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Hour 1: Who can you believe anymore? · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Now sevenor presents, no Mark Simon Shaw.
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Monday already. All right, We've got a lot
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Speaker 2: to get to. We'll go over the oscars, we'll get
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Speaker 2: to that. We'll get to obviously Iran, We'll get to
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Speaker 2: crazy Mom Donnie and what he's up to. We'll get
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Speaker 2: to some more Epstein revelations coming up. Some of the
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Speaker 2: last people you'd think would get implicated in the Epstein
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Speaker 2: stuff are. We'll get to the TSA, the shutdown, and
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Speaker 2: a whole lot more Iran, inside intel from people. War
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Speaker 2: three more weeks, about three more weeks of the war.
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Speaker 2: Straits of horn Moose could be opened by the weekend, possibly,
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Speaker 2: but war about three more weeks. Now. You're gonna hear
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Speaker 2: this false narrative everywhere if you watch the fake news,
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Speaker 2: that there was no planning, there's no active they just
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Speaker 2: went in there without any plan. There's detailed planning on
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Speaker 2: every step of the way. There's detailed planning, contingency plans,
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Speaker 2: contingency plans for the contingency, and they've got this all
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Speaker 2: figured out now. Of course, as they say, when you
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Speaker 2: go into where anything can happen and your plans change.
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Speaker 2: But give it about three more weeks gas prices it
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Speaker 2: will spike during this They could hit five dollars a gallon,
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Speaker 2: which media the Democrats are outraged about. Of course, it
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Speaker 2: was five dollars a gallon the whole Biden administration. They
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Speaker 2: never said a word. But instead of four years of
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Speaker 2: Biden gas prices, you're going to get about four weeks
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Speaker 2: of this. And there's things that can do to ease
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Speaker 2: up the gas prices. And by the way, it doesn't
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Speaker 2: affect the US as much because we don't really buy
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Speaker 2: that gas. The gas coming out of Iran usually goes
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Speaker 2: to India, China and other countries. We got enough gas
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Speaker 2: to supply ourselves for the next hundred years here in
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Speaker 2: this country. They've lifted sanctions on Russian oil for a month.
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Speaker 2: That way the market will get flooded with more Russian oil.
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Speaker 2: The fact that they lifted the sanctions on Russia for
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Speaker 2: a month indicates that maybe Russia is helping us with
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Speaker 2: some things in Iran. Putin and Trump have been talking,
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Speaker 2: so that gesture from Trump might be in exchange for
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Speaker 2: whatever help Putin has offered. Russian oil, by the way,
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Speaker 2: is dirty, very hard to refine. It's the last oil
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Speaker 2: you want to use, so we don't use it, but
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Speaker 2: it's oil that China and other countries will use. The
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Speaker 2: visit to China, by the way, Trump, President Trump scheduled
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Speaker 2: to visit China in a couple of weeks. Looks like
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Speaker 2: that's probably going to get postponed. It wouldn't make sense
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Speaker 2: to visit at a time like this, and security wise
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Speaker 2: a nightmare trying to protect the president and all of this.
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Speaker 2: You don't really know where China stands on this whole
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Speaker 2: Iran mess. The Iatola son Iotola Junior, supposedly the new leader.
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Speaker 2: Nobody has seen him. He was blown up in one
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Speaker 2: of those bombing attacks, lost a leg, has been in
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Speaker 2: a coma, facial damage. So you know, when you talk
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Speaker 2: about the cost of the war. By the way, we
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Speaker 2: got the number the cost of the war so far,
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Speaker 2: twelve billion dollars. Twelve billion dollars is the cost so far.
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Speaker 2: And that's a little less than a billion dollars a day.
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Speaker 2: It's expensive, but worth it for what you'll get out
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Speaker 2: of this. You're totally disarming a rand, which is by
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Speaker 2: the way, the first objective. Take away all the threats,
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Speaker 2: the nuclear threat, the missile threat, all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2: That's been accomplished. So it cost us twelve billion. But
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Speaker 2: look at the Iatola cost him an arm and a leg.
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Speaker 2: But now the other thing about this Ayatola, the sun
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Speaker 2: Is intelligence supports are that he's gay. President Trump laughed
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Speaker 2: out loud when he heard this, because the Iahtola himself
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Speaker 2: leaved in death for gay people. Sodomy is illegal and
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Speaker 2: a capital offense in Iran. Being gay is illegal in Iran,
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Speaker 2: and it was always said that he didn't want his
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Speaker 2: son to succeed him, and that could be why gay
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Speaker 2: is considered a horrible thing in Iran. It's a crime.
