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- 0:00Speaker 1: You just heard the news. Now you'll find out what
- 0:03Speaker 1: it all means. It's Mark Simone on.
- 0:08Speaker 2: 710WOR.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Well, hey, it's Friday. That's the good news. Everything's going
- 0:16Speaker 3: to change next week. It's going to be a different
- 0:18Speaker 3: New York next week. Two reasons. One, autumn begins on Tuesday,
- 0:23Speaker 3: but today's going to be warm. It'll be a nice
- 0:27Speaker 3: 80-degree day today, and then starting tomorrow... It's going to
- 0:30Speaker 3: be fall-like. The high will be like 70 over the weekend.
- 0:35Speaker 3: But next week, it'll be in the 60s. That'll be
- 0:39Speaker 3: the high in the 60s next week. And the other
- 0:42Speaker 3: thing that'll make it different, it'll be UN week. The
- 0:45Speaker 3: UN General Assembly is already on, but next week is
- 0:48Speaker 3: the week where all the world leaders show up and
- 0:50Speaker 3: cause absolute chaos in New York. Gridlock everywhere. First Avenue
- 0:55Speaker 3: will be closed. All the side streets will be closed. Obviously,
- 0:59Speaker 3: around the UN, it'll be a traffic nightmare. Well, there'll
- 1:02Speaker 3: be no traffic. All the streets will be closed. But,
- 1:05Speaker 3: you remember, these world leaders stay at all the different
- 1:07Speaker 3: hotels around New York. So, that creates chaos around those hotels.
- 1:12Speaker 3: You're going to have President Trump coming in. I have
- 1:15Speaker 3: a feeling he'll just come in and leave. I don't
- 1:17Speaker 3: think he'll stay. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. All right,
- 1:21Speaker 3: that's not going to involve much there. Zelensky will be here. Well,
- 1:26Speaker 3: that could be... That's a lot of security, a lot
- 1:28Speaker 3: of security risks there. Netanyahu will be here. Well, obviously,
- 1:32Speaker 3: that's going to involve protesting and all that. But again,
- 1:35Speaker 3: these leaders stay at all the hotels, the Waldorf, the Pierre,
- 1:40Speaker 3: the St. Regis, the Plaza. So don't think just because
- 1:44Speaker 3: you're nowhere near the UN, you're not going to encounter
- 1:46Speaker 3: all these street closures. The Regency, which is 61st and Park,
- 1:54Speaker 3: street closures all around there. It's going to be.
- 1:58Speaker 3: Absolute chaos next week. Don't even think of driving into Manhattan.
- 2:02Speaker 3: And as they say, it'll be cool. It'll be in
- 2:04Speaker 3: the 60s. Autumn officially begins Tuesday. Actually, very late Monday night,
- 2:09Speaker 3: but Tuesday will be the first day of fall. The
- 2:12Speaker 3: city is ready. It's not just the UN mess, but
- 2:15Speaker 3: it's the protesters. Police Commissioner Tisch.
- 2:18Speaker 5: Obviously, every year around the UN General Assembly time, we
- 2:23Speaker 5: do see an uptick in the amount of protest activity.
- 2:28Speaker 5: And this year, I do not expect to be any different.
- 2:32Speaker 5: So the NYPD is prepared to work with organizers of
- 2:38Speaker 5: protests and facilitate First Amendment activity.
- 2:42Speaker 3: All right. That's OK. Now, but the big question mark
- 2:46Speaker 3: here is Mamdani. Mamdani in the U.N., you know, he's
- 2:50Speaker 3: the crazy lunatic threatening to arrest Netanyahu. until everybody explained
- 2:55Speaker 3: to him, you have absolutely no authority to do that.
- 2:57Speaker 3: He's not charged with anything in any legitimate court anywhere.
- 3:02Speaker 3: In fact, the Israeli ambassador saying that we should arrest Mamdani. Well,
- 3:11Speaker 3: that's actually pretty good. Yeah, I mean, you can't do that,
- 3:12Speaker 3: but it's a pretty good comeback. Israeli's ambassador to the
- 3:16Speaker 3: UN calls for Mamdani's arrest days before Netanyahu's visit. I
- 3:21Speaker 3: have a feeling if we needed to arrest one of
- 3:23Speaker 3: these two, it's Mamdani you could find a reason to
- 3:27Speaker 3: arrest him. Maybe just some substance that was being consumed
- 3:32Speaker 3: by him or something like that. You could always find
- 3:34Speaker 3: something to get him on. Mamdani on UN Week.
- 3:37Speaker 6: New Yorkers can expect to see a visible increase in
- 3:40Speaker 6: officers deployed across our city, as well as a heightened
- 3:43Speaker 6: police presence surrounding the United Nations building.
- 3:47Speaker 3: You know, he never sounds like a mayor. He doesn't sound...
- 3:50Speaker 3: Firm authority. It doesn't sound powerful. The U.S.
- 3:55Speaker 6: Secret Service and the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service will
- 3:59Speaker 6: work with the NYPD to protect foreign dignitaries. They will
- 4:02Speaker 6: remain in communication with the NYPD throughout the General Assembly.
- 4:06Speaker 6: I want to be clear. There are no known specific
- 4:09Speaker 6: or credible threats against the United Nations General Assembly or
- 4:13Speaker 6: our city at this time.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:16Speaker 3: Now, most people would say, let's just throw the UN
- 4:18Speaker 3: the hell out of New York. Why are they even here?
- 4:20Speaker 3: Just get rid of them. Let them go upstate and
- 4:22Speaker 3: clog up some place upstate. Put them somewhere else. Put
- 4:25Speaker 3: them on an island. It really is the right thing
- 4:28Speaker 3: to do. But there are some advantages. These UN people,
- 4:34Speaker 3: these world leaders, it's not just the world leaders, but
- 4:37Speaker 3: thousands of UN people. The world leaders have huge delegations
- 4:42Speaker 3: they bring with them. And these people, one of the
- 4:45Speaker 3: reasons they come to New York, supposedly they have high-level
- 4:49Speaker 3: meetings at the UN. And the real reason they come
- 4:51Speaker 3: to New York is to spend a fortune shopping, Broadway shows, restaurants.
