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Hour 2: Politico corrected itself. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now nine till noon weekdays.
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Speaker 2: Much more Mark on 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Hi, another hour? Actually, another two hours to go. Three
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Speaker 1: hours every day, nine to noon every day. So, I
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Speaker 1: remember yesterday I was telling you about Politico. It's this
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Speaker 1: big political website, Politico. It's got the reputation of this
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Speaker 1: is the real Washington insider, real political news and political information,
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Speaker 1: very revered Politico. It's actually a very biased, slanted, very
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Speaker 1: left-wing site. And you can't believe anything. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: can't believe everything they say. So it was Politico that
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Speaker 1: started the whole thing about Susie Wiles, White House chief
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Speaker 1: of staff. is out. Trump is going to fire her.
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Speaker 1: It's going to happen any day now. And everybody ran
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Speaker 1: with it because it's the very prestigious Politico that reporting this,
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Speaker 1: that Susie Wiles is out. It's hard to believe she'd
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Speaker 1: been with him for so many years, such a trusted
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Speaker 1: right hand. Can't believe, but Politico, you have to, you
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Speaker 1: have to, it's in Politico. You have to, Politico is
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Speaker 1: the most biased Trump hating site. Anyway, the story was false.
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Speaker 1: And as I told you yesterday, the Trump White House
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Speaker 1: counsel contacted Politico and told them that Trump demanded an apology.
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Speaker 1: They admit the story was wrong. He wanted a correction
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Speaker 1: within 48 hours or there would be consequences for Politico.
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Speaker 1: I guess meaning that they would sue them. And it's
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Speaker 1: one thing to get sued, but it's another thing when
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Speaker 1: it's the president of the United States and the White
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Speaker 1: House suing you and who knows what else they could
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Speaker 1: do to you. So Politico backed down immediately. They did
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Speaker 1: issue a correction yesterday. Politico issued a correction on the story,
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Speaker 1: saying an earlier version mischaracterized Weill's involvement and admitting she
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Speaker 1: did not play a direct role. Yeah, the other thing,
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Speaker 1: this is the other thing. If you read Politico, you
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Speaker 1: found out. Remember that Katie Zakaria did that interview on
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Speaker 1: Hannity that was very damaging to her? Well, if you
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Speaker 1: read Politico, it told you that this was Susie Wiles,
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Speaker 1: that behind the scenes, she's the one that arranged it.
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Speaker 1: It was Susie Wiles that set it up. Well, Politico
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Speaker 1: admitted it's not true. There's another fault. Two corrections. Another
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Speaker 1: fake story they printed. They actually admitted, quote, she did
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Speaker 1: not play a direct role in setting up the interview,
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Speaker 1: which means she had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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Speaker 1: So they have confessed. However, their attorney has put out
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Speaker 1: a statement, written a letter to the White House, mad
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Speaker 1: at them for trying to chill and punish the outlet's
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Speaker 1: reporting because it believes the coverage of Trump is too negative. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's not a case of believing. Just read Politico. It's
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Speaker 1: not too negative. It's completely negative. It's nonstop negative. It's
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Speaker 1: not a belief. It's a fact. Politico, it says, Politico
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Speaker 1: categorically rejects the false accusations in your letter that it
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Speaker 1: chose to publish fanciful fiction and purposeful falsehoods designed to
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Speaker 1: mislead the public. Well, that's exactly what you did, though.
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Speaker 1: And see, if you're saying would never intend to do that, well,
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Speaker 1: that would mean you were just stupid and you got
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Speaker 1: it wrong. I don't know which is better. It's probably
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Speaker 1: better to say you did it deliberately. It's actually much
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Speaker 1: worse if you admit you're just dumb, you don't know
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Speaker 1: what the hell you're doing, and you got the story
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Speaker 1: all wrong. If that's the case, why should we trust
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Speaker 1: you on any other story? The letter goes on. Politico
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Speaker 1: categorically rejects the false accusations in your letter. That said,
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Speaker 1: Politico takes seriously assertions like those made in your letter.
