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FULL SHOW: Great jobs report; Examining Pam Bondi. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Mark Simon Show on sevent ten.
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  Speaker 2: Woor Well, finally it's Friday. It's gonna be a great
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  Speaker 2: day to day. You got opening day Yankee Stadium. Weather
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  Speaker 2: will be fine. Doesn't look so great right now, but
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  Speaker 2: the cloudiness, the drizzle go away, some will come out.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be a great opening day to day. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Pam Bondy and exactly what happened there. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: to President Trump, no Kings, We'll get to NATO, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get to Iran, we'll get to sixty minutes. Looks like
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  Speaker 2: there's gonna be a massacre there coming. And we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to Tiger Woods and a whole lot more coming up.
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  Speaker 2: The job numbers came out this morning. You won't hear
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  Speaker 2: about it very much because they were great. They were
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  Speaker 2: not just great, they were spectacular. Do you remember there was
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  Speaker 2: a month not long ago where the job numbers were
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  Speaker 2: below what was expected. It was the lead story everywhere
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  Speaker 2: every network news cast, New York Times, it was lead story.
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  Speaker 2: Job numbers were lower than expected. Well, we've more than
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  Speaker 2: made up for that. The job numbers were expected to
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  Speaker 2: be sixty thousand. It was one hundred and seventy eight. Thousand.
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  Speaker 2: It was fabulous job numbers, way above what was expected.
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  Speaker 2: We're now at full employment four point three percent. So
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  Speaker 2: you won't hear about this. It will not be the
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  Speaker 2: lead story on the NBC Nightly News. As we told
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  Speaker 2: you back then. I remember when the job numbers are
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  Speaker 2: a little low, lead story on the nightly news, main story, everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: lead story. Now you will not hear about this anywhere
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  Speaker 2: all day long. You'll just keep it very quiet. So
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  Speaker 2: we're learning more about Pam Bondy. She's out. Who's going
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  Speaker 2: to replace her? Well, it'll be Todd blanche the acting
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General. And actually, for the last few months he's
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  Speaker 2: really been running things. He's really been the guy running things.
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  Speaker 2: So nothing much will change over there. There's been a
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  Speaker 2: lot of talk of Leezelden. He's become very, very very
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  Speaker 2: well regarded in the inner circle of the Trump White House.
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  Speaker 2: So it could be Lee Zelden. You can be sure.
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  Speaker 2: Janine Piro is on the phone constantly calling. There are
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  Speaker 2: people pushing for her. There are people. Now you're going
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  Speaker 2: to hear some senator's names, Eric Schmidt, you've heard the
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  Speaker 2: name's Mike Lee, a couple of other senators. There a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are saying that should be the pick.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The reason for that there's people in the Senate that
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  Speaker 2: the Senate would like to get rid of. You just
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  Speaker 2: want to get him out of the Senate, so they're
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  Speaker 2: pushing those names. Don't take that very seriously. There's Elena Habba,
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  Speaker 2: but you know the problem is she's a little too
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  Speaker 2: Pam Bondi ish. Now, there were problems with Pam Bondi
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  Speaker 2: running things. The list is at the top of the
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  Speaker 2: list Epstein Files disaster. She made a total mess out
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  Speaker 2: of that, just a complete mess out of the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody can figure out why it all started with this
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  Speaker 2: supposed client list. Now, Epstein never had any kind of
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  Speaker 2: a sex business. There were no clients for any sex
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  Speaker 2: nothing like that. Epstein there were always a lot of
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  Speaker 2: women around, and if you were one of his friends
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  Speaker 2: and he came to his parties or his house, he
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  Speaker 2: always had plenty of women to introduce you to. They
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  Speaker 2: were older women, they were in their twenties, thirties, forties, fifties.
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  Speaker 2: There were some underage women, but that's what Epstein personally liked.
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  Speaker 2: He liked these underage women. And maybe a friend or
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  Speaker 2: two of his a lot of people think Prince Andrew,
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  Speaker 2: But that was just a private thing. It had nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with clients. There was no lists. So it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing for the public or you know, some fringe
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  Speaker 2: groups online to start rumoring about a client list a
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  Speaker 2: client list. But when you're in the Attorney General of
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  Speaker 2: the United States, you should know what the hell you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about. And she had the files that Biden Justice
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  Speaker 2: Department had the files for four years. They went through it,
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  Speaker 2: they read those files a million times. There was nothing
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  Speaker 2: in their Trump there was nothing in there about a
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  Speaker 2: client list. She should have known that. Yet way back
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  Speaker 2: then she made things one hundred times worse by shooting
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  Speaker 2: her mouth off claiming there was a client list.
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  Speaker 4: The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that really happened.
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  Speaker 5: It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's
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  Speaker 5: been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm
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  Speaker 5: reviewing JFKs MLK files. That's all in the process of
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  Speaker 5: being reviewed because that was done at the directive of
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  Speaker 5: the president from all of these agencies.
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  Speaker 4: So have you seen anything there? You said, Oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: not yet. Okay, well, we'll check back with you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. That's one of the main reasons she's being fired.
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  Speaker 2: There's no such thing as a client list for her
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  Speaker 2: to say it was sitting on her desk. Obviously she
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  Speaker 2: didn't know what the hell she was talking about, which
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  Speaker 2: is fine, but don't shoot your mouth off on television.
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  Speaker 2: And if you hadn't reviewed anything, don't be talking about
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  Speaker 2: it on TV. So that's one reason. The other reason
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  Speaker 2: is the failed prosecutions. Trump thought there was a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good case against Letitia James, so did all most of
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  Speaker 2: our great legal scholars and James call me. Those things
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  Speaker 2: went nowhere. You could say, well, it's not her fault.
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  Speaker 2: The grand jury wouldn't indict. But it's all about what
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  Speaker 2: you present, and it's all about what you come up with.
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  Speaker 2: There was plenty of stuff on Letitia James and call
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  Speaker 2: me and all this. But so that's another reason. So
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of reasons, and she just had
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  Speaker 2: to go. And she sort of knew that a few
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  Speaker 2: couple months ago that she knew they weren't happy with her,
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  Speaker 2: and she did a lot of stuff to try to
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  Speaker 2: appease the president and win him back, and she thought
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  Speaker 2: maybe she had succeeded at that, but the President on
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  Speaker 2: Monday started talking to people about getting rid of her.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, they went to the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: to sit in on the oral arguments. The President went
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  Speaker 2: there and Pam Bondi went with him, and they rode
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  Speaker 2: together and the limo it's a two mile ride, it's
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  Speaker 2: not that long a ride, short ride, but they rode
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  Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court and then sat in the here
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  Speaker 2: and then came back. Now, apparently he told her, apparently
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  Speaker 2: he fired her during the Lemo ride going there. You
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  Speaker 2: think you'd wait till you were leaving her, not while
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  Speaker 2: you're sitting in the car. And if you ever seen
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  Speaker 2: that the Beast, the Presidential Lemo, you know, when you're
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  Speaker 2: inside that thing, it's really tight in there. There's no
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  Speaker 2: space in there because the reason the Beast is bulletproof
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  Speaker 2: and bomb proof. The walls, the windows, the doors are
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  Speaker 2: like a foot thick. They're so thick on both sides
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  Speaker 2: that they take away like two feet of the interior.
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  Speaker 2: So you're really crammed together in there. And he told
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  Speaker 2: her his exact words, I think it's time, told her
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  Speaker 2: she was out. They went to the Supreme Court, they
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  Speaker 2: sat through the oral arguments. Apparently on the way out
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  Speaker 2: after the A couple hours later, after the oral argument,
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  Speaker 2: she asked him could she just stay till the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Could she leave in the summer. She just wanted a
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  Speaker 2: couple more months, and he said, no, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: She had to go right away. She'll stay another couple weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Need her for transitional stuff. The other thing is they've
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  Speaker 2: told her they will get her a very very good
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  Speaker 2: job in the private sector in Florida, very high paying
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  Speaker 2: job at a law firm. She'll make herself a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money. I'm make sure that happens.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to replace her? Well, names are being floated.
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  Speaker 2: People are pushing for Ron DeSantis. He'd probably be good
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  Speaker 2: at that because in real life he's a vicious guy
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. Great governor, done a phenomenal job as
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  Speaker 2: governor of Florida, probably the best governor in America, but
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes, a nasty, vicious guy. So people are
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  Speaker 2: pushing him, but he will not get it because two reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Trump knows that he's a vicious guy in real life,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody's ever worked with him or known him will
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  Speaker 2: be calling Trump saying, don't give him the job. I
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  Speaker 2: know some people don't like to hear this because he's
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  Speaker 2: such a great governor, but behind the scenes he is
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  Speaker 2: so vicious, so rude, so nasty to everybody he encounters privately,
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  Speaker 2: that everybody will rush to stop that. And the other
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  Speaker 2: reason Trump won't appoint him. He needs him to be
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  Speaker 2: governor of Florida because Trump does a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: in Florida, from mar A Lago to all of his price.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a lot of property in Florida that he
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  Speaker 2: needs a governor that's going to help him out. So
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  Speaker 2: he will not remove him as governor. But the other
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  Speaker 2: thing is he likes Todd Blanche, and Todd Blanche has
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  Speaker 2: been running things for the last couple of months. Very
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  Speaker 2: happy with Todd Blanch Blanche. So there may be no hurry.
