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

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Mark Simon Show. Wor Hey, beautiful
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  Speaker 1: day today preview of summer this week. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the fifties and sixties next week, but
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  Speaker 1: this week eighties. It'll be the hottest day of the week.
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  Speaker 1: Today could hit ninety degrees today. Hey, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: madonna new album. People. I'm getting all kinds of emails.
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  Speaker 1: People got mad You're making me feel old that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just being honest with you. If you went to all
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  Speaker 1: the top forty stations today, all those DJs, they're in
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  Speaker 1: their twenties or thirty. They don't know who Madonna is.
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  Speaker 1: That was forty years ago. I hate to break it
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  Speaker 1: to you. It was forty years ago Madonna was speaking.
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  Speaker 1: And back then, if you wanted to listen to Madonna
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  Speaker 1: on the radio, where would you have listened to her
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  Speaker 1: forty years ago. I'm trying to think now, not WABC,
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  Speaker 1: that was already talked by then. I had to listen
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  Speaker 1: to w NBC listen to Howard Stern in the afternoon
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  Speaker 1: playing Madonna, Now K to you. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: was more. Yeah, okay, w KT, you would have been around.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's here now. But this was the old
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  Speaker 1: w k T you ninety nine X you could have
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  Speaker 1: listened to it there, that's about it. Howard Stern was
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  Speaker 1: on in the afternoon WNBC playing Madonna all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Or you could have gone to those clubs Xenon Oh Bar,
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  Speaker 1: remember all those clubs, the Palladium. You would have heard
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  Speaker 1: Madonna but trying to make a comebacks. But it's a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. That was the she really took off,
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  Speaker 1: like eighty four eighty five. That's where she was like
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  Speaker 1: really a superstar all of a sudden. A few years
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  Speaker 1: before that she had been the She worked in the
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  Speaker 1: coat room at the Russian Tea Room right over there,
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  Speaker 1: she worked in the coat room, and before that she
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  Speaker 1: worked at the bottom line in the coat room check
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  Speaker 1: in your coat. So hey, another big anniversary today. It
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  Speaker 1: was ten years ago today that Apple announced the new iPhone.
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  Speaker 1: This would have been twenty sixteen. The new iPhone would
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  Speaker 1: have no plug for the headphones. Do you remember? There
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  Speaker 1: was the lightning plug where you plug in the power,
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  Speaker 1: and next to it was that little round hole where
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  Speaker 1: you'd plug in your earphones, your headphones. Your earphones or
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  Speaker 1: headphones of course had a chord and you'd plug it
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  Speaker 1: into the phone, and Apple announced the new iPhone would
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  Speaker 1: not have any earphone plug, no headphone plug, no jack
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  Speaker 1: for the headphones. This was the most shocking thing anybody
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  Speaker 1: ever heard of. All hell broke loose. Nobody could figure
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  Speaker 1: that out. How the hell were you supposed to plug
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  Speaker 1: in your headphones? What were you going to do without
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  Speaker 1: headphones that could plug in? Everybody predicted it was the
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  Speaker 1: end of the iPhone. People would now have to switch
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  Speaker 1: to an Android phone. Apple had this all figured out,
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  Speaker 1: thinking way ahead. They were thinking long term, very quietly.
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  Speaker 1: They had already bought Beats, the headphone company. They had
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  Speaker 1: already figured out the air pods, the Bluetooth air pods,
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  Speaker 1: and they sounded pretty good. And it was rough the
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  Speaker 1: first year. A lot of people didn't like this, and
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  Speaker 1: they were going to switch over to the Android and
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  Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy Android. They thought, this is the best thing
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  Speaker 1: that's ever happened. Apple just committed suicide. Well, Apple had
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  Speaker 1: it all figured out, and within no time at all,
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  Speaker 1: selling those air pods became a huge business. Like the
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  Speaker 1: first couple of years that did twenty billion. By year
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  Speaker 1: four they sold thirty billion in air pods. It's now
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  Speaker 1: a forty to fifty billion dollar a year business. It's
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  Speaker 1: a bigger business than Spotify or any of those kind
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  Speaker 1: of things, and it's an enormous, enormous business. And Sam
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  Speaker 1: sung the Galaxy to Android. They didn't know what the
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  Speaker 1: hell hit him. Apple had just thought this through, had
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  Speaker 1: chess gamed this out like twenty moves, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a brilliant move. You know, they sell those AirPods. Every
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  Speaker 1: year is a new AirPod Pro two, AirPod Pro three.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they saw something like seventy five billion of
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  Speaker 1: those a year all over the world. Absolutely amazing. So swallwell,
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  Speaker 1: he's out of politics, he's out of Congress, and he's
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  Speaker 1: out of the California governor's race. There's a lot of candidates.