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Speaker 1: As a result, Politico determined it was appropriate to correct
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Speaker 1: one of the three articles that identified in your letter
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Speaker 1: correct means they admitted they lied uh he added the
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Speaker 1: company would be remiss if we did not note that
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Speaker 1: the timing and substance of your letter contains the unlawful
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Speaker 1: retaliatory and viewpoint discriminatory motives underlying the he's saying it's
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Speaker 1: the timing at the same time you ban politico cnn
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Speaker 1: and ms now from the white house not it's not
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Speaker 1: a uh it's not suspicious it makes sense if this
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Speaker 1: publication is lying and as you as you politico admit
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Speaker 1: in this in your own letter you got the story
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Speaker 1: totally wrong well if you're that bad a reporter why
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Speaker 1: should they let you in the white house if you're
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Speaker 1: making those kind of mistakes why should they let you
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Speaker 1: in the white house uh but this lawyer was uh
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Speaker 1: i don't know who this lawyer is but uh this
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Speaker 1: sounds like did ai write this for him it's just
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Speaker 1: a badly badly written letter um Again, don't trust anything
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Speaker 1: in Politico. Ilhan Omar, as we mentioned before, turns out
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Speaker 1: that's not a real name. They got her on that.
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Speaker 1: They got her DNA evidence. They'll prove she was married
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Speaker 1: to her brother. They're also seriously looking at whatever ties
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Speaker 1: she has to all that fraud in Minnesota. You're talking
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Speaker 1: about $ 100 million in fraud. Who knows? Who knows what
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Speaker 1: kind of connection she had money-wise to all of that.
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Speaker 1: So they're taking a look at that. The task force
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Speaker 1: that's looking for fraud everywhere. They're doing really well, Trump administration.
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Speaker 1: You know, they just busted this ring in California that
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Speaker 1: committed $ 2 billion with a B, $ 2 billion in medical fraud,
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Speaker 1: a bunch of doctors that looks like white-collar thieves, doctors
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Speaker 1: billing for unneeded surgeries, hunting the homeless for rehabs and
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Speaker 1: putting the government, hitting the government up for phony hospice care.
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Speaker 1: Fifteen doctors were arrested. Here's a couple of them in
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Speaker 1: one ring. 1.6 billion in fraud that they collected. Here's
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Speaker 1: another doctor who had millions and millions, 134, this one guy,
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Speaker 1: 134 million in false billing, living in a huge mansion
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Speaker 1: with gates and big walls around it. The SWAT team,
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Speaker 1: federal SWAT team was seen scaling his walls and they
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Speaker 1: were cutting down his gate, entering his house, placed ladders
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Speaker 1: up the house. They went into first floor, second floor,
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Speaker 1: all at the same time. Oh, the reason they went
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Speaker 1: so crazy with this guy, they knew that the guy
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Speaker 1: had an arsenal in his house. He had a lot
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Speaker 1: of weapons in there. That's why this.
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Speaker 1: Same kind of raid they did on Al Pacino in,
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Speaker 1: you know, remember, what was the movie where he played
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Speaker 1: the big drug lord? Remember that raid on his mansion
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Speaker 1: in Miami? It was that kind of a raid, that
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Speaker 1: kind of a raid. So they're doing this all over
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Speaker 1: the place. They're getting back billions and billions and billions
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Speaker 1: in fraud. Hey, Mamdani, for the first time now, will
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Speaker 1: actually campaign today With Kathy Hochul. So they'll be arm-in-arm campaigning.
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Speaker 1: This may help Blakeman. This may help Blakeman. I imagine
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Speaker 1: they'll be taking the footage of them together and using
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Speaker 1: it in ads. You know, they keep trying to tie
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Speaker 1: Blakeman to Trump. Blakeman's been friends with Trump for years,
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Speaker 1: but agrees on some things, disagrees on others. But I
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Speaker 1: assume you'll be seeing a lot of commercials of Mamdani
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Speaker 1: and Hochul campaigning together. of Mamdani endorsing Hochul. That's not
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Speaker 1: going to help her. It might be good in New
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Speaker 1: York City, but half the votes are outside of New
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Speaker 1: York City. They'll be campaigning in Brooklyn. Her campaign confirmed it.
