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Hour 3: A share of SpaceX is going to kids. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, well, two weeks from today, Election Day. Two weeks
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  Speaker 2: from today, Election Day. Make sure you vote. That's the key.
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to win? Depends on turnout. Republicans get the turnout,
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  Speaker 2: they win. Democrats get more turnout, they win. Oh, make
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  Speaker 2: sure you vote. Now, it's going to be some night,
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  Speaker 2: two weeks from Tonight, two weeks from tonight, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be glued to the TV watching all these races.
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  Speaker 2: Looks very good for Republicans in the Senate, the House.
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  Speaker 2: It's too close to call. I know you're going to
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  Speaker 2: hear a million different opinions. It's too close to call.
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  Speaker 2: Netflix is in trouble. You know, a million years ago, Netflix,
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  Speaker 2: they really pioneered streaming. And remember, the stock was like
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  Speaker 2: 40 bucks and then it went to 400. It was
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  Speaker 2: like the hottest thing in the world. Everybody was watching Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: And Netflix got better and better and better. While the
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  Speaker 2: networks were dying, Netflix went all over Hollywood hiring the
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  Speaker 2: best writers, the best producers, the best directors, the top actors,
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  Speaker 2: paying them a fortune, more than the networks would. Paying
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  Speaker 2: them a fortune to create big, big blockbuster shows. They
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  Speaker 2: had better comedies, sitcoms, better dramas, better everything than them.
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  Speaker 2: than the networks could ever do because they were spending
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  Speaker 2: more money. They were hiring all the top talent. It
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  Speaker 2: was unbelievable. Netflix just got bigger and bigger. It got
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  Speaker 2: so big. I think it was Eisner was first at
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  Speaker 2: Disney who said to himself one day, why are we
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  Speaker 2: selling all this stuff to Netflix? Why don't we create
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  Speaker 2: our own streaming service and not give it all to Netflix?
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  Speaker 2: So they did. And then it was NBC and Paramount.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else said, What are we selling them content for?
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  Speaker 2: We'll create our own streaming service. So next thing you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's like eight major streaming companies. And now Netflix has
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  Speaker 2: been having a lot of trouble attracting talent, finding anything different.
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  Speaker 2: So they've lost a lot of viewers, a lot of streamers.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not so much Netflix's fault. They just didn't
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  Speaker 2: see all this coming. And I don't know what you
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  Speaker 2: could have done to stop it. But now, It's just
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  Speaker 2: like network TV or cable TV. The pie is now
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  Speaker 2: getting split a million different ways. So Netflix doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: the audience anymore. It doesn't have the, as a result,
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  Speaker 2: the subscribers revenue has dropped. Netflix just laid off a
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  Speaker 2: thousand people earlier, about a week ago. And then the
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  Speaker 2: numbers again are dropping. And it's what happened to cable TV.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you were the first, HBO was the
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  Speaker 2: first cable network. They had everybody on cable. Well, now
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  Speaker 2: there's 400 cable channels. It's a whole different world. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: on CNN, I mentioned before, Jon Stewart, Comedy Central loves him.
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  Speaker 2: They just re-signed him for a couple of years. On CNN,
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  Speaker 2: where they have no ratings, they're in last place all
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  Speaker 2: the time, constantly. CNN, these anchors at CNN are so delusional.
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  Speaker 2: So elitist. You know, on this show, we do very
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  Speaker 2: well on this show. We're number one. We kill the competition.
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  Speaker 2: We got big ratings. We're very happy. But if we
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  Speaker 2: were in last place, if we were the worst, we
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  Speaker 2: had low ratings, nobody, you can't get delusional about it.
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  Speaker 2: You got to wonder what to do, how to fix.
