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Hour 1: What's in those Epstein files? · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: This is seven or boy, the Mark Simoon Show starts now.
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Speaker 2: Well, oh, yesterday, well it was no. I mean a
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Speaker 2: couple of times going to actual, actual snowflakes, and I
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Speaker 2: was freezing a little warmer today. It'll get back into
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Speaker 2: the fifties this weekend. That's good news. We got a
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Speaker 2: lot to get to. We'll get to Chuck Schumer the
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Speaker 2: end of his career. We'll get to Momdani the beginning
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Speaker 2: of this Meyrill nightmare his We'll get to another new
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Speaker 2: Democrat candidate that's absolutely frightening. We'll get to We'll get
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Speaker 2: to everybody loves Raymond. They got big news there. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to the next media attacks that are coming, the
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Speaker 2: media doing it. Used to be report the news. Now
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Speaker 2: it's spend all day trying to get Trump on something.
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Speaker 2: We'll tell you what's what's coming next. The shutdown. The
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Speaker 2: vote will take place in the House later today that
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Speaker 2: will end the shutdown. They'll vote to end it. I
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Speaker 2: know this. Some people talking about posing some Democrats say
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Speaker 2: they will not go along with it. They'll end up
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Speaker 2: they'll end up ending it today. The vote will be successful,
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Speaker 2: and the shutdown will end tonight, probably six seven, o'clock
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Speaker 2: somewhere around there, and then air traffic control will start
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Speaker 2: to get better. The air traffic controllers have to come back.
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Speaker 2: It's a slow process. It won't be probably till Monday
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Speaker 2: that gets back to normal. They'll start coming back slowly
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Speaker 2: over the weekend. Here's the Transportation Secretary Duffy.
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Speaker 3: We had four staffing triggers today. On Saturday there were
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Speaker 3: eighty one. I think Sunday was fifty three.
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Speaker 2: So real issues. I don't know what he's talking about.
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Speaker 2: They love to use that jargon staffing triggers. Ah, a
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Speaker 2: staffing trigger. Who knows what the hell that is.
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Speaker 3: But air traffic controllers are seeing and the end to
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Speaker 3: the shutdown and feel more hopeful, and they're coming in
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Speaker 3: to their facilities. So we're grateful to them for all
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Speaker 3: that they're doing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when they weren't getting paid, you know, they didn't
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Speaker 2: get paid for forty days, and some wouldn't work without
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Speaker 2: getting paid. They just called in sick. But some even
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Speaker 2: without getting paid, felt the duty to come in and
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Speaker 2: they did. And President Trump said he will try to
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Speaker 2: get each one that came in and worked during the shutdown,
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Speaker 2: get them a ten thousand dollars bonus, so that'll be
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Speaker 2: good news. Once of shutdowns over, everybody gets paid. Everybody
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Speaker 2: gets their back pay, so nobody loses a penny on this.
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Speaker 2: And then the big issue then after the shutdown, the
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Speaker 2: Democrats got nothing out of it. But nobody ever does
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Speaker 2: no party, Republicans or Democrats. Fourteen shutdowns. It's never done
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Speaker 2: any good for one side or another. The shutdown caucus
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Speaker 2: is oh for fourteen. It never accomplishes anything. You could
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Speaker 2: argue that one thing Democrats got out of it is
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Speaker 2: and they'll tell you this, well, the one thing they
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Speaker 2: got out of it. And now we brought the focus
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Speaker 2: back to healthcare, Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, fixing it.
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Speaker 2: We brought the focus back on that. That'll be in
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Speaker 2: the spot like that's what we one. But at some
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Speaker 2: point people just start to realize, wait a minute, there's
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Speaker 2: something this Obamacare was obviously a failure. First of all,
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Speaker 2: they called it the Affordable Care Act. If it's so affordable,
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Speaker 2: why would you need a subsidy. It's supposed to be
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Speaker 2: affordable by definition. But the other thing is people are
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Speaker 2: starting to realize, wait a minute, the fact that we're
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Speaker 2: talking about it, the fact that it's a major issue
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Speaker 2: means it's not working. If it was working great, you
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Speaker 2: wouldn't be hearing about it. It wouldn't be an issue.
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Speaker 2: The fact that it's an issue, the fact that you
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Speaker 2: had to shut down a government over it, means it's
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Speaker 2: a disaster. It's not working at all. It's a big problem.
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Speaker 2: President Trump keeps talking about, you know, redoing it. Come
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Speaker 2: up with something else. You know, people say, well, where's
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Speaker 2: the plan, what's the plan? He doesn't have one yet,
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Speaker 2: but you know, and he's not a healthcare expert, but
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Speaker 2: he certainly got a lot a lot of people there
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Speaker 2: that are and they could come up with something much better. Remember,
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Speaker 2: President Trump's the only president ever in history who took
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Speaker 2: office having already run healthcare plans. You know, he's a
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Speaker 2: guy that had ten thousand employees and lots of companies
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Speaker 2: and lots and lots and lots and lots of people
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Speaker 2: to get healthcare for so over forty years he's been
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Speaker 2: buying and getting healthcare plans. And when you do that
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Speaker 2: for a major company with thousands of employees, you got
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Speaker 2: to meet with these healthcare plan companies and go over them.
