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Hour 3: Simone's Special Labor Day Show · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: A lot of things changed with the pandemic. You remember that?
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  Speaker 1: We were locked up at home for a few months.
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  Speaker 1: And then for months after that, you couldn't really go
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  Speaker 1: to work. Everybody's working from home. And a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things changed after that year. First of all, it used
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  Speaker 1: to be you went to work until 5, 6 o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Then you went home, changed, did whatever you're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Then you went out to dinner. So everybody would go
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  Speaker 1: out at 7, 8 o'clock to dinner. During the pandemic,
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  Speaker 1: you're working from home. So when you're done at five,
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  Speaker 1: you're all set to go. A lot of people started
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  Speaker 1: going to restaurants and going to dinner five, six o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: And that has stuck with us now. People are eating earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Big article in the New York Times not long ago,
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  Speaker 1: it said six o'clock is the new eight o'clock. So
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  Speaker 1: restaurants will tell you they get packed now at six.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you get a second wave at eight, but it's
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  Speaker 1: mostly six, seven o'clock. Everybody's there. Sometimes 530 restaurants start
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  Speaker 1: getting a lot of customers. So That's one thing that changed. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Zoom became huge during the pandemic. And the other thing
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  Speaker 1: that changed, nobody could go to a movie theater during
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic. There was a year of no movie theater.
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  Speaker 1: So people realized it's fine to watch a movie at home.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to go to a theater. It used
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  Speaker 1: to be you went for the big screen. That's when
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  Speaker 1: they had big screens, you know, like Ziegfeld Theater across
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  Speaker 1: the street there. 2,000 people in the audience, a big screen.
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  Speaker 1: And then over the years, every movie theater busted up
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  Speaker 1: into four theaters, some of them eight theaters. So you
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  Speaker 1: had every theater. Then you go to a movie theater.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's busted up into four separate theaters, each one
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  Speaker 1: with 100 seats, each one with a smaller screen. And
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  Speaker 1: at the same time that phenomenon is going on, your
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  Speaker 1: TV at home is getting bigger and bigger. Remember, it
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  Speaker 1: used to be 30 inches. Wow, a 30-inch screen. Then
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  Speaker 1: a 45-inch screen was nothing. 65-inch was normal. 75-inch is
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  Speaker 1: pretty common now.
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  Speaker 2: 95, 100-inch.
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  Speaker 1: So your screen at home got as big as the
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  Speaker 1: one in the theater as that kept shrinking. And the quality,
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  Speaker 1: the actual picture quality, is probably better on your home
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  Speaker 1: screen now. And you can get your own sound, your
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  Speaker 1: own speakers. It sounds good. There was no reason to
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  Speaker 1: go to a movie theater. So when the pandemic ended,
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  Speaker 1: it was very tough to get people back in the theaters.
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  Speaker 1: really tough and they were empty for so long now
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  Speaker 1: i give amc credit amc just quietly rebuilt all their
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  Speaker 1: theaters so now when you go in there you're sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a recliner seat and they're really comfortable nice recliner
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  Speaker 1: seats and on both sides you got like a tray
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  Speaker 1: table there you got and they can order anything they
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  Speaker 1: got waiters and waitresses it's great uh so that helped
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  Speaker 1: a little but what really helped is these past few
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  Speaker 1: weeks where you got the two biggest blockbusters and And
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  Speaker 1: this is unusual for two to happen at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: But you got the Odyssey, which opened and just packed theaters.
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  Speaker 1: The Odyssey made $ 1. 3 billion in just the first few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: $ 1. 3 billion. But even bigger is Spider-Man. Spider-Man over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend hit $ 2 billion. This is in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: $ 2 billion. The other one, $ 1. 3 million. This has got
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  Speaker 1: people back to the theaters. And if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: those AMC theaters and you say, wow, you can sit
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  Speaker 1: in a reclining chair. But give this a few months
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  Speaker 1: and people start to realize, wait a minute, I got
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  Speaker 1: a reclining chair at home. I can do this at home. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but in the theater, you could order anything you want. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I can do that at home. I can do, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're at home, you can lie in bed and
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  Speaker 1: watch the movie. So I don't know what the future
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  Speaker 1: is of these movie theaters, but we'll see. Hey, The
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  Speaker 1: Daily Show, Jon Stewart, he's doing this podcast. He's had
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  Speaker 1: a million guests. The Daily Show's been on for, what, decades?
