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Hour 2: Mamdani's thoughts on Billionaires. · The Mark Simone Show

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Speaker 1: Mister New York Marximo on the Voice of New York
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Speaker 1: seven to ten.
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Speaker 2: Woong. Hey, all right, we'll get to all the fun stuff. Now.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be like in the fifties today it's cooled off. Yeah, Hey,
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Speaker 2: you know what, I'll take this over the ninety degree
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Speaker 2: days I wasn't used to. That's gonna be fifties and sixties.
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Speaker 2: It'll get to seventy like on Thursday. So, uh, we're
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Speaker 2: talking about taxes, you know, and Mam Donnie goes after
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Speaker 2: these billionaires and they pay their fair share, they pay
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Speaker 2: their fair ship, you know. Nope, you see what these
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Speaker 2: billionaires pay. They actually don't pay their fair share. They
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Speaker 2: pay like five times their fair share. They pay more
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Speaker 2: than they should be paying. Even if you're a billionaire
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Speaker 2: in New York, you're paying like fifty six percent of
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Speaker 2: your money in taxes. There's something unethical, immoral. But it's
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Speaker 2: totally immoral. How could you take there should be a
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Speaker 2: national law. How can you take fifty six percent of
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Speaker 2: somebody's income and call it taxes. It's ridiculous. There should
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Speaker 2: be some sort of law, an actual national law passed
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Speaker 2: that nobody could pay more than I don't know, twenty
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Speaker 2: five percent, maybe thirty percent of their money in taxes.
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Speaker 2: How did you pay fifty six percent of your money
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Speaker 2: in taxes? So you know, they go after Bezos all
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Speaker 2: the time or Elon Musk. Do you know what Jeff
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Speaker 2: Bezos paid in tax last year? In income tax? Jeff
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Speaker 2: Bezos last year paid something like ten billion in taxes.
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Speaker 2: Elon Musk paid fourteen billion in taxes. How much tax
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Speaker 2: are you supposed to pay? Remember that it was two
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Speaker 2: years ago, was Elizabeth Warren and that whole bunch in
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Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders. They kept going after Musk saying he was
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Speaker 2: not paying his fair share, not paying his fair share. Well,
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Speaker 2: then he released the numbers. It turned out that he
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Speaker 2: paid more tax that year than anybody in the history
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Speaker 2: of the world. He was the single biggest tax bear
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Speaker 2: on earth and set the all time record. He paid
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Speaker 2: like fourteen billion that year in taxes. And for all
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Speaker 2: they're huffing and puffing these socialists. You know, the Bernie
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Speaker 2: Sanders is a great example. The guy's got three homes,
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Speaker 2: three serious houses. He's a multi multi millionaire. Now you're saying, well,
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Speaker 2: how could a guy on a government salary become a
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Speaker 2: multi millionaire? Well, a little scheming, a little financial shenanigans.
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Speaker 2: You know when you run for office. When you run
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Speaker 2: for president, the big money, you know, all the campaign
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Speaker 2: consultants and all the people that you know run your campaign,
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Speaker 2: they get paid. The big money is in the media buys.
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Speaker 2: You know, when you raise hundreds of millions and you
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Speaker 2: spend it on television commercials, radio commercials, and you got
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Speaker 2: to go out and buy one hundred and fifty million
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Speaker 2: in commercials. Well, the buyer, the media buyer, gets a
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Speaker 2: ten percent fee on those buys because the media buyer
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Speaker 2: figures out exactly where to place them. It's very tricky,
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Speaker 2: very tricky. You know who you want to reach. Like,
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Speaker 2: let's say you came up here to the sixth floor
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Speaker 2: here at iHeart. We got a lot of radio stations
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Speaker 2: up here, and on this floor we reach about twenty
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Speaker 2: three million people every day. Got all the biggest stations
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Speaker 2: on earth. There's a Z one hundred and Q one
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Speaker 2: oh four light FM, Power one oh five light FM.
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Speaker 2: I think most listen to radio station in America by far.
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Speaker 2: But if you come up here, you're the agency, and
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Speaker 2: you come up here and you want to buy some commercials,
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Speaker 2: where do you buy them. I mean, if you talk
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Speaker 2: to the salesperson, you know they'll try to help you.
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Speaker 2: And see, we have a whole marketing team. Well you
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Speaker 2: got to say, especially in a political campaign, I'm weak
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Speaker 2: in Hispanic voters in New York City. Well we can
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Speaker 2: figure out exactly which station. Maybe it's k TU, maybe
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Speaker 2: it's just too which station reaches that. Or I need
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Speaker 2: to reach an older audience, Well we know which station
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Speaker 2: have put you on. I need to reach teenagers in
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Speaker 2: the suburbs, Well we know which station to put you on.
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Speaker 2: So but that's what media buyers do. You hire an
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Speaker 2: agency and they figure all this out. So the media
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Speaker 2: buyer gets a ten percent fee on the commercial buy.
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Speaker 2: So in the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns, where hundreds of
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Speaker 2: millions were spent, they had an agency as their media
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Speaker 2: buyer that nobody ever heard of. It was a new one,
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Speaker 2: nobody recognized the name, small agency, and they got the
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Speaker 2: ten percent commission and on a couple hundred million in
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Speaker 2: ad buys, that's about a twenty million dollar commission. Twenty
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Speaker 2: five million dollar commission. Well, it turned out if you
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Speaker 2: looked out, looked up, who is this little agency owned
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Speaker 2: by missus Sanders missus Bernie Sanders, so she was the
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Speaker 2: media buyer, and they pocketed the twenty twenty five million.
