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Hour 2: The 9/11 mastermind. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the Mark Simone Show on WOR. Well,
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Speaker 1: it's Thursday. It's going to be rainy today. If the
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Speaker 1: forecast holds up, there could be very heavy rain late
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Speaker 1: this afternoon. Actually, maybe 3, 4 o'clock. And if it's
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Speaker 1: anything like the last few vicious storms, you could have
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Speaker 1: a lot of flooding today. All over the place, the parkways, roadways,
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Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. Should ease up by evening
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Speaker 1: and then be a little better. Here's the craziest story
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Speaker 1: of all. Now, you know, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the
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Speaker 1: mastermind of the 9-11 attacks. Of course, you had Osama
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Speaker 1: bin Laden, who was hiding in Pakistan. Admiral William McRaven
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Speaker 1: led that great raid to capture him. They ended up
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Speaker 1: having to shoot him, which everybody was very happy about,
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Speaker 1: because I guess he had a gun. When they entered
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Speaker 1: the house and they got to the third floor where
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Speaker 1: he was, he had a gun. So they did shoot him.
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Speaker 1: They shot him dead, disposed of the body at sea,
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Speaker 1: which is the best way to get rid of this guy. Also,
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Speaker 1: you remember the mastermind, the guy who designed the 9-11 attack,
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Speaker 1: was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. This is the guy they captured.
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Speaker 1: Remember that famous, it's got to be the worst... A mugshot.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you've never seen anybody on cops look worse
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Speaker 1: than this getting dragged out of their house. He had
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Speaker 1: that ripped up undershirt on. His whole body covered with hair.
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Speaker 1: Not just a hairy chest. Look at the picture. The
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Speaker 1: guy had hairy shoulders, a hairy neck. I mean, a
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Speaker 1: real baboon of a guy. And it's Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Now,
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Speaker 1: you remember when he was captured?
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Speaker 2: 2003.
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Speaker 1: That's 23 years ago. 23 years ago what the hell
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Speaker 1: they've been doing with this guy for 23 years so
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Speaker 1: they just announced the trial he will finally go on
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Speaker 1: trial now this is 23 years why wasn't he on
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Speaker 1: trial in 2024 i mean 2004 a year after they
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Speaker 1: got him and frankly why wasn't he just shot dead
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Speaker 1: and thrown in the ocean like osama bin laden well
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Speaker 1: he's been in guantanamo and why is it 23 years
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Speaker 1: Federal judges. You know, these same federal judges. You can't
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Speaker 1: build a ballroom. You can't do this. You can't do...
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Speaker 1: These federal judges jump in every time the prosecutors are
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Speaker 1: ready to go. Federal judge delayed the case. One time
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Speaker 1: he was ready to plead guilty and a federal judge
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Speaker 1: stepped in. These crazy judges. So now the trial is
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Speaker 1: scheduled to begin and you're saying, what the hell took
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Speaker 1: so long? 23 years later? Why did it take so long? Okay,
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Speaker 1: listen to this. Big announcement. Trial set to begin. Here's
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Speaker 1: the date. June 5th, 2028. That's two years from now.
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Speaker 1: What is the point of a trial? That'll be 25
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Speaker 1: years we've had the guy in captivity. 25 years. So
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Speaker 1: I understand the trial set to begin. Start Monday. All right.
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Speaker 1: It's Labor Day week. Start a week from Monday. It's
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Speaker 1: Labor Day. Start two weeks from Monday, not two. June 5th, 2028. Listen,
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Speaker 1: this is how they work.
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Speaker 3: U.S.
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Speaker 1: Military justice. But again, it's these federal judges delaying the
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Speaker 1: whole thing. Sheikh Khalid Sheikh, whatever the hell his name is,
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Speaker 1: is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash
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Speaker 1: hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center. There's a couple
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Speaker 1: of other guys that will go on trial with him.
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Speaker 1: Waleen Bid Atash Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. That's the guy's name.
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Speaker 1: Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. Quadruple A. And then there's this guy,
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Speaker 1: Mustafa Al-Hasawi. They're all going on trial, but again, not
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Speaker 1: for two years. It's absolutely crazy. Absolutely crazy. You know,
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Speaker 1: we should get Admiral William McRaven, put together another raid,
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Speaker 1: go capture these guys again. and put him on trial immediately.
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Speaker 1: The deal they are looking for, Muhammad wants a deal,
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Speaker 1: we'll give him a life sentence without parole instead of
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Speaker 1: the death penalty. If anybody qualifies for the death penalty,
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Speaker 1: it's this guy. So hopefully there'll be no deal. Now,
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Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump drives the Democrats crazy. Trump derangement
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Speaker 1: syndrome is a real thing. Listen, if you don't like
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Speaker 1: the guy, that's fine. And if you don't agree with
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Speaker 1: him on this, that's fine, too. But this Trump derangement
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Speaker 1: syndrome is where you just go nuts. You just enrage
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Speaker 1: all day and night over a lot of things. I
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Speaker 1: don't like Hochul. I mean, I like Hochul personally. She's
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Speaker 1: a nice person. But Governor Hochul, I don't like anything
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Speaker 1: she's doing. I think she's the worst governor in the world.
