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

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  Speaker 1: His job, make it all make sense. He's marks alone
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  Speaker 1: on Seventena.
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  Speaker 2: Having a big ceremony as we speak. Right now at
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  Speaker 2: the White House, President Trump is speaking. King Charles is there,
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  Speaker 2: the King, and there's quite an audience on the lawn
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  Speaker 2: at the White House. There many dignitaries. You'll see all
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  Speaker 2: the top Democrats. Again, what happened to the no king stuff?
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  Speaker 2: They're all celebrating the king. He's going to address Congress today.
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  Speaker 2: All the Democrats will be there. There's a big state
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  Speaker 2: dinner tonight. All the Democrats will be there. What happened
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  Speaker 2: to your no king stuff? Here's a real, actual king,
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  Speaker 2: and you're all over him, slabbing all over him, taking
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  Speaker 2: pictures with him. So you just can't try to figure
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  Speaker 2: it out. It's all it's all total hypocrisy. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I almost made the mistake of saying I hate that
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  Speaker 2: stupid phrase. I almost said, you can't make this stuff up.
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  Speaker 2: That's the dumbest phrase in the world. There are people
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  Speaker 2: who do make that stuff up for a living. All
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  Speaker 2: the great writers, screenwriters, they all go crazy whenever you're
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  Speaker 2: to use that expression, Yeah you can't make this stuff up,
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  Speaker 2: Yeah you can. That's what they do. For a living.
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  Speaker 2: They make up stuff even more outrageous than that. So
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  Speaker 2: King Charles will come to New York tomorrow, Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 2: will show them around. Also, you're gonna have the other
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  Speaker 2: controversy with Mom Donnie. You got all this FIFA stuff coming,
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  Speaker 2: which is FIFA is all the soccer stuff in the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup and all that. It'll be here in New York,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be in New Jersey, it'll be all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna tie up everything. Hang on, sorry, it's all
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  Speaker 2: those buffets choking to death on something. So it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: just be a snarled up mess. And Donnie addressing that.
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  Speaker 1: These events were not initially set to be free, but
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  Speaker 1: the world's should belong to the world, and so we've
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  Speaker 1: made the decision together for fans to be able to
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  Speaker 1: watch that together without having to spend a dollar.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I don't know what TL he's talking about.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't either. It's going to cost a fortune for everything.
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  Speaker 2: The tickets are outrageous, even to take the train. Everything's
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  Speaker 2: going to cost a fortune. It's going to be totally disruptive.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that's good. It brings a lot of attention
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  Speaker 2: to New York you know whatever. You see the Grand Prix,
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  Speaker 2: the Formula One Grand Prix Miami, Monte Carlo, Las Figs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they got to close up the whole downtown
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  Speaker 2: for a week. It's an absolute nightmare. But but it
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  Speaker 2: looks good. It's like a advertisement all over the world
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  Speaker 2: for the city. So we should be proud. The World
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  Speaker 2: Cup is coming.
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  Speaker 1: We will be hosting five free official fan events, one
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  Speaker 1: in each borough, featuring live viewings, local food offerings, and
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  Speaker 1: so much more.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny he gets excited about this, the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: He's all excited. The World Cup. It's coming. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be great for New York. Meantime, if you're a
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  Speaker 2: billionaire like Ken Griffin and you're about to pump six
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  Speaker 2: billion into the economy to build an enormous skyscraper, he
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  Speaker 2: hates you. He's mad at you. You know, this Ken
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  Speaker 2: Griffin building he's going to put on fifty second in
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  Speaker 2: Park would employ fifteen thousand people and to build it
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  Speaker 2: will employ six thousand construction workers for about five years.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to take that long to build it. So
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  Speaker 2: he's mad at that guy. But the World couple be
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  Speaker 2: here for a day and a half. Two minutes and
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  Speaker 2: he's all excited about that. Go try to figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, for those of you that that think
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  Speaker 2: New York is dying, it's over. That's it. It's these
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  Speaker 2: big real estate guys, these big billionaires. They're very smart
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to this stuff. They can see into
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  Speaker 2: the future, and they're building or about to build massive
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  Speaker 2: skyscrapers all over New York. This Ken Griffin building would
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  Speaker 2: be it. Fifty second and Park. Remember the old Brooks
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  Speaker 2: Brothers store on Madison Avenue, the original flagship Brooks Brothers
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  Speaker 2: has been closed for a couple of years. It's a
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  Speaker 2: coffee shop. Well, one of the big real estate companies,
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  Speaker 2: one of the great builders in New York. They're going
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  Speaker 2: to tear all that down that build a massive building.
