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Hour 3: Gen Z is becoming more depressed. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show, live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost Friday. It's Thursday, a nice day today. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot to get to this hour. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Fort Hood terrorist, Nadal Hassan, this is the army
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  Speaker 1: major who went nuts, became a terrorist, and then picked
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  Speaker 1: up a gun. He was stationed at Fort Hood, and
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  Speaker 1: he just started shooting people. He killed a lot of
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  Speaker 1: our military personnel, wounded others, horrible, horrible terrorist, to be
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  Speaker 1: executed by a firing squad. It's going to be live streamed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's been canceled. He'll be executed by a firing squad,
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  Speaker 1: but the live stream has been canceled. There was too
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  Speaker 1: much opposition to live streaming it. Too much flack about it.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump making the decision. No live stream. You won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to watch it, but.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, everybody's got a phone. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: doing videos. I'm sure somebody will make a video of it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll leak out at some point. Now, who's
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  Speaker 1: in trouble at the White House? Believe it or not,
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  Speaker 1: it's Susie Wiles, chief of staff. Now, she's been quite
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  Speaker 1: a good chief of staff. She's been excellent for President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: In the four years that he was not president, she
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  Speaker 1: went to work for him. Susie Wiles is an old
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  Speaker 1: Washington hand, been around, knows everything. You know, her father
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  Speaker 1: was Pat Summerall. Yeah, the great football guy. Pat Summerall
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  Speaker 1: was her father. That was her name, Susie Summerall. But
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  Speaker 1: Susie Wiles really was a huge help to getting Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump elected in 2024. A lot of people credit her
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  Speaker 1: for straightening out the Trump campaign, making it more efficient,
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  Speaker 1: making it work better. putting a little discipline into him
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  Speaker 1: during the campaign. Susie Wiles then became White House Chief
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  Speaker 1: of Staff. I think she's out. I think, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what went wrong. Something went wrong there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: hearing a few different things. Part of the problem is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, her daughter's involved in all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: lobbying and things going on, but he's not happy with
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  Speaker 1: Susie Wiles, and he's been asking everybody privately, asking everybody
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  Speaker 1: whether it should replace her. He's been making it clear
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  Speaker 1: to everybody that she's probably going to go, and he's
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  Speaker 1: looking for a possible successor. Now, what he does with this,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of decisions, he just runs it by everybody,
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  Speaker 1: which is not a bad idea for him because all
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  Speaker 1: day long, he's talking to the most brilliant, knowledgeable people
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  Speaker 1: in the world, from the business world, from the political world,
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  Speaker 1: people are calling him every day, texting him every day,
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  Speaker 1: People come in to see him every day. It's all
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  Speaker 1: literally the smartest people in America. And when you're with him,
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  Speaker 1: he'll just ask you a million questions. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think about this? What should I do about this? What
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  Speaker 1: do you think about this? Not that he's going to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever you say, but it's his way of doing
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  Speaker 1: like market research. He'll do a survey of 50 really
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  Speaker 1: smart people a day on something. And lately, lately, he's
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  Speaker 1: been asking everybody about getting rid of Susie Wiles. So
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  Speaker 1: That's when you know she's in real trouble and will
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  Speaker 1: probably go. Who would take over as chief of staff? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Miller. He's deputy chief of staff. They could make
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  Speaker 1: him chief of staff. In fact, if he got rid
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  Speaker 1: of her, he would be acting chief of staff. But
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  Speaker 1: he's looking at Randy Levine, Yankee president Randy Levine, who's
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant guy. And you'll notice he's always been a
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  Speaker 1: close friend of Randy Levine's, but you'll notice Randy Levine's
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  Speaker 1: been around a lot lately. He's been at the White
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  Speaker 1: House a lot. He's been the Yankee president for a long,
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  Speaker 1: long time. But remember, before that, Randy Levine was the
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  Speaker 1: deputy mayor in the Giuliani administration. Before that, he was
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  Speaker 1: in the Justice Department in Washington for years. And there's
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  Speaker 1: nobody smarter. He's a great negotiator. He's great at keeping
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  Speaker 1: everybody happy. He had to do that. When he left...
