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Hour 3: Mamdani's new ad for Hochul. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: New York, Mark Simone, now three hours every weekday from
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  Speaker 2: 9 till noon on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hey, it's the third and final hour. Remember, it's
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  Speaker 1: three hours every day, 9 till noon, three hours every day. So,
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. had the debate Tuesday night versus Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 1: He was phenomenal in the debate. He just crushed her
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  Speaker 1: in the debate. Now, if you're a crazy Democrat, you'll
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  Speaker 1: think Hochul won, but normal people don't think she won.
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  Speaker 1: It was bad. In fact, Blakeman fundraising has been up
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  Speaker 1: dramatically since the debate. Money is pouring in. People were
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  Speaker 1: very impressed. Now, Kathy Hochul started with a huge war chest,
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  Speaker 1: about $ 35 million. And she did not take matching funds,
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  Speaker 1: public matching funds. So she's not obligated to debate. She
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  Speaker 1: turned down all the major debates, Channel 2, Channel 4,
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  Speaker 1: Channel 5, Channel 7, Channel 9. She refused all these debates.
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  Speaker 1: She agreed to one. This is what Democrats do when
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  Speaker 1: they're really scared. They'll agree only to New York 1
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  Speaker 1: because it's tiny. Nobody sees New York 1. And it's
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  Speaker 1: very biased, very left wing. You'll notice their moderators kept
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  Speaker 1: cutting Blakeman off every time he was getting a good point.
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  Speaker 3: We have to move on.
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  Speaker 1: We have to move on. We have to move on.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you have to move on? You can take
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  Speaker 1: all the time you want. It's New York One. You
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  Speaker 1: don't really have much of a schedule. You could do
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want. And then they do those yes or
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  Speaker 1: no gotcha questions. So when you try to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: try to really give some substance, they'll jump in. It's
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  Speaker 1: a yes or no question. Just one word, yes or no.
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  Speaker 1: We can't let you talk. One of those kinds of debates,
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  Speaker 1: but Blakeman fundraising, very, very big. Mom, Donnie has jumped
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  Speaker 1: into the race actively. Now mom, Donnie now has a commercial,
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  Speaker 1: a video TV commercials. Don't mean much of anything anymore
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  Speaker 1: that he, uh, you want to reach people. You do
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  Speaker 1: it on online social media videos. Mom, Donnie has put
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  Speaker 1: out his attack video on Blakeman.
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  Speaker 4: Actually fights for working families in New York when Bruce
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  Speaker 4: was busy. Or actually, Bruce wasn't that busy. Governor Hochul
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  Speaker 4: was helping us close a $ 12 billion budget deficit here
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  Speaker 4: in New York City. And when New York City needed
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  Speaker 4: a partner in delivering free universal childcare, Governor Hochul didn't
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  Speaker 4: just help us deliver 2,000 new seats for two-year-olds this year.
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  Speaker 4: She worked with us so we could deliver 10,000 more
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  Speaker 4: seats next January. That's why I'm voting for Governor Hochul.
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  Speaker 4: Because she's the real deal for New Yorkers. Bruce Blakeman?
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  Speaker 4: He's a bad apple.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now. Analyze that. What do they accuse Blakeman of?
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  Speaker 1: They did a hell of a lot of opposition research.
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  Speaker 1: What do they accuse him of? He's not there? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. The guy works day and night. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know this for a fact. He's got a schedule
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  Speaker 1: that's like 6 a.m. to midnight. He just works and
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  Speaker 1: works and works, not to mention crisscrossing the state, not
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  Speaker 1: to mention going to every event of importance that he
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  Speaker 1: needs to be at. So it's a false accusation. If
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  Speaker 1: they have to lie, that's quite a compliment to Blakeman.
