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

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Speaker 1: Well, well, well, Mark sim owners away and curtiusly with
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Speaker 1: his here to play on talk radio, which I've been
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Speaker 1: involved with for what will be thirty six years in
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Speaker 1: January and crashes on the boards. Old WABC alumni will
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Speaker 1: talk about that later on. Not my place to be
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Speaker 1: any longer because it's always bashing Kurdish there. But I
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Speaker 1: am festooned in red and will be taking you the
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Speaker 1: rest of the way to Mark Returns on January second.
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Speaker 1: And you might, you might think that I was actually
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Speaker 1: a form of Santa Claus. What is that the miracle
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Speaker 1: on thirty fourth Street, you know where that crazed woman
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Speaker 1: walked in and stabbed a tourists from California multiple times.
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Speaker 1: Thank god she survived. Yeah, no, not see. I'm always
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Speaker 1: getting people coming up to me actually talking about crime
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Speaker 1: and things that are going wrong. Understood, understood. You see
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Speaker 1: the red beret, you see the red satin jacket that's
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Speaker 1: expected them in the subways and streets every day. But
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Speaker 1: last night, I once again attended in Washington Heights our
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Speaker 1: annual Junior Guardian Angels Christmas extravagance for Lease Navidad. They're
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Speaker 1: predominantly Dominicans. A lot of those kids. We give remedial
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Speaker 1: training after school at our headquarters there, you know, to
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Speaker 1: get them to be able to speak English and assimilate
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Speaker 1: to math, do the things that maybe they're not getting
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Speaker 1: in the public school system, which are many instances, is
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Speaker 1: failing our kids with spending credible amounts of money forty
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Speaker 1: one billion dollars alone in the city. That's one third
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Speaker 1: of the budget. But our program and a lot of
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Speaker 1: other programs around the city nourish these children who were
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Speaker 1: in need, many of them without fathers. The mothers were present,
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Speaker 1: or the older brothers or sisters, and it was great.
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Speaker 1: But I also ended up doing a moonwalk, so to speak,
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Speaker 1: because everywhere I went last night, and I'm always in
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Speaker 1: the subways and streets, I was involved in a flashback.
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Speaker 1: Let me you explain. I was not in a drug
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Speaker 1: induce psychosis. I had not been smoking Maui Wawi or
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Speaker 1: Hindu kush. Like the former mayor who Discratsia to build
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Speaker 1: a basil, who's in his midlife crisis. My god, that
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Speaker 1: guy cannot you know, he should keep his rocket in
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Speaker 1: his pocket because the guy is just chasing skirts all
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Speaker 1: over the place. Anyway, The point being is I'm up
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Speaker 1: there I'm watching Santi Claus give out presents to the
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Speaker 1: children of the Junior Guardian Angels program, and I'm thinking
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Speaker 1: about ten years. Do you know who would come in
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Speaker 1: and entertain the children? Because the leader there, super Stretcher's
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Speaker 1: been with me since he was fifteen years old, fifteen
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Speaker 1: years old in the Bronx nineteen seventy nine. He runs
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Speaker 1: the program. You know he had had in Jordan Neely.
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Speaker 1: Now you may say, who's Jordan Neely? Think about that? Think, think, think,
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Speaker 1: think moonwalk, Think Michael Jackson. He lived right across the
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Speaker 1: street in Washington Heights sink back May one, twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three at Saint Jordan Neely, who was best known as
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Speaker 1: an impersonator of Michael Jackson. He would do the moonwalk
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Speaker 1: and sing Billy Jean ended up in that subway, remember
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Speaker 1: with Daniel Penny. The marine then ended up choking him
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Speaker 1: out because he was so emotionally disturbed, been living in
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Speaker 1: the subway and a dysfunctional way because he was emotionally
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Speaker 1: disturbed for years, for years, going through garbage cans, trying
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Speaker 1: to find a place to relieve himself, like so many
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Speaker 1: other who live in our subterranean. Dante's inferno that we
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Speaker 1: call the subway. And there's a group out there, the
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Speaker 1: Bowery Residence Committee. You should all know. We've spent millions
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Speaker 1: and millions of dollars for them. It's part of the
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Speaker 1: nonprofit industrial complex dealing with homeless. There's five hundred contracts
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Speaker 1: out there, various agencies. They're always kickbacks, always subcontracts. Really
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Speaker 1: needs to be investigated. But this group goes out there
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Speaker 1: in these orange Sherbet jackets. You almost never see them.
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Speaker 1: I've seen them on occasion. And their job isn't to
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Speaker 1: care for the emotionally disturbed. They're the homeless. It's to
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Speaker 1: count them. Yeah, count it once and count it to
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Speaker 1: And in reference to this very disturbed young man, Jordan Neely,
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Speaker 1: who was quite the entertainer ten years ago before unfortunately
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Speaker 1: he died in the arms of Daniel Penny, who did
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Speaker 1: not want to kill him. Was quite the Michael Jackson impersonated.
