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Mark's 9am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Live from Midtown Manhattan, here comes the Mark Simone Show
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  Speaker 1: on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, a big show today. Everybody always says that
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  Speaker 2: when they open. It's always a big show. Jam-packed. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: ever opens by saying, eh, not so great today. No, actually,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot to talk about. We'll get to
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  Speaker 2: the AI, whatever the hell this PSYOP operation is to
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  Speaker 2: convince you that AI is going to kill you. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to the Fed rate. It could be raised. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: expecting a quarter of a point raise later today. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to Iran and what their real strategy is. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to Mamdani, his latest crazy scheme in the war
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  Speaker 2: on cars. And we'll get to the Carnegie Deli. It
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  Speaker 2: reopened yesterday. I was there. It was pretty interesting. We'll
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  Speaker 2: give you all the details. Hey, check out my Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: You can see some pictures. Mark Simone. NYC at Instagram. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's see. The Fed rate will probably go up. Everybody's
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  Speaker 2: expecting a quarter point raise. That will happen later today
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  Speaker 2: when they make the announcement. As a result, actually, stocks
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  Speaker 2: are up. Futures are up. The market's not open yet,
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  Speaker 2: but futures are up. And let me just see here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: oil prices down a little, still way too high. but
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  Speaker 2: oil prices, uh, a dollar for a barrel for, uh, WTI,
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  Speaker 2: the American oil, uh, the rest of the world using
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  Speaker 2: Brent crude. That's at one Oh seven. It's very high,
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  Speaker 2: way too high. Now, if, uh, if, uh, we had
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  Speaker 2: a great government here in New York or California or somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: they would help the public with that. Remove the gas
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  Speaker 2: tax and fees in the state right now. Cause here
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  Speaker 2: in New York, it's 50 cents a gallon in tax.
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  Speaker 2: Just remove it for 30 days. Uh, Price will probably
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  Speaker 2: come down in 30 days. Just remove that gas tax
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  Speaker 2: for 30 days. California should do the same thing. It's
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  Speaker 2: 75 cents a gallon. 75 cents a gallon is the
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  Speaker 2: tax in California. Here in New York, it's 50 cents
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  Speaker 2: a gallon. Plus you got almost 20% federal taxes. It
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  Speaker 2: should all be removed for 30 days. I know it
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  Speaker 2: pays for the roads and all, but we've watched them
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  Speaker 2: repair these roads. They're not so good at it. But
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. The real Iran strategy is exactly what they've
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  Speaker 2: done historically. They did this with Jimmy Carter when they
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  Speaker 2: held our hostages. And Carter tried every which way to
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  Speaker 2: get them back. We tried a ridiculous rescue operation. We
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  Speaker 2: tried to negotiate everything, trying to get those hostages back.
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  Speaker 2: When did Iran release them? When did they finally give in?
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  Speaker 2: The second after the election. As soon as Reagan got elected,
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  Speaker 2: they turned them over immediately. In fact, it was while
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  Speaker 2: Reagan was being sworn in, during the swearing-in ceremony of Reagan,
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  Speaker 2: during the inauguration, as his hand hid the Bible, Iran
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  Speaker 2: put those hostages on a plane and had them flown back.
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  Speaker 2: So same strategy here. They're waiting for the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 2: They're praying, hoping the Democrats win, thinking the Democrats will
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  Speaker 2: stop the war, shut it all down. That's what they're
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  Speaker 2: waiting for. If the Republicans win the election, The House,
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  Speaker 2: the Senate, you can be sure Iran will be on
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  Speaker 2: the phone one second later offering a peace deal. So
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  Speaker 2: that's what they're waiting for. They did it with Carter.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing it now. They'll wait till just after the
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  Speaker 2: election to settle. And again, it's their usual pattern. So
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  Speaker 2: the big problem, the reason for the big spike in
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  Speaker 2: oil here over the last few days is Iran got
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  Speaker 2: the hooties mobilized again. and got them armed and financed.
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  Speaker 2: Iran uses various terrorist groups, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and others,
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  Speaker 2: and they got the Houthis to attack a Saudi pipeline,
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  Speaker 2: and they took out a pipeline, an important pipeline that
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  Speaker 2: the Saudis used to get oil out. Now, the good
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  Speaker 2: news is, to repair that pipeline takes about two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: So a week and a half from now, that pipeline
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  Speaker 2: will be operating again. And you've got to protect it,
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  Speaker 2: but apparently you can protect the pipeline. You'll need swarms
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  Speaker 2: of drones... to do it. They're going to need more drones.