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  Speaker 1: And this childcare, daycare, I think there's something they're not
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  Speaker 1: telling you about with this daycare. The same thing with
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani and his daycare here in the city. When it
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  Speaker 1: comes to this daycare, you know it's only until about
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  Speaker 1: 2 p.m. The idea of the daycare is you can
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  Speaker 1: put your kid there if you're a single parent or
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  Speaker 1: you don't have anybody to stay home or both parents
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  Speaker 1: are working. You have daycare to put the child in. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's only till 2 p.m. Do you know anybody who
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  Speaker 1: has a job that ends at 2 p.m.? Not you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about normal office work. Yeah, most people work
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  Speaker 1: 9 to 5 or more. So what is the point
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  Speaker 1: of the daycare if it's only till 2 p.m.? And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it's not there in the summer. It's
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  Speaker 1: only in the school year. So if you're working, there's
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  Speaker 1: no daycare for you. So Mamdani never quite pointing that
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  Speaker 1: out to people. Blakeman looks real good now. He's got
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  Speaker 1: money pouring in left and right. Last night, there was
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  Speaker 1: a huge fundraiser for Blakeman at Madison Square Garden. James Dolan,
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  Speaker 1: a garden owner, hosted this big fundraiser. So there'll be
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money for Blakeman to spend 18 days
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  Speaker 1: until the election, just 18 days, two and a half weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where it really counts, you know, all the
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  Speaker 1: money and everything. That's where you want to blitz in
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. So it'll be quite a finish. Now, remember,
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman has this pattern. You saw it in Long Island
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  Speaker 1: in his two elections. He starts off way behind. He's 15,
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  Speaker 1: 20 points behind. And then he's 10 points behind. Then
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  Speaker 1: he's five points behind. Then he's caught up. And then
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  Speaker 1: he always wins. So you'll see him most likely win
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  Speaker 1: in 18 days. President Trump, he He's got an AI
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  Speaker 1: director now. Do you remember our U.S. attorney here, Jay Clayton?
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  Speaker 1: He was a fine U.S. attorney. He was a really
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  Speaker 1: good guy, very smart guy. Everybody likes Jay Clayton. So
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  Speaker 1: President Trump made him the director of national intelligence. That's
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  Speaker 1: a huge job in Washington. And before he was the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: attorney here, he had quite a resume. He was the
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  Speaker 1: head of the SEC. He's done a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So he's the national intelligence director. Now, President Trump also
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  Speaker 1: just appointed him AI czar. He's the AI czar. And
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  Speaker 1: the president has asked him, he's given him 120 days
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  Speaker 1: to come back and report on the pros and cons
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  Speaker 1: of AI. And Clayton will oversee a superintelligence task force,
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  Speaker 1: which is being formed to put all the smartest people
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  Speaker 1: on it, make sure the leaders in AI, they're calling
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  Speaker 1: it superintelligence, and that the interest of the American people
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  Speaker 1: are put first. Clayton predicted that over time there will
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  Speaker 1: be stronger mechanisms to mitigate risks and identify opportunities with AI.
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  Speaker 1: Task force not fully formed. On it will definitely be J.D. Vance,
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  Speaker 1: Scott Besson, Pete Hegsiff, Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Waters,
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  Speaker 1: former AI czar David Sachs. So, You've got to remember,
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  Speaker 1: the important part of this is, if it's true that
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  Speaker 1: AI is so powerful it could take over the whole world, well,
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  Speaker 1: then it's absolutely essential that we be in the lead,
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  Speaker 1: not China, that we not let China get control of it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's that deadly, if it's that powerful, we can't
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  Speaker 1: let China have control of it. We've got to stay
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  Speaker 1: way ahead of them. So that's the reason to keep going. Now, remember,
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  Speaker 1: with the data centers... All the problems are slowly but
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  Speaker 1: surely going away. The electricity problem is being solved. They
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  Speaker 1: can use different things to solve that. The water problem,
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  Speaker 1: they've learned how to recycle the water. The only problem,
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  Speaker 1: the noise, the awful noise from those turbines that make
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  Speaker 1: it impossible to live within a half mile, even a
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  Speaker 1: mile of a data center. Well, Elon Musk is working
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  Speaker 1: on a new type of turbine that'll cut down the
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  Speaker 1: noise and the vibration. The size, the massive size of
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  Speaker 1: the data centers, well, they're going to start to get smaller.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to remember it's the same thing with the computer.
