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

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  Speaker 1: Now on the Voice of New York. It's the Mark
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  Speaker 1: Simone Show on seven tenor Hey, it's spring. It's the
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  Speaker 1: first day of spring. How do you like that? Winter
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  Speaker 1: is gone? It's over. It's spring today. It's also Friday.
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  Speaker 1: A lot to talk about. We'll give you all the
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  Speaker 1: latest on Iran. We'll give you a complete update on
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  Speaker 1: the war. We'll get to the bachelorete who should get
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  Speaker 1: fired over that mess. We'll get to CBS, speaking of firing,
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  Speaker 1: they're laying off a lot of people today. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to crazy Kathy Hochel. We'll get to a crazy mayor, mom,
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  Speaker 1: Donny's looney wife. We'll get to Bob Barker, We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to Chuck Schumer, and a whole lot more coming up.
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  Speaker 1: So Iran, Well, hey, we killed last night in one
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  Speaker 1: of our strikes. Well I think it is Israel actually,
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  Speaker 1: but we killed the spokesperson, the spokesman for the Iran
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  Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard. It's not exactly the safest job to have
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  Speaker 1: right now, the spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard. He was
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  Speaker 1: killed last night, blown up. The war continues. The USS Tripoli,
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  Speaker 1: a very serious warship, is heading to Iran right now,
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  Speaker 1: along with some other assets, you know. I'm sure Iran
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  Speaker 1: knows this, and then they know things are going to
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  Speaker 1: escalate seriously when this stuff gets there, the stuff heading
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  Speaker 1: their amphibious crafts that Tripoli can do very very close
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  Speaker 1: up work with small planes, helicopters probably be used to
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  Speaker 1: take out drones, all that sort of stuff. And it
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  Speaker 1: will be a big help in opening the Straits of
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  Speaker 1: horn Moose, which will open in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be open. It's about thirty nine ships a day,
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  Speaker 1: tankers thirty nine tankers a day that come out of
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  Speaker 1: the Straits of horn Moose. It doesn't affect us much
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  Speaker 1: because we don't use that oil, but it affects worldwide prices.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll see a lot of action when the ship
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  Speaker 1: gets there. So the next two weeks you'll probably see
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  Speaker 1: just everything wiped out and pretty much the end of
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  Speaker 1: all the offensive assets of Iran, and then things will
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  Speaker 1: be different. Then you may see a boot on the
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  Speaker 1: ground for a little for a few minutes here and there,
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  Speaker 1: and then it should be the mop up and clean
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  Speaker 1: up of all that. Now we are talking to Iran.
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  Speaker 1: US officials and Iranian officials are in talks back channel
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  Speaker 1: talks are taking place. But also we're talking with people
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  Speaker 1: on the ground in Iran, possible opposition people they want
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  Speaker 1: to revolt against this government, people that might take over.
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  Speaker 1: We have people in the intelligence community talking to them.
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  Speaker 1: So things are progressing. President wants two hundred billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in funding for the Iraq effort. Congress doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: give it to them. Of course, Democrats and some Republicans
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  Speaker 1: yelling and screaming about that. We don't really need two
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  Speaker 1: hundred billion. To cost about two billion a day, and
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  Speaker 1: it's not expected to go another one hundred days. But
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  Speaker 1: the reason they want a big amount is they want
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  Speaker 1: all the money right now. They don't have to go
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  Speaker 1: back and ask for more money during the summer or
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  Speaker 1: the fall, because that's when the midterms take place. It
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  Speaker 1: will look bad to be asking for more money then.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why they're asking for a huge amount now.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats know that, and that's why they're negotiating. They want
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  Speaker 1: to give it, give you a little now, you have
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  Speaker 1: to keep coming back for more because they want that
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  Speaker 1: to happen during the midterm race Trump having to ask
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  Speaker 1: for more money. So yesterday the Japanese Prime Minister is
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  Speaker 1: visiting the White House. And you have to remember the
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  Speaker 1: fake news. The Democrats, the media have one mission, and
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  Speaker 1: that is to just wipe out Trump, make him look bad.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever he does is horrendo us. Anything he does is awful.