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Speaker 2: You go to jail or actually you get hanged for
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Speaker 2: being gay. And so it's a strange situation over there.
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Speaker 2: Iran lashing out. This is their last gasp. They've bombed
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Speaker 2: hit the Dubai airport with a drone, a lot of
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Speaker 2: people that were happened to be in Dubai tourist business whatever,
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Speaker 2: having no idea this war would break out. And it's
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Speaker 2: been very, very bad in Dubai and other places, but
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Speaker 2: things calming down. They do have, apparently Iran quite an
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Speaker 2: inventory of drones, so we're gonna have to take those out.
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Speaker 2: Drones are a problem, but bit by bit they'll get
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Speaker 2: them all. There is a marine expeditionary force that's going there,
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Speaker 2: twenty five hundred marines. Now, what this will be used
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Speaker 2: for is a rapid strike force. When this was in
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Speaker 2: part to open the Straits of Hormoose. Sometimes these speed
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Speaker 2: boats are these unmanned boats come flying off the coast
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Speaker 2: to hit anything going to the Straits of horm Moose. Well,
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Speaker 2: when they do this, they can see where it came from.
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Speaker 2: The strike force will quickly go ashore, take it out
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Speaker 2: and quickly leave. So it's a strike force that would
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Speaker 2: only go in for like an hour half an hour
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Speaker 2: and be out, So probably the Straits of horm Moose.
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Speaker 2: First of all, if you could even move the tankers,
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Speaker 2: you could have naval escorts, and that's been done in
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Speaker 2: the past. The insurance companies are holding this up. It's
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Speaker 2: basically Lloyd's of London and the tanker companies. They don't
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Speaker 2: want to lose a tanker because a tanker, the actual
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Speaker 2: tanker costs about one hundred and ten million dollars. The
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Speaker 2: oil on board could be worth one hundred and fifty million,
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Speaker 2: so that's two hundred and fifty million you'd lose them
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Speaker 2: the tanker. But more than that, each tanker has a
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Speaker 2: crew of thirty people. And that's the problem with the
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Speaker 2: insurance companies. It's not so much the oil or the tanker.
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Speaker 2: That's the loss of life. That's where insurance companies have
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Speaker 2: real problems, and they don't want to get involved in that.
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Speaker 2: So you could lose thirty lives because when you hit
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Speaker 2: a tanker, it just blow up and kill everybody. So
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Speaker 2: that's that's the problem. But expect the straits of horn
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Speaker 2: Mooves to be open within days, not weeks. It's been
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Speaker 2: closed before every war. Every war we get into in
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Speaker 2: that region, straits of horn Moose gets closed, it gets mined.
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Speaker 2: Remember the tanker wars was closed for a while, So
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Speaker 2: it's happened before. It'll happen again. The Epstein files, we'll
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Speaker 2: get to that coming up. Some really amazing names coming
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Speaker 2: out of there. He speaking of the Iran War, the
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Speaker 2: best poster in the world, John McLaughlin. Do people support
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Speaker 2: this war in Iran? Yes, almost sixty percent fifty eight percent.
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Speaker 2: Fifty eight percent of the public fifty eight percent back
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Speaker 2: of the war, and even stronger majority sixty one percent
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Speaker 2: say that we must finish the job, so the public
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Speaker 2: is behind it. Oscar's last night, Well, Conan O'Brien, everybody
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Speaker 2: thought he did a great job. They don't make an
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Speaker 2: Oscar host anymore. The Oscar host used to be the
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Speaker 2: most legendary, biggest comedian on earth. It was Bob Hope
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Speaker 2: for years. It was Johnny Carson for years, and by
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Speaker 2: the way, we'll talk about Johnny Carson in the next hour.
