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Hour 1: Do Democrats like sports? · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now it is the Mark simonshell on sevent tenor hey, well,
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  Speaker 1: thank god it Friday. Oh my god, they get this
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  Speaker 1: week over with. We got a lot to get to.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to a crazy mom Donnie, and what's he
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  Speaker 1: going to do with the police department. We've got some
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  Speaker 1: intel on that. We'll get to that coming up. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get to at least Stephonic running for governor. There should
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  Speaker 1: be the end of Kathy Hoko. We'll get to MSNBC.
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  Speaker 1: They're in their final week now of being MSNBC, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot more to get to the shutdown. There might
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  Speaker 1: be some kind of vote today, not necessarily to end
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  Speaker 1: the shutdown, but to begin towards the end of the
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  Speaker 1: Who knows what these people are going to do. The
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  Speaker 1: shutdown continues today's day. They do that ten cut in
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  Speaker 1: flights at a lot of airports. Now, it sounds bad,
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  Speaker 1: and it is bad, but it's not as bad as
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  Speaker 1: you think because we did this before. Remember they were
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  Speaker 1: having problems with Newark Airport and the controllers, traffic controllers,
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  Speaker 1: and it was all messed up, and they decided to
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  Speaker 1: cut the flights ten percent for a while. So we
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  Speaker 1: went through this already at Newark. They'll do this at
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  Speaker 1: a number of airports, and what they cut are the
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  Speaker 1: emptiest flights they can find. They are not a lot
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  Speaker 1: of empty flights nowadays, but some less populated than others.
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  Speaker 1: They'll cut those and combine them. So if you're traveling,
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  Speaker 1: you'll see some delays. You'll also see some really crowded,
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  Speaker 1: cramped planes, fewer flights and more people on each plane shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is the polling is all over the map.
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  Speaker 1: Some show that the Republicans are getting the blame, some
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  Speaker 1: show Democrats are getting the blame. One of the problems
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to poll because President Trump the idea when
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  Speaker 1: he did the shutdown was to make it as the
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  Speaker 1: least painful that he could make it. Don't cut anything
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to cut. And you know when Obama
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  Speaker 1: did the shutdown, he was the opposite. He tried to
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  Speaker 1: make it as painful as possible. They wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans look bad, so they closed down a lot
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  Speaker 1: more than they had to close down. They closed down everything,
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  Speaker 1: and they deliberately tried to make it very painful for
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  Speaker 1: the public. They closed down things that you didn't even
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  Speaker 1: need to close it. Neither were World War iiO monuments
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  Speaker 1: that don't require any staffing of any kind, but they
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  Speaker 1: still close those down, that put that yellow barricade tape
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  Speaker 1: all over it, just to make it look as ugly
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  Speaker 1: as they could. The president doing the opposite. Here. Hey
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  Speaker 1: Elis Stefanic has announced she is running for governor. This
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  Speaker 1: was not unexpected. Here she is.
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  Speaker 2: It is clear we need a new generation leader to
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  Speaker 2: step up and bring common sense and deliver results the
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  Speaker 2: issues that I hear from not just in my district,
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  Speaker 2: but all across the state. People are struggling with high
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  Speaker 2: taxes in New York State. It's an affordability crisis. If
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  Speaker 2: you look at utility rates, insurance rates, it is running
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  Speaker 2: families in small businesses out of this state.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, see, now it's an interesting situation. You just had
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  Speaker 1: a guy win the mayoralty, a Democrat, and he ran
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  Speaker 1: on affordability and that sort of stuff, which is odd
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  Speaker 1: because it's the Democrats that caused it. The Democrats have
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  Speaker 1: run every inch in New York for the last fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats at mayors, governors, legislature, city council. The whole thing's
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  Speaker 1: been run by Democrats. So if it's an affordability crisis
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  Speaker 1: and this crisis, and in that crisis, it's all the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats fault. That would make sense to switch parties if
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  Speaker 1: that party just gave you all these problems, switch parties
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  Speaker 1: so it'll be easier for Stephonic to campaign on that.
