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FULL SHOW: Shocking tragedy as actor Rob Reiner and his wife are killed, plus Frank Sinatra tops the charts! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Fly from Midtown Manhattan. Here comes the Mark Simone Show
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  Speaker 1: on seven O.
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  Speaker 2: All.
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  Speaker 3: Well, oh, we got a lot to get to today,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things happening. We'll bring you all the
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  Speaker 3: latest on Rob Reiner, on Brown University, on Australia, and
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  Speaker 3: then we'll get to you, of course Trump, the political stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to all of that coming up. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: to New York, we'll get to the tourists, we'll get
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  Speaker 3: to Epstein, we'll get to twenty twenty eight, and all
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  Speaker 3: sorts of stuff to talk about. The Rob Reiner well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's the whole weekend was strange. It wasn't
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  Speaker 3: much of a big news weekend, and then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden you had Australia the terrible shooting. Then you
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  Speaker 3: had Brown University the terrible shooting, and you have these
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  Speaker 3: two things just taking everybody's attention, and then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden the Rob Reiner situation. Here's the latest on
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  Speaker 3: Rob Reiner. He lives in Brentwood. This is a about
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  Speaker 3: a mile and a half from Ojay's house where Nicole
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  Speaker 3: Simpson was killed and almost stabbed. Wasn't she decapitated? So
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  Speaker 3: this is another stabbing in Brentwood in the same neighborhood. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Rob Reiner has a big, huge house in Brentwood, but
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  Speaker 3: it's sort of a compound, and on the grounds is
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  Speaker 3: another couple buildings. One is a guest house. And Rob
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  Speaker 3: Reiner had three kids with the wife Michelle. But remember
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  Speaker 3: he had previously been married to Penny Marshall, and he
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  Speaker 3: had another child. He had a daughter with Penny Marshall,
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  Speaker 3: and that daughter lived in the guest house. And the
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  Speaker 3: police are not revealing much of anything right now, they're
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  Speaker 3: keeping very quiet. Later today they'll have a press conference
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  Speaker 3: and maybe explain some of this. But here's what I've heard,
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  Speaker 3: again not confirmed, but the daughters in the guest house.
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  Speaker 3: This is yesterday. It's a Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, and
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  Speaker 3: she hears incredibly loud arguing in the main house, real arguing,
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  Speaker 3: and at some point later she goes over to check
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  Speaker 3: and finds Rob Reiner, her father, and her stepmother dead.
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  Speaker 3: Calls police immediately they show up. There's recording these nine
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  Speaker 3: to one one calls that I think there was a
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  Speaker 3: fire department of something that responded first, calling for more
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  Speaker 3: back up, and then the police show up. She tells
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  Speaker 3: them about the arguing. She believes it was the son Nick,
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  Speaker 3: son of Rob Reiner, who's thirty two years old. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this son is a very very troubled son, drug addiction, mental,
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  Speaker 3: all kinds of mental problems. He'd been so bad with
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  Speaker 3: the drug addiction. Seventeen times in rehabit didn't work. He
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  Speaker 3: ended up homeless on the street and Texas, homeless, in Maine,
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  Speaker 3: homeless all over the place. I knew Rob Briiner. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know the kid, but if you look at any
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  Speaker 3: picture of the kid, his eyes look a little psycho,
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  Speaker 3: a little crazy. And I don't know the situation how
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  Speaker 3: this all started, with the drugs and everything, but he
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  Speaker 3: just spiraled out of control and it was so hopeless.
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  Speaker 3: There was absolutely no saving this kid. I'm sure Rob
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  Speaker 3: Briiner tried, and at one point he came back to
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles. They thought they straightened him out, and he
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  Speaker 3: made a movie about his drug addiction and about his
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  Speaker 3: rehab and all of that stuff. But I guess this
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  Speaker 3: went crazy again and there was no hope for this kid.
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  Speaker 3: So it looks like he was the one in this crazy,
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  Speaker 3: loud argument with the parents and then stabbed them and
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  Speaker 3: slit their throats. Again, this is a mile and a
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  Speaker 3: half from where oj slit the throats of the wife
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  Speaker 3: and Ron Brown. But now from what I've heard the police,
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  Speaker 3: this is not confirmed, but police have taken the kid
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  Speaker 3: into custody. He's thirty two. The son's name is Nick.
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  Speaker 3: They have earlier an hour or two ago taking him
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  Speaker 3: into custody, So that would indicate they have the evidence
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  Speaker 3: they need, or they think they have the evidence that
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  Speaker 3: he's guilty. So it was a terrible scene at the
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  Speaker 3: home yesterday, Police all over the place to crime tape
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  Speaker 3: up close. Friends of Rob Brner, Billy Crystal, Larry David
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  Speaker 3: was seen coming to the house leaving crying upset. So
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  Speaker 3: there'd be a press conference of some kind. They'll announce
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  Speaker 3: something later today. But apparently the son is in custody
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  Speaker 3: and we'll see what happens. So you got that going on.
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  Speaker 3: You also got Brown University terrible situation.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: The first reports indicated it was some sort of something
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  Speaker 3: to do with anti Semitism, anti Semitic attack, small Jewish
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  Speaker 3: community at Brown University, but a lot of people there
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  Speaker 3: are also saying it was a very small conservative bunch
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  Speaker 3: of people at Brown University. Students and some are not
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  Speaker 3: so sure this was anti semitism. It might have been
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  Speaker 3: anti conservatism. One of the people shot turns out to
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  Speaker 3: be the president's student, but the president of the Republican
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  Speaker 3: Club at Brown University. So it could be anti semitism
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  Speaker 3: as a motive, but there could also be an anti
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  Speaker 3: conservative attack. We'll see. It's the Providence police Department, not
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  Speaker 3: the sharpest police department on earth, and Brown University very
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  Speaker 3: prominent university. I'm not a big fan of their security director.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of times you're a university, when
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  Speaker 3: you hire a security director, you hire somebody with incredible
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement experience, ex. Police, XFBI, something like that. This guy,
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  Speaker 3: his whole life was campus security. You'll see somewhere in
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  Speaker 3: his bio he was a policeman, a police captain. It
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  Speaker 3: was campus police forces. So he's not a guy with
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  Speaker 3: any real law enforcement experience. He spent his whole life
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  Speaker 3: in campus police departments, then becoming a campus security director
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  Speaker 3: other universities, and Brown hired him a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 3: So he's the security director. And you know, it may
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  Speaker 3: not have been anything. There might not have been anything
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  Speaker 3: anybody else could have done to protect this campus. But
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  Speaker 3: you got that going on, then you got the awful,
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  Speaker 3: horrific Australia shooting. It was a Muslim terrorist attack. The
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  Speaker 3: shooters a father and son, both Muslim terrorists, at this
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  Speaker 3: beach in Australia, using one of those assault rifle you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know the kind that the Chuck Schumer and the
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  Speaker 3: others yell about. Remember whenever there's a shooting with one
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  Speaker 3: of those rifles, all they do is scream for more
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  Speaker 3: gun laws. They act as if gun laws would prevent shootings.
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  Speaker 3: Now nobody has tougher gun laws than Chicago, and they
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  Speaker 3: have more shootings than any place in America. The problem
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  Speaker 3: with the thinking gun laws as a solution is shooters,
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  Speaker 3: criminal maniacs, criminals who don't follow laws. They don't get
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  Speaker 3: a law book and look it up to see if
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  Speaker 3: it's okay to do what they're doing. So in this situation, nobody,
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  Speaker 3: nobody in the world, no country had tougher gun laws
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  Speaker 3: than in Australia. They've been passing gun laws since nineteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety six. Huge gun laws, tremendous gun laws. So it
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  Speaker 3: has nothing to do with stopping shootings. It was a
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  Speaker 3: horrible situation. You got one guy who was a hero
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  Speaker 3: who hid between two parked cars, waited for the right moment.