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Speaker 1: His campaign confirmed it. Hey, that crazy El-Sayed in Michigan,
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Speaker 1: President Trump will be in Michigan campaigning for Mike Rogers.
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Speaker 1: So he's got these family members, you know, with the supposed...
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Speaker 1: Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization, ties and they're denying his sister. Well,
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Speaker 1: it turns out the Obama administration had put his sister
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Speaker 1: on the terror watch list. Well, that's not good. And
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Speaker 1: now they found another, an old, old, old letter signed
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Speaker 1: by al-Sayyad urging the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to kill
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Speaker 1: media and police. Or he used the word purge. I
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Speaker 1: think that means killed. That's a very disgusting letter sent
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Speaker 1: in 2012, just before the government did crack down on
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Speaker 1: journalists in Egypt, targeting at least half a dozen for
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Speaker 1: insulting Islam. But the Michigan candidate disavows the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Speaker 1: But the ties he had, pretty clear, pretty obvious. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how he's going to deny them. Hey, speaking
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Speaker 1: of Mamdani, remember I told you yesterday? He's only signed
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Speaker 1: one law in 10 months in office. That's all he's done,
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Speaker 1: just signed one little law in 10 months. And it
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Speaker 1: was a little thing. It was the law allowing outdoor
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Speaker 1: dining all year. That's all he did. It was pretty
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Speaker 1: embarrassing because normally a mayor, even the very lazy Bill
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Speaker 1: de Blasio, by this point had signed 47 bills, 47 laws.
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Speaker 1: Eric Adams at this point had signed 30. Bloomberg at
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Speaker 1: this point had signed 28. So for Mamdani to only
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Speaker 1: get one thing done in 10 months, it's pretty embarrassing.
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Speaker 1: Mamdani tries to explain this. He was asked about it.
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Speaker 1: You know how he talks a mile a minute and
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Speaker 1: he's very articulate and talks so fast and he just
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Speaker 1: pours an answer right out and it Well, when he
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Speaker 1: was asked about this, he hemmed and hawed. All of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, he wasn't so slick. He mumbled something about, well,
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Speaker 1: the most important thing is that New Yorkers can see
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Speaker 1: pieces of legislation. He says, whether we sign it or not,
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Speaker 1: whether we pass it or not, it's not important. It's
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Speaker 1: important to see that we keep working with the council,
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Speaker 1: whether it's signing bills or seeing the passage of bills.
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Speaker 1: So in other words, he's saying, It's true he didn't
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Speaker 1: get anything done. He only signed one bill in 10 months,
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Speaker 1: but he was watching the council otherwise. He wants credit
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Speaker 1: for watching them, I guess. A President Trump also suing
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Speaker 1: the BBC. That's another thing. The BBC, BBC News, was
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Speaker 1: considered the most prestigious news organization in the world. For
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Speaker 1: the last 10 years, it's been a dirty, sleazy, disgusting, corrupt,
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Speaker 1: ridiculous news organization they got trump derangement syndrome they printed
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Speaker 1: all kinds of false crap about him he's suing them
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Speaker 1: now for 10 billion dollars 10 billion the only problem
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Speaker 1: it's very difficult to sue people in another country very
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Speaker 1: tricky and tough to get that done so a judge
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Speaker 1: is demanding trump do a deposition he hasn't done it
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Speaker 1: yet he is a little busy But they lied about
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Speaker 1: him in January 6th. This is how sleazy the BBC
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Speaker 1: has become. They did a documentary showing that Trump caused
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Speaker 1: January 6th. Trump ordered his people to go do that
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Speaker 1: at the Capitol. Of course, nothing like that ever happened.
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Speaker 1: But how did they convince the viewers? Well, they doctored
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Speaker 1: up and edited up footage of him. You remember we
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Speaker 1: made that speech where he said, I want you to
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Speaker 1: go to the Capitol. I want you to peacefully protest. Well,
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Speaker 1: they cut out the word peacefully. They edited up what
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Speaker 1: he said. So instead they had him saying, go there
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Speaker 1: and fight like hell. Go there and fight like hell.