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  Speaker 1: Hochel can try campaigning on affordability. But she's been in
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  Speaker 1: charge for eight years, and before that, Cuomo for years,
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  Speaker 1: and it's her legislature, all Democrats, So it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be tough, very to Here's the Stephanic's first campaign commercial.
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  Speaker 3: From the ashes of Kathy Hockel's failed policies, New York
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  Speaker 3: Real Rise like we always do. The spirit of the
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  Speaker 3: empire state cannot be broken. All we need is a
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  Speaker 3: courageous leader ready for the fight. At least Dephonic will
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  Speaker 3: make New York affordable and safe.
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  Speaker 1: Now Stephanic an upstate congresswoman, and you remember in those
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  Speaker 1: hearings where Hokel had to testify in the congressional hearings,
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  Speaker 1: it was Stephonic that really went after her on crime,
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  Speaker 1: on everything else. I want to make sure you understand
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  Speaker 1: that this simply says that we will cooperate with Ice.
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  Speaker 2: No, it does not say that I read what it says,
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  Speaker 2: and let me talk to you about the results. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know who secure a kan is? You should, as
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  Speaker 2: the governor of New York State?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know refresh my recollection?
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  Speaker 2: He was an illegal migrant in New York and do
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  Speaker 2: you know what crime he committed in addition to being
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  Speaker 2: here legally?
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  Speaker 5: No, I do not, you do not.
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  Speaker 2: This was widely reported. He found a fifteen year old girl,
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  Speaker 2: threatened her with a metal pull, told her to get
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  Speaker 2: into the back seat of his car, He took her
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  Speaker 2: clothes off, and he violently raped her in Albany, New York.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now, Hokel had a really rough time testifying in
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  Speaker 1: front of Stefanic. I'm sure this will be used in commercials.
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  Speaker 6: These are horrific crimes.
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  Speaker 2: In their heart, they're horrific crimes that are committed on
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  Speaker 2: your watch. You sign this executive order on your first
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  Speaker 2: day in office. You sign it again and again this January.
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  Speaker 2: We deserve a governor who stands up for law abiding
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers, doesn't put illegals first, but actually puts New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers first. I appreciate Rather than going after the viral moment,
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  Speaker 2: I suggest you no, no, no, I'm standing up for
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers rather than addressing the illegals in New York.
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  Speaker 2: You are prioritizing your far left sanctuary state policies, which
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  Speaker 2: you put in place with executive orders.
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  Speaker 1: So based on this kind of stuff, it would be
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  Speaker 1: pretty easy I think for Stefanic to beat Hochel in
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  Speaker 1: any debate now is the only complication for Stephanic. Bruce Blakeman,
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing, wants to run for governor. Bruce Blakeman is
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  Speaker 1: the best county executive in America, done a phenomenal job
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  Speaker 1: in Nassau County, just got re elected. Governor's race would
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  Speaker 1: be next year, we'd be you know, Nassau County will
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  Speaker 1: not be happy to lose Blakeman, but it's worth it
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  Speaker 1: if he can be the governor because then he can
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  Speaker 1: fix the whole state. So at least Stephonic would have
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  Speaker 1: to go through a primary battling Bruce Blakeman. That won't
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  Speaker 1: be easy. I mean, you know, I'd have to go
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  Speaker 1: with Blakeman on that. You know, like Stephonic, but Blakeman's
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  Speaker 1: the best, and in a not national, but a big
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  Speaker 1: statewide race for governor, New York City is half the
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  Speaker 1: votes in a governor's race, New York City is half
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  Speaker 1: the votes. Now, if you study the history of this,
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  Speaker 1: you got to win at least thirty five percent of
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  Speaker 1: New York City as a Republican to get elected governor,
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  Speaker 1: you got to win thirty five percent of New York City.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy to do as a Republican. But in
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  Speaker 1: the primary, that's a little different. So it'd be Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: against Stephonic in the primary, and who knows, who knows
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  Speaker 1: who else the other people will jump in there. You
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  Speaker 1: never know, Maybe Andrew Giuliani will try it again. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: who knows, Maybe Lee Zelden Board in Washington may come
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  Speaker 1: try it again. But Blakeman, Stephanic. It's a great situation
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  Speaker 1: to have a couple of great candidates. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: who gets through that primary. Mom, Donnie, Now, the big,
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  Speaker 1: big nightmare is the police department. That's the problem. He's
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  Speaker 1: already named five people on his transition team. They're all
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  Speaker 1: ex to Blasio, people to Blasio administration, one's from the
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  Speaker 1: Adams administration. But the most important thing is keep people safe.