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  Speaker 1: All these guests. So they asked him in this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: who is your least favorite guest? Your least favorite guest. Now,
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  Speaker 1: people have asked me that, too. I've had probably, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, 50,000 guests on over the decades. Everybody you
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  Speaker 1: can name. Least favorite?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if there's really bad guests, but I
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  Speaker 1: kind of enjoyed them. They were so bad, they made
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  Speaker 1: it fun.
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  Speaker 2: Uh....
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll give them name names another time. So John Stewart,
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  Speaker 1: right away, he said, Donald Rumsfeld. Apparently, so Rumsfeld was
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  Speaker 1: going to be on in 2011. This is after the
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  Speaker 1: Iraq war. Rumsfeld had written a book and he was
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  Speaker 1: going to promote this book. So Stewart said he stayed
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  Speaker 1: up all night studying it, studying the book. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I stayed up as if I were cramming for an exam. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's good. You're doing research. You're preparing for the interview.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, now this is, you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do this. See, this is a rigged biased show he
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  Speaker 1: said i worked out a logic trap a labyrinth i
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  Speaker 1: was going to draw him into my trap and then
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  Speaker 1: spring it you're not supposed to do that just ask
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  Speaker 1: the guy questions so it was it was the iraq
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  Speaker 1: war that he was going after him for so he
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  Speaker 1: had this whole plot of what he was going to
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  Speaker 1: do trap him in a logic trap whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: that is but uh as soon as they start the
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  Speaker 1: interview Stuart said, you know, when you were selling the war,
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  Speaker 1: and Rumsfeld interrupted right away. He goes, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not selling the war, simply making the case. So then
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  Speaker 1: Stuart started debating him on whether it was selling or
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  Speaker 1: making the case, selling the war, making it. So that
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  Speaker 1: debate went on for 10 minutes. Stuart realized later, he said,
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  Speaker 1: Rumsfeld tortured him and tricked him. He got him hung
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  Speaker 1: up on that, on that little semantics, and that burned
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  Speaker 1: up most of the interview, and he never got to
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  Speaker 1: his logic trap, whatever the hell that was. But apparently
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  Speaker 1: this is Bugs Stewart like crazy. He said, it tortured me.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't sleep that night. And for many nights afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't sleep. He said, after the interview, Rumsfeld sent
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  Speaker 1: me a note saying, really enjoyed the interview. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much. I wish he had known you when we
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  Speaker 1: were younger. I bet we would have been friends. And
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  Speaker 1: he said he knew Rumsfeld was doing that just to
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  Speaker 1: torture him even more. See, this is how twisted these
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  Speaker 1: guys are inside. They're like plotting, scheming to take down Trump,
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  Speaker 1: take down Rumsfeld. It's It's not just an interview with them.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to wipe the guy out. Hey, CBS. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's this Paramount Skydance merger. And everybody said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not everybody. These crazy left wing politicians, attorneys
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  Speaker 1: general and all the crazy activists yelling and screaming. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be a monopoly. It won't be a monopoly. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: like the number five streaming service. Merging with the number
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  Speaker 1: 12 streaming service. It's not going to be a monopoly
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  Speaker 1: of any kind. But they're trying to stop this. One
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  Speaker 1: reason is CNN is involved in this merger. So I
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  Speaker 1: guess they think there'll be some kind of control over it.
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  Speaker 1: But the attorney general here in New York, Tish James,
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  Speaker 1: the attorney general in California, they're all threatening Paramount, Skydance,
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  Speaker 1: and coming after them. So what can you do about
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  Speaker 1: that if you're the chairman? Putting together this merger. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they did say it's very possible they'll move CBS out
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  Speaker 1: of New York. If they actually move CBS out of
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  Speaker 1: New York State, well, then the New York Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: has no jurisdiction and can't do anything. And there's talk
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  Speaker 1: about moving them out of California, too. Now, don't think
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  Speaker 1: that's drastic, because if you move them out of CBS
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  Speaker 1: and out of California, you save a fortune. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot cheaper to operate somewhere else. A lot cheaper. You
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  Speaker 1: move it to another state, you're saving a fortune. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not a crazy thing to do. And these businesses
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  Speaker 1: like CBS, they don't make the money they used to.
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  Speaker 1: Viewership is way down. Revenue is way down. Now, CBS,
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  Speaker 1: of course, CBS building on 6th Avenue. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: the massive facility, 57th and 12th. You know, you always
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  Speaker 1: drive by that CBS building, which is quite a crazy building.
