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Hour 1: Iran; Colbert; Sherrill’s ICE Stunt; NY Post Columnist Michael Goodwin · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not ready yet. It's been gone five days.
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Speaker 1: I forgot how you do everything year. I forgot where
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Speaker 1: everything is. Anyway, we've got a lot to talk about today.
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Speaker 1: So what a Memorial Day weekend? I never saw whether
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Speaker 1: like that as you're leaving town Friday, the most beautiful
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Speaker 1: sunny day, as you're coming back last night, most beautiful
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Speaker 1: sunny evening, and then in between nothing but rain. It
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Speaker 1: was the worst weather ever for a Memorial Day weekend.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, it was a great Memorial Day if
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Speaker 1: you own an umbrella store or something like that. But
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Speaker 1: a lot to get to today. We're we're going to
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Speaker 1: get to all the latest on Iran. We'll run that
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Speaker 1: down for you. Colbert goes off the air. I wasn't
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Speaker 1: here for that the next day, but we'll do the
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Speaker 1: autopsy of exactly what went wrong. New Jersey Governor Mikey
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Speaker 1: Cheryl getting a lot of criticism for pulling the cheapest
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Speaker 1: publicity stunt. A lot more to get to anywhere. To
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Speaker 1: start with, I ran, negotiations look pretty good according to
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Speaker 1: the President. Now you've got to put an asterisk on that.
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Speaker 1: That's you know, there is a Donald Trump exaggeration factor sometimes,
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Speaker 1: but it seems to be going well and they are
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Speaker 1: coming to our you know, our terms on a lot
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Speaker 1: of stuff. It's pretty much ninety percent agreement now. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course, remember every agreement around makes they always break
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Speaker 1: in no time at all. But they've agreed to give
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Speaker 1: up the nuclear stuff. Yeah, they've agreed to give up
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Speaker 1: everything nuclear. Now they're sticking point is they're not yet
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Speaker 1: totally agreeing to never again pursuing any nuclear material, but
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Speaker 1: that'll come. They tried to pulling some crap over the weekend,
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Speaker 1: especially yesterday Memorial Day. They had some suspicious ships out
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Speaker 1: there trying to lay mines straight of horn Moves in
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Speaker 1: the Gulf. They were trying to mine the gulf. So
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Speaker 1: our military, our force in navy quickly quickly blew them up.
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Speaker 1: So there was some bombing yesterday as we took out
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Speaker 1: a number of ships and vessels that were trying to
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Speaker 1: lay mines. They were completely destroyed. Yesterday, the US, calling
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Speaker 1: them self defense strikes sent comp spokesperson said the US
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Speaker 1: military eliminated several IRGC boats that were seen mining the Strait.
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Speaker 1: Also took out a surface to air missile site in
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Speaker 1: bomber Abbas. The missile site was at Iran's primary naval station.
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Speaker 1: They thought it was targeting a US warplane. It was
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Speaker 1: quickly taken out, so that'll help the negotiations a little.
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Speaker 1: Now here's there's how it's done. If they give up
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Speaker 1: the nuclear stuff. It's mostly dust. It's mostly nuclear dust
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Speaker 1: under the rubble of the nuclear reactors we took out
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Speaker 1: and everywhere else we thought there was nuclear material, we
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Speaker 1: bombed the hell out of it. So it's basically dust
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Speaker 1: in the ground. But it can be extract believe it
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Speaker 1: or not. We know how to do that. We're very
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Speaker 1: good at that. We've got teams that actually know how
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Speaker 1: to get in, get nuclear material and remove it. We
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Speaker 1: had to do that in Libya after Kadafi gave up
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Speaker 1: his nuclear material. These teams went in and got it all,
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Speaker 1: scooped it up and knew how to get it out
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Speaker 1: of the ground, knew how to transport it out of there.
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Speaker 1: So they haven't agreed on how this will be done.