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  Speaker 1: If you go back to the 70s, a computer was enormous.
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  Speaker 1: It was the size of a football field, an IBM computer. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this little iPhone in my hand is more powerful than
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  Speaker 1: that thing. So they'll get the data centers smaller and
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  Speaker 1: smaller and smaller. Speaking of Jay Clayton, remember we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: yesterday susie wiles the chief of staff white house chief
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  Speaker 1: of staff is most likely on her way out the
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  Speaker 1: president looking at removing her as chief of staff now
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  Speaker 1: she's been quite a part of his campaign and in
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  Speaker 1: the four years he was out of office she came
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  Speaker 1: in organized things ran things helped keep that campaign right
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  Speaker 1: on track who knows what would have happened without her
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  Speaker 1: and she's been great but there's uh i don't know
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  Speaker 1: there's there's friction there there's problems Her daughter is apparently
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  Speaker 1: running around making money off the Trump administration overseas, and
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  Speaker 1: they don't like some of that. There's things they don't like,
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  Speaker 1: but I know he's been asking everybody about removing her,
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  Speaker 1: getting opinions from everybody. And there's talk of who would
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  Speaker 1: replace her. Stephen Miller is on the list. Randy Levine,
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankee president. President Trump loves him. Very smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: Steve Witkoff. But you know who's now on the list?
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  Speaker 1: Jay Clayton. He's come to really love and respect and
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  Speaker 1: trust Jay Clayton. So he's the director of national security.
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  Speaker 1: He's the AI czar, but now being looked at as
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  Speaker 1: possibly the next chief of staff for the White House. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Tiger Woods is working on, this is a new thing now.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to build golf courses with gated communities around them.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you do when you're old, when you
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  Speaker 1: get old in golf. First thing is you go on
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  Speaker 1: the senior tour. Instead of the regular PGA Tour, you're
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  Speaker 1: on the senior tour. And then when you're getting really old,
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  Speaker 1: you can't even play on the senior tour. You become a... Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's actually a bunch of real estate developers and builders.
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  Speaker 1: They do all the stuff. They hire you to pretend
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  Speaker 1: you're the guy. And they build golf courses. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a Jack Nicklaus golf course everywhere. The Jack Nicklaus
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  Speaker 1: golf course with resorts and houses all around the golf course.
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  Speaker 1: Real estate developers do this. So apparently... Tiger Woods is
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  Speaker 1: getting into this business. Blue Jack Ranch. is the follow-up
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  Speaker 1: to Blue Jack National. This is the name I guess
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  Speaker 1: they're using. And their golf course is designed by Tiger Woods.
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  Speaker 1: They're private clubs, gated communities with homes starting at a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars around them. And really nice homes. Here's a Actually,
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  Speaker 1: they're spending about $ 3 billion on this whole deal. So
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  Speaker 1: Tiger Woods will get a huge chunk of that. But
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  Speaker 1: some of the homes on there, but 20,000 square foot mansion,
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  Speaker 1: pretty good looking stuff. But that's what Tiger's up to now. Now,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people be coming to New York now. It's,
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  Speaker 1: what's the date today? October 16th.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to start right after Halloween, the tourist season.
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  Speaker 1: We get a lot of them in the summer. But
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  Speaker 1: it really gets bad in November and December. They come
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  Speaker 1: here for Thanksgiving. They come here for the parade. They
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  Speaker 1: come here for the tree. We have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: listeners around the country. You know, when you talk to
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  Speaker 1: somebody around the country and they'll talk about the New York, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to come see the tree. This is a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. They'll actually come here, spend thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 1: staying here to go look at this tree. The tree's
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  Speaker 1: right over there. It's like six blocks away. We walk
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  Speaker 1: by this thing every day. It's nice, but it's just
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  Speaker 1: a tree. It's a big Christmas. You know, actually, if
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  Speaker 1: you go around New York, there's a lot of better
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  Speaker 1: Christmas trees with better decorations on them than the Rockefeller
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  Speaker 1: Center one. Now, the other thing is they go to
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  Speaker 1: Radio City, the Rockettes. The Radio City Rockettes say it'll
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  Speaker 1: be a different type of show this year. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: more high-tech. AI's taking over there. It's the 101st birthday
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  Speaker 1: of the Rockettes. The technology gets better and better every year.
