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Hour 2: Paramount is taking over. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: New York.
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  Speaker 2: Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, three hours every day, 9 to noon. If you
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  Speaker 1: just joined us, well, you missed the first hour. It's
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  Speaker 1: 9 to noon every day now. We'll get to the
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  Speaker 1: Carnegie Deli coming up. We'll get to Crazy Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to voter fraud. They've uncovered some more of it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to President Trump, the ban on the press,
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Not going so well right now. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Paramount wants to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. They want to
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  Speaker 1: merge it all together. There's been a lot of opposition.
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  Speaker 1: It's a multi-billion dollar deal. And the last thing holding
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  Speaker 1: it up was a bunch of states all got together
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  Speaker 1: to sue to block it. It was a massive lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: by a group of states. Well, David Ellison, who is
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  Speaker 1: the one orchestrating this, he's the son of Larry Ellison.
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  Speaker 1: They have settled with all these states. They've settled the lawsuit.
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  Speaker 1: That was the last real hurdle blocking Paramount from buying
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  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Discovery. So it's going to go through. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. It'll be this huge,
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  Speaker 1: enormous media conglomerate. And if this were years ago, it'd
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  Speaker 1: be quite a monopoly. It's not going to be that
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  Speaker 1: way anymore. because network TV has very few viewers now.
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  Speaker 1: Cable TV doesn't have that many viewers now. So you
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  Speaker 1: can combine these companies, and it doesn't really do that much.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as the streaming services, combining those, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really mean that much anymore because you can combine
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  Speaker 1: HBO and you can combine Paramount. And there's still 25
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  Speaker 1: other major streaming companies. But they had to make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of concessions to get this deal done. They've agreed
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  Speaker 1: to establish a board... to ensure the editorial independence of
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  Speaker 1: CNN and CBS News. All right, they'll establish a board.
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  Speaker 1: That means they'll put some politicians on it and pay
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  Speaker 1: them a big salary to be on the board. And
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  Speaker 1: everybody will be happy. They're also committing to, this is
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  Speaker 1: part of the settlement, they have to commit to distribute
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  Speaker 1: 30 movies every year in theaters. You know, worried the
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  Speaker 1: movie theaters are dying and that everybody would rather watch
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  Speaker 1: at home streaming. And so they're committing to 30 movies
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  Speaker 1: a year. You know, that's almost two or three movies
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  Speaker 1: a month they have to put into theaters. So that's
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  Speaker 1: quite a commitment. And I don't know why politicians would
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  Speaker 1: fight to keep the movie theaters. Well, I do know
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  Speaker 1: there's probably a lot of big movie theater companies paying
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  Speaker 1: these politicians to make sure that that's in the agreement.
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  Speaker 1: The company also agreed to spend an additional $ 1. 5 billion
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  Speaker 1: on film production. over the next five years and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed to increase the share of those movies that are
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  Speaker 1: made in America. Well, you're going to see a lot
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  Speaker 1: more movies made in America. You know, they make them
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  Speaker 1: in Canada. They make them in other places because it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot cheaper to make them there. And it avoids
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  Speaker 1: union costs, all sorts of stuff. You're going to see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that, uh, problem go away because of AI. Now,
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  Speaker 1: while all the, uh, Left-wing Democrats are fighting to stop AI,
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  Speaker 1: block AI, get rid of AI. Hollywood desperately wants AI.
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood thinks AI is the key to their future because
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  Speaker 1: it will save them a fortune. With AI, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to build sets anymore. You could just AI the
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  Speaker 1: set in there. So if you're doing a movie about
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  Speaker 1: the President of the United States, you'd have to build
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  Speaker 1: an Oval Office set. You'd have to build all the, well,
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  Speaker 1: not if you have AI, you just, you do it
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  Speaker 1: in front of a green screen and AI everything in.
