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

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  Speaker 1: On sevent ten WR.
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  Speaker 2: It's more of the marks Emosha.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, a steamy, beautiful ninety degree day today. So here
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  Speaker 1: in New York City, the Doorman's Union, it's more than
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  Speaker 1: the doorman what did she call them on the news
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  Speaker 1: door professionals, Well, they actually are. Now if you're live
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  Speaker 1: in the suburbs and you don't, you know, you have
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  Speaker 1: to have a doorman for you can't open your own door.
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  Speaker 1: It's more than that. The doormen really kind of run
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  Speaker 1: the building. I mean they're guarding the door, their security,
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  Speaker 1: they take care of everything for people. They do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff. And it's not just doorman, it's all
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  Speaker 1: the building people. You know, in most right over there
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  Speaker 1: and all those buildings outside the window over there, you
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  Speaker 1: got a doorman. You got a guy behind the desk,
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  Speaker 1: the front desk, you got a concierge, you got porters,
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  Speaker 1: you got maintenance people, you got people that run the
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  Speaker 1: service entrance, you got all sorts of stuff. Would all
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  Speaker 1: go on strike. This affects thirty three hundred buildings and
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  Speaker 1: one point five million residents, and it's the union is
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  Speaker 1: thirty two b J. They voted last night to authorize
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  Speaker 1: a strike that doesn't mean they'll go on strike. The
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  Speaker 1: deadline is Monday night, so they're negotiating. The fight is
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  Speaker 1: about full coverage of healthcare, that kind of stuff, so
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  Speaker 1: it could be Monday night if it happens, better pension,
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  Speaker 1: fight for wage hikes, for healthcare to continue to be
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  Speaker 1: covered at one hundred percent. So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: They authorize the strike last night, they'll keep negotiating. Hopefully
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  Speaker 1: it'll get settled before Monday. Mayor Mamdani and City Council
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  Speaker 1: Speaker Julie Menin other elected officials are expected to appear
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  Speaker 1: at the rally in support of the doormen and the
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  Speaker 1: building workers. Thirty four thousand of them would walk off
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  Speaker 1: the job, so they got the mayor behind them, they
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  Speaker 1: got the city council speaker behind them. So it's funny
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  Speaker 1: how it's the mayor who wants to terrorize everybody living
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  Speaker 1: in the buildings, taxing the death. But we'll be marching
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  Speaker 1: with the doorman. But that's good. That's good that they're
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  Speaker 1: supporting them, So we'll see what happens. President Trump going
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  Speaker 1: to Las Vegas today. One of the things they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about is it's a great thing. Anyway, this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't thought of before, but he eliminated the tax on tips.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if your service industry, restaurant, waiter, waitress, that
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  Speaker 1: kind of st bartend, a lot of your income is tips.
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  Speaker 1: So to have the tax eliminated on the tips, that's
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  Speaker 1: a big savings every year. That's huge. Now how do
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  Speaker 1: they justify that, Well, they're calling the tips gifts and
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  Speaker 1: there's no tax on gifts under whatever it is, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars, so that's seventeen now or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: So it's just considered gift now and it is here's
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  Speaker 1: the price for the food you pay that now, if
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  Speaker 1: you leave a tip, that's just something you decided to
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  Speaker 1: do extra So legally now it's a gift and there's
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  Speaker 1: no tax on it. So President Trump will be in
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas, which is where that started. It's where he
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  Speaker 1: got the idea. I don't know if he got the idea,
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  Speaker 1: somebody there gave it to him. But eliminating the tax
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  Speaker 1: on tips saved people a lot of money, and the
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  Speaker 1: big beautiful bill this was the first year where you
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  Speaker 1: got the benefits of it. So for almost everybody this year,
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  Speaker 1: their taxes were a lot lower, and they found that
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  Speaker 1: out yesterday, Secretary Bessett.
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  Speaker 3: More than forty five percent of the filers of the
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  Speaker 3: returns that we have seen have had at least one
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  Speaker 3: of the poor President's signature policies, no tax and tips,
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  Speaker 3: no tax in overtime, the deductions for our great seniors,
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  Speaker 3: and the deductibility of interest on auto loans for American
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  Speaker 3: made card.