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  Speaker 1: You know now, They have microphones in their shoes. Their
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  Speaker 1: tap shoes also have microphones in them. So you can
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  Speaker 1: hear the taps. They're actually all mic'd up. There's new
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  Speaker 1: overhead cameras. It'll show you the precision. There's all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of new technology innovation coming in. But they say it'll
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  Speaker 1: be a darker show this year. Darker, moodier. Who the
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  Speaker 1: hell wants that? Why would you want the Rockettes to
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  Speaker 1: get darker and moodier? It's supposed to be a fun
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  Speaker 1: type show. New data. New study coming out. Marriage, less
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  Speaker 1: and less and less and less. Fewer than 25% of
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  Speaker 1: households with children have married couples in them. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it used to be a long time ago if your
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  Speaker 1: parents were divorced and you were a kid that you
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  Speaker 1: went to school, you know, they would tease you about
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  Speaker 1: your parents being divorced. That was a problem. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you go to school and your parents aren't divorced, you
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  Speaker 1: get teased about that. Everybody's divorced. It's highly unusual for
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  Speaker 1: a kid to go to school and have both parents
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  Speaker 1: living with them. In fact, it looks like, here's one city,
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  Speaker 1: only 13% of kids have married parents. Only 13%. But overall,
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  Speaker 1: the whole country, it's 25%. Only 25% of kids have
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  Speaker 1: married parents. Now, it's different in the suburbs. It's a
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  Speaker 1: higher rate out in the suburbs. A lot less in
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  Speaker 1: the cities. But one major city, it's only 13%. Hey, remember,
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  Speaker 1: it was a week ago, Saturday Night Live, Shane Gillis
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  Speaker 1: did the monologue where he did those jokes about women
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  Speaker 1: dressing really trashy in the gym, how they look like
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  Speaker 1: whores or whatever. So everybody's been trying to cancel him.
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  Speaker 1: The crazy left-wingers have been trying to bring back cancel
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  Speaker 1: culture and cancel him for being misogynist. It's not working, though.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing's happened so far. People are defending him. Even Travis
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  Speaker 1: Kelsey came out to defend him. Other comedians coming out
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  Speaker 1: to defend him. So it was an attempt to bring
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  Speaker 1: back cancel culture. And it looks like a week later
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  Speaker 1: it is failing and will fail. So that's good news. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. Give
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  Speaker 1: us a call, especially if you're a new caller. We
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  Speaker 1: always like to hear from new callers. The number is 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 5: 800-321-0710. 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 1: Reset on the iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: App to WOR to hear Mark live. Set another for
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  Speaker 2: Mark's podcast to hear him anytime. Now back to Mark
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  Speaker 2: Simone on WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Jamie in New Jersey. Jamie, how you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Mark.
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  Speaker 7: Great show as always. I was going to tell you
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  Speaker 7: two things. The first thing is, you know, the Libs
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  Speaker 7: keep forgetting that it took JFK Jr. like three or
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  Speaker 7: four times to pass the flag.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was three times, and the third time his
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  Speaker 1: mother had to make some special arrangements for him to pass.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, was that the West?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Listen, he was a friend of mine. He was
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  Speaker 1: a nice guy. He was not the brightest guy in
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  Speaker 1: the world.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And the second thing is, did you ever really think about, like,
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  Speaker 7: penning a biography or something? Because between, you know, knowing, like,
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  Speaker 7: Sinatra and, you know, all the.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I actually have about 12 book deals I've had
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  Speaker 1: through the years, but I can never force myself to
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  Speaker 1: sit down and start writing. I know, I got to
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  Speaker 1: do it. I got to do it.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it would just be incredible. I mean, the
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  Speaker 7: people that you've known.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's calm down. It won't be war and peace,
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  Speaker 1: but you're right. I should do it. I should do it.
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  Speaker 1: I got to force myself.