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  Speaker 2: There may be no hurry. And whoever you appoints going
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  Speaker 2: to need confirmation, and those Democrats in Congress will hold
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  Speaker 2: it up forever and ever, and that could take forever,
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  Speaker 2: but that's fine. He's happy Todd Blanche is acting Attorney
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  Speaker 2: General and he could stay that way. He'll be happy
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  Speaker 2: to keep it that way for a long time. In
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  Speaker 2: the middle of about eleven days, I think it's April fourteenth,
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be a hearing Congressional Committee and Pam Bondi
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  Speaker 2: scheduled to testify on her handling of the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 2: So the Justice Department is saying, well, she's out, so
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  Speaker 2: let's have Todd Blanche come testify. The Congressional Committee saying
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  Speaker 2: absolutely not. It's Epstein's Bondie that we want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the Epstein files, which it's got to be her,
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  Speaker 2: so she'll still have to do that hearing. But once
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  Speaker 2: you're out, it's really kind of a meaningless so I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anything will happen in that hearing. Hey, the
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  Speaker 2: No King's Rally. These crazy Democrats now protesting things that
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  Speaker 2: don't even exist, protesting things in their imagination. But the
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  Speaker 2: No King's Rally. President Trump was asked about it. Did
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  Speaker 2: they call me king?
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  Speaker 6: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe it?
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  Speaker 6: No King?
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  Speaker 7: I'm such a king. I can't get a ball room approved.
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  Speaker 7: It's pretty amazing. I'm a king. If I was a king,
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  Speaker 7: we'd be doing a lot more. I'm doing a lot,
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  Speaker 7: but I could be doing a lot more if.
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  Speaker 4: I was a king.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty good. Iran. Here's the latest we took out
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  Speaker 2: their most important, finest, the most expensive, brand new bridge
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  Speaker 2: they built. Yesterday we took out it's the tallest bridge
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  Speaker 2: in Iran. It's a very important structure. It connects to
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  Speaker 2: Tehran and Karaj. It was blown to bits, very very
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  Speaker 2: very key infrastructure figure of Iran. We blew it up
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  Speaker 2: and demolished it. Now this war has come down to
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  Speaker 2: just one thing, will the will of the Iranians to resist,
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  Speaker 2: and they believe we don't have the will to keep
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  Speaker 2: going and finish the job. So that's their strategy that
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  Speaker 2: we just don't have the will to finish this, that
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  Speaker 2: will give up and go away at some point. And
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  Speaker 2: you got to admire the crazy nut job Iranian leaders,
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  Speaker 2: the will they have. They'll just let the whole place
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  Speaker 2: get blown up. So we're going to escalate slowly. We've
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  Speaker 2: been a massive amount of bombing rains, quantity has been there,
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  Speaker 2: so now they'll go for quality. They'll start taking out
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  Speaker 2: more each day, more and more and more important infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully that'll break the will of the Iranians. But this
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  Speaker 2: is going to get to a point where there's just
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  Speaker 2: not much left to go after and we'll see that.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna hear all the left wing fake news crowds say, well,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way to finish it without ground troops. Well,
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  Speaker 2: actually there is. You could. You can finish a war
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  Speaker 2: without ground troops. Take a look at Japan World War two.
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  Speaker 2: We were able to finish that and get a surrender
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  Speaker 2: without sending in any ground troops. It's been done many,
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  Speaker 2: many times NATO. There are some people wondering about these
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  Speaker 2: NATO countries and these NATO leaders. It's as if they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get the US to pull out. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they have done things that there's absolutely preposterous. And NATO
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  Speaker 2: partner's supposed to help you when you need help join
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  Speaker 2: the fight. Well not only didn't they do that, but
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  Speaker 2: even the most bare minimum things like let us use
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  Speaker 2: the air base in Italy, no, let us use your
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  Speaker 2: airspace no. So even the most untiniest, little bare minimum
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  Speaker 2: things NATO has refused. So it's if as if they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to get us to leave. And you've seen in
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  Speaker 2: the Iaran battle, Israel right there side by side with
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  Speaker 2: US and Saudi Arabia right there side by side with us.
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  Speaker 2: We're getting help from Kuwait, We're getting help from Cutter,
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  Speaker 2: nothing from NATO, not even bare minimum, little tiny things,
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  Speaker 2: nothing from NATO. So it's kind of a no brainer
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  Speaker 2: then just to pull out of NATO. Here's Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 8: When we need them to allow us to use their
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  Speaker 8: military bases, their answer is no. Then why are we
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  Speaker 8: in NATO? You have to ask that question, why do
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  Speaker 8: we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions
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  Speaker 8: of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars and all
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  Speaker 8: these American forces stationed in the region. If we can
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  Speaker 8: only use we can we in our time of need.
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  Speaker 8: We're not going to be allowed to use those bases.
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  Speaker 8: So I think there's no doubt. Unfortunately, after this conflict
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  Speaker 8: is concluded, we are going to have to re examine
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  Speaker 8: that relationship. We're going to have to re examine the
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  Speaker 8: value of NATO and that alliance for our country.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if we're spending all first of all, the
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  Speaker 2: financing of NATO, it's all us. It's mostly US financing it. Troops,
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  Speaker 2: ground troops, you know, left wing claims I don't want
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  Speaker 2: any ground troops. We've got ground troops all over Europe
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  Speaker 2: and we can't count on NATO even for the tiniest
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  Speaker 2: little thing. Probably is time to get out. Hey, here's
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  Speaker 2: some good news. You know. Barry Weiss is taken over
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  Speaker 2: at CBS and trying to clean it up, trying to
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  Speaker 2: get it back somewhere towards the middle instead of far
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  Speaker 2: left partisan. And word is she's going to shake up
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  Speaker 2: sixty minutes, reshuffle producers, all this stuff, and the top
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  Speaker 2: talent should get rid of these people. You got Leslie
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  Speaker 2: Stall she's eighty four. Wow, Bill Whittaker, seventy four. Scott Pelley,
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  Speaker 2: who's the nastiest guy on the air, a nice guy
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  Speaker 2: in real life, but on the air, vicious, nasty, over
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  Speaker 2: the top, crazy partisan. Do you remember that commencement address
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  Speaker 2: he made? It was a commencement speech where he went
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  Speaker 2: over the top anti Trump partisan. It's totally inappropriate for
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  Speaker 2: a college commencement speech, but also extremely inappropriate for somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's supposed to be a neutral, unbiased news anchor. So
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  Speaker 2: just for that speech, they should throw him the hell
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  Speaker 2: out of there. But she says she wants to make
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: the show a tougher, harder hitting, investigative reporting, breaking news,
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. It's a good idea. It's also cheaper,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the old sixty minutes where they do these
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  Speaker 2: amazing stories. You know, they'd send to Mike Wallace to
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  Speaker 2: Tibet to talk with the dolly somebody with a lama.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that costs a fortune. You got to send
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  Speaker 2: the whole crew for a month to Tibet. Then they'd
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  Speaker 2: do another story on somebody in England. They'd send the
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  Speaker 2: whole crew Toland. Cost a fortune to do that show.
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  Speaker 2: But back then, sixty minutes with the number one biggest
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  Speaker 2: show in television with fifty sixty seventy five million viewers
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  Speaker 2: in a week, you could have spent that kind of money.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's like two million, one million is hardly anybody watching.
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  Speaker 2: You can't afford to tell those kind of story. So
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: breaking News, just sit there at the anchor desk and
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  Speaker 2: just read it. It's a much much cheaper idea. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing good?
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  Speaker 1: Listen? You know I've been a Springsteen fan from day one.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen him many at times, loved his music and
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  Speaker 1: everything else. But now, after reading the review yesterday in
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  Speaker 1: the Times, you couldn't pay me to go see him.
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  Speaker 1: He has really lost his way. Half the half of
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  Speaker 1: the concert, he talks.
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  Speaker 2: Well in his defense, in his defense, not just him,
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  Speaker 2: but when you're one of these big superstar gods of
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  Speaker 2: music seventies into the eighties, by the time it's thirty
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  Speaker 2: years later, you can't get hit records anymore. You're totally irrelevant.
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  Speaker 2: All you are is you can do concerts. That's all
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  Speaker 2: you can do. You'll be the elder statesman doing the concerts.
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  Speaker 2: But they can't. They all try to get back in
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  Speaker 2: the game with a hit record or try to latch
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  Speaker 2: onto something. Why were you a Springsteen fan back then?
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  Speaker 2: What was it about this way?
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  Speaker 1: Because I was younger fifty years I was. I'm from Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: of s fifty years ago.
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  Speaker 3: I loved him.