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  Speaker 1: If you got safe streets, you got everything. So will
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  Speaker 1: Jessica stay as police commissioners? She hadn't said anything yet.
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  Speaker 1: Now this could get interesting. We'd want her to stay.
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  Speaker 1: She's done a good job. She might not stay just
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  Speaker 1: simply because she doesn't want to work with Mom Donnie,
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  Speaker 1: or she doesn't like some of his policies. And if she,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she'll want to run against him in four years,
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  Speaker 1: so she may not want to stay if she leaves.
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  Speaker 1: Who's the police commissioner. This is the big fear with
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie. Everybody thinks he's going to put Al Sharpton
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  Speaker 1: in charge of the police department or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: some crazy left wing sort of a character. This is
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  Speaker 1: the big, big worry. But this is not bad news.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently this is from the inside of the Mom Donnie world.
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  Speaker 1: If he has to pick up police commissioner right now,
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  Speaker 1: highest on his list is the Suffolk County Police Commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: Rodney Harrison, and he's not a bad guy. Rodney Harrison,
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  Speaker 1: Suffolk County Police Commissioner. He's been there for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. He ran the I actually ran the department
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  Speaker 1: and left at the end of Steve Balloone's term as
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  Speaker 1: county executive. But he's the guy that he formed the
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  Speaker 1: task force that finally got the Gilgo Beach serial killer.
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  Speaker 1: He was with the NYPD. He retired in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: one as chief of department. That's the highest uniform position,
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  Speaker 1: so everybody thinks is a good guy police. Former Police
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner of Suffolk Rodney K. Harrison looks like that right
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  Speaker 1: now would be Mom Donnie's choice. And if Jessica Tish
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  Speaker 1: will stay, it looks like they'll make Harrison the deputy
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  Speaker 1: mayor in charge of public safety, so he'd be overseeing
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  Speaker 1: her and I don't know what their relationship is, if
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  Speaker 1: she'd want to work under him, But we'll see Tish.
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  Speaker 1: I think we'll wait and see who's appointed, who's going
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  Speaker 1: to be what before she decides anything. Now, for the
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  Speaker 1: last thirty years, new mayors have always ended up bringing
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  Speaker 1: in their own police commissioner. It's just tradition, you know.
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  Speaker 1: When Rudy Giuliani took over, Ray Kelly was the police
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  Speaker 1: commissioner out. He's the greatest police commissioner ever ever. And
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  Speaker 1: I remember talking to Rudy Juliana at the time. He
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  Speaker 1: knew that. He just said, I can't keep you know,
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  Speaker 1: a previous guy. I have to have my own commissioner.
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  Speaker 1: They some just think they got to have their own
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  Speaker 1: person in there. So it's highly unusual to keep a
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  Speaker 1: police commissioner. We'll see if this is the one time
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  Speaker 1: where it actually actually happens. Now, you keep hearing everybody's
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  Speaker 1: gonna leave. People are all going to run away from
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  Speaker 1: New York. They always say they said that when Deblasio
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  Speaker 1: so off. Some people did, but not as many as
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  Speaker 1: your thought. It's not as bad as you think. George
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  Speaker 1: Santos has announced he's leaving New York. He's George Santos
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  Speaker 1: leaving New York. He lives in Queen's actually, so he
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  Speaker 1: said he can't stay here under mom Donnie. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's a great loss that George Santos is leaving. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you could say, well, why don't he just move to
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  Speaker 1: Nasau County, Bruce Blakeman, you can trust him. Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: where Santos had all his trouble in Nassau County. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he wants to go back there. Hey, congratulations
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, who was the richest man in the world.