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Speaker 1: I think her decisions are horrible. But I don't get
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Speaker 1: mad about it. I'm not enraged about her yelling and screaming.
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Speaker 1: But when it comes to Trump... What is it about him?
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Speaker 1: He just sets them off. They just go nuts. You never, ever,
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Speaker 1: ever hear any of these Democrats say, you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't agree with President Trump on some things. You know,
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Speaker 1: I think he's wrong. They just start yelling and screaming.
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Speaker 1: So there's a Philadelphia district attorney. I think this guy's
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Speaker 1: up to something. You think he's running for governor or something.
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Speaker 1: He wants to rise up because all of a sudden
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Speaker 1: he's lashing out at Trump, making these speeches. The Trump
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Speaker 1: ballroom got to go ahead And Trump is a very
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Speaker 1: fast builder. It's not the government building something, which takes
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Speaker 1: 10 years. It's a professional builder. He'll have this thing
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Speaker 1: done in 10 weeks, probably. I mean, he'll really get
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Speaker 1: this thing going. So Democrats are already plotting if they
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Speaker 1: take back the White House or even Congress, they're salivating
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Speaker 1: at the thought of destroying the ballroom, of actually tearing
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Speaker 1: it down. Now, you may not like Trump and you
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Speaker 1: might not like the way he decorated the Oval Office.
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Speaker 1: It is a little silly looking with the gold everywhere
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Speaker 1: and 6,000 paintings on the walls. But one thing he's
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Speaker 1: good at is building ballrooms. Now, you can go look.
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Speaker 1: Go look at the ballroom in Mar-a-Lago. Go look at
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Speaker 1: the ballroom in any of his hotels, the new hotel
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Speaker 1: in Washington. Go look at his ballrooms. They are magnificent.
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Speaker 1: Even when he had the plaza, when he owned that,
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Speaker 1: he restored that ballroom. His ballrooms look great. You couldn't
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Speaker 1: get a better guy to build you a ballroom. So
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Speaker 1: it's going to be wonderful. Who the hell would tear
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Speaker 1: it down? Now, listen to this guy in Philadelphia. He's
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Speaker 1: the district attorney. He's on an anti-Trump crusade. Listen to him.
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Speaker 1: And I'm going to have a paperweight sitting on my desk.
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Speaker 1: You know what that paperweight's going to be? It's going
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Speaker 1: to be a piece of the ballroom after we all
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Speaker 1: blow it up. That's what it's going to be. And
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Speaker 1: they're cheering. This is Trump derangement syndrome. They're cheering for
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Speaker 1: a guy setting off an explosive at the White House,
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Speaker 1: a bomb, and blowing up the White House ballroom. By
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Speaker 1: the way, underneath the ballroom is the Situation Room. They're
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Speaker 1: going to build a When they go to the Situation Room,
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Speaker 1: the one they got now is outdated. It's really outdated.
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Speaker 1: In the highest emergency, they go into the Situation Room.
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Speaker 1: The one they got now has got like old Sony
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Speaker 1: TV screens from 1973. It's got a VHS player in
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Speaker 1: case they need it. So they're building a new state-of-the-art
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Speaker 1: Situation Room. Also, the bunker, the emergency bunker they go
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Speaker 1: into in the most extreme emergencies is outdated. So underneath
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Speaker 1: the ballroom, will be the most state-of-the-art bunker of all.
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Speaker 1: And then the roof of the ballroom will contain a
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Speaker 1: drone center where they'll have drones to defend the White House.
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Speaker 1: It's important stuff. But this guy wants to blow it up,
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Speaker 1: set off a big bomb and blow up the ballroom.
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Speaker 1: This is... His name is Krasner. This is a small
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Speaker 1: bunch of wannabe Nazis. He's talking about ICE. ICE are
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Speaker 1: law enforcement guys. This is a small bunch of... of
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Speaker 1: wannabe Nazis. That's what they are. There will be accountability now.
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Speaker 1: There will be accountability in the future. There will be
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Speaker 1: accountability after Trump is out of office. If we have
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Speaker 1: to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis
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Speaker 1: for decades... The guy's crazy. Now, you know, this ICE...
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Speaker 1: It's just a law enforcement agency. When Barack Obama was
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Speaker 1: president for eight years, he used ICE in exactly the
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Speaker 1: same way. The same ICE. You know who he had
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Speaker 1: in charge of it? Tom Holman. That was Obama's ICE director.