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  Speaker 1: It's a huge, huge savings for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this last shoe lead this bill, but you
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  Speaker 1: didn't get the benefit till this year. And it's now
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  Speaker 1: past April fifteenth, so just about everybody's filed their taxes
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  Speaker 1: and they've seen the great benefits they are getting out
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  Speaker 1: of the big beautiful bill.
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  Speaker 3: I want to encourage everyone out there watching today to
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  Speaker 3: change their withholding if they haven't already done so, because
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  Speaker 3: if you change your withholding, then you will get an
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  Speaker 3: automatic real wage increase on a weekly or a monthly basis,
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  Speaker 3: and you will be able to keep more of your
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  Speaker 3: money this calendar year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, very good advice. Caroline Levitt, White House Press Secretary.
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  Speaker 2: More than fifty three million filers claimed at least one
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  Speaker 2: of President Trump's signature new tax cuts. The average refund
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  Speaker 2: of this filing season is more than thirty four hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump administration has issued more refunds in larger refunds
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  Speaker 2: than in any year of the history of our country.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, here in New York, you got this big contra
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  Speaker 1: versy the police. Two detectives are trying to arrest a guy,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody takes a video in the liquor store. The
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  Speaker 1: guy's resisting arrest two big burly detectives and the guy
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to get is a big burley guy. It
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  Speaker 1: turns out he's a security guy. Turns out he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the right guy, but they were trying to arrest him
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  Speaker 1: and he's resisting, and so they're trying to get him
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  Speaker 1: in handcuffs and he's fighting in there, but they're punching
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  Speaker 1: him and punching them and pun It looked pretty bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bad looking video. But we don't know the
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  Speaker 1: full story. You gotta wait for the full story, the
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  Speaker 1: Police commissioner.
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  Speaker 4: This matter is under internal review by our Internal Affairs Bureau,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll have more to say about it as that
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  Speaker 4: investigation unfolds. But I understand the community interests in it
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  Speaker 4: because it is an upsetting video.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the video. It's pretty bad. And this witness
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  Speaker 1: is yelling and screaming.
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  Speaker 3: That guy.
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  Speaker 5: I can hear him say, wait, what's going on. The
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  Speaker 5: officers did not say they were NYPD, they didn't say
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  Speaker 5: that we're detective. They didn't tell him you're under arrest,
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  Speaker 5: put your hands behind your back. They just started hitting him.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Uh, that sounds pretty bad that witness. However, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at the video and there were the guy's wearing
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  Speaker 1: a shirt with enormous letters that says NYC New York Police.
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  Speaker 1: It says police all over his shirt. So clearly he's identified.
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  Speaker 1: And people are saying if you look at the video,
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  Speaker 1: he does identify himself, and he says stop resisting arrests,
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  Speaker 1: stop resisting. The bad part is mayor Mom Donnie jumped
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  Speaker 1: in and said, this looks terrible. Nobody should be treated
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  Speaker 1: like this. Well, you kind of supposed to wait and
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  Speaker 1: let the police commissioners sort this out, Let the internal affairs,
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  Speaker 1: get some get some facts in front of you first
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  Speaker 1: before you sound off. And he's right, nobody should be
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  Speaker 1: treated like that except a very dangerous criminal who's resisting arrest. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out this guy wasn't kilty, but you gotta
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  Speaker 1: wait till the facts are in. That's the best thing
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  Speaker 1: to do. Hey, Live Nation, which is I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: really is kind of a monopoly. The courts ruled against it.
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  Speaker 1: A bunch of states brought a lawsuit against Live Nation
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  Speaker 1: for the high ticket prices. Big states, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was thirty states together brought this lawsuit and it went
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  Speaker 1: to court, and the jury voted against Live Nations, saying
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  Speaker 1: it was a monopoly they were overcharging. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: is a monopoly because they not only control all the
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  Speaker 1: ticket sales, they own the venues. They brought up all
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  Speaker 1: the major venues that they could a lot of venues,
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of a monopoly. It's kind of a bully.
