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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show, now nine till noon weekdays on 710WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, if there's some good news here, if you're a Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: cover your ears for a minute. The GDP, the growth
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  Speaker 2: numbers have come out. We were expected to grow 3.1 percent.
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  Speaker 2: The GDP, the numbers have come out and we've actually
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  Speaker 2: grown even more. It's 3.4 percent. beating expectations that's pretty
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  Speaker 2: good gdp growth it indicates a good booming healthy economy
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  Speaker 2: all right if you're a democrat you can uncover your
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  Speaker 2: ears uh so that's good news now the elections in
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  Speaker 2: israel are too close to call at this point bb
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  Speaker 2: netanyahu has a lead but a very slight lead so
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  Speaker 2: they won't officially declare a winner yet uh netanyahu uh
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  Speaker 2: slightly ahead and That lead is held for about the
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  Speaker 2: last 24 hours, so that's good news. The opponent, Eisen...
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  Speaker 2: What's his name? Eisenglatt. Close second. Now, at some point,
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  Speaker 2: it's possible that one of them, most likely Netanyahu, will
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  Speaker 2: get the other parties to form coalitions. You have to
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  Speaker 2: get over 61 seats to take control, so that could happen.
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  Speaker 2: But they'll keep trying to get the... the final, final,
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  Speaker 2: final numbers, and then declare a winner. But Netanyahu, so
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  Speaker 2: far in the lead, but very slightly, and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to have to get some other parties to join him,
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  Speaker 2: create a coalition to be in control. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: The opposition guy, former IDF, Israel Defense Forces commander, the
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  Speaker 2: difference between him and Netanyahu, as far as the war goes,
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  Speaker 2: They both would go all out to defend Israel, of course,
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  Speaker 2: against any Hamas or any craziness like that. They differ
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  Speaker 2: on Iran. Netanyahu would like to just go totally, totally
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  Speaker 2: wipe out Iran's regime. The opponent, though, he's all for
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  Speaker 2: military strikes on Iran. He doesn't believe it's possible to
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  Speaker 2: get regime change. So President Trump would rather have Netanyahu.
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  Speaker 2: I think Trump wants regime change. as most people do,
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  Speaker 2: looking for a more permanent solution. So it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be another day or two before we get a definite
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  Speaker 2: winner in Israel. Hey, the evening news, they still have this,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not. It's an antiquated sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, back in the good old days, you'd get
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  Speaker 2: home and you'd watch the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite,
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  Speaker 2: or you'd watch NBC news. It was Huntley and Brinkley,
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  Speaker 2: and then it was John Chancellor, and then it was
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  Speaker 2: Tom Brokaw. You know, you worked all day. You went
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  Speaker 2: to school all day, whatever. You were busy all day.
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  Speaker 2: And then you got home and you put on the
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  Speaker 2: local news. You got all your local news at 6
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  Speaker 2: and 6.30. You got all the national news. And that
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  Speaker 2: was it, believe it or not. That was all you
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  Speaker 2: got as far as the news. One hour, six to
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  Speaker 2: seven of news on television. That was it. There was
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  Speaker 2: nothing else. Now, then Ted Turner comes along and he
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  Speaker 2: invents CNN. Oh, look at that. You could watch the
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  Speaker 2: news anytime you want. In fact, you could watch it
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  Speaker 2: all day if you want. There was nothing but news.
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  Speaker 2: And remember, in the old Ted Turner beginnings of CNN,
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  Speaker 2: it was fair, balanced, neutral. It was legitimate news back then.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody said he was crazy. How the hell could
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  Speaker 2: you have news all day? Who's going to want a
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  Speaker 2: 24-hour news channel on television. They thought he was insane.
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  Speaker 2: His family wanted to have him committed. They thought it
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  Speaker 2: was nuts. But he always said, they got these all-news
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  Speaker 2: radio stations, and in every city where they have them,
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  Speaker 2: they do really well. Some cities, the all-news station is
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  Speaker 2: number one. So he said, if it's working on radio,
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  Speaker 2: why wouldn't it work on TV? And that's where he
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  Speaker 2: got the idea. And of course, CNN took off. Big,
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  Speaker 2: big help by the Gulf War, the old Gulf War.