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  Speaker 1: That's quite an honor, quite a headline. To be the
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  Speaker 1: single richest man on earth. That's an incredible unbelievable accomplishment. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now another accomplishment. He's now the highest paid guy in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the world, biggest compensation package ever in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the world. Tesla the board of directors
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  Speaker 1: approved his new pay package, which is the new pay
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  Speaker 1: package is one trillion dollars with a t one trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. But apparently he threatened to leave the company
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  Speaker 1: if he didn't get it, and the Tesla board was
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  Speaker 1: scared as can be. They don't think the company can
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  Speaker 1: exist without Musk. Now, to get the trillion, he'll have
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  Speaker 1: to hit a series of performance marks. He's fifty four
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  Speaker 1: years old. He uh oh, hey, he's still the richest guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's the richest guy in the world. Four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety billion. Four hundred and ninety billion. I think about that.
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  Speaker 1: If you had four billion, you'd be unbelievably rich. But
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and ninety billion. Let's say there was a
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  Speaker 1: hole in your pocket and you didn't know it, and
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  Speaker 1: ninety billion fell out of your pocket and you lost it.
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  Speaker 1: You're still worth four hundred billion. It wouldn't really matter.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know why you even work. This is
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  Speaker 1: like five hundred billion. If you put that, if you
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  Speaker 1: just invested it, you'd have five billion a year in income.
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  Speaker 1: Five billion a year in income. You couldn't spend that
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  Speaker 1: if you tried. But guys like this love to work.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be awarded all kinds of stock in twelve tranches
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  Speaker 1: first round. If it hits, there's all kinds of targets
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  Speaker 1: you have to have to sell. He has to deliver
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  Speaker 1: twenty million vehicles, Tesla hats has to hit two trillion
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  Speaker 1: in valuation. He has to deliver one million of the
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  Speaker 1: Optimus human eyed robots. Yeah, that's next. The robots are coming.
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  Speaker 1: If they get all the hurdles, Tesla stock would explode
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  Speaker 1: and be worth eight point five trillion, with must getting
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  Speaker 1: a quarter. That's so, that's how they'll end up with
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  Speaker 1: a trillion dollars in income. And let's say it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: work out well and they only hit two benchmarks, then
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  Speaker 1: he'll earn twenty six billion from that. This is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he'll be earning more money than Mark Zuckerberg,
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  Speaker 1: Tim Cook, and Jensen Huang in the video combined. Combined,
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  Speaker 1: seventy five percent of shareholders voted in favor of the
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  Speaker 1: proposal that just terrified of losing him. They don't think
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  Speaker 1: anybody else could run the company like that. Unbelievable. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Portnoy, here's another one. Portnoy says he's gonna pull
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  Speaker 1: Barstool from New York City. Their headquarters is here. He's threatening,
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  Speaker 1: he says, I hate the guy. He's threatening to pull
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  Speaker 1: out and move Barstool. Portnoy just bought a thirty million
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  Speaker 1: dollar house in Miami, so I imagine that's where he'd
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  Speaker 1: move it. You know, people go, you know, on their phone.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they are in the You read the newspaper
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  Speaker 1: on the computer, you read your websites, you read your
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  Speaker 1: book on a kindle, you do all that. That's all
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  Speaker 1: changing slowly. People don't want to read anymore. It's incredible
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  Speaker 1: how lazy people are getting. And wait till AI takes over,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to see laziness like you've never seen. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't want to read a book
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  Speaker 1: on a kindle. They want talking books. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: to hold it, look at it, move their eyes. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want to have to do that. They want to
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  Speaker 1: just have a talking book. Well, it's affecting everything else
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  Speaker 1: newspapers are starting to realize they've got to start talking.