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Speaker 2: They've done that a few times, so he knows. Maybe
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Speaker 2: he's up to thirty million now. And they got three homes,
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Speaker 2: and he was on some show that confronted him about,
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Speaker 2: you know, you're supposed to be mister socialists, I could
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Speaker 2: we have three homes and he went through this whole explanation.
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Speaker 3: Guess what, I'm a United States Senator and I own
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Speaker 3: a home in Washington, d C. As do most centers.
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Speaker 3: You know, you live there a year after when I first.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, wait a minute, let's stop right there.
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Speaker 2: Most of these guys, the new congressman, a lot of
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Speaker 2: these senators, they don't own a home in Washington. They
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Speaker 2: own a home in their district. So what do they
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Speaker 2: do when they got to go to Washington. Well, some
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Speaker 2: of them sleep in their office if they can't afford
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Speaker 2: a second home. And what most of them do is
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Speaker 2: they have roommates. You know, there's these apartments where like
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Speaker 2: five senators live. Schumer lived in one of those three years. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so they have roommates. They do stuff like that. They
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Speaker 2: don't own big homes in each place.
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Speaker 3: Actually, when I was in Congress was sixteen years. I
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Speaker 3: rented all the time, but I got elected. Okay, you
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Speaker 3: got a six year term. You know what, let's buy
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Speaker 3: a house. So we waugh a house and guess what,
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Speaker 3: Like many thousands of people in the state of Vermont,
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Speaker 3: I have a summer camp. It's a nice one on
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Speaker 3: Lake Champlain.
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Speaker 2: He's got another very expensive home on Lake Champagne, like
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Speaker 2: most people in Vermont. That not everybody in Vermont has
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Speaker 2: a nice, big home, second, third home on Lake Three
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Speaker 2: major houses this guy owns. Trying to pretend he's a socialist.
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely ridiculous. It's all just talk. It's just dreamy eyed.
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Speaker 2: They're like crazy college kids, is what Mam Donnie is.
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Speaker 2: You know, Mam Donnie is you know, twelve years old,
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Speaker 2: you know, went to Columbia wherever the hell you know,
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Speaker 2: carverd Colombia. These are anti Semitic socialist training camps. They
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Speaker 2: just come out all starry. They've had no actual, practical,
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Speaker 2: real experience. They think it works. It doesn't work.
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Speaker 1: A democratic socialist politics is one that should be judged
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Speaker 1: on its delivery, like any ideology, and what we're showing
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Speaker 1: in this city is we can we can pursue the
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Speaker 1: big things like universal childcare and do the pothole politics
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Speaker 1: at the same time that we're showing and not just
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Speaker 1: filling in the potholes, changing the catch basins, but also
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Speaker 1: repaving over a thousand miles of roadway.
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Speaker 2: That's what it's all about, not actually doing anything. You
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Speaker 2: just got to talk, you see. Any other thing is
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Speaker 2: these young people, these young socialists. It's about the temple.
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Speaker 2: Got to be at the right tempo. So if I
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Speaker 2: talked like this, it doesn't sound so great. But if
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Speaker 2: you talk like mom Donnie, and you talk very fast,
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Speaker 2: and you sound like you can talk a mile a minute,
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Speaker 2: it makes you sound much smarter, because how could he
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Speaker 2: talk that fast if he's not that smart, you know.
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Speaker 2: So if you just talk really fast, it makes you
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Speaker 2: sound like So if you ever listened to these podcasts
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Speaker 2: of these twenty three year old left wing you listen
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Speaker 2: to the podcast and they all talk like this, and
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Speaker 2: you're listening to the podcast and they're talking like this,
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Speaker 2: and you think, well, I must they hit the wrong
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Speaker 2: button because it sounds sped up, and it's not. It's
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Speaker 2: just that's how they talk. Did you see the guy
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Speaker 2: in real life, Hey, how are you? I'm very good?
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Speaker 2: How are you? They did? They just talk like that.
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Speaker 2: So now the real reality of all this is that
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Speaker 2: you look at mom Donnie free busses. Well, turns out
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Speaker 2: he's now confessed. He's now admitted he can't do the
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Speaker 2: free buses. He has absolutely no authority over the buses.
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Speaker 2: It's up to how cold the empty. So yes, can't
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Speaker 2: do the free buses. That universal daycare for all the kids,
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Speaker 2: he's now saying, well, it could be for ages two
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Speaker 2: to four. He can't do it for all the kids
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Speaker 2: like he promised. The free grocery stores. You'll never ever
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Speaker 2: ever see a free grocery store. In fact, he'll never
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Speaker 2: get one built. But let's say he did get one
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Speaker 2: built like he claims in three years. He's now confessed
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Speaker 2: it won't even be free, and it won't be discount.
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Speaker 2: He's now saying it'll just be it'll be regular prices.
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Speaker 2: But there'll be a core, a little core of items
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Speaker 2: that'll be at a discount, just a little core of
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Speaker 2: important staple items. So he's now admitted that all the
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Speaker 2: major promises can't possibly happen. If you watch all weekend,
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Speaker 2: these Sunday shows or all the crazy left wing John Oliver,
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Speaker 2: all these crazy type shows. The talk was of Trump
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Speaker 2: has ruined himself attacking the Pope. His war with the
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Speaker 2: Pope has cost him everything, the political capital he blew
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Speaker 2: on that he's ruined with Catholics. This has really hurt him,
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Speaker 2: the war with the Pope. Now, I don't know if
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Speaker 2: they know this, but I could go back to twenty
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Speaker 2: sixteen and find the same shows claiming the same thing
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Speaker 2: when he went after Pope Francis ten years ago. Exactly
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Speaker 2: ten years ago, he had the same fight with Pope Francis,
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Speaker 2: and that one was actually even worse. And not only
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Speaker 2: did it not hurt him, he won the election right
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Speaker 2: after that, so it didn't affect anything. And the idea
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Speaker 2: of liberals defending the Pope, liberals taking the Pope's side.
