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"Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment -- NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO!" · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Mark Simone. This is the bonus segment of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast all you podcast listeners who We love our
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  Speaker 1: podcast listeners, so we do a special extra show bonus
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  Speaker 1: segment for them. A lot of stuff happened this week
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Post. You know, this always the biggest Trump
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  Speaker 1: hating newspaper Trump arrangement syndrome, but Jeff Bezos has kind
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  Speaker 1: of cleaned it up a little, gotten it back to
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  Speaker 1: more of a normal newspaper, not always bashing Trump. They've
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  Speaker 1: defended him on a couple of things, the shutdown, if
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  Speaker 1: he yelled at Democrats to stop being so crazy about
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  Speaker 1: the shutdown. And here's another one. They praised Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: aggressive approach to building his new ballroom. Washington Post says,
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  Speaker 1: in classic Trump fashion, president pursuing a reasonable idea in
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  Speaker 1: the most jarring manner possible. The board wrote, but they
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  Speaker 1: said his plans are great, and they said they should
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  Speaker 1: have submitted the plans ahead of time and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: But then the Democrats would have gone crazy and held
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  Speaker 1: it up forever. So they actually applaud the aggressive. Just
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  Speaker 1: get it done, don't let it get bogged down in
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  Speaker 1: committees and government and Congress. As the Washington Post point
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  Speaker 1: out the Blue Princes would have faced death by a
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  Speaker 1: thousand cuts, and he said The Washington Post also points
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  Speaker 1: out privately, many people from the Biden and the Obama
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  Speaker 1: White Houses acknowledge this is long overdue, that they wish
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  Speaker 1: they had had this ballroom, that they wish they had
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  Speaker 1: an event space like Trump is creating. It was a
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  Speaker 1: big problem for every president. You know, when these presidents
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  Speaker 1: go to other countries, when they go to any world
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  Speaker 1: leader anywhere in the world. Whether you saw the dinner
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  Speaker 1: the Prince Charles Throom in the most unbelievable, ornate, spectacular
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  Speaker 1: dining room ever in the world, you go to France,
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  Speaker 1: these world leaders are living in palaces with ballrooms and
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  Speaker 1: venues that you can't believe. So it was crazy when
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  Speaker 1: they come to America for a big dinner at the
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  Speaker 1: White House, if it's you know, five hundred people, it's
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  Speaker 1: in a tent on the lawn with porta potties. How
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  Speaker 1: does that look for other countries. So the whole idea,
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  Speaker 1: Trump's idea of redoing the Oval Office and then doing
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  Speaker 1: this ballroom. You want to project power and wealth and
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  Speaker 1: strength to these other world leaders. So the Obama and
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  Speaker 1: Biden White House people privately saying this is a much
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  Speaker 1: much needed thing. We really need to have this. So
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  Speaker 1: that Louver heist the Louver Museum looks like a number
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  Speaker 1: of professionals, real real pros, who got in and out
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  Speaker 1: and like that whatever was four minutes or something, then
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  Speaker 1: stole all that jewelry they've gotten I think five of
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  Speaker 1: them now, DNA and other things. They were able to
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  Speaker 1: track them down, they still don't have the jewels. Though
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  Speaker 1: nobody can figure this crime out. You can't really fence
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  Speaker 1: them obviously, they're such well known pieces. So a couple
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  Speaker 1: of theories floating around that it was a professional collector
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  Speaker 1: with billions of dollars who hired the best team of
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  Speaker 1: professionals to go steal the stuff and he just wanted
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  Speaker 1: it in his collection. That's a possibility. The other thing
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  Speaker 1: is they're thinking that somebody stole it knowing you could
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  Speaker 1: break down the stones and then sell them separately and
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  Speaker 1: make a lot of money. But if that were the case,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you'd go to all the trouble of
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  Speaker 1: doing the Louver. You could just go to any jewelry
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  Speaker 1: store and steal a lot of stones. So that professional
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  Speaker 1: collector looking to just have them. That's probably the better theory.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Gates shocked a lot of left wing people, totally
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  Speaker 1: changed his tune on climate change. I don't know exactly why.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Gates wants back in with the White Houses with
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  Speaker 1: President Trump, I don't know, but he's admitting now a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of things. Number One, he admitted climate change is
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  Speaker 1: a problem, but it's not going to end civilization. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to destroy the earth, or it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to destroy the ocean. None of that's And he also
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge the temperature is not the way you measure progress
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  Speaker 1: on climate It's not about temperature. It's not that simple.