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  Speaker 2: But over at CNN, all of these people there, these anchors,
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  Speaker 2: these CNN anchors, they think they're untouchable. They think they're,
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  Speaker 2: gods of broadcasting. They're terrible. They're in last place. They
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  Speaker 2: got nobody watching. So Christiane Amanpour, a very distinguished Christiane Amanpour. Now,
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  Speaker 2: she was great as a war correspondent back in the
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  Speaker 2: Gulf War. That's where she really, really made her name.
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  Speaker 2: But then she went on to be a CNN anchor, host.
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  Speaker 2: She took over for Charlie Rose. But even that show,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Charlie Rose show and its heyday had...
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  Speaker 2: 60,000 viewers. That was about it. It was never, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was a very fine show, but it never had
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  Speaker 2: any audience. I mean, it was very elite Manhattan sort
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  Speaker 2: of audience, but that was about it. And Christiane Amanpour,
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  Speaker 2: nice woman, tries hard, very left-wing, biased, but she's got
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  Speaker 2: no audience. So she's leaving CNN. The word is they
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  Speaker 2: tried to cut her salary. She's getting millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's another thing. If you're Over at CNN,
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  Speaker 2: big anchor and you're in last place and you got
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  Speaker 2: no viewers and you're getting 500,000 a year. Okay. But
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  Speaker 2: if you're getting 5 million a year, it's insane. So
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  Speaker 2: there's new owners of CNN, normal, sane, rational business people.
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  Speaker 2: And they come in and they look at your Christiane Amanpour.
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  Speaker 2: You got 12 viewers. You're in last place. Why are
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  Speaker 2: you getting 8 million a year? So apparently they really
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  Speaker 2: tried to cut her salary. So she's leaving. She made
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  Speaker 2: the announcement after more than four decades. It says, one
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  Speaker 2: of the most recognizable faces. Walk down the street with
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  Speaker 2: Christiane Amanpour. See how recognizable she is. 99.999% of people
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  Speaker 2: walking by have no idea who the hell she is.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you told them who she is, they still
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't know who she is. She put out a statement,
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  Speaker 2: after many months of thought and a few sleepless nights,
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  Speaker 2: I've decided to separate from CNN, my partner of 43
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  Speaker 2: fantastic years. Okay, very gracious statement. Sleepless nights. Hey, back
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  Speaker 2: when you were in last place, that's when you should
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  Speaker 2: have the sleepless nights. I'm in last place. I got
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  Speaker 2: low viewers, no audience. What the hell can I do?
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  Speaker 2: She said it was philosophical differences. Some people said philosophical differences.
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  Speaker 2: Other people that know what they're doing said she was
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  Speaker 2: also offered to stay at a Drastic pay cut, which
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  Speaker 2: she didn't want to do. She did say she doesn't
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  Speaker 2: like the new owners. These are the people that took
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  Speaker 2: over CBS and put Barry Weiss in. You know, these left-wingers,
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  Speaker 2: they're furious about Barry Weiss. They think Barry Weiss is
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  Speaker 2: a crazy Republican conservative coming in. She's a liberal. She's
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  Speaker 2: a Democrat. Barry Weiss is a liberal Democrat. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is she's a Bill Clinton Democrat. You know, a sane Democrat. Normal,
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  Speaker 2: old fashioned Democrat, not a crazy, a woke socialist Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: She's a Bill Clinton Democrat, but she's from the New
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  Speaker 2: York Times. She's a Democrat. But even Christiane Amanpour said
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  Speaker 2: in an interview, I have great concern about her. Clearly
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  Speaker 2: I'm concerned. I'm concerned because of what's happened, the way
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  Speaker 2: she's handled CBS News. What has she done at CBS News?
