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Hour 1: Fires in France. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now, 710WOR presents The Mark Simone Show. Hey, it's a Monday.
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  Speaker 1: It's a cold day out there. It's definitely autumn. It's
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  Speaker 1: cold out there. We got a lot to get to today.
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  Speaker 1: France is on fire. Paris is burning. We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to President Trump. We'll get to Katie Sicario.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to Bruce Blakeman. We'll get to Crazy Mom
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  Speaker 1: Donnie and his latest capers. We'll get to the... Pretty
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  Speaker 1: amazing dinner Thursday night at the White House. We'll go
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  Speaker 1: over that. So Paris is on fire. It is burning everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: The riots in France. Now, this is an annual event
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  Speaker 1: in Paris. Not riots. In France. Protests. It's an annual event. Protests.
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  Speaker 1: Workers go on strike. Students protest. Happens every year. This
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  Speaker 1: is different. This is rioting. This is looting. This is
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  Speaker 1: out of control. Now, what made it different? Well, the
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  Speaker 1: country has been infiltrated. They opened up their borders to
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  Speaker 1: the third world, and they came pouring in. So it's
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  Speaker 1: not the usual crazy French with their annual protest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was originally, but then everybody else jumped in. This
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  Speaker 1: is like an Islamist takedown of the French government, of
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  Speaker 1: French institutions. Again, they opened the borders. They let so
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  Speaker 1: many people in. They've been overrun by people who want
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  Speaker 1: to undo Paris, undo France, take it all down. France
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  Speaker 1: was in a state of shock on Sunday, especially Paris,
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  Speaker 1: other cities. They just walked through the streets, and the
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  Speaker 1: streets were just lined with shattered storefronts, charred cars, burned
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  Speaker 1: out government buildings. They destroyed a lot of stuff in
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  Speaker 1: Paris that They just destroyed the Hermes, the Louis Vuitton,
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  Speaker 1: the Gucci. Actually, a lot of husbands are not upset
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  Speaker 1: about that. They kind of keep the wives from spending
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  Speaker 1: any money this week. But some stores, Christian Dior and others,
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  Speaker 1: spent a fortune hiring their own armies to protect their stores.
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  Speaker 1: The arrest, last time I looked, was 2,400. It might
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  Speaker 1: be almost 3,000 now. It's totally out of control now.
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  Speaker 1: Limoges in the south of France, known for its porcelain
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  Speaker 1: and all that, was largely destroyed. Nighttime arson attacks. 500
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  Speaker 1: police were injured. I mean, go through the whole country. Marseille,
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  Speaker 1: also in the south, broke into local government headquarters. Half
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  Speaker 1: a million demonstrators marched on Sunday. Now, they claim they're
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  Speaker 1: protesting the rising cost of things, the price of gas.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about that. This, again, you get the annual
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  Speaker 1: student protests, the annual worker strikes. But underneath that, these
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  Speaker 1: rioters came in. They're mostly Islamic radicals. They came in.
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  Speaker 1: The vandalism isn't even... I mean, some looters came in
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  Speaker 1: and robbed all these stores. But most of the vandalism
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  Speaker 1: is just to destroy everything. Europe is not responding enough
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  Speaker 1: to this. The French government is not responding enough to this.
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  Speaker 1: The European Parliament is voting for a resolution that condemned
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood and its actions. They're trying to do
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  Speaker 1: something about it. Senator Ted Cruz, he said, we are
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  Speaker 1: now witnessing Islamists setting Paris ablaze because France committed cultural suicide.
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  Speaker 1: We have to watch what's happening in France as a
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  Speaker 1: warning sign. Now, a lot of this, it is Islamic,
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  Speaker 1: Islamist radicals. A lot of this is anti-Semitic, especially in Marseille.
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  Speaker 1: It was noted that they went mostly after Jewish-owned stores. Macron,
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  Speaker 1: obviously not handling this well. In fact, he's getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of flack because Friday night, He went to the
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  Speaker 1: Celine Dion concert in the middle of all this. Just awful.