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  Speaker 3: The video is amazing. He runs out, tackles the shooter
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  Speaker 3: with the rifle, somehow wrestles the gun away from him
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  Speaker 3: and stops the shooter makes him lie down. However, remember
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  Speaker 3: there was a second shooter, the Sun, who sees what's
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  Speaker 3: going on and shoots the hero, hitting him twice. But
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  Speaker 3: the hero has just had surgery. It looks like he'll
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  Speaker 3: be okay. He's doing well. It looks like he'll survive
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  Speaker 3: and be just fine. So an incredible hero in Austria,
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  Speaker 3: an amazing act of bravery. He said to he was
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  Speaker 3: with somebody else and he said, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 3: survive this. He decided he would go tackle this shooter
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  Speaker 3: and stop and he said, I'm not going to come
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  Speaker 3: out of this alive. Tell my family this. And that's
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  Speaker 3: a but an amazing, amazing situation. So things could develop
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  Speaker 3: this morning. There's going to be press conferences in La
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  Speaker 3: more details about Rob Reiner. But from we know the
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  Speaker 3: Sun is in custody, it looks like he is the stabber.
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  Speaker 3: It's a horrible, horrible situation. I knew Rob Reiner. He
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  Speaker 3: was a very nice guy. I know he was a
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  Speaker 3: crazy left wing nut politically, but I had a million
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  Speaker 3: conversations with him. Never once talked about politics. We loved
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  Speaker 3: We would talk about old show business and old comedians
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  Speaker 3: and Sid Caesar and Dick Van Dyke Show and that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff. But he's like a lot of Hollywood people,
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  Speaker 3: he just got into the cult. You know, they sit
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  Speaker 3: there and they watch MSNBC all day and they believe
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  Speaker 3: everything they're hearing. They think all this crazy stuff is true.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like people who listen to those flying
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  Speaker 3: saucer shows in the middle of the night, which are great,
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  Speaker 3: they're entertaining, but these people start to believe it. They
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  Speaker 3: think there's flying saucers everywhere. So it's the same thing
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  Speaker 3: with the MSNBC crowd. And then they got all these
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  Speaker 3: echo chambers where you know, it's reinforced from MSNBC. Then
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  Speaker 3: they watch Colbert, they watch the crazy ABC Sunday shows.
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  Speaker 3: They think Trump is a crook, a maniac, a dying,
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  Speaker 3: he's a lunatic, he's a dictator. They start to believe
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  Speaker 3: all this stuff. Listen, there's stuff you could not like
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  Speaker 3: about Trump. I understand that, but you know, if they
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  Speaker 3: ever stepped away from all that and got out of
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  Speaker 3: the echo chamber. These Trump derangement syndrome idiots, they might
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  Speaker 3: realize Trump is actually one of the most fascinating guys
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  Speaker 3: in history. You know, there's a at a party yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: a left wing nut, very prominent left wing nut, comes
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  Speaker 3: over to me and he said, you know, I was
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  Speaker 3: I remember you. It was at dinner party a couple
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  Speaker 3: of years ago, and you were telling everybody Trump is
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  Speaker 3: the most successful man in history. And I thought you
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  Speaker 3: were crazy. I said, well, but I laid it out.
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  Speaker 3: He conquers the business world. He then conquers publishing, he'd
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  Speaker 3: be four best sellers. He goes into television, a total
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  Speaker 3: amateur conquers that as the number one show on television.
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  Speaker 3: He goes into politics. You know, usually a total amateur
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  Speaker 3: tries to run for mayor, or this guy tries to
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  Speaker 3: run for the president. Total amateur wins, beats the Clinton
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  Speaker 3: machine and the Bush machine, to go on and on listing.
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  Speaker 3: I said, you can't name another guy, anybody who's conquered
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  Speaker 3: like all six of these things. And the guy said, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you might be. I don't know, you might bear so anyway,
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  Speaker 3: And then I tried to explain to him. I said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you guys would stop hating him, going
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  Speaker 3: nuts with your rage, and start studying this guy, he
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  Speaker 3: could learn stuff from him. You really could learn a
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  Speaker 3: lot about how to succeed, how to do well. It's
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  Speaker 3: a more interesting story besides making up stuff about he's
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  Speaker 3: dying or he's a mania, he's a crook's. Instead of
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  Speaker 3: making up all this stuff, it's actually a fascinating story
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  Speaker 3: to cover. We've never seen anything like this. A president
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  Speaker 3: that works like nineteen hours a day, a president that
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  Speaker 3: holds like seventeen press conferences a day, a president that's
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  Speaker 3: flying all over the place, having a million it's fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: And just to study this guy's whole life and how
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  Speaker 3: he did things, how he got so successful at everything.
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  Speaker 3: You think back a year and a half ago. The
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  Speaker 3: guy's on trial in four different cities. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: if you were on trial. Imagine if you had been
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  Speaker 3: brought into court they put you on trial, you wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: sleep at night, you wouldn't be able to you'd be
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  Speaker 3: in there so much. This guy's in four trials in
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  Speaker 3: four cities. Looks like he's going to go to jail. Forever.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to get convicted six thousand times. Guy didn't
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  Speaker 3: even blink, didn't even flinch, fights right through that. Can
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  Speaker 3: you imagine you're standing there in all It hits you
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  Speaker 3: in the head, takes part of your ear off, and
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  Speaker 3: all he can think to do is jump up and
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  Speaker 3: pump his fist and y'll fight. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 3: guy to study. You could hate him, but study this guy.
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  Speaker 3: You could learn a lot from this guy. What else
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  Speaker 3: James Comer. They're having these hearings in Congress about Epstein.
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  Speaker 3: They've allowed some people to submit written statements about what
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  Speaker 3: they had to do with Epstein. In the case of
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  Speaker 3: Bill Clinton, he's demanding that Bill Clinton come testify in person.
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  Speaker 3: Hillary and Bill. I don't think Hillary knows much about Epstein.
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  Speaker 3: Other you might know something, but it's Bill that was
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  Speaker 3: really involved. But the Clintons apparently are adamant they will
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  Speaker 3: not come and testify, and they may have to at
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  Speaker 3: some point, but they're going to fight this like crazy
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  Speaker 3: not to come and testify. They know it's a circus.
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  Speaker 3: It's a theatrical show to get it. You know, camera's
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  Speaker 3: there to get Bill Clinton under oath testifying. So they
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  Speaker 3: they don't want to do that. Now, remember, left wing
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  Speaker 3: media will not show Clinton testifying. They'll show you one
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  Speaker 3: second clip. You know, there's a deposition in the Monica
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  Speaker 3: Lewinsky case. You can go on YouTube and see it.
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  Speaker 3: A deposition where they go into graphic detail, graphic detail
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  Speaker 3: about the sex he had with Monica Lewinsky. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: believe the detail. And Clinton's right on camera having to
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  Speaker 3: talk about this. You know, left wing media, they never
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  Speaker 3: showed it, never showed it. If that was Trump, you'd
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  Speaker 3: be seeing it all day and night. It'd be primetime specials. Clinton,
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  Speaker 3: they buried it, So if he testifies, they'll bury this testimony. Now,
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  Speaker 3: he could try to avoid testifying, but remember the last
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  Speaker 3: two guys that tried that were Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
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  Speaker 3: and they were sent to prison for not showing up
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  Speaker 3: in person to testify. So the last two, now they
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  Speaker 3: were Trump people, but they were sent to prison. So
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  Speaker 3: that's the precedent that's been set. So Clinton had better
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  Speaker 3: show for his testimony. We're kind of keeping the secret,
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  Speaker 3: but I just saw a press release went out. I'm
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  Speaker 3: taking the last two weeks of the year off. Next
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  Speaker 3: week I'll be off and the week after two weeks
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  Speaker 3: I'll be off. It'll be the Christmas break. I know,
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  Speaker 3: I hate to take that much time off, but you
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: get you know, you have all these vacation days. You
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  Speaker 3: got to use them. So I'll be taking the last
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  Speaker 3: two weeks off. It'll be the Christmas break. I guess
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  Speaker 3: I can say it. There's a press release that went out.
