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Hour 2: October 7th backlash. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Mark Simone Show, live from the
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Speaker 1: WOR LifeVac studios. Well, hey, we got a lot to
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Speaker 1: get to this hour. We got to get to Iran,
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Speaker 1: and we got to get to Jim Baker, Jack Smith,
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Speaker 1: and all of that. Hey, we just got a huge
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Speaker 1: memo about the ratings, not just this station. This floor,
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Speaker 1: on this floor, we got like the six biggest radio
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Speaker 1: stations in the world. And I just look at the
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Speaker 1: morning numbers when I'm on and, you know, but they
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Speaker 1: got memos about all the shows. And I heart totally, totally,
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Speaker 1: totally dominant. You know, if you're listening in the morning,
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Speaker 1: the most listened to radio shows in New York are
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Speaker 1: all here. You got Elvis Duran down the hall. You
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Speaker 1: got Light FM, which is like the most single most
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Speaker 1: listened to radio station in America. You got Q104, Jim Curves,
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Speaker 1: like the biggest morning show. Right over there is Charlemagne's
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Speaker 1: over there, Power 105, The Breakfast Club, huge numbers. And WOR,
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Speaker 1: huge numbers in the morning. Curtis and Larry doing very well,
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Speaker 1: beating their competitors where you want to beat them, which
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Speaker 1: is the demo. That's the key. And 9 to noon,
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Speaker 1: we're beating everybody and everything. It's very good. I got
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Speaker 1: all the numbers here. Not allowed to read the actual numbers.
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Speaker 1: You got to be a Nielsen subscriber to see all this.
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Speaker 1: But we didn't win by 10%. It's by a lot.
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Speaker 1: It's a huge percent. Huge, huge, huge percentage. Thanks to you,
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Speaker 1: the audience. Actually, I deserve a little credit too. But
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Speaker 1: if you weren't listening... If I got an Oscar, you know,
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Speaker 1: they always get up. I want to thank this person.
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Speaker 1: I want to thank that person. And, you know, somebody
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Speaker 1: should just get up there once and say, you know,
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Speaker 1: it was mostly me. I got an agent, but I
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Speaker 1: don't trust the guy. And we had a producer and
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Speaker 1: a director. I got to be honest. They were always
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Speaker 1: getting in the way. They didn't know what they were
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Speaker 1: talking about. No, but thanks to everybody for incredible ratings.
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Speaker 1: This is for the month of September. And it just
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Speaker 1: came out. That's why we're getting all these memos about everything. So, well,
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Speaker 1: actually the bad part of this, now we're going to
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Speaker 1: have even more commercials. When you listen to the show,
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Speaker 1: you say, why is the break so long? How come
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Speaker 1: they have so many commercials? That's the problem when you
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Speaker 1: get these ratings. That's why when you hear some shows, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's much better. You know, they only have two minutes
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Speaker 1: of commercials. Well, if you want to know what somebody's
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Speaker 1: ratings are, just count the commercials. That'll tell you the
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Speaker 1: whole story. Jack Smith. This guy, I didn't say this before,
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Speaker 1: but this guy should go to jail. This guy really
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Speaker 1: is a dirty, dirty, dirty cop. He had to testify
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Speaker 1: about a week ago. He goes before Congress. He testifies
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Speaker 1: under oath that there's nothing partisan about him, that whatever
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Speaker 1: he did had nothing to do with politics. He's not partisan.
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Speaker 1: He's not political. He doesn't take a side. He sat
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Speaker 1: there all day testifying to that. But then this weekend,
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Speaker 1: we see him at a No Kings rally. There's some
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Speaker 1: big protest festival, protest festival. Not only is it the
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Speaker 1: No Kings protest festival, he's wearing a No Kings T-shirt.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, nobody has ever looked worse in
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Speaker 1: a T-shirt than this Jack Smith. Put a jacket on.
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Speaker 1: You don't look good in a T-shirt. And now stuff
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Speaker 1: is coming out. And you're going to see this guy,
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Speaker 1: the Senate committee will have to reexamine this. And most
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Speaker 1: likely there'll be criminal referrals on this. Now, we know
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Speaker 1: that he targeted President Trump. He has a history of
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Speaker 1: being a hitman, Democratic hitman against Republicans. They've used him
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Speaker 1: before for this. For instance, McDonald, the governor of Virginia,
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Speaker 1: they got Jack Smith to come in and indict him
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Speaker 1: and convict him on 10 charges. But like most Jack
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Speaker 1: Smith cases, it went to higher courts, finally went to
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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, and they tossed it out. They said
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Speaker 1: it was obviously just cheap political talk. Lawfare. Well, with Trump,
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Speaker 1: we know it was the same thing. Every president leaves
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Speaker 1: with classified documents. The difference with Trump, he left with
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Speaker 1: fewer classified documents than anybody in history. Biden, in his house,
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Speaker 1: in his office, in his garage, they found 8,000 classified documents. Trump, Mar-a-Lago,
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Speaker 1: after searching every inch of it, they found 35 classified documents.