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  Speaker 1: I used to work there. It's an old dairy farm,
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  Speaker 1: dairy farm. factory or whatever it was and then they
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  Speaker 1: cut two or three buildings together it's a ridiculous maze
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  Speaker 1: and if you're in the studio and you try to
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  Speaker 1: go to the men's room you you got a twist
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  Speaker 1: and turn on a million hallways and then nobody can
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  Speaker 1: ever find their way back it's like a hospital they
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  Speaker 1: got to paint lines on the floor so you know
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  Speaker 1: where to go so they could close that down they
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  Speaker 1: could move and i remember cnn in its early years
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  Speaker 1: came out of atlanta It's easy to do. It became
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  Speaker 1: a big, successful, big national network operating out of Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be in New York. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people say that CNN was better in Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: because it's when they got out of there and came
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  Speaker 1: to New York. That's when they got more crazy left wing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when they were broadcasting from Atlanta, it was
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  Speaker 1: in the heartland, real America. They were more common sense
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  Speaker 1: when they came to Manhattan. You know, Upper West Side,
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  Speaker 1: where CNN was, all of a sudden it became more left-wing.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody you hired was more left-wing. A lot of that
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  Speaker 1: bias came from leaving Atlanta. So, hey, 60 Minutes, they
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  Speaker 1: got Barry Weiss in charge. They're making all kinds of changes,
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  Speaker 1: bringing in new correspondents. 60 Minutes, if you go back
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  Speaker 1: 20 years ago, even 30 years, it was like the
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  Speaker 1: number one show on television. Something like 65 million people
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  Speaker 1: watched every Sunday night. Now you're lucky if it's $ 2 million,
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  Speaker 1: $ 3 million. I know they'll say, oh, sometimes we have
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  Speaker 1: $ 5 million. Yeah, that's right after a big football game
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  Speaker 1: as a lead-in. When there's no football, it plunges. So
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  Speaker 1: Barry White's trying to get it back to the old
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  Speaker 1: 60 Minutes. You know, there were superstar correspondents. It was
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  Speaker 1: Mike Wallace and Harry Reid. I mean, they were just superstars.
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  Speaker 1: Look at 60 Minutes now. You don't know any of these.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Whitaker. Who the hell is Bill Whitaker? Bill Whitaker.
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  Speaker 1: He should have been a bank robber because nobody can
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  Speaker 1: remember him. Nobody can remember what he looks like. Witnesses
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  Speaker 1: couldn't tell you anything. He's just the dullest guy in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Who else is on 60 Minutes? You see?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Do you ever think you'd see a
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  Speaker 1: time where nobody, oh, Leslie Stahl, this old, old 90-year-old crow.
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  Speaker 1: So she's trying to, Barry Weiss, trying to get this back.
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  Speaker 1: She just hired a writer from the New Yorker. You know,
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  Speaker 1: for all this talk of Barry Weiss, this conservative, she's
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  Speaker 1: not a conservative. She's a Democrat. She's a liberal. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: is more slanted left wing than the New Yorker. She
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  Speaker 1: just hired somebody from there. But she's got another idea.
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  Speaker 1: Now you remember one of the other big things of
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  Speaker 1: 60 Minutes was Andy Rooney. That was like the most
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  Speaker 1: famous feature. At the end of 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney
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  Speaker 1: would do that segment and it was great. It was great.
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  Speaker 1: So she wants to bring that back. Remember they used
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  Speaker 1: to call it A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney. And
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  Speaker 1: then he would do these segments where he would just,
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  Speaker 1: anything in his desk. Why do they call it a typewriter?
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  Speaker 1: That kind of stuff. Did you ever notice that? That
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So she wants to bring that back.
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  Speaker 1: There's no real Andy Rooney around. So apparently she wants
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Seinfeld. You know, he's perfect. He's the king of, hey,
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  Speaker 1: did you ever notice? Or why do they call it Ovaltine?
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's perfect. Seinfeld says he will not do it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, this guy's also the biggest comedian, most
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  Speaker 1: famous comedian on earth. He's not going to come do
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  Speaker 1: a two-minute segment for 60 minutes. The other one they
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  Speaker 1: want is John Cleese, apparently. And they say they've talked
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  Speaker 1: to all these people I'm naming here. Cleese is very interested.