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  Speaker 3: It's been announced. Guess who's going to fill in for
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  Speaker 3: me for two weeks. Curtis Lee. Well, Curtis will be
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  Speaker 3: here for two weeks doing the show. That'll be great.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't been heard on radio in a while. He
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  Speaker 3: had to go off the air courts to run for mayor,
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  Speaker 3: and he's mad at his old station. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: what will happen there, but you'll be able to hear
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  Speaker 3: Curtis next week and the week after two weeks he'll
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  Speaker 3: be filling in for me. You know, for many, many,
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  Speaker 3: many many years he had the number one morning radio show,
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  Speaker 3: morning talk show in New York City. So that'll be
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  Speaker 3: great to hear them again. That's coming up. Hey, if
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  Speaker 3: you're saying I gotta get out of New York, who
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  Speaker 3: the hell wants to live here anymore? It's too cold,
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  Speaker 3: the snow. It's awful here. Maybe I'll move to Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll move to North Carolina. Go walk around the
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  Speaker 3: streets of New York in the next week or two
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  Speaker 3: and look at the tourists. Normally I'm not here on
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  Speaker 3: the weekends, but I was here yesterday. I had to
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  Speaker 3: go a lot of Christmas parties. But all over the
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  Speaker 3: place yesterday, the tourists are everywhere, and they've paid a
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  Speaker 3: fortune to come to New York. You know, if you
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: come to New York right now at Christmas time, hotel
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  Speaker 3: rates are huge. You can't even get a hotel room
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  Speaker 3: right now. But watch these tourists, Watch them with their kids,
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  Speaker 3: Watch them walking around looking at everything we take for granted.
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  Speaker 3: Watch them look at it with just their eyes light up.
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  Speaker 3: They can't believe the things they're seeing, stuff they've only
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  Speaker 3: seen on Instagram. Not just the tree, but all the
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  Speaker 3: great restaurants, hotels, stores, the streets. They just they paid
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  Speaker 3: a fort to come here, So don't take it for granted.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get it's terrible. It was freezing cold yesterday, wash snow,
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  Speaker 3: black ice. They were walking around so thrilled to be here,
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  Speaker 3: thrilled to be here. Don't take it for granted. You
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  Speaker 3: should really be thrilled that you're in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: New York City. You know, people take things for granted.
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  Speaker 3: I got a friend who's a big comedian. He's appearing
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  Speaker 3: on cruise ships, luxury cruise ships. They pay him a
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  Speaker 3: lot of money, and when you're the star performer, they
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  Speaker 3: give you the most beautiful stateroom. Everything is free, meals everything.
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  Speaker 3: This is going on for weeks, he's on different ships.
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  Speaker 3: Calls me must to kill himself. Once I got to
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  Speaker 3: get out of it. It's the worst. I can't stand that,
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  Speaker 3: I said. You know, everybody else in the ship saved
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  Speaker 3: up for years to afford this cruise. It's the dream vacation,
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  Speaker 3: and you're complaining that people start to take things for granted.
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  Speaker 3: Friend of mine's a travel agent, you know, and you're
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  Speaker 3: a big travel agent. The top hotels of the world
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  Speaker 3: will fly you over there. They call it something site
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  Speaker 3: inspection or something super luxury hotel in Europe. You have
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  Speaker 3: to go stay there for a few days. They fly
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  Speaker 3: you on the finest first class airline, biggest hotel. They
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  Speaker 3: take it. All the top restaurants, so you know, as
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  Speaker 3: a travel consultant. You can tell everybody they call me
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  Speaker 3: from there. Oh God, I got to go to another hotel.
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  Speaker 3: H I just want to go home. I just this
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  Speaker 3: is a dream vacation for you, and they're complaining about it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's the same thing with New York. Stop complaining.
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  Speaker 3: Go out today and look at all the tourists and
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  Speaker 3: the wonderment in their eyes as they look around in
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  Speaker 3: New York. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred
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  Speaker 3: three to two one zero seven ten is the number
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten.
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  Speaker 3: how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Mark, I'm great. Before I start, I just want
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  Speaker 4: to say, have a great two weeks off. You will
• 18:06
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• 18:08
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: You know, I often hear you talk kind of brag
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: about Jimmy Fayle's show. Yeah, and I was thinking I
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: didn't want to listen to three hours of company, but
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: he has a great political show.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's on every night nine o'clock. You're on seven
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: ten W nine o'clock.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Really really a great show.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: People should know this nine o'clock tonight, nine to midnight,
• 18:29
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• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Vince in Florida. Vince, how you doing.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: You know the two shooters I just read in Australia
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: which is almost impossible to get a gun owned guns legally,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: which reminded me of the story that happened here in
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Fort Pierce. I just moved down here. I'm at a
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: gun store and he tells me the shooter, Olmar Matene,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: the guy that killed the fifty kids in the nightclub,
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: went to that gun store tried to buy guns. They
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: overheard him on the phone and they selling him guns.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: They gave the owner his background information. The owner called
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: the FBI two weeks before the shooting.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: This was Yeah. You hear a lot of these guys
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: came down there. You hear a lot of these kind
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: of stories where they could have caught the guy. They
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: didn't catch the guy.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: They didn't catch them, and the FBI denied anything.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: In the other they call the FBI for you, Hey, yeah,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: you got you got a lot of crazy people down
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: there in Florida. And nothing personal, but you know what
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if it's no heat or
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: what it is. Yeah, no, no, I'm just saying, you
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: got a lot of crazy people down there in Florida. Yeah,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: how many? Per cappity? You got more crazy incidents there
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: with guns and things than anywhere else. Let's go to
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Virginia in massive Peakua Virginia.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: How you doing, Hye, Mark Mary Christmas? And I'm so happy,
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: Oh my god, I'm so excited.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry about me.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: I'm so happy to hear the Curtisy. I'm a new listener.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: I'm actually a new listener. Yes, I'm happy about you too.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: I am a new listener. I used to listen to
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: w w ABC for Curtis. We were only and it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: because he's just he's funny, he's on points about everything.
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: He's a sworn man and driving to work this morning.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Like I said, a new listener, I've been listening about
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: a week and just to hear the Curtis is coming
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: on to w R which people have been talking about online.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: It's just like the best early Christmas gifts ever.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: And uh, well, you got to.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Hear lots of lots of Curtis. He'll be filling in
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: for me for two weeks. Yeah, oh wait a minute,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: December twenty second through. I think I'm off Friday. That
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: might be Ken Risotto. But next week you'll get Curtis.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Next week you'll get Curtis for two weeks.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: It's just it's really good because I know that he's
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: you know, you guys will maybe he'll find a spot
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: or whatever. I really like the station. I'm enjoying everything
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: that I'm hearing, and it's just really refreshing to have
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: people of station that doesn't insult their listeners and cold
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: the morons, and the fact that Curtis is going to
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: be on and you know.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: This minute, I call people morons, you know, I mean
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: there are people deservedly.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I only call morons morons. I don't care regular people.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: But no, I know, we're glad to have you as
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: a listener. Thanks, thanks for coming on board. Be listening
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: for Curtis next week. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: how you doing.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Marc, Good morning Mara. As you pointed out
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: earlier in the show, there's no country in the world
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: that has more restrictive gun world. No perhaps New Zealand
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: where you can't even own a p shooter. This demonstrates
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: that when you restrict guns like that and to the people,
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: the legal people, like they did in Australia. They even
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: confiscated rifles in Australia and in the NRA magazine they
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: showed you this mountain, this pile of all the guns
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: they confiscated. Then only the criminals could get them, because
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: criminals have a different mindset. Legit people, when they can't
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: get something, they can't get a gun, all right, that's it,
• 21:58
  Speaker 8: the end of the story. But crim those they will
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: find one way or another to get a gun. And
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: I heard a commentator used to come on your show
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: last night saying that there've even been studies that show
• 22:14
  Speaker 8: when the more legal guns there are in a town
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: and a place, the less crime there is. This poor
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: soob had to jump the guy with his bare hands
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: and he managed to pull the gun away from him.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: Imagine if that guy, the shooter was a little bit swifter,
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: he could have turned around and killed that guy who
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: took the gun out of his hand. That's why I
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: hope now they get rid of Australia's president. Get somebody
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: who's got common sense like Donald Trump, because even though
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: their prime minister is a conservative, the guy's out of
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: his mind for doing what he did. Any criminal. I mean,
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: if I wanted to get Doug, please, don't let me
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: talk if.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I want no, no, no, don't say it, Vincent, don't say it.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean a good point though what I mean,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: I know what you mean. But Vincent, excellent to have
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: all All right, Vincent, great call, Thanks for colling. Oh
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: when we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us. Hey,
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: if anybody says to you, well, what's gonna happen next year,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: who's going to win the midterms? It's a totally invalid question.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: We'll go into why coming up next on seven to
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: ten w R.
