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

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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's hour number two. That's right. If you just
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  Speaker 1: tuned in, you missed the first hour. It's nine to
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  Speaker 1: noon every day, nine o'clock till noon. Look at that.
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  Speaker 1: It's September 1st. How the hell did that happen? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. It's September 1st already. Labor Day weekend is
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  Speaker 1: just days away from now. Tim Cook is gone. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. Howard Stern, just about gone. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to him. We'll get to the midterms. Hey, J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 1: is in Michigan. He's been sent there to campaign against El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 1: And El-Sayed getting attacked left and right. People yelling and screaming.
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  Speaker 1: Abdul El-Sayed, just a ridiculous, typical phony Democratic Socialist. They're
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  Speaker 1: all Wealthy people telling you you should be poor and
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  Speaker 1: let them take care of you. Now, listen, he's getting
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  Speaker 1: flack from every direction in Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: But I'd like to ask El Saeed one question. If
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  Speaker 2: he wants free everything, free health care for all, why
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  Speaker 2: exactly does his wife, who's a doctor, why does she
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  Speaker 2: not accept Medicaid and Medicare?
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  Speaker 1: Is that odd?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, do what you say.
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  Speaker 1: Not as you do.
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  Speaker 2: You want to know why? Because they know we live
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  Speaker 2: in America and they like freedom, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of– hey, by the way, that free
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  Speaker 1: healthcare for all, the free this, the free that, a
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  Speaker 1: new study shows that if you implemented all the democratic
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  Speaker 1: social ideas, it would cost $ 200 trillion. $ 200 trillion. That
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  Speaker 1: would be the end of America as you know it.
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  Speaker 1: A staggering $ 200 trillion would be the cost of everything.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you go through all of this stuff. health
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  Speaker 1: care for everybody. You're talking about $ 50 trillion over the
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  Speaker 1: next decade. Slavery reparations, you're talking about $ 20 trillion. Federal
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  Speaker 1: jobs guarantee, you're talking about $ 50 trillion. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: just goes on and on and piles up to $ 200 trillion.
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  Speaker 1: So you couldn't do all of it. It'd be impossible.
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  Speaker 1: It can't be done anyway. It's not even logical. So
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  Speaker 1: Vice President J.D. Vance has been sent to Michigan. He's
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  Speaker 1: from Ohio, so he speaks that language, that Midwestern Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: Michigan language. He's there to campaign against El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 3: And I realize that there's something about Abdul El-Sayed that
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  Speaker 3: is very, very evil and on the rise in the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America today. And it's people who see
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  Speaker 3: themselves not as citizens of a common nation fighting for
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  Speaker 3: every single person, whether they're Jewish or Christian, whether they're
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  Speaker 3: white or black or brown. but see themselves as fighting
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  Speaker 3: for one group at the expense of others. And that
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  Speaker 3: is how ladies and gentlemen, you destroy the United States
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  Speaker 3: of America.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now you'll notice the first woman said, uh, El Sayid,
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  Speaker 1: he says El Sayed and I say El Sayad. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess, uh, Vance is right. Cause
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the way it's spelled El Sayed,
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  Speaker 1: I like El Sayad. It sounds better. El Sayed. All right. Um,
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  Speaker 1: He's just slightly ahead in the polls right now. But
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see these polls everywhere showing that the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans in big trouble, that the Democrats have the advantage
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  Speaker 1: in the midterms. And they go state by state by state.
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  Speaker 1: And the polls, they show you how the Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: going to, they're ahead here, there, everywhere. Well, if you
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  Speaker 1: look into the metrics of the polls, they're all rigged.
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  Speaker 1: They're not real polls. They're rigged polls. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans are 23% of the sample. It's supposed to be 36%
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  Speaker 1: of the sample. They're not using likely voters. They're not
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  Speaker 1: using the right demos. So they're all, and that's a
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  Speaker 1: good sign that Republicans are going to win. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to use the polls, what you look at is
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  Speaker 1: the metrics and you see how much they're rigged. If
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  Speaker 1: they're rigged that much, that means the Republicans are going
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  Speaker 1: to do well. Now, the only honest pollster in the media,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the media, you're seeing these college polls, these
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  Speaker 1: media polls, you can't trust any of them. They're all cheap, flimsy,
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  Speaker 1: fake polls. The only one you can trust is this
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  Speaker 1: Harry Enten who's on CNN. I don't know how the
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  Speaker 1: hell this happens, but the CNN pollster is very honest.
