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Hour 2: Pizza Hut is making a huge change. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister New York marximone seven ten woor.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot to get to this hour. So
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  Speaker 2: I go down to the kitchen to get a cup
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  Speaker 2: of coffee. There's a woman there, had an entourage like
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  Speaker 2: forty people, and there's like another one hundred people gathered
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  Speaker 2: around her talking to her. And you know, nobody knows
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  Speaker 2: who anybody is anymore. So I had to say to somebody,
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  Speaker 2: who is that? And he said, Olivia Rodrigue. Oh okay,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I know who that is, but I didn't
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  Speaker 2: recognize her. But if I walked down there with Jay Leno,
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  Speaker 2: They're all going to be saying who is that? Nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows who anybody is anymore. There's no more mass media
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  Speaker 2: anything anymore. So Representative Thomas Massey horrible guy, awful guy,
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  Speaker 2: anti Semitic, like crazy, even even in his concession speech
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  Speaker 2: goes totally anti. So I see forty people walking by?
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  Speaker 2: Is that her? Again? It is no watch, Oh she's
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  Speaker 2: going that way, she just walked by the window. How
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  Speaker 2: many people there's like forty five people walking with her.
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  Speaker 2: It's hysterical. They get to the door, one opens it
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  Speaker 2: and then it takes like twenty minutes when they get
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  Speaker 2: through the door anyway, Where was it? Oh? Thomas Massey, horrible,
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  Speaker 2: horrible guy gets antisemitic in his concession speech when everybody's
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  Speaker 2: looking at him, So they wiped him out. Trump finally
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  Speaker 2: stood up to him, wiped him out. It will go
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  Speaker 2: down as the most expensive primary race in US history.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a congressional race. This is just the primary.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two million was spent on political ads. Thirty two million,
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  Speaker 2: most expensive primary in history. Massy was so crazy, trumped
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  Speaker 2: arrangement syndrome. He's the guy the way back when started
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  Speaker 2: pushing like crazy, like crazy for the Epstein fires. Now,
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  Speaker 2: some of these people actually convinced themselves you could without
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  Speaker 2: the files, you could still know the real story. Some
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  Speaker 2: of them convinced themselves that Trump and Epstein were close friends,
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  Speaker 2: which they never were. When Epstein first made a ton
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  Speaker 2: of money and bought a big place in Palm Beach,
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  Speaker 2: he was a new guy in town with millions of bucks,
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  Speaker 2: and he joined mar A Lago and President Trump like
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  Speaker 2: any club owner, and back then he was not a politician.
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  Speaker 2: He was just a civilian. But any owner of a
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  Speaker 2: big club or a big owner would always whenever a big, new,
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  Speaker 2: very wealthy members joins and starts spending a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: You go spend some time with him, you go greet him,
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  Speaker 2: you say hello to him. And Trump's always done it that.
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  Speaker 2: I remember years ago he owned the Plaza hotel, got
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  Speaker 2: a kick out of him when there were parties. He'd
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  Speaker 2: hang out with Epstein at the you know, on that
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  Speaker 2: end of the party over there. But that was it.
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  Speaker 2: At some point it went bad because they found out Epstein. First,
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  Speaker 2: we was hiring people away from mar Alago. Some of
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  Speaker 2: them wass that was bad enough. Trump gave him a warning.
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  Speaker 2: Then the next thing that happened was Epstein hit on
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  Speaker 2: this young girl who worked in the locker room, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like whatever she was, fifteen sixteen year old girl. Turned
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  Speaker 2: out she was the daughter of a member. That's how
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  Speaker 2: she got the job. Trump heard about this, threw Epstein
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  Speaker 2: out of Mar A Lago, banned him from the club,
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  Speaker 2: banned him from every Trump property. This is a million
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  Speaker 2: years ago, and then never spoke to him again. So
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  Speaker 2: that was the end of it. And if you read
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  Speaker 2: the Epstein files after that, nobody hated Trump more than Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: If you read the files, and there's millions of pages,
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  Speaker 2: you can read this. He's just plotting against Trump, raging
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  Speaker 2: with hatred against Trump for years. And whenever he did,
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  Speaker 2: he got very close to that Sleezeball tabloid idiot, Michael
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  Speaker 2: wolf that Trump hating writer. He and Michael Wolfe. You
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  Speaker 2: read their email exchanges. It's all about how they can
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  Speaker 2: destroy Trump, plots to destroy Trump. So that was Epstein
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  Speaker 2: just hated Trump. He was one of his biggest enemies.
