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Lee Zeldin | EPA Administrator Speaks on Governor Hochul's Congestion Pricing Ruse · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Doing a tremendous job for President Trump and America. My
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  Speaker 1: friend Lee Zelden, Lee, good morning, buddy. How are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic. Good to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you always, great to have you, Lee,
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  Speaker 1: And I tell you watching Hokell. I'll get to Hochell
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  Speaker 1: and Blakeman later in this conversation. I've been doing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of traveling, and I talked to Bruce every day,
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  Speaker 1: two or three times a day. But it's funny. It's
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  Speaker 1: funny that she puts this moratorium on data centers, so
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  Speaker 1: folks get ready to have slow Internet and difficulty connecting
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  Speaker 1: on your phone lines and all those things. She puts
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  Speaker 1: a moratorium on data center construction, but yet she has
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  Speaker 1: no issue charging New Yorkers nine dollars for congestion pricing
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  Speaker 1: when the pollution here has not gotten any better. Please
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  Speaker 1: make sense of that.
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  Speaker 2: For me, well, making sense of it is the impossible part.
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  Speaker 2: That's why so many people just haven't given up, and
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  Speaker 2: they sleeve you'll look back. I mean, it's it's bad.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I remember there was a period of time
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  Speaker 2: where a lot of people, you would maybe they would
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  Speaker 2: head down to Florida for a few months, it's a
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  Speaker 2: seasonal thing. But I mean the way things have gone
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  Speaker 2: over the course of these last several years, people they
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  Speaker 2: looked to the Carolinas, Tennessee, Texas, Florida, they all look
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  Speaker 2: better and they're not looking back. So I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: congestion pricing, it's just another excuse for left wing Albany
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  Speaker 2: Democrats to put their hands in the pocket of New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers who are already strapped. You know, some folks would say, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's only nine dollars, Well, for one, it's another nine dollars,
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  Speaker 2: and it's hitting the people the hardest who can least
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  Speaker 2: afford it. And for people who have to commute frequently.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't like a you know, nine dollars a year,
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  Speaker 2: nine dollars a month, for even nine dollars a week,
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  Speaker 2: they're having to pay it. And the whole excuse for
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  Speaker 2: it was to make it seem like as if there
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  Speaker 2: were these massive environmental impacts that were going to be positive.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I said back then, I mean you'd end
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  Speaker 2: up with more truck traffic on the Crossbox Expressway, on
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  Speaker 2: the Staten Island Expressway. But as his new report came
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  Speaker 2: out of the city that we saw on the news
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  Speaker 2: here in recent days. It's not having the environmental impacts
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  Speaker 2: that they promised when they were passing their new excuse
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  Speaker 2: to put their hands in the pocket of cast out
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  Speaker 2: New Yorkers as bs. But no one can make sense
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  Speaker 2: of it. It's nonsensical, it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know it's funny now when she talks about
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  Speaker 1: how great it is. She talks about reduced traffic, she
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  Speaker 1: talks about public transit improvements. He talks about less traffic, noise,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. But like you pointed out, there was
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  Speaker 1: also a promise that the inirquality would be better and
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  Speaker 1: the pollution would be less, and that's not the case.
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  Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, but Kathy Local, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like that was never part of the equationally.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's like, well, I wouldn't put this way.
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  Speaker 2: No one else does it anywhere else in America. So
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  Speaker 2: is it that, you know, Kathy Oakele's that much of
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  Speaker 2: a genius that she figured something out that no one
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  Speaker 2: else was able to figure out, Or maybe it's a
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  Speaker 2: really stupid idea that even the most left wing governments
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  Speaker 2: all across the entire country, like they all haven't implemented
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  Speaker 2: it because it's so stupid. But you know, maybe there's
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  Speaker 2: no care for those economic impacts. Maybe it's a punishment
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  Speaker 2: for the people who didn't vote for her on Long Island,
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  Speaker 2: the people didn't vote for her north of the city
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  Speaker 2: in the Hudson Valley. You have to community. Maybe she
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  Speaker 2: doesn't care about you know, folks from Jersey or you know,
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  Speaker 2: for for out of state. She wants the money and
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  Speaker 2: they want the money. I mean, you look at how
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  Speaker 2: much New York spends on their budget, and we have
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  Speaker 2: millions of less people than they do in Florida. We
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  Speaker 2: spend more on Medicaid alone, just Medicaid then Florida spends
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  Speaker 2: on their entire state budget. I mean, you look at
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  Speaker 2: education and you have elementary school kids in places like
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi who are scoring better on English language, arts and
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  Speaker 2: mass then you're seeing of elementary school kids in New York.