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  Speaker 1: We like Steve Hilton, he's pretty smart. There's another Republican
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  Speaker 1: or two in there that are pretty good. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of Democrats in that race. There's talk of Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 1: jumping into that governor's race. The guy that everybody thinks
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  Speaker 1: is the Democrat that's he's not a good candidate. He's
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  Speaker 1: a terrible candidate, but they thought had a good shot
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  Speaker 1: is Tom Steyer, the billionaire. Remember he ran for president
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  Speaker 1: in he's he's a multi billionaire, and he's spent a
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  Speaker 1: fortune on TV commercials. Back in twenty twenty, if you
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  Speaker 1: were watching Network TV, all you saw with Tom Steyer
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  Speaker 1: in the sweater in his living room telling you about
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  Speaker 1: climate change. That's the main problem with him. He's like
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  Speaker 1: a one issue guy, climate change, and even on that
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. But
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  Speaker 1: there he was looking into the camera talking about climate change,
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  Speaker 1: and he's spent a fortune of his zillions of commercials
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  Speaker 1: on and it did him no good. He went absolutely
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  Speaker 1: sorry about that, absolutely nowhere in the race. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: thing is he's a bad talker. He's a boring guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's uncomfortable to watch. You go to sleep listening to him.
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  Speaker 1: But those commercials, they put him in his living room
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  Speaker 1: by the fireplace with a sweater on. So if he
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  Speaker 1: sounded dull, will it fit the environment? Now? The problem
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  Speaker 1: is if you get him out on a campaign stage
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  Speaker 1: in a rally, oh does he sound awful? He really
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  Speaker 1: sounds dull. He's got no personality, and he's got another problem.
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  Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty, in that campaign, he was at
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  Speaker 1: something where there was a bunch of rappers and hip
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  Speaker 1: hop guys, and they were performing and they were dancing,
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  Speaker 1: and he got up and danced with them. And here
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  Speaker 1: was this awkward, old white guy trying to dance with them.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know what the hell he was doing. It
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  Speaker 1: was so cringey. It was the worst thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Where those videos have resurfaced and the last two days
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  Speaker 1: they've gone viral, and they're really hurting him, really hurting him.
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  Speaker 1: He is so awkward and uncomfortable to what and you
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  Speaker 1: see him dancing, it's just it's not even funny. You
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  Speaker 1: just cringe looking at this video. So the problem is
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  Speaker 1: he's got no shout at all. And just a warning
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  Speaker 1: to everybody out there, don't dance. If you have a
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  Speaker 1: great dancer, good go dance, But if you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing. Remember the Seinfeld episode, Lane becomes the
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  Speaker 1: new president of the company and everybody respects her, fears her.
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  Speaker 1: Then at the Christmas party she dances. She's the most
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  Speaker 1: awful dancer, and then they all just laugh when they
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  Speaker 1: see her. She's laughed at all the time. I remember once,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I knew JFK Junior when he came into
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  Speaker 1: a room. It was unbelievable. The charisma he projected. He
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  Speaker 1: was the handsomest, the way he moved like an athlete,
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  Speaker 1: he was unbelievable, just magnetic. You couldn't take your eyes off.
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  Speaker 1: But there was one party where there was dancing. He
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  Speaker 1: got on the dance floor and started dancing. We were stunned.
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  Speaker 1: He was the worst dancer you've ever seen. It was
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  Speaker 1: Elaine in Seinfeld. It was so clutchy and awkward that
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  Speaker 1: suddenly the handsomest guy that ever lived was ridiculous looking.
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  Speaker 1: He was just a silly looking guy, and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the party nobody could look at him. So if
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what you're doing, do not dance at
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  Speaker 1: a party, at a wedding, Don't ever ever do it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is fascinating. In the Ukraine, the war continues. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when we go to war in Iran, everybody
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  Speaker 1: is saying, how long is it gonna take? Why it's
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  Speaker 1: been three weeks? What the hell's taken? So on Ukraine
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  Speaker 1: it's like year twelve. Nobody says a word. It's fine.