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Speaker 2: And you don't have people like that anymore. You got,
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Speaker 2: you know, this great comedian, Sebastian Maniscalco and people like that,
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Speaker 2: but they're not legendary, monumental Mount Rushmore type comedians that
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Speaker 2: they're just not of that stature. There's nobody of that
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Speaker 2: statue anymore. So Conan comes closest, not that he was
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Speaker 2: of that stature, but in today's crazy world, of all
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Speaker 2: these people show up in the oscars and you don't
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Speaker 2: know who the hell they are, Conan's the only one
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Speaker 2: you know, and the only one that's been around for
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Speaker 2: a while. And he's geeky and gawky, but he has
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Speaker 2: a certain confidence on stage and the way he moves
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Speaker 2: it's a confident kind of look. So and he's funny
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Speaker 2: and listen. He's not hysterical, but he's funny. He was
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Speaker 2: a good MC.
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Speaker 3: I'm honored to be the last human host of the
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Speaker 3: Academy Award. Yeah yeah, next year it's going to be
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Speaker 3: a way mow and.
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Speaker 2: A toughs not bad so. And he's got a charm
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Speaker 2: and a warmth about him, unlike that Jimmy Kimmel who
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Speaker 2: comes out and it's like a dark cloud that just
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Speaker 2: comes out. He's just a angry, bitter looking, angry guy.
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Speaker 2: He's not there to entertain you. He's not there to
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Speaker 2: have fun. He's there to scold you, lecture you, tell
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Speaker 2: you how much smarter he is. So he did attack
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Speaker 2: CBS News. There was a presenter or two that yelled
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Speaker 2: free Palestine or something so that. I mean, they just
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Speaker 2: look like idiots and they do that Barbara streisand that
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Speaker 2: was quite a moment for half the audience. The other
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Speaker 2: half of the audience don't know. They didn't know who
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Speaker 2: the hell she was. And that's the problem. You know,
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Speaker 2: you watch the Oscars, you go, who are these people?
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Speaker 2: I don't watch the Red carpet. I don't know any
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Speaker 2: of these people, these current celebrities, who are they? I
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Speaker 2: don't know any of it. Well, for people on their
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Speaker 2: forty when Streisand comes out, let's say, people under thirty five,
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Speaker 2: when Streisand comes out, they don't know who this is.
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Speaker 2: They have no idea who this is. And she's talking
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Speaker 2: about Robert Redford. They don't even know that. So and
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Speaker 2: apparently Jane Fonda was very upset, very upset that Streisand
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Speaker 2: did the tribute to Robert Redford and said to people
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Speaker 2: at the party afterwards, she said, I did four movies
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Speaker 2: with him, She only did one. Hell was she doing
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Speaker 2: the tribute? They wanted her to sing. She wasn't going
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Speaker 2: to sing. She finally did sing like half of the
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Speaker 2: way we were So that wasn't bad. Tribute to Rob Reiner.
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Speaker 2: He had some big memoriams this year. Billy Crystal was
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Speaker 2: Reiner's best friend. He did that for us.
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Speaker 4: Who had the privilege of working with and knowing him
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Speaker 4: and loving him. All we can say is, buddy, what
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Speaker 4: fun we had storming the Castle?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, some good moments. It was about a three hour show,
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Speaker 2: two hours and forty five minutes. We didn't get the
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Speaker 2: ratings yet, but it's not you know, it's not gonna
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Speaker 2: be like in There were times where eight hundred million
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Speaker 2: people around the world would see the Oscars, fifty sixty
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Speaker 2: seventy five million in this country would see the Oscars.
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Speaker 2: It's going to come in at like eight nine million.
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Speaker 2: And it's not what it used to be. And people
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Speaker 2: don't go to the theaters much anymore. They stay home.
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Speaker 2: They watch Netflix, and I don't blame them. Why should
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Speaker 2: you go to a theater and you can watch a
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Speaker 2: million things? You know, you go to you look what's
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Speaker 2: playing at the theater? Four choices? Go on Netflix, what's
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Speaker 2: playing forty thousand choices and you can watch them the
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Speaker 2: comfort of your own home. The chairman of Netflix was
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Speaker 2: there in the Oscars. Conan O'Brien looked at him.
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Speaker 3: Netflix CEO Ted Sorrandos is here and this is he's exciting.
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Speaker 3: It's his first time in a theater. This is what
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Speaker 3: they're talking about. Why are they all together and joining
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Speaker 3: them first.
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Speaker 5: A jov home.
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Speaker 6: Well I can.
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Speaker 2: Mortify that, all right, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.
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Speaker 2: More Conan.