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  Speaker 7: You know, it definitely would be some great reading. And again,
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's just, it would be something to look
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  Speaker 7: forward to.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks. I'll start working on it. I'll start
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  Speaker 1: sitting down and actually writing. Let's go to John in Bayville. John,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Mark.
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  Speaker 6: How are you?
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 1: What are you, in the trunk of a car?
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  Speaker 6: I'm in my car. I'm driving.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 6: My question to you, has anybody in all our presidents
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  Speaker 6: in Congress ever decided to come out with an amendment
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  Speaker 6: against having non-born or people born abroad running for office,
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  Speaker 6: any office in our country?
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  Speaker 1: Well, people People have talked about it. Nobody's proposed it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the problem is there's a lot of people in Congress
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  Speaker 1: that weren't born in the United States. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: be born in the United States to be president. We
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  Speaker 1: can understand that because you're leading. You might be leading
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  Speaker 1: us in a war or something. But banning people that
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  Speaker 1: weren't born in the country from even running for Congress,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. That's stretching it a bit.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to, uh, Nick in Mount Vernon. Nick, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good, Mark.
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  Speaker 5: Good to love your show.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: What's the story with daylight saving time? Is he going
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  Speaker 5: to eliminate it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably. It's not going to happen this time. Cause
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  Speaker 1: like in two weeks, you got to set your clock, uh,
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  Speaker 1: back an hour, but, uh, it got knocked out. Um,
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  Speaker 1: the almost got it done, but there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of States opposing it. One was, it was at Arkansas where, uh,
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  Speaker 1: So the problem is a time zone is big. Like
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  Speaker 1: if you're in New York and it's getting dark at
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  Speaker 1: six o'clock, if you're all the way at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the time zone, like in Michigan, it's not getting
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  Speaker 1: dark till seven o'clock. There's a one hour difference from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the time zone to the end as
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  Speaker 1: far as the darkness and the daylight. So the problem is,
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  Speaker 1: I think the state was Arkansas. They're at the end
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  Speaker 1: of a time zone. They're on the cusp of a
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  Speaker 1: time zone. So it would stay dark here until about 7.30. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in that state, in the winter, it'll stay dark until 8.30.
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  Speaker 1: So they pretty much blocked it. Well, we'll get this
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  Speaker 1: permanent daylight saving time. Not in time for this year,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll get it eventually. Let's go to Pam in
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Pam, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 8: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: You asked how did New England become so liberal. It's
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  Speaker 3: Started a lot of the time, not totally, but during
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  Speaker 3: the Vietnam War when liberal artists went up there on
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: their way to Canada, but some of them stopped short
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: and went out in the woods and did their art
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: thing and formed enclaves of liberalism. There's still enclaves in Canada, too,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: of these groups.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was the beginning, the liberals moving up there.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: But then it really sped up in the 70s, 80s,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: like a lot of.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: New Yorkers, Brooklynites, Bernie Sanders, all those people, they went
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: up to Vermont and they took over the whole state.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: The old Vermont guard didn't know what the hell hit
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: him when these tough guys from Brooklyn came and took over.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: But it's been happening everywhere. Maine, especially during the pandemic,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of the left-wingers, real left-wingers out of Massachusetts,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: all during that pandemic were moving up to Maine. Doesn't
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: take a lot of people to change the demographic makeup.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Maine's got a small population and they did change it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Bob in Florida. Bob, how are you doing?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I'm hanging in there.
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm day-to-day mostly, but I'm calling about the
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: horse carriage caper.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: But how it relates to the.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: Fake news being, like, off the charts. With every story
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: that would appeal to some, you know, left-wing group.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just cheap virtue signaling.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It's cheap virtue signaling. The problem, a death caused by
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the horse and carriage is one. in 100 years, death
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: by e-bikes, 133 in seven years. Just seven years.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, with Oscar Belgal and Mayor Mondami demanding that ICE
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: be removed.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: From the city.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Oh, come on.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: All he's trying to do is.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: No, it's another good point. Listen, these shootings are awful
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: when they happen. ICE has had three of these shootings,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: but that's out of 600,000 arrests. That's a pretty good
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: track record. 600,000 arrests and only three had problems like that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Let's go to... Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing?
