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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Mark Simone here. Welcome to the bonus segment
for all of you podcast listeners out there. So the
shutdown is over. It was the longest one in history.
What was accomplished by all of this, I don't know.
I have no idea. Nobody does. Now. A lot of
people think it was the Democrats just trying to sabotage
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the Trump economy, but it caused you know, we're supposed
to screw up the Republicans, it actually screwed up the Democrats.
They did themselves more damage because they end this shutdown
with just total division and civil war going on within
the party. They've actually ended up. The shutdown is over,
and now they got like a circular firing squad going
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on in the Democratic Party there and Schumer and the
old guard getting attacked by the new crazy woke left
and everywhere. Schumer and all these people are getting attacked
like crazy by you know, the high IQ shows, the
PBS News, the MSNBC crowd, but even the low IQ shows,
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like The View going after them like crazy. And sometimes
it's those low IQ shows that are the better barometer,
because if even they figured it out, means it's pretty bad.
But Democrats. You know, the party's just been just slipping
over the last twenty thirty years. Remember they were liberals
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and then after a few defeats, they became progressives. They're
not liberals anymore. They were now progressives. Like that's better.
But there were progressives for many years. Then all of
a sudden, they weren't progressive, but they were woke, which
was even worse. They went. Now they've gone from woke
to socialist. And who knows what's next with these Democrats
that just keeps sinking lower and lower and lower. Real
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purpose of the shutdown most likely was to sabotage Trump's economy,
just to screw it up, put a big speed bump
on the economy as things were getting better, inflation dropping,
economy picking up. Just look at the stock market setting
all time records just in the past week. But just
trying to make people feel pain. That's what the Democrats
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are big and doing in a shutdown, making you feel
the pain. Republicans, when they do shutdowns and they've done them,
just do them. They make it as painless as possible.
But Democrats like to make it painful. Bill Bill Clinton
did it. Obama was the king of making it painful. Remember,
in the Obama shutdown, he closed everything. He closed things
that there were no reason, no reason to close them.
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There were World War Two monuments that don't have any
staff of any kind. They're just monuments. He had them
taped up and boarded up so nobody could see them. Hey,
good for Chris Matthews. He's got a new book out
and because of that, Chris Matthews doing a lot of
shows on MSNBC. But there's that awful Katie Tour, that
left wing coop. Oops. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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Wait a minute, we're getting a call right in the
middle of this. But the left wing Katie Tour who
wants lived with Keith Oberman? Do I need to say more?
Given Chris Matthews a hard time because he's trying to
tell her. Chris Matthews like another Bill Maher. He's a
Democrat who will be painfully honest with them at times.
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And he's telling these Democrats, you're losing people because you're
a bunch of smug elitists. You lost your appeal to
working class Americans, and you really are just the terrible
elitist when it comes to non college educated young voters
and there's lots of them. They didn't go to college.
That's okay, that's fine. Plenty of very successful people didn't
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go to college. Plus some of our greatest billionaire tech
guys college dropouts. But Matthew's telling her right to her face.
You know, the snobbery and the attitude of Democratic politicians.
It's hurting the party. So now you know there's something
else coming, and this is going to be a big thing.
It's not getting the attention it deserves. Every keeps talking
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about AI the revolution, even President Trump trying to get
more AI facilities here and all of that. It's going
to wipe out jobs obviously. You know AI replaces a
human worker, and it's been doing it for all kinds
of things. But people have not really taken a look
at how big this wipeout of jobs is going to be.
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Some estimate it'll be one hundred million jobs. One hundred
million jobs, that's like half the workforce are going to
be gone over the next decade. Things you don't even
think about. Nurses can be replaced by AI. Truck drivers
can be replaced by AI. Of course, those truck drivers
can terrorize you on the highway, and we don't know
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if the AI will be programmed to do that, Automation
and robotics could hit forty percent of registered nurses, forty
seven percent of truck drivers, sixty four percent of accountants,
sixty five percent of teaching assistance, eighty nine percent, almost
ninety percent of fast food workers. A lot of people
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are going to lose their jobs to AI. Now, this
happens anytime you have a revolution, industrial revolution, half of
America lost their job the Internet revolution half of America.
But it takes a few years. But they eventually find
other careers. But it can take a few years for
the transition. Amazon and Walmart, two of our biggest companies,
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already slash tens of thousands of jobs. Bernie Sanders argue
that AI is simply being used as a tool. Well,
this could be the next Democratic fight, Bernie Sanders saying
it's a tool to further concentrate wealth, nodding the CEOs
who invested billions into automation while announcing mass layoffs. So
the Democrats will launch a huge campaign against AI. Hey
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this week, the final penny was manufactured. It's gonna be
no more pennies. A copper penny, you know, it costs
like three cents to make a penny. They lose money
every time they make a penny. So President Trump I
decided that's the end. No more pennies. They will stop
making them. Effect as we speak, they haven't been made
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in the last two days. There are no more pennies
being made. Now there's still three billion in circulation. They'll
be out there for a while, but I don't know.
Most people don't pay cash anymore. Remember years ago that
you'd be in a supermarket and there was that old
lady trying to pay by check and it hold up
the whole line and it looks so silly paying by
check in a supermarket. Well now it's the same thing.
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If you pay cash, you're that old lady paying cash.
Everybody just swiping using their phone, even credit cards. It's
a little outdated, but there'll be no more pennies, and
it'll become a point where there's just no more change.
And then they'll become a point where there's no more dollars.