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: You're listening to the Mark Simone Show on.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Well, let's turn to the dean himself, the greatest political
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: consultant of the hall, Ed Rollins. He's run more campaign
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: successful campaigns than anybody, Ed Rollins, How you doing, good morning, Mark?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Are you I'm good? Hey? You probably get this all
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: the time people say, Oh, what's gonna happen in the midterms?
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Who's gonna win the midterm? Predicting that is like predicting
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty eighth Super Bowl. I mean, the landscape
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: is going to change between now and then, isn't it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: It's going to change dramatically. And then I think, here's
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: what does happen. Though, I can sort of go through
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: a fifty year his street members go home and the
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: holidays and their family gets all together, and they basically
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: they do I really want to do this for another
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: two years or four years, devating them ambitious or eden
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: senators do I want to do? Do you want to
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: run for another re election? So oftentimes in January there's
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: a number that's say thank you very much, I've had
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: left of this, or I'm going to run for something else.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: As of right now, they're fifty three members who announced
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: that they're not going to run for re election. Forty
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: three of those or House members, the other tenor US senators.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: And I think to a certain extent that the recruitment
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: is going to go on now is because Democrats do
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: think they're going to win this House easily and there's
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: a possibility and they're going to win the Senate. They're
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: out there recruiting anxiously. What we're trying to do is
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: that the president team has to do is to sort
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: of make sure that the vulnerable incomes are getting ready
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: to run for reelection. It's the year long since it
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: seems like a year is a long time, but it's
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: not in politics. And so they leave Christmas. You'll probably
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: see in January an other ten or fifteen members decide,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: thank you very much, I've had a nice career, and
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: they started became a retirement, and then you fill on
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the blanks and you begin begin in February to start
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: running and running hard. The President's agenda ahead of him
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: is an aggressive one and it's a tough one getting
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the budgets through and what have you. And the origins
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: are so small that he has both the House and
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: the Senate. But his task is tough.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So when you say some people may leave Congress,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I don't need this anymore. Let me leave. What do
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: they do? Then they can make a lot of money,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: right lobbying or something like that.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: So some can some very few members go back home.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: They all promise they're going to go back home. Some
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: you know, people say, well, you know, when you decide
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to quit, come work for me, and some just you know,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: decide this is not what. It's not what I want
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to spend my time. This sort of been a very
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: frustrating year. If you were bubbled in to be in
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Congress and you get the big bill best which obviously
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: normally you have lots of builds that you passed, but
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: they combine it all on one thing, so there's not
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of activity, and you know they want to
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: they want home for a period of time. They getting
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: beat up for that a certain extent. So so I
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: would say when I was the chairman of the Congression
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Committee co chairman, people said say, why don't you run
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: for Congress? I say, thank you very much. I might
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: be behind the scenes. I don't want to. I don't
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: want to spend my day arguing with four hundred thirty
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: five other people every day. And I think to a
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: certain extent, that's that's where a lot of members may be.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Once that numbers changed and altered in the sense we
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: know how many running, and then the race is going
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: to begin.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Hey, ed Rellands, if the healthcare if they don't fix
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the healthcare situation, put a patch on it or something,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: healthcare costs are going to go nuts. It's the fault
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: of Obama and Obamacare. But isn't aren't there Republicans going
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: to get blamed for it?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, absolutely, there's no question Republicans are going to
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: We've not had a cause asistant healthcare plan in twenty years.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: You used to have some real experts on it when
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Bob Dole was the leader, because of his only personal
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: healthcare problems over the years, he knew a lot about
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: health care. He had a chief of staff, Sheila Burkeer
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: was a nurse, to do a lot about healthcare. We
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: don't have a lot of experts now. And you know
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: our premise of you know, let's have statius accounts to
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: what have you? If I gave you a two thousand
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: dollars savings account, which is what the new Gingrish plan was,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: you'll go from that real quick, first time you can
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to a doctor, and if there's anything that happens to you,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: you know the astronomical. So not only will twenty two
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: million people be affected by this, the reality is their
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: costs will go up dramatically. Those who can afford a
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: lot of America's going to say I can't afford it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just not gonna and that creates a real chaos.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: The best court Republicans can do is extend this thing.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: For a year.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Subsidies. Democrats aren't going to do that because obviously they
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: want they want to get to the next election with
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: the rise and prices and what have you. So I think,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: to a certain extent, we've got we've got a couple
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: of months here real chaos with those those heer solutions.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I would say this point in time, we're not We're
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: not going to the healthcare is not going to get
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: fisted a short period of time.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Well I'm not an expert, but uh, just common sense.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I would think if you let the government take over healthcare,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: the cost is going to go way up. It wouldn't
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: that be true?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Absolutely well, to a certain extent, the government does pay
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: them the past. If you are to health care today
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: and it's you know, I don't I don't think that
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Kennedy is ready to do that. Start care of Hills
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: to the unis versus President. I don't think it's order
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: to do that. I think the President's got a lot
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of less play, I think, to a certain extent,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: but most Americans are going to suffer measurably about it,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: because even if even if you have health insurance today
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: been a private company because of the burden of I mean,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: twenty two million people from the Obamacare program. He's going
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: to find there or preach A're gonna GOP. Healthcare rates
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: are not going down. They haven't gone down a long
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: long time. And it's an expensive entity and there's a
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are experts on it who
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: are not very happy with what we have.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Ed Rolins, if you want to run in twenty
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: twenty eight, Gavin Newsom or whoever, if you want to
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: run in twenty twenty eight, what should you be doing now?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Is there anything you can really do now for that?
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Sure, you can raise money, you can line up your supporters,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: your line up your team. I mean there's four or
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: five of them that are running right now. And what
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: you try and do is you tap into easy advantage
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: of the midterm elections to go out and made friends
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: around the country in key states. You know, I didn't
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: get Gavin Newson's going to do is just continue to
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: beat up on Trump and by with Trump, and that
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: seems to be working for him. He is a mess
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: of the state in California. No one's talking about the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: best in California everybody's talking about whateverreat job he is doing,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: beat up by the president. Yeah, the same thing in Illinois.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: So my sense is those are going to run. It's
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: going to be four or five at least. Uh, some
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: new governors that maybe will have some political ambition beyond
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: the where they are. It's gonna be a full field.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. In the old days that Reagan came from California
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: and one, but nowadays it's been a one party state
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: for so long. Guys like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, they've
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: never been tested in two party states. So aren't isn't
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: anybody from California gonna have a problem trying to run nationally?