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  Speaker 2: But guys like Massy convinced themselves that once this Epstein
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  Speaker 2: file comes out, that's it for Trump. You remember you
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  Speaker 2: go back a few months ago before the files came out,
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  Speaker 2: do you remember at people actually had themselves convinced Trump
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  Speaker 2: was on Epstein island, Trump was a pedophile Trump. They
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  Speaker 2: had all these fantasies that were all crazy. Again, once
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  Speaker 2: the files came out, you read it. Not only were
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  Speaker 2: they not friends, but Epstein and Trump were bitter enemies.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what it was. Hey, if you watched a
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  Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live last Saturday night, the opening sketch was
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  Speaker 2: about something and then all of a sudden, Epstein appears
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  Speaker 2: and it's a dream or something, and Trump says, who
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  Speaker 2: are you? I'm your closest friend. They even Saturday and
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  Speaker 2: Live pushing this ridiculous lie that they were close friends.
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  Speaker 2: So that's one of the things that did Massy and
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  Speaker 2: he pushed so hard for that stupid Epstein file that came,
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  Speaker 2: and all it did was once and for all exonerate
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  Speaker 2: Trump from all of that. Hey, what's today Wednesday?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: So Tomorrow night is the final Colbert Show. We will
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  Speaker 2: be rid of this awful guy. Colbert. Tomorrow Night the
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  Speaker 2: final show. They're keeping it secret. They don't want you
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  Speaker 2: to know who the guests are, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney.
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  Speaker 2: That's two of them. But Tomorrow Night then having some
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  Speaker 2: kind of big party afterwards. Wrap party should be more
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  Speaker 2: like a funeral party. But the left, of course thinks
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  Speaker 2: this is a terrible that he's going off the air,
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  Speaker 2: that he was such a wonderful national treasure, and that
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  Speaker 2: he was pushed off for political reasons. He was thrown
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  Speaker 2: off the air mainly because the show's a total disaster.
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  Speaker 2: Ratings are low. Oh, they'll tell you it beats Jimmy Kimmel,
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  Speaker 2: it beats Fallon. Well, that's only because they have even
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  Speaker 2: lower ratings. The ratings are minuscule, and the show loses
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  Speaker 2: forty to fifty million each year. It's been losing forty
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  Speaker 2: to fifty million a year. Real question is why did
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  Speaker 2: they keep it on if it's losing forty to fifty
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  Speaker 2: million a year. Well that might have been the political part.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of people, a lot of critics are
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  Speaker 2: starting to write seriously about it, how much damage he
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  Speaker 2: might have done to America just by ruining Late night TV.
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  Speaker 2: Late Night with Steve Allen was Jack Parr, was Johnny Carson,
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  Speaker 2: Jay Leno was the original good David Letterman. It was fun.
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  Speaker 2: It was funny. That was the idea. The idea was
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  Speaker 2: you'd have some laughs, you'd be entertained, laugh and relaxed
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  Speaker 2: before you go to sleep, not do one hour of
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  Speaker 2: vicious hatred. It's called the Late Show. They should have
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  Speaker 2: called it the hate Show. Remember, years ago, it was
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty two years ago, there was a famous incident.
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  Speaker 2: John Stewart was invited on what was then the very
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  Speaker 2: popular political show Crossfire on CNN. That was a big
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  Speaker 2: show every afternoon where they would debate and sometimes they
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  Speaker 2: would get nasty. Remember John Stewart came on and he
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  Speaker 2: told them off. He told off Crossfire right on the
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  Speaker 2: air right in front of him. He said, just angry,
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  Speaker 2: rhetic rhetoric. It's hurting America. This anger, this angry politics,
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  Speaker 2: it's bad for America. Well skip ahead to today and
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  Speaker 2: guys like John Stewart embraced this angry anger. But Colbert
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  Speaker 2: was the worst. John Stuart there's a twinkle in his eye.
