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Mark takes your calls! · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Mark Simone Show. Live from the WOR LifeVac studios. Well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 2: 800-321-0710.
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  Speaker 1: I remember I told you the Carnegie Deli is coming back.
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  Speaker 1: The Carnegie Deli being built as we speak. It will
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  Speaker 1: not be in its original location. There's some store there
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  Speaker 1: that's taken the lease, but it will reopen down the
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  Speaker 1: street about a block away in what was the Stage Deli,
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  Speaker 1: their arch rival for decades. But so the Carnegie would
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  Speaker 1: be where the Stage Deli was. And here's the latest news.
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  Speaker 1: It will reopen next week. By the end of next week,
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  Speaker 1: it should be open. So a week from today or tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: Carnegie Deli will be back. There'll be no reservations. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a first come, first serve. There'll be a hundred
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  Speaker 1: seats in there. The space for the stage is not
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  Speaker 1: as big as the old Carnegie Deli space, but it'll
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  Speaker 1: reopen next week. Also, check out my Instagram. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff up there. MarkSimoneNYC at Instagram. MarkSimoneNYC at Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you follow me there. So, Iran. Listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at the oil prices here. I'm just checking the
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  Speaker 1: price of oil. Now, see, it's up again. It's up
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  Speaker 1: $ 2 today. It's getting high. You know, it's starting to spike.
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  Speaker 1: Price of oil, $ 95 a barrel. It's going to hit
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  Speaker 1: $ 96 in a second. $ 96 a barrel. That's high. Brent crude,
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  Speaker 1: which is the European stuff. We don't use Brent crude.
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  Speaker 1: But Brent crude is at $ 100 a barrel. All right,
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  Speaker 1: this is getting high. Now, what is the reason for
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  Speaker 1: this sudden spike? Well, the Strait of Hormuz has been
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  Speaker 1: open for a couple of months now. And oil is
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  Speaker 1: moving through there. Tankers are moving through there. The government's
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  Speaker 1: saying they were moving 9 million barrels a day and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes 15 million barrels a day. Well, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people now are getting reports that that number is greatly exaggerated,
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  Speaker 1: that they're not actually moving that much oil through there.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to believe a government would lie. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to believe a Trump administration would exaggerate anything. But a
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  Speaker 1: word is coming out that we're not actually moving that
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  Speaker 1: much oil through there. So that's the reason for the
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  Speaker 1: spike today. Hey, let's take some calls. 800-321-0710 is the number.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Sal in Eastchester. Sal, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark. Regarding the affordability prices, it's the taxes,
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  Speaker 3: the property taxes, the school taxes that are causing the
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  Speaker 3: problems with people being able to afford a home. My payment.
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  Speaker 1: No, I understand. We've been saying that for weeks. The
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  Speaker 1: number one expense that people pay is taxes. They pay
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  Speaker 1: now more in taxes than they pay in food, in energy.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. And the president, hopefully, he'll get that into
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  Speaker 1: the message. The problem with the Republicans right now, they
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  Speaker 1: don't have the messaging solid enough. But affordability crisis is
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  Speaker 1: a big issue. Instead of saying there is no affordability crisis,
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  Speaker 1: point that out. that the number one expense for most
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  Speaker 1: people now is taxes. It's above food costs. It's above
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  Speaker 1: energy costs. Taxes are the number one expense, and that
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  Speaker 1: should be the message, that you don't want to vote
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  Speaker 1: in a party that's going to increase these taxes. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to vote in a party that's going to
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  Speaker 1: create these taxes. Now, the other thing they should do
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  Speaker 1: is just announce huge tax cuts for everybody. Everybody. You
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  Speaker 1: can do it easily. Just stop wasting money if you're
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  Speaker 1: the government. You don't need to bring in that much
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  Speaker 1: money Let's go to Mike in Florida. Mike, how you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: I think Mamdani releasing these files is clearly political. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't help that he takes a genius to figure
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  Speaker 4: that part out of it.
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  Speaker 3: But there's two quick things.
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  Speaker 4: One, I noticed that Governor Pataki announced that he was
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  Speaker 4: suffering some ailment related to the Ground Zero stuff a
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  Speaker 4: week ago. So that was interesting that they kind of coincided,
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  Speaker 4: the two announcements. And the other thing is, and this
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  Speaker 4: isn't just a platitude that Mandani should be reminded of,
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  Speaker 4: that none of these files would be necessary or would
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  Speaker 4: exist if Muslim terrorists didn't fly planes into the towers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's true. Yeah, Pataki announcing that he's suffering from
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  Speaker 1: some 9-11 illness, but.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he knew the files were coming out. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to give them something.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I think, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure he knew they existed, obviously. He
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  Speaker 3: was the governor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what? That's true. The Mamdani administration found
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  Speaker 1: them buried in a basement at City Hall. But you're right.