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  Speaker 1: Even President Trump tweeting out that, you know, thanking the
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  Speaker 1: CNN pollster for being honest. Here he is on CNN
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  Speaker 1: talking about how bad the Democrats look in the midterms.
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  Speaker 4: In April, according to a Washington Post episode, Paul, the
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  Speaker 4: Democrats were more trusted by two points. Again, close margin,
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  Speaker 4: no clear leader. But look where the shift has been.
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  Speaker 4: If anything, the shift has been in the Republican direction.
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  Speaker 4: Now the Republicans and Donald Trump are trusted more by
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  Speaker 4: two points on the run. So, again, over the course
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  Speaker 4: of the war, if anything— The Republicans have been the
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  Speaker 4: ones that have been gaining ground, which I think just
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  Speaker 4: goes so opposed to all of the news coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now the way they con you in the media,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're watching CNN or MSNBC or New York Times,
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  Speaker 1: they show you the president's approval ratings. Look how low
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  Speaker 1: his approval ratings have dropped to 39%. Look at his
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  Speaker 1: approval ratings down to 40%. They keep showing you this.
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  Speaker 1: Look how bad his approval ratings are. They never mention
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  Speaker 1: the Democratic's approval ratings. which is down to like 2%.
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  Speaker 1: And good for Harry Enten on CNN. He points it
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  Speaker 1: out all the time. The Democrats' approval ratings are not
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  Speaker 1: only lower than Trump's, they're lower than anybody's ever been.
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  Speaker 1: The Democrats now have the lowest approval ratings in all
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  Speaker 1: these polls, but that's the only place you'll see it
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  Speaker 1: publicly is Harry Enten. Howard Stern, well, you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: basically getting out of the Howard Stern business over there
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  Speaker 1: at Sirius. This guy was under a $ 500 million contract,
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 million a year. And through the years, they kept
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  Speaker 1: cutting his salary. And every time they'd cut his salary,
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  Speaker 1: he'd compromise with them and cut his work hours. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was five days a week. Then it was four
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  Speaker 1: days a week. Then it became three days a week.
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  Speaker 1: And then they cut him again. So in the last contract,
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  Speaker 1: it was three days a week, but only like 20
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  Speaker 1: weeks a year. I mean, there was very few life shifts.
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  Speaker 1: So the new contract is a, drastic pay cut. So
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  Speaker 1: he's going to do one show a week. It's down
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  Speaker 1: to one show a week and not every week. So very, very,
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  Speaker 1: very few shows. Now, you could step back and look
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  Speaker 1: at it and say, well, when he went woke, when
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  Speaker 1: he went crazy left wing, when he turned on Trump,
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  Speaker 1: when he embraced the Democrats, when he became woke Howard,
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  Speaker 1: that was the end. He lost his audience. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of truth to that. Yeah, he did lose
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  Speaker 1: an enormous chunk of the audience, and that's what sunk him.
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  Speaker 1: But there's some people that will argue you can't stay
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  Speaker 1: the same. You've got to keep evolving. When he first
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  Speaker 1: came to New York years ago when he was throwing
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  Speaker 1: pies in the face of strippers and all the crazy
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  Speaker 1: stunts running around the street with the megaphone, all those
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  Speaker 1: antics are great. But when you hit 70 or whatever
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  Speaker 1: he is, 72, You got to change. You can't keep
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  Speaker 1: doing that stuff. He's not a, you know, like a
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  Speaker 1: crazy kid anymore. So you got to evolve. And that's true.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean you got to go super woke.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the career of Imus, who was a crazy
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  Speaker 1: shock shock. Then as he got older, it became more
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  Speaker 1: of a talk show. Then it became more of a
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  Speaker 1: political talk show. Then it became a very highbrow political show.
