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Hour 1: TV show ratings. · 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 710WOR. Hey. Well, it's back to normal today.
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  Speaker 1: Normal weather for the rest of the week. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: low 70s. It'll be nice today. It'll be even nicer tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Back to normal. The rain is gone. Yeah, it might
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  Speaker 1: get a little on Saturday, but otherwise it's gone. A
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  Speaker 1: lot to get to today. We'll get to the midterms
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  Speaker 1: are about 35 days away. Not much time for anybody
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  Speaker 1: to do much of anything. Republicans are not getting their
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  Speaker 1: messaging together, not making the case strongly enough. But no
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  Speaker 1: one knows what's going to happen. It's impossible to predict
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  Speaker 1: right now. President Trump having AI meetings today with AI heads.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is trying to put some control on AI,
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  Speaker 1: it could– If you believe Bill Gates, get out of
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  Speaker 1: control and wipe us all out and kill us in
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  Speaker 1: a second. And then there are others that think that
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  Speaker 1: it'll never be that bad. Then you got these crazy politicians,
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  Speaker 1: these ridiculous Republicans and Democrats, these old men in the
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  Speaker 1: Senate and the Congress calling for a kill switch. If
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  Speaker 1: we only had a kill switch. There's no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as a kill switch. There's no kill switch. You can't
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  Speaker 1: have a kill switch. There's one thing Bill Gates was
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  Speaker 1: good on on the Sunday show saying, anytime you hear
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  Speaker 1: anybody say this, put in a kill switch, you can
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  Speaker 1: be sure they don't know the first thing about the
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  Speaker 1: internet or how anything works. And you get Senator John Kennedy,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that fake southerner with all the, well, them
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  Speaker 1: cute little things. You hear him talk about AI, it
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  Speaker 1: sounds absolutely ridiculous. Now, the problem is if AI is
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  Speaker 1: that dangerous, if it is the most dangerous weapon on
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  Speaker 1: earth and could wipe us all out. Well, then you
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure we control it. You got to
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  Speaker 1: make sure China doesn't have control of it. Uh, we're
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  Speaker 1: way ahead in the AI race way ahead. But if
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  Speaker 1: we were to slow down or stop, China could get
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  Speaker 1: way ahead of us. In fact, China right now is
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  Speaker 1: recruiting more AI engineers than we are for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: paying them more or whatever they have to do. But
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  Speaker 1: you got to, this is like a nuclear arms race.
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  Speaker 1: You got to stay ahead of China in this, uh, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel Live, you know, this is a show hobbling
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  Speaker 1: along on its last legs. It's in the final season.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel Live has come to Brooklyn. He did the
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  Speaker 1: first show last night with Mayor Mamdani. It's a week of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, super left-wing, Trump-hating, all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Other guests, he's doing it from the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, this Kimmel show is hobbling along. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're going to do five days this week. But
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  Speaker 1: most weeks they can't afford to even do five days.
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  Speaker 1: So they do four or three and then run some reruns.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently he's just taken a huge pay cut. The
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  Speaker 1: whole budget of the show has been cut by about 25%.
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  Speaker 1: So he's had to take a huge pay cut as
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  Speaker 1: they hobble along through their final year. But all the
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  Speaker 1: left wing, the Trump-hating guests are all coming out for
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  Speaker 1: this final week. Paul McCartney, Billy Crystal, Pete Davidson. Bruce Springsteen,
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  Speaker 1: Howard Stern, and Maher Shala Ali. Who the hell is that?
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  Speaker 1: Does anybody know? I don't know. But if you're in
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  Speaker 1: the left-wing Jimmy Kimmel world, they've put that with these
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  Speaker 1: other names. They've put that name with McCartney and Springsteen,
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  Speaker 1: Maher Shala Ali. Whoever the hell that is, nobody knows. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, President Trump, he does do some great things.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday he made a big announcement. They're going to build
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  Speaker 1: the largest steel plant in the history of the world
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  Speaker 1: in America. It's been a long time since anything like
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  Speaker 1: that has happened. They're all in China. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: lost a lot of our industries to China, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our manufacturing, steel, and things that be crucial to us.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say there was a war and we were cut off.
