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

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  Speaker 1: Plugged into everything New York, Mark Simone on 710WOR. Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost Friday, Thursday. It's almost Friday. The Yankees have won.
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  Speaker 1: They go on to the next round. That's great news.
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  Speaker 1: They're finally, hopefully, going to do something about these e-bikes
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  Speaker 1: in New York. The city council has been holding hearings
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  Speaker 1: and people have been coming into the city council testifying.
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  Speaker 1: horror stories about e-bikes and survivors of crashes. They came
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  Speaker 1: in and shared their horror stories at a city council
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  Speaker 1: hearing that took place yesterday. They want to pass legislation,
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  Speaker 1: and this is very important. This is a really important
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  Speaker 1: piece of legislation that would finally stop this reckless free-for-all
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  Speaker 1: with these e-bikes and e-things, the regular bikes, e-bikes, scooters,
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff speeding around, zipping around, going through red lights,
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  Speaker 1: riding on the sidewalk. I mean, this is the most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous part of New York. And they're always talking about revenue.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Hochul and Mamdani and these Democrats always look
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  Speaker 1: into ways to pick your pocket, you know, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: congestion pricing, whether it's a pied-à-terre tax. They're always looking
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  Speaker 1: for schemes to take more money from you. You want
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  Speaker 1: to generate revenue, start ticketing all the e-bikes. Start ticketing bikes.
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  Speaker 1: Ticket them. Go through a red light, give them a ticket.
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  Speaker 1: You know how much money you could bring in? Also,
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  Speaker 1: make every one of these things get a license. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a car, you've got to have a driver's license.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to have a registration on your car. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to pay a yearly fee for it. There's a
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  Speaker 1: ton of revenue. Every e-bike, scooter, everything. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: have a license to ride it in New York. It's
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  Speaker 1: got to have a registration sticker on it. You're riding
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  Speaker 1: up on the sidewalk, going the wrong way down the street,
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  Speaker 1: running red lights. You get a ticket. Lots and lots
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  Speaker 1: and lots and lots of tickets. You'd make a fortune
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  Speaker 1: off this. You'd force them to drive slowly and safely
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of New York. Everybody wants this. Everybody. Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And city council finally holding hearings on it. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: Julie Menon seems pretty good, pretty common sense. You got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of wackos on that city council. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they keep talking about the safety, the danger. Besides the revenue,
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  Speaker 1: how many people are getting seriously hurt by this, these e-bikes?
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  Speaker 1: Here's the city council speaker.
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  Speaker 2: The council's now passed several laws on this, and no
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  Speaker 2: one knows anything about them. We passed them for a reason, so...
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  Speaker 2: One of the reasons for this hearing is to get
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  Speaker 2: the commitment from the agencies to actually enforce the current
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  Speaker 2: laws we have in the books that are not being enforced.
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  Speaker 1: We are 100% going to take that back.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'd.
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  Speaker 2: Like a commitment from both agencies in writing to us.
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  Speaker 2: We really want to, I just don't want to have
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  Speaker 2: like more conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. That's the only problem. We don't want any, we
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  Speaker 1: don't need any conversations. Just pass the laws. All the
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  Speaker 1: bikes have to be registered. They all got to have
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  Speaker 1: registration and just pass the law. They have to get ticketed.
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  Speaker 1: Any traffic violations, give them a ticket. It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: You'll make a fortune and you'll save lives. It's a no-brainer. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at, we got a lot of TV networks on,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of screens up here. This is a Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: mansion purchase. It's getting a lot of attention. Even left-wing,
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  Speaker 1: left-wing biased New York One, they keep repeating it over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. It's not a good look for Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to look like you're a public servant. Andrew Cuomo,
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  Speaker 1: the public servant, just bought a $ 9 million Hamptons mansion
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  Speaker 1: with a tennis court, a pool, a gym, a wine cellar.
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  Speaker 1: It says Cuomo will use the purchase as an investment property.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not buying that. So the problem
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  Speaker 1: is if you got $ 9 million, apparently he paid cash,
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  Speaker 1: it says, all cash deal. If you've got $ 9 million
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  Speaker 1: in cash and you can write a check like that
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  Speaker 1: for a mansion like this, it's a compound in the Hamptons.