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  Speaker 1: He's trying to scramble his way out of this. He
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  Speaker 1: tried to blame President Trump for the price of gas.
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  Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with anything. Nobody's buying it.
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  Speaker 1: The election is coming up. Now, he's term-limited out, but
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  Speaker 1: the right-wing party looks very strong now as a result
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  Speaker 1: of this because people are going to vote for law
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  Speaker 1: and order. Here in this country over the weekend, we
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  Speaker 1: had the No Kings protest. I know. There were over
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  Speaker 1: 3,000 No Kings protests around the country. 300 organizations. They're
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  Speaker 1: saying 3 million people showed up for the No Kings protest.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you in the No Kings protest, I
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  Speaker 1: know you're getting a lot of attention with this No
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  Speaker 1: Kings protest. You're getting a lot of turnout. You're getting
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  Speaker 1: a lot of coverage with your no Kings, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you know this. Nobody knows what the
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  Speaker 1: hell you're talking about. No Kings. Who are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: King Charles? Who are you talking about? We've had, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we already had the no Kings protest. It was called
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  Speaker 1: the revolutionary war. We got rid of King George. That
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  Speaker 1: was the end of it. That's the last King. No Kings.
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  Speaker 1: They got signs. No Kings. Nobody knows what you're talking about. but, uh,
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  Speaker 1: A couple of things about the No Kings. One, it
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  Speaker 1: was financed by all the left-wing organizations. They were financed
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  Speaker 1: by MoveOn.org, the American Federation of Teachers, the ACLU, real
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  Speaker 1: left-wing organizations financing this. Now, the No Kings organizers were
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  Speaker 1: trying to make it very clear that this is not
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  Speaker 1: a political rally, that it's not partisan.
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  Speaker 2: Pfft.
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  Speaker 1: But the reason they were pushing that narrative is, uh,
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  Speaker 1: all these, uh, donors, these big organizations are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be nonprofit charity groups, and you're not supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: giving charity money to partisan organizations. So they kept making
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  Speaker 1: it clear the organizers that there was not a political rally.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing political. It was totally nonpartisan, but, uh,
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  Speaker 1: If you were there and you looked at all the signs,
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  Speaker 1: they were all anti-Trump. They were all Trump signs. They
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  Speaker 1: were all anti-MAGA. It was clearly nothing but partisan. So
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  Speaker 1: they kept lying about every which way that it was nonpartisan.
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  Speaker 1: The real reason for this event, though, was to get
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  Speaker 1: people out to early vote. Like with President Trump running
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  Speaker 1: around the country doing all these rallies. The real reason
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  Speaker 1: is every time they get to a rally, everybody that's
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  Speaker 1: there They'll get 5,000, 10,000 people, but they'll turn away 20,000,
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  Speaker 1: 30,000 people. But in the process, the 30,000, 40,000 people,
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  Speaker 1: they'll get all their emails, phone numbers, contact information, and
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  Speaker 1: then they'll make sure they get them out to the polls,
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  Speaker 1: get them to early vote. That's the real reason for
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  Speaker 1: the rallies, to push turnout. And that's the other thing
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  Speaker 1: with this No Kings thing. It was to push turnout.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, speaking of rallies, going to Kansas today. Every day,
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  Speaker 1: besides working a full day in the White House, in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, he gets on the plane and goes somewhere
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  Speaker 1: to another state, does a massive rally for a couple hours,
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  Speaker 1: then comes back. It's a long day. Today it's Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldn't have to be Kansas. Kansas hasn't had a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: win for Congress or for Senate in almost 90 years,
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  Speaker 1: since the 1930s. So they shouldn't have to be fighting
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas. Kansas or Texas, but they are. It's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's midterms. And in every presidency, every president in the
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  Speaker 1: midterms loses the Congress. It's always the case, like 98%
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  Speaker 1: of the time. In the midterms, you'll lose the Congress.
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  Speaker 1: It's just always that way. President Trump, as a guy
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  Speaker 1: who always defies the odds, 2016, 2024, completely defied the odds.
