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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: This is just starting to come out. You remember the
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  Speaker 1: law there against President Trump while he was out of office,
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  Speaker 1: done by that dirty, dirty probably the dirtiest Attorney general
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  Speaker 1: we ever had, Merrick Garland. Now, it was basically it
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  Speaker 1: started with three cases. It was the Alvin Bragg case
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  Speaker 1: in New York, which was the most sleazy, oddball case
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  Speaker 1: ever brought by anybody anyway, They were just trying to
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  Speaker 1: get Trump. Even Alan Dershwitz, the great legal scholar, said
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  Speaker 1: he's read the case one hundred times, still can't figure
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  Speaker 1: out what the charge is. Then there was the Letitia
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  Speaker 1: James case where she went after him for he got
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  Speaker 1: a loan from Bank of America and she claimed he
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  Speaker 1: defrauded them. And it's a crime that actually would be
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  Speaker 1: impossible to commit because when you borrow eight hundred million
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  Speaker 1: from a major bank, even when you borrow eight thousand,
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  Speaker 1: but when you borrow eight hundred million, they don't look
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  Speaker 1: at your numbers. You could tell them this is my
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  Speaker 1: value of my properties. They don't even look at it.
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  Speaker 1: They send their own appraisers. They never even look at
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  Speaker 1: your numbers. It says right in the thing, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to look at your numbers. And President Trump in
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  Speaker 1: his numbers said don't go by these numbers. Do your
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  Speaker 1: own evaluation. You couldn't even commit the crime if you tried.
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  Speaker 1: That was the Letitia James case. And then back on
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  Speaker 1: and then you had Georgia. Remember that Fanny Willis, Fannie Willis,
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  Speaker 1: whatever her name was. And it turns out that in
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  Speaker 1: all of these cases, in the case of the Georgia
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  Speaker 1: prosecutor and Fannie Willis that case and the guy she
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  Speaker 1: had with her, they were meeting with the White House.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a local prosecutor, a local case
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  Speaker 1: in Georgia, but they're flying to the White House. Then
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  Speaker 1: the guy recorded that they had eight hour meetings, two
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  Speaker 1: of them eight hour meetings in the White House. Well,
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  Speaker 1: obviously they're coordinating the cases with the White House. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: if you have an eight hour meeting in the White House,
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  Speaker 1: you weren't there to say hello and meet and greet
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  Speaker 1: and take a picture. Eight hour meetings. They were working
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  Speaker 1: on the case, and Letsia James was talking with the
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  Speaker 1: White House. Now, in the case of Alvin Bragg, Merrick
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  Speaker 1: Garland's top guy, his number two guy, left the Justice
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  Speaker 1: Department and came to work in Alvin Bragg's office to
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  Speaker 1: run the case. Now that's awfully suspicious. She got the
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  Speaker 1: biggest job under the Attorney general in the Department of
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  Speaker 1: Justice in Washington. You leave that to go work in
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  Speaker 1: a local prosecutor's office somewhere. It doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't pass the smell test or the laugh test.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy was Michael Colangelo, and he left. He
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  Speaker 1: was number two guy to Merrick Garland, the very dirty
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General. Colangelo left and joined Manhattan Tosh attorney Alvin
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  Speaker 1: Bragg's office, which nobody in the right mind would do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even if you thought highly of the Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: DA's office, it's brand new Alvin Bragg, who nobody took
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  Speaker 1: seriously and nobody would want to work for. So he
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  Speaker 1: came there to the office to run this case. And
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  Speaker 1: we know that Colangelo he was even in court standing
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  Speaker 1: up arguing the case. So he came from Washington came
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  Speaker 1: to the Manhattan DA's office to personally prosecute Donald Trump. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now stuff is coming out about him. We're finding out
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  Speaker 1: he was involved in all kinds of other federal cases
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  Speaker 1: against President Trump. So this was basically he was like
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  Speaker 1: a jack smith where he'd spent his career as a hitman,
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  Speaker 1: going after political enemies, people he hated, so he was
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  Speaker 1: after Trump all along. Stuff is starting to come out.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully the Justice Department, the real one now, not the
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  Speaker 1: dirty Merrick Garland Justice Department. Hopefully the real Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: starts investigating Michael Colangelo, take a good hard look at
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  Speaker 1: him and lay out everything that he did, because it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad. Hey, the World Trade Center, it's twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years later, it's twenty fifth anniversary coming up of nine
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  Speaker 1: to eleven, and twenty five years later. The final piece
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  Speaker 1: of the puzzle is coming back building to World Trade Center.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one that's still missing. Coming back building too.
