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

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  Speaker 1: Now, more Mark Simone on 710WOR. Hey, it's Monday already,
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  Speaker 1: the final week, heading into Labor Day weekend, so a
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  Speaker 1: lot to get to. Hey, Friday was the funeral, Dolly
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  Speaker 1: Parton's funeral. Very, very emotional. Just a small, small, small
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  Speaker 1: family funeral. Loved ones gathered at the Nashville burial site
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  Speaker 1: just three days after her death. And very, very... touching
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  Speaker 1: of a funeral. And they were all dressed up beautiful
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  Speaker 1: suits and ties. And, uh, the gravesite was a crawling
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  Speaker 1: with cops. Uh, apparently they wanted absolute privacy. So before
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  Speaker 1: anybody got there, police all over the place, sealing off
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  Speaker 1: the area, it was a very small, very private service,
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  Speaker 1: just the immediate family. She was buried next to her
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  Speaker 1: husband of 58 years, Carl, who died in March. She
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  Speaker 1: was 82. Uh, Parton's name was already on the tombstone.
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  Speaker 1: It was all there. It's in a beautiful, beautiful area
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  Speaker 1: of Tennessee, Woodland Memorial Park and Mausoleum, which will be
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  Speaker 1: her final resting place. Her parents are buried there, as
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  Speaker 1: I say, her husband, and a lot of great country
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  Speaker 1: musicians are buried there, including Porter Wagner, who helped launch
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  Speaker 1: her career, and her friend Tammy Wynette. She was buried
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  Speaker 1: in a cotton dress. She requested that because of years
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  Speaker 1: of wearing those rhinestones. They were very uncomfortable. She wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be buried in a soft cotton dress, but she
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  Speaker 1: was buried with her stilettos on. She wants a beautiful
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  Speaker 1: bed of plush cotton because after all the rhinestones, she
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  Speaker 1: deserves to be comfortable, she told her nephew, who arranged everything. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Tennessee... will rename the Nashville airport Dolly
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  Speaker 1: Parton Airport. The governor has said they'll do it. He
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  Speaker 1: put out a joint statement. The governor and the Metropolitan
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  Speaker 1: Nashville Airport Authority, they will rename the airport. That's great news. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Bessant doing a lot of great work. You talk
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  Speaker 1: about somebody for 2028. Keep an eye on Scott Bessant.
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  Speaker 1: But the Treasury is finally going to crack down on
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  Speaker 1: these bad charities, the Soros-type stuff. They went after the
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  Speaker 1: Southern Poverty Law Center, which for years, liberals, CNN, MSNBC
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  Speaker 1: held that up high as the gold standard. Well, they
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  Speaker 1: went after the Southern Poverty Law Center. They find out
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  Speaker 1: it was all sleazy, dirty scheme, funding white supremacists, deliberately
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  Speaker 1: starting riots. So they've gone after them. But now they're
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  Speaker 1: looking at open society. These are all these George Soros things. CARE, C-A-I-R,
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  Speaker 1: you know that group? That's the group that blamed 9-11
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  Speaker 1: on the U.S. supporting Israel. This is the group that
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  Speaker 1: recommended bin Laden's writings be taught in school. Horrible, horrible people.
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  Speaker 1: They spent a lot of their time and money slamming Israel.
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  Speaker 1: That's not politics. It's not political. So it's just political. It's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, But Besson is right to go after them.
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  Speaker 1: They're not really charities. Carr has also been accused of
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  Speaker 1: having terrible ties to Cutter and other stuff. So go
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  Speaker 1: after them. Go after Open Society, all those George Soros things.
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  Speaker 1: They're not charities. They're political activist groups. Shut them down
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  Speaker 1: one by one. It's a great thing to do. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of sleazy charities, the Clinton Foundation is looking for
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  Speaker 1: an intern But in this case, it's Hillary Clinton you'll
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  Speaker 1: be working for. It's Hillary Clinton that will be hiring.
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  Speaker 1: The intern needs, it says, a high level of discretion.