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  Speaker 1: He was great. I loved his music, old rock and
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  Speaker 1: rolling but god, I mean, he goes on and if
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  Speaker 1: you read the review, I told my wife, my wife
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  Speaker 1: is going with her girlfriend. I wouldn't go. She's going
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  Speaker 1: in April. Yeah, I said. Now, I'm definitely convinced I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't go. I wouldn't, couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: But even back then he was great musically. But those
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  Speaker 2: songs Born to Run, jungle Land, yelling and screaming. What
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  Speaker 2: the hell was he actually singing about? I still don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just the way I was. It
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  Speaker 1: was just my generation. I guess that's all right.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: But what was he singing about?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Well, you have car I have cars and and girls
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: and working hard and work, you know, trying to get ahead.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Listen to the Beatles, I want to hold your hand.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: I can understand that song, Michelle my belt, I understand that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: But down in jungle Land, what was he singing? What
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: that was that all about?
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: That?
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the struggle, life's struggle, and he never
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: really he struggled a little bit, and then he hasn't
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: struggled in forty five years.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what life's struggle. I don't know this. I mean,
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: all Rightssue. A lot of people love Springsteen back then
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I never quite got it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: But I tell you a lot of people I know
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: are really not happy with him at all. A lot
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: of people I feel the same way about I am
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: about the way he used to be.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: That come, there's that old expression. There's no fool like
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: an old fool. The booster boy for it. Yeah, that's
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: the other thing, you know. I guess when he started
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and he wore those you know, those T shirts and
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: what's that stuff around his wrist, those wristbands and the
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: motorcycle boots and the jeans, and he was but back
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: then he was twenty five riding the motorcycle. He's now
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: an eighty year old multi multi multi millionaire. You don't
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: need to wear all that stuff, you know. He actually
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: he's about to jump on a motorcycle any moment, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: he need like an orthopedic seat on the motorcycle nowadays.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Rich in Myrtle Beach. Rich How you doing?
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Hey?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Thanks Mark? You know, he brought up a good point.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: He were Bruce Springsteen. They're using a Bruce Springsteen song
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Born in the USA for the ACLU commercials. I'm singing
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: on Fox News this morning on TV about protect birthright
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: citizenship and has shown all these immigrants who were born
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: in the USA playing his lousy music. And another band
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that used to preach to everybody. I quit going to
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: see Corsy still Snash thirty years ago because all they
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: did was preaching, lecture you on being a lunatic and
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: stuff like that.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, that they were like Woodstock type hippies back then,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: they're supposed to do that. But it's now twenty twenty six.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: And Bruce Springsteen, I mean, be honest, did you've listen
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: to all those music? Right?
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Can you understand half the things he's singing?
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: No?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I never got Bruce Springsteen. I never got Dave Matthews either.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I came from the Beatles generation, the Motown, I mean,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the sixties, seventies, early eighties was great music. And then
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: you know the old time country. This new country is brutal.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Tou that's no good? Yeah, but I know exactly. Here's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: one remember this, Marcus Sopranos, when Chris's girlfriend Adriana has
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: her old high school boyfriend with his band and in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the studio playing the same drudge over and over again,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and then producers this, how come you can't play something
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: with a hook like I want to hold your hand. Yeah,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it starts with the hook, and you guys do something
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well springs Thin could do it. Dancing in the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: dark had a great hook and ye hey, and I
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: was a DJ. I remember we'd played jungle Land. You
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: know why because it was like twelve minutes. It was
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: a back then, it was a way to go to
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: the men's room. But thanks for calling. Let's go to
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Mike in Florida.
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: Mike, how you doing, Good morning, Mark, Yes, Mike, Let's
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: think all that botox is Robin Springsteen's brain.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Why if people keep saying you have botox or plastic surgery?
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: He look at him, he looks like he's stretched like
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: a drumskin stretched over a.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Think the guy. I think the guy's entitled to a refund.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: He looks even older now.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I think so.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: I had a quick sixty minute story when I worked
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: over at the CBS studios. Over there, every late in
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: the week in Jurisday, Friday night, did be a studio
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: set up all dark with an easel lit and that's
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: when they shot the clock. Yeah, they shot it live
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: every every week for the show on Sunday.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was back then. It was a great show.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, who am I? Who else? Harry Reasoner,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Kenny Yeah.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: You'd see those guys doddling around the studio every once
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: in a while. It would be like Loyalty walking by.
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: You know, everybody would be in hushed tones as they
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: walked by.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I love Mike Wallace was a great friend,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and he was one of our most a little crusty,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: but yeah, all right, thanks for calling you. Mike Wallace.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: He was one of our most regular guests on this
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: show for a million years. We used to have Andy
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Rooney on all the time, although he couldn't stand me.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't exactly why, but he'd always
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: yell at me.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: And then Memory refused to come on the air for
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: a while, and then Mike Wallace convinced that he had
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: to come back on the air, and every timmy commanding him,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: ohly here because Mike Wallace is, ma could we do this?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: But they were great, I mean they were like legends. Now,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: who's the guy? You don't even know who these people
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: are anymore, but gota remember back then it was the
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: number one show in television. It's like sixty five million
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: people watching it, and you could afford to send a crew,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: you know, to Antarctica to do a story. If you
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: watch it now, you can see they've been cutbacks. It's
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: this tiny audience. So if they're doing a story, it's
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: about something in Nayak where the crew can drive up
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: there for an hour and come right back. They don't
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: have to spend money on planes, hotels or any of that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, how you doing?
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: Hi?
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: Hi?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Mark? Uh? Yeah, you know Charles.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Mister a happy hour here?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, I'm my throat's going out. I hope I
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: can speak. Yeah, yeah, I spent about a month working
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: with Charles grow out in North Carolina. Yeah, oh jeez,
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: That's okay, that's okay, that's that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Delight.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Jim Beams got your throat. Yeah, go ahead, I said,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: that's great.
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: What he was drinking Jack Daniels, not me?
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. He was a Jack Daniels type.
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: And anyway, he had two families, which was weird.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: That's right, I forgot about that. Turned out he was
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: a bigger mister. He used to do that feature called
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: on the Road where he'd go out on the road
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: and talk to Meantime, this guy had more activity on
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the road. He would do stories about interesting people on
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: the road. She should have been doing a story about himself.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: And what all the action this guy had going on?
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: Absolutely, I mean it was. It was one of the
• 23:40
  Speaker 9: funniest guys in the world. He could drink a bottle
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: of Jack Daniels and give a word perfect speech in
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: front of gymnasiums full of you know, an audience, and
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: it was just it was a miracle.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I couldn't figure it out.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we can see where you got your training.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Although his tolerance, Yeah, thank.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: You, thank you for bringing that out.
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: But the other thing that which is interesting, which I
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: was and I wanted to ask you, I would agree
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: with Larry Menzies this morning, which is about you know,
• 24:11
  Speaker 9: we have to watch these polls. Uh huh they're going
• 24:16
  Speaker 9: on because we want to see where the Democrats are
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: spending their money.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, you know, Bill, we got to go
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: talk to anybody else. But thank you, No, you're a
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: good caller. We love having you call. Enjoy happy hour.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Thanks for thanks for checking in with us. Ah when
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: we come back. Ed Rollins the Dean himself, the greatest
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: political analyst of all. What's going to happen in the midterms,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: what happens when you fire a cabinet member. We'll get
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: to all of this stuff next on seven to ten WRN.
• 24:46
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• 24:49
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• 24:52
  Speaker 9: the Mark Simone podcast anytime.
• 24:55
  Speaker 12: The Mark Simone Show on seven.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Ten wr.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk to the dean himself, Ed Rollins, the
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: greatest political analyst that he's been in a lot of
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: white houses, run a lot of campaigns, and he's with
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: us now. Ed Rollins, how you doing, good morning? How
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: are you very good? Hey? What do you think getting
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: rid of Pam BONDI probably a good idea, A bit
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: of a bumbler.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: I think she obviously is too strident for the jobs.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: She inlinated a lot of people and didn't do what
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Trump wanted. The critical thing I think is the timing,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: and I worry from a communications perspective, it's two hundred
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: and thirteen days to the election. I would not go
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: to another fight. I was the president of the President's team.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: I just leave the number two.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Guy in there.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: For as well as period as you can and straighten
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: things out as best you can. What you can't have
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: is every day taken away from your story. We're in
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: the middle of a war, and obviously the war has
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: gone all our side so far. But at the end
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: of the day, when you get into on battle, which
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: is what apparently the President wants to do or will do, Uh,
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: those are going to be fired back. We now have
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: We now have to uh two pot uts that are
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: down according to this morning's uh stories, and you know
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: what's gonna happen those guys. They're alive, but they're basically
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: going to be uh uh you know, I just think
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: it's important that the president speech here that night was
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: a disaster. He didn't didn't add anything to the to
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: the the dialogue. He could have done that speech anytime,
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: four weeks ago, four weeks from now, and it's just uh,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: you know, we've got a week of which there is
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: sort of obviously a very important thing, the space program,
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: that we could be highlighting. Uh. It's Easter time, and
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: there's a lot of people that are aren't interested in
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: politics right now, and the critical thing I think is
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: to get get your message, to get your team, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: if you've got to change more people in the White House,
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: do it quick. Yeah, I mean, don't, don't drag it out.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Problem with that speech, he's not a good teleprompter reader,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and you know, with no audience, it's not him. And
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: how does something like that happen to be with people
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: push him to do that?