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  Speaker 1: It saves a fortune, this AI. Let's say you're doing
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  Speaker 1: a war movie. You need to have a battle scene,
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  Speaker 1: 500 soldiers on a battlefield. The way it was, you'd
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  Speaker 1: have to get 500 extras, manufacture 500 uniforms. You'd have
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  Speaker 1: to rent millions of trucks and all sorts of trailers
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  Speaker 1: and go out somewhere and find a battlefield and cost
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  Speaker 1: a fortune to film that now you can do it
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  Speaker 1: through ai you can have your three actors right in
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  Speaker 1: the studio in front of a green screen and you
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  Speaker 1: ai in all the soldiers in the battlefield saves a
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  Speaker 1: fortune so hollywood desperately wants ai everywhere very important for
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  Speaker 1: them you know um uh a few years ago it
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  Speaker 1: was 15 20 years ago they they had these big
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  Speaker 1: video screens so on a tv set When you're on television,
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  Speaker 1: there's a big video wall behind you. It's an enormous screen.
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  Speaker 1: The whole wall behind you is a video screen. And
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  Speaker 1: they project whatever they want on there. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: doing Morning Joe on MS Now, all behind him, it's
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  Speaker 1: got Morning Joe logos, Morning Joe this, Morning Joe that.
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  Speaker 1: And then he goes off the air. And then the
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  Speaker 1: next show comes on. Stephanie Rule comes on. And it
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  Speaker 1: looks like they're in a different studio with a whole
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  Speaker 1: different set. It's not. They just changed the video on
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  Speaker 1: the screen behind them. All of a sudden, it's got
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  Speaker 1: Stephanie Rule stuff all over it. Saves a fortune. In
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  Speaker 1: the old days, you used to have different studios or
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  Speaker 1: the crew would have to have a big crew come
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  Speaker 1: in and move the set out, move the new set.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to do that anymore. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Grammy Awards used to be a nightmare because the Grammy
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  Speaker 1: Awards was like 30 musical groups in a row. Each
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  Speaker 1: had their own set. And yeah, as soon as the
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  Speaker 1: band finished, they had to move all the scenery around
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  Speaker 1: and move another scenery in and move. They don't do that.
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  Speaker 1: It's all video screens. Much, much, much easier nowadays. So
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  Speaker 1: it looks like the merger will go through. How will
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  Speaker 1: this affect CNN, CBS? Well, they'll probably try to clean
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  Speaker 1: CNN up a little. It's very left-wing biased, slanted. But
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  Speaker 1: the real problem is it has a tiny audience. Nobody's
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  Speaker 1: watching it. It's the bottom cable channel, lowest rated. has
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  Speaker 1: just a few hundred thousand viewers. So if you're Paramount
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  Speaker 1: buying Warner Brothers Discovery, you're going to want to fix
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  Speaker 1: that up. You're going to want to tune it into something.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of useless to have it be a third-place,
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  Speaker 1: broken-down news channel with very few viewers. So imagine they'll
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  Speaker 1: try to tune that up and make it into something.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. Kathy Hochul, we mentioned that she's going to
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  Speaker 1: have AI controls. She's doing the same thing Gavin Newsom's
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  Speaker 1: doing in California. They're talking about very important to have
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  Speaker 1: states regulate AI as if they know how to regulate AI,
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  Speaker 1: as if they even know what it is. And she's
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  Speaker 1: talking about they may, if they're, they might, they just
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  Speaker 1: might have to have a kill switch. Newsom said the
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  Speaker 1: same thing too. We might have to put in a
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  Speaker 1: kill switch. What the hell is a kill switch? They
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  Speaker 1: actually think there's a button somewhere. I'll push the button.
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  Speaker 1: It'll turn off all the AI. It doesn't work that way.
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  Speaker 1: You can't, there's no such thing. Even if there was
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  Speaker 1: such a thing, the AI itself is not bad. It's
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  Speaker 1: whoever's programming the AI. It's the evil, somebody in Russia,
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  Speaker 1: somebody in China, somebody somewhere programming it to do something evil.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is, as people have pointed out with
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  Speaker 1: the kill switch, the AI, if some evil programmer programmed it,
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  Speaker 1: could program it to if it is hit with the
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  Speaker 1: kill switch, to do something awful before it shuts off.
