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Hour 2: Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks out. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: He knows his way around all this.
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Speaker 2: It's the Mark Simone Show on seven tenor.
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Speaker 3: Well it's Friday. Normally that's great, you're looking forward to
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Speaker 3: a wonderful weekend. But this weekend you'll uh, well, Saturday,
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Speaker 3: it's going to be bitterly cold. It will be a
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Speaker 3: real feel of like minus five or something all day Saturday,
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Speaker 3: so you're not going to really want to be out
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Speaker 3: much on Saturday. And then Sunday you got the storm,
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Speaker 3: the snow all day long. It will start overnight Saturday,
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Speaker 3: about two, three, four in the morning, it'll start snowing.
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Speaker 3: It'll snow all day Sunday. It won't stop, it'll pile up.
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Speaker 3: It'll snow overnight Sunday night. It'll stop somewhere Monday morning,
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Speaker 3: maybe come back a little here and there in the afternoon,
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Speaker 3: and then that'll be it. But most likely forecast six
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Speaker 3: to eight inches. The different various models show a range
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Speaker 3: of four to twelve inches, but figure six to eight inches.
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Speaker 3: That's a lot of snow. If you're in the suburb,
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Speaker 3: it's going to disrupt everything for a while. Also, unlike
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Speaker 3: other snowstorms, it's going to be freezing cold for the
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Speaker 3: next few days. It'll be like in the twenties, real
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Speaker 3: Field and the teens. So after the snow is done
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Speaker 3: on Monday, for the next few days it'll be so
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Speaker 3: cold that nothing will melt. You won't be able to
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Speaker 3: melt that snow, you won't be able to shovel it.
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Speaker 3: You know, if you're in the city, it doesn't really
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Speaker 3: bother us because it doesn't really even stick on the ground.
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Speaker 3: These sidewalks are so warm, people a million people walking
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Speaker 3: all over them. The subway underneath heats them. So the
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Speaker 3: city is fine, although you'll have some snow banks here
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Speaker 3: in there. But when you're in the suburbs, it's a
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Speaker 3: mess because the mall, the strip, mall, the supermarket, they'll shuffle,
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Speaker 3: they'll shovel the parking lot, but you'll lose half the
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Speaker 3: parking spaces where they pile up the snow and the
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Speaker 3: snow banks and all of that will stay for days
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Speaker 3: and days and days. Looks like in New York City,
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Speaker 3: at least they'll be school on Monday. Now may go remote,
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Speaker 3: and this is not fair to kids. It's very important
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Speaker 3: to have snow days where school is just canceled. You know,
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Speaker 3: when we were a kid, it was a snow day.
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Speaker 3: He had the day off, you'd watch game shows, you'd
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Speaker 3: goof off. But now if there is a snow day,
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Speaker 3: it'll just switch to remote learning. And imagine a lot
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Speaker 3: of suburban schools will do that. Not everybody's made the
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Speaker 3: decision yet, but we'll keep you up to date here
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Speaker 3: on the storm. This will be the first major test
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Speaker 3: of mom Donnie and his management skills. Although the emergency
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Speaker 3: team that does all this stuff is still there from
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Speaker 3: the Adams administration, so it's the same team. The director
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Speaker 3: of Emergency Management, he's a good guy. He'll be able
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Speaker 3: to handle this. He's resigned, but he gave two weeks notice,
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Speaker 3: so he's still there through this storm. Now, when he leaves,
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Speaker 3: the good news is his deputy takes over, who he says,
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Speaker 3: is pretty good. She's been there for a long long time,
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Speaker 3: so it should be should be okay. Greenland. Speaking of snow,
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Speaker 3: it looks like the deal is done, and the deal
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Speaker 3: is basically, we lease Greenland and control it for decades
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Speaker 3: and decades and decades, sometimes Trump hinting it could be forever.
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Speaker 3: Now that's different from actually buying it and owning it.
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Speaker 3: But some people are pointing out this is actually better.
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Speaker 3: We don't want to buy it and own it and
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Speaker 3: make it part of the US. We want to just
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Speaker 3: lease it and have control. If we buy it make
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Speaker 3: it part of the US, then you're going to have
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Speaker 3: to give them two senators. You're going to have to
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Speaker 3: give them Congressmen. You're going to have to pay the
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Speaker 3: welfare for most of the people on Greenland. And it's
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Speaker 3: only about fifty seven thousand people, but they're on some
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Speaker 3: kind of welfare. Hey. Now, once again, the idea of
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Speaker 3: buying Greenland or owning Greenland, or making part of the US,
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Speaker 3: that is not a Trump policy. That's been the official
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Speaker 3: policy of the United States for one hundred and fifty years.
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Speaker 3: One hundred and fifty years. Lots of residents have tried
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Speaker 3: to get Greenland. The last most serious attempt was Harry Truman,
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Speaker 3: who offered I think it was a billion dollars, which
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Speaker 3: back then nineteen forty nine or whatever was a staggering
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Speaker 3: amount of money. But it's always been US policy to
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Speaker 3: get Greenland. This is not a Trump policy. But it
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Speaker 3: was just fine for all these years trying to get Greenland.