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  Speaker 2: Except trying to get it back to the way it was.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I do have to, do I have to
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  Speaker 2: list what's happening there? Hemorrhaging viewers. probably hemorrhaging money, the
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  Speaker 2: ideological realignment of CBS. Well, all she did is realign
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  Speaker 2: it from crazy left-wing back to normal left-wing. Remember, Amanpour,
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  Speaker 2: she's very left-wing. She's had a lot of backlash before. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: she was very anti-Israel in her coverage. Remember when they
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  Speaker 2: released the Israeli hostages, she said on the air in October,
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  Speaker 2: they were probably treated better than the average Gazan citizen.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know these Israeli hostages were beaten, raped, tortured,
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  Speaker 2: but the very biased Christiane Amanpour said they were treated
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  Speaker 2: better than the people in Gaza. Absolutely ridiculous. She got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of flack for it. She later apologized, calling
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  Speaker 2: it insensitive and wrong. She had to apologize because the
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  Speaker 2: backlash got intense. But you know, even if she apologized,
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  Speaker 2: she believed what she said, this real anti-Semitic crap that
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  Speaker 2: she said. Jerry Seinfeld getting a lot of flack. He
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  Speaker 2: had to give up colleges because the college students would
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  Speaker 2: just boo him like crazy college kids. But he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to do normal shows, does the Beacon Theater here in
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  Speaker 2: New York and big venues around the country. So he's
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago and the hecklers, they're going after Seinfeld because
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  Speaker 2: of Israel. It's absolutely ridiculous. You know, when you go
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  Speaker 2: to A Seinfeld show, all he's going to do is
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  Speaker 2: jokes about your phone, jokes about your dishwasher. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's nothing to do with politics. Never made a political
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  Speaker 2: comment in his life. But they're going after him. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to these hecklers. 22,000 Palestinians. Our children never killed. With
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  Speaker 2: our taxpayer money. With our taxpayer money and you're making jokes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm racist.
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  Speaker 3: Step aside.
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  Speaker 2: I'm into it. Apologize. Listen to these lunatics. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think? It sounds like I went to a mental
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  Speaker 2: institution and recorded this. There's like rabid dogs, these lunatics.
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  Speaker 2: They're nuts. Now, Seinfeld is in the middle of the show.
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  Speaker 2: And again, he's talking about, you know, using your phone.
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  Speaker 2: He's talking about Instagram. It's just funny, cute stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: this guy starts screaming.
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  Speaker 1: Seinfeld! Seinfeld! Listen to me.
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  Speaker 4: You're a racist.
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  Speaker 5: There are 74,000 dead Palestinians.
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  Speaker 2: 74,000!
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  Speaker 1: Palestinians have been killed by the racist state of Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Get the * * * * out of here. Sign * * * * out.
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  Speaker 1: You will see.
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  Speaker 2: Palestinians will be free. Yeah. He said, I'll find out
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  Speaker 2: how much you paid for the ticket. I'm sending it
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  Speaker 2: to Israel. So, but he doesn't deserve this. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: these are just crazy, insane lunatics. The last guy in
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  Speaker 2: the world that deserves this Jerry Seinfeld. He hasn't got
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  Speaker 2: a political bone in his body. Absolutely crazy. Hey, I
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  Speaker 2: was talking about Elon Musk. He's announced Elon Musk is
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  Speaker 2: going to give one share of SpaceX to every child
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  Speaker 2: in America next year. Every child. Now, a share of
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  Speaker 2: SpaceX is about, I think it's about $ 146 right now.
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  Speaker 2: A share. So there's about 73 million children in the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: under 18. so to give everybody a share of space,
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  Speaker 2: it would cost him about $ 10 billion. $ 10 billion is
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  Speaker 2: like 35 cents to us. 10 billion for him. He
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  Speaker 2: could find that much in his sofa cushions that slipped
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  Speaker 2: in there. 10 billion. Now, a share of SpaceX, it's
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  Speaker 2: a very, you know, great company. And a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people bought SpaceX. The IPO, I think was around 140 bucks.