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  Speaker 1: You got to evolve. You got to keep changing. Look
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  Speaker 1: at me. I used to be a rock and roll
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  Speaker 1: DJ here in New York. Then it was... the more
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  Speaker 1: grown-up music, and then it was talk, and then it
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  Speaker 1: was more talk. I mean, you change. It's very important
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  Speaker 1: to go back and listen to yourself. 10 years ago,
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  Speaker 1: 20 years ago, you better sound a lot different. You
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  Speaker 1: can't keep doing the same thing all your life. There
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  Speaker 1: are people that do that. Whatever they were doing in 1983,
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  Speaker 1: good enough for now. They just keep doing the same
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  Speaker 1: show every day. Trump came up with the best name
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  Speaker 1: for those people. He calls them stopped clocks. guy's just
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  Speaker 1: a stopped clock he's just doing the same thing he's
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  Speaker 1: always done so Howard Stern did have to evolve and
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  Speaker 1: change but I think he went in the wrong direction
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  Speaker 1: way in the wrong direction so he's down to one
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  Speaker 1: one day a week and you know it's two channels
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  Speaker 1: it's serious Howard 100 Howard 101 so they're taking away
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  Speaker 1: 101 they've taken it away from him uh he's laid
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  Speaker 1: off a lot of people just After the last round
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  Speaker 1: of layoffs, they just laid off another 12 people. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of layoffs at the Howard outfit there. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: 101 channel will be taken over by Andy Cohen. It'll
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  Speaker 1: become Radio Andy. So the two of them have just
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  Speaker 1: recorded a promo trying to make it look like it's
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  Speaker 1: Howard's idea. It's a promo. It's a video. It's all
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  Speaker 1: over Instagram and everywhere. uh, with it's Howard and Andy talking. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Howard access, if he's decided to turn the channel over
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  Speaker 1: to Andy, it's not his idea, but, uh, he's pretending
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  Speaker 1: it's his idea and he wants Andy to take it
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  Speaker 1: over and he's telling him what he wants him to do. Now, the, uh, the,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to find some saving grace here to make
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  Speaker 1: it look like Howard's not being pushed out. So they've
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  Speaker 1: made a deal with HBO max. Apparently it's not much
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  Speaker 1: of a deal financially, but that, uh, One show a week,
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  Speaker 1: Howard Stern's studio is also a TV studio. So besides
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  Speaker 1: doing the radio show, there's video of every show. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our shows here do that. If you
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  Speaker 1: go across the hall there, Charlemagne's studio is also a
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  Speaker 1: TV studio. Down the hall that way, Elvis Duran's studio,
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  Speaker 1: also a TV studio. So both those shows, they do video.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a TV version, a radio version. Howard does
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. So they're going to chop up that
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  Speaker 1: one hour or that one show a week that he does.
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  Speaker 1: into one hour and make it a TV show. And
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  Speaker 1: that'll be on HBO max. Now, apparently it's not much
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  Speaker 1: of a money deal, uh, but, uh, it'll drop on Thursdays.
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  Speaker 1: So you can watch an hour of it on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Now the problem is nobody's listening to the radio show anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know who's going to watch this one hour.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem is he does, he, uh, he started
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  Speaker 1: doing these interviews and, uh, his diehards say, Oh, what
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  Speaker 1: an interview? Ooh, is he a great interview? The worst
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  Speaker 1: interviews ever. They take like three and a half hours.
