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Hour 1: Major Snowstorm in NYC. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: You just heard the news.
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Speaker 2: Now you'll find out what it all means. Smart samone
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Speaker 2: on seven tenor.
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Speaker 3: Oh I'm here, I made it. I'm only a couple
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Speaker 3: of blocks away, so it was easy to get well,
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it was easy to get here. Even
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Speaker 3: walking just a block or two is not easy. It
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Speaker 3: is a mess outside. It is also eerie and gloomy outside.
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Speaker 3: It's pandemic like in that. If you do walk outside,
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Speaker 3: there's no traffic. I mean there's a car here and there,
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Speaker 3: and there are no pedestrians either. That's the eerie part.
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Speaker 3: You might look way down, this is the middle of Manhattan.
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Speaker 3: You may look to block or two down and see
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Speaker 3: one person walking into It's just like the pandemic. It's
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Speaker 3: very very quiet out there. The snow is messy. It's
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Speaker 3: wet snow. It's not the dry snow that now. The
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Speaker 3: wet snow is worse, harder to shovel, it's heavier, and
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Speaker 3: when it's on the tree branches or power poles, it
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Speaker 3: can get so heavy it can actually cause them to
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Speaker 3: break snap. That's we get these power outages. It's a
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Speaker 3: power outage. Wise, you got six hundred and forty thousand
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Speaker 3: people without power. That's up and down the East coast,
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Speaker 3: all the way down to Virginia. Now Here in this
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Speaker 3: area New York State, including New York City, Nassau, Suffolk
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Speaker 3: seventeen thousand people without power. And that's mostly Nassau, Suffolk Queens,
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Speaker 3: mostly Long Island, almost all of it is. Long Island
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Speaker 3: seventeen thousand without power. Connecticut thirteen thousand without power. New Jersey.
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Speaker 3: Listen to this number. One hundred and thirty seven thousand
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Speaker 3: without power, one hundred and thirty seven thousand without power.
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Speaker 3: The wind, the heavy snow, the wet snow, you got
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Speaker 3: the roads closed. In Manhattan, roads are officially closed except
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Speaker 3: for emergency travel. That's until noon today. Out Long Island.
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Speaker 3: I think I'm not sure. I think NASA is eleven.
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Speaker 3: They're talking about moving at to one o'clock. The snow
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Speaker 3: is lessening right now. It's still snowing, but it's much
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Speaker 3: much lighter snow. And that light snow will continue till
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Speaker 3: about five or six o'clock today. Should be all over
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Speaker 3: by five thirty six o'clock that'll be the end of it.
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Speaker 3: But when it's over, it's going to be a lot
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Speaker 3: of snow. We got fifteen inches in New York City
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Speaker 3: fifteen inches. You got eighteen inches in suburbs. New Jersey
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Speaker 3: got about eighteen inches some parts. It depends where you
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Speaker 3: are in New Jersey. South shore of Long Island got
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Speaker 3: the worst ice lip, reporting two feet of snow. The
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Speaker 3: Hampton's eighteen inches of snow. This was unusual in that
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Speaker 3: usually when you're along the coast you get off easier.
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Speaker 3: The more you go inland, the worse the snow. This
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Speaker 3: was different. This was a storm that hugged the shoreline,
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Speaker 3: so the closer word to the shore, the worse it was.
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Speaker 3: Snow wise unusual, flights are canceled everywhere. There are no
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Speaker 3: flights in or out of any of our airports, and
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Speaker 3: they've been canceled for so many hours, and it's going
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Speaker 3: to be a day or two so it may not
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Speaker 3: get back to normal till Wednesday or Thursday. So that's
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Speaker 3: going to be a mess if you gotta fly anywhere. Trains, well,
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Speaker 3: you got Metro North is Metro North is pretty good.
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Speaker 3: They're actually running. I mean there's some delays and not
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Speaker 3: all the trains, but Metro North seems to be operating okay.
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Speaker 3: Ther Long Island Railroad, of course, a total mess. It's
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Speaker 3: mostly shut down, believe or not. The New York City
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Speaker 3: subways are running. They're open. Couple of lines are suspended,
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Speaker 3: but plenty of subways are running with delays and some
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Speaker 3: low express are now local that kind of stuff, but there,
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Speaker 3: but they're running. Bridges are closed. Those bridges should reopen
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Speaker 3: later today. The bridges are closed not because of the snow.
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Speaker 3: You can plow the snow, but the bridges are closed
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Speaker 3: because of the winds forty to fifty sixty mile an
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Speaker 3: hour winds. You got to close the but that wind
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Speaker 3: is dying down. It should be pretty much the wind
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Speaker 3: should be pretty much over by tonight. National Guard has
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Speaker 3: been called out. You got part of the problem is
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Speaker 3: you're trying to get through this snowstorm with this kind
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Speaker 3: of leadership. You got Mamdani, you got HOCl you got
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Speaker 3: Mikey Cheryl. The schools are closed, and for the first
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Speaker 3: time in I think seven years, they're really closed. It's
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Speaker 3: none of that remote learning, which is a terrible day
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Speaker 3: for parents because they love when the kids go to
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Speaker 3: school for all those hours. Now you're stuck at home
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Speaker 3: with the kids. If you've got the remote learning, at
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Speaker 3: least it keeps them a little busy, but no remote learning.
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Speaker 3: It's a real snow day, an actual old fashioned schools
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Speaker 3: closed snow day. Here's Mayor mom, Donnie.