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  Speaker 1: City Hall and the Giuliani administration actually became a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: He went to work with Arnie Burns, who was a
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  Speaker 1: top deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani. Both of them had
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  Speaker 1: been in the Justice Department together, and Randy was like
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  Speaker 1: Arnie Burns' number two. They went back into private practice,
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  Speaker 1: and they became the Yankees' attorneys, and George Steinberg loved
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  Speaker 1: Randy Levine, saw how sharp he was, and made him
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  Speaker 1: the president of the Yankees. And he's remained there ever
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  Speaker 1: since and done a great job. Also one of the
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  Speaker 1: guys running a major league baseball. So very possible. He
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  Speaker 1: could be the next white house chief of staff. It's
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  Speaker 1: also thought about Steve Witkoff. Witkoff is a very, you know,
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  Speaker 1: longtime successful real estate guy in New York. He's also
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  Speaker 1: one of Trump's, maybe two closest friends on earth. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: now his closest friend on earth. Um, There's talk of
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  Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy, former House Speaker. He's a nice guy, but
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  Speaker 1: a little too swampy. My money would be on Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Miller or Randy Levine for that. So keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on that. That could happen. In case you didn't hear before,
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  Speaker 1: Plaza Hotel, the beautiful landmark, Plaza Hotel, 59th and 5th,
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  Speaker 1: closing for renovations. They announced this, but it's going to
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  Speaker 1: close for four years sounds like massive renovations four years
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  Speaker 1: means you sometimes you're gutting the place rebuilding everything uh
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  Speaker 1: i've been in there i was in there a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago looks fine to me everything seems fine uh
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  Speaker 1: ever since um i don't know who the current owners
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  Speaker 1: have been a couple but the last uh bunch of
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  Speaker 1: years the plaza hotel's been kind of a mess anyway
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  Speaker 1: the uh The great restaurant, the Edwardian Room and the
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  Speaker 1: Oak Room and the legendary Oak Bar. Remember Cary Grant
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  Speaker 1: in North by Northwest in there? They've all been closed
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  Speaker 1: and they never reopened. They've been empty the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: The Palm Court is open. It's kind of been a
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  Speaker 1: mess for the last few years. But they're going to
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  Speaker 1: close the entire hotel for four years. The employees will
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  Speaker 1: all be out. The hotel said they'll all be offered
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  Speaker 1: their jobs back when they reopened. But what the hell
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  Speaker 1: are they supposed to do for four years? And you've
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of stores in there. You've got a
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  Speaker 1: hair salon in there. What are they going to do?
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  Speaker 1: They'll all have to relocate. So this is quite a mess.
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  Speaker 1: A big part of the hotel is apartments and condos,
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  Speaker 1: which they have their own entrance. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if they have to get out. But even if they stay,
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  Speaker 1: massive construction for four years? This is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a mess. So if you haven't been to the Plaza
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  Speaker 1: Hotel in a while, pay a visit because you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to see it for four years. And who knows
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  Speaker 1: what will happen. Remember the Waldorf was closing for four
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  Speaker 1: years for renovations. Well, it turned out that was more
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  Speaker 1: like 12 years. So pay a visit to the plaza.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to close until after the Christmas season.