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Speaker 1: You know what they did? They deported even more people
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Speaker 1: than they're deporting now. They actually deported four million under Obama. So, again,
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Speaker 1: it's Trump derangement. This Krasner obviously wants to run for
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Speaker 1: governor or senator or something. Attorney General Todd Blancho asked
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Speaker 1: about this, Krasner. It's disgusting that a district attorney in Philadelphia, who,
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Speaker 1: by the way, has a city with its own problems. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there is a big crime problem in Philadelphia. Get busy
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Speaker 1: with that. It's the same thing here where you get
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Speaker 1: Alvin Bragg speaking out about Trump. This is the guy
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Speaker 1: letting criminals loose. He lets criminals out. lets him out.
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Speaker 1: You hear the stories every day. This guy's been arrested
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Speaker 1: 27 times for robbery. And 27 times, and he goes
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Speaker 1: before Alvin Bragg, you're dismissed. No bail, no jail. Blame again,
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Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo, who signed that no bail, no jail thing. Hey,
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Speaker 1: that's the reason. You know, and this Alvin Bragg and
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Speaker 1: these DAs, they decide, well, shoplifting's not a crime. We're
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Speaker 1: not going to charge anybody with shoplifting. I'm in the
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Speaker 1: drugstore yesterday. You want anything. You want some aspirin? You
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Speaker 1: want some shampoo? It's locked up. It's locked up. You
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Speaker 1: got to push this button and ring the bell for
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Speaker 1: the manager to come unlock it. What? What am I,
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Speaker 1: at Bulgari, buying a $ 500, 000 bracelet? It's a bottle of aspirin.
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Speaker 1: It's locked up. Thanks to Cuomo and Alvin Bragg and
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Speaker 1: all these people. You know, it's spreading, too, this crime wave.
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Speaker 1: It's organized. It's all kids running in, but they're organized,
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Speaker 1: and they come in with their own shopping carts, their
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Speaker 1: own hefty bags. According to Alvin Bragg, if it's under $ 1, 000,
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Speaker 1: no charge. You won't be charged with shoplifting. So they're experts,
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Speaker 1: these kids now, at stealing $ 999 worth of stuff, running
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Speaker 1: out with it. They take it to this van where
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Speaker 1: it's all collected. It goes to the shoplifting ring. It's organized,
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Speaker 1: an organized crime kind of ring. And then it's all
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Speaker 1: sold on the black market or resold to other stores
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Speaker 1: at a profit. It's starting to spread a little now.
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Speaker 1: Supermarkets are getting hit in parts of the country. There
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Speaker 1: are supermarkets now that have to lock up the valuable meat,
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Speaker 1: like in the meat section, the— The ribeye and the
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Speaker 1: filet and all that has to be locked up. Same thing.
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Speaker 1: Push the button. Ring the bell for the manager to
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Speaker 1: come unlock your meat. Hey, I think we should play
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Speaker 1: this every hour. We like to talk about Dolly Parton,
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Speaker 1: but she was the wisest. Besides the great entertainer, songwriter, performer,
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Speaker 1: she was the wisest at running her career. And that's
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Speaker 1: why she lasted so long. That's why she was so beloved.
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Speaker 1: And that's why after decades, nobody could find a bad
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Speaker 1: thing to say about her. But let's play this again.
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Speaker 1: We played it the first hour. Let's play it every hour.
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Speaker 1: It's a good lesson, especially if you've got any people listening, performers,
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Speaker 1: anybody in the entertainment business. Dolly Parton would never go
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Speaker 1: near politics for any reason. She wouldn't pose with any politicians.
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Speaker 1: But this Trump's president, this reporter tries to get her
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Speaker 1: to talk. We have a president of the United States
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Speaker 1: who said those things on that bus.
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Speaker 4: I'm not addressing that. I do not get into that.
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Speaker 4: Of course, I have my opinion about everybody and everything.
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Speaker 4: But I learned a long time ago, keep your damn
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Speaker 4: mouth shut if you want to stay in show business.
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Speaker 4: I'm not in politics. I'm an entertainer.
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Speaker 1: And yet you're also a role model. Yes, I am.
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Speaker 5: That's why I don't.
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Speaker 6: Talk about people.
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Speaker 4: So if you are deciding you may want to ask
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Speaker 4: me something more serious, don't, because I'm not going.
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Speaker 5: To answer it.
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Speaker 3: Fair point.
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Speaker 1: I might still ask.
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Speaker 4: You can ask, but I might still tell you where
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Speaker 4: to put it.
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Speaker 5: You got it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Stephen Colbert, you hear that? Don't talk about politics now,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert. And since the show went off the air, CBS,
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Speaker 1: you see how his career has taken off, really taken off.
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Speaker 1: You see immediately people ran out and hired him. Hey,
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Speaker 1: by the way, you see that story in the New
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Speaker 1: York Post? that Chris Cuomo, the new head of CBS News,
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Speaker 1: Barry Weiss, CBS, salivating over Chris Cuomo, desperately chasing after him,
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Speaker 1: trying very hard to get Chris Cuomo on the air
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Speaker 1: at CBS. They were dying to get him. Now, when
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Speaker 1: you see that story, what does it tell you? Well,
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Speaker 1: if you're in the media business, it tells you that
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Speaker 1: over at News Nation, Chris Cuomo's contract must be up.
