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Hour 2: Comedian Bill Maher's motives. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Insight from the inside. This is 710WOR' s Mark Simone Show.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Monday. It's going to be a beautiful day today,
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  Speaker 2: 70 and sunny. It's going to be really nice weather
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  Speaker 2: all week. Lots to get to this morning. This just breaking.
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  Speaker 2: As rumored, there is going to be an anthropic IPO. Anthropic,
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  Speaker 2: let's just file the papers for an IPO. They want
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  Speaker 2: to raise, well, If they get what they want, they'll
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  Speaker 2: be worth $ 2 trillion. It'll be a $ 2 trillion company.
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  Speaker 2: Ticker symbol will be ANT, A-N-T, A-N-T. They just filed
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  Speaker 2: the papers moments ago, so there's no word on what
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  Speaker 2: the price will be. But there will be an anthropic IPO.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the big AI companies. Of course, it's
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  Speaker 2: Claude and a lot of other stuff that they do.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of tech, the Apple folding phone called the Duo
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  Speaker 2: was released on Friday. There were lines all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: lines up and down the block. The CEO of Apple,
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  Speaker 2: what's his name? The new CEO, Tunis, whatever his name is,
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  Speaker 2: showed up there for the press. He was greeting people
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  Speaker 2: as he came in. Hey, by the way, he was
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  Speaker 2: quite blunt. I mean, when asked stuff, he would say
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  Speaker 2: something about, The other folding phones, they were just crappy.
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  Speaker 2: He was pretty blunt with his language. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: people liked that because it was Steve Jobs-like. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Steve Jobs told it like it was. Tim Cook, a
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  Speaker 2: very low-key guy who stayed under the radar, very quiet, dignified.
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  Speaker 2: But we like the Steve Jobs type of CEO, so
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  Speaker 2: I think we got a new one. But the Duo,
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  Speaker 2: it's a folding iPhone. It unfolds into a big screen.
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  Speaker 2: Sold out immediately. Lines everywhere. You never saw lines like
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  Speaker 2: this in the main Apple store, 59th Street. Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Apple could easily arrange for those lines. But who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Some complaints about the phone. Android has had a folding
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  Speaker 2: phone for a couple of years now. The problem is
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  Speaker 2: when you unfold it, You can see the seam down
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  Speaker 2: the middle. So Apple had this thing about not doing
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  Speaker 2: a folding phone. I think it absolutely eliminates the seam,
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  Speaker 2: which they did. But some people are saying when you
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  Speaker 2: open it, you hear a little crunching, clicking in there.
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  Speaker 2: Some people are complaining that the layout of the apps
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  Speaker 2: on it, the way you look at it, it's not
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  Speaker 2: the same. You know, when you unfold it, it's basically
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  Speaker 2: the size of a mini iPad. So just get a
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  Speaker 2: mini iPad. It's the same exact thing. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about the folding, unfolding. It's not that big.
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  Speaker 2: You can carry it around. Hey, the truth is the
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  Speaker 2: current iPhone, this one, the 18, it's big enough. I
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  Speaker 2: have a mini iPad. I've had it for a year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever looked at it because the
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  Speaker 2: phone is fine. You can use the phone. So don't
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  Speaker 2: worry about the duo. People are yelling and screaming, it's $ 2, 000. Well,
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  Speaker 2: check the record. All those Android foldable phones were at
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  Speaker 2: least $ 2, 000. That's the normal price, so don't complain about it.
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  Speaker 2: The Israeli elections are tomorrow. Everybody, I guess, would want
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  Speaker 2: Netanyahu to win, but the president and others saying quietly,
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  Speaker 2: if he doesn't win, don't worry, it'll be fine. They'll
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  Speaker 2: get somebody they can work with. They still want to
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  Speaker 2: go ahead right after the election and finish off Iran
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  Speaker 2: with Israel. Israel will be a big part of that.
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  Speaker 2: Israel's got the best intelligence on Iran, best target information.
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  Speaker 2: And if the ground troops are needed, it'll be Israeli troops.