You may still need a few, because how do you
tip people without the actual cash, How do you slip
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money into the matre D's hand without actual bills? You're
gonna need those twenties and hundreds and all of that. Now,
some health tips. We always like to get the best
health tips. Is there something a seasoning that you can
use that will boost memory, fight anxiety, even help prevent dementia. Well, actually,
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ancient healers knew about this, but there's some university students
that have done some testing and apparently there is one
rosemary that evergreen shrub herb rosemary. One of the most
promising frontiers in rosemary research is the brain. University students
found that well, actually it's not just seasoning with it.
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You got to take five hundred milligrams of it twice
daily for a month. They tested that and it showed
better memory, showed less anxiety depression, plus better sleep. So
rosemary does more than just sharpen your mind. Very good
for you. Well, start sprinkling on your food and then
if you like that, take a look at some rosemary
capsules at some point. Now, is everybody going to leave
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New York? I don't know. I don't know, Mom, Donnie.
It doesn't sound good, but we went through this with
the Blasio. Not everybody. However, here's a restaurant tour Stratus
morphing Gen got a lot of big restaurants. He told
news reporters that three new establishments that he was going
to open, including one in Midtown West, won't open. I
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was waiting for the election before signing the lease, and
now I'm not signing. Here's another restaurant tour nightlife guru
Richie Romero was about to open a new club in
the East Village. It will not open. Instead of betting
on New York, He's got twelve to fifteen new restaurants coming.
He'll open them in other markets, Atlanta, Dallas, West, Palm Beach.
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But but yeah, these are restaurant guys. What do they know.
But you talk about the top smartest real estate guys,
the big, big, big real estate super stars. They're still
building all over New York. You know over there Park
Avenue and fifty second Street, there's one hundred story skyscraper
going up over there. Not yet there's two buildings, normal
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buildings there. Now they're coming down. And there's a hundred
story building going up. Fifty ninth in Madison. You know
where there was a Dwayne Read there in a few things.
Fifty ninth in Madison, picture of that corner. It's a
big hole. Now the whole block has been torn down
because there's a like a ninety story skyscraper going up there.
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I could point all over New York where these things
are happening. Now, these guys wouldn't be investing all that
money if if they didn't think New York was going
to be okay. So it'll be tough for a while. Again,
it's a lot of the Deblasio people coming back in
this administration. But we got through Deblasio. Well we'll get
through this. Hey. Which landmark is expected to welcome record
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crowds this year worldwide. Notre Dame Notre Dame Cathedral, Notre Dame,
the cathedral in Paris. You remember they had a terrible fire,
it burned down and then it spent a year rebuilding it.
It cost a fortune. But it's going to be the
most visited tourist place in the coming year. There's talking
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about over twelve million visitors. In fact, they think it'll
go as high as fifteen million. Fifteen million visitors coming
this year to see it. You'll be seeing it, of course,
all over Instagram and everywhere, see every watch that is it.
Stephanie Rule, Yes, Stephanie Rule on MSNBC. It's one of
those MSNBC hosts. So she's doing a show and she
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has you know, they all have a panel. It's always
the host of three people on a panel, and to
balance the panel, they have a liberal, a very liberal,
and an ultraliberal. And anyway, she's talking to remember, my
phone went off a few seconds ago and I shut
it off. So it happened to her. She's on the air,
the panel's talking, the phone goes off. Nobody could believe it.
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She answered the phone on the air, but if people
could hear her, they couldn't believe. She took up answered
the phone and she said, oh my goodness. She said, son,
I'm in the middle of a television show. You're the
only person I would ever end to the phone for.
I'm going to have you to call you back. And
nobody could believe that. Well, it's her son, it could
be Well, if it's a it's a kid. I assume
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he knows how to text. He could have texted her.
She could have read it. But on the other hand,
it seems strange. But it's MSNBC. Nobody's watching. It's not
like she's on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with
twenty three million viewers. She's on MSNBC with a couple
hundred thousand. I guess that's okay. You can you can
answer your phone there. Who's going to notice? Now? If
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if you've ever gotten a speeding ticket, you know you
try not to speed after that, but you start to slip,
but you're careful for a while, then you slip back.
But if you're one of those people that gets a
million speeding tickets and you've been in court a million times, well,
there's a new device called a speed limiter that could
be installed in your car. They're trying it out now.
They're thinking for a chronic speeder, reckless driver who's been
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in all kinds of trouble with the law, they will
force you to install one of these things in your car,
the speed limitter. If you go over the speed limit
will stop your car. It'll just slow it down and
then turn off the ignition. I guess it'll put a
limit on how fast your car could go. They're talking
about putting it on three thousand bad drivers. It costs
one thousand dollars a pop, so they'll have to pay
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the thousand dollars. They've been testing it out. You know,
you got to make sure the way it stops your
car is going to cause an accident in the middle
of a of a highway. But you know the other
problem if you everybody speeds. Let's be honest, everybody speeds.
I know it says fifty five, you're going sixty four,
sixty five, seventy. You know, sometimes if you go the
speed limit fifty five on the highway you can get
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run over. But you know, nowadays the cars are all
digital electronic. You know that key thing you have, it's
not a key, whatever that thing is that opens the
car door, that's got a hard drive in there. It
keeps track of everything you've done in your car, every turn,
every speed. In fact, if cops get a warrant that
they can take that thing, it'll show every way you
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were driving, speed, direction, everything. So at some point this
is what you gotta worry about. If the government starts
getting the car companies to cooperate on this, they could
put in like a little USB portal on that so
when a cop pulls you over, he can plug right
into it and see what speeds you were going. I
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hope this doesn't happen, and then nobody will be able
to speed nobody will get anywhere. Then hey, we're out
of time, but thanks for listening. I'm here live ten
to noon every weekday. I hope you can listen then
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then have a great weekend. Mark Simone here on our
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