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Speaker 3: But as soon as it was Trump, this is terrible.
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Speaker 3: All of a sudden everybody went crazy. Same thing with Ice,
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Speaker 3: the idea of ice going into cities and snatching up
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Speaker 3: illegals off the streets. That was Barack Obama. He did
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Speaker 3: it all the time, and you know he put in
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Speaker 3: charge of it a guy named Tom Holman. And you know,
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Speaker 3: before Obama left office, he gave Tom Holman the Distinguished
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Speaker 3: Service Award from the federal government for what he did.
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Speaker 3: So it goes on all the time. It's just only
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Speaker 3: bad when Trump does it. It was a great moment
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Speaker 3: on CNN with Ben Ferguson and the host I think
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Speaker 3: was Abbey Phillips is screaming at Ben Ferguson the idea
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Speaker 3: of ice going into what Ice is doing. He's never
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Speaker 3: been good. It's always been controversial. And Ben Ferguson said,
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Speaker 3: that's not true. It was considered great under Obama. In fact,
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Speaker 3: you guys at CNN did ride alongs. That's true. The
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Speaker 3: video has emerged back when Obama was doing the same
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Speaker 3: exact thing. CNN covered it and showed how brilliant this was,
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Speaker 3: how great this was. Look at it when Obama is
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Speaker 3: getting done. They did ride along videos. Look at how
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Speaker 3: they're rounding up. This is great. But as soon as
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Speaker 3: it's Trump. It's a disaster. It's awful. Hey, the crazy
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Speaker 3: protesters who broke into that church, stopped the service, stop
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Speaker 3: the ceremony. The two ringleaders have been arrested. Now they're
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Speaker 3: going to probably get Don Lemon at some point. It
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Speaker 3: went before some left wing judge who tossed it out
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Speaker 3: said you can't arrest Don Lemon for this. But that's
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Speaker 3: just some crazy left wing judge. They'll appeal the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: The Attorney General herself, Pam Bondi, has flown two Minnesota
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Speaker 3: to get this thing going.
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Speaker 4: Religious liberty is under siege in our country right now,
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Speaker 4: and we are not going anywhere until those people who
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Speaker 4: did those acts are held accountable.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. No, the yelling about freedom of speech, freedom to protest,
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Speaker 3: First Amendment, it's all great, but that means you can
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Speaker 3: stand outside and yell. You cannot enter the church. It's
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Speaker 3: actually says in the law you cannot go into a
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Speaker 3: house of worship and do anything to intimidate or interfere
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Speaker 3: with a church service. It's illegal. It's a crime. So
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Speaker 3: they've arrested the two ringleaders, and here's Paul Murrow, the
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Speaker 3: security expert.
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Speaker 5: It is going to be very very little that they
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Speaker 5: can do in defense of this because it's on filming.
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Speaker 5: But for once, they didn't cover their faces. Now here
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Speaker 5: is the thing that's going to come out of this.
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Speaker 5: You have her under her arrest. Now you're going to
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Speaker 5: get the communications, and this is where it starts. Despiteer,
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Speaker 5: whereabout you start to see who's talking to who, who
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Speaker 5: showed up in regard including Don Lemon. How much did
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Speaker 5: they all know going in? That imports things like conspiracy charges,
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Speaker 5: which can be quite quite heavy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's where they're going to start. Now they've
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Speaker 3: got the two ring leaders, they'll start to get everybody
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Speaker 3: else under arrest.
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Speaker 5: Not only did that come out in the video and
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Speaker 5: that they said something like that in the church, but
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Speaker 5: then after the fact Lemon talks about exactly that, putting
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Speaker 5: a racial overtone in the whole thing, which potentially could
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Speaker 5: import a hate crime.
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Speaker 3: Nah, that's interesting. Lemon could be charged also with hate crime.
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Speaker 5: There is a job career protester, and it has developed
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Speaker 5: over the last let's say a dozen years or so
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Speaker 5: into a very lucrative industry, and you have people who
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Speaker 5: do this for a living, make a ton of money.
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Speaker 5: They weaponize people who don't know any better to use
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Speaker 5: the Leninist term, useful idiots. They're looking for any cause
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Speaker 5: in the world. They get them out of the campuses
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Speaker 5: pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Hey, the Clintons are in tremendous legal jeopardy. They have
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Speaker 3: defied a congressional subpoena. They have refused to testify, and
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Speaker 3: when you do that, you go to prison. That's what
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Speaker 3: happened to Steve Bannon, That's what happened to Peter Navarro.
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Speaker 3: They refused to testify when they got the subpoena in
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Speaker 3: front of Congress, they went to prison. So you could
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Speaker 3: actually send the Clintons to prison. They've actually done exactly
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Speaker 3: what Steve Bannon did, exactly what Navarro did. Here's crazy goofy,
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Speaker 3: Hakim Jeffries.
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Speaker 1: If COMA tries to bring this resolution, he wants to
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Speaker 1: lock Hillary Clinton up, consistent with what Donald Trump's been
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Speaker 1: saying now for ten years. Lock her up, as opposed
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Speaker 1: to actually focusing on the things that matter for the
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Speaker 1: American people, then we'll deal with it appropriately.