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  Speaker 1: You could program it to do that. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: if it hits the kills, the kill switch is hit,
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  Speaker 1: the default will be to wipe out every, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So the problem is Hochul and these Albany legislators, they
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  Speaker 1: don't know the first thing about any of this. They
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  Speaker 1: have no idea how it works. Hey, the president banned
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  Speaker 1: MS Now, CNN, who else? Politico. from the white house.
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  Speaker 1: Now total combined, that's like 12 viewers, these three things.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is, uh, first of all, everybody says
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  Speaker 1: it could backfire because if you do this, well, then
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats come in and they ban, uh, the conservative news. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's very possible. But, uh, it's already been tried. Remember, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Biden took away the press credentials from 440 reporters, just
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  Speaker 1: took them away. Uh, Obama tried to ban Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there's a funny video going all over the internet. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: Obama does not understand how the internet works because he's
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  Speaker 1: speaking this week and he's joking. Can you imagine what
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  Speaker 1: would have happened if I tried to ban Fox News?
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  Speaker 1: Could you imagine? Well, he did. So this video of
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  Speaker 1: him saying this is online, cut together with the video
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  Speaker 1: from during his administration, when he talked about doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's interesting, George Stephanopoulos and David Axelrod, all these
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  Speaker 1: people pushing for the ban of Fox News. So they
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  Speaker 1: did try to do it. It didn't last long. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't work. And again, this Trump media ban, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of silly. I don't think this is going to work. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a point. If you're not really... Now, these
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  Speaker 1: networks are going to go to court. He could go
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  Speaker 1: into court and prove... his case, it would not be hard.
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  Speaker 1: You could bring in hundreds of examples of totally fake
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  Speaker 1: stories they've broadcast and put them, you know, under oath
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  Speaker 1: on the court record. You could also bring in dozens
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  Speaker 1: of major stories they refused to report because they were
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  Speaker 1: too positive. So you could do that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's not really a First Amendment issue because these networks
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  Speaker 1: are free to speak as much as they want whenever,
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  Speaker 1: wherever they want. Just because you have your First Amendment
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  Speaker 1: rights doesn't mean he has to let them into his office.
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  Speaker 1: They can speak all they want. He didn't try to
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  Speaker 1: take away their ability to speak. Which, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: they did to him. Remember they canceled him. They took
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  Speaker 1: him off Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: he was a private citizen. They completely cut him off
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  Speaker 1: from social media, took his platforms away. So president not
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  Speaker 1: shutting down CNN or MSNOW or Politico. He's just not
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  Speaker 1: letting them in his building. They can still do whatever
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  Speaker 1: they want. But it's funny. Their response, pretty good. They
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  Speaker 1: all banded together. And even Fox and everybody else joined
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  Speaker 1: in and said, as long as this ban's in effect,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to cover the White House. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to cover you. And the ban lasted about 12 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: The president had the unveiling of his new helipad. And
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  Speaker 1: because the press pool wasn't there, you couldn't hear what
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  Speaker 1: he was saying. There were no microphones there to hear him.
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  Speaker 1: You could see him, but you couldn't hear him. But
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  Speaker 1: then he goes to meet Mamdani, and they're all there.
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  Speaker 1: All the media is there to cover him. And he
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  Speaker 1: thought it was kind of funny. They claimed they were
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  Speaker 1: banning him, but there they were.
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  Speaker 3: They said they were going to boycott me, but they
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  Speaker 3: never boycott me.
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  Speaker 1: So I wasn't very worried about that. Look at all
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  Speaker 1: that press. But no, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I'm only doing it because I think the press also
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  Speaker 3: has an obligation. And, you know, I won in a landslide.
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  Speaker 3: I won the election in a landslide. I've done great things.
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  Speaker 3: I've done a lot of great things. I've settled eight wars.
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  Speaker 3: We have the best economic numbers for the country in
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  Speaker 3: the history of our country. We have $ 21 trillion pouring in.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest number ever, any country, was three. Nobody's ever done.