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Well, but you move out, You moved out of the California.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Why you haven't had any competitions in California is they
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: basically created a system. Instead of a Republican or a
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Democrat winning the nominations and running against each other, the
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: top two get nominated. Uh. So it could be two
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Democrats runing against each other, uh, and two Republicans. It's
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: never happened that way. But the reality is as kinds
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: the one party system. So the reality is he doesn't
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: want to talk about California. He wants to talk about
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: nationally what what Trump has not done as opposed to
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: what he has done. And he's, you know, he's I
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: don't get it, but he's a charismatic figures. Got a
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: fifty four to fifty five percent of Bowery in California,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: which is pretty mess and whose California has not been
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: in play since, you know, since Bush and eighty eight.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a hard stage for us to win.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: And I think to a cird extent East an easy
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: state force.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Well, and Robin's brilliant as always, keep up the great
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: work and we'll talk again soon.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Had a wonderful holiday and have the honka to all
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: your business out there.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: All right, Thanks, take care, Hey, don't forget coming up
• 31:29
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• 31:32
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• 32:00
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• 32:02
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• 32:04
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• 32:07
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• 32:10
  Speaker 3: these terrible shootings this weekend. We'll get to Frank Sinatra
• 32:14
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• 32:17
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• 32:20
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• 32:22
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• 32:57
  Speaker 3: W oh, welcome to the Mark Simon.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: As I mentioned, FBI has arrested four terrorists, a radical
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: pro Palestinian terrorists. They're accused of plotting New Year's Eve bombings.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Now it's La it's not New York. Identified as members
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, whatever the hell that is.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: But they're Muslim terrorists. They're radical pro Palestintinian extremist group
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: plotting New Year's Eve bombings for Los Angeles. The FBI
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: has caught them. You know, Paris is not really Paris anymore.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: They same problem, open borders, illegals flooding in and these
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: migrants have created terror all over Paris. And every year
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: in Paris they have an incredible New Year's Eve celebration
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: on the Chanz Oflyse. It's like our Times Square kind
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: of celebration where like literally a million people will show up.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: They've canceled this year's celebration. Usually a million people show up.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: They have concerts and all this stuff. They've canceled because
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: of the migrant crisis in Paris. There's too much crime,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: too much terrorism, and instead they're going to have a
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: pre recorded video that people can watch from home. They
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: don't want people showing up, so they've had to cancel
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: their New Year's Eve traditions in Paris. They'll still have
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: the fireworks over the Arcta Triumph when it's midnight, but
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: they don't want anybody there in person enough to watch
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: that on television as well, so it's just not the same.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: The Chans of lysee, the most beautiful boulevard in the world.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Because of all the illegals, all the illegal migrants, has
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: been a center of violence lately, throngs of young Muslim
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: migrants streaming in at night just looking for trouble, looting,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: brawling with Parisians and police. This is Paris, it's not
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: the parish you once knew. Again illegal migrants have destroyed Paris.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: It's just awful. So nothing new on Rob Reiner since
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: the last hour. At some point there'll be a press
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: conference with the LA Police and they'll announce things. But
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: remember it's three hours earlier there, so I imagine that
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: press conference won't happen for another hour or two. What
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: we do know is it looks like his son stabbed
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: him and his wife slit their throats. The son, who's
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: just a very very very troubled kid, years of drugs, alcohol,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: mental craziness, homeless, has been taken into Custody's thirty two.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Reiner has three kids with the wife, but with his
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: previous wife, his first wife, Penny Marshall, he had a
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: daughter and the daughter lived on the property in the
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: guest house. Well, she heard incredible argument, screaming and at
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: some point went over to check and found them both dead.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Called police and they she said, you got to look
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: at him. She said she believed it was him the sun.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: So they've taken him into custody. We'll see what happens there.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Brown University, they did have a shooter in custody, but
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: they've since let him go. It's the Providence police department.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: We love Providence, but it's not the sharpest police department
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: in the world. And we'll see. And now again, it
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: may not be anti semitism. If this could be an
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: anti Republican shooting, it looks like this small group of
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: people all they were also the conservative group on campus.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: One of the people shot, the student was the head
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: of the Republican club there, so we'll see what it
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: turns out to be. But the Rob Reiner situation that's Brentwood,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: and Brentwood is actually part of Los Angeles, but they
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: try to act like they're a suburb. They don't want
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: to be part of Los Angeles. They formed their own
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: town council, they have their own little police department. But
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Brentwood is a part of Los Angeles. So it's really
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Lapd in charge of that Brentwood. Yeah, where Oj stabbed
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: the wife and Ron Goldman. So it's only a mile
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: and a half from Rob Reiner's house. If you live
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: in the middle there. Twice you've had these awful stabbings
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: for people's throats were slit on either side of you.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: It's a terrible situation. What else Frank Sinatra number one
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: on the Billboard charts. How about that Frank Sinatra. It's
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: actually nineteen sixty one. He recorded I've Got My Love
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: to Keep Me Warm. It's a great song. It's sort
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: of become a Christmas song and it gets played at
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Christmas time. So Pentatonics got the master tapes where you
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: can isolate just Sinatra's voice. His recording has a beautiful
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: big band and you know Johnny Mandel arrangement, but they
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: isolated just his voice, took just his voice, and they
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: did a whole new arrangement, a whole new single, and
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: it's It was number one last week on the Adult
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Contemporary chart. They still have that Adult Contemporary chart. So
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: it's the first number one hit single for Frank Sinatra
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: since nineteen sixty seven. No, it wasn't something stupid. That
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: was nineteen sixty six. Sinatra's last number one was The
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: World We Knew. It was a hit single forgotten About
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Go back and listen. That's pretty good. Sinatra single, The
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: World We Knew, and that was a number one hit
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: single for him September of sixty seven, so that was
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: his last hit single. That's I think me. Yeah. It's
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: the all time record fifty eight years in between number
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: one hits. The previous record had been Elton John who
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: twenty three years between hit singles. Now one was one
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: of his own hits and then the other one was
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: one of those duet kind of deals with Ed Sheeran
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: and again a Christmas song. So Sinatra, it's a new
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: record fifty eight years between number one hits. And also
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: this has got to be the all time record. Sinatra's
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: first number one hit single was nineteen forty with Tommy
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Dorsey I'll Never Smile Again. He was his first hit single.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: It's kind of the song that really put him on
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: the map. So nineteen forty to now is eighty five years.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: So that's an all time record. A guy has a
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: hit single number one on the chart, and he's number
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: one on the chart eighty five years later. This first
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: time that's ever happened. Sinatra, I remember, had the longest
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: career of anybody. When he started singing. Herbert Hoover was
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: president when he stopped singing, Bill Clinton was president. That's
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: a long, long career. He also made, let me think now,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: about one hundred albums. That's not the record. Ella Fitzgerald
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty six albums, Bing Crosby two hundred albums,
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: or the equivalent of two hundred albums. Crosby holds the
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: record for the largest output recording wise. So you got
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: to hey, I forgot to mention this. You got the
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Epstein photos that came out. Remember on Friday, they tried
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: to you know, they're always trying to get Trump, So
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: they put out a photo of him with six girls
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: young girls, you know, with the face was blacked out. Well,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: it turned out this is the Democrats on the House Committee.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Look at this, not only with young girls, there's six
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: of them surrounding him. Well, it turns out the whole
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: thing was fake. You can always count on Democrats MSNBC, CNN,
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: New York Times to fake everything. Because somebody came up
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: with the original picture without the faces blacked out. And
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: they're clearly not young girls. They're adults. They're all adults.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: And it turns out it was a beauty pageant being
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: held at mar A Lago. They were all professional adult models.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: It was a big promotion for Hawaiian Tropic Sun Tan lotion.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: The party and the beauty pageant held at mar Alago.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Trump shows up, takes a picture with all the models
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: in the beauty pageant, the fashion show, and that's what
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: it was. It wasn't young girls. The picture totally fake,
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: ridiculous And that tells you all you need to know
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: about Democrats and Epstein and all this stuff. So, oh,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Saturday had the Army Navy Game. President Trump tradition now
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: comes to the Army Navy game, walks on the field,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: standing ovation the crowd, cheering, Usa, USA. You never hear
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: that with a democratic president. They don't like to cheer that.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: But it was very upsetting the Democrats watching this, very upsetting.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: They don't like any of this. They don't like football,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: they don't like cheering and chanting. You say, they don't
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: like any of this stuff, so it really really upset them.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: Harry Trumber this last hour. Tourists are all over in
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: New York. If you don't think New York's doing well,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: try to get a hotel room right now in New
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: York City. It is impossible. It's impossible. There's no hotel
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: rooms left in New York City. Everybody wants to come here,
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: even with Mom Donnie elected. Tourists are coming in unbelievable numbers. Also,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: real estate sales are very, very very strong. Don't listen
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: to this. Everybody's leaving New York. Nine hundred and seventy
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: six closings real estate closings in the last month. Now,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: if you go to the super high end departments, there
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: were nine closings last week. Contracts closings. That's a big number.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: That's a lot for one week. So sales are really strong,
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: and the rental market is going crazy. You're gonna have
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: a lot of trouble renting department right now in New York.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: People are moving in like crazy rentals. That's a good
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: indicator to study. Rentals are the people first coming to
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: New York, first coming here, and many rentals next year
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: turn into buyers. They'll come here, rent for a year
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: or two and then they'll start buying. But rentals are
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: through the roof. It's almost impossible to rent anything right now.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: So New York doing very very well the Christmas season.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Tourists are everywhere. It's Christmas, and I remember you may
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: be gift shopping, but for yourself, don't buy anything right now.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Don't buy anything. Don't buy any clothes right now. Don't
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: buy anything right now because right after Christmas everything's going
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: to be half price. So I become like Robert de
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Niro and Goodfellows yelling anyway, don't buy anything. What I say?