- 4:56Speaker 3: I don't care who they are, where they're from. They
- 4:59Speaker 3: become tourists here. If you go into the fanciest, finest stores,
- 5:05Speaker 3: if you go into Wempe or Cartier or Bulgari, you'll notice...
- 5:11Speaker 3: Behind the counter, there's this big, ugly, huge industrial machine.
- 5:15Speaker 3: It's a cash counter. It counts bills. You know, like
- 5:19Speaker 3: they have in a Las Vegas casino? Because a lot
- 5:21Speaker 3: of these people, especially the Middle Eastern ones, they show up.
- 5:25Speaker 3: The entourage comes into Bergdorf or wherever, spends $ 400, 000 or $ 500, 000,
- 5:30Speaker 3: one visit, and pays in cash. So they have those
- 5:33Speaker 3: cash counting machines. They rent for this. Or some of
- 5:38Speaker 3: them own them and they just put them away for
- 5:39Speaker 3: the year, but they bring them out UN week so
- 5:42Speaker 3: they can quickly count the cash in these transactions. So
- 5:45Speaker 3: they do spend a lot of money and all these
- 5:48Speaker 3: stores put on, uh, extra salespeople to handle all of
- 5:52Speaker 3: this and all the top restaurants get these idiots all
- 5:56Speaker 3: spending a fortune. So they do help and they spend
- 6:00Speaker 3: a fortune in our hotel. So there is some benefit to, uh,
- 6:04Speaker 3: What do they actually do at the U.N.? Well, they
- 6:06Speaker 3: have high-level talks, very high-level talks about what nobody knows.
- 6:12Speaker 3: Most of these talks will be about how to screw
- 6:14Speaker 3: up Donald Trump and how to help Iran. That's the
- 6:17Speaker 3: other problem at the U.N. There's a great love of
- 6:23Speaker 3: brutal dictators at the U.N. There's a great love of Hamas,
- 6:27Speaker 3: of Iran, whatever is a terrorist organization, the U.N. loves it.
- 6:32Speaker 3: In fact, the U.N., It says explosive report. It's not.
- 6:38Speaker 3: It's just UN craziness. They put out a terrible report
- 6:42Speaker 3: claiming the UN committed war crimes, war crimes in Iran.
- 6:48Speaker 3: Their fact-finding mission is done by the UN's Human Rights Council. Now,
- 6:55Speaker 3: this Human Rights Council has on it. The worst dictators,
- 7:01Speaker 3: the Human Rights Council is Cuba, Ethiopia, China. It's not
- 7:06Speaker 3: to be taken seriously at all. But they've declared that
- 7:10Speaker 3: we have committed atrocities, war crimes. You know, Iran has
- 7:14Speaker 3: deliberately executed 75,000 of their citizens. If they even dared
- 7:19Speaker 3: to protest, they were shot in the street. Many of
- 7:22Speaker 3: them taken to Iranian prisons and raped and beaten and tortured.
- 7:26Speaker 3: But we Are the war criminals, according to the United Nations,
- 7:30Speaker 3: absolutely ridiculous. Hey, one thing they're going to do at
- 7:35Speaker 3: the UN this week, you know, this AI scam is
- 7:38Speaker 3: going on. This is all a plot, and it's a clever,
- 7:41Speaker 3: brilliant plot. This AI is going to kill us all.
- 7:45Speaker 3: We all have to be in fear. The Democrats, it
- 7:47Speaker 3: was actually, give Obama a lot of credit. He's been
- 7:50Speaker 3: behind the scenes orchestrating this in all sorts of meetings.
- 7:54Speaker 3: He's been flying all over the place to work on this.
- 7:57Speaker 3: They've come up with this. Climate change is not working anymore.
- 8:01Speaker 3: It doesn't work as an election issue. Nobody's afraid of
- 8:03Speaker 3: it anymore. Because if you remember, 30 years ago, they
- 8:08Speaker 3: told us we're all going to be wiped out by
- 8:09Speaker 3: climate change. We're all going to be dead because of
- 8:12Speaker 3: climate change. We're all going to be underwater. Drought will
- 8:16Speaker 3: kill all of us. None of this ever happened. Now,
- 8:19Speaker 3: six years ago, there was the presidential debate. Six years ago,
- 8:24Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders... In that debate, he's the one leading these
- 8:29Speaker 3: climate change charts. He said, we only have six years left.
- 8:32Speaker 3: Let me see if I can find it. Let me
- 8:35Speaker 3: see here. Listen to this. Six years ago.
- 8:39Speaker 2: That if we don't act incredibly boldly within the next six,
- 8:44Speaker 2: seven years, there will be irreparable damage done, not just
- 8:48Speaker 2: to Nevada, not just to Vermont or Massachusetts, but to
- 8:52Speaker 2: the entire world. Joe said it right. This is an
- 8:56Speaker 2: existential threat.
- 8:58Speaker 3: So that's Bernie Sanders back then. If we don't do
- 9:01Speaker 3: it in six years, not only a threat to Nevada,
- 9:05Speaker 3: but to the entire world. Six years, that's all we got.
- 9:08Speaker 3: That was six years ago. Everything is fine. Nothing has happened.
- 9:12Speaker 3: And people have started to notice. If it doesn't rain,
- 9:15Speaker 3: they go, that's climate change. But then if it rains
- 9:20Speaker 3: a lot, aha, that's climate change. If it's hot, climate change.