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Speaker 2: Listen to Bill Maher.
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Speaker 4: I love hypocritical America. I really do see liberals suddenly
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Speaker 4: love the Pope. O'ty who does exorcism, doesn't believe in
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Speaker 4: gay marriage, no women priests. But now because he's feuding
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Speaker 4: with Trump, MSNBC loves this guy. He's got a big
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Speaker 4: speech on the floor from Chuck Schumer.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a hypocrisy, unbelievable. Hey, Tom Holman was making a
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Speaker 2: speech and he got heckled. You know, you get these
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Speaker 2: young college crazy hecklers, but Holman doesn't put up with heckler's. Listen,
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Speaker 2: when we react to the heckling, they got morens like
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Speaker 2: this all the country. This guy, this guy wasn't notice,
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Speaker 2: were like the Service nation. This guy ain't got the
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Speaker 2: balls to be a nice officer. Do you ever got
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Speaker 2: a ball to be a ball Georgia?
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Speaker 5: This guy who lives in his mother's basement?
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Speaker 2: Nor is it that surprise me? You don't have purple
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Speaker 2: hair and a nose drink? Get out of here, your loser.
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Speaker 2: Good for a home? And so hey, you know about
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Speaker 2: the cash patel uh. We were talking about this before.
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Speaker 2: There were publications that used to be very highly regarded
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Speaker 2: and respected. You know, The New York Times was very prestigious,
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Speaker 2: The New York Times, they called what they called the
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Speaker 2: gray old Gray Lady, the paper of record, the New
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Speaker 2: York Times. The New Yorker was a very prestigious magazine.
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Speaker 2: The Atlantic was a very elite literary magazine. The Atlantic
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Speaker 2: and very very respected. Well, all that changed the New
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Speaker 2: York Times is the most left wing propaganda they'd been
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Speaker 2: caught with more fake news, more lies. Same thing with
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Speaker 2: the Washington Post. The New Yorker is the most biased,
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Speaker 2: slanted crap in the world. You know, they used to
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Speaker 2: call it mainstream media. There's no such thing as mainstream media.
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Speaker 2: New York Times, you can't you can't call it mainstream.
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Speaker 2: It's such a left wing propaganda, fake newsplace. And The
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Speaker 2: Atlantic was such a prestigious sort of magazine. Well now
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Speaker 2: it's just chunk, left wing junk. Years ago. It was
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Speaker 2: bought by the widow of Steve Jobs, Loreene Jobs, when
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Speaker 2: Steve Jobs died left her billions of dollars and she
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Speaker 2: started a foundation, and one of the things she wanted
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Speaker 2: she bought The Atlantic magazine. And I guess she's a
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Speaker 2: real left wing cook because she loaded it up with
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Speaker 2: these real left wing cooks. And The Atlantic a lot
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Speaker 2: of fake news. Yeah, I once in a while to
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Speaker 2: get something right, you know, they accidentally tripped into that
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Speaker 2: Signal Gate story, but most of the time it's just
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Speaker 2: absolute left wing crap, most of it not true. So
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Speaker 2: they went after Cash Patel, and they're claiming Cash Patel,
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Speaker 2: the FBI director, is a drunk. He's always out partying.
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Speaker 2: He gets so drunk he can't work. He got so
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Speaker 2: drunk he couldn't find his office. He got so drunk
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Speaker 2: he did something with his computer and blocked himself out
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Speaker 2: of his own computer, can't get into the system. And
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Speaker 2: all this stuff. Now, usually when these left wing publications lie,
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Speaker 2: when they make up this crap, what they do New
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Speaker 2: York Times, they all do this. If they're making up
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Speaker 2: some you've seen Cash Patel. Does he look I mean,
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Speaker 2: look at Eric Swallow. Okay, that looks like a guy
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Speaker 2: who could get himself into some trouble with booze and
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Speaker 2: women and drugs. And he looks the type. Cash Patel
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Speaker 2: doesn't look like a big party here. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: know the guy not that well, but I've known him
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Speaker 2: for years. He's a pretty normal guy. He's not a wild,
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Speaker 2: crazy partying guy. But they printed all this crap. And
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Speaker 2: when you got to make up some far fetched crap,
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Speaker 2: what they always do New York Times Atlantic. Instead of
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Speaker 2: saying we have a confidential source, they'll say twenty seven
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Speaker 2: confidential sources. Whenever you see a big number, you know
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Speaker 2: they're lying. You know they're lying. You know it'd be
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Speaker 2: like three sources. It's usually two sources is all. You
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Speaker 2: want one source and somebody up back it up. Where
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Speaker 2: you have twenty seven confidentials, well whatever you are, these
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Speaker 2: huge numbers. You used to hear that with Brennan and
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Speaker 2: Clapper and you know all that crap they made up
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Speaker 2: about Russia. We have thirty seven confidentials. So it's Atlantic Magazine.