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: What I tell you, don't buy anything? Did I tell you?
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Don't buy anything right now? It's all going to be
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: half pricing. If you wait till after New Year's it's
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: going to be seventy five percent off. So don't buy
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: anything right now. Hey, you know all the great supermarkets
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: they're all over the place. Whole Foods. Whole Food's not
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: so much anymore. Quality went down there once Bezos took
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: it over, I think deliberately. Uh, but remember Whole Foods.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: All of a sudden it went back to I guess
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: it was the nineties. All of a sudden Whole Foods
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: opened everywhere is an unbelievable supermarket beyond anything you'd ever seen. Now,
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: they were from Texas. It was a Texas supermarket. They
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: opened a couple, then they went national. It became huge.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: And Wegmans. I forget where they're from. They're from someplace
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Wegmans Colorado or something. I don't know, but Wegmans that
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: were very good. Then they opened a couple. Next thing
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: you know, they went national. Now when you get a Wegmans,
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: it's exciting. There's one in New Jersey's had them for
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: a while, but you just got one couple of years
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: ago in Westchester. You just got one in Connecticut. So
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: they've exploded all over America. Now, the next one to
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: watch out for is Uncle Giuseppees. Uncle Giuseppes is going
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: to just remember you heard it here first. This is
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: gonna be the big national phenomenon. Live in Long Island.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: You don't even me to tell you about Uncle Giuseppes.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: There's a bunch of them all over Long Island. There's spectacular.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: It's like the Italian Wegmans. Lots of Italian stuff, but
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: the prepared foods everything. So there's a big article on
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: the paper today about Uncle Giuseppe's going all out for Christmas.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Not just decorations like crazy all over their stores. But
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: they got carollers, they got singers singing Christmas songs right
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: in the store. There's they're all over Long Island. The
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: best one's Melville. I think that's where the family lives. Great,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: great family, very smart people that run this. So there's
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: one in not a big one, but there's a smaller
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: one in Yorktown Heights. There's a bunch of them. I
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: think they're they're all over Long I think there's one
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: in New Jersey. But watch this will be the next
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: big national chain. They got twelve of them already. I
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: see them looking for other locations. But they're phenomenal, so
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: keep an eye on them. They'll be the next big
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: national chain that explodes everywhere. So when hey, once again,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: I went to a million Christmas parties. Yesterday. People, everybody
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: will say to you, what's gonna happen to the midterms,
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Who's going to win the midterms, how are we going
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: to do in the midterms, what's gonna happen that. Don't
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: listen to anybody right now. This is impossible to predict.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: If you said, who's going to be in the super Bowl,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: maybe a good sports expert could give you a good guess.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: But if you said to the greatest sports expert, who's
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: going to win the super Bowl in twenty twenty seven,
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: they can't tell you. There's no way to know that now.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Same thing with the midterms. Don't listen to anybody's prediction
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: right now. It means absolutely nothing. Everything is going to
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: change six months from now. You'll be in a whole
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: different world landscape. These predictions mean absolutely nothing. Same things
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: when they tell you who's going to win in twenty
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: twenty eight, who's going to run? You can't tell now.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: It's impossible. Now, if you're watching fake news, you'll see
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: all these polls, all these studies that the Democrats are
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: definitely going to win the midterms. Look this poll, that poll,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: look at this day. Now. The reason they do this
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: on fake news show you that Democrats are on track
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: to win, and mid the reason they do that it's
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: for fundraising. That's the only important thing right now, lots
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: of fundraising. If you put out all this nonsense showing
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: you're going to win, you have a much better shot
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: at fundraising. Donors will give like crazy if they think
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: you're going to win. So don't fall for all. That's
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: just propaganda right now for fundraising purposes. Don't take it,
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: don't take it too seriously. And Gavin Newsom twenty twenty
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: as well, he's clearly way out in the front. And
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: I remember he's a big, big star right now on
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: the scene with all of his tweeting and instagram and
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: posting and podcasting, all that's up. He's quite a flamboyant guy.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: He's attacking Trump like crazy. He's the you know, the
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: star right now. But there's an old rule in politics,
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: especially democratic politics, there's candidates you want to date, and
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: there's candidates you want to marry. So sometimes the flashy
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: guy with the outrageous comments, it's like a that's like
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: a woman you date, but you wouldn't marry her. So
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: it's the same thing with voters right now. They'll date
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: him because he's funny and flashy and outrageous, doesn't mean
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: they want to marryhim, doesn't mean they'll vote for him.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: So just for hey, we'll take some calls. Next eight
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: hundred three to two one zero seven ten is the number,
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten, mister
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: New York.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Here's more, Marks amone on sevent ten wor all right.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: We're learning more about the Rob Reiners situation. The police
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: have not yet held their press comp so they not
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: absolutely confirm. But remember we told you last hour they
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: have arrested the son. They did take the son into custody. Well,
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: now they've charged him. They've officially charged him. Hasn't really
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: been announce ship, but they've charged him and there's a
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: four million dollar bail on him. Now. This is Sunday, yesterday,
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: this terrible stabbing. The night before Saturday night, there was
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: a big Conan O'Brien Christmas party. Rob Reiner and his
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: wife were there, and somehow the son, Nick was there,
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: and apparently they got into a loud, loud, vicious argument
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: at the party that got very loud and out of control,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: so much so that Reiner and his wife left the party.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: So that's Saturday night, and it looks like the Sun
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: came to the house Sunday and again a loud, loud argument.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: And Reiner's daughter was living in the guest house. Apparently
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: she heard the argument and then at some point later
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: went over to check on them, found them dead. Called police,
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: told police about the Sun. So but here's the latest though,
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: he is. He has been charged apparently, and there's a
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: four million dollar bail. Let's take some calls. Let's go
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: to Brian Grantwich, Connecticut. Brian, how you doing.