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  Speaker 1: So it will be in January. So make sure you
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  Speaker 1: take a final visit to the Plaza Hotel as we
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  Speaker 1: know it. Tonight is the, speaking of the Waldorf, the
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  Speaker 1: Al Smith dinner is tonight. It's an off-year dinner. So
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  Speaker 1: it won't be as big as the ones where it's
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  Speaker 1: an election year and the president comes in. But the
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  Speaker 1: honoree is Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner. Mamdani is now
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  Speaker 1: expected to attend the dinner. So if he comes, I
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  Speaker 1: would assume he's on the dais. The Al Smith dinner
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  Speaker 1: has a huge dais. It's like four rows back. It's
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  Speaker 1: like 100 people on the dais. And the dinner is
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  Speaker 1: black tie. But if you're on the dais, it's white
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  Speaker 1: tie and tails. And the dais is all the top
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  Speaker 1: business leaders, all the top government people, you know, the governor,
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  Speaker 1: this and that. So if he's going to dress appropriately
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  Speaker 1: and be on the dais, he'll have to wear a
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  Speaker 1: white tie and tails. I don't know. Mamdani's already getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of flack. The real left-wing democratic socialists are
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  Speaker 1: all mad at him. If they see him in the
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  Speaker 1: Waldorf ballroom in a white tie and tails, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to go nuts. They're going to go crazy. And there'll
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  Speaker 1: be pictures everywhere, uh, It's not, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be interesting. Keep an eye on
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  Speaker 1: this tonight. Mamdani in a white tie and tails up
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  Speaker 1: on the dais, mingling with all the top business people,
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  Speaker 1: all the notables. Not a good look for a socialist.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how this goes tonight. Generation Z, younger people. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out they're all miserable. In fact, 37% of
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  Speaker 1: them say they're being treated for depression today. Now, why
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  Speaker 1: would Generation Z be having all these problems with depression?
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  Speaker 1: They say they're suffering from loneliness. Well, this is the
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  Speaker 1: generation that grew up with phones. This is the online generation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you were a kid or a teenager
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  Speaker 1: or in your 20s, you were out going to clubs,
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  Speaker 1: going to bars, doing all sorts of stuff, hanging out
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  Speaker 1: with your friends, going out. Well, this generation, they got
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  Speaker 1: friends and all that, but they're online friends. They're their
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  Speaker 1: Facebook friends, their Instagram, their TikTok friends. Their life is
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  Speaker 1: not going out and partying. It's partying on TikTok, which
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  Speaker 1: can be fun, but the result is you don't have
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  Speaker 1: any actual friends suffering from loneliness. You're isolated. Also, many
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  Speaker 1: of them living at home with their parents, so depression
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  Speaker 1: is a big thing. Now, among Generation Z, the amount
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  Speaker 1: of them that are having what they call a thriving
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  Speaker 1: life where everything is great used to be about 75%.
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  Speaker 1: They say it's now more like 30%. The rest of
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  Speaker 1: them are miserable. Not great. And this is only going
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  Speaker 1: to get worse as people live more and more online
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  Speaker 1: and not In real life. Hey, speaking of that, Al
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  Speaker 1: Smith dinner tonight. Hochul will be there. And all the
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  Speaker 1: big business leaders, every business leader in New York is
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  Speaker 1: praying that Bruce Blakeman wins. They want Blakeman. He'll turn
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  Speaker 1: the economy around. He'll make everything better, safer. Everything will
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  Speaker 1: be better in New York. But they're afraid to donate
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  Speaker 1: to him. That's why he's had trouble fundraising, because they
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  Speaker 1: all do business here, and they can't offend Hochul, so
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  Speaker 1: they're afraid to give any money. The exception would be
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  Speaker 1: James Dolan, the Madison Square Garden owner, Nixon Rangers owner.
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  Speaker 1: He is holding massive fundraisers for Blakeman, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: super paxes for him, spending millions and millions in attack
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  Speaker 1: ads against Hochul, pro-Blakeman ads, so he has really stepped up.
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  Speaker 1: Dolan now challenging New York City business owners. He says
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  Speaker 1: he wants them to grow some backbone and step into
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  Speaker 1: the race before it's too late. Dolan said everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the business world hates Hochul, wants her out. They hate Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: They want Blakeman desperately. But he said you better grow
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  Speaker 1: a backbone. You better jump in. You better start donating
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  Speaker 1: and fighting because Blakeman will turn things around. You'll have
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  Speaker 1: a lower tax rate. You'll have a pro-growth agenda. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be better for business, better for everybody. He went after
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  Speaker 1: that partnership for New York. That's a silly thing with
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  Speaker 1: all the CEOs that gets absolutely nothing done. They've been
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  Speaker 1: kowtowing to Mamdani. They don't stand up. He's been going
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  Speaker 1: after them as well. Strait of Hormuz, well, it got
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  Speaker 1: a little worse this week. A little worse this week.