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  Speaker 1: All of our vital medicine is made overseas in China.
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  Speaker 1: All of our steel, you know, we need that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff in the worst emergencies. We need to be
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  Speaker 1: able to make it ourselves. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: in Iowa. Largest steel plant in American history will be
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  Speaker 1: built here. It'll create 60,000 new manufacturing jobs. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a great thing. It's a great thing. And it helps
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  Speaker 1: in the midterms, too. Republicans are defending all four House
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  Speaker 1: seats in Iowa. The Senate seat is being vacated by
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  Speaker 1: Joni Ernst, who's retiring. Trump won Iowa by 13 points
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  Speaker 1: just two years ago, but it's close now. It's very close.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a big announcement yesterday. Very, very good. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy. John Kennedy. Now, we'll give him credit
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  Speaker 1: for one thing. He's pushing a bill that no politician
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  Speaker 1: is allowed to name anybody anything after themselves any building
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  Speaker 1: anything while they're still alive uh usually have to be
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  Speaker 1: dead of course kennedy airport or reagan air i think
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  Speaker 1: reagan was still alive when that airport was named wasn't
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  Speaker 1: he but uh rfk bridge that sort of stuff uh
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  Speaker 1: so kennedy pushing this saying you can't spend public money
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  Speaker 1: to promote yourself you can't uh name anything well now
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  Speaker 1: actually if you're donald trump this is not a good
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  Speaker 1: bill he loves the name Everything after himself. So as
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  Speaker 1: long as you're alive, you wouldn't be able to name
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  Speaker 1: anything after him. Although they've named the Palm Beach Airport
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  Speaker 1: after him, but that was Palm Beach in Florida's decision.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's driving the Trump haters crazy. If you
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  Speaker 1: fly to Palm Beach, it's now the Donald J. Trump
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  Speaker 1: International Airport. And it'll say that all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: It'll say it on your ticket. Even the airport code
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  Speaker 1: is DJT. So believe it or not, some of the
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  Speaker 1: crazed Trump haters who are going to Palm Beach are
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  Speaker 1: actually flying to Fort Lauderdale or to Miami just because
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  Speaker 1: they won't go through that airport. Hey, for the midterms,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of, not a lot, but a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of Republicans who are turning on Trump as they seek re-election.
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  Speaker 1: They're turning on Trump. They're bad-mouthing the Iran war. They're
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  Speaker 1: distancing themselves from him. And there are others now calling
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  Speaker 1: for him right now to end the war in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings up a good question. How would you end it?
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  Speaker 1: They haven't fired a shot in a month. Nobody's fighting.
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  Speaker 1: What is their day? How would you end it? You know,
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  Speaker 1: you could say, oh, the war is now in its
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  Speaker 1: seventh month. Yeah, but it's only been like 12 days
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  Speaker 1: out of seven months there's been any war. So if
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  Speaker 1: you were to end it, who would notice? Nobody's firing.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's fighting. Hey, by the way, the Strait of Hormuz...
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  Speaker 1: General David Petraeus reporting, and he's got very good intelligence
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  Speaker 1: around the world, the Strait of Hormuz is even more
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  Speaker 1: open than we think. A lot of tankers are coming
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  Speaker 1: through the Strait of Hormuz. And it was thought 7
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  Speaker 1: million barrels a day were coming through. He believes it's
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  Speaker 1: 10 to 11 million barrels a day. In fact, he
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  Speaker 1: says there was, and his intelligence is very good. He
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  Speaker 1: has all kinds of sources there. He said there was
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  Speaker 1: one day where they moved 17 million barrels through the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz, which is pretty much close to the
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  Speaker 1: pre-war number. Admiral Cooper, who's the commander of all this, U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Central Command, said on September 19th, commercial transit, volume of oil, cargo,
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  Speaker 1: liquefied natural gas moving through Hormuz over the past two
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  Speaker 1: weeks have reached the highest levels in six months. And
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  Speaker 1: Petraeus writing a huge piece about this, that Iran is
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  Speaker 1: under mounting pressure. The entire economy very, very close to collapse.