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Speaker 1: So you want to know what happened in between that
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Speaker 1: causted him to fall into the abyss. And even though
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Speaker 1: he came into contact with many homeless outreach persons of
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Speaker 1: this Bowery Residence Committee that has failed us over and over,
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Speaker 1: taking our money and provided little of any service. He
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Speaker 1: was put on a list of the fifty most dangerous
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Speaker 1: emotionally disturbed persons who live in the city subway system.
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Speaker 1: They are like four hundred and seventy two platforms and stations.
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Speaker 1: I've been to them all, imagine, and making a list,
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Speaker 1: not taking him to a mental health care facility, not
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Speaker 1: getting him help, but just putting him on a list
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Speaker 1: and checking it twice, madam am I. And then on
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Speaker 1: that fateful afternoon on May first, twenty twenty three, Jordan
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Speaker 1: nearly comes into that car, that f train car right
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Speaker 1: in the Lower east Side where I was yesterday. I
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Speaker 1: think he was at Broadway Lefiete, starts terrorizing the passengers.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Penny was living in the Lower east Side going
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Speaker 1: for a job interview. Did not look like your typical
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Speaker 1: jarhead marine. No, no, he was very very much like
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Speaker 1: almost a hippie so to speak, very bohemian. Puts him
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Speaker 1: inte show cold. Unfortunately, jordanan dies. He goes for the
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Speaker 1: interview or the first police precinct. The DTS say, okay,
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Speaker 1: you did the right thing. And then days later who
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Speaker 1: decides to windem Alvin Bragg, who turns all criminals loose,
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Speaker 1: but in dts, those that are defending themselves and everyone else.
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Speaker 1: You know that Jose Alba, remember in the bodega, who
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Speaker 1: unfortunately had to kill the guy who came over the counter,
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Speaker 1: who was threatening his life. It goes on and on,
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Speaker 1: but this case in particular, it's ten years ago. He
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Speaker 1: was entertaining junior Guardian Angels from time to time with
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Speaker 1: his skill level. He had skills, and so I was
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Speaker 1: like moonwalking back and saying, you know how long this
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Speaker 1: has been going on? We have all these emotionally disturbed persons,
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Speaker 1: We have all these homeless nothing being done, nothing by
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Speaker 1: Deblasio and his griff's wife Charlene. Remember they took one
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Speaker 1: and a half billion dollars over five years for a
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Speaker 1: program called Thrive. They never helped one emotionally disturbed person,
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Speaker 1: never investigated because it's a one party system in New
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Speaker 1: York City and New York State. That's why you need
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Speaker 1: a two party system, if not more the checks and balances.
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Speaker 1: So that was my experience there. Then I jump on
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Speaker 1: the A train and I head down to East Broadway
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Speaker 1: Guardian Angel headquarters in Chinatown to accompany them as they
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Speaker 1: go out and they handle the emotionally disturbed and the homeless,
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Speaker 1: many of whom reside in Sarah Roosevelt Park. Now some
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Speaker 1: of you probably have been through that over the years.
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Speaker 1: Goes between Canal Street and He's housed and Forsyth and Christie,
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Speaker 1: and there are all kinds of rules and regulations. Is
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Speaker 1: he let me tell you something, if you ever go there.
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Speaker 1: It says big signe pets are prohibited from the park,
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Speaker 1: but not drug dealers, drug users, or pervs, petophiles. It
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Speaker 1: says no scooters. And yet you see scooters going through
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Speaker 1: like mad crazed individuals who are ready to knock you down.
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Speaker 1: And it's just a miserable park. Miserable park, lots of problems,
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Speaker 1: lots of emotionally disturb lots of homeless. So we go
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Speaker 1: through there and we make sure things are cool, calm
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Speaker 1: and collected, and we have Narkhan with us. You know
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Speaker 1: why these people are on the verge maybe of dying
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Speaker 1: having taken in fentanyl. Later on we're going to discuss,
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Speaker 1: you know, Venezuela, we're on the cusp of starting this
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Speaker 1: war supposedly because Maduro is helping to export the fentanyl
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Speaker 1: into our country. That's a lie, that's like weapons of
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Speaker 1: mass destruction. Remember we got invade the Rock Saddam Hussein, right,
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Speaker 1: Dick Sheney, who was saying, oh, well, you know, forget
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Speaker 1: Saddam Hussein, you might as well look at how Kaida
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Speaker 1: there Osama been like and trying to conflate the two.
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Speaker 1: We're still looking for those weapons of mass destruction. Right.
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Speaker 1: There's no fentinol coming out of Venezuela. If anything, it's cocaine.
