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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Always a step ahead of the news. Here's more marks
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  Speaker 1: amone on seven to ten wor well, lots of stuff
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  Speaker 1: developing here. It looks like Howard Stern is winding it down,
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  Speaker 1: the final chapter the Howard Stern Show. You know, I'm serious,
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  Speaker 1: for many many, many many years, huge contract, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million a year. Well that's when he first went over there.
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  Speaker 1: It was one hundred million a year for five years,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred million dollar contract. And then through the years,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the audience has been getting smaller, and then
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  Speaker 1: Howard Stern goes completely nuts a few years ago, becomes
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  Speaker 1: this woke left wing sort of a guy, alienating a
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  Speaker 1: lot of his audience, a lot of his audience. So
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  Speaker 1: he went from Trump lover Trump, friend at Trump's wedding,
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  Speaker 1: Trump at his wedding, that kind of stuff, to the
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  Speaker 1: worst Trump bashing. Now there's a lot of theories on
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  Speaker 1: how that happened. A lot of people think that there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of resentment because Trump kind of stole Howard
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  Speaker 1: Stern's act. He didn't really steal it. He's just the
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  Speaker 1: same kind of guys that grew up the same kind
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  Speaker 1: of way, so they have the same personality. But if
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  Speaker 1: you can't understand Trump, Like, I love when he does it,
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  Speaker 1: but why does he have to say these things? Why
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  Speaker 1: does he have to do that? Well, he's Howard Stern,
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  Speaker 1: He's basically Howard Stern, and he's stolen Stern's act and
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  Speaker 1: become more famous at doing that act than Howard Stern has.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of the resentment comes from that
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  Speaker 1: because I remember Howard Stern, king of all media, and
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  Speaker 1: then Trump became king of all media, and he does
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  Speaker 1: what Stern does, you know, brilliant and then every so
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  Speaker 1: often says something absolutely outrageous that you can't believe anybody
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  Speaker 1: would say. So I think that's part of the Trump hatred. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Stern one hundred million a year, but then you know,
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  Speaker 1: it became eighty million a year, and then became sixty,
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  Speaker 1: and then it became forty, and then it maybe it
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  Speaker 1: became twenty million year. Well, in exchange for big pay cuts,
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  Speaker 1: he would just do less. He went to three days
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  Speaker 1: a week instead of five days a week, and then
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  Speaker 1: he went to forty weeks a year instead of fifty two.
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  Speaker 1: Then it went to like twenty five weeks a year
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  Speaker 1: instead of fifty two. So the audience is really, really
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  Speaker 1: really really dwindled on the Howard Stern Show, so they
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  Speaker 1: can't pay him that kind of money anymore. So with
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  Speaker 1: this latest contract, it's a huge, huge pay cut. It's
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  Speaker 1: way down from what it was, so in exchange, he
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  Speaker 1: will only do one day a week, just one day
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  Speaker 1: a week. Now. Part of the last pay cut is
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  Speaker 1: that we take the whole summer off, three months off.
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  Speaker 1: But this contract, I think it's starts at labor Day,
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  Speaker 1: will be one day a week. That's it, just one
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  Speaker 1: day a week now. Because of the big, huge pay cuts,
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  Speaker 1: they have to cut staff because Howard Stern pays the
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  Speaker 1: staff out of his own pocket. So yeah, it'll begin
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  Speaker 1: labor Day. They had a Zoom meeting yesterday where they
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  Speaker 1: laid off a lot of the staff, actually fired a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the staff. They all got good severance packages
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  Speaker 1: and all that, depending on how long they were with
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  Speaker 1: the company. Some were bigger than others. But they let
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people go, a lot of staff, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of producers, a lot of people on the show.
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  Speaker 1: They'll keep it, says the core team of veteran producers.
