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

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  Speaker 1: It's more of Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: New York on 710WOR. Well, we'll get to the Kennedy Center.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy Ed Sheeran, Mom Donnie, and more. I just upgraded
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  Speaker 1: my iPhone to iOS 27 because it said a whole
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  Speaker 1: new experience. iOS 27. Let me just tell you what
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  Speaker 1: the new experience is. First of all, everything looks exactly
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  Speaker 1: the same. The experience is Anytime you want to do anything.
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  Speaker 1: I try to, I open my calendar. Let's show you
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  Speaker 1: what's new in calendar. Just open the calendar. I don't
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  Speaker 1: care what's new in calendar. Now I try to get
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  Speaker 1: my mail. Let's show you what's new in mail. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want a tour of what's new in mail. Just
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  Speaker 1: open the mail. So, uh, the new iPhone coming, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think in a week or so, uh, everybody, uh,
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  Speaker 1: has had a chance to test all these reviewers and experts.
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  Speaker 1: They've tested the, um, The new stuff, not too crazy
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  Speaker 1: about the foldable phone. Nobody's too crazy about that. The
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  Speaker 1: new iPhone 18 Pro, everybody raving. It's the most incredible phone.
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  Speaker 1: Battery life is unbelievable. It can go for almost two
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  Speaker 1: days on that battery. So iPhone 18 Pro, that's the
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  Speaker 1: one to get, the foldable. Unless you got to look
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  Speaker 1: at big documents on your phone where you need to
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  Speaker 1: see a big screen to really see the documents, unless
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  Speaker 1: you do something like that, Or charts or something. You
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  Speaker 1: really don't need the foldable. And the camera's not as
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  Speaker 1: good on the foldable. So a lot of reasons to
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  Speaker 1: wait on the foldable. Just wait on that. This crazy Macklemore.
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  Speaker 1: This is the guy that was opening for Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 1: Ed Sheeran is like the nicest guy in the music business.
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  Speaker 1: I got tangled up with this idiot. Macklemore is using
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  Speaker 1: this as much as he can. His point is he
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  Speaker 1: hates Jews. He hates Israel. He gets on stage. You're
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  Speaker 1: paying hundreds of dollars a ticket for a concert for
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  Speaker 1: the guy to sing, and instead you get.
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  Speaker 3: To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters, criticism of Israel,
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  Speaker 3: criticism of apartheid, being against genocide, in no way is
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  Speaker 3: a criticism of you.
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  Speaker 1: That's a real anti-Semitism. Semite. Called it apartheid. There was
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  Speaker 1: no apartheid. genocide there was no genocide except on the
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  Speaker 1: part of hamas when they committed the october 7th holocaust
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  Speaker 1: but so he's uh been thrown off the tour uh
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  Speaker 1: the stadium owners will not let him appear they're led
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  Speaker 1: by bob craft robert craft so mclemore trying to exploit
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  Speaker 1: the whole situation now he's going after bob craft and
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  Speaker 1: he was yelling and screaming about craft why don't you
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  Speaker 1: do something humanitarian? Why don't you do something like that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the track record of Bob Kraft,
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  Speaker 1: the guy's a major, major philanthropist donating to all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of humanitarian causes, charities all his life. And as soon
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  Speaker 1: as McLemore said that, Kraft wrote a check for $ 2
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  Speaker 1: million for humanitarian aid for Gaza and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as he heard that, Kraft wrote a $ 2
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  Speaker 1: million check for humanitarian aid. We're still waiting for McLemore's check.
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  Speaker 1: Still waiting to get something from McLemore. Haven't heard anything yet.
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  Speaker 1: So all of this is exposing the silly, frightening anti-Semitism
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  Speaker 1: in the world of music fans. Many of them are
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  Speaker 1: now demanding a refund for their Ed Sheeran tickets. They
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  Speaker 1: won't go. And they want their money back if Macklemore
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  Speaker 1: is not there. So this is absolutely insane. AOC jumping
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  Speaker 1: in on this. Now she's going after Ed Sheeran.