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  Speaker 1: The Iran war. We've spent whatever, we spent twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars. People are yelling how much money this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: What I waste the money twenty eight million the Ukraine War,
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  Speaker 1: that's four hundred and fifty million already nobody blinks, and
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  Speaker 1: it's fascinating. You know, we were so afraid of Iran military. Iran,
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  Speaker 1: well they folded in like two hours. In their first
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  Speaker 1: two hours, we wiped out everything they had. And we
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  Speaker 1: were also so afraid of Russia superpower. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: used to do those Russian military parades with the tanks
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  Speaker 1: and the soldiers in those parades of Russian military. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it looks so intimidating. Then they go to war little
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine and they can't get anything done. It's four or
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  Speaker 1: five years later. Five years later, they still haven't made
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  Speaker 1: half a mile of progress yet. So nothing. And now
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  Speaker 1: here's the interesting thing. Ukraine, little tiny Ukraine, has been
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  Speaker 1: able to hold off what was supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: superpower Russia for all these years. Now, these Ukrainians are
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  Speaker 1: getting very sophisticated. Yesterday there was a battle they won
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  Speaker 1: with robots. They sent some robots into combat against Russian
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  Speaker 1: soldiers and they were looking to take some territory and
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  Speaker 1: they did. Ukraine sent in these robots and they beat
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  Speaker 1: the Russian soldiers took the territory robots. Obviously, no injuries
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  Speaker 1: because it was just robots. No humans had to go
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  Speaker 1: anywhere near this battle. So this is the future, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: and it was being tested out, and they were very
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  Speaker 1: successful with those robots. You may see that in the future.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in the good old days, pilots could get
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  Speaker 1: shot down all the time because their planes had to
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  Speaker 1: go in fly low. We don't do that anymore. Drones
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  Speaker 1: do it all. If you lose a drone, nobody's hurt,
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  Speaker 1: no injuries, no casualties. It's all drones. So that's in
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  Speaker 1: the air. You're going to see this on the ground. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these robots are going to take over combat. Hey, the
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  Speaker 1: police officer, Eric duran this is this tragic case. He's
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  Speaker 1: on duty. They're trying to stop this crazy drug dealer,
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  Speaker 1: he says. He jumps on a motorcycle to flee, and
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  Speaker 1: he's about to run his motorcycle into a bunch of cops.
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  Speaker 1: So Eric Durant thinks fast. There's a big cooler there.
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  Speaker 1: He picks it up and throws it at the guy
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  Speaker 1: to knock him off the motorcycle. But he knocked him
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  Speaker 1: off and the guy went sideway, he hit a tree,
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  Speaker 1: the motorcycle hit him, and the guy ended up being dead.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible accident, and maybe you shouldn't have thrown the cooler.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a split second decision a cop has to make.
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  Speaker 1: It's understandable. The gets before a crazy judge in the Bronx.
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  Speaker 1: This crazy left wing kouk of a judge convicts him
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  Speaker 1: instantly and then sentences him to three to nine years
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  Speaker 1: in jail. Nine years in jail. This is a cop.
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  Speaker 1: It was an accident. Nine years in jail. This kuk
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  Speaker 1: of a left wing judge two seconds ago had a case,
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  Speaker 1: similar case, same thing. Well, actually was much worse. It
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  Speaker 1: was much worse. This kid beat a homeless man to
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  Speaker 1: death and killed him, beat him to death and killed him.
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  Speaker 1: And the kid was a gang member beat a homeless
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  Speaker 1: guy to death and killed him. This same judge gave
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  Speaker 1: the kid like three months. What a difference. It's obviously
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  Speaker 1: a left wing kuk of a judge. It's become a
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  Speaker 1: big issue. Bruce Blakeman's running for governor. He most likely
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  Speaker 1: will get elected governor. He has said he will pardon
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  Speaker 1: this cop day one hour, one minute, one soon, one
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  Speaker 1: minute after taking office, will pardon this guy, this Eric
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  Speaker 1: durand this officer. Now he's from an immigrant family. Mother's
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  Speaker 1: an immigrants. She's crying yesterday saying they came to America
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  Speaker 1: for a new life and the American dream turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be a nightmare for her. Last night at the
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  Speaker 1: Islanders game, they had a big fundraiser for this cop.