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  Speaker 2: because then everybody wanted 24-7 coverage, and they turned to
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  Speaker 2: CNN for the Gulf War, and some real stars emerged
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  Speaker 2: from that. That's how Wolf Blitzer became famous. Who was
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  Speaker 2: the other guy? The Scud Stud. Remember him, the good-looking
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  Speaker 2: guy with the Scud missiles? What was his name? I
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  Speaker 2: don't even remember. That's how everybody got to know Christiane Amanpour,
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  Speaker 2: and there was CNN well-known anchors, Bernard Shaw and all
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  Speaker 2: those guys, and that's the good old days. What was
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  Speaker 2: my point? Oh, the point is, It's now 2026. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you had CNN came along, then Fox News and MSNBC.
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  Speaker 2: You got three or four. You got Newsmax. You got
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  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of 24-7 news channels. And then the
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  Speaker 2: Internet comes along, and you got a million news sites.
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  Speaker 2: You can get news every second, all day, 24. So
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  Speaker 2: what's the point of the evening news? What's the point
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  Speaker 2: of it? Who needs it? Pfft. I guess some older people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the ratings. The demos on the evening
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  Speaker 2: news on the networks, it's very, very, very old. So
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's people that don't get their news off
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  Speaker 2: the internet. But it's interesting. ABC with David Muir, that
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  Speaker 2: network newscast, number one with over 8 million viewers. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not, most weeks, it's the single biggest
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  Speaker 2: show in television, aside from football and all that. It's
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  Speaker 2: the most watched show, beats everything in primetime with 8 million.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, NBC with six million, which is not bad.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good. That's the new anchor whose name is, I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember, but he's the guy that replaced Lester Holton.
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  Speaker 2: He's doing great. Now, CBS News, the four million, half
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  Speaker 2: of what ABC gets. It's a distant third place at
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  Speaker 2: four million. And that's this Tony Ducoupil. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what they can do over there. I mean, You could
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  Speaker 2: just put it out of its misery. No reason to
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  Speaker 2: do the evening news anymore. Do something else. Put a
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  Speaker 2: game show on it. It'll get triple the ratings. Do
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  Speaker 2: something else. Or I guess you can just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can make a living with 4 million viewers watching you.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess they're happy with it. It's okay. But
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  Speaker 2: now there's stuff going on all over the world. With
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine and Russia, they are going to sit down and talk.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S. will be there. They call that trilateral talks.
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  Speaker 2: They will begin within days of the midterms. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: probably the week after the midterm election. Election day is
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  Speaker 2: next Tuesday and probably right after that. They'll start the talks.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. face-to-face talks. They'll take
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  Speaker 2: place in Abu Dhabi in the UAE and.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the only thing going on as far as Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: and Russia, the normal fighting, the only thing going on
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  Speaker 2: is there was a massive drone attack against Russia's capital.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what he was thinking because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: wait for the talks. But Zelensky tried to hit Moscow
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  Speaker 2: hard with a massive drone attack aiming right for the capital.
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  Speaker 2: Russia managed to shoot down 10 drones heading into Moscow.
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  Speaker 2: So very, very aggressive on the part of Zelensky. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: the marathon is this weekend. That's on Sunday. But you
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  Speaker 2: got to remember, Friday night and all day Saturday, restaurants
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  Speaker 2: will be going crazy with these marathon runners. They come
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  Speaker 2: from all over the world. Thousands of these runners come
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  Speaker 2: in and they do this stupid thing they call carb
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  Speaker 2: loading where they got to eat pasta all day and night.
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  Speaker 2: And if it's an Italian restaurant, it will be clogged
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  Speaker 2: up with people. You're going to find it very difficult
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  Speaker 2: to get in anywhere Friday and Saturday. And actually, non-Italian
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  Speaker 2: restaurants deliberately changed the menu for a special marathon menu
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  Speaker 2: for carb loading. So that's this weekend. Marathon on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Be a traffic nightmare trying to get around. So just
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  Speaker 2: remember that. As I said, the GDP looks great. Growth
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  Speaker 2: over the last quarter better than expected. Fed meeting yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Warsh talked about inflation.