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  Speaker 1: It can't just be print. The New York Times has
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  Speaker 1: been working very hard on what they call the post
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  Speaker 1: text era, so they're quickly moving to platforms where everybody's
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  Speaker 1: talk and all the writers doing audio and video. So
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  Speaker 1: when you go to the New York Times, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to tire yourself out reading. You can just listen
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  Speaker 1: and watch. So all their big writers columns are turning
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  Speaker 1: into talking heads. But this, this is the big thing.
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  Speaker 1: Audio video. At some point, if you've got no time
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  Speaker 1: machine and went to five years from now, there might
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  Speaker 1: not be any print of any kind anymore. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: just talking and video. Hey, oh, you will be with
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  Speaker 1: us later this hour, Clay Travis. Clay Travis will be here.
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  Speaker 1: In a few minutes. We'll talk to Clay Travis. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a new book out. And then, uh, well, a
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  Speaker 1: lot more to get to and we'll take some calls. Next.
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  Speaker 1: On woor Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: David in Brooklyn. David, how you.
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  Speaker 8: Doing, Hey, good morning, How are you good? Okay, I
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  Speaker 8: just want to if you give me thirty seconds, I
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  Speaker 8: make my point. You speaking yesterday that the election turnout
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  Speaker 8: was only forty five percent, So I want to explain
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  Speaker 8: to something my training statistics. I think forty five percent
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  Speaker 8: is actually too high. And I'll top thank to you.
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  Speaker 8: Why New York City does not have a system of
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  Speaker 8: people removing themselves from the from the voting world, meaning
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  Speaker 8: when someone registers to vote in New York, then they
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  Speaker 8: move to Florida, they move wherever. They don't call up.
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  Speaker 1: People do not know. That's a good point. The actual
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  Speaker 1: total might be higher, but people aren't.
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  Speaker 2: Hey.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you don't have to say give me,
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  Speaker 1: give me thirty sevents. Be interesting. If you're really interesting,
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  Speaker 1: you can stay on. You'll be on for ten minutes.
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  Speaker 1: If it's not so interesting, it might be ten seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing,
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  Speaker 1: good morning?
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  Speaker 4: Mark, Yes, Mike, just to get off the politics for
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  Speaker 4: a couple of seconds. I was cruising YouTube and I
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  Speaker 4: came across a bunch of Neil Sidaka videos and I
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  Speaker 4: was wondering if you were friends with him, and also,
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  Speaker 4: how short is Neil Sidaka?
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  Speaker 1: He looked.
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  Speaker 4: It was one where he's dancing, he's singing. There's a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of dancing girls, and he looks like he comes
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  Speaker 4: up to their waist.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, he's not. He's a good friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: He's not. He's not tall, but I would say he's
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  Speaker 1: five nine probably okay, maybe he's five five to nine.
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  Speaker 1: But he You know, when they put you in the
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  Speaker 1: show with the dancing girls, they're always like six feet tall,
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  Speaker 1: these dancers. So true. Yeah, but he does.
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  Speaker 4: He's doing it.
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  Speaker 1: He's pushed. He's in his eighties. I know that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you can see how he's doing because if you're follow
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  Speaker 1: him on Facebook or online, probably on YouTube too. Every
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  Speaker 1: couple of days in his own apartment over there on
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  Speaker 1: the Upper East Side, he makes these videos. Him at
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  Speaker 1: the piano and he sings some of his songs. He
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  Speaker 1: might want to get a little better dressed for them.
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  Speaker 1: It's usually him and his pajamas.
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  Speaker 4: He's an underrated genius.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I say, Oh, he's a brilliant guy, and he's one
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: of the few artists in the world. Like some of
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: those videos, you'll see him do laughter in the rain,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: just at the piano. He's one of the few guys
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: in real life can When he does it, it sounds
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: exactly like the like the recording, exactly like the record.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: That's impressive.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: You know how many times you go to a concert
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and they're doing their hit and it doesn't sound anything
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: like the single that you've heard for years, But now
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Sadaka sounds perfect. Thanks for calling, Mike. Let's go to
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Aaron in Indianapolis. Aaron, how you doing good?
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: Boarding Mark?