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  Speaker 1: I would think so at that Clinton Foundation. Not just
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  Speaker 1: for the shenanigans, but for where the hell the money
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  Speaker 1: actually goes. But apparently Bill is not allowed to have
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  Speaker 1: an intern and he's not allowed to be involved in
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  Speaker 1: the intern hiring. You can imagine why. So it'll be
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton. Now, she has an office on Madison Avenue
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  Speaker 1: in New York City. For what? Nobody knows. It's an office.
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  Speaker 1: They got a desk. They got computers. They got secretaries.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knows what the hell they do in there all day.
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  Speaker 1: But that's where the internal work. Now, Bill Clinton's team
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  Speaker 1: at the foundation is looking for a special projects associate
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  Speaker 1: to help with similar tasks that includes drafting meeting agendas,
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  Speaker 1: editing briefs, helping to coordinate activities between his office and
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  Speaker 1: the foundation. You might say, well, what are these activities? Well,
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  Speaker 1: raising money, getting them donors to write some checks. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what is this coordinating between him and the foundation? Well, again,
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  Speaker 1: pay for everything. Pay for my travel, pay for everything.
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  Speaker 1: That's basically all they do in this Clinton Foundation. They
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  Speaker 1: fund themselves with it. You know, they'll take these incredible
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  Speaker 1: trips And Clinton's still got some wealthy donors out there,
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  Speaker 1: big business guys that think he can, well, he can help.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's very popular with world leaders all over
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  Speaker 1: the world. And if you're trying to do business in
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  Speaker 1: India or someplace, you bring Bill Clinton with you and
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  Speaker 1: he can walk you right into the prime minister's office
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  Speaker 1: and get things done. Now, apparently Hillary makes sure that
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  Speaker 1: it's all males working with Clinton. Remember Leona Helmsley? Remember
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  Speaker 1: that awful Leona Helmsley? She went to prison. And her husband,
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  Speaker 1: Harry Helmsley, was so sick he had to have nurses
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  Speaker 1: around the clock. She made sure that there were only
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  Speaker 1: male nurses. No female nurses were allowed in the house.
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  Speaker 1: Only male nurses with Harry Helmsley, which shows you that
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  Speaker 1: Harry wasn't completely dead there. Now, this crazy Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's upset about Mom Donnie. Oh, they can't stand Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's afraid of Mom Donnie. You know, I wouldn't worry
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  Speaker 1: about it that much. As nuts as he is, he
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  Speaker 1: gets absolutely nothing done. You'll never see these grocery stores.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you'll ever see this pied-à-terre tax. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think I'll ever actually get it to happen. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he talked about his free child care. We have it
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  Speaker 1: to a certain extent, but he's expanding it. Very, very
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  Speaker 1: expanded free child care for everybody. Sounds good. All right.
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  Speaker 1: But the providers... Say it's time for the childcare, school started,
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  Speaker 1: and they never got the money. Nothing ever happened. Some
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  Speaker 1: of them went into their own pockets and spent their
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  Speaker 1: own money on it. But this 2K pilot program, apparently
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  Speaker 1: nothing's been done. Nothing happened. The Department of Education blamed
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  Speaker 1: the bean counters and the Comptroller's Office for whatever... for
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  Speaker 1: not registering the contracts, but whatever the reason, it never happened.
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  Speaker 1: The money's not there. Nothing will ever happen. Same thing,
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  Speaker 1: the free buses. You'll never see any free buses. As
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  Speaker 1: long as you live, you'll never see any free buses.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, the mayor doesn't even have anything to
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  Speaker 1: say about buses. They're controlled by the state, by the MTA.
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  Speaker 1: Grocery store, you'll never see one. It'll never actually happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the other thing with the tenants, he's squeezing
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  Speaker 1: the landlord's, with his rent freezes, with this. Apparently, as
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  Speaker 1: he's done this to the landlords, they've had to cut services.