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  Speaker 1: What we've done. I never get anything positive. It's always negative. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: on some networks. That report came out last week. Highest income,
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  Speaker 1: average income in America ever in history now. and the
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  Speaker 1: lowest poverty rate ever right now under Trump story. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: get reported. You know, that, uh, Greenland deal was pretty amazing. That, uh,
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  Speaker 1: deal was signed. Was it Friday? The Greenland deal was, was, uh, secured.
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  Speaker 1: We have total control. It was a big thing. ABC
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  Speaker 1: evening news, David Muir didn't report the story. Didn't even
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  Speaker 1: mention it. So he got a lot that goes, he's
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  Speaker 1: got a point there, but on the other hand, now
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  Speaker 1: he does have quite an ego. Uh, And he likes
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  Speaker 1: having the press around if they don't show up. If
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  Speaker 1: they're not there in the hall, if they're not there
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  Speaker 1: in the way, it's going to get to him after
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  Speaker 1: a while. But he decided that in the meantime, Trump
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  Speaker 1: TV will cover everything. He's got his own TV channel
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  Speaker 1: that put it on. It's online. It's on YouTube. It's
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  Speaker 1: streaming everywhere. Didn't get a lot of viewers yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was good, like 30,000 or something, 10,000. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a lot, but then. Most people don't watch CNN
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  Speaker 1: or MSNOW either. Very few people watch it. Very, very
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  Speaker 1: low ratings. Hey, let's get to the Carnegie Deli. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about it a lot in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, and I went to the big opening a
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  Speaker 1: week ago. Was it a week ago or two weeks ago?
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  Speaker 1: Big opening. And if you look at my Instagram, there's
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  Speaker 1: pictures of the new Carnegie, and I've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: it all the time. Believe it or not, in all
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  Speaker 1: of this going there, I went to meet with the
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  Speaker 1: new owners, and I it's the daughter and granddaughter of
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  Speaker 1: the original owner. But in all of this, I never
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  Speaker 1: ate there. I never ate anything. One time they gave
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  Speaker 1: me a bunch of food, but I brought it back
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  Speaker 1: here and everybody else, I didn't. So yesterday I finally
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  Speaker 1: ate there. It's because Sunday night I was with two people,
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  Speaker 1: two friends of mine who had eaten there that day.
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  Speaker 1: They said it was unbelievable. The food was so good.
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  Speaker 1: The pastrami, everything was so great. But this was Sunday
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  Speaker 1: night and they said, His stomach is like lead. They
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  Speaker 1: couldn't eat. So yesterday, so I ate the pastrami on rye,
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  Speaker 1: the classic Carnegie order, pastrami, rye, mustard, what they would
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  Speaker 1: secretly call the pistol. That's how they would, that was
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  Speaker 1: the code name for it. It was delicious. The corned
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  Speaker 1: beef is great as ever, as flavorful as ever. The
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  Speaker 1: corned beef is great as ever. Oh, excuse me, pastrami,
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  Speaker 1: not corned beef, pastrami. The pastrami is great as ever.
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  Speaker 1: Phenomenal pastrami on rye. And the cheesecake. They feel the
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  Speaker 1: strawberry cheesecake is the best one. The cheesecake was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the best cheesecake I've ever eaten. Phenomenal. However, now
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  Speaker 1: about three, four hours later, it started hitting me too.
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  Speaker 1: My stomach, it's still like lead. I think I ate
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  Speaker 1: this about 3.30, 4 o'clock. I think it's the last
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  Speaker 1: time I ate. I didn't eat after that. Stomach is
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  Speaker 1: just like lead, so. Pace yourself. And I, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't eat the whole sandwich. You know, when they
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  Speaker 1: give you the sandwich, it's like a foot high. I
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  Speaker 1: took out 99% of that pastrami and whittled it down
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  Speaker 1: to a normal-sized sandwich. But even with that, I can
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  Speaker 1: still feel it. It's still like my whole stomach just
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  Speaker 1: feels like a lead right now. So the food is great.
