes out of it is that every hooker in
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: the world is.
• 31:07
  Speaker 12: Here this week.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. Not just regular hookers, but the really
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: expensive call girls. We're not joking. They actually descend on
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: New York. They take hotel rooms all over the place.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: There's like thousands of them. And the local hookers. The
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: local hookers can't keep up with all the demand. That's right.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: The world-class ones have invaded the city. And you were
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: talking about the stores that have the cash-counting machines. The
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: hookers have the cash-counting machines, too, this time of the year.
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: And when I worked on a PIX this week, because
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: that studio is right there.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: At the old Daily News building. 42nd and 2nd, yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was a nightmare this week. It was just
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: the worst. I mean, you know, it was just so
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: crowded with, you know, bubble heads walking around, you know, sightseeing.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: It was a nightmare getting.
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: Into the office.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good point, Mike. Thanks for calling. Yeah, if you
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: try to get to the east side, especially in the 40s,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: 3rd Avenue, 2nd Avenue, 1st Avenue, a lot of street closures.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: And in many of those blocks, they're closed and you
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: have to show your ID that you work on the
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: block or that you live on the block. uh, in
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: order to even get into the, to be able to
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: walk down that street. So just avoid the East side. And,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: but again, it's going to be congestion all over the place.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Those world leaders staying at the, the Pierre, the Waldorf,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: the St. Regis across the street over there, the Warwick,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: the Hilton, there'll be all over the place. So it'd
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: be massive, massive, uh, gridlock everywhere. And, uh, the benefit
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: is these, uh, delegates all come here, uh, They don't
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: do anything at the UN. There's nothing that means anything
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: that happens there. But they bring their families, they bring
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: their wives, they bring their mistresses, and they all go
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: on shopping sprees. They spend a fortune. So you can
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: go into the finest, most luxurious store, and you'll see
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: this big industrial-looking cash counting machine that counts the bills
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: because they'll spend $ 400, 000 in pay and cash. So those
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: counting machines are everywhere. As we say, the hookers... I've
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: come from all over the world to work this week.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: It's the biggest week of the year for prostitution here
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: in New York. Anyway, we've got a lot to get to.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Don't forget, I'm on three hours now, 9 a.m. till
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: noon every day, three hours every day. And then at noon,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: you've got Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. And then at
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: 3 o'clock, you've got the most listened to radio show
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: in America, Sean Hannity, Jesse Kelly at 6, the very
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: funny Jimmy Fallon. every night at 9, quite a lineup here,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: on 710WOR.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekdays. Mark Simone.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: More Mark.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: On 710WOR.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Well, the final full day of summer, the height of
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: day will be 71. And that's the last day in
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: the 70s for about a week or so. It's going
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: to be starting tomorrow in the 60s. High will be
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: in the mid-60s every day for about a week. Hey,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: we've got a lot to get to in the next hour.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Don't forget, I'm here three hours every day, 9 to noon,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: 9 a.m. till noon, three hours every day. Mark Simone here.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: We'll be back right after the news, too, on 710WOR.
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: Mr.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: New York.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Here's more Mark Simone on 710WOR.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, we'll get to that crazy Ed Sheeran. We'll
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: get to AI. We'll get to the White House and
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: the press. And we'll get to Mamdani and the UN
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and a whole lot more. It's Monday, final full day
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: of summer. Autumn begins tomorrow night, 8 p.m. It officially
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: is autumn. It's going to be in the 60s the
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: rest of the week. President Trump coming to New York.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: He'll be here about 4 o'clock. It's going to be
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: a traffic nightmare. First stop is Gracie Mansion. So it's
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: a holiday today, and it's also a Monday where most
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: people don't come into the office. So it's a lighter
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: traffic day anyway. But he's going to be coming in
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: from the airport, and he'll come to the Upper East Side,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Gracie Mansion in the 80s on the east side. That
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: will completely close up streets around there. Then he meets
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: with President Macron of France. Uh, then he comes, uh,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: down towards Midtown for, uh, uh, six o'clock tonight is
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: a RNC, um, uh, donor meeting reception, 150,000, uh, a
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: ticket and up. Then from there, he goes to the
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: big MAGA Inc dinner, big gala dinner tonight, spend the
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: night in New York. And then, uh, tomorrow he's, uh,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: going to try to meet with Zelensky. He's going to
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: try to meet with, uh, Other leaders at the U.N.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: It's the big U.N. General Assembly all week. Street closures.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Absolute nightmare. Hey, this crazy Ed Sheeran, you know, he's
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the nicest guy, Ed Sheeran. When it comes to the
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: music world, nobody nicer than Ed Sheeran. I don't know.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: He got himself into this mess. He picks this crazy
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: anti-Semite Macklemore to be the opening act. Everybody's blaming the
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: promoter saying it wasn't Ed Sheeran. It was the promoter.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: He got stuck with this. Ed Sheeran's a pretty big guy.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: He can decide who his opening act is. But Macklemore,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: terrible anti-Semite. He's been seen dressed in Nazi costumes. Remember
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: that time he dressed as an Orthodox rabbi? Horrible anti-Semitic-looking costume.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: So Macklemore's off the tour because stadium owners, Robert Kraft
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: and others, wouldn't let him appear there. So they had
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: to drop him from the tour. Ed Sheeran getting all
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: kinds of flack in Ireland. They stopped playing his music
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: on the radio. Fans returned tickets. He's all upset. So
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: big headline today. Shattered. Ed Sheeran says his family abandoned him.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: He's coming out on stage talking about how he lost
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: his family, his friends. He comes out on stage crying.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: He's got to stop this. He looks ridiculous. Stop whining
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: and crying. He needs like a, He needs the Godfather
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: to slap him and say, you can act like a man.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Stop crying. Stop apologizing. Look at Bill Maher. Let me
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: play this again. I'm going to play this every hour.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: This is Bill Maher's Friday night.
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: I think Macklemore spoke for all clueless celebrities when he said,
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: I know enough to know this is a genocide.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Actually, you don't know.
• 37:46
  Speaker 10: It's not.
• 37:49
  Speaker 9: It's not a genocide. It's a counterattack in a war.
• 37:52
  Speaker 9: A war that's been waged on Israel since 1948 based
• 37:56
  Speaker 9: on the ridiculous premise that Jews don't belong in the
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: one place on earth they are indigenous and indisputably their
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: ancestral homeland. Hey, geniuses, they're the Indians in this scenario.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ed Sheeran, either say nothing or say that. But
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: he comes out on stage. Now he becomes anti-Semitic. He
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: starts spewing this anti-Semitic nonsense about Israel. And then he
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: starts crying. Listen to Ed Sheeran.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: This wasn't the easy option tonight.
• 38:25
  Speaker 17: I didn't know what was going to happen. I heard
• 38:27
  Speaker 17: all sorts of things were going to happen. I didn't
• 38:30
  Speaker 17: know whether I'd be safe or you'd be safe or
• 38:35
  Speaker 17: things would.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Be thrown at me, people would boo.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: And I walked it.
• 38:38
  Speaker 17: I felt so much love from you guys.
• 38:43
  Speaker 14: And I'm so grateful.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, that's good. That part's good. But then, I
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: don't know what happened to this guy. He starts getting
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: into all this stuff. I'm trying to find, oh, here
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: it is. Here's more.
• 39:01
  Speaker 17: My concerts have always been a safe space for everyone,
• 39:05
  Speaker 17: and that matters hugely to me. Honoring my commitment to
• 39:08
  Speaker 17: my fans is also.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: See, the other thing, he has a British accent. You
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: always sound like a genius with a British accent. I mean,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: it's Ed Sheeran. I mean, this is not Einstein, but
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: you sound like a genius with a British accent.
• 39:19
  Speaker 17: Completely central to who I am. And that is why
• 39:23
  Speaker 17: I'm here tonight on my own and continuing my current tour.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good. That's very good. But then.
• 39:34
  Speaker 17: What happened in Israel and at the Nova Music Festival
• 39:37
  Speaker 17: on October 7th was horrific and compounded centuries of Jewish pain.
• 39:42
  Speaker 17: What is happening in Gaza is catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.
