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Hour 2: Layoffs at The Washington Post. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Mister New York Mark Simone.
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  Speaker 2: Wr Well, we all a lot to get to this hour.
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  Speaker 2: It was a pretty bad weekend weatherwise. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was probably the worst weekend of the winter, even worse
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  Speaker 2: than those big snowfall weekends that I mean. It was
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  Speaker 2: so cold. You just Saturday, just people just hibernated all
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  Speaker 2: day Friday night, Saturday Saturday. Although I talked to people
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  Speaker 2: that went out, there were people out. There were people
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  Speaker 2: in restaurants and comedy clubs, in Broadway theaters and it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't easy though. You know, it was actually colder on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday in New York. It was colder than in Antarctica.
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  Speaker 2: That's absolutely true. It was colder here than it was
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  Speaker 2: there for the probably the first time ever. It was
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  Speaker 2: like fifteen below here and something like five degrees Antarctica.
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  Speaker 2: So super Bowl last night, a lot of people not
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  Speaker 2: coming to work today. They call it miswork Monday, twenty
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  Speaker 2: six billion people either take the day off or call
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  Speaker 2: in sick because of the super Bowl. There's been talk
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  Speaker 2: of making it an actual holiday, a three day weekend,
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  Speaker 2: making it the Monday a holiday. Here's the problem, though,
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  Speaker 2: if you did it, your super Bowl is you know,
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  Speaker 2: right now in February. If you made this a holiday,
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  Speaker 2: this upcoming weekend, you got another holiday, you got President's Day.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget this weekend. You got a three day weekend,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't want to do two of those in
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  Speaker 2: a row. The simple answer would be, moved the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl to Saturday. It's just traditional on Sunday, but move
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  Speaker 2: it to Saturday night. That's really the solution to that.
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  Speaker 2: Restaurants would hate it. A lot of restaurants lose a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money because people stay home super Bowl parties,
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  Speaker 2: that sort of stuff, or if they go out, it's
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  Speaker 2: usually to a sports place, not a regular restaurant. But
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  Speaker 2: that's I mean, well, no, it's better on Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: got to be Super Bowl Sunday. Football's on Sunday. Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl should be on Sunday. So Bad Bunny was the
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  Speaker 2: halftime performer. Now at the so many people did not
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  Speaker 2: want Bad Bunny, or they thought he might get political,
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  Speaker 2: or they were, for one reason or another offended by
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  Speaker 2: his choice of Bad Bunny that the alternative was Kid Rock.
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  Speaker 2: You could watch him online. He did the alternative half
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  Speaker 2: point show, Turning Point USA ran it with Kid Rock.
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  Speaker 2: Many people turned off the super Bowl with Bad Bunny
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  Speaker 2: to go over and watch Kid Rock. Well, it turns
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  Speaker 2: out it was about six million. Numbers still coming in
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  Speaker 2: might hit seven million, but six million. You got to
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  Speaker 2: figure out how many people watch the Super Bowl, Big
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl sixty million. Maybe ten percent of the audience
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  Speaker 2: turned it off and went over to watch Kid Rock.
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  Speaker 2: It was otherwise a dull game, a mismatch Seattle. I
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  Speaker 2: can't stand Seattle, but the best defense in football. I
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  Speaker 2: like the Patriots, but this team is too new. They
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  Speaker 2: weren't ready for the Super Bowl. It was a low,
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  Speaker 2: sluggish game, not a lot of scoring. Thank god it
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  Speaker 2: finally ended.
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  Speaker 3: That will do it.
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  Speaker 2: Seattle rains above them all in the NFL. The Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl chickens for the second time. Here you go.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's the other thing, Seattle Seahawks. They may not
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  Speaker 2: exist next year. The Seahawks may have to move. You know, Seattle, Washington.
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  Speaker 2: It's a crazy left wing state with a woke government.