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Speaker 2: So he's got some ex it's minor compared to a
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Speaker 2: government healthcare plan. But he's got more experience at this
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Speaker 2: than any other president ever has. Here he is on the.
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Speaker 4: Premiums have gone up like rocket ships, and I'm not
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Speaker 4: just talking about recent I want instead of going to
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Speaker 4: the insurance companies, I want the money to go into
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Speaker 4: an account for people with the people buy their own
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Speaker 4: health insurance.
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Speaker 5: It's so good, the.
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Speaker 4: Insurance will be better, it'll cost less. Everybody's going to
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Speaker 4: be happy. They're going to feel like entrepreneurs are actually
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Speaker 4: able to go out and negotiate their own health insurance.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I mean that sounds good on paper, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't actually always work in reality. But the thing is,
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Speaker 2: if let's say it's costing you one hundred thousand per
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Speaker 2: person to give them the healthcare, it might be cheaper
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Speaker 2: just to here's thirty thousand go out and buy regular healthcare.
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Speaker 2: So he's got something there. He hasn't got it figured out,
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Speaker 2: but he's got something there. Here's the real problem with Obamacare.
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Speaker 2: The idea was you'd make everybody go on it, and
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Speaker 2: then all the people under forty never need anything. They
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Speaker 2: don't have any big medical expenses, so they're just pumping
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Speaker 2: money in. And that's paying for the older people who
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Speaker 2: need the services. But courts looked at that and it
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Speaker 2: looked like the courts were going to rule against that,
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Speaker 2: saying you just can't mandate it, you can't force people
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Speaker 2: onto healthcare. But so before the courts even got to that,
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Speaker 2: and I think it was the twenty seventeen legislation, they
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Speaker 2: removed the mandate. They just knew it wouldn't hold up,
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Speaker 2: so that there was no more mandate. And if younger
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Speaker 2: people don't have to get the healthcare, they don't because
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Speaker 2: they don't get sick. So without all the young people
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Speaker 2: paying in, it was just old people taking money out.
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Speaker 2: So the Obamacare system collapsed under the weight doctor Oz,
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's one of the guys that knows a
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Speaker 2: little about this kind of stuff, will help try to fix.
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Speaker 2: Here's doctor Alot.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to share with you numbers that will blow
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Speaker 6: your mind. And these are the actual numbers from CMS.
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Speaker 6: We believe four point four million people are not appropriately
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Speaker 6: enrolled in Obamacare, which means they're fantoms. They don't know
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Speaker 6: they have the insurance, they don't want the insurance, they
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Speaker 6: didn't need the insurance. They're already enrolled in some other policies,
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Speaker 6: so we as taxpayers are paying for four point four
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Speaker 6: million people to have full benefits for no good reason.
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Speaker 2: That's the other problem. If the government runs the healthcare
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Speaker 2: government has tended to be sloppy, stupid, and you know,
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Speaker 2: the private sector, it's their money, so they police themselves
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Speaker 2: a lot better.
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Speaker 6: It's over eleven million people who have Obamacare never use
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Speaker 6: their policies. They don't buy medications with it, they don't
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Speaker 6: see doctors and use it, which means they often don't
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Speaker 6: know they have it. And yet we're still stuck with
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Speaker 6: the bill. The President doesn't want that anymore. He wants
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Speaker 6: to waste, fraud and abuse taken out of the system.
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Speaker 6: He wants to take care of the people getting the
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Speaker 6: ACA Obamacare, here's insurance, and we want to bring privatelycarried
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Speaker 6: people into the system as well. And that's what he's
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Speaker 6: talking about. Let Americans use their money wisely.
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Speaker 2: That's a good argument. You know, government overpays like the
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Speaker 2: ten percent for things. You know, a simple thing like
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Speaker 2: pav in the highway. If the private sector does it
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Speaker 2: pave a a mile of highway forty thousand dollars, when
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Speaker 2: the government does it a million a mile. I mean,
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Speaker 2: he just overpay for everything. So it's a good argument. Now,
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Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffreys, that's silly. The House Leader of the Democrats,
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Speaker 2: such a dumb guy, but he was asked about what
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Speaker 2: doctor Oz said.
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Speaker 7: Here, Nobody who's serious in this country takes doctor Oz seriously,
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Speaker 7: no one, And I mean it's shocking that the guy
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Speaker 7: even was confirmed. I'm not going to respond to any
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Speaker 7: comments from Randall's like doctor Oz, who is woefully unqualified
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Speaker 7: to be in whatever position he holds any administration.
