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Mark interviews New York Post journalist Miranda Devine. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Now back to the Mark Simo Show on wo R. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Miranda Divine, the biggest and best columnist around. You can
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  Speaker 1: read a column in The New York Post. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: you listen to her excellent podcast. It's called pod Force one,
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  Speaker 1: great guests every week. Podforce one is available wherever you
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  Speaker 1: get podcasts, and get her latest book, The Big Guys.
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  Speaker 1: Whether she's written some great bestsellers. Miranda Divine, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hey? Thanks so much, Mike, I'm great.
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  Speaker 1: Hey. I love this column about Michelle Obama. What is
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  Speaker 1: she doing? She's been on this whining tour complaining about
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  Speaker 1: how bad America was to her.
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  Speaker 2: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: What got into her?
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  Speaker 2: Well, my personal theory is that her complaints are just
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  Speaker 2: so absurd. You know, she says it was such a
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  Speaker 2: burden to have hair and makeup and fashion stylists when
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  Speaker 2: she was at the White House, and you know how
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  Speaker 2: tough life was. I just think that she's trying to
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  Speaker 2: portray herself as a victim because now that the Commings
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  Speaker 2: are in charge of her husband's party, she has to
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  Speaker 2: kind of stop them asking why she has so many
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  Speaker 2: mansions and try and make them feel sorry for her.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, that's a good point. But her complaining with somebody
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  Speaker 1: who has a multiple twenty five million dollar mansions and
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  Speaker 1: flying around in private jets all over the place. But
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  Speaker 1: it's tough for people like her and Bill Clinton and
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  Speaker 1: to go back to obscurity, isn't it. They just can't
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  Speaker 1: get off the stage.
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  Speaker 2: So hard for them, you know, my heart leads. We've
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  Speaker 2: got Nancy Pelosi's the other one. She's decided, at the
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  Speaker 2: grand old age of eighty five that she might decide
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  Speaker 2: to retire in a couple of years. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that she's doing it just in the nick of time
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  Speaker 2: before Zoram, you know, the rich Mamdani and his crew
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  Speaker 2: take over the party and start asking questions about her
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  Speaker 2: little one hundred and forty million dollar hall that she's
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  Speaker 2: dragging away from her stock tips, very very prescient, her
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  Speaker 2: little little, you know, stock market portfolio.
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  Speaker 1: That's a very interesting theory that all of these dirty
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  Speaker 1: politicians are going into hiding before the Communists take over.
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  Speaker 1: But Mam Dannie, so far, the people he's chosen, Transition
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  Speaker 1: team others, they're all extra Blasio people. So we got
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  Speaker 1: through Deblasio for eight years, We'll get through this, won't we.
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  Speaker 2: Look, the problem is I think Deblasio was always high
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  Speaker 2: and late to work and diving off going to his
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  Speaker 2: gym in Brooklyn, and you know, he just didn't do
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  Speaker 2: a lot, and so he still created mayhem and the
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  Speaker 2: city just went downhill, so palpably on his watch. But
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani is more of an ideologue. You know, he's more determined,
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  Speaker 2: he has more energy. He really wants to shake up
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  Speaker 2: the place. And that's what I worry about. And the
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  Speaker 2: other thing is that with Deblasio, we're coming off a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good level. You know, it was a Rudy Giuliani
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  Speaker 2: Bloomberg city, and so there was a long way to fall.
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  Speaker 2: But we don't have a long way to fall anymore
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  Speaker 2: before we're just off the planet. The city is already
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  Speaker 2: difficult to live in. Eric Adams has sort of arrested
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  Speaker 2: the decline a little bit, but once he's gone, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have violence interrupters, social workers in law
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  Speaker 2: of police and already we have governors from red states
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  Speaker 2: like Ronda Santis in Florida putting out feelers for our
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  Speaker 2: NYPD officers. They're going to give them bonuses if they move,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's very difficult for them not to
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  Speaker 2: sort of accept the good ones anyway, not to accept
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  Speaker 2: those bribes to leave New York.
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  Speaker 1: Hey. Miranda Devine does an excellent podcast, one of the
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  Speaker 1: best podcasts out there. It's called Podforce one. The latest
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  Speaker 1: one is Eric Trump Boy. That was interesting. Tell us
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  Speaker 1: about your impressions of Eric Trump.
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  Speaker 2: He is just a really delightful person. And I guess
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  Speaker 2: the big takeout I get from all of the Trump
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  Speaker 2: five children is just how well adjusted and kind of
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  Speaker 2: decent they are. Eric Trump is really, as his father
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  Speaker 2: calls him, a good boy, and he described his childhood.
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  Speaker 2: His mother, Ivana Trump, was really tough. She was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: check from from basically behind the iron curtain. She was
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  Speaker 2: a champion skier, and so she really ruled their family
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  Speaker 2: with iron discipline. And what Eric said was if it
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  Speaker 2: got past my mum to my father, you knew were
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  Speaker 2: really in trouble, But it really didn't because she just
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  Speaker 2: made sure that all those energetic kids with type A
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  Speaker 2: personalities that Eric describes them were held in line. And
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  Speaker 2: their father also during the holidays, got them to go
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  Speaker 2: and work on his various construction sites for minimum wage.