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  Speaker 1: The court ruled that they have overcharged. Now this sounds
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  Speaker 1: really bad, but we don't know the bad part yet,
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  Speaker 1: and the bad part will be what the court decides
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  Speaker 1: as far as a relief, as far as a remedy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it could be a refund for a lot of these tickets,
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  Speaker 1: could be hundreds of millions of dollars, okay, But it
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  Speaker 1: could be worse. It could be that the court orders
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  Speaker 1: them to break up the company. Sell some of the venues,
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  Speaker 1: sell parts of the company off. That's pretty serious stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Now Live Nation will go through lots of appeals and
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  Speaker 1: fight this like crazy. I mean, besides one hundreds of millions,
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  Speaker 1: you might have to break up the company, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It is kind of ridiculous. The ticket prices for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of Akerson I can understand, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to sell the first ten rows for some super
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  Speaker 1: VIP gold ticket whatever, charge of fortune, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of concerts, even if you want to sit in the
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  Speaker 1: worst seat in the balcony, it's still hundreds of dollars,
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  Speaker 1: which is absolutely ridiculous. It's just crazy. Hey mel Brooks,
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  Speaker 1: he's ninety nine but still hard at work. You know,
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  Speaker 1: remembers movie Spaceballs. It was a great movie Spaceballs million
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Well there's a sequel. He's involved in it.
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  Speaker 1: The sequel to Spaceballs is coming out. The title he
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  Speaker 1: wanted was Spaceballs too, the Search for Money. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: let's cash in on Spaceball, try to make some more money.
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  Speaker 1: The studios, everybody else would not go for Daveva. They've
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  Speaker 1: won the battle. It's not going to be called that.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be called Spaceballs to the new one. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that makes it pretty clear what it is. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking to take every So look at the celebrity birthdays.
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  Speaker 1: Who was born on this date. Let's see Charlie Chaplin. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a fascinating story. Charlie Chaplin in nineteen it's
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  Speaker 1: over one hundred years ago, one hundred and ten years
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  Speaker 1: it first came along. I guess it was nineteen twelve thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere around nineteen thirteen. Now try to picture this. There
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  Speaker 1: was no radio, there was no TV. All there was
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  Speaker 1: there was vaudeville. All there was was movies. That was
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  Speaker 1: the only medium out there, the only medium, and it
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  Speaker 1: was silent movies at the time. Chaplin comes to America
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  Speaker 1: and he becomes the biggest movie star in the world
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen fourteen fifteen, and then he's getting paid a fortune.
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  Speaker 1: He was with one company and then it was Max
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  Speaker 1: Senator who of the next company hires him away for
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  Speaker 1: multi million, biggest contract in the history of the world.
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  Speaker 1: He's not only the biggest star on earth, but there's
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  Speaker 1: only one medium. You know, you could be the biggest
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  Speaker 1: music star, and that doesn't mean you've got anything going
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  Speaker 1: on television or movies. But can imagine there's only one
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  Speaker 1: medium and you are by far the biggest star of alls.
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  Speaker 1: He was the biggest star in the world, Charlie Chaplin,
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  Speaker 1: and he did that character, the tramp, and it was
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  Speaker 1: like a hobo. Now, can you imagine if he did
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  Speaker 1: this today. His whole career was built on making fun
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  Speaker 1: of homeless people. He was a homeless guy. He was,
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  Speaker 1: and that's all he did is really la homeless Brook.
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  Speaker 1: Can you remember? This guy would be run out of
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  Speaker 1: the country. He'd be me tooed out of the plan.
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  Speaker 1: He was just terrible. Back then, they were called hoboes,
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  Speaker 1: they were called tramps. Somewhere along the line they got
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  Speaker 1: they must have hired public relations from all the hoboes
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  Speaker 1: and tramps they got the name changed to homeless. But chaplain, well,
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  Speaker 1: you could never make fun of them today. Hey, Eric Swalwell,
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  Speaker 1: besides getting thrown out of Congress, besides having his whole
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  Speaker 1: career ruined, is facing criminal charges in Manhattan, big criminal charges.
