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Hour 2: Will the free buses work? · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show on seventeen wor well, hey
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  Speaker 1: it's Friday the thirteenth. We got a three day weekend
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  Speaker 1: coming up. He got five weeks until spring, that's all,
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  Speaker 1: just five weeks. Spring training is already underway right now
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  Speaker 1: as we speak. You know, we have a US Attorney
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  Speaker 1: of the Southern District. That's the big one, the Southern District.
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  Speaker 1: That's Jay Clayton, doing an excellent job. But there's a
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  Speaker 1: Northern District which goes, you know from here upstate. The
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  Speaker 1: US Attorney for the Northern District had been a great
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  Speaker 1: guy who everybody. Everybody loved this guy doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: John Sarcone. He's the US Attorney for the Northern District.
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  Speaker 1: He was not confirmed, he was appointed, but Sarcone is
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  Speaker 1: considered a great US attorney. Everybody's happy when they think
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  Speaker 1: he's doing a great job. Well, you got these crazy
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  Speaker 1: left wing judges here in New York. So they ruled
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  Speaker 1: that he can't be the US attorney because he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been confirmed yet, and there's a temporary The judges decided
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  Speaker 1: to all appoint their own US attorney for the Northern District,
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  Speaker 1: and they chose somebody and made him the US Attorney
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  Speaker 1: for the Northern District, and day one President Trump fired
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  Speaker 1: him and said, judges don't pick US attorneys. The President does.
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  Speaker 1: So I think what Sarcone did was he made himself
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  Speaker 1: the number two guy just to make sure he's still there,
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  Speaker 1: because everybody thinks he's doing a great job. So hopefully
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  Speaker 1: the President will reappoint him as the US attorney. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know the beautiful Waldorf Astoria, the Waldorf Hotel, one
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  Speaker 1: of the great landmarks in New York. Members closed for
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  Speaker 1: like ten years while they were rebuilding it and took forever,
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  Speaker 1: and then it reopened about six months ago, and it's spectacular.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like some of the changes, but it's spectacular inside.
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  Speaker 1: It's up for sale now. I don't know why they
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  Speaker 1: spend all these years rebuilding it just to sell it.
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  Speaker 1: But half the building is now apartments condos. You can
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  Speaker 1: buy a condo, but you could also buy the whole
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  Speaker 1: building if you want. It's for sale one billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to see who buys it. New York
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  Speaker 1: is as hot as ever, despite despite Mom, Donnie and
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  Speaker 1: Hokeel and all of that. It's despite them, it's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Apartment sales high end through the roof apartment rentals is
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  Speaker 1: as big as ever. In fact, there's no inventory left,
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  Speaker 1: so people are buying stuff here. The Waldorf may easily sell,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. So we got this crazy Mom Donnie running things,
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  Speaker 1: and you got crazy Kathy Hokele, who really is becoming
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  Speaker 1: just as bad as as Mom Donnie. That's why you
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  Speaker 1: need Bruce Blakeman to be governor. He'll be with us
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  Speaker 1: later this hour. We'll talk to me about that. But
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  Speaker 1: you got to get rid of Hokee. You can't get
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  Speaker 1: rid of Mom Donnie for three and a half more years,
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  Speaker 1: but you can get rid of Hokele and get a
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  Speaker 1: real governor in there, a good, common sense, Bruce Blakeman
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  Speaker 1: type of governor. But Mom Donnie's up there in Albany
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  Speaker 1: wants to raise taxes. There's no reason at all for
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  Speaker 1: raising taxes. We got a budget gap twelve billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: The budget is double what it's supposed to be. It's
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  Speaker 1: all waste, fraud, bloat, it's double. You can cut the
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  Speaker 1: budget in half, just like that half twelve billion dollar gap.
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  Speaker 1: Cut it in half, and then we got a sixty
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  Speaker 1: five billion dollar surplus just like that, cut it in half.
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  Speaker 1: Florida's budget is half of ours New York States, but
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  Speaker 1: just cut it in half. So there's Mom Donnie testifying
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  Speaker 1: about the rich, the rich, the rich rich.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you're going to continue to advocate for a variety
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  Speaker 2: of options. We believe the two of them that are
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  Speaker 2: the most straightforward and critically important are increased taxes on
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  Speaker 2: the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations.
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  Speaker 1: Once the tax of corporations. Do you remember the tariffs?