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Speaker 1: But that's one of the rationalsis. We are on the
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Speaker 1: cusp of war as troops being assembled on the island
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Speaker 1: of Puerto Rico. They're off in the Atlantic Ocean in
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Speaker 1: different parts, ready to strike a task force with a
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Speaker 1: aircraft carrier, the Gerald Ford and others. By the way,
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Speaker 1: have they renamed any of our battleships in honor of
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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump? Apparently he wants new battleships named in
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Speaker 1: his honor. He wants everything named in his honor. Right
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Speaker 1: there it is, see the Kennedy Center, it's now the
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Speaker 1: Trump Kennedy Center. He wants to coin You know, generally
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Speaker 1: these things happen once you're dead. No, I don't need
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Speaker 1: to hear that. Uh, Like the tappan Zee Bridge, right
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Speaker 1: there was renamed in the waning moments of a legislative
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Speaker 1: station by Andrew evilised Coomo the Mario Coumol Bridge. To me,
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Speaker 1: it'll always be the Tappanzee Bridge, which tad happens once
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Speaker 1: you're dead. Trump wants all these things while he's alive.
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Speaker 1: Oh boy, But let's discuss that, because we are at
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Speaker 1: a point with this holiday Christmas extravagance in New Year's
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Speaker 1: where a lot of men and women are overseas and
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Speaker 1: it comes on the cusp of another war that is
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Speaker 1: raging in the Ukraine. Putin, responsible for invading the Ukrains.
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Speaker 1: Zolenski did not take the opportunity to leave. He stood
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Speaker 1: the Ukrainian's battle back somewhat at an impasse. Putin wants
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Speaker 1: Zelenski to say no Mass, no Mass, and the carnage continues.
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Speaker 1: The carnage continues. And it was interesting that Zelenski, right
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Speaker 1: before the holiday, said, hey, I tell you what Putin
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Speaker 1: wants the eastern part of the Ukraine. Instead of arguing
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Speaker 1: over what you get and we get. If there is peace,
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Speaker 1: an armistice, why don't we set up a dmz DE
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Speaker 1: militarized zone And a certain number of miles would separate
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Speaker 1: both sides, and then of course there would be troops
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Speaker 1: that would guarantee the Ukrainian security on the NATO side. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's explore that, because that's a pretty damn good idea
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Speaker 1: to stop this carnage, because it doesn't seem like at
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Speaker 1: this point anything is going to do that, so a
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Speaker 1: mutual area in between it. And it sort of reminded
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Speaker 1: me as I do the moonwalk, I go into the
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Speaker 1: time machine slowly, I turn step by step, and hey,
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Speaker 1: we're still involved. In Korea, the Korean Peninsula thirty eighth parallel,
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Speaker 1: there is what one hundred and sixty mile long wall
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Speaker 1: barbed wire three miles wide in between, in which there
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Speaker 1: are sharpshooters on the North Korean side if you attempt
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Speaker 1: to bolt the cross to leave, to leave the horror
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Speaker 1: of Kim Jung mentally Ill's evil seat, that cult in
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Speaker 1: North Korea, which barely has about it one million, two
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand soldiers ready to go to battle, if not more.
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Speaker 1: South Korea has four hundred and fifty thousand on their
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Speaker 1: side of the DMZ, which was set up just about
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Speaker 1: the time I was born in nineteen fifty four, twenty
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Speaker 1: eight thousand United States troops across one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: miles to keep the peace. Hopefully you'll all understand the
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Speaker 1: sacrifice that those men and women are making and being
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Speaker 1: on the front line, knowing that any moment especially there's
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Speaker 1: a little portion there where you saw then President Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump in his first term walk like halfway across, and
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Speaker 1: then you saw a guy who was in need of
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Speaker 1: ozempic who was at the evil see the Kim Jung
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Speaker 1: mentally ill who's coming across. They shook hands there and
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Speaker 1: you have the North Korean guards staring at the South
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Speaker 1: Korean guards, I fortigating, mad dogging one another. Do you
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Speaker 1: know that war is still going on? It was never ended.
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Speaker 1: It was called the police action. Yeah, and the Americans died.
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Speaker 1: Fifty two thousand Americans died in that Korean War. How
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Speaker 1: many thousands were taking his POW's And I think once
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Speaker 1: there was the armistice, remember didn't end. The war was
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Speaker 1: to continue. It's officially a war now. I think there
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Speaker 1: were twenty one soldiers who decided to stay back in
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Speaker 1: North Korea. Well, I think they're in need of a
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Speaker 1: psychiatric Hey, can you imagine that I want to stay
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Speaker 1: in North Korea? But that's where a DMZ exists as
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Speaker 1: we speak. I'll never forget. I was going down from California,
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Speaker 1: from San Francisco, where I had a chapter of The
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Speaker 1: Guardian Angels, to Los Angeles, Why Beautiful. On the coach
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Speaker 1: stopped in Carmel where Clint Eastwood remember The Good, the Bad,
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Speaker 1: and the Ugly. He was the mayor at that time
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Speaker 1: and continuing to make films. I remember an old coat.