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  Speaker 1: Iran attacking ships. 24 ships got struck in the past
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. Slowing down oil exports. We had a lot
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  Speaker 1: of oil flowing through there. It slowed down a little.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the price of oil is going back up
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  Speaker 1: into the 90s. But they'll get that under control. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, a Facebook founder, owner, creator. Mark Zuckerberg getting
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  Speaker 1: attacked left and right for being one of the worst
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  Speaker 1: posters in the world. Yeah, when it comes to having–
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  Speaker 1: the guy creates Facebook. He runs this trillion-dollar empire. He
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  Speaker 1: takes over Instagram, creates Meta, AI. But when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to actually posting stuff and using Facebook, he stinks. His
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  Speaker 1: latest video was about something about drinking Guinness to see
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  Speaker 1: how he can drink Guinness. Everybody's saying it's the most cringeworthy,
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous thing. The billionaire goes on these podcasts. This one
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  Speaker 1: was a fresh keg of Guinness from Dublin trying to
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  Speaker 1: show how to drink. It was just awful. It's fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who created Facebook, Doesn't know how to use it.
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  Speaker 1: He stinks at it. Anytime he puts up a video,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's just him talking about something, it puts
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  Speaker 1: you right to sleep. Like in 20 seconds, he really
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  Speaker 1: stinks at this. Hey, Don Lemon. Don Lemon is contemplating
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  Speaker 1: whether he should run for president. He said he's thinking
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  Speaker 1: now very seriously. He may run for president. This guy
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even have a job. This guy's been out of
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  Speaker 1: work for a couple of years. CNN threw him the
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  Speaker 1: hell out of there. Had no use for him. He
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  Speaker 1: said there's a 65% to 70% chance he'll launch a
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  Speaker 1: White House bid. Now, the real reason he's doing this,
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't been able to get a job. He's out
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  Speaker 1: of work for a couple of years. Nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: hire him. He's the most irrelevant, laughable guy in the world.
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  Speaker 1: But if you pretend you're a presidential candidate, why, all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden it elevates you. Suddenly you have some status. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get laughed out of the race and
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  Speaker 1: go absolutely no place. But he doesn't know that yet.
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  Speaker 1: He has no political experience. He said he would make
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  Speaker 1: a better president than Trump. Well, first of all, the
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  Speaker 1: guy has no experience at anything. He has experience at
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  Speaker 1: getting low ratings and doing a TV show that bombs
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  Speaker 1: and he gets fired. But you remember when Trump first ran,
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  Speaker 1: he was a guy running a multi-billion dollar massive business
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  Speaker 1: all over the world. He has had like 100,000 employees
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  Speaker 1: for 40 years. He had a lot of management experience.
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  Speaker 1: Don Lemon, absolutely none. Last couple of years, can't even
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  Speaker 1: get a job. Hey, we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710
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  Speaker 1: is the number. Give me a call. Especially new callers.
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  Speaker 1: We always like new callers. 800-321-0710. More Mark. Mark Simone. Mr.
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  Speaker 3: New York.
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  Speaker 1: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800-321-0710. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Jack in West Virginia. Jack, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for taking my call. Hey, I just wanted to
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  Speaker 5: make a comment about donating for the elections, candidates, and
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  Speaker 5: so forth. I have donated in the past to Trump
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  Speaker 5: and to some of the other candidates and um it
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  Speaker 5: just seems that whenever you make a donation you get
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  Speaker 5: inundated with emails yeah and and text messages and if
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  Speaker 5: there's a way to turn that off so you can
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  Speaker 5: make i i have not made any donations this election
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  Speaker 5: just for that reason.
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  Speaker 1: I'm well yeah you can uh When you get these emails,
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  Speaker 1: just block that email account. When you get the text,
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  Speaker 1: block the text number, and that'll stop it.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right. It's a big problem. That's a good point. Thanks, Jack. Although,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, if you donate to President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get these texts. It'll be a number you don't recognize.
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  Speaker 1: You open up the text and say, hi, this is
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  Speaker 1: President Trump. I need to talk to you about something.
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  Speaker 1: The good thing is you can say to your friends,
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  Speaker 1: I'm this person. President Trump is texting me all day.