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  Speaker 2: So the elections are tomorrow. We'll know probably 24 hours
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  Speaker 2: from now what's going to happen there. We'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to see. Hey, I mentioned before that President Trump this
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  Speaker 2: morning put out the longest truth social he's ever put out.
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  Speaker 2: 1,300 words. denouncing Bill Maher, calling Bill Maher every name
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  Speaker 2: you ever heard, trashing him. Now, why would he have
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  Speaker 2: such a nice dinner and then do that? A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people think that Bill Maher, when he came back
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  Speaker 2: from the dinner, Friday night show, and he said some
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  Speaker 2: great things about Trump. He said some bad things, but
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  Speaker 2: he said a lot of great things. And the audience
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  Speaker 2: at a couple of points booed Bill Maher. And a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people think Bill Maher has been getting so
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  Speaker 2: much flack from the left, from the Democrats, from his audience,
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  Speaker 2: so much flack. Some people think he asked President Trump
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  Speaker 2: to do that truth social. He was getting too much
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  Speaker 2: flack from Democrats, so he asked President Trump to denounce
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  Speaker 2: him like crazy. Because even for Trump, it went overboard.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there was nothing at that dinner that night.
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  Speaker 2: There were a couple of people who were there, watched
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  Speaker 2: the whole thing. They said it was very Nice. There
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  Speaker 2: was nothing bad. Why would he put out this over-the-top attack?
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  Speaker 2: They think Bill Maher asked him. Please attack me because
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting too much flack for hanging out with you.
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  Speaker 2: So that could have been it. Oh, you know who
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  Speaker 2: was out on the campaign trail? Kamala Harris taking a
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  Speaker 2: break from happy hour to go out there and babble
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  Speaker 2: about nothing.
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  Speaker 1: We've gone through.
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  Speaker 3: The last year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Where many of us, whether we admit it or not,
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  Speaker 1: have been saying things to the television that we would
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  Speaker 1: not say where we pray.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when you're very drunk, you do talk to the
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  Speaker 2: television a lot. Drunks are always yelling at the television.
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  Speaker 1: The people get to speak. And the people show their power.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now, if you had no idea who this was,
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  Speaker 2: if you had no idea, And I just played you
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  Speaker 2: this audio. I said, who do you think this person is?
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  Speaker 1: The people get to speak. And the people show their power.
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  Speaker 1: And they make clear we're never going to let anyone
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  Speaker 1: take our power from us.
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  Speaker 2: If you didn't know, and I played that, you'd say, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's obviously a teenager. That's obviously a not-too-bright teenager. It's
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  Speaker 2: obviously a teenager's little stone. If I told you that
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  Speaker 2: was a former vice president of the United States, you'd
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  Speaker 2: never believe it. Just a goofy, goofy person. Hey, another
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  Speaker 2: controversy in this election is Alaska. The Republican candidates, Dan Sullivan.
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  Speaker 2: So Democrats who love these dirty tricks found a guy
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  Speaker 2: named Dan Sullivan, another Dan Sullivan, and got him on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot. So there's two Dan Sullivans. And the idea
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  Speaker 2: is that the real Dan Sullivan might get more votes
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  Speaker 2: than the Democrat and win. So by having two Dan Sullivans,
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  Speaker 2: it splits up the vote. People will get confused. And
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  Speaker 2: that way the real one won't win. It's a dirty trick.
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  Speaker 2: Believe it or not, it's legal. Republicans could do that,
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  Speaker 2: although it's tough for Republicans to do it because in Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: where the hell are you going to find another guy
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  Speaker 2: named Abdul Mohammed El-Sayed? Go try to find somebody else
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  Speaker 2: named that. It's not easy. So this Dan Sullivan thing,
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  Speaker 2: it's a very dirty trick and it's confusing the voters.
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  Speaker 2: So the Justice Department said they may put a hold
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  Speaker 2: on certifying the election until this is sorted out, the
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  Speaker 2: dirty trick. Now, elections are certified within the state. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how the Justice Department is going to, it's
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  Speaker 2: the state that can certify. But President Trump talking about that.