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: I want to talk about the new incoming New York mayor. Yes,
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: I think I think we should extend the peace offering
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: and send him some gift boxes of hand sandwiches.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but I think we
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: should send him to Indianapolis. Let him run your town
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: for a little while. It didn't like that. I had
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of silence there. Let's go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: how you doing okay?
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Mark? It's I'm wondering why right ways like Stepanic use
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: the word affordability. Those are the leftwards, but we should
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: be using your slogan common sense.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Well, we use that a lot. Now President Trump uses
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that a lot.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I know, but it should be the rallying cry. Everybody
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: says that they that these people are saying, you know,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: afford a bill, and they're going to wait across the
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: country with that slogan. We should respond by saying common says.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Well, we do, we do, we do. President Trump, as
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: they say, he says it a lot. You can't decide
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: what the big slogan is. You can just keep saying it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Then you see what catches on. For some reason, the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: affordability caught on with the public. They like the word,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you know, it's like branding. Sometimes it catches on, sometimes
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: it doesn't. But affordability it's a big issue right now.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: But you got a lot of the president's policies and
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of the things in the pipeline going through
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the economy that will bring prices down. So in six
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: months prices might be a lot lower, and then it
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: won't be a very good word for a campaigning anymore.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Susan and Brooklyn. Susan, how you doing, Hi?
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Great Mark, love your show. I just have to make
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: a comment. I received my two hundred dollars inflation refund
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: check from local And the thing is they tell you
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: on this to keep the stub on the top to
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: file with your twenty twenty five taxes. And it even
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: says it on the check. This is insane. I'm being
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: taxed on money that I was already taxed on.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. Does that means you have to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: pay taxes on it just because you have to keep
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the stub?
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Well, it says this refund is issued on your income
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: tax return for the years shown below, tax year twenty
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: twenty five.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You got to ask an account. That might
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: mean you don't have to pay tax on How come
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't? I didn't get it? Check? How come I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: didn't get one?
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: I don't know. Maybe you make too much money? What
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: can I say?
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: Mark, have a good.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Day, all right, thanks for calling. Hey, we'll take a
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: break for the news, get caught up on everything, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll talk to Clay Travis. Last
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: night was the Patriot Awards in Long Island, Fox News,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Fox Nation. They do this great Patriot Awards. First Lady
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: was there, Erica Kirka. Clay Travis was there. He's also
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: got a new book out. We'll talk to him about that.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: But first let's get all the latest news. Let's get
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: caught up on everything on seven to.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Ten Insight from the inside. This is seven to ten
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Wrson Show.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Well with us right now, Clay Travis superstar. Of course
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you listen to Buck and Clay and every day twelve
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: noon to three, the Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show noon
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to three every day right after me. You seem all
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: over television of course OutKick all that stuff. And he's
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a best selling author. This is another bestseller that has
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: just come out. His new book is called Balls. It's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: actually a fascinating book. And Clay Travis, thanks for actually
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: coming into the studio.