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  Speaker 1: Curtis calls it the Corleone compound. If you've got a
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  Speaker 1: $ 9 million check, you can write just like that. It
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  Speaker 1: means you've probably got $ 30 million at least or more.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody knows where he got all this money. Again,
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  Speaker 1: he's been working in the crypto business for a while,
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  Speaker 1: but who knows. Apparently, he wants to be near his brother,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Cuomo. And apparently he's been seen hanging out at
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  Speaker 1: his buddy Billy Joel's beachfront property. Huh. I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: Billy Joel knows about this. But no, actually, I guess
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  Speaker 1: they're friends. Billy Joel is kind of a left-wing guy.
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  Speaker 1: And he and Cuomo, I would imagine they have things
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  Speaker 1: in common. Both car guys, motorcycle guys, that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Both love noisy engines, all that stuff. He's also been
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  Speaker 1: a regular at 75 Maine. And Southampton, that is like
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  Speaker 1: the hot spot. That's where all the action is. Nice guy,
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  Speaker 1: Zach Erdem, is the owner of 75 Main. So he's
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  Speaker 1: been seen hanging out there. And that's where the whole
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  Speaker 1: Upper East Side, all those, how are you, the whole
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  Speaker 1: Mar-a-Lago crowd, they're always out there. And that's how Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: started his mayoral bid, by winning them over. They're all
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  Speaker 1: big donors, and that's how he got a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: But again, he's been working in the crypto business, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: making money. A fortune. All right. But I would think
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  Speaker 1: he's never going to run again. First of all, because
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  Speaker 1: he was totally humiliated in the last race, the mayoral race.
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  Speaker 1: But I also think if you buy a $ 9 million
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  Speaker 1: Hamptons mansion, it's not a good look if you want
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  Speaker 1: to be a mayoral candidate. So I think he realizes
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  Speaker 1: he can't run anymore. It's all over. Hey, the midterms
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  Speaker 1: are like 33 days away. I know you keep hearing
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  Speaker 1: how low the president's approval ratings are. I know you
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  Speaker 1: keep hearing how bad the Republicans are doing in the polls,
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  Speaker 1: but they forget to tell you Democrats' approval ratings are
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  Speaker 1: a lot lower than Trump's, and Democrats' approval ratings are
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  Speaker 1: in the toilet. Here is the CNN pollster.
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  Speaker 3: GOP outperformed September polls by in the major 2024 races,
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  Speaker 3: that is, President and Senate in the states that had
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  Speaker 3: a Senate race. In Iowa, where the Democrats have been
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  Speaker 3: getting really good polls, Republicans outperformed their September polls by
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  Speaker 3: nine points back in 2024.
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  Speaker 1: How about Ohio? Six points. How about Michigan? Five points.
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  Speaker 3: And I will note that the leads that the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: have in all of these races right now are under
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  Speaker 3: how much the GOP outperformed back in 2024. So you
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  Speaker 3: look at this and you go.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe we should just hold on a second here because
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  Speaker 3: we've seen this dance before and it was not a
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  Speaker 3: dance that Democrats like when the votes are actually cast
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  Speaker 3: and counted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the key to it. These polls are all,
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  Speaker 1: the public polls are all fake. They're just ridiculously rigged.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the metrics, they're not even close
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  Speaker 1: to trying to be real. The metrics have Republicans at 23%
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  Speaker 1: of the sample. They should be 38%. They're not using
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  Speaker 1: likely voters. They're using the wrong demos deliberately. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: The public polls all rigged. So that's pretty interesting. So
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  Speaker 1: it's all about turnout. That's the key. Turnout. If Republicans
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  Speaker 1: turn out, they win. If Republicans stay home, Democrats can win.