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  Speaker 1: And he could do it again this time. He's always
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  Speaker 1: a guy who can pull a rabbit out of his hat.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see. He's going to work his ass off
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  Speaker 1: for the next 15 days. That's right. It's only 15
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  Speaker 1: days until the election. So we'll see what happens. It's
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  Speaker 1: about driving turnout, driving momentum. Right now, Republicans look very
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  Speaker 1: good for the Senate. The House could go either way.
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  Speaker 1: Too close to call. But it's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: turnout election. Whichever side gets the most turnout is going
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  Speaker 1: to win this election. Thursday night, there was a dinner
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  Speaker 1: at the White House, a little private dinner with Bill Maher.
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  Speaker 1: The president having dinner, private dinner with Bill Maher, with
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  Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith and with Kid Rock. He invited Bill
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  Speaker 1: Maher and the second time and he told Bill Maher,
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  Speaker 1: bring whatever crazy left wing friend you want to bring.
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  Speaker 1: And Bill Maher suggested they bring Stephen A.
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  Speaker 2: Smith.
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  Speaker 1: So the two of them came to Washington for this
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  Speaker 1: private little dinner. They didn't know that Kid Rock would
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  Speaker 1: be there. The president invited him. And it was a long,
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  Speaker 1: long dinner. Stephen A. Smith didn't know what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Maher had been there before. But Stephen A. Smith
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  Speaker 1: said he didn't know what to expect. He thought it'd be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the president of the United States, it'd be
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  Speaker 1: 20 minutes, a half hour. It was four and a
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  Speaker 1: half hours. Four and a half hours. Couple hours of dinner.
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  Speaker 1: And then the president took him on a tour of everything,
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  Speaker 1: the Oval Office, the White House, the colonnade with the portraits.
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  Speaker 1: He took him into the new ballroom. That's right. The
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  Speaker 1: new ballroom, the structure is half there already. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the walls are up and then the floor, everything is
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  Speaker 1: in there. So he showed him the new ballroom. He
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  Speaker 1: took him out to show him the beautiful new helipad.
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  Speaker 1: He showed him the beautiful new rose garden. and then
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  Speaker 1: the dinner and it was a few hours and Stephen A.
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  Speaker 1: Smith said he was there to push for HBCU I
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  Speaker 1: forget what that stands for it's about black colleges being
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  Speaker 1: funded good cause he was there to push for that
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  Speaker 1: and he was engaged in talking about that about black
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  Speaker 1: unemployment that sort of stuff and said the president listened
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  Speaker 1: to everything he had to say, told him he would
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  Speaker 1: have something done about all this stuff, he would look
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  Speaker 1: into it, and he will, he will. Now, Bill Maher
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  Speaker 1: apparently went at him for two hours over a lot
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, including the Iran war. I mean, really, really,
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  Speaker 1: really let him have it about the Iran war, told
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  Speaker 1: him everything he thinks, and the president listened. So, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's going to follow Bill Maher, but he's
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  Speaker 1: a good listener, despite the myth they try to create.
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  Speaker 1: He's a phenomenal listener. But Maher went at it At
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  Speaker 1: great length, the president listening. People pointed out the Bill
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  Speaker 1: Maher lecture on Iran was pretty rough at times on
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  Speaker 1: the president, but he listened carefully. So, hey, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of that no kings thing, they got their Instagram
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  Speaker 1: shut down. Their Instagram page was yanked right in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the protest. A spokesperson for no kings said
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  Speaker 1: the main accounts for the coalition were frozen, pulled down.
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  Speaker 1: Administrators lost access at the peak. Jeez, that sounds like
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  Speaker 1: something Democrats would do. I mean, that's exactly what happened
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  Speaker 1: to President Trump. And we didn't hear a peep out
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  Speaker 1: of the No Kings people. Remember, President Trump was banned
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  Speaker 1: from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, everything. Everything he had was shut down.