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Speaker 3: That's when you know they're in trouble instead of focusing
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Speaker 3: on what's important for the American people. When they put
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Speaker 3: Trump on trial in four places, did Hakim Jeffrey say, hey,
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Speaker 3: focus on what's important for the American people. No, Now,
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Speaker 3: the only argument protecting the Clintons is, well, Steve Bannon,
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Speaker 3: this is an ex president. It's different if it's an
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Speaker 3: ex president. Well not really. You put the arrested Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump in four different places five thousand times. So apparently
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Speaker 3: according to the Merrick Garland Joe Biden standard, it's not
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Speaker 3: different when it's the next president. Hey, you know who died.
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Speaker 3: I can't believe it. Uncle Floyd. You remember Uncle Floyd.
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Speaker 3: Now there'd be plenty of people don't know what I'm
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Speaker 3: talking about, but plenty of people who do. Uncle Floyd
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Speaker 3: wasn't that old. He was seventy four. Floyd Vivino course
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Speaker 3: hosted that children's TV show for years. He also was
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Speaker 3: a great comedian and a great musician pianist. Uncle Floyd
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Speaker 3: gone at the age of seventy four. This is back
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Speaker 3: in the way, way way in the past, like a
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Speaker 3: way back into the eighties when he has on Uah Chef.
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Speaker 3: You remember that there was regular TV and there was
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Speaker 3: UA Chef and on his case. I think it was
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Speaker 3: Channel sixty eight out of New Jersey. You know, kids
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Speaker 3: today you wouldn't believe it. You had a TV that
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Speaker 3: had an antenna and there was channel two, four, five,
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Speaker 3: nine to eleven, and then there was UHF. You could
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Speaker 3: switch over this UHF where there was like a channel
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Speaker 3: fifty in the channels. This sounds like the Flintstones. This
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Speaker 3: sounds so primitive. It sounds like cavemen who knew back
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Speaker 3: then that within a few years there'd be cable and
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Speaker 3: two hundred channels, and then years after that there'd be
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Speaker 3: cable and six hundred channels. And I remember we had
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Speaker 3: cable with six hundred channels and there was still nothing
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Speaker 3: to watch. You could have eight hundred channels, You're still
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Speaker 3: watching Law and Order reruns and that's it. But then
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Speaker 3: streaming begins and everybody forgets about regular TV. Everything is
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Speaker 3: streaming now. You know, it used to be a big
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Speaker 3: deal network TV. It means absolutely nothing anymore. You know,
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Speaker 3: you used to wait and see if your favorite show
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Speaker 3: got picked up for the next year. They just announced
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Speaker 3: all the renewals for next year. Tracker, that's like the
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Speaker 3: biggest show in network TV. Tracker got the renewed, Mattlock
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Speaker 3: got renewed. There's like a new Mattlock. It's not Andy Griffith.
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Speaker 3: I think it's a woman this time. Boston Blue got renewed,
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Speaker 3: but only for eight episodes. That's not a good saying.
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Speaker 3: All the NCIS has got renewed. Fire Country got renewed.
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Speaker 3: That's everywhere now, this Fire Country, I don't even know
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Speaker 3: what the hell it is. Sydney Survivor. I don't even
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Speaker 3: know most of these shows. Georgie and Mandy's first marriage.
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Speaker 3: Anybody know what that is? I don't know the Amazing Race,
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Speaker 3: I know what that is. Elizabeth got Elsbeth got the renewed. Okay,
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Speaker 3: so but again it doesn't mean anything. Nobody watches network
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Speaker 3: TV anymore. It's all streaming. Hey, Donald Trump has announced
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Speaker 3: a big lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase. JP Morgan Chase
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Speaker 3: being sued by Trump now for five billion dollars. And
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Speaker 3: he's got a great case. When he was the ex
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Speaker 3: president a few years ago, JP Morgan Chase de banked him.
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Speaker 3: In other words, they refused to allow him to have
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Speaker 3: a bank account. He had many bank accounts there, not personally,
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Speaker 3: but for his business. You talk about hundreds and hundreds
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Speaker 3: and hundreds of millions of dollars, and they threw them
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Speaker 3: out of the bank. Now, if you have a remember
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Speaker 3: Trump has a major, major corporation that's a global empire
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Speaker 3: doing business all over the world. That's impossible to run
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Speaker 3: a business without bank accounts. In fact, when you're a business,
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Speaker 3: you have many, many bank accounts. So to throw them
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Speaker 3: out to de bank them, and then other banks followed,
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Speaker 3: Bank of America and other banks followed. So he couldn't
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Speaker 3: believe it when it happened. How could you be blacklisted
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Speaker 3: from banks? You can't, how could you stay in business?
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Speaker 3: So it was a horrible, frightening thing to do to
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Speaker 3: a business. It wasn't just Trump. They did it to
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Speaker 3: a lot of conservatives. And Trump is now suing them
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Speaker 3: for five billion dollars. He most likely will get a
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Speaker 3: massive settlement. They'll probably settle with him for a fortune,
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Speaker 3: maybe even a billion dollars. Now, JP Morgan Chase is
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Speaker 3: a great company run by Jamie Diamond, best CEO in America.