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Speaker 1: Option number one, we will go in get the nuclear material,
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Speaker 1: either destroy it in Iran, which can be done, or
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Speaker 1: we will remove it ourselves. Option number two, this is
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Speaker 1: the one Iran is leading towards. They will turn over
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Speaker 1: their nuclear material to Pakistan or Turkey or Russia or
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Speaker 1: China or some other country we can't trust, but they
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Speaker 1: may like that option.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if any other country wants to receive
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Speaker 1: nuclear material and have to store it, it's better if
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Speaker 1: we just go in and get it out. But again
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Speaker 1: I like that option. We would just go in and
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Speaker 1: destroy it. There. There's another third option, which is not
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Speaker 1: too good. Iran would agree to heavily dilute it. Keep
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Speaker 1: the uranium, but dilute it. If you want to use
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Speaker 1: the nuclear material for commercial purposes, for energy purposes, you
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Speaker 1: enrich it to about twenty percent. For a nuclear weapon,
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Speaker 1: you got to get it to ninety percent. Well, Iran
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Speaker 1: had it up to sixty percent and climbing. That's why
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Speaker 1: we went in when we did. They were getting close
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Speaker 1: to weaponizing it. So diluting it, I don't know. That
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Speaker 1: would require very intense international oversight. That'll be subject to
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Speaker 1: more negotiation. So I like that we go in and
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Speaker 1: destroy it there. I think that's the best option. So
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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens with that. Hey, this crazy governor
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, and know if she's crazy just silly, he's
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Speaker 1: kind of a silly Governor, Mikey Cheryl. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why she needed to do this. She's now the governor
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Speaker 1: early in her term, seems to be, you know, not
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Speaker 1: having any controversy, any problems. I don't know why you
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Speaker 1: need these cheap publicity stunts, but it might be a
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Speaker 1: sign of things to come. Big ice facility in New Jersey,
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Speaker 1: and if any official wants to go into the ice facility,
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Speaker 1: it's easy enough to do. You call Homeland Security, you
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Speaker 1: call up and you make arrangements to visit, and they
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Speaker 1: will give you a tour of the ice Facility's done
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Speaker 1: all the time. Robert Menendez Junior did that. Some other
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Speaker 1: local officials in New Jersey toured the ice vestle. You
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Speaker 1: can do that, Mikey Cheryl had she called and arranged
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Speaker 1: not on Memorial Day weekend, but during the week. Come in,
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Speaker 1: they'll give you a tour. She didn't do that deliberately. Instead,
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Speaker 1: she just showed up screaming outside the doorway, and of
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Speaker 1: course had a mob with her, and it caused controversy
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Speaker 1: and they couldn't let her in that way too chaotic.
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Speaker 1: And then she runs around all over to every TV camera,
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Speaker 1: yelling and screaming they wouldn't let her in. They wouldn't
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Speaker 1: let her in. Well, you know, it doesn't work that way.
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Speaker 1: It's like your NBC News. You wanted to do a
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Speaker 1: story on Rikers Island, you'd call up Rikers Island officials,
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Speaker 1: you tell them what you want to do. They'd arrange
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Speaker 1: for you to visit. They'd have people escort you through
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Speaker 1: Rikers And that's how it's done. That's how you see
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Speaker 1: those prison documentaries. You arrange it with the prison to
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Speaker 1: show up and they'll escort you through there. If you
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Speaker 1: just showed up outside Rikers Island yelling and screaming with cameras,
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Speaker 1: of course they don't know what the hell it is
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Speaker 1: and they're going to chase you away. So Mikey Cheryl
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Speaker 1: did this fake phony publicity stunt. She could have easily
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Speaker 1: arranged to go in, but deliberately didn't. Instead, she shows
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Speaker 1: up yelling and screaming with signs and protesters, and then
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Speaker 1: for the publicity stunt, screams about how they wouldn't let
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Speaker 1: her in.
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Speaker 3: We've been working with ice to get into the facility.
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Speaker 4: I was just denied that this morning.
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Speaker 5: I was hoping that, well, we certainly will.
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Speaker 1: Uh, but it's obviously just a cheap publicity stunt. You know,
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Speaker 1: if you showed up here at iHeart downstairs, they got
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Speaker 1: all kinds of security and if you demand to come in,
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Speaker 1: you can't come in. But if you called us or
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Speaker 1: we're supposed to want you to come visit, we leave
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Speaker 1: your name downstairs a guest pass, you come in. That
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Speaker 1: that's how it's done. Now here's Robert Menendez Junior. Now,
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Speaker 1: by the way, he did arrange properly and went in
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Speaker 1: and toward the facility. But it's a couple of days
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Speaker 1: later and now they got this great publicity stunt going
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Speaker 1: were you're gonna be on Cameron, be all over the
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Speaker 1: news and get a lot of publicity. So he pretends
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Speaker 1: he couldn't get access. He's pretending now lying actually him
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Speaker 1: pretending's a kind word. He's lying that he never got in,
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Speaker 1: that he never saw the facility.