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: Well, no one had pushed this president. This president gets
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: to do what he wants to do. And you'ref to right.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: When I worked for Ronald Reagan, you know, Ronald Reagan
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: got the sort of set, was a master speaker, could
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: read a teleprompter anywhere, but he took time to get
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: ready for it. The idea that you now have Pam
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: Bondy being fired at the same time, these are all
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: those tractions to the president. No matter how capable he
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: may be or not be, No one could basically take
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: all these pressures all at once. So I think I
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: think he was badly. You know, he could fire next week,
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: he could fire two leagues and now I no, won't care.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, you've now you've
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: now stepped all over your stories. And I worry about
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: the communications. I worry about the Democrats, not not necessarily
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: getting the upper hand on communications. But they're going to
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: take the press that basically is not favorable to the
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: president right now and highlight these stories. And now now
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: today you have the budget which the president asked, what
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: an enormous amount of money for the Defense Department and
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: the end of the day, it may be necessary, but
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: he's gott to prove his case. She's not going to
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: get that money easily. So yeah, a lot of the
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: gendera a lot of agenda.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but when you get a guy who's not a politician,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: not a professional politician, he's a billionaire, he's from the
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: private sector. You worked for Ross Perot, They're gonna do
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: what they want. They're not going to ever follow the procedure,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: are they.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: Nope, I agree totally in Ross Baroi is a perfect example.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: But uh, you know, Trump has had success though, and
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: I think the key things, you know, he has to
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: pick us, pick us battles carefully, especially the next two
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: in a days he loses, he's gonna he's gonna lose
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: the House. It may not be a be a massive loss,
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: but it's gonna be a loss. Uh, the senators now
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: in play. He loses those two things, those two entities.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: The whole game chased the last two years. So he's
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: got to basically the next six months get what he
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: needs done, get an agenda out there, get a campaign
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: strategy that can can articulate what it is. Is the
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: last two years over about him.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's many many, many many months away. And
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: you know he can old rabbits out of his hat.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: He is pretty good at that, isn't.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: He He's very He's very good at that. At the
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: end of the day, though, you want to be on
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: your agenda, not their agenda.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, and the idea of firing a cabinet member,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: you're gonna hear all day and all weekend on the
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Sunday shows this and indicates total chaos in the administrative
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: It's not unusual to fire cabinet member, is it.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: No, it's not. And certainly Trump had had a big
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: record of hiring people first term, and you know, you
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: remember back to cabin vers and fire forever. And at
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: the end of the day, what I would do is
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: just target is don't don't drag it out, don't don't
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: do uh one a week so you bet I change
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: and there are four or five people you're not satisfied,
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: get it done, do it sometimes next a couple of weeks,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: and then basically the safest debts of all there the
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: picked senators or people with the senator will vote for quickly,
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: don't drive. Just as we've made the change with Beyond,
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: with the Homeland of Security, I got too quick. It's done.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: We're moving forward. It's no longer an issue. This one's
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: going to be an issue. So I would just said,
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: holy acting the deputy there for as long as I could.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: There's no there's no time restraint, and that that basically
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: go out and try and grab somebody right down, throw
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: them on the.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're talking with Ed Rollinson. Let's let's talk about
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: New York Bruce Blakeman. I think he'd be a great governor.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I think he's got a real shot at winning this
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: campaign finance board. It looks pretty corrupt that too many
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Democrats are on the board. They've denied him funding. What
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: what what do you do about a thing like that?
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: You got to keep fighting. You got to basically get
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: out there and let people know. I think Blake would
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: be a great candidate. He's been a great county administrator.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: Uh and at the end of the day. The race
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: is closer than people anticipated it being. We could win
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: this one. We're gonna do it right.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But she's got like twenty million in today's world,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: like in the old days, you'd spend it all into
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: TV commercials. What is he to do with the money now?
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: TV commercials don't mean much. What do you do with
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: the money now?
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: Well, you build a grassroots organization. You know. The key
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: thing here is is you've got to take the three
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: or four states, three or four counties that matter. Sure Westchester,
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: his county, Suffolk, some upstate and registered voters. Get sure
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: your voters are aligned to vote participating. But it's great
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: a grassroots Africa that you've got to do.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what the real problem? We don't really
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: have as much of a Republican party in New York.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: I mean the actual infrastructure apparatus, it's not really there.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: What do we do about that?
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Well, he's got to do himself. You can't get a
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: party in place at this point in time. We've had
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: the same chairman for an over years now, and it's
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: just worth too much in a mindset of losing and
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: self fulfilling prophecy. My sense is we've got a candidate
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: who's Bible, who's ticul that knows the issues well in
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: a very weak in comment. So this is his opportunity
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: for us.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So hey, Iran, Uh, what does the president need
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: to do now to wrap this up? What does he
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: need to do? Messaging wise?
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: Well, message wise is very important. Uh. And as I
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: said this speech the other night, could have given any time.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: But you know the reality is, if you're going to
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: get on the ground and you're going to go try
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: and do some of the things that they want to do,
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: you're going to have, unfortunately gonna have American skilled and
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: that changes the whole dynamics. If I was if I
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: was advising him at this point in time, which obviously
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: I'm not, I'd say get out. You've done what you
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: want to do. You basically said you're not You're not
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: going to make You're not going to make the change
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: in the in the government. Uh. It's and if you
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: put troops on the ground, you know there's a million
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: people in their armor, and there's two hundred fifty thousand and
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: there in their Republican Guard. He was, you know, the
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: sort of repeat of Vietnam. We bombed the hell out
• 32:53
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• 32:55
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• 32:59
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  Speaker 6: Well.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: You know they had well this Easter Lunch at the
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: White House that was yesterday. It was the day before. Yeah,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: it was the day before the Easter lunch where the
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: President speaks and they had a lot of invited guests
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: and dignitaries and VIPs there and the President spoke and
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: it was very funny. It's a private event. For some reason,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: they videotaped it and then somebody at the White House
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: accidentally posted the video It was never supposed to be
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: seen publicly, and the President got pretty frank with everybody
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: and it became like a roast. He was kind of
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: roasting everybody with a lot of jokes. So it was
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: not supposed to go up online. They posted it. It
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: was taken down after about twenty minutes when they realized
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the mistake, but a lot of the stuff leaked out
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the footage. In fact, he started talking about the French
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: president Macrone, talking about he couldn't be here because his
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: wife beat him up. It was that he's still recovering
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: from the right to the jaw. He then mimicked Macrone's
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: French accident and started imitating him getting beaten up by
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: his wife. Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica Kirk, was there and
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: she's been the victim of all kinds of fake news crap,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: and he's talking to her. He said, I would sue
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: their ass off. I would sue their blank off. At
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: one point he started talking about the Supreme Court justices
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: and the ones that he appointed, and he called them
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: stupid people. But again, it's a private lunch, nobody's supposed
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: to see. It's not supposed to be public. They act
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: somebody accidentally posted this. All this stuff leakscept Now, if
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: this were another president, this would have been horribly embarrassing.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: This would have been a problem. Oh my god, look
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: what he said behind the scenes. Oh my god, look
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: at the jokes he makes behind the scenes. But luckily
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: it's Trump. And let's be honest. I mean, is there
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: anything there he wouldn't have said publicly? So that's the
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: great thing about being totally frank, totally blunt, totally honest
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: with what you think, no filter, say whatever the hell
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: you want all the time. There's nothing that can come
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: out behind the scenes. You don't have to worry about
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: anything being exposed. Look at Christy Nomes's husband with his
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: little bimbo fetish that comes out and it's just awful scandal.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Now there's word that the reason that got exposed, Christy
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Nome's husband would use these sex workers that would dress
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: up they were bimbos. He would dress up as a bimbo.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Apparently they would do this on video. You know, they
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: have these what they call webcam models where you go
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: on a webcam and you're talking live to the webcam model.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: And he was paying like twenty five dollars a minute
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: for them to talk dirty to him. How much is
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: how long do you have to talk? Well, let's say
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: it's ten minutes, that's two hundred and fifty bucks. All right,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: let's say it's twenty minutes, it's five hundred bucks. But
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: apparently one of these sex workers was an illegal migrant
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: who did this sex work. The illegal migrant calls herself
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Lydia Love. She remembers seeing Nome. She remembers the way