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  Speaker 4: We have a man named Dan Sullivan. So the Democrats,
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  Speaker 4: maybe here they're not so dumb. They put another man
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  Speaker 4: also with the name of Dan Sullivan. So we have
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  Speaker 4: two Dan Sullivans.
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  Speaker 2: How about that? Yeah, it's a really, really dirty trick,
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  Speaker 2: but Justice Department threatening to hold it up if it
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  Speaker 2: looks like the public got confused. Ilhan Omar.
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  Speaker 4: So Ilhan Nur Sayyed Elmi, her real name is openly
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  Speaker 4: admitted to fraud, and she will not be legally allowed
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  Speaker 4: to be a member of that august body that sits
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  Speaker 4: in Washington so beautifully.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out her real name is Abner Alsad, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows? Maybe her real name will turn out to
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  Speaker 2: also be Dan Sullivan. You never know. But it looks
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  Speaker 2: like she's got a real problem. She has lawyered up
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  Speaker 2: with some very high-powered Washington, D.C. lawyers, lawyers who worked
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  Speaker 2: for the Clintons, lawyers who worked for the Obamas, that
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  Speaker 2: sort of stuff. Going to cost her at least a million,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a couple of million, trying to raise money like
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  Speaker 2: crazy for that. We'll see if she's successful with that. Now, again,
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  Speaker 2: it's early voting time. You can vote early. Do it
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  Speaker 2: this week. Don't wait for Election Day. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: you do it early. You walk right in. There's no lines.
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  Speaker 2: It's much easier. And who knows? We could get busy
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  Speaker 2: on Election Day. Do it early. It's one thing about Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: They do the early voting. People are turning out in
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  Speaker 2: huge numbers for early voting. I think it's up to
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  Speaker 2: 24 million now have early voting. But it tends to
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  Speaker 2: be more Democrats. For some reason, Republicans wait till Election Day.
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  Speaker 2: early vote. Go do it this week. You can do
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  Speaker 2: it any day this week. Early vote. It's easier. Lines
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  Speaker 2: are low. You won't even see a line. You'll walk
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  Speaker 2: right in, uh, be able to vote. Uh, Hey, our,
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  Speaker 2: our colleague, Sean Hannity married Ainsley Earhart over the weekend. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: small wedding, very small wedding at the church of Bethesda
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  Speaker 2: by the sea. That's a beautiful old little church in, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Palm Beach. That's where he actually proposed to her, in
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  Speaker 2: that church. It's the church he goes to. President Trump
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  Speaker 2: goes there when he's in Palm Beach. And they had
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  Speaker 2: a little party the night before, Mar-a-Lago, with his family
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  Speaker 2: and all that. Small wedding, small group. And President Trump
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  Speaker 2: showed up. He was at Mar-a-Lago, came to the Friday
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  Speaker 2: night party. The wedding was Saturday, beautiful ceremony. And then,
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night, they had a little gathering afterwards for the
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  Speaker 2: weddings party at the Everglades Club, which is the old, old, old,
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  Speaker 2: very waspy, very posh club. Now, when you go into Mar-a-Lago,
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  Speaker 2: people will say to you, how are you? You're never
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  Speaker 2: going to hear that in the Everglades Club. You will
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  Speaker 2: hear nothing like that in the Everglades Club. If they
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  Speaker 2: heard that in the Everglades Club, they would call the
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  Speaker 2: police immediately. It's a nice club. It's a little club.
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  Speaker 2: Very waspy, very old, old, old private club. And it's beautiful. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the difference is, if you want something to eat, old
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  Speaker 2: waspy country clubs, old waspy Everglades clubs, everything is blank.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to have anything good to eat. You
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  Speaker 2: want to have some good food, you better go to Mar-a-Lago.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to eat much better there. But Sean, actually,
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  Speaker 2: he won't be here today. I'll be filling in for
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  Speaker 2: him later today because he's on his honeymoon. And then
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  Speaker 2: he'll be back to tell you all about it. Speaking
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  Speaker 2: of Florida, they're doing better and better when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to billionaires. This is like a new thing. Who has
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  Speaker 2: the most billionaires? Florida is picking up billionaires at a
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  Speaker 2: fast pace and is now only 15 billionaires away from
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  Speaker 2: tying New York state. But guess who has the most billionaires?