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  Speaker 2: They're a beautiful new building. And then the Roosevelt Hotel,
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  Speaker 2: which was the Migrant that's probably going to come down.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's JP Morgan Chase looking at building another
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  Speaker 2: skyscraper there. If you go to fifty eighth and Madison,
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  Speaker 2: you'll see all the buildings have been torn down. There's
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  Speaker 2: a big hole in the ground. Well, there's a eighty
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  Speaker 2: five story skyscraper about to go up there on fifty
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  Speaker 2: seventh between fifth and sixth on both sides of the street,
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  Speaker 2: there's like seventy five story skyscrapers going up on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I can rattle off about twenty of these
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  Speaker 2: skyscrapers going up, and they're all multi billion dollar projects,
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  Speaker 2: billions for each building. And these real estate guys are
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  Speaker 2: spending it because they know New York is going to
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  Speaker 2: have a big future. They're not moving these buildings somewhere else. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The only one that's questionable, and this I don't know about.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of skyscraper there's a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of skyscrapers in Columbus Circle, and then after that it's
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  Speaker 2: the Upper West Side where there's no skyscrapers, except now
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  Speaker 2: there's one. It's about sixty sixth then Broadway. It's like
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  Speaker 2: a fifty five sixty story skyscraper. It just kind of
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  Speaker 2: stands out. You've never seen a skyscraper on the old
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  Speaker 2: Upper West Side. Well, now there's another one. I think
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't been fully approved yet, but it's where the
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  Speaker 2: old ABC TV was on sixty seventh and Columbus. The
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  Speaker 2: ABC it was actually a campus. It was like three
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  Speaker 2: or four buildings. That's where Live with Regis was every
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  Speaker 2: morning Channel seven News, all that ABC stuff moved down
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  Speaker 2: to Tribeca because somebody bought all those buildings. They're tearing
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  Speaker 2: them down. They want to build an eighty five story skyscraper.
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  Speaker 2: But that's on the upper West side, in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of all those regular apartments. You'll see these two enormous skyscrapers.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of jarring. The same thing happened in Queens
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  Speaker 2: and Brooklyn. You know, remember you used to look over
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  Speaker 2: at Queens from Manhattan and there was one little skyscraper,
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  Speaker 2: one little city bank building. Now you look over there,
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  Speaker 2: it's a whole skyline. On both sides of the East River,
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  Speaker 2: there's a skyline. So you're going to see more and
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  Speaker 2: more of that. There's going to be these skyscrapers everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, if he asked these big real estate guys,
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  Speaker 2: the heads of these big real estacings. So once' you're
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  Speaker 2: worried about Mam Donnie, I'll tell you he's just a
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  Speaker 2: blipping time. He'll be gone before you know it, because
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  Speaker 2: these projects are you know, eight year, ten year projects.
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  Speaker 2: Now Mam Donnie wants to do a ticker tape parade
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  Speaker 2: for the Artemis two crew, the astronauts. Well, have you
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  Speaker 2: heard anybody talk about him in the last week? Boy,
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  Speaker 2: they got forgotten about fast, the Artemis two astronauts. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it used to be if you were an astronaut in
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  Speaker 2: the good old days of Gemini Apollo, when you came
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  Speaker 2: down from the Moon, you were on the Tonight Show,
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  Speaker 2: you were on Meet the Press, you were on everything,
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  Speaker 2: you were on the Today Show, you were all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. But we forgot all about these guys. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know anybody could name their names? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: So they want to do this ticker tape parade here
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  Speaker 2: in New York. You wouldn't think Mamdani'd be a big
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  Speaker 2: parade guy. You wouldn't think he'd be a big Space
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  Speaker 2: program guy. But he wants to do it. He wants
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  Speaker 2: NASA to pay for it. That's the problem. Ticker tape
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  Speaker 2: parades cost a lot of money, not just the cleanup, sanitation,
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  Speaker 2: but you got to have a lot of cops. That's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of overtime. So he wants NASA to pay
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  Speaker 2: for Good luck with that. Hey, Katie Couric, seems like
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  Speaker 2: a nice, you know, perky, nice, cute Katie Kurk. She
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  Speaker 2: definitely has a weasel side to her. She turned on
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  Speaker 2: Matt Lower. She never did this before. There's a new
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  Speaker 2: book that's come out from one of the alleged rape victims.
