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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 1: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's three weeks until the midterms. Three weeks until
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  Speaker 2: the midterm elections. So we've had a lot of debates.
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman and Hochul will debate, I think it's this week.
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  Speaker 2: Is it tomorrow night? But it's one of these New
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  Speaker 2: York One debates where nobody will see it because it's
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  Speaker 2: on New York One. Now, the last debate was the
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General Letitia James getting slaughtered by her opponent. Letitia
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  Speaker 2: James was awful, just awful in the debate. The opponent
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  Speaker 2: was very strong, but it's New York One. Nobody saw it.
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  Speaker 2: That's the problem. Tomorrow night is the Blakeman-Hockel debate. Most
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  Speaker 2: people don't even have New York One, so they couldn't
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  Speaker 2: watch it if they wanted to. It's only got like
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  Speaker 2: a handful of viewers, and this is deliberate. Hochul has
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  Speaker 2: turned down debates on real TV stations like Channel 2, 4, 7.
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  Speaker 2: She's turned down all the debates. She'll only agree to
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  Speaker 2: New York One because nobody sees it and because it's
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  Speaker 2: very left-wing, very biased. Errol Lewis, nice guy, but really
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  Speaker 2: slanted left-wing. He'll be the moderator, so it favors Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: But Blakeman is a lot smarter. Blakeman is a lot...
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when it comes to just being right on
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  Speaker 2: the issues, it's Blakeman. Hochul is just... double-talking, doesn't know
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  Speaker 2: which way to turn. She's trying to embrace Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 2: trying to appease everybody. That never works, of course. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see tomorrow night. You know, some of these debates
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  Speaker 2: are interesting. A lot of people up for re-election, not
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  Speaker 2: just in Congress, but there's a governor's race in Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Shapiro had a debate. Josh Shapiro's Jewish. And in
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  Speaker 2: the debate, he was asked about Israel being our ally.
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  Speaker 2: He was afraid to commit to that. I guess he
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  Speaker 2: thinks being Jewish is a problem among Democrats, so he
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  Speaker 2: was afraid to support Israel in the debate. Just crazy, crazy,
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable anti-Semitism, just infiltrating every inch of the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 2: Even a guy like Shapiro, who's Jewish, who's normally a
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  Speaker 2: common-sense sort of guy, the only guy who's not afraid
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  Speaker 2: is Fetterman. The Republicans would love to have Fetterman. Here's Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see it. I think he's great. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be hard for him to get the nomination
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  Speaker 1: as a Democrat, but I'd love to have him as
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  Speaker 1: a Republican. John Fetterman's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he's going to switch parties. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, if he becomes a Republican, he'd have to
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  Speaker 2: actually buy a sport coat. He'd have to get a suit.
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  Speaker 2: He'd have to wear a tie. You can't walk around
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  Speaker 2: like you're here to You know, like he just got
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  Speaker 2: off a moving van. You got to actually dress up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's dressed like he's working at a car
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  Speaker 2: wash or something, but that's his act. Al-Sayyad, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens with him. He had a debate. He's a good,
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  Speaker 2: like Mamdani, he's a good talker. He can smile. He
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  Speaker 2: looks good. But just a terrible, awful on issues. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump up in Syracuse campaigning this week. He's campaigning
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  Speaker 2: in different states every day. I mean, he talked about El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's a jihadist. Look at his statements from two
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  Speaker 1: years ago. He's a jihadist. I don't want a jihadist
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  Speaker 1: as a senator from Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: Now, he campaigned in Syracuse Friday. Bruce Blakeman was there.
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  Speaker 2: He went after Hochul.
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  Speaker 1: New York is going to defeat radical left governor Tati Hochul.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he brought Mike Tyson with him. Mike Tyson came
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  Speaker 2: to speak with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I won't be fighting him today, but I've been his
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  Speaker 1: fan for a long time. We've been friends for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Iron Mike. Nobody liked him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, remember Trump used to promote fights. He owned
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  Speaker 2: a football team. You forget his sports background. He actually
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  Speaker 2: owned a football team. Remember the generals? Was it the
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey generals? And actually promoted a lot of fights.
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  Speaker 2: But Tyson... Spoke at a Trump rally. Good for him.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of football, the Giants yesterday didn't win, but they
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  Speaker 2: got a tie. The Giants tied the Commanders. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know you could have a tie anymore, but apparently that's
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  Speaker 2: the rule. In the postseason, there's no ties. You play
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  Speaker 2: until somebody wins. But in the regular season, you can
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  Speaker 2: have a tie. First one in a while, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: There have been 320 ties in NFL history. 320. Now,
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  Speaker 2: most of them, 300 of them, were from 1920 to 1973.
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  Speaker 2: This is before the overtime rules existed. Once they created overtime,
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  Speaker 2: there have only been 30 ties since then. Strange thing
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  Speaker 2: to have a tie, but okay. President Trump picked a
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  Speaker 2: new press secretary, Katie Zakaria. It's pretty good. She's a
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  Speaker 2: conservative commentator. You've seen her all over television, been on
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  Speaker 2: Fox a lot. But she also worked. For President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: she worked at his social media site, Truth Social, for
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  Speaker 2: a long time. In fact, she was one of the
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  Speaker 2: people running it. Good background. You know, more than 10
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  Speaker 2: years ago, she spent a couple of years in Beijing, China.