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  Speaker 1: I assume that means Fred Gary that sort of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but really really scaling back one day a week. His
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  Speaker 1: wife Beth, in an interview, said, I think it's good
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  Speaker 1: for him to continue. He enjoys doing it. He's very
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  Speaker 1: good at it. I think it keeps him connected to
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  Speaker 1: an outlet to share his thoughts, which is great, except
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  Speaker 1: those Trump bashing thoughts. But now the channel will continue.
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  Speaker 1: There'll still be a Howard Stern channel, but most of
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  Speaker 1: the time, most days of the week, in fact, just
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  Speaker 1: about all the time, it'll be reruns. It'll be archives,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of Stern archives and for some
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  Speaker 1: people normally well just reruns I don't want to hear. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in this case, it's actually better because it's the old
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  Speaker 1: Howard Stern, the good Howard Stern, not the new woke,
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  Speaker 1: left wing, woke Howard Stern. It's the old Howard Stern.
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  Speaker 1: So this may work out better for the audience, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you can do that. So it's
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  Speaker 1: one day a week. It's sort of the last chapter.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody kind of knows that the next contract it'll become
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  Speaker 1: something else he'll switch to. Actually he should switch to him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, once a week at Joe Rogan type podcast thing.
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  Speaker 1: But for now he'll just hobble along and finish this off. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the other woke left wing kook, Jimmy Kimmel, there's another
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  Speaker 1: one that's taken the whole summer off. I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: of that on a late night talk show. Take the
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  Speaker 1: entire summer off. I'll take a few months off. I
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  Speaker 1: think he's got some medical concerns. I notice he's been
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  Speaker 1: taking care of some medical so maybe that's one reason
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  Speaker 1: to take all that time off. But he's had these
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  Speaker 1: guest hosts, really awful guess host and one of them,
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  Speaker 1: Ike Barenholtz. He's the guest house he's filling and starts
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  Speaker 1: joking about Lindsey Graham's death. Also made fun of Mitch
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  Speaker 1: McConnell's health scare. I hope he gets the same healthcare
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  Speaker 1: he's fought so hard to deny everyone else. But again,
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  Speaker 1: jokes about Lindsey Graham's death. And he even said in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of all of these jokes, well, I guess
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get the show pulled off the air again.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what Kimmel has turned into. Fallon Still the
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  Speaker 1: most normal of these guys, but can't help. You got
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  Speaker 1: to lean way to the left, You got to get
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  Speaker 1: into the Trump bashing if you want to last. The
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  Speaker 1: replacement for Colbert's not doing so well. It's that Byron
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  Speaker 1: Allen comics Unleashed. Problem is it's a very low budget,
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  Speaker 1: low production kind of a show. But they're doing about
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand viewers a night. It's not great. But
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  Speaker 1: again Fallin, I mean Colbert didn't do that well either.
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  Speaker 1: He was like one point two to one point three million. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think of this daylight saving time year round?
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  Speaker 1: I'm all for it. So the House passed it. The
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  Speaker 1: US House Representatives passed it's called the Sunshine Protection Act,
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  Speaker 1: which would make daylight saving time permanent. It would just
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  Speaker 1: be year round. The US House of Representatives passed. It
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  Speaker 1: has to go on to the Senate. The President is
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  Speaker 1: for it. It would make a daylight saving time permanent.
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  Speaker 1: That means, for instance, in New York, the earliest you
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  Speaker 1: would ever get dark would be five, which is pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: instead of four thirty. Now at the same time, it
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  Speaker 1: would be dark until eight twenty in the morning instead
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  Speaker 1: of seven to twenty. But I don't mind. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: up at eight twenty in the morning. It's fine with me.
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  Speaker 1: Now certain states have to go along with it. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have to follow it, but eighteen states have already
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  Speaker 1: passed bill saying they will do it. They'll do permanent
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  Speaker 1: daylight saving time. Kathy Hochel has said she's not sure.
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  Speaker 1: She's got to look at it, which means she's got
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  Speaker 1: a pollet. She's got to see who it's going to
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  Speaker 1: help her more. But I think you'll see it eventually.