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Speaker 3: It's the first time since twenty twelve, first time since
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Speaker 3: twenty twelve that there are no British actors nominated for
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Speaker 3: Best Actor or Best Actress. Yeah, British spokesperson said, yeah, well,
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Speaker 3: at least we arrest our pedophiles.
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Speaker 7: So you got that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what that means. We did arrest Epstein,
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Speaker 2: he's our pedophile. We did arrest him, but he died
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Speaker 2: in jail. Actually we arrested him, prosecuted him twice. Jesse Buckley,
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Speaker 2: Big Winner, Best Actress.
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Speaker 8: It's Mother's Day in the UK today, so I would
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Speaker 8: like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a
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Speaker 8: mother's heart.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I was at an oscar party, hundreds of people
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Speaker 2: and they're all saying, who's Jesse Buckley? What movie he
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Speaker 2: was on? Amy Madigan want I hate these kind of speeches.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you want to thank the director, if
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Speaker 2: you want to thank the writer, but when you start
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Speaker 2: thanking your family. We don't need to hear this.
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Speaker 9: Do it.
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Speaker 10: The most important is my beloved Ed.
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Speaker 2: This is what I mean. I'm sure Adds a nice guy.
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Speaker 2: We don't know who the hell Ed is. Nobody knows that.
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Speaker 2: Do we need to hear all about Ed?
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Speaker 10: The most important is my beloved Ed, who's betten with
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Speaker 10: me forever and that's a long time and none of
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Speaker 10: us would mean anything if he wasn't by my side.
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Speaker 10: Thank you very much. I'm very overwhelmed.
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Speaker 2: Millions of people watching don't know who the hell she is.
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Speaker 2: They never heard of Ed. None of this would have
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Speaker 2: happened without Ed. You know what, I bet it would
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Speaker 2: have happened without Ed. You could have married a guy
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Speaker 2: named Frank, a name name named Jesse. It might have happened.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's all Ed. Michael B. Geordan,
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Speaker 2: everybody liked him again, one of those speeches mentioned too
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Speaker 2: many names, but seemed like a really sweet, lovable guy.
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Speaker 11: Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, how may Day, Jamie Fox, Forrest Whitaker,
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Speaker 11: Will Smith, And to be amongst those giants, amongst those
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Speaker 11: great greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys. Thank you
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Speaker 11: everybody in his room and everybody at home for supporting
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Speaker 11: me over my career.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, he seemed like a really nice guy.
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Speaker 2: I won for the movie, and I don't know any
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Speaker 2: of these movies Hamnet with the Hell's Hamnet? And what
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Speaker 2: did he win for?
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Speaker 7: Was it?
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Speaker 2: Sinister? I don't know who knows what moved sinners? Sinners.
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Speaker 2: I've never heard of any these movies. The only one
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Speaker 2: I saw was Marty Supreme and it didn't win, but
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Speaker 2: it got nine nominations. It didn't win mainly because, well,
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Speaker 2: there were a lot of reason. Timothy Shamalay kind of
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Speaker 2: made a fool out of himself during his Oscar campaign
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Speaker 2: that screwed things up, and critics always say said it
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Speaker 2: was too dark. It was nobody, nobody to really root
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Speaker 2: for in the film, So that could be Hey, we'll
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Speaker 2: get to Epstein coming up. Boy, some of the names
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Speaker 2: that come out in their deep pack show pra ooh
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Speaker 2: does he look bad in the Epstein files. There's a
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Speaker 2: few others like that. We'll get to all of that
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Speaker 2: coming up, and we'll get to the TSA. The strike continues.
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Speaker 2: Democrats are going to get a lot of flak for
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Speaker 2: they've been offered three chances to reopen the partial shutdown,
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Speaker 2: reopen that Department of Homeland Security, which is TSA, Coast
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Speaker 2: Guard a lot of vital stuff, but they won't do it. TSA.
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Speaker 2: We lost three hundred TSA agents. The other problem, who
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Speaker 2: has sympathy for the TSA. These are the guys that
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Speaker 2: keep you in line for an hour and a three
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Speaker 2: hours and pat you down. But got to get that reopen. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: We've got a lot to get to. We'll get to
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Speaker 2: crazy Mom Donnie and all his nonsensical, lunatic ideas. Tomorrow's
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Speaker 2: Saint Patrick's Day. Don't even think of coming into Manhattan tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a traffic nightmare. Today is going to
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Speaker 2: be a rainy, windy mess. But sixty degrees. We'll take
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Speaker 2: some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one zero seven
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Speaker 2: ten is the number eight hundred three two one zero
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Speaker 2: seven ten in.