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  Speaker 2: Guess which state? It's not New York, the financial capital
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  Speaker 2: of the world. It's actually California. California has the most billionaires,
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  Speaker 2: 255 of them. Now, the reason for that, California is
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  Speaker 2: where the tech industry is. So you got Silicon Valley,
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  Speaker 2: which just has tons of billionaires. So that's the reason.
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  Speaker 2: So California has 255 billionaires. New York has 153. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty impressive. California beats us by 100 billionaires. New York
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  Speaker 2: has 153 billionaires. Florida has 138. So that's not bad.
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  Speaker 2: They're slowly but surely catching up. Texas, well, now Texas
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  Speaker 2: has 88 billionaires. Texas has 88 billionaires. That's still a
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  Speaker 2: lot for a state. But Texas has the wealthiest guy
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  Speaker 2: in history. Texas has Elon Musk. That's where he lives.
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  Speaker 2: He's at 925 billion. He will be.
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  Speaker 2: The first trillionaire in the history of the world. He'll
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  Speaker 2: be the first trillionaire pretty soon. Do you know who
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  Speaker 2: the richest guy in New York is? We've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of billionaires. We've got 153 billionaires. Who's the richest
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  Speaker 2: guy in New York? No? No, it's Michael Bloomberg. Believe
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  Speaker 2: it or not, Michael Bloomberg at $ 95 billion. The richest
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  Speaker 2: guy in New York. Who's the richest guy in Florida?
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  Speaker 2: Out of all those billionaires, you've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: billionaires there.
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 2: This should be easy. It's Jeff Bezos. He's officially a
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  Speaker 2: Florida resident. Bezos is worth $ 380 billion. Richest guy in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Not bad. Not bad. Connecticut, you've got a few billionaires.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the richest guy in Connecticut? That's right. Steve Cohen,
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  Speaker 2: richest guy in Connecticut. Billionaire.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, what else? President Trump, over the weekend, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of rallies. He's going to do that all this week.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be traveling nonstop. And it's a brutal schedule,
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  Speaker 2: but he's going to do it. He was going after
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  Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal. You know, a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: don't understand what the hell happened to the Wall Street Journal.
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  Speaker 2: It used to be a reliable, prestigious newspaper. Now nobody
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  Speaker 2: knows what the hell it is. Scott Besson saying he
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  Speaker 2: can't read it anymore. They ought to call it the
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  Speaker 2: Main Street Journal. It can be very anti-Trump. Okay, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to be that. But it's become very unreliable,
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  Speaker 2: totally unreliable with the Starlink Musk stuff. And Trump going
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  Speaker 2: after them now because apparently they totally ignored the Democrats'
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  Speaker 2: ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Once the Epstein files were released,
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  Speaker 2: it was pretty obvious that there were more Democrats tangled
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  Speaker 2: up with this guy than any other group. Lots of Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Very few Republicans. And Trump, if you read the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 2: had nothing to do with Epstein. In fact, throughout the files,
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  Speaker 2: you see that Epstein is the biggest Trump hater on earth.
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  Speaker 2: You see him plotting with that sleazeball Michael Wolff on
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  Speaker 2: how to bring Trump down. But go through the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 2: You'll see he was very close to a lot of Democrats. But,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Wall Street Journal ignoring that. Lots to get to.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take some calls next. 800- 321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a call.
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  Speaker 6: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 2: From the WOR LifeVac Studios, Mark Simone. Hey, let's take
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  Speaker 2: some calls. Let's go to Walt in Westchester. Walt, how
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  Speaker 2: you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Mark, pretty good. You just mentioned Fraser Crane. His
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  Speaker 5: wife on screen, Lilith, was perhaps the most reprehensible character
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  Speaker 5: that I've ever noticed, and I suspect that Bebe Neuwirth
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  Speaker 5: should have received many an award for her expert portrayal.
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  Speaker 5: What say you?
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  Speaker 2: No, I liked, what was her name, Lilith, Lilith Crane. Yeah. No,
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  Speaker 2: I liked Bebe Neuwirth, very nice woman, very nice actress.