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: he was dressed, with the T shirt with the fake boobs,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: the balloons underneath. But apparently it was on one of
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: the workers was an illegal migrant, and the illegal migrant
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: was not happy about Christynome and not happy about ice
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. So she realized who
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: this guy was, and she went to somebody who went
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: to Axios, the political website, and leaked it to them.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: And apparently that's how it came out. From this illegal
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: migrant who happened to be a sex worker. You see,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: that did do the jobs Americans won't do, like talk
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: to Christy Nome's husband will. Anyway, we've got a lot
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: to get to in the next hour. We'll get to
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: New York and how it's doing it's opening day to
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: day Yankee Stadium, big big day there. Weather should be
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: great by afternoon, the sun should come out. It should
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: be warm by afternoon, so that'll be great. That's today.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: We'll also get to Tiger Woods in the next hour
• 37:53
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• 37:57
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• 38:00
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• 38:17
  Speaker 13: For being here, he s marks alone on sevent tenor.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Well, it's Friday, opening day at Yankee Stadium today. That's
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: a big event every years. It's gonna be nice. It
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: should be nice later today, sun'll come out. It should
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: be nice Tomorrow. Looks like rain on Easter Sunday. The
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Easter Parade takes place on Fifth Avenue forty ninth to
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: fifty seventh Street, But it looks like it'll rain throughout
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: the parade on Sunday. So Iran is claiming it's shot
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: down a US fighter jet and that the pilot is missing. Now,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: this has not been confirmed by anybody. This is Iran
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: claiming this. Put out a picture of the jet they
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: shot down, saying it's an F thirty five, but US
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: officials looking at it and say it's clearly not. They
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: can tell from the pieces it's an F fifteen. And
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: it should be pointed out Iran has a history of
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: claiming to have shot down US jets when they didn't.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: So we don't know if this is real or not real.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: And again Iran has light about it before. If it's
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: true the pilot is missing, Iran has said to their
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: public they'll pay a huge reward for anybody that can
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: find the American pilot and turn them in. The US
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: has launched a search operation inside Iran. Now, again, Iran
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: has a history of claiming to have shot down a
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: US plane when they haven't. But I would imagine that
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: our military knows where all their planes are, and I
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: would imagine they can tell if they've lost the plane
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: or none lost the plane. And they do say there
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: is a search operational underw so we'll keep on top
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: of that for you. Tiger Woods, Well, he got permission
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: to leave the country to go get treatment, big, big rehabilitation,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: rehab treatment overseas, which will get him out of the spotlight,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: he hopes for a long time. More and more coming
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: out about at the scene. The cops show up. They
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: know immediately who he is, and they talked to him.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: They're going to do some tests, you know, you walk
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: the line and all that kind of stuff. But they
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: asked him to wait in the car while they go
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: do some stuff. And apparently at one point he got
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: out of the car and started wandering a little and
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: he wandered down the road and he picked you know,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: he was on his phone. He was making some sort
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: of a phone call, wandering down the road away from them,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: making this phone call. And then he wandered back and
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: as he got back towards the cops, they can hear
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: him saying into the phone, well, thank you so much.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: All right, you got it. Bye, And he then said
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: to the cops, Wow, I was just talking with the president. Now.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Is that to impress the cops? I was just talking
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: to the President of the United States. That generally, I mean,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: it's impressive you're talking to the president of the United States,
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: But in a situation like that, it's more confusing the
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: cops now, they don't know whether you're lying, what to
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: think of you? Why are you're telling him? This a
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: strange thing to say, really strange thing to say. But
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: if you look at outside of that, you look at
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: the bodycam footage, there's nothing really bad in there. At
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: one point where they put him in the car to
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: take them away, you can hear him say, this is fun,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: all right. I guess he's being sarcastic with himself. So
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: he wasn't drunk. He took a breathalyzer. There was no
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: alcohol in his system, so it's not like he was,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: you know, look really drunk. He did have trouble with
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: They give you this test. We got to walk a
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: straight line. Have you ever tried that? Go try it
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: totally sober. It's hard to do. He wasn't good on
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: the test, but those tests are very hard to do.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: It's really tough. But we won't hear much about it.
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: Now.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: He'll go overseas to some rehab center. I don't know
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: where it's going to be. He'll go away for months
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: and months. Who knows, maybe I'll never come back. But
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: he's going to try to just stay over there. As
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: long as possible avoid this trial, which could send him
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: to jail. And when you're on your third or fourth efense,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: you most likely will go to jail. And then the
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: lawyers behind the scenes will try to try to work
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: out something. And we were talking about the ballroom before
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: President Trump. This was great. He was talking about no kings.
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: They call me king. Now do you believe it? No king,
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: I'm such a king. I can't get a ballroom approved.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: So it is strange that he can't get this ballroom approved.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: It's a great idea. Presidents have always wanted the ballroom.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: It's kind of stupid that we don't have a place
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: to hold a big event at the White House. They
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: get if they do a big event, they got to
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: put a tent on the lawn and it looks like
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: a cheesy wedding and long eyees island. So the ballroom's
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: a good idea. And if you're going to do it,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: you got it. You might as well do it when
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: you got the greatest ballroom builder in the world in
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: the White House.
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: Part of his opinion.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Now the court rules against it and says he has
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: no authority to do it, but he's got a good point. Here,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: it's not a government expense. If the government were paying
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: for it, if he was going to use the government's money,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: maybe then you should get congressional approval. But there's no
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: government money.
• 43:28
  Speaker 14: Part of his opinion. But basically he's saying, I need
• 43:32
  Speaker 14: congressional approval, and he's so wrong. This is being financed privately.
• 43:39
  Speaker 14: It's a donation that's being given by companies, very rich companies,
• 43:44
  Speaker 14: very rich people. The ballroom is a donation. It's gotten
• 43:47
  Speaker 14: great reviews, people love it, and presidents for one hundred
• 43:50
  Speaker 14: and fifty years have wanted this ballroom to be built.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: So I guess the again, it's a crazy left wing judge.
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: He's got a bow tie on, he's got those bizarre eyebrows.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: He's a weird looking guy, left wing, you know, an
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: NPR listening ms NOW type of a judge. So he's
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: just out to stop President Trump from doing anything. But
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I guess the argument would be because the judge said
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: he doesn't own the White House, he's merely the steward.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: So in other words, if I guess what he's saying is,
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: if you rent an Airbnb, you don't have the right
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: to remodel the house. While you're there building an addition
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: onto it. It's not your house. I guess that's what
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: he said. But who says Congress has the right over
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: the White House? You know, it's supposed to be a
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: separation of powers, three branches of government. Why would the
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: legislative branch be allowed to determine what the executive branch does.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: The executive branch controls the White House, I guess, And
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: so the argument is to stop now. There have been
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: plenty of changes to the White House without congressional approval.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: You know who it was, it FDR. Somebody decided they
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: want a pool, so they took one room and built
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: a swimming pool right in the White House, big swimming
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: pool without congressional approval, and a lot of stuff happened
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: in that pool. That's where JFK had those two hookers
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: come and swim with him, Pixie and Dixie or whatever
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: their names were. That's where Lyndon Johnson would swim. You know,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: that's where Joe Biden would go swimming when he was
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: I think when he was vice president or president he would,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: but he would this is kind of disgusting. Joe Biden
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: would swim naked and part of his Secret Service detail
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: where female, and they hated looking at him naked. It
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: was awkward, it was inappropriate. And you see how shriveled
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: up he looks on the outside. When an old prune
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: can imagine having a look at Joe Biden naked swimming
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: in the pool. President Trump comes in and has no
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: use for a swimming pool, and he has it covered up,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: and he builds that the press room was not very big.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: They didn't have a big press room, so he decides
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: to build a better one, and they cover up the
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: pool and build it over the swimming pool. Now, all
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: of this is without congressional approval. A lot of things
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: are done without congressional approval. You could argue, well, the
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: ballroom is different. It's so massive, it's almost the same
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: size as the whole White House. It's such a big change.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: But again, if you're allowed to change stuff without congressional approval,
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I think he'll win this in the end. He should
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: win this in the end to see you get these
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: crazy judges. I mean the kind of thing. I'll go
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court and it'll probably come down to
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: executive branch can do this without congressional approval. It's their building. Congress,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: you know, changes things. Sometimes they'll make a big change
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: in the Capitol building. They'll build something new, they'll add
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: a wing, they'll change the entrance. They'll do it. They
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: don't have to go get executive branch approval. They don't
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: have to get approval from the president. So it should
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: work both ways. So now, who would you say if
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: you ask Sharon Stone? Now, think of Sharon Stone. She's
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: made a lot of movies with a lot of people.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: If you asked her who was the greatest kisser in Hollywood,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: who would she pick out of all her leading men?