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Speaker 4: This will be New York City's first old school snow
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Speaker 4: day since twenty nineteen. The state requires us to conduct
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Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty days of education in a calendar year. However,
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Speaker 4: we believe that there are a unique set of extenuating
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Speaker 4: circumstances for tomorrow's education. We shared this with the State
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Speaker 4: Education Commissioner earlier this morning, and she has granted us
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Speaker 4: a waiver for which we are incredibly thankful. And to
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Speaker 4: kids across New York City, you have a very serious mission.
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Speaker 4: If you choose to accept it, stay cozy.
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Speaker 3: So you know, if you live in the suburbs, if
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Speaker 3: you really know what you're doing. You got one of
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Speaker 3: those snow shoveling services. It's usually also the landscaping serit,
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Speaker 3: but they come out every time it's snow boom, they
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Speaker 3: come out. Eighteen guys get out of the truck shovling. Now,
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Speaker 3: if you don't know what you do, and you hire
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Speaker 3: a neighborhood kid, although that's tough now, I used to
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Speaker 3: be able to hire the neighborhood. Yeah, twenty dollars to
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Speaker 3: shovel might drive. Now it's like two hundred, and they
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Speaker 3: don't want to do it, but believe or not, New
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Speaker 3: York City sort of operates this way. The sanitation department
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Speaker 3: cleans the snow, but they hire snow shovelers. I don't
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Speaker 3: know why now they do this, and they do it
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Speaker 3: for each storm. They put like ads everywhere where we
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Speaker 3: need snow shovelers. It's nineteen dollars an hour and they
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Speaker 3: need about four thousand of these freelance amateur snowshovels. Four thousand. Well,
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Speaker 3: they only got fourteen hundred this time. I think part
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Speaker 3: of the problem is nineteen dollars an hour doesn't attract
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Speaker 3: a lot of people nowadays in the middle of a snowstorm,
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Speaker 3: and the mayor getting a lot of flak because he's
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Speaker 3: requiring two types of ID, two photo IDs, a birth certificate.
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Speaker 3: Of course, when you want to vote there, do they
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Speaker 3: think photo ID is racist? It's suppressing the vote, it's racist.
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Speaker 3: But they're doing it for snow shoveling. And of course
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Speaker 3: he got all kinds of flak all over the place
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Speaker 3: for it and ridiculed for it. Now the difference is
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Speaker 3: with the snowshoveling, they have to issue you a paycheck.
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Speaker 3: You're actually put on the payroll, and that's a federal
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Speaker 3: requirement to pay somebody tax purposes, all that stuff. You
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Speaker 3: have to have all that id But Mom Donnie not
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Speaker 3: able to attract a normal amount of snowsholls.
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Speaker 4: So the starting pay for emergency snow shovelers is about
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Speaker 4: nineteen dollars an hour. After they work forty hours through
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Speaker 4: a week, that then increases to about twenty eight dollars
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Speaker 4: an hour. And thanks to the work of DS and
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Speaker 4: Y and so many others, we have expanded the pool
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Speaker 4: of emergency snow shovelers. In the previous storm, we were
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Speaker 4: looking at about five hundred emergency snow shovelers. Now that
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Speaker 4: pool has expanded to about fourteen hundred.
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Speaker 3: You got to admit, the guy really sounds like he
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Speaker 3: knows what he's doing. But when he talks, he gets
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Speaker 3: you usbou nineteen dollars an hour and then to move
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Speaker 3: to twenty eight dollars. And we've explained to the program
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Speaker 3: he really sounds like he knows what he's doing. I mean,
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Speaker 3: if he has to actually do it. He didn't know
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Speaker 3: what the ally's doing. But boy, when it comes to talking,
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Speaker 3: this guy sounds like he knows what he's doing. If
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Speaker 3: you wanted to actually do it, well that's a whole
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Speaker 3: other story. It's not going to get done. Then you
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Speaker 3: got this governor New Jersey, Mikey Cheryl with that that
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Speaker 3: she never doesn't sound like a governor.
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Speaker 5: We need to be prepared, We need to be safe,
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Speaker 5: get water, get all of your charging done with your devices,
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Speaker 5: stay off the roads.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that one was better. Sometimes she gets a little,
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Speaker 3: but we should talk. Look who we got for a governor.
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Speaker 5: We are asking you to just stay home. Stay home.
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Speaker 5: Is a nice diversion called the Olympics going on. There's
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Speaker 5: an important hockey game, the US versus ken I believe
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Speaker 5: around eight am. So stay home.
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Speaker 3: That's a diversion of Olympics. Would they pay like two
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Speaker 3: billion for the rights? It's a diversion. Isn't the Olympics over?
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Speaker 3: Is it still on? I don't know. I don't want
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Speaker 3: see Olympics, but I know the hockey was the big thing.
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Speaker 3: But I guess it's still on. But Hochel, it's a
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Speaker 3: great chance to you look like a governor. You get
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Speaker 3: to put on that bomber jacket.
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Speaker 5: And this forecast had shifted dramatically, and once again New
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Speaker 5: York State is in the crosshairs of a very dangerous,
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Speaker 5: fast moving, potentially life threatening winter storm.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me explain something because if you were listening
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Speaker 3: to me Friday, and I said that the storm is
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Speaker 3: going to be about one to three inches, and all
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Speaker 3: them the good Weather Service, there's a lot of junk
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Speaker 3: weather services out there are i't very accurate, but the
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Speaker 3: really good ones ACI Weather, Weather Channel, they're pretty good.
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Speaker 3: I mean they really accurate. It was one to three inches.