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  Speaker 1: At the World Trade Center broke ground yesterday. This is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a new twelve hundred foot tower that's
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  Speaker 1: a real, real, serious skyscraper, and it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: American Express. American in fact that they're going to own
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  Speaker 1: the whole building. It'll be. It's not gonna it's going
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  Speaker 1: to take a while to twenty thirty one, that's five
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  Speaker 1: years to build it, but it will be the American
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  Speaker 1: Express building. They'll own it, they'll be the main tenant. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the good news is it shows you a major company
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  Speaker 1: like a American Express, has faith in New York and
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  Speaker 1: wants to put a massive skyscraper here, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to have a huge, huge, huge headquarters right here. You remember,
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  Speaker 1: right after nine to eleven, in the year that followed,
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  Speaker 1: everybody said two things. They said, nobody will ever live
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  Speaker 1: downtown there ever again, and nobody will ever be up
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  Speaker 1: at the top of a skyglass skyscraper. Well, obviously none
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  Speaker 1: of that was true. Go down there. It's as crowded
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  Speaker 1: as ever. And this building going up is the final
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  Speaker 1: piece of the World Trade Center puzzle coming back. Mayor
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie was down there for the groundbreaking.
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  Speaker 2: For many months, rubble filled a site that had long
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  Speaker 2: been defined by greatness. But over the months and years
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  Speaker 2: that followed, greatness returned. It returned in the first responders
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  Speaker 2: who sacrificed so much on behalf of their fellow New Yorkers.
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  Speaker 2: It returned, and those who cleared the pile and the
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  Speaker 2: new foundations. It returned in the first office workers who
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  Speaker 2: came back to work. Returns today as we break ground
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  Speaker 2: on a new building that will rise one thousand, two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty six feet into the sky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not one thing he does well these
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  Speaker 1: little speeches. However, if you let's say you were around
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and one and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: you came back in a time machine, you came here,
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  Speaker 1: saw this guy speaking, you would say, who's this guy?
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  Speaker 1: You would never think this kid is the mayor. I
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  Speaker 1: mean no, in normal circumstances, he would be like on
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  Speaker 1: the staff of the mayor. He'd be like a staff guy.
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  Speaker 1: He'd be the advanced guy for the mayor, but currently
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  Speaker 1: the mayor. But it's the one thing he does. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he'd make those little speeches. So that's good news. Graham
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  Speaker 1: Platner is still he's gone. He suspended his campaign. That
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  Speaker 1: means you're out. You got to officially tell the party
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  Speaker 1: take my name off everything. You'll leave him. These democrats,
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  Speaker 1: they still can't explain themselves to people. It's so embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: How the hell did you back a Nazi rapist with
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  Speaker 1: a big Nazi SS death camp tattoo right on his chest?
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  Speaker 1: You're back the Nazi rapist? I mean, just look at
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  Speaker 1: the guy. He looks like the killer in Cape Fear.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like a total nut job. How did you
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  Speaker 1: back that guy? They keep asking these people.
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  Speaker 3: Graham told me point blank that there was nothing in
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  Speaker 3: his past that I had to worry about. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: he lied to me, and he lied to a lot
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  Speaker 3: of us.
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  Speaker 1: He looks like a deranged lunatic. That wasn't enough for you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh And then I mean listen, he said, they can't
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  Speaker 1: explain themselves.