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: Hey, Hey Mark, good morning, First first time I ever
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: called in here.
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: I love you.
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: We've met a few times over the years.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah we meet.
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: We met up with sal.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Scal very fine restaurant in Granwich, Connecticut, right there in
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: the water. Oh yeah, David Fletcher the manager.
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: Excellent guy, great guy, super nice guy. I actually took
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: my girlfriend for for her birthday party there.
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: But real quick.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: So Wegman's is actually from Rochester.
• 50:23
  Speaker 9: New York.
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: Mark, Okay, yep, Danny Danny Wegman. When I left the
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: Waldorf in the Tavern on the Green in twenty one club,
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: I met Danny Wegman through through a relative and we
• 50:36
  Speaker 6: started off premise catering business with you. You remember David Bulet.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: Oh god, David, Oh my god, got the best.
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: We did parties.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: He was a great guy, but the great guys.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what.
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: He you'll admit a little nuts Oh good time. I
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: was with him for three or four years.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Very hard to have the number one highest rated New
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: York restaurant in New York and then be closed in six
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: months unless you're a little nutty.
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: Oh my god. But I'll leave it with this. Jim
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: from New Jersey is one of my best friends, and
• 51:11
  Speaker 6: he calls in all the time. And when I heard
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: you mentioned Wegman's, I said, oh god, I got a
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: call Mark and.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: All right from Rochester. Hey, you said you worked at
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: the Waldorf.
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: I was director catering at the Waldorf.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Well have you seen the new Waldorf.
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm I'm a member of the Distinguished Alumni and.
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: I like the old war Dog Waldorf a little better.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: What do you think?
• 51:37
  Speaker 6: So they had their open party in the ballroom the
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: night before our dinner, so it was a little bit
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: of a mess. And the lobby I think is really nice. Mark,
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: it's beautiful.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: It's nice. They took away a lot of stuff.
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: That I don't think they did. You know, they took
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: away it went from I think it went from like
• 51:53
  Speaker 6: fifteen hundred keys to that to like three hundred believe
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: it or not. So they're all private, you know, beautiful million,
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: multi million dollar a year co ops and condos or whatever.
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: But but the ballroom is still the ballroom.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not that same. It was white and gold.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: Now it's silver silver. It looks like a big tin
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: can when you're in it. The beautiful lighting's gone. They
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: got those led Halligen whatever they are, they're not the same.
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: They took the they took the chandelier at which is ridiculous.
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: I mean, how can you how can you do that?
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: But uh yeah, back in the days, forget about it.
• 52:25
  Speaker 6: I mean we had so many parties there, oh my god.
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: But but anyway, Danny's I think Danny's daughters are now
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: in charge of the company and they're great, great people
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: as well. And uh yeah, so's father.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: All right, Well it's a great, great store. Thanks for calling.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Let's go to uh Stuart in South Carolina. Stuart, how
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: you doing, hey.
• 52:47
  Speaker 9: Mark Her?
• 52:47
  Speaker 10: Are you two points one? You know I've been employees offs.
• 52:50
  Speaker 10: Almost fifty years in the South in very gun friendly states.
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  Speaker 10: I have never worked a home invasion, not one ever.
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  Speaker 10: I've never worked the car jacket ever. Because people here
• 53:03
  Speaker 10: know is they open up your door to your house,
• 53:04
  Speaker 10: they're probably going to die. If they open up there
• 53:07
  Speaker 10: a car door, they're probably going to die. So guns,
• 53:11
  Speaker 10: guns prevalent among people, are a real crime to turn.
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  Speaker 10: And you know that criminals do not obey gun laws.
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  Speaker 10: Australia and New Zealand have taken guns away from everybody nobody.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, but you live in the South South Carolina. People
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: know how to handle a gun. This is New York City.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: Can you imagine a woman in a great neck handling
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  Speaker 3: a gun.
• 53:32
  Speaker 10: Well, maybe this is true, but if.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: They may hesse, you can't even find the code check
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: every thing. You know you're going to look for a gun.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And the other point I want to make is you're
• 53:42
  Speaker 10: absolutely right. New York City is wonderful. South Carolina is horrible.
• 53:45
  Speaker 10: We have crocodiles everywhere. The humidity and the summer is
• 53:49
  Speaker 10: just horrible. The people are unfriendly. Please New Yorkers stay
• 53:52
  Speaker 10: in wonderful New York City and please don't come to
• 53:54
  Speaker 10: South Carolina. It's a horrible place to live.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: You've been sarcastic, but yes I am. I'd rather be
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: in New York right now.
• 54:02
  Speaker 10: It's what gas is two thirteen right now.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, no, but you got nowhere to go there.
• 54:11
  Speaker 10: We got the beach, the mountains, got everywhere here. I
• 54:14
  Speaker 10: mean I've been I grew up in Levittown, but what
• 54:16
  Speaker 10: I've been down South over fifty years, I would never leave.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's a great place. I'll stay here, but it's
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: a great place. Thanks for calling, Stuart. I'll actually long time.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: We'll take some more calls tomorrow because I want to
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: get to a Steve Cuzo. He's the expert on New York,
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: on real estate, on restaurants, on what's going on? How
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: is New York doing? How is business? We'll get to
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: all of that. What's going to happen under mom Donnie.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: We'll get to all of that. Coming up next on
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: seven to ten, wore did Mark.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: On demand by setting a presead for his podcast on
• 54:51
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• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Well. Steve Cuzo is the great columnist for the New
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: York Post. Nobody better on real Estate, on restaurants, on
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: New York, on What's going on? And all his columns
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: are up on the New York Post website. Steve Cuzo,
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: how you doing? Hey, good morning, Mark.
• 55:12
  Speaker 9: I always hope I can live up to your great going.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: And you always do. Now when it comes to apartments, rentals, sales,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: offices moving, how is New York doing? It's not true
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: that everybody's leaving New York, is it?
• 55:30
  Speaker 9: No, sure isn't. The office market has strongest it's been
• 55:36
  Speaker 9: in about ten years. And you think about what that means,
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: recovered from the pandemic. People are back offices. It's hardly
• 55:45
  Speaker 9: any space available, that's how strong the market is. And
• 55:51
  Speaker 9: housing a very interesting story, you know, right. I wrote
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: a piece yesterday in the Post. It's up on our
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: website about the whole myth, the fallacies around so called
• 56:02
  Speaker 9: affordable apartments. So you know, you've got the incoming mayor
• 56:08
  Speaker 9: Zagoni and many others complaining about we've got to build
• 56:12
  Speaker 9: affordable housing, you know, get people off the streets into
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: affordable housing. There's a number of issues here. Number one,
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: most of the people, many of them at least, do
• 56:20
  Speaker 9: not they'd rather be on the street because they are
• 56:23
  Speaker 9: not They're not normal people. They're psychos, they are drug addicts,
• 56:27
  Speaker 9: they are dangerous home with people. They're not people by
• 56:31
  Speaker 9: and large living on the street simply because they can't
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: afford to make ends meet despite working three jobs. Okay,
• 56:38
  Speaker 9: so let's get that straight.
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  Speaker 3: Number two.
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  Speaker 9: There's a myth that the city doesn't have or doesn't
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: create affordable apartments. It's you can look it up. This
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: is not a matter of opinion, but of objective truth.
• 56:52
  Speaker 9: The City of New York, through various meetings, rezonings, et cetera,
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: has generated the creation of over three hundred thousand new
• 57:03
  Speaker 9: rental apartments in the last roughly ten years. That's an
• 57:06
  Speaker 9: extraordinary number. And of those a significant percentage, a minority percentage,
• 57:13
  Speaker 9: but still a meaningful percentage. Twenty percent typically are ear
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: marked for people with incomes below average. They are intended
• 57:28
  Speaker 9: for people who make a certain percentage of the median
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: area income. That is to say, by and large, people
• 57:35
  Speaker 9: who are working class, not middle not up, not affluent.