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark. Mark, I'm okay. Mayor Mondami's always grousing
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: and complaining about the cost of daycare. Well, hello, Mondami.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Years ago, it wasn't necessary for two people in a family,
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: the husband and the wife, to go out and work.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: It's only because your ilk, Mondami, Kathy Hochul, and all
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: of the Democrats in the city legislature and the state legislature,
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: because when I was a kid... My mother only worked
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: four hours a day. My mother was a cook in
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: an Italian restaurant that had largely a lunch trade. So
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: after we went off to school, my mother went to
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: work in the kitchen and everything. And before school let
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: out at 2.30, a quarter to 3.00, My mother was
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: pretty much finished. It was only because of, over the years,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: the cost of living, mainly the taxes, the fees, and
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: the regulations going up, that where it made it necessary
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: for two people in a family to have to work.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: That's on you, Democrats. That's on you, Mondami. But on
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: a lighter note, Mark, you were speaking about great Christmas trees.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Everybody listen to this.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: All right, we only got a few seconds.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Go ahead. At the end of Montague Street on Brooklyn Heights,
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: right where the promenade begins, right before Thanksgiving, they set
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: up a massive, beautiful Christmas tree. And on one side
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: is the house where Linda Blair did the exorcist. But
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: right beyond it, still in view, is the lower harbor
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: all lit up. It's beautiful.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've seen it.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Really nice. Well, Vincent, great call. Thanks for calling. Hey,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: when we come back, one of the best pollsters around,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Matt Towery, he's got a great new book out. So
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: we'll get some insight into the upcoming election. And also,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: this is a fascinating book about the mirages created by
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: liberal media, liberal colleges. It's fascinating stuff. We'll get to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: that next on 710WOR.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Mark Simone Show. Live from the
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: WOR LifeVac studios.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Well, Matt Towery is one of the great pollsters in America.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, a real pollster, not the not those fake
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: polls you see publicly. But Matt Towery, great pollster. But
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: he's got a book out that's very important. We want
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you to read. The new book is called The Mirage Machine.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And it's all about how this whole fake media academic
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: government complex got started and what it's doing. And we'll
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: get to that with the great Matt Towery. Matt, how
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you doing?
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: Mark, so happy to be with you. And let everybody
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: know the first part of that title is The Honoring
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: of Ignorance. The Honoring of Ignorance. And let me tell you,
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: we've got more honoring of ignorance going on in this
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: election season than I can count. And I'm so happy
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: to have a chance to sort of share my thoughts
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: with your listeners today.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We'll get to the book in a second. Let
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: me just ask you, it's 18 days till the midterms.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: What's going to happen? How does it look right now?
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: You know, we get this every time, Mark. You're so
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: used to it. We get these polls that come out
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: and show the Democrats are always way ahead and the
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: Republicans are way down. And then somebody like a Nate
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: Silver or 538 before they shuttered that bunch comes out
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: and says, oh, it's over. You know, give up. And
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: then all of a sudden, the Republicans, you know it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: And so all of a sudden, the Republicans start to
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: inch their way back in. And now all of a sudden,
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: people are nervous. And I'll tell you a reason they are.
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: they're nervous because there is a massive turnout of older voters.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: Like I've never seen before. I've been polling for 26 years.
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: I've been in politics forever and I have never seen
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: seniors voting at the level they are now. In fact,
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: in Georgia, which is my bellwether state, because it could
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: go 50, 50, either way in Georgia, 80% of the
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: votes in early votes as of yesterday, we're 55 and
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: over and they vote Republican. Wow. And isn't that something?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, So the fake polls that are supposed to
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: discourage people, the fake news trying to convince Republicans to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: stay home, it's not working? Is that what we're saying?
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it never has worked. You know, I predicted Trump
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: would win in 2016. Everybody thought it was crazy. In 2020,
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: you know, we knew that Trump was, you know, with
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: the pandemic, it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Really hurt him.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: But he did very well. He didn't win, at least
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: by the count. Um, but he was much closer than
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: the pollsters had it in 2024. They all said he
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: was going to lose that also. And he beat Harris handily.