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Speaker 1: Mark on Demand by setting a preset for his podcast
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Now back to Mark Simone on wr.
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Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Patricia in Brooklyn. Patricia,
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Speaker 2: how you doing.
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Speaker 5: Oh deer Mark, Listen. I wrote to the President and
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Speaker 5: I you know, I said that I welcome you know,
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Speaker 5: stuff like that, but I also absolutely mentioned you. You
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Speaker 5: got me through the pandemic. I mean you got me
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Speaker 5: through the craziest times where I thought, what the hell
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Speaker 5: is going on? I got the most beautiful letter back
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Speaker 5: from the President. Don't think he doesn't know what you
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Speaker 5: do for the New Yorkers.
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Speaker 9: God bless you, Mark, I love you.
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Speaker 2: What did he say?
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Speaker 7: Thank you for you?
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm just para by. Thank you for your letter.
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Speaker 3: It was you know, it was powerful.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for your letter. What a response?
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Speaker 5: Are you making fun of me? That's none?
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Speaker 12: Nice?
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Speaker 2: Hello? Hello, Well you know.
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Speaker 5: It's a letter I'll keep until the day I die. Yeah,
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Speaker 5: And I thank you for everything you have done for us.
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Speaker 2: I thank you. I thank you for listening. You're a
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Speaker 2: good friend of ours. And thanks for listening.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you so much more.
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Speaker 2: All right, take care. Thanks. You know, if you write
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Speaker 2: a letter to the president, to any president, you'll get
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Speaker 2: a letter back. I don't know if he sees it
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Speaker 2: or if he writes it, but it's a great thing
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Speaker 2: to do. Now, if you go over there, two blocks
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Speaker 2: in around the corner, there's a shirt maker and it's
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Speaker 2: a smart thing to do. This shirt maker writes to
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Speaker 2: every president whoever's in office, and sends like four shirts,
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Speaker 2: and a letter comes back from the president. It's not
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Speaker 2: really from the president, it's somebody in the White House.
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Speaker 2: Dear so and so, thank you for the shirts. I
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Speaker 2: love them. I'm going to wear them all the time.
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Speaker 2: So then he puts these up. Now, the president has
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Speaker 2: never seen the letter, never seen the shirts, but he
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Speaker 2: puts them up in his window with a big sign
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Speaker 2: shirt maker to four presidents. So yeah, I just gave
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Speaker 2: a lot of people a lot of ideas, right, and
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Speaker 2: you'll get a letter back. Let's go to Bill and Lafayette,
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Speaker 2: New Jersey. Bill, how you doing.
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Speaker 6: Okay?
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Speaker 7: Mark?
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Speaker 9: You know you were talking about the Oscars last night,
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Speaker 9: which I did not watch. When talent used to be
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Speaker 9: real talent, when you used to have Jonathan Winter's Johnny Cartson,
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Speaker 9: like you said, and the good I don't know if
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Speaker 9: you remember that first Today show was Hounded by Dave
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Speaker 9: Garaway and then Jack Barr. But you have to have
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Speaker 9: Gun Will Travel, you have Mickey Mouse, Ed Sullivan, Gun Smoke,
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Speaker 9: Lassie Rin Tintin.
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Speaker 2: Well, I gotta be honest. You know some of those
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Speaker 2: shows they weren't They called it the Golden Age that
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Speaker 2: Lassie I never understood. I mean, there was about this
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Speaker 2: kid who kept falling down a well. This kid got
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Speaker 2: stuck under a tree every two seconds. The kid needed
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Speaker 2: to be rescued by Lassie. The dog was smarter than
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Speaker 2: the kid.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you know what it was about. It was
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Speaker 6: about innocence and kids today that were my that are
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Speaker 6: eight nine ten. Back then, I was allowed to keep
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Speaker 6: my innocence and not be soiled by the crap that
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Speaker 6: you see the on TV today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. That's a very good point.
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Speaker 2: You know, there was an innocence to it, you know,
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Speaker 2: like Breaking Bad is a brilliant show, it's as good
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Speaker 2: as anything ever on television. But you're right, it's so dirty, disgusting, horrifying.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you watch a few episodes of that, you
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Speaker 2: have nightmares all night. Let's go to Mike and Florida. Mike,
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Speaker 2: how you doing, Good morning, Mark, that's Mike.