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  Speaker 2: He's funny, he can go after both sides. Colbert, there's
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  Speaker 2: no twinkle in his eye, just a psycho look. He's
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  Speaker 2: a nasty, nasty guy in real life and a nasty
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  Speaker 2: guy in the air. It was just a combination of
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  Speaker 2: total fake news, divisive monologues, and he only went after
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  Speaker 2: political opponents. There was no balance at all none. Hey, now,
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  Speaker 2: remember when Colbert started originally eleven years ago, the show
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  Speaker 2: was a disaster, ratings wise, every wise. And then Trump
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  Speaker 2: started to run and he went after Trump and that's
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  Speaker 2: where he took off. So he just cranked up the
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  Speaker 2: Trump hatred. So it was a blessing and a curse
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  Speaker 2: for him. It helped him, but in the end it
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  Speaker 2: just kind of killed him. He got really ugly with
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  Speaker 2: the Trump stuff. Remember when he went after was it
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  Speaker 2: Jared Kushner? He called, I can't even repeat it a
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  Speaker 2: something blank Holster. It's a dirty, dirty porn expression. I
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  Speaker 2: remember the CBS censor who cut it out said it
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  Speaker 2: was the single ugliest thing they ever had a censor
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  Speaker 2: out of a show. But that's Colbert. He could get
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  Speaker 2: really dirty, dirty, ugly in his language and everything. He
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  Speaker 2: put out, these fake stories that you know, in real
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  Speaker 2: life he teaches Sunday school. Yeah, nobody to teaches Sunday
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  Speaker 2: school could have said what they had to bleep out
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  Speaker 2: that night. So it was just awful, the hatred, and
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  Speaker 2: you got to remember he was fake news to the extreme.
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  Speaker 2: There is nobody on earth that pushed the Russia hoax
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  Speaker 2: more than Stephen Colbert. You go back and check the record.
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  Speaker 2: It was that's where he really hit his stride. The
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  Speaker 2: Russia hoax. He pushed that harder than anybody. It turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be totally false, a completely redicus, made up lie.
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  Speaker 2: He never apologized for it, not once, never apologized, and
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  Speaker 2: then he totally ignored anything. No, never a joke, never
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  Speaker 2: a comment about anything bad with a Democrat, Never anything
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  Speaker 2: about Eric Swalwell, never anything about Hunter Biden or the laptop,
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  Speaker 2: no mention of it. Biden in total cognitive decline, Colbert
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  Speaker 2: engaged in the cover up, never mentioned it. Remember the
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  Speaker 2: hoax about Charlottesville. Trump supposedly said very fine. People on
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  Speaker 2: the NAZI said total hoax. Colbert pushed that like crazy.
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  Speaker 2: And some people think the biggest mistake ever was not
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  Speaker 2: going after Biden, who was obviously perfect for a comedian,
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  Speaker 2: perfect target. But Colbert just ignored the whole thing. So
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  Speaker 2: he's leaving. I think he says, what is he gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the fascinating part, and this tells you everything.
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  Speaker 2: It was announced about eight months ago that he was
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  Speaker 2: being fired. Nobody, no TV network, no TV company, nobody
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  Speaker 2: has come forward to offer him a show. Nobody has
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  Speaker 2: offered him anything. Long ago, before the firing, he had
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  Speaker 2: sold a script idea for a sequel to The Hobbit.
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  Speaker 2: They liked the script he came up with, so when
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  Speaker 2: he leaves, that's what he'll work on. That script. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a movie. But nobody has offered him
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  Speaker 2: a TV show. He's now an empty nester. He's got
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  Speaker 2: the three kids that are all grown up and out
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  Speaker 2: of the house. He says he wants to enjoy life.
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  Speaker 2: Is an empty nester, spend time with his wife, he's
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  Speaker 2: been married thirty two years. He supposedly is about worth
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  Speaker 2: seventy five million. Now. He earned a salary of about
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  Speaker 2: fifteen million a year. So that's it. Tomorrow night, it
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  Speaker 2: might be worth watching that final show just to see.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to probably set the world record for ugliness,
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  Speaker 2: for bitterness on television. It's going to get really ugly. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he's fired, he's gone, he's never coming back to CBS.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's offered him a job, so he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 2: worry about blowing the next job, so he could get
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  Speaker 2: really ugly tomorrow night. Hey, Pizza Hut, Now this is
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  Speaker 2: an interesting story. You know, twenty twenty six, among young, young,
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  Speaker 2: young people, there's a wave of nostalgia. Nobody can figure
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  Speaker 2: out why, but they're getting nostalgic. That's why those are
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  Speaker 2: the people buying vinyl phonograph albums. They're bringing back flip phones.