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  Speaker 2: Proficient in Chinese. All right. That can help. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people were pushing for her. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: recommended her. But she'll be the new press secretary. She's
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  Speaker 2: 41 years. Good looking, beautiful. Trump likes those good looking
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  Speaker 2: press secretaries. And she's married. She's got kids. It's a
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  Speaker 2: tough job. The reason Caroline Leavitt left, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're 41, your kids are a little older. But Caroline Leavitt, very,
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  Speaker 2: very young kids. In fact, one just born months ago.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough job if you're trying to raise your
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  Speaker 2: kids because it's not nine to five. It's all day
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  Speaker 2: and night, this press secretary job. You know, you're in
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  Speaker 2: the White House from like 7 in the morning till
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  Speaker 2: 6 at night. The problem with a guy like President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: he'll work till 7, 8 o'clock. So you're there a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you're the White House press secretary, your
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  Speaker 2: phone rings every hour, all night, all weekend. They'll wake
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  Speaker 2: you up for anything, anything. Like the Houthis bombed the
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  Speaker 2: airport in Saudi Arabia. You'll get woken up at 3
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. They'll want to brief you on that.
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  Speaker 2: Anything that happens in the news, you get a call,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not 30 seconds. You're going to be on
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  Speaker 2: the phone for 20 minutes getting briefed on what just happened.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a round-the-clock job. You're on call 24-7. It's
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  Speaker 2: very tough if you're trying to raise your kids. So
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  Speaker 2: that's why she left. Now, some people say, well, she
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  Speaker 2: just took a job at Fox News. If she wants
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  Speaker 2: to be with her kids, how could she? She took
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  Speaker 2: a job as a contributor. That means you're a guest
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  Speaker 2: on a few shows every day. Now, that's easy. You
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  Speaker 2: do that from home. They set up a little TV
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  Speaker 2: setup in your house. And if you're on Fox and Friends,
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  Speaker 2: one room has your TV thing in it. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be on Fox and Friends, you go
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  Speaker 2: in the room there for about 10 minutes, do the
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  Speaker 2: guest appearance, and that's it. Then later in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: you go in the room again, do another TV show.
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  Speaker 2: If you're going to be on Hannity that night, You
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  Speaker 2: go in that room for three times a day. You
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  Speaker 2: got to go in that room for 10 minutes. It's
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  Speaker 2: not a full-time job. It's very easy. And you can
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  Speaker 2: do it from home and easy to raise your kids
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  Speaker 2: with a job like that. Hey, Kamala Harris, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the word is she's running. She's running. Except her husband,
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  Speaker 2: Doug Emhoff, is telling friends privately he doesn't want her
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  Speaker 2: to run. He does not want her to run. He
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  Speaker 2: absolutely does not want her to run. Now, why would
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  Speaker 2: that be? I don't know. I mean, you'd want your
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  Speaker 2: wife to be president of the United States, wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 2: But maybe he knows she's going to get totally humiliated
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  Speaker 2: right out of the race and lose. So maybe he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to be associated with that. Could be, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe she's been vice president. That's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're running for president, the opposition research will
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  Speaker 2: be intense. You may be looking into him. Who knows
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  Speaker 2: what the hell this guy's got going on behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he doesn't need that. Or maybe he just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to have their life turned upside down running for president.
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  Speaker 2: But he's telling people he does not want her to run. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the question is, does she listen to him? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. They seem to have a good marriage. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know that big movie, Social Reckoning? It was the
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  Speaker 2: sequel to The Social Network. Aaron Sorkin, that left-wing writer.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Sorkin, Social Reckoning. Oh, this is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a big movie. Well, it opened this weekend. Pretty much bombed.
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  Speaker 2: It did $ 5 million. It's supposed to do like $ 40 million,
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  Speaker 2: but it did $ 5 million. It bombed. Not successful. People
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  Speaker 2: not interested. The original movie. All right. Maybe years ago
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  Speaker 2: it was good. Nobody wants to see this now. The
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  Speaker 2: Democratic Socialists now demanding that Mamdani fire Jessica Tisch. They
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  Speaker 2: want her out.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Who knows? Who knows? Well, she is Jewish. It might
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  Speaker 2: be that simple. These democratic socialists tend to be extremely anti-Semitic.
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  Speaker 2: She's Jewish, from a wealthy, prominent family. This is everything
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  Speaker 2: socialists hate. If you're successful, they can't stand you. This
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  Speaker 2: is the only thing where people hate whoever does well.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to this stuff, if you go into
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  Speaker 2: business and you create an incredible business and make a fortune,
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  Speaker 2: they hate you. They hate you. Everything else, if you're
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  Speaker 2: the best, they love you. In sports, if you hit
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  Speaker 2: the most home runs, they love you. Could you imagine
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  Speaker 2: if everything else was like that? When it comes to sports,
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  Speaker 2: whoever's the best hitter, they hate him. They hate him.