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Speaker 2: It's probably all false, all made up. So cash Ptel
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Speaker 2: is now talking about suing them, and this is going
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Speaker 2: to be tough. It's tough when you're a public figure,
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Speaker 2: but this is pretty serious to accusations about being so
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Speaker 2: drunk he couldn't function, being so drunk, he screwed up
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Speaker 2: his whole computer system, this kind of stuff. So he's
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Speaker 2: gonna probably sue Atlantic Magazine. This could get very interesting
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Speaker 2: because they have a feeling just knowing them that they
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Speaker 2: made the whole damn thing up with their fake anonymous sources,
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Speaker 2: and the way you make it up. You kind of
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Speaker 2: make it up and then you get anybody to say, oh, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's true, and it's probably not a good source, but
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Speaker 2: you claim it's a good source. You just you can
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Speaker 2: always find a bunch of crazy Democrats or Washington insiders
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Speaker 2: who hate the guy, who will confirm it for you
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Speaker 2: even though they don't know what they're talking about. So
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Speaker 2: this could be a hell of a lawsuit. Hey, the
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Speaker 2: White House Correspondence Dinner is Saturday night. For all of
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Speaker 2: his time in office, last time, in this time, President
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Speaker 2: Trump has never gone to the White House Correspondence Dinner.
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Speaker 2: It's just the worst of the fake news and they
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Speaker 2: always attack him like crazy. Why should he go? So
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Speaker 2: this year he's going. First time ever. This year he's going.
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Speaker 2: Now they've agreed not to have one of these crazy
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Speaker 2: left wing, angry comedians as the host as the featured entertainment. Instead,
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Speaker 2: they'll have Oz the Mentalist. He's pretty good and Trump
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Speaker 2: is a very experienced roaster. I mean, the guy did
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Speaker 2: a million Friar's roast, a million Comedy Central roast, stole
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Speaker 2: the show at the Al Smith dinner last year. He
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Speaker 2: was amazing roasting everybody. So he's pretty good. But some
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Speaker 2: are saying, well, who knows, maybe the White House Correspondence,
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Speaker 2: maybe a lot of the top fake news anchors. Maybe
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Speaker 2: these people won't show up. Why should they put themselves
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Speaker 2: in the line of fire at Donald Trump? And now
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Speaker 2: two one hundred and fifty major news journalists have signed
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Speaker 2: a letter, including Dan Rather ninety four, Dan rathers ninety four,
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Speaker 2: even Sam Donaldson or old Buddy Sam Donaldson ninety two
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Speaker 2: signed the letter. Two hundred and fifty major journalists signed
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Speaker 2: the letter demanding that at this dinner, that the White
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Speaker 2: House Correspondence Dinner, that the press hold the president accountable.
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Speaker 2: In other words, they want him, They want the press
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Speaker 2: to go after him and hold him accountable. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they're ninety four and their TV doesn't work anymore,
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Speaker 2: but I think I think the press is I think
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Speaker 2: they've been trying to attack him a little. Have you
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Speaker 2: noticed the last ten years the press ever attacking Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: I think they're already on that. I don't think you
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Speaker 2: have to tell him that. Oh, I forgot the big story.
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Speaker 2: Guess who's running for city council. Lindsey Boylan. That was
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Speaker 2: one of the big Andrew Cuomo accused her. She was,
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Speaker 2: in fact, the first woman to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment.
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Speaker 2: She's running for city council now. She's run before for
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Speaker 2: Congress for Manhattanboro president, didn't do well. She lost, but
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Speaker 2: this time she got mom Donnie's adortsment. You know, you
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Speaker 2: got to figure Mom Donnie hates Cuomo, so he's endorsing her.
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Speaker 2: So this remember Cuomo did so much damage to New
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Speaker 2: York with his no bail, no jail, with his closing
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Speaker 2: Indian Point, with his closing prisons, letting all the prisoners out.
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Speaker 2: He's the guy that came up with this Pieta tear attacks.
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Speaker 2: He was just did so much damage as governor, and
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Speaker 2: then all of his sexual harassment accusers. So she's running
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Speaker 2: for city councils that may bring this whole thing up again.
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Speaker 2: But with Mom Donnie's endorsements, got a good shadow winning.
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Speaker 2: Pretty interesting. Hey, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred
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Speaker 2: three to two one zero seven ten. Is the number?
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Speaker 2: Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten, Mark
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Speaker 2: simone on sevent ten wor one. Well, let's take some calls.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Alice in Spring leg Alice, how.
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Speaker 6: You doing good? How are you?
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Speaker 2: Let me check? Not bad? Not bad?
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Speaker 7: But listen, I just want to tell you when I was, oh,
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Speaker 7: in my teens, back in the late forties or early fifties. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I'm ninety two right now.
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Speaker 2: Ninety two perfect? Right, our target demo there you go perfect,
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Speaker 2: But anyway, this explain all the phlem go ahead, now
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Speaker 2: you sound like a nice woman.
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Speaker 7: A lot. The pastor of our church of Catholic Church,
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Speaker 7: how us come to a meeting where this former FBI,
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Speaker 7: well he was an FBI agent, but he is in
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Speaker 7: a former mole in the Communist party, and he told
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Speaker 7: us that this is going to happen, that the Communists,
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Speaker 7: they're taking their time, but eventually they're going to get
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Speaker 7: into the newspapers, the schools, the churches. Crazy.
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Speaker 2: What kind of crazy church are you're go into? This
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Speaker 2: was the same speech they made in the nineteen fifties.
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Speaker 2: This is what McCarthy used to say.
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Speaker 7: Well, this FBI agent was a former mole in the
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Speaker 7: communist body, and he said this is what's going to
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Speaker 7: happen eventually too our country, Alice.
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Speaker 2: I don't worry. You've been around a while. They were
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Speaker 2: saying this all through the nineteen fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties nine.
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Speaker 2: So far we're okay, Now we're fine. Hey, what's these communists?
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Speaker 2: What's these communists try to get the spring like and
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Speaker 2: once they see this traffic, they'll turn around and give up.
19:11
Speaker 2: They'll go somewhere else. Well, Alice, you're a nice woman.