- 9:24Speaker 3: If it's not hot, that's climate change. So nobody's falling
- 9:28Speaker 3: for this anymore. So they've decided to use AI. This
- 9:31Speaker 3: is going to be the new scheme. Now, is there
- 9:34Speaker 3: danger to AI? Yeah, probably. There's a little danger. It
- 9:37Speaker 3: can get a little out of control. But I would
- 9:38Speaker 3: think there's ways to fix that. There's some people that
- 9:42Speaker 3: think AI is just Google on steroids, like it's just
- 9:46Speaker 3: Google times a million. No, it's more than that. Yeah,
- 9:49Speaker 3: most people use it as high-speed Google. It'll look up
- 9:52Speaker 3: things faster than you can. But AI can do other things.
- 9:55Speaker 3: You could have AI alter a picture. You could have
- 9:58Speaker 3: AI go into a website and redo it. It's not
- 10:01Speaker 3: just Google. It can do things. It can go in there.
- 10:04Speaker 3: In fact, the only dangerous things they've seen from AI
- 10:08Speaker 3: is they put it into a system and notice that
- 10:11Speaker 3: the AI figured a way to break out of the system,
- 10:14Speaker 3: to jailbreak the system and get out. Things like that.
- 10:18Speaker 3: But you can put in controls that would probably stop that. So, again,
- 10:23Speaker 3: Obama and others have come up with this. Just like
- 10:26Speaker 3: climate change. The whole thing was to convince... It's a
- 10:28Speaker 3: technique that's been used for a million years by the left.
- 10:32Speaker 3: It started in the French Revolution. They create this monster
- 10:35Speaker 3: boogeyman that you have to be terrified of. And only
- 10:38Speaker 3: they can protect you. The Republicans won't protect you. Only
- 10:40Speaker 3: we'll protect you from climate change. From AI.
- 10:45Speaker 7: So.
- 10:46Speaker 3: It's all been coordinated very carefully. The media is jumping
- 10:49Speaker 3: on board. Everybody's listening. They have to explain it slowly
- 10:53Speaker 3: to the real dumb guys like Hakeem Jeffries, not the
- 10:57Speaker 3: brightest guy in the world, but he stands there and
- 10:59Speaker 3: recites it like a robot.
- 11:00Speaker 8: It's so irresponsible that Mike Johnson and House Republicans have
- 11:05Speaker 8: got out of town before sundown as opposed to working
- 11:10Speaker 8: in the Congress in a bipartisan way, in a comprehensive way,
- 11:14Speaker 8: to address the urgent issue of AI safety.
- 11:19Speaker 3: It's so urgent that Hakeem Jeffries left town, too. Now,
- 11:23Speaker 3: they timed this perfectly. They're going to use it as
- 11:25Speaker 3: an election issue. So it's right before the election. But,
- 11:28Speaker 3: you know, Congress takes a six-week break right now. Yeah, wait,
- 11:32Speaker 3: don't faint. Yeah. I know, they just took August off. Well,
- 11:36Speaker 3: they come back for a week. They now take a
- 11:39Speaker 3: six-week vacation. It's in the schedule. Six weeks off. So
- 11:43Speaker 3: they timed it. to fall just before the six-week vacation
- 11:46Speaker 3: so they can claim that they all left town and
- 11:49Speaker 3: not do anything about this. Well, four companies basically control AI.
- 11:54Speaker 3: It's a cartel. And the cartel is in on this.
- 11:57Speaker 3: First of all, the cartel, the heads of these four
- 11:59Speaker 3: companies are all very, very left-wing Democrats. They're all very
- 12:03Speaker 3: close to Obama. And the four would love to now,
- 12:10Speaker 3: because they control it all, this cartel owns AI. They
- 12:13Speaker 3: would love to have government regulation all over the place.
- 12:16Speaker 3: They would love a ton of red tape because it'll
- 12:18Speaker 3: keep everybody else out. The big fear these four have
- 12:22Speaker 3: are new companies are coming in and rising up, and
- 12:25Speaker 3: it's very easy to rise up fast and become the
- 12:27Speaker 3: big A. So they want red tape and regulation to
- 12:31Speaker 3: keep the other companies out so the cartel will remain
- 12:34Speaker 3: in control. This happens a lot in hedge funds, other places.
- 12:37Speaker 3: They make a fortune in And then they want the
- 12:40Speaker 3: law changed to keep everybody else from doing it. Once
- 12:43Speaker 3: you get everything you want, then you want to lock
- 12:46Speaker 3: the gate and don't let anybody else in. Democrats also
- 12:51Speaker 3: are looking for something else in this. When the internet
- 12:54Speaker 3: search engines first started, Google and all of that, they
- 12:57Speaker 3: were very, they still are, they're very biased, very slanted,
- 13:00Speaker 3: very left-wing. So if you do a Google search, something
- 13:04Speaker 3: in the news or whatever, only the left-wing sites will
- 13:06Speaker 3: come up. The Washington Post will come up first, the
- 13:08Speaker 3: New York Times. The New York Post will come out
- 13:11Speaker 3: on page 27. They're very slanted that way. And they're
- 13:15Speaker 3: very worried in the Democratic Party about an Elon Musk
- 13:17Speaker 3: or somebody. You remember Twitter was very biased.
- 13:21Speaker 4: Why?
- 13:21Speaker 3: If you even said the Hunter, the laptop belonged to Hunter,
- 13:23Speaker 3: you were banned forever from Twitter. Even the New York Post,
- 13:26Speaker 3: nation's biggest newspaper, oldest newspaper, lost their account. You could
- 13:30Speaker 3: get banned for saying anything against the left orthodoxy. But
- 13:35Speaker 3: Elon Musk came in and bought it. turned it around,
- 13:38Speaker 3: opened it up, no more censorship. So they don't want
- 13:41Speaker 3: to see that happen with AI. So the Democrats would
- 13:44Speaker 3: love to have control so they can keep it biased
- 13:47Speaker 3: and keep it very biased. AI is pretty biased right now,
- 13:49Speaker 3: if you look at it. On political things, it'll get
- 13:52Speaker 3: you the Democratic stuff, not the Republican stuff. So that's
- 13:57Speaker 3: the reason for it. Jimmy Kimmel, he's a guy who
- 14:01Speaker 3: falls for every Democratic hoax, falls for every fake news story.