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Sharon Stone, Well, she was asked that on Radio Andy
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: podcast yesterday. Without hesitation, she said, Robert de Niro. She said,
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Robert de Niro the best kisser in the business. He
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: was the greatest kisser. Sharon Stone, now sixty eight, said,
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: and Casino, there were a couple of scenes where the
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: kiss he gave her was unbelievable. It said, he just
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: kissed her right out of her shoes. In fact, there
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: was one where the kiss was unbelievable. And then Scorsese
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: said that's good, that's good, or do you want to
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: do another text? She goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, give me
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: another text, so, Hey, it's possible de Niro could be
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: the greatest kisser in how It's possible, not the brightest
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: guy in the world. But he's now eighty two. No
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: response from him yet. He also did say he was
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: an actor that I admired the most. He was the
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: actor I admired most and wanted to act with, So
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: she kind of idolized the guy. Sometimes the kiss is
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: better if it's a guy you happen to idolize that
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: that can make a big difference. Hey, you're going to
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: see crime numbers coming down, mom. Donnie will take credit
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: for that, and he deserves credit because he's figured out
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: a way to bring the crime numbers down. Change the
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: way you count them, changed the system for counting them.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: It's like the antisemitic hate crimes. He brought the number
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: down by changing the way they count them. Used to
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: count them by whenever anybody calls nine to one one
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: because of an anti Semitic attack, that counts. Now he's
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: changed it too. There's a committee that will decide if
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: it was a hate crime or not, and they'll tell
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: you if it counts. Same thing with the crime statistics.
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: You can change the way they count them, and that
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: can bring the number down, but that doesn't stop from
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: bragging about it.
• 48:55
  Speaker 12: Each of these numbers paint a picture of a safer,
• 48:59
  Speaker 12: more welcoming city for our fellow New Yorkers, and they
• 49:02
  Speaker 12: tell a story that statistics can never fully capture. Countless
• 49:05
  Speaker 12: subway rides, evening walks, and trips to the park that
• 49:08
  Speaker 12: ended exactly as they should have, boringly without incidents.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well again, Hey, crime is pretty good for if
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: you're out there in the suburbs or out there somewhere
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: in America. You're listening to think so it's too dangerous too.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Most of Manhattan is very, very safe. There's not a
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: lot of crime here. There is a crime in New York,
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: but it's contained mostly in eight precincts. If you're in
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: the middle of Manhattan, if you haven't been here in
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: the years, and you come into right here in Midtown
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: and walk around, it's absolutely fine. Looks like it looks
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: like it always looked. Mom, Donnie getting into a huge
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: fight with the city council. We got really lucky. You
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: get the craziest, most left wing kook of a socialist
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: mayor elected. We got really lucky that somehow the city council.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're going to elect a Democrat to be
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: their speaker. It's always gonna be a Democrat. But we
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: got really lucky. They picked a moderate, common sense Democrat,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: Julie men and she has stood up to Mom Donnie
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: on a lot of things. Mom Donnie wants to go
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: crazy raising taxes, raising property taxes. It's absolutely insane. All
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: you do is lose people and you lose revenue. Every
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: time you raise taxes and raise property tax you'll lose revenue,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: people leave. You know, if you were one of these states, Texas, Florida.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of states where they got rid of
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: all the taxes and all of a sudden they take
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: in twice as much money because everybody starts moving there.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Business booms, the economy grows. But when he wanted to
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: do this crazy tax raise, and he's got his army
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: ready to go to all billion push for it, City
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Council Speaker Julie Menon stands up to him and said,
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: if you got a five billion dollar deficit in your budget,
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: which is out of one hundred and twenty eight billion,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: you cut five billion and costs, you don't raise the taxes,
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: that'll just make you lose money, you cut costs, and
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: she proposed a whole bunch of it's easy to do.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Most of that budget is waste, fraud, bl You could
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: cut the budget in half easily without cutting any services.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: It's just all the waste and fraud. So she proposed
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: some minor cuts and he went nuts. Mom Donnie made
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: a video, a bunch of videos. That's what he does best.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: He's not a management guy, doesn't know how to run anything,
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: but he's he's an Instagram guy. He's a TikTok guy.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: So he went out and made videos attacking this, saying
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: that it's a doomsday scenario. City services would be cut,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: everybody's going to starve to death. But he put out
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: all these videos and then she just lashed out at him.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: This is deeply misleading, potentially harmful. Even Democrats started to
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: attack Mom Donnie. He said, I thought this would be different.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: I thought things would be better. So Mom Donnie got
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: a hell of a backlash even from Democrats for his crazy,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: over the top videos. And even the Socialists aren't backing
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: him on this, so that's pretty good news. Even the
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: socialists have attacked him on this. Now the mayor, the
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: videos you put up got two and a half million views.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good. But a council source also said, besides
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: the backlash, Mom, Donnie is burning a lot of bridges
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: with lawmakers. This is standard stuff. Budget negotiation is pretty standard.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: You don't burn your bridges over this. Hey, Well, take
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two one zero
• 52:22
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• 52:27
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• 52:33
  Speaker 10: Now.
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: Now back to the Mark Simone show on woor.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Dominic,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: North Carolina Dominic. How you doing?
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Hey, good morning, Mark, Happy Easter. Listen. I love
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: your show, and I usually all love Ed Rollins, but
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: he always comes to things from a political perspective. I
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: would say there's more important things than just a mid
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: term election. Would think to lose it, but we got
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: to finish this thing in Iran. There's two important principles
• 53:04
  Speaker 6: at stake. Number one, we cannot let them have nuclear
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: weapons and number.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Two, well, I think we're kind of working on that
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: now as we speak. I think as we speak we're trying.
• 53:13
  Speaker 6: To do it. Yeah, but I mean I don't. It
• 53:14
  Speaker 6: doesn't help, right.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: You got to calm down. You get yourself a little
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: riled up there. Calm down, Calm down. We're working on Iran.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: We're doing everything we can do right.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: Now, and it may even take a little bit of sacrifice.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: People like to get mad, they like to be angry
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: like them. Well no, no, just take it easy. Calm down.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: We're working on Iran as we speak. Let's go to
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Dave in Chicago. Dave, how you doing.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Mark. I'm doing very well, Thank you. Mark.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: In regard to.
• 53:41
  Speaker 15: Restaurants outside of the major holidays, I'm wondering where is
• 53:46
  Speaker 15: their main revenue center. I'd have to guess there would
• 53:49
  Speaker 15: be two things, the side dishes because everything's al.
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: The cart, and probably alcohol.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Used to be alcohol. The profit margin
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: was much I are on alcohol than food, but that
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: was years ago. That was years ago. Once once the
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: alcohol changed, you know, once they were like twenty seven
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: fancy vodkas and nine thousand different fancy drinks, the cost
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: went up. So the profit margins pretty similar in food
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: or alcohol. So you can make just as much money
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: on food. Here's the thing when you go to it,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: like a steakhouse today, because of the inflation and all
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: that stuff, a steak is a ridiculous price. You go
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: to a steakhoust the steak could be eighty dollars, eighty
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: five dollars. It's unbelievable, and you think the restaurant's greedy.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: They're really not. That's how much they're paying for steak.
• 54:39
  Speaker 13: Now.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: One of the reason it's not just inflation. One of
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: the reasons is there's a cattle shortage. So the restaurant,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: if you order an eighty five dollars steak, the restaurant
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: is probably not making any money. Believe it or not.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: The cost on that steak is so high they're not
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: making any money. But if you order a side dish,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: if you order broccoli or spinach or mashed potatoes, that's
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: where they make a fortune because they'll charge you fifteen
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: dollars and the cost is like forty cents. So if
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: you go order the biggest steak on the menu, they're
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: not too thrilled with you. But if the person with
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: you doesn't order a main course and orders four side dishes,
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: they're thrilled with that person. Because that's now nowadays where
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: all the profit is. Let's go to Paul in Roslin,
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: Long Island. Paul, how you doing good?
• 55:23
  Speaker 13: Mark? How are you today?
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: I'm good. You got a great steak there, you got
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: Hendrix's tavern there?
• 55:28
  Speaker 13: Right, you're right. Just a question about a different subject.
• 55:31
  Speaker 13: Have you watched the JFK Junior Carolyn Bissett series on
• 55:35
  Speaker 13: that ethics recently?
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 55:37
  Speaker 13: And what do you think about it?
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: I knew the guy. I didn't know her. I knew
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: him pretty well. It's not entirely accurate. It's very well done,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: very well done. This where the locations, everything is very accurate.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: The acting is phenomenal, but they're leaving out a lot
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: of stuff. He was an incredible womanizer. He was, as
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: people used to say, a hit and quit it kind
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: of a guy. If he went through millions of women.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: He was not the soft, sensitive guy they portray. They
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: left out that part of it. Also. He was ridiculously
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: reckless and careless with his own life in other people's life.
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: So did that come across to you in that series?
• 56:16
  Speaker 13: Absolutely? And the other thing I noticed is that the
• 56:19
  Speaker 13: amount of smoking that she did was incredible. She's basically
• 56:23
  Speaker 13: has a cigarette in her mouth in every scene.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was a lot of people back then,
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: you know, you back then, everybody smoked everywhere in every restaurant.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Everybody's smoking. Go watch the like the Tonight Show from
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three, Johnny's smoking. Everybody's smoking. But that JFK.
