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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Show, WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, it's Friday. That's the good news. Bad news, it's
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  Speaker 1: the final Friday of summer. Autumn begins on Wednesday. It's
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  Speaker 1: the final day that it'll be 80 degrees. The high today,
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  Speaker 1: about 80, 81. And then the high tomorrow, like 70.
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  Speaker 1: And then most of next week, it's in the 60s.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Mid-60s will be the high. Most of next week.
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  Speaker 1: So it's coming fast. Autumn. Sad news. Warren Buffett has
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  Speaker 1: stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. He's 96 and
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  Speaker 1: I guess having a little trouble. Last time I saw him,
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  Speaker 1: he had hearing aid in both ears. Can't drive anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Can't see well enough to drive. And that was about
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  Speaker 1: a year or two years ago, maybe. So 96 and
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  Speaker 1: he has to step down. He was no longer the CEO.
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  Speaker 1: He was the chairman of the board stepped down. He'll
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  Speaker 1: be the chairman of Meredith's and he's appointed his son,
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  Speaker 1: Howard Buffett, who's in his sixties. Howard Buffett will be
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  Speaker 1: the new chairman of the board. Howard, Howard actually looks
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  Speaker 1: older than Warren, but, uh, he'll be the new, uh,
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  Speaker 1: chairman of the board. Uh, Buffett will remain an advisor
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  Speaker 1: and a member of the board of directors, but it's still,
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  Speaker 1: still kind of sad. Um, Now, there's a lot going
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  Speaker 1: on all over the place. First of all, the AI
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  Speaker 1: scheme continues. They're trying very hard to make this the
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  Speaker 1: new climate change. You're supposed to be afraid that AI
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  Speaker 1: will kill you unless you vote for the Democrats and
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  Speaker 1: they stop it. Senator Kennedy had some kind of bill
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  Speaker 1: to stop it, but that bill got killed. Uh, Kennedy is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he didn't really have that thick Southern accent, uh,
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Now, all of a sudden he's a very
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  Speaker 1: Southern and he came up with all these, uh, Andy Griffith, uh, expressions. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm more than a dog and a Bob tail, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to Kennedy.
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  Speaker 2: My mama didn't raise a fool. And if she did,
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  Speaker 2: it was one of my brothers. I mean, no disrespect
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  Speaker 2: to my friend Senator Paul. I understand what he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to do. Um, But he's not talking to Bambi's baby
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  Speaker 2: brother here. The committee's the way to kill this. You
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  Speaker 2: can vote against my bill, you can object, but at
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  Speaker 2: least be intellectually honest and say, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: do this. Don't appoint a committee. That's the weenie way out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I don't know what that is. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: bill that was too soon to, I mean, nobody knows
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  Speaker 1: less about AI than Senator Kennedy. Rand Paul, a respondent.
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  Speaker 3: It's imperative that AI systems are safe and that humans
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  Speaker 3: remain in control. But if Congress acts hastily before the
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  Speaker 3: technology is understood, Congress risks killing innovation and setting this
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  Speaker 3: technology back decades.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, important thing to remember, it's a national security issue
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  Speaker 1: because whoever wins the AI race wins everything. This is
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  Speaker 1: like the nuclear weapons of now. So if we stop,
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  Speaker 1: slow down, China goes crazy. We're way ahead of China,
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  Speaker 1: way ahead of China. And that's terrifying China. If we
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  Speaker 1: slow down, they speed up and they get ahead of us.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the problem. Rand Paul.
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  Speaker 3: And I really fear reactionaries who jump forward and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: want to stop the Terminator may not be the most
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  Speaker 3: thoughtful approach to AI.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the craziest is Bernie Sanders. who's so crazy, he
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  Speaker 1: actually teamed up with Steve Bannon, the two of them
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  Speaker 1: holding a press conference. Two crazies from both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the aisle holding a press conference together. And Bernie Sanders
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  Speaker 1: was the guy who six years ago said we would
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  Speaker 1: all be dead if we didn't stop climate change in
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  Speaker 1: six years. Well, it's six years later. Everything's exactly the same.
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  Speaker 1: So Bernie Sanders, always a nut, that Bernie Sanders, always
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  Speaker 1: an extremist, always a, You know, remember the income inequality
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  Speaker 1: would kill us, and the top 1% have 20% of
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  Speaker 1: the top 3%, and he's just always shooting his mouth off.
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders.
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  Speaker 4: We have an industry of extraordinary importance, the AI industry,
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  Speaker 4: which is controlled by a handful of the richest people
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  Speaker 4: in the world. Ellison, Bezos, Musk, and others, who really
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  Speaker 4: do not stay up nights worrying about the implications of
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  Speaker 4: what they are doing until very recently. So they, if
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  Speaker 4: they're going to be honest about it, and if they're
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  Speaker 4: telling the American people that this is a real danger,
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  Speaker 4: then you should not be spending money trying to defeat
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  Speaker 4: candidates or members of Congress who want to do something
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're supposed to believe that senators stay up
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  Speaker 1: all night worrying about us. Here's Kennedy's response.