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Speaker 1: And if you put them in a folder, the folder's
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Speaker 1: one inch thick. You remember the pictures Jack Smith put out,
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Speaker 1: these pictures of thousands of boxes, hundreds and hundreds of boxes? Well,
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Speaker 1: only one inch of one box had any classified documents.
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Speaker 1: This is all bad enough. Even worse, he didn't just
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Speaker 1: raid Mar-a-Lago. He got authorization to use deadly force. This
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Speaker 1: is in Mar-a-Lago with a bunch of old ladies.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You go to Mar-a-Lago, there's just a bunch of old
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Speaker 1: ladies in there.
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Speaker 2: How are you?
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Speaker 1: It's just, that's all that's there. Why would you need
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Speaker 1: authorization to use deadly force? But at the time, it
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Speaker 1: was the Biden administration. It was the dirty Attorney General
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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland. They authorized all this. Well, now more is
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Speaker 1: coming out. It turns out that besides all of this,
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Speaker 1: Jack Smith was tracking Melania Trump, Barron Trump, Trump's chief
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Speaker 1: of staff, Susie Wiles. And remember the time of this,
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Speaker 1: Trump is just a private citizen. But he and the FBI,
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Speaker 1: this is Christopher Wray, who's as dirty as can be,
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Speaker 1: started tracking these people. They started seizing their phone records,
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Speaker 1: looking at all their data, following them, literally following them.
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Speaker 1: They want to know where they were every second. They
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Speaker 1: tap their phones to see who they called. The phone
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Speaker 1: logs are coming out. I'm looking at the Susie Wiles
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Speaker 1: phone log. Every call she made, the length of the call,
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Speaker 1: who she called. They tracked Melania. They tracked Barron Trump. Now,
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Speaker 1: one of the things they used all this information for
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Speaker 1: is they wanted to make sure to raid the place
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Speaker 1: when Trump was not there, when Susie Wiles wasn't there.
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Speaker 1: That's even dirtier. You want to raid their house when
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Speaker 1: they're gone. It's like, remember The Sopranos? Remember that episode
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Speaker 1: where the FBI is watching them and They wait for
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Speaker 1: the moment when they're all out of the house. Nobody's
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Speaker 1: in the house. Then they break in. This is dirty
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Speaker 1: Jack Smith. So all the family trips were traced. Everywhere
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Speaker 1: they went, they were followed. This is really dirty stuff.
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Speaker 1: This whole surveillance was called, it was the Biden administration.
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Speaker 1: It was a secret probe. It was titled Plasmic Echo.
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Speaker 1: All right. Now I keep telling you this Jack Smith
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Speaker 1: is one weird, creepy guy. That's the proof right there.
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Speaker 1: Who would name something Plasmic Echo? Except some deranged lunatic
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Speaker 1: who plays video games all day. Plasmic Echo? What the
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Speaker 1: hell does that even mean? Then Attorney General Merrick Garland
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Speaker 1: signed off on all this dirty stuff. FBI Director Christopher
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Speaker 1: Wray not only signed off on it, they found a
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Speaker 1: handwritten note. Christopher Wray wrote a handwritten note to Garland
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Speaker 1: encouraging to do this. Encouraging to do this illegal, dirty,
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Speaker 1: awful surveillance on Trump. So a month ahead of the raid,
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Speaker 1: unnamed special agent, an unnamed special agent, they found this
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Speaker 1: in the files, within the FBI, within the Justice Department,
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Speaker 1: were raising concerns that the Bureau had no legal authority
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Speaker 1: to do this. They had no legal authority to raid
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Speaker 1: the president's house, no legal authority to go in his
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Speaker 1: bedroom or his office. The FBI carried out the raid,
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Speaker 1: and it was the dirtiest raid imaginable. They came in
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Speaker 1: with machine guns. They went through everything. They went through
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Speaker 1: Melania's underwear. Can you imagine? This is like Polly Walnut's
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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. They monitored everybody's calls. As soon as
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Speaker 1: the raid was over, they were carefully monitoring everybody's calls
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Speaker 1: to see who they called. They mostly called lawyers and
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. Trump had a private cell phone. They
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Speaker 1: were monitoring that. I mean, You could argue it's illegal,
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Speaker 1: but it's the Justice Department doing it. So the fact
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Speaker 1: that they're doing it, they can declare it legal, I guess.