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  Speaker 2: She was a pretty good character. I mean, he was
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  Speaker 2: kind of reprehensible too, Frasier Crane. Well, that shut him up.
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  Speaker 3: Will you?
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  Speaker 2: She's a snotty, elitist snob.
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  Speaker 5: She comes across as a characteristic liberal. I wonder if
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  Speaker 5: she is so in real life.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've talked to her a million times. She's been
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  Speaker 2: on the show a bunch of times. But to be
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  Speaker 2: honest with you, I don't think I've ever heard her
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  Speaker 2: say anything political. Although I think you might be right.
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  Speaker 2: I think she was involved in one of those crazy campaigns.
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  Speaker 2: You may be right. Let's go to Bob in Florida. Bob,
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  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 8: Happy Monday, Mark Simone, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: New York.
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  Speaker 8: I hope I got your title right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, where are you in Florida?
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  Speaker 8: I'm in Boquilla, Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Where the hell is that?
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  Speaker 3: Where?
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  Speaker 8: It's on Pine Island. It's in southwest Florida. It's west
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  Speaker 8: of Cape Coral. You know, Fort Myers, Cape Coral metropolitan area.
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  Speaker 3: Pardon?
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  Speaker 2: What are you, the fugitive? Find a place in Florida.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm running from the law. I can't, I really,
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  Speaker 8: I shouldn't comment on that. No, I grew up in Chicago.
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  Speaker 8: I lived in Arizona for years with the post office.
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  Speaker 8: I was a mailman in Los Angeles for 15, 16 years.
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  Speaker 8: My body was breaking down. My mind couldn't take the BS.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean your body was breaking down? So
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  Speaker 2: you mean very tough on your body?
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  Speaker 8: Carrying mail up and down. People would tell me, hey,
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  Speaker 8: nice day for a walk. And I would say, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: too bad I've got to carry this heavy sack of
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  Speaker 8: mail on my back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, don't you have one of those carts with the
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  Speaker 2: wheels that you push?
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  Speaker 8: I was in hills. A lot of people opted for
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  Speaker 8: the carts. I never liked the cart. It was too
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  Speaker 8: much of a hindrance.
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  Speaker 2: And when you're a postman in Arizona, isn't it like
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  Speaker 2: 110 degrees some days? You got to be out there?
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  Speaker 8: No, actually, I worked on the inside in Arizona for
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  Speaker 8: a year. I started in Chicago on the inside. One
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  Speaker 8: day they put up a notice that reassignment opportunities exist
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  Speaker 8: in the Phoenix district. I said, hell, sign me up.
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  Speaker 8: But then I get out there and it was like, well,
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  Speaker 8: Keely of Florida. It was like nothing around there at all.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this would be a hell of a series,
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  Speaker 2: a TV series, a dramatic series. Mailman. Yeah. A Quinn
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  Speaker 2: Martin production. Go ahead. What did you want to say?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, some of the women letter carriers, they
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  Speaker 8: call themselves mail ladies. And I was in Los Angeles, so,
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  Speaker 8: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those letter carriers.
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  Speaker 3: Mail ladies.
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  Speaker 2: You don't see a lot of Playboy Center folks here.
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  Speaker 8: I heard a news thing about some religious guy that,
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  Speaker 8: met with Trump, and Trump prayed with him and did
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  Speaker 8: a video. So the religious guy complained that El Presidente
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  Speaker 8: put that video out as a political maneuver.
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  Speaker 3: You see, I had to.
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: Wait an hour and a half to go in this...
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Imagine Mark Simone having to wait an hour and a
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: half to go in... to meet with the leader of
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: the free world. But anyway, so the guy's making it
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: into a political thing now, you know, two weeks before
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: the election, you did this. Why are you going out
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: and talking about it? It was such a terrible thing
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: because you want to rally Democrats.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: No, there's Trump haters everywhere. It's like Bill Maher goes
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to dinner, admits the president was really gracious to him
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: and then trashes him. That's politics. Let's go to Cindy
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  Speaker 2: in Connecticut. Cindy, how you doing?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Hi, Mark.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: First time caller. Love your show.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: I just caught a documentary over the weekend I'd like
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: to recommend to some of your listeners. It was called
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: White Guilt.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: What is that about?