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Speaker 2: He's a joke. That's pretty funny, actually, I think I
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Speaker 2: just think of doctor Oz, one of the greatest heart
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Speaker 2: surgeons in America, an incredible medical career at all the
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Speaker 2: top hospitals. You couldn't have a bigger career as a
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Speaker 2: doctor or in the medical world. Hakim Jeffries IQ of
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Speaker 2: ninety ninety five maybe never did a thing in his life,
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Speaker 2: doesn't know anything, has no skills, so he had to
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Speaker 2: go in a government thinks Oz as a joke. Hakim
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Speaker 2: Jeffries Oz has literally, well almost literally double the IQ
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Speaker 2: of Hakim Jeffries.
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Speaker 6: You know he didn't understand the message.
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Speaker 2: Well his eyes responding to Hakim Jeffries.
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Speaker 6: You know, he didn't understand the message. That's an important one,
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Speaker 6: so he tried to attack the messenger with an ad
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Speaker 6: hominem approach. But you know, that's not how you deal
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Speaker 6: with the challenges that twenty four million people are facing
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Speaker 6: now because the Democratic Party has not been able to
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Speaker 6: really put forward a program that could work. Just throwing
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Speaker 6: more money at it is not a strategy. That's a
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Speaker 6: tactic that has already created immense amounts of fraud in
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Speaker 6: the system.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good point. Now I say nothing came of
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Speaker 2: the shutdown, Well, some good came out of it. We're
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Speaker 2: probably going to get rid of Chuck Schumer. His term
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Speaker 2: is till he doesn't run for reelection till twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 2: so he actually serves till January of twenty twenty nine.
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Speaker 2: That's three more years of this guy. But the good
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Speaker 2: news is Democrats can't take three more years of this guy.
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Speaker 2: They want to remove him as House leader, a Senate leader.
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Speaker 2: They want to remove him as the Senate leader, which
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Speaker 2: will be a huge humiliation for him. President Trump.
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Speaker 4: They just went too far. He thought he could break
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Speaker 4: the Republicans, and the Republicans broke him. We have good policy,
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Speaker 4: they have bad policy, and there's something I don't know
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Speaker 4: if it's Trump derangement or they just crazed. They're like
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Speaker 4: crazed lunatics, but you know, we have just great policy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now Schumer's finished. They all hate him, the high
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Speaker 2: falutin Morning Joe, Rachel Maddow type shows, the John Stewart,
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Speaker 2: they're going after him like crazy. But even the dumb shows,
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Speaker 2: even the low IQ shows, and sometimes they're a better
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Speaker 2: barometer because if the low IQ shows have figured it out,
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Speaker 2: that means everybody has like listen to the view when
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Speaker 2: they talk about Chuck Schumer.
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Speaker 8: So the bottom line is the Democrats went into this
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Speaker 8: after a blue wave out of the American people saying
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Speaker 8: we do want the opposition, the working people want the
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Speaker 8: Democratic Party to fight for them, and now they just
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Speaker 8: cave and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer his days are
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Speaker 8: over and he cannot put that and he cannot keep
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Speaker 8: his trockets together. If he cannot keep hisquokets together, he
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Speaker 8: needs to go.
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Speaker 2: He needs to be Yeah, the audience applauding wildly to
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Speaker 2: get rid of Chuck Schumer. Hey, there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: media attacks coming against Donald Trump. You're gonna be hearing
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Speaker 2: about these for the next day or two. First is
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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein. You're going to keep hearing about secret emails,
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Speaker 2: undiscovered email he knew emails have emerged. Epstein says, Trump
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Speaker 2: knew all about everything, about the women, about all of it. Well,
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Speaker 2: none of this is true. It turns out what they're
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Speaker 2: talking about. There their emails where he's writing. Michael wolf
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Speaker 2: the sleezy, dirty tabloid writer, the sleezy, dirty gossip writer,
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Speaker 2: contact at Epstein at some point and Epstein's writing back
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Speaker 2: and forth. Now everybody knows about Michael Wolfe, I mean
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Speaker 2: people that deal with him. Guy will say anything about
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Speaker 2: Trump if you If you don't believe me, just go
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Speaker 2: check his Instagram. Every day he makes an Instagram video
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Speaker 2: where he's sitting in a different part of his house
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Speaker 2: or he's in his backyard looks like the Hamptons and
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Speaker 2: he's just sitting there bad mouthing Trump the worst attacks
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Speaker 2: in the world. None of them are true. Go back
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Speaker 2: and watch the old ones. You'll see nothing he said
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Speaker 2: ever came true. And he's written two books about Trump,
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Speaker 2: and he gets himself on every Sunday show. It just
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Speaker 2: makes up crap about Trump and a lot of times,
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Speaker 2: a lot of people that are media savvy. When you
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Speaker 2: get one of those guys, one of those reporters, writers,
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Speaker 2: calumnist that will print anything and they don't really verify it.