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Speaker 3: Why would they do such a thing. They wouldn't because
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Speaker 3: it hurts the bank. Why would they do it? The
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Speaker 3: Biden administration forced them to. The Biden administration threatened the
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Speaker 3: banks with everything in the world. They're totally regulated and
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Speaker 3: dependent on government. The Biden administration threatened them and forced
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Speaker 3: them to do it. This is the other reason for
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Speaker 3: the lawsuit to get this to come out in court. Now,
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Speaker 3: Democrats may go to JP Morgan Chase and make them
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Speaker 3: settle this because they don't want Democrats don't want this
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Speaker 3: coming out in court that they played this kind of game,
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Speaker 3: the Shenanigans. So we'll see what happens. No matter how
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Speaker 3: it turns out, Donald Trump will be getting a hell
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Speaker 3: of a payday from this. Hey, well, take some calls
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Speaker 3: in a minute. Eight hundred three to two to one
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Speaker 3: zero seven ten is the number? Eight hundred three to
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Speaker 3: two one zero seven to ten.
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Speaker 6: Give war.
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Speaker 6: Now back to the Mark Simo show on wo R.
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Speaker 3: Well, let's take some calls. Us go to uh Frank
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Speaker 3: in Arizona. Frank, how you doing well?
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Speaker 8: Mark?
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Speaker 6: Mark?
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Speaker 8: I was a huge Uncle Floyd fan back in the seventies.
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Speaker 8: When I was twenty six years old. He announced my
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Speaker 8: birthday and I wanted Uncle Milton's ant arm and all
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Speaker 8: the ants were dead when I got this. But his
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Speaker 8: show was kind of like a stupy stale show. You know,
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Speaker 8: it was kind of people will goof it up in
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Speaker 8: the back line, you can hit him talking, and he
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Speaker 8: just one goofy thing after another. He did characters. But yeah,
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Speaker 8: you're right.
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Speaker 3: It was a kind of a very local, very minor
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Speaker 3: league copy of the Soupy Sales show. That's what it was.
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Speaker 8: Oh, absolutely, and Mark, I love Vincent?
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Speaker 3: You love who Vincent?
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Speaker 8: Oh juddy Vincent?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, yeah, Hey, what's the temperature in Arizona?
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Speaker 8: Uh?
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Speaker 9: You know what.
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Speaker 8: It's seventy two right now. It's supposed to rain today.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, you know, if you come out here now,
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Speaker 8: it's wa wait, but don't come out in August, is July,
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Speaker 8: and don't forget about it.
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Speaker 3: One hundred and twenty. Well, so what do you do
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Speaker 3: out there in the summer on its one hundred and twenty?
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Speaker 8: Well, you know what they say, in a winter time
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Speaker 8: back east, you're inside out here in the summertime, you're inside.
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Speaker 3: All right, Well, thanks for calling, yeah, but you know here,
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Speaker 3: we're inside a couple of days when it snows out there,
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Speaker 3: it's one hundred and twenty for a couple of months.
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Speaker 3: Let's go to let's go to Mike and Bayonne, Mike,
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Speaker 3: how you doing?
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Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on? Western Peace?
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Speaker 6: Then?
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Speaker 8: Uncle Floyd was fantastic. I think every New Jersey and
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Speaker 8: should fly their flags at half masks, and anyone who
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Speaker 8: doesn't know Uncle Floyd should go on YouTube and check
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Speaker 8: them out. Who was my hero when I was a teenager?
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Speaker 3: Well, you see that's interesting. Uncle Floyd died. I announced
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Speaker 3: it before. I'm thinking to myself too, a lot of
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Speaker 3: well people know who Uncle Floyd. Uncle Floyd touched a
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Speaker 3: lot of lives. I'm trying to think if I I
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Speaker 3: met him a few times. Actually, remember I used to
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Speaker 3: do the Saturday night show, The Oldie Show. On that
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Speaker 3: a couple of times he was a guest. I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to remember. I think I was on the Uncle Floyd
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Speaker 3: Show once somewhere in the eighties, and I remember doing
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Speaker 3: a some benefit somewhere with him where I think I
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Speaker 3: was the MC and he was on the show. He's
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Speaker 3: a very nice guy in real life. Let's go to
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Speaker 3: Jimmy and New Milford. Jimmy, how you doing?
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Speaker 8: And wanting short Rock?
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Speaker 3: What do you want a wood chipper? What's going on there?
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Speaker 9: I'm sorry, I'm just asking about that website.
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Speaker 8: Rock to you okay, yes, did you use that yet?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Grock is okay, it's the AI of Elon Musk. It's
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Speaker 3: the x AI. Depends what you want to do. Groc
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Speaker 3: is very good with some things. You want to create pictures,
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Speaker 3: I chat, GPT is better. Groc nu righte as good.