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: It covers the civil rights movement and the gentleman Shelby Steele.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah. Where are you in Connecticut?
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: Stratford.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Stratford is beautiful. It was a gorgeous autumn weekend. This
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: is what you do? You sit home and watch a
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: documentary called White Guilt? get outside have.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Some fun i i i did it last night.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: And in the evening let's it's sunday night go out
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: there's a million great places stratford milford's got a lot
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: of action there.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: Go on out oh yeah we're we're going out for
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: a nice walk today oh going down to.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Milford and walk the beach milford is beautiful but i
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: just Got a lot of great wrestlers.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I just wanted to say I'm feeling real
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: good about the election. Hopefully we'll see some good stuff
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: come out of this.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, get out there and vote. Early voting.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Make sure you do that early voting. Thanks for calling, Cindy.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Dennis in Long Island. Dennis, how are you?
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: I'm well.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark.
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: You know, you mentioned earlier the Wall Street Journal turning
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: sour on Donald Trump.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: On everything. It's become unreliable. Don't read the Wall Street
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Journal anymore. You can't even.
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: Well, no, no, no. It's owned by Rupert Murdoch and
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: the Murdoch clan. They hate Donald Trump.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: So that's what you say. Well, yeah, no, no, that's fine.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And that's OK, too, if you hate Donald Trump. But
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: it's more than that. They've become unreliable. And again, it
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: might be owned by Rupert Murdoch. He's not a big tamper.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, once in a while he'll say something, but he's.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Not a hands-on, day-to-day guy on those things. He basically
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: leaves them independent. Wall Street Journal has just become very unreliable.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Ira in Brooklyn. Ira, how are you doing?
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Mark. Mark, you used to have a guy
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: call you. This was a long time ago. He wanted
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: to be a stand-up comic, and you used to have
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: so much fun with him. You used to tease him.
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: Do you remember who it was?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah. He used to be a prison guard, right?
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: I don't remember that, Paul.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was like a retired corrections officer. He lived
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: in Long Island. He would call in. You're talking like
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: 10 years ago. He was a very nice guy. I
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: met him once somewhere in Long Island. He came over
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: to me. I can't remember his name, but you're right.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: He used to call all the time and try out
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: his stand-up. I don't know what happened to him. Sometimes
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: callers just disappear, and you never know ever what happened
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: to them. That's a good question. If anybody remembers or
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: knows him, tell him to call again. We haven't talked
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: to him in a long time. Hey, coming up, we've
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: got a lot of stuff to get to in the
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: next hour. And Bruce Blakeman will be with us later
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: in the program. Don't forget, I'll be filling in for
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity today, 3 to 6. He's on his honeymoon.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I guess that's a good excuse to miss work. Yeah,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: I guess that's a good excuse. And then we'll talk
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: to the greatest columnist in America, Michael Goodwin. Coming up
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: next on 710WOR. Now, nine till noon weekdays.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Mark Simone.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: More Mark.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: On 710WOR.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Well, the best columnist in America. It's Michael Goodwin every Sunday,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: every Wednesday in the New York Post. And if you
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: go to the New York Post website, all of his
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: columns are up there. And it's great to have him
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: back with us. Michael Goodwin, how you doing?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. Thank you.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Hey, I know they always say, ah, Republican can't win
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: in New York. Something's different this time. Bruce Blakeman is
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: a much stronger candidate. Don't you just feel that he's
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: got a real shot this time?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: I hope so, Mark.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: I'm not 100% certain. Because the big question in my
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: mind is Mamdani's appearance with Hochul.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Helping Hochul or hurting her?