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  Speaker 4: So why did you stay with him for so long?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the the Nazi tattoo and the Reddit posts, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean I haven't never been on Reddit, but you
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  Speaker 3: know when people talked about those things. And then he
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  Speaker 3: turned around and said, you know that these were times
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  Speaker 3: whenever they were dark for him, and you know he'd
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  Speaker 3: grown and all this stuff. I mean, they were, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a different time period for him. And I understood. You
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  Speaker 3: know that people can change.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're kind of a long haired hippie
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  Speaker 1: and then they cut their hair, put on a suit,
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  Speaker 1: and you can change like that. But massive Nazi tattoo
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of your chest. You go to any
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  Speaker 1: job interview with a massive Nazi tattoo right in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of your chest, I don't think you're getting a job,
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  Speaker 1: except if it's Democrats. If it's Democrats, they'll take you, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this Legionnaire's disease. I talked to a couple of people. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I was afraid to come in to New York. They're
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  Speaker 1: in the suburbs. Well, what what do you whoa that
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  Speaker 1: Legionaire's disease. Well, first of all, it's only a couple
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  Speaker 1: of neighborhoods on the Upper east Side. It's not Midtown Manhattan,
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  Speaker 1: it's not downtown. It's just in a couple of neighborhoods
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  Speaker 1: in Manhattan Upper east Side. It's in the water tanks
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  Speaker 1: above the building. You know, they when they think that
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  Speaker 1: it's in one of these water tanks, then they clean it.
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  Speaker 1: And the City council speaker Julie Menin now yelling and screaming,
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  Speaker 1: you got to do it to every building on the
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  Speaker 1: Upper east Side's got to do their water tank. It
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  Speaker 1: affects the elderly. This is the City council speaker Julie.
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  Speaker 4: Menin very elderly population on the East Side, many seniors
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  Speaker 4: who will be more susceptible and vulnerable to legionaires. Legionnaires
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  Speaker 4: is potentially fatal in ten percent of all cases. So
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  Speaker 4: every day that goes by that the Health Department is
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  Speaker 4: not ordering the disinfecting of these buildings is another day
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  Speaker 4: where more and more residents of the East Side can
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  Speaker 4: become sick and potentially die.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's pretty good. She's saying all the buildings on
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  Speaker 1: every side. Health Department has to order every building clean
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  Speaker 1: out its water tank and they should do that right away.
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  Speaker 4: Every single day that they wait to mandate that these
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  Speaker 4: towers be disinfected is another day that more and more
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  Speaker 4: people are contracting this.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you get rid of Mom Donnie next time around,
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  Speaker 1: who would be the mayor? I know Curtis wants to run.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who else would be running on the
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  Speaker 1: Republican side, certainly not Cuomo, who has proven beyond any
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  Speaker 1: shadow of a doubt he is absolutely unelectable. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get stuck with a Democrat and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people like this, Julie Mennon kind of a
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  Speaker 1: common sense city council speaker. The city controller is a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Mark Levine. He's the Controller of New York City.
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  Speaker 1: We had a luncheon yesterday where he was the speaker.
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  Speaker 1: He was quite impressive, I mean dazzling. Not only a
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  Speaker 1: great speech, but nobody knows the city better than this guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's been a lot of things. Started as a math
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  Speaker 1: teacher in the Bronx, but he's been on the city
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  Speaker 1: council for years. He was Manhattan Borough President. It's done
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  Speaker 1: a lot of government work. But he really impressed the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Democrat, but common sense, reasonable democrat. So keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on him, Mark Levine. He would be a
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  Speaker 1: good mayoral candidate for the Democrats. Mark Levine, great talker, smart, charming,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. I don't know how you do this,
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  Speaker 1: but when mom Donnie's term is up, you want to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of them. But it's tough for the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: to get him off the ballot. You know, he's the
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  Speaker 1: automatic front runner to run again. But keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on that, Mark Levine or Julie Mennon. Now, in instagram world,
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing if you're a restaurant, if you're
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  Speaker 1: a bakery, if you're something like that, is to go viral.
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  Speaker 1: The latest viral thing for the last month or two
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  Speaker 1: was dot cake. It's just basically cake and a cup
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  Speaker 1: with the sprinkles all over it dots, but it became
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  Speaker 1: the hottest thing in the world on Instagram. The only
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  Speaker 1: place you could get it in Manhattan was the Butterfields market,
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  Speaker 1: very very good market Butterfields, and people would wait in
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  Speaker 1: line four hours. They only had it Sunday and Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: so for four hours you wait in line for this
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  Speaker 1: dot cake. It was an incredible phenomenon. I hate to
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  Speaker 1: break it. Da if you go to stut Leonards, this
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  Speaker 1: one in Norwalk, any stu Leonards, they got four thousand
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  Speaker 1: dot cakes. You can just walk in and take a
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  Speaker 1: handful of. It's not that good anyway. So everybody's trying
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  Speaker 1: to go viral. Now here's somebody doing it. I forget
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  Speaker 1: where this is. It's out in Long Island. Is it
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  Speaker 1: the Hampton's or Queen's. I think it's Queen's. I think so.