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Speaker 1: And you've got somebody planting stories like that, trying to
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Speaker 1: renegotiate with News Nation to get a new contract. Because
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Speaker 1: I doubt that anybody at CBS is salivating over Chris Cuomo.
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Speaker 1: First of all, News Nation is a very nice place,
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Speaker 1: but CBS is much bigger. If they wanted him, all
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Speaker 1: he'd do is pick up the phone and he'd start
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Speaker 1: packing two seconds after the phone call. But again, it's
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Speaker 1: just an old trick. Your contract's up. Everybody does that.
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Speaker 1: You plant a story somewhere. that they're desperately trying to
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Speaker 1: hire you, and that helps you negotiate your new contract. Hey,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people worried about Tiger Woods. He wanted
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Speaker 1: to do a video message to congratulate Nota Beghi, who's
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Speaker 1: getting the Payne Stewart Award. They asked people to speak,
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Speaker 1: you know, tribute. Tiger couldn't be there, so he did
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Speaker 1: a video. And he sent the video. Well, it went
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Speaker 1: up online, and a lot of his fans were shocked.
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Speaker 1: He didn't look so hot. But remember, the guy's in rehab.
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Speaker 1: You know, when you're a golfer, you're out there in
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Speaker 1: the sun every day. So you got a beautiful tan.
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Speaker 1: You look great. When you're in rehab, you look like
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Speaker 1: a mess. It's like being in prison. So people on
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Speaker 1: X think, God, he looks like a former shell of
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Speaker 1: his self. What's going on with the big cat? Looks different.
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Speaker 1: Another one posted, gee, Tiger doesn't look so good. Scheduled
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Speaker 1: to make his first court appearance. Remember, as far as
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Speaker 1: the crash, he hasn't really gone into court yet with that.
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Speaker 1: But September 8th, I think that's the day after Labor Day.
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Speaker 1: five months after the incident. All right, it's better than
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Speaker 1: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. But you see, this little Tiger Woods thing,
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Speaker 1: they get that done in a couple of months. Khalid
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Speaker 1: Sheikh Mohammed, 25 years to get him on trial. Hey,
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Speaker 1: we'll take some calls next. 800-321-0710 is the number. 800- 321-0710. Now,
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Speaker 1: much more Mark. Mark Simone. Now, 9 till noon weekdays.
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Speaker 4: On 710WOR.
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Speaker 1: Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number. Let's
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Speaker 1: go to Frank in Phoenix. Frank, how you doing?
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Mark. Mark, the socialists must have hated Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 7: She is exactly everything they hate. She came up from nothing.
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Speaker 7: She created an empire, and she was loved by millions.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was a great American story. Dolly Parton,
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Speaker 1: born in a one-room cabin, and look what she achieved.
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Speaker 1: Lives in a mansion in Tennessee. She also had a
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Speaker 1: nice place in New York. I guess I can say
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Speaker 1: it now. She's no longer with us. It was 800
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Speaker 1: Fifth Avenue, that building at 61st Street. She had an
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Speaker 1: apartment with a beautiful view of the park. Let's go to...
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Speaker 1: Chris in Manhattan. Chris, how you doing?
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. I'm okay, thanks.
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Speaker 6: How you doing?
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Speaker 1: You're always worried about something. What are you worried about?
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Speaker 6: I am worried, but I'm kind of resigned now. I
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Speaker 6: think Trump has handed the midterms to the Democrats.
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Speaker 1: Let me just point out, Chris is a panicking. He's
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Speaker 1: always panicking. We go through this every election. Remember when
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Speaker 1: it was abortion, he was going to lose because of abortion.
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Speaker 6: I do remember that, and I was wrong, and I
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Speaker 6: still can't believe I.
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Speaker 3: Was wrong about that.
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Speaker 1: All right, tell us what you're wrong about this time.
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Speaker 6: Okay, listen. He's desperately trying to get back with Iran
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Speaker 6: to where we were before.
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Speaker 1: He started the war. Let me just point out in
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Speaker 1: the midterms.
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Speaker 6: That's one thing.
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Speaker 1: The same thing with abortion. I was trying to tell
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Speaker 1: you this back with abortion. It's no longer a federal issue.
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Speaker 1: The president has nothing to do with abortion anymore. It's
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Speaker 1: a state issue. And in every focus group they studied
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Speaker 1: on voters, abortion was like the number 27th issue. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't even.
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Speaker 6: I'm not talking about abortion.
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Speaker 1: Okay. It's the same thing with Iran. Iran is now
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Speaker 1: number 15 on the list of issues. 96%—forget the people
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Speaker 1: you know in Manhattan. In America, nobody is concerned about Iran.
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Speaker 1: Nobody's talking about it.
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Speaker 6: I'm not concerned about it. I'm concerned about how much
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Speaker 6: more money it's costing me to live.
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Speaker 3: I voted for.
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Speaker 1: Him three times. That has nothing to do with Iran.
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Speaker 1: There's no connection between that and Iran.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: I hate to break it to you, but gas is like— Hey,
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Speaker 1: we have people calling from all over the country. Gas
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Speaker 1: is $ 2. 60 here. It's $ 3.
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Speaker 3: 50 here.
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Speaker 6: My frozen pizza at Whole Foods went up $ 1. 50 in
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Speaker 6: a week.
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Speaker 1: What's that from? It's from state, city taxes. It's from
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Speaker 1: congestion pricing. It's from fees they're charging. It's from rent.
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Speaker 1: If you go to the supermarket, you're just paying ridiculous
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Speaker 1: prices in New York. See, your problem is you've got
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Speaker 1: to get out of New York City. I know you
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Speaker 1: go to the Hamptons. Forget that. You've got to go to, like, Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: You've got to go to, like, real places and see
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Speaker 1: what things actually cost and how people actually live. It's
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Speaker 1: like a Manhattan thing that you're paying these crazy prices.
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Speaker 6: But now he's starting a war with Canada. Canada, they're
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Speaker 6: our neighbors. They're our brothers.
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Speaker 1: No, they're not. They're screwing us on tariffs. We'll screw them.
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Speaker 1: There's no war with Canada. He's just negotiating.
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Speaker 6: You heard that the biggest impact of the tariff wars
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Speaker 6: is going to be a rise in the price of
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Speaker 6: toilet paper again. 25 to 50 percent price rise because
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Speaker 6: of the wood.
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Speaker 1: Let me explain to you. What a real tariff is.
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Speaker 1: These tariffs are nothing. They get negotiated away and they're gone.
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Speaker 1: And we don't have to pay the tariffs. Usually tariffs
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Speaker 1: are paid by middlemen and exporters. A tariff, a real
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Speaker 1: tariff that affects you is corporate tax. Every time the Democrats,
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Speaker 1: especially in New York, when they raise corporate tax, that's
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Speaker 1: a tariff on the corporation. And they put the cost
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Speaker 1: right into the product. So if they raise corporate tax
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Speaker 1: in New York State, every product goes up in price
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Speaker 1: to match it. So don't be a panicking.
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Speaker 6: We'll have a great weekend, Mark.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Don't be a panicking. Don't be a panicking.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how are you doing?
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Mark.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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Speaker 2: I see also that J.P.
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Speaker 5: Morgan passed away.
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Speaker 1: J.P. Morgan was alive?
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Speaker 2: No, I couldn't believe it. I think he was like
19:18
Speaker 2: 92 or something.
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Speaker 1: No, it should be more than that.
19:20
Speaker 3: J.P.
19:21
Speaker 1: Morgan was a singer.
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Speaker 7: Maybe.
19:23
Speaker 1: Who was very funny and got herself on the Tonight Show.
19:26
Speaker 1: She was funny and good with Johnny Carson. She became
19:29
Speaker 1: a regular guest and she was a game show panelist.
19:31
Speaker 1: But she was probably best known for the Gong Show.
19:34
Speaker 1: She was one of the panelists on the Gong Show
19:36
Speaker 1: for years.
19:37
Speaker 2: She was a real hoot in her day.
19:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, very funny.
19:41
Speaker 2: I wanted to make a point about the Dolly Parton thing.
19:43
Speaker 2: I saw Tony Bennett would have turned 100 earlier in
19:48
Speaker 2: the month. And I know you've spoken about... him cutting
19:51
Speaker 2: off all ties with you because of your politics differing.
19:54
Speaker 1: No, no, no. Unfortunately, he didn't cut off all ties.
19:57
Speaker 1: Whenever I'd see him, he'd start yelling at me. We'd
19:58
Speaker 1: get into a big fight every day.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's, yeah.
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Speaker 1: The point being... Then he got Alzheimer's and he forgot
20:05
Speaker 1: that he was mad at me. All of a sudden,
20:07
Speaker 1: he was nice again.
20:08
Speaker 2: You didn't remember why he was yelling at you. But
20:13
Speaker 2: it's always one-sided.
20:15
Speaker 3: The right doesn't do that.
20:16
Speaker 2: They don't excommunicate people like the left does. And they
20:22
Speaker 2: are more forgiving. And it's a problem in politics because
20:27
Speaker 2: the right is insisting on doing the right, the correct thing.
20:31
Speaker 2: And Blakeman, on his decision not to go along with
20:34
Speaker 2: this argument, stupid.
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Speaker 1: Uh no no it was not it was not that
20:38
Speaker 1: was not no no no mike mike there was no
20:41
Speaker 1: decision by blakeman the lawyers just told him you got
20:45
Speaker 1: no choice you can't you have to do this it's
20:47
Speaker 1: the law but.
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Speaker 2: But yes you're right but a democrat you know politician
20:51
Speaker 2: would say to hell with the lawyers i mean mickey
20:53
Speaker 2: shovel was ordered by the fed they'll turn over the
20:55
Speaker 2: name she still hasn't does it They're much more defiant.
20:58
Speaker 1: That's my point.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying.
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Speaker 3: No, you're right.
21:01
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. And it's a good point. All right.
21:03
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling, Mike. Let's go to Vincent in Brooklyn. Vincent,
21:06
Speaker 1: how are you doing?
21:07
Speaker 3: Good morning mark mark this eighteen billion dollars that matters
21:12
Speaker 3: settled before the trial this is nothing but a shakedown
21:16
Speaker 3: you notice it's all the blue states that are suit
21:19
Speaker 3: matter they do the same thing in the socialist countries
21:23
Speaker 3: of europe every time there's a budget for a shortfall
21:27
Speaker 3: they look at what american tech company they could sue
21:32
Speaker 3: what america that mainly the tech companies Letitia James and
21:37
Speaker 3: Kathy Hochul already salivating over that $ 1 billion that they're
21:43
Speaker 3: estimated to get. I don't understand these people, just like
21:48
Speaker 3: Rupert Murdoch. Right before the trial, they go settle. They
21:52
Speaker 3: fold like a cheap suit.
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Speaker 1: And they settle. Vincent, in the case of Murdoch, if
21:57
Speaker 1: you talk to him about it, he can explain it
21:59
Speaker 1: so logically. It was $ 500 million for him to settle.
22:03
Speaker 1: He would rather do that and move on immediately than
22:05
Speaker 1: tie up a bunch of lawyers and fight.
22:07
Speaker 6: For 36 months.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Bob, but let's talk about matter. We're talking about
22:11
Speaker 3: $ 18 billion. I would have spent a billion dollars on
22:16
Speaker 3: my lawyers that I have in retainer bollocking the government up.
22:22
Speaker 3: getting delays, doing whatever I can because... We've.
22:27
Speaker 1: Got to go do the news, but it's just the
22:29
Speaker 1: way they.
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Speaker 3: It's a shakedown, Mark.
22:31
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. It's a good point. Absolutely right. It
22:35
Speaker 1: is a shakedown, but if you're Meta and you're Zuckerberg
22:38
Speaker 1: and you've got a million things going on, it's 18
22:40
Speaker 1: billion's pocket change if you don't have to hear about
22:43
Speaker 1: this again. To them, it's worth it. Hey, when we
22:45
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22:51
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22:53
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23:00
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23:03
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23:25
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23:27
Speaker 5: Mark, doing pretty well. You know, we have our our
23:30
Speaker 5: news that I got a question for you. Do you
23:33
Speaker 5: know what state has the fourth highest cost of living?
23:40
Speaker 1: Fourth highest, fourth highest cost of living. Well, I imagine
23:45
Speaker 1: number one and two is New York and California. Number three, Illinois.
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Speaker 1: Number four, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: You're pretty close, my friend. Actually, New York is fourth.
23:56
Speaker 5: Hawaii and California are ahead of New York and I
23:59
Speaker 5: think Massachusetts. But, yeah. Believe it or not. But what's
24:04
Speaker 5: funny about this– Yeah, well, you know, because, by the way,
24:07
Speaker 5: you could understand why costs would be high in Hawaii,
24:09
Speaker 5: because you have to ship everything to Rhode Island. That
24:11
Speaker 5: increases costs. But, you know, what's New York's excuse? And
24:15
Speaker 5: I bring that up because what's the big issue of
24:17
Speaker 5: the day today? The big A word, affordability.
24:20
Speaker 1: Affordability, yeah.
24:21
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's all the Democrats talk about. Affordability. Trump is
24:24
Speaker 5: not making anything affordable. Well, then you look at the
24:26
Speaker 5: 50 states, and the five states with the highest cost
24:29
Speaker 5: of living and the least affordability are New York, you know, Hawaii, California,
24:34
Speaker 5: New Jersey, and Massachusetts. And the five states with the
24:37
Speaker 5: most affordability and the lowest cost are, let's see, Alabama, Oklahoma, Idaho, Arkansas,
24:44
Speaker 5: and Utah. So it turns out there's almost a direct correlation.
24:49
Speaker 5: The more democratic a state is in terms of their
24:53
Speaker 5: control of their legislature and governorship, the more likely they
24:57
Speaker 5: have out-of-control costs.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's how we get people here in New York
25:01
Speaker 1: who say, I'm paying so much for gas because of Iran.
25:04
Speaker 1: They don't realize it's because of Hochul. It's because of
25:06
Speaker 1: the state legislature that you're paying more in New York
25:09
Speaker 1: because it's New York and you've got taxes. Exactly.
25:12
Speaker 5: Yep, yep, yep. And same thing, by the way, California
25:15
Speaker 5: pays about $ 6 a gallon for gas. They pay $ 1. 50
25:19
Speaker 5: more than the national average because of all the regulations
25:21
Speaker 5: and taxes.
25:22
Speaker 1: Yeah. And a lot of this is green scheme stuff
25:26
Speaker 1: where it drives up the price of gas. But, hey,
25:29
Speaker 1: you wrote about that yesterday. They call it the green scheme,
25:32
Speaker 1: but it really was because a lot of people profiteered
25:35
Speaker 1: off it, didn't they?
25:37
Speaker 5: Boy, it's amazing how many people got rich. It's a
25:40
Speaker 5: green scheme, and the green is not green environmental policy,
25:44
Speaker 5: and people did get rich. And, you know, we spent
25:47
Speaker 5: hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars on these programs.
25:50
Speaker 5: And a lot of it just went into the bank
25:51
Speaker 5: accounts of liberal activists, some of these liberal hedge funds.
25:56
Speaker 5: Right on the week or two before Biden left office,
26:00
Speaker 5: they approved a multibillion-dollar giveaway of basically money to all
26:06
Speaker 5: the green groups. Lord knows what they did with the money.
26:09
Speaker 5: They didn't exactly change the temperature of the planet.
26:13
Speaker 1: Hey, and if you believe in windmills or whatever it is,
26:17
Speaker 1: all you have to do is watch Europe. who tried
26:19
Speaker 1: it for a couple years. What was the result when
26:22
Speaker 1: they tried it?
26:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's actually a tragedy. You know what country moved
26:28
Speaker 5: most aggressively to the green energy stuff?
26:31
Speaker 1: Was it Germany? Yeah, Germany.
26:34
Speaker 5: Germany was, throughout the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, we always
26:38
Speaker 5: talked about German manufacturing and they had the Mercedes-Benz and
26:42
Speaker 5: were one of the lead industrial countries. And Germany, by
26:48
Speaker 5: switching from natural gas and oil and coal to windmills,
26:52
Speaker 5: they basically deindustrialized that country. It's actually very sad. Most
26:57
Speaker 5: of the companies that made stuff in Germany either folded
27:01
Speaker 5: or moved out.
27:03
Speaker 1: And didn't they have to start tearing down those windmills
27:05
Speaker 1: because they just didn't provide enough to meet anything?
27:08
Speaker 5: Yeah, who would have ever thought using 15th century energy
27:12
Speaker 5: wasn't going to work very well? But, you know, it's true.
27:16
Speaker 5: And now they're finally saying, maybe we better go back
27:21
Speaker 5: to using natural gas. By the way, we do have
27:24
Speaker 5: clean coal in this country, and we should rebuild our
27:26
Speaker 5: coal plants because we're going to need a lot more
27:28
Speaker 5: energy in the future. And we do have the cleanest
27:31
Speaker 5: coal in the world. While China is building 100 new
27:33
Speaker 5: coal plants, we shut ours down. But natural gas... That's
27:37
Speaker 5: the cleanest energy you can have. And they stopped using
27:40
Speaker 5: natural gas.
27:41
Speaker 1: And nuclear energy, also very clean.
27:44
Speaker 7: Right.
27:45
Speaker 5: And so nuclear, you know, I'm one of these people
27:47
Speaker 5: who just says, look, let's get the first of all,
27:49
Speaker 5: let's get the government out of the way. And let's
27:51
Speaker 5: just use whatever energy makes sense. Now, look, if you
27:54
Speaker 5: live in Phoenix, Arizona. Yes, solar power probably makes a
27:59
Speaker 5: lot of sense. The sun is 110 degrees there with
28:03
Speaker 5: a blazing sun, so you can capture a lot of energy.
28:05
Speaker 5: But I don't think New York gets a lot of
28:08
Speaker 5: energy from solar power. So you can use these things,
28:12
Speaker 5: but they're niche levels of power. So, for example, after
28:16
Speaker 5: spending hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars... on windmills
28:19
Speaker 5: and solar panels, today we get maybe 5% or 6%
28:22
Speaker 5: of our energy from wind and solar. So it's a
28:26
Speaker 5: very poor source of energy. We still get most of
28:30
Speaker 5: our energy from, you know, it's about 75%. And you
28:35
Speaker 5: still have these nitwits out there saying, zero fossil fuels,
28:38
Speaker 5: get rid of energy. Well, how are we going to?
28:40
Speaker 5: Our factories, our schools, our data centers, our, you know,
28:45
Speaker 5: the Internet. How are we going to power that without
28:47
Speaker 5: energy that works?
28:49
Speaker 1: Hey, Steve Moore, explain the battle with Canada. What are
28:52
Speaker 1: we fighting over? I mean, they were kind of unfair
28:55
Speaker 1: with their tariffs, weren't they?
28:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, but, you know, we have something in our hotline today.
29:00
Speaker 5: I hope all your listeners are getting that. Just go
29:02
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29:05
Speaker 5: free newsletter every morning. It's a bad fight for Trump
29:10
Speaker 5: to pick right now. I don't think he should have
29:11
Speaker 5: picked this fight. Canada is our most important trading partner.
29:14
Speaker 5: By the way, a lot of people don't realize that
29:17
Speaker 5: Canada and Mexico are our two biggest trading partners, much
29:19
Speaker 5: more so than China. I bet if you asked the person,
29:22
Speaker 5: people on the street, who do we trade most with,
29:23
Speaker 5: I think most people would say China. I would have
29:25
Speaker 5: said that. myself until I looked at the numbers so
29:29
Speaker 5: China I mean Canada Mexico are really critical trading partners
29:33
Speaker 5: for the United States we all benefit I've always loved
29:36
Speaker 5: that idea of North America you know down to the
29:39
Speaker 5: furthest south in Mexico up to the furthest north in
29:41
Speaker 5: Canada being a, you know, a free trade zone where
29:44
Speaker 5: we dominate the world in terms of agriculture, energy and technology.
29:48
Speaker 5: So I think these tariffs are a mistake. And I
29:53
Speaker 5: think we should, you know, because, you know, you have tariffs.
29:56
Speaker 5: That's not going to make things cheaper here in the
29:58
Speaker 5: United States. It's going to add to costs. So hopefully
30:01
Speaker 5: we get this thing resolved. But it is true that,
30:03
Speaker 5: you know, Trump is right, that Canada does cheat on
30:05
Speaker 5: some of these deals. And they do impose very high
30:08
Speaker 5: tariffs on our agriculture and our farmers and our dairy farmers,
30:11
Speaker 5: et cetera. So he wants a better deal. I just
30:14
Speaker 5: don't think right now is probably the best time for this.
30:16
Speaker 5: All right.
30:17
Speaker 1: But we've got to stop. When it comes to Trump,
30:18
Speaker 1: we love him. But you've got to stop saying, I
30:20
Speaker 1: wish you wouldn't pick this fight. He picks every fight.
30:23
Speaker 1: He'll have a thousand fights going at once. That's just
30:25
Speaker 1: his style.
30:26
Speaker 5: And that's, you know, that's the old saying, you never
30:28
Speaker 5: want to fight a multi, you know, that's, I think,
30:30
Speaker 5: what the Germans and all these other countries have learned over,
30:33
Speaker 5: you know, you want to, you don't want to have
30:35
Speaker 5: a multi-front, you know, war either with weapons or in
30:40
Speaker 5: trade at the same time. And so, but look, economy,
30:44
Speaker 5: I've got to say this loud and clear on your show.
30:46
Speaker 5: I said it on Kudlow's show last night. I mean,
30:47
Speaker 5: the American economy is the best in the world. Now,
30:50
Speaker 5: do we have problems? Yes. Is inflation too high? Yes, absolutely.
30:53
Speaker 5: We're now running at 3.5%. We've got to get it
30:55
Speaker 5: boiled down to less than 1.5%. But every country in
30:59
Speaker 5: the world would gladly trade places with the United States.
31:02
Speaker 5: I mean, we have record high stock market. We've got
31:06
Speaker 5: more jobs available than people to fill them. How about
31:10
Speaker 5: the fact crime is down? in virtually every major city,
31:13
Speaker 5: thanks to Trump's tough-on-crime stance. I mean, I could go
31:16
Speaker 5: on and on. There's a lot going well in the
31:18
Speaker 5: United States, but the media just never reports it.
31:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they report the opposite. Economic crisis and affordability crisis.
31:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, you'd think we were in a Great Depression or
31:26
Speaker 5: something like that if you watched the CNN and so on.
31:29
Speaker 5: And yet, you know, by the way, incomes have been
31:31
Speaker 5: growing faster, just except for the last couple months where
31:34
Speaker 5: we saw it pick up inflation. Most American families actually
31:38
Speaker 5: have more income disposable income than they had before Trump
31:43
Speaker 5: was elected. So even that idea that, oh, nobody can
31:46
Speaker 5: afford everything, well, the average family in the United States
31:49
Speaker 5: is struggling, obviously, to pay some of these bills. I mean,
31:52
Speaker 5: ground beef. Have you tried to buy a hamburger lately?
31:55
Speaker 5: You know, those costs are high. But we're doing well.
31:58
Speaker 5: We're out-competing our neighbors. And the worst possible thing to
32:02
Speaker 5: do would be elect a bunch of Democrat socialists that
32:05
Speaker 5: are going to raise taxes on everybody.
32:06
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33:03
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33:10
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33:12
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33:17
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33:28
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33:30
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33:34
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33:38
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33:41
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33:43
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33:47
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33:51
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33:53
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33:56
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33:58
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