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Speaker 2: They'll print anything you tell them. You know, you can
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Speaker 2: tell him anything, so you just make up crap and
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Speaker 2: tell him. You know, if you're talking to some very
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Speaker 2: very top journalist the world, you gotta be careful. You know,
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Speaker 2: if you tell him something that's not true, he's gonna
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Speaker 2: check it and then he's not gonna trust you anymore.
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Speaker 2: But when you're talking to him Michael, well, if you
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Speaker 2: can tell him anything and he'll he'll run with it.
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Speaker 2: So that's Epstein talking to Wolf. And it's just it's
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Speaker 2: it's just nonsense. It's this is back in twenty nineteen,
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Speaker 2: so it's years ago. It was twenty and sixteen or
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Speaker 2: twenty eleven or something. It's way way way back. It's
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Speaker 2: it's a long time ago. And he says Trump Trump
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Speaker 2: knew about all the girls. Well, he probably did, because
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Speaker 2: I remember way back when, twenty years ago. More than that,
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Speaker 2: Trump warning me and other people to stay the hell
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Speaker 2: away from Epstein. In fact, I mean I knew Epstein
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Speaker 2: not well. But I one reason is Trump and two
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Speaker 2: other people who you wouldn't know, always warned me stay
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Speaker 2: away from this guy. Hey, don't go near this guy.
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Speaker 2: And then the other thing is there about Marlaga. You know,
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Speaker 2: Trump banned Epstein from mar A Lago when Epstein first
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Speaker 2: got to Palm Beach as a very wealthy guy. When
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Speaker 2: you're a wealthy hotshot and new to Palm Beach, first
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Speaker 2: thing you do is you joined mar A Lago. And
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Speaker 2: he was spending a lot of time there, but he
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Speaker 2: was hitting on a young girl that worked in the
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Speaker 2: locker room. Turned out it was the daughter of a member.
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Speaker 2: Trump went crazy, banned him, threw him out of the club,
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Speaker 2: never spoke to him again. So you're going to see
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Speaker 2: one of these emails. Epstein tells Michael Wolfe. I was
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Speaker 2: never a member of mar A Lago. I was never
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Speaker 2: a member. As if Trump were lying now, it could
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Speaker 2: be was never a member because back in those days,
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Speaker 2: if you were a friend of Trump's you didn't have
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Speaker 2: to be a member. You could go anyway. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: that formal. Whenever you want to go, you just called
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Speaker 2: Trump's office and they would put your name on at
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Speaker 2: the gate. To come in anytime you want, you just
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Speaker 2: call you'd call Rona or before that, you'd call Norma
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Speaker 2: and you could go to mar alago A lot of
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Speaker 2: his friends just went there, some of them famously not
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Speaker 2: paying for anything, charging everything to Trump. But you could
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Speaker 2: do that back then, So don't trust any of these emails.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 2: The other thing that's going to come out, you know,
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Speaker 2: Letitia James is in big trouble mortgage fraud. They came
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Speaker 2: up with all this stuff. She lied and lied to
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Speaker 2: the bank, lied to you know, mortgage fraud. She claimed
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Speaker 2: it would be a primary residence when it couldn't be
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Speaker 2: set it on several documents. This is all fraud and
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Speaker 2: it also is going to lead to indictments for tax
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Speaker 2: evasion all that kind of stuff. So they're going to
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Speaker 2: start to go after this that somehow whoever got these
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Speaker 2: documents and dug up this fraud, got them illegally, that
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Speaker 2: it was illegal for them to even see these documents
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Speaker 2: or get them. So they're going to try all that.
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Speaker 2: You're going to see that coming the next few days.
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Speaker 2: They're also going to be going after cash Patel for
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Speaker 2: they're gonna claim he leaked stuff or he revealed stuff
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Speaker 2: too early. They're also going to go after his use
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Speaker 2: of private jets. You know, look at this he went
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Speaker 2: it's got a girlfriend in Puerto Rico or someplace. He
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Speaker 2: went down there twice to see her and took private
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Speaker 2: jets both as well. A lot of private jet use.
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Speaker 2: But you're gonna the truth is as FBI director, he's
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Speaker 2: not allowed to fly commercial. That's the rule, that's the law.
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Speaker 2: He's got to fly on a private jet at all times.
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Speaker 2: So now President might still be unhappy that he's using
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Speaker 2: private jets a little too much, but so expect these
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Speaker 2: attacks to come. We'll get to Mom Donnie coming up.
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Speaker 2: He's done a couple of interesting interviews yesterday. What he's
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Speaker 2: going to be up to. Democrats have somebody even worse
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Speaker 2: than Mom Donnie. They're about to unleash on us. We'll
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Speaker 2: get to that coming up, and a whole lot more. Hey,
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Speaker 2: and if you use open table, we're going to warn
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Speaker 2: you about a few things coming up, and 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 to two one
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Speaker 2: zero seven ten.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the Mark Simone show on woor.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's take some calls. Let's go to uh Rich
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Speaker 2: and Myrtle Beach. Rich, how you doing.