• 39:49
  Speaker 17: My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation
• 39:52
  Speaker 17: and loss of civilians' lives, of children's lives.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: All right, that's where you lose everybody, Ed Sheeran. It's unjustified.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: It's a counterattack. It's unjustified. Israel is not running around
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: raping women and killing babies, as Hamas did. That's where
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: he loses everybody.
• 40:12
  Speaker 17: I have tried in my career not to be a
• 40:13
  Speaker 17: political commentator of any kind.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Well, this might be a good time to continue that policy.
• 40:18
  Speaker 17: Because I want my music and shows to be about unity,
• 40:21
  Speaker 17: not division. About humanity, not politics.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well... I.
• 40:26
  Speaker 17: Don't want to disappoint fans, and I've never wanted to
• 40:29
  Speaker 17: be an activist musician, but this has put me in
• 40:31
  Speaker 17: the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom
• 40:35
  Speaker 17: of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why you should stay the hell out of it.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: First of all, he has no idea where Israel is.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: He couldn't find it on a map. Knows nothing about Gaza, Hamas.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: He's just trying to worm his way out of this
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: and doesn't know how to do it. Ed Sheeran interviewed later.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: He said, it's been horrific. It's been awful. I've lost friends.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: I've lost family. That's everybody. That's everybody when it comes
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: to Trump, when it comes to Israel. Everybody's lost friends
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: over it. That's why I always tell you, do not
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: ever talk about politics with anybody. Ever. There's no reason to.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: You love politics? Listen to shows like this. Listen to
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: whatever you listen to. Read whatever. You don't have to
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: discuss it with people in a bar. Don't discuss it
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: over a dinner table. Don't discuss it at a party.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Don't discuss it. It's just going to cause you trouble.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to gain from it. You don't need every
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: idiot's opinion on everything. Just stay the hell away from it.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: But Ed Sheeran, we'll see. I think he recovers from this.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: You know what? Just sing. Put out great records. Put
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: out a new album. Have it be a big success.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: And you'll do just fine. Hey, President Trump, you know,
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: he wants to build that big arch in Washington, D.C.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: It's actually a pretty good idea. It would dominate a
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: good chunk of the D.C. skyline. When they say skyline,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: they're talking about three, four stories. But it would look great.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I know he wants to put his name on it.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: All right, that's not so great. Keep your name off it.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Just build the arch. But just because it's him, if
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: it were Obama, if it were Biden, Democrats would love
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: this arch. They would be donating. They would be pushing
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: for it. They would be hailing him as a genius
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: for coming up with the arch. But it's Trump, so
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: they're all opposed to it. And President Trump says now
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: it will double as a top-grade military complex. It will house,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: store drones. snipers, both on the roof and plaza areas.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: It'll hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. You know,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: he keeps falling back on the same excuse. Well, we
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: have military, but you can't keep saying everything's also going
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: to be military. That excuse doesn't work. If you need
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: to store large amounts of ammunition, there's like 700,000 other
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: buildings in Washington, D.C., And it's the home of the U.S. military,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: the Pentagon. I'm sure they've got places right now where
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: they can store all the ammunition. Right now, the ammunition
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: is being stored somewhere. And why would you put it
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: in an arch? It's going to be a big tourist thing.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: A million tourists will be around that arch. It's the
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: last place you want to have to go to get
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: your ammunition out. So that part doesn't make much sense. Ukraine,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: largest attack ever on Moscow. A thousand drones hit Moscow.
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: One thousand.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Thousand drones. Now, you remember Ukraine begging us for drones,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: begging us for missiles. Well, over the last two years,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: they built their own drone factories. They are now the
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: biggest drone manufacturer in the world. They're turning out the biggest,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: most powerful drones in their own factories. So they got
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: an endless supply. So in this attack, this is right
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: in Moscow, right in the middle of Moscow. Thousand drones
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: hit Moscow. Thousand drones hit. Now, on the other hand,
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: it killed two people in the middle of a major city,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: a thousand drones, and they only killed two people. But
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: they went all over the country and they went all
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: over Moscow. The mayor of Moscow said 450 of the
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: drones had been destroyed, shot down en route. OK, that's possible.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: He said the unprecedented attack on the capital was to
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: disrupt their elections. They were having an election. Of course,
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: there's no opposition there. When you're Putin or whoever and
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: you run, there's no opposition. So it's not the most
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: crucial election in the world. Obama bashing Trump for not
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: doing enough about AI. You know, he's the one quietly
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: behind the scenes that orchestrated this whole AI thing. They
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: think it's going to be a big thing for the midterms.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Climate change isn't working. They've been polling it, focus grouping it.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Climate change isn't scaring anybody anymore. It's just not working.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: So they came up with this whole AI thing. And
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: it was all orchestrated carefully. Obama was the one running
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: around from one meeting to another getting this done. The
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: four big AI companies, they're all very close to Obama.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: Very close. Have been for years. So they came up
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: with a bunch of incidents of how the AI was
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: escaping from their control and taking over. And they brought
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: out these four incidents to scare everybody. But now there's
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: all sides of insiders and whistleblowers within these AI companies
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: who are coming forward and saying these incidents have been
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: ridiculously oversold. The one they talked about where it broke
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: out of the sandbox, they create a sandbox around the
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: AI so it can't get out. The one where it
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: got out, whistleblowers are now saying they deliberately didn't build
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: the sandbox correctly. They deliberately left holes in it so
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: the AI could escape it. And they're doing this for
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: the other incidents. Remember the first whistleblower that the AI
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: guys had? Turned out he'd only worked there like four weeks.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: But these guys have been there forever, these whistleblowers now.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: They're coming forward and saying these incidents they've described were
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: actually set up. They were engineered so that it would happen.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: And they could use them. Now to say that president
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Trump's doing nothing about AI, nothing about AI.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: You just can't come to the white house press briefings anymore.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's another one.
• 46:35
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I forget that. We'll get to that in a minute. But, uh, uh,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: president Trump did set up something called AI force. Uh,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: and he created an AI czar on Saturday to keep
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: the industry from engaging in bad practices. AI force will
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: patrol the whole thing. As I mentioned before, uh, Anthropic
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: and these other companies have set up super PACs to
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: hand out tons of money to politicians. They need the Democrats,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders, all these guys to play along with this.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: So $ 40 million has been doled out to them very
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: quickly over the weekend, and more money is coming. So
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: that'll be interesting. Yeah, there was Obama talking about President
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Trump banning CNN and MSNBC, and Politico from the White House.
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: You just can't come to the White House press briefings
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: anymore because you're giving the current president unfavorable coverage. I'm
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: trying to think what would have happened if I had said,
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: you know what, Fox News, you're out of here. It's unimaginable.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Well, he forgot to mention that he did that. Yeah,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: they tried to ban Fox News. Now, the difference is
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: Obama backed down. There was tremendous flack. But it's interesting.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: If you go to my Twitter, you can see the
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: video of all this. CNN was pushing for Fox to
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: be banned. MSNBC was pushing for Fox to be banned
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: from the White House. And Obama tried to do it,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: but he backed down. This is the difference. Trump is
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: like a maniac. He never backs down. It doesn't matter
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: what kind of opposition he'll keep going. And remember, Joe
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Biden blocked 440 reporters. He took their credentials away. 440
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: reporters he didn't like. Biden took the credentials away. And
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: you're going to hear if you watch CNN or MSNBC,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: this story is false. They simply did not reapply for their, yeah, well,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: they didn't think they had a chance, so they didn't reapply.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Trump administration did block a couple of news organizations in
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: the first term. First term, they blocked the BBC, Politico,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: New York Times from attending certain briefings. Pentagon has blocked
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: reporters from certain areas. Trump administration restricted and blocked Associated
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Press a while back. They're still in court fighting that.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: They're not getting anywhere on that. During Trump's first term,
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: he took away the press credentials of Jim Acosta. Remember
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: that ugly, rude, nasty CNN guy? He went to court,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: later got it back. He got his press pass back.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: President said at the time he wanted to make a point,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: regardless of whether the ban held up in court. And
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: that may be the same thing here that he's doing.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: So the AP lawsuit is still stuck in court. They're
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: still banned. They're not getting anywhere. But we'll see. Now,
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: the other thing is just don't let them in the
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Oval Office. You could do what they do at the
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Pentagon Post. Just restrict them to certain areas and nowhere else. Hey,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 49:44
  Speaker 11: 800-321-0710.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show, now nine till noon weekdays on 710WOR. Hey,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. If you're
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: a Democrat, cover your ears. Oil is down again. Down
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: $ 5 a barrel right now. Down to $ 95. Anyway, let's
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: take some calls. Let's go to John in... Is it Greenridge,
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: New Jersey?