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Speaker 3: And then and some people think, well the weather they
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Speaker 3: like to hype it up. Eh, they're always wrong. They're
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Speaker 3: not really wrong. You can't find a case of them
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Speaker 3: being wrong or hyping it up. What happens is a
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Speaker 3: storm changes course. It could go this way, it could
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Speaker 3: go that way, even up to a day before. It
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Speaker 3: can change course, or it can slow down or speed up,
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Speaker 3: come at a different time, but it's mostly changing course.
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Speaker 3: On Friday, the course was that it would go way
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Speaker 3: offshore and miss us. We'd get a little bit of
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Speaker 3: it on the fringe, but it changed course and was
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Speaker 3: heading right for us. So The problem is people check
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Speaker 3: the weather on Friday and then don't check it again.
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Speaker 3: So when it's says one inch on Friday and you
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Speaker 3: get eighteen, they think the weather was wrong. Had you
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Speaker 3: been checking it all the time. As of like twenty
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Speaker 3: hours before the storm, they had it up to ten inches,
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Speaker 3: twelve inches, and then it got twelve to eighteen. So
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Speaker 3: the weather gets it right. You just have to keep
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Speaker 3: checking it. It's like a stock price. You can't look
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Speaker 3: at it Friday, that's the price today. So the State
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Speaker 3: of the Union speech is tomorrow night. That's going to
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Speaker 3: be a big, big thing Democrats. It's a big chance
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Speaker 3: for them to look ridiculous and childish and pout and
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Speaker 3: throw their temper tantrums. Member Nancy Pelosi ripping up the
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Speaker 3: President's speech one of the most disgusting, tacky, juvenile, tantrum,
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Speaker 3: child ridiculous things. So this year they're going to have
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Speaker 3: a separate state. They're going to have their own State
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Speaker 3: of the Union out in the park the National Mall.
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Speaker 3: It's going to look ridiculous. Chuck Schumer, a lot of
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Speaker 3: Democrats will be at that alternate stadium. Chuck Schumer will
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Speaker 3: go to the real one.
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Speaker 2: He says, as of now, because I respect the whole institution,
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Speaker 2: but I don't respect Donald Trump one bit, I will go.
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Speaker 2: But the bottom line is there are a lot of
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Speaker 2: my colleagues who aren't going to go, and I tell
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Speaker 2: him that I think that's fine with me. Everyone should
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Speaker 2: make his own choice.
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Speaker 3: If you hooked a light detector up to him, or
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Speaker 3: you injected him with truth theorem, he would be saying
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Speaker 3: to you, I don't like the President, but I am
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Speaker 3: gonna go. I think it's very important for me to
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Speaker 3: go because it's tons of TV cameras and because of
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Speaker 3: my feud with the President, they'll keep putting the camera
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Speaker 3: on me and I'll get a lot of FaceTime on camera,
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Speaker 3: and that's the reason I'm going. If you said the
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Speaker 3: check Shore that is gonna be a first stay of
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Speaker 3: the Union not televised, there'll be no cameras. He wouldn't
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Speaker 3: even be there. He's just there for the cameras. He's
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Speaker 3: got his new glasses, clean, the lenses and everything. He's
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Speaker 3: got one of those cheap suits that he'll wear, and
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Speaker 3: that's the only reason going to be on TV. Same
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Speaker 3: thing with Hakeem Jefferies. He knows being such an opponent.
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Speaker 3: They'll keep putting him on camera, and that's the only
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Speaker 3: reason he's going stay of the Union. The President will
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Speaker 3: talk about tariffs, all that stuff, and you know, we'll
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Speaker 3: get to this coming up. The tariff ruling by the
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Speaker 3: Supreme Court was a real chance for fake news to
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Speaker 3: go really old fashioned fake, you as fake as they
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Speaker 3: can go. So if you're watching even the ABC Sunday
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Speaker 3: Show or the nightly news, the headline when the tariff
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Speaker 3: declared illegal by the Court, the headline was President Trump's signature,
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Speaker 3: signature economic policy overturned by the Supreme stunning. First of all,
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Speaker 3: it's not his signature economic policies. Signature economic policy would
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Speaker 3: be the big beautiful bill. The tariff was one tool
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Speaker 3: in the toolbox with many tools in it. And the
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Speaker 3: other thing they kept lying about the President when he
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Speaker 3: heard the news, he did a press conference later where
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Speaker 3: he really went after the court and he basically said,
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Speaker 3: we're going to do the tariffs anyway. We'll find a
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Speaker 3: way to do him. We're going to keep doing them
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Speaker 3: no matter what the court says. And then all the
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Speaker 3: fake news, every newscast opened with unprecedented response, unprecedented res
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Speaker 3: but defying the court as is unprecedent. Now, of course,
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Speaker 3: this is a total lie by fake news. If you're
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Speaker 3: the MSNBC type, you're watching this like a bobblehead, you're nodding.
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Speaker 3: Then you're all repeating to each other. It's unprecedented the
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Speaker 3: way he It happens all the time. I'll give you
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Speaker 3: a recent example of what Joe Biden would forgive the
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Speaker 3: student loans. Supreme Court overturned it. Biden immediately held a
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Speaker 3: press conference announcing that he was going to defy the court.
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Speaker 3: He was going to do it anyway. He didn't care
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Speaker 3: what the hell the court said. He was going to
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Speaker 3: go ahead with the plan. They'll still find a way
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Speaker 3: to do it. It's done all the time. Whenever this
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Speaker 3: is a Supreme Court ruling democrats don't like, they just
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Speaker 3: ignore it and continue. Here's aoc on. This is a
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Speaker 3: few years ago Supreme Court ruling. She didn't like.