- 14:05Speaker 3: He just joins in on it. And his audience, too.
- 14:10Speaker 3: They have no access to actual information. So Kimmel last
- 14:14Speaker 3: night in the monologue, he said, how do we get
- 14:17Speaker 3: Donald Trump to take AI danger seriously? How do we
- 14:21Speaker 3: get him to do something about AI? And then Kimmel said,
- 14:24Speaker 3: I know how we can do it. Tell him ChatGPT
- 14:27Speaker 3: has the Epstein files. And the audience laughs and applauds.
- 14:34Speaker 3: This is going to be the dumbest position in the world.
- 14:36Speaker 3: First of all, Go read the Epstein files. They're up
- 14:39Speaker 3: online right now. There's not only nothing bad about Trump
- 14:43Speaker 3: in the Epstein files, nothing. But if you read the
- 14:47Speaker 3: Epstein files, and you should, you'll see that not only
- 14:51Speaker 3: were they not friends, but Epstein hated Donald Trump. And
- 14:56Speaker 3: there's a million pages of those files where he's plotting
- 14:59Speaker 3: to bring down Donald Trump. He and that little wormy guy,
- 15:03Speaker 3: Michael Wolff, they're plotting on how to destroy Donald Trump.
- 15:07Speaker 3: The only relationship they had is when he first made
- 15:10Speaker 3: a ton of money, Epstein bought a place in Palm
- 15:13Speaker 3: Beach and he was suddenly a multimillionaire. So he got
- 15:16Speaker 3: himself a membership at Mar-a-Lago and he started spending a
- 15:20Speaker 3: fortune there. And Trump, private citizen at the time, when
- 15:25Speaker 3: he owned hotels and resorts and clubs, if you started
- 15:28Speaker 3: a new member, he would always come over and say hello.
- 15:31Speaker 3: And if you were a new member spending a ton
- 15:33Speaker 3: of money, if you had a party or an event,
- 15:35Speaker 3: he'd always stop by. He does that all the time.
- 15:37Speaker 3: You know, if you rent Mar-a-Lago when Trump is there,
- 15:41Speaker 3: if you rent Mar-a-Lago's ballroom for your wedding and spend
- 15:44Speaker 3: enough money, he'll come. He'll pop into the wedding, go
- 15:47Speaker 3: around and take pictures of everybody. He does that all
- 15:49Speaker 3: the time for everybody. I've seen him do it a
- 15:51Speaker 3: million times. There's a guy I know years ago spent
- 15:55Speaker 3: a fortune, like $ 10 million on his wedding. I know,
- 15:59Speaker 3: it sounds crazy. Trump owned the plaza at the time.
- 16:01Speaker 3: He threw this wedding where he booked like 10 major groups,
- 16:07Speaker 3: one after the other to perform. It was like the
- 16:09Speaker 3: village people, then the OJs, and then the spinners. I mean,
- 16:13Speaker 3: one after the other. He spent a fortune, a fortune.
- 16:19Speaker 3: And I was there. I didn't know the guy that well,
- 16:23Speaker 3: but he invited me. It was like midnight. I'm in
- 16:24Speaker 3: the very back of the ballroom just looking. And in
- 16:27Speaker 3: comes Donald Trump at midnight. And so what are you
- 16:30Speaker 3: doing here? He said, I said, you don't know this guy. No,
- 16:33Speaker 3: I don't know the guy, but I heard what he
- 16:35Speaker 3: did and I heard what he spent and I'll say
- 16:37Speaker 3: hello to him. So he popped in. He was there
- 16:40Speaker 3: a total of a minute and a half and said hello,
- 16:42Speaker 3: took a picture with the guy and left. So for
- 16:45Speaker 3: the rest of this guy's life, he said, Donald Trump
- 16:47Speaker 3: and I are so close. We're very close friends. He
- 16:50Speaker 3: was at my wedding and he had the picture and
- 16:53Speaker 3: all his friends, you know, he's very close to Donald Trump.
- 16:55Speaker 3: Trump was at his wedding. So that was the relationship
- 16:58Speaker 3: between Trump and Epstein. And if you read the files,
- 17:01Speaker 3: you can see they then became huge enemies after that
- 17:05Speaker 3: little 10-minute friendship. Actually, what broke up Trump and Epstein,
- 17:10Speaker 3: Epstein started stealing employees from Mar-a-Lago. That created a lot
- 17:13Speaker 3: of friction. And then they caught him trying to pick
- 17:16Speaker 3: up a young girl in the locker room who worked there,
- 17:19Speaker 3: a teenager. Turned out it was the daughter of a member.
- 17:23Speaker 3: So Trump had him thrown out of the club, banned,
- 17:26Speaker 3: even called the Palm Beach police on him. So, hey,
- 17:28Speaker 3: we've got a lot more to get to. We'll get
- 17:31Speaker 3: to more on Crazy Mom Donnie and his latest schemes.
- 17:35Speaker 3: We'll get to Lindsay Clancy. We'll get to Apple and
- 17:38Speaker 3: more coming up. Mark Simone here. Three hours every day,
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- 17:59Speaker 1: it's kind of sad news.
- 18:01Speaker 3: Warren Buffett has officially stepped down completely and retired. He
- 18:06Speaker 3: stopped being the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway a while back
- 18:11Speaker 3: and became just chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. But he's now
- 18:16Speaker 3: stepping down totally from the company. Total retirement. He will
- 18:20Speaker 3: be chairman emeritus, but stepping down, it's kind of sad.
- 18:25Speaker 3: The last time I saw him, he was very sad about...
- 18:29Speaker 3: He said, my eyes aren't as good. My eyes aren't
- 18:33Speaker 3: good enough to drive. He goes, I got to have
- 18:34Speaker 3: this guy drive me around now. It really upset him.