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  Speaker 1: His bank accounts were taken away. Remember that? Katie Zachariah, Zachariah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I told you on Friday she'd probably survive. I was
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  Speaker 1: wrong about that, boy. But the problem is, If you
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  Speaker 1: go back and watch the press conference, if you just
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  Speaker 1: read the transcript, it's not bad. She's pretty good. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: wrong with anything she said if you read the transcript.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is her voice. It's not authoritative. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to have a good voice to be the spokesperson. You can't.
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  Speaker 1: Her voice is a little shrill. It's a little childlike.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: I am so honored today.
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  Speaker 3: To work for President Trump and the American people. And
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  Speaker 3: now we have a booming economy.
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  Speaker 1: You see, you've got to have the right voice. It's
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  Speaker 1: got to sound authoritative. You know that Corrine Jean-Pierre was
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  Speaker 1: the worst press secretary we've ever seen. Absolutely horrible. Total imbecile.
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  Speaker 1: But her voice was nice. She had a good voice.
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  Speaker 1: So it didn't sound as bad as it was. But Zachariah,
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  Speaker 1: everything she's saying is fine. It's just the voice.
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  Speaker 4: A great relationship.
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  Speaker 2: With Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to that, we will be, we will be.
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  Speaker 3: Doing, yeah, there's 54.
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  Speaker 1: She's fine, except for the voice. And the other problem
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  Speaker 1: was the saying she was a lawyer. She had never
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  Speaker 1: passed the bar. She did legal work in law firms.
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  Speaker 1: She worked on major legal projects in law firms. But
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's, she's working as a lawyer there. You
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  Speaker 1: can work as a lawyer without passing the bar. In
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  Speaker 1: a law firm, they have to have a barred attorney
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  Speaker 1: sign off on everything. And then it's not a big episode.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a big deal. She was let go.
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  Speaker 2: That happens.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's first term, he had a press secretary who bombed.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Stephanie Grisham? She was his third White House press secretary.
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  Speaker 1: She was after Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She wasn't good. She
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  Speaker 1: lasted seven months, but she wasn't good. Also in the
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  Speaker 1: first term, Trump picked Anthony Scaramucci, who was considered the
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  Speaker 1: worst ever, fired after 11 days. Uh, Sean Spicer, he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't good as far as what Trump liked. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: have the Trump look, you know, he, he had kind
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  Speaker 1: of a high voice, but he spoke authoritatively. Uh, the
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  Speaker 1: problem was, uh, this sounds crazy, but he always wore
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  Speaker 1: these light gray suits, which didn't look good. And at first, uh,
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  Speaker 1: press conference afterwards, president Trump turned to everybody goes, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: this guy own a dark suit? So that was the problem.
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  Speaker 1: So we've had this problem before with the press secretaries. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And remember, in the first term, there was at times
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  Speaker 1: some very sloppy vetting. Very sloppy. Scaramucci should have been
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  Speaker 1: vetted better. Everybody should have been vetted much more thoroughly.
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  Speaker 1: President got sloppy on that. You know, that's the thing
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  Speaker 1: when you're a billionaire entrepreneur and you've created an empire
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  Speaker 1: all over the world. You're like a swashbuckler. You just
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  Speaker 1: go with your gut, go with your instinct. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the time, you'll be right. Some of the time, you'll
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  Speaker 1: be wrong. And that's the way they live. But you're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to do that in the White House. So
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  Speaker 1: he went back to the sloppy vetting. She looks great,
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  Speaker 1: Katie Zachariah. That's the look he wants, beautiful, blonde, executive-looking, blonde, hot-looking.
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  Speaker 1: That's the look he wanted. But you've got to vet them.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to vet them much better than that. So
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  Speaker 1: he got sloppy on this. Who's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: next White House press secretary? There's no list yet. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: publishes these short lists, but he's got no list in
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  Speaker 1: his head. He's not even thinking about it. The number
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  Speaker 1: two all along, even under Levitt, was Anna Kelly. She's
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. She'll handle the briefings. Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller,
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  Speaker 1: can handle some of them. She was communications director for
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  Speaker 1: Doge and other things. She was Vice President Pence's press secretary.