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  Speaker 1: Remember how crazy the Democrats got about the tariffs. They
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  Speaker 1: were yelling the scream and how bad tariffs are. They're
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  Speaker 1: putting tariffs on themselves. These are tariffs. That's a tariff
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  Speaker 1: when you tax the corporate tax is already the highest
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  Speaker 1: in the world. American corporate tax is higher than any
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  Speaker 1: place else in the world. They want to increase it.
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  Speaker 1: That's a tariff on a business. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: put a ten percent tariff on a business, the business
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  Speaker 1: doesn't pay the ten percent. You know, some of it's
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  Speaker 1: paid by the exporter overseas, some of it's paid by
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  Speaker 1: the middleman. Maybe the business has to pay two percent
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  Speaker 1: of the ten percent. But when you put a ten
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  Speaker 1: percent tax on the business here in this country, they
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  Speaker 1: got to pay the whole ten percent, which means they
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  Speaker 1: got to raise the price of all the products ten percent.
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  Speaker 1: So when he talks about taxing these corporations, it just
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  Speaker 1: means a tariff. It just means the price of every
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  Speaker 1: product goes up. And when he talks about taxing the rich,
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  Speaker 1: some of them leave. And they're the ones that pay
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  Speaker 1: all the taxes here, the top one percent pays like
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent of the tax in New York.
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking for a two percent raise in personal income
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  Speaker 3: taxes on the most affluent New Yorkers, someone earning a
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  Speaker 3: million dollars a year. The top one percent of New
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  Speaker 3: York City can afford to contribute twenty thousand dollars more
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  Speaker 3: in taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe, but they don't want to contribute twenty thousand more
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  Speaker 1: because you just waste it. You know, for every dollar
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  Speaker 1: you give to the government, like ninety eight cents of
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  Speaker 1: it is totally wasted on bloat, fraud, waste. They just
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  Speaker 1: don't want to waste their money. So he keeps fighting
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  Speaker 1: for it. In Albany, they keep arguing with him, keep
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  Speaker 1: fighting him.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we can't keep raising taxes and have people fleeing.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about free busting, free childcare, you know, so
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  Speaker 4: that's pretty ambitious, and state is in serious fiscal trouble
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 1: I have a big consort because of your philosophy, So
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  Speaker 1: do you have any consort about that.
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  Speaker 2: I am confident that people will continue to stay in
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  Speaker 2: the city. There's no doubt in my mind that what
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  Speaker 2: should be driving all of our politics are the needs
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  Speaker 2: of working people.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, when he's socialists, when they start in with all
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  Speaker 1: their stuff, the end result is always the working people suffer.
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  Speaker 1: The rich will never suffer. They can move, they can
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  Speaker 1: do whatever they want, they can pay the tax if
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  Speaker 1: they want. It's always the working people whenever you do
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  Speaker 1: this Soviet style suff whenever you do this socialist of
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  Speaker 1: the lower and middle income classes that get hit the
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  Speaker 1: hardest by it. So you'll see that. You'll see that
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  Speaker 1: happen mom. Donnie announced he's going to try out his
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  Speaker 1: member campaign with those free busses. They're going to try
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  Speaker 1: the first one. One route will become free. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to do his free buses on one route trial run
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  Speaker 1: of a free bus. Then if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: fine print, it's a cost of the program will be
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy eight million dollars. Well, how's that freeze?
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  Speaker 1: The rest of us have to pay one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy eight million. It's not free. There's no free bus.
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  Speaker 1: It just means taxpayers pay for it. It means ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight percent of taxpayers pay for two percent to ride
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  Speaker 1: around for free. But they love giving a hard time
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  Speaker 1: in Albany.
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  Speaker 4: Increasing taxes risks alienating and driving away businesses that create
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  Speaker 4: jobs and people who disproportionately pay a lot in Our
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  Speaker 4: taxes that fund our public schools, our police are sanitation.
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  Speaker 4: We need to be competitive. That's why we should hold
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  Speaker 4: the line on taxes.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, good, But like talking to a tree
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  Speaker 1: stump there, he's not listening. But the good news is
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  Speaker 1: he does not have the power to raise taxes. Governor
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  Speaker 1: has more power up there. That's why you got to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of a hkal. She's just as bad as
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if she really was deep down in
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  Speaker 1: her heart, but she's decided to become a left wing wacko.