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  Speaker 2: I don't agree with Senator Sanders. He wants to stop
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  Speaker 2: the advancement of AI.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Having said that, I don't completely trust these AI tech CEOs.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying they're as bad as timeshare salesmen, but
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  Speaker 2: they've got a vested interest here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You got to say it like he does. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: how did he say it?
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  Speaker 2: I don't agree with Senator Sanders. He wants to to
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  Speaker 2: stop the advancement of AI.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so it's not AI, it's AI. AI. There's
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  Speaker 1: no AI, it's AI. Go back about 20 years and
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  Speaker 1: get some video of Kennedy. He talked like this. He
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  Speaker 1: talked just normal. Then he got a little more Southern,
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  Speaker 1: a little more Southern, and now it's AI.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So again, this is all a plot, carefully coordinated. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the guy coaching this behind the scenes, it's been Barack
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  Speaker 1: Obama flying around the country the last few weeks. They're
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  Speaker 1: trying to, they started this a little too late. This
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be the big midterm issue. You remember
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  Speaker 1: six years ago, they used climate change as the issue.
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  Speaker 1: Climate change, that's why Bernie Sanders said, six years, every
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  Speaker 1: scientist agrees that six years will all be wiped out
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  Speaker 1: by climate change. So six years later, nothing happened. They're
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  Speaker 1: going to do this with AI now and see if
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  Speaker 1: it works. I don't think they'll pull it off. So
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  Speaker 1: I went to the eye doctor yesterday. And the problem
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  Speaker 1: I have is dry eye. And he said, and you
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  Speaker 1: talk to people in the waiting room. They're all there
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  Speaker 1: for the dry eye. They got this dry eye. So
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  Speaker 1: this guy's the most brilliant eye doctor in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I said, what? He said, it's from looking at your phone.
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  Speaker 1: It's from staring at your phone. And I didn't say this,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm thinking to myself, he just kept me waiting
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  Speaker 1: for 40 minutes in the waiting room. And all I
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  Speaker 1: did was look at my phone for 40 minutes. So
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  Speaker 1: you caused the dry eye. But actually, the important rule,
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  Speaker 1: he said, you know, when you look at your phone,
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  Speaker 1: you don't blink. So this is, you want to help yourself.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got this dry eye problem, just keep blinking
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  Speaker 1: and train yourself. I've taught myself since then, when I
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  Speaker 1: look at the phone, to just keep blinking every so often.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you, you know, delete them, hit delete. Anytime
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  Speaker 1: you change something. just blink, just blink all the time.
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  Speaker 1: As you're looking at your phone, it can cure the
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  Speaker 1: dry eye right there. You know, they have these national
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  Speaker 1: French fry day. It's national, uh, peanut butter day. It's
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  Speaker 1: national pretzel day. Today is national cheeseburger day. I forget
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  Speaker 1: who started this, but then every industry jumped in and
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  Speaker 1: came up with national ice cream day, whatever industry they
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  Speaker 1: came up with a day to make you buy their products.
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  Speaker 1: So it's national cheeseburger day. Uh, And how come, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when it's one of these days here at iHeart, outside
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  Speaker 1: over there, there's always 12 buffets. If it's National Bagel Day,
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  Speaker 1: there's bagel buffets everywhere. Every big bagel company brings buffets.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing anywhere. There's not a cheeseburger in sight. There's
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  Speaker 1: no food anywhere. It's because it's Friday. Nobody works here
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. It's the day you work from home. Friday
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  Speaker 1: and Monday, everybody works from home. So I just, to
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  Speaker 1: you industries, if you're going to do these days, please
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  Speaker 1: do them Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday so we get the
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  Speaker 1: buffets here. But it's National Cheeseburger Day. I really don't
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  Speaker 1: think you need a day to promote cheeseburgers. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you have to try to push people to go
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  Speaker 1: get a cheeseburger. It's something you do all the time anyway.
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  Speaker 1: If you walk by an Apple store, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: see those ropes and lines. There's lines everywhere because the
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  Speaker 1: iPhone 18, even though everybody's pre-ordered it, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people didn't. They go in the store and buy it.
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  Speaker 1: I understand. You want to see it first. Fiddle with
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  Speaker 1: it first. But this is the first day it's in
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  Speaker 1: the stores. And there's lines everywhere on every Apple store.