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  Speaker 2: I have a huge amount of empathy for the situation.
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  Speaker 2: Because I think people want the focus here to be
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  Speaker 2: about Ed Sheeran. And he, of course, plays a role.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not putting the focus on Robert Kraft and
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  Speaker 2: the actual people who are... who are kind of twisting
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  Speaker 2: things here. So, and again, everyone has responsibility in the situation.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone plays a role, but we need to be very
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  Speaker 2: clear about how dangerous a precedent this is.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a dangerous precedent. You're booking a music concert.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want any crazy political nonsense. And she is
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  Speaker 1: going after Ed Sheeran. See, she's lying there. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: this reporter who asked her a question. Hey, if Ed
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  Speaker 1: Sheeran comes on the radio while you're driving along, are
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  Speaker 1: you changing the channels?
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am.
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  Speaker 3: I am.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I love Z100. It's our other station right down
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  Speaker 1: the hall. I do actually listen to Z100. I have
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  Speaker 1: never once said, what is that, Ed Sheeran? Turn the channel.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not listening to this. Who would turn the station
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  Speaker 1: because Ed Sheeran? First of all, Ed Sheeran comes on
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  Speaker 1: every 20 minutes. It's just insane. And if you had
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  Speaker 1: any sympathy for Macklemore, remember when he said.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, f * * * America.
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  Speaker 1: That's Macklemore. Yeah, f * * * America. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: have no sympathy for him at all. President Trump getting
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  Speaker 1: blocked everywhere about putting his name on the Kennedy Center.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to call it the Kennedy Trump Center, or
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  Speaker 1: probably the Trump Kennedy Center. Uh, that got shot down.
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  Speaker 1: So then the idea was it does need renovations. It's
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  Speaker 1: about to collapse. It's in total disrepair. So it has
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  Speaker 1: to be renovated, but the judge blocked everything. And then
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  Speaker 1: he was going to, he finally agreed to, uh, Kennedy center.
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  Speaker 1: And then somewhere on this building, it would say as
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  Speaker 1: a read, redone by Donald Trump, a judge shot that
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  Speaker 1: down and the Kennedy center, uh, well, Trump is now
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  Speaker 1: saying he may tear down the whole Kennedy center. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the problem is it's a little childish. You can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you renovate the thing, I guess you're
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  Speaker 1: entitled to have your name on it somewhere, but you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to insist on it. But he likes to
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  Speaker 1: put his name on things. The problem with this, it's
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  Speaker 1: too childish. I'm going to tear it all down. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just destroy it. You can't do that. That's the kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing you do in business when you're a builder.
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  Speaker 1: And see, the problem is he's done that all his life.
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  Speaker 1: And all these guys do it. That's not wrong. If
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to build some big office building or some
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  Speaker 1: Yankee stadium or something and the city or the town
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  Speaker 1: is giving you a hard time and blocking you and
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  Speaker 1: giving you nothing but grief, that's what you do. You throw, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll move the Yankees to New Jersey or some big
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  Speaker 1: office building. You know, the companies do that all the
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  Speaker 1: time and they're giving a hard time. Oh, we'll move
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  Speaker 1: the thing to Westchester then if you want. How many
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  Speaker 1: times has the stock market threatened to move to Westchester?
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  Speaker 1: You do that all the time in the private sector.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that in the government. These are public institutions.
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  Speaker 1: You can't threaten to tear down the Kennedy Center just
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  Speaker 1: because they won't let you put your name on it.
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  Speaker 1: Although he is right about the dire need to fix
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  Speaker 1: this place. They've actually closed it down because it's just
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  Speaker 1: too dangerous to have people in the building. The whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's about to collapse, the Kennedy Center. They call it
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  Speaker 1: water intrusion. The piping system, they kept adding on and
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  Speaker 1: doing it incorrectly. And it's government, so they made a
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  Speaker 1: mess of it. And the water has just seeped into
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  Speaker 1: every inch of the building. Not this past weekend, but
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  Speaker 1: the weekend before, big, big chunk of the ceiling collapsed.