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  Speaker 1: And you're not lying. He actually is. Now, I understand
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. I don't want to donate because I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to get bombarded with all these texts. But
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  Speaker 1: if you make a doctor's appointment now, you know, I
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: had a doctor's appointment yesterday, just an eye doctor checkup.
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  Speaker 1: I got 4,000 emails and 3,000 texts. Confirm. Press 1
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  Speaker 1: to confirm. Then you get, I never got so many
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  Speaker 1: texts in my life. About this little... That morning you
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  Speaker 1: get a text. An hour before you get a text.
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  Speaker 1: You go see the doctor. You're leaving. You don't even
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  Speaker 1: get to the elevator yet. You get this text. Take
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  Speaker 1: the survey on how it was. It never stops. You
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  Speaker 1: got two doctor's appointments in one week. You get 4,000
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  Speaker 1: texts and emails. It never stops. Let's go to Barbie
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Barbie, how you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 7: So a few years ago you said... They wanted the
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  Speaker 7: horse and buggy ended because the real estate of the stable.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no, no. That's something else. They wanted
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  Speaker 1: the stable closed. There's a stable where they were keeping them.
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  Speaker 1: They were trying to close that stable because it was
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  Speaker 1: like on the Upper West Side in some pretty good
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  Speaker 1: land for a condo or something.
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  Speaker 7: I just want to say you made a comment about
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  Speaker 7: the racehorses. That'll be next, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be next. You know, they're talking about it's rough
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  Speaker 1: on the horses. It's cruel to the horse having to
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  Speaker 1: pull a carriage around Central. It doesn't seem that cruel.
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  Speaker 1: But to have a guy jump on your back and
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  Speaker 1: whip you to make sure you go as fast as
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  Speaker 1: you can go, that seems a little cruel, this horse racing.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, but it's been around forever.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's nice.
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  Speaker 7: Our traditions are nice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not against it. I like horse racing, but.
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  Speaker 1: It's different, you know.
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  Speaker 7: I don't understand what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if one of these guys in Central Park.
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  Speaker 7: I don't understand why they're whipping them constantly either.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they want them to go faster.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Well, thanks for calling. You know, you see
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  Speaker 1: the guy in Central Park and he's got the horse,
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  Speaker 1: you know, basically has some reins and he kind of
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  Speaker 1: flicks it. That's it. Imagine if he jumped on the
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  Speaker 1: back of the horse and started whipping him. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's more cruel and that's what horse racing is. Let's
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: go to Bill in New Jersey. Bill, how you doing?
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Okay, Mark, thank you. And, you know, horses belong in
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: Montana in an open field by a stream, not in
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: New York City. The other guy that called said, you know, emails.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: How many times do you call up a business and
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: the first thing you hear is, please listen carefully as
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: our menu has changed.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: But what I called about is, you know, I'm an
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: usher at a church. And even the little old ladies
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: with the rosary beads are saying, Why does Iran still exist?
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: It's like they're in the Stone Age, and we have
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: the most modern weaponry in the world. We could take
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: them out in an afternoon, and the Straits of Hormuz
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: are still closed? This is garbage.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't want to kill all the civilians. I mean,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: it'd be easy to wipe out Iran, but you can't kill, like,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: 60 million civilians in the process. It's what they call
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: asymmetrical warfare. It's the toughest thing to fight an asymmetrical
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: war where they're like in a jungle with rocks and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you're trying to catch it. It's the same thing happened
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: in Iraq. It was tough. You know, they're in caves,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: they're underground. It's tough, but you could do it with
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: ground forces. They just don't want to use ground forces.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but like you mentioned earlier, you know, the Strait
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: of Hermes is open. It's closed.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: It's open.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: It's closed.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: I mean, where's the gunfire coming from?