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Speaker 6: The reason they want to make this as hard as possible.
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Speaker 6: They won't let the governor in is because they don't
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Speaker 6: want us to tell the stories of what's happening inside.
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Speaker 6: Because when we tell the stories, everyone in New Jersey
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Speaker 6: and people across the country realize this is not who
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Speaker 6: you are as a country. But a reflection of who
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Speaker 6: we are in this moment under the Trump administration.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you weren't sure just about how phony this
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Speaker 1: guy is, he was just inside the day before he
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Speaker 1: had a tour. We need to tell the story. You
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Speaker 1: were there, Tell the story, tell us what you saw. Hey,
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Speaker 1: let's get to Stephen Colbert. How many of you are
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Speaker 1: proud to say that in his twenty one years on
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Speaker 1: television you never once watched Colbert. I mean a lot
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Speaker 1: of people, probably ninety nine percent of the country more
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Speaker 1: than that, actually never watched Colbert. It was a loser show.
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Speaker 1: Now you could argue, oh, it's number one among the
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Speaker 1: late night shows, but only because the late night shows
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Speaker 1: had slipped so far down that they had no audience.
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Speaker 1: He had the tiniest late night audience in the history
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Speaker 1: of CBS television. But it was enough to beat the
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Speaker 1: other Jimmy Kimmel with even worse. Fallon has no ratings,
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Speaker 1: and the other thing was losing forty million a year. Now,
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Speaker 1: the suspicious part is how did it stay on the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years losing forty million a year. Now,
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Speaker 1: there's a you're going to see all over the internet today.
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Speaker 1: Somebody has put out a document that's totally fake. They
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Speaker 1: just made it up. It's a fake financial statement of
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Speaker 1: the Colbert Report showing that it made one hundred million
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Speaker 1: a year. Was absolutely no truth to it. It comes
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Speaker 1: from a guy on substack who just made it up.
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Speaker 1: Put it up on substack, and every left wing kookside
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Speaker 1: is putting this financial statement. It didn't even look like
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Speaker 1: a financial statement. It's what an amateur thinks it would
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Speaker 1: look like. But it's totally fake. The show lost forty
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Speaker 1: million a year. The CBS can tell you that. And
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Speaker 1: what ratings did the big sign off get? How many
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Speaker 1: people tuned in? Now, that sign off got a hell
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Speaker 1: of a lot of publicity, and actually, by all measures,
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Speaker 1: by any measure, the sign off ratings were disaster. It
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Speaker 1: got six point seven million people. Six point seven million.
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Speaker 1: That might sound good, Well, let's remember David Letterman's sign
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Speaker 1: off got fourteen million, Conan O'Brien sign off and that
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Speaker 1: was no big deal. But Conan O'Brien's sign off got
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Speaker 1: ten and a half million, Jay Leno sign off got
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Speaker 1: fifteen million. Johnny Carson It's years ago, got fifty five million.
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Speaker 1: Fifty five million, So compare that to six point seven million.
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Speaker 1: It's really not good. Yeah, so it's like ten percent
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Speaker 1: of what Johnny Carson got twelve percent actually, so by
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Speaker 1: any measure, a total total disaster. Now, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You gotta remember the other thing. It was losing money.
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Speaker 1: Everybody inside the business knew was losing about forty million
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Speaker 1: a year. And that's why nobody else has offered him
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Speaker 1: a job. It was announced ten months ago he's being canceled. Well,
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Speaker 1: ABC didn't offer him anything. CB just didn't offer him anything, HBO, Netflix, nobody, nobody, syndicators,
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Speaker 1: nobody offered him anything. Even Conan O'Brien, who was considered
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Speaker 1: at at the time a disaster on The Tonight Show.
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Speaker 1: Soon as he went off, he was offered immediately show
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Speaker 1: on TBS every night. Colbert has been offered nothing because
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Speaker 1: they know the actual numbers, and what company in their
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Speaker 1: right mind would say, hey, we could lose forty million,
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Speaker 1: let's get him. So nothing on the horizon. He wrote
11:31
Speaker 1: a screenplay, a sequel to The Hobbit, which the studio loves,
11:35
Speaker 1: some movie studios, so they've hired him to write that.