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  Speaker 1: He reports that they're on the brink, very close to
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  Speaker 1: total collapse. The blockade, we've been controlling Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 1: and blockading. It has effectively just completely devastated their economy.
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  Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary Scott Besson thinks Iran only has a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks left of survival before the whole economy collapses. just collapses.
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  Speaker 1: Now Democrats praying that doesn't happen before the midterms. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the UN stuff, nobody knows what the hell they do
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  Speaker 1: at the UN except badmouth Israel, except do their anti-Semitic crap,
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  Speaker 1: except tie up every parking space and hook her in
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  Speaker 1: New York. Nobody knows what else they do at the UN,
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  Speaker 1: but the Trump envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are
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  Speaker 1: saying a lot of progress was made. Great progress was made.
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  Speaker 1: especially with Russia and Ukraine, that had very, very lengthy talks.
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  Speaker 1: He said, when you all sit down in person, the Russians,
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  Speaker 1: the Ukrainians, it really makes a difference. And they said
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  Speaker 1: they're closer than ever to resolving the thing. And when
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  Speaker 1: they had these meetings, they also discussed Iran with the
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  Speaker 1: Iranian officials, and they were joined by the Saudis, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,
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  Speaker 1: all were there. They think they made a lot of progress,
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  Speaker 1: but who knows? Who knows? They also got approval, Witkoff
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  Speaker 1: and Kushner, for the $ 3 billion reconstruction plan for the
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  Speaker 1: Gaza Strip at the Board of Peace Summit. So they
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  Speaker 1: claim they got some stuff done. We'll see. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: if they really actually got anything done. The UN, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a total, total waste of time, doing absolutely nothing for anybody.
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  Speaker 1: uh hey aoc uh everybody thinks she's running because she
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  Speaker 1: seems to be campaigning all over the place it just
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  Speaker 1: never stopped she was at cornell where they're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: this rape problem and their anti-semitism out of control at
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  Speaker 1: cornell listen to what happens at the AOC. She's there
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  Speaker 1: to speak. Listen to the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like you guys to repeat after me. From the
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  Speaker 2: river to.
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  Speaker 1: The sea, Palestine will be free.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: This is what they do at Cornell. That's the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: in anti-Semitic wipe out, kill Israel. chant that river to
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  Speaker 1: the sea crap that's what they do at cornell everybody
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  Speaker 1: stay the hell away from cornell besides the rape uh
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  Speaker 1: situation they're dealing with those allegations the anti-semitism is totally
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  Speaker 1: completely out of control there right now uh billy joel
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  Speaker 1: you know he's a great motorcycle collector remember that uh
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  Speaker 1: store in oyster bay More than a store, that big
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  Speaker 1: showroom where he had hundreds of his motorcycles on display. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's getting rid of the whole collection. It's going up
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  Speaker 1: for auction. 75 motorcycles going up for auction, including Harleys, Yamahas, BMWs.
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  Speaker 1: Expected to fetch big bucks in November. According to Christie's
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  Speaker 1: Auction House, they'll handle the auction. Billy Joel, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's now $ 77, 000. And, you know, he's had some serious
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  Speaker 1: medical stuff with the brain. He's got a problem with
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  Speaker 1: his balance, a brain problem. So hopefully he's getting better.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously he can't be riding motorcycles anymore. You know,
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  Speaker 1: and he was just fine. Remember, he was crashing into trees.
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  Speaker 1: There was an accident every two weeks. He was running
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  Speaker 1: off the road and all that. So in his condition,
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  Speaker 1: he cannot, cannot, cannot ride a motorcycle. So they're all
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  Speaker 1: being auctioned off. The auction will be November 20th, 21st,
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  Speaker 1: Javits Center. including, ooh, look at this. It's 1978 Triumph
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  Speaker 1: T140 Bonneville.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell that is. They all
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  Speaker 1: look the same to me. They all look like just
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  Speaker 1: the same motorcycle. But this beloved bike was given to
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  Speaker 1: Joel by Madison Square Garden for his 150th sold-out show
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  Speaker 1: and is going to be auctioned, estimated 15,000. That's all
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  Speaker 1: it is, 15,000? Does that sound right? No, it doesn't make,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with these rare car auctions, there are a million, 800,000, 15,000.