• 50:21
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Greenridge, New Jersey.
• 50:23
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Where do you people come up with these names in
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: New Jersey?
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: I know. Well, it's a beautiful area. Yeah, the reason
• 50:32
  Speaker 7: I'm calling is that.
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: I was concerned that during the collapse of the United States, USSR,
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: they lost track of 88 nuclear suitcase weapons.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you have nothing to worry about. Nothing to
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: worry about. The material in those nuclear suitcases is totally
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: expired and doesn't work anymore.
• 50:56
  Speaker 10: You're sure?
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, positive. Every scientific scientist, nuclear expert said there's a
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: shelf life on that material in there. It doesn't work anymore.
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm glad to hear it.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: All right, yeah. They used to scare everybody with that
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: when they lost the suitcase. It's called a suitcase nuke.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: You can carry it on your back, and it's a
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: small nuclear weapon. The material in them is degraded, though.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: And it was also believed at the time that anybody
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: trying to use one would end up blowing themselves up
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: or radiating themselves to death. You've got to be really
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: trained to handle one of those. Let's go to Mara
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: in Nevada. Mara, how are you doing?
• 51:35
  Speaker 18: So good. Thank you, God. Mark, I'm talking about First Amendment.
• 51:38
  Speaker 18: You can say what you want. No fire in the theater. However,
• 51:42
  Speaker 18: Ed Sheeran even said he wanted to keep a safe
• 51:46
  Speaker 18: space in his concerts, and then Macklemore can shout, free Palestine,
• 51:52
  Speaker 18: creating problems and threats in the theater. No, you can't
• 51:56
  Speaker 18: just say no fire, no Pepri Palestine, no Kilmandani, none
• 52:01
  Speaker 18: of that stuff in the crowded theater. What do you think?
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: I agree. I agree. In fact, first of all, you're
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran. Shut the hell up. Nobody cares what you
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: think about any of this. But thanks for calling. Hey,
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: where are all the calls? Nobody's calling today. Is it
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: the holiday? Is it UN week? I don't know. It
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: is open lines. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710. 3, 2, 1, 0, 7, 10. Hey,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: speaking of movie theaters yelling fire, it's aggravating in a
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: movie theater when somebody's on their phone. But this guy's
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: in the movie theater, and the guy in the next
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: row in front of him is on the phone, but
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: he's not talking. He's just looking at his phone, and
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: apparently he had the screen brightness turned down a little,
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: but he was looking at his phone, and this other
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: guy kept telling him to turn it off, kept yelling
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: at him to turn it off, and the guy wouldn't
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: turn it off. So this guy finally took out pepper
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: spray and sprayed the guy pepper spray in the middle
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: of a movie theater while the movie is on. So,
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: you know, this pepper spray is pretty ugly stuff. So
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: everybody got up and it couldn't take the smell and
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: it's bad for people. And they kept running out of
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: the movie theater. They all saw the guy that did it.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: They saw him spray the guy and the guy was
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: smart enough to run away. But police eventually, witnesses came forward.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: Police caught him. He's now in custody, arrested and booked.
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: This is in Burbank, California. Misdemeanor battery. The theater offered
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: to refund everybody's money. Let's take some calls. Let's go
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: to line one. How you doing? Who is this?
• 53:42
  Speaker 12: Hey, Mark.
• 53:43
  Speaker 11: It's Steve Manhattan, baby.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the same guy. What do we.
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: Want to find that got arrested on 9-11?
• 53:48
  Speaker 8: Who supported that?
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Go Buchanan or whatever it is. Let's go to line four.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 53:55
  Speaker 12: Yes, hi. This is Mike from Queens.
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: I am not horrified by the gasoline prices in New
• 54:01
  Speaker 8: York City, and I'm a yellow cab driver, and I
• 54:02
  Speaker 8: think it's.
• 54:03
  Speaker 16: A huge hype job.
• 54:05
  Speaker 12: There's a lot of real in it, but I think
• 54:06
  Speaker 12: it's grossly overrated.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, gas prices are high right now, but they're
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: not as high as the Joe Biden days. They're nowhere
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: near that. But it's a big, big thing to get
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Trump with and try to hurt Republicans in the midterms.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: So It's all you read about, the gas prices, the
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: gas prices, the gas prices. You notice that story came
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: out today. Americans are making more money now. Average American
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: income is at the highest level ever. They don't report that.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Poverty level, lowest rate ever. They don't report that. They
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: just keep yelling about gas prices just to affect the midterms.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Dave, Mahwah, New Jersey. Dave, how are
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: Good, Mark.
• 54:47
  Speaker 19: Thank you. I just wanted to let you know, because
• 54:50
  Speaker 19: I haven't really heard this one out there, but I
• 54:52
  Speaker 19: saw Mellencamp about a month ago, and he had a
• 54:55
  Speaker 19: lot of political rants during the show. As a matter
• 54:58
  Speaker 19: of fact, the first song he sang was a new
• 55:01
  Speaker 19: song about the Trump administration, you know, against the Trump administration.
• 55:06
  Speaker 19: So I just wanted to be known that Mellencamp is
• 55:08
  Speaker 19: also one of these.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bunch of these idiots, Bruce Springsteen and
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: the other ones. First of all, who would want their
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: opinion on any political issue? You know, Mellencamp, if you
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: needed advice on who makes the best guitar pick, I
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: would ask Mellencamp. If I wanted to know about which
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: guitar to get, I'd ask Bruce Springsteen. If I want
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: to know about foreign policy, I don't think I'd turn
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: to Bruce Springsteen for that. Let's go to Joe Colonia,
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. Joe, how are you doing?
• 55:38
  Speaker 7: Hey, Mark, I'm doing great. First, I just want to
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: let you know that thanks to you, I no longer
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: squeeze my teabags.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's very important. Everybody dunks the teabag for
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: a couple minutes. Then at the end, they take the
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: spoon and they press the teabag and squeeze out what
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: the experts say that's the worst thing you can do.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: It brings out the bitter stuff. There's stuff in the
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: teabag that tastes great. That's what you want in the tea.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: There's also stuff in there that tastes awful. It's bitter.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: You don't want that. If you squeeze it, that stuff
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: starts coming out. And you've noticed a difference?
• 56:11
  Speaker 14: I've got to be honest.
• 56:11
  Speaker 7: I don't notice a difference, but I just don't.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: I don't really either. I don't really either.
• 56:18
  Speaker 16: Yeah, why put all that extra stuff in there, like
• 56:20
  Speaker 16: you said?
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: It does something to help the flow of it, to
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: help the other stuff flow out. But it's made to
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: stay in the teabag while the other stuff flows out.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: If you squeeze the teabag, the bad stuff starts to
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: flow out. One more call. Let's go to Neil in Brooklyn. Neil,
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 56:37
  Speaker 13: Thank you, thank you.
• 56:38
  Speaker 20: Yeah, what irked me about the press is, like, during
• 56:45
  Speaker 20: Trump's first term, like, there would be, early in the day,
• 56:48
  Speaker 20: it would be reported that Hispanic businessmen from all over
• 56:51
  Speaker 20: the world.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Neil, there's a lot of preamble here. What's the point
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: you want to make?
• 56:55
  Speaker 20: Okay, the point I want to make is... Sometimes I'll
• 56:58
  Speaker 20: see a story earlier in the day, and you figure
• 57:01
  Speaker 20: it's going to be on the 630 News.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Is there any point? We don't have much time here.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Is there a point you want to make?
• 57:09
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 57:09
  Speaker 20: The point is.
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: Go right to it.
• 57:11
  Speaker 7: They ignore stories.
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Well, that's as we say. Again, story comes out this week.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Lowest poverty rate ever. Highest income ever for the average American.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: They don't report it. A lot of stuff they just
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: don't report. Oh, when we come back, the... best columnist
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: in America, Michael Goodwin. He'll be with us next on 710WOR.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone, live from the WOR LifeVac studios.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: Well, Michael Goodwin, the best columnist in America. You can
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: read him every Sunday and every Wednesday in the New
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: York Post. All of his columns are up on the
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: New York Post website, if you missed anything. And we
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: got two columns for the price of one this week.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: and it's great to have him with us. Michael Goodwin,
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 58:01
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Mark.
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: Thank you.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: Hey, first of all, the UN, General Assembly, all these
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: world leaders here, Iran will be here. What should the
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: president do with all this?
• 58:12
  Speaker 11: Well, sort of a feast of unappetizing food, right? But look,
• 58:19
  Speaker 11: I do think the president is eager to get the
• 58:23
  Speaker 11: Iran government situation off the front pages and out of
• 58:28
  Speaker 11: the polls for the midterms. And so he's going to
• 58:33
  Speaker 11: be in New York and the Iranian leaders are both
• 58:36
  Speaker 11: here on State Department visas for the UN. And the
• 58:41
  Speaker 11: president has never met either of those two Iranians. And
• 58:46
  Speaker 11: I would be shocked if there isn't some way that
• 58:50
  Speaker 11: they do manage to get together and He's also meeting
• 58:54
  Speaker 11: with our Gulf allies, the Gulf of Arabia allies. And
• 59:01
  Speaker 11: so I think that this is a moment that could
• 59:04
  Speaker 11: turn out to be very significant. Now, there's no guarantee
• 59:09
  Speaker 11: of that, of course. Iran has shown no inclination to
• 59:13
  Speaker 11: end the war in anything close to America's terms, which,
• 59:18
  Speaker 11: of course, have to do with nuclear proliferation primarily, along
• 59:24
  Speaker 11: with funding of Hezbollah and Hamas and groups like that.
• 59:28
  Speaker 11: and getting rid of its long-range missiles. So we've seen
• 59:34
  Speaker 11: no signs that the Iranians are ready for that. But
• 59:38
  Speaker 11: the two people coming to the UN, they are not
• 59:43
  Speaker 11: of the ruling mullah class. These are basically professional westernized leaders.
• 59:51
  Speaker 11: But we will see if they have any power to
• 59:54
  Speaker 11: actually make a deal. That's one of the mysteries about
• 59:57
  Speaker 11: who's really running the Iranian government such as it is.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 11: And it seems to be the hardliners, the mullahs, the killers,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 11: the corrupt ones. So if there's a deal to be made,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 11: the UN meeting would be a great place for it.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But what's the point? They never, ever, ever, ever
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: stick to an agreement. As people say, Iran has never
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: won a war and never lost an agreement because they
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: just don't follow it. So what's the point? Why even bother?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 11: They've gotten away with it, right? I mean, 50 years almost,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 11: this is how they've conducted themselves. And part of it
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 11: is everybody's afraid of their militaries and how they activate,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 11: like pushing a button and Hezbollah or Hamas or the
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 11: Houthis come out of the ground and kill you. That's
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: how the Iranians have gotten away with it on the
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: foreign policy stage. And there's been no real credible threat
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 11: against them domestically for those five decades. So that has
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 11: been the conundrum for everybody dealing with Iran. You can't
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 11: trust them. You can't trust their motives. And they never
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 11: live up to any agreement. So this is a real problem.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 11: And it's how we ended up in the war in
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 11: the first place.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, Michael Goodwin, you also wrote a great column
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: about the New York Times article which you used to
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: work there back when it was really the New York Times.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, the real New York Times. Yeah. Do you
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: even recognize the place today when you see it?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 11: No, it's really something entirely different. It's like a different
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 11: species from what it was. It sort of had a
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 11: transgender operation or something. But look, the piece I focused
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 11: on this time, Mark, had to do with... national poverty rate.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 11: And it held steady last year. And this very much
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 11: upset the New York Times because they thought and predicted
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 11: it would soar because of Donald Trump's cuts to what
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 11: it calls the social safety net. And not only that,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 11: the median family income rose and it's the highest ever.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 11: So these two things together were bad news for.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 7: The New York Times.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 11: They want suffering, human suffering, to prove that they're right
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 11: and Donald Trump is wrong. But here you get the
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 11: news doesn't comport to their politics. And so there's this
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 11: kind of mournful tone about the poverty rate not getting
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 11: higher and the fact that median family incomes have set
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 11: a new record. This with the New York Times, this
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 11: is all bad news. In reality, of course, of the
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 11: Americans involved and the country as a whole, it's very
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 11: good news. But the New York Times hates good news
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 11: if it doesn't make Trump look good. They can't have that.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: So, Michael Goodwin, when you used to work there, that's
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: when they had the great leadership. Was it Abe Rosenthal
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: and Arthur Gelb and those kind of people?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 16: Correct, yeah.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 11: Well, the thing is, Mark, that the leader sets the
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 11: tone and the rules. And so everybody had to follow
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 11: the basic rules, which is if you're a reporter or
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 11: an editor, we don't care about your opinions. Keep them
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 11: to yourself. What we put in the paper are the facts,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 11: the news, and we're not taking sides with every story.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 11: We're not here pushing an agenda. We're here to deliver
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 11: facts and news and opinion in a kind of secularized
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 11: area where it's roped off from the news. But that
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 11: roping off has bled now to where every article is
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 11: an opinion, such as the one we're just discussing. It's
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 11: the opinion that always comes clear. You read the New
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 11: York Times. It's not the facts. It's how the Times interpret.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 11: those facts and what it wants the facts to be.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 11: That's an eruption that I think that we double the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 11: times and we'll continue to until somebody blows the whistle there,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 11: the owner, presumably, and says, look, we're going back to
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 11: the good old days. We're going back to standards of
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 11: fairness and we're not going to run every story with
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 11: an opinion.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the other argument is they were going broke.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: The Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim had to come bail him out,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: keep him afloat. And then Trump comes along, and there's
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: an incredible business model here. You just bash Trump all
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: day and night, and there's an audience for that. And
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: you suddenly make a fortune. So with that going on,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: who's ever going to go back to the old model?