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  Speaker 1: So look for Katie Miller. Stories everywhere that he asked
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  Speaker 1: Maria Bartiromo. But she turned him down. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if that's true. It's not confirmed by Maria. And I
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  Speaker 1: can see why she turned it down. It's the worst
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  Speaker 1: job in the world. The job is 7 a.m. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to be there by 7 a.m. You don't get
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  Speaker 1: out until 7 p.m. And then when you're home, they
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  Speaker 1: call you every hour because anything happens anywhere. They've got
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  Speaker 1: to brief you so you're up to speed. So anything, anything.
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  Speaker 1: You get home, 8 o'clock. You just want to relax.
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  Speaker 1: Now the phone rings. They're briefing you on the latest
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  Speaker 1: riot in Paris. Now it's nine o'clock. They call you again.
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  Speaker 1: There was a bombing somewhere. Ten o'clock. Zelensky attacked Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Now they've got to brief you. This goes on all night,
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  Speaker 1: all weekend. You get woken up in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night. It's a horrible job. You don't get much money. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you're Maria Bartiromo and you're making $ 10
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  Speaker 1: million a year, for you, $ 150, 000 is not going to
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun in broadcasting. It's fun. You
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  Speaker 1: come in a couple hours early. You've got a huge
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  Speaker 1: staff that takes care of everything. You do the show.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody tells you how great you are. You go home.
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  Speaker 1: You're done in a few hours. This is easy work
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  Speaker 1: compared to a press secretary. Brutal, brutal job. Not to
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  Speaker 1: mention you've got to fight with all the cabinet members.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to fight with Trump. It's intense. If you're unknown,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great job because when you leave, You can
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  Speaker 1: make a fortune, a fortune. All these ex-press secretaries have
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  Speaker 1: gone on to make huge money, consulting, lobbying, all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. Hey, we've got a lot more to get to. Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: another big diss. He really, really dissed another ethnic group.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that and more coming up next on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: So you got France burning down, Paris being destroyed, rioters
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  Speaker 1: destroying anything and everything. Well, it turns out, now normally
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  Speaker 1: this is student protests or worker protests. This is different.
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  Speaker 1: A big investigation has been done into all of this.
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  Speaker 1: There are 54 organizations behind this. 54. Only 16 are
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  Speaker 1: the usual organizations, youth organizations, labor unions. Only 16. The
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  Speaker 1: remaining 38 are political parties, left-wing political parties, revolutionary organizations,
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  Speaker 1: international propaganda outlets, communist groups, radical Islamic groups. This is most.
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  Speaker 1: This is two-thirds. of the organizations in this rioting. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Mamdani, this, I don't know if it's deliberate or
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  Speaker 1: if it's just a bumbling guy with no experience, just
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  Speaker 1: a kid who's never had a job, but left and right,
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  Speaker 1: he keeps offending all these different ethnic groups. Well, not
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  Speaker 1: all of them. There's some he embraces, but you remember
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  Speaker 1: he went way out of his way to diss the Italians.
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  Speaker 1: with that map of the ethnic neighborhoods, leaving out Little
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  Speaker 1: Italy and all that stuff. But now he's really insulted
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  Speaker 1: the Polish people. It's another ethnic group he's blown off.