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  Speaker 1: Joel's large collection also includes a 1982 Ducati Mike Howlwood 900.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. Who the hell knows
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  Speaker 1: what all this stuff is? But there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: motorcycle collectors out there who are yelling and screaming that
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  Speaker 1: they do. Also, a restored 1975 Ducati 750 Sport. Expected
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  Speaker 1: to fetch around 35,000. That's not a lot for, these
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to be such rare things. Before the auction,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to just look at this stuff, for
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  Speaker 1: about a week, October 8th to 12th, it'll be on display,
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  Speaker 1: Rockefeller Center. Christie's has a big showroom in Rockefeller Center.
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  Speaker 1: You can go there, October 8th to 12th, take a
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  Speaker 1: look at this. Proceeds from the sale will go to
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  Speaker 1: the Joel Foundation, a nonprofit centered on music education and
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  Speaker 1: the arts. I know some guys that are big, big
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  Speaker 1: motorcycle collectors. And they'll take you to their showroom and
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  Speaker 1: they got like 20 of them lined up. And they're
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  Speaker 1: explaining each one to you. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I should tell them that to all of us, they
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  Speaker 1: all look the same. Can't tell one from the other.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see any difference. Why don't you just pick
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  Speaker 1: the best motorcycle that you like and just ride that.
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  Speaker 1: It's like Jay Leno with the 5,000 cars. You ever
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  Speaker 1: get up in the morning, you don't know what to wear.
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  Speaker 1: What shirt should I wear? Which pants should I, you
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  Speaker 1: got to make this, imagine going to the garage, you
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  Speaker 1: got 5,000 cars. What car should I take today? What
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  Speaker 1: a complicated world. Now, in the case of Jay Leno,
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  Speaker 1: it's different. You know, he was an auto mechanic, a
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  Speaker 1: great auto mechanic before he became a comedian. He was
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  Speaker 1: an auto mechanic. He worked for Rolls-Royce. So he understands
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. And I'll bet you, knowing Billy Joel,
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  Speaker 1: he knows how to fix a motorcycle, knows all about it.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're going to pick a hobby, riding around
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  Speaker 1: in motorcycle and all that. I don't know. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the right one. Speaking of legends, Rod Stewart has announced
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  Speaker 1: his retirement after six decades on stage. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: had some medical troubles and had a canceled show, so
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  Speaker 1: he's announced his retirement. Does that mean he's not well
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  Speaker 1: enough to... Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. Look at this. The final tour will be
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  Speaker 1: next year. Wait a minute. Obviously, if he can tour
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  Speaker 1: for another year, he can tour. So this is like
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  Speaker 1: a Streisand deal. Remember, every year she'd announce it's the
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  Speaker 1: farewell tour. It'll be your last chance to see her.
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  Speaker 1: She would do that to sell tickets. That way everybody thinks,
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  Speaker 1: I got to get it. I got to see this.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be her final tour. And then a
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  Speaker 1: year later, there'll be another farewell tour. Well, then everybody said,
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  Speaker 1: this is it. I got to buy a ticket. Then
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  Speaker 1: there'd be another farewell tour. So I think you may
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  Speaker 1: be seeing that from Rod Stewart. Anyway, we've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot to get to today. We'll get to Good Morning America. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a shakeup there. I didn't realize this.
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  Speaker 1: They all hate each other, all these anchors. They can't
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  Speaker 1: be in the same room with each other. They hate
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  Speaker 1: each other so much. We'll get to that coming up.