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 11: That's a very good point, Mark, and I've considered that.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 11: And I don't have the answer, as you say. One
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 11: of the shames is that this business model has been
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 11: successful in a time of changing media landscapes and all that.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 11: If you ever go and read the readers' responses to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 11: an article, which you can see online a lot, many
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 11: of the readers are crazier than the reporters.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: I mean.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 11: They want the Times to kill Trump. The Times is
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 11: too soft on Trump. It's too soft on the Republic.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 11: I don't know where you'll find these people, but what's
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 11: been nourishing their hatred so long? But the Times is
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 11: now kind of trapped by feeding the beast a little bit.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 11: The beast is demanding more and more. So the Times
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 11: is kind of trapped in this cycle on which its
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 11: finances are now dependent.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow. Well, everybody go read his. It's two Michael
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: Goodwin columns you want to read. The one about the
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: New York Times and the one about Iran and the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: UN and Trump. And it's all up on the New
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: York Post website. Great stuff. Michael Goodwin, thanks for being
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: with us.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 11: My pleasure, Mark. Thank you.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: Take care. Yeah, and don't forget, it's UN week all
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: this week. It's gridlock all week. Street closures all over
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: the place. Don't drive into Manhattan this week. It's going
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: to be an absolute nightmare. Today's a Of course, Yom Kippur,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: it's a holiday. And it's Monday, which is the day
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: most people don't come into the office. So you won't
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: really feel it as much today. But, oh, tomorrow you'll
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: really feel it. Remember, the president comes into Manhattan tonight. Actually,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: this afternoon, 4 o'clock, Gracie Mansion. And then he comes
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: into Midtown. It's going to be a lot of gridlock
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: everywhere tonight. It's going to be a mess tonight. So
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: stay out of Manhattan if you're driving. A lot to
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: get to. Don't forget at noon, Buck Saxton and Clay
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: Travis with a great show. Then at 3 o'clock, the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: most listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. Got
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly at 6. You got the very funny Jimmy
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: Fela every night at 9 here on 710WOR.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekday. Mark Simone.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Only on 710WOR. Well, hey, it's the final day of summer.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Autumn begins officially tomorrow night, 8 o'clock. So it'll be
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: 71 today. That's the high. Rest of the week in
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: the 60s, mid-60s. That's the high for the rest of
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: the week. So summer is over. Tomorrow at 8 o'clock,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: it's officially over. But then you got Halloween, and you
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: got Thanksgiving, and you got Christmas, and you got... What
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: do they do in the fall? You got the beautiful
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: leaves everywhere. All right. That lasts for about two weeks.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: But don't worry. Then it'll be winter. That's bad. But
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: then it'll be spring again. It just keeps moving along.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: A lot to get to in the next hour. What
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: do the polls really say? We'll get to that and
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: more coming up on 710WOR. The Mark Simone Show on 710WOR. Well, hey,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: it's the third and final hour.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: We start at 9 o'clock every morning now. It's 9
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: to noon. It's a three-hour show every day. So UN
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: Gridlock Week is here. This goes on for a few weeks,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: but this is the week where all the world leaders
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: come in. So all the world leaders are here today.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: You're going to see gridlock everywhere because of this UN
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: General Assembly organization. by the way, if you're trying to
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: get a hooker, you will not be able to get
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: a hooker today. They are all tied up all week.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: You will not be able to get a hooker. And
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: this is not a joke. Call girls, prostitutes, hookers. escorts
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: have come in from all over the world. This is
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: the biggest week of the year for them. They are
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: all in New York right now, but if you're a
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: local and you go to Hooker's Altar, you will not
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: be able to get one this week. I'm sorry. They're
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: tied up with these UN General Assembly idiots. The agenda
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: is always climate change, world this, world that. They've added
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: AI to it this week. In fact, Sam Altman, OpenAI,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: he will speak there this week. This whole thing about,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: this whole scheme about AI is going to kill us all,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: it has a number of components to it. It was
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: all carefully thought out. Obama has been the one behind
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: the scenes carefully orchestrating this. It has a number of purposes.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: One is.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: To use as an election issue. Climate change is not
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: working anymore. It doesn't work as an election issue. It
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: doesn't scare anybody anymore because they've been hearing this for
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: 30 years and nothing has happened. So it doesn't scare anybody.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: So this is the new climate change. They're going to
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: use AI. It's an old democratic technique. They always have
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: some huge boogeyman that you have to be terrified of
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: and only they can save you from it. The Republicans
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: will not save you from it. So this is the
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: new boogeyman that AI is going to kill us all.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: The other thing is, The cartel, it's four big AI companies.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: They're basically a cartel. They would like to get all
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: this government regulation and red tape because they currently control
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: the whole thing. The government regulation and red tape will
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: keep any newcomers out. This is their big fear. New
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: companies can come and rise up and suddenly take over.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: They've seen it before in the tech world. Nobody could
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: come near MySpace. And then Facebook came and took all
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: their business away. And, you know, something like a TikTok.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: Somebody can just come in and rise up. So they
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: want the government red tape and bureaucracy to keep, to
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: basically build a moat around their cartel so nobody else
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: can come in. That's another one. There's a whole bunch
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: of reasons they want this. But the UN wants in
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: on it, too, because the other thing, this cartel, these
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: AI companies, the cartel has a trillion dollars to throw around.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: They've already passed out 40 million to congressmen. 40 million
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: in just the last week or two. And there's more
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: of that coming. The UN would like some of this action.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: And they'd also like to pretend they're going to be
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: the regulators of AI all over the world. Now, of course,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: the UN can't regulate anything. They're totally useless. They have
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: never been able to accomplish anything anywhere. It's basically just
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: a VIP lounge for dictators over there on the east side.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: A lot of people talking about... getting rid of the UN,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: throwing it the hell out of New York. The mayoral candidate,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: Michael Rappaport, saying James Dolan should take over UN headquarters,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: make it into a practice facility for the Knicks and
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: the Rangers or whoever. So the president banned MSNOW, CNN, Politico, very,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: very left-wing slanted organizations. I don't know if you really
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: call them news organizations. They just bash Trump. Although Politico
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: does actually report news, a lot of political news. CNN, MSNOW,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: basically just political activists. But they're going to court. They
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: have announced they will sue. Now, the problem is the
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: president's team could go into court and argue that they
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: can't be called news organizations because they have broadcast so
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: much fake news online. And I was reading the list before.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: There's a million things I never got to on this
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: list where they just lied. And they got caught a
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: million times lying fake news. Nobody's been caught more than
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: Rachel Maddow with fake news. And it'll be interesting to
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: see what comes out in court. They could really document
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: how much fake news these people broadcast. Just go story
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: by story. You could list hundreds of stories that turned
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: out to be fake. You could list hundreds of stories
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: they refused to air, major news stories, because it was
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: too favorable to the president. Well, I think he's talking
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: about here.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: I don't want him in my office. I don't want
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: him here. I would say the ban would go as
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: far as you can. And if they could straighten themselves out,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: you know, if they could straighten themselves out, I'd love it. Look,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: they're very dishonest people.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the argument is he would let him
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: in the White House. It doesn't mean he has to
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: let him in the Oval Office.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 11: Politico. Politico.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 4: And MS Now, which nobody ever heard of. And CNN,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: which is doing very poorly. The reason they do so
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: poorly is because they have no credibility. And if they
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 4: had credibility, I wouldn't be sitting here right now. So
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 4: we are banning them.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, we are.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Now, Biden wanted to do this with Fox. Obama tried
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: to do it with Fox. They didn't have the nerve
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: to stick to their guns. But we'll see what happens here.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: But Trump has made a lot of money from all
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: this lying. They've had to pay Trump money because they
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: lied about him, these organizations.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: ABC Fake News gave me $ 16 million that was agreed to.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: $ 16 million that I won from ABC News because George
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: Slopidopoulos wrote incorrect stuff. CBS gave me $ 38 million because
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: they broadcast Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes and the question
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: borrowed no relationship to what she said. You saw that.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: And the reason they paid the money, they wouldn't have
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: survived in court. They wouldn't have been able to get
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: through a trial. Hey, also remember, President Trump was banned
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: from all social media. Twitter banned him. Instagram banned him.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: They banned him. They took away his accounts. They totally
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: banned him from social media. That's just, I mean, that's
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: worse than this. I mean, the fact that they can't
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: come in the White House doesn't mean they can't cover this.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: They still are on the air. They can Say whatever
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: they want. You don't need to be in the White
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: House to cover it. We're not in the White House.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: We cover it just fine. But to be banned from
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: all social media, to take your platform away, that's much worse. Hey,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: there's a new book by Victor Davis Hanson, the great writer,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: about Trump, how he was totally wiped out and made
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: the comeback to the White House. It's a fabulous book.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: It's now number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: Just look it up, the new Victor Davis Hanson book.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: Really an amazing book. And it starts with where he went.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: It's called, let me just get the book cover here,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: The Counter-Revolution. The Counter-Revolution, how he battled his way back. Now,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 2: it starts with Trump. People forget he had just been
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: banned from all social media. He had no platforms. Absolutely
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: no way to reach out to people online. He was
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: banned from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, totally banned. He was debanked.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: All the banks banned him, closed his accounts, which means
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: he couldn't even write a check. He was suddenly indicted
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: in five separate criminal trials. They were going to put
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: him in jail. You couldn't be in a worse situation.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: The guy never flinched, never blinked, slowly but surely battled
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: his way back. and won the White House. It's a
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: great book by Victor Davis Hanson. Everybody should read it.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: Just get the book. It's already number one New York
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: Times bestseller. It's a great book. Just get the book. Now,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen with the midterms? We'll get to
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: that a little later this hour. We'll have the greatest
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: and single best pollster in the world on. We'll go
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: over the numbers, what's going to happen in the midterms. Hey,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman, this is an interesting interview. where he talks
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: about his ex-wife, Nancy Chevelle, who was a very nice woman.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: I know her very well, knew her father very well.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman's first wife. They got divorced. This happens all
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: the time. People get divorced. It happens in most marriages.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman went on to marry a wonderful woman who's
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: a very prominent judge in Long Island. They were very
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: happily married. And then his ex-wife, Nancy Chevelle, went on
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: to marry Paul McCartney. So Blakeman was asked about this.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: What is it like to have your ex marry a
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: Beatle and the Beatle? And he said, it's kind of surreal.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: It's really surreal. Blakeman, very complimentary about McCartney, said he's
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: been a wonderful father to their son. He's been great
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: with their son. He's been a very nice guy. He goes,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: our politics, obviously, we don't agree politically, but we don't
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: talk about politics. and they get along very well. That's
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: what I keep telling you. Don't talk about politics with
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: anybody ever. There's no reason to. Now, look at this
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: game last night. The Jets play in the Packers. I
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: really enjoy watching that. Do I have to discuss it
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: with anybody?