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Speaker 3: You don't sound like the AI type of guy, all right,
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Speaker 3: but thanks? Yeah. Uh, they're both good. There's a lot
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Speaker 3: of good ones. But if you want, if you got
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Speaker 3: a picture and you want to create, you know, take
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Speaker 3: your picture and create something. Uh Rock pretty good, chat
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Speaker 3: chipet to look a little more real. Let's go to
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Speaker 3: Joe in Elmwood. Joe, how are you doing?
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Mark. Sorry to hear about Uncle Floyd. Uh,
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Speaker 10: and kudos to Vincent.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 10: I want to talk about our new governor. What they did,
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Speaker 10: those two clowns and uh Trenton. They doubled our energy
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Speaker 10: costs And now she's going to put a cap on
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Speaker 10: it to be the hero.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's gonna be a mess, but you guys are
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Speaker 3: used to it in New Jersey. You keep collecting these
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Speaker 3: crazy idiots.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and uh, when is uh Nick Shirley going to
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Speaker 10: come to New Jersey? We're sick of the fraud here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the other problem. You know, New Jersey is
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Speaker 3: just wasting fraud and bloat. That's why your texes is
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Speaker 3: so hi. If you got Nick, Shirley and Elon must
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Speaker 3: going to bring there to clean it up, doge the
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Speaker 3: whole thing, your taxes would be about one third of
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Speaker 3: what they are now. And if you didn't know who
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Speaker 3: this woman was, if I just played this clip here,
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Speaker 3: if I didn't tell you who this was, would you
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Speaker 3: think this is a governor of a state.
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Speaker 11: I would encourage everyone to, you know what, have a
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Speaker 11: great family day at home this weekend, play some born games.
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Speaker 11: Don't go out in this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you see, if you're the mayor or the governor,
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Speaker 3: you're supposed to put on that jacket, you know, that snowjacket,
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Speaker 3: that official jacket, and sound very serious and lay out everything.
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Speaker 3: There'll be over two thousand salt spreaders. We'll be doing this,
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Speaker 3: we'll be doing that. You're supposed to sound very official, authoritative,
18:40
Speaker 3: like you've got everything planned. You're not supposed to just
18:42
Speaker 3: be goofy.
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Speaker 11: And I would encourage everyone to, you know what, have
18:46
Speaker 11: a great family day at home this weekend. Play some
18:50
Speaker 11: born games.
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Speaker 3: Don't go out. We play board games anymore? You do.
18:56
Speaker 3: I can't imagine when you got eight million TV channels,
19:00
Speaker 3: when you got eight thousand streaming services, when you got
19:03
Speaker 3: your phone, your laptop. Who's going to play a board game?
19:06
Speaker 3: But I guess people do. Hey, Sunday, you got two
19:07
Speaker 3: great football games that will help. Let's go to Mario
19:11
Speaker 3: in New Jersey. Mario, how you doing?
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Speaker 9: Oh, good morning, Mark, Thanks for taking my call. Listen,
19:18
Speaker 9: I'm sorry about Uncle Floyd's passing.
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Speaker 6: Boy.
19:21
Speaker 3: This Uncle Floyd turns out to be the biggest story
19:23
Speaker 3: of the day.
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Speaker 9: It is, and I got to my memories of him.
19:27
Speaker 9: Or when I back in the seventies, I was in
19:30
Speaker 9: the army and Fort Dix, and before we went out
19:34
Speaker 9: on maneuvers or whatever, we'd sit in the rec room
19:36
Speaker 9: and everybody, all these soldiers and all their uniforms, we'd
19:40
Speaker 9: all be watching Uncle Floyd.
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Speaker 3: Well, I can't think of anything more inspiring. Are you
19:45
Speaker 3: supposed to be watching like Paton the movie or something?
19:48
Speaker 3: But you're watching Uncle Floyd. That's a boy. But a
19:51
Speaker 3: lot of people remember this guy. Let's go to Bill
19:53
Speaker 3: in Lafayette, New Jersey. Bill, how you doing okay?
19:57
Speaker 8: Mark? I graduated high school with Looney Skip Rowl, who
20:00
Speaker 8: was the sidekick on the Uncle Floyd's show, and he
20:04
Speaker 8: would invite me on the show just to watch once
20:06
Speaker 8: in a while. So I used to ball at Eagle
20:09
Speaker 8: Rock and I walked over to the recording studio and
20:13
Speaker 8: I talked to Skiff and a couple other people, and
20:16
Speaker 8: they had this guest waiting in the hallway. So I
20:20
Speaker 8: walked down and I thought it was Tiny Tim, but
20:23
Speaker 8: I was mistaken. But they introduced him on the show
20:26
Speaker 8: later on and it was Howard Stern. I'm going, oh, yeah,
20:30
Speaker 8: who the hell is this guy?
20:31
Speaker 3: I forgot about that. Howard Stern was on the Uncle
20:33
Speaker 3: Floyd show. Yeah, absolutely, back in the eighties. So Uncle Floyd,
20:38
Speaker 3: it was Looney Skip Rooney, and then who else was
20:41
Speaker 3: on the show. I'm trying to remember.