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  Speaker 2: And it went to $ 500, but it's back to like
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  Speaker 2: around $ 140. But you'll make a lot of money on
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  Speaker 2: SpaceX stock. You're going to have to wait 20 years,
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  Speaker 2: but you'll make a lot of money. SpaceX will be
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  Speaker 2: an incredible stock. It'll go to $ 1, 000. But in 20
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  Speaker 2: years or 10 years or something, you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to hold it a long time. So that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: you should buy SpaceX because you're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: wait a long time. But if you're a little kid,
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  Speaker 2: a little child, yeah, by the time you're ready for college...
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  Speaker 2: It'll be worth a lot more money. So that's a
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  Speaker 2: great thing that he's doing. Anthropic is now saying they'll
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  Speaker 2: do the same thing. Anthropic getting in on that action,
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  Speaker 2: but great for Elon Musk. It's a $ 10 billion giveaway. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: out in California, Department of Justice, they're trying to find
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  Speaker 2: voter fraud everywhere and they're finding it. Every time they look,
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  Speaker 2: they find it. Out in California, there are 20,000 suspected
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  Speaker 2: non-citizens that have voted. They've asked California to cooperate. They've
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  Speaker 2: identified the 20,000 non-citizens who voted. California will not cooperate,
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  Speaker 2: but they're going in there anyway. They just arrested, it's
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  Speaker 2: called Operation Protect the Vote. They just arrested 24 of
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  Speaker 2: these people, foreign nationals, who fraudulently registered to vote in
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  Speaker 2: the U.S. They arrested them earlier this week and took
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  Speaker 2: them away. 24 have been arrested. Now, that's what you
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  Speaker 2: got to do because there are a lot of illegal
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  Speaker 2: people fraudulently registering to vote. Now, when they see people
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  Speaker 2: getting arrested and put in jail for that, that's the
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  Speaker 2: only thing that's going to discourage this. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: nothing's going to happen to you, you'll keep doing it.
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  Speaker 2: But when you see people actually getting arrested, handcuffed, taken
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  Speaker 2: out of their house, felony charges, thrown in jail, that's
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  Speaker 2: the only way you're ever going to stop this stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Knicks tonight, they're going to get their, what do you
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  Speaker 2: call them? Not World Series rings, playoff rings. championship rings
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  Speaker 2: they'll get them tonight after the game there were a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people like me probably who never watched basketball
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  Speaker 2: never paid any attention but those uh playoffs were so
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  Speaker 2: exciting last at the end of last season and the
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  Speaker 2: championship so exciting started watching it every night it was
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  Speaker 2: great you finally understood the magic of basketball so maybe
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  Speaker 2: you'll start watching this year but you got to remember
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  Speaker 2: the knicks aren't so hot until the end they definitely
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  Speaker 2: Don't really pick it up until the end of the season,
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  Speaker 2: so you're going to have to sit through that.
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  Speaker 1: Bagels.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if this were five years ago or ten years ago,
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  Speaker 2: you'd say, well, who makes the best bagels? Well, it
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  Speaker 2: was H & H bagels in Manhattan were considered the best.
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  Speaker 2: There was Essa bagel. Out in Queens, there was Utopia bagel.
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  Speaker 2: That's very good, that Utopia bagel. They always were winning
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  Speaker 2: as the best bagel in New York City. Out in Queens.
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  Speaker 2: And all these bagel things, you know, they try to expand.
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  Speaker 2: Utopia Bagels came into Manhattan. First, 34th Street, now there's
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  Speaker 2: one on 53rd. H & H has opened a few stores.
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  Speaker 2: Essa Bagel is opening more. So they're trying to expand.
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  Speaker 2: But the one that came out of nowhere and is
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  Speaker 2: becoming the bagel of America is Pop-Up Bagel. It started
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  Speaker 2: during the pandemic. These two kids in Westport, Connecticut, they're
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  Speaker 2: college kids or whatever they were, During the pandemic, started
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  Speaker 2: making bagels at home, and they worked and worked on
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  Speaker 2: it and tried and tried. They perfected the pop-up bagel,
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  Speaker 2: and they made the most unique cream cheeses that were
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  Speaker 2: a little softer. You could just dip the bagel, and
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  Speaker 2: they opened in Westport. That's the original first store. Then
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  Speaker 2: I think there was one in Greenwich, around Connecticut, and
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  Speaker 2: they became very big. Then they came into New York,
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  Speaker 2: and somewhere along the line, a big hedge fund, saw
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  Speaker 2: how good this product was, and put in like 400 million.