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Speaker 7: I'm with you on some of those old shows. I
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Speaker 7: watched him down here, Bailey and Boy, some of them
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Speaker 7: are really rotten. They're so stiff and stilted. But getting
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Speaker 7: back to the Oscars, by the way, I think Ed
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Speaker 7: is Ed Harris, who, to your point, nobody remembers as
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Speaker 7: an actor.
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Speaker 2: I know who he was. Yeah, it was a pretty
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Speaker 2: good actor, Glengarry, Glenn Ross and the right stuff I
19:29
Speaker 2: think wasn't.
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Speaker 7: The right stuff. I was thinking of Paul thy Team
19:33
Speaker 7: the right stuff. Okay, but you know you're you're an EMC,
19:37
Speaker 7: and you know, you know when Hope did it and
19:39
Speaker 7: when CAUs did it, they would have quit essential mcs
19:42
Speaker 7: to these events. They moved it along. You know, they
19:45
Speaker 7: know they're playing to like a dumb, needy, vapid audience,
19:48
Speaker 7: and they kept this stuff simple and it was much
19:51
Speaker 7: more enjoyable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's just it was different back then.
19:56
Speaker 2: We all knew who everybody was. Today it's all fragmented.
19:59
Speaker 2: You don't know who any of these people are.
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Speaker 7: That's true, A really good point. I don't know any
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Speaker 7: of them are.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well thanks for calling. That's the problem.
20:07
Speaker 2: It's so fragmented. You don't know who anybody is anymore,
20:11
Speaker 2: even when you watch it. If you start watching the
20:13
Speaker 2: series and you love it, you tell people about it.
20:15
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about. They'll tell you
20:17
Speaker 2: about the series they're watching. You never heard of that one.
20:21
Speaker 2: It's a real problem now. Same thing with the radio.
20:25
Speaker 2: Look at podcasts. Do you how many podcasts there are?
20:29
Speaker 2: I think it's two million. Now, there are two million
20:31
Speaker 2: podcasts out there right now. By the way, this show
20:34
Speaker 2: ends up this week and almost every week in the
20:36
Speaker 2: top fifty out of those two million. But there's two
20:40
Speaker 2: million podcasts, and nobody can keep track of all of them.
20:44
Speaker 2: You know. The other thing. We're talking about that golden
20:47
Speaker 2: age of television because you watch I Love Lucy and
20:51
Speaker 2: the Dick Van Dyke Show, and you ed saw me. Wow,
20:54
Speaker 2: it was a golden age. Tell you're forgetting there were
20:57
Speaker 2: hundreds of shows back on back then. You're only seeing
21:00
Speaker 2: like the top twenty of the hundred. There were plenty
21:03
Speaker 2: of bad shows back then. There was a million other
21:06
Speaker 2: sitcoms that stunk. If you watch them today, you can't
21:09
Speaker 2: believe how bad they are. So you're only saying the
21:11
Speaker 2: absolute cream of the crop from the fifties and the sixties.
21:15
Speaker 2: In the seventies. You know, you see some of the
21:16
Speaker 2: seventies shows, Boy were they great. But go back to
21:19
Speaker 2: actually the nineteen seventies, ninety percent of what was on
21:22
Speaker 2: television was so horrifying it could never be real anywhere.
21:25
Speaker 2: It was just bad, cheesy stuff. Hey, the greatest columnist
21:29
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21:32
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21:35
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21:38
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21:40
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21:42
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21:47
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21:49
Speaker 2: Only you are well the best columnist in America, Michael
21:54
Speaker 2: Goodwin every Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post.
21:59
Speaker 2: You can get all of it coms. They're up on
22:00
Speaker 2: the New York Post website. Michael Goodwin, How you.
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Speaker 12: Doing, Good morning, Mike.
22:05
Speaker 2: Thank you. You're right about the media. It's hard to
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Speaker 2: run a democracy without legitimate media, isn't it. The what
22:12
Speaker 2: side are they on here?