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  Speaker 1: The Egene Carol case, now this was a terrible, terrible injustice,
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing. There's nobody in their right mind that
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  Speaker 1: believes this woman. Nobody believes this Egen Carol, this crazy
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  Speaker 1: story about Trump in the dressing room at Bergdorff, the
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  Speaker 1: women's story. You talk to everybody who worked in the
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  Speaker 1: women's store back then, Donald try never set foot in
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  Speaker 1: that store, according to them. And if you talk to
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  Speaker 1: Bergdraft management, he did go to the men's store twice,
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  Speaker 1: but it's their policy whenever anybody that noted walks in,
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  Speaker 1: a manager accompanies them, a salesperson stays with them at
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  Speaker 1: all times. So nobody believes this Egen Carroll's story. But
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  Speaker 1: she got it in front of a crazy Trump hating
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  Speaker 1: New York jury and they couldn't vote guilty fast enough.
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  Speaker 1: So she won her case civil case, and she was
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  Speaker 1: asking I think for eleven million dollars. The jury decided
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  Speaker 1: to give her eighty three million, which is ludicrous, preposterous.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody in the history of the court has ever seen
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  Speaker 1: a jury go that crazy and whatever the person was
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  Speaker 1: asking for, give them eight times as much. Nobody's ever
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  Speaker 1: seen that. So it's absolutely ridiculous. Trump did not know
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  Speaker 1: Egen Carroll. I know. I heard on the news somebody
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  Speaker 1: said he denied knowing her. But pictures prove otherwise. No,
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  Speaker 1: that's not true. It's not true at all. She has
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  Speaker 1: a picture where she's in a Trump is at a
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  Speaker 1: movie premiere and there's a rope line and he's shaking
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  Speaker 1: hands with people, taking pictures with them in the line.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean you know them. I mean, there's plenty of people,
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  Speaker 1: celebrities who you can meet somewhere. Can I get a picture? Sure,
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  Speaker 1: you take a picture. It doesn't mean you know them.
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  Speaker 1: You saw him for thirteen seconds and you never saw
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  Speaker 1: him again. That doesn't mean you know them. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: know well, he didn't really even know her husband, but
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  Speaker 1: he liked her husband. Her husband was the great newscaster
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  Speaker 1: John Johnson, really good guy. But he was married to
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  Speaker 1: this wacko I don't really know. I've been with her
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  Speaker 1: a few times. Egene Carol, a real wacky, wacko type.
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  Speaker 1: So there was also a five point six million dollar
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  Speaker 1: penalty that she was awarded and Trump had to put
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  Speaker 1: that in escro. It's been held in escrow. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: was finally released to her because he appealed that whole
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  Speaker 1: thing to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court. He
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  Speaker 1: peeled it all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court refused to hear Trump on the case,
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  Speaker 1: so that finished that. So the five point six million
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  Speaker 1: was a release to her yesterday. Now what about that
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  Speaker 1: eighty three million, Well, he's got to keep trying to
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  Speaker 1: get back to the Supreme Court and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they turned down the other case doesn't make it look
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  Speaker 1: good for this. So she could end up with that money.
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  Speaker 1: It's very possible. It's a wacko lawsuit. She was financed
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  Speaker 1: by that billionaire reed Hoffman who was out to get Trump,
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  Speaker 1: so he financed the case, got her all the best lawyers. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you'd done this case anywhere else, she would never have won.
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  Speaker 1: She couldn't tell you what year this was. She couldn't
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  Speaker 1: tell you anything. Also, this story she told was the
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  Speaker 1: plot of a Law and Order episode, so very suspicious case.
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  Speaker 1: But she got it in front of a crazy New
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  Speaker 1: York jury and that's how she went. Now, what about
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  Speaker 1: that eighty three million Well, Trump actually posted a ninety
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  Speaker 1: one million dollar bus guaranteed by Chubb. That's his insurance company.