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  Speaker 1: If you start screwing around with the landlord's money, they'll
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  Speaker 1: cut services. And that's caused a big surge, 25% surge
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  Speaker 1: in complaints to 311. Big problems with the property. So
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  Speaker 1: they're all complaining like crazy. And some people think, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's the real plot. You get the landlords to be
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  Speaker 1: so bad deliberately that the government can come over and
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  Speaker 1: take over the housing. Well, when the government takes over,
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  Speaker 1: you get the worst housing ever. You get really horrifying
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  Speaker 1: conditions like the NYCHA, New York City Housing Authority. NYCHA housings,
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  Speaker 1: they're the worst, absolute worst. So you might not like
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  Speaker 1: these landlords, but they're a thousand times better than NYCHA housing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you heard the story on the news, the Met Gala
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  Speaker 1: for 2027. It's not till next year. But the stupid,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous Met Gala was to honor John Galliano, the famous designer.
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  Speaker 1: And he's just announced today he's out. Intense backlash over
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  Speaker 1: his anti-Semitism. Now, this guy is a total, complete, vicious,
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  Speaker 1: ugly anti-Semite. There was this famous incident in Paris where
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  Speaker 1: in the bar he got, I don't know, something happened.
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  Speaker 1: He started screaming anti-Semitic things. at Jewish patrons yelling at
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  Speaker 1: them that Hitler was right. I mean, it's on video.
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  Speaker 1: Really ugly anti-Semitic things. In fact, that incident got him
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  Speaker 1: convicted of hate crime. He's actually been convicted in France
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  Speaker 1: of hate crime. And he's got a history of anti-Semitic stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a history of saying racist stuff, anti-Asian stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So they've decided not to honor him. Now, The big
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  Speaker 1: question is, well, why the hell were you honoring? All
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  Speaker 1: this stuff was known. Everything was known about. Why were
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  Speaker 1: you honoring him in the first place? Well, they finally
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  Speaker 1: decided to drop him. Why? Intense pressure from sponsors, advertisers,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently city council speaker Julie Menon got involved. She's Jewish.
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  Speaker 1: She's the city council speaker. That's as powerful as the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: She got all over them. So the pressure got too
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  Speaker 1: intense and they dropped them acting like they're doing the
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  Speaker 1: right thing. But they're not. They did the wrong thing
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  Speaker 1: by picking him in the first place. They knew all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff, and he was the honoree for months, months.
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  Speaker 1: They heard all about the anti-Semitic stuff, and they decided
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  Speaker 1: to keep him. It wasn't until serious political pressure hit
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  Speaker 1: them That they decided to get rid of him. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a disgusting thing that they would even think of
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  Speaker 1: making this guy the honoree, let alone made him the honoree. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we played this before. Heidi Tong retiring after all these years.
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  Speaker 1: But it's time to move on. You know, I'm 80
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  Speaker 1: years old now. Nearly. As you know, Shirley. 80 years young.
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling it. I'm tired. And it's time to make
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  Speaker 1: room for the young bloods, right? Well. She looks good.
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  Speaker 1: She sounds good. I don't know why she's, the young
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  Speaker 1: bloods at Channel 11 are in their 70s. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about Mr. G before I found this cut. Mr. G,
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  Speaker 1: great guy on Kitey Tongue. I always loved her. And
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  Speaker 1: ever since I saw her, I thought she was, she
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  Speaker 1: just captured me. But then I realized she captured everybody. Oh, gosh, more. More.
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  Speaker 1: Who's next? We love you. Oh, I love you all back.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. This has been amazing. I'm overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying not to cry. All right. It's getting a
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  Speaker 1: little too mushy here. Oh, hey, another reason. I forgot
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  Speaker 1: about this. Another reason you want to love Scott Besant. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: did he tell off Elizabeth Warren. You know, Elizabeth Warren
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  Speaker 1: pretends she's smart, pretends she's an expert on stuff. So,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. She was battling with Besant about foreign
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  Speaker 1: exchange rates and all that stuff. Besant. And he put
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  Speaker 1: this in writing. He wrote it out in a letter
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  Speaker 1: and sent it to her and said, your attacks unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: reveal that you know even less about foreign exchange markets
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  Speaker 1: than you do about banking. You remember she was pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be some sort of banking expert, which she has
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  Speaker 1: absolutely no expertise, no knowledge of. And then Besson writes,
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  Speaker 1: what is equally shocking, but not surprising, is not a
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  Speaker 1: single member of your media mob has a rudimentary enough
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  Speaker 1: level of financial market literacy to spot your immediate error.