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  Speaker 1: Real activity is clearly pointing in the right direction. That's
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  Speaker 1: good news. But inflation is too high. Energy and related
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  Speaker 1: prices have moved higher again in recent weeks. And our
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  Speaker 1: job is to ensure that relative price changes in some
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  Speaker 1: sectors do not broaden out across the economy.
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  Speaker 2: No interest rate hike, though.
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  Speaker 1: Economic activity is expanding at a strong pace. While uncertainty remains,
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  Speaker 1: owing in part to geopolitical developments, domestic spending has been resilient.
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  Speaker 1: Productivity growth is strong and capital investment robust.
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  Speaker 2: He's a very nice guy, Kevin Warsh. I know the guy.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes you sit and talk with him and he
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  Speaker 2: tells you about that stuff. And you look at him
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  Speaker 2: and you go, I don't know why a guy would
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  Speaker 2: want this job. But some people love this stuff. Hugh Hefner.
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  Speaker 2: And I knew him a little. And he used to
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  Speaker 2: come on the show. Remember, we used to have Hugh
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  Speaker 2: Hefner on. He was funny, charming, and had all those
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  Speaker 2: women and had that big round bed. And he spent
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  Speaker 2: his whole day in his pajamas walking around with that
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  Speaker 2: smoking jacket. But he did have a wife. the last
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  Speaker 2: few years. The wife is now talking. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: who to believe in all this, but the wife and
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  Speaker 2: a couple of former playmates, they're all talking. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of celebrities at that Playboy mansion. Ooh,
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  Speaker 2: he had parties all the time. I went to a
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  Speaker 2: few of those, and he'd have movie night parties. The
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  Speaker 2: funniest thing with the movie night, Hefner loved movies. You'd
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  Speaker 2: all get in this room and he'd had all the
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  Speaker 2: bunnies and the playmates and they'd show a movie. The
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  Speaker 2: problem was these playmates, these centerfolds, they're all 23 years old.
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  Speaker 2: Hefner would always show a movie from the 1940s. These
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  Speaker 2: people didn't know what the hell they were looking at.
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  Speaker 2: They'd never seen black and white. They didn't know who
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  Speaker 2: the hell Humphrey Bogart is or any of these people.
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  Speaker 2: So they would just Doze off. He would love these movies.
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  Speaker 2: All the classics from the 40s. They had no idea
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  Speaker 2: why they were looking at this. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 2: there was the grotto and all of that. And there
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  Speaker 2: were celebrities that were taking advantage of all of this.
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  Speaker 2: So Hefner's ex-wife said the worst was Jack Nicholson, who
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  Speaker 2: was always there, treating it like a drive-thru. She said
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  Speaker 2: Nicholson was such a frequent visitor. uh that they called
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  Speaker 2: it jack's drive-thru at one point he would and she
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  Speaker 2: said it was not only women but sometimes if you
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  Speaker 2: needed food he just come through you know they had
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  Speaker 2: buffets everywhere everything uh so nicholson always there but she
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  Speaker 2: also gets into a lot of stuff about hefner and
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  Speaker 2: the sex life and how uh yeah he did have
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  Speaker 2: uh three four you know the problem is If you
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  Speaker 2: sleep with a million centerfolds and a million playboys, I've
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  Speaker 2: seen this with famous actors. If you sleep with millions
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  Speaker 2: and millions and millions and millions and beautiful women, after
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  Speaker 2: a while, it kind of gets boring to you. You've
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  Speaker 2: done it 10 million times. It doesn't do anything for you.
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  Speaker 2: So then they've got to start having two women at
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  Speaker 2: once and three women at once and four women at once.