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  Speaker 1: John Cleese, yeah, I guess he'd be good. Yeah, he'd
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  Speaker 1: be good. He'd be like an Andy Rooney type. The
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  Speaker 1: other one they're talking to is Stephen A. Smith. This
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  Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense. First of all, the idea of
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  Speaker 1: Andy Rooney, he was like an old news guy, an
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  Speaker 1: old Lou Grant news guy. And he was in a
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  Speaker 1: rumpled suit in this cluttered office like a Lou Grant broadcaster.
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  Speaker 1: That's not, Stephen A. Smith is wearing like a $ 10, 000 suit,
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  Speaker 1: looks as slick as can be. Also, too much yelling
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  Speaker 1: from him. You notice he always starts off, then by
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  Speaker 1: the end he's yelling and screaming. So that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to work on 60 Minutes. But Cleese seems the most interested.
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  Speaker 1: Watch it end up being John Cleese. It's in the
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  Speaker 1: 59th season. 59 years that show's been on. No, that's
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  Speaker 1: not the longest running show. Meet the Press still holds
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  Speaker 1: the record. Meet the Press, longest running show ever. You know,
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  Speaker 1: The View is celebrating its 30th anniversary. 30 years of
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  Speaker 1: The View. And it looks it, too. So they're going
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  Speaker 1: to invite everybody back. All the cast, a big reunion
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  Speaker 1: at Rosie O'Donnell saying she can't wait to go back.
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  Speaker 1: And then The View pointing out, wait a minute, we
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  Speaker 1: never asked her. We didn't invite her back. She just
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  Speaker 1: assumed she's coming back. But apparently there's a big fight
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  Speaker 1: at The View. They do not want Meghan McCain back.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want Meghan McCain back. They all hate her because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the left wing, Joy Behar had problems with her.
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  Speaker 1: Always got into vicious fights on the air. Whoopi Goldberg
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  Speaker 1: got into big fights with Meghan McCain on the air.
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  Speaker 1: And then she left. They got rid of her. But
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  Speaker 1: then in 2021, after she was gone, she started doing
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  Speaker 1: interviews talking about how bad the view is, the toxic
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  Speaker 1: work environment. Well, you've seen that cast of characters. Look
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  Speaker 1: how bad they are on the air. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: off the air? So with her having so many fights
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  Speaker 1: with him, then bad-mouthing him afterwards, don't expect to see
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  Speaker 1: her back on the reunion. Not that anybody's going to
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  Speaker 1: be watching this reunion, but it's a small audience anyway. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot more coming. It's our special holiday show.
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  Speaker 1: Don't go away. There's a lot more just ahead. Keith,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Pretty good, Mark. Thanks for taking my call. Love the
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  Speaker 3: extra hour.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I was calling about the data centers. Somebody told me
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  Speaker 3: that golf courses use more water than data centers. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know any truth to that.
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  Speaker 3: I have three golf courses in my town and no
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  Speaker 3: shortage of water.
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  Speaker 1: Garden City, you got the Garden City Country Club, the
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  Speaker 1: golf club, that old club been there 100 years. You
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  Speaker 1: got the Wyndham has a golf club, right? And what's
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  Speaker 1: the other one?
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  Speaker 3: The Cherry Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Cherry Valley, that's right. So I think Garden City would
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  Speaker 1: be good for a data center. We'll put it right
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  Speaker 1: on 7th Street next to Ivorone.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, that's bad.
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  Speaker 1: Where Tony's Tacos are.
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  Speaker 3: They spent all this money.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe in the parking lot, a data center.
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  Speaker 3: You're making me hungry. You know, the Chinese, they spent
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  Speaker 3: all this money convincing these people that these data centers
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  Speaker 3: are bad. They do the same thing. They back any
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  Speaker 3: candidate that's anti-mining because they want to control all the minerals.
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  Speaker 3: And we as Americans, we fall for these fake crises.
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  Speaker 3: I remember as a kid on Long Island, they said
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  Speaker 3: aerosol cans were going to kill the ozone layer. You
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  Speaker 3: know how many hairspray cans were used up in the
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  Speaker 3: 80s on Long Island?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What do we use today? Aerosol cans are still here today.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're right. And it's a very, very good point.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's always, this is a democratic tactic. They
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  Speaker 1: do this all the time. They've always done this. It's
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  Speaker 1: the way they campaign. It's the way they run. Media
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  Speaker 1: jumps in and helps them too. They have to always
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  Speaker 1: create a boogeyman, something they're fighting, a boogeyman. This whole
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  Speaker 1: tactic started with the French Revolution. They did it then.