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  Speaker 2: He should be taxed to death. Or TV, whoever has
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  Speaker 2: the number one show, we hate him. He has the
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  Speaker 2: number one show. Success It's just something these people can't stand. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I finally watched 60 Minutes. I haven't watched it in years.
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  Speaker 2: It's back on track. They're trying to do the right stuff,
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  Speaker 2: the right kind of pieces. The problem is they don't
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  Speaker 2: have the talent to do it anymore. Like the opening
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  Speaker 2: piece was all about the Secret Service today, which is
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  Speaker 2: an interesting idea because we know that Butler, Pennsylvania was
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  Speaker 2: a disaster. The Secret Service under Biden fell apart. It
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  Speaker 2: was not working properly. All kinds of errors allowed that
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  Speaker 2: shooter to get to Butler and shoot at the president.
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  Speaker 2: So what's being done to clean up? It's a good
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  Speaker 2: idea for a piece. Now, if it was Mike Wallace
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  Speaker 2: or Morley Safer, it would have been a great piece.
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  Speaker 2: If it was Don Hewitt, the genius storyteller, Don Hewitt
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  Speaker 2: running 60 Minutes, it would have been a much better piece.
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  Speaker 2: But it's Nora O'Donnell, very nice woman, got an IQ
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  Speaker 2: like 105 maybe, not that bright. And The people that
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  Speaker 2: are writing, producing at 60 Minutes, it's not the top
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  Speaker 2: talent anymore. So it was a good piece. But Secret Service,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, people in there realize President Trump
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  Speaker 2: now holds the record for the most assassination attempts. Three
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  Speaker 2: of them. It's actually four. Remember that guy with the
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  Speaker 2: truck and the bomb approaching Mar-a-Lago? So three and a half.
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  Speaker 2: The previous record, I think, was Gerald Ford. Two assassination
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  Speaker 2: attempts on Gerald Ford. But they got all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: new vehicles. They showed, you know, the Beast and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. And they got the cars that accompany the President.
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  Speaker 2: But they got this new thing. It looks like a tank,
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  Speaker 2: like four times the size of a normal tank. Incredible,
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  Speaker 2: frightening-looking military-type vehicle. Who knows what the hell goes on
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  Speaker 2: in there. And whenever she asked him, we don't discuss
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  Speaker 2: capabilities that this has. But apparently the big, big threat
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  Speaker 2: they're really worried about is drones. Now, a drone can
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  Speaker 2: fly overhead with an explosive. But the Ukraine-Russia war, Zelensky
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  Speaker 2: has been a genius at drone development. And they've come
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  Speaker 2: up with all kinds of advanced drones. They've come up
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  Speaker 2: with what they call swarms, where it could be 50
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  Speaker 2: drones at once. So it's interesting. Secret Service, this is
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  Speaker 2: the one thing they're preparing for, a drone strike against
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  Speaker 2: a president. So they've developed stuff. Special military drones that
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  Speaker 2: can go up there and capture a drone out of
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  Speaker 2: the sky. Now you don't want to just blow up
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  Speaker 2: the drone in the sky because it might contain explosives
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  Speaker 2: and that would rain down on everybody. So this drone
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  Speaker 2: that they have can go up there, shoot a projectile
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  Speaker 2: at the other drone, capture it in a net and
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  Speaker 2: bring it safely down to the ground. So that pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 2: But as they pointed out, there could be drone swarms
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  Speaker 2: where it might be a hundred drones at once. You
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  Speaker 2: can't capture them all. What are they doing about it?
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  Speaker 2: They're not sure yet. They're not sure. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: future of that stuff and warfare. So the other thing
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  Speaker 2: they do on 60 Minutes, you know, there was always
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be a celebrity profile. That was usually the
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  Speaker 2: last piece, you know, a look at some famous celebrity.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is nobody's famous anymore to everybody. Everything is
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  Speaker 2: so fragmented. Everything's so splintered. Like if we go over
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  Speaker 2: there across the hall to Power 105 and we take
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  Speaker 2: the three biggest artists they're playing, you won't know who
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  Speaker 2: they are. If you go to the oldies station and
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  Speaker 2: take the three biggest artists and bring them over there,
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  Speaker 2: they won't know who they are. Nobody knows who anybody
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  Speaker 2: else is. The final 60 minutes profile of the big celebrity,
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  Speaker 2: John Battista. John Battista, who was the band leader on Colbert.
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  Speaker 2: Colbert had like 1 million viewers. That's out of 300
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  Speaker 2: million in the country. They know who he is, but
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you most of it's an older audience watching
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  Speaker 2: 60 Minutes. Most of them had no idea who the
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  Speaker 2: hell this guy was or why we're watching a 10-minute
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  Speaker 2: piece on where he lives, where he's going, what he
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  Speaker 2: did last night. Who cares about all this? Anyway, we've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot to get to. We'll take some calls.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 1: 800- 321-0710.