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: They have families, some of them were of two to
• 57:46
  Speaker 9: three jobs, and these are apartments that are set aside
• 57:50
  Speaker 9: for people with those lower incomes. They're not set aside
• 57:54
  Speaker 9: for people with no incomes, which is of course what
• 57:57
  Speaker 9: Mamdani and his fellow travelers in what I call socialists
• 58:02
  Speaker 9: the sophistry want. They're intended for people who earn a living.
• 58:09
  Speaker 9: They're tax paying citizens of the city, and they deserve
• 58:12
  Speaker 9: a place to live that they can afford. And the
• 58:14
  Speaker 9: city has delivered. Okay, let's say three hundred thirty thousand
• 58:19
  Speaker 9: new units all together, and rentals were talking about not condos,
• 58:24
  Speaker 9: twenty percent of that, so sixty thousand, roughly, very roughly
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: are affordable in a meaningful sense. So you read all
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: this propaganda in Bologne. It's propagated by the activist organizations,
• 58:41
  Speaker 9: the New York Times and other left leaning media that
• 58:45
  Speaker 9: the city has failed its homeless populations by not building,
• 58:51
  Speaker 9: not creating affordable home for them. It's malarkey, just not true.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Well, sometimes you don't have affordable housing because the place
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: is booming. You know, if you went to a garden city,
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Long Island, it's very expensive, there's no affordable housing. But
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: the next town over, Hempstead, not so good, a lot
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: of affordable housing. But so is every place have to
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: have affordable housing, you just go to the next town.
• 59:14
  Speaker 9: No, The truth is I don't Mark, I don't really
• 59:16
  Speaker 9: know the Garden City situation. But more to the point
• 59:20
  Speaker 9: is that I mean, you can't have uniform You can't
• 59:23
  Speaker 9: have affordable housing by any definition, distributed uniformly. Of course,
• 59:29
  Speaker 9: the five boroughs hundreds of different neighborhoods. Obviously some areas,
• 59:35
  Speaker 9: some neighborhoods lend themselves more to higher income residents than others.
• 59:42
  Speaker 9: But what's remarkable is that you look at the city now.
• 59:46
  Speaker 9: The city has generated entire new skylines of mostly rental
• 59:52
  Speaker 9: apartment buildings in the last fifteen years, and places like
• 59:55
  Speaker 9: Gowanas in Brooklyn, on the Canal, in the parts of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 9: downtown Manhattan in the South Bronx, Long Island City, and
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 9: Funter's Point in Queens. These are success stories. These stories
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 9: help explain why we're not seeing a massive exodus of
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 9: people from the city's Obviously, there will always be some
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 9: people who want to go. Let them go, and they'll
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 9: quickly find The New York Times actually had a terrific
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 9: story about a week ago about how people who think
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 9: they're going to leave the city suddenly discovered that it's
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 9: not as easy as they thought. They thought they could
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 9: get the tax benefits of living in Texas or Florida
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 9: just by filling out a change for transform or something,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 9: And it turns out this is far from the case.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 9: So nine out of ten people who say they're leading
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 9: the city for good don't.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: So these big, big, big real estate guys, they know
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: their stuff. These guys are brilliant. Now I noticed they're
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: building a ninety story skyscraper Madison in fifty eighth Park Avenue.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: In fifty second they get one hundred story skyscraper going.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: They got all these skyscrapers going, one on fifty seventh coming.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: They wouldn't be doing this if they didn't believe in
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: the future of New York, would they.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: They?
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 9: Of course, they believe. They're not infallible. They often make
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 9: a lot of them make big mistakes and go, you know,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 9: if not broke when a minimum they lose their umpires.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 9: They look back to a case of William Zeckendorf, one
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 9: of the famous developers of all time. He ended up
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: living in a I think I'm like a furnished room
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 9: or something in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A lot of
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 9: these characters that too much. You know, they're intoxicated by
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 9: easy money. The banks are too willing to lend. Sometimes
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 9: interest rates are very low. Interest rates obviously fluctuate, but
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 9: when they're very low, everybody sees they don't see any
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 9: possible downside. And yet there were buildings, rental apartment buildings
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 9: and condo buildings that did not do well and had
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 9: to be taken over by someone else. By and large,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 9: I agree with you that generally speaking, real estate developers
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 9: have a greater you know, they're more attached to the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 9: reality the pulse of the city's economy than journalists are,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 9: and they wouldn't be making taking the kinds of gambles
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 9: that they take if they weren't confident. So the buildings
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 9: you mentioned Madison Avenue, there are two of them. One
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 9: is being developed by related companies at fifty eighth Street
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 9: and Extel I think, two blocks north. They're both putting
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 9: up giant you know, the buildings. Not even certain exactly
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 9: what the mix will be of apartments or offices, perhaps
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 9: a hotel. But yeah, of course they have confidence and
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 9: they those buildings are going to do fun.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: Also, the big new restaurants opening all over the place, right,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: You've covered a lot of big restaurants that have opened recently.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, the one I wrote about last week is
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 9: called Palladinos and it's in Grand Central Terminal. It's on
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 9: the you know, the the the mezzanie, the balcony's overlooking
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 9: the main concourse. I never heard of this guy, Joe Palladino.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 9: He's from New York, but he made a career in Texas,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 9: UH opening steakhouses. Now he's come to New York and
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 9: it's magnificent. It's absolutely beautiful. It's a great place to sit,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 9: even if you didn't eat or drink anything. Not that,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 9: not that they're promoting asking people to come, not to
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 9: spend any money, because the setting is so magnificent on
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 9: the you know, the main floor of the terminal, and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 9: the food's great. And I had a story in my
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 9: real estate column today that there's another steakhouse coming and
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 9: it's called something like Jay. I'm sorry, I just can't
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 9: remember the Jack Jack D's Jack's going to Yeah, and
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 9: it's going to be on in the building known as
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 9: seventy five Rockefeller Plaza. Now it's really the restaurant will
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 9: actually be on the West fifty second Street side UH
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 9: is currently vacant. That's another big one, so over two
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 9: hundred seats and the two guys doing it are professionals.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 9: One of them is the son of Jack Dorian, who
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 9: is creative Dorian's Red Hand on the East Side. And uh,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 9: it's the New York City has an unlimited appetite, it
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 9: seems for steakhouses. I often think there are too damn
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 9: many of them, But there you go, that's what that's
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 9: what the public wants. They don't want, you know, eight
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 9: seat counters where you just need you know, vegan weird stuff.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: All right, So bottom line, New York is booming, right,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: it's doing very well.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, there's nothing is permanent. And in terms
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 9: of the real estate aspect of it, people forget that.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 9: It's a cyclical industry. It goes up, it goes down.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 9: Everybody nobody knows what's really coming. Everybody is old saying
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 9: fighting the last war. Yeah, and so god knows where
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 9: we're haded. But a couple of weeks ago, you know,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 9: I sat down with Mark Holliday, who's the CEO of
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 9: sl Green, the city's largest commercial landlord, and he's very optimistic.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 9: I said to him, Mark, this, you know, vacancy rates
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 9: are down and brints are up and blah blah, blah,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 9: you know, am I missing something? Is there is there
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 9: a weak link here in this picture? And he said,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 9: well basically not all.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: Right, good good news now for now. Excellent news everybody.
• 1:05:33
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• 1:05:36
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• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: all his columns there and make sure you read them
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: regularly in the New York Post. Steve Cuzo, thanks for
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: being with us.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 9: Thanks Mark, always fun.
• 1:05:45
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• 1:05:48
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• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: he'd be saying that. Police. Remember, it's three hours earlier
• 1:06:22
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• 1:06:25
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• 1:06:31
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• 1:06:38
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• 1:06:46
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• 1:06:50
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• 1:06:52
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