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  Speaker 1: As I say, the weather will be good today. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be a nice day. We went through a hell of
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: a stretch of three or four days of the crappiest
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  Speaker 1: weather imaginable. And now, great day today, even nicer tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, as I mentioned, Jimmy Kimmel in New York
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  Speaker 1: for a week doing the show from Brooklyn. Mayor Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: the guest last night. So, you know, Kimmel hates, hates
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. And hey, before we get to that, let
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  Speaker 1: me just point out something. You know, they fired Colbert.
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  Speaker 1: They threw him the hell off the air. And they
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  Speaker 1: replaced it with Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed, which is just
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of comedians, Byron Allen talking to them. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just very funny comedy. It's not political. It's not
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  Speaker 1: even topical. It's just funny stuff. And the show's been
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  Speaker 1: on about 20 years. So that's what replaced Colbert. It
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  Speaker 1: is crushing Kimmel and Fallon In the big demo, 18
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  Speaker 1: to 49, that's what you look for in television, 18
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  Speaker 1: to 49, the Byron Allen Show on CBS Comics Unleashed
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  Speaker 1: crushing Kimmel and crushing Fallon. Now, Kimmel has his audience,
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  Speaker 1: but it's generally older people, very old. It's an old audience.
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  Speaker 1: And Colbert's audience was very old. That's another reason they
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  Speaker 1: want to get rid of him. His audience, all 65 plus,
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  Speaker 1: it's all angry white liberals. And this Comics Unleashed is
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  Speaker 1: doing so well that CBS has decided to give it
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  Speaker 1: a primetime special coming up. It's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: 20th anniversary of Comics Unleashed, although it's only been on CBS,
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  Speaker 1: you know, about six months, but they're going to get
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  Speaker 1: a big primetime special. You know, you don't see that
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  Speaker 1: for Jimmy Kimmel. Now, so anyway, Mamdani's on with Kimmel,
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  Speaker 1: and Kimmel hates Trump, hates him so much, but he
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  Speaker 1: starts asking Mamdani, how do you have this relationship with him?
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  Speaker 1: You know, a lot of these left-wing... angry left-wingers hate
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  Speaker 1: that Mom Donnie is so chummy with Trump. And Mom
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  Speaker 1: Donnie starts to explain it to him. He said, well,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we have our differences, but what brings us together,
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  Speaker 1: we both love New York City. We're both New Yorkers
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  Speaker 1: and we both have a love of New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's a big difference. Mom Donnie's been in New
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  Speaker 1: York about 10 minutes. He's 12 years old. He never
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  Speaker 1: had a job before. Trump has spent 75 of his
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  Speaker 1: 80 years in New York City, and not just living here,
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  Speaker 1: but he's transformed a lot of New York. You got
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  Speaker 1: to remember, Trump has rescued parts of New York. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is hard to imagine, but in the late 70s,
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  Speaker 1: the area around Grand Central Station was just totally decaying.
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  Speaker 1: Grand Central Station was crumbling. It was a mess. The
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  Speaker 1: whole area around there was on its way to being
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  Speaker 1: just a rundown ghetto. This is hard to believe now.