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  Speaker 2: They're actually looking to Zelensky in the Ukraine, who has
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  Speaker 2: now become the biggest drone manufacturer in the world. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: turns out more drones and he's been able to protect
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  Speaker 2: his stuff with these drones. So Saudi's looking to make
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  Speaker 2: a deal with him, uh, to get that going. So, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani's got this crazy scheme. Uh, if you hear the speech,
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  Speaker 2: it's about, uh, trying to cut down on traffic deaths and, uh, accidents,
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  Speaker 2: cars hitting, well, that's great. That's wonderful. That's a good
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. But if you look into the fine
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  Speaker 2: print of this plan, which has got like a thousand
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  Speaker 2: components to it, then most of it, most of it
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  Speaker 2: is stuff we're not going to like. Bike lanes everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: bike lanes on top of bike lanes, reducing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of streets. The number of lanes, Park Avenue would have
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  Speaker 2: a huge pedestrian mall in the middle of it. Many
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  Speaker 2: streets would be converted to pedestrian only. Of course, this
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely crazy. This is insane stuff. It's the war
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  Speaker 2: on cars. And it sounds good to people that don't drive,
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  Speaker 2: but it isn't. It affects you in a million ways.
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  Speaker 2: Just take a look at Times Square. And it was
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  Speaker 2: Bloomberg that did that. And you remember, he decided to
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  Speaker 2: make a massive pedestrian mall right in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: Times Square. It just snarled up traffic, which had already
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  Speaker 2: been horrific. Now it's even worse. The Broadway community, furious
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  Speaker 2: about this. They've been trying for years to undo that
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  Speaker 2: pedestrian mall. Makes it tougher and tougher and tougher to
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  Speaker 2: get to a Broadway show, to leave a Broadway show.
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  Speaker 2: It's made a traffic situation that was already horrible, even worse.
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  Speaker 2: Also remember, we're in New York. Six months of the year,
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  Speaker 2: it's cold. You're not going to sit outside in the
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  Speaker 2: pedestrian mall. You know, they put these tables and chairs.
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  Speaker 2: There's winter. In winter, who's going to sit out there?
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  Speaker 2: So Mamdani wants to do that with more and more
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  Speaker 2: and more streets. Absolutely ridiculous. So just keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: on this plan. Now, the good news with Mamdani is
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  Speaker 2: he talks a lot and gets very little done. 99%
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  Speaker 2: of the stuff he says never happens. He's not a manager.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't know how to execute, doesn't know how to
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  Speaker 2: get it done. So that's the good news. The other
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  Speaker 2: part of that cutting down traffic accidents, which is a
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  Speaker 2: good thing to do, of is reducing the speed limit everywhere. Everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: 15 miles an hour in some places. Did you ever
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  Speaker 2: try to drive 15 miles an hour? It's not easy
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  Speaker 2: to do. Unless you're 97 and you're driving Miss Daisy
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  Speaker 2: or something. But it's really tough to drive 15 miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour. It's also a revenue thing because nobody can
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  Speaker 2: do it. So as soon as you're 20 miles an hour,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get a ticket. It's just a way
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  Speaker 2: to give out more tickets.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 2: It never stops. Hey, the war on AI, it's not
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  Speaker 2: really a war on AI. There's a cartel now that
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  Speaker 2: controls all of AI. The big four AI companies control
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  Speaker 2: it all. And they'd like to keep it that way. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so that's what this is really all about. Uh, they
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  Speaker 2: pretend they're just noble. They're just saints calling for regulation. So, uh,
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  Speaker 2: anytime you hear tech CEOs trying to sound noble, be very, very, very, uh, weary. And, uh, Well,
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  Speaker 2: anytime you hear people calling for their business to be regulated,
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  Speaker 2: be very wary of these people. The real story is
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  Speaker 2: they've got the whole thing monopolized. The big four. It's
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  Speaker 2: a cartel. They control AI. And they'd like all this regulation,
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  Speaker 2: red tape to come in to keep everybody else out
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  Speaker 2: because they've seen a lot of young upstart companies on
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  Speaker 2: the horizons. All of a sudden there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: players want to move into AI. This regulation would make
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  Speaker 2: it very tough for them and discourage most of them. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: now there's people jumping in on this fight. Uh, Steve
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  Speaker 2: Bannon teamed up with Bernie Sanders. Now you've got the
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  Speaker 2: two biggest nuts on both sides of the aisle, Bannon
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  Speaker 2: and Sanders, uh, just spewing all kinds of stuff together.
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  Speaker 2: Sanders looks like a guy you'd see in the Carnegie deli, uh,
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  Speaker 2: And he's just, I mean, he's a lovable guy, but
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  Speaker 2: just a lunatic. And Bannon looks like he just robbed
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  Speaker 2: an army surplus store with that outfit. He looks like
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  Speaker 2: he's dressed for Vietnam in the jungle or something. But
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  Speaker 2: two lunatics with this press conference, Bannon.