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  Speaker 1: They must have known.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: And it's clearly political, especially with guys like Stewart attached
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  Speaker 4: to it, who... I could, you know, do without as
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  Speaker 4: far as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's okay on this. It's one good thing he's got.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, on this issue.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks for calling. Let's go to line two.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air. Line two, how you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Hi, this is Tori.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Tori.
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  Speaker 5: I'm calling for two things. One, I wanted to say
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  Speaker 5: that I don't understand where all the 9-11 money that
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  Speaker 5: was collected... Where the victims went.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully it went to them.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Well, that was my hope, too.
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  Speaker 5: But I know that you were saying before, like, all
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  Speaker 5: the people that were left behind. But I thought we
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  Speaker 5: tried to cover all them. There's commercials all the time
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  Speaker 5: for that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's that Tunnel to Towers Foundation. They do good work.
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  Speaker 1: They provide homes and stuff for the 9-11 families.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And the other thing I wanted to say, you were
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  Speaker 5: asking why do we remember... Like, do they really remember Hawaii?
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  Speaker 5: And I went to a service once for the Holocaust.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a minister. And on my way there, I was thinking,
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  Speaker 5: why do we do that? And then I got there
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  Speaker 5: and I realized why we do it. Because if we
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  Speaker 5: don't remember the past, we're going to repeat the past.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Where are you a minister?
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  Speaker 5: In Jackson, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, all right. Well, that's very good. A great adventure.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Thanks for calling. Now, one more.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to George in Port Jefferson. George, how are
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great, Mark. Just to quote your opinion about Andrew Cuomo,
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  Speaker 2: do you think he has any more political future here
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  Speaker 2: in the United States?
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  Speaker 1: No, no. He didn't have any political future two years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody told him. That run for mayor was about the
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  Speaker 1: dumbest thing ever. He had absolutely no chance of winning.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely zero. He was the most hated guy in New York.
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  Speaker 1: Could you imagine how delusional you have to be? He
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  Speaker 1: had to leave his job in disgrace. He was governor.
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  Speaker 1: He had to leave in disgrace. He fled Albany with
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  Speaker 1: the police chasing him, and he thinks he can run again?
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  Speaker 1: It was insane.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask one more question?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I was a court clerk, so I know Curtis Lee.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of like him. He's kind of a chopbuster.
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  Speaker 2: But they really try to blame Curtis. I'm just making
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  Speaker 2: a statement. They really try to blame Curtis that Cuomo did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no. Curtis had nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: If Curtis had never run and he took every vote
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  Speaker 1: he got and gave it to Cuomo, he still lost
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  Speaker 1: and lost big.
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  Speaker 2: They try to blame Curtis. That's all I want to say.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: No, I understand. But if you're a guy like Cuomo,
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  Speaker 1: you always blame somebody else. That's what guys like Cuomo do.
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  Speaker 1: It's never their fault. Again, you can't. leave in disgrace
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  Speaker 1: the police are chasing them out of Albany and then
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  Speaker 1: try to run again it's like Nixon try to one
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  Speaker 1: year after Watergate trying to run again you can't do
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  Speaker 1: it maybe if you waited 10 years maybe and if
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  Speaker 1: you did something wonderful in those 10 years and redeemed
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  Speaker 1: yourself maybe you could run again but Cuomo now I
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  Speaker 1: give him credit for one thing he knows what we've
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  Speaker 1: been telling you for all along the big donors when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to politics the big donors are always wrong
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  Speaker 1: They don't know what the hell they're doing. And he
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  Speaker 1: very carefully before this mayoral race, he went around cozying
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  Speaker 1: up to all the big donors, lunches, dinners, becoming their
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  Speaker 1: best friend. He got all the big donors behind him.
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  Speaker 1: They gave him all this money. They're the ones that
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  Speaker 1: kept saying, Curtis can't win. Curtis can't win. And again,
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  Speaker 1: always remember the big donors when it comes to politics
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  Speaker 1: are always wrong. They always back the wrong guy. They
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  Speaker 1: always get it wrong. Uh, They're all brilliant at their
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  Speaker 1: own business. They've made billions in their own business. Not
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  Speaker 1: one of them has ever made a penny giving political advice,
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  Speaker 1: and they stink at it. Hey, we've got a lot
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  Speaker 1: more to get to, so don't go away. Coming up
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