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  Speaker 1: And he also acknowledged it's about health and prosperity. It's
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  Speaker 1: the best defense against climate change. Build up a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these other countries. But it's a major, major reversal
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  Speaker 1: for Bill Gates. Now, the other reason he might have
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  Speaker 1: done it, you end up with this Al Gore problem,
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  Speaker 1: with this John Kerry problem. When you run around lecturing
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  Speaker 1: everybody about climate change, then you get yelled at every
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  Speaker 1: time you're flying around in your eighty five million dollar
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  Speaker 1: private jet and you're using four hundred and fifty gallons
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  Speaker 1: of jet fuel every hour, and you travel around on
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  Speaker 1: yachts and a caravan of SUVs. So maybe the other
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  Speaker 1: reason he backed off on that. But it's good. It's
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  Speaker 1: good he's finally being honest about the whole thing. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: the director The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola, the great director
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  Speaker 1: The Godfather, apparently went totally broke. The eighty six year
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  Speaker 1: old spent all this money he had this movie. It
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  Speaker 1: was like a passion project for decades. He's been trying
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  Speaker 1: to do this called Megalopolis, whatever the hell it was.
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  Speaker 1: But he invested one hundred and twenty million of his
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  Speaker 1: own money, one hundred and twenty million of his fortune,
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  Speaker 1: and the movie totally bombed. It only grows fourteen million,
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  Speaker 1: So that's one hundred and six million dollar loss. So
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  Speaker 1: I guess that was everything. He went broke. He's now
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  Speaker 1: selling stuff. He's even selling off his luxury watch collection,
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  Speaker 1: which apparently is an amazing, very serious collection. One piece
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  Speaker 1: is worth over a million dollars. But he's got how
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  Speaker 1: many pieces, seven seven others, so figure it's five to
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  Speaker 1: six million in watches. He's going to auction them off.
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  Speaker 1: December sixth and seventh, Phillips Auction House in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for a guy like that, a veteran of
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood who's been there forever, first of all, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty million for this pet prize. But there's so
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  Speaker 1: many ways to raise money in Hollywood for a movie,
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  Speaker 1: so many investors. If you can't get them, the next
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  Speaker 1: thing you do in Hollywood is you go to what
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  Speaker 1: they call civilians, people not in the movie business. You
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  Speaker 1: go to rich guys, billionaires who want to be in
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  Speaker 1: show business, and they're easy to find. It's done all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Directors do that all the time. A big
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  Speaker 1: studio want fund a movie, you go find these amateurs
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  Speaker 1: all over America, these bazillionaires, they like to call themselves
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  Speaker 1: a movie producers. Although you raise the money that way.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy. And if you can't do it in America,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it in the Middle East. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of these Sultan's and Saudi's and these they all want
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  Speaker 1: to be movie producers. It looks good and for ten million,
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  Speaker 1: twenty million, which is nothing to them, they chip in
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  Speaker 1: and so you easily raise the money. Martin Scorsese has done.
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  Speaker 1: Plenty of people have done it. So if he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: raise the money, that way. That meant things were really, really,
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  Speaker 1: really bad as far as everyway it looked at the
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  Speaker 1: movie and had no interest. Hey, we just want to
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  Speaker 1: pay tribute to Rabbi Alvin Kass. They passed away this year.
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  Speaker 1: He was eighty nine years old. He was the NYPD
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  Speaker 1: chaplain for sixty years. Beloved. Beautiful tribute from the Police
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Jessica Tish about how much he meant to the
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  Speaker 1: police department and to so many families. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: any pennies right now? Do you have a penny anywhere
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  Speaker 1: on you? Do you have a jar of pennies anywhere?
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  Speaker 1: They may become valuable. Actually, there's now a penny shortage
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  Speaker 1: that's going to impact the country. They stopped making pennies
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year. President Trump asked the Treasury Department stop
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  Speaker 1: making pennies. You don't need them anymore. They're wasteful, and
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not, for the Treasury Department to make them,
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  Speaker 1: to make a penny costs three three point six cents,
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  Speaker 1: so it's almost four cents to make a penny. So
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  Speaker 1: they lose about three cents on every penny they make,
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  Speaker 1: and that can add up to a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: He's asked them to stop making pennies. And they thought
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  Speaker 1: somewhere years from now there will be a penny shortage.
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  Speaker 1: But they figured to be okay, because everything will be
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  Speaker 1: digital by then. Right now, people are using Apple Pay
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  Speaker 1: and Google Pay and credit cards on your phone. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: paying that way. Nobody pays cash anymore. It's very unusual.
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  Speaker 1: But they guessed wrong. The penny shortage is already hitting
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  Speaker 1: and businesses now have found themselves asking customers not to
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  Speaker 1: pay with cash. You know, a lot of people still
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  Speaker 1: use cash, but they're asking you not to pay, and
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  Speaker 1: if you do, they're telling you they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to give you the correct change because they
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  Speaker 1: don't have pennies anymore. They've run out. Even though it's
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  Speaker 1: now believed there are about two billion pennies in the world,
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  Speaker 1: it's not enough. So if you got that big jar
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  Speaker 1: of pennies going there and offer to a business, maybe
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  Speaker 1: they'll overpay for it. You never know. Hey, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 1: another lawsuit he might You know, he's made a fortune
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  Speaker 1: sueing ABC, CBS. He's already up about fifty sixty million
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  Speaker 1: on these lawsuits. Now he's suing You remember, right before
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  Speaker 1: the election. There was a poll that came out in
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  Speaker 1: Iowa or the Iowa Polls. It was the Des Moines Register.