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  Speaker 1: The president is doing a three-state tour. Today he's in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, he'll be in other places. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just telling you, repeating this story, because if you read
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  Speaker 1: the New York Times or you watch MSNBC or CNN,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never know about this, but... There was a bill
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  Speaker 1: to do something about those AI data centers. It's a
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  Speaker 1: big democratic issue. There's a bill to do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer and the Democrats blocked it yesterday. They blocked
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  Speaker 1: the bill. Now, why would they do that if they're
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  Speaker 1: against it? Well, one thing about these AI companies, they
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  Speaker 1: got a ton of money, trillions, and they do throw
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  Speaker 1: it around in Washington, D.C. You know, recently they set
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  Speaker 1: up a $ 25 million super PAC. And the money was
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  Speaker 1: immediately doled out to people in Congress. Donations. So the
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  Speaker 1: money was quickly passed out in Washington. And everybody was
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  Speaker 1: told there was going to be more of these super PACs.
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  Speaker 1: So Democrats killed the bill to block the data centers.
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  Speaker 1: Now there was another bill that was going to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all these congressmen and women, Republicans are just as guilty.
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  Speaker 1: They make a fortune with this insider trading. They have
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of insider information, more than anybody in the
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  Speaker 1: world can have. They find out about test results from
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  Speaker 1: the FDA before anybody. They find out before anybody who's
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  Speaker 1: going to get a government contract. That's how you could
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  Speaker 1: be Nancy Pelosi. You got 35 cents when you go
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  Speaker 1: into office. She's now worth like 800 million. That's how
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, they're suddenly worth 20 million. This
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  Speaker 1: goes on all the time. It's not just Democrats, Republicans too.
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  Speaker 1: The insider trading, you make a fortune in Congress. So
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  Speaker 1: there was a bill, not to eliminate it, but to
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  Speaker 1: limit it, just to limit it. Senate Democrats blocked it.
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  Speaker 1: They killed it. Senate Democrats blocked it. So they blocked
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  Speaker 1: the AI controls. They blocked the insider trading controls. But
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  Speaker 1: you'll read the New York Times. Go get the whole
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  Speaker 1: New York Times. See if you can find that story
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  Speaker 1: in there. Good luck trying to find it. Hey, oh,
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  Speaker 1: last night we had a great dinner in Long Island.
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  Speaker 1: We went out there. Jim Kerr and I, Jason Roy
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  Speaker 1: is one of our top salespeople. Bernie Weiss is our iHeartPresent.
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  Speaker 1: So we went out to Long Island and we had
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  Speaker 1: dinner with the Richard family of P.C. Richard and Son. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I always tell you, it's a family-owned business. pc richard
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  Speaker 1: what a great great company it is what a great
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  Speaker 1: business yeah you can really trust them they've been in
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  Speaker 1: business five generations 117 years but we had dinner with
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  Speaker 1: the the people that run pc richard glenn richard and
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  Speaker 1: scott richard and abby richard the whole marketing team the
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  Speaker 1: nicest people you could ever meet the nicest most sincere
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  Speaker 1: hard-working So you can trust them on anything. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great company, P.C. Richard & Son. We went to Blackstone's,
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  Speaker 1: one of the great steakhouses in Long Island. That's Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Scotto's place. And so I didn't realize this. So Glenn Richard,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about P.C. Richard & Son. He said, talking
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  Speaker 1: about how amazing it is to try to control all that.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we knock on 5,000 doors a day. I said,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean? I didn't realize this. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they got to deliver everything. They deliver the refrigerator. They
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  Speaker 1: deliver the TV. 5,000 deliveries a day. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: trying to control all that? Can you imagine this? I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to do a radio show here. I got two
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  Speaker 1: computers trying to control all this. Wow, it's like a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine? And he's going to tell me that
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  Speaker 1: they got these incredible warehouse facilities with millions of trucks coming.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine making 5,000 deliveries a day? How the
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  Speaker 1: hell could anybody run all of that? You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be a management logistics genius to run that. Hey, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of Long Island, there's a legendary place out there, Ohika Castle.
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  Speaker 1: Probably everybody's been to Ohika Castle at one time or another.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in Long Island, you're there a lot. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big, great Gatsby mansion with a million acres and
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  Speaker 1: a golf course and all this. It's an unbelievable place.
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  Speaker 1: It's where everybody has their wedding. There's all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: parties there. It's where Anthony Weiner got married. Remember Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton officiated the wedding. You want to bring your marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Bad luck. Have Bill Clinton do the ceremony. Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 1: does the ceremony. Remember I told you at the time,
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  Speaker 1: I said, this is bad luck. Having Bill Clinton do it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure enough, they get married. The storybook fairy tale wedding.