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  Speaker 1: There were four Pulaski Day parades this weekend. This is
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  Speaker 1: a big celebration, the big one on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: He snubbed all of them, boycotted all four Pulaski Day parades,
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  Speaker 1: all the Polish parades, all four of them, And here's
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  Speaker 1: where he really insulted them. He asked about it. He said,
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  Speaker 1: he's not avoiding it. He said, they'll be included in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the big heritage celebration for Eastern Europeans. Well, that's very
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: insulting to Poles. They do not consider themselves Eastern Europeans.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: They've always identified as Central. European, a part of Europe,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a big part of Europe, not Eastern European. They don't
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: like that label at all because it's got, obviously, a
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: connection with the Soviet Union, Soviet communism, the Warsaw Pact.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: That's not Poland. Poland is Central Europe. So adding insult
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to injury is This is hard to believe. The mayor
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: actually ditched a long tradition. There's a Gracie Mansion tradition,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Polish heritage reception, always at Gracie Mansion. Not this time.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: The mayor ditched it, pulled the plug on it, canceled it,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and rescheduled as an Eastern European reception. Again, insulting the Poles.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: They're not Eastern Europeans. Polish Americans are one of the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: largest European ethnic communities in America. Lumping them in with
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Ukrainians and Russians is ridiculous. It's insulting to them because
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: they have a long tradition of being part of Central Europe.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It shows how ignorant and disrespectful this mayor is to
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: ethnic groups. Now the Poles, these totally alienated Italians, The polls, obviously, never, ever,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: ever had the Jews. One by one, he's eliminating every
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: ethnic group. Hey, horrible incident on the subway this weekend.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: You know, when you keep hearing crime is down, lowest
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: crime in 100 years, lowest crime in 10 years, the
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: lowest crime rate, all time low. They're talking about the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: murder rate, mostly. Robbery is up. Felony robbery is up.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Subway crime is spiking all year. In fact, serious assaults
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: in the subway system spiked 12% in just one year, 12%
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in one year. Felony assault is up 18% from two
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: years ago, 94% from seven years ago. It's way up.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And then you had this shocking incident. Shocking because this
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: is a subway that's usually pretty safe, the E train subway.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: It's always one of the safest trains because it doesn't
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: really go anywhere except midtown to the meatpacking district. It's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: pretty safe. It doesn't go through any dangerous areas or
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: bad neighborhoods. It's a pretty safe subway. The M train
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: is pretty safe. It just goes from midtown to the village.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: That's about it. But the E train, there's an E
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: train station right over there, 7th Avenue and 53rd. That's
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: considered one of the most safe train stations. Horrible, horrible shootings.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: This weekend, as the train pulled in and the doors opened,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a passenger shot another passenger firing at him. Eyewitnesses were stunned.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: We heard the gunshots, so everybody just threw themselves on
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: the floor. And then we just kind of sat for
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: a while, and someone said, get off the train, and
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: I got off. And the police were working on the
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: gentleman who had been shot.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Now, they're looking for the shooter. They have not identified
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: or at least released the identity of the victim. But
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling it's going to turn out they
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: knew each other, that this was something gang-related, crime-related. It
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: looks like they knew each other. So the only good
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: news is that it wasn't a random shooting of just
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: a regular citizen. So we'll see. We're waiting to hear
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: about that. They've got pictures of the guy. He's pretty
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: covered up, but they're trying to find out exactly who
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: he is. Hey, we'll get to the governor's race. Bruce
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Blakeman has caught up to Kathy Hochul, and she is
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in double panic. First, she was in so much panic
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that she unleashed millions and millions and millions of dollars
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: in attack ads on Blakeman. You've probably seen them all
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: over the place. Ad after ad after ad after ad
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: attacking Blakeman. Spending a fortune running them relentlessly all day
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: and night. That's what you do when you're in panic.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: That's what you do when Blakeman is caught up to you.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: That's what that was all about. Well, now she's in
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: double panic because he's actually rising since the debate. He's
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: got money pouring in. So the Democratic Governors Group, that's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: an outside group, they've had to come in and pour
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: in $ 4. 5 million into Hochul's campaign. She's in real trouble.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: She's got plenty of money. She started with like $ 35 million,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: but she spent so much on those attack ads. She's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: draining her resources. The Republican governor's group had to come
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: in with $ 4 million to try to rescue her. Anyway,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: we'll get to that. We'll get back to the governor's
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: race throughout the show. Lots to get to today. We'll
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: take some calls coming up. Mark Simone here, 710WOR, three