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  Speaker 1: Now they may have to pay part of this judgment too,
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  Speaker 1: they're the insurance company insuring them. So legionnaire's disease, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's something to be concerned about. All over the Upper
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  Speaker 1: east Side. Turned up even at the Guggenheim Museum, and
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  Speaker 1: yesterday it turned up at the met the Metropolitan Museum.
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  Speaker 1: Legionaire's disease in the water cooler, the cooling tower that's
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  Speaker 1: being cleaned out. They think everybody's safe in the museum.
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  Speaker 1: They've now inspected fifty two cooling towers on the Upper
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  Speaker 1: east Side. That's not a lot for a week. I
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  Speaker 1: mean you should be doing thirty a day. Of these
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  Speaker 1: fifty two have been inspected. Two cases have turned up
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  Speaker 1: on the Upper west Side. It's got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people frightened. Those horse and carriages in Central Park City
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  Speaker 1: Council hearings today to get rid of them. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people pushing to get rid of the horse and carriages.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Definitely keep them off the streets, just
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  Speaker 1: strictly in the park. Nowhere but the park. They should
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  Speaker 1: never be out in the regular streets, totally screwing up traffic.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the first thing we got to do
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  Speaker 1: is get rid of those petty cabs. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: most awful things clogging up the streets. They're all over
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  Speaker 1: the streets blocking traffic. Get rid of the petty cabs first,
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  Speaker 1: and then the horses encourages. Hey, Warren Buffett, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put money into the Gates Foundation, a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: like I don't know, like eighty billion dollars. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he decided that for all of his philanthropy, all of
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  Speaker 1: his charity, he would just give it all to the
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  Speaker 1: Gates Foundation. He said years ago that he trusted them
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  Speaker 1: to know who to give it to, And he said
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  Speaker 1: that's usually what he does. He finds the smartest experts
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  Speaker 1: and lets them do the stuff. So for charity work,
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  Speaker 1: he was going to give it all the Gates Foundation,
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  Speaker 1: many many, many, many billions. Well, he's decided not to
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  Speaker 1: do that. He's changed his thinking on that, not going
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  Speaker 1: to go to the Gates Foundation, going to put it elsewhere,
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  Speaker 1: and all of that because of Epstein. Gates tangled up
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  Speaker 1: with Epstein. Gates had that whole story. But why I
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  Speaker 1: went there for a meeting about a charity donation, Well
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  Speaker 1: turned out he went there a lot and when he
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  Speaker 1: was there, he was there for eight hours and he
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  Speaker 1: was there till midnight, and that's not a charity meeting.
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  Speaker 1: So Buffett, even though he's been friends with Gates for years,
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  Speaker 1: although that friendship may have been exaggerated a lot, has decided,
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  Speaker 1: after reading all this stuff about Bill Gates and Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: to put his money elsewhere. It's that thing called the
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  Speaker 1: It's an irrevocable pledge to donate his shares, but those
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  Speaker 1: irrevocable giving play. You can revoke him if you need to.
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  Speaker 1: Buffett informed Gates the other day, and then he said
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  Speaker 1: he had a brief talk with Gates, and he said
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  Speaker 1: he understood, but he wants to talk again further, so
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  Speaker 1: they'll have another conversation. And it's interesting he's said in
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  Speaker 1: that interview, whenever we talk, he's the one that initiates
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  Speaker 1: the call. So he's basically admitting he's never called Bill
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  Speaker 1: Gates in his life. It's always Gates calling him. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if Gates can salvage this. Hey, JP Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: JP Morgan Chase greatest bank in the world, run by
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  Speaker 1: probably the greatest CEO in America, Jamie Diamond. Just set
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  Speaker 1: a record biggest profit ever for a US bank last quarter,
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  Speaker 1: all time record profit. Now most of that was SpaceX
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: because they were involved in the SpaceX ipo, so a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that came from that. And we talked to
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  Speaker 1: Steve Forbes earlier. He wrote the book Inflation, and we
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  Speaker 1: just had this great inflation report. It dropped and it
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  Speaker 1: was actually the biggest drop in six years. Falling energy
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  Speaker 1: prices helped, so great news. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten.