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Mark's 10am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now the Guardian Angel of talk radio is here. Curtis
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  Speaker 1: leewa guest host the Mark Simone Show on sevent ten WOO.
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  Speaker 1: As I continue on here in my substitution role, well
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  Speaker 1: my new found friend and station seven to ten war
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  Speaker 1: which I hope will be all of yours, substituting for
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  Speaker 1: the best guy in talk radio in the trich State area,
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  Speaker 1: bar Non Mark Simon. I mean, he's a smooth operator.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be with you until January second, the day
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  Speaker 1: after the ball drops, you know, I'm in Times Square
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  Speaker 1: with the Guardian Angels. And then the next day we'll
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  Speaker 1: see about the inauguration of Jorhan Mandami with Bernie the
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  Speaker 1: out the Coca Sanders standing there in city Hall. Look
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  Speaker 1: a lot to deal with coming up, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: to deal with it here and now, because is he
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  Speaker 1: who was on the boards formerly a refugee from WABC.
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  Speaker 1: Used to be always broadcasting Curtis No more, It's always
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  Speaker 1: booked bashing Curtis so good, good that you hear? Is
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  Speaker 1: he much better place? And as you know from my
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  Speaker 1: many years of broadcasting, whenever the temperatures would get below freezing,
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  Speaker 1: I would have a phrase that was taught to me
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  Speaker 1: by my father Chester, who grew up in the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: area right off of Lake Michigan, when there were real
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  Speaker 1: winters with real snow storms twenty foot more before we
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  Speaker 1: had global warming and climate change. I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you it's a fake fake. It's not fake global
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  Speaker 1: warming and climate change. Let me tell you something. It
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  Speaker 1: is not fake. But no hawk is talking. Now, you're
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  Speaker 1: not city. I've heard that phrase these over the years.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean? The hawk is talking? Actually came
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  Speaker 1: out of Chicago's South Side, where my dad was from
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  Speaker 1: and his family on the polar side of my family
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  Speaker 1: forty six in Rockwell. I actually spent four years going
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  Speaker 1: up there from ages one to five and then came
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  Speaker 1: back to Brooklyn. But the hawk was talking. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was first said by Louis Armstrong. That's say, play
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  Speaker 1: that horn. Louis from North Corona in Queens, right opposite
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  Speaker 1: where Tony Bennett grew up, the crooner from Estoria, the
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  Speaker 1: Estoria kid. Yeah, oh they got him. You see him
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  Speaker 1: near the house of Louis Armstrong. But Louis Armstrong would
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  Speaker 1: come into the South Side black jazz clubs frequented by
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  Speaker 1: whites and blacks interratio crowd and because it felt like
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  Speaker 1: it was forty degrees below zero wind chill fact up
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  Speaker 1: because the winds were coming off of Lake Michigan. He
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  Speaker 1: would say, the hawk is talking because his lips, which
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  Speaker 1: is so frozen. Like the other performers they tell you, basically,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna take like five or ten minutes from my
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  Speaker 1: lips to unfreeze, so I could be able to play
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  Speaker 1: that horn now, which probably didn't know, or maybe some
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  Speaker 1: of you knew that Louis Armstrong probably consumed and inhaled
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  Speaker 1: and exhaled more reef for more marijuana than anybody else
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  Speaker 1: during the jazz era. That's what he was knowing. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he would actually shotgun you through the horn, which meant basically,
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  Speaker 1: he would inhale it and then exhale it through the
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  Speaker 1: horn and right into your schnizola. Long before the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixties peace, love and happiness, Hate Ashbury Woodstock, half a
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  Speaker 1: million strong up the New York State through it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a long time before the era that we called the
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  Speaker 1: counterculture there. I grew up in the ear of the hippies,
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  Speaker 1: era of the Hippies. Well, anyway, the hawk is talking,
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  Speaker 1: and it reminded me at the times we would go
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  Speaker 1: visit the Polish side of the family. Christmas Easter, my
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  Speaker 1: dad had put everybody in the fifty four Ford station
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  Speaker 1: wagon Old Betsy, you know, whitewall tires, wood panels, and
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  Speaker 1: we'd be going through all different areas. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: ended up going across Phillipsburg from Jersey, across the bridge
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  Speaker 1: through Easton, which was the home of Larry Holmes world
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  Speaker 1: champion heavyweight. Obviously not back in the early sixties when
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  Speaker 1: we were riding through there. And then I remember Allentown
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  Speaker 1: and Bethlehem had the US Steel plan going. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: a casino, and we go through Pittsburgh three ships round
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  Speaker 1: the clock on an orange plume would hang over the
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  Speaker 1: city because of all the steel mills. And then eventually
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  Speaker 1: through Gary, Indiana, South Chicago, the steel mills there, going
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  Speaker 1: three shifts right into Chicago itself. That's when Steele was
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  Speaker 1: king in the United States. Now you have US Steel
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  Speaker 1: partly owned by the Japanese partner owned by the United
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  Speaker 1: States the Trump administration to keep all that steel being
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  Speaker 1: made here, right, boy, that's a throwback. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: we'd go out to the sleep With compound. By then
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  Speaker 1: they were out in Lockport, which was between Joliet had
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  Speaker 1: that walled prison there in Chicago, and they had the subdivisions,
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  Speaker 1: and my job was to go out and slap the hogs.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, slap the hogs after the feed for the family.
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  Speaker 1: And I learned there were the two of the smartest
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  Speaker 1: animals ever, the hogs, the pigs and the crows who
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  Speaker 1: were out there in the cornfields, you know, with these
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  Speaker 1: scarecrows trying to scam away. My dad, in fact, when
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  Speaker 1: he was young, had Jimmy the crow was his pet.
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  Speaker 1: He would fly with him to and from school to
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  Speaker 1: Sherman Park in his public school, and he would wait
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  Speaker 1: there on the window sill until my dad was ready
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  Speaker 1: to walk home again to the south side. Forty six
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  Speaker 1: and Rockwell, that's a little bit of that side issue.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about this storm warning and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that many of you are you know, well, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: sort of go back in time to remember when heavy
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  Speaker 1: snowfalls were common, and now it's an exception to the rule.
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  Speaker 1: And I've always said, why is it different now, I'd
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  Speaker 1: say global warming, climate change. Look what's happening in southern
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  Speaker 1: California there, it's like a tsunami has hit the area.
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  Speaker 1: But oh no, no, it's of course not you know, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you could have your opinion. I have my opinion. But
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  Speaker 1: I remember it'd be like fourteen sixteen foot of snow
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  Speaker 1: had to go out, put the chains on the tires
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  Speaker 1: the buses, the klang klang huge, I mean, the sanitation
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  Speaker 1: bulldozers would push the snow all to an area, you know,
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  Speaker 1: almost like a mount rushmore there on the corners. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have that anymore. And it's interesting as we were
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  Speaker 1: hearing these forecasts, because Nancy was driving me all through
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  Speaker 1: the tri state area visiting her relatives. Uh and uh. Also, oh,
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  Speaker 1: some interesting information I picked up at a copper crow
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  Speaker 1: remember as the crow flies. That's on Broadway and Olmony
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Land. What is that is the crow flies? It's
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  Speaker 1: the most direct straight line distance between two places. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: a great place, Coppler. And man, did I learn a
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  Speaker 1: lot about how Republicans are throwing the party under the
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  Speaker 1: bus that will not have those chains, those old iron
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  Speaker 1: chains at all. No, no, no no, but thrown under
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  Speaker 1: the bush with as you know, Alice Stephonic leaving the race.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's gonna be Operation Hush hush mush much. You're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna want to miss it. Because I'm connecting all
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  Speaker 1: the dots as i worked my way through troy Almany,
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  Speaker 1: connected the Hamilton Hill, all these places again with the
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  Speaker 1: predictions where snow you know snow is coming. What I
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  Speaker 1: said as the crow flies, a lot of crows up there,
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  Speaker 1: smart animals, smart birds and anyway, I said to myself, Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And then people coming up to me, no matter where
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  Speaker 1: I was, because obviously I'm wearing the red butray, the
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  Speaker 1: red Satine jacket, and be giving me all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: information about what I should be doing with my life. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is he I'm up there in Capitol lan oh Man.
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  Speaker 1: You should be on WG wire. Heard you on wo
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  Speaker 1: off and watch someone. I said, why would I want
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  Speaker 1: to be on WGY ten, big station up there in Albany.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not coming up here at Albany. I've spent
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  Speaker 1: time in the South End in Aubury, Hilm. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: coming up to Albany. And then on my way down
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  Speaker 1: at one of those rest stops in the New York
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  Speaker 1: State Thruway, you know, before we hit Marwall. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we went from Rockland and then into New Jersey and
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  Speaker 1: then through Fortney over the GW Bridge and I looked
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  Speaker 1: up and there was Eric Adams, a swaggerman with no
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  Speaker 1: plans apartment and he's lived in for years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with his what is no his boo, his beard, Tracy
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  Speaker 1: and then the other girl friend, the weightlifter underneath apartment
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  Speaker 1: twenty two eighth. I'm not going to give you the address,
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  Speaker 1: And I said to myself, man, I've come full circle.
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  Speaker 1: And then as we finally get into the apartment, it's
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  Speaker 1: in the wee hours in the morning, and what does
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  Speaker 1: my wife do, Nancy the best thing that ever happened
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  Speaker 1: to me. She starts binge watching The Office, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the show from scraton New Jersey with Steve Correll as
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  Speaker 1: Michael and Dwight and Jim. And she's got on the
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  Speaker 1: episode which is I guess you'd call it the snowball
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  Speaker 1: episode Classy Christmas, in which the whole concept is it's
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  Speaker 1: not a real snowfall if it's just a dusting of snow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, if you haven't seen this, you got you
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  Speaker 1: gotta watch that episode. Well, one of my favorite TV shows. Again,
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  Speaker 1: Nancy loves to binge watch, you know. As we come
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  Speaker 1: into New Years. I'll be very busy, as I always am,
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  Speaker 1: but uh never busy enough to miss Rod shirling in
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  Speaker 1: the Twilight Zone and the non stop showing of some
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest TV programs of all time. Speaking of
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  Speaker 1: upstate New York state, if he was from Bington, New York,
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  Speaker 1: Day finally put up a statue to his honor in
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  Speaker 1: the park. Dep Boy, I'm moving in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different directions here because a true snow snowfall is determined
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  Speaker 1: by whether you can make snowballs, whether it's packing snow,
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  Speaker 1: because if it's too light, you can't make a snowfall.
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  Speaker 1: Even if there's some accumulation, it's all about packing snow.
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  Speaker 1: And already you heard the news reports are there. They're
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  Speaker 1: moving out there with all the rock salt. They're spreading
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  Speaker 1: it in advance. Why why you know is he where
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  Speaker 1: the rock salt comes from? Do you have any idea
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  Speaker 1: underneath Detroit? When I was in Detroit, they have canyons
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  Speaker 1: under ground in which they're mining salt rock salt now
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  Speaker 1: for de icing, But back then when I first saw it, leather,
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  Speaker 1: food processing, all things underneath Detroit a thousand feet down.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if people will where are that. That's
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  Speaker 1: where the salt comes from. And I'm saying, why are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna throw salt on the ground. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna eat up the asphalt. Then you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: potholes of the size of lunar craters. And then while
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  Speaker 1: you're driving along they already hate drivers in so many places,
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  Speaker 1: especially New York City. Now you're undercarriage is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: thrown out all of a sudden, Your bull bearings will
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  Speaker 1: need adjustment, your trott will end up sort of becoming
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  Speaker 1: bent into shape. You have to end up in a
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  Speaker 1: fender bended shop. And a lot of that has to
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  Speaker 1: do with it's sparing rock salt to ride. Why not
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  Speaker 1: do what they do it up in Wisconsin where they're
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  Speaker 1: used to actual snow or for Lake mission in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: Is they spread a combination of beats, Yeah, beats, a
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  Speaker 1: brine or a cheese brine so that it doesn't end
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  Speaker 1: up destroying the asphalt and creating those potholes which become
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  Speaker 1: lunar craters. And by the way, then the deer come out.
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  Speaker 1: That's the other problem in Wisconsin. The deer come out
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  Speaker 1: and they want to lick up the beats and the
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  Speaker 1: cheese offs, the asphalt, and boy, we saw a lot
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  Speaker 1: of deer on all way down coming from Capital Land
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  Speaker 1: last night. And I know for some of you you
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  Speaker 1: look at deer as if it's agent Orange in hooves,
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  Speaker 1: because they eat up everything like a pac Man packed woman.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say that to my wife, Nancy, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: you'd be going to war with her. Hey. Look, that's
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  Speaker 1: just a little thumbnail sketch where I was and what
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  Speaker 1: we were doing as a family. And also the information
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  Speaker 1: that I learned on this lie hush hush, mush mush
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  Speaker 1: about how key Republicans are working in tandem to destroy
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party as we know it in New York State,
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  Speaker 1: New York City and actually turn it into a wing
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  Speaker 1: of the old moderate Democratic Party. Well, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go anywhere? Come on, are you gonna go anywhere?
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  Speaker 1: All this information that I'm bringing to you, Like Paul Revere,
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  Speaker 1: I'm warning you in advance, doing all the groundwork, And
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  Speaker 1: now it's on your place to be seven ten wor
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