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  Speaker 1: Once you have time, then you can start the hard
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  Speaker 1: work of what is actually the regulatory apparatus. What is
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  Speaker 1: a regulatory apparatus that does not choke down the creativity?
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  Speaker 2: The drive, the urgency. Yeah, now Sanders.
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  Speaker 3: Despite living in a so-called democracy, the public has had
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  Speaker 3: virtually no input into the AI revolution that is transforming
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  Speaker 3: the world in which they live.
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  Speaker 2: There's the problem. The public has had no input into the...
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  Speaker 2: I got to be honest. You remember when Steve Jobs
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  Speaker 2: was working, coming up with the iPhone? I didn't have
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  Speaker 2: any input. He never consulted us. You remember when they
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  Speaker 2: were inventing Google, those three guys? They never got any
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  Speaker 2: input from us. There's a reason for that. He'll need
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  Speaker 2: any input from us. And what the hell do we know?
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  Speaker 2: What if Steve Jobs did come to me for advice
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  Speaker 2: when he was developing the iPhone? What am I going
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  Speaker 2: to do? Say, yeah, I would put this part over here.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you should put this over here. What do we know?
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  Speaker 2: Barely know how to use AI. I'm going to have
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  Speaker 2: input into creating it. It doesn't make any sense. But again,
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  Speaker 2: the cartel, and as a lot of people are pointing out,
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  Speaker 2: if the cartel, these four companies, thinks that we should
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  Speaker 2: slow down, Well, you guys have a total monopoly and
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  Speaker 2: control it. Slow down if you want. You think we
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  Speaker 2: should have a slowdown? Start it at 10 o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Just slow down. You could do it yourself. But this
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  Speaker 2: is all being carefully orchestrated. The quiet ringmaster behind the scenes,
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  Speaker 2: Barack Obama. They had a little meeting for all of this,
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  Speaker 2: and Obama was there. And the one guy leading the charge,
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  Speaker 2: that anthropic CEO very close to Obama, Now, why would
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  Speaker 2: Obama get involved? He thinks, and he's been telling Democrats
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  Speaker 2: this for almost two months. They weren't really listening to him,
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  Speaker 2: but he was telling them, AI is your issue. Make
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  Speaker 2: AI the issue. Make AI the new climate change. The
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  Speaker 2: thing everybody has to be terrified for, and only Democrats
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  Speaker 2: will protect you from it. So Obama, brilliant political strategist,
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  Speaker 2: thought that was the issue. But the thing is, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to talk about AI, A 97-year-old guy like
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders with fogged up glasses who barely knows how
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  Speaker 2: to use his cell phone. This is not your guy.
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  Speaker 4: If AI surpasses human intelligence, as many scientists believe could happen,
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  Speaker 4: this technology will escape human control with potentially catastrophic consequences.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, we like to point out, all the
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  Speaker 2: same stuff was said With even more fear, when they
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  Speaker 2: invented electricity, there was an uproar and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: this took place. You can go back and read the
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  Speaker 2: history of this. When electricity was developed, same thing. They
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  Speaker 2: all wanted it stopped. They were afraid of electricity. It
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  Speaker 2: was going to kill us all. It was going to
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  Speaker 2: create monsters. This was a big, big, big thing in
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  Speaker 2: public back then. And that's what led to Mary Shelley
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  Speaker 2: writing the book Frankenstein, which became a big novel. It
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  Speaker 2: was about electricity. being used to create a monster that
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  Speaker 2: kills us all. So this has been going on forever,
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  Speaker 2: this kind of talk. The Carnegie Deli reopened yesterday. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you got to be a little leery when you try
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  Speaker 2: to bring something back, when you try to recreate some magic.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't, well, it worked. It really worked. It was
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  Speaker 2: pretty amazing. Check out my Instagram. You'll see some pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simone, NYC at Instagram. It was packed. There was
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  Speaker 2: a line out the door. They had to have a
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  Speaker 2: big bouncer at the door, a very friendly guy, but
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  Speaker 2: they needed security. There were press everywhere inside. The food, great.