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  Speaker 1: It's better than ever. Just be careful. Pace yourself. Go slow.
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  Speaker 1: And next time, of course, the pastrami they're famous for,
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  Speaker 1: The corned beef. They do have a turkey sandwich. They
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  Speaker 1: do have a roast beef sandwich. They do have a Reuben,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably a little easier to take. The cheesecake, phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: The new Carnegie Deli. Hey, we'll take some calls next.
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  Speaker 1: 800-321-0710 is the number. Give me a call. Especially new callers.
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  Speaker 1: We always like new callers.
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  Speaker 4: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the WOR LifeVac studios, the Mark Simone Show. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's take some calls. Let's go to Linda in Long Island. Linda,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Not that great. Hi, Mark. I got a little cold.
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  Speaker 5: I don't sound like me.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 1: You don't always sound like this.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I can't believe it got cold and I
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  Speaker 5: got a cold, right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: Are you all right? Oh, my God. You got a cold.
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  Speaker 1: What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 5: That's right. Who knows now, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's just a cold. It'll go away.
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  Speaker 6: One day.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, it's going to warm up, I heard. All right,
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  Speaker 5: so I'm shocked. They're starting this again. Somebody, an honest
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  Speaker 5: Democrat or Republican, should do something about this. I never
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  Speaker 5: got this before. Well, I didn't get it. Kathy Hochul,
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  Speaker 5: and it says Acting Commissioner Christian Jackstack. It's sending out
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  Speaker 5: now again to people.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you got to tell us what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Just get to the point.
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  Speaker 5: I got a notice to renew state ID.
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  Speaker 1: What's the point?
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  Speaker 5: State ID from Kathy Hochul.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 5: Now, she died 10 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 5: Department of Motor Vehicles.
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  Speaker 6: Who died?
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  Speaker 1: Who died?
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  Speaker 5: To renew it.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Listen, I hope you get better. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: with your cold. I can't figure out what the hell
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about, but good luck with the cold. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Jim in New Jersey. Jim, how you doing?
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  Speaker 8: Mark, you talk about all these hookers descending on the U.N.
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  Speaker 6: And New York.
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  Speaker 8: You know where the term hooker came from, Mark?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 8: It came from the Civil War. The North was basically
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  Speaker 8: losing the war for the first three years. Lincoln was
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  Speaker 8: firing general after general after general until he finally settled
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  Speaker 8: on Grant.
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  Speaker 1: There was a general named Hooker?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, there was a very handsome general named Joseph Hooker
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  Speaker 8: from Massachusetts, and Lincoln put him in charge in 1862,
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  Speaker 8: and he was a disaster. But all the women would
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  Speaker 8: follow the Union Army around just to get a look
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  Speaker 8: at General Joseph Hooker because he was so handsome, and
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  Speaker 8: that's where the term came from. Hooker is a bunch
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: of groupies following around the Union Army. So that's that.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: But did he use them as prostitutes? Did he do that?
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: No, they just followed the army around because they wanted
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: to get a glimpse of Joseph Hooker from Boston. You
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: can Google him later to see what he looked like.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: All right, I've got to take a look at this guy,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Joseph Hooker. Let's go to JJ in New Jersey. JJ,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: how are you doing?
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Good, Mark. Thanks for taking my call. How are you today?
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Let me check. Not bad, not bad.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: Good to hear. I just finished reading the book about
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Roy Cohn.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: I was wondering if you knew him.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: Because obviously they were very disparaging, I guess, with regards
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: to Donald Trump.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they make up this whole fake relationship that Cohen
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: was Trump's mentor. Not the case at all. Everybody knew
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Roy Cohen. He was kind of a weasel of a guy.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: He could be fun to be around, but vicious, vicious,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: vicious guy, which made him a great lawyer. He was
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: probably the two greatest lawyers ever, Roy Cohen. And what's
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: his name? William Bennett Smith. But Roy Cohn, he was
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: a vicious guy. But he was one of Trump's lawyers.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Trump had 50 lawyers. Roy Cohn was one of them.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: He was not a mentor to Trump. By the way,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: at the time, Roy Cohn was the lawyer. He was
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the lawyer for the Cardinal. He was the lawyer for
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the Catholic Church. He was the lawyer for the New
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: York Yankees. He was Aristotle Onassis' lawyer. Everybody had Roy
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Cohn as his lawyer.