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Speaker 1: That's his next project. Now. The weirdest thing he did.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what this was all about. He's off
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Speaker 1: the air Thursday night, final show. The next night, Friday night,
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Speaker 1: he shows up in Monroe, Michigan. It's a small town
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Speaker 1: in Michigan to go on a local, tiny, local public
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Speaker 1: access cable show or something. It's called only in Monroe,
12:03
Speaker 1: and he took over as the host. Monroe has a
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Speaker 1: population of twenty thousand people, so let's say a couple
12:11
Speaker 1: one hundred people, maybe a thousand peopment the most were
12:14
Speaker 1: watching this thing and he hosted the show for it
12:17
Speaker 1: was just a weird, weird thing to do, but that's him.
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Speaker 1: He's a weird, peculiar guy. He opened with a monologue
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Speaker 1: full of jokes and then talk to a few people
12:29
Speaker 1: asked if the beer Milwaukee's Best was a sponsor. The
12:32
Speaker 1: actor Steve Bichemy made a cameo. Now apparently it's gone
12:36
Speaker 1: up online, it's been post it's on YouTube. It's ever
12:40
Speaker 1: so a lot of people are watching that. Somebody originally
12:45
Speaker 1: was going after the copyright and pulling it down, but
12:47
Speaker 1: they decided who cares, let them, let people watch it.
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Speaker 1: So it was very odd Byron Allen takes over the
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Speaker 1: time period of Stephen Colbier. It's Comics Unleashed or whatever
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Speaker 1: it's called. It's not bad. It was pretty good. It's
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Speaker 1: a change, a complete change from Colbert in that it's
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Speaker 1: a comedy show where they actually go for laughs. Colbert
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Speaker 1: never went for any laps, so he did. It's what
13:09
Speaker 1: they call clapter, where you say something so ugly about
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Speaker 1: Trump the audience just starts clapping instead of laughing. They
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Speaker 1: clap at every joke. They call that clapter. It's an
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Speaker 1: easy thing to do. It's much tougher to get laughs
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Speaker 1: than clapter. Clapter is easy. Just say something people are
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Speaker 1: all going to agree with and they start clapping. So
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Speaker 1: as far as Colbert on real television, I don't think
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Speaker 1: you'll ever see him again. I think that's it. Strange,
13:34
Speaker 1: strange sort of guy. And he was the opposite of
13:36
Speaker 1: every late night host. Every late night successful host was
13:41
Speaker 1: like an all American Midwest you know, Johnny Carson, Jack Parr,
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Speaker 1: Steve Allen. They came from the Heartland. They were like
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Speaker 1: regular guys. Letterman was that way, Jay Leno, you know,
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Speaker 1: the most regular guy in the world under a car
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Speaker 1: working on the engine, a regular guy. Colbert was totally different.
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Speaker 1: I mean he was from some small but he wasn't.
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Speaker 1: He was a very elitist, Northeast leadst son Time sort
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Speaker 1: of a guy.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: He was a kind of a Broadway singing dancing poofy
14:17
Speaker 1: kind of a Sonheime kind of and he loved sond
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Speaker 1: Time and he woul talk about again, that's not the
14:24
Speaker 1: formula for late night, late night. You got to be
14:27
Speaker 1: a normal, normal American there they can relate to. So
14:31
Speaker 1: he's not the type most people would relate to begin with,
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Speaker 1: and then he goes super partisan so that half the
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Speaker 1: country can't watch anyway. It's the dumbest business model ever
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Speaker 1: in the history of late night TV. But as Clemenza
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Speaker 1: would say, you won't see him again anyway. We'll take
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Speaker 1: take some calls. Next eight hundred three to two one
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Speaker 1: zero seven ten is the number, eight hundred three to
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Speaker 1: two one zero seven ten. Hey, it's Tuesday, remember that,
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Speaker 1: not Monday. It's Tuesday. We're all back. Everybody's back today.
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Speaker 1: Let's let's go to the phones. Let's take some calls.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to John in Florida. John, how you.
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Speaker 5: Doing, Good morning, Mark, doctor Florida. Mark. I was just
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Speaker 5: sight on Barnie. They're given Trump a hard time about
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Speaker 5: the ballroom. Republicans, the least they can do for this
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Speaker 5: man who's let him have his ballroom. They waste more
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Speaker 5: money than any more people that have caught it up liverpills.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's just whatever Trump wants. They hate Trump's
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Speaker 1: for it. There against it the ballroom. The terrible shooting
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Speaker 1: incident at the White House this past few days, a
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Speaker 1: gunman opened fire, a lunatic Secret Service had to shoot
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Speaker 1: him and kill him, and then President calling for the ballroom.