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  Speaker 1: Ann Coulter wrote a book about it called Demonic. They
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  Speaker 1: always create this boogeyman that they're battling against. It was
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  Speaker 1: nuclear plants before. Now it's data centers. They've replaced the
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  Speaker 1: nuclear plants. And they always do this. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: they're fighting the MAGA extremists. Nobody knows who the hell,
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  Speaker 1: who are these MAGA extremists or the MAGA people? Nobody
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  Speaker 1: knows who you're talking about. Remember, every campaign, the last one,
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  Speaker 1: it was the alt-right. Nobody knew what the hell the
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  Speaker 1: alt-right was. And then at one point it was QAnon.
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  Speaker 1: which was some chat group on the Internet, but they
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  Speaker 1: were battling QAnon, and they were always battling these different forces.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Paul Roslin, another great suburb. Roslin, Long Island. Paul,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Good. I just wanted to mention to you that Dolly
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  Speaker 4: Parton was played tremendously on 106.7 many years ago. Light FM? Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't Light FM. It was WKHK, Kick FM.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. You know, it used to be a
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  Speaker 1: country station, WKHK, and it was a country station. It
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  Speaker 1: was like 14th place, and then they became Light FM.
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  Speaker 1: It became the number one station in New York. It's
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  Speaker 1: right down the hall there, right at the end of
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  Speaker 1: our hall. That's Light FM. I know.
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  Speaker 4: They brought in all these DJs from the South, and
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  Speaker 4: the station didn't last, obviously, because there wasn't country music.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't so popular then. But I remember listening to
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  Speaker 4: it when they did have it. And I think it
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: was your company that had it, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was Country under a different company.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Right, under a different company. But anyway, she was really incredible.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: What a personality.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: You're in Roslyn, New York. You're getting, hey, the Jolly
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Fisherman is gone, but it's about to become an incredible
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: new restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what it's going to become.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's going to be unbelievable. Gillis Pole, the Pole Brothers,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are the greatest restaurant.
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  Speaker 4: Right, the Pole Brothers. They own everything.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Well, they're the best restaurant guys probably in America, but
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  Speaker 1: definitely in Long Island.
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  Speaker 4: You're not kidding. God, they are unbelievable. But I listen
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  Speaker 4: to you every day, and you are absolutely sensational. Just
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Yeah, Light FM was WKHK. Remember the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: big country station was WHN. AM, 1050, WHM, the country station,
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  Speaker 1: with Del DeMontreau and all those sort of guys, and
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Larry Kenney. Remember Larry Kenney? Great guy. And then it
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  Speaker 1: switched to.
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  Speaker 4: Sports.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Remember? Yeah, it became WFAN. That was where the original
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: WFAN was. So some people thought, well, there's a need
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: for a country station. We'll create a country station on FM,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and it never quite works in New York. Whenever they
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: do a country station, they can't figure out why it
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: doesn't work in New York.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Well....
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Walk around Manhattan, you don't see a lot of McLeod
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: cowboy hats here. I mean, it's not a country city.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I love country music. And there are people,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: if you go way out in Long Island, you'll find
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  Speaker 1: some country fans. But if you're in Roslyn and Manhasset,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: there's not a lot of country fans there. You know,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: when you see those people, you go, how are you?
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: They're not big country listeners. So it didn't work. It
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: became Light FM, which, by the way, was controversial at
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• 19:05
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  Speaker 1: on this floor in the morning right now we reach about,
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• 21:00
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• 21:04
  Speaker 2: You know what, man? Uh, I'm a little nervous because
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: we're sending Harry and Megan back. And, uh, that is
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: the most inflammatory thing we've sent to a King since
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: July 4th, 1776. Like we might have a war on
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: our hands.
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  Speaker 5: I don't, I don't think the King wants them either.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: If they came to you, Harry and Meghan, and said,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: we can't get anything going in America, we can't get
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a job, we can't get anything, we can't get a show,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: what would you advise them to do?