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Well, thank you for having me. Most importantly, thanks for
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: being a tremendous lead in for the show for all
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: these years. And you are dominating in New York City
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: as you long have, and we appreciate you passing the
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: baton to us at noon, and we get to talk
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: to a lot of people all over the country and
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: certainly a lot of people in New York who are grappling,
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: as we were talking about off air, with what has
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: been a challenging week, I think to say the.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Least, Yeah, it's been a long week. I don't know.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: We'll get through this. And let's talk about the book first.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: That's an interesting subject because it's called Balls, but it's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: about sports, and you know, I never thought about it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I read this book the Democrats going into all these
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: dangerous areas with people, but screwing around with sports. Yeah,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: that's bad.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: Well. I think there's a sense among young men that
• 22:29
  Speaker 7: they have been villainized for many things that they've had
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: absolutely nothing to do with at all. And I think,
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: when when I think about my lifetime, I feel I
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: grew up in the era that girls and boys should
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: be treated equally under the law, and Title nine probably
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: is a is a strong component of the era that
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: I grew up in. But it wasn't that there was
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: something wrong with being male or being female. It was
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: that both sexes should be able to respond to be
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: the highest level of success possible, which seemed very very
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: healthy to me. And then in the last I would
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: say decade, certainly we moved into a world where being
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: male would there was something wrong with it and something
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: toxic with it. And so many young men who are
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: growing up in this era are looking around and saying
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: there's a couple of anecdotes in here, but one of
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: my favorite is one of my kids friends came home
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: one day with me and he said, mister Clay, we
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: learned today at school that white men cause all the
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: problems in the world and we're the reason that everything
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: is awful. And they told us, you know that we
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: have all this power, and he said, my mom doesn't
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: even let me pick what I eat for dinner. Mister Clay,
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: what power do I have? And it's a silly, funny anecdote,
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: but I think it kind of gets at the representative
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: issue here, which is we have created a world where
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: young men feel like they're blamed for everything, given credit
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: for nothing, and in this twenty twenty four election, they
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: pushed back against that in a pretty aggressive way.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: So do you think democrats targeted sports thinking it's too
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: macho or was it just a yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: I don't know how targeted it was or how much
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: it was just a natural outgrowth of their attempt to
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: take overall culture. But this book goes into to me
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: when it really began in earnest and you may remember
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: this story, some of your listeners will, but it kind
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: of feels like a long time ago now. Because so
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: many stories have happened since. But Michael Sam was a
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: star defensive end for the Missouri football team in the
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: SEC SEC player of the Year defensively, I think, but
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: like a lot of guys going to the pros, they
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: saw him as not an ideal fit. He wasn't big
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: enough to play defensive end, he wasn't fast enough to
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: play linebacker. There were all these issues, and so he
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: ended up getting drafted late. And when he got drafted,
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: he made out with his boyfriend on ESPN. You know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: they were sitting there with a camera right in his face.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: And then the entire Michael Sam's story was obsessively covered
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: by ESPN. And that was the first time I remember
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: someone becoming a star of coverage without being a star
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: on the field. The only reason people were following that
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: story was because he was gay. And when I go
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: back and look at it now, then you had Caitlin
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: Jenner's situation, certainly Colin Kaepernick taking a knee. They tried
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: to turn sports into politics by any other name. And
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: you know, I came one of my prior books as
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: Republicans by Sneakers Too, which is from the Jordan era.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: When hey, I want my excellence in athletics to speak
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: to anybody, why would I want a way into politics
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: and alien eight half the country, which I actually think
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: is the way that a super smart sports league or
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: a super smart athlete would be. And by the way,
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: this all culminated to me with Leah Thomas winning a
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: women's swimming title as a man.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And also for those people who.
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: Remember it in the twenty twenty bubble when the NBA
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: players actually took their own names off the back of
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: their jerseys and replace them with political slogo, which is
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: it's all crazy, but that is chronicled here as what
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: we saw in twenty twenty four was I think a
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: backlash to that era.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Well, get the book. It's fascinating. It's Klay Travis's new
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: book called Balls, and it really explores all this. But
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: why did guys like Roger Goodell, Why did they cave
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to this? Why didn't they stand up for their sports?
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: Because they did what was best for them personally that
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: was worse for the league's I think it's such a
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: good question. If you're an old white guy and you're
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: making forty million dollars a year, as Roger Goodell is,
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: and your league is made up of majority black athletes.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Do you want to be the guy that steps in
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: front of the media train to be seen immediately by
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: all of the sports media as the old, racist, white
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: guy who is trying to run the league. I think
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: he recognized, and certainly the owners did that this was
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: bad for the overall brand of the league and bad
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: for the outreach of audience. But they did what was
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: in their best interest to preserve their jobs as opposed
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: to what was in the league's best interest.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Now, there are some psychologists to say that's the reason
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the Democrats go so crazy about Donald Trump, that's the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: reason for this Trump arrangements in him, that he's such
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: an old fashioned, macho, kind of fifties kind of guy,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and you think that's part.
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: Of the well, look, I think the reason why the
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: left hates football in general is because it represents alpha masculinity.