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Speaker 1: But it's certainly the most disgraceful abuse of government power.
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Speaker 1: Even the White House said that spying on political opponents,
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Speaker 1: the worst weaponization. This is Jack Smith, the White House
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Speaker 1: saying everybody responsible has to be held accountable. That's Jack Smith.
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Speaker 1: And how the hell does Merrick Garland get away with
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Speaker 1: all this? Because he stays hidden. You'll notice him. You've
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Speaker 1: never heard from this guy. He's hiding under a rock
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Speaker 1: ever since he left. But it's time now to have
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Speaker 1: some criminal referrals on Jack Smith. He's been doing this.
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Speaker 1: He's done this in the past. He's a hitman who's
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Speaker 1: targeted Republicans in the past. He's got to finally pay
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Speaker 1: for all of this. You know, there's a teacher in
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Speaker 1: New York, in these New York City schools. This is
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Speaker 1: a Brooklyn teacher. He got these left-wing kook teachers, these
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Speaker 1: woke left-wing extremist teaching. But this one, this one has
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Speaker 1: been praising Hamas for the October 7th attack. The October
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Speaker 1: 7th attack on Israel was the ugliest thing since the Holocaust.
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Speaker 1: It was a Holocaust on October 7th. It was the
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Speaker 1: most awful genocide Holocaust where they took Israeli women and children,
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Speaker 1: they raped the women, killed the babies. I mean, just
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Speaker 1: the most horrendous thing you can imagine. So this teacher
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Speaker 1: in a New York City high school, PS 77, is
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Speaker 1: praising the guy who masterminded this attack. The Hamas leader
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Speaker 1: Yaya Elsinwar, this teacher is praising him. There's a group chat,
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Speaker 1: social media. This guy's saying, long live Elsinwar. He's praising him.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is the most evil terrorist on the
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Speaker 1: earth right now who led the terrorist holocaust in Gaza.
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Speaker 1: This teacher is praising him, but the parents are going nuts,
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Speaker 1: absolutely nuts. They want this guy removed. It's almost impossible.
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Speaker 1: You know, you can't remove these teachers because God's New
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Speaker 1: York City won't do it. There's a union that won't
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Speaker 1: do it. Jewish parents have yanked their kids out of
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Speaker 1: not only this school, but other schools that have similar
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Speaker 1: kind of teachers. Since the awful October 7th, they just
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Speaker 1: are afraid to have their kids around this. And a
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Speaker 1: lot of parents demanding this guy be fired, this teacher.
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Speaker 1: He's still there. Who would want this guy teaching their children?
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Speaker 1: Who would want this guy in the same room with
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Speaker 1: their children? This is absolutely awful. The city council yesterday
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Speaker 1: having hearings on AI. You ever see these people on
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Speaker 1: the city council? I mean, these city council members, these
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Speaker 1: are a bunch of low caliber, not so bright, not
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Speaker 1: so savvy. So what do they know about AI? Well,
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Speaker 1: they make some AI executives come testify. This is not
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Speaker 1: like the White House or Congress where they have Zuckerberg
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Speaker 1: and all the top AI CEOs. No, this is a
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Speaker 1: bunch of low-end executives. junior AI executives who come and testify,
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Speaker 1: getting questioned and grilled.
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Speaker 3: We do not know how to control any AI system yet.
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Speaker 3: So any AI system that we build or perhaps more
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Speaker 3: accurately that we grow, we don't fully control it. We
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Speaker 3: don't understand its drives or why it does the things
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Speaker 3: it does. That was the first thing that became apparent.
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Speaker 3: The second thing is that.
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Speaker 1: Now, remember, these are not the top CEOs of AI companies.
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Speaker 1: These are like junior vice presidents. And there's Julie Menon.
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Speaker 1: She's not bad. She's kind of common sense. She's the
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Speaker 1: city council speaker.
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Speaker 4: As you all four are under oath, we want to
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Speaker 4: hear how each of you quantify the risk imposed by
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Speaker 4: AI in the worst-case catastrophic scenario.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then there— but again, this is not high-level hearings.
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Speaker 1: These city council people don't know anything. And they got
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Speaker 1: like junior executives. It's not like the White House summit
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Speaker 1: where they were getting into the details of AI. The
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Speaker 1: dangerous part of AI is the recursive, self-improving part. That's
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Speaker 1: where it could go out of control. That's going to
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Speaker 1: break out of the sandbox, as they say. But they
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Speaker 1: weren't getting into that level of detail. I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I also don't think it matters.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now this is AI executive. What way to watch her?
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Speaker 1: They're going to pounce on her. I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I also don't think it matters whether it's 1% or 10%
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Speaker 5: or a 20% chance that something catastrophic will go wrong.
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Speaker 5: None of these levels is remotely acceptable. We should not
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Speaker 5: train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case
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Speaker 5: that we can keep under human control.
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Speaker 1: All right, not a bad answer.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 1: But listen to Julie Menon.
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but to say you don't know and it
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Speaker 4: doesn't matter is flippant at best.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't sound flippant to me. Now, what's really going
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Speaker 1: on here? These AI companies have a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: not millions. not billions. They've got trillions, trillions. In Washington,
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Speaker 1: when the senators were giving them a hard time, they
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Speaker 1: set up a super PAC right away with $ 30 million
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Speaker 1: in it and immediately started passing it around to senators.
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Speaker 1: And that's $ 30 million is nothing. It's $ 1. 50 for them.
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Speaker 1: So they'll be setting up more PACs in Washington, $ 30 million,
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Speaker 1: $ 40 million, $ 80 million, giving out the money real fast.
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Speaker 1: That's why the city council is all over this. They
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Speaker 1: want to harass the AI companies so that the AI
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Speaker 1: companies set up some packs here in New York and
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Speaker 1: start passing out tons of money to the city council.
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Speaker 1: So that's why they have all these guys testify.
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Speaker 3: I think it is more likely than not that humanity
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Speaker 3: loses control to these AIs and it could end in
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Speaker 3: human extinction. From my experience, the companies are being extremely
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Speaker 3: reckless given the stakes.
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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds a little hysterical, but the guy has
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Speaker 1: a British accent. You always sound... If you have a
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Speaker 1: British accent, you sound smart. A British accent, the a
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Speaker 1: best substitute for not knowing what you're talking about. Julie Menon,
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Speaker 1: of course, all over this.
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Speaker 4: If one of your frontier AI models goes rogue and
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Speaker 4: causes serious financial harm, compromises sensitive data, causes physical injury,
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Speaker 4: or contributes to a death or deaths, do you each
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Speaker 4: believe your company bears legal responsibility?
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Speaker 5: I believe that OpenAI takes its responsibility for safety very seriously,
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Speaker 5: and we are responsible for developing and evaluating.
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Speaker 1: So you can tell these are not the top AI executives.
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Speaker 1: First of all, if AI is going to wipe us
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Speaker 1: all out, kill everybody, I don't think they're worried about
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Speaker 1: who bears legal responsibility. I think we're going to have
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Speaker 1: bigger problems than that. We'll get back to this. We'll
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Speaker 1: get back to these AI hearings. I don't know. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to Cornell coming up. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
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Speaker 1: 800-321-0710 is the number.
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Speaker 6: 800-321-0710.
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Speaker 1: Now, nine till noon weekday. Smart Simone.
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Speaker 2: Only on 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Roberto in
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Speaker 1: New York. Roberto, how you doing?
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Speaker 6: I'm doing fine. How are you doing, Mark?
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Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. What do you want to say, Roberto?
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Speaker 7: Much of all, we got a great president. As much
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Speaker 7: as all, he's going to stop Israel from getting tortured
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Speaker 7: in a way in the near future and forever, possibly.
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Speaker 7: As much as all, I'm not sure if Pakistan is
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Speaker 7: going to get involved in this war and then China
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Speaker 7: is going to come in and try to get involved also.
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Speaker 1: Very good, Roberto. You conflated like 11 things, but you
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Speaker 1: sound like a great guy. Thanks for calling. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to John in Norwalk, Connecticut. John, how are you doing?
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Speaker 6: I'm good, Mark.
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Speaker 2: How are you?
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Speaker 1: I'm very good.
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Speaker 6: Good. You were talking before about apple picking and going
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Speaker 6: to Whole Foods or Trader Joe's.
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Speaker 1: Well, you're in Norwalk. You've got the best apple picking
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Speaker 1: in Norwalk. Just go to Stu Leonard's. It's got a
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Speaker 1: million apples in there.
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Speaker 6: That would be fine, and I'd rush with the crowds
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Speaker 6: and all that stuff. But you know what? Every year
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Speaker 6: we make a trip out to Blue Jay Orchards up
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Speaker 6: in Bethel, Connecticut, and I take– stop it. And, you know,
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Speaker 6: I go with my best, my girlfriend, and my two
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Speaker 6: children and my grandchildren, and we make a day of it.
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Speaker 6: And it's just a great thing to get out there
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Speaker 6: in the fresh air and the sunshine. and sometimes the rain,
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Speaker 6: and then make ourselves sick eating their cinnamon donuts.
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Speaker 1: Bethel's like an hour away from you.
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Speaker 6: No, it's about, yeah, it's about maybe a half hour,
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Speaker 6: 45 minutes.
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Speaker 1: No, please. You'd have to go 95 miles an hour
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Speaker 1: the whole way on those little roads. It's an hour
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Speaker 1: away from you. Now, listen, I want you to take
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Speaker 1: a five-minute drive, go to Stu Leonard's. He's got a
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Speaker 1: million different apples there. They got sunshine. You've been there, right?
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Speaker 1: Out in the parking lot. They got clowns. They got
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Speaker 1: a circus.
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Speaker 6: I was there yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Okay. When did you just get your apples there?
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Speaker 6: You are such a lazy person.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not a lazy person. Norwalk, you got... First
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Speaker 1: of all, to get to Bethel, you got to drive
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Speaker 1: by Stu Leonard's. Then you got to drive by a
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Speaker 1: Wegmans where they got a million apples. You got to
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Speaker 1: drive through Westboro by Balducci's. They got 5,000 kinds of
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Speaker 1: apples there.
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Speaker 3: No, we.
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Speaker 6: You go north of Westport, and it's a beautiful drive.
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Speaker 6: You pass by the Saugatuck Reservoir. It's a fantastic ride.
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Speaker 6: It's beautiful. It's country.
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Speaker 1: It's New England.
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Speaker 6: It's a great day to go out there and pick
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Speaker 6: the apples with your friends and kids and whatever.
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Speaker 1: Forget the apples. Are there any other days you go
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Speaker 1: to Bethel? No.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 1: Forget the apples. I do.
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Speaker 6: It's so beautiful. I actually go through Bethel when I
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Speaker 6: go to see my children up in New Milford.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: You're in Bethel, and you've got to speed right through.
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Speaker 1: You don't even stop. Bethel's very nice, but... Forget the apples.
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Speaker 6: You're impossible sometimes, Mark.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm not. Well, thanks for calling, John. Good call.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm not saying don't go to Bethel.
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Speaker 1: Don't go to Ridgefield, New Canaan. It's beautiful. But forget
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Speaker 1: the apples. Get the apples at a supermarket and then
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Speaker 1: just drive up there. You don't have to go pick apples.
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Speaker 1: Just go to Bethel. There's a million other things to do.
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Speaker 1: It's right next to Danbury. There's a million things to
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Speaker 1: do in Danbury. There's millions of things to do. You
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Speaker 1: don't have to pick apples. What are you, a sharecropper?
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Speaker 1: You don't have to go pick apples. Let's go to
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Speaker 1: Tom in Queens. Tom, how are you doing?
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Speaker 8: Hi, Mark.
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Speaker 1: Good morning. I've got two questions for you. First thing,
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Speaker 1: how would you compare all those AI hoplars? with Y2K?
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Speaker 6: And the second question is, how would it affect Apple
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Speaker 6: iPhones in the future?
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Speaker 1: Very good question. Excellent question. Yes, you remember in 1999,
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Speaker 1: there was this thing called Y2K because it was going
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Speaker 1: to be the year 2000. It was going to be
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Speaker 1: a new century. I can't remember exactly why, but they
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Speaker 1: had convinced everybody that because the year was going to
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Speaker 1: go to zeros, that it was going to confuse every
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Speaker 1: digital thing, every computer. Remember, you think I'm kidding. They
20:22
Speaker 1: were convinced that planes would drop out of the sky,
20:25
Speaker 1: that the whole electric grid would shut down, all this
20:28
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, Y2K. And it was hysteria for about
20:31
Speaker 1: a year or two or three. I used to be
20:33
Speaker 1: on the air. saying, don't worry, nothing's going to happen.
20:35
Speaker 1: I used to get all kinds of people yelling and screaming.
20:38
Speaker 1: How could you say that? It's going to be the worst.
20:41
Speaker 1: This happens all the time. As we always point out,
20:44
Speaker 1: this happened when electricity was invented. Everybody was hysteria. They
20:49
Speaker 1: thought it would kill us all. Electricity would be the
20:52
Speaker 1: most dangerous thing to humanity. And that's what caused the
20:55
Speaker 1: woman Mary Shelley to write the book Frankenstein about how
20:59
Speaker 1: electricity would create monsters that would kill us. So calm down,
21:04
Speaker 1: calm down. There may be some problems with AI, but
21:06
Speaker 1: you will be fine. Hey, when we come back, Howie
21:09
Speaker 1: Carr will be with us next. Lots to talk to
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Speaker 1: him about on 710WOR. More Mark. Mark Simone on 710WOR. Well,
21:20
Speaker 1: Howie Carr is one of the best talk show hosts
21:24
Speaker 1: in America. You can listen to his show or get
21:26
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21:30
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21:33
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21:40
Speaker 1: Howie Carr, how are you doing?
21:43
Speaker 2: Very good, Mark. Very good. I'm back in Florida.
21:46
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. So this is not bad in Florida right now.
21:51
Speaker 1: It's not bumper-to-bumper yet, right? It gets better. crazy in
21:55
Speaker 1: a month.
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Speaker 8: No, but it's steamy for October, but still, that's better.
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Speaker 8: It's getting nippy in New England, so I'd rather be
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Speaker 8: down here any day of the week. Plus, it stays
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Speaker 8: light an hour longer. It's a better place to be, Mark.
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Speaker 8: Someday you will realize that.
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Speaker 1: No, with New England, you've got the leaves changing. It's
22:16
Speaker 1: the most beautiful time of the year in New England,
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Speaker 1: isn't it?
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but... It's what comes after it, you know?
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I think Republicans are actually in a pretty good
22:31
Speaker 1: position for the midterms. You want to be a little
22:33
Speaker 1: behind right now with momentum. You surge at the end.
22:37
Speaker 1: That's how President Trump won both times. Don't you think
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Speaker 1: he'll pull it off this time?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, traditionally you lose some seats, right? The
22:50
Speaker 8: party that's in power in a midterm, but I was
22:53
Speaker 8: wondering about, have you seen that map of South America
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Speaker 8: since the USAID? They stopped promoting transgender operas in Peru.
23:05
Speaker 8: They were basically using all these slush funds for left-wing groups.
23:09
Speaker 8: And the lefties have lost basically the entire continent of
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Speaker 8: South America. I'm just wondering if the same thing is
23:15
Speaker 8: going to happen here to a lesser degree.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting.
23:18
Speaker 8: I mean, like the way they're going after ActBlue. I mean,
23:21
Speaker 8: ActBlue is just a kind of a domestic version of USAID,
23:24
Speaker 8: isn't it? You know, it's foreigners that are subsidizing leftists
23:29
Speaker 8: rather than Americans subsidizing foreign leftists in South America. It's,
23:33
Speaker 8: you know, I think they've put an end to a
23:36
Speaker 8: lot of this crap that's been going on. And, you know,
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Speaker 8: all these, and the fact that, you know, we have
23:43
Speaker 8: hundreds of thousands fewer federal workers now. And, uh, they,
23:48
Speaker 8: you know, they, they now have to get real jobs.
23:50
Speaker 8: You know, they have to go out and, you know,
23:52
Speaker 8: produce goods and services that people want rather than just
23:55
Speaker 8: trying to, you know, hassle people with small businesses and
23:58
Speaker 8: drown them.
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Speaker 2: In red tape. I mean, I, yeah, I mean, I,
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Speaker 2: I don't think it might be okay. You know, it
24:03
Speaker 2: might be okay.
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Speaker 8: I hope the, uh, I hope the Republicans make a
24:07
Speaker 8: big deal out of these utility rates. I mean, we're
24:09
Speaker 8: doing it in Massachusetts. You know, Mara Healy's trying to
24:13
Speaker 8: blame Trump for the fact that, you know, our kilowatt
24:19
Speaker 8: hour rate is 30 cents per kilowatt hour compared to
24:23
Speaker 8: 15 percent for Florida. And by the way, New York
24:27
Speaker 8: is 29.9 cents compared, again, twice, twice what Florida is.
24:32
Speaker 8: And they're trying to blame Trump for all this stuff.
24:34
Speaker 8: But Trump is also the president of Florida and Utah
24:37
Speaker 8: and Tennessee, where it's even less than Florida. I mean,
24:41
Speaker 8: how do they get away with this, blaming Trump for
24:44
Speaker 8: the utility rates?
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Speaker 2: It's insanity.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, here in New York, it was Andrew Cuomo who
24:48
Speaker 1: closed Indian Point. That was 25% of our electricity, which
24:52
Speaker 1: drove the cost up for everybody. So you can blame
24:55
Speaker 1: him for that.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, in Massachusetts, I know because I get electric. People
25:00
Speaker 8: show me the electric bills. I have a different municipal company,
25:03
Speaker 8: but They have 10 separate surcharges. And, you know, the
25:07
Speaker 8: transmission fee, the transition fee, the electric vehicle fee, the,
25:12
Speaker 8: you know, the meter fee. And, you know, so now
25:16
Speaker 8: Mara Healy is starting to feel the heat, the incumbent governor.
25:19
Speaker 8: So she kills one of the fees. So she kills
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Speaker 8: it for two months.