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Mail them and take them out.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Well, they got a few rockets left, a missile here,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a drone there. It's more like they call them mosquitoes.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: They're just like little mosquitoes biting them. But thanks for calling.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Mark. Okay.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I would like everybody to look at their utility bill,
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: whether it's your gas bill, your electric bill, or your
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: phone bill. As Bruce Blakeman pointed out the other night,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Because Kathy Hochul is getting our electricity now from Canada,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: the delivery charge for the electricity is actually more than
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: the usage. I got my electricity bill yesterday. I don't
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: do anything online. I got my electricity bill by paper
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: bill yesterday. And during your first hour, I opened it up.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: And the bill was for $ 133. And most of... $ 32
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: was for the actual usage. All the rest was either
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: taxes and fees and delivery charges and green this and
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: green that. Also, look at your gas bill and look
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: at your phone bill. Embedded in all those... abbreviations you'll
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: see all these nonsensical charges that the democrats are using
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: to nickel and dime you the debt and that's why
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: it's creating a lot of this unaffordability most people don't
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: look at it they just take out the check or
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: whatever or they pay it online and that's it oh
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: and to the fellow who called and said He was
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: being bombarded by all these text messages and this, that,
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: and the other. I caught a check to Blakeman the
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: other night, and on the form it said, I used
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: the paper form, it said, what's your email address? I
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: don't put in anything like that. And you won't be bombarded.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Cut a check. Don't do it by credit card. Don't
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: do it online. Do it the old-fashioned way, the Vincent way.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Cut a check. But everybody, look at your bills tonight.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: How they're nickel and diming us to death in this city.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Good point. Excellent call. Thanks for calling. Hey, when we
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: come back, we'll talk to the brilliant Liz Peek, the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: great columnist Liz Peek. We'll talk to her next on 710WOR.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: He's Mr. New York, Mark Simone on 710WOR. Well, Liz Peek,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the brilliant columnist. You can read her columns, foxnews.com, thehill.com.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Even better, go to her website. She's got her columns
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and all kinds of great stories up there, lizpeek.com, lizpeek.com.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Liz Peek, how are you doing?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on, Mark.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Well, I know how you're doing. I just saw you
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: last night. The Kudlow show was great.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: We were talking about the debate on there. So tell
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: everybody what you thought about the gubernatorial debate.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Look, I think the more Kathy Hochul has to actually
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: face the voting public, the better it is for everybody,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: including Bruce Blakeman, because she has absolutely nothing to run on. Supposedly,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Democrats care a lot about affordability. New York is one
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: of the most unaffordable places on the face of the planet, actually,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: with building costs, as an example, the highest anywhere in
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the world, which is pretty staggering, right?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: And why is that?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Because Democrats have ladled all kinds of regulations on small businesses,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: on contractors, on getting building permits, you name it.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: There's a red tape attached to it. And also high taxes.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: People kind of, you know, or just blanking mentally on
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: the idea that every time Kathy Hochul or Zoran Mamdani
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: raises taxes on the voting public, they pay more for
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: everything because whoever is paying that higher taxes, your grocery store,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: your delivery guy, whatever, they pass it right along to
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the consumer.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: And so, You know, the idea that Kathy Hochul.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Is going to do a better job of bringing prices
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: down or under control than Bruce Blakeman, forget it. I mean,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: he has much better instincts on all kinds of issues, including,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: by the way, how to manage ICE, illegal immigrants being
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: in our country committing crimes, etc. Kathy Hochul is basically
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: going to lie down in front of Mamdani and the
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: far left and do whatever they want, including raising taxes more.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: on struggling New Yorkers in the coming years. And you
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: can just absolutely bank that. It's going to happen. So
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: I want Bruce Blakeman out there more. I want him
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: making the case against Kathy Hochul. And I think he
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: made a good start on that in the debate.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: You know how the government stepped in and they made
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: everybody list their ingredients? You know, what's in the Starbucks
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: drink or what's the, oh, you have to list the ingredients.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: If they would do this, they'll never pass this, but
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: if they would do this for gas prices, electric bills,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: if people saw where the money is going for that
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: $ 4. 50 a gallon, I don't think they realize that 75
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: cents goes to the state in taxes. Even your electric bill,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: like 50% of it is government taxes and fees. People
