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Mark interviews New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark simoniall on sevent tenor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Michael Goodwin the finest columns in America. You can
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  Speaker 2: read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday in the
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  Speaker 2: New York Post. And if you go to the New
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  Speaker 2: York Post website, all of his columns are up there.
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  Speaker 2: You should read them all. And he's with us right now,
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  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin, how you doing okay?
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  Speaker 3: Mark? Thank you? Hey? I love the.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday's call him about crazy Mom Donnie and his tax
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  Speaker 2: the rich. And you know, this is science to an economy.
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  Speaker 2: We know what works, we know what doesn't work. What
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  Speaker 2: happened to follow the science? Socialism has been tried ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand times, failed every time. That's the experiment. That's so,
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  Speaker 2: that's right.
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  Speaker 1: And it's almost as though he's financially illiterate and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to learn.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this whole.
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  Speaker 1: Thing could come crashing down on him if he's not
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  Speaker 1: careful about the fium on in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He starts with Ken Griffin, and then a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of others, Bill Ackman and Steve Roth joined in to
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  Speaker 2: defend Ken Griffin. These billionaires pay all the taxes, and
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  Speaker 2: apparently Texas now is going after them. Luring them down there.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think will happen? Can these guys somehow
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  Speaker 2: wake up or educate mom Downey?
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  Speaker 1: You know, Mark, you would think that he would want
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  Speaker 1: that for his own political success and to make his
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  Speaker 1: dream come true, because if he wants a lot more
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  Speaker 1: tax money to fund the giveaways, now what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: is actually going to result in probably fewer jobs and
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  Speaker 1: the fewer tax players and therefore less money for the
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  Speaker 1: government to spend. So at some point his policy is
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  Speaker 1: self defeating for his own goals, and it's because he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to connect a B and C together in
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  Speaker 1: the way that the economy works.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Also, what kind of politician is he? You know,
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  Speaker 2: every politician, even Deblasio, when there's billionaires, here's my cell number,
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  Speaker 2: call me if you need anything. They don't favor that, right,
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  Speaker 2: they're crazy and get donations in return. Does this mean
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  Speaker 2: he's Mamdani is actually honest?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that he's honest as much as much
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  Speaker 1: as he is.
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  Speaker 3: A socialist, true believer.
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  Speaker 1: I really think he believes that nonsense, which is pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of his followers do too. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: anybody who voted for him on the belief that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to be able to fund every giveaway conceivable
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  Speaker 1: under the sun. They're also ignorant, and they believe in
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  Speaker 1: this socialist dream which has been destroyed every time it's
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  Speaker 1: been tried in history. And yet he and they keep
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  Speaker 1: marching on. And I say, we shouldn't exempt Governor Hockel
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  Speaker 1: because she claims to be a moderate, etc.
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  Speaker 3: Etc.
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  Speaker 1: But she is behind this Pierre to tear tax. If
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  Speaker 1: it weren't for her, it would not have passed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, you know what, maybe don't know. Andrew Cuomo
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  Speaker 2: does a radio show, probably the world's worst radio show.
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  Speaker 2: But if you listen to this, you can't believe this guy.
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  Speaker 2: He goes on and on and but Democrats are too
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  Speaker 2: far to the left and they're crazy with this Pierre
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  Speaker 2: to terror attacks and the snow baild. He's the guy
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  Speaker 2: that created all this stuff. He's the guy that started
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  Speaker 2: talking about that Pierre to terror taxs. He was to
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  Speaker 2: the left of everybody. Well, is he just delusional or
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  Speaker 2: is he lying?
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  Speaker 1: I think when he did those things, he was seeking
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  Speaker 1: the votes of the left, and it was his way
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  Speaker 1: of accommodating the progressive wave that was overtaking the government.
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  Speaker 3: New York government.
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  Speaker 1: Back in it's twenty eighteen, which is the Trump first
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  Speaker 1: term mid term, And if you're a call, Mark, the
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  Speaker 1: Progressors took over the state Senate and they added to
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats control of the Assembly. So Cuomo was kind
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  Speaker 1: of running away from them, but he decided he would
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  Speaker 1: embrace them with the so called bail reform, raise the age,
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of things that he did trying to keep.
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  Speaker 3: The left at bay.
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  Speaker 1: But now for him to criticize it, some hypocrisy involved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So back then, White couldn't he had all the
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  Speaker 2: senior leaders of the Democrats in New York. He had Schumer,
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  Speaker 2: and you had Cuomo, and you had children. Why didn't
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  Speaker 2: they just stand up these guys and put their finger
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  Speaker 2: in the damn there, they'll just stop it from happening.
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  Speaker 3: That's a very good point.
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  Speaker 1: My immediate response, Mark is that the three people you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned don't get along with each other necessarily, and Cuomo
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  Speaker 1: didn't get along.
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  Speaker 3: With any of them. Quote. That's the thing about Cuomo.
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  Speaker 1: When he left allbody, of course, under the harassment and
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  Speaker 1: the nursing home scandals, not a single person there stood
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  Speaker 1: up for him. These are people he had known and
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  Speaker 1: worked with for a decade. Not a single one raised
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  Speaker 1: their hand and said no, no, let's keep them as
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  Speaker 1: a governor.
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  Speaker 3: Let's give him another chance.
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  Speaker 1: If he had not resigned, he would have been impeached
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  Speaker 1: and convicted.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's just it's just awful. But what's gonna happen here?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you might lose a couple of billionaires, but
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  Speaker 2: will you've seen them come and go? Will we get
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  Speaker 2: through four years of mom DOMMI will be okay at
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  Speaker 2: the end of this.
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  Speaker 3: I think it will depend.
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  Speaker 1: On the circumstances and will there be enough of a
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  Speaker 1: pushback against SOCO, against Mom Donnie that will slow down
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  Speaker 1: this reckless race to the left with more taxes, more regulations. Uh, if,
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  Speaker 1: if that happens, I mean, right now it looks as
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  Speaker 1: though Hoko is headed for reelections. I don't know, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well it's early. But if you had to make a
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  Speaker 1: guest based on the present circumstances, so I think that
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  Speaker 1: there has to be a shock to the system, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's bankruptcy in the city or election changes. But you
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  Speaker 1: think back to the city's fiscal crisis in the mid
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  Speaker 1: to late seventies and early eighties.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you needed to.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of the mayor Abraham Deem at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and you needed a real loose system of controls that
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  Speaker 1: took it out of the mayor's hands. That's what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna need. I'm afraid in the city again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, now, Bruce Blakeman, I know he's behind. He
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  Speaker 2: was a twenty points behind in the real polls. Now
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  Speaker 2: he's like eight nine points behind. But that's the way
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  Speaker 2: he was in Nassau County and he's still won both times.
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  Speaker 2: So that's his pattern. I think he's got a good shot,
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  Speaker 2: don't rule him out.
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  Speaker 1: So he's definitely has a shot, no question about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned that he seems almost invisible. He's
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  Speaker 1: not out there in a kind of aggressive, energetic way.
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  Speaker 1: I think that will get him the attention he needs.
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  Speaker 1: I refer in my column to a poll A Center
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  Speaker 1: poll worth sixty four percent of New York State voters
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  Speaker 1: said they didn't know him or anything about him. That
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  Speaker 1: some had never heard of him. So I think he's
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  Speaker 1: got to break through and that barrier. He has to
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  Speaker 1: give people a new reason to give him a serious look.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is working day and night, though he's all
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  Speaker 2: over the state. He's doing a million interviews, He's doing
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  Speaker 2: a million appearances. But he's got to You're right, he's
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  Speaker 2: got to get that, get more coverage, and he needs
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  Speaker 2: more money to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it's an energy thing too. He
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  Speaker 1: has to kind of break through the news cycle. He
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  Speaker 1: has to break through the sense of that she's inevitable.
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  Speaker 1: I think he has to get get people to enough
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  Speaker 1: people to call into question and then that makes it
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  Speaker 1: a real race.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so, hey, what about this crazy AOC Now she's
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  Speaker 2: talking about higher office. She also gotten a lot of flack.
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  Speaker 2: She argued that the American Revolution was to get away
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  Speaker 2: from the billionaires, and then everybody online, I know, explain
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  Speaker 2: things to her that Washington was a billionaire by you know,
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  Speaker 2: by today's standards back then. So she has no future,
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  Speaker 2: does she outside of Senate?
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  Speaker 3: I hope not.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder what she thinks the Boston tea party was about,
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  Speaker 1: just because Jillnaire is like.
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  Speaker 3: Tea or something. I mean, what a what a whack job?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Michael Goodwin, great talking to you, and keep
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  Speaker 2: up the good work. You can read his column every
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  Speaker 2: Sunday every Wednesday in the New York Post. All of
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  Speaker 2: his columns are up on the New York Post website.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Goodwin, thanks for being.
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  Speaker 3: With us, my pleasure. Thank you. Mark.
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  Speaker 2: All right, take yeah, Blakeman is a hard worker. He's
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  Speaker 2: out there every day and he's all over the state.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right, it doesn't get the coverage it should get.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, well that's a lot of the media
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  Speaker 2: that's just keeping a living. But that'll change. And remember
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  Speaker 2: it's very, very very early. It's a long way away.
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  Speaker 2: You know, in politics, that many months is an eternity.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with the midterms. You know, everybody's trying to
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  Speaker 2: predict what's going to happen in the midterms right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's way too far an a. This is like trying
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  Speaker 2: to predict the twenty twenty eight super Bowl. You just
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  Speaker 2: can't do it this far in advance. Hey, we got
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  Speaker 2: a lot to get to today. We'll get to. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to some of these colleges, some of these
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  Speaker 2: college graduations have turned into really really disgusting events. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that and a lot more coming up. Don't
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