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: I think.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: And Bruce Blakeman, I think, is responsible for a lot
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: of this election is about Mamdani and his year, his
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: first year in office. And Blakeman, of course, thinks that
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Mamdani is poison to voters around the state. He's very
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: unpopular upstate, for example, Mamdani is.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: So I think that is shaping up as a turning point.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: And it's fascinating in its own right.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: To talk about it, Mark, because Hochul invited this. Her
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: sense of weakness and uncertainty about her own campaign had
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: her close the race by spending part of almost every
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: day with Mamdani recently. And so she's really tied herself
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: to him and his socialist brigades.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I think, you know, even if she were to win.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: She's really ruined her chances of getting anything done unless
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Mamdani approves it. I mean, she's entirely flipped the script.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Normally the governor is more important and powerful in this relationship.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: She has handed all of that power to Mamdani.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: That's an interesting point. Now, um, Normally they use oil prices,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: gas prices. I don't know why Democrats think that's the
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: number one issue. It's never been the number one issue.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: But as far as New York City, you've got to
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: carry 35% of it to win the governorship. New York City,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: gas is definitely not an issue because probably 95% of
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: New Yorkers don't drive or buy any gas. That's right.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: That'll help Blakeman. You think he'll get the 35% he
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: needs of New York City?
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting, you know, that number.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: I spoke to him about this when we talked, and
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: he said he knows the history of all this, that
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump both got 30% in the
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Zeldin 40 years ago and Trump in 24. Both got 30%
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: in the city and lost the state. by about six points.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: So that's why Blateman says he's going to do better
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: than 30%. And you have to do better than 30%.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Lee Selden once said to me, if you get to 35%
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: as a Republican, it's hard to lose the race.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: If you cop out under 35%, it's hard to win.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: And so I think the city, of course, having so
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: many more votes, so much a disproportionate effect on the
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: whole state. So if he can get in that 33,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: the 36, the 38 that he talked about with me,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: he's got a real shot at winning. And I think
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: that would be a real pushback against Mamdani if more
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: and more New Yorkers vote against his candidate and vote
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: for the opponent.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot riding on the city outcome.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Well, listen, Mamdani's got his younger, crazy, socialist-loving supporters. But
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: don't you think in New York City since the election
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: last year that there's a lot of other people, just
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: normal Democrats voted for him, kind of sorry they did,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: and would like to have Blakeman as just a counter
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: of Mamdani?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Well, not to be too.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: numbers heavy here Mark but Blakeman and I talked about
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: the fact that Mamdani won the mayoral race with 50.4%
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: now obviously it was a big field Andrew Cuomo for
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: example but the point being that he got over a
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: million votes and a million people voted against him so
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: that If Blakeman can tap into those anti-Mamdani voters, he
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: would easily get the required minimum to win the state.
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: But he would really have to harvest a lot of
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: the anti-Mamdani voters to come back and vote for him.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Do you think Andrew Cuomo has noticed that Kathy Hochul
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: hasn't called and asked him to come campaign for her?
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: I guess that she would be certifiably crazy if she
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: did that, right?
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Don't lock her up.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. She hasn't asked Alvin Bragg to come campaign with her.
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: It's interesting about Cuomo, though, right? He was kind of
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: king of the hill for most of the three terms.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: He was attorney general before that, right? And now, having
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: lost Mamdani, he's not even a second thought. I mean,
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: he's really disappeared from the public eye. And apparently he's
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: making a lot of money.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Good for him.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: But there's no hunger anywhere for Andrew Cuomo to endorse
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: or to campaign with a candidate. So it does look
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: like his time has come and gone.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, actually, I think it's more a case of
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: there's a real despising of Andrew Cuomo by everybody and
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: anybody in New York. Remember, he did flee Albany with
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the police chasing him out of there.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: He came tantamizingly close to beating Mamdani. So for me,
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: that's something in his favor. and he ran a lousy
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: campaign and he still got about 70% of the anti-Mamdani
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: vote he got over 750 50,000 votes, I think, in
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: the five boroughs.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you've got to put a giant asterisk on that.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: That was with every Republican everywhere, including the president, telling
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: you to vote for him, and he still couldn't get
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: it done. Right, right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Curtis Sliwa was part of the problem, but the real
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: problem is Mamdani turned out. So many voters who had
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: not voted before. I mean, the Pipero socialism. Yeah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: What do you think about the rest of the country?