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  Speaker 2: But we spend what like two three times more per
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  Speaker 2: pupil than they do in Mississippi or Florida. But like
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  Speaker 2: it's all perpartments, and when you look at the metrics
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  Speaker 2: and how they're doing in school, you're getting better outcomes
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  Speaker 2: in places that spends so much less. Why Why is
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  Speaker 2: it that it costs so much to live here, it
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  Speaker 2: costs so much to run a state's budget, and you're
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  Speaker 2: just not getting the outcomes, the results you're looking for,
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  Speaker 2: and it's it's freaking competence. And people are like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, enough is enough? Now you want to elect
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  Speaker 2: Mendonni to be the New York City mayor. Man, just
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  Speaker 2: what you thought in New York coudn't any worse.
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  Speaker 1: It got worse. And it's not just incompetence. It's corruption too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to you know, throw out
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  Speaker 1: stuff there that hasn't been proven, but certainly there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of rumors about Kathy her husband and the money
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  Speaker 1: that the Yes people have made from COVID to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to stadium money he's to. It's corruption, it's incompetence. It's
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  Speaker 1: a whole variety of issues. Why New York Because New York,
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  Speaker 1: as you just kind of pointed out, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a money problem. We've got a spending problem. That's the issue. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned Medicaid. I had doctor oz On at
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  Speaker 1: six point thirty this morning. Okay, he is exposing medicaid
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  Speaker 1: and medicare fraud all over the state. Queens for example,
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  Speaker 1: they got Chinese pharmacies raking in millions and millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars and no one's getting any medication. I mean, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in this state. You've done the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You're the guy that really busted Stacy Abrams way back
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  Speaker 1: when Anthony Desposito, your Long Island buddy. He's done a
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  Speaker 1: great job with the Labor Department exposing fraud too, So
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  Speaker 1: not just congestion pricing, which basically is fraud. The fraud
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  Speaker 1: that you guys are uncovering all over the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, we came into this position a year
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  Speaker 2: and a half ago and made this one of our
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  Speaker 2: top priorities. We've saved thirty over thirty billion dollars of
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  Speaker 2: canceled grants, canceled media subscriptions, real estate consolidation, staff efficiencies.
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  Speaker 2: We closed up by the EPA museum that almost no
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  Speaker 2: one even knew about her or even no one visited,
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  Speaker 2: and all told, in our first year at an agency
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  Speaker 2: with an annual operating budget of ten billion dollars a year,
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  Speaker 2: we found thirty billion dollars to be able to save.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason why was because in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: the reason why we were able to save that much
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  Speaker 2: money is because just before we got there in twenty
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  Speaker 2: four they obligated and spent over sixty billion dollars from EPA.
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  Speaker 2: It was more money than they even knew how to spend,
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  Speaker 2: and it was going to well connected friends. You referenced
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  Speaker 2: the Stacy Abrams connected NGL received two billion dollars. There
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  Speaker 2: are eight pass through entities that received twenty billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: in what was called Inflation Reduction Act. It should have
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  Speaker 2: been called the Inflation Expansion Act when Democrats controlled everything,
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  Speaker 2: and it goes to former Obama and Biden officials, former
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  Speaker 2: Democratic donors. They're all passed through entities, they're all getting paid,
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  Speaker 2: they're vig to run their piece of the pie, and
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  Speaker 2: the American taxpayers are getting screwed. So we come in
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  Speaker 2: zero tolerance policy for any waste and abuse. We made
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  Speaker 2: a top priority out of the gate, and I'm proud
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  Speaker 2: of it. And man, you know, like zero tolerance means
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  Speaker 2: like if someone wants to come to me and say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I have an idea on how to save one thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 2: you have my attention. Because it always pissed me off
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  Speaker 2: in government when you'd have people who may they did
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  Speaker 2: run a federal agency. And you know, you say, well,
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  Speaker 2: I have an idea to save a thousand or one hundred thousand,
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  Speaker 2: or a million or fifty million. It's like, well that's
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  Speaker 2: not enough, Like you don't have my attention. I need.