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Speaker 9: The windy down here yesterday and today? But it should
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Speaker 9: be better by the end of the week. You know,
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Speaker 9: you brought up so many points. I don't even know
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Speaker 9: where to begin. But we'll start with Jeffries. You know,
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Speaker 9: when this country was founded, it was the best and
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Speaker 9: the brightest became our politicians. They did a couple of
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Speaker 9: terms and got the got the heck out, guys like
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Speaker 9: Jeffries and Schumer and uh, what's the name from California
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Speaker 9: who's just passed away? Uh? You know these people. If
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Speaker 9: you don't, if this isn't a perfect case for to
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Speaker 9: get rid of all, to get term limits, to get
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Speaker 9: rid of.
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Speaker 2: All, well that's the argument that was the original idea.
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Speaker 2: Citizen legislatures comes sir for a while, go back. You're right,
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Speaker 2: you professional politicians, you get hacks that can't make it
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Speaker 2: in the private sector. But how are you gonna get
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Speaker 2: Only Congress can vote for term limits, so they're not
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Speaker 2: going to vote for they're not going to term limit
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Speaker 2: themselves out this. Yeah, but you're right, there's got to
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Speaker 2: be a way to do it. Let's go to uh,
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Speaker 2: Mara in Nevada, Mara, how you doing so good?
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Speaker 10: I'm talking to you child, Vincent, Mark, I have two things.
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Speaker 10: Vincent suggested Sal from Patsy's as a junior honorary member
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Speaker 10: of the fan club. Of course, Vincent's honorary that means
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Speaker 10: your seventy. You're in your seventies, So Salas.
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Speaker 2: I understand. But Sal's a big guy, big restaurant, tourist,
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Speaker 2: busy and the time for your fan club. But what's
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Speaker 2: the second?
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Speaker 5: Wait?
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Speaker 10: Mark, here's why I called yeah, imagine an ugly, ugly
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Speaker 10: thing is going to happen. July fourth, twenty twenty sixth.
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Speaker 10: What's the anniversary of our beloved with the United States
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Speaker 10: and my beloved New York City, which was the first
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Speaker 10: capital where George Washington was inaugurate Forlornc's cavern. George Washington
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Speaker 10: said goodbye to the Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Mark, Mara, we got it's only a two hour show. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: all right, well yeah, twenty twenty six is two hundred
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Speaker 2: and fiftieth anniversary. All kinds of celebrations planned. Let's go
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Speaker 2: to Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing good morning?
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Speaker 11: Mark?
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Speaker 5: Yes, it's amazing. How how clever. The Democrats are.
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Speaker 11: You know, they have this thing that with Trump that
18:08
Speaker 11: they keep dredging up every you know, they have five
18:11
Speaker 11: or six items and then it's in a cycle. So
18:13
Speaker 11: you know, for the next week or so, it's going
18:15
Speaker 11: to be the Epstein stuff again, as you pointed out,
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Speaker 11: and then it'll go back to Ice being Nazis again.
18:21
Speaker 11: And the Republicans are always left with this Montani election,
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Speaker 11: you would think you would hear something to defect. We're
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Speaker 11: going to bring him into court for every single thing
18:32
Speaker 11: like they do to Trump that he tries to pass. No,
18:36
Speaker 11: Republicans are going.
18:36
Speaker 5: To be like, oh, well, you're going to try to
18:38
Speaker 5: get along.
18:38
Speaker 11: With them and see make do when them up only
18:41
Speaker 11: And it's just amazing the two different parties the way
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Speaker 11: they Yeah, you're.
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Speaker 2: Right, but the Republican argument is you don't want to
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Speaker 2: behave like Democrats, you don't want to get like that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and because you would win.
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Speaker 2: The I mean the argument. You can't remember most of
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Speaker 2: these said protesters that don't work, they've got nothing to do.
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Speaker 2: They're one hundred years old or they're twenty, they're just
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Speaker 2: not doing it. You know, Republicans all go to work
19:05
Speaker 2: every day. They're all busy. I don't have time. And remember,
19:09
Speaker 2: for Democrats, politics is a cult, a religion. It's for Republicans,
19:13
Speaker 2: they're busy with work and family and everything else.
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Speaker 5: I'd like to see them be a little bit more aggressive.
19:19
Speaker 2: All right, now, you're not wrong, You're not wrong. Let's
19:21
Speaker 2: go to Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, how you doing?
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Speaker 12: How you doing?
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Speaker 9: Mark?
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Speaker 12: I got a real healthcare problem the other day.
19:30
Speaker 9: I had a heart.
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Speaker 2: Attack and I, oh, I hope you're okay.