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Speaker 1: We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell,
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Speaker 1: you're not going to have a country anymore. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: never what he said. He actually said, you know, protest
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Speaker 1: peacefully and patriotic. They really, really edited up his speech
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Speaker 1: in the most corrupt, disgusting way. So Trump could probably,
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Speaker 1: even though it's another country and it's tough to get
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Speaker 1: anything done legally, would easily win this lawsuit. But he's
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Speaker 1: got to do a deposition. Judge gave him a deadline.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully he does it. Now, this one city in America, Topeka, Kansas, beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that where Dorothy was from? Wizard of Oz? Topeka, Kansas.
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Speaker 1: You know, if a city's doing really well, people want
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Speaker 1: to move there. You know, like New York City. It's
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Speaker 1: a crowded mess. It's got the worst taxes. But people
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Speaker 1: are moving here like crazy. Even now with Mamdani, people
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Speaker 1: are pouring in here, moving in here. Now, some states, well,
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Speaker 1: you get rid of the tax. There's no state tax.
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Speaker 1: We'll be tax-free. That gets people to move down. That's
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Speaker 1: what Florida did. You know, you can say Florida's the perfect, well,
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Speaker 1: if you've got to eliminate taxes, you're basically letting people
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Speaker 1: in for free. It's not that impressive. But Topeka, Kansas,
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Speaker 1: things are so bad, they're paying people to move there.
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Speaker 1: That's right. They'll pay you $ 15, 000 to move to Topeka, Kansas.
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Speaker 1: You're going to have to prove you have a job there.
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Speaker 1: You have to prove that you've gotten a job with
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Speaker 1: an employer in Topeka, Kansas. But otherwise, you get $ 15, 000
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Speaker 1: in cash if you move there. That's when a city's
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Speaker 1: not doing well, when they've got to pay people to
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Speaker 1: move there. New York City, you know it's doing well
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Speaker 1: when they can overtax, overcharge, and still have people pouring in. Florida,
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Speaker 1: they've got to go tax-free to get you to move there.
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Speaker 1: New York tax is like crazy, and plenty of people
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Speaker 1: are moving here. Hey, remember Julie Andrews? Mary Poppins? My
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Speaker 1: fair lady, great Broadway star, great singer, amazing voice, Julie Andrews.
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Speaker 1: She's still around. She's 91, lives in the Hamptons. Nobody's
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Speaker 1: seen her for a while. She was seen yesterday for
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Speaker 1: the first time. She said, I'm not completely retired, but
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Speaker 1: things are different today. I do a lot of recording
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Speaker 1: of podcasts and voiceovers. She did a voiceover for me
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Speaker 1: once years ago, a promo. We got the greatest voice,
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Speaker 1: Julie Andrews.
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Speaker 4: 91.
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Speaker 1: You can see that they had to help her out
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Speaker 1: of the car. But she looked great. Hey, we'll take
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Speaker 1: some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. We'll take some
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Speaker 1: calls next.
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Speaker 5: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Where New York comes for common sense. Mark Simone on 710WOR. Hey,
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Speaker 1: let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jeff in Staten Island. Jeff, how are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Yeah, good morning. How are you?
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Speaker 4: I was going to say, you said that Mandagi only signed, like,
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Speaker 4: one law. I think that's a great thing. The less
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Speaker 4: he touches or the less these politicians touch, the better
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Speaker 4: off we are.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a good point. As Trump said after
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Speaker 1: meeting Mamdani, the guy's lazy. The guy's a coward. He
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Speaker 1: won't do much of anything, just a lot of talk.
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Speaker 1: He won't get anything done. And he's right. He's gotten
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Speaker 1: 10 months. He's gotten absolutely nothing done yet. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Dennis in Gillette, New Jersey. Dennis, how are you doing?
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Speaker 5: All right, Mark, big fan.
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Speaker 4: Listen, since the SAVE Act wasn't passed, that pretty much
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Speaker 4: means illegals can still vote in this election.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 4: And they're pretty much going to hand the governorship to Hochul.
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Speaker 1: No, no, it doesn't work that way. It's a factor.