- 18:37Speaker 3: He's a simple guy in real life. And he's losing
- 18:40Speaker 3: his independence being able to just drive around. You know,
- 18:42Speaker 3: he would drive himself to McDonald's and have breakfast. But
- 18:46Speaker 3: that upset him a lot, having to have a guy
- 18:48Speaker 3: drive him all the time. And this, I hate this
- 18:51Speaker 3: line here. He's totally retiring. He said, father time always wins.
- 18:56Speaker 7: Wow.
- 18:59Speaker 3: Uh, very sad. He's 96 years old. Hopefully we'll have
- 19:02Speaker 3: him around for a while. Uh, president Trump says he
- 19:05Speaker 3: has a big decision to make. The strategy in Iran
- 19:10Speaker 3: is wait till the election. They did this with Jimmy Carter.
- 19:13Speaker 3: You remember they had seized our hostages. We were, they
- 19:16Speaker 3: were holding our hostages and they were just waiting for
- 19:19Speaker 3: the election. If Carter wins, they'll keep holding them. If
- 19:23Speaker 3: Reagan wins, they know they better give them back. So
- 19:26Speaker 3: they waited. They just, that was the strategy. Wait for
- 19:28Speaker 3: the election. And the election happened and Reagan won. And
- 19:33Speaker 3: during his inauguration, just as his hand was hitting the Bible,
- 19:37Speaker 3: they put the hostages on a plane and sent them
- 19:39Speaker 3: back to America. They did not want to hold those
- 19:41Speaker 3: hostages with Reagan there. So that's what's happening here. They're
- 19:45Speaker 3: waiting for the election. If Trump wins the midterms, in
- 19:48Speaker 3: other words, the Republicans keep the House and the Senate,
- 19:51Speaker 3: Iran would probably call the next minute and make a
- 19:54Speaker 3: deal and settle. If the Democrats win, Iran will get really, really,
- 19:59Speaker 3: really nasty because they feel the Democrats will back them up.
- 20:03Speaker 3: The Democrats will end the war effort. The Democrats... We'll
- 20:07Speaker 3: let them do it. Traditionally, Democrats, whether it was Biden
- 20:10Speaker 3: or Obama, always makes a deal, gives them money, asks
- 20:14Speaker 3: them to promise not to do anything nuclear. Here's some
- 20:16Speaker 3: more money, that kind of stuff. So that's what they're
- 20:18Speaker 3: waiting for. But they're not calculating this into it, I
- 20:22Speaker 3: don't think. Let's say the Democrats win. They don't take
- 20:25Speaker 3: office until January. That would give Trump two months to
- 20:30Speaker 3: do whatever the hell he wants. So if he's going
- 20:32Speaker 3: to have a Democratic Congress in two months, he could
- 20:34Speaker 3: use those two months to just completely wipe out Iran,
- 20:39Speaker 3: and also if they wait and the Republicans hold the
- 20:42Speaker 3: House and Senate, which they probably will, despite what you hear,
- 20:48Speaker 3: Trump then says he's got a big decision coming up.
- 20:52Speaker 3: Trump said this. He goes, I got a big decision.
- 20:54Speaker 3: Do I go in and just annihilate them? Does he
- 20:58Speaker 3: want to find out what they are, what they're doing,
- 21:01Speaker 3: what they're going to do? You know, he said, no,
- 21:04Speaker 3: Iran is puts out all these crazy statements. Our fighters
- 21:08Speaker 3: will never open the Strait of Hormuz until the criminal
- 21:11Speaker 3: Trump and bloodthirsty Netanyahu are pulled down from power. You know,
- 21:15Speaker 3: they always make these statements. Remember, Saddam Hussein made those
- 21:18Speaker 3: kind of statements all the time. They don't mean anything.
- 21:21Speaker 3: Don't take them seriously. Just ignore them. Big 60 Minutes
- 21:25Speaker 3: piece this Sunday night. Not only are they interviewing Patrick Clancy,
- 21:30Speaker 3: But apparently the new wife joins the interview. Patrick Clancy remarried.
- 21:35Speaker 3: They live in New York City, believe it or not,
- 21:37Speaker 3: these two. And Clancy, the husband, is being interviewed. And
- 21:41Speaker 3: then the wife joins them and says it's unfair the
- 21:45Speaker 3: attacks on him. Well, I think you've got to expect
- 21:48Speaker 3: that when you're married to Lindsay Clancy and your kids
- 21:51Speaker 3: are strangled and nobody quite knows what his role is.
- 21:54Speaker 3: I mean, I know there's some people who think he
- 21:55Speaker 3: killed them, but I don't think that. But nobody quite
- 21:59Speaker 3: knows what his role is and being there reporting this.
- 22:02Speaker 3: So he's doing this 60 Minutes interview. It'll air Sunday
- 22:05Speaker 3: night if you want to see it. It should be interesting. Hey,
- 22:09Speaker 3: Jay Leno, everybody's doing these podcasts now where they talk
- 22:13Speaker 3: for an hour and a half and everything comes out.
- 22:16Speaker 3: But Leno talks about what happened to late night TV.
- 22:21Speaker 3: It's all a disaster now. Colbert, the ratings were so
- 22:24Speaker 3: bad they just threw the show off the air. It
- 22:26Speaker 3: wasn't even worth the trouble. Fallon, the ratings are very low. Kimmel,
- 22:31Speaker 3: the ratings are just ridiculous. In fact, the show's been canceled.
- 22:34Speaker 3: It will not be on after this season. This is
- 22:37Speaker 3: the final season they're in right now. But in the
- 22:40Speaker 3: good old days, everybody watched Johnny Carson. And then everybody
- 22:44Speaker 3: watched Jay Leno. Ratings were down a little from the
- 22:47Speaker 3: Carson days. But remember, Leno was on for 17 years.
- 22:51Speaker 3: And the ratings are pretty good. Five, six, seven million.