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, what they should have did, for real, is
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: they should have never.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Played the victim card, which is like, oh, it's hard
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: being a royal, you know, because they're not real royals.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: They're like Kansas City Royals, you know, like the baseball team.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: And the reality is, she obviously married him for the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: fame of And she that's kind of dwindled here, like
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: it's dawned on her that nobody cares because the only
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: way Harry's ever going to wear the crown is if
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: he has a birthday party at Burger King. OK, there's
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: no relevance attached to him by whining. So what they
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: should have done for real. Do you know, we have
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: all these really famous Instagram influencers who do nothing, but
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: they're always showing you their cars and their jets. Like
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Harry and Meghan, in theory, are the best version of
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: that because neither of them do nothing. They've been bequeathed
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars from his royal.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Status, and they should be leaning into that. Do you
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: remember when Harry was.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Getting kicked out of the pools in Las Vegas because
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: he was getting drunk and drinking Heineken?
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Do you know what you've got to do to get
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: kicked out.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Of the pool at the Mandalay Bay? I don't, and
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I've tried everything, and I still don't know what you've
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: got to do. And the point is, that version of Harry, like,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: he would be like the movie Arthur.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: We would like.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: That Harry, because you'd be like, oh, it's a British hooligan,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: you know?
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: But instead he's doing the, you know, the what was
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: me thing, and nobody wants to hear it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, also, how could you be the Prince Harry, the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: royal family, and the only one you can marry is
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: some woman who was like 15th billing in suits? You
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: can't do better than that.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not even talking about a big show here.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, as a royal, yeah, you'd like to think
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: you could parlay that into a little bit more. But,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: you know, he has low self-esteem because he's not even
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: sure the king's his real dad. It's a whole to-do.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: We've all seen those bodyguard photos. I don't know what
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: to make of this one. Yeah, that's true. Hey, Eric Swalwell,
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: FBI confronted him at the airport, seized his devices. They
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: had a search warrant to execute to take all his electronics.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: You think we'll finally find out something about this guy,
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: what he was really up to?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I think. I think we have an idea of what
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: he was really up to. I mean, he's ordering a
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: lot of Chinese takeout. You're picking up what I'm putting down.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I honestly think what the Trump DOJ is probably trying
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: to do is get a handle on like who he
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: was really communicating with beyond her. Because apparently like when
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: he was outed as, you know, being trapped in that,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: you know, the honeypot situation, you know, they got a
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: briefing that was like, wow, this guy is really seeing
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: some bad things. But it doesn't sound like the Biden
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: administration wanted to prosecute it because it might have been
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: a liability for them. So it is a really it's
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: a rough time to be a D.C. madam right now
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: because a lot of your clients might be tied to
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: this phone. Like if anybody's looking for work as a
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: food taster, this is a good way to apply in D.C.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Hey, this guy, Asif, the senator who's saying the most ugly,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: vicious things about Trump, even top Democratic operative David Axelrod.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: told him to shut up, told him it's too much,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: reprimanded him. So is Ossoff going to listen or is
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: he going to keep going with these tirades?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: You know, I think he enjoys the relevance he's gaining
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: from this. So I actually think he's now going to
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: lean in because it started with him telling a joke
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: that looked a little sexist. He was implying that Trump
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: was with this girl who, as you know, is a
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: bone cancer survivor and works as his personal assistant. And
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Ossoff tried to insinuate there was something else going on.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: He took that back, if you saw him on Jen
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Psaki's show.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: But now he's leaning in again.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Now he's doing the whole, oh, you know, MAGA's melting
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: down and blah, blah, blah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: But again, he thinks he's brandishing himself as this left-wing
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: tough guy, except if you're watching his rallies, they're having
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: him shot like a Telemundo soap opera. He's got nine
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: pounds of makeup and 53 camera angles at his rallies.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: It's really like days.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Of our lives if they were running for Senate down
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: in Georgia. And no one takes this guy seriously. It
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: really is weird, but he looks like he's playing James
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Tallarico in a made-for-TV movie.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Trump has a couple of personal assistants, but
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Natalie Harp works her tail off. She's working day and night.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: You just see the way she works. She's running around
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: trying to do 50 things. I mean, if she was
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: sleeping with the boss, she wouldn't be working that hard,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: would she?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: She'd be kind of cozy.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You know what, man?