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: So I think we're looking at another one of these
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: mirage machines where what they do is the media harps
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: on a certain issue. This time it's gas prices. They
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: don't tell anybody that gas prices were just as high
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: under Joe Biden. And that inflation was 8.5% versus 3.7%.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Now that you don't hear that, do you? No, they
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: keep that from us. And, and instead they, They want
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: to focus on the one thing that makes everybody feel
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: like they're so miserable and they're not doing well. And
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: I don't think the public's buying it.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So a lot of criticism of the Republicans didn't
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: do the right messaging. They didn't get their message out.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: What did they do wrong, if anything?
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: Well, I think the only thing they could have done,
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: which I wish they had, is to leapfrog over this
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: biased mirage machine media. and put out ads earlier letting
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: people know that we have the lowest unemployment since the
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: 1960s the economy is expanding the GDP is up that
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: we have more disposable income because of the tax cuts
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: and that more people were traveling during labor day this
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: last holiday we had more people flew and drove than
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: any other time in the history of our country does
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: that sound like a country that's in recession no and
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: I think that message could have gotten out there sooner
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: but boy, Donald Trump, he is working his rear end off,
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: going everywhere he can, because turnout is what midterms are about,
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: and he is turning people out to the polls.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: All right, Matt Towery, but here's the problem, which brings
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: us to your book, The Honoring of Ignorance, this mirage machine.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: What you're talking about is the media, the pollsters, academia, everything,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: creating these mirages. Explain how the book came about.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: Oh, it's funny, Mark. I was at the University of
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: Georgia I dropped out to work for a guy named
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: Newt Gingrich and another guy named Mack Mattingly. Gingrich was
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: in his first term in Congress and Mattingly was running
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: for the U.S. Senate.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: He got elected.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: I went to D.C. So I left Georgia and ended
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: up at Cambridge University in England, which is where I
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: took my degree. When I was there, I started working
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: on a book called The Honoring of Ignorance. I got
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: a literary agent, Ann Elmo, who's well known. She's passed
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: away since then. And they pitched the book to all
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: these publishers. They all said, we love it, but he's
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: too young to say this. And now I'm 67 years old,
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: and I'm afraid people are going to say he's too
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: old to say this. But it's still the same thesis.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: It's just changed a lot with the Internet and with
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: cable television and all the things that have happened since
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: 40 years ago. And we have one big mirage machine. Basically,
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: we have a media that they exclude. things. They make
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: sure you don't see things that are possible about President Trump.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: They make sure they harp on the things that are negative.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: They then get the pollsters to go out there and
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: tell you, boy, he is so unpopular. And then they
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: get the fact checkers who come and fact check them
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: and say, oh, everything they're saying is right. Why did
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: a fact check our polling company? And it was Snopes.
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: And the woman who wrote it, she said, we don't
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: know anything about this polling firm, and we can't vouch
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: for whether they're credible. You know that we polled for
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: the Fox affiliates around the country, owned and operated for
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: like eight, ten years for Politico, for Newsmax, anybody you
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: can think of. Yet somehow she couldn't find out anything
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: about us. So she wrote this terrible review. Great fact checker, huh?
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: So here's the problem. Obviously, you got, you know, the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: universities are all left wing indoctrination camps. But then the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: news media goes total fake news. The fact-checkers got totally corrupted.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: They're all left-wing, slanted people running these fact-checking sites, which
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: is what you call the mirage machine. But what on
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: earth can you do about it? Is it too late?
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: Well, there are two things. I say at the conclusion
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: of the book that we're going to go one of
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: two directions. We're either going to end up with a
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: country where the blue states have compacts with one another,
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: and they have their own laws they follow, and the
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: red states do the same with their own states. Or
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: we're going to learn as conservatives or Republicans, people just
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: want to get the truth out, to start every week
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: putting ads out to say in case you've missed it.