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Speaker 2: Wait a second.
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Speaker 8: Wait a second, Mara. I thought we were saving the planet.
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Speaker 8: I thought these were existential fees to prevent this. to
25:32
Speaker 8: prevent the polar bears from becoming extinct and, you know,
25:35
Speaker 8: to prevent the flooding of, of, of, uh, you know,
25:38
Speaker 8: Cape Cod. And now she just says, Oh, we're coming
25:41
Speaker 8: up on an election.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to cut it. I'm going to cut the, uh,
25:44
Speaker 2: solar renewable fee for two months. Wait a second.
25:48
Speaker 1: If two months.
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Speaker 8: Why don't we cut it for two centuries and see
25:53
Speaker 8: how we go?
25:53
Speaker 1: Uh, Hey, how we car, I have not talked to
25:56
Speaker 1: you about the Cornell, uh, the handling of it by
25:59
Speaker 1: the university. Uh, this, uh, governor here putting this goofy
26:05
Speaker 1: Letitia James in who's never been a criminal prosecutor, never
26:08
Speaker 1: prosecuted a criminal case in her life. What do you think?
26:11
Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 8: I mean, I remember well the Duke Lacrosse case, you know,
26:17
Speaker 8: that was fraudulent from day one. The woman who made
26:20
Speaker 8: the accusations now in prison for murder, the district attorney
26:24
Speaker 8: went to prison for a day or two. I mean,
26:26
Speaker 8: look at the UVA case. I mean, just totally fabricated.
26:30
Speaker 8: The story was too good for Rolling Stone to check.
26:33
Speaker 8: I mean, there's more to it, more to this one than,
26:35
Speaker 8: than either Duke or UVA. But I mean, how do you,
26:39
Speaker 8: how do you get a, how are they going to
26:41
Speaker 8: get a conviction when they have, when they have her
26:43
Speaker 8: saying it was consensual? You know, I mean, doesn't that,
26:48
Speaker 8: aren't they going to get at least one or two
26:49
Speaker 8: jurors to, to say, you know, wait a second, how
26:53
Speaker 8: can you, how can you convict these people beyond a
26:55
Speaker 8: reasonable doubt if she said it was consensual? And, and
26:57
Speaker 8: the whole thing with Letitia James, I mean, That woman
27:01
Speaker 8: should be in prison. I'm with Trump on that one.
27:03
Speaker 8: I mean, this woman was elected that she was going
27:08
Speaker 8: to have a bill of attainder, a law that would
27:15
Speaker 8: only be enforced against Trump.
27:18
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe not technically a bill of attainder, but
27:20
Speaker 2: that's what it was. And that's how she got elected.
27:23
Speaker 8: And then she puts this Zimbabwean woman in charge of
27:26
Speaker 8: just going after Trump. And in the meantime, she's committed
27:29
Speaker 8: all kinds... kinds of mortgage fraud i can't believe how
27:32
Speaker 8: many of these democrats get away with mortgage fraud you
27:34
Speaker 8: know you got adam schiff you got uh eric swalwell
27:39
Speaker 8: you got letitia james you got the woman on the
27:41
Speaker 8: federal reserve lisa cook they're they're all claiming that you
27:44
Speaker 8: know they have two two primary residences i mean you
27:48
Speaker 8: know i i i know i couldn't get away with
27:51
Speaker 8: that i don't think you could either you know normal
27:54
Speaker 8: people can't but we're not democrats.
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Speaker 1: Yeah Also, she's never been a prosecutor, ever. She's never
28:00
Speaker 1: prosecuted a criminal case. Before this job, she was a
28:04
Speaker 1: city council person for years. She was a public advocate.
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Speaker 8: That's a feature of these Democratic prosecutors, especially females. That's
28:10
Speaker 8: not a bug. None of them have ever prosecuted anything.
28:15
Speaker 8: And they're there, they check the box, and then they
28:18
Speaker 8: just come up. I mean, every press release you've ever
28:22
Speaker 8: seen from basically any prosecutor, local or federal, I know
28:26
Speaker 8: federal for sure. It's always been this way, Democrat or
28:29
Speaker 8: Republican administration. The last line is, all these charges are
28:33
Speaker 8: allegations and the defendant should be considered innocent until proven guilty.
28:38
Speaker 8: That's a standard feature, whatever the administration is. And she
28:44
Speaker 8: goes out there and just says they're guilty.
28:46
Speaker 1: I mean, what.
28:47
Speaker 2: you know, I think, I think first year law students
28:51
Speaker 2: would know better than to do that.