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  Speaker 2: There's now, I think, like 100 pop-up bagels around the country.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be the most famous bagel.
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  Speaker 1: In the world.
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  Speaker 2: They are delicious. And they get away with stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you had to buy a bag of 12. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: smallest order you can get, you have to buy a
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  Speaker 2: bag of three. There's nobody can eat three bagels. But
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  Speaker 2: you have to buy a minimum of three. So you're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to give away one or two. but
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  Speaker 2: it's a way to charge you more for each order.
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  Speaker 2: But again, hedge fund, hundreds of millions. They're opening all
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  Speaker 2: over the place. Even around here, there's a new one
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  Speaker 2: coming to Stanford, Huntington, Walt Whitman Mall, you're getting one.
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  Speaker 2: Just come back in about three years. They'll be like Starbucks.
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  Speaker 2: There'll be a pop-up bagel everywhere. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: the other bagel companies are going to do. Hey, we'll
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  Speaker 2: take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. And if
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  Speaker 2: you're a new caller, call us. We love that. 800- 321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: The Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's take some calls. Let's go to Kira, Beth Page. Kira,
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  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Good, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 7: I have two questions. Do you think the daylight savings
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  Speaker 7: time is going to stick? Because they were talking about it,
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  Speaker 7: and then they stopped talking about it. And then Trump
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  Speaker 7: keeps pushing it, but nobody's talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: No, it didn't pass this time. It will not be
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  Speaker 2: here in time for this year, but next year, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: you get it. The senator, I'm blanking out his name,
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  Speaker 2: from Arizona was the one that voted against it and
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  Speaker 2: stopped it.
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  Speaker 7: So one senator.
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  Speaker 2: The vote was that close that, yeah, they lost his vote. Arizona, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's Arkansas. Arkansas doesn't want it because they're right on
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  Speaker 2: the cusp of a time zone. which means almost an
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  Speaker 2: hour difference. So it would have been dark out in
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  Speaker 2: Arkansas until about 8.30, and they didn't want to do that.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, and my other question is, did Trump know that
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  Speaker 7: they probably won't get the House, but he offered the
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  Speaker 7: $ 5, 000 to everybody? Was that a ploy?
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  Speaker 2: A ploy from Donald Trump. Trump doing a ploy.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine such a thing. I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 7: You don't think so?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it looks very good for the Senate, for Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: and the House is pretty much could go either way
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  Speaker 2: right now. Yes, it's a ploy. Obviously, it's a ploy.
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  Speaker 2: It's like Oprah Winfrey with you get a car, you
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  Speaker 2: get a car. That's what ploys are. It's like Biden
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  Speaker 2: with the Biden phone or the Obama phone or Biden
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  Speaker 2: with I'll forgive your student loans. That's what politics is,
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  Speaker 2: a series of ploys. That's what a campaign is. But
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  Speaker 2: thanks for calling, Kira. Good call. Let's go to Barney
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  Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Barney, how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Bernie, the dinosaur. I'm announcing I'm throwing my hat in
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  Speaker 4: the ring as a Democrat candidate for president.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, great, great.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrats have been running dinosaurs for years. There was
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  Speaker 4: Hillary and Bernie and Biden. They need a dinosaur this year.
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  Speaker 2: All right, great. This is really funny.
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  Speaker 1: What a great call.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, let's go to John in Ronkonkoma. John, how are
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  Speaker 2: you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm doing good, Mark. I'm taking a call. I've
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of things.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to follow that call.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, why do we need.