- 22:53Speaker 3: You know, Kimmel's lucky if he gets one million. Some
- 22:56Speaker 3: nights it's 800,000. It just doesn't do that well. But
- 23:00Speaker 3: Leno said he took a lot of flack for this,
- 23:03Speaker 3: but he was very careful never to get biased. He
- 23:07Speaker 3: did political jokes. There were lots of political jokes in
- 23:10Speaker 3: his Tonight Show monologues, but half of them were about
- 23:13Speaker 3: the Republicans, half of them about the Democrats. He made
- 23:15Speaker 3: fun of the right. He made fun of the left,
- 23:17Speaker 3: which is the way you're supposed to do it. And
- 23:20Speaker 3: it was a huge rating success. And then you remember
- 23:24Speaker 3: when Letterman took over on CBS, when it was Letterman,
- 23:27Speaker 3: same thing. Half the joke's Republicans, half the joke's Democrats.
- 23:31Speaker 3: And then also remember, in the final years of Letterman,
- 23:34Speaker 3: I think it was when Leno left, it was Letterman alone,
- 23:39Speaker 3: all of a sudden Letterman started getting very, very, very biased,
- 23:43Speaker 3: very left-wing biased, and his ratings plunged. They dropped in
- 23:48Speaker 3: half immediately because half his audience left. They couldn't watch
- 23:51Speaker 3: it anymore. And ratings just kept plunging, and CBS finally
- 23:54Speaker 3: had enough, and he realized he was... Not doing very well.
- 23:59Speaker 3: So the show ended. But Leno said he was very
- 24:01Speaker 3: careful not to show any bias. He goes, why would
- 24:05Speaker 3: you get rid of half your audience? It's absolutely ridiculous.
- 24:08Speaker 3: He said, these late night hosts today don't care who
- 24:10Speaker 3: they alienate. They pick one audience and get rid of
- 24:13Speaker 3: the other audience. Makes no sense. World's dumbest business model.
- 24:18Speaker 3: Leno still tours all over the place as a stand-up comedian.
- 24:21Speaker 3: He also said he thinks that was a reason. Even
- 24:24Speaker 3: when he was doing The Tonight Show, he would tour
- 24:27Speaker 3: the country. Every weekend, he'd go play in Nebraska. He'd
- 24:30Speaker 3: go play in Chicago. He'd go play in St. Louis.
- 24:33Speaker 3: He played the whole country. So he said, unlike Fallon,
- 24:37Speaker 3: unlike Kimmel, he was out in real America, in the heartland,
- 24:40Speaker 3: in touch with the real country, the middle of America.
- 24:44Speaker 3: And he knew how they felt. Unlike Kimmel, who never
- 24:47Speaker 3: leaves Hollywood or the Hamptons, or Fallon, who lives in
- 24:50Speaker 3: Manhattan and Locust Valley. I mean, he's never, ever out
- 24:53Speaker 3: in real America. So Leno said that's what really kept
- 24:57Speaker 3: him grounded and in touch with real America. But he's
- 25:00Speaker 3: still a tourist, does his comedy all over the country.
- 25:04Speaker 3: But he said a couple of years ago, he stopped
- 25:07Speaker 3: doing political jokes. There's a big chunk of his monologue,
- 25:10Speaker 3: but he took it out. No more political jokes. He said,
- 25:13Speaker 3: no matter what you do, people get angry. You can't
- 25:16Speaker 3: do it anymore. Well, we got a lot to get to.
- 25:18Speaker 3: We'll get to back to the UN. Hey, Mamdani's got
- 25:22Speaker 3: a crazy scheme that's going to destroy Park Avenue. We'll
- 25:25Speaker 3: get to that, the Kennedy Center, and more. Mark Simone here,
- 25:28Speaker 3: 9 to noon every day, 710WOR.
- 25:32Speaker 1: What's better than two hours of Mark Simone?
- 25:35Speaker 9: Three!
- 25:36Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now 9 till noon weekdays, 710WOR.
- 25:44Speaker 3: Hey, we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
- 25:46Speaker 1: 800-321-0710.
- 25:52Speaker 3: So the Democrats, the fake news, this plot to stop AI,
- 25:58Speaker 3: you've got to regulate it to death, you've got to
- 26:00Speaker 3: rein it in. Normally, whenever there's one of these things,
- 26:04Speaker 3: climate change and the Democrats and the fake news and
- 26:07Speaker 3: everybody colludes, Hollywood jumps right in on this. But they've
- 26:12Speaker 3: got a little problem. Hollywood has been pushing for more AI.
- 26:15Speaker 3: Hollywood loves AI because it can save them a fortune.
- 26:21Speaker 3: You know, they can do things with AI instead of
- 26:23Speaker 3: actually doing them for real. Like if you had to
- 26:25Speaker 3: have a battle scene where you need 5,000 soldiers on
- 26:29Speaker 3: a battlefield, you used to have to hire 5,000 extras.
- 26:33Speaker 3: You had to make 5,000 costumes for them. It's cost
- 26:36Speaker 3: a fortune. But now you can put two or three
- 26:40Speaker 3: and then AI the rest of them in, and it
- 26:43Speaker 3: looks very real and save a fortune. Or if you
- 26:46Speaker 3: want to have a plane... crash. You could do it
- 26:49Speaker 3: with AI. You don't have to buy an actual airplane
- 26:52Speaker 3: and then crash it. And then it, so AI has
- 26:56Speaker 3: a dilemma here. They always like to join in on
- 26:59Speaker 3: these plots, but, but they are really hoping for a
- 27:03Speaker 3: lot of AI. It'll help them a lot. Tucker Carlson,
- 27:06Speaker 3: what the hell happened to him? Was he always nuts or, um,
- 27:11Speaker 3: I don't know. I used to do his show a lot.
- 27:12Speaker 3: He seemed pretty normal back then, but, uh, Actually, when
- 27:17Speaker 3: he took over for O'Reilly, you know, Tucker Carlson's from Georgetown.