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  Speaker 1: Even when it comes to US at war. They'll take
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  Speaker 1: the other side. They'll hope it goes badly. They'll hope
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  Speaker 1: it's a disaster. They'll hope we screw up because it'll
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  Speaker 1: make Trump look bad. Anything to make Trump look bad.
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  Speaker 1: And then they create this fake narrative. They broadcast the
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  Speaker 1: fake narrative. It usually starts with the New York Times
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  Speaker 1: at the Washington Post, and then all the TV and
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  Speaker 1: all the websites pick it up, and then all the
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  Speaker 1: sheep out there start repeating it. You know, when the
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  Speaker 1: Iran war started, a New York Times, a violation of
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  Speaker 1: international law, and then that's all you heard. It's a
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  Speaker 1: total violation of international law. And then all the sheep
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  Speaker 1: are running around violated international law. Nobody ever bothered to
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  Speaker 1: tell them. There's no such thing as international law. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't exist anywhere. I guess you could look at court
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  Speaker 1: decisions around the world, but it doesn't affect us. It
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  Speaker 1: has no standing. I mean, it doesn't. There is no
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  Speaker 1: international law that we have to follow. We follow only
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  Speaker 1: But don't tell them that. Then even if you had
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  Speaker 1: to tell them, they won't believe you. So the current
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  Speaker 1: whatever you're going to hear for the next day or two,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see it on the Sunday shows, was the Trump
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  Speaker 1: seriously offended the Japanese Prime minister. He said something so
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  Speaker 1: outrageous to her. The Japanese prime minister, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: loves him, loves him. And you'll notice you're not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do this. She kept calling them Donald in the meeting,
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  Speaker 1: in front of the press, all the press there. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you're his closest friend on earth, you call him
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  Speaker 1: mister president in public. Maybe in private, he'll tell you,
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  Speaker 1: in private, call me Donald, But in public you say
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  Speaker 1: mister President. But she kept saying Donald. And she was
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  Speaker 1: doing that deliberately because President Trump is loved in Japan.
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  Speaker 1: She's the new president, and she wants the population, the
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  Speaker 1: public of Japan to see that she has a good
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  Speaker 1: relationship with him. That's very important for her. So she
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  Speaker 1: kept calling him Donald. And even the interpreter's giving her
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  Speaker 1: a look like you want me to say Donald, But
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  Speaker 1: he said Donald. So this is the line. This is
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  Speaker 1: the fake news went crazy with the sheep, will all
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  Speaker 1: go crazy repeating this. The reporter asks about the attack
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  Speaker 1: in Iran, it's kind of a dumb question. Why did
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  Speaker 1: you make it a surprise? Why didn't you tell your allies? Well,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, we can't trust these allies right now,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to keep it a surprise. The attack
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  Speaker 1: on Iran, the first wave, the whole the secret of
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  Speaker 1: it was the surprise, because that's how we took out
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  Speaker 1: the Ayatola and the top forty leaders all at once.
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  Speaker 1: They had no idea an attack was coming, so they
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  Speaker 1: actually held a meeting out in the open. They all
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  Speaker 1: got together in one building and met, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: we blew them all up and got the Ayatola. If
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  Speaker 1: you had told the allies, they would have leaked it
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  Speaker 1: to somebody and there never would have been that meeting,
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  Speaker 1: So we never would have gotten the Ayatola and forty
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  Speaker 1: one leaders the first day. But the reporter asked him,
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  Speaker 1: why did you keep it a secret?
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  Speaker 2: One thing you don't want to signal too much, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when we go in, we went in very hard, and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows better about surprise in Japan? Hey, why didn't
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  Speaker 3: you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, right, he's asking me, do you believe in surprise?
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  Speaker 4: I think much more so than us.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, you're gonna see this on the Sunday shows.
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  Speaker 1: You see this all over the fig and it was
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  Speaker 1: outrageously How dare he say something like, well, okay, you're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to if you're the president. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: can't picture Bush Obama anybody making a Pearl Harbor joke
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  Speaker 1: in front of the Japanese Prime minister. You're not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do it. But he's not. Trump's not a politician.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a politician. He's a real regular guy and
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  Speaker 1: he's got a good Don Rickles side to him. And
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  Speaker 1: people love it. And actually, there's some people that are
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  Speaker 1: never gonna like Trump. They want a traditional politician. They
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  Speaker 1: like the formality of a professional politician. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: a real guy from real life coming into government talking
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  Speaker 1: like that. They don't want the Don Rickles stuff coming out.