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Speaker 8: Mister Silly, Yeah, was one of my favorites, the fat
20:49
Speaker 8: guy that always eat ate toast at the diner, and
20:54
Speaker 8: a couple other guys. It's hard to remember, but it
20:57
Speaker 8: was a great show. It was silly, it was goofy,
21:00
Speaker 8: it was funny, it was entertaining, and Looney Skip Rooney
21:03
Speaker 8: was a goof I actually tied with him as the
21:08
Speaker 8: funniest guy in the high school. But he beat me
21:11
Speaker 8: out by a couple of points.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't sound like the bar was too high in this
21:15
Speaker 3: high school for that time. All right, Well, thanks for calling.
21:20
Speaker 3: Great call. Yeah, so now a lot of people remember
21:23
Speaker 3: Uncle Floyd. He passed away at the age of seventy four. Hey,
21:27
Speaker 3: when we come back, Steve Cuzo the great New York
21:30
Speaker 3: post Commas. He covers real estate, restaurants, what's going on
21:33
Speaker 3: in New York, what's the state of the city, tourists,
21:36
Speaker 3: office space, restaurants. We'll get to all of that coming
21:39
Speaker 3: up next on seven to ten WR.
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Speaker 7: Mark Simone on sevent tenor.
21:52
Speaker 3: Well, we're looking for Steve Cuzo. We'll find him. We'll
21:55
Speaker 3: track him down. The snow is coming. It's going to
21:59
Speaker 3: begin after midnight on Saturday, could be as early as
22:03
Speaker 3: one am, more likely around three or four am on
22:05
Speaker 3: Saturday night. So we'll start when you wake up Sunday.
22:08
Speaker 3: It'll be snowing. It'll continue all day long, all day,
22:13
Speaker 3: just won't stop, and it'll go overnight Sunday night into Monday.
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Speaker 3: Might stop Monday morning, but then come back just a
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Speaker 3: little Monday afternoon, and then by the time it's all over.
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Speaker 3: Expect six to eight inches. There's various models. One model
22:30
Speaker 3: shows four inches, one shows twelve, but most of them
22:32
Speaker 3: showing six to eight inches, so it'll be a mess. Hey,
22:35
Speaker 3: Steve Cuzo is the great columnist New York Post. Nobody
22:40
Speaker 3: better on real estate, restaurants and what's going on in
22:42
Speaker 3: New York. Steve Cuzo, how you doing?
22:45
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning.
22:46
Speaker 7: I can't wait for this blizzard because I have a
22:49
Speaker 7: secret source, Mark that tells me it's going to be
22:53
Speaker 7: no inches.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know who that's source is.
22:57
Speaker 6: It's another one of these overhyped phenomenal.
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Speaker 3: You know, I don't know. It looks like from our
23:02
Speaker 3: best weather people, it's locked in at this point.
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Speaker 6: It's not gonna I know, I know, I know. Here
23:07
Speaker 6: we go.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, Yeah, from what I can see from your
23:10
Speaker 3: columns you're reporting and everything else I can see in here,
23:13
Speaker 3: Manhattan real estate is booming. Is that really the.
23:17
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's yeah, it's not. It's the whole city, but
23:20
Speaker 7: especially Manhattan's a phenomenon. You know, last night, I don't
23:25
Speaker 7: know if you were there, Mark, but it was a
23:27
Speaker 7: Real Estate Board of New York's annual gala event biggest
23:32
Speaker 7: party in real estate, and at the it was at
23:34
Speaker 7: the Waldorf Astoria, and which was a great thing because
23:38
Speaker 7: they for one year they didn't do it because of COVID.
23:41
Speaker 7: Then three years was at this event space on the
23:44
Speaker 7: far West Side that nobody wanted to go to. And
23:48
Speaker 7: so now it's back in full force at the Waldorf
23:50
Speaker 7: for the first time. And you know, the Waldorf is
23:53
Speaker 7: the new Waldorf is quite spectacular, and it was a party.
23:57
Speaker 7: It was a celebration of all these real estate both
24:00
Speaker 7: commercial and residential, having a blast, and they were well
24:05
Speaker 7: dressed and it really felt like a celebration that said,
24:08
Speaker 7: you know, when I worried about Trump, when I worried
24:11
Speaker 7: about Mamdanie, when I worried about you know whatever, Greenland.
24:16
Speaker 6: We had a great year and they did.
24:18
Speaker 7: You know, there were a record number of excuse me,
24:22
Speaker 7: commercial market which I cover leasing was over the moon
24:28
Speaker 7: building sales which had really lacked behind the leasing improvement
24:32
Speaker 7: over the since the end of the pandemic, and last
24:36
Speaker 7: year it was like eleven billion dollars of investment sales,
24:40
Speaker 7: which means that's the term for sales of buildings and
24:46
Speaker 7: selling office buildings, first time in five years there was
24:50
Speaker 7: a sale for over a billion dollars five ninety Park
24:54
Speaker 7: Avenue on Madison Avenue.
24:56
Speaker 6: So real estate is doing phenomenally well.