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  Speaker 6: These pop-up bagels in New York when you can get
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  Speaker 6: bagels at any deli, get great bagels? You've got bagel shops.
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  Speaker 1: On every corner.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you, they're pretty good. It must not just
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  Speaker 2: be me. They're catching on. Have you had one? Have
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: you had one? Have you had one?
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: I have not yet.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. Don't say anything.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: Are they all in Long Island yet?
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: I haven't seen one.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: There's one in Garden City. There's about to be one in, uh, honey,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: go to the website, pop up bagels, look it up.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I'm sure they're got a few in Long Island. Just
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: try it.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I'll have to check it out.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Take care. They're softer, fluffier. Uh, they're absolutely delicious. Listen,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: I was opposed to them at first. They kind of
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: won me over and, uh, Every morning I come in,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I always walk down there by Elvis Duran's Z100 because
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: very often there's a pop-up bagel buffet there. It wasn't today,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: but let's go to Phil in Suffolk County. Phil, how
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: are you doing?
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, hello, Mark. We're in Toonberg.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: What are you, rolling? up inside a rug? We can
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: barely hear you.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Greta Thunberg, the sweetheart of climate change.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Greta Thunberg, yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Turned Gaza sympathizer.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: And now she's inserting herself in the French riots. I'm
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: sorry the sound quality is bad, but maybe you could comment.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to comment on. She's a crazy lunatic, always
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: on the wrong side of everything. She's a radical lunatic,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: chaos-creating radical. How old is she now? She's probably 58 now.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: With that climate change nonsense. When was she, like 15 then?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: How long ago was that? So she's got to be
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: like 30 now. Greta Thunberg, the most ineffective idiot. useless
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: agitator ever. She got a lot of attention for five minutes.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Then everybody forgot about it. What'd you say? Oh, 23. Oh,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: so maybe she was 13 back then, or maybe it
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: wasn't as long ago as I thought. Uh, let's go
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to Mike in Ulster. Mike, how you doing?
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. I just like to comment on the
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: gubernatorial election coming up. I found it strange that, um,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Adrian Adams had been picked as Hochul's running mate. I
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: think that Hochul had nothing to do with that. I
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: think the party picked her, and God forbid Hochul gets reelected,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I think they've already got plans to oust her and
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: elevate Adrian Adams to the governorship.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. They should have made more out of
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: this in the election. Her running mate is a lunatic, radical,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: left-wing kook, Adrian Adams. Hochul's from upstate New York, so
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: you always have to balance the ticket with somebody from
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the New York City area. Adrian Adams, a kooky, left-wing,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: dangerous radical. That's her running mate. Let's go to John
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: in Long Island. John, how are you doing?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Hey, Mark.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: I'm doing great.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the call.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: I wanted to touch base on something that you talked
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: about yesterday about the credit card fees. People are asking why.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: I own a couple of small businesses. Before, they used
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: to be all cash businesses. But now with the credit cards,
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: instead of charging somebody a dollar, I'm charging somebody $ 1.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: 75.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Because not only is the credit card company taking money,
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: but also the taxes.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I used to pay a quarterly tax of about $ 3, 000. Now,
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: because everything's showing, I'm paying quarterly taxes of about $ 25, 000
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: per store.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, but wait.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: If I hand you $ 10 to your business, you.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Got $ 10.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: If I pay with my credit card $ 10, how much
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: do you end up with from that?
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: I'm getting about $ 875. Wait, you're telling me the credit
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: card company takes $ 1.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: 25 out of $ 10? Well, the credit card company takes
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: it two ways, coming and going.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Plus, you have the cash register fee. They're taking money,
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: plus the bank's taking money. Plus, I get taxed on
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: top of all that stuff, too.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: All right, wait a minute. When you use your credit card,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you pay like whatever little 3% for the credit card company.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: So now the machine that you use to run the
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: credit card, they take a percentage of it?