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  Speaker 2: They like iPods, not iPhones, iPods. They're getting into this nostalgia.
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  Speaker 2: They're even taking up analog hobbies and that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what that's all about. So Pizza Hut
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  Speaker 2: has decided to rewind, go back to their old day core.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying it out in eighty restaurants. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: go to a pizza hut. Now it's very modern plastic,
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  Speaker 2: you know, minimal. They're going back to the old day
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  Speaker 2: corps and these younger people love it. The old day
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  Speaker 2: core means red checkered table, loss, vinyl booth, Tiffany style lamps,
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  Speaker 2: bringing back the salad bar, those big red plastic cups.
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  Speaker 2: They're putting pac Man machines in there, and apparently it's working.
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  Speaker 2: It's working. Business is way up in these locations, so
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  Speaker 2: keep an eye on that trend that might start spreading around.
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  Speaker 2: There's another one, Kellogg's Cereal. They're now putting toys back
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  Speaker 2: in the breakfast cereal. I remember you used to wait
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  Speaker 2: to see what the toy was in the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the cereal. That was a great thing. Why did they
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  Speaker 2: get rid of it? Well, see I never realized this.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently reason number one to cut costs. It costs money
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  Speaker 2: to put those toys in there. And the other thing
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  Speaker 2: is was a choking problem. Kids were choking on the toys.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently they didn't, They're not that bright. They would pour
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  Speaker 2: the cereal in the bowl, the toy would go in there.
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  Speaker 2: So consumers that got all upset about the choking problem,
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  Speaker 2: and that's another reason they stopped. But it's coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Special edition boxes of frosted Flakes, fruit loops, Applejacks, corn Pops.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have plastic shaped toys characters from Disney and Toy
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  Speaker 2: Story five. But again the US Consumer Product Safety Commission
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  Speaker 2: deemed them a choking hazard. But we'll see how they
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  Speaker 2: get around it this time. Hey, crazy mom, Donnie mayor
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie's been having these meetings with business leaders ever
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  Speaker 2: since he's ugly, ugly, dirty personal attack on Ken Griffin.
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  Speaker 2: They say they're going well. Nobody's really gotten into a
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  Speaker 2: fight with him. He met with Jamie Diamond of JP
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  Speaker 2: Morgan David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs. They don't know
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  Speaker 2: how productive these meetings were. He got along very well
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  Speaker 2: with Jamie Diamond. They hit it off, very constructive meeting.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if anything'll come of these. These are
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  Speaker 2: just kind of much just for show. Nothing's really happened
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  Speaker 2: in these meetings. They were set up by that silly
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  Speaker 2: Partnership for New York City run by the extremely overpaid
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  Speaker 2: Kathy Wilde. It's a business advocacy group that really again
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  Speaker 2: engages in just symbolic thing. I don't know anything they've
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  Speaker 2: ever actually gotten done. Hey, we'll take some calls in
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  Speaker 2: a minute. Eight hundred three to two one zero seven
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  Speaker 2: ten is the number. Eight hundred three to two, one
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  Speaker 2: zero seven to ten. Let's get back to the Mark
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  Speaker 2: Simone show on woor. Let's take some calls. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: to Greg in Jersey City, Greg, how you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Hey?
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  Speaker 3: Doing good? I was down in Massey's district last week
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  Speaker 3: because one of those Pika locations is right across the
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  Speaker 3: river from downtown Cincinnati, and it's actually one franchise with
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  Speaker 3: those eighty locations. He has to get permission from corporate
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  Speaker 3: to revert back to the old restaurant style. So was
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  Speaker 3: it crowded?
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  Speaker 2: Was it busy? Did people love it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was maybe like forty to fifty you know,
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  Speaker 3: parties in the rest It was about seven o'clock at
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  Speaker 3: night at a time. And yeah, I mean it'll be
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  Speaker 3: remains to be seen if other franchisees within pizez Hut
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  Speaker 3: will adopt the concept, because, like I say, it's just
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  Speaker 3: one guy, and yeah it's a test run.