22:14
Speaker 12: Well, that's the question, right the uh you know, talking
22:18
Speaker 12: about the terror attacks, in particular goe into synagogue in Michigan,
22:24
Speaker 12: where a lot of the big outlets at TVs. Of course,
22:29
Speaker 12: in New York Times stuck with this bland thing that
22:34
Speaker 12: that the attacker had lost relatives in Lebanon, but the
22:40
Speaker 12: Israeli media beat them to the pond. Same Wait a minute,
22:44
Speaker 12: is relatives were members of Hezblah, that's why they were killed,
22:50
Speaker 12: and that, of course it took. The New York Time
22:53
Speaker 12: on Saturday was still reporting all the poor guy he
22:57
Speaker 12: lost relatives. Talking about an official in the town where
23:02
Speaker 12: this bombing happened, he said, oh, I can't tell you anymore.
23:08
Speaker 12: He was afraid of retaliation. Now, who would he be
23:13
Speaker 12: afraid of retaliation from? Of course Hezevi Lah. But the
23:17
Speaker 12: New York Times never made the connection, because why ruin
23:21
Speaker 12: a perfectly good story that makes America look bad?
23:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's out and out deception. His relatives were
23:28
Speaker 2: Hesbela terrorists. Israel stopped him. The Times they knew all this.
23:37
Speaker 2: Sec chair car talking about sanctioning some of these media outists.
23:40
Speaker 2: He's right, isn't he.
23:42
Speaker 12: Well? Look, I think I'm not certain of the legal
23:46
Speaker 12: definitions in these cases. But look, I do think that
23:51
Speaker 12: the anti American tone, the anti Israeli tone of much
23:56
Speaker 12: of the American media is unfooled in their coverage of
24:02
Speaker 12: the war. I mean, you do often wonder whose side
24:06
Speaker 12: are they on?
24:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, whose side are they on? They're just on the
24:10
Speaker 2: Democrat side. They'll just say anything bad about things when
24:13
Speaker 2: the Republican Isn't Is it that simple?
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Speaker 12: Well, I think that's the kind of the spear. The
24:20
Speaker 12: tip of the spear is that they hate Donald Trump,
24:24
Speaker 12: and so anything that would make him look good then
24:29
Speaker 12: has to be you know, defeated in an argument, and
24:33
Speaker 12: of course, in the case of war, you are effectively
24:38
Speaker 12: not just going after the president, you're going after the
24:42
Speaker 12: American military and America itself. That's what we're seeing here.
24:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.
24:49
Speaker 12: Look, they don't have to become but they have to
24:53
Speaker 12: at least be fair and accurate in their reporting. But
24:57
Speaker 12: rather they're rushing to judgment in ways that suit their agenda,
25:03
Speaker 12: not the facts.
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Speaker 2: Now, Michael Goodwin, you used to work at the New
25:06
Speaker 2: York Times, do you?
25:08
Speaker 9: Yes?
25:09
Speaker 2: It was not like it was a little.
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Speaker 12: No, it's a very different place. And I, you know,
25:13
Speaker 12: mik I still many of the things that I still
25:17
Speaker 12: go buy in my own work I learned at the
25:20
Speaker 12: New York Times. I mean the idea that you don't
25:25
Speaker 12: you don't assume what's in someone's head. And I would
25:29
Speaker 12: like our listeners to this. Gaze at the front page
25:32
Speaker 12: of the New York Times one day or any of
25:35
Speaker 12: their stories about Trump and Republicans, and they are telling
25:39
Speaker 12: you what they're thinking. Their motives are always the focus
25:44
Speaker 12: of the attack. It's not that they wanted to do
25:47
Speaker 12: the best, they wanted to do the worst. They wanted
25:49
Speaker 12: to do this their self enriching or whatever. It's constantly
25:54
Speaker 12: an attack on motives. When I was at the New
25:57
Speaker 12: York Times, there was an open rule. You don't go
26:01
Speaker 12: after someone's motives because you're not a mind reader. Neither
26:05
Speaker 12: are you a detective.
26:07
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, hey mayor mom, Donnie trying to olive branch
26:12
Speaker 2: wants to meet with Jewish leaders. Then they find out
26:15
Speaker 2: he's only going to be there briefly. It was obviously
26:17
Speaker 2: just a photo op. What is wrong with this guy?
26:20
Speaker 2: How hard would it be to actually sit down for
26:22
Speaker 2: an hour and listen to people?