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  Speaker 2: And Eric saidy absolutely loved it, like he loved working
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  Speaker 2: with his hands. They were absolutely exhausted by the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day. And his father also said no drinking,
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  Speaker 2: no smoking, no drugs, and that was the one ironclad
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  Speaker 2: rule for the family. And Eric said, look, by the
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  Speaker 2: end of the workday, we were so exhausted, and we
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  Speaker 2: also knew how hard it had been to earn that
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  Speaker 2: twenty bucks that we you know, his I just didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to spend it on a slab of beer. And
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  Speaker 2: he also said that, you know, he went to all
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  Speaker 2: the best schools, colleges, et cetera. And he said most
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  Speaker 2: of his peers ended up in rehab or some sort
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  Speaker 2: of problem because they had too much time and too
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  Speaker 2: much money.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a fascinating podcast, go listen to it. Its
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  Speaker 1: pod Force one, Miranda Divine's podcast. Latest episode is Eric Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So you wrote the definitive book on Hunter Biden. So
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  Speaker 1: are you saying Eric Trump was a little better raised
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  Speaker 1: than Hunter was?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, far better. And look, I don't blame Hunter honestly,
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  Speaker 2: his father is just the most treacherous and dishonest politician
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  Speaker 2: I think I have ever counted, and deeply selfish. And
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  Speaker 2: so when you know that great tragedy happened in Hunter's
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  Speaker 2: life where his mother who was killed in a car crash,
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  Speaker 2: and his little sister died as well, and he and
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  Speaker 2: his brother were in the back seat quite badly injured.
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  Speaker 2: His father had just been elected to the Senate in
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  Speaker 2: a fluke, and he could have forgone that great opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to stay at home and look after his kids, but
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  Speaker 2: he didn't. And I think all of Hunter's problems stem
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  Speaker 2: from that. He was brought up. You know, his aunt
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  Speaker 2: was very decent, his uncle, extended family brought him up,
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  Speaker 2: and Joe would come home, he claimed every night on
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  Speaker 2: the Amtrak of I hear other stories that when he
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  Speaker 2: did come home, it was too late to do anything
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  Speaker 2: other than, you know, looking on them when they slept.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, I just don't think he was a very
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  Speaker 2: good father. And and you know, poor poor Hunter, this
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  Speaker 2: motherless kid. And then his stepmother, Jill Biden, when she
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  Speaker 2: came on the scene a few years later, when she
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  Speaker 2: was already on the scene, but when she married Joe
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  Speaker 2: moved in, Hunter just felt she didn't like him, and
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  Speaker 2: so that was another burden to put up with. So
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  Speaker 2: and then his father, you know, instead of letting him
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  Speaker 2: be an author or an artist, which is what he
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  Speaker 2: wanted his father met him be the bag man for
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  Speaker 2: the family and go into business, and he didn't really
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  Speaker 2: want to do that, so you can hardly you can
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  Speaker 2: sort of understand why he fell into drugs.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's pretty interesting, and you have a good heart
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  Speaker 1: and a good amount of sympathy for him. You should
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  Speaker 1: get her book, Laptop from Hell and The Big Guy,
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  Speaker 1: the two best books on the on the Biden family.
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  Speaker 1: We only got a minute left. Tell me you brought
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  Speaker 1: this up last time. This was so fascinating, had so
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  Speaker 1: much reaction to this. The reason for the Trump arrangement syndrome,
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  Speaker 1: the reason they hate him so much? It's what was it?
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  Speaker 1: You said? It was the masculinity. He's like a daddy.
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  Speaker 1: Why do they hate him so much?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it really is deranged. It really seems
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  Speaker 2: to be a psychological problem, and women are particularly afflicted,
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  Speaker 2: and it just seems like they have daddy problems. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he is unabashedly a throwback masculine, you know, something that
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  Speaker 2: the Left has been trying to stab out for the
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  Speaker 2: last twenty years, calling it toxic masculinity, making little boys
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  Speaker 2: be ashamed of their intrinsic natures, which you know, those
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  Speaker 2: intrinsic natures are what have allowed civilization to survive, human flourishing.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, you stamp out strong men, what do
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  Speaker 2: you get? You get a lot of toxic And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's what Trump de arrangements and drummy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I write about Jennifer Welsh, who's this atheist podcaster I
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  Speaker 2: had never heard of until just recently. She's been elevated
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  Speaker 2: as the kind of Democrats answer to Joe Rogan. And
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  Speaker 2: she is the most toxic person I have ever seen
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  Speaker 2: in my life. Really, just so such a self hating
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  Speaker 2: white woman. She was there at Mamdani's victory party and
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  Speaker 2: she's just going on about She's talking to two non
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  Speaker 2: white people who lefties, and she's just talking about how, oh,
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  Speaker 2: if there were white people here at this party, the
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  Speaker 2: music would be terrible, and Americans have no culture and
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  Speaker 2: we need to teach the crusty old white people about culture.
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  Speaker 2: We have to teach them. She's just scary, scary woman.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Well, Miranda Devine brilliant as always. Get her a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: You got to listen to this guest every week. It's
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  Speaker 1: pod Force one wherever you get your podcast reader columns,
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  Speaker 1: The New York Post. Make sure you get our latest book,
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  Speaker 1: The Big Guy, fascinating stuff about the Bidens. Miranda Devine. Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk again soon.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Mack, You're very kind.
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