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  Speaker 2: I only want to save big numbers. Man, I'll save
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  Speaker 2: I'll save it ten dollars if you came to me
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  Speaker 2: with an idea of how we could save money. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what we owed the American taxpayer. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: way that the Trump administration has approached this.
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  Speaker 1: Done a great job, all you guys, starting with you, Lee.
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  Speaker 1: I got to be honest EPA administrator, Lee Zelden. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, the state does all these money issues. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, Lee, as well as anybody, you did a
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  Speaker 1: good job of pointing this out when you ran for governor,
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  Speaker 1: that we have all this gold right under our feet,
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  Speaker 1: all over the state, right gold, and yet this idiotic
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  Speaker 1: governor buys energy, buys energy from Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania is
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of what they've got and we've got the
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  Speaker 1: same exact thing. Come Onley, what's that all about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I mean this is one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: is why the word retard's coming back. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: have so much resource under us in this state, and
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  Speaker 2: you have people who live in New York who like
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  Speaker 2: are in communities that are a low income and that
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  Speaker 2: they're looking across the border into Pennsylvania, where in Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 2: they're tapping into these these supplies, these resources and they're
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  Speaker 2: doing great. And by the way, this isn't just like
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  Speaker 2: a Republican or Democrats thing in Pennsylvania's it's both parties
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  Speaker 2: team together a while ago and said, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: need natural gas. We need it in order to be
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  Speaker 2: able to survive, to thrive. We need reliable baseball power,
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  Speaker 2: we need affordable, affordable energy. We have these resources. It's
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  Speaker 2: important for our economy, it's important for jobs. So they're
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  Speaker 2: tapping into it. But in this state, the energy policy
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  Speaker 2: is so stupid, so stupid. They won't she won't sign
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  Speaker 2: off on the Constitution pipeline to deliver natural guests through
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  Speaker 2: New York and into New England. You know, they won't
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  Speaker 2: reverse the band to extract natural guess, they won't allow
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  Speaker 2: gas look ups on new construction. They say climate goals
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  Speaker 2: that they know that they will not be able to meet.
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  Speaker 2: But they will cause tremendous pain on people can at
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  Speaker 2: least afford it, even trying to make any progress towards
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  Speaker 2: these unrealistic goals. I mean, you look at the energy
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  Speaker 2: policy where you know they're pushing WIN captain Ocal pushes
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  Speaker 2: WIN which is an intermittent source as if it's a
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  Speaker 2: substitute for base load power. And then they want to
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  Speaker 2: throw battery energy storage systems and basically every community all
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  Speaker 2: over the place, even though you're getting all those feedback
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  Speaker 2: from people who just don't want it in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of their residential neighborhood, and all you're getting is the
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  Speaker 2: middle finger from the state upstate saying we don't want
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  Speaker 2: solar farms. Meanwhile, the state is saying, well, you know
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  Speaker 2: we have local control in the state, not local control,
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  Speaker 2: and we're saying you're getting more solar farms. And it
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  Speaker 2: the energy policy in New York. And I've been at
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  Speaker 2: all fifty states, so in all fifty states in my
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  Speaker 2: first nine months as EPA administrator, I've seen the good,
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  Speaker 2: the bad, the ugly of how to do energy policy.