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  Speaker 1: Right over the lobby where everybody would have been standing
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  Speaker 1: had the place been open. Enormous chunk of the ceiling
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  Speaker 1: came crashing down. People would have been injured, hurt, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even killed. So it's not safe to open the building.
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  Speaker 1: They've closed it down. It may just stay closed if
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  Speaker 1: he can't renovate it. If you've got to renovate the
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy Center, Congress allocated $ 250 million for the renovation. If
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  Speaker 1: the government does the renovation, it'll cost $ 6 billion. If
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  Speaker 1: a real builder from the private sector does, it'll probably
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  Speaker 1: cost $ 100 million. And as long as you've got a
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  Speaker 1: president who's a master builder... why not let him do it?
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  Speaker 1: I know many of you hate Trump. You can't stand him.
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  Speaker 1: You don't like him. You don't like his policies. Fine.
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  Speaker 1: But the one thing he does know how to do
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  Speaker 1: is build. In fact, they do need a ballroom. Many
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  Speaker 1: presidents have said they've got to have this ballroom. As
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  Speaker 1: long as you've got a guy in office who's a
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  Speaker 1: master builder and has already built 150 ballrooms, let him
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  Speaker 1: do it. Let him do it. Have you seen that
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  Speaker 1: new heliport? It's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. it's got the seal
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  Speaker 1: of the president. It's magnificent. It's in all kinds of granite.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when the helicopter would land on the White
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  Speaker 1: House lawn, this has been going on for years. These
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  Speaker 1: are not regular helicopters. These are these big, enormous military
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  Speaker 1: marine helicopters. You know how hot the heat coming out
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  Speaker 1: of that engine gets? When they would land, they would
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  Speaker 1: burn up the grass. The tires are so big, they
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  Speaker 1: would destroy the grass. So what they would do When
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  Speaker 1: the helicopter had to land, you never even noticed this.
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  Speaker 1: They put down these four enormous metal plates on the
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  Speaker 1: ground for the tires to land on the metal plates
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  Speaker 1: because the grass couldn't hold the helicopter or it'd burn
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  Speaker 1: up the grass. So that's why when you saw Marine
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  Speaker 1: One come down, it came down so slow and it
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  Speaker 1: jerked around a little because the pilot had to hit
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  Speaker 1: those four plates exactly. And Trump, after watching this, just
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  Speaker 1: thought it was preposterous, put in a helipad, a real one,
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  Speaker 1: so the helicopter wouldn't just land and it won't tear
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  Speaker 1: up and burn up the grass all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: it's so big and beautiful, this heliport, with the big,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful emblem in it. You could also use it for events,
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  Speaker 1: for parties, for a cocktail party or whatever. So he
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  Speaker 1: rebuilt it. It's perfect. A lot of these things he's
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  Speaker 1: done are great. Absolutely great. There's an entrance where when
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  Speaker 1: you see the world leaders come in and they're greeted
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  Speaker 1: on the steps and then they go through the door
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  Speaker 1: into the White House. Well, when they first go to
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  Speaker 1: the White House, that big area is called the Palm Court.
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  Speaker 1: And it was hideous. It was cheap, cracked linoleum. The
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  Speaker 1: walls weren't so great. So Trump redid that immediately. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's beautiful marble. It's a grand entrance when you come in.
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  Speaker 1: So he's done a lot of great things. All right.