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: It looks pretty good, if you ignore the fake polls,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: it looks pretty good for Republicans with the Senate. Well,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: what do you think about the House?
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: Well, it's interesting, you know, of course, you hear all
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: this talk of a blue wave, and then, well, maybe
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: it won't be a wave.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: We've heard this before.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: My friend Ed Rollins always reminds me that there will
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: be a lot of people making up their minds in
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: the last few days, and the polls will never pick
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: that up. Nobody polls over the last weekend, and that's
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: when a lot of people make their decisions. So almost
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: by definition, the polls are going to get it wrong
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: to the extent that those people, maybe some of them
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: changing their minds.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: So I don't I don't.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: Believe the polls are a given in the sense that
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: I think there's a blue wave coming.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be close.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: But I'm not convinced that this election has been decided.
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: I think it's still a wide-open race for a lot
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: of the seats in that House and the Senate.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, I never asked you this. The horse and carriages. Now,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: this Julie Menon flip-flops on that. and says, well, it's
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: about safety. Well, only one person died from a horse
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: and carriage, whereas 133 have died from the e-bikes. Why
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: isn't there a push to get the e-bikes out of
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Central Park?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: You know, Mark, you say flip-flop, talking about the horses,
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: I can hear a clip going. But the, yeah, I
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: think Julian, and it's kind of hard to read. He
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: always says, She kind of talks a tough game, but
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: in the end, there's no real impact. There's very much
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: a finger in the air about which way the wind
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: is blowing.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: So I can't figure her out.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: I don't know that she's a counterweight to Mamdani or
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: just pretending to be before she folds. So it's very
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: hard to read whether the council in any way can
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: stand up to the mayor.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very good point. Well, Michael Goodwin, great as always.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: You can read his columns every Sunday, every Wednesday in
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: the New York Post. And if you go to the
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: New York Post website, all of his columns are posted
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: up there. You should read them. Michael Goodwin, thanks for
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: being with us.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: My pleasure. Thank you, Mike.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: All right. Take care. Hey, we've got a lot coming
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: up in the next hour. In fact, Bruce Blakeman will
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: be with us in the next hour, so we'll get
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: all the latest from him. And then at noon, Buck Sexton,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Clay Travis. That is a great show every day, 12 noon.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Then at three o'clock, the most listened to radio show
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: in America, Sean Hannity. Although today it will be me
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: filling in for Sean Hannity because he's on his honeymoon.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: That's right. He got married over the weekend. He'll be
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: on his honeymoon. So I'll be doing the show today.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Then at six, you got Jesse Kelly. Then nine o'clock,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the funniest show on radio. Jimmy Fela, tonight at 9
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: on 710WOR.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: The Mark Simone Show, now 9 till noon weekdays on 710WOR.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Hey, don't forget to get out there and do that
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: early voting this week. Don't wait till Election Day. You know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Democrats are great at early voting. They do it in
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: huge numbers. And there's been huge turnout in the midterms.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: It's already up to about 24 million people in America. So,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: For some reason, Republicans still wait till Election Day. Do
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: it early. Do it early. All week you can do
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: early voting. And if you go do it early, there'll
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: be no line. You'll just breeze right through. Early voting.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Do it this week. In the next hour, we'll talk
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: to Bruce Blakeman. He looks like he's on track to win.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: But we'll talk to him. We'll get all the latest
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: from Bruce Blakeman. He's got the most brutal schedule. You
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: should see this guy. He's like running around all over
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: New York State. Day and night, besides his day job
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: running Nassau County. Campaigning like crazy. The campaign is about
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: to spend, well, is spending, is spending $ 400, 000 a day advertising.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot going on this final
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: week of the campaign. So we'll get to it in
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: the next hour. Don't forget, I'll be filling in for
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity today, three to six. It's going to be
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: a beautiful day. Sunny, 70 degrees. No rain in the
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: forecast for like nine days. That's great news. It's going
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: to be a beautiful week, autumn week. So we got
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: another hour to go. I'm here nine to noon every day.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Back right after the news on 710WOR.