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Speaker 1: It's a factor. It means you just got to win
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Speaker 1: by an extra point or two, two or three points
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Speaker 1: to overcome the cheating. Actually, we got the best expert
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Speaker 1: on the subject coming up. We'll ask him exactly. what
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Speaker 1: percentage that cheating is. Let's go to Robert in Westchester. Robert,
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Speaker 1: how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark. Thank you for taking my call. The media, again,
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Speaker 5: never ceases to amaze me with the hypocrisy. I mean,
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Speaker 5: they expect grace from Vivek and then Trump about that
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Speaker 5: story in Ohio. Meanwhile, President Trump, remember his sister?
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Speaker 1: No, his cousin.
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Speaker 5: They used her.
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Speaker 1: His cousin.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry. I apologize. So, She was on all the
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Speaker 5: news programs. They went after him left and right for that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we went through this earlier in the show. It's
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Speaker 1: a good point. It's an excellent point. The ad that
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Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy ran against the opponent where her mother denounced her.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching Donnie Deutsch this morning, who's the goofiest guy
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Speaker 1: in the world. Not the brightest guy, just goofy. Yelling
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Speaker 1: and screaming about this is the dirtiest ad ever in
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Speaker 1: the history of politics. It'll be remembered as the dirtiest
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Speaker 1: ad ever. Big, long rant. At the end of it,
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Speaker 1: Morning Joe doesn't say to him, well, how come it
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Speaker 1: was okay when you guys did it to RFK Jr.?
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Speaker 1: You had every member of his family do an ad
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Speaker 1: denouncing him. How come that was okay? Of course, he
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Speaker 1: didn't mention that. And they never mentioned that when Trump
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Speaker 1: was running, they dragged out this broken-down cousin of his.
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Speaker 1: Was her name Mary Trump? And all she did was
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Speaker 1: go on every television show. They put her on every
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Speaker 1: show on MSNBC, every show on CNN, everywhere they could
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Speaker 1: put her. They used her in ads and she would
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Speaker 1: tell you that Donald Trump is a nut. He's a liar.
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Speaker 1: He's a thief. He's a crook. He's a maniac. He's
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Speaker 1: this cousin who, by the way, never even met Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: Cousin that nobody had anything to do with. Trump's sister
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Speaker 1: was friendly with her. But outside of that, most of
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Speaker 1: the family stayed the hell away from her. She never
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Speaker 1: even met Donald Trump. And they dragged this cousin all
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Speaker 1: over television to denounce him. So it's the double standard
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Speaker 1: the left is famous for. Let's go to Mike in Bayside. Mike,
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Speaker 1: how you doing?
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Speaker 6: I love the show, man. Yeah, just to piggyback on that,
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Speaker 6: if they found a guy or a girl in the
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Speaker 6: media family of Vance or Trump, they wouldn't even need
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Speaker 6: to take out any ads.
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Speaker 7: It would totally be the biggest story of the.
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Speaker 6: Year, a media family member talking crap about it.
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Speaker 7: And about the horses, I love horses. I think they
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Speaker 7: should have built an enclosed track track like, you know,
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Speaker 7: like kind of.
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Speaker 6: Like the Meadowlands has, but like a three-mile type thing.
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Speaker 7: And, you know, all the problems with error, and all.
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Speaker 6: These people that are, like, claiming the horses are tortured
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Speaker 6: or whatever. First of all, when it's over, there'll be
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Speaker 6: 200 horses without homes. And I know from the racehorse industry,
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Speaker 6: there are a lot of horses that get put down,
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Speaker 6: and some of those horses will probably be put down.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're in the racehorse. When they say put down,
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Speaker 1: what do they do? They kill the horse, and then
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Speaker 1: what happens with that body of the horse?
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Speaker 6: I don't even know.
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Speaker 1: Does it actually go to a glue factory like the
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Speaker 1: old myth?
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Speaker 6: I'm not familiar with it, but I do know that
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Speaker 6: they love working. During the pandemic, when the horses weren't racing,
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Speaker 6: I was going to the track to just hang out
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Speaker 6: with them because they were going crazy.
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Speaker 7: Like they love working and you're really doing.
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Speaker 6: A disservice to at least the horses that are alive
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Speaker 6: by just taking them out of the business. And it's
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Speaker 6: very political. It's nothing to do with.