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: hours every day. 9 to noon, three hours every day.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Now 9 till noon weekdays. Mark Simone. More Mark. On 710WOR. Hey,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: It's fall.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Just go outside.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: It's cold.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: It's fall. It's autumn.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: This was like the big pumpkin picking weekend. I don't
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: know why anybody does this. You know, they drive way,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a couple hours out into Long Island, to the North Fork,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to someplace to pick pumpkins. You don't need to do this.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: You're driving past Uncle Giuseppe's. There are three of them.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: They've got pumpkins all over the place. King's Supermarket. There's
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: pumpkins in front. Christina's Supermarket. There's pumpkins everywhere you go. Balducci's.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: They've got pumpkins right out in front. All the pumpkins
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you'll want. You can go to Costco, they got a
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: million pumpkins. But people want to drive. It's the fun
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: of picking them. You know, you're not really picking them
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: because it's basically a big field where these people put
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a bunch of pumpkins for you to drive three, four
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: hours to pick. Long Island pumpkin farmers say that sales
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: are way down. They're seeing fewer customers. They say it's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: competition from big box retailers. Yeah, I think people started
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to realize that. You don't have to drive two and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a half hours to get a pumpkin. It's like if
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: you wanted a quart of milk, I can go to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: six places without leaving this block and get a quart
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: of milk. I don't have to drive two hours to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: get my own milk from a farm. Meanwhile, farmers are
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: paying more for diesel used to operate the farm machinery
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: to transport the pumpkins. They say heavy rain has also
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: hurt some pumpkin crops, kept customers away. Or maybe they
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: just figured out you don't have to drive two hours
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: to get a pumpkin. Anyway, 800-321-0710 is the number. Give
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: us a call. Especially new callers, 800-321-0710. It's 15 days
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: until the election. But not really. It's early voting everywhere.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: You know, I think early voting is on as of
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: today in Connecticut. New York people are early voting. A
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: lot of early voting going. Let's take some calls. Let's
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing?
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Early voting today in Florida starts.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Well, they do everything way too early in Florida.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Everything. Yeah.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Everything.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Everything. You know, I think the Katie Zachariah story and
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: the No Kings protest, they're all kind of related. Each
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: one of these things, like little wins for the left,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you know, they take any win, no matter what, big, small,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: or in between. And they aren't. They're not magnanimous when
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: it comes to, like, Trump.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but wait, wait, wait. It's not a win because,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: first of all, nobody, when they do these No Kings protests,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: nobody knows what the hell they're talking about. Nobody knows
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: who they're talking about. You've got to remember, most of
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: America has nothing to do with this. Even Katie's Zachariah,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: most of America couldn't care less about this. It's not
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: an issue.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: You're right. You're right. But they do have, but it's
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: like an attention, you know, getter. And, you know, that's
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: what I'm afraid of. And as far as the pumpkin pickers,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, is there any single male that goes pumpkin
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: picking or apple picking? Remember the apple pickers were calling
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, extolling the virtues of apple picking.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, no guy goes under their own free will
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: to go pumpkin picking or apple picking.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: No, it's always the wife. I love to go to
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: department stores, clothing stores on a Saturday and watch. There's
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: always the poor husband who's sitting in the chair, looking
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: so disgusted, waiting for the wife to get done shopping.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: He's forced to come along and sit there, and every
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: so often she'll put something on and walk over to him,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and he's gotta go, oh, it looks great, looks great.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: You see it down here in the supermarkets, the old people.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: The wife is pushing the carpet, and the old guy
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: is about five feet behind her with this look of saying,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: when is she going to die? This can't go on forever.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they should just tie a leash around the husband
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and she should lead him around. It's awful.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: The poor guy is so beleaguered. He goes, I didn't
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: realize this was going to be 30 years after I retired.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: All right. Good call, Mike. Thanks for calling. Yeah, there's
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: pumpkin picking. There's apple picking. How did it become just
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: those two? Why is it just those two? Why isn't
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: there pear picking, peach picking? It's just for some reason.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: You know, you go to any supermarket, they have 27
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: different varieties of apples right there. And unlike the ones
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: in the field, these are all polished and waxed and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: shined up and they look great. Let's go to Ralph
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Ralph, how you doing?
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, we're doing well.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Say it again.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I'm here.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: Can you hear me?
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: All right. Now what you're saying is, hello, hello, hello.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Ralph.