28:53
Speaker 1: Wow. Hey, uh, Howie Carr, your protege, Caroline Leavitt goes
28:57
Speaker 1: on to be white house press secretary. Now she just
28:59
Speaker 1: made a deal with the Fox. She'll be a contributor.
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Speaker 1: Pretty good. Isn't it?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I think it's a good deal for her.
29:05
Speaker 8: You know, I, I mean, uh, what, you know, she's,
29:07
Speaker 8: she's still not even 30 years old.
29:09
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know. You know, Fox news
29:11
Speaker 2: is going to make it to her retirement.
29:13
Speaker 8: You know, I think they're going down the tubes, like,
29:15
Speaker 8: like all the rest of, uh, you know, broadcast or
29:18
Speaker 8: cable media, but you know, it's a good move for
29:21
Speaker 8: her for right now.
29:22
Speaker 2: I mean, I think.
29:22
Speaker 8: It'll, it'll, it'll really work out well. They'll probably build
29:26
Speaker 8: a studio for her down. She's got a place here
29:28
Speaker 8: in Florida and she's got a place in New Hampshire
29:30
Speaker 8: and she goes back and forth.
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Speaker 2: And I think, uh, I think she'll be really good. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And this is a very, very, very part-time job. When
29:38
Speaker 1: you're a contributor, you do it from home you're on
29:41
Speaker 1: uh eight minutes you know three times a day it's
29:43
Speaker 1: it's an easy job for her she can still be
29:45
Speaker 1: with her kids and yeah yeah so uh yeah fox
29:49
Speaker 1: news by the way 30th anniversary tomorrow pretty good pretty
29:53
Speaker 1: amazing yeah.
29:54
Speaker 2: I saw that I saw that.
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Speaker 8: It's a, yeah, but I, you know, again, I think,
29:57
Speaker 8: I think their glory days are behind them though, Mark,
29:59
Speaker 8: don't you really? I mean, the cable news is shedding
30:03
Speaker 8: subscribers so fast.
30:05
Speaker 1: Yeah. Although Fox news holds up pretty well. You know,
30:07
Speaker 1: the five is still doing three and a half million
30:10
Speaker 1: every day. Then prime times 3 million, you know, CNN
30:13
Speaker 1: is down to like four or 500,000, uh, by the way,
30:15
Speaker 1: the paramount sky dance, whatever the hell that is, that
30:18
Speaker 1: merger closed officially now. So, uh, what would you do
30:22
Speaker 1: with CNN? Would you change it? Would you, would you,
30:24
Speaker 1: Switch it to some other format?
30:27
Speaker 2: I think you just let it slowly wither and die,
30:31
Speaker 2: don't you?
30:33
Speaker 8: You know, I don't think you need to, you know,
30:35
Speaker 8: I think part of the deal was the Ellison said
30:37
Speaker 8: they won't bring in the weed killer. They just won't
30:41
Speaker 8: forget to irrigate it every now and again. It'll shrink
30:49
Speaker 8: and die of its own account, don't you think?
30:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I like that. That's a good strategy. Yeah, let it
30:55
Speaker 1: just be in last place forever just to embarrass itself
30:58
Speaker 1: out of business. That's a good idea.
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Speaker 8: Whenever the contracts come up, Anderson Cooper, we finished last
31:07
Speaker 8: paying you $ 10 million.
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Speaker 2: We can finish last paying you $ 10, 000. Take it or
31:12
Speaker 2: leave it.
31:13
Speaker 1: I like that. Hey, everybody get Howie Carr's books. Is
31:18
Speaker 1: Mass Corruption 2 out yet?
31:20
Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 8: It is.
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Speaker 2: I sent you a copy. Oh, of course.
31:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have it. Yeah. But it's released.
31:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's released.
31:27
Speaker 8: Uh, you can get it on amazon.com or you can, uh,
31:29
Speaker 8: or you can get it at how we car show.com.
31:31
Speaker 8: You get an autograph copy. If you go to how
31:33
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31:36
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31:39
Speaker 2: It's, it's, uh, it's pretty, uh, a lot of rude
31:42
Speaker 2: stuff in there from the police.
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Speaker 8: I just took, I just took the documents right out
31:46
Speaker 8: of the court files. And, uh, But there's also some
31:49
Speaker 8: of my old columns in there, too, about the corruption.
31:52
Speaker 2: And I think it turned out pretty well.
31:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great book, and it's got wonderful stories
31:57
Speaker 1: in it. Just go to HowieCarrShow.com. You can get it
31:59
Speaker 1: on Amazon, but Howie Carr's books, column, radio show, podcast.
32:04
Speaker 1: Just go to HowieCarrShow.com. Howie Carr, thanks for being with us.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Mark. Bye-bye.
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