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Speaker 1: This well, and a lot people say, what does that
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Speaker 1: have to do with the ballroom? How does he connect it? Well,
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Speaker 1: a couple of reasons. One, when they do the big
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Speaker 1: events at the White House, they do him outside in
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Speaker 1: a tent. You don't want to be out there outside
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Speaker 1: when they're shooting. The other reason for the ballroom, it's
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Speaker 1: totally bulletproof. And the other reason is it's not just
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Speaker 1: a ballroom. They're going six stories underground, six floors down.
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Speaker 1: The reason for that is they're building the most incredible
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Speaker 1: state of the arts security bunker. Should there ever be
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Speaker 1: a real threat to the President, he goes in that
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Speaker 1: security bunker. The current security bunker under the White House
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Speaker 1: is very outdated, not up to speed, not fully adequate,
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Speaker 1: so they would build a really serious underground security facility.
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Speaker 1: That's why he keeps connecting this stuff to the ballroom.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing very well.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. Mark. We no.
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Speaker 3: President Trump just completed his trip to China. What I'm
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Speaker 3: asking is will Air Force one be retired and replaced
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Speaker 3: with a new aircraft before the end of the president's urn.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure there is a new aircraft, a new
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Speaker 1: air Force one coming. I don't know if it'll be
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Speaker 1: ready by the time the President gets done. But good question, Dave.
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Speaker 1: You know it takes years to build these things. That's why.
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Speaker 1: Remember the Saudis or Dubai whoever was going to lend
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Speaker 1: him that special jet. That's why. That's why he wanted it,
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Speaker 1: because the new Air Force one may not be believe
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Speaker 1: or not. It can take three, four or five years
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Speaker 1: to build those things. Let's go to Kate in Queen's Kate.
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Speaker 1: How you doing, Hi, Mark?
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Speaker 7: I love your show.
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Speaker 1: Thanks.
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Speaker 7: What that guy for real who puts out the fake
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Speaker 7: financial saying Colbert took in a hundred million?
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Speaker 4: I cracked up.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they would never get rid of them.
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Speaker 1: Is the guy in knit with No it's just the
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Speaker 1: left wing like loves fake documents. They put out fake
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Speaker 1: stuff all the time. It's a guy on substack who
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Speaker 1: made up this fake financial statement showing Colbert made up
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Speaker 1: hundred run with it. Yeah, yeah, it's good. You're gonna
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Speaker 1: see it all over the place, every left wing kook site,
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Speaker 1: media site, all the left wing kook sites, Daily Beast,
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Speaker 1: all the real left wing wacko sites, they'll they'll start
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Speaker 1: publishing it. It did not this. First of all, there's
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Speaker 1: no show in television that makes a hundred millionayere, no
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Speaker 1: primetime show makes a hundred million year anymore. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's the thirty year old ideas. But it's a totally
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Speaker 1: fake financial statement, doesn't even look like a real one.
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Speaker 1: But I already see the left wingers posting it all
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Speaker 1: over Facebook today. If he was making a hundred million
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Speaker 1: a year, first of all, they win to cancel it's.
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Speaker 1: Second of all, if he was making a hundred million year,
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Speaker 1: every network in the world, every streaming service would be
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Speaker 1: calling him to get him on. Let's go to Jan
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Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Jan, how you doing, Oh Mark?
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Speaker 7: Not so good? I'm very discouraged about the Mets, and
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Speaker 7: I was hoping that you might have some advice for
18:35
Speaker 7: Mendoza to help us Mets sad.
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Speaker 1: Chance see you said, oh not good. I was so
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Speaker 1: worried you were sick something awful, and now it turns out, well,
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Speaker 1: it's just as awful.
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Speaker 7: How bad the Mets are doing.
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Speaker 1: How long you've been a Mets.
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Speaker 7: Fan since I was a little girl.
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Speaker 1: You should be used to it. You get nervous when
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Speaker 1: they win. They always lose every season. It's Mets tradition.
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Speaker 7: Well, don't you have any advice from I don't have
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Speaker 7: advice for you to become a Yankee fan.
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Speaker 1: If you've been a Yankee fan all these years, you
19:06
Speaker 1: have twenty seven World championships. Be a yank?
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Speaker 7: What what Me and my brother were remembering. We were
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Speaker 7: singing the old Mets theme song and that kind of
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Speaker 7: cheered us up. Do you remember it? The old Mets song?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Wingle, Where are you from?