19:13
Speaker 2: Call us again, call us again sometime. Let's go to
19:17
Speaker 2: Mike and Florida. Mike, how you doing, Good morning, Mark,
19:20
Speaker 2: that's Mike.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 8: Another part of the equation they leap out when they're
19:24
Speaker 8: talking about the billionaires not paying their fair share, is
19:26
Speaker 8: they just talk about their personal income tax. This corporate
19:29
Speaker 8: income tax. There's the corporate compax of all the other
19:33
Speaker 8: corporations that they employ there, Bill, I mean, it's trillions. Good,
19:37
Speaker 8: it amounts to and one what point? The other thing
19:40
Speaker 8: that Mandani has a lot of nerve is he makes
19:43
Speaker 8: two hundred and sixty thousand a year. He doesn't pay rent,
19:45
Speaker 8: you know who. He's making more money than everybody just.
19:48
Speaker 2: About is how much of them?
19:50
Speaker 6: Is that?
19:50
Speaker 2: How much the mayor makes two hundred and sixty.
19:53
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he doesn't pay rent. He doesn't have to
19:55
Speaker 8: pay for transportation. I'm sure you know groceries are probably
20:00
Speaker 8: you know that's true.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they feed it for free. Yeah that's true. Yeah,
20:05
Speaker 2: good point. All right, thanks for Carlon. Let's go to
20:08
Speaker 2: Tony in White Plains. Tony, how you doing?
20:11
Speaker 9: Yeah, good Mark? Mark, Maybe you can answer this. I
20:13
Speaker 9: don't understand something Trump says, I if the Uranians don't agree,
20:18
Speaker 9: you know, to the treaty and all of that, that
20:20
Speaker 9: he's gonna blow up the bridges and all that. Didn't
20:22
Speaker 9: they do that before? What's gonna happen? They put their
20:24
Speaker 9: people around here.
20:26
Speaker 2: Well, we took out one bridge. It was the newest,
20:29
Speaker 2: most expensive bridge they had. And the reason we took
20:31
Speaker 2: that out it was only being used for military purpose
20:34
Speaker 2: is it was being used to transport troops and weapons.
20:37
Speaker 2: But if we have to, we'll start taking out bridges.
20:40
Speaker 2: And by the way, you're gonna hear war crimes. They're
20:42
Speaker 2: gonna yell war crimes. Every war we've ever fought, we
20:46
Speaker 2: took out bridges and power plants, usually day one, both
20:49
Speaker 2: Iraq wars. That's what we did the first day, took
20:51
Speaker 2: out bridges and power plants. You know that crazy Senator
20:54
Speaker 2: Mark Kelly who's on TV yelling about war crimes. He
20:59
Speaker 2: also brags that he was a combat pilot in the
21:02
Speaker 2: war in Iraq. Well, that's what he did as a
21:04
Speaker 2: combat pilot, took out bridges and power plants. But it's
21:07
Speaker 2: perfectly perfectly normal. Let's go to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent,
21:12
Speaker 2: how you.
21:12
Speaker 5: Doing Good morning Mark, Good morning Mara. Mike from Florida.
21:16
Speaker 5: Forgot to mention that these billionaires who own these companies,
21:20
Speaker 5: they employ hundreds of thousands of workers who also contribute
21:25
Speaker 5: to the tax base. If these billionaires didn't start these businesses,
21:30
Speaker 5: you wouldn't have these workers, their lives wouldn't be improven,
21:33
Speaker 5: and they wouldn't add to the tax base. Beaver Face
21:36
Speaker 5: Mandami and Katy Holcom are so disingenuous. They make it
21:43
Speaker 5: sound like these people who have these second homes are
21:48
Speaker 5: feeding at the public truth like they are. The New
21:51
Speaker 5: York Post did an expose a they didn't give the
21:54
Speaker 5: address of. It's probably a co op, a second home
21:59
Speaker 5: in the village that was worth just five million dollars.
22:03
Speaker 5: That's a successed value. They went into the Department of
22:07
Speaker 5: Finance records that person who owns that co op, it's
22:12
Speaker 5: not even a whole building, pays eighty four thousand dollars
22:17
Speaker 5: a year in taxes. And when most people don't know
22:22
Speaker 5: and I know this because I'm involved in real estate,
22:25
Speaker 5: if it's your second home, you don't get any considerations,
22:30
Speaker 5: like if it's your privacy, your primary home, you don't
22:34
Speaker 5: pay as much in school taxes, et cetera, et cetera.
22:40
Speaker 5: Hopeful talks about them using up resources. The second home
22:45
Speaker 5: uses less resources because they're not there. They're not paying water.
22:49
Speaker 5: They don't have to pay water because they're not using it.
22:52
Speaker 5: They have to pay point.
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Speaker 2: Excellent call, Very good, Thanks for colling. Yeah, Ken Griffin
22:58
Speaker 2: doesn't even live in that house there, that apartment two
23:01
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty million dollars. He's here three days a year.
23:04
Speaker 2: And you know what his property taxes on the department
23:07
Speaker 2: right now, nine hundred and seventy thousand. It's almost a
23:10
Speaker 2: million dollars a year just in the property text on
23:12
Speaker 2: that one apartment. Hey, when we come back, Charlie Gasparino
23:15
Speaker 2: will be with us, the great business reporter, the author
23:18
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23:21
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23:24
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23:28
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23:41
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23:46
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23:49
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23:51
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24:08
Speaker 6: Are you doing? Mark?
24:10
Speaker 2: Very good? So your friend mom Donnie there, did you
24:13
Speaker 2: hear that crazy thing he said?
24:15
Speaker 1: I don't think that we should have billionaires?
24:17
Speaker 2: We shouldn't have billionaires? What you know, all these billionaires,
24:21
Speaker 2: how are they going to get through four years of
24:23
Speaker 2: this guy?