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  Speaker 2: And then after a while, that gets boring. Do you
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  Speaker 2: remember Peter Lawford? His wife told me once, she said,
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  Speaker 2: after that, he was like... It would be ducks and horses, anything,
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  Speaker 2: whatever he had to do. But she says Hefner had
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  Speaker 2: more and more women at the same time. And then
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  Speaker 2: he bought out these dirty sex toys, wanted them to
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  Speaker 2: use them. And then he would have twins and wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to have sex with each other. She said it
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  Speaker 2: just got more and more and more gross. But I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. What's the point of saying all this now?
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  Speaker 2: Why bring it up? hey, this Katie Zachariah, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know why she's doing these shows. She runs around doing
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  Speaker 2: these TV shows. You know, the smart thing to do,
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  Speaker 2: go away for a while, give it six months, let
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  Speaker 2: it die out. But she goes on with Piers Morgan,
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  Speaker 2: who's always looking for trouble. So he's tearing into her
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  Speaker 2: about exactly how did you get fired? What did President
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  Speaker 2: Trump say to you? And she's being very diplomatic and
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  Speaker 2: very gracious. And she said, well, President Trump and I
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  Speaker 2: have a good relationship. And I still admire what he's
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  Speaker 2: doing for the country. And she started talking about his accomplishments.
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  Speaker 2: And he starts yelling at her. Cut the crap, he said.
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  Speaker 2: You're not his press secretary anymore. I'm asking you, what
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  Speaker 2: happened when you got fired? Well, she didn't really want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about it. He said, you're dodging the question. Well,
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  Speaker 2: she's being gracious. He said, it was very nice to me.
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  Speaker 2: He was very kind to me and my family. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, what did he say? He said, well, President
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  Speaker 2: Trump has already revealed what he said. There's no reason
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  Speaker 2: to do this. But That's Piers Morgan. He comes from
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  Speaker 2: the British tabloid world where you try to create a sensation.
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  Speaker 2: But what the hell is she doing on this show?
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  Speaker 2: Stay home for a while. Stay home. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: problem is when she was press secretary, it wasn't going well.
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  Speaker 2: Then she did that infamous Hannity interview where she wasn't
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  Speaker 2: good at all. And he was asking the tough questions
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  Speaker 2: in a very nice way. I mean, it wasn't browbeating
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  Speaker 2: or anything, but she didn't handle it that well. And
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  Speaker 2: that helped speed up her departure. So Since he's not
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  Speaker 2: good at these interviews, don't do them. Don't do them.
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  Speaker 2: Write a book. Write an article. Do something else. But
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  Speaker 2: don't do these interviews and give the host a chance
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  Speaker 2: to just beat you up or showboat for the cameras.
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  Speaker 2: So Kamala Harris, one of the great goofballs of the world,
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, is now running around speaking to Democrats, advising them.
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, though, is warning Democrats against impeaching Trump. If
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  Speaker 2: somehow the Democrats take control, she said, don't spend all
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  Speaker 2: day impeaching. Use the energy and resources for something better.
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  Speaker 2: Get something done for America. Wow. Did you believe Kamala
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  Speaker 2: Harris giving common sense advice? But she also said, hold
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  Speaker 2: everybody accountable. These Republicans are ruthless, ruthless. Do it to them.
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  Speaker 2: Hold everybody accountable. You know, actually, the Republicans aren't so
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  Speaker 2: ruthless when it comes to hearings in the House. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you watch those Democrats when they hold hearings. Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 2: they are brutal. There's a million soundbites that night. But Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: they're not so good at doing hearings. But she says,
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  Speaker 2: go after everybody. Go after Pete Hegseth, who I think
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  Speaker 2: is hollowing out our military, politicizing our military. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't really go after Hegseth for that because— In
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  Speaker 2: the last year that he's been there, we have pulled
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  Speaker 2: off the most successful military operations in history. From the
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  Speaker 2: Maduro capture to the taking out that nuclear mountain in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: And he's pulled off some amazing stuff. The rescue of
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  Speaker 2: the downed pilots in the middle of Iran. Some amazing
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  Speaker 2: military operations. All successful on his watch. Hey, we'll take
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  Speaker 2: some calls next. 800-321-7000. 800-321-0710 is the number. Give me
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  Speaker 2: a call, especially if you're a new caller.
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  Speaker 1: 800-321-0710.