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  Speaker 1: But let's listen to that again. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: great moment. If you love Trump, this is one of
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  Speaker 1: his finest moments.
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  Speaker 2: One thing. You don't want to signal too much. You know,
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  Speaker 2: when we go in, we went in very hard and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay, Hey, why
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  Speaker 3: didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, right, he's askab me. Do you believe in surprise?
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  Speaker 4: I think much more so than us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I know you're not supposed to do
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  Speaker 1: that if you're a present, but it's great. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great moment, and it's absolutely true. And we have a
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  Speaker 1: right to make Pearl Harbor jokes if we if we
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  Speaker 1: want to. Hey, as I said, over there at CBS,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to lay off a lot of people today.
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  Speaker 1: Six percent of the news force, the work force, six
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  Speaker 1: percent will be laid off today right over there in
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  Speaker 1: the fifty seventh Street. They think the total will reach
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  Speaker 1: fifteen percent in the coming weeks. It's they describe it
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  Speaker 1: as an industry shift. Well, yeah, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: work in these places. I mean ton of people. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in the good old days, if you were CBS Nightly
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  Speaker 1: News you had eight nine million viewers. Primetime you had
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  Speaker 1: twenty million viewers. Morning show you had five six million viewers.
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  Speaker 1: It's a different world now. Nightly News three and a
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  Speaker 1: half million viewers. Prime Time maybe six million viewers, Morning
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  Speaker 1: show maybe one and a half, maybe one million. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have the audience anymore. And when the audience drops
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  Speaker 1: by like seventy five percent, so do the advertising rates
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  Speaker 1: that the sponsor pays. And then your revenue is less.
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  Speaker 1: And if your revenue is a lot less, you got
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  Speaker 1: to cut your workforce. If you had eight thousand people
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  Speaker 1: working there, you got to cut it to four thousand
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. So that's what's going on, as
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  Speaker 1: the new CBS News president says, it's industry wide, an
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  Speaker 1: industry shift. It'll go on at all the different networks,
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  Speaker 1: and it's got to happen, gotta happen. So the Bachelourette
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  Speaker 1: on AB, they know you had The Bachelor, the Bachelorette,
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  Speaker 1: so they do a whole season at once before it
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  Speaker 1: even starts airing, kind of like The Apprentice. They film
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  Speaker 1: the whole season and then they air it. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing they save for the end is the final where
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  Speaker 1: they choose the person that's got to be live. But
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  Speaker 1: when you film the whole season, it's about two million
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  Speaker 1: dollars an episode, believe it or not. To do the
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  Speaker 1: Bachelorette two million an episode. I think they had four
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  Speaker 1: or five ready to go fully edited, and more in
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  Speaker 1: the works. But the whole season can cost let's say
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  Speaker 1: thirty thirty five million, some even say fifty but figure
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  Speaker 1: thirty five million to produce the season. So they picked
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  Speaker 1: the Bachelorette, They filmed the whole thing with her, spend
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  Speaker 1: all these millions. Then the video comes out of her
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  Speaker 1: a few years ago. It turns out she's guilty of
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  Speaker 1: serious domestic abuse and pleaded guilty and felony convictions. She
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  Speaker 1: got probation, but the video comes out where she's with
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  Speaker 1: the husband and their little little daughter is right there
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  Speaker 1: two feet away, and she's screaming and cursing and fighting
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  Speaker 1: and kicking with the husband, and then she picks up
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  Speaker 1: a chair to whack them with the chair. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is like Richie Aprile and ABC didn't know about it.
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  Speaker 1: So because of this, because of this, they've canceled the
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  Speaker 1: whole season. They're going to just throw it away and
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  Speaker 1: not use it. Now, what would you do if you
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  Speaker 1: were ABC? I don't know. I'd still watch it. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's terrible, but I'd watch it. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: if they're smart, they'll put it out somewhere on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: or something, or just let people see it. But now
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  Speaker 1: the real question, somebody's gonna get fired over this, because
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  Speaker 1: when you hire people, he's supposed to do a background check.