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  Speaker 2: All right, good point, Greg, But remember it's usually the
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  Speaker 2: local franchisee that comes up with everything. You know, McDonald's
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  Speaker 2: spends a fortune every year research and development. They've got
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  Speaker 2: a test kitchen where they try to come up with things.
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  Speaker 2: In about fifty years, they never came up with anything
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  Speaker 2: that worked. In fact, everything that came up with it
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  Speaker 2: was a disaster, like the McLean or the McRib or
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  Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. It was the local franchises that
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  Speaker 2: came A local franchise guy came up with the Big Mac,
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  Speaker 2: A local franchise gate guy came up with the fish Land,
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  Speaker 2: which every great thing invented by a franchise. Hey, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, try the Big Arch. That's their new big
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  Speaker 2: juicy burger. Very good. It's better than the Big Mac.
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  Speaker 2: Try it. Let's go to Terry in Connecticut. Terry, how
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  Speaker 2: you doing.
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  Speaker 5: I'm John, Well, thank you. I'm watching the commencement at
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  Speaker 5: the Coast Guard Academy and a couple of people who fainted.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, today in grotten President Trump is there for
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  Speaker 2: the Coast Guard graduation.
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  Speaker 5: You were there, No, I'm watching it on TV and.
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  Speaker 2: People are fainting.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. They were a boy than two and they had
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  Speaker 5: paramedics because it's so hot.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: While they were waiting. They fainted.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, these are coast Guards guys, are they no? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Good, well by standards.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we don't want to coast Guard to faints.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, But anyway, the second to go, wanted
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  Speaker 5: to ask you, did Stephen calld there have a pet
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  Speaker 5: side this attack on TV at one time?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but you know, with that angry scholar
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  Speaker 2: in his face, you could never tell who knows with him,
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  Speaker 2: he always looks like he's having an attack.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's what it said. He was doing a segment. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and he had to be rushed to the hospital because
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  Speaker 5: he had an appendicitis attack.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, that's terrible. We don't want to see that
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  Speaker 2: happening anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Even.
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  Speaker 5: That's all I wanted to say.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, thanks for calling. Yeah. The President
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  Speaker 2: going to Grotten Connecticut for the Coastguard graduation. He's doing
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  Speaker 2: that right now, and then he goes to Rockland County
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  Speaker 2: for another graduation. He's traveling around all day to day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where he's you know, mar A Lagos
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  Speaker 2: now closed for the season, closes until about Halloween. So
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  Speaker 2: he used to go to Bedminster in the summer in
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey stay there. But he's got a beautiful golf
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  Speaker 2: course right outside of Washington, d c. In in the
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  Speaker 2: suburbs in Virginia, so he's been using that a lot
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  Speaker 2: on the weekend. Let's go to Paul in white Stone. Paul,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing, Hey.
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  Speaker 6: Mark Brooklyn, congresswoman of Vet clock had a very memorable
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  Speaker 6: experience on Colbert one time, and I hope he brings
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  Speaker 6: her back for the last show. They were talking about
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  Speaker 6: when Brooklyn joined the City of New York in eighteen
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  Speaker 6: ninety eight, and he said, if you could go back
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  Speaker 6: to that time, what would you say to your constituents.
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  Speaker 6: She said, let my people go? And people laughed, and
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  Speaker 6: Colbert said what people? She said, the slaves. Colbert said
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  Speaker 6: there were slaves in Brooklyn in eighteen ninety eight, and
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  Speaker 6: she said yeah. He said who was holding them in slavery?