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: You know, if you look back at that plane crash
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: to saying, oh, what a tragedy of the plane, it
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: was the most reckless thing in the world. Again, he
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: was a daredevil and reckless that plane, that flight. He
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: wasn't qualified to fly that flight. He wasn't certified to
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: fly in low visibility. He had a broken foot that day,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: which meant he couldn't work the pedals on the plane properly.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: No business making that flight. He was so bad as
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: a he'd been a pilot for about twelve minutes and
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: he's trying to fly through fog over the ocean. He
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: almost hit an American Airlines jet and when he took off,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: he just didn't know what he was doing. He flew
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: into the air corridor of an American Airlines plane. Luckily
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: they were professional pilots and were able to evade him,
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: but otherwise he was just ridiculously reckless, killed his wife,
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: killed her sister. Just awful. Let's go to Chris in Bethpage. Chris,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: how you doing, Hey?
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: Good?
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Mark?
• 57:37
  Speaker 10: Just about JFK. They said it was so bad he
• 57:42
  Speaker 10: thought he was flying parallel to the water when he
• 57:44
  Speaker 10: was actually flying straight down into it.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: That's what they crashed proof.
• 57:48
  Speaker 10: So that was just insane.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a horrible, horrible, reckless guy. And the
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: National Transportation Safety Board report came out totally blamed all
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: of this him for everything. The family of the wife
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: used that report to sue the Kennedy's and they did
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: get I think twenty million in a settlement over it. Yeah, yeah,
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: all right, thanks for Colin. Let's go to Let's go
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: to Nolan in New Jersey. Nolan, how you're doing a good?
• 58:14
  Speaker 13: Well?
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: Thanks?
• 58:15
  Speaker 16: I saw that Democratic governors like Mikey Sheryl they're going
• 58:19
  Speaker 16: to fight Trump on his new executive voter or on
• 58:21
  Speaker 16: mail in ballots that would require a Post office to
• 58:25
  Speaker 16: only send ballots to eligible citizens. What could their argument
• 58:29
  Speaker 16: be against Trump on this?
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: Oh? Well, they will fight Trump on anything and everything.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: If he says it's Friday, they will fight him on that.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: They just fight Trump on anything listen to the words
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: of John Fetterman.
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today?
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, we don't.
• 58:43
  Speaker 11: We don't have one. I think the TDS. I think
• 58:48
  Speaker 11: that's the leader right now. You know, right now our
• 58:52
  Speaker 11: party is governed by the TDS.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Trump derangement syndrome. That's all they got, That's what consumes
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: them obsessed than twenty four to seven. Let's go to
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: Good morning Macome, Okay, good morning, Mara. I have to
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: respectfully disagree with Ed Rollins what he said about Trump's speech.
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: I thought it was one of Trump's better speeches. It
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: was very concise, he hit all the bullet points. And
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: also because of the time difference between New York and
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: in the middle of the country, people were just sitting
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: down to have their dinner and they heard Trump's speech
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: and all the reasons why we're there, mainly to save
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: our children and grandchildren from those maniacs flying intercontinental missiles
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: into our cities and everything. And I think Trump is
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: going to win on this whole ballroom issue because, as
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: you pointed out a number of years ago, about twenty
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: years ago, I went to it and was very the
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: people had money and everything. They weren't easy. I went
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: to an outdoor wedding out in Long Island. They had
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: those tents and canopies, and when the sun cam went down,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: the flies came out, the mosquitoes they were eating people alive.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: They were everywhere. I mean, uh, it was horrible. I
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: mean you want to compare that with in Europe and
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: especially in Italy and France, when they have these state
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: dinners there there you were huge, huge ballrooms, you mongish
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: beautiful palaces and everything, and you're gonna have people the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: stupid judge in Washington. You're gonna have people going and
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: porter sands on the lawn where women wearing full length
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: gowns and heels and people dressed to the nine. What's
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: the matter with this judge just because he looks like
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: some pig from uh MPR, MPR and PBS with that
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: bow tie on, and it's all can't Donald Trump just
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: ignore that autum up?
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: Well, he's gonna appeal It'll go to another cart Vincent,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: great call, thanks for calling. He'll he'll appeal it. Yeah,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: that's another Vincent makes a great point there when you
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: the White House doing these massive dinners out on the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: lawn in a tent. You're right in the summer. It's
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: too hot, it's too windy, it's raining, there's flies everywhere.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. Hey, Steve Cuzo, the great New York Post columnist,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: writes about restaurants and real estate. How's New York doing?
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: How's the real estate situation? How's the restaurants? We'll get
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: told of that coming up next on seven to ten
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: w R.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: You're listening to Mark.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Them, Well, we're gonna get I want to talk to
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Steve Cuso, the great New York Post writer. He writes
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: about real estate, he writes about restaurants. And you know,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: all these people tell you everybody's leaving New York. Everybody's fleeing.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: New York is dying, it's empty, everybody's getting killed. The
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: restaurants are Well, let's get to the let's get to
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: the expert and get the real story.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 6: Here.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: You can read Steve Cuso's columns in the New York Post.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: They're all up on the New York Post website. Steve Cuzo,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Hey, good morning, Mark, How are you doing very good?
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Now you go around New York, you're stuck in traffic
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: is the sidewalks, the crowded. It's not dying, is it
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: not exactly?
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope you guys can hear me. I'm downtown
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: and there's like all sorts of construction and traffic and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: yeah like that.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: That's another thing. These real estate guys are building like crazy.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: So obviously we have a good future, don't we. Yeah.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: I live on the Upper east Side, or as I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: like to call it, the Upper cheap Side, which means
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: First Avenue, and you know, First Avenue, second Avenue, third Avenue,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: is like a building going up on every corner, it seems.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, you got massive skyscrapers, real tall, but going
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: up Park Avenue in the fifty third of this yeah,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: fifty eighth. So everybody's investing in New York. And what
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: about some of these empty office buildings converting them to apartments?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Is that going to actually happen?
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's unbelievable. I mean, there are so
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: many buildings that are being converted to apartments.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: When this trend started some years ago, it was mostly
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: you know, these old, antiquated, beat up, old buildings down
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: in the Wall Street area that they were antique. Nobody
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: wanted them anymore. But now this has spread way uptown,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: all over Midtown. There are buildings that aren't even that
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: old that are being turned into apartments. For example, one
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: thirty five East fifty seventh Street, corner of Lexington Avenue.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: That's a modern, modern building. It went up in the
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: late eighties and it's being converted to apartments. So there's
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: plenty of that going on.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and these guys wouldn't do that if they didn't
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: have people demand. So, and it's rental apartments are going
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: crazy right now, isn't that true?
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean they're crazy if everybody's complaining, Oh, you
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: can't get an apartment for less than four thousand a month. True?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: True enough, to which tell I say, half tongue in cheek,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: take a second job, you know, quit whining.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, hey, the dining outdoor dining began this week.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: They're allowed. Now are these sheds going to come back
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: all over the sidewalks?
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: I've lost track of what's going on. They're back. No,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: first of all, I haven't followed this that closely, but yeah,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: they're sort of back, but not not that many restaurants
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: applied for the outdoor seating. Not nothing like you know,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago during COVID, and people haven't
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: applied for a number of reasons. You know, you need
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: all kinds of city approvals. There's all sorts of reasons why.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: First of all, the city will tie you up in notch.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: You have to deal with nineteen different agencies. It's supposed
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: to be the Deparliament of Transportation that's in charge, which
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: it is, but they have to interact with the you know,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: with the fire Department, with the U Help Department, all
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: these agencies. So there's a lot of hesitation on the
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: part of restaurant owners. They don't want to have to
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: go through this again. But meanwhile, you've got the Hospitality Alliance,
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: my friend Andrew Ridgie pushing for even more, you know,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: and city council people want to have year round outdoor seating.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think we need that, but yeah, you'll be
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: seeing some of these. It's a moot point. Unless the
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: weather gets any better. It still feels like winter today.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: I don't care what the forecast said. And we're going
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: to Florida on Tuesday and I can't wait to get
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: out of here.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: Oh look, where are you going to Florida?
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: The usual round, you know, the usual milk from Palm Beach,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Delray Beach, and Miami Beach. Okay, three beaches.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: Now Palm Beach has got a million restaurants opening, but
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: they're all from New York. They're all from the Hamptons,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: they're all from the.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Well, not all of them. The big place down there
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: now is called Polo something, Polo Lounge. Polo.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a guy that worked for it's a guy
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: that worked for Ralph Lauren. He gave him a permission
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: to use the Polo name down there.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah?
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm looking forward to going because everybody says it's
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: the hottest place and food's great, YadA yadaxl and the watch.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: We'll get down there and the weather will stink, but
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: when you travel, that's that's photo black.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Hey, Steve Kisa, you wrote this cameo. A certain food
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: just comes to New York, goes viral. It's a big deal.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: You wrote about sushi. Push Pops explain that.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: So there's a new place called Suka Sushi. It's a
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: little storefront. It's on Lexington Avenue in twenty fifth i think,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: and they have a gimmick everybody's got a gimmick. Now,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: there's all sorts of weird things going on, and this
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: one is pop up sushi roll So you get a container,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: you get a cylindrical container containing the sushi rolls, and
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: there's a thin tube attached to it, like the tubes
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: that you take board with that's filled with soy sauce.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: And you start by you're supposed to break the skinny
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: tube off from the big tube, and then you pry
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: the lid off the thick tube, and then you pour
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: the soy sauce from the skinny tube into the thick
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: tube with the sushi rolls. And then you're supposed to
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: take the excuse me, the thin tube and stick it
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  Speaker 1: into the bottom of the thick tube and push it up.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened is, and I did a video about this,
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  Speaker 1: you can see it online on the New York Post website.