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Speaker 7: Originally Staten Island?
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Speaker 1: No, well, aren't Staten Island people usually Yankee fans?
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Speaker 7: No?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, I mean Queens Long Island. They tend
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Speaker 1: to be Mets fans.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we're discouraged. We need to be encouraged.
19:35
Speaker 1: Well, the Yankees always win, the Mets always lose. What
19:38
Speaker 1: is it you love about the Mets?
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Speaker 7: Oh, meet the Mets. Greet the Mets. Step right up
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Speaker 7: and meet the Mets. That old jingle that's encouraging.
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Speaker 1: How much would you charge not to sing? Anyway? Thanks
19:53
Speaker 1: for claw. Let's go to uh Joe in Elmwood Park. Joe,
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Speaker 1: how you doing?
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Speaker 4: I told you from the beginning, she's a clown. Now
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Speaker 4: we were talking to Mickey Shirley and Uh, there's estimated
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Speaker 4: one million illegals in New Jersey. And why don't you
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Speaker 4: concentrate on getting our taxes down and getting our utilities
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Speaker 4: down instead of worrying about Let Ice do your job.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, stop fighting law enforcement. It's law enforcement illegals. They're
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Speaker 1: here illegally. They're breaking the law. And that's one reason
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Speaker 1: your taxes are so high. You got millions of illegals
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Speaker 1: you're financing. That's why everything's high. Your tax your property,
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Speaker 1: tax expenses, everything. That's the job number one of the
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Speaker 1: job number one of a governor. Get taxes down, make
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Speaker 1: the place livable again, get all these costs down.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: It's like we'll talk about this in the next hour.
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Speaker 1: Are these supermarkets, these Mamdani supermarkets. You know the reason
20:53
Speaker 1: they can sell it cheaper. They have no property tax,
20:56
Speaker 1: they have no regulation they have That's why they can
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Speaker 1: lower the price. You got a mill and supermarkets just
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Speaker 1: make suspend their property tax, take away their property tax
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Speaker 1: and all their costs, and they'll sell it cheaper for you.
21:09
Speaker 1: Then you won't have to spend twenty billion building all
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Speaker 1: these supermarkets. Hey, when we come back, the greatest columnist
21:14
Speaker 1: in the world, Michael Goodwin, will be with us next. Well,
21:19
Speaker 1: Michael Goodwin the best columnists in America. You can read
21:22
Speaker 1: them every Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post.
21:25
Speaker 1: And all of his columns are up on the New
21:27
Speaker 1: York Post website. You can go there and read them.
21:29
Speaker 1: And he's with us now. Michael Goodwin. How you doing okay?
21:33
Speaker 2: Mark?
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Speaker 8: Thank you?
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Speaker 1: Hey? You wrote about the Democrats did a big autopsy
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Speaker 1: to figure out what went wrong in the election of
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. It is the phoniest, fakest, most ridiculous
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Speaker 1: non autopsy I've ever seen. What are they thinking?
21:52
Speaker 8: Well, the one truth is that it was written by
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Speaker 8: a part time temporary work I mean, this is this
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Speaker 8: is the way I guess for the party, the distance itself.
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Speaker 2: From the product. But you're overall, you're correct.
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Speaker 8: It's a disaster and it doesn't really point a way
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Speaker 8: to any real solutions.
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Speaker 2: I focused on the one issue.
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Speaker 8: That I think it did get right, and that was
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Speaker 8: that the Tamaa Harris has sunk herself with that video
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Speaker 8: showing her supporting surgery for transgender criminals, no questions asked,
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Speaker 8: everybody's entitlement, and Donald Trump turned it into an ad.
22:45
Speaker 8: And it's a great ad in which recounts her words
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Speaker 8: and then the voiceover says she.
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Speaker 2: Is for they them, Donald Trump is for you.
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Speaker 8: And I think it was a brilliant summation, and to
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Speaker 8: its credit, the report did go into some detail talking
23:08
Speaker 8: about how posters how Trump spent so much money running
23:12
Speaker 8: his ad over and over in the Swing States, and
23:15
Speaker 8: posters agreed it was very effective.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, except it looks like they haven't learned their lesson,
23:22
Speaker 1: you know, with these crazy extremist positions. They're taking even
23:25
Speaker 1: more of them. They're talking about AOC for the nominee.
23:28
Speaker 1: It sounds like they're going even further the left. What
23:31
Speaker 1: are they thinking?