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  Speaker 1: And now it looks like Los Angeles. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: face criminal charges in Los Angeles. This is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: like a Harvey Weinstein deal. We just spends the next
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  Speaker 1: decade on trial everywhere trying to fight this people now
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  Speaker 1: remembering that, remember the State of the Union. It was
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  Speaker 1: Swawell that invited one of the Epstein victims and brought
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  Speaker 1: her to the State of the Union. He wanted everybody
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  Speaker 1: to just pay attention to this Epstein victim. Pay attention,
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  Speaker 1: she's the victim. Epstein victim, victim victim. Well, now, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: look how ridiculously hypocritical this guy looks. He could have
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  Speaker 1: brought his own. All he had to do is bring
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriends. You want to see some victims. Bring those
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  Speaker 1: women he is accused of doing this stuff with. And
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  Speaker 1: now one of the ones, the la one I guess,
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  Speaker 1: has Lisa Bloom as the attorney. She's the daughter of
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  Speaker 1: Remember Gloria Allread, So when it's Gloria all Read Lisa Bloom.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people not too crazy about
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  Speaker 1: those two lawyers. They look like, you know, real publicity hound.
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  Speaker 1: But apparently you see the other problem with Swallowell. Every
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  Speaker 1: time he did this stuff, it was at a hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Always at a hotel. The problem is that leaves an
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  Speaker 1: incredible paper trail, because when the woman gives you a
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  Speaker 1: date and every day. Well, then go check with the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Sure enough, she got the date right and everything. He
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  Speaker 1: was in the hotel. So this is not looking good
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  Speaker 1: for or him. Hey, you know, President Trump is now
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  Speaker 1: working on something. Do you remember the first term they
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  Speaker 1: would impeach him every spring, It was like a regular thing.
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  Speaker 1: The first impeachment was that was the first. The first
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  Speaker 1: impeachment was about Ukraine. He had made a phone call
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  Speaker 1: to Ukraine and they claimed the phone call was something terrible.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't, but they did impeach him over it, and
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  Speaker 1: then they impeached him again. What was the second one?
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  Speaker 1: Was it January sixth, something like that. Anyway, he's now
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  Speaker 1: looking at having the first impeachment expunged, erased, undone. They
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  Speaker 1: think it's possible because they're looking at there's all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of new evidences has come out of the Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: that you know, intelligence world, all kinds of new evidence
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  Speaker 1: about that conspiracy to manufacture some fake impeachment about that
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine call. Everything they came up with was totally fake,
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  Speaker 1: but they knew eviden and shows the actual conspiracy taking place.
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  Speaker 1: So the President has talked to Alan Dershowitz. Apparently Dershowitz
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  Speaker 1: is willing to look into this. He'll be the lead attorney,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to look at it very carefully and
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  Speaker 1: see if you can. There's no actual legal mechanism to
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  Speaker 1: erase an impeachment, to reverse it, to expunge it, but
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  Speaker 1: there may be a way to do it. So Dershowitz
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  Speaker 1: is working on that right now. For President Trump. That
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  Speaker 1: would be fascinating if they pull that off. Hey, Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court Justice Alito, he's seventy six years old, but there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talk of him stepping down. Maybe this
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  Speaker 1: summer he might step down. Now. If that's the case,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump gets another appointment to the Supreme Court. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so far, no president since Ronald Reagan has
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  Speaker 1: had this much influence on the Supreme Court, nobody more
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  Speaker 1: than Trump because he had three appointments in his first term.
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  Speaker 1: This could be a fourth. You imagine that one president
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  Speaker 1: got to put four people on the court, highly unusual.
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  Speaker 1: Who would he put on the court. Well, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of names are being recommended. Mike Lee of Utah, Ted Cruz, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but a brilliant guy, Ted Cruz. But
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he likes being on TV. He likes
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  Speaker 1: speaking out he likes. You know, when you go on
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  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, you gotta kind of stay quiet. You
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  Speaker 1: can't run around doing TV shows, you can't. You give
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  Speaker 1: up a lot, You give up a lot of your
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  Speaker 1: public persona, their public life to be on the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if CRUs would be interested in that. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 1: zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 1: one zero seven ten.