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Speaker 1: Well, you're absolutely right, Mike. Thanks for calling. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if the horses love it. They don't look too
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Speaker 1: thrilled dragging a bunch of tourists around in a carriage.
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Speaker 1: But for those of you that think I've saved the horses...
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Speaker 1: I've saved the horses. They're all going to end up
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Speaker 1: in a glue factory or as dog food or something
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Speaker 1: like that. Let's go to Bob in Connecticut. Bob, how
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Speaker 1: are you doing?
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Speaker 8: Good. How are you? Good. So, you know, I've noticed
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Speaker 8: that the Democrats, they're always trying to figure a way
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Speaker 8: to get more votes so that they can lock in
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Speaker 8: an election. And I think the Republicans should turn the
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Speaker 8: tables on them. And I know it probably would never happen,
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Speaker 8: but I think what they should do in each state
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Speaker 8: is they should go by population. They have the state,
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Speaker 8: and one senator goes to the populous areas, the cities,
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Speaker 8: and one senator that's for the rest of the state.
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Speaker 1: No, you can't do that. You can't do that. It
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Speaker 1: has to be a statewide race for the Senate. You
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Speaker 1: can do that for Congress. You can have a district,
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Speaker 1: but the Senate has to be statewide. Everybody in the
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Speaker 1: state has a vote on their senator. Now, if Democrats
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Speaker 1: get in, they've already said they're going to do it.
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Speaker 1: They're going to make... Puerto Rico a state. They're going
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Speaker 1: to make D.C. a state because it's very Democratic. And
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Speaker 1: that way they'll have two senators in each of those places.
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Speaker 1: So that would be four permanent Democratic seats in the Senate.
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Speaker 1: Four extra seats, permanently Democratic. Dangerous thing to do. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we've got a lot to get to coming up. We'll
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Speaker 1: You look in the metrics, they're absolutely ludicrous metrics. But
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Speaker 1: tuned for that. And when we come back, we'll talk
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Speaker 1: to the brilliant writer, producer, Alan Zweibel. He's got a
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Speaker 1: Well, Alan Zweibel, one of the great comedy writers in
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Speaker 1: the world, playwright, author. You should get his book, Laugh Lines,
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Speaker 1: Story of His Career. Very good book. A lot of
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Speaker 1: great stories in there. Laugh Lines. Follow Alan Zweibel on
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Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram and all that stuff. Alan Zweibel, how
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Speaker 1: are you doing?
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Speaker 3: I'm great, Mark. How are you?
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Speaker 1: I'm good. Hey, your buddy, former partner there, Billy Crystal,
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Speaker 1: you wrote his last Broadway show with him, just opened
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Speaker 1: on Broadway. new show, Rave Reviews. I assume you were there, right?
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Speaker 2: Well, we were there opening night, and it was magical.
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Speaker 2: It was, you know, what he's done is taken a
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Speaker 2: number of tragedies that have happened in his life in
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Speaker 2: this past year, and he gave tribute to his home
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Speaker 2: that he lost, in the fires to his manager who
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Speaker 2: died after 47 years of being represented by him.
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Speaker 3: And of course, uh, Robin Michelle Reiner.
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Speaker 2: And, uh, somehow he magically made the evening really funny,
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Speaker 2: really touching and, uh, really life affirming.
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Speaker 3: And it was brilliant.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's just open. It's called it's Billy Crystal show.
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Speaker 1: It's called eight 60. Everybody go see it. You'll love it.
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Speaker 1: But you wrote the last one with him. Explain to
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Speaker 1: me how the hell you do this. I mean, the
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Speaker 1: last one-man show that was big was Jackie Mason, but
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Speaker 1: that was like basically his nightclub act. But a guy
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Speaker 1: just talking for two hours, just talking casually, how the
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Speaker 1: hell do you write something like that and make it
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Speaker 1: gripping for an audience?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, look, 760 Days is one of.
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Speaker 2: The great honors of my life and career because Because
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Speaker 2: here was a guy, Billy, who trusted me to put
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Speaker 2: words into the mouths of his family, of his relatives,
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Speaker 2: most of whom I never met.