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  Speaker 1: You know, every major corporation when they hire people, they
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  Speaker 1: got a whole company. That's what they do. Some security company,
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  Speaker 1: detective agents. You just give them the names. They check
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  Speaker 1: everybody out for you see if there's anything in their past.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they find out something, oh you know to
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  Speaker 1: suspend the driver's license. Oh, go check what that was
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  Speaker 1: all about. Or they have a drinking problem, you know,
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. And if you have a felony conviction,
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  Speaker 1: domestic abuse, in fact, you've got a few felonies and
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  Speaker 1: been arrested a few times, that shows up on a
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  Speaker 1: background check. So if you're going to spend thirty five
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  Speaker 1: million shooting this whole season, before you risk the money,
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  Speaker 1: you think you do a background check on your bachelorette.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody didn't do it. It's a shock to me that
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  Speaker 1: before they'd commit to spend all that money on one person,
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  Speaker 1: they would have a background check done, and so they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it. So I would imagine somewhere at the top,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's getting fired. Now. Usually those shows, and I actually
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  Speaker 1: don't know about the Bachelotte, usually produced by a company
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  Speaker 1: who pays all this and then they sell it to ABC,
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  Speaker 1: but usually ABC has to kick in part of the financing.
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  Speaker 1: So whoever didn't do that background check, don't be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if they get fired over this, because it is a
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  Speaker 1: stupid thing. Hey, I loved Bob Barker the Price is Right.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know him that well, but he was a
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  Speaker 1: guest on the show all the time, and I hung
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  Speaker 1: out with him a future. This was the greatest guy,
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  Speaker 1: this wonderful, warm, sweet guy. And now all this stuff
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  Speaker 1: is coming out. One of you remember they had always
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  Speaker 1: had three beautiful models on the prices, right, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a little kid watching that, you like those.
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  Speaker 1: I like that, Diane Parkinson, I like the other one.
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  Speaker 1: But turns out Bob Barker on one of them, writes
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  Speaker 1: a book on how awful he was and behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes all the terrible things going on, and then apparently
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  Speaker 1: there's a new documentary coming out that shows him and
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  Speaker 1: well it was. It became pretty well known. He and
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  Speaker 1: Diane Parkinson had an affair. Okay, I think Barker's wife
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  Speaker 1: had died, but now the other one is saying it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was more than an a fair. It was really
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  Speaker 1: annoying because she described it as a dressing room sex
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  Speaker 1: in between tween shows. You know, they tape like four
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  Speaker 1: or five shows in a day. But listen, that goes
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  Speaker 1: on all the time, all the time, trying to see
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  Speaker 1: I can't mention it, should I mention any names? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it was. I think Rodney, somebody named Rodney.
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  Speaker 1: I won't say which Rodney, but a guy named Rodney
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  Speaker 1: was appearing at a big venue and the agent was
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  Speaker 1: set the checkout sent to check the venue over and
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  Speaker 1: Rodney said, hey, make sure there's a bed in the
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  Speaker 1: dressing room. And he called Rodney. He said, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: got a bed in the dressing room. The only problem
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  Speaker 1: is right next to the kitchen, a lot of noise.
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  Speaker 1: And Rodney said, I don't care. I'm not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: sleeping in that bed. So well, it goes on all
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  Speaker 1: the time. It's pretty common, so but I hate to
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  Speaker 1: see Bob Barker go through all of that. Hey, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we did our big event last night, our big networking
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  Speaker 1: CEO event, and I have we don't have all the
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  Speaker 1: pictures yet to put up online. But it was at
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful venue, two Park Avenue. It's this office building
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  Speaker 1: thirty second in part absolutely magnificent. They got the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful venue on the top floor, big rooftop venue, spectacular
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  Speaker 1: the way it looks. It's phenomenal for a networking event
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  Speaker 1: or any kind of event you want to throw there.
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  Speaker 1: But it also has this outdoor terrace that's spectacular. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: check my Instagram you'll see a picture of me out
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  Speaker 1: in the terrace there. Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. But
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  Speaker 1: when we get all the pictures, we'll start posting. It
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  Speaker 1: was great event, met a lot of great listeners there,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our great advertisers and sponsors were there. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three two one
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