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Speaker 7: Only thing I don't believe this is doing as well
25:01
Speaker 7: as they say is retail. You know, I get tired
25:06
Speaker 7: of reading all these wonderful surveys by all the brokerages,
25:09
Speaker 7: by the Business Improvement districts, by the Real Estate Board
25:12
Speaker 7: of New York itself about how you know, record retail
25:16
Speaker 7: leasing this that, And I walk around and I see
25:19
Speaker 7: gazillions of empty stores. But you know, it's a matter
25:22
Speaker 7: of there's a lot of nuance.
25:25
Speaker 3: But that real estate real estate stuff. That's not a
25:27
Speaker 3: factor of mandani or leadership. That's just retail dying.
25:31
Speaker 6: No, no, no, Also, residential sales.
25:33
Speaker 7: This is not my field of expertise, as you know,
25:36
Speaker 7: but from everything I'm told and everything I read in
25:39
Speaker 7: the Post and elsewhere, a great year for the residential market.
25:44
Speaker 7: Super high sales of luxury condos and co ops. Co
25:48
Speaker 7: Ops mounted a real rally after a couple of years
25:52
Speaker 7: of playing second fiddle to condos. A lot of people
25:55
Speaker 7: don't want co ops anymore, but they bounce back to
25:58
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's a hell of a good sign for
26:01
Speaker 7: the city as a whole, no matter what happens on
26:03
Speaker 7: the social front. You know, all the problems with the schools,
26:07
Speaker 7: which Mondani is.
26:08
Speaker 6: Only likely to make worse. So yeah, it was it
26:12
Speaker 6: was a banner year.
26:14
Speaker 3: One of those jentas is yelling everybody's leaving New York.
26:16
Speaker 3: It's not true. It's not true, of course not.
26:19
Speaker 6: It's never been true. And in the past.
26:22
Speaker 7: I remember when when Trump got elected people everybody was
26:25
Speaker 7: leaving the country, remember that one.
26:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then when he got re elected there was
26:29
Speaker 6: there was nobody left to leap because everybody had already left.
26:33
Speaker 7: So yeah, these things. Look, you know, we've got to
26:37
Speaker 7: sell papers. Broadcast media has to attract the viewers.
26:42
Speaker 6: Uh.
26:42
Speaker 7: Social media just has to make a lot of noise
26:45
Speaker 7: whenever they can. So uh yeah, I don't have any
26:48
Speaker 7: good feelings whatsoever about Montani. And yet I think that
26:53
Speaker 7: commercial real estate especially.
26:55
Speaker 6: Is oblivious to this.
26:56
Speaker 7: The only thing that could be harmful is if thevenor
27:00
Speaker 7: you know, caves in and gives in too. Mumdanni's pipe
27:06
Speaker 7: dream of raising taxes on corporations and everything. She wouldn't
27:10
Speaker 7: do that this year because she's up for reelection. But
27:14
Speaker 7: next year, the following year could be a problem. But
27:16
Speaker 7: commercial real estate is so strong. It's the driver of
27:20
Speaker 7: the New York economy, not just the city but the state,
27:23
Speaker 7: and it's a power behind the entire national economy. Real
27:29
Speaker 7: Estate taxes from real estate contribute more to the city
27:34
Speaker 7: treasury than any other than anything else, more than Wall Street,
27:38
Speaker 7: for example.
27:39
Speaker 6: Most people don't know that, but it's a fact.
27:42
Speaker 3: So when you see stores closed, wait where you read
27:45
Speaker 3: about the Sacks going bankrupt? This the only reason for
27:48
Speaker 3: that is online shopping has nothing to do with New
27:51
Speaker 3: York right.
27:52
Speaker 6: Well, it has. It's online shopping is a factor.
27:55
Speaker 7: But you notice that Bloomingdale's is doing fine, Macy's is
27:58
Speaker 7: doing fine, Artstream is having no problem. In the case
28:01
Speaker 7: of Sacks Global, the parent company which includes Sacks and
28:06
Speaker 7: Nieman Marcus, which they stupidly bought about a year and
28:10
Speaker 7: a half ago, and Burgdorf Goodman, the only Burgdorf Goodman
28:14
Speaker 7: in the world is right here in New York on
28:16
Speaker 7: Fifth Avenue, that was a lot of mismanagement and a
28:21
Speaker 7: lot of needless over expansion. And you know, retail is
28:24
Speaker 7: not my forte. But I do know I'm very skeptical
28:29
Speaker 7: of all large sized mergers and acquisitions, because inevitably any
28:36
Speaker 7: merger or acquisition UH saddles the company with enormous debt,
28:41
Speaker 7: and they basically served to. I mean, they can have
28:44
Speaker 7: their you know, good consequences as well. But I believe
28:47
Speaker 7: that I remember aol Time Warner once upon a time.
28:51
Speaker 7: All they do is saddle the company with debt and
28:54
Speaker 7: they and they enrich all the excuse me, all the
28:58
Speaker 7: inside players, corporate ex executives, investment bankers, lawyers, accountants, consultants
29:05
Speaker 7: at the expense of everybody else.
29:07
Speaker 6: Anyway, in the case of Sacks, the stores aren't going
29:11
Speaker 6: to close.