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  Speaker 2: And they want to impose a tax on the football player,
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  Speaker 2: so big tax. They want to tax them like crazy,
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  Speaker 2: not just the team and the Seattle players, but any
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  Speaker 2: visiting team. So if a team comes to play in Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: which of course, will happen all the time. The players
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  Speaker 2: will get taxed. They're going to hit them with this big,
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  Speaker 2: like ten percent tax. Now, remember these guys are getting
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  Speaker 2: tens of millions of dollars, so it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a pretty big tax. If they go through with this
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  Speaker 2: stupid tax, I would imagine the Seahawks will have to
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  Speaker 2: move to another city. It's ridiculous. Normally, in the past,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get a football team, you give
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  Speaker 2: them a tax break because they bring in a ton
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  Speaker 2: of business revenue, all sorts of glory and help your city.
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  Speaker 2: This crazy left wing today's Democrats, and the old Democrats
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  Speaker 2: knew better. But today's crazy Democrats think billionaires. Let's just
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  Speaker 2: tax them businesses. Let's tax them, and they just move,
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  Speaker 2: they leave, they flee. Your economy suffers, everything suffers, you
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  Speaker 2: lose jobs, you'll lose everything. Then you get states like
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  Speaker 2: Florida and Texas. If you're in Texas, they'll give you
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  Speaker 2: nothing but tax breaks if you're a business. So every
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  Speaker 2: major business in the world moves to Texas and the
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  Speaker 2: economy is absolutely booming. Same thing with Florida. And this
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  Speaker 2: is tradition, this is the way they used to do everything.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these rundown Democrat cities, they're in shambles. If
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  Speaker 2: you just call every business in the world say if
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  Speaker 2: you open up here, well we'll give you, We'll make
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  Speaker 2: your tax free for ten years, every business in the
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  Speaker 2: world would rush to open there. Now, of course, you
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  Speaker 2: got mom Donnie here, who may may do this to
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  Speaker 2: New York. He's talking about imposing new taxes on businesses. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, remember when Donald Trump tried to putting
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  Speaker 2: tariffs on and the left wing went crazy, How tariffs
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  Speaker 2: is going to ruin everything? Well, these are tariffs. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: puts on more tariffs than the Democrats. They call it
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  Speaker 2: corporate tax, but it's tariffs. And if you got heavy,
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  Speaker 2: we have the highest corporate tax in the world right now.
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  Speaker 2: If you say I'm gonna increase it ten percent, well
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  Speaker 2: that's a tariff. That's a ten percent tariff. Here's Mom Donnie.
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  Speaker 4: So the way that this tax works is it applies
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  Speaker 4: to any business doing business here. They could be located
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  Speaker 4: in Miami, but if they're doing business in New York,
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  Speaker 4: it applies to them. And the reason I believe everyone
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  Speaker 4: will keep doing business here is our economy is so
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  Speaker 4: large that if it was a country, it would rival
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  Speaker 4: the top countries in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It don't count on it. You see that. Look at
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  Speaker 2: the lodgy of this big, big tax. If you come
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  Speaker 2: to New York and opening business. Now, if you're somewhere
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  Speaker 2: else and you sell anything here, you're gonna get this big,
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  Speaker 2: big tech. I mean, it's absolutely insane, Mom Donnie. It
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  Speaker 2: turns out when it comes to the snow removal, it's
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  Speaker 2: getting better. That might be the weather more than anything,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a and he has picked up the garbage.
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  Speaker 2: It was a little late, but most of the garbage
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  Speaker 2: has gotten picked up. But you still got those snow banks.
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  Speaker 2: But what happened for two weeks that all that snow
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  Speaker 2: was piled up and it was ridiculous. Well, it turns out,
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  Speaker 2: Mam Donnie failed to recruit enough emergency snow shovelers. This
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  Speaker 2: is what you do in a storm like this. You
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  Speaker 2: got a certain amount of shovelers, but when you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get a blizzard like that, you need more. So as
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  Speaker 2: a Tuesday, all he had were nineteen or eighteen hundred,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen hundred shovelers. In comparison in previous administration when they
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  Speaker 2: had this what they do is they go out and
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  Speaker 2: they hire shovelers. They put out ads, they blitze the
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  Speaker 2: community with ads. In the past, for instance, two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and fifth, we had sixty five hundred shovelers. Yeah, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: the remember the blizzard back then, they had a big
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  Speaker 2: blizzard thirty three inches. They had thirty five hundred shovelers
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  Speaker 2: at one time, working sixty five hundred total. So we
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  Speaker 2: only got eighteen hundred right now. Again, you got to
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  Speaker 2: go out and you got massive advertising to hire these shovelers,
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  Speaker 2: these laborers. According to the report's mom, Donnie, made a
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  Speaker 2: half hearted outreach effort too late, didn't do enough and
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  Speaker 2: didn't get enough shovelers. And that was the main problem
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  Speaker 2: with all of that. So, hey, the Washington Post, this
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  Speaker 2: is a fascinating story. They're laying off hundreds and hundreds
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  Speaker 2: and hundreds of people. They laid off about a couple
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  Speaker 2: hundred before, now three hundred this past week. The paper
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  Speaker 2: is losing a fortune. It's own by Jeff Bezos. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: everybody is up in arms yelling and screaming about these layoffs.
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  Speaker 2: But but it was the staff of the Washington Post,
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  Speaker 2: the people running it that caused the layoffs. They went
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  Speaker 2: crazy left wing woke, Trump bashing like crazy. Trump derangement
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  Speaker 2: syndrome was way out. It was so far to the left.
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  Speaker 2: There is an audience for that. But you're going to
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  Speaker 2: lose half the normal people. Half of America will stop reading.
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  Speaker 2: So they basically got rid of half their readers. And
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  Speaker 2: then when you get rid of half your readers, you
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  Speaker 2: get rid of half your revenue, half your income from
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  Speaker 2: the subscriptions and all that, and you got to start
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  Speaker 2: laying off people. So they caused the layoffs. They're yelling
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  Speaker 2: and screaming about it. Now, this paper is such a
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  Speaker 2: mess that it loses one hundred million a year. Do
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  Speaker 2: you know that it loses two million dollars a week.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of every week, they're two million dollars
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  Speaker 2: in debt. Jeff Bezos owns it. So at the end
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  Speaker 2: of every week, Jeff Bezos has to write a check
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  Speaker 2: for two million dollars just to keep this thing going.
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  Speaker 2: I know he's a zillionaire, he's worth hundreds of billions,
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  Speaker 2: but every week, at the end of the week he's
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  Speaker 2: got to write a check for two million dollars just
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  Speaker 2: to keep it going. How many years do you think
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  Speaker 2: he's going to keep that up. He's a business guy,
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  Speaker 2: he's a logical business guy. At some point he's going
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  Speaker 2: to wonder why he used to keep writing a check
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  Speaker 2: for two million every week to get it to keep
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  Speaker 2: it going. So that's why all the layoffs. Now you
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  Speaker 2: heard that the big CEO of the paper stepped down
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend. Apparently he was told to get out.
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  Speaker 2: He was in the middle of these layoffs. Last week,
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  Speaker 2: they laid off three hundred people. In the middle of that,
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  Speaker 2: the CEO was out at the Super Bowl, walking around
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  Speaker 2: the red carpet, going to all the parties. Bezos said,
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  Speaker 2: that's the final straw. He just can't take this guy.
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  Speaker 2: He said, that's the last straw with this guy. And
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  Speaker 2: he was basically told to get the hell out. He
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  Speaker 2: lost patience with him. Middle of all these layoffs. He's
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  Speaker 2: out there at the super Bowl. Absolutely ridiculous. The CEO
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  Speaker 2: claims he decided to quit and you know, put out
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  Speaker 2: one of those I want to spend more time with
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  Speaker 2: my family. And if you've seen his family, nobody wants
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  Speaker 2: to spend more time with them. So that's it. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what what Bezos will do with this
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  Speaker 2: Washington Post, it's pretty much hopeless. He could try to
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  Speaker 2: sell it, but nobody wants. These people don't read newspapers anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty two million people read newspapers in America now twenty
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  Speaker 2: two million. One hundred and fifty nine million listen to
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  Speaker 2: the radio sixty three million listen to AM radio. Newspapers
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  Speaker 2: twenty two million, So it's not much. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how you could really sell it. The only possible buyers
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  Speaker 2: there is some hint that Bloomberg might want to buy it.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, a couple of years ago Bloomberg was there
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  Speaker 2: kicking the tires on it, So Bloomberg a possible buyer.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a good business, there's no logical reason to
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  Speaker 2: buy it, but you know, Bloomberg is always trying to
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  Speaker 2: create some sort of of a media presence, more of
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  Speaker 2: a Washington presence, so that's a possibility. The other thing
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  Speaker 2: is the Wall Street Journal might buy it. The Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street Journal just looking to expand there, or Washington DC coverage,
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  Speaker 2: they might buy it. Murdoch is about the only guy
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  Speaker 2: who's still really interested in newspapers, so that's a slight,
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  Speaker 2: slight possibility. Nancy Guthrie it's day nine. Now. You know,
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  Speaker 2: she needs all kinds of medicine, heart medicine, blood pressure medicine.
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  Speaker 2: She's got cardiac problems. I've asked doctors if they kidnap her,
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  Speaker 2: she has no medicine. If you're on all these medicines,
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  Speaker 2: how long could you go. It's nine days without her medicine. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they say it it's not good, but you could. You
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  Speaker 2: could last a couple of weeks without the medicine. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they found a lot of blood, trail of blood. One
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  Speaker 2: of the things she was probably taking for the heart
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  Speaker 2: problems was a blood thinner, so that's why all the blood.
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  Speaker 2: It might not have been that much of an injury,
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  Speaker 2: but the slightest little cut you can bleed a lot
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  Speaker 2: when you on those blood thinners. So we'll we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Today at five o'clock is a deadline, big deadline. Five
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  Speaker 2: o'clock today supposed to deliver the six million dollar ransom
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  Speaker 2: and bitcoin. You know, the old days, you had to
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  Speaker 2: take the money, put it in a suitcase, They give
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  Speaker 2: you a location you drop it off, which meant the
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  Speaker 2: kidnappers had to come pick up the money physically, come
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  Speaker 2: pick it up somewhere. So that was a way to
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  Speaker 2: catch them with the bitcoin. I don't know how you
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  Speaker 2: catch them. I don't know how you ever traced them.
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  Speaker 2: They could already be long gone out of the country.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens later today. So mayor, mom, Donnie,
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  Speaker 2: and you're saying, why doesn't he do something, Why doesn't
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  Speaker 2: he act? Why doesn't he Well, he's busy with this
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  Speaker 2: is what he was busy with this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: The story of the Hidra reminds us the prophet Muhammad,
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  Speaker 5: So the ala Ali who was seldom was a stranger too,
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  Speaker 5: who fled Mecca and was welcomed in Medina. Sura Nahal
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  Speaker 5: sixteen forty two tells us as for those who immigrated
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  Speaker 5: in the cause of a law after being persecuted, we
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  Speaker 5: will surely bless them with a good home in this world.
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  Speaker 5: Or as the Prophet Muhammed Salila Ale he was seldom said,
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  Speaker 5: Islam began as something strange and will go back to
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  Speaker 5: being strange. So glad tidings to the strangers.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell are you talking about? Just pick up
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  Speaker 2: the snow. What the hell are you talking about? Pick
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  Speaker 2: up the garbage? What on earth are you saying this? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta blame. I hate to say, you gotta blame
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  Speaker 2: Democratic voters. How the hell did you elect this guy?
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  Speaker 2: What on earth were you thinking? What is wrong with you?
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  Speaker 2: The real problem was Andrew Cuomo got in a race,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody hates this guy. Nobody hates Andrew Cuomo more
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  Speaker 2: than the Democrats. So he got in the primary. It
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  Speaker 2: was it was how it was how Mom Donnie won.
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  Speaker 2: They just it was a lot of voting against Cuomo
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  Speaker 2: and they say, you know here, when you win the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic primary, you win the election. Hey, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo is now doing a radio show. You should listen
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  Speaker 2: to this. This guy is so far to the left.
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  Speaker 2: Cuomo is so left wing. If you're thinking, yeah, Mam
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  Speaker 2: Donnie is terrible, I wish we had Cuomo listen to
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  Speaker 2: his radio show. Sometimes he is to the left of
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  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie on most issues. This week talking about how
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  Speaker 2: awful Ice is. Ice is a terrible Ice is a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of fascist. There are a bunch of thugs. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can use that language, but that's basically what he
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  Speaker 2: was saying. Hey, we'll take some calls next Scott Shannon
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  Speaker 2: in a few minutes. We'll talk about the super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three to
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  Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten is the number eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten.
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  Speaker 1: He's the Marks among show on sevent ten wor.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, let's take some calls. Let's go to Steve, Union City. Steve,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing great, Mark. I wanted to comment on Seattle's
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  Speaker 6: idea of caxing the football players from other cities and
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  Speaker 6: states when they play there. We had I'm an actor,
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  Speaker 6: retired actor. Cities and states all over the country have
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  Speaker 6: been doing this to us when we're on tour for decades.
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  Speaker 6: We'd grow into some city and they decide, oh, we're
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  Speaker 6: going to tax you while you're here for the portion
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  Speaker 6: of the money that you made while you're here. So
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  Speaker 6: we're being taxed without representation and kind of double taxed
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  Speaker 6: because we're still paying tax to the state where we live.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous. And what were you in that
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  Speaker 2: we might have seen?
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  Speaker 6: I was in the Broadway Company of forty second Street
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  Speaker 6: for three and a half years, the National Company of Footloose,
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  Speaker 6: lots of other shows.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, excellent, Well, thanks for calling Steve. Take care.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Robert in New Jersey. Robert.
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  Speaker 7: How you doing, Good morning, Mark, how I wanted to
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  Speaker 7: make fund about the alternative halftime show.
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  Speaker 8: You know, it was the big name there was, Kid
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  Speaker 8: Rocket County. And the problem was he didn't even.
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  Speaker 3: Actually come on and perform Buck the other.
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  Speaker 7: Halftime show with the game was over, so everybody went
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  Speaker 7: back to watch the game till and the big the big.
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  Speaker 8: Name for the alternative halftime show. I don't even think
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  Speaker 8: anybody saw it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually seven million people saw the alternative show. Seven
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  Speaker 2: million actually twitched over from the super Bowl to watch
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  Speaker 2: the Kid Rock show. Let's go to Bob in Georgia. Bob,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, hi Mark. The only thing I could figure they
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  Speaker 8: had a Spanish singer for the halftime show is maybe
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  Speaker 8: they're trying to bring in that demographic. But I got
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  Speaker 8: to tell you, the guys that are the Spanish guys
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  Speaker 8: I worked with, and the Spanish people I know they
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  Speaker 8: were like soccer, So I don't know who he really
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  Speaker 8: was playing to. I guess maybe the or the younger
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  Speaker 8: people or something like that. Anyway, that was my opinion
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  Speaker 8: about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well thanks for calling. The problem is
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  Speaker 2: you could actually argue that he is the biggest most
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  Speaker 2: successful singer in the world today. But as we were
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  Speaker 2: saying today, you could be the number one selling artist
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  Speaker 2: in the world and only one little demographic NOSEA half
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  Speaker 2: the country's never heard of you. It's all splintered up
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  Speaker 2: right now, Let's go to Sandy and Long Island. Sandy,
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  Speaker 2: how you doing? Oh good?
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  Speaker 3: I also have a comment to make about the halftime show.
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  Speaker 3: I don't Roger Friedman must be delusional. How anyone could
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  Speaker 3: stand that show? I can't figure it out.
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  Speaker 8: He was pretty understanding.
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  Speaker 2: He can't understand it. But he was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't good.
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  Speaker 2: He was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Oh give me a break.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: No, you look good. The moves were good. Everything. It
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: was the choreography, the whole terrific.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: It was borderline porn at the beginning, with the twerking
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: and everything.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: I listen to you. You could use a little borderline porn.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Private perhaps, but not on TV.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Hey, let me ask you a question. This new study
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: shows that more women are looking at porn than ever before,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the porn sites that I have never seen this, bo,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: What do you attribute that to?
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I have to tell you I don't know, And I
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: have to question who did the survey?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: What it's not a survey, it's actual numbers.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: It.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what to say. I'm certainly not
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: one of them. All right now you have to own
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: you don't have to You really don't have to do that.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: No, I understand, thanks for calling me. Yeah, it's just interesting.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Some experts think it's that people whatever they used to
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: do physically in person, they're doing online now. So a
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: lot a lot of women less actual going out with men,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: sex with men. They're just doing it online. It's the
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: same thing with everything else. You used to go see people,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: talk to them. Now you just text and everything becomes digital.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Joe Bergen County. Joe, how you doing?
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Mark, how you doing?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I want to switch gears here?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Kudos to Vincent.
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Uh, where's my cap on my.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: PSC?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Jo went thirty dollars more?
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: Where's my cap?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: But are you talking about? I know what he's talking about?
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: The energy?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Oh electric? Okay, our energy bills went up even more.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: She's supposed to put a cap on it. Oh yeah,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: good luck with that. You've voted for a Democrat?
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, we didn't. I don't know how
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: she got in.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: I don't know where she came from.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I know, but I'm just telling you. You elect a Democrat,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: your energy costs go up, Everything goes up. Your good
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: example is New York. You elected Cuomo. He shut down
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the nuclear plant Indian Point that was twenty five percent
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: of our electricity. Twenty five percent taken off line. That means,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you know, you got to buy it from out of state.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: It increases the cost. Absolutely ridiculous. One more Michael on
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: the east Side. Michael, what do you want to say? Sorry,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: what is this? Come with God?
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: With God in.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: The same thing? What'd you say?
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: Okay with godden?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Be Ghazi attack.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Yes, the John Batchelor Show had somebody on at the
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: time that really di discuss in repts the true story
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: and why Hillary Clinton would not send support because that
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: would expose one of her gun trading operations.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Stone Well, more likely it was Hillary Clinton and the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: world's worst manager, didn't know what the hell she was doing.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Left those people there, just left them for dead. It
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: was awful.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: When we come back, speaking of music and mainstream artists,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to the greatest living DJ, the legend himself,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Scott Shannon, will go over the Super Bowl and more
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: coming up next on seven to ten wr set up
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: re said on the iHeartRadio app to wr R to
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: hear Mark live.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Set another for Mark's podcast to hear him anytime Now
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: back to Mark Simon on wor.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Well with us right now, the greatest living DJ, the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: radio legend himself, Scott Shannon is with us. Scott Shannon,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: how you doing?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Coming right at you on miss Work Monday. We're both
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: working our tales off today. Yeah, kind of put everything
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: in perspective. I do have. I've been listening to your
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: radio show this morning, and I got to tell you. You
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and I usually agree, but not this time, my friend,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: what that halftime show was a business? It was horrible.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Well, visually it looked good and the moves were good
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and the music was bouncy lively.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. Back when Prince did it,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: when Bruce did it, when Lady Gaga did it, all
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: the way back to when Up with People did it,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and were all about the music. It was about the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: scene to the country, right. Yeah, so you're telling me
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: it was an entertaining jokes if you didn't know one
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: word he was singing.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But here's the problem. Was going to ask you well,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: back then, Bruce Springsteen was a mainstream artist that everybody knew.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: The music now is so splintered. Can you name anybody
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: that everybody would know, every demo everybody would know.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Well, the thing that you're missing, I think is the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: fact that most people who speak Spanish are big soccer fans.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: I think you mentioned that once this morning. Yeah, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: then he goes on and you know, also people forgot
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: this was also about the two hundred and fifties anniversary
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: of our country, where our actual most people in America
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: speak English. God, you know, I'd have nothing against mister Bunny.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I think he's a fine, fine artist. But here's something
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: for you. When you watch when you turn on one
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of the Spanish speaking televisions, do they have an an
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: English show on there? No, I don't think so, Mark,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that's true, of course not so. How many people do
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you think started to watch that? And look, the set
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: was beautiful, the dancers were great, But I couldn't understand
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: one damn word.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: He was singing.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: True don't speak Spanish.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Hey, a lot of today's biggest hits I love. I
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: can't understand one word to saying either, So oh.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Come on, you can understand. You can understand Taylor Swift
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: when she's singing.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's a bunch of songs. I don't know
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: what all they're singing, but they're great and I love
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: them well.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I you know the other thing people aren't. I don't
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: know if you've talked about this or you realize it,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: but you've got to remember Roger Goodell is very clear
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: with his plans for his league. He thinks he wants
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: it to be the International Football League, not the NFL,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: not the National Football League. He had a games down
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: in Mexico, he's spent in London, he's been in Germany.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: They're going I think they're doing one in Italy or France.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I think, and I think this was just part of
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: that big plan.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, you're absolutely right. Hey, Rochie Goodell, who's a
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: very unpleasant, unlikable sort of guy, but the other guy
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: owners love him because he knows how to make money.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: He makes them a ton of money. So you're right,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: that's his plan, more international and expanding.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that make this fits right into his plan. The
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: obvious thing that should have been done it was they're
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: forgetting about the you know, I know they had the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: flyover but it's a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: our country, for God's ekes, Then what do you do
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: for the halftime show?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I can't. That couldn't take it all right.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: But the good thing was Charlie Pooth I thought was
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: absolutely brilliancing in the national anthem. Would you agree?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I thought he did a great job. Yeah I did.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: There was no doubt about that.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, wardrobe wise, he looked ridiculous. He looked like
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Marlon Brando in on the Waterfront with that jacket.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: But you know, one of the I don't know, I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: don't even know if you saw this, but there was
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a high highs point in the proceedings in the fourth quarters.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: It's always happened. Some guy ran across the field and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: it was funny too because nobody could catch him except
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a guy in a in a New England uniform. He
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: tackled this sob took him down on the ten yard line.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Well, I actually missed it, I thought later, but I
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: was actually eating then buffet.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. Yeah, But and like I said,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I thought the sets were beautiful and Bunny was fine.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I mean he's a great performer. I just i'd like
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: sometimes I'd like to hear what there's you know, tell
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: here singing?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but again the problem is Prince was like everybody
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: knew Prince back then. There's no mainstream singers anymore that
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: everybody knows. There's no such thing even our You take
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: our radio stations here on this floor. You got Z
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: one hundred over there, which you created. You got Power
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: one O five, you got Q one O four. They
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: all played different artists. There's no artist that could get
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: played on all of our stations.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: You know what, did you get a chance to pay
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: much attention to the commercials?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Thought there was some great commercials. This was really a
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: battery year for commercials. You had that Uh you had
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: that one was it? You had bon Jovi in there,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Stop living on a prayer? Yeah, you had the great
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Budweiser commercials were the best they've had in a long time. Uh.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: That Clydesdale horse, that little baby and that baby eagle,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: all that things strong. And then what about the good
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Will Duncan commercial. Yeah, Film Stiller, Jennifer Addison, Tom Brady,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: they're all in that thing.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: The only problem is nowadays you watch so much video
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: AI unbelievable special effects video, all kinds of amazing videos
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: all day long on TikTok Instagram. After all that all
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: day and night, these commercials aren't so dazzling anymore. We're
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: used to it too much.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I thought these were very entertained. There were
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a couple of them. There were pretty good commercials, but
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out what the product was. That's a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: problem when you spend that kind of money. And oh
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: what did you see the talking toilet? See? Yeah, so yeah,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: that was pretty funny.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: They were pretty good. The game itself not very good.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: New England got to the Super Bowl a couple of
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: years too early. They're not ready for this yet.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that defense for Seattle was they were incredible.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Oh I was that was an amazing game. I mean, yeah,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: there wasn't much action, I agree, but you know it was.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: It was good if you were a big fan. Yeah,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: if you were a fan of of of Seattle. Now
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: what about I know, not everybody's kicked in yet for
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics, but uh, that Lindsey von thing was
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: kind of crazy. Yeah, she's forty one years old, she's
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: already ruptured her a c a a week ago, and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: then she's going to put a bracelet. I'm ready, I'm
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: all set, I'll be fine. That had that had disaster
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: all over, I thought. And then she she what She
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: hit her shoulder too, didn't she on one of those
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: passer by things you skate. I'm out of skier, so
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm talking about. And then they
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: had to rush her off, and I think she broke
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: her leg or something.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: You know. And I can't figure why anybody would be
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: a skier. It seems like the dumbest sport in the world.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: You pay money, goes somewhere where it's colder than where
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: you are, you have to wear all those contraptions.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: It's well, it worked all right, worked out all right
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: for Sonny Bono, didn't it.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Exactly? You're gonna get get yourself killed. It's a ridiculous.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: For the same vacation, you can go lie on a
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: beach and have nothing but fun. It's crazy.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I'm more of it. I'm more of a sun guy myself.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I enjoy that. But there was we did win a
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: gold medal. This alpine skier, Breezy Johnson got a gold
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: medal in women's downhill. And then while she's having a
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: press Car. She Proverdamn Gold Medal into three pieces accidentally. Yeah,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: so she smashed her metal.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Now you bring up a good point. Se two hundred
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: and fiftieth anniversary of America. You know, coming up in July,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: there's going to be some amazing concerts, amazing events all
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: summer Washington. They're gonna have and I don't think Democrats
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: are too crazy about this. They're gonna have NASCAR around Washington,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Indy Car, They're going to have wrestling at the White
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: These are not big Democratic sports, are they.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: That's not the kind of well, not only thing. There's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that happens at the White House
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: every year.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hey, by the way, everybody, you can listen to
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Scott Shannon on the True Oldies Channel. Where should they
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: go to get it?
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Well, what I did was I've always been a fan.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: That's my hobby. You know. I love music, and that's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: what got me into the radio business. I love music first,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and I think the greatest decade of music was the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: sixties and the seventies right behind it. Dependent you know
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: on your age and who you are and what your
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: preference is. But I took all the best music from
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the sixties and seventies and mixed them all together and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: keep the commercials down. You know, if you grew up
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: on WABC, it's perfect place for you. True Oldies Channel,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: or on ninety two three FM HD three, which is
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: once you get there, it's beautiful sound and you get
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: it any car in the last ten years, or you
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: can get it on your Alexa. You say, Alexa, play
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the True Oldies Channel. It's that simple.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: And you can listen to Scott Channon show every morning
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: on the True Oldiest Channel.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I still do a morning show there. Yeah,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: I don't have to take I don't take the trip
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: into the city like I did for like thirty thirty years.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, much easier now. So but listen to the True
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Oldiest Channel, Scott Channon. Great stuff is always thanks for
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: being with us.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you. And by the way, it is it is
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: miss work Monday and we showed up.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks for being us man talking to take care. Yeah,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: they want to make this an actual holiday. Hey, coming
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: up Bucking Clay. They do an excellent show. You do
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: not want to miss them. They're on noon to three.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: They'll be here right after the news at twelve on
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: seven ten WR.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: On sevent TENO.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: He's more of the Marximo show.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Well, a lot of fighting about voter ID. Chuck Schumer
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: all over the place saying, requiring a voter ID. It's
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: like Jim Crow and everybody under sixty going, tell's Jim Crow,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: who is he talking about? But this voter ID thing
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: is so ridiculous. Eighty three percent of America wants a
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: voter ID. Eighty three percent. They make up this whole racist,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: ridiculous stereotype that the minority community, well they can't they
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: don't have ID. They don't know how to get an ID.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: With the most awful, stupid stereotype, absolutely ridiculous. You need
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: a photo ID for just about everything. You know, if
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: you want to buy this cough medicine, you got to
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: have a voter ID and a photo ID in the pharmacy.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: So on CNN, MSNBC, the ABC Sunday Show yesterday, ago
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: on and on about how evil and racist and cruel
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: voter photo ID is, while at the same time, you
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: have to have photo ID to get into the NBC building,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: to go to MSNBC, to go to CNN. I've been
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: on all these shows. You got to show your driver's license,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: photo ID just to get in the building. Same thing
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: with ABC. You have to show photo ID in every
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: major building in New York City, every skyscraper, everything. It's
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: perfectly normal. Again, eighty three percent of America wants photo
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: ID photo ID to vote. It's every other country in
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: the world does it. We're the only ones that don't,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: and it's absolutely ridiculous. Hey, we're out of time, don't
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: go away. Buck and Clay coming up next with great
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• 33:42
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• 33:55
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