23:33
Speaker 8: Yeah, I agree, I mean that You're right to extent,
23:37
Speaker 8: and they seem not to have learned anything about the
23:41
Speaker 8: American voters. And I think that it does point out
23:45
Speaker 8: the fact mark as you say, they're moving further and
23:48
Speaker 8: further left. I mean we see that in New York
23:52
Speaker 8: right with Hamamdani is kind of dragging HOCAL and the
23:57
Speaker 8: legislature into into socialism camp. And of course montdonni on
24:04
Speaker 8: the anti Semitism, I mean that is a that's a
24:07
Speaker 8: feature of the new left. So yeah, we're seeing it
24:12
Speaker 8: all the country in the Blue States, the Blue cities,
24:15
Speaker 8: and we'll see how the Democrats do in the midterm.
24:20
Speaker 8: But also quickly followed by the lineup for the twenty
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Speaker 8: twenty eight presidential election. Right now, you know Avin Newsom
24:30
Speaker 8: aoc I mean, who's going to be their candidate. It's
24:35
Speaker 8: not a very talent rich field.
24:38
Speaker 1: Yeah. And why are they talking about redoing our government,
24:41
Speaker 1: redoing democracy again? Really electoral college, stacking the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 1: making Puerto Rico and DC state. Why are they talking
24:51
Speaker 1: so radically, Well.
24:54
Speaker 8: They want what they want and apparently the country zution
25:00
Speaker 8: stands in their way. The amendments of free speaks, all
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Speaker 8: these things block the total mindset takeover of the far left.
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Speaker 2: This is a look you and I talked about this.
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Speaker 8: This is a perilous time for the country when you
25:21
Speaker 8: think about just since the World War Two, what the
25:26
Speaker 8: world would look like if America were not the country
25:31
Speaker 8: it has been strongest military, you know, a beacon for
25:37
Speaker 8: freedom around the world. If you take all of that away,
25:42
Speaker 8: what do you have left?
25:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think the fact that Mamdannie won so easily
25:49
Speaker 1: in New York is encouraging them, and they don't realize
25:53
Speaker 1: that's just crazy New York that the rest of the
25:55
Speaker 1: country is not going to vote for radicals like that.
25:59
Speaker 8: I think they're playing sort of a long game mark
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Speaker 8: wherever they can get a win, they'll take it and
26:08
Speaker 8: go to the bank on it and then move up
26:10
Speaker 8: the ladder. I mean the way mom Donnie has convinced
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Speaker 8: the HCAL that she should go along with him. I mean,
26:20
Speaker 8: he's calling the shots in Albany, and she's doing it,
26:24
Speaker 8: of course, because she believes that's how she'll.
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Speaker 2: Win her election in the fall.
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Speaker 8: So that's how it happens, kind of, one election at
26:34
Speaker 8: a time, the takeover is proceeding.
26:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, when the Deblasio got elected, the radical Deblasio.
26:45
Speaker 1: He started catering to the billionaires, to the business crowd.
26:48
Speaker 1: They all got his cell number. He was taking good
26:50
Speaker 1: care of them. So he pretended to be radical. But
26:53
Speaker 1: meantime those guys loved them and they made sure he
26:55
Speaker 1: got reelected. We don't see, mom, Donnie, if following that
26:58
Speaker 1: same path, do he?
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Speaker 8: No. I think you're I think you're right that uh
27:04
Speaker 8: de Blasio is kind of a fake faith socialist, right.
27:08
Speaker 8: He liked to sleep in, you know, he didn't really
27:12
Speaker 8: want to work, all that kind of stuff. Give him
27:15
Speaker 8: a little money, you'll get what you want. But I think,
27:19
Speaker 8: Mom Donnie, to that in that regard is a true
27:24
Speaker 8: believer in the cause. And we see all the different
27:29
Speaker 8: tentacles of that cause. They're all destructive to the world
27:34
Speaker 8: as we know it.
27:37
Speaker 1: Hey, the Israel Day Parade is coming up, Mom, Donnie
27:39
Speaker 1: looks like he's not gonna go. That's probably a smart decision.
27:42
Speaker 1: I don't think he should, and I don't think anybody
27:44
Speaker 1: wants him there, do they.