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Speaker 1: Okay?
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Speaker 2: But that was easier because, look, he's a Jew from
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Speaker 2: Long Island. I'm a Jew from Long Island. It's not
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Speaker 2: like I was writing for people I never met before.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: What my contributions were me writing about my grandparents and
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Speaker 2: my relatives and just gave it to him. They're the
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Speaker 2: same people with this one. It was so personal, so personal.
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Speaker 2: He's the only one who could have written it. Um,
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Speaker 2: you know, uh, nobody else could have done it except
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Speaker 2: for him and him alone. He had to go deep
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Speaker 2: into his heart and, um, And talk from a very,
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Speaker 2: very hurtful yet positive place. That's the fine balance over there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You know, with 700 Sundays, look, he knew his life
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Speaker 2: and this and that. And whatever my contributions were augmented
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Speaker 2: what he had.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But explain what the hell he does. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how you do this to have enough delivery and timing.
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Speaker 1: to just talk. It's not a 92nd Street Y. It's
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Speaker 1: a Broadway stage. Normally, you've got to have singing and
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Speaker 1: dancing and sets. It's just a guy talking. How do
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Speaker 1: you hold people's attention delivery-wise?
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Speaker 2: Well, he's got a great set that was built for him,
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Speaker 2: and he has a really good director. And as far
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Speaker 2: as the just talking part is concerned, yeah, if he
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Speaker 2: stops talking, you're just looking at him, and it's silent, right?
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Speaker 2: It's so What kind of fun is that? What it
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Speaker 2: is is you get into the talk and it takes
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Speaker 2: you for a ride.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The material, the memories, what do you want to say?
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Speaker 3: You coast with it.
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Speaker 2: Now, that being said, in order to make you laugh,
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Speaker 2: in order to make.
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Speaker 3: You, the audience I'm talking about, cry.
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Speaker 2: He's got to go deep into his heart. he's got
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Speaker 2: to touch himself so he'll touch you with what he's saying.
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Speaker 2: As physically exhausting as it is to do eight shows
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Speaker 2: a week, it's just as emotionally exhausting to go to
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Speaker 2: those places. It's like going to a shrink eight times
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Speaker 2: a week, telling the shrink your story eight times a
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Speaker 2: week for an hour and a half each time And
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Speaker 2: the shrink at the end, you know, all along laughs, cries,
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Speaker 2: and stands and claps.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So it's very, very cathartic that way. So on one hand,
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Speaker 2: it's very, very remedial. And on the other hand, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you are performing and it's exhausting.
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Speaker 1: So now explain this to me. Why the hell would
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Speaker 1: anybody want to do this? It's an amazing performance. It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: Why would you want to have to repeat that eight
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Speaker 1: times a week, every week a year? Didn't your friend
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Speaker 1: Larry David try that and he wanted to get out
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Speaker 1: of there after a month?
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Speaker 3: Well, Larry was a riot.
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Speaker 2: Larry's wasn't the one-man show, but Larry didn't want to
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Speaker 2: have to say the same things every night, which is
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Speaker 2: a problem if you're speaking to other actors because they
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Speaker 2: should know when they're supposed to talk. So Larry was
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Speaker 2: confined to it. And he would send me notes saying,
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Speaker 2: I'd go, how are you doing? And he'd write back saying,
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Speaker 2: I feel like I'm on a death row and there's
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Speaker 2: never going to be.
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Speaker 3: A call from the governor.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Some people who are, um, very facile and very, very, uh,
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Speaker 2: great performers and immunologists like doing it.
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Speaker 3: Others do not. Billy is a master at it.
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Speaker 2: Um, Look how many times he hosted the Oscars.
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Speaker 3: Look how many times he started off doing comic relief.
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Speaker 3: Go through his career.
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Speaker 2: I'm not even talking about the TV and the movies now.
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Speaker 2: Talking about things to live audience. Touring and all of that.
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Speaker 2: He's a great monologist and audiences love him.
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Speaker 1: Alan Zweibel, the great writer, producer. Oh, you're working on
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Speaker 1: a Broadway show. I can't wait to see. It's a
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Speaker 1: Is it a musical about Rodney Dangerfield?