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  Speaker 1: She needs Mom Donnie's support. Bruce Blakeman is a tough
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  Speaker 1: candidate against her. She knows she's got a tough race.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna need the mom Donnie Army at voting time.
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  Speaker 1: That's why she started so left wing. Look at her
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  Speaker 1: on ICE. She's just making up all this nonsense, yelling
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  Speaker 1: and screaming about ICE. She says, this is her quote,
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  Speaker 1: we have a bloated agency dedicated to taking people off
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  Speaker 1: our streets without any cause. Just an out and out lie.
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  Speaker 1: She's just out and out lying. Now, No, there's no
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  Speaker 1: ICE agents taking people out without cause. You know, they've
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  Speaker 1: rounded up four hundred and seventy five thousand people. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe there were two mistakes in there they had to
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  Speaker 1: let go, but it's an incredibly high batting average, So
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  Speaker 1: an absolute nut job. We'll talk about the governor's race
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  Speaker 1: later this hour. Bruce Blakeman will be with us. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got to ask him about this because so Hochel
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman is obviously very popular on Long Island. It's the
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  Speaker 1: best run county in America, Nassau County. So she goes
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  Speaker 1: out there to campaign and then she mentions it later.
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  Speaker 1: She says, I was in Long Island campaigning all week,
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  Speaker 1: so people get all upset. She's supposed to say on
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  Speaker 1: Long Island. Not I was in Long Island. But sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I say in Long Island. Well, we'll ask he's the
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  Speaker 1: leader of Long Island. We'll ask him later this hour.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's okay to say in Long Island. Janine Piro,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she lives in Rye, New York. She was
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  Speaker 1: in her hometown or Rye, beautiful suburb in Westchester, a
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  Speaker 1: while back. It was last summer, and she fell. She
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  Speaker 1: was walking on the Purchase Street. There's a beauty, utiful
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  Speaker 1: downtown and Rye. A lot of great restaurants there. There's
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  Speaker 1: Ruby's Oyster Bar, there's a water Moon. There's all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of great places in Rye. Frankie and Johnny's Steakhouse, great
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  Speaker 1: stuff in Rye. But she fell right in the street there.
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  Speaker 1: Con Edison was doing some work and had a dangerous
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  Speaker 1: construction site with them big things sticking out that she
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  Speaker 1: tripped on. So she suffered brain bruising and other injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Was laid up for a while. This is last August,
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  Speaker 1: So she is suing con Edison. There was a large
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  Speaker 1: block sticking out of the roadway. Probably got a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good lawsuit. And if you're gonna get sued, I would
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  Speaker 1: say the worst person to get sued by is the
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  Speaker 1: former District Attorney of West Cheshire, the current District Attorney
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  Speaker 1: of Washington, DC. A great judge, great attorney, Probably the
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  Speaker 1: worst person you can get sued by. Hey, CBS News,
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  Speaker 1: more layoffs are coming. Yeah, they just did a big
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  Speaker 1: round of layoffs. Now they're look like they're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: another round. And they said it could be as much
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  Speaker 1: as fifteen percent of the workforce. So CBS News, they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get rid of a lot of people. They
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  Speaker 1: offered this buyout plan, and apparently a bunch of people
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  Speaker 1: on the Evening News took the buyout plan. Because these
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  Speaker 1: are all these left wing, very biased fake news types,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't want to go middle of the road
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  Speaker 1: balance news. They don't want to do that. One of them,
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  Speaker 1: when leaving, put out this letter to everybody about how
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  Speaker 1: horrible what's happening is. She said, I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: what the hell she's saying. This is another reason they
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  Speaker 1: should have gotten rid of her. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the else she's saying in this letter. She said, they're
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  Speaker 1: prioritizing a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what
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  Speaker 1: has been described as heterodox journalism. What the hell does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? I gotta have a dictionary just to read
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  Speaker 1: this letter. What the hell's a heterodox I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So very excellence we seek to sustain is hindered by
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  Speaker 1: fear and uncertainty. They they just want to stop the
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  Speaker 1: fake news. They want to stop the bias, the slanted stuff.
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  Speaker 1: She quotes Walter Cronkite, who once said to critics, if
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  Speaker 1: this is what makes us liberals, so be it? Huh.
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  Speaker 1: I knew Walter Kronkite was a wonderful guy, and he
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  Speaker 1: was pretty balanced when he was in the anchorchair. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it was a little left wing, but it was slight,
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  Speaker 1: just a little slant, but pretty much. He kept the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast pretty balance. Now, when he retired and there was
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  Speaker 1: a retired guy, then he started letting out all I
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  Speaker 1: didn't realize how left wing he was till he was
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  Speaker 1: retired and started shooting his mouth off a lot. But
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  Speaker 1: when he was in the anchorchair, he kept the broadcast
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  Speaker 1: pretty honest. Hey, there's gonna be no football this weekend, right,
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  Speaker 1: what do I do? This is the first weekend without
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  Speaker 1: football in many, many, many weeks. Right. Now, here's another problem.
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  Speaker 1: I've talked to you about this before. When there's something
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  Speaker 1: great food wise, the greatest restaurant in the world, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest chef in the world, it used to be like
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Everybody would go. Now when you're the greatest
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  Speaker 1: chef with the greatest restaurant, you open another restaurant, and
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  Speaker 1: another restaurant and another restaurant. You take that John George,
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  Speaker 1: He's got like seventy five restaurants. Now it becomes a chain.
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  Speaker 1: Take Danielle, who's one of the great chefs in the world.
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  Speaker 1: He's got like forty five restaurants, and every time they
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  Speaker 1: open another one, the quality suffers. You see it happen
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  Speaker 1: all the time. I mean, let's be honest, nobu unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's seventy two nobous, Well, it's a little Everything
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  Speaker 1: changes when you've got to be become a chain. And
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  Speaker 1: it's happening with everything, even pizza Frank Peppy's in New Haven,
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  Speaker 1: that white clam pizza there, Frank Peppy's pizza unbelievable. Then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden they have twenty five places. It's
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  Speaker 1: not quite as good. And now they are announcing they
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  Speaker 1: have one hundred places. What And then Sally's. That's the
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  Speaker 1: other great one in New Haven. They're talking about opening
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  Speaker 1: two hundred places. The quality suffers, Now do you know
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  Speaker 1: that in New York when they do the the pizza studies,
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  Speaker 1: who has the best pizza in America? Dave Portnoye, whoever
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  Speaker 1: does this, it always comes down to Defara Pizza in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 1: Defara always wins best pizza in America, maybe the world.
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  Speaker 1: They always win. They don't make that. They only make
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  Speaker 1: like two hundred pizzas a day. They're only open at
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  Speaker 1: certain hours. You gotta wait in line for an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Defara Pizza, all right, here's the bad news. Same thing
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  Speaker 1: with these guys. Now they're making a frozen one. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be in every supermarket. They just launched. You can now
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  Speaker 1: get Defara Pizza frozen in shop.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading all the reviews. Everybody says it's not the same.
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  Speaker 1: It's not They said for frozen pizza, it's very good,
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  Speaker 1: but it's nothing like the original. So they're in all
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  Speaker 1: the shop rights. Now they're saying they're gonna go in
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  Speaker 1: food town, Uncle Giuseppes, They're gonna go national. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be in one hundred simpermarkets. This is not right. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta stop this stuff. You gotta stop because these said
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  Speaker 1: they have like one store, one restaurant and it's phenomenal,
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  Speaker 1: and then they franchise and everything changes. It's different if
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  Speaker 1: you're a franchise to begin with, If your cheesecake factory
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  Speaker 1: or PF Chang's from the beginning, you know how to
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  Speaker 1: mass produce it in a thousand locations, that's different. But
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  Speaker 1: they got to stop this franchising stuff. So hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files are out. I've been every time I
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  Speaker 1: run into anybody, I put their name in the Epstein Files.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. Who comes up. You can look up anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Just go just google Epstein Files. It'll take you to
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice website. It's called the Epstein Library.
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  Speaker 1: When you get there and then you can search type
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  Speaker 1: in the name of it. You'd be surprised. Remember we had
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy fail on yesterday. I said, hey, you're in the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein files. He was stunned. That was nothing bad. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: was emailing them, a boy telling them something. Jimmy Phylis
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  Speaker 1: said on Fox News, I come up in the Epstein
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  Speaker 1: Files five times. I couldn't believe nothing bad, nothing bad,
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  Speaker 1: nothing bad, just about something I did on the air
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  Speaker 1: or just coming to a lunch. And I was the
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  Speaker 1: MC of nothing bad. But if you want to google
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  Speaker 1: your friends or search your friends in the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: you can do it. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hundred three two one zero seven ten give WR
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  Speaker 1: Obre said on the iHeartRadio app to hear Mark.
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  Speaker 7: Simone and all the WR hosts in an instance, go
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  Speaker 7: back to the Mark Simon show on WR.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. Eight hundred three two one
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  Speaker 1: zero seven ten is the number. Let's go to Gail
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  Speaker 1: and Brooklyn. Gail, how you doing good?
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  Speaker 7: Love your show? Mark two comments One, I did try
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  Speaker 7: the Defara pizzer, the frozen one. It is terrible compared
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  Speaker 7: to the other frozen piece. It's not even good. The
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  Speaker 7: other thing is a political thing. Please everybody. Nicole Malia Takis.
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  Speaker 7: She is the only Republican congress per in New York City.
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  Speaker 7: She represents Staten Island and my part of Brooklyn. They're
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  Speaker 7: trying to redistrict her, and she is wonderful. She works
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  Speaker 7: unbelievably hard for everything, for Republicans. So those are my
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  Speaker 7: two comments.
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  Speaker 1: All right, uh yeah, too far. Pizza are not the same.
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  Speaker 1: You can't you know, like raos, they mass produce the sauce.
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  Speaker 1: It's not bad. You're the only ones really good as
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  Speaker 1: Patsy's that sauce in the jar and the supermarkets that's
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  Speaker 1: as good as no, that one's pretty good. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're hard to please.
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  Speaker 7: Yes I am. I'm Italian, So all right.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. Let's go to Jerry in Greenwich, Connecticut. Jerry,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Paul.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I want you to know that you have a
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  Speaker 5: great audience here in Greenwich.
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  Speaker 8: People called me by a name of when that she'd
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  Speaker 8: been wearing my hat and all say the love your show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well thanks, I'll be in Greenwich later today.
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  Speaker 5: What would you like to this with? Not particularly No, anyway,
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  Speaker 5: thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: I got other things I got to do there today.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks for calling. Let's go to Richard and Elmhurst. Richard,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: II man, gratulations on being number one?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Barrett Media, that's like the Oscar for best picture
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  Speaker 1: for our radio industry. We get voted number one. This show,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted.
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  Speaker 5: To talk about the free buses now being in Queens.
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  Speaker 5: The only free bus mark is the shuttle to Loo Glaudia.
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  Speaker 5: There's no other three buses.
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  Speaker 1: Said, well, he's going to try out a free bus.
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  Speaker 1: I forget what the route is, but he will be
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  Speaker 1: trying No, no, no, no, no, not now he's going to
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  Speaker 1: actually try out a free bus on one route. But
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  Speaker 1: as he again, you read the fine printabe little thing,
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  Speaker 1: the cost will be one hundred and seventy eight million.
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  Speaker 1: That's not free. Also, you got the MTA opposing it,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not gonna last long. Let's go to Rich
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  Speaker 1: in Murder Beach. Rich How you doing.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I still recuperating, but feeling pretty good at nice
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  Speaker 8: and warm down here, so it's not too bad. You
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  Speaker 8: know the you're talking about the frozen pizza and stuff.
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  Speaker 8: I'm can you actually taking sauce like the rendazos in
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: Sheepshead Bays a spicy kalamar and putting that and making
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  Speaker 8: that frozen and stuff just never lasts and it's never
• 18:19
  Speaker 8: going to be the same. But I also saw something
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  Speaker 8: today about a thirty nine percent cap on FCC something
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  Speaker 8: you know anything about that story?
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  Speaker 1: No cap on what.
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  Speaker 8: Something about the FCC is going to be doing something
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  Speaker 8: with a thirty nine percent cap. That Congress voted only
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  Speaker 8: a thirty percent cap, so I figured you might know
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  Speaker 8: about that.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea, but thanks for calling. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Robert in Westchester. Robert, how you doing all right? Mark?
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  Speaker 1: And thanks to taking my sound kinda.
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  Speaker 8: What was that, Mark?
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  Speaker 1: I said, you sound great?
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  Speaker 8: Go ahead, Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: Conservatively speaking, they estimate maybe fifteen million people came into
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  Speaker 8: the country illegally. Yeah, then there's the million, the million
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  Speaker 8: god away, and now the imbecilic Democrats want to cut
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  Speaker 8: fund into DHS. You got to believe that within that
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  Speaker 8: million there's got to be some Iranian operatives and Chinese operatives.
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  Speaker 8: What are these people doing?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, no, obviously we know a lot of terrorists,
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  Speaker 1: operatives of all kinds got in. Those are the first
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  Speaker 1: targets of the ICE raids. I got some of them,
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  Speaker 1: but you're never gonna get all of them. And I
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  Speaker 1: think so far we've gotten a something like a million
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  Speaker 1: and a half self deported. Maybe maybe we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: another million in the next couple of months. That ice
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  Speaker 1: got out, so two and a half million gun It'll
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  Speaker 1: take a while, but by the end of the Trump administration.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully you'll get them all out. Let's go to Vincent
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  Speaker 1: and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you doing.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark, Good morning Marret. Mark. You're right on
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: the money. Patsy's sauce in the jaw is great. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: got a jaw when I was at Patsy's the last
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: time he gave me a giant's great. Mark. I'm glad
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: President Trump and Lee Zeldon rescinded the stupid and dangerous
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  Speaker 6: expensive cafe cafe standards so now automakers could go back
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  Speaker 6: to making real cars with metal instead of those stupid
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: matching tone bumpers that if you get into a slight
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: offender bender while you're parking, you're out three four thousand dollars.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: And so, because with those cars, you get an accident
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: in those cars, you see them, those smart cars, those subcompacts,
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: you get in an accident with those cars, the undertaker
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: doesn't even take you out and put you in a coffin.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: They just throw you in the hole in the car.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: The biggest things in fifty years the EPA has done
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: that was good was no unleaded gasoline and putting catalytic
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: converters in cars that made the most difference for cleaner
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: air and less in the environment. I was in Rome
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  Speaker 6: in two thousand and two. I mean, I'm staying at
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: the Hilton there. I go out to go walk about.
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  Speaker 6: I'm smoking the sick. I go to smoke a cigarette
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  Speaker 6: and I said, gee, what is this cigarette? But I
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  Speaker 6: got poison in it. I was choking because they didn't
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  Speaker 6: change over to unleaded gasoline. I swear to god, I
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: was choking. It was like sucking in lawnmow few.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Well, I mean visa.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta go. We gotta do the news. But great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being with us when we come back. Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Blakeman the next governor of New York. He'll be with
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  Speaker 1: us next on seven to ten w O.
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  Speaker 3: R Mark delivering news before.
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  Speaker 1: On second w O. I, well, hey, we're looking for
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. Uh, don't write the voicemail. All right, we'll
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: get him. I just texted him. We'll find him. He's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: running for governor, of course, against Kathy Hochel, who's wasn't
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: great to start, and I was becoming a total disaster
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  Speaker 1: by going way to the left, trying to appeal to
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  Speaker 1: the mom Donnie crowd. A big mistake. Hey, hey, Christy Nome,
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  Speaker 1: I think is going to have a problem. Christy Nome.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Minnesota became a bit of a mess. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump told her to get out of Minnesota, and he
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  Speaker 1: sent Tom Holman in to calm things down. And with
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Christy Nome in Minnesota running everything, it was just calamity.
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  Speaker 1: It was just chaos. When Homan got there, he calmed
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: things down, brought down the volume of the tone, and
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  Speaker 1: did a much better job. And then President Trump said,
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  Speaker 1: from now on, Tom Holman will report directly to me,
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  Speaker 1: not to Christy Nomes. So that was a slap in
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  Speaker 1: the face to her. And now stuff is slowly coming
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  Speaker 1: out about her running that department. You know Corey Lewandowski,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you remember him, he's her chief of staff. Well, it
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: was always said that they were having an affair for years,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and it's believe that's still continuing. People believe that. So
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: President not happy about that whole situation. And then there's
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: other stuff coming out apparently as they travel around. She's
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: been firing too many people. You know, there's all kinds
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: of pilots that Department of Homeland Security has for their planes.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: She fired one pilot because he forgot to bring her blanket.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: She has some kind of special blanket that she has
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to have like a child, almost But the guy got
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: fired for not bringing the blanket. They then realized he's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the pilot. They can't really go anywhere without him. I
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: forget where they were, but they needed him to get back,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: so they had to rehire him to fly the plane back. Now,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the other thing that's coming out is apparently Department of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Homeland Security under her, they went out and bought themselves
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: a big enormous jet, a business jet, a Boeing seven
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: eighty seven. It's a big, huge business shit. You remember
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the plane Donald Trump had his Trump Force one. That's
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  Speaker 1: a Boeing seven eighty seven. So she bought one. It's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: quite a plane. It has a bedroom, it has everything.
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  Speaker 1: Now Corey Lewandowski her flying around on this big plane
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: with a bedroom, well you do the math there. At
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the time, she claimed the reason they were purchasing this
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: plane was to use it for deportation. They would be
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: using it to transport the illegals to back to their countries.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: But nobody can find any evidence of them even attempting
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to reconfigure the plane. Obviously, if you're going to use
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: it for that you get rid of the stateroom, the
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  Speaker 1: living room, the bedroom, and they didn't do that, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: apparently they've been using it to fly all over the place.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: So this kind of stuff is coming out. It's not
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: going to look good for her, and he may leave
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: her there through the midterms, but don't be surprised if
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: after the midterms she goes slowly, but surely he's removing
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: her from all sorts of of power in that job.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Tim Waltz, the crazy Minnesota governor, is now claiming that
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Minnesota should be reimbursed. They should get a ton of
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  Speaker 1: money from the federal government because they've suffered so much damage,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: psychological damage. They were traumatized by ice, and there's so
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: much trauma. They need money for this guy. You think
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  Speaker 1: he made enough money off the nineteen billion dollars in
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  Speaker 1: Somali fraud but nothing. No, he apparently still wants more money.
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  Speaker 1: But waltzs's announced he'll never seek reelection. In fact, he's
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  Speaker 1: not running for governor again. But he also announced he'll
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  Speaker 1: leave politics and not so. I don't know why he's
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: asking for money from the federal government unless he's just
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: looking for attention. Hey, do we find Bruce Blakeman. Yep,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: keep trying him. I texted him. We'll see, We'll see
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: if we can find him. Hey, a great idea from
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the Trump administration. If you own a home. This is
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: a great idea going to save you a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: If you own a home, you'll be able to claim
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  Speaker 1: a depreciation tax break every year. You know, every business
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  Speaker 1: is allowed to do this. When a business opens, a
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: factory opens, an office, opens, a headquarters. As soon as
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: they open it, you know, you know, over the years
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: it gets you know, things deteriorate and you got to
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: you can depreciate it. You can take a depreciation on
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  Speaker 1: your business. Every corporation does that. Trump making a great point.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Why shouldn't a homeowner be able to do that? Now
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  Speaker 1: he didn't elaborate on exactly how they would get this through,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a great idea. You'll be able to claim
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  Speaker 1: a depreciation every year. Great tax break if you're a homeowner.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Excellent idea from the president. New study out if you're
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: worried about exercise and all sorts of stuff. I didn't
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: go to the gym. I didn't do this. I didn't
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: New studies, especially if you're older, If you're older, this
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: one physical activity can do more good for you than
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: anything else. And I know people try to walk a
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  Speaker 1: lot of but you need a five minute, very brisk walk.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: You got a fast walk for five minutes. If you
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  Speaker 1: do that every day, apparently it causes a ten percent
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  Speaker 1: reduction in deaths, in heart disease, in all sorts of stuff.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So you may be walking every day, but for five
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: minutes at least do a very fast paced walk for
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  Speaker 1: five full minutes without stopping.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It really really really can do more for you than
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a trip to the gym or anything else. For an
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: older person, it's a great thing to do every day. Hey,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: we'll take a break. We'll see if we can find
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman. We'll look for him. Well, see, I don't
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: know what happened to him, but we'll see if we
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: get him in a moment, don't forget Buck and Clay
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  Speaker 1: Noon Today, excellent show coming up on seven to ten.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Wr P is mister New York Mark Simone on He Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to Bruce Blakeman. We'll find
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a little go get him on Monday. Oh wait a minute,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not here. Monday Curtis will be here Monday. Curtis
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: will be filling it on Monday. That's right, it's a
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: three day weekend. That's good news. So well, we'll get
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: him on next week. Bruce Blakeman, I want to ask
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: him about there's important issues. So Kathy Hokeel visits Long Island.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: She's campaigning there, and then later she says I was
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: in Long Island today, and she gets all kinds of
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: flak for saying in Long Island. You're supposed to say
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: on Long Island. Although you people in Long Island have
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: got to stop with this. On Long Island, I say
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in Long Island sometimes. I know it's an island, you're
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: on Long Island, but we don't say that for other islands.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Manhattan's an island. Nobody says I was on Manhattan. Somebody
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: would say, yeah, I was in Manhattan today. You wouldn't
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: say I'm on Manhattan. Hawaii is an island. You wouldn't
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: say it was on Hawaii. Hey, it was in Hawaii
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: last week. It's okay to say in Long Island. It
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: sounds good online. Long Island doesn't sound right. It's in
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Long Island is fine. Speaking of Kathy okle, she is
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: so crazy now, she's going so far to the left
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and she is pandering everywhere. She started bragging about one
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: hundred and nine million she's given to the Nassau University
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Medical Center. But then the critics pointed out, wait a minute,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the money was already there. You're not giving it to her.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: It's already in the budget for them. You're not giving
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: it to them. Hey, you know, the Second Avenue subway
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: goes uptown and goes all the way up, and the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: new plan was to extend it even more up to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty fifth Street. The Q train. She's
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: decided to reroute it through Harlem. It's going to make
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a detour, pandering to somebody. But you know what that
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: cost to detour a subway. It's like some ridiculous like
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: twelve million a mile, and then you're taken away from
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: where it's supposed to go. Detouring subway is absolutely ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, in the Central Park they got the
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: horse and carriage. You know, people ride around in this,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: which is fine. In Central Park. You see the horse
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: drawn carriage. It could be very beautiful, it could be
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: very romantic. I mean, when you're looking at it from
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: a distance. Once you get in it, you're in this smelly,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: disgusting thing with the most disgusting blanket on you and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: some of illegal alien in the in the front. It's
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: but it looks good from a distance. So and they
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: should not allow those horse and carriages to ever go
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: into the streets outside of the park because all they
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: do is screw up traffic. But the new proposal now
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: is to bring back horseback riding into Central Park. This
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: is why the activists are trying to get the horse
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and carriages banned. But they used to have I remember
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: not that long, maybe twenty twenty five years ago, people
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: would be riding horses. There was a stable in there's
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a stable there in Central Park. You know where the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: reservoir track is, the jogging track down below was the
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: bridle path, and there was always horseback riding there. But
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they want to bring it back. There's a company that's
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: been pushing this through the legislature, through the city council.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: They think it'll help with tourism. I don't think any
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: tourist wants to come to New York and ride a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: horse through Central Park because, first of all, wherever you're from,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: you can ride a horse there, but it would be
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: a major return Claremont Racing Academy. It closed in two
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: thousand and seven. That was the last one. They've been
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: doing horseback riding in Central Park for one hundred and
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: fifteen years. It stopped in two thousand and seven. They
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: want to bring it back. There's a bunch of companies,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Miller's Horse Company, Manhattan Saddlery that have all kinds of
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: plans to do this. The horses will be trailered in
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: an unspecified private barn in an outer borough, brought in
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: every day. It's not clear which Big Apple stable will
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: supply those horses, but there's one in the Bronx they
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: think they'll use. I don't know.
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Do we really need it. It's really not going to
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: bring in a lot of money. It's not going to
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: do much of anything for anybody. And you know, when
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you have those horses run and around, you know what
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: they leave all over the place. I don't think we
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: really need this. Coming back to New York, New York
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: taxpayers now that you remember, we're talking about the budget
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: twelve billion dollar budget gap and I said, there's so
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: much waste and fraud and bloat in there. There's a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: million things we overpay for. But there's also these dumb programs.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: You could just simply cut them. You don't need them.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Here's do you know that we're spending two hundred thousand
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: dollars for some woke group to study reparations for slavery?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Do you ever hear anything more ridiculous? What the hell
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: is there to study? We know what happened. You want
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: to argue about reparations, that's fine, but two hundred thousand
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: dollars to study it? The select organization I see here?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: It is it's certain groups that they count on for votes.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: They'll get the money. This is why you have all
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: this waste and fraud in government. Why would they waste money,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Why would they spend money on useless things? Because you're
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: giving it to certain groups, unions, businesses that bring you
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: votes and bring you massive, massive donations. That's why they
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: like to hand out these stupid contracts. Hey, we're out
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: of time. We'll get Bruce Blakeman next week. Curtis will
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: be here Monday. It's a holiday on Monday. I won't
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: be here, but Curtis will be filling in. Remember you
• 33:15
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• 33:18
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• 33:22
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• 33:26
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• 33:30
  Speaker 1: You get an extra show on the weekend. So I'll
• 33:33
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• 33:36
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