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: Right. They even mentioned the mafia.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Use in certain situations. Well, he did a lot of
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: criminal stuff. If you're a criminal lawyer, you're going to
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: have mob guys coming to you. But he was great.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Edward Bennett Williams is who I was trying to think of.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Roy Cohn, Edward Bennett Williams, two greatest lawyers. Edward Bennett Williams,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a classy genius of a lawyer. Roy Cohn, a dirty
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: alley cat street fighter. But he would get the job done.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But not the mentor of Trump, as they make it
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: out to be. Let's go to Tom in Queens. Tom,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: how you doing?
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: Hey, Mark.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: Good morning. Uh, just one fun fact that, uh, since
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America,
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: we have not had one named hurricane at all.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Now don't say that you're going to jinx it. You're
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: going to jinx it. But that's a, that's an interesting point.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Fran Massapequa. Fran, how you doing?
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: I'll tell you that. I'll tell you.
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: What?
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: Say it again.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: You're breaking up.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: You know, she's not only ugly, but she's stupid.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Who?
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: To be an ugly woman.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Who are we talking about?
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: What?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Who are you talking about?
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: Hope. I said Hochul.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: It's not your fault. Your phone is cracking up there. Hochul. Stupid, yeah. Ugly.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: She's not ugly. I mean, she's not going to win
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: any beauty contests, but she's that kind of average looking.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: She's not ugly. Stupid. Yeah, she's not the brightest woman
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: in the world. She's not stupid, but she's just a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: cheap politician. You know, whatever way the wind is blowing.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: You know, she hates Trump because everybody hates Trump. If
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: everybody loved Trump, she'd love Trump. It's just whatever way
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the wind is blowing. You can thank Andrew Cuomo, by
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the way, another one of his decisions. He's the guy
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: that gave us Kathy Hochul. He's the guy that picked
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: her for lieutenant governor. Hey, when we come back, the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: brilliant columnist Liz Peek, we'll talk to her next. Lots
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to talk about with her. On 710WOR. More Mark. Mark Simone.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: New York. Now three hours every weekday from 9 till noon.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: On 710WOR. Well, Liz Peek, the brilliant columnist. You can
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: read her columns at thehill.com, foxnews.com. But you can also
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: go to everything at lizpeek.com, her own website. Go to lizpeek.com.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Liz Peek, how are you doing?
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: I am well, although why I'm in New York City
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: during UN week, I have no idea, Mark.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Well, it's fun. It's fun. What do they actually do
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: at the UN? Have they ever actually accomplished anything in
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: that organization anywhere?
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's interesting.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: I have a piece up on the Fox News homepage
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: today about just that, which is, kind of reflections on
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: what Mike Walsh and Donald Trump are trying to do
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: at the UN. And I think it's one of the
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: initiatives by the Trump White House that has really gotten
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: very little play, but actually is very significant. You know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: most people in America do not have a very high
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: regard for the UN's ability to promote peace, which is,
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: after all, their core mission.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: But in addition, I.
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: Think there's widespread feeling that the organization has lost its way.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: Typical globalist organization that has mission creep. It's spending much
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: more time on climate change and gender inequality than it
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: is on.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Actually conflict resolution. But it is, again, that.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: The Trump White House is sort of tackling this. And
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Mike Walz, our ambassador to the U.N., is a very
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: straight shooter. has kind of browbeaten the organization, which, by
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: the way, has a cash flow deficit. I mean, the
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: finances of the United Nations are awful. And Walsh is
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: making them cut costs, get rid of lots of agencies.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: The United States is withdrawing its contribution funds. to lots
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: of agencies. So, you know, you hear that the budget
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: of the UN is $ 4 billion. The UN spends about
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: $ 70 billion every year.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: What?