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  Speaker 1: You remember back then, Jackie Onassis stepped up trying to
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  Speaker 1: form some kind of committee to save Grand Central. They
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  Speaker 1: were even thinking of tearing it down. The neighborhood had
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  Speaker 1: become so bad. And there was an awful, disgusting, decrepit
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  Speaker 1: old hotel, the Commodore, next to it. Well, Trump bought
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that hotel. The area was so run down, he got
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the Commodore for nothing. This is his first major project
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: in New York. He's a very young guy. He rebuilt
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: it into the Hyatt, this big, shiny, gleaming, magnificent new hotel.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And it helped turn that whole neighborhood around. All of
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: a sudden, conventions, tourists, everything were coming to the Hyatt.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: It just transformed the neighborhood and saved it. And then
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: he went to Columbus Circle. This is hard to believe,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: but in the late 80s, Columbus Circle was a really
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: run-down place. You had this decrepit old New York Coliseum there.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: before the Javits Center. It was the New York Coliseum
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: where they had the convention, but it was a crummy-looking building.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And in the front of it all evening were the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: prison buses to go to upstate prisons or Rikers Island.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: That's where the families would get those buses to go
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: visit relatives. I mean, it was just a run-down, crappy area.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So Trump builds the Trump International Hotel and Apartments Condos
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: in Columbus Circle, somehow convinces John George to open his
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: restaurant there. And it transforms the whole neighborhood. All of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a sudden, the neighborhood takes off. Next thing you know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you get the Time Warner Center and everything. So he
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: saved that neighborhood. You can go around the city and
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: show examples of this. Hey, when you drive down the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: West Side Highway, And you see those like 11 unbelievable
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: skyscrapers in a row, those apartments. Those were railroad yards.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: It was Trump that did that. So he's done a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: lot from New York. So Mamdani revealing to Jimmy Kimmel,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: who was not happy about this, that he texts back
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and forth with Trump all the time, that they're texting
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: each other left and right. He said often he talks
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: to him about this Sunnyside project to build housing in Queens.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: This is Mamdani's dream to... to build 12,000 affordable houses.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: There's a railroad yard that could cover it up and
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: build it there in Sunnyside, Queens. Now remember, Trump, the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: whole Trump family, the original business was affordable housing, low-income
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: housing in Brooklyn and Queens. They built probably a couple
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand of those units. So this is a guy
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: who knows exactly how to do that. Mamdani wants to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: do it, and if he does it, it'll cost $ 3 billion.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: If he lets Trump do it, it'll probably cost $ 200 million.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: So he could save the city a fortune by having
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Trump's company do it. But, you know, he won't do that.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: But you could see Kimmel getting madder and madder. The
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: thought of Mamdani texting back and forth with Trump all
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the time. But Trump, everybody has a cell number. Everybody.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Everybody in the press. Every member of the media has it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: People call him, text him. He responds to everybody. He
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: texts hundreds of people a day. It's a fascinating subject
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: for Somebody to take a look at how he does this.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: You remember later they found out Reagan wrote these beautiful
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: handwritten letters to people, three or four of them a day,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and they couldn't figure out how does he have time
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: for three or four of these a day? Somebody should
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: look at it. How does Trump have time to text literally,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: literally two, 300 people every day back and forth? So
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Mamdani out there campaigning for who knows what.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to make the case directly to New Yorkers
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: and also to make it very clear what a Blakeman
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: governorship would look like for a city that cares so
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: deeply about the immigrants who call it home.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Whoa.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Blakeman government. Oh, my God. Terrible. He'd lock up criminals.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: We'd have a border. The economy would better, better. We'd
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: have drilling, fracking. We'd have nuclear weapons. Your energy bill
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: would drop by about 3,000%. Yeah, that would be awful. Blakeman,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: of course, always going after Mom Donnie. Instead of getting
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a free bus ride, the people of New York City
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: got a rate hike. So his promises aren't being upheld
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: by him. I feel that he is untrustworthy. Yeah, it's
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a different world if you're a Democrat than a Republican.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: You know, if you're a Republican campaigning and you're Bruce Blakeman...