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 13: No.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: You go into a bar. I think the Packers. I
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: think the Jets. Well, I think the Packers. You don't
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: need to hear any of this. You don't need to
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: hear any of this. You want to hear about it?
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: Go get an expert. Go listen to that Mike Francesa
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: podcast or something. Whoever you trust is a great sports analyst.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: Go listen to them. Read them. You don't need to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: talk to some idiot in a bar. And it's the
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: same with politics. So Princess Di's brother, you know, he
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: wrote this book, Princess Diana's brother. What the hell is
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: his name? I can't remember his name, but he wrote
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: this book. First, he said that after the horrific car crash,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: that Prince Charles was very cold about it. Very cold.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: And he said about Diana, people will forget about her soon,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: soon enough. Charles Spencer was his name. He wrote the book.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: And that's where he said Prince Charles actually said, people
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: will forget about Diana soon enough. It's a very classy
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: way to, To be really nasty. Yeah, they'll forget about
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: that blank and blank. No, if you're a royal, you say,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: they'll forget about her soon enough. Well, he also in
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: the book now, he says that the problem with Prince
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: Harry is he was very, very young when Diana was killed.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: William was already 15, but Harry was only 12. And
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: he said at the funeral, he looked at Harry and
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: could see he was spinning out of control. He was
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: too young, weak. shaken up by this, too vulnerable, and
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: that Prince Charles, he's claiming Prince Charles did not do
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: enough to keep Harry grounded, to help Harry through it,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: and that's where Harry went bad. He said, I could
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: not get over how tiny and slight and bereft Harry looked. See,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: that's another thing if you're a royal, you talk like that.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: You don't say, hey, you look like blank. You say,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: he looks bereft. I don't know what bereft is, but
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: it doesn't sound good to be bereft. Try that with
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 2: somebody today. Hey, what the hell's wrong with you? You look,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: you're a mess, but walk up to them and say,
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: you know, you look, uh, bereft. They're not going to
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: get mad. I mean, first is going to have to
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: run home, get a dictionary to find out what the
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: hell bereft is. But, uh, I'm going to try that
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: later today. You'll be better soon enough. So bereft and
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: always use the phrase soon enough. Uh, Hey, Trump announced
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: the Greenland deal with Denmark, giving us permanent security control
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: over Denmark. This is a big thing. This is everything
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: we wanted. Now, the reason we want Denmark, it's extremely
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: crucial militarily for a base, for all that. The fear
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: is the Russians or the Chinese can use it as
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: a launching pad. It would be the perfect place to
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: attack the actual United States. So we need to have
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: control of it. Now, we did have control of it.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: I guess the importance of this deal is it'll make
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: it permanent. Absolutely. A hundred percent locked in permanent forever.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: So that means we really don't have to worry too much. Now, uh,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 2: the leaders of Denmark, Greenland, and the United States are
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 2: all in town this week for the UN, uh, general assembly.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: So they'll sign the agreement this week here in New York. Hey, that, uh,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: Lindsay Clancy juror, the holdout, uh, He's been very careful
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: not to go public. The holdout juror, he speaks publicly
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: through his lawyer, but he's been careful not to do
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: any interviews, not to become too visible. Lawyer says he's
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: getting death threats from all over the place. So that's
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: why he's staying underground. If he speaks, it's through the attorney.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: They have a GoFundMe because he's got expenses, security lawyers.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: The GoFundMe is already raised $ 330, 000. $ 330, 000. But the Lindsay
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: Clancy GoFundMe has raised like millions. So one anonymous donor
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: gave $ 10, 000 to this. So if you want to donate
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: to the loan juror, I'm sure you can go online
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: and find it somewhere. New York is doing very well.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: Rentals are through the roof. It's very tough to rent
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: an apartment right now. They're all being rented. Co-op sales
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 2: are way up. Hotels are being built. Massive skyscrapers, super tall,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: are being built all over Manhattan. And in Brooklyn, there's
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: an old hotel there. The old Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn Heights.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: Ritz-Carlton just bought it. They're going to build residences. This
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: is a big thing for them now. They do this
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: in certain places. The Ritz-Carlton residences. They're extremely expensive, very elegant,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: fancy condos. They got one in Long Island. Where is that?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: North Hills? Somewhere like that. Lake Success. It's right off
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: the LIE. You drive by it all the time. The
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: Ritz-Carlton Residences. They started at $ 2 or $ 3 million. Now
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: they sell for $ 8 million, $ 10 million. These are for condos.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: So they're building one in Brooklyn Heights. 15 stories. It's
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 2: going to take a while to build this. So this
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: is a Ritz-Carlton residence. Very expensive condos going into Brooklyn.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: First floor will have a Danny Meyer restaurant. That's pretty good.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: The real estate agent, the team is being led by
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: Ryan Serhant, who's now the most annoying guy in the world.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: But he's handling the sales. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
• 1:24:12
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• 1:24:13
  Speaker 20: 800-321-0710.
• 1:24:21
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• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Will in Charlotte, North Carolina. Will, how
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: you doing?
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 12: Hey, Mark.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 16: Love your show. Listen, I've got an answer for where
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 16: to put those data centers.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 16: You're a big Sopranos fan, right? Yeah. Yeah, so you
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 16: remember the opening of The Sopranos and Tony Soprano's driving
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 16: down the New Jersey Turnpike.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 16: And he's going past refineries and old chemical plants and
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 16: Superfund sites. That's the perfect place to put those data centers.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: Well, but there's no room there. First of all, it's crowded.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: There's a million things there. No land. And it costs
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 2: a fortune for land there. You've got to put them somewhere.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 16: Knock a few buildings down. Those people are going to
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 16: afford it.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, what about Charlotte, North Carolina, where you are? Let's
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: put it there. You don't need that Charlotte Speedway, do you?
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 16: Sure, why not? Maybe I ought to lower my property
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 16: taxes a little bit, although they're a heck of a
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 16: lot lower than they used to be up in New Jersey.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, actually it does. It will lower your taxes.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: They figured out how to create their own water and
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: recycle it and use their own electricity. The problem is
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: it makes noise, a lot of noise from data centers.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 2: So you've got to put them like half a mile
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: away from everybody. Let's go to Phil, Suffolk County. Phil,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: how are you?
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 7: Yes, hello, Mark, and thank you for taking my call.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: Where are you in Suffolk County?
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 16: Northport.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: Northport. Is that Suffolk? Oh, yeah, it is. Northport. You
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: got that new restaurant right on the water there, and
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: you got the hotel there.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 7: It was very nice. We had this annual Cow Harbor
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 7: Day where people run around and– shut down the streets
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 7: and everything.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 7: But anyway.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: It's a wonderful event. Actually, it's an annoying event. I
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: should stay the hell away from Northport that day. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: it's a wonderful event, yeah.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 7: Mark, would you agree with me that the disturbing trend
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 7: about this Lindsay Clancy is the fact that there are
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 7: two other women that have come out and have used
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 7: her in context of them murdering their own children?
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very good point.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 5: I feel that.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 7: Lindsay should be held accountable contemptible for that.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with that holdout, Jura. You're right. It's horrible.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: And then the other trend is, what is it with
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: these left-wing kooks with the killers and the murderers? Luigi Mangione,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: Lindsey Clancy. They have this whole new trend now of
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: there are justified murders. It wasn't their fault. It's got
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: to stop. That holdout, Jura, that's a hero there. Let's
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: go to Bob in Short Hills. Bob, how you doing?