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  Speaker 1: You remember in Minnesota where all those judges, those federal
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  Speaker 1: judges on immigration, ICE, they kept ruling against Trump. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out now they might have been colluding. And
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  Speaker 1: there's an investigation into these federal judges. These are all
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  Speaker 1: separate cases. But the federal judges were colluding, actually calls, emails,
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  Speaker 1: texts to each other. You're not supposed to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So an investigation is underway into these judges who might
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  Speaker 1: find themselves in a little trouble ethically. Hey, speaking of Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: the talk was Ilhan Omar, Department of Justice, investigating, kick
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  Speaker 1: her out of the country because she married her brother
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  Speaker 1: to become a citizen. Well, according to immigration experts, ICE lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: all of that, you can't really kick her out for
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  Speaker 1: marrying her brother. You can convict her of something. You
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  Speaker 1: can fine her. You can ban the brother from the country.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't kick her out for all kinds of legal.
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  Speaker 1: It's not punishable by deportation. But they are looking into
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  Speaker 1: her father, her son. father, how he got here. Noor
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  Speaker 1: Saad Mohammed Elmi, long identified as an educator. He died
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  Speaker 1: in 2020. But they're looking at evidence that he may
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  Speaker 1: have done something fraudulent on his application to become a citizen.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what they're looking at that. If that's the case,
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  Speaker 1: they may be able to deport her. So the case
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  Speaker 1: having a few bumps, but they keep proceeding. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: always hear about people leaving New York. It's not as
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  Speaker 1: dire as they make it out to be. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: more people are coming in than leaving. You can't try
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  Speaker 1: to rent an apartment in New York right now. It's
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  Speaker 1: almost impossible. They're all rented. The rental market is exploding.
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  Speaker 1: Commercial real estate is exploding right now. high-end uh condo
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  Speaker 1: co-op sales are going crazy but you know who is
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  Speaker 1: leaving biggest percentage of people leaving young people gen zers
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  Speaker 1: it's not that they don't like new york they're just
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  Speaker 1: moving because they you know these uh young young young
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  Speaker 1: people can't afford to live here can't afford an apartment
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  Speaker 1: so gen zers are fleeing faster than anywhere else but
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  Speaker 1: they don't go far uh leaving the Big Apple, 30,000
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  Speaker 1: Gen Zers, 10,000 of them going to Philadelphia. And they're
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  Speaker 1: doing this in other places, in Los Angeles too. They
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  Speaker 1: can't afford the big city they want to be in,
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  Speaker 1: so they go about two hours out where they can
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  Speaker 1: get something much cheaper. For instance, a typical home in
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  Speaker 1: New York sells for $ 800, 000. In Cleveland, $ 300, 000. That's a
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  Speaker 1: huge savings. So they're moving for that reason. And it's
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  Speaker 1: also easier to get jobs. They're doing the same thing
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They're moving like two hours away to
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  Speaker 1: Riverside where it's one-third the price. This is a phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: happening all over the place now with these Gen Zers.
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  Speaker 1: They don't work as hard. They don't make as much money.
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  Speaker 1: And if they live in a really expensive place, L.A.
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  Speaker 1: or New York, it's just tough. So they're all fleeing
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  Speaker 1: in great numbers two hours away. That way they can
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  Speaker 1: come into the city when they want but also spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot less money Hey, the Upper East Side, they're
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  Speaker 1: a little upset there. 62nd Street, York Avenue. Homeless shelter.
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  Speaker 1: It was supposed to be gone. It's still there. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the Mamdani administration. 562nd, the Bentley Hotel. It was
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  Speaker 1: quite a luxurious hotel. An upscale hotel, the Bentley Hotel.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody minded having that in the neighborhood. But then it
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  Speaker 1: became a homeless shelter because what happened is the city
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  Speaker 1: started putting the illegals there. And when that ended, next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, they put the homeless there. And the hotels,
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  Speaker 1: you say, well, why would the hotel even, because you
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  Speaker 1: get a huge, huge contract. That's why these hotels do it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can make a lot of money as
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  Speaker 1: a hotel, but it's tough to operate a hotel. You
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  Speaker 1: got difficulty running this business day and night. Then you
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  Speaker 1: got to advertise. You got to hope to get people.
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  Speaker 1: You got to market. If you can get one of
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  Speaker 1: these contracts with the city where they'll take all the
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  Speaker 1: rooms and You make a fortune and you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to do that much. So this hotel got a $ 32
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  Speaker 1: million contract to run it as a homeless shelter. But
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  Speaker 1: then the neighbors went crazy. The whole thing was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to end. No more homeless shelter in the neighborhood. So
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  Speaker 1: the way they got around it, they say it's no
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  Speaker 1: longer a homeless shelter. It's a humanitarian emergency response and
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  Speaker 1: relief center. It's a tier two family shelter, whatever the
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  Speaker 1: hell that is. It's a Yorkville sanctuary. They just changed
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  Speaker 1: the name. It's still a homeless shelter and it's screwing
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  Speaker 1: up the whole neighborhood. So they're not thrilled about it. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls in a minute. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 1: New callers. We always love hearing from new callers. 800-321-0710
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