29:11
Speaker 7: I mean they're going to close a few stores outside
29:13
Speaker 7: of New York, yes, but it looks like they're on
29:17
Speaker 7: their way to restructuring. They're getting a cash or liquidity infusion,
29:23
Speaker 7: and presumably life and business will go on here as
29:29
Speaker 7: it did in the past, at least from the consumer's
29:31
Speaker 7: point of view. If you go to Sacks right now,
29:33
Speaker 7: they're stretching the merchandise. You can see it on the shelves,
29:36
Speaker 7: but because they weren't paying their vendors.
29:39
Speaker 6: But I think that's going to change.
29:41
Speaker 3: Hey, Steve Kisser, there's a lot of skyscrapers going up.
29:44
Speaker 3: I mean one hundred stories, seventy story, sixty stories, They're
29:46
Speaker 3: going up all over the place, fifty seventh Street, Park Avenue, Madison.
29:50
Speaker 3: So can we handle all that extra traffic here?
29:54
Speaker 6: You mean do you mean crowding? Mark? What do ye?
29:58
Speaker 3: People? Cars?
30:00
Speaker 7: New York has always been overcrowded. I say, the more overcrowding,
30:04
Speaker 7: the better. It's it means life, it means people spending money. Uh,
30:09
Speaker 7: it's what makes the city exciting, why people want to
30:12
Speaker 7: come here, where they want to be here. So over
30:14
Speaker 7: the Christmas holidays, you know, my office is two blocks
30:18
Speaker 7: away from the Rockefeller Center tree, and I hated every
30:22
Speaker 7: minute of it, of the six weeks between roughly Thanksgiving
30:25
Speaker 7: and you know, right after New Year's and.
30:28
Speaker 6: Because you couldn't move on the streets.
30:30
Speaker 7: I couldn't literally couldn't get into the subway right next
30:33
Speaker 7: door to my building because I had to fight my
30:35
Speaker 7: way through crowds.
30:36
Speaker 6: And yet that's a selfish concern.
30:39
Speaker 7: The bigger picture is that it's it's life, it's energy,
30:43
Speaker 7: and it's commitment, and it's well for New York City.
30:47
Speaker 6: So I'm I'm all for that.
30:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got a lot of hot new restaurants that
30:51
Speaker 3: are Have we ever had this many jam peck restaurants
30:54
Speaker 3: in New York?
30:56
Speaker 6: I don't know.
30:56
Speaker 7: It depends the good restaurants, the import restaurants, the ones
31:01
Speaker 7: that are backed by big money.
31:02
Speaker 6: I think had never done better. There's a squeeze in
31:05
Speaker 6: the middle, and at the lower end.
31:08
Speaker 7: You know, everybody's oh, the rent is too high. All
31:11
Speaker 7: that rent has always been too high. But every basically
31:16
Speaker 7: what it comes down to is every place that I go,
31:19
Speaker 7: which is by no.
31:20
Speaker 6: Means you know, the the the only the elite restaurants,
31:24
Speaker 6: as you might think, I go to all kinds of restaurants.
31:29
Speaker 6: It's hard to get the table anywhere. And this is January.
31:33
Speaker 6: January is traditionally the worst month for restaurants in New York.
31:36
Speaker 7: I mean, in the past, you could have gotten seats
31:39
Speaker 7: at when Noble is in its original location, in the
31:42
Speaker 7: hottest restaurant in like the country. You could easily get
31:46
Speaker 7: tables at Noble the week of from the month of January.
31:49
Speaker 6: That's not true anymore.
31:52
Speaker 7: And I've been to excuse me, niuid restaurants like Lusardies
31:58
Speaker 7: on First Second Avenue the other night, and they're all packed.
32:04
Speaker 6: And this is it was about twelve degrees out. Yeah,
32:06
Speaker 6: so what does that say.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's good. New York is booming. That's good to hear.
32:10
Speaker 3: You should read Steve Cuzo's columns. All his columns are
32:14
Speaker 3: up on the New York Post website. You can read
32:15
Speaker 3: them all there, and he writes great stuff. Steve Cuso,
32:19
Speaker 3: New York Post. Steve, thanks for being with us.
32:23
Speaker 2: Thanks Mark, always a great time. Yeah, take care. So
32:26
Speaker 2: that's all good news. New York booming. Don't listen to
32:29
Speaker 2: these people about everybody leaving. It's busier than ever in
32:33
Speaker 2: New York. Hey, don't forget. If you're a podcast listener,
32:39
Speaker 2: you know, if you want to hear this show, you
32:40
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32:43
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32:45
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32:47
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32:50
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32:54
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33:07
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33:09
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33:13
Speaker 8: New York marks them all seven w alarm.
33:18
Speaker 3: Well, hey, we're out of time now. Tomorrow it's going
33:21
Speaker 3: to be bitterly cold, so cold you're not gonna want
33:24
Speaker 3: to go out Tomorrow. Sunday it'll be snowing all day Monday.
33:28
Speaker 3: You'll probably be a mess outside. So uh well you can.
33:33
Speaker 3: You'll be stuck at home for a couple of days.
33:35
Speaker 3: You got football on Sunday. That's good, you got You
33:38
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33:41
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33:43
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33:48
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