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The future of the Democratic party · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Twenty twenty eight. Now it's silly to talk about who
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  Speaker 1: the candidate's going to be. That's just crazy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: people love to do it, love to speculate who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the nominee in twenty twenty eight, but makes
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  Speaker 1: no sense at all to even talk about it. It's
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  Speaker 1: like saying who's going to win the twenty twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Who knows. Everything will change ten times between
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  Speaker 1: now and then.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, the way it stands is Gavin Newsom is out.
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  Speaker 1: He was the front runner for a few minutes. And
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  Speaker 1: like we always point out, there's always always in democratic world,
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  Speaker 1: three years out, there's always a front runner. It's always
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  Speaker 1: some pretty boy. It's Gary hard or it's John Edwards
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. They're always the front runner in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. Then they fizzle out. That was Gavin Newsom
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  Speaker 1: this time, and then you got all these crazy aocs
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  Speaker 1: and socialists and all that stuff. But usually if you're
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats, you want to somehow have somebody rise up
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  Speaker 1: and lead you back to the center, a centrist to
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  Speaker 1: like a Bill Clinton, and this time around that could
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  Speaker 1: be Josh Shapiro somebody like that. But but don't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if they end up with Kamala Harris again. Kamala
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  Speaker 1: Harris is back in the race. She wants to be
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  Speaker 1: the nominee again. She's running around doing shows and listen
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  Speaker 1: to this. She's got a phrase, a catchphrase she's using.
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  Speaker 1: She's urging Democratic voters to make the midterms. She'd make
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  Speaker 1: it look like I'm just campaigning for the midterms right now,
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  Speaker 1: but she's really it launching a presidential bid. But she
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  Speaker 1: wants voters to make the midterms. Too big to rig. Now,
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  Speaker 1: where have we heard that phrase before? Yeah, she took
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  Speaker 1: it from Donald Trump. She keeps saying too big to rig.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Trump catchphrase. Next thing you know, she'll have
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  Speaker 1: matta hats, make America Democrat again. But she's copying a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Trump stuff. She ripped off the phrase, used
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  Speaker 1: it in several speeches yesterday New Orleans and other places.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta be too big to rig to stop the cheating Republicans. Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, all this cheating always turns out to
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  Speaker 1: be Democrats, and it can't be Republicans because the cheating's
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  Speaker 1: all in favor of Democrats, so it's got to be
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  Speaker 1: democrats doing it. She's out there in the campaign trail.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to her.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, the good news is that Donald Trump will
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  Speaker 3: be turned out.
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  Speaker 1: However, now that's what they call an applause line. Normally,
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  Speaker 1: when the candidate says that, the whole audience supposed to
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  Speaker 1: start applodding like crazy. But listen again, she's not. She's talking,
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  Speaker 1: and nobody's really listening. That's why there's no big applause
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  Speaker 1: when she says it.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, the good news is that Donald Trump will
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  Speaker 3: be turned out. However, however, let us also be clear,
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  Speaker 3: there is no term limit on this new Republican Party.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell does that mean? I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what she's saying and what new Republican party? We see
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  Speaker 1: a new demoocratic party, all the crazy socialists, What new
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  Speaker 1: Republican party? But it is kind of a quiet audience
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  Speaker 1: and not exactly on the edge of their seat listening
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  Speaker 1: to her, and she is kind of a lackluster when
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  Speaker 1: she talks.
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  Speaker 3: This is the most callous, corrupt, and incompetent administration in
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  Speaker 3: America's history.
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  Speaker 1: Now she gets the blog incompetent there, yeah, go incompetent.
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  Speaker 1: So Joe Biden's a vegetable bumping into the walls to her,
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  Speaker 1: that was total competence. Never says a word suddenly, but
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  Speaker 1: it sounds good. It sounds good whoever it is. You
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  Speaker 1: just say the most corrupt, incompetent, it sounds good. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're crazy talking to crazy Democrats, they believe it.
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  Speaker 1: And you got that crazy Hong who's running This is
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  Speaker 1: the one that wanted to ban Thanksgiving forever. Talk about
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  Speaker 1: changing your tune. Remember she was going to ban Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: It was a terrible, corrupt holiday celebrating colonials, which I
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  Speaker 1: hated Thanksgiving. It was painful going to ban it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, listen, my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have it. Yep, I don't want to cancel it. I
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  Speaker 2: actually love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's two weeks ago you're talking about canceling it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the worst out. It's totally painful. So hey, they
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  Speaker 1: caught a big, big leaker. Now you remember, there's a
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  Speaker 1: brand new Air Force one. The cutter lent Us gave us.