26:24
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a you know, I think he's thinking himself
26:27
Speaker 12: a very deep hole in a lot of ways. Mark,
26:31
Speaker 12: He seems sort of not to care about the basic
26:35
Speaker 12: things that a mayor is elected to do. He seems
26:39
Speaker 12: to be off on his own tension, and there doesn't
26:42
Speaker 12: seem to be anywhere filter between what he says what
26:48
Speaker 12: he does with a larger reality in the city is
26:53
Speaker 12: about full steam ahead on the radical socialist agenda. And
27:00
Speaker 12: you know, also with a Muslim situation, he's quick to
27:04
Speaker 12: criticize everybody else, but very slow on that side. So
27:10
Speaker 12: it does look like he's playing favorites. Yeah, in a
27:14
Speaker 12: very dangerous and volatile situation.
27:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't think he realizes job number one,
27:21
Speaker 2: fill the potholes. You know, get the trains, move all
27:24
Speaker 2: that sort of.
27:24
Speaker 12: That's right, that's right. Yeah, when you get too far
27:28
Speaker 12: off the core issues that a mayor is elected to do,
27:32
Speaker 12: that's when you really fail. I mean you come up
27:35
Speaker 12: empty handed and you get entangled in all these disputes
27:39
Speaker 12: that ultimately are meaningless about the job.
27:43
Speaker 2: And he's back to this closed Rikers island. I mean,
27:45
Speaker 2: there's no more perfect spot for a prison than on
27:48
Speaker 2: an island, and he wants to move them into the boroughs.
27:51
Speaker 2: This is the foremost crazy idea to Blasio's crazy idea.
27:55
Speaker 12: What's the s Yeah, I agree. I do think the
27:58
Speaker 12: one thing that really will stop that would be the
28:02
Speaker 12: cost of building those jails and the community opposition. Nobody
28:08
Speaker 12: wants a jail in their neighborhood, so I think that
28:12
Speaker 12: will to me run into reality and as it did
28:16
Speaker 12: with build a Bosio and Eric Adams never really embraced
28:20
Speaker 12: that idea. But I'm not surprised that mom Donnie thinks
28:24
Speaker 12: it's just a swell thing to do.
28:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, So will this get better or worse? Will he
28:28
Speaker 2: start to will those big special interests, real estate guys,
28:32
Speaker 2: unions start to dangle things in front of maybe get
28:36
Speaker 2: him in line. Will it improve it all?
28:39
Speaker 12: Well, I think the one break on a lot of
28:42
Speaker 12: his stuff, Mark is going to be the budget, you know,
28:46
Speaker 12: the downgrade from from you know stable too. I think
28:52
Speaker 12: a negative outlook on the credit It doesn't mean we're
28:55
Speaker 12: approaching bankruptcy. But it's the kind of kind of warning
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Speaker 12: sign that all mayors of all parties has adhered to
29:05
Speaker 12: since the fiscal crisis of the seventies. That was the
29:08
Speaker 12: great learning moment about the dangers of losing access to
29:13
Speaker 12: the credit markets and being viewed as the spend thrift. Well,
29:19
Speaker 12: that is the sort of thing that he does not
29:21
Speaker 12: pay attention to it. It could undermine everything he wants
29:25
Speaker 12: to do, in part because all of his ideas are
29:29
Speaker 12: big ticket items, very expensive. So and I think he
29:34
Speaker 12: gets any of his taxes, he's going to find he
29:37
Speaker 12: probably collects the less money rather the more, because you're
29:41
Speaker 12: going to drive people out of the city.
29:44
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, Michael Goodwin, great stuff. Everybody, go read his column.
29:47
Speaker 2: You can read his calm every Sunday and every Wednesday
29:50
Speaker 2: in the New York Post. But all the coms are
29:52
Speaker 2: up on the website. You can go New York Post's
29:54
Speaker 2: website and read him Michael Goodwin, thanks for being with us.
29:57
Speaker 12: Oh, it's a pleasure. Thank you.
29:59
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30:34
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30:36
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30:39
Speaker 2: And we've talked about him before, but usually the stuff
30:43
Speaker 2: you think of when you think of Johnny Carson, But
30:45
Speaker 2: you know, there was another side to him. He was
30:47
Speaker 2: overall a great guy, wonderful guy. But there was a
30:51
Speaker 2: period of a lot of womanizing, cheating on his wife.
30:55
Speaker 2: There was running with the mob where there was a
30:59
Speaker 2: hit out on him. This is right in the middle
31:01
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31:03
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31:05
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31:16
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31:22
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