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: It's just out of control.
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Well, its peacekeeping operations are extremely expensive. That $ 4 billion...
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: is basically keeping.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: The lights on. At least all last year. They don't
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: even do that very effectively.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: If you remember last year when President Trump went to
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: the United Nations to speak, the escalator broke down, the
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: teleprompter didn't work. He was really riled about all of that,
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: thinking it was sort of sabotage for all, and I
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: know it probably was.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: But it's a mess. It's a mess of an organization.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: And yet, Mike Walsh, our ambassador.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: You know, he does not want to throw the baby
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: out with the bathwater. He argues, and I think rightly,
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: that it's the only place in the world where 168
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: nations can come together and hear each other speak, et cetera. So,
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: you know, there's probably some value in that, but man,
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: does it need reigning in?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. President Trump's basically a, telling them
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: off today in his speech, does it mean anything? Do
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: they really listen?
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: I was just watching a bit of it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: He was calling out Iran and asking the nations of
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: the world to unite against a nuclear Iran.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: You know, will it make any difference?
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I think much more than the public speeches,
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: much more important are the side speeches meetings that go on.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Trump is going to meet with Delphi Rodriguez, the acting
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: head of Venezuela. I think that's an important one-to-one. He's
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: going to meet with the head of the UK. That's
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: probably a pretty important relationship to get off the ground. Frankly,
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: the one I hope, I, you know, I think the
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: world's kind of looking at this whole Ukraine-Russia war and
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: hoping that there might be progress there.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Why might that happen?
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Well, Number one, the United States is going to browbeat
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: both countries to declare a peace amongst their energy facilities.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: As you know, last week, Ukraine attacked a Moscow refinery
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: and really did some damage, which is one of the
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: reasons that diesel prices continue to go up. Russia is
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: a major producer of diesel. But to me, Mark, what
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: has gotten much less played than it should is is
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: the fact that Ukraine itself manufactured a 40-foot-long missile that
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: can go 2,000 miles longer than our Patriot missiles, had
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: enormous impact. And by the way, they're making them faster
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: and cheaper, of course, than our arms industry. So I
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: thought that was a pretty darn significant event. And I
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: have to say, I'm kind of shocked that people weren't
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: more focused on it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's a pretty impressive feat for Zelensky in Ukraine. Hey,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: this whole AI trying to scare everybody to death, make
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: it the new climate change, is this going to work
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: for Democrats?
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Well, I think the industry, thank the Lord, has finally
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: begun a counter-messaging effort.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: There are two issues, right?
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: One is the data center thing, which is really a
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: local politics issue. This should not be national politics.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Consideration.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: If you're in a community where they don't want data centers, fine.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Go to your local politicians, explain that you hate data centers,
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: you don't want the noise or whatever it is.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: About them that you don't like. The reality is, though,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: that a lot of.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: People are concerned about electricity prices going up in areas
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: where you have data centers.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Okay, so fix that. Just make the people running the.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: Data centers pay for any incremental electricity load that they incur.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: That seems to me to be a pretty straightforward, simple resolution.