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  Speaker 1: The Oval Office, that was a good idea to put
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  Speaker 1: some gold trim up there. but not every inch of
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  Speaker 1: the wall. Maybe some gold on the molding or something,
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  Speaker 1: but not every inch. And it was a very good
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  Speaker 1: idea to bring some more paintings, some of those beautiful
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  Speaker 1: paintings in there, but not 300 of them. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need to put a painting on every inch of every wall.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little too much. So when you walk in there,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a kaleidoscope. You can't even see straight when
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  Speaker 1: you walk in that room. So he does get carried
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  Speaker 1: away on some of those things, but let him Let
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  Speaker 1: him rebuild the Kennedy Center. He does know how to
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  Speaker 1: do that. And everything he's built is pretty good. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever heard about a problem with any of his buildings,
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  Speaker 1: with Trump Tower? You ever heard about a problem with
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  Speaker 1: the Grand Hyatt, which he built over Grand Central? You
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  Speaker 1: ever hear about a problem with Trump International, Columbus Circle?
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  Speaker 1: You ever been in the U.N. building? It is the
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  Speaker 1: most disgusting, decrepit building. From the moment you walk in
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  Speaker 1: the lobby to every hallway, every room is old, decrepit looking.
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  Speaker 1: Right across the street, Trump, what's it called? The Trump
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  Speaker 1: World Tower. Magnificent building. Much better. So let them rebuild
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. Hey, let me just check here. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a Democrat, cover your ears. Stock market is up today.
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  Speaker 1: Way up. And oil is falling. It's down to $ 100
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  Speaker 1: a barrel. Still way too high. But it's coming down
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  Speaker 1: and will keep coming down. Hey, a new book has
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  Speaker 1: come out. Princess Dye Her brother wrote a book. Princess
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  Speaker 1: Di's brother has written a book. It's a little late.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's how long ago is that? 30 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You don't realize that? Princess Di crashed in 1997. That's
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  Speaker 1: almost 30 years ago. So it's a new book, and
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  Speaker 1: it really goes after King Charles. Her brother is Charles Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: the ninth Earl of Spencer. Yeah, great. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what happened to the first eight Earls of Spencer, but
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  Speaker 1: this guy's the ninth Earl of Spencer. It says, new
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  Speaker 1: bombshell book, Swan Song, Diana, my sister. All right, not
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  Speaker 1: the greatest title, but then he's only the ninth Earl
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  Speaker 1: of Spencer. The monarch, he says that after Diana died,
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  Speaker 1: that Charles was very cold about it. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: marriage hadn't been great. And then after she died, after
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  Speaker 1: the car crash, he vowed that he said his ex-wife
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  Speaker 1: would be forgotten soon enough. That's how they talk if
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  Speaker 1: you're royalty. You know, if you're in America, if you
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  Speaker 1: hated your wife and she was going to cry, you'd say,
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  Speaker 1: F her. You'd say, eh, people forget about her. But
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  Speaker 1: if you're a royal, she'll be forgotten soon enough. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to sound really classy, use that phrase,
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  Speaker 1: soon enough. Yeah. So if you yelled at somebody, I'll
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  Speaker 1: take care of you, just throw that in. I'll take
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  Speaker 1: care of you soon enough. It makes you sound very classy.
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  Speaker 1: Soon enough. Diana, you know, I forgot about this. She
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  Speaker 1: was only 36 at the time. Only 36. So this
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  Speaker 1: new book discusses how Charles had contempt for Diana. And
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't believe anybody would be so bowled over by
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  Speaker 1: her death. They put out a statement at Buckingham Palace.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good statement, actually. Very classy, this Buckingham Palace book.
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  Speaker 1: Normally you put out a statement, this guy's a liar
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  Speaker 1: and an idiot. The statement said, it warned that the
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  Speaker 1: loss of the Princess of Wales could have muddled Spencer's memory.
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  Speaker 1: His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief
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  Speaker 1: can cloud reason, affect judgment, and color memory in ways
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  Speaker 1: others do not recognize. Even many years after such a loss.
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  Speaker 1: That is the classiest put down. ever in the history
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  Speaker 1: of the world. You got to give Charles credit for
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Anyway, we'll take some calls next. 800-321. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take some calls soon enough. Soon enough, we'll take
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  Speaker 1: some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 3: 800-321-0710.