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  Speaker 1: They have the lobster bloody Mary. It's a bloody Mary.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's got all kinds of stuff in it.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a big lobster sticking out of it. It's
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty bucks or something. But it's gone viral.
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  Speaker 1: People are lining up. They can only make a certain
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  Speaker 1: amount of this's the owner of the place.
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  Speaker 5: It took off like crazy. We sell anywhere from twenty
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  Speaker 5: to twenty five a week. It's one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 5: five dollars. It serves four to six.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now you say, well, that's not such a great
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  Speaker 1: business selling twenty a week, but it gets everybody in there.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with the Butterfields, with the dot cake, which Butterfields,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, it's got a great bakery. If you
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  Speaker 1: go in there, they sell five thousand things that are
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  Speaker 1: better than the dot cake. So same thing with this place.
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  Speaker 1: It'll get people in there.
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  Speaker 5: First we start with the last we're going to open
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  Speaker 5: it up and you have to kind of support it.
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  Speaker 5: Usually it sits perfectly right there. Then we're going to
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  Speaker 5: take the salary two want eat side. There are a
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  Speaker 5: total of six shrimp, three on each side. Now we
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  Speaker 5: go with the bacon. Then we have the jalapeno, who
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  Speaker 5: goes right by his mouth. Then we do the olive.
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  Speaker 5: You get eight olives total. He gets to hold his
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  Speaker 5: own lemons.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's be honest. It sounds disgusting. I mean if
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  Speaker 1: I was eating dinner, if I had a lobster and
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  Speaker 1: shrimp on my plate, and you were having a bloody Mary,
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  Speaker 1: and I picked up my lobster and threw it in
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  Speaker 1: your drink, in your bloody Mary, and drop my shrimp
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  Speaker 1: dunked them in your drink. You'd say, what the hell
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? But now it's viral and you'll pay
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  Speaker 1: one hundred twenty dollars to have this, So it is
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  Speaker 1: pretty stupid. Now you got every bakery, every restaurant, every
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  Speaker 1: cafe running around trying to figure out how to go
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  Speaker 1: viral with something. Now in the Hamptons they opened a
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  Speaker 1: little diner. It's tiny, like an old fashioned railroad car,
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  Speaker 1: a little time diner. I think it's Southampton. It's called Babes.
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  Speaker 1: It only has eight stools. That's it. It went viral.
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  Speaker 1: Now you gotta wait in line seven hours to go
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  Speaker 1: to Babes. What do they have? That's just regularly. You
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  Speaker 1: can get the same thing in any diner. They got pancakes,
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  Speaker 1: they got eggs, but it's viral.
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  Speaker 5: See.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the secret of viral is you gotta wait.
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  Speaker 1: The line is the key. There's a line to get
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  Speaker 1: those dot cakes. You gotta wait four hours in line.
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  Speaker 1: And normally if there was a line, normally you went
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  Speaker 1: anywhere and you saw a line two blocks long, you'd say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: let's go somewhere else. This is a whole new phenomenon
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  Speaker 1: with this gen z when they see a line, they
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  Speaker 1: rush to it to get in it. It's not even
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  Speaker 1: the food, it's the line, it's the experience. They just
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  Speaker 1: love being in a line. They'd love to say they
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  Speaker 1: waited four hours. And the other idea is when you
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  Speaker 1: finally get the thing, even this lobster or martini or bloody,
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  Speaker 1: and you'd taste the good love, it doesn't matter. You
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  Speaker 1: got something nobody else can have. Even though you went
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  Speaker 1: to Babes and it tastes like every other diner, you
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  Speaker 1: can put it on your Instagram. You've got something nobody
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  Speaker 1: else can get. So this is I don't know when
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  Speaker 1: this phenomenon will end, but it's going to continue for
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  Speaker 1: a while. We'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three
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  Speaker 1: two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: three two one zero seven ten