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  Speaker 1: Actually this big plane. There's supposed to be a new
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  Speaker 1: Air Force one because the current Air Force one is
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  Speaker 1: a little old and dilapidated. So there's a new Air
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  Speaker 1: Force one, state of the art, great, incredible, but Boeing
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  Speaker 1: has had massive delays, so it's way behind schedule. It's
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be ready now won't be ready for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years, a year or two, big delays. So
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  Speaker 1: Cutter lends President Trump an incredible plane, I mean, state
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  Speaker 1: of the art, makes Air Force one look like an
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  Speaker 1: old propeller plane. I mean, it's unbelievable, it's magnificent. So
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  Speaker 1: the President starts using it. And by the way, this
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  Speaker 1: plane was just a personal plane of the head of Cutter,
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  Speaker 1: so it gives you an idea of the kind of
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  Speaker 1: money they got over there. So he's used in the plane.
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  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, when he's in Europe
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  Speaker 1: or he's in the where was he in Turkey or
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  Speaker 1: someplace close to the Middle East, All of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: they got rid of that new plane and went back
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  Speaker 1: to the old Air Force one. And that was a
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  Speaker 1: little surprising. Why would they suddenly go bring the old
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  Speaker 1: Air Force one back into service. Well, word leaked out
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  Speaker 1: that the problem with the new plane, even though they
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  Speaker 1: spent a fortune and a year refitting it, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: have full missile defense capability. The old Air Force one
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  Speaker 1: has all the missile defense built in so it leaked
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  Speaker 1: out that this did not have full missile defense. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump denied at the course that it wasn't true, but
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  Speaker 1: you knew it was true. Otherwise he made up some
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  Speaker 1: story about, well, we sent the new Air Force one
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  Speaker 1: up to Britain so people could see it. The whole
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  Speaker 1: story didn't make any sense. So obviously it was true.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a terrible leak. And I can understand
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  Speaker 1: why he denied it, because you don't want to reveal
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  Speaker 1: that to the enemy, that this new one doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: full missile defense. They used the new one, but mostly
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  Speaker 1: now here in the United States. They don't go overseas
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  Speaker 1: with it. But they tracked down the leaker. They found
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  Speaker 1: the leaker, the former Air Force secretary. He leaked the information,
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  Speaker 1: they say, Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall, all
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  Speaker 1: his security clearances have been revoked. He was eligible for
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  Speaker 1: classified information and he's no longer allowed any classified information.
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  Speaker 1: He said that. They say he was the unauthorized leaker
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  Speaker 1: disclosure of classified information regarding Air Force one's capability to
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  Speaker 1: a media outlet. And now they're saying this, I assume they've
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  Speaker 1: actually got it, the actual hard proof that probably a
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  Speaker 1: cell phone records, that sort of stuff. They caught him
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  Speaker 1: talk to the reporter. Trump administration actually subpoened several New
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  Speaker 1: York Times journalists, So they're the ones New York Times
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  Speaker 1: leaking accused of leaking classified information reporting this, which causes
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous security problem for a president. So they got
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  Speaker 1: the guy. Very good for them, Good for them. And
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  Speaker 1: I assume that's the FBI cash Forritel people like that
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  Speaker 1: that uncovered this. So you know, when they talk about
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  Speaker 1: the UN General Assembly, the big UN summit where all
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  Speaker 1: the world leaders come here, it's in September, and it's
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  Speaker 1: not that far away. It's just a few weeks away. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you. September is a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks away. We're almost at the end of summer.