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: They get either 1% or 2%, right? Then the bank
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: takes money. for their fees, and then the tax man
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: comes along and he takes it.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: So I didn't realize. I forgot that machine you run
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: it through.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, just ask Vincent from Brooklyn. I'm sure he knows
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: about cash.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: He pays cash. But, no, it's a good point. Excellent point.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Hey, when we come back, Bill O'Reilly.
• 23:18
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• 23:20
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• 23:24
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• 23:28
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• 23:33
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• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a busy time, obviously, for everybody in the business.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Just trying to get through it, Simone.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Two more weeks. Yeah, that's going to be some election
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: night in two weeks from tonight, watching that. What do
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: you think?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be diverse. The one thing I
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: know is that everybody's mad. So nobody's not mad. And
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think back in the Vietnam era, it
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: was like that, too. But how that's going to manifest
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: itself as far as people choosing a candidate. For example,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I think Blakeman's going to upset Hochul here in New York.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: which would be a stunning blow to the radical left Democrats.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: But he'll still get waxed out in California. And as
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: far as the Senate is concerned, it's impossible at this
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: point to picket. You know, when I watch these idiots
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: on television, and they truly are idiots, and they're speculating
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: about this and that, they don't know. It's like going
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to Miss Cleo. Remember Miss Cleo? And, you know, you
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: give the woman 50 bucks and she looks at some bones. Yeah,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, come on. You know, the one thing that
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you have to build on is facts. In Michigan, for example,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I said it is the big Democratic star, charismatic guy.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I can't see black Americans coming out for the man.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I cannot see it. That would go against every tradition.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Um.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: african-americans uh... they uh... and i'm generalizing of course they're
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: very centered into their community and how to improve it
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: and i'll try it is about a far away from
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: their community as you can get putin is closer than
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: i thought so i think that though i always people
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: in detroit a run out and vote for outside i
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a i a i'd be shocked And if that doesn't happen,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: then Rogers will win.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: So let's say Blakeman wins. We think Blakeman will win.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: He should win. And within a year, he's turned New
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: York around quite a bit. He's lowered the taxes. Everything's better.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Could that be the end of this crazy socialist democratic
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: crap all over the place?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: It's going to cause a lot of angst, that's for sure.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: So I had Blakeman on the nose of the news yesterday.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: And I don't usually do, you know, politicians because they're
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: just going to give you, you know, the can line
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: and all that. But I ran into Blakeman last week
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: on Long Island. And, you know, I had a conversation
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: with him. I said, okay, look, I'll invite Hulk or
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: she'll never come on. And then I'll invite you and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: you come on if you want. And he did. and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: the thing about blakeman uh... and i don't know about
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: what i mean i.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Know i'm uh.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: i live in nashville county in the he's a county
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: commissioner the director of it uh... the thing about him
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: is that he's got a very sharp point of view
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and this point of view is law and order number
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: one and the uh... nashville county police department is a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: good department underwriter uh... and you know it's much tougher
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to police in new york city than it is in
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: nashville but There's a lot of miscreants in Nassau floating around,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and they've gotten that under control. Taxes were the highest
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: taxed state in the union. They've come down a little
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: bit in Nassau County, but not anything dramatic because the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: state and the county and everybody else owes so much money.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I'm expecting Blakeman to hold the line or drop it
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: a little bit if he can in certain areas. He
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: can certainly cut out waste and fraud, which Hochul and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the Democrats will never do. And the big joke among
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: people who really are tuned into this is the affordability.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You haven't heard about that in about two weeks since
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I just blew it up. Affordability, you don't think the
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Democratic Party, if they win, is going to raise taxes?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, so any money that you would save in
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the grocery store at a gas pump is going to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: go right into their hands and their pockets. In the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: form of taxation. Taxation isn't just your paycheck. It's nine
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: bucks going into the city. It's, what are they charging