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  Speaker 1: He's got to appeal. The case needs a legal defense.
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Idella is a good attorney. He's jumped in to
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  Speaker 1: be the attorney. Alan Dershowitz, the brilliant, probably the best
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  Speaker 1: appellate lawyer in America, has volunteered to help. But you
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  Speaker 1: need money, and they had a fundraiser last night Islanders game.
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  Speaker 1: Fans donating like crazy. If you want to donate yourself,
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  Speaker 1: go just google Eric Duran fundraiser. I'm sure it'll come up.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Duran fundraiser. So crazy. Mom. Donnie with his grocery
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  Speaker 1: store that he hasn't has a clue how to do it.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, there's almost no profit in grocery stores.
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  Speaker 1: You could make a profit out in the suburbs. You
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  Speaker 1: can make a even there. It's like a four to
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  Speaker 1: five percent profit as soon as you operate a grocery
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  Speaker 1: store in Manhattan, you cost go crazy. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: you have to have the food delivered to your grocery
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  Speaker 1: store from the food company. And if it's in the suburbs,
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  Speaker 1: it costs this much. If it's in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: Manhattan or New York City, the price goes way up
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  Speaker 1: to get the food. Why because they have to send
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  Speaker 1: the trucks into Manhattan. They can't park anywhere. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the time, they're gonna have to double park, and when
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  Speaker 1: they do, they're gonna get a two hundred dollars ticket
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  Speaker 1: on the truck. And you know, like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these places where you buy an appliance or something, it's
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  Speaker 1: free delivery, except Manhattan. The reason is they're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: ticketed like crazy. You can't park. You know, you got
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  Speaker 1: a big truck delivering stuff. It's tough. Now what these
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  Speaker 1: grocery stores have to do. If you're a big supermarket,
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  Speaker 1: you got trucks around the store all day and night.
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  Speaker 1: They're always dropping off you know, one hundred trucks a
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  Speaker 1: day come to drop off stuff. So the parking tickets
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  Speaker 1: are astronomical. So most of these big chains, CBS, the
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  Speaker 1: big drug stores stores, they make a deal with the
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  Speaker 1: city to pay a set fee for all the park
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  Speaker 1: instead of paying every parking ticket on every truck. They'll
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  Speaker 1: just pay a set fee and they'll negotiate. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand a year to pay all
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  Speaker 1: the tickets. FedEx has to do the same thing. You
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  Speaker 1: just do that, but it adds to the cost to
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  Speaker 1: your groceries. Then you come into Manhattan, you got unions,
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  Speaker 1: you got all this, So that's why it costs so much.
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  Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with the grocery store owners. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: supermarket owners, the profit margin is like one percent, which
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  Speaker 1: is unbelievably low. So Momdani doesn't understand any of this. Also,
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  Speaker 1: he has no idea how to do a grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: It's absolutely astronomical what he's spending. It normally would cost
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  Speaker 1: a million to two million to open the thing. He's
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  Speaker 1: spending thirty million on space that's already free that he owns.
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  Speaker 1: City Hall says they will tap a private operator to
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  Speaker 1: manage the stores daily operations. Now, there's no reason to
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  Speaker 1: even do any of this. If you want to lower
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  Speaker 1: the price of groceries, you could do that in one second.
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  Speaker 1: You just go to every supermarket Manhattan and say we
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  Speaker 1: will no longer ticket any truck in front of your store.
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  Speaker 1: We'll drop some of the taxes on you. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the taxes as long as you agree to
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  Speaker 1: lower the prices. They would all take the deal in
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  Speaker 1: a second. That's all you have to do. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to try to build a grocery store that you
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to build, run it every day when
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how to run. This is going to
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  Speaker 1: be an absolute disaster. First of all, if you said
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  Speaker 1: to Gristiiti's or Morton Williams, here's some space, put a
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  Speaker 1: grocery store there, it would be there two months later.
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  Speaker 1: If the city tries to do it as they are
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  Speaker 1: here in East Harlem, it's not going to be there
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  Speaker 1: till twenty twenty nine, three years to do this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's never even going to happen. You'll never live to
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  Speaker 1: see one of these grocery stores. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten