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Hour 1: Tragedy at Brown University with a mass shooting reported. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Fly from Midtown Manhattan.
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Speaker 2: Here comes the Mark Simone Show on seven Wall. Well, oh,
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Speaker 2: we got a lot to get to today, a lot
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Speaker 2: of things happening. We bring you all the latest on
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Speaker 2: Rob Reiner, on Brown University, on Australia, and then we'll
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Speaker 2: get to of course Trump, the political stuff. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to all of that coming up. We'll get to New York,
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Speaker 2: we'll get to the tourists, we'll get to Epstein, we'll
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Speaker 2: get to twenty twenty eight, and all sorts of stuff
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Speaker 2: to talk about. The Rob Reiner well, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: the whole weekend was strange. It wasn't much of a
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Speaker 2: big news weekend, and then all of a sudden you
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Speaker 2: had Australia the terrible shooting. Then you had Brown University
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Speaker 2: the terrible shooting, and you had these two things just
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Speaker 2: taking everybody's attention, and then all of a sudden, the
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Speaker 2: Rob Reiner situation. Here's the latest on Rob Reiner. He
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Speaker 2: lives in Brentwood. This is about a mile and a
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Speaker 2: half from Ojay's house where Nicole Simpson was killed and
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Speaker 2: almost stabbed. Wasn't she decapitated? So this is another stabbing
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Speaker 2: in Brentwood in the same neighborhood. Now, Rob Reiner has
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Speaker 2: a big, huge house in Brentwood, but it's sort of
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Speaker 2: a compound, and on the grounds is another couple buildings.
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Speaker 2: One is a guest house. And Rob Reiner had three
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Speaker 2: kids with the wife Michelle. But remember he had previously
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Speaker 2: been married to Penny Marshall, and he had another child.
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Speaker 2: He had a daughter with Penny Marshall, and that daughter
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Speaker 2: lived in the guest house. And the police are not
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Speaker 2: revealing much of anything right now, they're keeping very quiet.
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Speaker 2: Later today they'll have a press conference and maybe explain
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Speaker 2: some of this. But here's what I've heard, again, not confirmed,
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Speaker 2: but the daughter's in the guest house. This is yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It's a Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, and she hears incredibly
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Speaker 2: loud arguing in the main house, real arguing, and at
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Speaker 2: some point later she goes over to check and finds
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Speaker 2: Rob Reiner, her father, and her stepmother dead. Calls police
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Speaker 2: immediately they show up. There's recording these nine to one
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Speaker 2: one calls that I think there was a fire department
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Speaker 2: of something that responded first, calling for more back up,
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Speaker 2: and then the police show up. She tells them about
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Speaker 2: the arguing. She believes it was the son Nick, son
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Speaker 2: of Rob Reiner, who's thirty two years old. Now, this
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Speaker 2: son is a very, very troubled son. Drug addiction, mental,
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Speaker 2: all kinds of mental problems. He'd been so bad with
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Speaker 2: the drug addiction. Seventeen times in rehabit didn't work. He
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Speaker 2: ended up homeless on the street and Texas, homeless, in Maine,
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Speaker 2: homeless all over the place. I knew Rob Briiner. I
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Speaker 2: didn't know the kid, but if you look at any
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Speaker 2: picture of the kid, his eyes look a little psycho,
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Speaker 2: a little crazy. And I don't know the situation of
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Speaker 2: how this all started with the drugs and everything, but
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Speaker 2: he just spiraled out of control and it was so hopeless.
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Speaker 2: There was absolutely no saving this kid. I'm sure Rob
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Speaker 2: b Reiner tried, and at one point he came back
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Speaker 2: to Los Angeles. They thought they straightened him out, and
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Speaker 2: he made a movie about his drug addiction and about
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Speaker 2: his rehab and all of that stuff. But I guess
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Speaker 2: this went crazy again and there was no hope for
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Speaker 2: this kid. So it looks like he was the one
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Speaker 2: in this crazy, loud argument with the parents and then
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Speaker 2: stabbed them and slit their throats again. This is a
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Speaker 2: mile and a half from where Oj slit the throats
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Speaker 2: of the wife and Ron Brown. But now from what
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Speaker 2: I've heard the police, this is not confirmed, but police
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Speaker 2: have taken the kid into custody. He's thirty two. The
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Speaker 2: son's name is Nick. They have earlier an hour or
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Speaker 2: two ago taking him into custody, So that would indicate
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Speaker 2: they have the evidence they need, or they think they
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Speaker 2: have the evidence that he's guilty. So it was a
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Speaker 2: terrible scene at the home yesterday, Police all over the place,
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Speaker 2: the crime tape up close. Friends of Rob Brner, Billy Crystal,
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Speaker 2: Larry David was seen coming to the house leaving crying upset.
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Speaker 2: So there'd be a press conference of some kind. They'll
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Speaker 2: announce something later today. But apparently the son is in
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Speaker 2: custody and we'll see what happens. So you got that
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Speaker 2: going on. You also got Brown University terrible situation. Now,
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Speaker 2: the first reports indicated it was some sort of something
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Speaker 2: to do with anti Semitism, anti Semitic attack, small Jewish
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Speaker 2: community at Brown University, but a lot of people there
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Speaker 2: are also saying with a very small conservative bunch of
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Speaker 2: people at Brown University, students and some are not so
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Speaker 2: sure this was anti semitism. It might have been anti conservatism.
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Speaker 2: One of the people shot turns out to be the
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Speaker 2: president's student, but the president of the Republican Club at
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Speaker 2: Brown University. So it could be anti semitism as a motive,
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Speaker 2: but there could also be an anti conservative attack. We'll see.
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Speaker 2: It's the Providence police department, not the sharpest police department
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Speaker 2: on Earth, and Brown University very prominent university. I'm not
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Speaker 2: a big fan of their security director. You know, a
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Speaker 2: lot of times you're a university, when you hire a
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Speaker 2: security director, you hire somebody with incredible law enforcement experience ex. Police,
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Speaker 2: X FBI, something like that. This guy his whole life
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Speaker 2: was campus security. You'll see somewhere in his bio he
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Speaker 2: was a policeman, a police captain. It was campus police forces.
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Speaker 2: So he's not a guy with any real law enforcement experience.
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Speaker 2: He spent his whole life in campus police departments, then
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Speaker 2: becoming a campus security director other universities and Brown hired
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Speaker 2: him a couple of years ago. So he's the security director.
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Speaker 2: And you know, it may not have been anything. There
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Speaker 2: might not have been anything anybody else could have done
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Speaker 2: to protect this campus. But you got that going on
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Speaker 2: then you got the awful, horrific Australia shooting. It was
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Speaker 2: a Muslim terrorist attack. The shooters a father and son,
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Speaker 2: both Muslim terrorists, at this beach in Australia, using one
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Speaker 2: of those assault rifle you know, you know the kind
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Speaker 2: that Chuck Schumer and the others yell about. Remember whenever
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Speaker 2: there's a shooting with one of those rifles, all they
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Speaker 2: do is scream for more gun laws. They act as
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Speaker 2: if gun laws would prevent shootings. Now nobody has tougher
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Speaker 2: gun laws than Chicago, and they have more shootings than
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Speaker 2: any place in America. The problem with the thinking gun
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Speaker 2: laws as a solution is shooters a c maniacs, criminals
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Speaker 2: who don't follow laws. They don't get a law book
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Speaker 2: and look it up to see if it's okay to
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Speaker 2: do what they're doing. So in this situation, nobody, nobody
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Speaker 2: in the world, no country, had tougher gun laws than
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Speaker 2: in Australia. They've been passing gun laws since nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 2: Huge gun laws, tremendous gun laws. So it has nothing
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Speaker 2: to do with stopping shootings. It was a horrible situation.
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Speaker 2: You got one guy who was a hero who hid
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Speaker 2: between two parked cars waited for the right moment. The
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Speaker 2: video is amazing. He runs out, tackles the shooter with
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Speaker 2: the rifle, somehow wrestles the gun away from him and
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Speaker 2: stops the shooter makes him lie down. However, remember there
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Speaker 2: was a second shooter, the Sun, who sees what's going
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Speaker 2: on and shoots the hero, hitting him twice. But the
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Speaker 2: hero has just had surgery. It looks like he'll be okay.
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Speaker 2: He's doing well. It looks like he'll survive and be
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Speaker 2: just fine. So an incredible hero in Austria, an amazing
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Speaker 2: act of bravery. He said to he was with somebody
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Speaker 2: else and he said, I'm not going to survive this.
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Speaker 2: He decided he would go tackle the shooter and stop
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Speaker 2: and he said, I'm not going to come out of
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Speaker 2: this alive. Tell my family this. And that's a but
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Speaker 2: an amazing, amazing situation. So things could develop this morning.
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Speaker 2: There's going to be press conferences in La more details
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Speaker 2: about Rob Reiner. But from we know, the Sun is
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Speaker 2: in custody. It looks like he is the stabber. It's
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Speaker 2: a horrible, horrible situation. I knew Rob Reiner. He was
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Speaker 2: a very nice guy. I know he was a crazy
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Speaker 2: left wing nut politically, but I had a million conversations
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Speaker 2: with him. Never once talked about politics. We loved We
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Speaker 2: would talk about old show business and old comedians and
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Speaker 2: Sid Caesar and Dick Van Dyke Show and that kind
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Speaker 2: of stuff. But he's like a lot of Hollywood people,
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Speaker 2: he just got into the cult. You know, they sit
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Speaker 2: there and they watch MSNBC all day and they believe
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Speaker 2: everything they're hearing. They think all this crazy stuff is true.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's like people who listen to those flying
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Speaker 2: saucer shows in the middle of the night, which are great,
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Speaker 2: they're entertaining, but these people start to believe it. They
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Speaker 2: think there's flying saucers everywhere. So it's the same thing
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Speaker 2: with the MSNBC crowd. And then they got all these
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Speaker 2: echo chambers where you know, it's reinforced from MSNBC. Then
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Speaker 2: they watch Colbert, they watch the crazy ABC Sunday shows.
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Speaker 2: They think Trump is a crook, a maniac, a dying,
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Speaker 2: he's a lunatic, he's a dictator. They start to believe
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Speaker 2: all this stuff. Listen, there's stuff you could not like
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Speaker 2: about Trump. I understand that, but you know, if they
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Speaker 2: ever stepped away from all that and got out of
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Speaker 2: the echo chamber. These Trump derangement syndrome idiots, they might
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Speaker 2: realize Trump is actually one of the most fascinating guys
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Speaker 2: in history. You know, there's a at a party yesterday,
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Speaker 2: a left wing nut, very prominent left wing nut, comes
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Speaker 2: over to me and he said, you know, I was
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Speaker 2: I remember you. It was a dinner party a couple
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Speaker 2: of years ago, and you were telling everybody Trump is
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Speaker 2: the most successful man in history. And I thought you
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Speaker 2: were crazy. I said, well, but I laid it out.
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Speaker 2: He conquers the business world. He then conquers publishing. He'd
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Speaker 2: be four best sellers. He goes into television, a total
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Speaker 2: amateur conquers that has the number one show on television.
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Speaker 2: He goes into politics. You know, usually a total amateur
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Speaker 2: tries to run for mayor or congres This guy tries
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Speaker 2: to run for the president. Total amateur wins, beats the
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Speaker 2: Clinton machine and the Bush machine, to go on and
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Speaker 2: on listing. I said, you can't name another guy, anybody
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Speaker 2: who's conquered like all six of these things. And the
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Speaker 2: guy said, well, yeah, you might be. I don't know,
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Speaker 2: you might be so anyway, And then I tried to
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Speaker 2: explain to him. I said, you know, if you guys
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Speaker 2: would stop hating him, going nuts with your rage, and
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Speaker 2: start studying this guy, you could learn stuff from him.
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Speaker 2: You really could learn a lot about how to succeed,
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Speaker 2: how to do well. It's a more interesting story besides
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Speaker 2: making up stuff about he's dying or he's a mania,
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Speaker 2: a crook's. Instead of making up all this stuff, it's
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Speaker 2: actually a fascinating story to cover. We've never seen anything
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Speaker 2: like this. A president that works like nineteen hours a day,
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Speaker 2: a president that holds like seventeen press conferences a day,
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Speaker 2: a president that's flying all over the place, having a
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Speaker 2: million it's fascinating. And just to study this guy's whole
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Speaker 2: life and how he did things, how he got so
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Speaker 2: successful at everything. You think back a year and a
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Speaker 2: half ago. The guy's on trial in four different cities.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine if you were on trial. Imagine if
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Speaker 2: you had been brought into court they put you on trial,
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't sleep at night, you wouldn't be able to
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Speaker 2: you'd be under so much. This guy's in four trials
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Speaker 2: in four cities. Looks like he's going to go to
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Speaker 2: jail forever. He's going to get convicted six thousand times.
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Speaker 2: Guy didn't even blink, didn't even flinch, fights right through that.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine you're standing there in a it hits
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Speaker 2: you in the head, takes part of your ear off,
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Speaker 2: and all he can think to do is jump up
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Speaker 2: and pump his fist and y'll fight. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: a guy to study. You could hate him, but study
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Speaker 2: this guy. You could learn a lot from this guy.
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Speaker 2: What else James Comer. They're having these hearings in Congress
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Speaker 2: about Epstein. They've allowed some people to submit written statements
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Speaker 2: about what they had to do with Epstein. In the
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Speaker 2: case of Bill Clinton, he's demanding that Bill Clinton come
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Speaker 2: testify in person. Hillary and Bill. I don't think Hillary
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Speaker 2: knows much about Epstein. Other you might know something, but
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Speaker 2: it's Bill that was really involved. But the Clintons apparently
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Speaker 2: are adamant they will not come and testify, and they
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Speaker 2: may have to at some point, but they're going to
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Speaker 2: fight this like crazy not to come and testify. They
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Speaker 2: know it's a circus, it's a theatrical show to get
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Speaker 2: you know, cameras there to get Bill Clinton under oath testifying.
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Speaker 2: So they don't want to do that. Now, remember left
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Speaker 2: wing media will not show Clinton testifying. They'll show you
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Speaker 2: one second clip. You know, there's a deposition in the
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Speaker 2: Monica Lewinsky case. You can go on YouTube and see it.
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Speaker 2: A deposition where they go into graphic detail, graphic detail
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Speaker 2: about the sex he had with Monica Lewinsky. You wouldn't
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Speaker 2: believe the detail. And Clinton's right on camera having to
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Speaker 2: talk about this. You know, left wing media, they never
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Speaker 2: showed it, never showed it. If that was Trump, you'd
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Speaker 2: be seeing it all day and night. It'd be primetime specials. Clinton,
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Speaker 2: they buried it, So if he testifies, they'll bury this testimony. Now,
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Speaker 2: he could try to avoid testifying, but remember the last
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Speaker 2: two guys that tried that were Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon,
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Speaker 2: and they were sent to prison for not showing up
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Speaker 2: in person to testify. So the last two, now they
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Speaker 2: were Trump people, but they were sent to prison. So
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Speaker 2: that's the precedent that's been set. So Clinton had better
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Speaker 2: show for this testimony. Hey, we're kind of keeping the secret,
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Speaker 2: but I just saw a press release went out. I'm
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Speaker 2: taking the last two weeks of the year off. Next
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Speaker 2: week I'll be off, and the week after two weeks
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Speaker 2: I'll be off. It'll be the Christmas break.
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Speaker 1: I know.
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Speaker 2: I hate to take that much time off, but you
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Speaker 2: get you know, you have all these vacation days. You
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Speaker 2: got to use them. So I'll be taking the last
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Speaker 2: two weeks off. It'll be the Christmas break. I guess
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Speaker 2: I can say it. There's a press release that went out.
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Speaker 2: It's been announced. Guess who's going to fill in for
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Speaker 2: me for two weeks. Curtis Lee. Curtis will be here
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Speaker 2: for two weeks doing the show. That'll be great. He
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Speaker 2: hasn't been heard on radio in a while. He had
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Speaker 2: to go off the air course to run for mayor,
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Speaker 2: and he's mad at his old station. I don't know
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Speaker 2: what will happen there, but you'll be able to hear
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Speaker 2: Curtis next week and the week after. Two weeks he'll
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Speaker 2: be filling in for me. You know, for many, many,
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Speaker 2: many many years he had the number one morning radio show,
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Speaker 2: morning talk show in New York City. So that'll be
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Speaker 2: great to hear them again. That's coming up. Hey, if
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Speaker 2: you're saying I gotta get out of New York, who
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Speaker 2: the hell wants to live here anymore? It's too cold,
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Speaker 2: the snow, it's awful here maybe I'll move to Florida,
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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll move to North Carolina. Go walk around the
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Speaker 2: streets of New York in the next week or two
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Speaker 2: and look at the tourists. Normally I'm not here on
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Speaker 2: the weekends, but I was here yesterday. I had to
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Speaker 2: go a lot of Christmas parties. But all over the
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Speaker 2: place yesterday, the tourists are everywhere, and they've paid a
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Speaker 2: fortune to come to New York. You know, if you
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Speaker 2: come to New York right now at Christmas time, hotel
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Speaker 2: rates are huge. You can't even get a hotel room
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Speaker 2: right now. But watch these tourists, Watch them with their kids,
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Speaker 2: watch them walking around looking at everything we take for granted.
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Speaker 2: Watch them look at it with just their eyes light up.
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Speaker 2: They can't believe the things they're seeing, stuff they've only
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Speaker 2: seen on Instagram. Not just the tree, but all the
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Speaker 2: great restaurants, hotels, stores, the streets. They just they paid
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Speaker 2: a fort to come here. So don't take it for granted.
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Speaker 2: Don't get it's terrible. It was freezing cold yesterday, wash snow,
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Speaker 2: black ice. They were walking around so thrilled to be here,
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Speaker 2: thrilled to be here. Don't take it for granted. You
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Speaker 2: should really be thrilled that you're in the middle of
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Speaker 2: New York City. You know, people take things for granted.
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Speaker 2: I got a friend who's a big comedian. He's appearing
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Speaker 2: on cruise ships, luxury cruise ships. They pay him a
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Speaker 2: lot of money, and when you're the star performer, they
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Speaker 2: give you the most beautiful stateroom. Everything is free, meals everything.
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Speaker 2: This is going on for weeks, he's on different ships.
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Speaker 2: Calls me. Every wants to kill himself. Once I got
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Speaker 2: to get out of it. It's the worst. I can't
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Speaker 2: stand that said. You know, everybody else in the ship
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Speaker 2: saved up for years to afford this cruise. It's the
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Speaker 2: dream vacation, and you're complaining that people start to take
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Speaker 2: things for granted. Friend of mine's a travel agent, you know,
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Speaker 2: and you're a big travel agent. The top hotels of
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Speaker 2: the world will fly you over there. It's they call
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Speaker 2: it something site inspection or something super luxury hotel in Europe.
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Speaker 2: You have to go stay there for a few days.
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Speaker 2: They fly you on the finest first class airline, biggest hotel.
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Speaker 2: They take it. All the top restaurants. So you know,
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Speaker 2: as a travel consultant, you can tell everybody they call
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Speaker 2: me from there. Oh God, I got to go to
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Speaker 2: another hotel.
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Speaker 1: Huh.
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Speaker 2: I just want to go home. This is a dream
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Speaker 2: vacation for you, and they're complaining about it. So it's
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Speaker 2: the same thing with New York. Stop complaining. Go out
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Speaker 2: today and look at all the tourists and the wonderment
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Speaker 2: in their eyes as they look around in New York. Hey,
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Speaker 2: we'll take some calls.
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Speaker 4: to say, have a great two weeks off. You will
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Speaker 4: be missed for sure.
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Speaker 2: to Vince in Florida. Vince, how you doing.
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Speaker 1: Good morning. You know the two shooters I just read
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Speaker 1: in Australia which is almost impossible to get a gun
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Speaker 1: owned guns legally, which reminded me of the story that
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Speaker 1: happened here in Fort Pierce. I just moved down here.
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Speaker 1: I'm at a gun store and he tells me the shooter,
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Speaker 1: Olmar Mateen, the guy that killed the fifty kids in
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Speaker 1: the nightclub, went to that gun store, tried to buy guns.
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Speaker 1: They overheard him on the phone and they I'm selling
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Speaker 1: him guns. They gave the owner his background information. The
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Speaker 1: owner called the FDI two weeks before the shooting.
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Speaker 5: This was Yeah.
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Speaker 2: You hear a lot of these guys came down there.
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Speaker 2: You hear a lot of these kind of stories where
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Speaker 2: they could have caught the guy. They didn't catch the guy.
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Speaker 1: They didn't catch them, and the FBI denied anything.
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Speaker 2: In the other they call the FBI for you, Hey,
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Speaker 2: yeah you got you got a lot of crazy people
19:20
Speaker 2: down there in Florida and nothing personal, but you know
19:23
Speaker 2: what I mean, I don't know if it's no heat
19:25
Speaker 2: or what it is. Yeah, no, no, I'm just saying
19:28
Speaker 2: you got a lot of crazy people down there in Florida. Yeah,
19:30
Speaker 2: how many? Per cappity got more crazy incidents there with
19:33
Speaker 2: guns and things than than anywhere else. Let's go to
19:37
Speaker 2: Virginia in massive Peakua Virginia.
19:39
Speaker 1: How you doing, Bhie Mark.
19:42
Speaker 6: Merry Christmas. And I'm so happy. Oh my god, I'm
19:45
Speaker 6: so excited.
19:46
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about me.
19:47
Speaker 6: I'm so happy to hear the Curtisy. I'm a new listener.
19:50
Speaker 6: I'm actually a new listener. Yes, I'm happy about YouTube.
19:53
Speaker 6: I am a new listener. I used to listen to
19:55
Speaker 6: w w ABC for Curtis.
19:57
Speaker 7: We were only and it's he's just he's funny, he's
20:03
Speaker 7: on point about everything. He's a sworn man and driving
20:06
Speaker 7: to work this morning. Like I said, a new listener,
20:08
Speaker 7: I've been listening about a week and just to hear
20:10
Speaker 7: that Curtis is coming on WORE, which people have been
20:14
Speaker 7: talking about online. It's just like the best early Christmas
20:16
Speaker 7: gifts ever.
20:17
Speaker 2: And uh, well, you got to hear lots of lots
20:20
Speaker 2: of Curtis. He'll be filling in for me for two weeks. Yeah,
20:25
Speaker 2: oh wait a minute, December twenty second through. I think
20:28
Speaker 2: I'm off Friday. That might be Ken Risotto. But next
20:30
Speaker 2: week you'll get Curtis. Next week you'll get Curtis for
20:35
Speaker 2: two weeks.
20:35
Speaker 6: It's just it's really good because I know that he's
20:37
Speaker 6: you know, you guys will maybe he'll find a spot
20:40
Speaker 6: or whatever. I really like the station. I'm enjoying everything
20:43
Speaker 6: that I'm hearing, and it's just really refreshing to have
20:47
Speaker 6: people of station that doesn't insult their listeners and cold
20:50
Speaker 6: the morons and the fact that Curtis is going to
20:52
Speaker 6: be on and you know.
20:53
Speaker 2: This minute, I call people morons.
20:57
Speaker 6: No, I mean there are people deservedly.
21:00
Speaker 2: I only call mons morons. I don't care regular people though,
21:02
Speaker 2: but no, I know, Hey, we're glad to have you
21:04
Speaker 2: as a listener. Thanks, thanks for coming on board. Be
21:07
Speaker 2: listening for Curtis. Next week. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent,
21:11
Speaker 2: how you doing.
21:12
Speaker 5: Good morning, Marc, Good morning Mara. As you pointed out
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Speaker 5: earlier in the show, there's no country in the world
21:18
Speaker 5: that has more restrictive gun or no perhaps New Zealand,
21:22
Speaker 5: where you can't even own a p shooter. This demonstrates
21:27
Speaker 5: that when you restrict guns like that and to the people,
21:34
Speaker 5: the legal people, like they did in Australia. They even
21:37
Speaker 5: confiscated rifles in Australia, and in the NRA magazine they
21:42
Speaker 5: showed you this mountain, this pile of all the guns
21:45
Speaker 5: they confiscated. Then only the criminals could get them, because
21:51
Speaker 5: criminals have a different mindset. Legit people, when they can't
21:55
Speaker 5: get something, they can't get a gun, all right, that's it,
21:58
Speaker 5: the end of the story. But criminals they will find
22:02
Speaker 5: one way or another to get a gun. And I
22:06
Speaker 5: heard a commentator used to come on your show last
22:10
Speaker 5: night say that there've even been studies that show when
22:15
Speaker 5: the more legal guns there are in a town and
22:18
Speaker 5: a place, the less crime there is. This poor Soob
22:22
Speaker 5: had to jump the guy with his bare hands and
22:25
Speaker 5: he managed to pull the gun away from him. Imagine
22:29
Speaker 5: if that guy, the shooter was a little bit swifter,
22:33
Speaker 5: he could have turned around and killed that guy who
22:36
Speaker 5: took the gun out of his hand. That's why I
22:39
Speaker 5: hope now they get rid of Australia's president, get somebody
22:43
Speaker 5: who's got common sense, like Donald Trump, because even though
22:47
Speaker 5: their prime minister is a conservative, the guy's out of
22:50
Speaker 5: his mind for doing what he did. Any criminal. I mean,
22:55
Speaker 5: if I wanted to get Doug, please, don't let me
22:59
Speaker 5: talk if.
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Speaker 2: I want no, no, no, don't say it, Vincent, don't
23:01
Speaker 2: say it. You know, I mean a good point though,
23:04
Speaker 2: what I mean, I know what you mean.
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Speaker 5: But Vincent, excellent, Gonna have bit.
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Speaker 2: All right, Vincent, great call, Thanks for colling. Oh when
23:12
Speaker 2: we come back, Ed Rollins will be with us.
23:14
Speaker 5: Hey.
23:15
Speaker 2: If anybody says to you, well, what's gonna happen next year,
23:17
Speaker 2: who's going to win the midterms, It's a totally invalid question.
23:21
Speaker 2: We'll go into why coming up next on seven to
23:24
Speaker 2: ten w R.
23:26
Speaker 6: Wow, you're listening to the Mark Simone Show on WR.
23:32
Speaker 2: Well, let's turn to the dean himself, the greatest political
23:35
Speaker 2: consultant the Hall, Ed Rollins. He's run more campaign successful
23:39
Speaker 2: campaigns than anybody, Ed Rollins, How you doing.
23:43
Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark?
23:44
Speaker 2: Are you I'm good?
23:45
Speaker 5: Hey?
23:45
Speaker 2: You probably get this all the time. People say, oh,
23:47
Speaker 2: what's gonna happen in the midterms, So who's going to
23:49
Speaker 2: win the midterm? Predicting that is like predicting the twenty
23:52
Speaker 2: twenty eighth Super Bowl. I mean, the landscape is going
23:55
Speaker 2: to change between now and then, isn't it.
23:57
Speaker 3: It's going to change dramatically. And then I think, here's
24:00
Speaker 3: what does happen though, I can sort of go through
24:02
Speaker 3: a fifty year street. Members go home and the holidays
24:07
Speaker 3: and their family gets all together, and they basically they
24:11
Speaker 3: do I really want to do this for another two
24:13
Speaker 3: years or four years? Do any of them ambitious or
24:17
Speaker 3: eden senators? Do I want to do? Do you want
24:18
Speaker 3: to run for another re election? So oftentimes in January
24:22
Speaker 3: there's a number that's say thank you very much, I've
24:25
Speaker 3: had enough of this, or I'm going to run for
24:26
Speaker 3: something else. As of right now, they're fifty three members
24:29
Speaker 3: who announced that they're not going to run for election.
24:32
Speaker 3: Forty three of those are House members, the other tenor
24:36
Speaker 3: US Senators. And I think to a certain extent that
24:39
Speaker 3: the recruitment is going to go on now is because
24:42
Speaker 3: Democrats do think they're going to win this House easily,
24:46
Speaker 3: and there's a possibility they're going to win the Senate.
24:49
Speaker 3: They're out there recruiting anxiously. What we're trying to do
24:52
Speaker 3: is that the president team has to do is to
24:53
Speaker 3: sort of make sure that the vulnerable incomes are getting
24:56
Speaker 3: ready for run for reelection. It's the year long fo
25:00
Speaker 3: This seems like a year is a long time, but
25:02
Speaker 3: it's not in politics. And so they leave Christmas. You'll
25:05
Speaker 3: probably see in January an other ten or fifteen members,
25:09
Speaker 3: thank you very much. I've had a nice career, and
25:11
Speaker 3: they start became our retirement, and then you fill on
25:13
Speaker 3: the blanks and you begin begin in February to start
25:16
Speaker 3: running and running hard. The president's agenda ahead of him
25:19
Speaker 3: is an aggressive one and it's a tough one getting
25:23
Speaker 3: the budgets through and what have you. And the origins
25:25
Speaker 3: are so small that he has both the House and
25:27
Speaker 3: the Senate. But his task is tough.
25:30
Speaker 5: Yeah.
25:31
Speaker 2: So when you say some people may leave Congress, I
25:33
Speaker 2: don't need this anymore. Let me leave. What do they
25:35
Speaker 2: do that They can make a lot of money, right,
25:37
Speaker 2: lobbying or something like that.
25:38
Speaker 3: So some can, some very few members go back home.
25:42
Speaker 3: They all promise they're going to go back home. Some
25:47
Speaker 3: you know, people say, well, you know, when you decide
25:50
Speaker 3: to quit, come work for me, and some just you know,
25:53
Speaker 3: decide this is not what it's not what I want
25:55
Speaker 3: to spend my time. This sort of been a very
25:57
Speaker 3: frustrating year if you were bubbled them to be in
25:59
Speaker 3: the Congress and you get the big bill best which
26:03
Speaker 3: obviously normally you have lots of builds that you passed,
26:06
Speaker 3: but they combine it all on one thing, so there's
26:08
Speaker 3: not a lot of activity, and you know they want
26:11
Speaker 3: they want home for a period of time. They getting
26:13
Speaker 3: beat up for that a certain extent. So so I
26:16
Speaker 3: would say when I was the chairman of the Congression Committee,
26:19
Speaker 3: to the chairman, people said say, why don't you run
26:21
Speaker 3: for Congress? I say, thank you very much. I might
26:24
Speaker 3: be behind the scenes. I don't want to. I don't
26:26
Speaker 3: want to spend my day arguing with four hundred thirty
26:28
Speaker 3: five other people every day. And I think to a
26:30
Speaker 3: certain extent, that's that's where a lot of members may be.
26:33
Speaker 3: Once that numbers changed and altered in the sense we
26:36
Speaker 3: know how many running, and then the race is going
26:38
Speaker 3: to begin.
26:39
Speaker 2: Hey, ed Relands. If the healthcare, if they don't fix
26:43
Speaker 2: the healthcare situation, put a patch on it or something,
26:46
Speaker 2: healthcare costs are going to go nuts. It's the fault
26:50
Speaker 2: of Obama and Obamacare. But isn't aren't there Republicans going
26:53
Speaker 2: to get blamed for it.
26:54
Speaker 3: Oh yes, absolutely, there's no question Republicans going to We've
26:59
Speaker 3: not had a just an healthcare plan in twenty years.
27:03
Speaker 3: We used to have some real experts on it when
27:06
Speaker 3: Bob Dole was the leader, because of his only personal
27:09
Speaker 3: healthcare every problems over the years, he knew a lot
27:11
Speaker 3: about healthcare. He had a chief of staff, Sheila Burke,
27:14
Speaker 3: was a nurse who do a lot about healthcare. We
27:17
Speaker 3: don't have a lot of experts now. And you know
27:19
Speaker 3: our premise of you know, let's have saving those accounts
27:21
Speaker 3: to what have you? If I gave you a two
27:23
Speaker 3: thousand dollars savings account, which is what the new Gingrish
27:26
Speaker 3: plan was, you'll go from that real quick, first time
27:30
Speaker 3: you can, to a doctor, and if there's anything that
27:33
Speaker 3: happens to you, you know the astronomical. So not only
27:39
Speaker 3: will twenty two million people be affected by this, the
27:42
Speaker 3: reality is their costs will go up dramatically. Those who
27:46
Speaker 3: can afford a lot of Americas going to say I
27:48
Speaker 3: can't afford it. I'm just not gonna and that creates
27:51
Speaker 3: a real chaos. The best courted Republicans can do is
27:55
Speaker 3: extend this thing for year subsidies. Democrats aren't going to
27:59
Speaker 3: do because obviously they want they want to get to
28:02
Speaker 3: the next election with the rise and prices and what
28:05
Speaker 3: have you. So I think, to a certain extent, we've
28:07
Speaker 3: got we've got a couple of months here real chaos
28:10
Speaker 3: with those those here solutions. I would say, this point
28:12
Speaker 3: in time, we're not We're not going to the healthcare
28:15
Speaker 3: is not going to get fisted a short period of time.
28:17
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not an expert, but uh, just common sense.
28:20
Speaker 2: I would think if you let the government take over healthcare,
28:23
Speaker 2: the cost is going to go way up. It wouldn't
28:25
Speaker 2: that be true?
28:26
Speaker 3: Absolutely well, to a certain extent, the government does pay
28:29
Speaker 3: them the past. If you are in health care today
28:32
Speaker 3: and it's you know, I don't I don't think that
28:36
Speaker 3: Kennedy is ready to do that, start care of pills,
28:39
Speaker 3: the units versus president. I don't think it's order to
28:41
Speaker 3: do that. And President's got a lot a lot of
28:44
Speaker 3: less play, I think to a certain extent, but most
28:46
Speaker 3: Americans are going to suffer measurably about it, because even
28:50
Speaker 3: if even if you have health insurance today been a
28:52
Speaker 3: private company, because of the burden of I mean, twenty
28:55
Speaker 3: two million people from the Obamacare program. He's got to
28:59
Speaker 3: find there or reach a're gonna be well. Healthcare rates
29:03
Speaker 3: are not going down. They haven't gone down a long
29:05
Speaker 3: long time. And it's an expensive entity and there's a
29:08
Speaker 3: lot of people that are experts on it who are
29:10
Speaker 3: not very happy with what we have.
29:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ed Rowlins, if you want to run in twenty
29:15
Speaker 2: twenty eight, Gavin Newsom or whoever, if you want to
29:17
Speaker 2: run in twenty twenty eight, what should you be doing now?
29:20
Speaker 2: Is there anything you can really do now for that?
29:23
Speaker 3: Sure, you can raise money, line up your supporters, your
29:26
Speaker 3: line up your team. I mean there's four or five
29:29
Speaker 3: of them that are running right now. And what you
29:31
Speaker 3: try and do is you tap into easy advantage of
29:34
Speaker 3: the midterm elections to go out and made friends around
29:37
Speaker 3: the country in key states. You know, I think Gavin
29:40
Speaker 3: Newson's going to do is just continue to beat up
29:42
Speaker 3: on Trump and fight with Trump, and that seems to
29:45
Speaker 3: be working for him. He is a mess of the state.
29:47
Speaker 3: In California. No one's talking about the best in californiaybody's
29:50
Speaker 3: talking about whatever great job he's doing. Beat that by
29:53
Speaker 3: the president. Yeah, the same thing in Illinois. So my
29:56
Speaker 3: sense is those who are going to run, it's going
29:58
Speaker 3: to be four or five at least. Uh, some new
30:01
Speaker 3: governors that maybe will have some political ambition beyond where
30:04
Speaker 3: they are. It's gonna be a full field.
30:07
Speaker 5: Yes.
30:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the old days that Reagan came from California
30:10
Speaker 2: and one, but nowadays it's been a one party state
30:13
Speaker 2: for so long. Guys like Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, they've
30:16
Speaker 2: never been tested in two party states. So aren't isn't
30:19
Speaker 2: name body from California canna have a problem trying to
30:21
Speaker 2: run nationally?
30:23
Speaker 3: Well, but he moved out. You moved out of the California.
30:26
Speaker 3: Why you haven't had any competitions in California is they
30:29
Speaker 3: basically created a system. Instead of a Republican or a
30:31
Speaker 3: Democrat winning the nominations and running against each other, the
30:34
Speaker 3: top two get nominated. Uh. So it could be two
30:37
Speaker 3: Democrats running against each other, uh and two Republicans. It's
30:44
Speaker 3: never happened that way. But the reality is kind of
30:46
Speaker 3: the one party system. So the reality is he doesn't
30:50
Speaker 3: want to talk about California. He wants to talk about nationally.
30:53
Speaker 3: What what Trump has not done as opposed to what
30:55
Speaker 3: he has done and he's you know, he's I don't
30:59
Speaker 3: get it, but he's a arismatic figures got a fifty
31:02
Speaker 3: four to fifty five percent of brewery in California, which
31:04
Speaker 3: is pretty mess and whose California has not been in
31:07
Speaker 3: play since, you know, since Bush and eighty eight. You know,
31:10
Speaker 3: it's a it's a hard stage for us to win,
31:13
Speaker 3: and I think to cird extent east to an easy
31:15
Speaker 3: state force.
31:16
Speaker 2: Well, and Rollin's brilliant as always, keep up the great work,
31:19
Speaker 2: and we'll talk again soon in wonderful holiday.
31:23
Speaker 3: And have they honka to all your business stuff there?
31:26
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