- 27:21Speaker 3: He's a preppy sort of a high society sort of type.
- 27:25Speaker 3: When he took over for O'Reilly, he went kind of hillbilly-ish.
- 27:28Speaker 3: He was very redneck. And then when he got fired
- 27:31Speaker 3: and he's on his own trying to get attention, he
- 27:34Speaker 3: became just nuts, just anti-Semitic, crazy, insane. There is a
- 27:41Speaker 3: business in that. You can become like the new Alex
- 27:43Speaker 3: Jones guy. Like the wacko, you can make a fortune
- 27:46Speaker 3: doing it, but you're a total outcast and you seem
- 27:49Speaker 3: like a complete nut job. He's now, what was he claiming?
- 27:52Speaker 3: Claims Israel needs to repent the same way the Nazis did.
- 27:56Speaker 3: So again, you got to write this guy off completely. Just,
- 28:00Speaker 3: he's Alex Jones. He's just a complete, total nut job.
- 28:04Speaker 3: Forget about him. He's gone forever and never, ever, ever,
- 28:08Speaker 3: ever come back. Anyway, let's take some calls.
- 28:10Speaker 7: 800-321-8255.
- 28:12Speaker 3: 0-7-10 is the number. Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike,
- 28:16Speaker 3: how you doing?
- 28:17Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark.
- 28:18Speaker 3: Yes, Mike.
- 28:20Speaker 7: Regarding yesterday's story about the mayor putting toilets around the city.
- 28:25Speaker 7: So apparently he's against data centers, but he's all for
- 28:29Speaker 7: doo-doo centers.
- 28:31Speaker 3: Oh, there you go. How long did you work on
- 28:33Speaker 3: that line?
- 28:33Speaker 4: I was going to ask you for your best input
- 28:37Speaker 4: on that one.
- 28:38Speaker 3: Oh, please. You're in Florida. Where are you going so early?
- 28:43Speaker 7: I went to BJ's to pick up a watermelon. Pretty exciting.
- 28:47Speaker 3: I just want to say, I'm going to retire and
- 28:50Speaker 3: move to Florida. This becomes your life. You go to
- 28:52Speaker 3: Starbucks at 6 a.m. You find some errand to keep
- 28:56Speaker 3: you busy until lunch, right? Then you go to lunch.
- 28:58Speaker 4: That's right. You're dodging thunderstorms because it's that time of
- 29:03Speaker 4: year where it rains every 20 minutes and I'm constantly
- 29:06Speaker 4: wet and not.
- 29:07Speaker 7: For any of the good reasons.
- 29:08Speaker 3: And the reason they all go to dinner at 4 o'clock,
- 29:10Speaker 3: they've got nothing else to do down there.
- 29:12Speaker 7: They have nothing to do. They're in bed. They go
- 29:15Speaker 7: to the HOA meeting and complain at 6.30, and then
- 29:18Speaker 7: they go to bed at 7. And that's their life.
- 29:20Speaker 3: And what part of Florida are you in?
- 29:22Speaker 7: I'm in the Port St. Lucie area, which is about
- 29:26Speaker 7: 40 minutes north.
- 29:27Speaker 4: Of the Palm Beach area.
- 29:28Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Yeah.
- 29:30Speaker 7: It's actually quite the burgeoning area. city, you know, whatever
- 29:34Speaker 7: you want to call it. Yeah.
- 29:35Speaker 3: What happens is Palm beach is like a very genteel, wonderful,
- 29:38Speaker 3: then all the New Yorkers come down. How are you?
- 29:40Speaker 3: And they take over. So everybody has to move to Jupiter.
- 29:45Speaker 3: The next thing you know, these people all take over Jupiter.
- 29:47Speaker 3: Then everybody has to move to Hope Sound. These New
- 29:50Speaker 3: Yorkers chase them all the way up the coast.
- 29:53Speaker 7: They move all the way up the coast, exactly. They
- 29:55Speaker 7: keep creeping. It's a slow, steady creep up the coast,
- 30:01Speaker 7: looking for heaven on Earth, which I can attest it isn't.
- 30:05Speaker 7: But they think it is. All right.
- 30:07Speaker 3: Well, thanks for calling, Mike. Take care. Yeah, before you
- 30:10Speaker 3: think of leaving New York, you know all these people
- 30:14Speaker 3: in Florida, most of them, they leave New York, they
- 30:17Speaker 3: move to Florida. You know they still listen to the
- 30:19Speaker 3: New York radio. They listen to us. They listen to WINS.
- 30:24Speaker 3: They get the New York Post every day. They used
- 30:27Speaker 3: to actually get the physical copy. Now they all read
- 30:30Speaker 3: the New York Post every day. They just miss New York.
- 30:34Speaker 1: I know.
- 30:34Speaker 3: Don't think about leaving. That's why the smart thing is
- 30:37Speaker 3: if you really want to leave the city, you go
- 30:40Speaker 3: to Long Island or Connecticut. You go to the suburbs.
- 30:42Speaker 3: That way you're still right here. You can come in
- 30:44Speaker 3: and out. You know, the hottest real estate right now
- 30:47Speaker 3: is Long Island. The biggest demand anywhere in America right
- 30:51Speaker 3: now is Long Island. It's a seller's market like never,
- 30:55Speaker 3: never before, according to the latest study. Let's go to
- 30:58Speaker 3: Rob in Smithtown, Long Island. Rob, how you doing?
- 31:01Speaker 7: Hey, Mark.
- 31:02Speaker 9: How are you?
- 31:02Speaker 7: Good.
- 31:04Speaker 9: I'm just seeing some pictures of the new Belmont racetrack.
- 31:08Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 31:09Speaker 9: And I'm sure a lot of New Yorkers aren't familiar
- 31:11Speaker 9: with it, but it's an unfortunate situation because it was
- 31:13Speaker 9: 121 years old. They built the USB arena, UBS arena,
- 31:19Speaker 9: whatever it is, To mimic the old Belmont racetrack.