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: What I'm saying?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I can't, nobody's going to see.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: What I'm saying is someone needs to have a reality
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: check in regards to how farmers actually try to.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Make a living.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: And you're promoting supermarkets to sell pumpkins over farmers. It
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: seems kind of hypocritical.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: No, the farmers... You're saying.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: About how people pay cash at the supermarket.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: No, Ralph, the farmers actually make more money from the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: supermarkets than that two-weeks-a-year pumpkin field out in Long Island.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: The pumpkin producers, the farmers... 98% of their money is
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: coming from the supermarkets and Costco and all that where
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: they sell a much, much, much bigger volume of pumpkins.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: If they were depending on two weekends a year and
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: a pumpkin field, they'd all be out of work. Now,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: it's the supermarkets where they make all their money. Let's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: go to Jeff in Forest Hills. Jeff, how are you doing?
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, hi, Mark. It's nice to speak with you.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: What's the matter, Jeff? You sound a little down. What's
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: going on?
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to get into that. I mean,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: after all, you use your voice for your living. And
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: unfortunately for me, it's a similar situation. But I wanted
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: to speak with you about the E train and the
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: M train.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: You belie your ignorance.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Well, on that note, let's get rid of you. You've
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: got to be polite if you call. Let's go to,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: let's see. Do we go to this guy? Oh, let's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: go to Gregory. Gregory, how are you doing?
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Good. Hi, I wanted to talk to Mark.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Hang on. I'll get him. Hang on. I'll get him. Hey, Mark.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: If he has room.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Mark, there's a phone call for you.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello?
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: I thought I was going to go through somebody. Mark,
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: I wanted to reiterate the wisdom and value of pumpkin picking.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: And by the way, there's also strawberry picking.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: Strawberry picking. In the spring, it's beautiful.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: But the value of it is this. I agree with
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: the previous caller that a single guy may not be
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: interested in it. But it's a family thing. We should
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: encourage family things. And you don't just go out to
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: get the pumpkins. And you don't just go out to
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: get the strawberries or the apples. You also want to
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: take in the ambiance of the magnificent North Fork of
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: eastern Long Island. That's the key.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Okay. That's a very good point. You're absolutely right.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: But.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: We have fantastic restaurants out here to go to, like
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Jedediah Hopkins House, historic places like that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, the North Fork is— You.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Can learn about farming. The North Fork is— You can
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: learn how do these things grow.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good point. That's a very good point.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: North Fork is beautiful. It's just a long way away.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: If you live near there, it's great. But if you're
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: taking your kids— Yeah, but it's.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Like a staycation. It's like a staycation. It's a family thing.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: You go out here.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Take Greenport, for instance, which is a short distance away
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: from on the end of the north with the fishing
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: boats coming in and the short ferry ride to Shelter Island.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: It's an unsung hero of the East Coast.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: No, that's a good point. That ferry to Shelter Island
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and Shelter Island itself is so breathtaking and beautiful. But
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: it's like four hours away. It's too far away. It's true.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: If you leave in the city.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: What about people who want to go from Long Island
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: into the city or people who want to travel to
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: those magnificent four colors in the upstate shorts.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: A couple of hours, but you stop on the way.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: But when you get there. All right.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: You're not wrong. You're not wrong. You're absolutely right. These
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: are very good points. Excellent call. The only thing is
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: you got to take into consideration lazy people like me.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: We live in the city. We don't like to drive
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: for three hours. We like to drive for like half
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: an hour, 40 minutes. You know, if you're leaving the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: city to go out to Long Island, go stop at
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the planting fields. It's near Oyster Bay. It's the most unbelievable, beautiful, scenic.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: You can walk around there for hours. Old Westbury Gardens
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: is beautiful. It's closer. You want to see water and
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: all that, go to Oyster Bay. A lot of beautiful areas.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: But I understand. I'm probably wrong on this. You've got
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: to have little kids and a family and taking them
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: pumpkin picking. All right, it's a great thing. See, I'm
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: from the Midwest. We did all that stuff, but it
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: wasn't two and a half hours away. It was closer. Anyway,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: we'll take some more calls later. We've got a lot
• 34:19
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• 34:22
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• 34:26
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• 34:29
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• 34:31
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• 34:36
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