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: And you say, I'm going to do this and this.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And then all the reporters gather. Well, how are you
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: going to do that? How are you going to get
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that done? Well, here's how I did it in Nassau County.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And he explains how he would do it. It's different
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: if you're a Democrat. If your mom's dining and you're campaigning,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you yell, free buses for everybody. And no reporter asks
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: you anything. They don't say. No reporter ever said to him,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, you have no control of the buses.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: That's state control. The MTA controls the buses. You have
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: absolutely no authority. How are you going to do that?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: No reporter ever asked him during the entire campaign.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Never.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Whatever he promises. We're going to open grocery stores. By
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the way, it'll cost $ 35 million to open two grocery stores.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: No reporter has ever said to him, you know, we
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: checked and the top grocery stores in the world only
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: cost a million each. Why are yours $ 35 million? No
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: reporters ever asked him that. No reporters ever said, well,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: why don't you just lift the property tax and On
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the grocery stores, and that way they could bring the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: cost down on everything 35%. You wouldn't have to open
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. So nobody ever asked that stuff. You know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, everybody's complaining about high gas prices. In
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: New York, they're much higher than everywhere else. Gas is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: averaging $ 4. 40 a gallon. It's $ 5. 40 in New York. It's
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: always more in New York. And the reason is the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: state puts all this gas tax and fees on each gallon.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: It's about 75 cents a gas tax, a gallon, here
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: in New York. You know, in Texas, they had a
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: great governor, Abbott. He has lifted the tax on diesel fuel.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: It's too expensive there. So he lifted the tax for
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the next 60 days. No reporter ever asks Hochul about
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: this or Mamdani, especially Hochul. Why don't you lift the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: gas tax for 60 days if you're so concerned about it?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Lift the gas tax. Remove it for 60 days. They
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: never ask. Anyway, we've got a lot coming up. We'll
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: take some calls, too, and just to A few minutes.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone here. Nine to noon every day. Three hours
• 25:15
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• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the Mark Simone Show. Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: is the number.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: So you got a new problem in New York. You know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: shoplifting became legal under de Blasio, under Hochul. under mom
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: donnie it's just legal they won't under this crazy da
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: alvin brag you're not going to get arrested for shoplifting
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: so it goes on all the time the result is
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you go into the drugstore everything's locked up you want
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: although they don't lock up the shampoo kind of an
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: insult to shampoo but you want some aspirin you want
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: uh you want some uh i don't know some allergy
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: medicine anything it's locked up you got to push the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: button wait for some angry looking woman to show up
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: with a key furious that you bothered her and she
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: unlocks it for you. So it's, it's, and these are professionals.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: They all look like kids, but they're professionally organized by
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: professional gangs and they hand them these big, massive trash bags. And, uh,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: you know, then they, um, they get these trash bags,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: they fill them up. If you're under a thousand dollars,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: they will not arrest you. So they've trained these kids
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: how to run around and throw everything in the bag,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: steal everything. And they can fill that bag right up
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to $ 999. So it's been a big problem. And you've
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: seen the result that you got to ring a bell
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and everything's locked up. So New York City restaurants, this
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: is the new problem. More and more people go into
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: a restaurant, they sit down, they order, they eat, they
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: have dinner, and then they run out without paying the check.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: They're called dine-in dashers. Well, dine-in dashers... have become a
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: huge problem in New York. It's happening more and more
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and more. It's growing. Now, the police will not do
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: much of anything because it's a misdemeanor. Let's say it's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a $ 100 restaurant loss. It's a misdemeanor. They're not going
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to do anything. So restaurants don't know what the hell
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: to do. But what they've been doing, these restaurants, is
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: trying to shame the person on social media. It's worked
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: in a few cases. So they all have surveillance video.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: They can get a picture of the people from the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: surveillance video, and then they'll post it online saying this person,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: theft of services, and they'll try to shame the person
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: on Instagram and Facebook and TikTok. And here was one restaurant.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: They put the picture up and everything. Within 10 minutes,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: somebody texted them with the name of the perp. And now, again,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: if the police aren't going to do anything, I don't
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: know what it means once you identify them, but at
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: least you can embarrass them online. but it's going on
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: all over the place. What's the deal with the phones?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: They're not working. Are they, uh, Oh, they're, they're working,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: but this isn't working in here, but let's go to, uh,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Mike calling from Florida. Mike, how you doing? Mike, are
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: you there? Mike in Florida. I don't know. It sounds
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: like they're not working. Maybe you guys have to pick
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it up in there. This, this, uh, These buttons in
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: here aren't working. Hiya. Hey, Mike, there you are.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Good morning. Yes. Good morning, Mark.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: You've been pointing out how the left likes to create