19:35
Speaker 12: Well, the only insurance I had was for my cat
19:38
Speaker 12: being and had that insurance, and when I went into
19:42
Speaker 12: the hospital, I said, with this addition symptoms you have
19:46
Speaker 12: and this insurance, we're going to have to put you down.
19:51
Speaker 2: What's something most important thing? Are you all right now?
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Speaker 2: Are you okay?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 12: Sure, I am fine.
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Speaker 2: I'm just all right. You're gonna take care of yourself now.
20:02
Speaker 2: You're gonna eat better, sleep more, no smoking, no drinking.
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Speaker 9: You didn't think that was funny at all to bubbly down.
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Speaker 2: Oh it was a joke, all right. Anyway, thanks for calling.
20:12
Speaker 2: Let's go to Shelley in Long Island. Shelley, how you doing?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 13: Hey, Mark? Love the show about at least Stephonic and
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Speaker 13: Bruce Blakeman going against each other.
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Speaker 9: Possibly.
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Speaker 13: Don't you think that at least Stephonic would be better
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Speaker 13: to go up against Hocal woman to woman. We really
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Speaker 13: need to win New York. We don't need these two
20:36
Speaker 13: in fighting.
20:37
Speaker 8: And my second.
20:38
Speaker 13: Question is Trump. Is Trump aware of the Islamification going
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Speaker 13: on across our nation?
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course he is. Yeah, Now this can be
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Speaker 2: an interesting fight. Stefanic Bruce Blakeman. The convention is I
20:51
Speaker 2: think in February, the convention, they decide who's who they're
20:55
Speaker 2: gonna go with. Yes, Stephonic would be great. She's great
20:59
Speaker 2: attacking Hokel. You saw her battle Hocal in those congressional hearings.
21:04
Speaker 2: She's really good at taking on Hokel. Blakeman would be
21:07
Speaker 2: the better governor obviously, I mean, because he's you know,
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Speaker 2: she's a legislator. He's a real, you know, management guy.
21:13
Speaker 2: He runs Nassau County. He's been the governor of Nassau
21:16
Speaker 2: County for four years and been brilliant at it. So
21:19
Speaker 2: obviously Blakeman would do better downstate. Stefanally could do better upstate.
21:24
Speaker 2: And it's a good problem to have two great candidates.
21:27
Speaker 2: It's a great problem if I'd go with Blakeman. But
21:29
Speaker 2: it's having these two great candidates having a battle of
21:32
Speaker 2: out good situation to be in. So you know one thing,
21:35
Speaker 2: you know you're gonna have a good, good candidate this
21:38
Speaker 2: time around for governor. Hey, when we come back, Alan's
21:41
Speaker 2: Why Bell, the great producer, writer, a comedian will be
21:44
Speaker 2: with us, and we'll get a lot of television stuff
21:46
Speaker 2: to talk about. Primetime television it's pretty much fading away.
21:51
Speaker 2: It's uh, well, we'll get into why why streaming is
21:54
Speaker 2: just killing it and a whole lot. Hey, he's also
21:57
Speaker 2: working on a Rodney Dangerfield movie. We'll get to that
22:00
Speaker 2: coming up next on seven to ten.
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Speaker 1: W R seven t WRS. Mark Simone Show continues.
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Speaker 2: Now, Well, Alan's y Bell, the great writer, producer, comedian,
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Speaker 2: best selling author. Get his book his life story. It's
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Speaker 2: great to come back with us. Alan's Y Bell. How
22:24
Speaker 2: you doing.
22:26
Speaker 5: I'm great. How are you Mark?
22:27
Speaker 2: I'm good. Hey. First I want to ask you about
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Speaker 2: the Network TV. Primetime Network TV used to be the
22:33
Speaker 2: biggest sitcoms and dramas. It's all going away. You know,
22:36
Speaker 2: even Blue Blood's highest rated to get canceled because it
22:39
Speaker 2: costs too much money to do car chases, and it's
22:42
Speaker 2: like making a movie every week, and they replace it,
22:45
Speaker 2: you know, they replace it with game shows and stuff.
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Speaker 5: Well, game shows are very very cheap to produce, right, yeah,
22:52
Speaker 5: and very few car chases, you know, in a game show. Okay, Now,
22:58
Speaker 5: family feud. I never saw of cards. Yeah, you know,
23:01
Speaker 5: it's what it is is. Yeah, you've got escalating a
23:05
Speaker 5: production course you have. As a series gets older and older,
23:10
Speaker 5: it's cast gets more money and more money, and after
23:12
Speaker 5: a while, I guess the networks look at it and go, Okay,
23:17
Speaker 5: what kind of return are we getting on these investments?
23:19
Speaker 5: And it's a shame because a lot of good shows
23:22
Speaker 5: get canceled for that reason.
23:24
Speaker 9: Yeah.