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  Speaker 6: She said the Dutch. So she thought the Dutch controlled
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: Brooklyn in eighteen ninety eight, Yes, and still had slaves.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Complete Well, that's a good thing about being a Democrat
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: or having Trump arrangement syndrome. Whatever you heard on morning
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: show good enough for me. I'll repeat it. I'll just
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: repeat it from the Russia hoaks to all that crap. Well,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: let's go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim, how you doing.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Agler was the second richest man in the world at
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: one time. Who was Henry Flagler? Florida.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Everything in he named after Flagler. Wait, slow down, slow down,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Take a breath. Take a breath. Relaxed, calm down, slow
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So Mark.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: What he did was incredible to turn in the last century.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: He built a railroad from Miami to Key West. It
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: took him thirteen years he lived to see it completed,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: and it was great. You could take the train from
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: New York to Key West. Unfortunately, by the time the
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: thirties that the automobile was coming around, so nobody was
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: taking the train and the final coup de cut tar.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: You can see it in that great movie Key Largo
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: with Bogart Edward g Robinson. There's a scene where Lionel
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Barrymore is scaring Edward g Robinson because the hurricane is
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: hitting the hotel, and he describes the Labor Day Hurricane
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: of nineteen thirty five, which was the most powerful hurricane
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: that ever hit the United States.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: You could just film relief information, pretty good relief. All right, Well,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: thanks for calling problem with that train as you end
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: up in Key West. I guess that's okay down there
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: in Key West, but it's a scary drive. You go
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: over that bridge that's over the water for like miles,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: very scary. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: you doing.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark, Good morning Mara. Speaking about when Brooklyn
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: was its own city about fifty years ago, I dated
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: a girl who was living in the brook in the
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: house of the Brooklyn Mayor. Quite a mansion. Well, anyway,
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: speaking about nostalgia, Mark, last year, when I was in Italy,
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: I'm in an area that's touristy, and these two Japanese
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: kids come up to me, and I said, what's this
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: all about. They come up to me and Anderson looking
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: maybe eighteen nineteen, and they had a modern polaroid camera
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: in there and it was like candy apple, lime, green
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: and white. It was all made out of plastic. And
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: they said to me, could you take a picture of her?
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: And they had iPhones hanging from their wrist that I'm saying.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, that's another part of this nostalgia trend
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: they started bringing. They brought back polaroid cameras a few
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: years ago a lot of kids are using now. The
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: only advantage of the polaroid camera you might want to
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: take note of this is if you need to take
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: a picture and you don't want it digital, because if
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: it's on your phone, it's there forever, and if you
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: want to hand the picture to somebody, that way was
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: never transmitted digitally, nobody can find a trace of it
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: might be useful to you.
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: And another thing mark in Rome what they discovered in
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: the tourist area where all the tourist restaurants they actually
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: went back to, as you said, the red and white
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: Gingham table claw with the Kianti bottle, with the candle
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: in the middle, because the people from the Midwest, in
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: their mind's eye, that's what they imagine the Roman restaurants
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: is with the red and white check and table cloth
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: and with the bottle. The last time I went to
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: a restaurant like that in New York I remember, was
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: in the village on all of Fort Street and sixth Avenue.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: It was next to the Waverley. It was called Emilio
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: Skylight Gardens. That had to be maybe even almost close
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: to sixty year I.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Know, but those were great. Those that kind of place
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: don Draper would go, that's.
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: What you want. The food was good.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Vincent, thanks for calling. Great calling. It's
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: like going to Jimmy Weston's or Gilly's are one of
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: those places. Oh when we come back. And Coulter, we'll
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: be with us next. Lots to talk to her about
• 22:37
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• 22:42
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• 22:56
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• 23:00
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• 23:04
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• 23:04
  Speaker 1: How you doing fantastic? How are you? Markimone?
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Very good? And tell every when you're on Rumble.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: I'm on Rumble. I post live videos Mondays and Thursdays
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: five pm. At least we're shooting for five pm. There
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: was a slight delay on Monday. Interviews or just me
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: chattering about the events of the week.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: What do you mean you shoot for five p It's
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: got to be five pm. It's a TV show.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Well, we did it really well the first few times.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I'll do better tomorrow.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Speaking of television, are you going to be watching Tomorrow
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: night as the final Colbert Show.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Like America's No, I will not be you know, it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: too bad. He used to be No one even remembers
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: this now, But he used to be funny. And then,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, all these late night used to be funny.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: But they really took a turn getting into partisan politics.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: That made them a little different from MSNBC hosts, who,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: by the way, also think they're hilarious. That's very cute, cute,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: cute cute. There really wasn't much difference. But you know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we can get that twenty four to seven, and young
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: people won't remember this. I mean, you know better than anyone.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: But the old style late night TV like Jay Leno
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and Johnny Carson absolutely no partisan bent.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the idea of late night was you'd have some
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: laughs and relax and laugh and be entertained before you
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: go to sleep. Who came up with the idea, let's
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: get you riled up and get you viciously angry right
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: before you go to sleep.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: It's also I mean, it's just it's for as comedians say.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Clapter, not for longlaster.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: That's a great point. Yeah, this trend started like last
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: few years, a letterman, you tell a joke that's so
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: anti Trump or anti Republican that the audience will clap,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: they call it clapter. You're not have to a laugh anymore.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: What does that tell you about these people that they
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: don't even want to laugh anymore?