- 31:22Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 31:23Speaker 9: Then they built the village, Belmont Village.
- 31:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 31:26Speaker 9: To mimic these buildings. Then they tear down the racetrack
- 31:29Speaker 9: and build a completely new, modern racetrack.
- 31:31Speaker 3: What's wrong with that?
- 31:32Speaker 9: What is she thinking?
- 31:33Speaker 3: What is wrong with that?
- 31:35Speaker 9: What's wrong with it?
- 31:37Speaker 7: It doesn't even follow logic.
- 31:39Speaker 3: You got a new racetrack, and hey, that Belmont Village
- 31:41Speaker 3: is very nice. You got a million shops, restaurants. It's great.
- 31:44Speaker 3: What are you complaining about?
- 31:45Speaker 9: Absolutely, it's beautiful. But the nostalgic building that was there
- 31:49Speaker 9: for 121 years, why did they make USB or UBS
- 31:54Speaker 9: Arena mimic the old Belmont racetrack if they were just
- 31:57Speaker 9: going to destroy the racetrack and build something completely different?
- 31:59Speaker 3: Well, because sometimes you got to rebuild stuff, infrastructure, whatever,
- 32:03Speaker 3: to make it. Sometimes you don't realize, like the Kennedy Center.
- 32:06Speaker 3: Who knew it was all crumbling inside and had tremendous
- 32:08Speaker 3: water damage?
- 32:09Speaker 9: I don't listen. I don't disagree with the court. Listen,
- 32:13Speaker 9: it's 120 and it's huge. I mean, I used to
- 32:15Speaker 9: go quite often. Actually, I lived over there. It was
- 32:18Speaker 9: a huge, really unusable other than the Belmont Stakes. But
- 32:22Speaker 9: if you're going to build something new, why wouldn't you
- 32:25Speaker 9: have them.
- 32:25Speaker 7: All uniformed the way you want to do it?
- 32:27Speaker 9: Stop complaining.
- 32:28Speaker 3: What the hell are you complaining about? Where do you live?
- 32:32Speaker 3: You're in Smithtown.
- 32:33Speaker 7: I live in Smithtown.
- 32:34Speaker 3: Okay, you've got all these great new restaurants. You've got Insignia.
- 32:36Speaker 3: You've got the Chazz. You've got the greatest, phenomenal new place. What,
- 32:39Speaker 3: do you sit there and complain? We want the old
- 32:41Speaker 3: places back.
- 32:43Speaker 9: No, look at Insignia. It's a beautiful, nostalgic, old-looking building.
- 32:46Speaker 9: They fit it into the decor of the area.
- 32:49Speaker 6: It's beautiful.
- 32:50Speaker 9: It's a Belmont racetrack. Again, back to the modern art situation.
- 32:55Speaker 9: It doesn't fit in the decor of the area.
- 33:01Speaker 3: I think you've got to stop and save yourself. If
- 33:04Speaker 3: this is my big concern, if this is what I'm
- 33:06Speaker 3: irate about on a summer Friday, you better reexamine your life,
- 33:11Speaker 3: I think.
- 33:12Speaker 9: Yeah, you're right, Mark. You're right.
- 33:14Speaker 3: It's the final weekend of summer. You should be enjoying it.
- 33:17Speaker 9: Thank you, Mr. You're right. I'm going to go play
- 33:20Speaker 9: golf later, so that's what I'm going to enjoy.
- 33:21Speaker 3: All right. Don't cheat too much. All right.
- 33:24Speaker 4: Thanks, Mark.
- 33:25Speaker 3: Be good. Take care. You know, I was watching the
- 33:27Speaker 3: TV this morning. They said the new Belmont racetrack and
- 33:30Speaker 3: the reporter was there. And this is the show on
- 33:32Speaker 3: the new racetrack, the Belmont village. It looked beautiful. Who
- 33:36Speaker 3: the hell could complain about it? New Yorkers, New York,
- 33:40Speaker 3: long Island, complain about anything and everything. Well, we got
- 33:45Speaker 3: a lot coming up today. Hey, we'll get to, uh,
- 33:48Speaker 3: we'll get to mom. Donnie's crazy scheme for park Avenue.
- 33:52Speaker 3: This is not going to be good. Uh, Hey, if you're, uh, uh,
- 33:56Speaker 3: Walking by an Apple store, you'll notice there's ropes, there's
- 33:58Speaker 3: lines everywhere. The new iPhone 18 is out. Most people
- 34:04Speaker 3: pre-ordered it. I pre-ordered it. But it's the first day
- 34:07Speaker 3: it hits the stores. It's the first day you can
- 34:09Speaker 3: walk into a store and buy the new iPhone 18,
- 34:12Speaker 3: the new watch. So you'll see massive lines around the
- 34:15Speaker 3: block at every Apple store. We'll talk more about that
- 34:18Speaker 3: coming up on 710WOR. Now you got, I'm on 9
- 34:23Speaker 3: to Noon. You got Buck Sexton, Clay Travis at noon.
- 34:26Speaker 3: You got Sean Hannity, the most listened to radio show
- 34:30Speaker 3: of all at 3. You got Jesse Kelly at 6.
- 34:32Speaker 3: You got Jimmy Fela at 9 o'clock, the most powerful
- 34:36Speaker 3: lineup in talk radio, here on 710WOR.
- 34:41Speaker 1: Live from the WOR Life Fact Studios, the Mark Simone Show.
- 34:47Speaker 3: Well, this is the final Friday of summer. 80 degrees today.
- 34:52Speaker 3: It'll be 80. And that's the last day it'll be 80. Yeah,
- 34:58Speaker 3: I hate to break it to you. It's going to
- 34:59Speaker 3: go 70. 70 will be the high over the weekend.
- 35:03Speaker 3: 60 is next weekend. And I don't think it ever
- 35:05Speaker 3: comes back to 80 until next year. But we'll see.
- 35:09Speaker 3: Back after the news on 710WOR.