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  Speaker 1: And then Besson offered to give her a foreign exchange
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  Speaker 1: for dummies tutorial. Now, nobody deserves this more than Elizabeth Warren.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she's got the little granny glasses and the
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  Speaker 1: short hair, and she looks professorial and looks smart and
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  Speaker 1: sounds smart, but is an idiot. So she was pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be a banking expert. pretending to be an economics
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  Speaker 1: expert and doesn't know a damn thing about it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this U.S. Open, am I supposed to be interested in this?
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  Speaker 1: Is it just me? I have no interest in this.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like fun. If you go into any of
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  Speaker 1: the major hotels in New York, I was in the
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  Speaker 1: Plaza last night, this hotel, that hotel, they got incredible
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  Speaker 1: displays for the U.S. Open because a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: players are staying there. But you're supposed to be interested.
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  Speaker 1: But every time I put on the news, this guy
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  Speaker 1: got eliminated and Crankovic and Jokovic and Hockovic and whatever
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  Speaker 1: Vic got eliminated. I don't know who they are. And
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  Speaker 1: then they show you the food. Oh, they have incredible
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  Speaker 1: food there. They show you this chicken nuggets with caviar
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  Speaker 1: or something. It's like $ 200 for each. I'm in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of Manhattan. We got the greatest food in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Do I need to go out to Flushing, Queens to
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  Speaker 1: get some? No. I mean, there is good food in Queens.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Utopia Bagels, one of the best in the world.
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  Speaker 1: But speaking of bagels, you've seen these pop-up bagels all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. These were two guys in Connecticut that
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  Speaker 1: loved bagels. They're Jewish. They grew up with bagels. They
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  Speaker 1: loved bagels. So they started making their own at home,
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  Speaker 1: just in their kitchen. They learned how to make bagels.
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  Speaker 1: And the more they practiced making their bagels, the better
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  Speaker 1: they got. And their friends, it was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a Paul Newman thing, where all their friends loved it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, his salad dressing was given to friends. These
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  Speaker 1: guys are giving the bagels that they loved it so
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  Speaker 1: much that word spread. Everybody wanted them. So they started
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  Speaker 1: to sell them from home. Next thing you know, they
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  Speaker 1: called it. They created a little pop-up, a little pop-up bagels.
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  Speaker 1: They put them in bags. And then they grew this
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  Speaker 1: thing into they're the hottest bagel in the world right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're all over Manhattan. They're all over, you know, major places.
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  Speaker 1: But hedge funds saw what a great business this is.
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  Speaker 1: Hedge funds to pumped in hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: They're opening these pop-up bagels all over America. They started
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  Speaker 1: in Connecticut. They're all over Manhattan. If you're in the suburbs,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got one in Roslyn, Long Island. There's
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  Speaker 1: one about to open, Walt Whitman Mall, Huntington. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to be all over the place. The business, these two
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  Speaker 1: guys started in their kitchen. It's now worth $ 300 million.
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  Speaker 1: Just a couple of years later, hedge funds are pouring
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  Speaker 1: in more money. You know, you used to have the
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  Speaker 1: great bagels, H & H and Essa Bagels. Forget it.
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  Speaker 1: These pop-up bagels left them in the dust. It's different.
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  Speaker 1: You can't slice them. There's no slicing them in half.
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  Speaker 1: They're fluffier than regular bagels. They're delicious. You rip them
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  Speaker 1: open and you dip them. They call them schmears, but
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  Speaker 1: they're all different flavors. They've got great flavors, dozens of flavors.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a smart business. You have to buy three bagels.
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  Speaker 1: That's the smallest order, a bag of three. You got
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  Speaker 1: no choice. And they're so delicious, you'll do it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we always love new callers. 800-321-0710.