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  Speaker 1: So Net Yahoo will be coming here. And Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 1: kept talking about arresting net Nahu crypt trying to create
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  Speaker 1: a big problem for net Yaho NYPD furious. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a security nightmare because Mamdani has riled
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  Speaker 1: up people against netnya who which creates an even bigger
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  Speaker 1: security threat. Now, the other problem with all of this
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  Speaker 1: is they're going to have to spend a fortune. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know where that all this money is going to
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  Speaker 1: come from, but the NYPD is going to have to
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  Speaker 1: have a lot more manpower on this because he's going
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  Speaker 1: to have to guard Netnya who at his hotel at
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  Speaker 1: the UN, his motorcade, Netnya who tends to go out
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  Speaker 1: when he's in New York to restaurants and stuff. Netnya
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  Speaker 1: who used to live in New York. He used to
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  Speaker 1: be I think he was the ambassador of the UN
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  Speaker 1: for Israel. But when he during those days he lived
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  Speaker 1: in New York, he always saw him in all the
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  Speaker 1: top restaurants Upper East Side. You'd see him in the
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  Speaker 1: Promola and Nicola and every place he was around town
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  Speaker 1: all the time, he'd be in Chipriani. And I imagine
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  Speaker 1: when he comes back, he's going to visit his old
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  Speaker 1: haunts and his old friends. So it's going to cost
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  Speaker 1: us a fortune. Thanks to Mom, Donnie. So you remember
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  Speaker 1: the controversy. It is a silly controversy. But Obama one
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  Speaker 1: day wore a tan suit. It was a very light suit,
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  Speaker 1: a tan suit, and everybody created a stink and they said,
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  Speaker 1: this is horrible. Even the fake news, even when it's
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  Speaker 1: not presidential to wear a tan suit. This is a
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  Speaker 1: silly scandal because you could find pictures of Reagan in
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  Speaker 1: a tan suit and other presidents. You could find FDR
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  Speaker 1: in a tan suit. But it was a silly little controversy.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's you know, there's a Larry David HBO series,
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  Speaker 1: not Kurby Enthusiasm. He's been doing a very limited little series,
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  Speaker 1: an HBO series called Life Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.
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  Speaker 1: So if you love Larry David, it's on HBO. But
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  Speaker 1: they did the season finale and Obama was the special guest,
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  Speaker 1: and the funny sketch in the show was that it
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  Speaker 1: turned out it was Larry David who picked the tan
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  Speaker 1: suit and told Obama to where it's. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: flashback to back then. They're in the White House and
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  Speaker 1: Obama said, you're sure this looks good? Are you sure?
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  Speaker 1: And Larry Davids trust me. It looks great, looks great,
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  Speaker 1: looks phenomenal, just where that you'll be finding. So and
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  Speaker 1: the press made it into a scandal. One of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons I think they made it into a scandal. They
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  Speaker 1: like to say they go after Obama now and then,
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  Speaker 1: but they ignored all the real scandals. There were some
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  Speaker 1: serious Obama scandals. Remember when he had the IRS target
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  Speaker 1: political groups that he didn't like. The IRS targeted conservative organizations,
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  Speaker 1: all the Tea party groups. Remember the Associated Press phone
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  Speaker 1: records seizure. Obama's Justice Department obtained all the telephone records
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  Speaker 1: of reporters and editors at the AP they didn't like.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of Obama scandals. Got Benghazi the VA,
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  Speaker 1: Remember the waytime was like through the rum as many
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  Speaker 1: hours at the VA. Remember the bo Burgdal prisoners swap.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of scandals back then. They just
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to it, just didn't want to cover them.
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  Speaker 1: Hey remember John Goodman from Roseanne, of course played a
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  Speaker 1: Roseanne's husband John Goodman. You know he got a little
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  Speaker 1: thinner through the years. Well, now nobody recognizes him, nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows who he is. He's now lost two hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 1: He is skinny. He's a skinny guy. I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: healthy and he looks okay, but you don't know it's him.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a problem now because when people pose for
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  Speaker 1: the selfie with him, you know, anybody sees the celebrity,
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  Speaker 1: they want a selfie. They want to pose it, post it,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't look like John Goodman. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: a useless selfie now, but he's seventy four, he said it.