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  Speaker 2: The sandwiches. Now, remember how big the sandwiches were? They're
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  Speaker 2: like eight feet high to 10 feet high, 10 inches high,
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  Speaker 2: the sandwiches. You know, in the age of skimflation and shrinkflation,
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to cut the size down? No, they
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  Speaker 2: increased it. No. No, they're even bigger. They're even bigger. Now,
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  Speaker 2: people look at that sandwich that's like a foot high
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  Speaker 2: with that much pastrami and say, how are you supposed
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  Speaker 2: to eat that? You can't even get that in your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Who could eat all that? Well, that's true. But that
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  Speaker 2: was part of the magic formula because basically it's three
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  Speaker 2: sandwiches in one. If you got some more bread, you
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  Speaker 2: could make three sandwiches easily out of it. So that's
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  Speaker 2: basically the brilliant business model. You're able to sell your
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  Speaker 2: three sandwiches when you only wanted one. And you can't
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  Speaker 2: complain because you're certainly getting your money's worth. Pop-up bagels,
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  Speaker 2: which is the hot new bagel chain, same thing. Although
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  Speaker 2: they're more obvious about it. You know, the smallest order
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  Speaker 2: you can get at pop-up bagels is three bagels. You
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  Speaker 2: have to order a bag of bagels, a bag of 12,
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  Speaker 2: a bag of 10. You can get the smallest is
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  Speaker 2: a bag of three. So even though you want one bagel,
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  Speaker 2: you got to buy three. It's so good, you do it.
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  Speaker 2: So same thing with the Carnegie. Most people, they take
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  Speaker 2: home what they didn't eat. Sandwiches are phenomenal. The great
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  Speaker 2: cheesecake is back. The pickles are back. There are some
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  Speaker 2: changes that the purists like me that were there in
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  Speaker 2: the heyday of the Carnegie. Remember the big surly waiters?
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  Speaker 2: Remember Herb, that big, big waiter who'd yell at you
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  Speaker 2: and you could order 500 things and he'd say, what else?
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  Speaker 2: What else? Well, I'll have this and this and this. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what else? And then they'd walk up to that counter
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  Speaker 2: where the waiters would order and they would scream the
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  Speaker 2: orders at the countermen. And by the way, they had
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  Speaker 2: their own code, a pastrami on rye, the most common
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  Speaker 2: order at the Carnegie. Pastrami on rye was a pistol.
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  Speaker 2: So you'd hear Herb, the waiter, go up to the counter,
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  Speaker 2: two pistols. And if you wanted the, rye toasted that
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  Speaker 2: was whiskey down. So they'd say, two pistols, one whiskey down.
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  Speaker 2: They'd always be barking the stuff at the counter. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm standing by the counter. And first of all, the
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  Speaker 2: problem is they don't have those old nasty waiters anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They're all young. They're nice looking. They're friendly. They're nice,
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  Speaker 2: friendly waiters. Not the same thing. And I didn't hear
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  Speaker 2: anybody yelling the order at the counter guy. Nobody's yelling.
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  Speaker 2: I said, why aren't they? How come I don't hear it? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's all done with a little pad. They just type
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  Speaker 2: it in The waiter just types in the order. It's
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  Speaker 2: all digital. It comes up as a ticket on the
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  Speaker 2: other side. No yelling, no noise. It really cut down
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  Speaker 2: on the noise. And again, the big, fat, grumpy waiters,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see one of them. They're all young. They're
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  Speaker 2: good looking. But they're doing very well. Now, it's in
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  Speaker 2: a different location. You remember where the old Carnegie was?
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  Speaker 2: This was a block south. It's ironically in the location
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  Speaker 2: where the stage deli was Stage Deli, their arch rival
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  Speaker 2: for many years. So it's in the old Stage Deli.
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  Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's roomier. It's wider. It's nicer than the
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  Speaker 2: old place. Remember they had the pictures all over every wall? Well,
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  Speaker 2: in the new one, they've got the pictures all on
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  Speaker 2: one or two big walls, much more orderly. My picture's
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  Speaker 2: in there somewhere. Look for it. But I asked the owner.
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  Speaker 2: The owner is Marion Harper, Sari Harper, granddaughter of the
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  Speaker 2: original owner, They're running it. Again, check out my Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: You'll see pictures of them. But did you try to
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  Speaker 2: get back the old location? The old location is now
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  Speaker 2: a cannabis store. A cannabis store is where the Carnegie was. So, no,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't. They said there are problems with that building.
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  Speaker 2: And also, they think a developer is going to come
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  Speaker 2: in and take those three or four buildings down and
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  Speaker 2: put up a skyscraper. They didn't need to get in
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  Speaker 2: that fight. So they've got a new location. Also, they're
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  Speaker 2: looking to maybe do a Florida one. We've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Florida listeners. They're looking for a Florida Carnegie Deli.
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  Speaker 2: Most likely, Boca Raton would be the place. Not only
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  Speaker 2: is the great cheesecake back, but by the way, they
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  Speaker 2: have a great black and white cookie now. That's the
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  Speaker 2: new thing, the black and white cookie. And it's crowded.
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  Speaker 2: There's a line. It's not bad. It's not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to wait that long. Anyway, we've got
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  Speaker 2: a lot more to get to, so stay with us.
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  Speaker 2: It's Mark Simone here. 9 to noon, three hours every day,
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  Speaker 2: 9 to noon, here on 710WOR.