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 16: Hey, Mark.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 7: How are you?
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 14: It's good.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 7: I'm cool, Eric. I got two topics if you have time.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 7: First one, about two months ago, you kind of poo-pooed
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 7: the induction of Chubby Checker into the Hall of Fame.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 7: And I'm just wondering, can you think of anyone else
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 7: in the rock world that had such an influence on
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 7: that music?
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, of course, easily. Easily, easily, easily. Like everybody else. Hey,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: I love Chubby Checker. He's a very nice guy. And
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: he had the record called The Twist. It was a
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: big hit, but he was not a major influence.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 7: Stop saying my name over and over.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: It's annoying.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 7: He had a worldwide mania. He put people on a
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 7: dance floor who hated to get on the dance floor.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: I hate to break it to you, but they were
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: dancing long before Chubby Checker. He's a great guy. It
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: was a great hit record, but it wasn't.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 11: A major influence.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 7: Joey D and the Starlighters, one of the biggest venues
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 7: in New York for a couple years.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, but if you went to the Peppermint Lounge... And
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: stayed there for five hours. You'd notice they played 6,000
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: other artists. It wasn't just Chubby Checker.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but he created that venue. It was he who
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 7: did that.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: First of all, let's go to Chuck Berry. Now, here's
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: a guy who was one of the most influential guys
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 2: to me who really pioneered the modern-day rock and roll.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: Even the Beatles will tell you they were copying Chuck Berry.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: There's nobody telling you they're copying Chubby Checker.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 7: Well, you know, there are a lot of people that
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 7: copy Chubby Checkers who had offshoots of his song, The Twist,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 7: slow twisting.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a big fad for two years with
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: The Twist. Now, yeah okay now wait forget it but
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: stop for a second stop now lie down on the
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: couch lie down we're gonna have to psychoanalyze you what
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: is this obsession with chubby checker all about where did.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 7: This come from i believe he should be in the
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 7: hall of fame he had 10 different dance songs the limbo.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: The huckle these were all cheap fads i mean they
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: were very good the limbo was a big fad for
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: a year these were fad records novelty records.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 7: Okay, I got another question for you.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: No, seriously, what is this Chubby Checker obsession?
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 7: No, I just think he's worthy of going into the
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 7: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: He's worthy because there's nobody left. All the greats went
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: in first. You know, I love that Gilbert O'Sullivan with
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: Remember Alone Again Naturally. I love those records. He had
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: three or four greats. But he's not a Rock and
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: Roll Hall of Fame guy. He was not a big influence.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: He was a silly little guy with a couple of
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: nice hits.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 7: 40 chart songs, that's pretty good. Let me, one other thing.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 7: I'll give you another one. Anecdotally, I wonder if you
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 7: could talk about a restaurant you probably knew, closed about
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 7: 10 years ago in the Meatpacking District, Italian restaurant, famous,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 7: maybe you can call it infamous, probably frequented by Vincent.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 7: Do you know the name of it? Would it close?
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 7: And I wonder if you had an anecdote.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm blanking out. Was it Il Posto or something?
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  Speaker 7: On De Broglie Street?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Bonti's.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Patti's. Oh, I thought that's not really the meatpacking district.
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  Speaker 2: That's like on the water.
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  Speaker 7: Well, they say it's meatpacking on the West Side Highway.
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  Speaker 2: No, there was a great Italian restaurant in the meatpacking
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  Speaker 2: district that's closed because Google bought the whole building. It's
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  Speaker 2: actually where the Crane Club is now in that building.
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  Speaker 2: But Patti's was an old landmark. But didn't somebody in
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  Speaker 2: that whole deal, somebody involved in the restaurant get indicted?
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  Speaker 7: Well, it was a big family feud over the proceeds
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  Speaker 7: of his— he had about 30 real estate— No.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know who— somebody involved in that whole restaurant
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  Speaker 2: got indicted or went to jail, something like that, right?
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  Speaker 14: I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 7: But, you know, he sold that property for $ 115 million
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  Speaker 7: in 19—I'm.
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  Speaker 16: Sorry, 2015.
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  Speaker 2: No, I was actually there a couple of times. Ponty
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  Speaker 2: was a landmark over there. Let's go to the expert.
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  Speaker 2: Vincent and Brooklyn, we only got about 30 seconds. You
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: remember Ponty's?
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  Speaker 12: No, I don't, Mark. But speaking about our place you
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  Speaker 12: just mentioned, I used to hang out there a lot
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  Speaker 12: at the Bossett Hotel, a beautiful hotel. In fact, somebody,
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  Speaker 12: an acquaintance of mine, one night went up in there,
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 12: took a half a bottle of sleeping pills and drank
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 12: a half a bottle of scotch and took his own life.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 12: But me and my friends used to hang out there.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like a wonderful hotel. Now, what did you and
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: your friends do there, or shouldn't we ask?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We got it.
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  Speaker 11: Well, anyway.
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  Speaker 12: They had a great lounge. The lobby of the hotel
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 12: is absolutely gorgeous. I hope they don't destroy it. It's
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 12: on Montague Street and Hick Street. And we used to
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 12: go there, especially the lounge was open until 3 at night.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 12: And I used to live in Brooklyn Heights at the time.
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  Speaker 12: And it was a great place to hang out.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: Like the Roberts Lodge in Goodfellas, that kind of place?
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, actually. But Eva Mara probably knows it. It's
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 12: on the corner of Vincent.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Vincent, we've got to go because we've got to
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: do the news. But call tomorrow. We've got more time tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. When we come back, the greatest pollster
• 1:31:59
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• 1:32:02
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• 1:32:04
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  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, all these public polls, you see, they're just terrible.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: They're just rigged, rotten. Forget all these public polls. Now,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: the real polls, that's what the candidates actually use. The
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: real polls, far more expensive, much more scientific behind the scenes.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: The best pollster in the world is John McLaughlin. He's
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: got a website, McLaughlinOnline.com. McLaughlinOnline.com. But he's with us now.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: John McLaughlin, how are you doing?
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 10: I'm doing well. I'm... Busy times, 43 days till election day.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So, hey, these public polls, these media polls, these
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: college polls, they use the wrong everything, the wrong list.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: They use the wrong demographics, the wrong age group. They
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: undersample Republicans. They do this all the time. It's fascinating.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: You could tell people this, show them the fake metrics,
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: and they still keep reading them every day and talking
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: about them. How do they get away with this all
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: these years?
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 10: Uh, they own the media. I mean, you know, you,
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 10: we've been friends for years and I've talked about this 2016.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 10: You had a Hillary lock. Remember it was a lock
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 10: on election day. She was going to win. We, Trump
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 10: had no chance. And in 2024, it was going to
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 10: be a Biden blue wave and ends up being 44,000
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 10: votes in three States, 11,000 in Georgia, Arizona, and 20,000 in, uh,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 10: in Wisconsin that decided the race out of, you know,
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 10: 160 million votes. And in 2024, they, you know, President
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 10: Kamala Harris, she was going to win. And Trump, not
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 10: only did we win, but he, you know, he won
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 10: the popular vote and he swept the seven battleground states
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 10: and it was a decisive electoral victory. But he won
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 10: all the metrics. And, you know, it was a big win,
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 10: not close. And now, you know, you have the same
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 10: thing where you're saying a lot of these Senate races,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 10: like in Texas, Univision comes out with a survey.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 11: They use YouGov.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 10: They got, you know, they're under-polling Trump voters. They're under-polling Republicans.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 10: But they do it on purpose in these different media
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 10: outlets because it helps the Democrats fundraise. It tries to
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 10: suppress Republican fundraising. And the worst is turnout because in
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 10: the midterm, it's a lower turnout than a presidential election.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 10: So in 2024, we had 155 million people come out
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 10: and Trump got 50%. He got 77 million votes. So
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 10: the Democrats and the liberal media know that that 77
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 10: million that voted for Trump will decide this election. So
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 10: they're doing everything they can to suppress the Trump vote. So, oh, it's,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 10: you know, this one can't win that, you know, Tallarico
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 10: is going to win in Texas. And they got two
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 10: Dan Sullivan's in Alaska. You like that in Alaska? The Democrats,
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 10: the incumbent Republican who's popular is named Dan Sullivan. So
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 10: what do they do? They find some other guy on
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 10: the voter rolls named Dan Sullivan, and they qualify him
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 10: for the ballot because in Alaska, they changed the election
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 10: law so that the top four are on the ballot
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 10: from the primaries. It's an open primary. So the top four,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 10: so you have two Dan Sullivans to try to confuse
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 10: the voters. But it's that kind of stuff.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: You can't do that in Michigan. Michigan, where are you
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: going to find another guy named Mohammed Abdul El-Sayan Hassan, whatever?