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: out of park? 15% tax to park? I mean, it's
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: every blanket thing that we do in New York State
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: is taxed. Everything. I mean, next they're going to be tracking,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: they're going to be taxing trick-or-treating. You know, there'll be
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: some guy following around a kid, like, give me half
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of that. You know, so I'm going, you don't think
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party are going to raise taxes? So what
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: are you talking about affordability? How's that going to shake?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: And there's never an answer to that question.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: You know, they have controlled every inch of government in
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: New York State and city for the last 15 years.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: How do they, if there's an affordability crisis, didn't they
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: cause it? How did they get away from not having
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: an answer?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Of course they closed it. Of course they closed it,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: but there is a line, it's about $ 60, 000 in New
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: York City, where people... below that line don't pay much
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: tax at all, federal or state or anything. In fact,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the government pays them. So you get what they call
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a tax rebate if you earn less than a certain
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: amount of money. And so those people, they don't care
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: about affordability. It doesn't concern them other than higher prices
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: cut into whatever cash they may have on hand. But taxes,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: it doesn't bother them because they're not in the tax zone.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: The people that get really hurt are the working people
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: who live in the suburbs and upstate New York and
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: all that who work. bust their buns every day. And
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: in the paycheck, it keeps going up and up and
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: up and up. And when you look at where the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: money goes, it's a scandal. So what are we paying now?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Three times as much money for our students to go
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: to school as Florida? Three times as much? For what?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Florida has better test scores than we do. What are
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: you getting? you're not getting anything. And then you have a,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: it goes, uh, the money that is put out because
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: no one is watching the money. And that's the big
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: fraud in Minnesota and California in Maine. You say, oh yeah,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: we'll take all your money and nobody's going to watch it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So the crooks steal it. And where does AI comes in, man?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: These guys, these gangsters are already working on that. Um,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: And so, you know, I'm sitting here, I'm a logical,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: simple guy. And when I do speak to my liberal friends,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: they are, they have a we hate Trump, number one.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: That's still number one with a bullet on the billboard chart.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: We hate him. Okay. And then they have very little
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: after that. Very, very little accomplishments, future economic growth. You
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: don't get much. You get a lot of mumbles. You
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: get what Hochul does. Eight billion dollars you've spent, Governor Hochul,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: on migrants? Eight billion dollars in a year on migrants?
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: That alone should elect Blakeman.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Well, let's hope so. Hey, we only got like a
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: minute left. France, Macron not bringing out the military, not
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: stopping this rioting. What is he thinking?
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: He's thinking, where can I get my croissant? I mean,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: it's France. You've been to France, right?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Come on. It's France. France is a society that has
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: expectations of the government giving them what they want. That's it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: That's your expectation. Jimmy, pension. Jimmy, Housing, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: And now France doesn't have any money. They're broke. The U.K.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: is broke. Soon Spain will be broke. You can't absorb
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: millions of people who the first thing they do when
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: they get into your country is go on the national
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: health insurance toll. You can't pay their bills. That's exactly
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: what's happening.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Bill O'Reilly, we're out of time. But, hey, great podcast.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: We'll do it live. We've got to watch the Stephen A.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Smith podcast. You got somebody coming up later this week?
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: We're doing election specials this week because the interest is
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: so intense. And I think I got the best lineup.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I got all the guys that haven't made 50,000 mistakes.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: And that means nobody from CNN. These people just root.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: So I got really good people, hard-eyed people, no ideology.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: They come in, they say, this is what's going on,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and that's what I want. So that'll be the long
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: form for the next week or maybe 10 days. And
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: then we'll get back to the usual chaos.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Everybody watch Bill O'Reilly's podcast. We'll do it live. Check
• 34:01
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• 34:04
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• 34:09
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• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Mark. If you go to France, let me know.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I'll tag along.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: All right. Take care.
• 34:19
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• 34:23
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• 34:26
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• 35:01
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