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Well, as comedians also say, comedy is hard, having an
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: opinion is not hard. Being sneering is not hard. And
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it's just a lazy way of doing comedy. We don't
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: need to be funny, We just need to come up
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: with a string of vicious adjectives about Donald Trump.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: That's a very good point. Yeah, all right, that's a
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: great way to explain it. Hey, speaking of Donald Trump,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: it's going to be the name will be changed in
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Palm Beach the airport too, Donald J. Trump Airport in July.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Won't that be worth it just to watch liberals go
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: crazy having to fly in there and look at that
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: name everywhere.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid you and I park company on this. There
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: are many things I President about whom I wrote the
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: book in Trump we trust.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: I did see.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And this is why, this is why the actual upside
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: of getting my news from the New York Times and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: MSNBC is that they are incessant string of denunciations of him.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Put me in a great mood because everything they're upset
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: about are exactly the things I like about him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Just saw a headline in the New York Times yesterday,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and this is an answer to your question, by the way,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: about how the Trump administration will be letting in I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: don't know, something like seventeen thousand white South Africans, which
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: is very very upset about because they've only had fifty
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: years to bring in the dregs of the Third World.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: How dare you bring in educated white people? This will
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: completely throw off the balance of the country. So yeah,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I I love that. I love when he goes after
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the open egregious discrimination against particularly white males, but white
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: people generally. I like him taking down all the PC
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: nonsense on our on our national parks. Uh and gosh,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I hope. I was not wild about Trump's picks for
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: for Department of Homeland Security, Mark Mullins, because he had
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: said some terrible, terrible things about amnesty in the past,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: who seemed to be open to it. But it appears
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: that he is actually continuing the deportations without without ticking
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: everybody off, which is perfect. That's great. So these are
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the things I like about our president, park Simone, the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the imitation of Caesar or I don't know, the Tsar's court. No,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: this is this is very bad.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Can you blame a lot of that?
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Not as bad as other things he's doing?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Wait, can you blame a lot of that Ice stuff
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: on Christy Nome who made it such a spectacle that
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: it drew too much attention to what Ice was doing?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Bad attention. Once she's gone, everything calmed down.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I would like to point out that she
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: was the one cabinet official I was vehemently opposed to.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I was quite happy with most of them, and at
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: least not not others. No, she was always ridiculous. And
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it's the I mean, I suppose Treasury. Some may say
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Treasury is slightly more important, but by my life, Department
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security is the most important position in Trump's
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: cabinet and he picks this bimbo.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: It was preposterous because she was because she's dating Corey Lewandowski.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: That was a disaster. Okay, so that goes into con column.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, we know you got a con column when it
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: comes to further, Hey, you know it's college graduation season.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: I'm watching some of these commencement speeches. These colleges are
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the most radical left wing and Doctrine Nation centers. Tell
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: everybody what it used to be like. Didn't you used
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: to go speak at colleges. It was very common to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: have speakers from both sides of the aisle and have
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: debate where that's all gone.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't exactly Nirvana, but I didn't want Nirvana.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I wanted not necessarily protesters, but you know, as long
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: as they stood outside I wanted. It was actually pretty
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: good advertising. Having them stand outside with signs denouncing me
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: got a lot of attention to the speech. But it
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: used to be and particularly I wrote about this in
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: one of my books. I think it's if Democrats had
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: any brains, they'd be a Republican at the beginning. I
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: write about this that I think for about fifteen years
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I gave more college speeches than certainly any other conservative
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and sort of contrary to my expectation, better schools, you
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: would you would never you would never have people I
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: don't know, throwing stuff, rushing the stage, you know, trying
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to do you physical harm or just or simply standing
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: outside protesting. They wanted to beat you in question and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: answer because they were smart kids. Yeah, so before i'd
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: go to a college, I'd check what the average SAT
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: was to see how difficult it was going to be. Now,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: maybe from the SAT optional period during COVID, it's every college.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: It's just you have to worry about just NonStop violence.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: So when did it all go crazy? Was it when
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Trump came along that they just cranked it up and
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: went nuts on the left?