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: You can't find them in Dearborn.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 10: You'd find them in Dearborn. It's like there's probably– no,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 10: there's a significant Arab population in the state. So it's like–
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 10: but they can't do that. But it's a dead-even race
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 10: in a lot of these polls between Mike Rogers in
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 10: Michigan and El Sayed. And El Sayed is trying to
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 10: disavow this guy he campaigned with in the primary, Hassan Piker,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 10: who was saying– you know, we brought nine 11 on ourselves.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's like, so, so you, you've got the,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 10: the Democrat socialists, the socialists inside the Democrat party have
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 10: taken over their nomination. A lot of places like in Maine, uh,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 10: Troy Jackson came in for platinum after he fell out.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 10: And then, and then you got El Sayed and they
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 10: got Tallarico in Texas. You've got real socialists who really,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 10: you know, do believe the United States, uh, is at
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 10: fault for a lot of things. And, They would raise
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 10: your taxes not by little but by trillions, probably about
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 10: $ 2, 000 or $ 3, 000.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: But in the real polls, what do Americans think of
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: this socialism in the real polls?
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 10: Oh, they're really unpopular. I mean it's one of those
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 10: things where the Democrats within their party, the moderate Democrats
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 10: reject it and they're having a kind of civil war.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 10: But then the leaders like Schumer and– You know, Hakeem Jeffries,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 10: the leader of the Democrats in the House, they're saying
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 10: they should have a big tent. So they're letting them in.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 10: In the meantime, you know, we're running campaigns for, like,
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 10: Janine Driscoll, who's running against Laura Gillen, and Tom Suozzi's
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 10: running against Michael Petri on Long Island. And those Republicans
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 10: are running against the Mondami-Hockel socialists. And even in New York, like,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 10: New York's a two-to-one Democrat state, but Bruce Blakeman's within
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 10: a handful of points of Kathy Hockel. mainly because they
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 10: know she's going to give in to Mondami after election day.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 10: It's a very poorly kept secret. The Democrat socialists have
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 10: asked for, Mondami's asked for, huge tax hikes. Mondami wants
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 10: a 9.5% property tax hike on all the homeowners in
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 10: New York City and all the real estate in New
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 10: York City, including everything that's owned by Donald Trump and
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 10: other people, all this real estate. But they also want
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 10: a 2% corporate surcharge. They want Surcharges on income, they
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 10: want to lower the threshold of the estate tax, the
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 10: debt tax, down to $ 750, 000. So if you own a
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 10: home for $ 750, 000, you die, your kids will have to
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 10: give it to the government.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: So the polls, the seven or eight Senate races that
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: are crucial, how are we going to do in them?
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 10: Well, there's actually nine that's rated as a toss-up right
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 10: now when you look at them. I think there's potential surprises.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 10: Michelle Tafoya in Minnesota is running against one of these socialists,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 10: Tim Walz's lieutenant governor, this woman named Ferguson. She's bizarre.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 10: And that race is tied in Minnesota. And in New Hampshire,
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 10: there's been some polls that have... John Sununu ahead of
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 10: Pappas in New Hampshire, so we could pick up that.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 10: But then also some of these toss-ups like Ohio and Iowa,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 10: we should not be tied in Ohio and Iowa with
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 10: the Democrats. And in Texas, there's polls out that have
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 10: Tallarico ahead. I just don't believe I polled for Trump
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 10: you know, in every election in Texas, and we won decisively,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 10: the last one by 14 points. And I'm looking at
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 10: the details of these polls, and I'm like, you know,
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 10: Paxton's going to win in Texas. And Abbott should win decisively.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 10: These polls that have the governor losing and Paxton losing
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 10: look like their demographics are definitely skewed left. So that's
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 10: going well. And, you know, in Maine, the polls are close.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 10: And Susan Collins, you know, she voted against She voted
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 10: to impeach Trump at one point, but he endorsed her.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 10: So she was like seven points ahead of Trump the last.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: Time she ran. But these races like Maine, Michigan, where
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: it's close, how will it break? Will it break for
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: the Republicans, do you think?
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 10: It's a toss-up. Michigan's a toss-up, and there's plenty of
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 10: races that are toss-ups that the next 43 days are critical.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's one of those things where we really
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 10: do have to get our vote out. We really have
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 10: to let them win. We have to play offense against
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 10: these Democrats.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: But that requires messaging. What is the Republican message? I
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: don't hear it.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 10: Well, it's a problem because they, you know, when the
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 10: president wanted to have voter ID and improve for citizenship
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 10: in the Save America Act, the Republican Senate couldn't pass it.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 10: That's why Cornyn lost his primary to Paxton. So individual
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 10: Republican candidates are going to have to go after their
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 10: Democratic opponents. and basically say when he talks about Medicare
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 10: for All, he means eliminating any private health insurance you have.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 10: It'll be all government-run. It'll be paid for by massive
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 10: increases in taxes. And they're going to have to, 43 days,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 10: they have to bring the issues to the Democrats. Open borders,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 10: et cetera.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 5: They've got to run.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: How do they message that?
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 10: Well, the gas prices are tough because Iran, they know
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 10: exactly what they're doing. They know we're in a midterm election.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 10: They know that Donald Trump has them on the ropes.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 10: And they're doing everything they can with their terrorist allies,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 10: whether it's the Houthis or whatever, to shut down the
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 10: world's oil supply. So, you know, Besson has these economic
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 10: sanctions against them. And I think the Republicans have to say, look,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 10: we've got a choice. We've got, you know, either Iran
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 10: gets the nuclear weapon or we stop them right now.
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 10: We ought to. do everything we can to finish the job,
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 10: and the prices of gas will come down. So, you know,
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 10: I think President Trump's been more than patient with the Iranians. And,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 10: you know, those economic sanctions are going to take a
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 10: little time to work, but that's better than a lot
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 10: of other options. But right now, Iran, you know, they
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 10: know what they're doing. They are basically doing it to
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 10: raise the price of gas to affect the American midterm elections.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: Hey, we only got a minute left. Bruce Blakeman. Good
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: shot at winning New.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 10: York, I hope.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 10: Very good shot at winning New York, precisely because, I mean,
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 10: when you talk about affordability, Kathy Hochul, she's allowed 48
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 10: utility rate hikes. We pay enormous utility bills, and she
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 10: has the nerve to say she's going to give back
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 10: $ 100 or $ 200 to raise them by thousands. And then
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 10: she has, you know, she's raised taxes $ 8 billion on
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 10: New Yorkers, and you now have her and Mondami are
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 10: thinking of ways to... after Election Day to raise taxes
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 10: by billions more. Plus, Mondami wants to close Rikers Island.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 10: Both Hochul and Mondami support cashless bail and letting criminals
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 10: loose and open borders. So Bruce has a really good
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 10: shot because the reality of their daily lives says things
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 10: could get better because Hochul I mean, four years ago
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 10: against Lee Zeldin, they weren't sure they liked her. Now
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 10: they know they don't like her. So most New Yorkers
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 10: want change. And Bruce is doing an excellent job working
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 10: really hard, really.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's doing well.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 10: We've got 43 days to turn that around. It's really
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 10: important for New York.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, John McLaughlin, keep up the good work.
• 1:42:45
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  Speaker 10: As long as we keep winning, because Trump won his race,
• 1:43:01
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• 1:43:03
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, Mark.
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