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  Speaker 1: Two seconds later, they find out he's a pervert sexting
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  Speaker 1: with the kids on the internet. Next thing you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're divorced. Um, But it's a legendary place in Long Island. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that owns it is quite a character, that guy. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he filed bankruptcy. So it's been seized by the creditors.
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  Speaker 1: It's up for auction if you want Oheka Castle. October 27th,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be auctioned. Concierge auctions. Oh, look at this. Buyers
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  Speaker 1: must pony up $ 750, 000. to even bid, I guess. It's
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  Speaker 1: 113,000 square feet, the mansion. So it'll be auctioned. It
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  Speaker 1: was quite a place. It was originally built like as
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  Speaker 1: a great Gatsby mansion. And sure enough, in the 1920s,
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  Speaker 1: they had those great Gatsby-type parties there. Then it became
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  Speaker 1: serious for a while. It was used during World War
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  Speaker 1: II for radio operators. You remember what many consider the
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  Speaker 1: greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane? And they showed Xanadu,
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  Speaker 1: where the guy lived. Well, that was Oheka Castle. They
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  Speaker 1: used it for the movie. So pretty interesting. Who's expected
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  Speaker 1: to buy it? No one knows. Although Taconic Capital is
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  Speaker 1: the hedge fund that holds the mortgage. So they could
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  Speaker 1: be one of the buyers. Hey, remember Senator George Mitchell?
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  Speaker 1: He was this old, old, old senator from Maine. Senator
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  Speaker 1: George Mitchell. And he was a very distinguished-looking old senator.
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  Speaker 1: A big deal in Maine. He was the Maine senator
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  Speaker 1: for a million years. Like at Maine University, things are
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  Speaker 1: named after him. The building is named after him. The
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  Speaker 1: scholarship is named after him. Senator George Mitchell. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: they want his name torn off the building. They want
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  Speaker 1: his name off the scholarship. He's 93. He's still with us.
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  Speaker 1: He's 93. Because apparently he's mentioned more than 300 times
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  Speaker 1: in the Epstein files. Listen, this guy... Didn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: bad with Epstein. Epstein had a million aspects of his personality.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things he did was he bought a
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  Speaker 1: lot of politicians. You can buy politicians. He would donate
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  Speaker 1: millions and millions and millions of these politicians' campaigns. They're
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  Speaker 1: super PACs. He would write massive checks. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: do that for politicians, they will come to your house.
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  Speaker 1: They will have dinner with you, lunch with you. If
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  Speaker 1: you're having a party, they'll come shake everybody's hand. You
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  Speaker 1: can buy, this is done all the time. You can
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  Speaker 1: do it with senators, with presidents. That's what George Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: was doing. Fundraising. And if you need the Senate Democratic Committee,
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  Speaker 1: you call Epstein, he'll send you a million dollars. Every
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  Speaker 1: time you call him, he'll send you a million. So
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  Speaker 1: that's all it was. This is nothing sexual. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: you ever see George Mitchell? I guarantee you, there's not
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  Speaker 1: enough Viagra in the world for him to have done anything.
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  Speaker 1: Forget Viagra. The guy would need, Jumper cables. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: nothing happened with George Mitchell. But the poor guy that
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  Speaker 1: had taken his name off the building. And just because
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  Speaker 1: you're in the Epstein files. I'm in the Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: six times. Nothing bad. Nothing bad. He was coming to
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  Speaker 1: a show I was emceeing. One time there was an email,
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  Speaker 1: something I said on the radio. One time it was
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Martling was emailing him and mentioned me. So a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things. You see it. The top restaurants in
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  Speaker 1: New York will show up like 42 times in the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files. Nothing bad. It's just because he would go
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  Speaker 1: there and they have his American Express bills in the file.
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  Speaker 1: So the type of certain restaurant would come up 47 times. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. We got the phone. The
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  Speaker 1: phones are fixed. Let's test them out. Call us, especially
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  Speaker 1: if you're a new caller. We'd love to hear from you.
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