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Speaker 6: You know, I don't know. I mean half of me
24:29
Speaker 6: thinks that they're just going to leave, and as they've
24:34
Speaker 6: been as not just billionaires, but remember, you know, the
24:38
Speaker 6: tax base is comprised of a lot of people that
24:41
Speaker 6: do well, not quite billionaires, and they're just finding it
24:45
Speaker 6: much more affordable not to be New York City residents.
24:48
Speaker 6: And that's been going on since twenty twenty and it
24:52
Speaker 6: continues to to stay. Remember or you know, when you
24:57
Speaker 6: talk about billionaires, they do have fe medically the money
25:00
Speaker 6: to pay some of these taxes. I mean, they're billionaires, right.
25:04
Speaker 6: The real problem here is that's why I'm you know this,
25:07
Speaker 6: this debate is a little bit skewed because the reality
25:11
Speaker 6: of the New York City, what Mandami's doing, what they
25:14
Speaker 6: do in Albany, and what they've been doing for years,
25:16
Speaker 6: you know, since mainly since George the Tacking left. Albany
25:24
Speaker 6: has been essentially focusing on the sort of the vast
25:30
Speaker 6: middle of the wealthy population, people who make anywhere between
25:35
Speaker 6: one hundred thousand dollars a year, which isn't really wealthy
25:38
Speaker 6: in the Northeast anywhere from that to you know, several
25:42
Speaker 6: million dollars a year, that's the sort of prime real
25:45
Speaker 6: estate for taxing, and those people just get crushed in
25:50
Speaker 6: this city and in the state. And what Mandami's doing
25:53
Speaker 6: is kind of changing the subject. Oh, you know, these
25:56
Speaker 6: billionaires don't want to pay for you know, an extra
25:59
Speaker 6: house and Manhattan it's it's not really that I mean,
26:03
Speaker 6: you know, that's not that's not great policy. Put that aside.
26:06
Speaker 6: The tax I mean, it's really those people that pay
26:09
Speaker 6: most of taxes are in that range that I told you,
26:13
Speaker 6: and they're getting slaughtered in the city and state and
26:15
Speaker 6: they continue to get slaughtered because people like Mandami and
26:19
Speaker 6: you know the governor's you know, I mean, listen, Andrew
26:23
Speaker 6: Croma was would have been a better alternative to doctor.
26:28
Speaker 2: Oh well, no bail, no jail. He's the guy that
26:33
Speaker 2: he's the guy that created this pie terror tax. It
26:35
Speaker 2: was his idea. Listen.
26:37
Speaker 6: I know that, I know, but he was still would
26:39
Speaker 6: have been better than my daughter. But but I'm just
26:43
Speaker 6: saying that. You know, my point is with him is
26:46
Speaker 6: that he caved to the radical left of the of
26:50
Speaker 6: the of of of the ruling class of the state.
26:53
Speaker 6: Remember all the taxes that he imposed, particularly the last term.
26:57
Speaker 6: He was horrendous. We there was money that you need,
27:00
Speaker 6: he didn't need to increase taxes, and it could could
27:02
Speaker 6: have taken down the size of government. So you know
27:05
Speaker 6: that the party. The problem is, you got one party
27:07
Speaker 6: controlled the state and it's it's destroying it. I think
27:11
Speaker 6: we should go. I mean, I argue this during the campaign.
27:15
Speaker 6: You know, let him win and let him destroy the
27:18
Speaker 6: place and just move. Let the start from zero.
27:22
Speaker 2: Well, but we don't want to leave. You're not gonna move,
27:24
Speaker 2: are you? You can't leave.
27:26
Speaker 6: I'm one foot out the door.
27:28
Speaker 2: What you can't believe You're.
27:31
Speaker 6: Like, I am going to leave. It's why should I
27:34
Speaker 6: pay into this?
27:34
Speaker 7: This is insane?
27:36
Speaker 6: You know what I mean? I get, I get. I
27:38
Speaker 6: guess there is a business in complaining about Mondomi. I
27:41
Speaker 6: was just reading that. I was I was reading Kyle
27:45
Speaker 6: h Kyle Smith. He's a really good writer. He writes
27:48
Speaker 6: for the National Review. He writes for the Journal about
27:51
Speaker 6: just how much column inches Mondami inspires from critics and
27:58
Speaker 6: people and the lefties who like in the journalism. So
28:02
Speaker 6: there is a sort of business for you and I
28:04
Speaker 6: to tap into. I think if we stay the loyal opposition.
28:08
Speaker 6: But in reality, is it worth the money that you're
28:11
Speaker 6: paying into this and to listen to this idiot every day?
28:14
Speaker 6: I mean, I mean, schmuck doesn't even begin to describe Donny.
28:21
Speaker 2: All Right, Hey, once again, everybody get Charlie Gasprino's book,
28:26
Speaker 2: Go Woke, Go Broke. It's a great book. Hey. Also,
28:30
Speaker 2: you wrote the best book ever on Steve Cohen years ago.
28:33
Speaker 2: He now owns the Mets. You know about this controversy
28:36
Speaker 2: about mister met hugging and kissing mom Donnie, And since
28:40
Speaker 2: that day they've lost eleven in a row. You think
28:43
Speaker 2: maybe you better send that book, go woke, go broke
28:45
Speaker 2: over to mister Met.
28:48
Speaker 6: Well, you know what I don't. I mean, I can't
28:50
Speaker 6: imagine Steve Cohen got directly involved in telling mister Met to,
28:53
Speaker 6: you know, kiss it out with hug it out with Bond.
28:57
Speaker 3: You know.
28:58
Speaker 6: My guess is like it was just an actor who
29:01
Speaker 6: didn't know what to do. And I don't think it
29:04
Speaker 6: has anything to do with the Mets losing.