23:24
Speaker 2: Years ago, Prime Time you got the thirty million viewers,
23:27
Speaker 2: you could pay for everything. But now if you're going
23:28
Speaker 2: to get two million viewers, you can't have a twenty
23:31
Speaker 2: five cars in a chase scene and four thousand trailers.
23:34
Speaker 9: You know what it is?
23:35
Speaker 5: The pie is split into so many pieces now, so
23:39
Speaker 5: many sessions. You know, you would go back with showing
23:42
Speaker 5: our age but there was a time where it was
23:44
Speaker 5: only ABC, CBS, and NBC, and then Fox came along.
23:49
Speaker 5: In the late eighties, we had four networks. Now cable
23:54
Speaker 5: streaming all the other platforms. Everybody is fighting for a
23:59
Speaker 5: little piece of that same pie, meaning the viewing audience.
24:03
Speaker 5: Plus you know, it's no longer a communal gathering to
24:08
Speaker 5: watch the show. It used to be everybody was around
24:12
Speaker 5: the TV eight o'clock on Sunday nights because then Sullivan
24:15
Speaker 5: was on, and then you changed the channel, which was
24:17
Speaker 5: a big to do. At nine o'clock, Bonanza came on
24:20
Speaker 5: on NBC. But now you know your DV are it
24:24
Speaker 5: and you watch it at your leisure, or you'd get
24:27
Speaker 5: a family. I know there are times where I'll discover
24:30
Speaker 5: that my wife and I, who are in different rooms.
24:33
Speaker 5: Let's say in our house we're watching the same show
24:35
Speaker 5: at the same time. We shouldn't we be next to
24:38
Speaker 5: each other.
24:38
Speaker 2: No, yeah, not a good idea. But so last night,
24:43
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, they had the Golden Girls thirtieth
24:46
Speaker 2: anniversary or whatever it was, it special where they brought
24:49
Speaker 2: them all back. And then next month, later this month,
24:52
Speaker 2: we're gonna have Everybody Loves Raymond thirtieth anniversary. Is this
24:55
Speaker 2: the new cheap skate form of programming for a network TV?
24:59
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I think it's a combination of a
25:01
Speaker 5: lot of things. You get, you know, it's fun for
25:04
Speaker 5: the audience to see who they were, remember who they were,
25:07
Speaker 5: because you're still alive and young, younger in reruns, right,
25:11
Speaker 5: this is what they look like now, we all aged
25:14
Speaker 5: thirty years. It's fun to see them together again. And
25:18
Speaker 5: you know something, I don't know the cost of those things,
25:20
Speaker 5: but it seems to me that everybody's happy to do it.
25:24
Speaker 5: You know, years ago there was a Murphy Brown one,
25:27
Speaker 5: and you know, if you go down a list, it's
25:29
Speaker 5: been a lot of reunion shows, so you know, I
25:33
Speaker 5: guess they're here to stay. Yeah.
25:35
Speaker 2: Also, if you were in the cast of the show,
25:37
Speaker 2: you know, the big star might have had a piece
25:38
Speaker 2: of the show, made a fortune or still a big star.
25:41
Speaker 2: But if you were just in the cast, this is
25:43
Speaker 2: your big chance to get back on television. Already forgot
25:45
Speaker 2: about the cast?
25:47
Speaker 5: Well, that's absolutely true. You're in front of a camera,
25:49
Speaker 5: you're in front of an audience, and you go, oh, wow,
25:52
Speaker 5: she's still alive. Who knew?
25:58
Speaker 2: Hey, tell us about your working on this ride the
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Speaker 2: danger of project. I can't wait to see this because
26:02
Speaker 2: it's everybody loves this guy. Tell us what's going on
26:04
Speaker 2: with that?
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Speaker 5: Well, we had a reading of the first act a
26:08
Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: It went well, Broadway show, right, a Broadway play, this
26:12
Speaker 2: would be a Broadway show.
26:14
Speaker 5: And I got this terrific director named Maritz I can't
26:19
Speaker 5: pronounce his last name, Van then s and a bunch
26:23
Speaker 5: of continents. Okay, great guy, great director. And now it's
26:30
Speaker 5: going to be our turn to go in and dig
26:32
Speaker 5: a little deeper and finish the story that I've been
26:36
Speaker 5: working on. So it's really exciting. You know. I love
26:40
Speaker 5: the theater. I've done it a number of times off
26:43
Speaker 5: Broadway and on Broadway with Billy Crystal's show Seven hundred Sundays,
26:48
Speaker 5: and Martin Short had a show that I co wrote. So,
26:51
Speaker 5: you know, something being you know, having come from live TV,
26:58
Speaker 5: you know, with an audience and your right thing in
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Speaker 5: the morning, and it's on TV at night. This is
27:03
Speaker 5: the closest you get to it because movies take forever
27:06
Speaker 5: and you're usually doing the same same scene over and
27:09
Speaker 5: over again for the crew. Okay, and so to have
27:12
Speaker 5: an audience response to something that you wrote is no
27:16
Speaker 5: better feeling for a writer.
27:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not a musical, is it.
27:22
Speaker 5: You can sing while you're sitting in your teeth, Mark,
27:25
Speaker 5: but no, nobody on stage will be seen.
27:27
Speaker 2: Good, good good. I don't want that.
27:28
Speaker 5: And well no, no, no, no, no, no no, there won't
27:31
Speaker 5: be any no.
27:32
Speaker 2: Thing, oh good, oh good, it'll be now. Rodney Dangerfield
27:36
Speaker 2: great comedian, funny guy, but there was like a dark
27:40
Speaker 2: side to him. Will we see some of that?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I think you have to. I think you know, you
27:47
Speaker 5: have a main character that had demons and had vices,
27:53
Speaker 5: and there are reasons for it, and but what the
27:56
Speaker 5: reason he was such a hero is that he took
27:59
Speaker 5: those demons, and he took those vices and the things
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Speaker 5: that he felt inferior about and he made that into
28:05
Speaker 5: his act. I don't get no respect, Okay, it was
28:11
Speaker 5: he looked at head on, you know what I mean.
28:13
Speaker 5: So that came from a hurtful place, but at the
28:17
Speaker 5: same time, it was his way of getting a laugh,
28:19
Speaker 5: getting acceptance from audiences, you know, and taking control. So
28:26
Speaker 5: there's a great degree of heroism there.
28:29
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now, obviously casting is crucial and it'd be great
28:34
Speaker 2: to star in this great Broadway show, this play, but
28:37
Speaker 2: kind of unflattering if you're going to get cast as
28:39
Speaker 2: Rodney Dansfield. Somebody says, why you look just like.
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Speaker 5: You know. We've had some talks about it, but right now,
28:49
Speaker 5: as the writer, I'm just writing it for Rodney and
28:52
Speaker 5: Rodney's voice. Okay. Yeah, Once it's done and we're happy
28:56
Speaker 5: with the script, or the producers are happy with the script,
28:59
Speaker 5: then it's going to be a time to talk Turkey. Okay,
29:02
Speaker 5: who can play him? Okay? And then you know, there's
29:07
Speaker 5: I'm sure that there'll be a lot of suggestions. I'm
29:09
Speaker 5: sure there will be a lot of disagreements, and you know,
29:13
Speaker 5: in some stars are so big that you know they
29:17
Speaker 5: don't know addition, so you got to guess whether or
29:19
Speaker 5: not so and so can do it. You know. It's
29:23
Speaker 5: but that's down the road. So right now I'm pretending
29:25
Speaker 5: like Rodney's still alive and he's on stage delivering what
29:28
Speaker 5: I'm writing.
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Speaker 9: Now.
29:30
Speaker 2: The only other problem Rodney had incredible delivery for those
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Speaker 2: one liners. And I don't care how good an actor
29:35
Speaker 2: you are, you're not gonna have that comic delivery. That's
29:38
Speaker 2: gonna be a problem. Isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know something, a lot of people impersonate him.
29:43
Speaker 5: You're right, Rodney did have that great delivery and the timing.
29:49
Speaker 5: You know, I remember when I wrote for him, this
29:52
Speaker 5: is before Saturday Night Live, so this is fifty one,
29:55
Speaker 5: fifty two years ago.
29:56
Speaker 3: Now.
29:57
Speaker 5: He would labor over syllables, or he would take a pause,
30:02
Speaker 5: or he would you know, look off stage. It was
30:05
Speaker 5: all calculated. What seemed like an had lib what seemed
30:10
Speaker 5: like in the moment a sort of reaction that he
30:13
Speaker 5: would have. Those were very, very well rehearsed. It was
30:17
Speaker 5: like jazz, you know what I mean. He was free flowing,
30:20
Speaker 5: but at the same time he knew but he knew
30:23
Speaker 5: where he was going.
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Speaker 9: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a real craftsman. He would record every
30:28
Speaker 2: shows a little cassette recorder and he had those index cards.
30:30
Speaker 2: Absolutely well, right faster, we want to see this. This
30:34
Speaker 2: is going to be a big I guarantee this will
30:36
Speaker 2: be a huge, huge blockbuster hit.
30:39
Speaker 5: Well, I sure, hope. So I just want to get
30:41
Speaker 5: these words down on paper so we can take the
30:44
Speaker 5: next step. But thank you for your confidence.
30:46
Speaker 2: I know, is there is there any idea, any date,
30:49
Speaker 2: any idea when to lappen.
30:50
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I think that will happen once everyone satisfied
30:54
Speaker 5: with the script, and then they'll look at the calendar
30:57
Speaker 5: to look at you know. The biggest thing also was
30:58
Speaker 5: one or theaters available, you know, so those will be
31:03
Speaker 5: in the hands of people like producers and agents and
31:06
Speaker 5: whatever who know that end is the business.
31:09
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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me Mark, see you so all right?
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