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  Speaker 1: You push up the sushi rolls, which actually taste pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: and out they come on top. It looks ridiculous, and
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  Speaker 1: it is ridiculous. And the big problem with it is
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  Speaker 1: that I made a mess, and most people are going
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  Speaker 1: to make a mess with it too. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be very nimble fingered not to spill everything all over yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And to make it work. There are no chopsticks, there
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  Speaker 1: are no utensils, so you basically have to eat the
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  Speaker 1: damn thing with your mouth as you walk. Now, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like eating a hot talk or a slice of pizza.
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  Speaker 1: That's easy. We all do that. This is this is
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  Speaker 1: a new level of you know, skill that you need. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so good luck.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's but there's a lot of these things that
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  Speaker 2: come along, they go viral, they're great for Instagram and TikTok,
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  Speaker 2: and then they're gone in a year.
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  Speaker 1: This will be Yeah, it's all about TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hey, what is this? Every restaurant now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: used to have like a guy like Danielle would open
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  Speaker 2: Danielle Great restaurant, John George would open John George and
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  Speaker 2: that was. But nowadays every restaurant guy, no matter who
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  Speaker 2: it is, has to have fifty places, seventy five places.
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  Speaker 2: What caused that trend?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's been ongoing for years. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: love restaurants all over the world. You have celebrity chefs
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  Speaker 1: and who may be great chefs like excuse me, like
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  Speaker 1: Danielle Blue, and you have others who are just big
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  Speaker 1: names even though they're not that good. And you have
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  Speaker 1: these companies very often it's Wall Street money, hedge funds,
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  Speaker 1: guys like that want to invest in restaurants. It's fun.
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  Speaker 1: They see an opportunity to expand to a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of cities, and if they can pull that off, they
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  Speaker 1: can get very rich. The catch, of course, is that
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  Speaker 1: just because a restaurant has the name of a certain
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  Speaker 1: famous chef or a restaurant you like a Carbone or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the places that have that name in
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  Speaker 1: you know, in Hong Kong, Chicago, wherever it may be,
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  Speaker 1: will be as good as the ones you know that
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  Speaker 1: started out in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Also, if you got if you're a great restaurant guy,
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  Speaker 2: great chef, let's not mention any New York nas Let's
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  Speaker 2: pick a foreign name. If you're Gordon Ramsay and you
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  Speaker 2: got one restaurant in London, it's the greatest restaurant. You
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  Speaker 2: make sure it's a great. But once you have one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five restaurants, they all become kind of mediocre.
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  Speaker 2: You can't keep an eye on everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I mean they make the they make the
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  Speaker 1: pretense of oh I'm always there. I come around every week,
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  Speaker 1: but that's physically impossible. And again, some of them give
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  Speaker 1: a better account of it than others. I've never been
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  Speaker 1: to a Danielle Balloon restaurant anywhere that wasn't at least good.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been to a restaurant that carries Jean George
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  Speaker 1: von Garrichton's name that isn't really good. So yeah, again,
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  Speaker 1: it's up to how what commitment the chef is willing
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  Speaker 1: and able to make.
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  Speaker 2: But now, if you're John George, you spend all day
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  Speaker 2: in a car driving from restaurant to restaurant to restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta go to thirty places.
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  Speaker 6: A day, and they do.
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  Speaker 1: In Manhattan, absolutely, they do.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Have a good trip in Florida. And are you
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  Speaker 2: going to Miami too?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna make the whole East coast, right.
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  Speaker 2: So I look at Miami restaurant's Instagram. They look spectacular,
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  Speaker 2: is food wise they're not any better than New York?
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  Speaker 2: Are they?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry which ones mark?
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  Speaker 2: Any all the top Miami restaurants they look spectacular, but
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  Speaker 2: food wise.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them are.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them are really good. I mean, I've been
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  Speaker 1: to not Carbone, but the other restaurant owned by the
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  Speaker 1: same people, Major Food Group in Miami last year. It
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  Speaker 1: was just wonderful. It's an Italian restaurant. I just can't
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  Speaker 1: remember the name. So you know with Vales and the
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  Speaker 1: restaurants in Las Vegas are mostly all terrific.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, great stuff. Everybody reads Steve Cuzo
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  Speaker 2: in the New York Post. His columns are all up
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  Speaker 2: in the New York Post website. And Steve Cuzo, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Locke, always fun.
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  Speaker 13: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Take care. Now. Right over there, as you go over
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  Speaker 2: to Seventh Avenue, there was rosy O Grady's. Remember that
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  Speaker 2: it was a big, big, enormous saloon. It's like the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: whole block long it was, and it closed. Everybody was
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: upset about that. It was a big place. So apparently
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  Speaker 2: that's going to become a Sarafina at the Italian Restauran,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: but not the regular Serafina, a concept kind of restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: And Michael Lomonico, the great chef, he had one of
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  Speaker 2: the best steakhouses in Columbus Circle Time Warners Center. He's
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  Speaker 2: going to run it. So that's great news. But you
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  Speaker 2: see That's what I mean. When Rosio Grady's closed, and
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: that was a big tourist place. Everything you see New
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  Speaker 2: York is dying. It just well now it's about the
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  Speaker 2: reopen is an even more incredible restaurant. So every time
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: something closes, something else opens. You got massive skyscrapers going
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: up everywhere. You got all the top restaurant guys opening everywhere.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: New York is booming. All these real estate companies wouldn't
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: be buying up properties, building skyscrapers if they didn't believe
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: in the in the future of New York. Hey, don't
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: forget Curtis Lee. What is back? He's here now every
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: morning with Larry Menti. It's Curtis and Larry every morning
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  Speaker 2: six to ten, here on seven to ten w R.
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  Speaker 12: In every show, Mark simone on seven ten wor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know the stock market, it's been up and down.
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  Speaker 2: And Mark Zuckerberg, there was one day the stock market
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  Speaker 2: went way down. Was last Friday. I guess went down
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  Speaker 2: five percent. Mark Zuckerberg that day lost twenty billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: in one day and didn't even blink. It didn't mean
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  Speaker 2: anything to him. You know, when you were worth three
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: hundred billion, he lost twenty billion in one day and
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: it meant absolutely nothing. So it'll all come back. Stock
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: market will come back bigger than ever. Hey, the latest
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  Speaker 2: on Iran that the President has been briefed. Iran claims
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  Speaker 2: it shot down an F fifteen Strike Eagle plane and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: that they saw the pilot eject, So they're searching for
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  Speaker 2: the pilot in Iran. They've offered a huge reward to
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: any Iranian that can find that pilot and turn him in.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: The US has obviously launched a big search operation to
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  Speaker 2: find him.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Iran has a history of claiming to have shot down
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: a plane when they didn't. But we're now hearing the
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: President is being briefed on this. So I would assume
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  Speaker 2: it's true that a plane was shot down, and I
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: would assume the US can keep track of all their planes.
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  Speaker 2: So it looks like it looks like it's turning out
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  Speaker 2: to be true and F fifteen has been shot down.
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  Speaker 2: They're looking for the pilot as we speak now. As
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: Ed Rollins on the show was saying earlier, as soon
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: as you start to lose lives or they get a
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: hostage or something, it changes everything on this. So we'll see,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. We'll keep you posted with whatever
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: we hear. Otherwise, Today's a big day Yankee Stadium opening
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: day today. That's great news. I know it looks bad outside,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: the weather will clear up. Kamala Harris is getting a
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: lot of flax. She's announced to tour of the south
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas. Those are big important
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: states for Democrats in an election. People in the Democratic
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: world upset. They think that means she's going to try
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: to run again. She was a total disaster as a candidate.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: She was the worst vice president ever. They want to
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: get rid of her. They've had enough of her. If
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: she jumps back in the race, it just screws up everything.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: So a lot of Democrats very very upset about this. Now,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: normally you're a former vice president, you get a book deal,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: you get this deal, you go on and make a fortune.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: Look at al Gore, who became a weather profiteer with
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: that climate change stuff, went out to make two three
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  Speaker 2: hundred million. She had not been able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So they're worried that she'll get back in the race
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 2: just looking for attention. Sometimes you get back in the
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: race because those Democrat they got a lot of big donors,
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: and if you get back in the race and they
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: don't want you, they'll got one of those big donors
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: to give you a huge, high paying job and buy
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: you out of the race. So that may be what
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: she's up to. Hey, we're out of time. I'll be
• 1:16:14
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• 1:16:21
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