29:07
Speaker 2: Well, theold I met mister Mett, you probably did too.
29:12
Speaker 2: He shakes your hand, he doesn't hug you and kiss you.
29:15
Speaker 2: I mean that was a little yeah, yeah, I know.
29:17
Speaker 6: I mean, who knows who is underneath the clothing? Do
29:20
Speaker 6: you know who this person is?
29:22
Speaker 2: Probably Steve Cohen? Who knows who was?
29:24
Speaker 8: No?
29:25
Speaker 6: No, yeah, listen, I you know, listen. I mean I
29:33
Speaker 6: read it. I saw I've been reading the commentary on
29:37
Speaker 6: the Mets losing streak after that. You know, could it
29:40
Speaker 6: be possible it was just one over zealous actor who
29:43
Speaker 6: plays mister Met.
29:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's possible. But a lot of people, our buddy
29:49
Speaker 2: Sid pointing out, a lot of people pointing out.
29:52
Speaker 6: I thought, Sid said, Rosemary Glass, I saw the stuff.
29:56
Speaker 6: He was wearing a Yankees uniform and I love the
29:59
Speaker 6: Yankees too. I mean, you know, you know, you know,
30:02
Speaker 6: what's the guy I will say about the Yankees, Randy Levine,
30:05
Speaker 6: who's like kind of on the business side of that. Yeah,
30:07
Speaker 6: he runs a very very tight ship and sense like,
30:10
Speaker 6: you go to the game, it's a game. We don't
30:14
Speaker 6: you cheer the Yankees. There's not a lot of there's
30:17
Speaker 6: no politics, you know, you just go there. I mean,
30:20
Speaker 6: you know, it's it's a second experience. And I think
30:24
Speaker 6: sports should get back to that. Yeah, you know, you know,
30:27
Speaker 6: no more bad buddies in halftime and maybe you know,
30:31
Speaker 6: alert mister met you know, shake the guy's hand, don't
30:36
Speaker 6: up against them.
30:38
Speaker 2: Hey about it. Charlie gas Greno, you wrote the book
30:41
Speaker 2: on Steve Cohen. I think it's called Circle of Friends.
30:44
Speaker 2: And he's a brilliant business guy with the hedge funnel.
30:47
Speaker 2: But is he in over his head as a sports owner?
30:50
Speaker 2: I mean, what's going on with him in the Mets?
30:52
Speaker 6: I don't know. I mean, you know, it's listen, it's
30:57
Speaker 6: it's not easy getting a you know, running a baseball.
31:00
Speaker 6: It's you know, it's two sides of the coin. It's
31:02
Speaker 6: the business side and it's putting a team on the
31:04
Speaker 6: field that can win. And uh, you know, I don't
31:11
Speaker 6: how much has he involved in the in the selecting players.
31:15
Speaker 6: Doesn't he have people around him.
31:16
Speaker 2: That to do that. I mean you would think, yeah,
31:19
Speaker 2: but you know him, you know him better than anybody.
31:22
Speaker 2: But what those guys always like to poke their nose
31:24
Speaker 2: into everything.
31:26
Speaker 6: But I mean, look, he's a really smart guy. I
31:28
Speaker 6: can't imagine. Although you know, the people he replaced weren't
31:31
Speaker 6: that great, right, remember the will.
31:34
Speaker 2: Yeah they were nice people. But you're right, all right.
31:38
Speaker 6: I mean I think I think we actually traded up
31:40
Speaker 6: with Stevie Cohen.
31:40
Speaker 2: Don't you think I think you won that round? Yeah? So,
31:47
Speaker 2: and there were great people, the Willpons. But were they
31:51
Speaker 2: Fred Willpond nicest guy in the world. Yeah, very sweet.
31:53
Speaker 6: Really, I'd never met him, but I know I might
31:57
Speaker 6: have met him once. He was on the board of
31:58
Speaker 6: Bear Stearns. I think I did beat once.
32:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I talked.
32:02
Speaker 6: I interviewed his son once.
32:03
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, Jeff will great guy.
32:06
Speaker 6: Yeah.
32:07
Speaker 2: Yeah.
32:07
Speaker 6: So they didn't do much for the team though.
32:12
Speaker 2: No, But uh, I can't argue that. Uh hey, this
32:17
Speaker 2: go woke, go broke stuff. When does it? Does it
32:19
Speaker 2: turn around? At some point like, are we going to
32:21
Speaker 2: wake up in November and elect Bruce Blakeman and get
32:24
Speaker 2: a real governor? I think can that happen?
32:27
Speaker 6: You know, Mark, This is my point. So many people
32:31
Speaker 6: have left this city that I don't think. I think
32:34
Speaker 6: you and I are and maybe Bruce, oh, I know,
32:38
Speaker 6: and I really like we might be so much in
32:42
Speaker 6: the minority. We there's it's impossible to win in this state.
32:46
Speaker 6: That we'll see. I mean, you know, the the ruling
32:50
Speaker 6: class here is so inept and so stupid, and they're
32:53
Speaker 6: they're literally chasing everybody that wants to work out. I
32:58
Speaker 6: can't leave, you know, some people can't leave. It's it's
33:01
Speaker 6: you're right, it's a little difficult for me to leave
33:02
Speaker 6: since I worked for Fox, I worked for the Post.