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  Speaker 1: There's worst. At the worst, he was four hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 1: but he said he cut out sugar, hired a personal trainer,
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  Speaker 1: adopted a Mediterranean style diet. Now there's no weight. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way you'll lose that much weight with your Mediterranean
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  Speaker 1: style diet. You know, it's not as I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: some zep bound or o zempic or something involved. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh that stuff is so big right now. Sales are
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  Speaker 1: through the roof. They're beyond anything anybody imagine and growing
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  Speaker 1: like crazy. Hey, speaking of that. Mayor Adams Eric Adams
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  Speaker 1: guy was always an incredible shape, but he did a
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  Speaker 1: posting this week where he posed with a shirt off
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  Speaker 1: so you can see all the muscles and everything, holding
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  Speaker 1: a big cucumber in his hand. But uh, the way
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  Speaker 1: he's holding that cucumber, it doesn't look right. Something looks wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He's holding a bell pepper in the other's hand, posing
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  Speaker 1: with his shirt off on x boasting about how he
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  Speaker 1: had diabetes that nearly cost me. It cost him his eyesight,
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  Speaker 1: He changed his diet, his lifestyle. Okay, if it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: if it's gonna inspire people, and that's good. Todd Shapiro,
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  Speaker 1: good press agent Todd Shapiro, friend of mine, a spokesman
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  Speaker 1: for Adams, said, when a former mayor takes his shirt
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  Speaker 1: off and poses for a photo, of course it's going
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  Speaker 1: to become a story. This is New York. But behind
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  Speaker 1: the laughs and photos, it's actually a serious story about health.
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  Speaker 1: And Okay, Hey, Todd Shapiro lost a lot of he
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  Speaker 1: was heavier, lost a lot of weight. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: think any other mayor posing shirtless. No, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: we'd want to see that deplasia that. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to see that, Mom, Donnie might look. You know, he's
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  Speaker 1: in good shape. Bloomberg shirtless? No, no, No, who's bef
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  Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani definitely not. No, you don't want to see
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  Speaker 1: that Dinkins. Dinkins was in pretty good shape. But Ed Kotch, Now,
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants to see any mayor shirtless or in a
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  Speaker 1: bathing suit. Hey, remember Bloomberg got to do that stunt
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  Speaker 1: where he goes swimming with people. Remember, even he wore
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  Speaker 1: a shirt, a T shirt with his bathing suit even
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  Speaker 1: in the swimming pool. You know that CBS News anchor
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  Speaker 1: David Muir, ABC Nightly News, that's the biggest one, they
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  Speaker 1: highest rated. And then they got rid of Lester Holt,
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  Speaker 1: who's the on ABC, Tom Yamas or whoever. He kind
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  Speaker 1: of looks like David Muir. So all three network anchors
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  Speaker 1: look exactly the same. CBS has Tony Dough koopoo poll.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the hella's name is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the problem is the CBS Evening News used to be
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  Speaker 1: Walter Cronkite, most famous newsman in the world. Then it
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  Speaker 1: was Dan Rather, not as good, but he became the
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  Speaker 1: most famous anchorman in the world. Then it was Bob Schieffer.
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  Speaker 1: We knew who he was, and he was a very
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  Speaker 1: fine newsman, very fine guy too, but not too exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Then who did they go, Oh it was Katie Couric. Yeah, famous,
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  Speaker 1: but there didn't work and nobody bought her as an anchor,
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  Speaker 1: and then it was a series of people. Do you
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  Speaker 1: remember the anchors? After that? It was for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in history they had anchors of the CBS Nightly
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  Speaker 1: News and nobody knew their name. Nobody you could put
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  Speaker 1: them on a police lineup, nobody could tell you who
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  Speaker 1: they were. They were just I mean, they would have
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  Speaker 1: been good bank robbers. Nobody could remember them. The witnesses
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  Speaker 1: couldn't describe it. Anybody who I can't even remember their names.
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  Speaker 1: There was a bunch of them. Then it was Norah O'Donnell,
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  Speaker 1: who was as bland as can be. Now they got
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  Speaker 1: this guy Tony, and nobody knows his name. But it's
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  Speaker 1: okay too because even if you know it, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the hell this name is. Tony the cup,
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  Speaker 1: the culp, whatever his name is, looks good. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's not bad doing the news. But he
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  Speaker 1: took a couple of weeks off and he was replaced
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  Speaker 1: by Matt Gutman, filling just a fill in guy. But
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  Speaker 1: the ratings went way up under Matt Gutman. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: ratings went well over four million, which is unusual for them.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not good for Tony, whatever the hell his
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  Speaker 1: name is. There Matt Gutman fills in ratings way up. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three to two
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten is the number. Call me now,
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  Speaker 1: let's get some new callers too. If you never called
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  Speaker 1: us before, the number is eight hundred three to two
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