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Speaker 1: They was telling me, Oh, yeah, you know, Clint, he
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Speaker 1: was in the Korean War. He was, oh, tell me,
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Speaker 1: you know, I want to sop up all the information.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, he was stationed at Fort Ord. He was
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Speaker 1: a swimming instructor, he said. But it came into handy
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Speaker 1: use because he was on a flight that crashed. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it was in the ocean somewhere, it
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Speaker 1: was in water, and he swam to chore saved his life.
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Speaker 1: But he did service like so many other men and
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Speaker 1: women stationed around the world this Christmas New Year's holiday
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Speaker 1: that oftentimes we just don't think of at all, don't
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Speaker 1: think of at all. And then, of course there was
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Speaker 1: the DMC that I grew up with, like so many
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Speaker 1: of the baby boomers in the Cold War, the Wall,
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Speaker 1: the Berlin Wall, in fact, I think it was put
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Speaker 1: up in nineteen sixty one on the orders of Nikita
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Speaker 1: kruz Jef remember said he would bury us at the
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Speaker 1: General Assembly in a drunken stupor too much vodka, he
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Speaker 1: took his shoe off, he banged the table, he said,
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Speaker 1: we will bury you. And man, whenever you took a
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Speaker 1: subway or a bus there was it was an area
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Speaker 1: that showed that on television and every day we'd have
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Speaker 1: to get underneath our our classroom tables that we worked
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Speaker 1: from desks, and we had to put our hands behind
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Speaker 1: our necks and kiss Artuka sardupa air rage siren will
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Speaker 1: go on. You never know, the big one could be
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Speaker 1: dropped at any moment in the midst of the Cold War,
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Speaker 1: and how many many women were assigned to guarding that
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Speaker 1: wall on the western side West Germany obviously much larger
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Speaker 1: than East Germany. But helping the Stasi at that time
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Speaker 1: was who Vladimir putin kg B guy on the eastern side.
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Speaker 1: And that all came to me because I remember, I
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Speaker 1: remember the scenes of the guard towers, the trenches, the
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Speaker 1: death strip that separated East from West because The Communists
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Speaker 1: were worried that so many of their people each day
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Speaker 1: were fleeing to the West and freedom, about one thousand
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Speaker 1: a day, that they decided to cut him down with
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Speaker 1: machine gun fire if you did try to cross over
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Speaker 1: for freedom. Some of the buildings actually were partially on
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Speaker 1: one side and another side of the wall. I happened
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Speaker 1: to be able to see it up close and personal
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Speaker 1: after the wall came down. I was that nineteen eighty
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Speaker 1: nine Bush forty one asleep at the wheel, CIA asleep
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Speaker 1: at the wheel. They had no idea this was happening.
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Speaker 1: It was part of Gorbachev, you know, with the weinstain
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Speaker 1: on his head, the glass nose, Perestroika. Communism was falling,
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Speaker 1: and we didn't move quickly enough to start teaching those
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Speaker 1: folks about democracy and capitalism. We were just stunned. So
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Speaker 1: by the time I got there organizing Guardian Angels. In Berlin,
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Speaker 1: you could take the Uban and the s Bahn one
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Speaker 1: was the underground subway that went from West Berlin to
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Speaker 1: East Berlin, and then the elevated and the trains were
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Speaker 1: graffited just like they were in the nineteen seventies and
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Speaker 1: eighties here, and I was stunned as I walked through Berlin,
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Speaker 1: walking through parks and plaza where everybody thought, oh this
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Speaker 1: is this is the American Way graffiti. But I will
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Speaker 1: tell you this, how many men and women served there,
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Speaker 1: how many were killed and attempting to flee a DMC
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Speaker 1: that existed. I think this is a pretty good idea
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Speaker 1: that Zelenski has to end this carnage and think about it.
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Speaker 1: Think about it, and think about all those men and
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Speaker 1: women who continue to serve in including those men and
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Speaker 1: women who already at a moment's notice to invade Venezuela
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Speaker 1: when our commander in chief gives them the word. Right
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Speaker 1: here at your place to be, our number is eight
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Speaker 1: hundred three two one zero seven ten. That's eight hundred
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Speaker 1: three to two one zero seven ten. This is the
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Speaker 1: station that maybe you're discovering for the very first time
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Speaker 1: in a long time. This is the station you should
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Speaker 1: be listening to from now on. Is I and my
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Speaker 1: wife Nancy will be joining me. They eleven o'clock hour,
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Speaker 1: listened to all the time, seven ten wor