33:05
Speaker 6: You know, it's hard for me to set up shop
33:07
Speaker 6: in Florida. Maybe I get to become part of the
33:11
Speaker 6: Miami Bureau of the Post or something like that. That
33:13
Speaker 6: would be great. But you know, so so many people
33:17
Speaker 6: have left the city and the state. It's I don't
33:21
Speaker 6: know if if there's enough people to vote for him
33:26
Speaker 6: that are left so many people, you know, you know,
33:28
Speaker 6: if you look at who you know who votes Democratic
33:32
Speaker 6: it's all these you know, these public sector unions which
33:35
Speaker 6: are it's a huge employer in this in the city
33:37
Speaker 6: and state, so they you know, automatically, when you're a Democrat,
33:41
Speaker 6: you start off with like forty five percent of the vote, right,
33:44
Speaker 6: I mean almost Yeah, they get out the vote. So
33:47
Speaker 6: I'm just wondering if if it's just an impossibility, and
33:51
Speaker 6: it's kind of scary to think that.
33:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, Nasal County had the same exodus
33:56
Speaker 2: and it's a majority Democratic county. Blakeman has won there twice,
34:00
Speaker 2: pulled it off twice.
34:01
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, it's it's true. You know, the Democratic Party
34:05
Speaker 6: is starting to buifer K two a little bit from
34:07
Speaker 6: these I mean, people forget this. There are a lot
34:10
Speaker 6: of like moderate Democrats. There are no longer Democrats because
34:14
Speaker 6: of the because of the looney tubes that run the show,
34:17
Speaker 6: the far left. So there there is that, you know
34:21
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, And and and moderate Republicans picked that
34:24
Speaker 6: up every day. I mean, listen, you know, I see
34:28
Speaker 6: it all the time. You know, moderate moderate Democrats saying,
34:32
Speaker 6: you know, maybe Trump isn't so crazy for going after
34:36
Speaker 6: the Ayatola, you know, and that the Mullahs, maybe maybe
34:40
Speaker 6: This is a good thing that he's finally taking these
34:44
Speaker 6: in and the rear ends out. You know, these guys
34:46
Speaker 6: that are murderous thugs that you know, could control the
34:49
Speaker 6: world's oil supply, you know, with with a drum. You know,
34:53
Speaker 6: maybe he's maybe finally someone bit the bullet. I'm hearing
34:57
Speaker 6: that a lot from moderate Democrats.
34:59
Speaker 2: Believe in it. That's a very good point, and that.
35:02
Speaker 6: Could be where Bruce wins. But I I don't know.
35:05
Speaker 6: So many people have left, you know, don't want to
35:08
Speaker 6: get out, and and and then you know, even if
35:11
Speaker 6: he does win, you know, the legislature is controlled by
35:15
Speaker 6: just wackos, you know, I mean, they're just they're nuts.
35:19
Speaker 6: Have you seen some of these people.
35:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, same thing in Nasa County. He's worked
35:23
Speaker 2: his way around that problem too.
35:24
Speaker 6: But well, I mean, you got a lot of papal
35:27
Speaker 6: RAN's governor, right, but it's still not easy. And I
35:30
Speaker 6: think he is elected. He won't make the mistakes that
35:34
Speaker 6: Cuomo did. Clomo gazed into those guys time and time again.
35:39
Speaker 6: Towards the end. I think Bruce would take the fight
35:41
Speaker 6: to them, which would be a good thing. Well, and
35:43
Speaker 6: he will pardon this poor cop that is gonna jail
35:47
Speaker 6: for me.
35:48
Speaker 2: He'll do a lot of great things. Day one. I
35:49
Speaker 2: hate to say, Yeah, we're out of time, but brilliant
35:54
Speaker 2: as always. Everybody, get the book, Go Woke, Go Broke.
35:57
Speaker 2: Must reading Charlie Gasprino's book, Go Woke, Go Broke. Read
36:00
Speaker 2: his columns. They're all to near post website. Watch him
36:03
Speaker 2: on the Fox Business Network throughout the day. Fox Business
36:07
Speaker 2: best business network in TV. Charlie Gasprino, thanks for being
36:10
Speaker 2: with us.
36:11
Speaker 6: I think cid mark where to get me?
36:13
Speaker 2: Take care? Thanks bye, Hey, don't forget Curtis is back.
36:17
Speaker 2: Curtis Lee was now here every morning with Larry Menti
36:20
Speaker 2: six to ten on seven ten wor He's.
36:24
Speaker 1: Got the whole city in your radio Marximo on seven
36:28
Speaker 1: ten wor.
36:31
Speaker 2: Well, Hey, this is just breaking. We told you earlier
36:34
Speaker 2: that Atlantic magazine, which used to be quite the respected
36:38
Speaker 2: and revered, very prestigious magazine, has become just a left wing,
36:43
Speaker 2: absolute kook, fake news rag of a magazine. Steve Job's
36:48
Speaker 2: widow bought it and just decided to run it as
36:50
Speaker 2: a propaganda left wing sort of a magazine, The Atlantic,
36:54
Speaker 2: and they went after cash Buttel with this big story
36:56
Speaker 2: claiming he was a stinking drunk all the time, unexplained absences,
37:02
Speaker 2: drunk out of his mund Well, he'd threatened to sue.
37:05
Speaker 2: The suit has just been filed. He has filed a
37:08
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty million dollar lawsuit against the magazine
37:13
Speaker 2: and the staff writer, Sarah Fitzpatrick. Two hundred and fifty million.
37:17
Speaker 2: The lawsuit will proceed. Now, you're he's a public figure.
37:21
Speaker 2: Tough to claim damages. Tougher when you're a public figure.
37:23
Speaker 2: But it's pretty serious slander if it's not true. Uh,
37:28
Speaker 2: and this will be interesting. The lawsuit has been filed.
37:30
Speaker 2: It will proceed. Interesting stuff. Hey, we're out of time,
37:34
Speaker 2: don't go away. Buck and Clay are coming up next
37:36
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