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  Speaker 2: She's written a long, detailed book. I can't see the
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  Speaker 2: title here, but it's her memoir and she tells the stories.
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  Speaker 2: She was on the road with Matt Lower. She was
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  Speaker 2: like an assistant a producer. I guess she was a producer.
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  Speaker 2: And they're traveling there, staying in the hotel at the Olympics,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow she ends up in Matt Lower's room and
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  Speaker 2: she says she was raped by him. Then she says
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  Speaker 2: another time in his Today Show office he raped her.
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  Speaker 2: Remember he had that button. When he's at his desk,
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  Speaker 2: he can reach under and touch a button that'll lock
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  Speaker 2: all the doors. Now, who has that kind of a
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  Speaker 2: button in their office. I know a lot of big
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  Speaker 2: CEOs that have incredible, unbelievably equipped offices. There's no button
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  Speaker 2: under the desk to lock the doors. That's usually James
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  Speaker 2: Bond Villain has that button. Maybe somewhere in the highest
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  Speaker 2: levels of the intelligence department. Somebody needs that button. But
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  Speaker 2: what does Matt Lower need the button to lock the doors.
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  Speaker 2: So she remember this was the story where supposedly he raped
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  Speaker 2: this woman in the office and then when it was over,
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  Speaker 2: she had passed out and they had a call the
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  Speaker 2: NBC nurses to come drag her out of that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. So she's written a book about this. I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't there. I can't tell you it happened, but sounds
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  Speaker 2: to me like it happened because NBC investigated and Matt
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  Speaker 2: Lower was fired twenty four hours later. Now I remember,
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  Speaker 2: he's the host of the Today Show. He's getting twenty
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  Speaker 2: five million a year. Is a big thing. He's the
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  Speaker 2: number one Today Show. You don't fool around with that.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that they fired him the next day, well,
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  Speaker 2: I think that means something was going on there. So
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  Speaker 2: she's written this book and they asked Katie Koric about it,
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  Speaker 2: and she didn't defend Matt Lower anyway. She says, I
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  Speaker 2: feel terrible for her. I think she was very brave,
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  Speaker 2: very brave to write the book. And what can she
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  Speaker 2: say if she knows it's true. I don't know, But
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  Speaker 2: you got to remember something. They all worked with Matt
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  Speaker 2: Lwer in fact, in fact, if you go back and
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  Speaker 2: check the record. This was during all that me Too
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  Speaker 2: stuff coming out, that Charlie Rose type stuff coming out.
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  Speaker 2: I sat on the air Matt Lower, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's coming. It's gonna happen. He's gonna get caught too.
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  Speaker 2: So if I knew about it, I don't even work there.