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Speaker 6: There has been thought, I believe given to this. Senator
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Speaker 6: Ron Wyden has already issued statements, for example, advising what
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Speaker 6: we should do in a situation like this, which I
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Speaker 6: concur which is that I believe that the Biden administration
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Speaker 6: should ignore this ruling.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a Democrat so way of handling Supreme Court
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Speaker 3: rulings they don't like totally norm and out and out
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Speaker 3: defy them. So it's not unprecedented. Thank you to NBC, CBSABC,
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Speaker 3: everybody for just out and out lying to their viewers.
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Speaker 3: Unprecedented response. So hey, mar Alago. This weekend, a assassin
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Speaker 3: showed up with a shotgun and a big can of gasoline,
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Speaker 3: got over the fence, went through the perimeter, was on
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Speaker 3: the property. Confronted by Secret Service and local police. They
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Speaker 3: told them to drop the weapon, drop the gas can.
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Speaker 3: They had their weapons out. They told him to drop
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Speaker 3: his weapon. Instead, he raised his weapon and aimed it
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Speaker 3: the shotgun, and of course then they shot and killed them.
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Speaker 3: There's something unusual about these assassins, the one in Butler, Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 3: this one on Saturday. These are the only they're young.
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Speaker 3: They're all like twenty, you know, twenty years old. They're
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Speaker 3: the only young people that have no social media presence
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Speaker 3: of any kind. Nothing very suspicious. It's very very very unusual.
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Speaker 3: So uh, and obviously he's not too great at using
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Speaker 3: the internet. If you check the President's schedule, he should
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Speaker 3: get on the list. We get we get sent the
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Speaker 3: President's schedule every night for the next day. If you
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Speaker 3: looked at the president's schedule, he was not going to
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Speaker 3: be in Florida this weekend. The big governor's conference was
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Speaker 3: at the White House Friday, and then Saturday night there's
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Speaker 3: a big dinner for all the governors at the White House.
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Speaker 3: So this was one weekend the president was not going
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Speaker 3: to be in Florida. So the assassin showed up with
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Speaker 3: his shotgun. No president there, just the old ladies of
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Speaker 3: mar Lago on the dining room going, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: did you hear? It was an assassin? He tried he
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Speaker 3: had a gun and he was gonna anyway. We'll text hey,
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Speaker 3: we're going to take some calls. Next, I want you
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Speaker 3: to call me from all over the Tri state area.
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Speaker 3: We'll get a snow report. Tell me what it's like
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Speaker 3: where you are. We'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred
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Speaker 3: Well, it's a mess out there. It's bad in the city.
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Speaker 3: You got about fifteen inches, but not as bad as
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Speaker 3: some of the suburbs. Let's go take a look around
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Speaker 3: the Tri state area. Check out how everybody's doing. Let's
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Speaker 3: go to Arturo port Chester in Westchester, Portchester, Arturo.
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Speaker 8: How you doing, Yes, sir, no time, no talking. Listen,
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Speaker 8: I'm calling from westy Chapel with.
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Speaker 3: You're cutting out, you're calling from where chapel.
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Speaker 8: I don't know if you know that. I don't know
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Speaker 8: what what went on with the snow over there. So
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Speaker 8: what I want, what I want to say is the
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Speaker 8: President should an now announce in the State of the
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Speaker 8: Union tomorrow that all the h on the illegals are
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Speaker 8: going to become legal who have no crime. I'm going
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Speaker 8: to become Republican vote voters.
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Speaker 3: It's an old jokes that's all over the internet. De
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Speaker 3: clear them all. If they vote a Republican, they'll get
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Speaker 3: free citizenship and then Democrats will personally carry them over
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Speaker 3: the border and get rid of them. So, uh yeah,
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Speaker 3: port Chester, very nice. You got you got the best
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Speaker 3: Colony pizza, the best looking one in port Chester. You
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Speaker 3: got Sergio saw Pit, you got a beautiful Costco there.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to Peter in the Ulster County, Peter, how
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Speaker 3: you doing.
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Speaker 7: I'm doing marking good marks in Ulster County, New York,
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Speaker 7: near Kingston. So we got about eight inches of snow.
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Speaker 7: That's it morning, yep, just eight inches. And then it stopped.
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Speaker 7: And now it started to snow slightly again, but not
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Speaker 7: nearly as much as down south and Rockland, which around.
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Speaker 3: Fifteen All right, well, thanks for collings. See that's the thing. Normally,
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Speaker 3: the farther up you go, the more snow you get,
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Speaker 3: the closer yard of the coast, the less snow. This
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Speaker 3: storm is different, totally different. It hugged the shoreline and
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Speaker 3: it's so it's the opposite. The farther, more north yard,
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Speaker 3: the less you got to. I'm looking at some numbers.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 3: The Hampton's twenty six inches, twenty six inches in the
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Speaker 3: Hampton's pretty bad. Even east Meadow Long Island twenty one inches.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to Jill upper east side. Jill, how you doing?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm doing great.
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Speaker 1: Malk how are you doing?
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Speaker 3: I'm good? So to me.
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Speaker 11: I looked at the window this morning and it looks okay,
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Speaker 11: it's seen out of doctor Chivago. I almost okay by.