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: hysterias to get the voters motivated, the most recent one
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: being the AI hysteria. I'd like to remind people that
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: in 1979, and you can just imagine who led these things,
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Bruce Springsteen had the No Nukes concert, and stupid Jane
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Fonda had the China Syndrome concert, And for 50 years
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: since then, or 47 years since then, we've lagged behind
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: nuclear energy. Nuclear energy that would have been a boon
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: to everybody was sidetracked because two idiots created this hysteria
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: that everybody signed on for.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, these left-wing people, they shut down. Andrew Cuomo, one
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: of the ways he really damaged New York is he
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: shut down Indian Point. That's 25% of our electricity. Exactly.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: It tripled everybody's electric bill.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: And it's, you know, there should be a nuclear power
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: plant in every corner by now. That's not crazy. No, but,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: you know, what I'm saying, it's, you know, it's safer,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: far safer than it's ever been. You know, they've changed
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the technology. But AI, my point is that they're going
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: to do the same thing to AI that they did
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: with the nuclear power. You know, they're going to make
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: us lag and, you know, we're going to suffer for it.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely right, Mike. Great call. Thanks for calling. Yeah.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: They did the same thing, as we've pointed out, with electricity.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Believe it or not, when electricity was invented, same thing happened.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Everybody said, it's going to kill us all. Electricity is
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: going to wipe us out. It's going to be out
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: of control, this thing called electricity. This got so widespread
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: that a woman wrote a book called Frankenstein. about electricity
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: could create a monster that could run around killing people.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: That's where the book Frankenstein comes from. This hysteria about
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: how dangerous electricity was. So it's happened a lot. The
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: only thing with AI, it is different in that it
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: can take action. It can attack a website. It can attack,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: it can hack into stuff. It is something that you're
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: going to have to figure out how to keep it
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: under control. Anyway, let's go to, you guys have to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: push it in there, I think. David in Connecticut. David,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: how are you doing? Good, Mark.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning. Hey, regarding the motorcycles, I just want
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: to give an example. Each one is completely different. They
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: have different personalities, just like a restaurant does. They all
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: have different atmosphere.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: That explains it. You believe this guy? He thinks they
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: have personalities. What is wrong with you? They have a motorcycle.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: What do you mean they have personalities?
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: They do.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: What's the difference between a Ferrari and a Volkswagen? You
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: don't think they have different personalities?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, one costs 12 cents and the other is
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: like $ 500, 000. One goes a million miles an hour and
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: one goes and barely runs.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, you just made my example. One goes.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, but in that case, I would get rid of
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the Volkswagen and I'll just drive the Ferrari. Why can't
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: you just pick one motorcycle?
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: No, I don't. Are you a motorcycle collector?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: No, I own a couple old cars, but I did
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: have a motorcycle. Okay.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, when we're driving, and you motorcycle
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: people weave in and out, and we can't stand this.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: You drive us all nuts on the road.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, I agree with that.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: You get injured that way.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: You get killed.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. Well, good point. What is the personality
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: of a motorcycle, though, besides comfort and speed? What else
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: is there?
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Some are much lighter. Some are much heavier.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Some are designed for the highway. Some are designed for off-road.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: That's the easiest example.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Well, that clears it up. Thanks for calling, David.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Take care.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Take care.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Thanks. I still don't get this. It's a motorcycle. Get
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: a car. You can sit in a nice, comfortable seat.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: You can hear the radio. You can talk on the phone.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: You got a cup holder you can drink. Get a car.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: What are you riding around on a motorcycle for? Let's
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: go to Dennis in New Jersey. Dennis, how you doing? Dennis,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: are you there?
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, hi. Dennis from Glen Rock.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: On the restaurants, why don't they ask for the credit
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: card first before they.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, I like that.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: That's a good idea. Yeah. Okay, well, No, very good point, Dennis.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Thanks for calling. That's what's going to
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: happen because, you know, once they start stealing everything out
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of the drugstore, now everything's locked up. That's going to
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: happen in restaurants because all this dine and dash. You're
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: going to have to pay ahead of time. Now, of course,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: these guys could have bad credit cards, but they'd have
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: time to check out the credit card. Anyway, we got
• 33:32
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• 33:33
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• 33:38
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• 33:40
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• 33:43
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• 33:45
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• 33:49
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock. Very funny and very interesting show. Makes a
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: lot of great points on there. Well, in fact, we'll
• 33:55
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• 33:58
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• 34:24
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• 34:28
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