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: Nothing is simple in our politicized world, but that should
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: be something that local administrators can figure out. On the
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: water side, there's lots of stories out there, not coincidentally today,
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: about how golf courses use more water and this group
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: needs more water. The truth is, I was on air
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: earlier today with the head of a company that provides
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: infrastructure for data centers, and he said 75% of their
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: data centers are closed loop, meaning they don't take any
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: water out of anybody else's reservoir. They have a certain
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: amount of water that they're using and it's recycled. So,
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: you know, I think that people are dispelling the concerns
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: about data centers. And by the way, Mark, pointing out,
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: every time you get in your car and you go
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: on Gmaps to figure out Google Maps where you're going,
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: you're using a data center. I mean, we're all using
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: data centers. They're They've been around for a while. They're
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: certainly getting bigger and more complicated because of AI, but
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: we need to have that computing power behind our society now.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: So just sort of having a, you know, declaring war
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: on them is just plain stupid. The other side is
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: the security risk of what you might call self-improving AI,
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: meaning that the agents begin to create the next generation
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: of agents more or less independent of human input, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: that those agents, therefore, are even more independent of human input.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: And we have seen some security breaches from all the
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: major companies now. So I don't dismiss this as total folly.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: I think there are self-interests on the part of NVIDIA,
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: which is saying, oh, there's no risk at all. They
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: want the business to continue full speed ahead.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: They're benefiting.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: Uh anthropic may may have a competitive motive for doing
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: this but i'll tell you what when elon musk and
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: philip hawkins i don't know if you remember who he
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: was probably one of the most brilliant people on the
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: face of the planet the fellow who broke the codes
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: in world war ii when people like that are saying
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: this is a risky undertaking i think you have to
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: listen and you can't just politically i I think it's
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: extremely unwise for President Trump to dismiss safety concerns out
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: of hand. People are worried. He has to address that
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: worry and say at the same time, the benefits clearly
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: outweigh the risk. And that's the message that the industry
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: has been so very bad at getting out there.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Well, he has created, he's creating an AI force to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: watch things. He's got an AI.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: Yes, which is great, which is exactly what he should do.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: By the way, I mean, honestly, some of the arguments
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: on both sides of the political spectrum here have been
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: so dumb, it seems to me. No one, no one
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: in the industry is calling for quote unquote federal regulation.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: That would require, oh my God, Congress to get involved.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: Last thing we want is Congress to anywhere near AI.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: They don't understand it. They're never going to understand it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: And look at the Clarity Act, if you want an
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: example of how completely incapable Congress is at moving forward
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: legislation that's even slightly complicated.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: They don't get it done.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: So, you know, if you really want to just trip
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: up AI forever, put Congress in charge of figuring out
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: the safety guards here and, you know, we will be doomed.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and then you got Kathy Hochul and Gavin
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Newsom talking about their kill switch. There's no such thing
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: as a kill switch that would actually.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, they don't know either, truthfully. You and
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know, and they don't know.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, great, as always, Liz Peek, and everybody read
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: her columns. You got a new one up on foxnews.com today?
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: I do. It's about the UN and about the reform efforts, about...
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: You know, I think what they're doing.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: There are two things, I think, that are really underreported.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: I know you have to run. One is I think
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: what they're doing at the U.N. is actually significant.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: The other thing is.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: The procurement process at the Pentagon. Everyone hates B-6F. I
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: understand that on the left. But I think there are
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: some things that are just awful about the way we
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: manufacture munitions, and it can be improved upon.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: And I think they're doing that.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Well, go read her column. It's at the Fox News website.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: You can also read her at thehill.com. And check out
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: her website, lizpeak.com. There's a lot of great stories up there. LizPeak.com.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Liz Peak, thanks for being with us.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Thank you for having me, Mark. Take care.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Take care. Yeah, we'll get to the UN, the whole schedule.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: The president's got quite a schedule today. By the way,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the UN, they have a schedule. This speech at 9.30,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: this speech at 10. They're like an hour off already.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Everything is delayed forever and ever at that UN. And
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that was interesting what she said about the waste of
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: money there. We'll get to all of that and more
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: coming up. Mark Simone here, 9 to noon. It's three
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: hours now every day. 9 to noon. And then at noon,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: of course, you've got Buck Saxton, Clay Travis. What a
• 32:21
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• 32:25
  Speaker 1: between those two, 3 o'clock, you've got the most listened
• 32:28
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• 32:32
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• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 32:35
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• 32:41
  Speaker 5: On 710WOR.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, we'll take a break for the news. A
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: lot to get to in the next hour. Don't forget,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: these are the final hours of summer. Fall officially begins
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock tonight.
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: U.N.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: General Assembly, gridlock everywhere. We'll get to that coming up
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: right after the news. Mark Simone here on 710WOR.