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Speaker 3: Well, that's been tabled. What? What?
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Speaker 2: It's been tabled. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen,
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Speaker 2: but there are some issues internally, not me, but with
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Speaker 2: others involved in it. So it's been put aside. I've
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Speaker 2: got a movie that I wrote with Barry Levinson that
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Speaker 2: Barry is going to direct. He's the Oscar-winning... director of
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Speaker 2: Rain Man and The Natural and all those great movies.
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Speaker 2: And Billy and I also wrote a movie, an animated movie,
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Speaker 2: that I don't know, has some promise that it's going
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Speaker 2: to go forward too. So while I'm waiting for the
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Speaker 2: Rodney thing to resolve itself, um i'm still at my
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Speaker 2: laptop every.
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Speaker 1: Day uh i was waiting for this rodney because we
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Speaker 1: you know we knew rodney he was the most complex
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Speaker 1: guy oh he.
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Speaker 2: Used to walk down the street in his pajamas you
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Speaker 2: know um in the middle of the day you know
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Speaker 2: so yeah yeah there is a lot of fun there
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Speaker 2: but uh you know to see what makes this guy
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Speaker 2: tick and Of course, all those jokes which are just incomparable,
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Speaker 2: you know?
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Speaker 3: So let's see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was amazing. His private life, total degenerate,
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Speaker 1: but then he'd go to work, and he was the
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Speaker 1: most disciplined craftsman in the world. Well, he was amazing.
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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely.
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Speaker 2: When I would write for him, this was before Saturday
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Speaker 2: Night Live, I would go to his apartment. He'd... let's
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Speaker 2: say four o'clock in the afternoon, he was still in
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Speaker 2: his pajamas with a bathrobe.
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Speaker 3: And I would write a joke.
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Speaker 2: Then we would spend an hour moving the words, the
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Speaker 2: same words around, but in a different order, you know,
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Speaker 2: he was a master technician and he knew his own
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Speaker 2: voice better than anyone.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Master technician. every detail except for one thing when you
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Speaker 1: see him he'd be in a bathroom and he could
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Speaker 1: never tie the thing enough because oh.
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Speaker 2: God he was flopping around everything was like flailing yes
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Speaker 2: it was billowing.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely oh anyway uh alan's white belt they don't make
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Speaker 1: writers like you anymore you know we had these uh
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Speaker 1: legendary great writers it was larry gelbart there was herb
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Speaker 1: sergeant uh you but There's no new versions of you
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Speaker 1: guys with that kind of.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. You know, there may be.
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Speaker 2: I just don't know who they are and if they
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Speaker 2: operate the same way. There's a lot of really good
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Speaker 2: television on, so there are good writers. But, you know,
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Speaker 2: when you talk about the Larry Gelbarts of the world,
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Speaker 2: you look at the Sid Caesar's writers' room. Larry Gelbart,
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Speaker 2: Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Woody Allen came on later.
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Speaker 1: These were the writers.
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Speaker 3: God, these are writers.
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Speaker 1: Mel Brooks.
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Speaker 2: Larry Delbarth, who created MASH and wrote all those great
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Speaker 2: movies and everything. I hope this is true. I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure it is, but I pray that it's true. I
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Speaker 2: heard that Honest Tombstone, this wonderful writer, on his tombstone,
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Speaker 2: the epitaph is finally a plot.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but that sounds like.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's true either, but unless I
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Speaker 2: visit his grave, I'm going to tell people that.
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Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Well, Alan's white belt, we're out of time, but Hey,
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Speaker 1: everybody get his book. His autobiography is wonderful. You'll love it.
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Speaker 1: It's called laugh lines. And are you appearing anywhere next?
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Speaker 2: You know, something I'm going to, uh, I'm speaking with my, uh,
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Speaker 2: Speak to his bureau, and I should get some cities.
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Speaker 3: Pretty soon on my calendar.
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Speaker 1: Well, let us know. In the meantime, get his book,
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Speaker 1: Laugh Lines, and get it at Amazon or wherever you
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Speaker 1: get your books. And Alan Zweibel, thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, Mike.
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