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  Speaker 1: Every question is like 15 minutes long. It's just ponderous,
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  Speaker 1: these interviews. If you cut them up into the highlights,
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  Speaker 1: it's great. It's great where McCartney tells a couple of
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  Speaker 1: great stories. You cut that together. So that's why the
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  Speaker 1: HBO show might work. But if you listen to the
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  Speaker 1: whole three-hour interview, it's just dragging on and on. So
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  Speaker 1: this should be the, I think he signed a three-year
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  Speaker 1: contract or four-year contract, something like that. But that'll be
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  Speaker 1: the end. Then he'll kind of wrap it up. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of that, Tim Cook, stepped down yesterday as chairman
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  Speaker 1: of Apple. There's no more Tim Cook. The new guy
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  Speaker 1: took over today. Today it's being run by the new guy, who's,
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  Speaker 1: where's his name here? John Ternus, who had been head
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  Speaker 1: of Apple's hardware division, but apparently he was the closest
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  Speaker 1: guy to Tim Cook. They were inseparable at all the meetings.
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  Speaker 1: So he's really groomed this guy. Now, when Tim Cook
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  Speaker 1: took over, everybody was upset Steve Jobs was gone. They
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  Speaker 1: had no faith in Tim Cook, but under Tim Cook,
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  Speaker 1: they've grown to become a $ 4 trillion company. If you
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  Speaker 1: have Apple stock, you've made a fortune under Tim Cook.
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  Speaker 1: So he's chosen John Ternus. Hopefully he will lead them
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  Speaker 1: to bigger and better things. Obviously Apple, huge success when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to hardware, phones, all that stuff. The criticism
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  Speaker 1: of Cook is he wasn't good enough with Apple. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't keep up. He's a little behind in AI. Ternus
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  Speaker 1: said he'll work on that. That's his number one priority.
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  Speaker 1: A little more AI in Siri. Oh, God, that's all
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  Speaker 1: we need. Hey, by the way, he's going to make
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  Speaker 1: his debut publicly, Ternus, on, I think it's September 9th.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to introduce all the new stuff. The new
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  Speaker 1: Apple Watch Series 12. It'll have improved health and fitness tracking.
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  Speaker 1: All right, because some of the health stuff in the
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  Speaker 1: Apple Watch, especially the sleep tracker, Totally, completely inaccurate sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: The new phones will be coming out. Everybody believes they'll
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  Speaker 1: have the first foldable phone. You can unfold the phone.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes twice the size, the screen. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be over $ 2, 000. I know Samsung and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Android phones were foldable, but they had a crease. You
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  Speaker 1: could see the crease. Apple did not want to do
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  Speaker 1: it until they got rid of the crease. They claim
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  Speaker 1: they've gotten rid of the crease. The new iPhone 18
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  Speaker 1: will be out September 9th. Longer battery life. The featured
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  Speaker 1: one will be a deep red color. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: have a much better camera, all that stuff. So that's
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  Speaker 1: where you get to see this guy, John Ternes. That's
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  Speaker 1: where he'll make his debut. The new AirPods, well, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like they may have cameras in them. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of privacy concerns because the cameras will
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  Speaker 1: be looking in every direction. But supposedly with the camera,
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  Speaker 1: it'll help the phone do much better with the sound
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  Speaker 1: for some reason. All right, well, that all comes out.
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  Speaker 1: You'll see September 9th, they'll unveil all this stuff. That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it'll be available September 9th, but it usually
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  Speaker 1: comes out a couple weeks after that. Hey, Nicki Minaj
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  Speaker 1: and Dean Cain, these are two stars, Hollywood types, that
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  Speaker 1: are actually conservatives and Trump supporters. That's unusual for Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Nicki Minaj and Dean Cain. So President Trump is going
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  Speaker 1: to use them, his administration, the Small Business Administration. You know,
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  Speaker 1: every so often they do a Shark Tank sort of parody.
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  Speaker 1: It's a competition for the Small Business Administration. They give
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  Speaker 1: a million dollars away to whoever's got a good idea
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  Speaker 1: for a small business. So they're going to do like
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  Speaker 1: a Shark Tank style competition. And they got Nicki Minaj
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  Speaker 1: and Dean Cain to host it. You'll be seeing a
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  Speaker 1: lot more of Dean Cain. He's... This guy's going to
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  Speaker 1: do a lot. He's a conservative. It's unusual for Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood kind of turned their back on him. But watch,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to turn to broadcasting and shows and all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Political type stuff. Hey, we'll take
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  Speaker 1: some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.