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  Speaker 1: They put out this fake poll that Trump was something
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  Speaker 1: like twenty points behind Kamala couldn't possibly win. The reason
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  Speaker 1: they do that is to stop his votes, to stop
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  Speaker 1: his donations. But it was totally wrong, total fake poll.
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  Speaker 1: He's now suing them the cases in Iowa State Court
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  Speaker 1: and he's won the first lost one round, but he's
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  Speaker 1: won the big round and the case progresses. So this
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  Speaker 1: could be pretty interesting. It could be another huge payday
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  Speaker 1: for Trump. In the end, he'll end up making a
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  Speaker 1: couple hundred million, suing the networks and the media and
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  Speaker 1: making all this money. Hey, also, the Trump Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice is starting to look at crime statistics around the
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  Speaker 1: country and they've found so far that Democrats are playing
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  Speaker 1: with the numbers, juggling the crime status. You know when Illinois, Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: of these cities, Portland, they keep telling you crime is
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  Speaker 1: down twenty percent. You know, whenever Trump tries to send
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  Speaker 1: the military in or do something, they always use the excuse, well,
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  Speaker 1: crime is dropping. It's dropped every drop this year, it
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  Speaker 1: dropped last year. They're really looking into it. And this
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  Speaker 1: has happened in a lot of cities where they play
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  Speaker 1: with the crime numbers. It's pretty easy to do. There's
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  Speaker 1: some periods in New York where it may have happened
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  Speaker 1: if you get the right police commissioner and he takes
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  Speaker 1: orders from the mayor and you can put the right
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  Speaker 1: people in charge of the numbers. And the way they
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  Speaker 1: do it is they if it's a felony, they knock
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  Speaker 1: it down to a misdemeanor. There were even cases in
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  Speaker 1: some cities where there's a murder they called it a
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  Speaker 1: suicide just to not have as many murders on the books.
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  Speaker 1: So the Department of Justice looking into this, the whole
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  Speaker 1: team going through numbers, going through records, and they may
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  Speaker 1: catch a bunch of these cities. Case of one guy
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  Speaker 1: who's a sword maniac, remember the maniac wielding this sword.
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  Speaker 1: He was arrested for killing a woman on the subway,
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  Speaker 1: killed her with a sword. It was a horrible thing,
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  Speaker 1: long criminal record, and the judge lowered his bail in
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  Speaker 1: an assault case. They knocked it down to a misdemeanor
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  Speaker 1: so it wouldn't be a felony. That kind of stuff
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  Speaker 1: going on, So you may see a big, big report
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  Speaker 1: coming out on all that stuff happening pretty soon. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of stuff going on all over the place. Hey, the
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  Speaker 1: cell phone ban in New York, New York State. This
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  Speaker 1: is the first school year where they banned cell phones.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a kid, you have to lock up your
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  Speaker 1: cell phone. You can't have it all day long. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to me, I would have been able to get through
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  Speaker 1: school a lot easier with a cell phone. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: bear listening to anything. But if we'd had a cell
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  Speaker 1: phone back then, I could be reading books that I
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  Speaker 1: want to read, watching TV beyond line bind. It would
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  Speaker 1: have gotten me through the day. But no more self
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  Speaker 1: phones in school. So here's one group of educators from
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  Speaker 1: Long Island. They say they've seen a huge difference with
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  Speaker 1: students because they have no phone. They've, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: tough for a week or so, then they accept it.
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  Speaker 1: And what they're seeing now is students are talking more
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  Speaker 1: in class, engaging more in class and in recess lunch hour,
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  Speaker 1: more socializing, more talking. So they're saying it's actually a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. So if that's true, if we can believe
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  Speaker 1: all these teachers, it's pretty good. There are experts in
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  Speaker 1: psychologists that say, if you can put your phone down
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  Speaker 1: for like two three hours a day and just not
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  Speaker 1: look at it and go phoneless for a couple hours
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  Speaker 1: a day, it's really better for your mental health. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly why, but they keep claiming that. Now
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  Speaker 1: here's another new trend. You have a wedding. You got
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  Speaker 1: to spend a fortune on a wedding. You got to
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  Speaker 1: rent them. Then you got to pay all this cost
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  Speaker 1: of fortune. So there are companies now that want to
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  Speaker 1: sponsor weddings, but in exchange, you'd have to put their
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  Speaker 1: logo all over the place. Now would you do this?
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  Speaker 1: If a sponsor would come into a company, a corporation,
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  Speaker 1: a product, will sponsor your wedding, save you a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, would you do it? Well, people are doing it.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there's a new survey sixty two percent of
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  Speaker 1: Americans would do it, sixty two percent. But organizations would
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  Speaker 1: need to cover sixty five percent of the wedding bill
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  Speaker 1: to be included. Now imagine they don't do this for
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  Speaker 1: just any wedding. It's got to be the right place,
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  Speaker 1: the right type of crowd. But pretty interesting idea. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this has been the bonus segment of the podcast. If
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  Speaker 1: for listening. I See a Monday. Have a great weekend.