27:46
Speaker 8: No. I've just reading a speech this morning from a Rabbi,
27:51
Speaker 8: Mark Schneier on the East Side, and he said, thank you,
27:55
Speaker 8: thank you for not come. We don't want you and uh,
27:59
Speaker 8: you know you're you're out for Judaism, You're not. You know,
28:04
Speaker 8: a little scenario is so ridiculous. So I think I
28:08
Speaker 8: think the broke, the break with large parts of the
28:12
Speaker 8: Jewish community is pretty complete.
28:14
Speaker 2: Of course, there.
28:15
Speaker 8: There are those Jews who do support him, and probably
28:19
Speaker 8: some who are sitting in the middle and in between
28:22
Speaker 8: the two groups. But yeah, I think it's this issue
28:26
Speaker 8: has not run its course, that's for sure.
28:29
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what's funny, he was at the next game.
28:32
Speaker 1: As soon as the Knicks won last night, he tweeted out,
28:34
Speaker 1: that's not very socialist, is it too? That's not the
28:39
Speaker 1: real hymn, is it?
28:41
Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 8: I look, I think to a certain extent, you know,
28:46
Speaker 8: he's kind of a creature of his own swamp in
28:50
Speaker 8: the sense that he he follows, you know, he follows
28:54
Speaker 8: is whatever whichever way the wind is blowing on certain
28:59
Speaker 8: certainer issues. Yeah, like all politicians, he wants to be
29:03
Speaker 8: in the parade. And you know, I once earned someone
29:07
Speaker 8: to describe a politician's parade. Watch a politician watches which
29:13
Speaker 8: way the parade is going. In the runs they get
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Speaker 8: in front. Yeah, and I think, gotcha, what he's doing
29:20
Speaker 8: with popular issues like the next I mean, he can't
29:23
Speaker 8: be against the Knicks right now in New York.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff. Your next
29:29
Speaker 1: column is tomorrow. Michael Goodwin is every Sunday and every
29:33
Speaker 1: Wednesday in the New York Post and all his columns
29:36
Speaker 1: are up on the New York Post website. Great talking
29:38
Speaker 1: to here, and we'll do it again soon. Thanks for
29:40
Speaker 1: being with us.
29:42
Speaker 2: Mike Pleasure, Mark, thank you.
29:44
Speaker 1: Take care. Hey, beautiful Sonny Day. It's gonna be like
29:47
Speaker 1: this all week. It's gonna be Sonny eighties, you know,
29:50
Speaker 1: around Eightyes, it can be like that this week through
29:53
Speaker 1: the weekend. Well, I guess it makes up for that
29:57
Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend. Hey. Now, the fact that it was
30:00
Speaker 1: raining all weekend that usually helps the box office. The
30:05
Speaker 1: fact that it's a rainy weekend makes everybody go to
30:09
Speaker 1: the movies that you know was on the fence about it.
30:11
Speaker 1: So but still the Mandalorian and Grogu not good. Not
30:19
Speaker 1: good for a Star Wars sequel record low opening just
30:24
Speaker 1: eighty one million. That's not good. Well, actually if you
30:28
Speaker 1: add in memorially, but ninety seven million. But that's not
30:32
Speaker 1: good for a Star Wars franchise movie and considering it
30:37
Speaker 1: rained all weekend all over the Northeast, that should have
30:40
Speaker 1: helped the box office. It didn't, so it had a rough, rough,
30:44
Speaker 1: rough weekend. You know, it's not George Lucas anymore. He's
30:49
Speaker 1: out of it, so it's not the same thing anymore. Lucas,
30:53
Speaker 1: you know, the original Star Wars. He didn't want to
30:55
Speaker 1: do it, but they got him to do it, and
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Speaker 1: he made a deal. He agreed to do it for
31:01
Speaker 1: very low money, which they couldn't believe. He just wanted
31:05
Speaker 1: the rights to the merchandising and back a million years
31:09
Speaker 1: ago the movie studio said, what does he want that for?
31:11
Speaker 1: So they came the merchandising rights. Who cares about that?
31:14
Speaker 1: And he did it for low money, well off the merchandising.
31:17
Speaker 1: He literally became a billionaire, a billionaire and still makes
31:22
Speaker 1: a fortune to this day off all the merchandising. So
31:24
Speaker 1: it was a brilliant move. Michael Jackson movie is the
31:28
Speaker 1: box office king right now. It's up to about three
31:30
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million already, and Michael Jackson music is
31:34
Speaker 1: selling like crazy and downloading like crazy all over the place.
31:38
Speaker 1: As a result of the movie. Big comeback. Hey, we
31:41
Speaker 1: got a lot to get to in the next hour.
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