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: don't know that.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: They don't know it.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: They don't understand that Democrats are basically waging, even today,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: an ongoing war against fossil fuels. But what's so stupid, Mark,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: is they, yes, you're right. State and local taxes on gasoline,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: for example, are enormous. In California, I think it's 70
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: cents a gallon, something like that. But what they've tried
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: to do is push everyone to electricity. But of course,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: they've also made electricity incredibly expensive. And a lot of
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: that is, as you say, taxes and other fees that apply.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: So if you really want to tilt the balance in
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: favor of electricity, number one, Make sure you have the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: feedstock to create electricity. It doesn't come from lightning. It
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: actually has to be produced in a power plant somewhere.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Don't shut down Indian Point nuclear power plant, which was
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: one of the dumbest things that Andrew Cuomo did. Don't
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: make it impossible to frack for natural gas. Natural gas
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: is a fantastically clean and abundant and cheap feedstock for
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: electricity production. And yet, basically- Kathy Hochul and her predecessor
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: has made it wildly unaffordable and unattainable in New York. So, look,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I think literally she has done everything wrong and it's
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: only going to get worse. And at the end of
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the day, as we discussed yesterday on Kudlow's show, end
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: of day, why are people leaving New York?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: End of discussion, right?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Businesses, people flocking to Florida and to Texas are because
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: life in New York is unaffordable. And so, you know,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: let her explain that. That has nothing to do, by
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the way, with Donald Trump waging war in Iran, which
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: has driven.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Oil prices higher.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Electricity and energy costs in New York have been higher
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: than the nation's average right now, about 60% higher for decades,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: or at least a decade.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And a half.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: It is not new.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So, is nothing to do with Donald Trump. It's everything
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: to do with the Democrats in charge of this state.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Now, Liz Peek, you should check out her website, LizPeek.com.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You've written about this. If you watch CNN or MSNOW,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: all they're talking about is this blue wave that's going
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to take over. How much of that is a fantasy
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: with the Democrats?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Well, look, the more they talk about it, just remind yourself,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: the more they talk about it, the more voters get
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: discouraged and say, ah, you know, Bruce Blakeman doesn't have
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a shot. Kathy Hochul's going to win. Why do I
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: even bother to vote? That's what they're hoping on. That's
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: what they're hoping for. So this negativity about Republican chances
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: in the midterms and the blue wave drowning all the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Republican candidates, take it with a grain of salt because
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the polls, the media headlines, everything is primed to keep
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you at home, keep you from voting, keep you from
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: giving money to a candidate.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Don't listen to it. Just drown it out.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: You got to go vote because otherwise you have absolutely
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: no right to complain about what goes on in your
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: city and state.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: But being honest, the Republicans, as far as messaging, as
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: far as marketing, what should they have done differently from
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the beginning of the year to now?
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: I tell you what, Mark, how much time do we have?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: It's the opportunity.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: The lack of a message is appalling. Why?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Because, you know, look at an op-ed that Jerry Baker
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal. Jerry Baker is
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: no fan of Republican, certainly a Donald Trump, not a
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: big partisan guy, I don't think.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: But he listed all the things that are going right
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: in the economy. Where have you heard that? Nowhere.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: No one's talking about the fact that unemployment claims are
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: extremely low, that real incomes are still up, even with inflation, $ 2, 000.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: during Trump's presidency, while they went down under Joe Biden.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: I could list 10 things that Republicans should be out
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: there talking about on the stump, including no taxes on tips,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: no taxes on overtime, things.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: That are very popular.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: But they are so scared of their shadows, these Republican candidates.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: They're so scared someone's going to say, well, you just
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: care about.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Tax cuts for the wealthy. Holy crow.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: These tax cuts in 2017 and again in the big,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: beautiful bill, they were primed to middle-income Americans. And middle-income Americans,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: I think, know that. But unless you have a politician saying, hey,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: we delivered that. And by the way, my opponent wants
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: to reverse that. Remember, Kamala Harris actually campaigned on reversing
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: the 2017 tax cuts, which I always thought was one
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: of the most unbelievably dumb things she did, and that's
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: a very high bar, you know, it's just kind of amazing.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: They can't prosecute the case.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: You and I can. What's wrong with that?