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Speaker 3: Wait wait, wait, let's clear this up. I know what
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Speaker 3: you mean, Okay, but it's different. You're on the Upper
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Speaker 3: east Side. It's not Doctor Zivago because in Doctor Xvago,
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Speaker 3: if you said hello to anybody, they would go, how
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Speaker 3: are you. It's a different And when you look out
18:46
Speaker 3: your window you're seeing fourteen Starbucks, three bodegas. You didn't
18:50
Speaker 3: see that in Doctor.
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Speaker 4: Sh No, no, no, don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't see that. I'm on a side street. But anyway,
18:56
Speaker 1: there's a tree in front.
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Speaker 11: It looks like it's going to fall all over.
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Speaker 6: I mean, the snow is so it's so heavy.
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Speaker 3: What happened to your phone? Your phone went? I think
19:08
Speaker 3: maybe the tree foul. It sound like you lost your
19:10
Speaker 3: power there. I hope not. Let's go to George Port Jefferson,
19:13
Speaker 3: north Shore along island. George.
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Speaker 9: How you doing fine? Mark? It's about twenty inches long Jefferson.
19:20
Speaker 9: Twenty inches, Yeah, but it's very windy because we're by
19:23
Speaker 9: the water and it's stopped. It's stopping. The snow is stopping.
19:27
Speaker 9: The only bad part is I'm locked in the house
19:29
Speaker 9: with my wife all day. You know, we argue, so
19:32
Speaker 9: I can't escape because the guy hasn't come and plowed.
19:34
Speaker 3: You know, this is a big problem. You got all
19:36
Speaker 3: these governors, they're going too Just just stay home, Just
19:38
Speaker 3: stay home and trapped with your wife for twenty one.
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Speaker 9: We'll kill each other. But one question. You know, Schumer
19:44
Speaker 9: is very unpopular.
19:46
Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 9: Cortez I don't know. Could Cortes really kill him in
19:51
Speaker 9: the Senate race? Of your opinion? Yes, yes, okay.
19:54
Speaker 3: Schumer could not get elected nobody nobody, Uh, but you
19:59
Speaker 3: can put anybody and there they could beat Schumer. Schumer
20:01
Speaker 3: is repulsive, not just now to Republicans. Democrats are repulsed
20:06
Speaker 3: by him. Younger voters just can't stand the vote for
20:09
Speaker 3: anybody to get rid of them. Let's go to Joe
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Speaker 3: Elmwood Park, New Jersey. Joe, what's it like out there?
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Speaker 8: No, it's easy up.
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Speaker 9: We got thirteen inches here in Elmwood Park.
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Speaker 10: Well make you Shirley. Well, she needs the red nose
20:24
Speaker 10: and big red shoes.
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Speaker 3: Clown shoes. I know. The governor. Well, that's uh. We
20:30
Speaker 3: can't laugh about your governor because we got we got
20:32
Speaker 3: Kathy Hochel. Soon we'll have Bruce Blackman. It will be
20:35
Speaker 3: much better. Let's go to Ed in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 10: Ed.
20:38
Speaker 3: How you doing putting again?
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Speaker 1: Mark?
20:41
Speaker 8: Thanks for taking my call. And there it looks like
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Speaker 8: we got three to five injures and it's really not
20:48
Speaker 8: even shovelable for me. So I think it's a little
20:51
Speaker 8: ridiculous they closed in school. I think it's overtime up
20:54
Speaker 8: overtime operations for these municipal workers. Frankly, I don't think
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Speaker 8: anything we got.
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Speaker 3: We got fifteen inches, eighteen inches. It could have been
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Speaker 3: just as bad. You never know.
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Speaker 8: I'm a daughter in Port Jack and your previous call
21:08
Speaker 8: of just told me she's still sleeping. Tell me how
21:10
Speaker 8: much I got? So yeah, thanks for that.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks for calling. Let's go to Jimmy New Milford.
21:15
Speaker 3: Where's that Connecticut? Right?
21:17
Speaker 10: No, Mark, this is New Jersey, New Jersey, about two
21:20
Speaker 10: miles away from the famous Paramus shopping wolves.
21:24
Speaker 3: Mark, Hey, you sound like one of those guys in
21:27
Speaker 3: The Irishman. You sound like you're in The Irishman telling
21:31
Speaker 3: uh de Niro. Somebody's got to talk to him and
21:34
Speaker 3: tell him to shut up.
21:35
Speaker 10: You don't got to do nothing, but at anyway, it
21:39
Speaker 10: damn is going to march on the Patty stap arade.
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Speaker 3: I don't think so. I wouldn't count that. All right, Now,
21:45
Speaker 3: let me hear you. I don't think let me hear
21:47
Speaker 3: you say. I want to hear you say. What were
21:49
Speaker 3: you doing in Delaware?
21:52
Speaker 10: What are you doing in Telaware? Don't have any place
21:55
Speaker 10: at all?
21:56
Speaker 3: No, Like Harvey Kake Tell in the movie So any
21:58
Speaker 3: thanks for calling. Let's go to Phil and Queens. Phil.
22:01
Speaker 3: How you doing?
22:02
Speaker 1: Hey?
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Speaker 11: How you doing? Sanitation's doing a great job here. I'm
22:05
Speaker 11: there at Fresh Meadows, Jamaica Estates. They're Saint John's and
22:09
Speaker 11: they're doing a great job. But I wanted to make
22:11
Speaker 11: a comment. Man, Danny couldn't put salt down. He doesn't
22:16
Speaker 11: know how he had a shovel the other day. The
22:18
Speaker 11: guy has never done anything.
22:20
Speaker 3: Okay, but wait, wait that you're talking about the three
22:22
Speaker 3: weeks ago, four weeks ago snowstorm.