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: That's like, in all honesty, that is the most brilliant
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: piece of analysis I've ever heard. You can tell she's
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: the one definitely next to you.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: She was sleeping with the boss. she'd have some cushy
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: gigs down the road right she'd.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Be you know he'd send her down to check on
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the reflecting pool once a month you know she'd have
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: a good racket you guys that's that's it that puts
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the whole thing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: To bed for me all right well you can have
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: that because i steal enough stuff from you and your
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: show so um hey i was listening to you last
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: night your son is going to college.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: You know, he got a partial scholarship, which is good
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: because we don't have to sell Coke like the Penn
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: State guys. But, you know, you don't know. I mean,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: the rent don't pay itself around here with all these
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: new Mom Donnie taxes. You know, me and the link
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: man might have something going. But the one thing I
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: will tell you is you're not going to see us
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: getting busted for dealing drugs on Venmo.
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: Did you catch that?
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: They are pretty stupid.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: 20 grand on Venmo. Like, what memo do you write?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Like, you know, if somebody splits a dinner check and
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: they Venmo you 80 bucks, it says, like, dinner.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: But what do you attach to $ 22, 000.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: On a Venmo?
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: What do you write for a memo?
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: You know, some dinner.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Hey, but you're not worried sending your kid to college
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: that he's going to come back a socialist, totally indoctrinated?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Well, that is our actual deal for real was that
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I told him I will pay for college. But if
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: he comes home this Thanksgiving and tells me he's queer
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: for Palestine, I'm taking all the money back. I want
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: everything back. We're going to get this documented. I don't
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: have one of those in me. And yeah, that is
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: a concern because even at his college upstate, it's a
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: SUNY school. But the minute we got there, you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: this big George Floyd mural, all the you know, the
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: the Antifa flags, all the it's all there. And I
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: told them, I'm like, you have to just lean in
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: and laugh at how ridiculous it is because it's, you know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: it's not going to go away, you know, but you
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: just got to enjoy all the performative stupidity of, you know,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: you're taking the SATs on stolen land and blah, blah, blah. Wow.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Uh, Hey, you got to listen to Jimmy Fela every weeknight,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: nine to midnight. Now I'm just warning you. The only
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: problem with the show is you start listening to me,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you get addicted and you keep listening and you keep listening.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: It's like, uh, and you have a flow on that
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: show that, uh, I don't know how you do it
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: because I just started doing three hours. It's killing me.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: But you just start talking and it flows for three hours.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: How do you do that?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Tell me the secret of that.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Well, the magic trick is you don't do three hours.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: You do 10 minutes at the top of this hour,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: nine minutes after you come back from commercial, you know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: 12 minutes after that break, you know. So I look
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: at it as a series of individual shows. That's literally
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: how I do it. And each individual show, if we're
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: on the air 12 minutes, that's a show. And then
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: you go to commercial and you do two, three minutes
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: of commercials. You come back, you're doing an eight or
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: nine minute show. That's the way I look at it.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: And it makes all of it spontaneous and fun for me.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: And you're going to laugh, but I don't actually prepare
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: it that much. It's better for me if I'm just
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: reacting to things I saw and it's a little more spontaneous.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And because of that, I don't I'm not really I
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: don't feel the clock. I don't feel the time. It
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: really does feel like a conversation. And I'm just, you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to find a creative way to not tell
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: you I'm doing drugs.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: It is such a great show. His radio shows nine
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to midnight right here on W.O.R. You can hear tonight. Well,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: what do you have on tonight?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Lara Trump is back on the show. Presidential daughter. So
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: that's a good one. And, yeah, that's totally a make-up
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: by her because I invited her on the TV show.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: She said, no, I'll do radio. The best I can
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: do is a phone call. So we'll have Lara Trump.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: But that's going to be a hot one, and I believe,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: and Kennedy's coming by, so we'll do some, well, we've
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: got to talk about Columbia House with Kennedy, because she's
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: an MTV VJ, of course. Oh, yeah. And she was
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: around in old Columbia.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, also, make sure you watch his TV show,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Fox News Channel, Saturday nights at 10 o'clock. It is
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the single best show in late-night television, best monologue anywhere
• 30:17
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• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Free tickets. Yep. If you go to FoxAcrossAmerica.com. FoxAcrossAmerica.com. Tickets
• 30:34
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  Speaker 2: half the Fox News Channel's on. Lincoln's on. There's a
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  Speaker 2: of it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, sometimes somebody will say, hey, can you
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  Speaker 1: get a tour. Forget the tour. Just get these tickets.
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  Speaker 2: I paid big money for these, honey. I got your back, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so just go to Fox.
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  Speaker 1: Foxacrossamerica.com. You can get the tickets. Well, great stuff. And
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• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon, thanks for being with us.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: You're the best, Mark.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: See you, buddy. More of our special Labor Day holiday
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