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: I mean, there is no woman who's ever going to
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: make a football team, And in order to play football
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: at a high level, you have to be a physical
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: beast who puts your body on the line every single play.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: And you know, there's a reason that football, and obviously
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: it's much less serious, has been analogized so often to warfare,
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: because it's just physical carnage on the field, our most aggressive.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: There's a great.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: Quote at West Point one of their football coaches, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: I'm not going to remember it perfectly, but on you know, basically,
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: the idea was at West Point, we train men through
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: football to be able to eventually win on battlefields because
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: it's about following orders, it's about being in the right position,
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: and so there's always been a militaristic component of football
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: that I think also makes left wingers a little bit uncomfortable.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Well, talking about Clay Travis Gain his latest book, it's
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: already a bestseller, but go get the book. It's called Balls.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: You'll love this book. Hey, Clay Travis, you founded OutKick Now. Yeah,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you way back in the beginning all the big sports
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: sports Illustrated, ABC, ESPN. How come they didn't see you
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: coming out? How did you get ahead of them?
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: It is I think we have the most culturally influential
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: sports site now at OutKick, and Fox now owns it,
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: and we have a lot of impact. I think that's
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: part of what I write about in the book is
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: I think there's an advantage to being sort of a
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: speed ship a speedboat when everybody else is an aircraft
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: carrier because it allows you to adjust on the fly
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: quickly and see oncoming issues without having to run everything
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: through a bureaucracy in order to make it happen. And
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: so I think also the thing that is remarkable to
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: me is not that OutKick worked and continues to work
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: so well for Fox. It's that no one's ever competed
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: with us.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: I sometimes look around and I say, boys like I
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: invented beer, and nobody else will come out with their
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: own version of a beer. So that's maybe the most
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: remarkable thing about it. And if people aren't familiar with
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: the story of OutKick in sports, I think there's a
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: business and entrepreneurial story that is built into into this
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: book as well.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, we'll get the book. It's a brand new book
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: from Clay Travis. It's called Balls. You will love the book.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Listen to Clay Travis and Buck Sesson today noon to three,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and of course you'll see them all over television. But
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the book is called Balls. Go get it. Clay Travis,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: thanks for starting.
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: Thank you for killing it for us for so many
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: years as the lead in. We really love this station
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: and everything you guys do and we look forward to
• 30:41
  Speaker 7: talking with you guys for years and years to come.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll do it again soon. Thank your Mark.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Simon show on WR.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know, it's been quite a week. You
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: got the mom putting together a transition team. Another big
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: fear besides what he'll do with the police department, is
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the anti Semitism of Mom Donnie, the anti Semitism that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: surrounds him. You know, he's been going on Morning Joe
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: there that crazy Morning Joe Swamp Joe at MSNBC, and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: also a regular guest on the show is the director
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of the ADL, you know, the Defense League. So apparently
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough has decided to arrange a meeting between them.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: You know, it's one of the biggest institutions that represent
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Jewish New Yorkers. He said, it's important that they sit
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: down with Mom Donnie and engage with each other because
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the Defense League has pointed out, you know, Mam Doniel
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: bragged that he went to a synagogue, but they'll point
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: out the only team he goes to a synagogue, it's
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: an anti Zionist synagogue. So this will be interest now.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: The only problem is it's Morning Joe it's MSNBC, so
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Scarborough says, So we may may add Al Sharpton to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the meeting, but we'll see, you know. And it's one
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: thing to just go meet with these people. It's just
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a gesture and you need much more than gestures. Here. Hey,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: we'll we had a lot to get to in the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: next hour. We'll get back to mom Donnie and we'll
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: get to we'll get to MSNBC. It's their final week
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: coming up. There'll be no more MSNBC. It's not going
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: to switch to something called ms now. But rebranding is very,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: very dangerous. We'll talk about that in the next hour. Now,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: I'm here every day ten to noon, or you could
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: listen to the podcast that way, you can listen to
• 32:42
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• 32:44
  Speaker 1: if you're a podcast listener, there's a bonus segment that's
• 32:47
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• 32:49
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