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  Speaker 2: If I knew about it, why didn't Katie Koric know
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  Speaker 2: about it? If it's happening at NBC News and they're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be the top investigative journalists of the world
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  Speaker 2: and it's happening two doors down in the hallway, how
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  Speaker 2: come they didn't know about it home? They didn't say anything.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pretty good question. Nobody's nobody's asked. So you
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  Speaker 2: want to feel really old, really old. Remember David Hasselhoff,
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  Speaker 2: Remember Baywatch? Remember him in that bathing suit and the
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  Speaker 2: surfboard running along the beach in Baywatch. Look at this
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  Speaker 2: picture David Hasselhoff now using a walker. He's got the
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  Speaker 2: gray hair, white hair, he's got a walker. He's with
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  Speaker 2: a for the his wife is helping him. He's using
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  Speaker 2: a walker. Oh, actually he's only seventy three. I guess
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  Speaker 2: he said some medical problems. Hey, Rob Reiner, you know
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  Speaker 2: you had this crazed son, Nick Reiner, But did you
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  Speaker 2: know about this one? Ryan O'Neill and Farah Fawcett have
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  Speaker 2: a son. Ryan O'Neill and Farah Fawcett's son is named
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  Speaker 2: Redmond O'Neill. He was in court last week with a
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  Speaker 2: slew of charges. He's in court for attempted murder. He
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  Speaker 2: looks really frightening. He's got the scary tattoos all over
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  Speaker 2: his face. Apparently struggled with drug addiction from a very
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  Speaker 2: young age, in and out of rehab. He has all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of addictions he can't control. He's been in asylums
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  Speaker 2: and all kinds of rehab for years. In twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: he went on a knife rampage across Los Angeles, attacked
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  Speaker 2: five men, robbed the seven to eleven, seriously injured two victims,
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  Speaker 2: including who was one who was stabbed in the face.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a place, Hollywood, probably not a place you
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  Speaker 2: want to raise your kids. Not a great environment. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing is King Charles will be here in
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  Speaker 2: New York tomorrow, so just remember that this is I
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  Speaker 2: imagine there'll be a lot of security, be kind of disruptive.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're planning on driving into New York. You
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  Speaker 2: probably don't want to do it tomorrow. Hey, the Sphere
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  Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. You've either been there. It's an amazing
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  Speaker 2: thing to see or you've seen it. The Sphere in
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  Speaker 2: Las Vegas built by Madison Square Garden, by James Dolan.
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  Speaker 2: You know they spent two and a half billion to
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  Speaker 2: build it. Kind of a gamble. Well, it's now officially
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  Speaker 2: the world's highest grossing entertainment venue. Remember, the initial predictions
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  Speaker 2: were all doomsday predictions. It's never gonna work well. Last
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  Speaker 2: year alone, almost two million people bought a ticket to
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  Speaker 2: go to the Sphere. Last year alone, it brought in
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  Speaker 2: about almost four hundred million in revenue. It's the top
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  Speaker 2: grossing venue in the world. It helped push the comp
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  Speaker 2: They actually made it a separate company, Sphere Entertainment. It's
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  Speaker 2: now in the black, big net profit investors have taken notice.
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  Speaker 2: Company stock was twenty six dollars. Now it's one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and thirty eight dollars. It's way way up. I talked
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  Speaker 2: to Dolan maybe it was six months ago, about the Sphere.
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  Speaker 2: I said, you're going to open them all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: He just looked at me like No, it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: impossible to much to do. It's too it's too tough
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  Speaker 2: to build them, and kind of said, Las Vegas is
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  Speaker 2: really the only place you can do it. Maybe you
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  Speaker 2: could do it in Florida, because you really need a
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  Speaker 2: lot of cooperation for the land, for the permits, for
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing from the government there. And obviously you
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  Speaker 2: can't do it in New York. They would just torture
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  Speaker 2: you with zoning and regulations and all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: also he kind of said, if you build them all
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  Speaker 2: over the place, it takes away the cachet of the
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  Speaker 2: one in Las Vegas. It's not so special. If it's
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  Speaker 2: a chain and there's a whole bunch of them. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls in a minute. Eight hundred three
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  Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten is the number, you know.
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  Speaker 2: ICE is the Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency Customs Enforcement ICE.
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  Speaker 2: And there's all the controversy, all the flack. Somebody suggested
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  Speaker 2: the President Trump and he loves the idea. Somebody suggested
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  Speaker 2: changed the name to the National Immigration Customs Enforcement And
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  Speaker 2: that way it's nice, it's not ICE. It becomes nice
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  Speaker 2: and on the uniform it says nice and on the helmet.
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  Speaker 2: It says Nice. Uh, he really got excited about that idea.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to see him do it, so
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  Speaker 2: expect that to happen pretty soon. They'll change the name
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  Speaker 2: of ICE to Nice National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, So
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  Speaker 2: we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 2: zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three two
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  Speaker 2: one zero seven ten