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Speaker 11: No, no, no, he had a shovel at a groundbreaking
22:29
Speaker 11: It's like he never had a shovel in his hair.
22:31
Speaker 3: And he well, he doesn't look like a guy who's
22:34
Speaker 3: done construction work or anything. He doesn't exactly look He
22:36
Speaker 3: looks like an elite college kid. Has never done it.
22:38
Speaker 11: He doesn't know how to do anything.
22:40
Speaker 3: Well, that's he knows how to talk. He's a good.
22:42
Speaker 11: Talker, but a good talk around a fake, a fraudas
22:46
Speaker 11: you know who.
22:47
Speaker 3: Used to say, yeah, that's right. Yeah, Now the salt
22:50
Speaker 3: will work. To say, here's the other thing. The last snowstorm,
22:53
Speaker 3: it was ridiculously cold. It was like ten to fifteen degrees.
22:56
Speaker 3: You know, salt doesn't work when it gets that cold.
23:00
Speaker 3: It's not very effective when it snows, and it's like
23:03
Speaker 3: thirty one thirty two. The salt work. So that's the
23:05
Speaker 3: good news here, salt will work on this one. And
23:09
Speaker 3: it looks like it'll all be over by about five
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Speaker 3: point thirty. That should be the on five to thirty
23:13
Speaker 3: six around there. That'll be the end of it. The
23:15
Speaker 3: snow is much less now. It's it's lightning up. I
23:19
Speaker 3: mean it's falling at a much slower rate. In the
23:22
Speaker 3: middle of the night, we're getting like two inches an hour.
23:24
Speaker 3: Now we're getting like zero point two inches an hour.
23:27
Speaker 3: So it's a big difference. And the winds are not
23:30
Speaker 3: as bad. They were forty fifty miles an hour, they're
23:33
Speaker 3: twenty thirty miles an hour.
23:34
Speaker 1: Here.
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Speaker 3: Hey, when we come back, Ed Rollins, we'll talk to
23:37
Speaker 3: the Dean himself, the great political analyst. What should the
23:39
Speaker 3: president do tomorrow? Night's State of the Union. We'll ask
23:42
Speaker 3: him in a moment on seven ten, wr his job?
23:47
Speaker 4: Make it all make sense? He's marks amone on sevent ten.
23:55
Speaker 3: Hey, let's talk to the Dean himself, Ed Rollins. Of course,
23:58
Speaker 3: he's run a million pam pains. He's worked in a
24:01
Speaker 3: lot of white houses. Nobody knows this stuff better, Ed Rollins,
24:04
Speaker 3: How you doing good? Mark?
24:06
Speaker 1: And then the weather being terrible all of us on
24:09
Speaker 1: the East coast.
24:09
Speaker 3: There, Yeah, it's it's a mess. Hey, tomorrow Night's State
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Speaker 3: of the Union speech? What does the President need to
24:16
Speaker 3: accomplish in that speech?
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Speaker 1: It's a very big speech. There's a lot of things
24:21
Speaker 1: on his plate. He needs to explain to the American public.
24:25
Speaker 1: I was going to bring a government back into in
24:27
Speaker 1: the functioning, especially with the weather and what have you
24:29
Speaker 1: in FEMA and the and the Homeland security stuff being out. Secondly,
24:34
Speaker 1: he's got to explain to the American public and he's
24:36
Speaker 1: going to do anything in Iran. This is a chance
24:38
Speaker 1: for him to do that, set the tone and say
24:42
Speaker 1: I want peace and why I want peace? If that's
24:44
Speaker 1: the case. The third thing that he needs to any
24:47
Speaker 1: deal on is he's clearly convincing people that this tariff
24:51
Speaker 1: plan was correct and he's got obviously out of the court.
24:56
Speaker 1: Is this rule that he can't use this particular provision
25:00
Speaker 1: why he wants to continue to move that ball forward.
25:04
Speaker 1: To a certain extent, it's a terrible time for his tigers,
25:08
Speaker 1: which is another element here, because the new provisions that
25:12
Speaker 1: he has, he can put some of the provisions some
25:15
Speaker 1: of the terrorists back in, but in five months the
25:18
Speaker 1: Congress has to approve it. Five months is right at
25:20
Speaker 1: the heart of a campaign. He basically Democrats are going
25:25
Speaker 1: to say this is a tax, raising taxes. He's got
25:27
Speaker 1: to make the case that's what he wants, just the opposite.
25:31
Speaker 1: So he's got a big speech. He can't can't stand
25:33
Speaker 1: up there to attack the court because he doesn't like
25:35
Speaker 1: the court, doesn't like the decision. He's got to deal
25:37
Speaker 1: with this court and they don't care. Most of the
25:40
Speaker 1: people in the country don't know who's on the court,
25:43
Speaker 1: let alone who the names are. So I think to
25:45
Speaker 1: a certain extent, he can't get in a fight with
25:48
Speaker 1: the court. There's too many provisions that he needs at
25:50
Speaker 1: this point in time to fight with him. By an alternatives,
25:57
Speaker 1: when it.
25:57
Speaker 3: Comes to defying the court, it's done all the time.
25:59
Speaker 3: The last time we is Biden, the student loan stuff
26:02
Speaker 3: was ruled illegal and Biden said, I'll defy them. I'll
26:04
Speaker 3: do it anyway. So it's it's not unprecedented.
26:07
Speaker 1: Is it. No, it's not unprecedent. What happened to Biden?
26:11
Speaker 1: Where Biden it's on the beach.