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  Speaker 2: And man, that there's so many red states that have
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  Speaker 2: so much lower energy costs, so much more suppsely. They
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  Speaker 2: don't deal with they don't have to deal with any
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  Speaker 2: brownouts or blackouts on the horizon. And it's all about
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  Speaker 2: good governance. But in New York, Man, this is this
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  Speaker 2: is not a way for you know, for New Yorkers
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  Speaker 2: who don't realize what's going on everywhere else in the
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  Speaker 2: country that you might say, well, maybe this is the norm.
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  Speaker 2: This is not the norm. No, this is the exceptions
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  Speaker 2: the norm.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're the worst. I mean, let's face it, and
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  Speaker 1: will you tell me Lee, because some of this stuff
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  Speaker 1: is a bit complicated. I understand there are some dangers
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  Speaker 1: with data centers, I get it. But overall, if you
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  Speaker 1: know them going in and you prepare the center, so
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay, you can't argue how valuable they are.
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  Speaker 1: Why would she want to stop those from coming up
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  Speaker 1: here in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Most Americans want the United States to win this AI
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  Speaker 2: race against China, and uh. Many Americans have valid questions
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  Speaker 2: they want to ask about data center projects. They're asking
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  Speaker 2: important questions and they should. They want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that when a data center is built that their bills
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  Speaker 2: are going down, not up. And President Trump has this
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  Speaker 2: ratepayer protection Pledge, which has true made tremendous progress, and
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  Speaker 2: now you're having data center projects being built where it's
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  Speaker 2: providing net benefits the ratepayers as opposed to the opposite.
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  Speaker 2: The second piece is that a lot of Americans want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that a project is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a net provider onto the grid, not a net taker
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  Speaker 2: from the grid. There's behind the meter work, they're building
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  Speaker 2: their own small modular reactors. They're generating their own energy,
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  Speaker 2: and they're providing power onto the grid more than they're taking.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question for Americans to ask. And Americans
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  Speaker 2: dosn't want to know about water. I mean, is a
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  Speaker 2: data center going to have a closed loop data center?
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  Speaker 2: Is it going to be one hundred percent recyclable water
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  Speaker 2: or is it going to be continuously tapping into a
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  Speaker 2: water supply. It's good to ask these questions, but to
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  Speaker 2: do a moratorium, you're going to have billion, multi billions
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  Speaker 2: of dollars and tens of billions of dollars in these
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  Speaker 2: projects just going to other states. It's not like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you put you slap a one year moratorium and in
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  Speaker 2: these data centers and go oh yeah, no, that's that's cool.
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  Speaker 2: We're just going to send our hands and do absolutely
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  Speaker 2: nothing and not go to this other state that actually
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  Speaker 2: wants us. So you're losing out the jobs, the economic benefits,
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  Speaker 2: and and the craziest thing or that you know, you
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  Speaker 2: have people who are on their phone go on a
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  Speaker 2: social media platform saying we should not have any data centers,
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  Speaker 2: like not realizing the irony here of just how much
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  Speaker 2: data centers are required for you to be able to
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  Speaker 2: power your phone and to power that social media platform.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we have it in our lives, and we
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  Speaker 2: can't lose this race to China. It'll be so much
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  Speaker 2: harder to catch up later if we fell behind. And
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  Speaker 2: thank god that there's only there. I mean, there's one
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  Speaker 2: too many Kathy Hopels as governors of states New York.
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  Speaker 2: But fortunately it's only one out of fifty.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's true. Tuma. Let you run here, going
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  Speaker 1: back to the congestion pricing thing, qruitct me if I'm wrong, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but this report on the pollution that hasn't gotten any better,
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  Speaker 1: despite what Kathia Hockel said. Originally, this comes from here
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  Speaker 1: from New York, right. This wasn't put out there by
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  Speaker 1: presiding Trump or Leezeldon. This is New York basically riding
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  Speaker 1: on New York.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's exactly what it is. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 2: this is a New York governmental study that's coming out
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  Speaker 2: talking about how it doesn't have the environmental benefits that
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  Speaker 2: were promised. Shockingly, Wow, we're all blown away. I was
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  Speaker 2: saying this four years ago, that it wasn't gonna happen, right,
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  Speaker 2: and then you're gonna have small cars, you know, small
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  Speaker 2: vehicle traffic going through you know, small side streets of
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  Speaker 2: Queens and Brooklyn trying to get routes where they don't
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  Speaker 2: have to take This is what I'll say, four years
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  Speaker 2: ago before one in the place that they would be
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  Speaker 2: going for other routes so they don't have to pay
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  Speaker 2: the fee that you would have all that extra trucks,
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  Speaker 2: all those extra trucks going through Staten Island and the
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  Speaker 2: Bronx Like, this isn't this isn't one of those like
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  Speaker 2: hindsights twenty twenty. You're like, oh man, we shouldn't. We
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  Speaker 2: should have saw it coming. No, of course we saw
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  Speaker 2: it coming. We talked about it then and we're like,
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  Speaker 2: this is a really bad idea. You shouldn't go forward
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  Speaker 2: with it. And you know, damn the torpedoes. They say
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  Speaker 2: they'll they'll go slap their fee and put their hands
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  Speaker 2: in the pockets of hard work in New Yorkers anyway.
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  Speaker 2: And New Yorkers are I mean, they're pissed. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why so many have left. And it's said, it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's you know, it said that somebody who loves
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  Speaker 2: the state, who was raised in a state, their families here,
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  Speaker 2: their life is here, and because of these policies out
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  Speaker 2: of Alney like for that reason, they hit their breaking
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  Speaker 2: point they leave. I hate that.
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  Speaker 1: I hate that too, got it. I can't stand talking
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  Speaker 1: to Sean Hannity, and I talked to them about four
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  Speaker 1: times a week. I got to hear every day, when
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  Speaker 1: are you coming to Florida? When are you coming to Florida?
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  Speaker 1: Show them be quiet? Okay, you love Long Island. Long
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  Speaker 1: Island just saw her. But yeah, everybody's leaving and loving
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  Speaker 1: life Nashville, Tennessee. Every daily I see somebody he's moving
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  Speaker 1: to Nashville, Tennessee. So last one, Bruce Blakeman, I know
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  Speaker 1: you love Bruce Soda. Why both Long Island guys. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so he has actually in a better position than you
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  Speaker 1: because when you ran against Kathy. She was relatively new right,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, she was doing a lot of the same
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  Speaker 1: things that Cuomo did, and she was making some mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: But Blakeman, Blakeman now has a chance and went against
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  Speaker 1: this lady when now, unlike your race, Lee Zelden, she's
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  Speaker 1: got years of mistakes that he can jump on. How
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  Speaker 1: lucky is he? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there are people in politics where you know,
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  Speaker 2: they just aren't known, and if they're known, then people
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  Speaker 2: will like them, but they have to get their name out.
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  Speaker 2: And then there are people in politics where as more
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  Speaker 2: and more people become familiar with you, the more people
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  Speaker 2: realize that you need to go, like you're not good,
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  Speaker 2: you need to leave. And that's the reality that you
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  Speaker 2: have right now in the in the state. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like every single New Yorker you could ask them, like,
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  Speaker 2: what's what's your breaking point in the state? Low income,
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  Speaker 2: middle income, high income. You could be from the city,
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  Speaker 2: a suburb, rural New York. You ask everyone like, what's
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  Speaker 2: your breaking point in New York? They've thought about it,
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  Speaker 2: it's crazy, Like you'll get a detailed answer like why
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  Speaker 2: why why do you think about this? What? Why is
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  Speaker 2: that your breaking point? And there and it all gets
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: back to the same thing. It's just the policies of
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: the state. They feel restricted. Freedom. Economic freedom is freedom,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: you know, with with regards to their physical safety freedom,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: you know, going back and thinking of you know, pictures
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: of Kathy Jkle wearing you know, not wearing masks, you know,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: standing with four year olds that did have to wear
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: masks during COVID, right, you know, because of because of
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: these pursuits, you know, people are have just they've realized
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: what is causing this to come of the state. And
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the more people get that, which has happened now over
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: the course of these last few years, the more people
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: are like, you know, it's not like, oh, I know,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you know, I know her now, like hey, this is
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: great and comfortable whether her you know, she's my governor
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: have a lot of pride. It's it's like, man, we
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: need to do a heck of a lot better than this.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: And a lot of folks left New York before I
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: ran because they had enough. A lot of people left
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: New York right after I ran. They're like, man, this,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: you know, this is just going to continue to get worse.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: You know. Fortunately, there's still you know a bunch of
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: people who are still here and you can make a difference.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: But doesn't happen on its own. I mean, folks, need
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: you need to show up and make it happen, and
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: you can't just expect everyone else to do it for you.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: It's exhausting. Just trust me, Lee, Okay, it's much easier
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to go to the beach in Hollendale today. It's exhausting.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: But Man, I love talking to you, I really do you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: You're so fantastic epa administrator. You're a great politician here.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: You're always going to be a great, great, great great Yorker,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and I just love talking to you.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you. What a great job. Thank
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you so much.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Thanks San, It's always good to be man.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: You two families, good by the way, your wife, your daughters,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: everybody's good.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Girls are girls are heading back to their third year
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: of school and you know, still having scored to Peter
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Luger's invite, so you know, keep it all in all
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: on perspective, yep. Although I'll never I'll never let you
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: live down. The very first time I did an interview
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: with the great Sid Rosenberg, and it was Bernie and
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Sid yep, And right before I came on air, you
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: were saying, you know a couple of unkind things about
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Shirley and Mastic. Where it Where is my hometown? And
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: then I come on air and then you ask me
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: where I'm from, and I tell you I'm sure. And
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: for all those listeners out there who were like, why
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: does why did sid Rosenberg always call Zelda in the
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Pride of Shirley Long Island, you have to be you
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: have to be such a hardcore, longtime sid Rosenberg listener
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: that you know of the very first time I came
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: on Backstory, which was just freaking hilarious.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: That is because my uncle Leon and an Cynthia lived
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: in Shirley. We lived in Brooklyn. First of all, it
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: took like five hours to get there, okay, And second
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: of all, it looked a little rough. And let's be honest,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: your girls are doing homework one night there were gunshots outside.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I mean to remind you of that, Okay, but I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: know it's a true story. But yes, I used to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: make moune of Shirley and call you the Pride of Shirley.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: But it does seem like, you know, Bruce does a
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: great job in Nashau County. That ed roal Main and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: those folks are doing a very good job in Suffolk
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: County too, Yes.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: No doubt. I mean Long Island is I mean that
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: is where I'm born, born and raised, and you know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: they had their challenges, just like everywhere else in the country.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: But I mean there's a reason why when President Trump
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: was in Nassau County, you were hearing statements about how
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: people will not rest working inside this Trump administration until
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: every county is as safe as Nasau County. And you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: same thing goes. You know with regards to Long Island
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: as a whole, you have confident leadership in both counties
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: and U Yeah, so everything that we're saying about Kathy
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Hogle or man Donnie out of the city should be
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: no negative reflection on great leadership that we have in
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Suffie County, had Romain in that team, and Bruce Blakeman
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: and his team in Nassa, no doubt.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Just a week ago today the President was there in
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Nashville County. I was standing right there.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: By the state were right there.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I was, Yeah, that was awesome.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Liza and and Kelsey Grammar and everyone else is like, man,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: that's did Rosenberg.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: That's true. You know, the first The first hand that
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: grammar shook was mine just seeing O Lee.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: First one and he hasn't watched it since.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: He actually elbowed Todd Blanche to the side and said,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: let me get this in f us Okay, Todd, take
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: it easy. Oh that was a great Daylee's out And
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I couldn't love you more than I do. I really
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: love your pal. Thank you so much.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Thanks God, bless you please.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I do love that guy, LESE. Eldon and he's so smart.
• 21:53
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• 22:23
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