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: And don't quote the conservative stuff by itself. Quote NBC
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: News and CNN because they actually have to put up
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: this good news of what Trump is doing, but they
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: try to hide it. So instead of hiding it, get
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: it out there so the public is not so ill-informed.
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: going into an election. That's the most critical thing, I think,
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: advice I would give the Republicans and conservatives going into
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: the future.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great book. You should get this new book.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: It's called The Honoring of Ignorance. It's all about the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: mirage machine. It's Matt Towery, The Honoring of Ignorance. So uh,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: if you're a young guy and you just got out
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: of college, you've been totally indoctrinated into the left. You're
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: watching left-wing crazy media, reading left-wing fact checkers. Is that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: how it's now possible for really nutty candidates, Mamdani or
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: El Sayed to be elected? Is that how that happened?
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: That's exactly what has happened. Um, We've had a whole
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: generation of people who went to school where, for example,
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: with socialism, one of the reasons that the seniors are
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: turning out like they are is because they remember the
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: old Soviet Union. They know what Cuba was about. They
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: saw the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. They're not
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: taught about this stuff now, both in secondary schools and
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: at universities. They're told a completely different story. So they
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: have no idea about the truth. Now, that doesn't make
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: these people stupid. It makes them ignorant. That's different. Ignorance
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: means you just don't know. Doesn't mean you can't learn.
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: So we've got to make sure that we teach people
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: the truth and get the truth out there. In fact,
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: get this book and go to Thanksgiving dinner where I
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: know half the room is liberal and half is conservative.
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: Nobody's talking to each other. Give them the book. Tell
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: them to read it and see if they can come
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: back and debate you the next week. I guarantee you
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: they won't be able to beat you. You'll beat them.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: So what do you do? How would you ever take
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: back the universities? You'd have to get rid of the faculty,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the board of trustees and even if you did, wouldn't
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: it be generations before it helped?
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: And Mark, what has to happen is the late Charlie
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: Kirk was a great example. You've got to go to
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: these places and you've got to tell them the truth.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: And Charlie lost his life for doing that. But it
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: was a great life that he had. I had the
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: pleasure of knowing him a bit, being on TV with
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: him on Fox and But we need more people like
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: him out there. And we also need to get, like
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: I said, into the mainstream media. Conservative media is only 25%
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: of what people watch. Most of the news they get
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: is from Google and Apple and on social media. The
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: conservatives had to get their story out on those platforms.
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: And by the way, it would be a good idea
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: if they created one or two fact-checkers that would check
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: things right instead of the ones that pick on us
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: all the time. I'm sure you get picked on. I
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: know I do. And by the way, I'm retiring as
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: a pollster, Mark. So I don't have, I have nothing
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: to lose. This is my last year. All right.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Well, good luck with this. I don't know. It's going
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: to take a million years to turn things around, but
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: if you want to, you know, it's, it's doable.
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: I live in the free state of Florida and this state,
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: when I went to law school here was as democratic
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: as it could be. I went back to Atlanta and
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: had a career there. I came back home to Florida.
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: And it's as Republican as can be. And they're changing
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: the universities. They don't let them teach all this nonsense.
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: It will happen. At some point, the truth and freedom
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: end up winning.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody get this book. You're going to love this book.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: It's called The Honoring of Ignorance about the Mirage Machine.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: It's Matt Towery's new book, The Honoring of Ignorance. Go
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to Amazon or wherever you get your books and get
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the book. Matt Towery, great stuff. Thanks for being with us.
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: Mark, thank you so much for having me on. I
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: appreciate it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 32:48
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• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, President Trump today travels to Georgia this afternoon.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: He's on a massive campaign swing. He's got 18 days
• 33:42
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• 33:47
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• 33:49
  Speaker 1: goes to Georgia. Big rally today. And then from there,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: he goes to Palm Beach for the first time this season,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: for the first time since May. It's been many, many months.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: So for the first time, he'll be at Mar-a-Lago. Now,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: it's not open yet. It doesn't open until Halloween. But
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: they're going to have a big dinner there tomorrow night,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: big fundraiser, a MAGA something, RNC, a lot of donors.
• 34:18
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• 34:20
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• 34:50
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