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I think it was Trump that that that really broke
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the left. I mean we saw it in so many
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: ways with the media dropping its famed objectivity. And I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: say that sarcastically. It's not like they were particularly objective before.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I mean back when when I wrote Slander in what
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: was that two thousand and three, of people in the
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: major newsrooms Washington Post, New York Times had voted for
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the Democrat. So you know, you can try to put
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a feelings as much as possible, but that is not
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: going to lead to an actual objective reporting. I mean
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: there's a question of what you're going to report. For example,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: any of them back then when Trump ran, the New
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: York Times actually made an official decision that it was
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: okay to call a politicianal liar. That's just one example
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: of how they changed. And I just think a lot
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: of them, really, really, they lost their minds with Trump,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: though I have to say it is on both sides.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people on our side lost
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: their minds too. There is very little objectivity you have.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Obviously the hatred and violence of the left is quite
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: a bit worse. But going in the con column on Trump,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the fact that he does seem to have this cult
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: following that, I mean, there's nothing about principle or issues
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: or what he stands for. He could come out with
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the full platform of Bernie Sanders or AOC and you
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: would have not all of them, obviously, not you, not me,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: but you would have a fairly large portion of them.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty percent, thirty percent who will absolutely
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: swear fidelity to him. And that's something we never used
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: to see among Republicans. You would see it among Democrats.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Is something I described in my book Demonic. With all
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: these these I mean, it can't happen with Democrat president
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: after Democrat president, all these female journalists would be writing
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: writing articles about their sex dreams, about Obama or their
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: sex dreams about Belle Clinton. I promise you no conservative,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: as much as we loved him, ever had a sex
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: dream about Ronald Reagan. And in fact, we tend to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: be kind of tough on on or in the past.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: This is the classic Republican tough on our leaders because
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: we were the party of ideas. I think there is
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: there is a portion of of of the right of
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the Trump supporters that that are not about ideas. It
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: really is a personality culled, and I hope it goes
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: away with Trump. There's a lot to like about him.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: There's some things there aren't, but you're really giving up
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: the whole party of ideas or standing on principle or
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: caring about freedom or the Constitution or anything else. That's
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: why I have a list of pros and cons. There's
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: some things he's doing great and some things he's not
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: doing so great.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: All right, well, and culture, we're out of time, But
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: everybody watch your on rumble. Uh, let's say it again, Thursday,
• 34:04
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• 34:05
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• 34:12
  Speaker 2: But if you go to rumble. You could watch it anytime, right.
• 34:15
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• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Oh I forgot to mention I have a cover story
• 34:26
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• 34:30
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• 34:41
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• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Good to talk to you. Mark Simone, bye bye.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Take care. Hey, I'm gonna be off tomorrow and Friday.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: It's Memorial Day weekends. I'm taking a couple of days off.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Guess who's filling in tomorrow. Radio legend Jim Kerr from
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• 34:59
  Speaker 2: But you know you might not associate him with talk radio,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: but he was quite the talk radio host for a
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: long time. You know, he was Rush Limbaugh's main filling
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: for years, did a lot of talk radio. So he'll
• 35:10
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• 35:14
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• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Now back to Mark Simon on wor.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Well. It was a big night last night for President Trump.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: He endorsed a lot of candidates, some against big incumbents,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: and every one of his candidates won. Donald Trump went
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: thirty seven and oh last night thirty seven and oh,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: knocking out big incumbents like Thomas Massey and Cassidy and
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Cornyn and others. It was a big, huge victory for
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: President Trump last night. Sent a shockwave through all those
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: congressional Republicans who like to go against him. You probably
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: won't see much of that anymore. So it's a Memorial
• 36:17
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• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I'll be back. Well, actually Monday's Memorial Day, so I'll
• 36:22
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• 36:26
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• 36:29
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