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, though, if they had the case
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and the right message, where are they going to get
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: it out? 90% of the media will never, ever broadcast it.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Well, look, social media is huge.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: We've seen with Mamdani that, guess what?
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: You actually have to kind of use the tools of today.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: An extraordinary number of people are getting their news from
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: social media, not from the newspapers, not from television news programs.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: They go on to X or they go on to
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: TikTok and they believe what they read, which is really
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: frightening because you and I both know there's a whole
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff on all those platforms that's just simply
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: made up. But the reality is you can wage this
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: war not only in person, and the candidates who do
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: best are going out there every day making their case
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: to voters, but also on social media and, look, on
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: radio programs like yours.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, Radio Hacks, believe it
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: or not, has a lot more listeners than TV has
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: viewers right now. That's right. In today's world. Well, Liz Peek,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: great stuff. Everybody check out her website, LizPeek.com. There's not
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: only her columns, but great stories up there every day. LizPeek.com.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: And you can read her columns, FoxNews.com, TheHill.com. Liz Peek,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: thanks for being with us.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. Don't get discouraged, Mark. You
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: sound discouraged. Look, there's still three weeks. We've got to
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: prosecute the case.
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: You're right. Right attitude.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us. Take care.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Take care. I'm not discouraged. It's just that it's a
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: three-hour show now. Three hours every day. I'm not used
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: to this. The third hour, I'm like, drag it a little. No,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not discouraged. Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay. You
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: got to listen to them every day. Noon to three.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Great show. And then three o'clock, you got the most
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: listened to radio show in America, Sean Hannity. Three o'clock,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: you got Jesse Kelly. Big show at 6 o'clock. Then,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: 9 o'clock, you've got the great Jimmy Fallon. Very funny
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: show every night, 9 to midnight. Don't forget, I'm three
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: hours now. 9 a.m. till noon. Three hours, 9 to noon. And,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of course, before me, from 6 to 9, it's Curtis Lewa,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Larry Menti. Here on 710WOR. Now, more Mark.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Mark Simone.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Now, 9 till noon weekdays.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: On 710WOR.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, Liz Peek is right about one thing. There's
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: this narrative being pushed on you by media, Democrats. This
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: is a blue wave coming. It's unstoppable. The blue wave
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: is going to touch. It's just a narrative they keep pushing.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: It's a psyops operation trying to suppress vote and trying
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: to discourage any Republicans from donating or voting. There's no
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: big blue wave coming. The way it actually stands right
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: now for real in hard numbers, Republicans look very good
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: for keeping the Senate. The House is just too close
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to call. This could go either way. It's going to
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: depend on turnout. You get a lot of Republican turnout,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the Republicans will win the House. So that's why these
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: fake polls are coming out trying to discourage Republican voters.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: And that's why they keep pushing this blue wave to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: suppress Republican turnout. Same thing in New York. If Republicans
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: turn out in big numbers, Blakeman wins. It's that simple.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And he had a great debate performance Tuesday night, really solid, great.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: It's New York One, which nobody sees. It's a tiny
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: little cable thing. But the clips are going all over
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the place, viral. So we'll see. It'll take another day
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: or two. By Monday, you'll see in the polling what
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: effect the debate had. It should put Blakeman a few
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: points ahead. It should be pretty big. So the president
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: has got a luncheon today. This is after Three incredible
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: days of travel. He was in Alaska. Then he went
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: to Nevada. Then he went to Arizona. Then he went
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: to Montana. This is all in like two days. And
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: he's back in the White House. Hey, we're out of time.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Supposed to be a very nice day today. Low 60s.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: It's autumn. But a nice sunny day. And then tomorrow
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: is supposed to be a lot of rain tomorrow, tomorrow night.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Then the weekend, nice and dry, bright sunshine on the weekend.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: but a cool, crisp autumn weekend. It'll only be in
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the 50s. Hey, we're out of time, but don't forget,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I'm on three hours now, nine to noon every day.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: And remember, you can always get the podcast of this show.
• 35:30
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• 35:32
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• 35:36
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• 35:40
  Speaker 1: So I'll be back tomorrow at nine. I'll talk to
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: you tomorrow on 710WOR.