26:13
Speaker 3: All right?
26:15
Speaker 1: Uh?
26:15
Speaker 3: And then when it comes to Iran, you're talking about
26:17
Speaker 3: the most evil regime in the world, slaughtering people, Uh,
26:23
Speaker 3: funding terrorism, trying to get rid of Israel. Do we
26:26
Speaker 3: really need to explain why we want regime change?
26:29
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think we have to explain it. If
26:31
Speaker 1: we're going to do it, we need to basically get
26:34
Speaker 1: creation of the Congress to do it. You know, he's
26:36
Speaker 1: got a third of the Navy sitting off the coast there.
26:39
Speaker 1: And then, you know, I think the American public doesn't
26:42
Speaker 1: want to have another war in the Middle East on
26:45
Speaker 1: the last couple of miserable failures. And I think the
26:48
Speaker 1: reality is, you know, there's lots of lots of things
26:51
Speaker 1: he can do at this point in time. He can't
26:52
Speaker 1: raise expectations. He raised expectations a couple weeks ago, telling
26:56
Speaker 1: the people when they writny people just stay in the
26:58
Speaker 1: streets out there. Can't do that again. Whatever your plan is,
27:02
Speaker 1: you've got to basically implement it, explaining the American public
27:05
Speaker 1: why get to get Congress and the dialogue tries to
27:09
Speaker 1: do it alone and it becomes a disaster. Uh, disasters,
27:13
Speaker 1: American kids getting killed. Yeah, when I'm going to lose,
27:17
Speaker 1: that is important. The cost of a war in the
27:21
Speaker 1: Middle East is enormous. Uh uh you know all oil
27:25
Speaker 1: that comes out of that area. Uh. You know, it's
27:27
Speaker 1: not gonna be a quick thing like Venezuela as it's
27:30
Speaker 1: you know, there's no there's no quick wars anymore. And
27:33
Speaker 1: you can well up, you do rectors, and you can
27:36
Speaker 1: go down and take some guy out at the top
27:38
Speaker 1: in Venezuela. But this is this is an administration that
27:43
Speaker 1: thinks that God has put them there and that they
27:44
Speaker 1: are the gods. Uh. And then we have to explain
27:47
Speaker 1: why why we want to change it?
27:49
Speaker 3: Yeah? Uh, Hey, what does the Democrats need to do tomorrow?
27:52
Speaker 3: The state of the Union. Usually they do something to
27:54
Speaker 3: embarrass themselves. They look rude and obnoxious. How should they
27:59
Speaker 3: behave tomorrow?
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Speaker 1: They're both people, I mean the problem is that he
28:03
Speaker 1: is a show. They're they're feeling very empowered at this
28:06
Speaker 1: point in time when they should be or not that
28:09
Speaker 1: their numbers aren't much better than the presidents, but I
28:11
Speaker 1: think to a certain extent, they feel they have some momentum.
28:14
Speaker 1: They don't have any policies that they are appealing in
28:17
Speaker 1: the country, But at the same time, they're the alternative,
28:20
Speaker 1: and I think being being the alternative the better place
28:24
Speaker 1: right now than trying to basically deal with r serious agenda. So, uh,
28:28
Speaker 1: you know, they're performed, they'll they'll do something, but you know,
28:32
Speaker 1: it's it's it's the president's show, and people are going
28:35
Speaker 1: to tune in to watch what he says, what he does.
28:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, there's no law that you have to
28:41
Speaker 3: do it in front of Congress. And some people are
28:43
Speaker 3: saying if they if the Democrats got rude and disruptive
28:46
Speaker 3: this time, next time, don't do the State of the
28:48
Speaker 3: Union in Congress. Do it somewhere, do it in front
28:50
Speaker 3: of my rushmore, do do it in some other setting.
28:52
Speaker 1: What do you president to make a speech? President make
28:55
Speaker 1: a speech anytime he wants to. Yeah, and there's no
28:57
Speaker 1: as you say, there's there's nothing requires a president to
29:00
Speaker 1: do a state of the state of the Union. Uh,
29:03
Speaker 1: it's a tradition, it's not a and I think to
29:05
Speaker 1: a certain extent, you want to use it to basically
29:08
Speaker 1: make your case in your argument. He just has to
29:11
Speaker 1: be very careful and and not he has to be
29:14
Speaker 1: a sales He has to basically show that he's not
29:17
Speaker 1: a nasty man, that this is not this is not petty.
29:23
Speaker 1: Those are not going to vote for pets. You're not
29:25
Speaker 1: going to president's party. Uh, that he wants someone whose
29:29
Speaker 1: strong project strength. Uh, and that he's in charge. He
29:33
Speaker 1: knows what's happening with the country and he has it's
29:36
Speaker 1: tough case to make, but he's got to convince the
29:38
Speaker 1: voters that that the economy is going to get better
29:41
Speaker 1: and that and the fields that they passed will help
29:44
Speaker 1: in time. But at the same time public doesn't weigh
29:48
Speaker 1: that yet, so you can't can't take them for granted.
29:50
Speaker 1: You've got you got to be super salesman, which he
29:53
Speaker 1: traditionally has been an effective salesman. But that's what he's
29:56
Speaker 1: going to do. If he doesn't do that, he gets petty. Uh.
29:59
Speaker 1: If they he gets teddy to him, they'll get penny
30:01
Speaker 1: back to them. And if everybody hates the Congress and
30:04
Speaker 1: everybody hates the president. The president's party loses. He's the charge,
30:09
Speaker 1: his parties in charge, and they expect them they do things.
30:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, ro let me ask you them. I know the
30:13
Speaker 3: president pretty well. I can see it in his face
30:15
Speaker 3: sometimes where he came from a very glamorous life, but
30:18
Speaker 3: he likes being president. But I can see it now.
30:20
Speaker 3: I can see him getting a little bored and restless
30:22
Speaker 3: at times. Did you ever have that problem like with
30:23
Speaker 3: Reagan where he felt a little confined in the White
30:26
Speaker 3: House that got a little bored.
30:28
Speaker 1: Well, the second second terms are hard, and you know
30:32
Speaker 1: he had set Our second term was right after the
30:34
Speaker 1: first term, in four years in between. And I think
30:37
Speaker 1: to a certain extent, the president's been dominating this economy
30:40
Speaker 1: and this program for a long period of time. He
30:44
Speaker 1: now has more power, actual power than any president since
30:48
Speaker 1: Lynnon Johnson, Kitty Roosevelt Republican, and Franklin Roosevelt Democrat. So
30:54
Speaker 1: he's taken a lot of power. He has to do
30:56
Speaker 1: some things for that power, and I think to a
30:58
Speaker 1: certain extent he's got to sell it. Post of all,
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Speaker 1: you're going to sell it. Yeah, And there's always the
31:02
Speaker 1: traditional change in the midterms, and and there's no reason,
31:06
Speaker 1: you know, there's not a lot of seats that are
31:07
Speaker 1: betting Competitive've gonna be twenty five, maybe thirty seats with
31:09
Speaker 1: most that it could be competitive, and you've got to
31:12
Speaker 1: win that win a majority of them.
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Speaker 3: Pat Yeah, all right, well, not.
31:16
Speaker 1: Too late, just just he just needs to be in
31:18
Speaker 1: his persuasive best.
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Speaker 3: All right, good stuff, ed Rollins. Great is always. Thanks
31:22
Speaker 3: for being with us. My pleasure that all right, take care. Well,
31:28
Speaker 3: we've got a lot to get to coming up. We'll
31:29
Speaker 3: get we'll get you all the latest on the storm.
31:32
Speaker 3: It's winding down. It'll all be over by five thirty
31:35
Speaker 3: or six. If you're thinking of flying somewhere, forget it.
31:38
Speaker 3: Every airport is closed, all the flights are canceled. It's
31:40
Speaker 3: an absolute mess if you want to get around in
31:43
Speaker 3: New York, believe it or not. The subways are working,
31:46
Speaker 3: and not every single line, but they're working a lot
31:49
Speaker 3: of delays. And I know the mayor has declared an emergency.
31:55
Speaker 3: The roads are closed. But if you look out the window,
31:57
Speaker 3: every so often you see a cab go by, you
31:59
Speaker 3: see an uber go by, so and there are cars
32:03
Speaker 3: out there, not a lot, Hey, don't forget Buck Sexton,
32:06
Speaker 3: Klay Travis. They got an excellent show coming up at
32:09
Speaker 3: noon today. Buck has a new book coming out. We'll
32:12
Speaker 3: talk about it on the show later in the week.
32:14
Speaker 3: And then three o'clock today, you got the most listened
32:16
Speaker 3: to radio show in America. Sean Hannity got Jesse Kelly.
32:20
Speaker 3: At six, you got the very funny Jimmy Failer. You
32:24
Speaker 3: got to listen to this. It's a great show every
32:26
Speaker 3: night at nine. Here on seven to ten, woir.
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Speaker 2: Here's more of the Mark Simung Show on wor.
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Speaker 3: Well mayor Mom Donnie. Not making the same dumb mistake
32:39
Speaker 3: last time leaving the homeless out there on the street
32:42
Speaker 3: in a blizzard. We had seventeen deaths as a result
32:45
Speaker 3: of that. This time it's different.
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Speaker 4: We have put our city in an enhanced Code blue.
32:49
Speaker 4: Now what that means is that not only are we
32:52
Speaker 4: going to be re routing all three one one calls
32:55
Speaker 4: regarding homeless New Yorkers in need of assistance to nine
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Speaker 4: one one, but we are also opening up twenty two
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Speaker 4: warming buses, eleven H and H warming spaces, thirteen DOE
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Speaker 4: warming centers. As you heard from the Chancellor, and we
33:07
Speaker 4: are also critically keeping our on Point overdose prevention centers
33:11
Speaker 4: open overnight through the blizzard.
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Speaker 3: All right, it sounds good, but we'll see. All right, now,
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Speaker 3: here's the good news. It's about thirty degrees right now,
33:19
Speaker 3: so it's freezing snow not melting, but it will go
33:22
Speaker 3: over freezing around two o'clock it'll get to thirty five
33:26
Speaker 3: degrees and then for the next few hours it'll be
33:29
Speaker 3: thirty six degrees, so that'll help melt some of the snow.
33:33
Speaker 3: Then tomorrow thirty three degrees. That's not great, but then
33:38
Speaker 3: on Wednesday forty degrees and it'll stay near forty for
33:41
Speaker 3: the rest of the week. That should melt all the snow.
33:44
Speaker 3: So unlike last time, we'll get rid of this snow.
33:46
Speaker 3: It looks like a little rain on Wednesday Wednesday night,
33:49
Speaker 3: so that'll help get rid of the snow, so it
33:51
Speaker 3: won't be as bad as last time. It'll remain for weeks.
33:54
Speaker 3: We got another hour and a lot to get to.
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Speaker 3: Don't go away. Mark Simone in the studio here on
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